One Month One World One Year Challenge 2022
I'm posting this a few days early in case anyone has never heard of it before and might like to prepare for it and begin on January 1st. Or if anyone perhaps has questions on something in the rules th...
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No comments from me tonight I'm afraid, I'm also battling a headache (started a few hours ago) so I totally sympathise @Karababy52
Took all of what little brainpower I have right now to write up this update :D
January 14
The hike helped, if only for a little while. Then Aaron headed off to school and it all turned to poop again. Unable to focus on any of his school work and feeling as if the entire world was against him, he hung his head when he returned home that day. Flopping onto his bed, he wondered if he should invite Hunter over and then remembered that Hunter's schedule was incredibly erratic due to him being a vampire, and that he'd most likely be asleep. He was annoyed at Hunter then, knowing that it was stupid and unreasonable, and went fishing to take his mid off things.
It worked. He fished into the early hours of Thursday morning, catching an incredible (for him, anyway) eleven sturgeons in a row. By 4am, he had over $3,000 and was very pleased with his haul despite being absolutely exhausted. Electing to take a vacation day, he crawled into bed after finally getting home at 5am and awoke to find a garden of plants that needed watering and an infestation of gnomes. (Of course), he thought to himself. (It's Harvestfest). And his dumb Watcher still hadn't given him a proper kitchen, so he couldn't even have a grand meal.
After going out to water his plants, he offered the naked gnome right outside his door a toy and celebrated when the gift was accepted. With his day off, he decided to go to the park again and did some more fishing. Heading back to the park, he looked out towards the hiking board and the start of the hiking trails, and decided to take one in the hopes of running into the forest spirits again just as he had a few days after he had first arrived. He had made a mistake back then in trying to catch one and now he would make it right. Eventually finding them later that evening halfway through his hike, he bowed to them and made a wish, and instantly felt that he had learned and appreciated most of what Mt Komorebi had to offer, earning Worldly Knowledge. But there was something else he needed to do before he left this place. It was something he had heard others mention, and he knew Hunter wanted to do it someday too - climb and conquer the mountain for which Mt Komorebi was named.
It would be tough work getting ready to go on a mountain excursion, and first he needed to start off slow. He headed out to Yukimatsu and purchased his own snowboard plus some bug repellent from the vending machine. And waited. Then waited some more. When it finally dawned on him that it was stuck, he snarled in frustration and gave it a shove. "Stupid vending machine!" he yelled, clambering up to the top as if that would loosen his stuck items. He shouldn't have been so surprised when it fell on top of him. The vending machine right next to it had done the exact same thing, weeks ago. Pain flooded his entire body, the breath knocked out of him. Gasping, he managed to push the vending machine off his body with his legs and lay there in the snow for a while, not daring to get up. He rubbed his forehead and groaned as he remembered the conversation he'd had with Hunter in the onsen. He could have died. All for a snowboard and bug repellent. He made a promise to himself to never fight a vending machine again, no matter how much he had paid for the items he wanted... "Argh!" he yelled. "That was an entire freaking snowboard! I hate you!" He stood, holding his back as he did so, and glared at the machine. Aaron fought the urge to give it a good kick like the one he had given his rubbish bin and settled for glaring at it some more, turning away and giving it the middle finger.
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Aaron did come home from school with a mood swing and it was only while writing it up now that I realised he could have invited Hunter over to cheer up but nooo I didn't think of that at all... This poor guy needs a hug and I forgot all about the cute boy :D
https://i.imgur.com/QzKqXyP.png
https://i.imgur.com/HycaVbX.png
Don't look so glum, Aaron! That's even bigger than the one you got yesterday!
https://i.imgur.com/MhO9uvg.png
https://i.imgur.com/bH2hWYO.png
11 sturgeons all in a row (I was in awe lol)
I hate Harvestfest (but then again happy gnomes do leave seed packets!)
https://i.imgur.com/TulJfnx.png
Spotted Cale and Dylan hanging out while Aaron was fishing :smiley:
https://i.imgur.com/eXRvnLY.png
First aspiration, complete!
https://i.imgur.com/M6AhY76.png
https://i.imgur.com/KmXoXld.png
Silly boy, haven't you learned? :anguished:
https://i.imgur.com/qDei8EL.png
https://i.imgur.com/r4hN9Is.png
At least the warm clothing may offer some additional protection due to the padding :joy:
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Took all of what little brainpower I have right now to write up this update :D
The hike helped, if only for a little while. Then Aaron headed off to school and it all turned to poop again. Unable to focus on any of his school work and feeling as if the entire world was against him, he hung his head when he returned home that day. Flopping onto his bed, he wondered if he should invite Hunter over and then remembered that Hunter's schedule was incredibly erratic due to him being a vampire, and that he'd most likely be asleep. He was annoyed at Hunter then, knowing that it was stupid and unreasonable, and went fishing to take his mid off things.
