Summer camp 2021

Summer camp is here!

The time has come again! And I'm hyped! Summer Camp is my favourite even in World Anvil (sorry ).
Here you can see the summercamp homework 2021 (will be updating it with the new homework and maybe new things and the articles with prompts once SC starts).

PSSSS... Check me...

Do you know I have a discord, a new brand web, and a Ko-fi?
Sorry for the spam

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Profile photo by Catoblepon

Remaind to self (or to anyone else reading this): REMEMBER THAT HEALTH IS IMPORTANT. Even if you want to accomplish whatever goal you want, health is important, so don't try push yourself for that goal if your health isn't good.

— Catoblepon

Pledge

Organization

More readers

Prompts

Pledge

WHICH PROJECT ARE YOUR WORLDBUILDING EFFORTS TIED TO?

All my worldbuilding I have been doing has been for fun. This does not mean i only want to write for fun, as my long goal for Daeliha and Iphars is to make them playable for role-playing games and keep it agnostic (or if I manage to become crazy enough, make a system for them). Khulgran will keep being for fun for now.

WHICH WORLD ARE YOU WORKING ON?

This summer camp, I will be working on Iphars. This world started last year, for summer camp 2020, and I loved to develope it with the prompts. This year I will keep working on it this summercamp, and hopefully the nexts years until I think it is mostly done.

WHICH AREA OF THE WORLD ARE YOU WORKING ON?

Last year I worked on Branul, the southwestern continent of Iphars. This year, I will be working on Emea, a estern continent of Iphars.

HOW MUCH ARE YOU AIMING TO COMPLETE?

I am aiming to get all 31 prompts done while still taking care of my physical and mental health and most importantly, while trying to not burn out.

WHEN WILL YOU WRITE?

Summer time is when the scholar year finish for me and my work time starts. It has been like this for three years already (this one being the third) and I use the time when I do not work nor I am spending time with friends to write, this year it would be the mornings, so I am hoping to be able to write at least three times a week in the morning and a bit more my free day.

WHO IS YOUR SUPPORT NETWORK?

My support network its the people from the Lodge, the Aviario, and the people from my chapter and the spanish channel in the World Anvil server. They are amazing beans who I cannot be more proud.

I pledge to try doing 31 prompts while not burning out.

— Catoblepon

Organization

• Documents
• Fauna
• Flora
• Folklore
• Geography
• History
• Languages

Categories

I redid all my categories for this summercamp! And I'm pretty happy with them. At the time I'm writting this, I still have to move the articles to the categories so I'll go do that.
Also thanks Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull as Etrea has been of great inspiration for the re-work of my categories.

Tags

Tags have been alwasy difficult for me so I've only thought of six tags:

• #summercamp2020
• #worldember2020
• #summercamp2021

• #challenges
• #prompts
• #toedit

• Magic
• Medicine
• Organizations
• People
• Resources
• Technology
• Religion

Images

Map

Emea

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Landscape

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Characters

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HD Photo by Dexter Fernandes

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Placeholders

Map placeholder

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As for a photo / image placeholders, I do not like to use them. But I suppose I can use the cute zothis

Zothis by Catoblepon

Layouts

So far, I have only noticed myself following a layout in two kind of articles: species and settlements.

Species

• Anatomy
• Genetics and reproduction
• Growth
• History
• Ethnicities
• Others (behaviour, intelligence, habitat & diet, ideals, etc)

• Scientific name
• Lifespan
• Average height
• Average weight
• Average lenght
• Geographic distribution
• Ethnicities
• Languages
• Map distribution
• Carrousel

• Add cool details or information

Towns

• Description of the town
• Demographics
• Cool and interesting NPC
• History
• Natural resources or cool details

• Location
• Population
• Map
• Type

Break ups

I like to separate the text in cols or to add containers or lists in the middle of the text to break the text. Also, I like to make the sidebar as long as the article or keep writing the article in the full width footer.

