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day two of @skyjacksweek is cards/victor. obviously travis was the clearest option, so instead i did the man the myth the orimar. yayayay

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Skyjacks Day 1: Wings (best bird)

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So it's apparently Skyjacks week! I didn't exactly prepare anything, but I recently increased my Patreon pledge for the Oneshot network to a tier that offers a micro-rpg every month and discovered that one of the past rewards was a Skyjacks solo journaling game. Since I've been thinking about posting some of my solo rpg journals for a while now, this seemed like an ideal opportunity to try that out. Especially since the prompt for day 1 is Wings | Flight. So I present...

Feather Fall

I'll copy the introductory text of the game here, so everyone can read it. Please imagine it in James D'amato's storytelling voice, as I did.

The Story of a Feather When the stars fell and the world was changed, feathers from the wings of the Fallen scattered across Spéir. These feathers make their way across the world, passing from hand to hand, leaving momentous events in their wake. Most end up either with the Church of the Slain God or bound to The Cutting Stone. Some find homes in the hands of people who seek to do good in the world. Still fewer open new eyes for mortals, creating Seers. This is the story of a feather. A luminous, beautiful object that once graced the wings of an angel. You are the chronicler of its passage through the world. The wind blows as the Lumins will it. The fate of the feather is its own.

The game then asks me to draw my feather. Please do not judge my MSpaint abomination. We humans are simply incapable of seeing the feather's true beauty with mortal eyes. That is why angel feathers have eyes of their own. They judge us, we do not judge them.

Next, the game asks me to write down three or four words to describe the angel feather, for me to keep in mind as part of its nature as it travels across the world. I have chosen "crowned", "silver", and "nesting".

The game itself is based on Blackjack. I will draw cards, attempting to reach a combined value of as close to 21 as I can get without going over. For each card I draw, I answer a prompt about a time that the feather came into contact with mortals. I can only stand if I have drawn at least one black card (righting wrongs) and one red card (doing mercies).

My first card is a Jack of hearts, worth ten points. The prompt for ten total points is "You are found by a Fallen. Who do you help before you are separated again?"

It was a desperate grasp as they fell, and I was the only one they caught. Not one of their own feathers, but I knew the hand that held me as surely as if I had been part of their own wings.

We had sung together, part of the same celestial choir, and in the quiet verses our wing had often stretched to touch theirs. They don't remember that now. Not the soft caresses or the gentle caretaking or the murmured discussions. All those memories were lost when their wings were cut away, bound up in one feather or another.

But I-- I am the feather who holds the memory of their names.

I reminded Chamiel to call the name Jeduel, and showed them the path that would reunite the mouths that spoke those names. And when the two of them were discovered even as they discovered one another, I sent them away and distracted those who would have followed them. It is alright that I will no longer sit on Jeduel's crown. They can touch one another with hands now, rather than wings. But perhaps I will miss being a part of that touch.

My next card is an eight of diamonds. The prompt for eighteen total points is "You are found by a parent caring for a hungry child. What do you show them to ease their worries?"

He is desperate, when he finds me. Anything would do, he thinks, if only it will last to the end of this winter. If he can only find enough to feed the child a little longer, surely the seasons will change and there will be an abundance of food to be found in the world around him once again. Surely even in this new world without order, a winter cannot last longer than a full year.

He is wrong, of course. Without the Sovereign's order, a season might last a minute or a century. But I do not show him that, for he does not need that knowledge. The knowledge he needs is simpler than that.

And because I had a feeling what my next card would mean, I went ahead and drew my next card: the five of spades. Which means I went Bust on a twenty three. And because my final total was odd, the feather was found by the Church of the Slain God. The game says that "there is no entry for this outcome; some things are better left unexplored". So think of this as an extension of the previous entry.

Forty bars of silver. Enough to feed a man and a child for many years to come, and the community around him as well. All that he needed was the knowledge of who to speak to, of what to say. Of how best to offer me up.

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SKYJACKS WEEK DAY 1: WINGS - FLIGHT

You have been betrayed

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day one of @skyjacksweek is wings. so i didn't draw any. also all my pieces this week are fully painted for some goddamn reason, this one took three hours i think.

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TODAY!

The official prompt list for Skyjacks week! All works, be they fanart, fanfic, or another thing, can be made ahead of time, as long as they're posted on the correct days!

The days:

1: Wings or flight

2: Cards or victory

3: Family or love

4: Time or death

5: Rope or hands

6: Names or history

7: Stars or eyes

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yep! FIVE DAYS LEFT!!

The official prompt list for Skyjacks week! All works, be they fanart, fanfic, or another thing, can be made ahead of time, as long as they're posted on the correct days!

The days:

1: Wings or flight

2: Cards or victory

3: Family or love

4: Time or death

5: Rope or hands

6: Names or history

7: Stars or eyes

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The official prompt list for Skyjacks week! All works, be they fanart, fanfic, or another thing, can be made ahead of time, as long as they're posted on the correct days!

The days:

1: Wings or flight

2: Cards or victory

3: Family or love

4: Time or death

5: Rope or hands

6: Names or history

7: Stars or eyes

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suggestions are open, by the way. i have ideas for the prompts, but if anyone wants to submit their ideas, i'll absolutely consider them

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welcome, to the official blog for the unofficial skyjacks week!

essentially, from january 5-11, there will be a week of prompts to fulfill, either in art, fic, webweave, or whatever else you like! these can be made ahead of time and only posted on these dates, or they can be made as the week progresses.

any character or setting is welcome, as long as they're from the main campaign! courier's call and skyjoust may get their own weeks later on.

i, the mod, can be contacted @ode-2-joy if you have any more questions, or you can send an ask here!