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Guide to Resource Gathering :  https://arcanezoo.com/info/resource-gathering

Creative Works Guidelines: https://www.arcanezoo.com/info/creative-guidelines

When submitting Resource Gathering Prompts:

• Artwork must be in color or if in black and white should be clean and finished looking, and feature at least your own character in full body. Up to three total characters may be featured in a single image, and all may submit the artwork for rolls.
• Written works must be at least 700 words, and feature at least your own character. Up to three total characters may be featured in a single written work, and all may submit the written work for rolls.
• All creative works must describe or show the the correct environment for the region you wish to gather in. (i.e: A dense jungle for the Atlosian Wetlands, or a river way with pine trees for Voltlund Coast.)
• Role Play logs will also be accepted for these type of activities, following the same rules as written works, and will need to be between only two players.
• If all three characters featured are owned by the same player, they can all be added to one Prompt submission. If different players own them, they need to be submitted seperately by their owners.

when submitting please include:

• The World Region being used for gathering.
• If the character has a Skill, or has a Machine equipped that will boost their gathering.
• Any items being used during a gathering,  attached as an add on. Items that require player input use the comment area to list your choices.
• If multiple images or stories are combined in one submission, please note how these are broken up (ie. Image one on left side, Image two on right side.)

On approval, a staff member will comment with the items awarded and add them to your bank.

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Guide to Crafting :  https://arcanezoo.com/info/crafting

When submitting OPtional Creative works:

• Artwork must be in color or if in black and white should be clean and finished looking, and feature at least your own character in full body. Only one character may use this for Crafting.
• Written works must be at least 700 words, and feature at least your own character. Only one character may use this for Crafting.
• If no art or writing is attached, please link your account for the URL instead.

when submitting please include:

• The Recipe or Blueprint being used by name.
• If the character has a Skill, or has a Machine equipped that will boost their Crafting.
• All items required to craft. Items that require player input use the comment area to list your choices.

On approval, a staff member will comment with outcome. If successful in Crafting, the crafted item will be added to your bank. On a failure, some or all of the items used will be removed from your bank.

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Players that own Familiars with skills allowing them monthly boosts, can use this prompt up to 3 times a month. Each Familiar can use a skill once per month. Since Skills don't require any drawn or written submissions, just use your Familair's URL for the needed link.

The following skills can be used here:

• Item fetch: Once a month a player may send this familiar to gather 1-2* items from a region of their choice.
• Breeding redo: Once a player’s posted breeding is rolled, a player may reroll 1-2* offspring for a new random genotype using this familiar.
• Tribute chaser: Once a month a player may send this familiar out to attempt to gather some Tribute Points. 50/50 for 2TP default, 25/75 for 2TP on shared months.
• Mimic: Once per month this familiar may copy the skill of a different familiar owned by the same player.

when submitting please include (If applicable to your skill):

• Skill being used.
• Region being gathered in.
• Link to MYO geno being rerolled.
• Skill being copied with a link to the familair.

On approval, a staff member will comment with the items awarded and add them to your bank.

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Guide to Breeding :  https://arcanezoo.com/info/breeding

When submitting Breeding Prompts:

• Link your own account for the URL.
• Add both Characters being bred to the Prompt.
• Attach up to TWO items you wish to be used for the breeding. i.e Hayyan's Blessing, Starspeck Cookies.
• If you include Game NPCs in your breeding, please include your Voucher items.
• If you include a Character that you do not own, please include the Permission with the breeding. Permissions not tied to your account can be used by other players.

On approval, staff will send a comment with the Genos of your new babies and create MYO slots for each one.

If anything is incorrect with your breeding, staff will let you know what to fix and resubmit. Items are not spent in this case.

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Please use this Prompt to continue a storyline when prompted by staff.

For the URL please link to your approved Quest Prompt that gives the staff comment, and attach the character being used.

All creative works should follow the same guidelines as the storyline's first part.

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The team carries on their mission, but with the news spreading of a newly discovered land, so too comes the threat of those with ill intents also looking to profit from it. Thieves, poachers and other less noble crusaders are starting to make it to the Stygian Wastes, to avoid any risk to the current expedition, extra guards are being hired to help protect the icy bridge way from trespassers. To make the situation worst, winter storms have rolled in, making the landscape a challenge. Icy rain, lightening and foggy conditions means those on duty will need to be extra prepared.