Colour codes

While I do not follow any colour code to remark stuff as different things, I do have my quotes looking like my sidebar and I like to add my alouds and quotes in the middle of the text to add details that do not necessary have worldbuilding importance. I also like to alternate aloud-quote in my sidebar if I am adding multiples of them.

CSS!

My CSS it's just for prettiness. I created it last year with trial and error (and many eyes burned) when I was apprentice and had no idea that once I would be grandmaster, and I haven't changed since then (well, ignoring the code added to this article css for the bright orange spoiler buttons). Thus, my CSS (as said previously) is only for aestethics, trying to give the reader a warm sensation. I wish I add colour codes for my new shiny containers (tbf, I didn't create containers for Iphars and I don't have time for it right now) as I think it's a really cool idea but for now... just enjoy the warmness I suppose.

UPDATE 1-6-21
I GOT PRETTY CSS ADD-ONS FROM Stormbril AND THEY PRETTY! Storm also has sci-fy locks and spoilers, and magic mirrors, and they all pretty! You can look at them here <3
I will soon get the sci-fy lock and spoiler too!
Lock code is 1-2-3-4-5-6

Hallo! This is a test (and I'm too lazy to get the lorem ipsum)!

Hallo! This is a test (and I'm too lazy to get the lorem ipsum)!

More readers

I have been writing an article that it would be the introduction of Iphars, where new readers could find where to start reading and to have a feeling of how this world is. It's been a year and still haven't finished it... Anyway, I'm hoping to write a bit about Emea (where this summer camp articles will be based of) before summer camp starts (even thought real life has been stopping me to do so).

I've also written a journay entry to welcome to the amazing beans that followed my author's profile and to tell them and my old followers about my worlds, what going on with them and their state.

Welcoming post and saludations to old followers

Social interactions!

To be honest, they scare me a lot. BUT! I also love to see y'all pretty messages and that you like what I do! I'm hoping to see what y'all think of my content this summercamp, and I hope to read as many articles as possible while really taking account my mental health. I love to read, but the last years it has been so energy consuming that it is hard for me, so I usually just delete my notifications when they start overwhelming me (this is the main reason about why I do not interact with articles, even if it's just a like).

Author profile

I haven't touched my author profile since I joined, three years ago (well, I have changed my profile photo but that does not count :P). So I will update it and make it pretty or I will leave it how it is if I find myself too overwhelmed with work from real life (Will update the day before summercamp this section or when I update it).
I did it! It's not big visual changes (like pics) but just some information):
Catoblepon

Spam

I hate it, you hate it, everyone hates spam. But I want to create a community (yes, I know that social interaction scares me, I'm working on it).
I have created a discord ! Here we can talk about not only my worlds but also your work!
With social networks I only have my discord account and my twitter.
I do have a website as portfolio (as I do commissions).
And last but not least important, if you wanna support me, I have a Ko-fi!

Article Release Plan

Future Catoblepon, follow this list before sharing stuff please!

o Check that the article is:
oo o Published
oo o Not broken (check bbcode!)
oo o Submitted to summer camp
oo o Has a minimum of 300 words (not taking account worldanvil's counter as it has bbcode)

oShare in:
oo oTwitter
oo oDiscord
oo oWorld Anvil discord:
oooo o#summercamp-2021
oooo o#chapter-the-good-cookies-lodge
oooo o#kiosko-de-paella
oo oFriendly discords (with code names, kinda)
oooo oLodge
oooo oBirdcage
oooo oPinecorn
oooo oDragons

oAdd the tags to twitter!
oo o#worldbuilding
oo o#fantasy
oo o#WASummerCamp


oPing the people in discord!
oo o@followers
oo o@creators of worlds

Last preparations

To-do list before Summer Camp 2021

Finish the summercamp 2021 article
Take a look if the tracksheets are broken
TRY to finish Emea's map (for my health sake won't even try it)
Put articles in their new categories with their new tags (at least the published articles)
TRY to write about emea in Welcome to Iphars! (work sucks, stress too, won't be able to do)
Ready twitter
Ready worldanvil profile

To-do the first day

Add prompt list into tracksheets
Add prompt list to SC2021 article

Read text under the iframe!

