Announcement Summertime Riptide ~ Character Development Challenge

SUMMERTIME RIPTIDE

Summer Character Development Challenge for the Descendants of the Departed

Welcome to the Descendants of the Departed’s Summer Character Development Challenge!

The Summer CDC ends on January 15th. Then, maybe, it will be replaced with a new CDC.

The CDC challenge can be completed per character or per roleplayer. If you have five characters and you want to complete the CDC's nine squares for all five of them? I'm not going to get in your way! Likewise, if you have three characters and you want to complete a row using one character for each square? Totally fine. You do you!

However, if you want a character to earn the Summertime Riptide title, that character has to complete all 9 squares. That’s real dedication!

Requirements for completing a square (pick A or B):
Option A - Post a thread with a word count of 500 or greater which fulfills the prompt.
Option B - Respond to someone else’s thread for that prompt with at least 500 words (one response of 500 words, two responses of 250 words each, three responses of 200 words each, ect)

1: Requiem

Your character participates in the DotD’s worship of Requiem, the deity of creativity. Requiem is the deity safeguarding reincarnation, and a soul can increase their odds of a better, more favorable reincarnation by demonstrating courage, loyalty, and intelligence in their current life.

Options for worshiping Requiem include:
- Crafting art. And, possibly, giving said art to friends. This could be practical art (like a cute and fluffy blanket) or purely for aesthetics (like a painting).
- Deciding on a goal, and then planning on how to achieve that goal. When that goal is reached, tossing the paper into the top of the volcano.
- Alternatively, your character can have a thread discussing Requiem with Vale (the inquisitor for Requiem) and if your posts reach to the word count total requirements of 500 words, then that counts! Feel free to reach out to Axiom on Discord or on-site for a thread with Vale to complete this prompt.

2: Black Sand Beaches

Have your character enjoy one of the black sand beaches on the Big Island. This can be fun (like swimming or surfing) or practical (like spearfish hunting or catching crabs).

3: Viper Island

Your character investigates the “snake supremacists” on Viper Island. How does this go? Does your character get attacked? Does your character cleverly shapeshift into a snake and try to learn information by becoming one of the snakes? Does your character go on a killing rampage and try to slaughter as many of these culty fascists as possible?

4: Bones & Crafting

Your character participates in the DotD’s cultural practice of turning bones (or obsidian) into armor, such as skull masks. What material or corpse is your character working with? What do they make? How do they feel about their creation?

If one of your character’s friends or family perished during the eruption and earthquake, perhaps they transform these remains into armor, weapons, or art?

5: FREESTYLE

Start a thread of any topic. Word count must be 750 words or greater. Evoke the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) at least once per sense.

Want to overachieve? Try using the ABCDE method to structure your thread starter like a self-contained story.

6: Cannibalism

Write a flashback which is a literary technique to provide backstory on a character. To make sure roleplayers can respond to your character, make sure to set the present scene, so other characters can react to your character even while your character is lost in their memory.

In the present, your character is eating… what? A sentient animal? A non-sentient coconut crab? A vegan meal?

In the past, your character either chose to participate in DotD’s ritualistic cannibalism of the dead or did not. Why? How do they feel about that choice?

Back in the present… does that memory change how your character feels about their meal?

7: Coconut Island

Your character kills a meter-wide coconut crab or 10 small coconut crabs. How do they do this? With trickery, brute strength, or some other method? Are they proud of their accomplishment or is this feat nothing to them? Are they looking forward to eating the coconut crab(s) or are they more concerned with providing for other Descendants?

8: Rainforest

Your character explores the newly reforested rainforest (setting reference) to do… what? Hunt monkeys? Gather tropical fruit? Birdwatch?

9: Vayu

Your character participates in the DotD’s worship of Vayu, the deity of destruction. Down deep in the volcano’s underground tunnels, the sacrificial lava pit awaits. What do they throw inside? Garbage? Something from their past which haunts them and they wish to let go?

REWARDS

Middle column Big Island prompts: (2, 5, 8)
Your character gets a remote beach OR section of the rainforest on the Big Island gets named after them. This blurb will be added to the guide!

Diagonal with the Deities: (1, 5, 9)
Your character gets a gift from vale for being pious (the gift is a small dragon sculpture made out of coconut crab shells to go in their personal cave). This gift can be received in a private thread with Vale or assumed to have happened, roleplayer’s choice.

Diagonal with the Islands: (3, 5, 7)
Your character is officially a badass for surviving both of the murdery murder islands! They get a shout out in the next meeting from Meteor.

Middle row body horror prompts: (4, 5, 6)
Your character gets a “free” bone knife and bone knife crafting lesson with Xanti. This can be roleplayed out in a private thread or not, roleplayer’s choice.

Complete all 9 prompts?!
- Your character gets the Summertime Riptide title.
- PLUS you receive 1,000 gems from Staff.

CDC TRACKER

Please reply to this thread with your prompt tracker. You can either post it when you’re done or post the WIP and update it as you go. You do you!

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