#shivertask

December passes in the blink of an eye, but winter still has its claws in Blackrock. The wolves roam the valley, no longer caught in their two-legged trappings – holiday cheer little more than a distant memory, at best; replaced instead with the strange, sweet scent of fresh snow.

Fireworks light up the valley on New Year’s Eve, and the human residents wake to a new year on January 1st, 2020, in a world that looks much the same as it did the night before: frost has laced itself across windowpanes, snow is still falling from a heavy sky, and the world will be cold for a few months yet.

You are now welcome to write threads dated 2020 – just don’t write past March 14th, 2020 !

To go with this update, we’ve created a voluntary writing task! Here are our prompts / suggested themes to reflect on and answer – feel free to mix and match and get creative with the medium:

How does your character explain that they’re gone for the duration of winter? Have there been any particularly bad excuses throughout the years, or close calls? Do they have a good one they return to?

Write out a holiday or New Year’s Eve of a past year; human or not, good or bad. This can be collaborative, or a self-para.

Does your character have any holiday traditions? Something passed down through the family, or something they started on their own?

What resolutions does your character have for the new year? Is there anything that they want to change, any regrets they have from the past year? Anything they hope to improve?

TASK 01: GIVING THANKS STATUS: Mandatory

Welcome to our first task ! We know everyone’s been pining for some development and paired events, so we thought – why not both? Each pair is tasked with identifying and carrying out an act of service that they believe will benefit Blackrock in some way. In-game this will take place over the course of Thanksgiving weekend. Naturally, you as pairs are welcome to take this and run in any direction you see fit for your characters. Just as an extra boost, we’ve attached one-word prompts with each pairing. 

Please complete this task as a dash-based thread with at least 5 notes. We don’t have a strict time-frame for completion, but please be courteous and don’t leave your partner(s) hanging! Of course, we’re here to answer any of your questions at any time. 

All pairings and prompts are listed under the cut !

Location: Blackrock Library Time: 28th of November, 2019 @antagonisms

Zach had no connection to Thanksgiving, it was an American holiday that frankly in his opinion didn’t have any right to exist, but he had gotten into way too many fights with people from the States over the years that going into that subject was something he didn’t partake on lightly anymore. Despite having lived in the States for seven years now, he was still surprised when it rolled around late November, trying to pinpoint a date but his mind wouldn’t give it to him. 

However, as the mentioned rolled through town about helping the town through community organised actions, Zach became suddenly very invested in the whole ordeal. Or at least that part of it. He had been teamed up with a completely new person, but even that couldn’t falter his hopeful emotion as he set out to the library. He had no way of reaching this person, and thus camped out in front of the library far too early on a Saturday morning, hoping they would at last show up.