Summer Camp 2021 - Multiplayer tracksheet

A tracksheet for summercamp! Just do a copy for you and your group, and fill up the columns with your name, your world(s), and links to the articles once all starts!

Add your name to the List column if you want to be counted for the global progress (this allows people to share their progress without effecting the global progress if their objective is not to complete summer camp). The list column can be used as well to link the box with your name to your column for easy access (mostly useful when you are not near the start of the sheet).

It also has (on the other tabs) the old summercamp prompts, from other years, with a similar structure as the tracker for this year, so you can get inspiration from old years!

NOTE: DO NOT TOUCH ANY COLUMN BEFORE THE LIST COLUMN, it will update on its own. Do not touch any box with code on it.

PLEASE do not delete or edit the credits to myself. They also work as a contact to talk to me if you break the sheet for any reason.

Prompts

First week

A building associated with healing the sick.

A medical condition which is feared by some.

A new medical cure, treatment or breakthrough.

A species of working animal.

An ethnicity whose cultural exports are highly sought after.

An extraordinary writing tool, or type of writing tool.

An area, or geographical landmark, wrapped in myth, legend, or supersticion.

A myth about a mountain, lake, cave, or other landmark.

A myth or fairytale, about a prophecy, oracle, fortune telling or other revelation.

A myth or fairytale, about a prophecy, oracle, fortune telling or other revelation.

Zothis by Catoblepon

Second week

An inhospitable region or geographical location.

A plant or animal that lives in an inhospitable region.

An ethnicity surviving in an inhospitable region.

An old or ancient organization which still casts a shadow.

A lost or ancient language.

An ancient and/or powerful artifact.

A religious order founded or based in your world's history.

A coming of age celebration.

A famous letter or message.

An often undervalued but vital profession.

Third week

A building associated with crime or justice.

A renowned pirate, highwayman or other criminal.

A unit or squad who guards an important person.

A settlement known as a pleasure town or for louche behaviour.

A brave hero, who hides a secret past.

A Romancer, Paramour, or other amorous individual.

A large business, corporation or trade guild.

A vital trade resource that supports a settlement or region.

An industrial, mining, logging or other production settlement.

A title which cannot be bought, only earned.

by Catoblepon

Last prompt

A bloody coup, rebellion or uprising in your world's history.

It has finished!

Summercamp has finished and I got the shiny diamond badge! While work has been hard, I feel like I have done summercamp good because I don't feel burn out (or at least yet).
"But I did not recieve notifications for most of them!" you may say. Yes, I know that, I am well aware, and that's for a simple reason: time. Because of work and mental health, many of them have been written in 15 min or so, most of them are an info dump. Is that good? Yes and no, they are a great help to expand Iphars and I'm happy about that, but as articles they are mostly bad, even tho big part of them they still have some bbcode and images and could be good for some people, I do not like them as finished (or finished enough) to share them.
Articles will have their notifications once we can edit them without being disqualified from the prices (I should say that I do not participate SC for prices but for the world's expansion, but prices are pretty). After editing them, I will send them your way so have patience?

Now, what?

What? You wanna know what I will do between now and WorldEmber? Well, there's a lot of IRL stuff that I need to do so I might not do too much for a bit (each time I say this I end up doing the contrary but I do really need to do the stuff so future Cato, please focus on IRL for a bit) and then I will start editing Daeliha (FINALLY), starting with a welcome article to the world (such as the beautifully unfinished one of Iphars :P ) and start creating a tracksheet for WorldEmber. What else? Who knows, not me.



ANYWAY! I hope you've had a good SummerCamp and are doing good in general (WATCH YOUR MENTAL HEALTH).
Cato's out.



OH BTW. The groups which I have done the tracksheets with are great and we did:

• Kiosko: Copper medal in general!
• Lodge: Silver medal in general!
• Cookies: Silver medal in general!

Signed,

Catoblepon's logo by Catoblepon