Prompt:

Draw or write about your character helping defend the trail head in the storm. Do they siomply stand watch to alert others, or do they take on those looking to sneak in head on?

Rewards:

• x3 Stygian Waste gathering items
• 10% Rare item roll
• 1TP

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When submitting Prompts:

• Drawn art must be in color and feature the local landscape.
• Written work must be 800 words and also feature the local landscape as part of the written details.

when submitting please include:

• Attach all characters featured.
• Any items being used during a gathering,  attached as an add on. Items that require player input use the comment area to list your choices.
• If multiple images or stories are combined in one submission, please note how these are broken up (ie. Image one on left side, Image two on right side.)

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Guide to Character Journeys :  http://arcanezoo.com/info/character-journey

Creative Works Guidelines: https://www.arcanezoo.com/info/creative-guidelines

When submitting Character Journey Prompts:

• Artwork must be in color, and feature at least your own character in full body. While many characters can be drawn for SP credit, only ONE additional player’s character shown in full body may get credit for a Character Journey submission alongside yours. (You both submit the same image for Memories.)
• Artwork must have a background that shows off the scene. No gradients or vague abstractions.
• Written works must be at least 1,000 words, and feature at least your own character. While many characters can be included in a written work for SP credit, only ONE additional player character may be detailed working alongside the main character, and may get credit for a Character Journey submission along side yours. (You both submit the same story for Memories.)
• Role Play logs will also be accepted for these type of activities, following the same rules as written works, and will need to be between only two players.

when submitting please include:

• The name of the Prompt you used.

For prompts from the Standard Memory list, the character will receive a Memory on approval.

For Special Memory prompts, once approved you may submit a request for a character update.

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• All eggs react and grow based on where and how players care for them, these steps will adjust and create a new baby Balikin geno with physical traits that reflect the work done to raise them in different situations. Other traits like Coat colors may be picked from common and uncommon options, and markings can be picked from from the same rarity range as other Starters, however SOME eggs will come with additional markings.
• EACH  step of raising a Balkin egg has a random chance to advance a trait higher in rarity or adding additional marking or a mutation, this is rolled when submitted.
  
• Skipping a step will also effect your new child’s traits in unique ways, so experiment and see what you get!
• Players will need to complete at MINIMUM ONE prompt from the list below to be able to hatch their egg, but can submit all FIVE if they choose.
• Prompts to not need to be done in order but need to be submitted one at a time using this Prompt, your first submission will create the Balikin Egg item in game.

When submitting Egg Prompts:

• More than one character be used to draw or write these prompt, and players may switch characters between each step.
• Each must be a personal piece of creative work, no collabs or commissions for this event.
• Artwork must be in color, with a backdrop.
• Writing must be 800 words.

The Prompt List:

• Step One – Location based

  • A new child wants to take in it’s new parent’s homeland, they might not get in any visual details, but will get to experience something more on a deeper level. Draw or write about your character taking their new egg to their favorite place in their homeland (This prompt is character homeland locked. The Homeland of the character drawn with the egg for this step will adjust the outcome).

• Step Two –

  • Eggshells are actually very thin and sound is how most Balikin learn of the world. Please take your Balikin egg to the most noisy place you can think of, maybe it’s a rushing river in near Voltlund, or the native birds in the Atlosian jungle edge. Draw or Write about your character taking their new egg to a place with local sounds.

• Step Three –

  • Is it ready to hatch? Getting to move a little will help shape this egg for it’s life outside the shell. This egg is rocking and rolling and it has to hatch soon..maybe letting it stretch it’s legs in a metaphorical sense will help! Draw or write about your character taking this egg out to move around, the location will help shape the kid inside right?

• Step four –

  • All that moving seems to have tired your egg out, time to take a small rest after a long, exciting day. Draw or write about your character creating a comfortable place to rest the egg.

• Step Five – Element based

  • Looks like your egg is ready to hatch, time for the last step, let your new Balikin experience the worlds various elements, as magical creatures, aether is important to their growth and getting to test their skills. Draw or write about your character sharing a familiar element in the environment with their egg, a cool stream, or a thunder storm, there’s so much around us!

when submitting please include:

• Link your Egg if you already have one from ealier submissions.
• Prompt Number being used.

