A winter banner with a glowing aurora over a snowy forest, featuring a Star-Tailed Frost Fox and the title “The Great Migration of the Snowbeasts.
The auroras are faltering, and the Snowbeasts that guide winter’s passage have begun to stray from their ancient routes. From a hidden lodge in the north, you’ll journey across snowbound lands, aid magical creatures, and help guide the great migration that keeps the season alive.
Organized By:
Prof. Sindor Aloyarc
Timeline: 1/1—1/21
• January 1: Week One Posted
• January 8: Week Two Posted
• January 15: Week Three Posted
• January 21: Everything Due
Up For Grabs:
• 225 beans/sapphires and up to 2 shinies spread over 12 tasks! (15 per task, plus a bonus 15 each week for submitting all four tasks over any given week by end of activity).
• The Snowbeasts award:
For completely 6 tasks.
• The Heart of Winter award:
For completing all 12 tasks.
Award images feature the glimpse of a foxlike snowbeast, and a row of winter pines at night, each with a background of colorful auroras.
Join in:
This is a castle-wide activity. You do not need to sign up or wait to start submitting.
** Participants: **
Janne Halla
River Fenwick
Tracking:
Keep tabs on your progress with the "Snowbeasts” Spreadsheet!
Accessibility:
If you run into any accessibility concerns, please reach out to discuss!
— QUESTIONS may be posted below or sent via Private Messaging.
Questions might include:
• How late can I start participating?
You may join in at anytime, however everything is due by Wednesday January 21st at 11:59pm (HOL time).
• Is AI acceptable to use for completing writing or graphics?
In the case of writing assignments, this means you cannot submit text generated by an AI/ML tool and claim it as your own. Everything you submit must be written in your own words.
In the case of artwork, graphics that are purely AI/ML generated are not permitted. As many graphics on HOL rely on source material that you do not create yourself (such as stock images and elements), we can’t prevent you from using AI generated art as part of a graphics submission but you must have altered, added to or manipulated the source material in some way to create a graphic. This is exactly the same approach we would take with photographs that were not directly taken by you.
From the “Use of AI Tools at HOL” post on the main forum.
• How do I post Graphics?
A few popular Image Hosting sites are Postimages, Imgur, and Imgbb where you can upload your work, then locate a direct link toward sharing elsewhere. The “BBCode” to attach on The Roost forum submissions (which can be accomplished automatically for you by the click of a button from options at the top of your editing page) is [*img][*/img] with url in the middle (i.e. [*img]link[*/img]) — NOTE: You would remove the asterisks (*). They’re added here to display the example effectively. Images imbedded directly into posts must be kept within 600x600 pixels.