It worked. He fished into the early hours of Thursday morning, catching an incredible (for him, anyway) eleven sturgeons in a row. By 4am, he had over $3,000 and was very pleased with his haul despite being absolutely exhausted. Electing to take a vacation day, he crawled into bed after finally getting home at 5am and awoke to find a garden of plants that needed watering and an infestation of gnomes. (Of course), he thought to himself. (It's Harvestfest). And his dumb Watcher still hadn't given him a proper kitchen, so he couldn't even have a grand meal.
After going out to water his plants, he offered the naked gnome right outside his door a toy and celebrated when the gift was accepted. With his day off, he decided to go to the park again and did some more fishing. Heading back to the park, he looked out towards the hiking board and the start of the hiking trails, and decided to take one in the hopes of running into the forest spirits again just as he had a few days after he had first arrived. He had made a mistake back then in trying to catch one and now he would make it right. Eventually finding them later that evening halfway through his hike, he bowed to them and made a wish, and instantly felt that he had learned and appreciated most of what Mt Komorebi had to offer, earning Worldly Knowledge. But there was something else he needed to do before he left this place. It was something he had heard others mention, and he knew Hunter wanted to do it someday too - climb and conquer the mountain for which Mt Komorebi was named.
It would be tough work getting ready to go on a mountain excursion, and first he needed to start off slow. He headed out to Yukimatsu and purchased his own snowboard plus some bug repellent from the vending machine. And waited. Then waited some more. When it finally dawned on him that it was stuck, he snarled in frustration and gave it a shove. "Stupid vending machine!" he yelled, clambering up to the top as if that would loosen his stuck items. He shouldn't have been so surprised when it fell on top of him. The vending machine right next to it had done the exact same thing, weeks ago. Pain flooded his entire body, the breath knocked out of him. Gasping, he managed to push the vending machine off his body with his legs and lay there in the snow for a while, not daring to get up. He rubbed his forehead and groaned as he remembered the conversation he'd had with Hunter in the onsen. He could have died. All for a snowboard and bug repellent. He made a promise to himself to never fight a vending machine again, no matter how much he had paid for the items he wanted... "Argh!" he yelled. "That was an entire freaking snowboard! I hate you!" He stood, holding his back as he did so, and glared at the machine. Aaron fought the urge to give it a good kick like the one he had given his rubbish bin and settled for glaring at it some more, turning away and giving it the middle finger.
Aaron did come home from school with a mood swing and it was only while writing it up now that I realised he could have invited Hunter over to cheer up but nooo I didn't think of that at all... This poor guy needs a hug and I forgot all about the cute boy :D
https://i.imgur.com/QzKqXyP.png
https://i.imgur.com/HycaVbX.png
Don't look so glum, Aaron! That's even bigger than the one you got yesterday!
https://i.imgur.com/MhO9uvg.png
https://i.imgur.com/bH2hWYO.png
11 sturgeons all in a row (I was in awe lol)
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/kkqt4sQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/YmsPwAi.png
https://i.imgur.com/lGLBKJX.png
https://i.imgur.com/YmsPwAi.png
https://i.imgur.com/lGLBKJX.png
I hate Harvestfest (but then again happy gnomes do leave seed packets!)
https://i.imgur.com/TulJfnx.png
Spotted Cale and Dylan hanging out while Aaron was fishing :smiley:
https://i.imgur.com/eXRvnLY.png
First aspiration, complete!
https://i.imgur.com/M6AhY76.png
https://i.imgur.com/KmXoXld.png
Silly boy, haven't you learned? :anguished:
https://i.imgur.com/qDei8EL.png
https://i.imgur.com/r4hN9Is.png
At least the warm clothing may offer some additional protection due to the padding :joy:
