The "Skill-a-Week Challenge"

[doomdragon6]

Hey Halforumites, I come to you with a challenge--- to challenge me!

I'm wanting to try a Skill-a-Week challenge, where I try to learn and apply a new skill each week. And I want YOU to tell me what skills to try!

This week is booked.
Week 1: Cooking (This one isn't fair, I already love to cook and do it all the time, but this is a full-on week of me cooking every meal I can. I am trying more complicated things though, like making my own grape jelly, making a veggie burger from scratch, making my own tea, etc.)

After that, I've got these skills lined up (though any skill can be plopped into any week):
- Blacksmithing
- Foraging
- Archery
- Social Persuasion
- Lockpicking

Jeeze, this sounds like my Skyrim character.

ANYWAY, I can add, drop, and replace any skills. Suggest a skill here for me to learn and I'll dedicate a week to it and post the results!

 

[Terrik]

Language skills!

Choose a non-romance language to study for a week and learn how to give a short introduction of yourself using it.

Bonus points if you learn how to write the introduction especially if using a non-roman alphabet.

 

[Cajungal]

Buy some wood pieces from a hobby shop and whittle!

 

[doomdragon6]

Language skills!

Choose a non-romance language to study for a week and learn how to give a short introduction of yourself using it.

Bonus points if you learn how to write the introduction especially if using a non-roman alphabet.

I did Japanese in college. I'll try a different language. You sent me stuff from China for Secret Santa didn't you? I'll try Chinese.

Buy some wood pieces from a hobby shop and whittle!

I actually whittled a wooden kunai way back in highschool. My friend and I were walking down the road and found a small downed tree. He hoisted it over his shoulder and we walked back to my house, and spent the next few days whittling it down.

Give me something to create specifically, and I'll make it for you.

 

[Adam]

Juggling. I taught myself to juggle 3 balls relatively well in about a couple hours so it's not too complex and it's a skill that makes people smile.

 

[Cajungal]

Hmmm...
Can you whittle a ukulele??

 

[HCGLNS]

You must master the Yo-Yo or die!

 

[WasabiPoptart]

knit a scarf

 

[Cajungal]

Learn to tie all kinds of different knots! Like a sailor or a boy scout!

 

[doomdragon6]

Juggling. I taught myself to juggle 3 balls relatively well in about a couple hours so it's not too complex and it's a skill that makes people smile.

I actually already did learn to juggle a few years ago. I learned with pingpong balls, which are terrible for juggling.

Hmmm...
Can you whittle a ukulele??

A uke---??? Sure. I will try to whittle a ukelele. ._.

You must master the Yo-Yo or die!

Awww, I hate yo-yos...

knit a scarf

That'll take forever! But I shall add it to the list...

 

[doomdragon6]

Learn to tie all kinds of different knots! Like a sailor or a boy scout!

I did buy a knot-tying book a while back...

 

[Ravenpoe]

Animal husbandry

 

[Adam]

Beer making.

 

[Gared]

Cheese making.

 

[Chad Sexington]

Calligraphy

 

[bhamv3]

Cannibalism.

No?

Okay, how about... self-administered cybertronic enhancement.

Too much?

All right, then try... bare-handed open heart surgery.

Maybe not?

Okay... poetry. Go for poetry. Spend a week learning about meter and rhyme and the historical background of various forms of poetry. Your objective at the end of the week will be to write any type of poem (for example, a Shakespearean sonnet) about any given topic (for example, bacon).

 

[LittleSin]

Cheese making.

I have been wanting to try my hand at making my own cheese forever now.

 

[Wahad]

The hundred-yard underwater backwards toe-knitting dash.

 

[Dei]

Sewing!

 

[doomdragon6]

I'll throw cheese making and beer making into this week, since those likely are a day activity but take a while.

Always wanted to sew, and my gf can teach me.

This'll be fun!

 

[Jax]

Make a giant paper maché halforum smiley. You know, the

 

[Gusto]

Prison tattoos!

 

[Azurephoenix]

Play the guitar!

 

[drifter]

Fellatio!

 

[Cajungal]

Now there's a skill.

 

[LittleSin]

Is fellatio a skill? I'm not sure if that takes a lot of practice...or thought.

Just think lollipops and you're okay.

Don't think toosiepops...that ends badly.

 

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Is fellatio a skill? I'm not sure if that takes a lot of practice...or thought.

Just think lollipops and you're okay.

Don't think toosiepops...that ends badly.

Tootsie-pop = tossed salad.

 

[LittleSin]

Tootsie-pop = tossed salad.

I have no idea what the means!

I am so happy!

 

[Azurephoenix]

Is fellatio a skill? I'm not sure if that takes a lot of practice...or thought.

Just think lollipops and you're okay.

Don't think toosiepops...that ends badly.

Some women are terrible at it... some are awesome. That's been my experience so I would call it a skill...

 

[LittleSin]

Some women are terrible at it... some are awesome. That's been my experience so I would call it a skill...

Now I find myself wondering how good I am at it. Blue seems pleased...but he has a sample size of, well, one.

Now I have a question that will never, ever be answered!

 

[Ravenpoe]

Now I find myself wondering how good I am at it. Blue seems pleased...but he has a sample size of, well, one.

Now I have a question that will never, ever be answered!

It sounds like a test is in order...

FOR SCIENCE!

 

[Gusto]

Fellatio is definitely a skill.

 

[LittleSin]

Fellatio is definitely a skill.

Out of curiosity I looked up tutorials.

I have learned so many things today.

 

[doomdragon6]

That's hot. I think.
...?

 

[LittleSin]

That's hot. I think.
...?

Speaking of hot, how'd cooking go? Did you get to the cheese?