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The Stygian Wastes are a new Azorna region, and creative works during the event will act just like standard Gathering prompts done in that region. This story point allows players to explore each of the Three Locations Holios left on the map, each has its own creative work prompt requirements, and the more you finish in the story the more rewards you can get.

Characters drawn or written about will have their Trained status used for these and additional items that boost gathering will be usable here.

These are unexplored zones, and as such there’s a 10% chance on each submission a character featured may earn a minor wound while checking out the new region. So get your healing kits ready, you’ll need them. There’s also a 15% chance of receiving a story advancement, rare item, or Balikin encounter.

All players will start at Location One, and once opened up,  can continue to Location Two and onward. Players that complete all Three locations will receive a unique reward after the Balikin troupe finishes it’s goals in the Wastes and the story advances.

Location One: The Stone Pass

The first place the team needs to move through and spend some time is the narrow pass surrounded by frozen water, a tiny space that has been missed by most of the inhabitants of the Voltlund Coast due to it’s size and unnatural shaping. The environment here is  dark and rocky, with patches of lichen, but not much else. Toward, but delicate sharp rocks loom in the distance.

Sotroot reminds the team that the dangerous wildlife they might see in this snowy pass are: Woolly Mammoth, Musk Ox, Polar Bears, and Aurochs. If food is needed, the animals available are Lemmings, Geese, and Salmon.

Prompt One:

Not everyone on the trip is here due to their strength, some joined to lend their less physically active skills. Draw or Write about your character helping in other ways, this can be helping chart the maps, mending injuries or perhaps cooking a nice meal.

Prompt Two:

With the rough ground and lack of cover, a lot of the physically fit travelers will need to stand guard and keep away nighttime threats while others sleep. Draw or Write about your character helping scout, track, or protect the camp and travelers against wayward wildlife at night.

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Location Two: The Furnace baths

After a few long days of travel, and the work of many eager adventures, a safe and functional pathway has been found to the next place on the map. A small canyon flanked by tall jutting stones, just in view of the the black rock mountain, now clearly much more than that, it's actually a dominate volcano. Small pools of sulfur and volcanic vents heat pits and pools all over the landscape, a welcoming rest before you head out to the final location.

Prompt One:

You earned this break, it's been a rough trip so far! Draw or Write about your character taking a relaxing moment in the hot springs, maybe they play around, or take a short solem moment to reflect on the trip so far.

Prompt Two:

The work isn't done, let everyone else relax there's other places here to explore Draw or Write about your character exploring the black stone caves around the mountain, avoid the steam and toxic pools, and see if you can find any additional clues to the Balikin home here.

Location  three: The Frozen Sea

The journey winds it's way down a steep slope and into the shores of a pure black beach that is loomed over by the dormante volcano that rests in the center of the bay, there's just one more step to reach it. The path can only be rised by making an offering of Glass Stones, the navigation team with aid from their Balikin guides can do two things to help gather these.

Prompt One:

According to Hinsira, these stones are quiet common nearby, helping gathering them with the team should take no time if everyone pitches in. Draw or write about your character helping dig up, dive for or gather these small clear stones.

Reward: Stygian gathering roll, plus 2-5 Glass Stones.

Prompt Two:

Does not require creative submission  Attach your character and 20 of the same common, or 10 of the same Rare gathering items to help support other teams looking.

Reward: 1-3 Glass Stones

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When submitting Prompts:

• Drawn art must be in color and feature the local landscape.
• Written work must be 800 words and also feature the local landscape as part of the written details.
• Solo work may feature only TWO characters for this event.
• Players may collaborate on creative works and include FOUR characters, TWO for each player in the collab. Gift or trade art is allowed in these collaborations.
• Players that collab for these will receive a collective bonus roll for advancement in the story.

when submitting please include:

• The Location Number and Prompt Number (Sample: Location 1/Prompt 2)
• Attach all characters featured.
• Any items being used during a gathering,  attached as an add on. Items that require player input use the comment area to list your choices.
• If multiple images or stories are combined in one submission, please note how these are broken up (ie. Image one on left side, Image two on right side.)

