Zach's Plonotes

[Zach Grasswind]

Long Term Goals

- Gain reputation in the Hunter's Guild as a skilled hunter and tracker so that he may be of use to the city in a wider capacity
- Fletching + bowing? (+leatherworking?) (side-business?)
- Have own business - Tracking? Lost & found type? Hunting supplies??
- New Strider (if Endrykas opens again)
- Join Watch (if Endrykas opens again)

 

Skills

- Hunting Master
- Tracking Master
- Wilderness Survival Master
- Shortbow Master
- Pathfinding
- Fletching

 

Hunter

- Master Hunter
- Master Tracker
- Master Shortbow
- Competent Fletching
- Competent Wilderness Survival

 

Drykas

- Animal Husbandry
- Riding
- Horsemanship
- Webbing
- Dagger
- Herbalism

 

Survivor

- Wilderness Survival
- Navigation
- Climbing
- Foraging
-Medicine

[Zach Grasswind]

Goals

Skill Goals

Wilderness Survival > Aim for Competent by end of season
- Threads to include: Campfires, tent/hammock (+where to camp), skinning/butchering, finding water, edible plants, navigation, supplies check

Hunting > Aim to get to at least 35

Shortbow > Expert or at least 35
- Gain skill through job threads.

Fletcing > Novice


Character Goals

Relationships:

Mads - more friendship - family style bond?

Dev - <3

Meet Ari'Ellin - WS thread.

Run into Moritz in the Outpost.


Job:
- Snare making from scratch
- Hunting a deer (learn field dressing)


Future stuff:

Buy own house? (Needs to admit he wants to put down roots - alien concept for a traveling Drykas.)

Business:
Skills to up in order to set up own business.
- Wilderness survival, pathfinding, tracking, mountaineering

[Zach Grasswind]

Challenges

Seasonal Challenges


✧Catch a cold from getting caught in the rain

✧Kiss someone in the rain (with another PC)

✧Have a close call with a lightning strike

✧Play in the puddles in the streets (with another PC)

✧Earn 5 XP in a new artistic or crafting skill (Ex. Cooking, drawing, sewing, weaving, etc.)

✧Help rescue the okomo from the mudslide on the Sharai Peak

✧Experience cabin fever from being cooped up so much due to the weather

✧Tell scary stories around a fire (with another PC)

✧Earn 5 XP in an intellectual or scholarly skill (Ex. History, law, mathematics, philosophy, etc.)

✧Give a stranger shelter from the rain

Winter Theme: Learning

10,000 words. Learn new skills, or perhaps learn a moral lesson, or maybe learn something about themselves etc.

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[Zach Grasswind]

Past Seasons

Inactive from Spring 520-Summer 521 a.v. For IC continuity, Zach made a journey to Riverfall to visit family. He returned to Lhavit just before the turn of the season into Fall 521 a.v.

Summer 518 a.v. :

Fall is going to be spent getting Zach more established in the city, and getting him used to Lhavit. He spent his life on the open grassland so he needs to adapt to a totally different environment. He needs to improve his hunting (+ related) skills.

Goals:
- Make at least one friend!
- Get a dog?
- Join Hunters Guild (once it's established).
- Attend at least one social event.

Skills:
- Hunting to competent
- Shortbow to competent
- Tracking to at least 16
- Pick up fletching?

Other:
- Grow more comfortable in the forest. Maybe even learn to like it?
- Stop pining for Endrykas.

Job Threads:
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Seasonal Challenges

Complete 6.
✧Tell a story to a Seeker at the Library (True or not)

✧Learn to cook a new recipe

✧Teach a skill to or learn a skill from someone else (With another PC)

✧Get caught doing something embarrassing (With another PC)

✧Gain 5 XP in any one artistic skill of your choice (Painting, drawing, singing, etc.)

✧Visit a location that you haven't yet been to

✧Go shopping for the latest fashions

✧Make and play in a leaf pile (With another PC)

✧Attend the Moon Festival

✧Get into a fight with someone who has gone insane, or while you're insane (With another PC)

Summer 518 a.v. :

Zach won't have much of the season left once he arrives in Lhavit, so really Summer is just to lay the foundations and get some job threads out.

Goals:
- Sort housing
- Get a job!

