Wherever they are in Ivras, and for whatever their reasons, your character’s day-to-day activities have taken them down a road less traveled. The route is remote and extends into the countryside. Fields outnumber buildings. Your character is surrounded by ample crops and few people -- that is, until you hear a beautiful voice singing a pleasant song out from the sheaves:
Now it is the harvest time, and who would not be blithe, While autumn’s ripened sacrament is smiling on the scythe.
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Your character pushes their way through brittle stalks toward the sound of the voice. They come to an oddly-tamped clearing in the field where they find an attractive cervine woman, no older than nineteen, clad in a humble brown cloak. She turns to face your character, revealing a strange, thorny facial marking and small antlers made of sticks that clearly identify her as a mage. She is assembling a small wicker figure, and if your character has ever attended the Feast of Flowering, it might look familiar.
Suddenly, she speaks up, in a voice like honey. “Are you afraid of magic?”
Your character’s words are their own, but her question is simple. How do they answer?
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission! Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
(cw: fire/immolation) Hearing your answer, the woman smiles with relief, and transforms before your eyes into an elder. She is knobby, like an old tree. She approaches you and places her tiny shrine into your grasp. “Tell everyone,” she whispers. Suddenly, she goes up in flame, burning immediately and painlessly into a pile of ash before you.
You look at the wicker figure. Tied up in it is a piece of paper, coiled into a tight tube. You unfurl it and read a strange document: a deed, detailing an expansive property outside of Namarast to be acquired upon the arrest and execution of someone named Morgause Irving. A strange occurrence, but you’re free to go about your day.
You earned +1 Handmade Idol. This can be used for an existing character or a future one. To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission! Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
(cw: fire/immolation) The woman frowns, not angry, but disappointed. Even despondent. Her beautiful young face begins to trickle with… Blood? Blood, from the thorns, dripping into creases that were not in her skin before; now she is old, small, and hunched. Her face contorts with pain as she utters a cry that makes your character’s hair stand on end:
“THEY’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND!”
She melts before them like a burning piece of parchment, so bright they have to look away, curling at her edges until she is nothing but ashes.
Your character is unharmed for now, but strangely-shaped figures rumble in the maze that surrounds you. It’s probably best that you leave. As you turn to go, you notice that the wicker figure the woman held lies mysteriously unharmed in the pile of ash.
You earned +1 Handmade Idol. This can be used for an existing character or a future one. To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
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Your character hurries along, ignoring the strange song -- however, it seems to follow them along the edge of the field, no softer or louder than it was before. A new verse is revealed to them as well:
To chop the crop and light the fire is simple and divine, Let fear and harm give way to love on Grace’s smiling scythe.
While your character is distracted by the song, two thin, shambling figures emerge from the treeline ahead, headed straight for them. These must be the Blight Wights about which you were warned -- not a folktale to scare children or a spooky sort of anti-mage propaganda, but an imminent threat.
What does your character do?
Your character has heard the stories. Blight Wights can be deterred by offering a gift to the Brown Hag. They search their pockets, laying whatever they have on hand down on the road before the Wights arrive. Click here for the next prompt.
You meet the Wights head on, preparing to defend yourself. You can take a couple of glorified broomsticks. Click here for the next prompt.
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🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: Offer the wights a gift.
The Wights continue to approach, but as they see your character’s offering, they stop just at the edge of the road. Taking to their wooden knees, they bow. One reaches forward to accept your offering. Another leaves something in its place. You look down to see what they’ve given: it’s a hand-carved child’s toy in the shape of a boat. The craftsmanship is wonderful, but one of its sides is blackened, as if it’s been held over a fire.
When you look up, both of the Wights have disappeared, leaving their gift as the only evidence they were there.
You earned +1 Toy Boat (one use). This can be used for an existing character or a future one. To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission! Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: Defend yourself against the wights.
You stand your ground, and the Wights attack. As you pummel, slash, or otherwise do physical damage to the stick figures, they snap easily and fall apart. However, they quickly reassemble by magical means. Instead of continuing to attack, they flee the scene.
As you make your way closer to your destination, you come across a decimated cart where a family of horses attempts to repair their belongings after they, too, were attacked by the Wights. When you inform them that their assailants have been scared off, they offer you a sack of Gold in thanks.
