designed by Chan the Magnificent Do you often feel like you are working hard in having your character gains skills and knowledge? Do you feel like you aren't being recognised for all that your character has earned? In order to simplify the process of rising in rank, we are implementing a skill system that makes it easy to know how much you have to do in order to be eligible to level up. In order to rise in rank your character needs to learn a specific number of skills, all of which are upgradeable to different Levels, ranging from Novice to Master. As your character gains skills, they unlock levels. As they unlock levels, they become eligible to move up in rank Tiers, and earn esteem from their herd Leaders and fellow members. This will be an ongoing Contest, rewarding Edge members via Seasonal Rewards, ranks, and IC esteem and respect. More will be explained below! This is the list of skills, along with their associated "mini-quests" that you can achieve.
Lore: Acting -- Requirements: * During the span of two threads, pretend to be someone you know. * During the span of one thread, make up a story about your past and make someone believe it -- Upgradeable: Every two threads. * Fake an emotion and make someone believe it Lore: Astronomy -- Requirements: * In three threads, study the night sky and notice the movement of the stars and planets --Upgradeable: Once every week * Learn the name of a new heavenly body Lore: Blacksmithing -- Requirements: * Acquire tools from an existing metalsmith * Receive a lesson from Dragon's Throat Crafter -- Upgradeable: Every other week * Make a thread where you craft an item Lore: Blind Fighting -- Requirements: * Participate in two spars with eyes closed -- Upgradeable: Every other spar Lore: Blocking -- Requirements: * Must block a stealth correctly in the stealth block, so the herd member cannot be stolen OR * Must reply to an attempted escape thread, thus blocking the escape -- Upgradeable: * Per everyone successful block either on the stealth board or in an escape thread Lore: Botany -- Requirements: * Study ten different plants during the span of a season and learn the conditions for growth, pollination, seed-spreading, Set over a minimum of three threads. -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Discover and study two additional plants Lore: Camouflage -- Requirements: * Hide yourself or an item from sight by blending into the landscape -- Upgradeable: Every thread Lore: Carpentry -- Requirements: * Learn from a crafter how to cut, split and shape wood -- Upgradeable: Every week * Make a thread where you craft an item Lore: Cartography -- Requirements: * Visit a region and explore the landscape * Measure the time it takes to travel from one location to another and draw it out onto a map -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Visit a new location and draw out a new feature Lore: Carving -- Requirements: * Learn from three crafters how to carve in their respective materials -- Upgradeable: Every week * Write a thread where you carve an image Lore: Climbing -- Requirements: * Climb up to the Heavenly Meadow and return back down -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Climb a mountain Lore: Dance -- Requirements: * Create a dance and hold a performance -- Upgradeable: Every week * Hold a performance Lore: Fighting -- Requirements: * Participate in one spars -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Participate in one spar Lore: Food Preservation -- Requirements: * In two threads, study the effect of different plants as they wither and find out if they are still edible -- Upgradeable: Every week * Preserve a plant and see how long it lasts Lore: Gardening -- Requirements: * Create a small garden and tend to it over two threads -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Manage the plants and harvest useful ingredients Lore: Geography -- Requirements: * Visit three different regions -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Visit another region or * Learn about other lands and where they are located Lore: Geology -- Requirements: * Visit three different sorts of terrain or * In two threads, study Helovia's Heart and make a connection between magma and mountains -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Reflect over the patterns of creation and destruction of nature or * Study rocks and gemstones Lore: History -- Requirements: * Learn the history of a herdland from a Storyteller -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Learn the history of another herdland or * Find out the history of another horse Lore: Herbalism -- Requirements: * Learn from a healer five different herbs and their uses -- Upgradeable: Every other thread * Discover two new herbs and their uses Lore: Interrogation -- Requirements: * Make a stranger reveal five things about themselves -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make someone tell you at least two things Lore: Intimidation -- Requirements: * Make someone abandon a discussion by issuing a threat -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make someone do as you want through intimidation Lore: Investigation -- Requirements: * Discover the truth about two things you wonder about -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Discover the truth about one thing you want to know Lore: Juggling -- Requirements: * Teach yourself how to juggle three rocks -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Juggle or * Hold a