Job Threads:
- Can't See the Prey for the Trees
- Snared

Timeline

Pre-Creation Travel
Left Endrykas Summer 517 -> Kenash.
Went across to Alvadas in Summer 517.
Stayed in Alvadas till the start of 518 and then got on a boat to Lhavit. Passed through Riverfall & Black Rock before going up to Lhavit. Arrived in Fall 518.

[Zach Grasswind]

Skill & Lore Tracking

Summer 518 :

53rd: Land Navigation: 1xp, Observation: 4xp, Socialization: 4xp, Teaching: 2xp
Lore of the eccentricities of Lhavit, Location: The Scholar's Demise, Mauriel: bard Ethaefal, Socialization: sincere compliment, Lore of the history of Lhavit, Lore of skyglass, Race: Ethaefal, Lore of the Gods Domain, Race: Akvatari, Ethaefal: feed on moonlight

58th: Observation +1, Arcanology +1
Location: Divine's Gateway, Corin Row: Summoner and researcher at the Divine's Gateway, Summer 518 AV: Wild djed acting strange in Lhavit, Ruik: Corin's familiar, Djed: A type of energy, Djed: Everything has it, Djed: Means 'backbone' in the Ancient Tongue, Wild djed: Unpredictable and dangerous, Wild djed: Can cause death and mutations

62nd: Land Navigation: 3xp, Observation: 3xp, Hunting: 2xp, Shortbow: 2xp, Stealth: 2xp, Tracking: 2xp, Climbing: 1xp, Planning: 1xp
Location: the Jugged Hare, Advice: don’t kill misty foxes, stay away from bears, Land Navigation: staying away from cliffs, Tracking: you must know the habits of the animals you’re stalking, Tracking: following human tracks

65th: Land Navigation: 3xp, Planning: 1xp, Wilderness Survival- Woodlands: 3xp, Trapping: 3xp, Observation: 5xp, Stealth: 3xp, Hunting: 3xp, Tracking:3xp, Weapon- Shortbow: 2xp
Wilderness Survival: taking stock of the terrain, Trapping: set snares along a well-traveled path, Stealth: using a slow, deliberate gait, Lore of the startled behavior of rabbits, Tracking: following scat, Tracking: identifying runs, Trapping: how to build a snare

Fall 518 :

9th: Observation +5, Painting +5, Socialization +4
Location: Sunrise Nook, Location: Alheas Park, Location: Tain’s Studio, Painting: Painting emotions can change your view, Painting: Mixing blue and yellow to make green paint, Painting: Adding black to make a color darker, Painting: Using water to thin the paint, Painting: Using left to right strokes for a forest canopy, Self: Hates the forest, Self: Likes the sunlight filtering through the canopy of the forest, Self: Green and gold colors remind him of home

22nd: Observation +4, Planning +1, Rhetoric +2, Seduction +2, Socialization +4
The Moon Festival: A once a year celebration in fall, Mauriel: Horns are yellow in the fall, Socialization: Inviting an acquaintance to a party, Seduction: Paying another a compliment, Ethaefal: Change hair and horn colors seasonally, The Moon Festival: A time for reflection and change, Socialization: Buying food for another is a nice gesture, Lhavit Location (Shinyama Peak): The Temple of the Moon, Employment: A hunter for the Jugged Hare, Story: The ghost in the Unforgiving, The Temple of the Moon: Don't touch the reflecting pool

34th:

36th: ● Acrobatics +1, Botany +1, Foraging +1, Hunting +1, Land Navigation +1, Observation +2, Planning +2, Socialization +2, Weapon: Short Bow +1, Wilderness Survival +1
Lhavit Location (Sartu Peak): The Hunter's Guild, Myra: New to Lhavit since Summer 518 AV, Wilderness Survival: Keep dogs close at hand so they don't get lost or injured, Wilderness Survival: Being prepared with supplies, Wilderness Survival: Being extra vigilant with inexperienced people about, Hunting: Place snares near warrens, dens, and trails, Myra: from Ravok, Myra: Hobby herbalist, Botany: Blueberry bush appearance, Zach: His first hunt was when he was 13, Hunting: Setting a snare, Hunting: Bow shots are harder to make the denser the forest gets

42nd:

Spring 519 :

13th:

