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Hello, and welcome to Home Questing number nineteen. ‘Tis the season...the season of fear. This week’s challenge is to write (up to) a two sentence story. The story which chills my spine the most wins. You have until next Friday at noon, and your time starts now.
In the face of the ongoing pandemic and the inability to hold in-person events, the View remains committed to our mission to continue bringing you weekly content to help us all stay connected while we can't see each other in person.
To that end, we need help!
With only a few virtual events on the calendar, our normal avenue for creating and producing content has decreased considerably. Therefore, we are turning to the community for help and putting out an official call for submissions.
Not sure what you can do to help? Here are a few things:
Do you draw, paint, or are otherwise artistic? Scan some of your art and send it to us, we'd love to run it!
Do you write poetry, fiction, short stories, bardics, songs? Send us your literary works, we'd be more than happy to post it!
Do you having a burning etiquette or personal question that you desperately need an answer to? Our resident agony aunt, Madam Zarine, can't wait to answer you!
Do you want to answer questions about yourself? We have many different interview question sets that you can complete to let us all know a little bit more about you, including:
10 Questions (the OG of interviews)
10 More Questions (because more is always better)
Fresh Faces (for newbies under two years)
10 Questions with an Event-Holder
Tricks of the Trade - just for spell-casters!
Voices in the View (our new column focusing on players who identify as a member of a minority community)
Do you like to create puzzles, riddles, or brain teasers of any variety? These are always popular features and you're welcome to send us yours!
How's your meme game? The Meme Team is always accepting submissions.
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Thank you all for your consideration. This is an unprecedented time, but we can get through it together as a community.
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With Halloween fast approaching, the View wants to know -
What is the spookiest/ scariest/ creepiest thing that has happened to you at a Realms event?
Head on back to the Facebook page and drop a comment to let us know!
Hello and welcome to the results of home questing: the 17th task. This time, we asked people to write a Haiku that was about themselves or their nation. We got five Haiku received this time, so let's see how people did:
First from Laika en'Naur is this describing his past, his faith and his oaths.
Elven Heritage
Paladin of Light and Hope
Shall do no evil
Next from Cressida is one about Chimeron and it’s leadership.
Rowan leaves lead forth.
A monarch majestic as
the butterfly flies.
Then from Keras comes this Haiku about The Rivvolk.
Sailing dreams and stone,
save those tainted soul and mind.
Fear the Dragonfly.
Penultimately from DelHemar is his view upon joining Chimeron:
And last, and quite probably least, from Janus is about his subnation Rua Thar Cinn’s heraldry:
The Mountain and Wand:
The two things Janus can draw
Is our heraldry.
So, seeing as I didn’t get a chance to see him when I visited Teng Hua recently, I invited Emperor Lysis to be the judge this week, and I am thrilled at the fact that he accepted. Take it away Emperor Lysis.
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Thank you so much for those very thoughtful words. I am not nearly as well trained in haiku, but I will do what I can to evaluate them, as they all match the format. This was actually the toughest round to judge, as only one stood out to me...and that was Januses...and that was cause it had my name in it. That said, here is what I have decided:
Of course, in 5th place, and then disqualified is Janus. He tried to use my name to gain favor with the judges which I can’t reward.
Tied in 3rd place is Cressida and Keras. I loved Cressida’s allusion with both a Monarch and a Butterfly. And Keras’ makes me want to know more about the Dragonfly.
In 2nd place is Laika en'Naur’s. Each line stands truly on it’s own, and then blossoms in full when strung together.
And finally in first place is DelHemar’s. It has a full nature theme that stands on it’s own even though it is about something else entirely.
So, that leads us to the point of the scores for the week. After a point for participation we have them as:
DelHemar with 11 points,
Laika en'Naur with 9 points,
Keras with 8 points and
Cressida with 6 points.
Drawing on the replies from yesterday's coffee break question as well as replies sent privately, we present Coffee Break Revisited - an word cloud sharing the most important words and concepts from the gathered replies! Do you recognize your words?