performance Lore: Jumping -- Requirements: * Jump over three different obstacles of varying height, width and depth -- Upgradeable: Every thread Lore: Land Navigation -- Requirements: * Learn from someone three different landmarks of a region during night and day -- Upgradeable: * Discover a new landmark and make use of them Lore: Leadership -- Requirements: * Take charge over a group of at least three and complete a task -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make a decision or settle a dispute in a just and fair manner Lore: Linguistics -- Requirements: * Learn about different languages and study how they change * Create a new system for writing -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Learn something new or * Teach someone to speak and write your new language Lore: Masonry -- Requirements: * Acquire tools to cut and shape stone * Learn from a Mason about different types of stone and their uses -- Upgradeable: Every week * Write a thread where you make one item Lore: Mathematics -- Requirements: * Learn from someone the basic tools of counting -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make use of mathematics to solve a problem Lore: Medicine -- Requirements: * Learn about five different illnesses and how to cure them -- Upgradeable: * Learn about a new illness or treatment or * Heal a patient Lore: Memorization -- Requirements: * Listen to a story or instructions and learn it by heart * Re-tell the story or instruction to someone else who also know it -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Remember something or someone Lore: Negotiation -- Requirements: * Make a deal with someone or settle a dispute -- Upgradeable: Every thread Lore: Observasion -- Requirements: * In two threads, watch someone do something -- Upgradeable: Every thread Lore: Organization -- Requirements: * Organize an event or a meeting or * Create a system for something that is easy to understand -- Upgradeable: Every thread Lore: Painting -- Requirements: * Learn or discover how to use various plants or minerals to create paint * Find or make tools to use for painting -- Upgradeable: Every Thread * Paint something Lore: Papermaking -- Requirements: * Learn or discover how to create paper or parchment -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Practice or create more paper Lore: Persuasion -- Requirements: * In two threads, persuade someone to do something. -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Persuade someone to do something Lore: Philosophy -- Requirements: * In three threads, Discover and Discuss problems on matters such as existence, values, knowledge, reason, mind and similar -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Argue for or against a subject using rationalism and logic Lore: Poison -- Requirements: * Discover three different poisonus substances and their effects -- Upgradeable: * Discover one poisonus substance and it's effect or * Create an antidote to a poison Lore: Reading -- Requirements: * Learn the symbols of a language -- Upgradeable: Every Thread * Read something Lore: Running -- Requirements: * Run from the northern part of Frostbreath steppe to the southernmost point of Dragon's Throat -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Run across different types of terrain Lore: Sculpting -- Requirements: * Learn how different materials behave when shaped and mixed together -- Upgradeable: Every week * Make a thread where you create an item Lore: Seduction -- Requirements: * Use your charm to make someone do something for you -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make someone like you Lore: Singing -- Requirements: * Learn a song and how to sing it -- Upgradeable: * compose and sing a song or * Learn a new song Lore: Stealing -- Requirements: * Must have a successful stealth passed * Must have made a thread to claim stolen prisoner -- Upgradeable: * Per every successful stealth passed Lore: Stealth -- Requirements: * Move from one location to another without being spotted -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Make use of shadows and different terrain to remain unseen Lore: Storytelling -- Requirements: * Listen to one story being told * Tell a story you made up -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Learn of a new story or tell one yourself Lore: Swimming -- Requirements: * Learn how to stay afloat in water -- Upgradeable: * Swim Lore: Teaching -- Requirements: * Learn the basics of how to teach someone or * Teach someone something they didn't know -- Upgradeable: * Teach Lore: Tracking -- Requirements: * Learn the footprints of three different animals * Follow someone through their footprints -- Upgradeable: Every other thread * Learn two new animal prints or track someone Lore: Trapping -- Requirements: * Learn how to set a trap and release it -- Upgradeable: * Use the trap or * teach someone how to do it Lore: Weaponry -- Requirements: * Learn how to use a weapon -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Practice with weapon or use it in spar Lore: Writing -- Requirements: * Learn how to write using horn or a tool -- Upgradeable: Every thread * Write a message and send to someone or * Write a poem Who is allowed to participate in this? Anyone who is a member of the World's Edge! Outcasts, and members of other herds, are not allowed to participate (unless they join, of course!) Do I have to do this? No, certainly not. However, participating in this will help give you