29th: Observation: 5xp, Persuasion: 1xp, Intimidation: 1xp, Socialization: 5xp, Dancing: 1xp
Persuasion: de-escalation, Lore of standing up for a stranger, People: Dev'ania, Dev'ania: beautiful konti, Dev'ania: a fortune teller, Lore of the workings of fortune telling, Dancing: an awkward endevour

75th: Observation: 5xp, Socialization: 2xp, Logic: 3xp, Negotiation: 1xp, Weapon- shortbow: 1xp, Rhetoric: 3xp, Running: 1xp, Tracking: 2xp, Investigation: 2xp, Wilderness Survival: 2xp, Leadership: 4xp, Agility: 1xp, Persuasion: 2xp, Running: 1xp, Endurance: 2xp
Laid: not friends with Madeira, Madeira: not an outdoorswoman, Logic: simple deduction, Madeira: wields a crossbow, Observation: reading people, Negotiation: working out a deal, Malediction: basic overview, Lore of Kelvic shift, Wilderness Survival: conditions for a landslide, Leadership: taking charge in a crisis, Persuasion: gentle coaxing, Wilderness Survival: how to survive a landslide, Lore of being buried alive, Zach: loneliness

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[Zach Grasswind]

Character Notes

 

Personality

ESTP-A
Explorer: The Entrepreneur

Saggitarius

Arcetypes
Primary: The Seeker
Secondaries: The Creator, The Jester

 

Gods

Zach believes in:
- Zulrav
- Semele
- Caiyah
- Rak'keli
Since Lhavit
- Leth
- Syna
- Zintila

 

Magic

Magic Zach knows about:
- Webbing
- Reimancy
- Glyphing
- Malediction
- Pathfinding (though no name for it)
- Architectrix

 

Races

Zach follows the tradtitional beliefs of the Drykas when it comes to other races with one or two exceptions since his time in Lhavit.

Humans: Including sub/mixed races, Zach is positive to human races unless a character first impression leads him to see them otherwise.

Akalak: Zach is positive toward Akalak.

Akvatari: Zach is neutral to Akvatari as they are unknown among Drykas, however since meeting Mauriel he is aware of their existence.

Charoda: Zach is unaware of the existence of Charoda.

Dhani: Treated with caution, though he has never met one.

Ethaefal: Positive toward Eth, more so since living in Lhavit.

Eypharian: Positive towards Eypharian's.

Jamoura: Zach is unaware of Jamoura however he would likely treat one with extreme caution.

Kelvic: Zach is positive toward Kelvic.

Nuit: Zach is negative toward Nuit - Nuit go against the circle of life that the Drykas live by. He has never met one but the lesson has been taught to him.

Pycon: Zach is unaware of the existence of Pycon.

Symenestra: Zach has never come across Symenestra, however it is likely he would treat one with extreme negativity.

Zith: Drykas kill Zith on sight.

 

Pathfinding

Colour tracking:

Zach: gold
Madeira: ink blue

USEFUL LINKS
Archery Guide
Small Game Snares
Small Game Bowhunting
Traditional Fletching
Fantasy archery

[Zach Grasswind]

NaNo '21

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8	1334	3865
9	632	4497
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15	1638	8042
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26	1092	13,429
27	1233	14,662
28	868	15,530
29	1367	16,897
30	3381	20,278

posts :

3 - The Familliar Hunt - 515
3 - The Eyes Have It - 907
7 - The Eyes Have It - 1109
8 - The Eyes Have It - 812
8 - To Meet Again - 522
9 - To Meet Again - 632
14 - The Eyes Have It - 604
14 - A Reunion - 641
14 - A Reunion - 662
15 - The Eyes Have It - 788
15 - The Familiar Hunt - 850
21 - The Eyes Have It - 892
21 - A Reunion - 717
21 - The Familiar Hunt - 801
21 - The Familiar Hunt - 744
25 - The Eyes Have It - 1141
26 - The Eyes Have It - 1092
27 - A Reunion - 690
27 - The Eyes Have It - 543
28- Creatures and Connections - 868
29 - The Eyes Have It II - 727
29 - Creatures and Connections - 640
30 - Creatures and Connections - 782
30 - The Eyes Have It II - 589
30 - The Lone Wolf - 641
30 - The Lone Wolf - 813
30 - The Lone Wolf - 556