Summer Camp 2024 Prep

Week one

Tags / Categories

I've come up with a tagging structure for the world - since one did not exist before.

The Angels with have a generic tag, as well as a named tag for them specifically : Abdiel, Zachariel, Rahatiel, Nathaniel, Usiel, Kasbiel, Seraphiel - then the monsters will have a generic tag then given the extra of Addict if they're attached to an angel.

Templars will get their own.

Warren for the brothers. Storm for the monster brothers.

Carnival for Dorian and co.

Prose for anything that contains a story snippet. Then Atlas for anything map related and Reference for anything that contains general information.

Tag Index

Change

I'm not looking to introduce a major change to what I already have for Monstrous Addicts - though there is a large change coming in general to the setting through the story of the Angels. While demons have been an ever present threat to the world, I'll be adding Eldritch entities as a new existential threat for them to face and fight. Like the demons, this will be a unique threat that only the angels can truly deal with. Demons, as otherworldly, can have their physical body destroyed but remain in the world until they are banished by the presence and effort of an angel. For the angel, I'm thinking that I might make them toxic to the eldritch. So rather than the angels being something the eldritch wants to consume - as everything else wants to - they simply want to kill them and work with the other monsters and demons to make that happen. The angels will be their 'silver'.

Change

“Everything passes around the wheel to its beginning . . . Everything rises to its own collapse.”
^{― Katie Waitman, Merro Tree}

Camp Feral Badge by Strixxline

Refuge

“Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life? When they have all fallen into dust and rubble?”
^{- Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls}

Week Two

Refuge

This is a lot easier to speak on in my world than change - I could make the arguement that the monsters become the angel's refuge. It's where the angels are the safest even when they are surrounded by some of the craziest, meanest things that I can make up. That's sort of the point, though. Giving a less murder-y side to things that would otherwise kill. Softening and taming them, in a round-about-way and making them safe havens. Even if they otherwise wouldn't be. It's a theme or aspect of monster characters that I've enjoyed before, so I thought I'd write about it and ended up creating an entire setting based on the premise. It isn't restricted to the angels, either. Sebastian becomes Kaimbe's exception. Alto doesn't want to eat Jeremy, but falls rather hard for the stoic, responsible human. Even Samuel, a very old dragon who generally has no interest in mortal affairs, finds himself a family with the bouncy blonde Miranda.

Styling

I've already fussed pretty hard with the css of Monstrous Addicts and while I have limited computer access for the moment, I'm not likely to do too much tinkering in the meantime. I'm pretty happy with how it looks anyway. I may try to find some sort of uniformity across the various articles in how they are laid out but that'll depend on how I end up writing the prompts and the type of contents.

Week Three

Belief

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

^{― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule}

For Monstrous Addicts, I compile and combine beliefs from all over the world. Mashing myths, legends, and my own interpretations of them into the sort of monstrous character I want to make for the setting. I like delving into religions, stories, and histories all over for inspiration. I tend to be fast and loose with these interpretations, erring on the side of what I want for the character over what might be considered accurate.

Quotes

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.”

“Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”

“You don't think I could bring myself to mark your lovely skin? I'll take my knife to you, if that's the case. I'll carve my name in your breast so that every beat of your heart will remind you that you are mine—and mine alone. Because blood is binding, and because I would rather see you destroyed than see you free or in the possession of another, so I suggest you not try me, or you will suffer as no earthly creature has.” He slammed her back against the wall. “Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are going to answer my question.”

"You shouldn't have come for me." He was crying again. "You---" "We will always come for you!" I sat back on my heels and held out my hand. "Please. I can't do this without you." We stared at each other for a long time. Me, silently pleading for him to fight. Him, searching for the will to live. "You stay; I stay," I said as tears poured down my cheeks. "It's how it works. That's how it's always worked."

“It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.”

Music

Playlist made for the angel’s monsters.

Week Four

Decay

This particular theme meshes rather well with the over-arching story for Monstrous Addicts. At least, in regard to the Angels. I’ve introduced the otherworldly element of the Eldritch. A sort of horror beyond our world. Alien and unknowable. The initial ‘evil’ is demonic – the consumption and corruption of human souls. For this, it’s a destruction and decay of the world. There’s no desire to rule anything, no will to take the world for its own. Just to ruin it and move on.

”I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”

^{― Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes}

A Touch of Updates

Homepage
Might need to touch that up a little. Review the contents.

Intro? Author Page?
Yeah, don’t have any of that. So I’ll see about creating them. Poke around for some inspiration on set up.

Event Name

Summer Camp 2024

Author

SanctifiedSavage

Progress

Copper Change

0 out of 8

Silver

0 out of 8

Gold

0 out of 8

Diamond

0 out of 8

All Articles

0 out of 32

Copper Change

8 Prompts

2 Wild Card Prompts

Theme Description

Article Staging

Get Your Own Sheet & Instructions

Tracking Statblock by Graylion

Entry for Summer Camp Prep 2024

Competition Homepage

Summer Camp 2024 Prep

Week one

Tags / Categories

Change

Change

Refuge

Week Two

Refuge

Styling

Week Three

Belief

Meta

Quotes

Music

Week Four

Decay

A Touch of Updates

Event Name

Author

Progress

Copper Change

8 Prompts

2 Wild Card Prompts

Silver

8 Prompts

2 Wild Card Prompts

Gold

8 Prompts

8 Wild Card Prompts

Diamond

8 Prompts

2 Wild Card Prompts

Prompts

Copper Change

Prompt 1

Geography/Location

Article

Prompt 2

Natural Law

Article

Prompt 3

Character

Article

Prompt 4

Condition

Article

Prompt 5

Document

Article

Prompt 6

Ethnicity

Article

Prompt 7

Military Conflict

Article

Prompt 8

Vehicle

Article

Wild Card Prompt 9

Myth/Legend

Article

Wild Card Prompt 10

Building

Article

Silver

Prompt 1

Select Type

Article

Prompt 2

Select Type

Article

Prompt 3

Select Type

Article

Prompt 4

Select Type

Article

Prompt 5

Select Type

Article