ideas on what direction you can take your character, it will encourage and promote activity, as well as allow your character to move up in the ranks of the herd. Many of the skills are very easy to obtain - you will find that you have completed many of them already just through regular roleplay! Why do I need skills? These skills are designed to give your character more, more knowledge, more abilities that will help them survive the Helovian world. They are also designed to be a way to measure just how much credence and esteem your character has earned alongside its herdmates. Earning skills will also give your character more chance of being noticed when Herd Leaders are discussing handing out the Seasonal Rewards! What are skills, and how do I get one? Skills are described above. They are essentially tokens of experience in different areas, that your character has earned through completion of various tasks. To earn a skill you need to look up the area you wish to gain and complete the tasks listed under Requirements. This means you need to make your character actively perform the tasks, in order to learn IC. What does it mean to upgrade a skill, and how do I do that? Upgrading a skill means that you are learning more about the subject in question. The more you upgrade, the better you become at it. Upgrading is done by using the skill you have learned in normal threads. This means that you can piece in a skill in any thread you like, and then hand it in for an upgrade once it meets the requirements mentioned in the Skill List. How do I notify you that my character has earned a new skill? Who keeps track of my skills? Easy! Just fill in this code, and post a new post with each update you make. Code: <B>Character Name:</B> Can I ask for help in completing a skill? Of course! We encourage it. More than one member can complete a skill in one thread. For example, if two members were to work together in extracting 5 pieces of information about a stranger (as described in a Lore above), both members would achieve that skill. How will skills affect the ranks? As you gain skills and level up, your character will become eligible to move up the Tiers of ranks. The levels are: Novice: 1-5 skills. [Eligible for Tier 5 ranks, Acolytes and general Citizens] Competent: 6-10 skills. [Eligible for Tier 4 ranks] Expert: 11-20 skills. [Eligible for Tier 3 ranks] Master: 21+ [Eligible for Tier 2 ranks] As you become eligible for a rank, you are then permitted to challenge anyone in that Tier, and receive the benefits of that higher rank, whether that be rank magic, authority, etcetera. My character is already in a high rank. Do I have to start from the bottom now? Of course not, we wouldn't do that to you! Just be aware that as others gain skills and go up levels, they receive more recognition from their Leaders and are eligible to challenge you. There is no harm in keeping your skills sharp, after all, so why not work together to better each other? I have already done many of these things IC. Can I claim past threads? Yes you may, however, you can only claim a maximum of 5 skills using threads made before this was started. Can I suggest an idea I have for a new skill? Yes please! Any and all ideas are welcome! We are very open to seeing how this works, but it requires everyone to participate for it to be successful! Please use the code below when suggesting, to keep with the format: Code: Lore: --- Also, feel free to suggest ideas for differents ways to both unlock and upgrade existing laws - there are many ways to skin a cat, so to speak, there are many ways to obtain a skill in a particular area, we don't want to make your characters feel limited - rather the opposite! Got another question? Post it below! A list of all the characters participating, and their current skill levels. @[Amaris] Skills: 5 Level: Novice Lores: Geography [2]; Interrogation [1]; Negotiation [1]; Observation [1]; @[Hellena] Skills: 5 Level: Novice Lores: Blocking [1]; Stealing [2]; Negotiation [1]; History [1]; @[Lace] Skills: 5 Level: Novice Lores: Fighting [5]; @[Madyrn Maskan] Skills: 5 Level: Novice Lores: Fighting [3]; Geography [2]; @[Mirage] Skills: 5 Level: Novice Lores: Fighting [2]; Geography [3]; |
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I'd like to suggest a stealing and blocking lore, in regards to stealths.
Lore: Stealing -- Requirements: * Must have a successful stealth passed * Must have made a thread to claim stolen prisoner -- Upgradeable: * Per every successful stealth passed Lore: Blocking -- Requirements: * Must block a stealth correctly in the stealth block, so the herd member cannot be stolen OR * Must reply to an attempted escape thread, thus blocking the escape -- Upgradeable: * Per everyone successful block either on the stealth board or in an escape thread Updated.
Character Name: Lace
Skill attempted: Fighting 5 Link to thread/s: Bring me to life Bodies to the test Just a little bit of practice Equality for the win Instruments to plague us Updated. ♦ Permission granted to use magic and violence on Lace and Fajira ♦ Only tag in new threads, spars and if it's urgent The Store | The Warden
Character Name:Amaris
Skill attempted: Geography x2 [Edge, Thistle Meadow, Deep Forest.] [Heart] Observation x1 - [Amaris watches the Sun God do many things + Amaris watches the Gods fight the rift] Interrogation x1 - x Negotiation x1 - x Updated. No need to mirror my post length - I have a horrible case of the rambly writer syndrome!