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Players must complete at least one prompt submission from 'Caring for the Eggs' before using this Prompt.

There’s one last thing Balikin nests need before we can set these eggs to hatch..a gem. And each baby will need their own special gem.

Optional Prompt:

Draw or write about your character picking the perfect gem to rest the egg on. Any Region may be used.

This is a bonus prompt players may complete when submitting their egg for hatching.  Players that complete this optional step will get an additional 20% chance of earning either a higher rarity for coat color, or additional marking or mutation. (It’s random which!)

• If you skip this optional prompt and wish to just hatch your egg, please link your Balikin Egg MYO in place of the submission.

When submitting Egg requests:

• Artwork must be in color or if in black and white should be clean and finished looking, and feature at least your own character in full body.
• Written works must be at least 800 words and feature at least your own character.

When submitting please include:

• Attach the Character(s) inclued in the image or story.

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While the monthly ebb and flows bless some newly born creatures with unique traits, others strive to take on these traits on their own time frame. Hayyan and her team of aetheric scholars have found a path that could potentially imbue some creatures with this unique change outside it's normal heights.

By completing this series of test studies a character will be able to add a Monthly Mutation to their Import.

• You can complete only a single step, or all five of them, but please do so as one single Prompt submission. We recommend creating all art or stories as one combined submission when doing so.
• Each has a boost to how the Mutation will be handled and how successful it will be.
• Be aware, Hayyan has warned this system will only effect some characters:
  • Characters with a Holiday Mutation already can not earn more even if they can use the Prompt.
  • Azoth born AND Alter characters can also not add Holiday Mutations, only Standard and Citizen characters.
  • If a character submits any level of this quest line and FAILS to get a Mutation on submission, they can retry the same steps with new Creative Submissions, but can only do so twice per year.

Step 1

(20% chance of a random Mutation based on the character's creation date. Ie: a character created in March would only get one of the March Mutations.)

First a creature looking to add mutations needs to study their physiology, Aether based alterations can be unpredictable at times, so knowing yourself intensely is the key to a safe start.

Draw or write about your character taking some time with the magic Scholars to take in all the tiny scientific details about a trait they have, showing off a glowing horn, or testing the heat sensitively of their tail. Once they study in depth, it's safe to move to the next stage.

Step 2

(60% chance of a random Mutation based on the character's creation date. Ie: a character created in March would only get one of the March Mutations.)

Pairing the proper material along with these logs is the next stage, the Scholars will take what they learned and create a Tincture that aligns with your character's personal build and magic flow.

Draw or write about your character having to help make, or consume the needed Tincture.

• This Prompt will require you attach 5 Rare gathering items.

Step 3

(40% chance of a completely random Holiday Mutation from all months.)

Going deeper, learning how you deal with day to day functions can help refine your magics in way that surface level study can't. While the Scholars study your interactions in a city, they can help refine your alignment.

Draw or write about your character showing off their social skills in a city in their Homeland, either doing a job, helping out or causing problems.

• This prompt requires you also attach 2 Food plates.

Step 4

(80% chance of a completely random Holiday Mutation from all months.)

With all this new information it's time to take it out into the wilds where the Aether is the strongest. The Scholars have set up a small elemental shrine and ask your character to spend the night guarding it, this ensures their connection is perfectly in balance to a transfer of out of time Aether.

Draw or write about your character's night watching over this shrine, what elements show up, and how do they reach to having to keep it safe?

• This prompt requires you  attach 5 Dyes.

Step 5

(99% , Player may pick which Mutation they want to add.) (1% chance a character will earn the Aetherbound Status, and gain a random marking instead.)

The final step after reporting their experiences to the staff, is to let them transfer Wild Aether and watch the outcome with baited breath.

Draw or write about your character getting ready for, or in the process of having their Aether transfer.

• This prompt requires you  attach 1 Tincture and 1 + Quality Tincture.

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When submitting Prompts:

• Drawn art must be in color and feature the local landscape.
• Written work must be 800 words and also feature the local landscape as part of the written details.

when submitting please include:

• Attach all characters featured.
• All required Items for each step you completed.