You earned +15 Gold. To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the Bank like a regular upload, and state you are claiming a prize.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission! Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
Anathema
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 1:
Wherever they are in Ivras, and for whatever their reasons, your character’s day-to-day activities have taken them down a road less traveled. The route is remote and extends into the countryside. Fields outnumber buildings. Your character is surrounded by ample crops and few people -- that is, until you hear a beautiful voice singing a pleasant song out from the sheaves:
Now it is the harvest time, and who would not be blithe,
While autumn’s ripened sacrament is smiling on the scythe.
What does your character do?
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 7 months ago Edited 8:14 am
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 2A:
Your character pushes their way through brittle stalks toward the sound of the voice. They come to an oddly-tamped clearing in the field where they find an attractive cervine woman, no older than nineteen, clad in a humble brown cloak. She turns to face your character, revealing a strange, thorny facial marking and small antlers made of sticks that clearly identify her as a mage. She is assembling a small wicker figure, and if your character has ever attended the Feast of Flowering, it might look familiar.
Suddenly, she speaks up, in a voice like honey. “Are you afraid of magic?”
Your character’s words are their own, but her question is simple. How do they answer?
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 2:57 pm
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: "No."
(cw: fire/immolation)
Hearing your answer, the woman smiles with relief, and transforms before your eyes into an elder. She is knobby, like an old tree. She approaches you and places her tiny shrine into your grasp. “Tell everyone,” she whispers. Suddenly, she goes up in flame, burning immediately and painlessly into a pile of ash before you.
You look at the wicker figure. Tied up in it is a piece of paper, coiled into a tight tube. You unfurl it and read a strange document: a deed, detailing an expansive property outside of Namarast to be acquired upon the arrest and execution of someone named Morgause Irving. A strange occurrence, but you’re free to go about your day.
You earned +1 Handmade Idol. This can be used for an existing character or a future one.
To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 9:57 am
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: "Yes."
(cw: fire/immolation)
The woman frowns, not angry, but disappointed. Even despondent. Her beautiful young face begins to trickle with… Blood? Blood, from the thorns, dripping into creases that were not in her skin before; now she is old, small, and hunched. Her face contorts with pain as she utters a cry that makes your character’s hair stand on end:
“THEY’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND!”
She melts before them like a burning piece of parchment, so bright they have to look away, curling at her edges until she is nothing but ashes.
Your character is unharmed for now, but strangely-shaped figures rumble in the maze that surrounds you. It’s probably best that you leave. As you turn to go, you notice that the wicker figure the woman held lies mysteriously unharmed in the pile of ash.
You earned +1 Handmade Idol. This can be used for an existing character or a future one.
To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 9:57 am
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 2B:
Your character hurries along, ignoring the strange song -- however, it seems to follow them along the edge of the field, no softer or louder than it was before. A new verse is revealed to them as well:
To chop the crop and light the fire is simple and divine,
Let fear and harm give way to love on Grace’s smiling scythe.
While your character is distracted by the song, two thin, shambling figures emerge from the treeline ahead, headed straight for them. These must be the Blight Wights about which you were warned -- not a folktale to scare children or a spooky sort of anti-mage propaganda, but an imminent threat.
What does your character do?
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 2:58 pm
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: Offer the wights a gift.
The Wights continue to approach, but as they see your character’s offering, they stop just at the edge of the road. Taking to their wooden knees, they bow. One reaches forward to accept your offering. Another leaves something in its place. You look down to see what they’ve given: it’s a hand-carved child’s toy in the shape of a boat. The craftsmanship is wonderful, but one of its sides is blackened, as if it’s been held over a fire.
When you look up, both of the Wights have disappeared, leaving their gift as the only evidence they were there.
You earned +1 Toy Boat (one use). This can be used for an existing character or a future one.
To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the target character's Log.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 9:58 am
🔸🎃🔸 Non-Mage Story Prompt 3: Defend yourself against the wights.
You stand your ground, and the Wights attack. As you pummel, slash, or otherwise do physical damage to the stick figures, they snap easily and fall apart. However, they quickly reassemble by magical means. Instead of continuing to attack, they flee the scene.
As you make your way closer to your destination, you come across a decimated cart where a family of horses attempts to repair their belongings after they, too, were attacked by the Wights. When you inform them that their assailants have been scared off, they offer you a sack of Gold in thanks.
You earned +15 Gold.
To claim this reward, simply link to your final Blight Wight prompt response in the Bank like a regular upload, and state you are claiming a prize.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Make sure to tag the event profile in your submission!
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses.
2 years, 6 months ago Edited 9:59 am