I like being tagged!
You are always welcome to 'try' and use force/magic on Amaris, but similar to spar posts, leave it to me to decide how the damage is taken please~
This is a fantastic idea. Thanks for putting this all together, it seems lengthy and I know you spent a lot of time on it for us. We appreciate the work!
I just had one quick question. Can the same thread be used for two different lores? I.e. Kahlua's 'Geography' and 'Geology' lore could overlap. Likewise, with her 'Seduction' lore. Also, as a lore, I'd like to propose a 'Recruit and have accepted X amount of horses from the Threshold'
06-30-2013, 09:42 AM
Thanks Sevin, I'm glad you like our little surprise. :D
I wold say that you can, as long as all the requirements are met for the Lore in question. You cannot backtrack skills however, so if you meet the requirement for an upgrade but haven't completed the first part, the thread won't count. Thank you for contributing! ^^ Whit, I suggest a code form to suggest new lore with, to make it nice and simple ♦ Permission granted to use magic and violence on Lace and Fajira ♦ Only tag in new threads, spars and if it's urgent The Store | The Warden
07-01-2013, 06:10 AM
Yes, one thread can be used to achieve multiple lores, as long as each one is sufficiently played out. :)
Added a code for use when suggesting new Lores. Please fill it out to make formatting the list easier Also if anyone would like to add that suggestions for methods of gaining skills/upgrades, feel free to add them :)
07-01-2013, 11:46 AM
Character Name: Smoke
Skill attempted: Fighting Link to thread/s: Participated in invasion of unicorns of Tides on Isilme against Imiq - lost Sparred against Gunslinger - lost but resulted in Kimber's conception Challenged Ricochet for leadership of Oasis on Anarore - won We Will Stand Tall First Move Spar with Archibald while in Foothills - default win (couldn't find in archives??) That's all I can find/remember. XD Character Name: Vikram Skill attempted: Fighting Link to thread/s: Sparred Noise - won (couldn't find in archives??) Qian vs Edge Invasion A Step Toward Responsibility And I dunno if you want to count his current challenge that was forfeited by Chemical. XD
07-01-2013, 02:44 PM
Character Name: Sulwyn
Skill attempted: Stealing x2 Link to thread/s: Stole Seele Stole Sinding Character Name: Sulwyn Skill attempted: Blocking x2 Link to thread/s: Provided clues for Kaj's safety Blocked Seele's attempted escape Character Name: Sulwyn Skill attempted: Negotiation Link to thread/s: Negotiates with Arah for Seele's freedom in order to have the Impersonator follow her
07-02-2013, 10:53 PM
Lore: Recruitment
-- Requirements: * Recruit and have accepted 2 newcomers from the Threshold -- Upgradeable: Every Week * Recruit and have accepted an additional newcomer from the Threshold
Character Name: Kahlua
Skill attempted: Geography [x2] Link to thread/s: [Threshold, World's Edge, Helovia's Heart] [Thistle Meadow] Skill attempted: Geology Link to thread/s: [Forest, Desert/Oasis, Meadow] Skill attempted: Seduction Link to thread/s: [Get Thor to let her join the herd and introduce her to the crafters]
07-04-2013, 01:29 PM
Lore: Climbing {Just a suggestion to add to it}
-- Requirements: * Could climbing the isle of the Veins count? Or climbing from the Blue to the Edge? Character Name: Sulwyn Skill attempted: Geography Link to thread/s: Thistle Meadow Frozen Arch World's Edge Upgrade: Veins
07-25-2013, 09:26 PM
Character Name: Kahlua
Skill attempted: Geography Upgrade [+2] Link to thread/s: Dragon's Throat, Heavenly Fields
07-26-2013, 11:57 PM
Whee, sorry for my absence guys, will try to update this weekend <3
09-08-2013, 12:05 AM
Character Name: Resplendence
Skill attempted: Fighting Link to thread/s: http://helovia.net/showthread.php?tid=9270 Um I'm sure I have more, just have to find the threads 3;
09-14-2013, 11:17 PM
Character Name: Kahlua
Skill attempted: Climbing Link to thread/s: Going Up and Coming Back Down Skill attempted: Fighting [x2?] Link to thread/s: Ricochet Spar, Farenjer Invasion Defense (does this one count?) Skill attempted: Geography Update Link to thread/s: Endless Blue
01-14-2014, 11:45 PM
bumping this up, not sure if the Edge will still be doing this
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