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Semi-Custom Sale Special Edition!

CURRENTLY OPEN: FEBRUARY 7, 2024 - APRIL 7, 2024

The New Recruit

Requirements: None; One Track Mind Rixixi can embark on this Story Mode!
Rewards: One basic Semi-Custom!
See the Semi-Custom guide for what a basic semi-custom entails!

If you don't have a Rixixi yet, you can use any Starter for this!

If you use your own Rixixi, apply any EXP as training mode! This is both to balance the reward (Semi-custom) and due to how new players have to use starters rather than their own Ixi.

THIS STORY MODE CHAPTER CAN ONLY BE PARTAKEN ONCE PER USER PER SALE!

Users must enter with their own Ixi or with a starter.

The Tunnels are, as always, loud, full of miners, traders, and careening minecarts, and generally chaotic to the point of being hazardous, but as you and the small group head further into them, something odd happens.

Kashe becomes visible before you, and things quiet down.

You notice that along with Kashe, a few other Faction leaders - ringleaders of the most famous Scatterings in Sxriix - are present around you. All of them are attempting to hide a look of worry on their faces, with varying levels of success. Loyal, among the ringleaders, steps up.

"Hey, good to see you," Loyal speaks up. "I assume you heard the uh, not-so-urgent but still urgent distress call?"

What's going on, Loyal?

"We've got some new recruits to introduce you to, that's all!"

Where are they?

"...Missing?" Loyal draws out the word uncomfortably. "Presumed alive, luckily? The thing is, we received word they all passed through a cave system over uh, Torte, could you pass me a map?"

Instead of passing a map, Torte simply trots up, unfurling a map and pointing out the location themself with a noncommittal hum.

"The other thing is," Loyal continues, "The same day, we heard that there was going to be a mass migration of beasts through that cave, and we couldn't get word to them fast enough to take a detour. We're worried they got mauled at worst, or at best held up. Do you think you could check on them? Bring medical supplies and your best hunter friend?"

PROMPTS

PART 1:

Pick 1 out of the following 2 and illustrate or write about it. Illustrations should be fully colored with at least a somewhat detailed background, and should include the missing recruit. Literature should be 800+ words. The appearance of the missing recruit and the beasts (if pictured) are up to you!

 

MEDIC

Upon reaching the cave system, you find that whatever happened here has long since passed. Ixi are sprawled around, a few with deep gashes in their flesh, most of them unconscious. One of them, barely keeping themself awake, looks up at you, teeth grit. As you move your hand down to your first aid kit, a look of relief crosses their face.

This won't be an easy task, but it's doable.

 

GLADIATOR

When you arrive at the caves, you see the traveling band of recruits up ahead, seemingly just fine. Maybe the migration event that Loyal was talking about hadn't happened yet, or perhaps it really did only hold them up for a bit. You begin to step forward towards the scattering when you feel a rumble in the stone beneath your feet. Turning, you see a massive amount of creatures making their way down the cave, running so fast that they likely won't notice that they're about to trample a ring of Rixixi.

Great timing.

 

PART 2:

The missing recruit will respond to your entry, and you will be prompted to make a second piece. Your second prompt will depend heavily on what your first piece is, but will often include a specific request on how to help, there being additional trouble that the recruit will explain to you, or something similar. (Halfbody, color, and background OR 500+ words)

 

PART 3 - OPTIONAL, OPT-IN FOR SUBSPECIES:

If you want your semi-custom to be a subspecies, you can do that! You'll need to do one more prompt, though. At the end, you'll be prompted to do at least a full-color halfbody (no background required) OR 300+ words. This prompt will be about what happens when you return to the Ringleaders.

If you can't come up with a response to any of the prompts you're provided, you may ask for a new one - also, do know that you don't have to base your entire response around it so long as you address the prompt somehow. We'll probably appreciate creative interpretations!

 

Use this prompt, and comment with the following form to embark on this story mode!

Link to participating Rixixi: [link to import here!]
Entry: [link to your art/lit piece]
Prompt responding to: ["Medic" or "Gladiator"]
Subspecies?: [Will you be doing an extra prompt at the end to make this Semi-Custom a subspecies? You can change your mind and cancel this if you want.]

Multiple Ixi can be portrayed in an image, but each user can only submit one entry per semi-custom sale and must enter with their own Ixi or a starter, including other Ixi would solely be for fun or to grant them extra EXP.

Additional rules:

This Story Mode opens for entries during semi-custom sales and closes to new entries when the sale closes. If you've gotten your first entry in during the sale but haven't finished your second and third pieces, you can still do those two replies after the closing.

You can only have one The New Recruit thread open at a time. If you haven't finished your previous The New Recruit entry, and the next round of it opens again, you have to either finish your previous entry before making a new one, or make your new one knowing you cannot go back to your old one.

Additional genes for The New Recruit semi-customs cannot be purchased as extras from the semi sale, but geno-editing items can be added to them (including from purchased DIY kits).

The Recruit you draw does not have to be your intended semi-custom, but they can be! They can be a random Ixi too, whether they're on the masterlist or not.