Grape, Boss 1

[battleshipmod]

You’ve dug up your various vegetables, including those donuts that you explain to the manager can’t grow in the dirt, but she waves you off as she collects your hoard.

You’re utterly covered in dirt and you’re about to ask about the chance of grabbing a shower when you hear – no, feel – some deep rumblings beneath the cafe. You reach out and brace yourself against one of the wooden tables spread around the main area. There are people – well, not just people; there are dwarves and trolls and sprites and is that a mermaid in a portable pool? – sitting around and they appear completely nonplussed.

The cafe suddenly lights up in a glorious cacophony of oranges and reds and yellows, a heat that seems to singe your skin, and as it dies away you see a dragon has stuck its head through your window.

“Dirt!” someone yells. “You need to give it the dirt!”

Well, you certainly don’t see the point in keeping it for yourself, so you hand it all over and the dragon takes it carefully in its mouth. You watch as it deposits it in a rather neat square out the front of the cafe, smooth and spread out.

Suddenly, the dirt begins to come to life. Surely this isn’t real, but no, it’s there. Large humanoid creatures growing from the dirt.

“About time,” the manager says. Her dress is dancing even more out here, and there isn’t a breeze to explain it. “The golems have been missing for a while, we appreciate you helping bring them back. Now – get out there and earn us some more tips.”

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Grape Boss 1 progress tracker

Grape Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

The boss starts with 350,000 hit points. Your Dirt count of 57300 grams, plus overkill equivalent to 7800 grams, reduces that to 284,900 hit points. For the rest, members of Team Grape post works to their team’s collection.

During boss battles, works score points. Works in a single medium (only fic, or art, or podfic) may claim a maximum of 10,000 points; works scoring more than 10,000 will count as 10,000 points.

Works in multiple mediums may claim a maximum of 10,000 points per medium, with each medium capped at 10,000 points (ex. 2000 points of fic + 14,000 points of art = 2000 + 10,000 = 12,000 points).

In addition to points, there are boss-wide goals for AO3 labels, such as “F/F works” and “M-E rating.” You must collectively achieve these goals to complete the boss. Each work counts once towards a boss goal.

Fic and podfic are worth 1 point per word, using the AO3 wordcount.

Images are worth 500 to 2500 points. List the points earned in the author’s note to make sure the mods score your artwork correctly. Each image (or panel or frame) in a work is scored as follows:

Art has a base value of 500 points for a single character, vehicle, or structure depicted in monochrome lineart with a blank or solid color background.

Additional points may be layered on for complexity:

• 500 points for the second character, vehicle, or structure depicted in monochrome lineart
• 250 points for each additional character, vehicle, or structure after the first two
• 250 points for each character, vehicle, or structure depicted in more than one color
• 250 flat points for shading
• 250 flat points for a detailed background

Full-color art styles that do not use lineart (e.g., painting, pixel art) will be scored equal to the point value of a character with lineart and color, e.g., 750 points for each of the first two characters in full color and 500 points for each character in full color after the first two.

No individual image or panel may score more than 2500 points; any score greater than that will be capped at 2500 points. Unique, separately created images may be combined in a comic or compilation, for which each image will be individually scored (maxing out at 2500 points each) and the scores added.

Tags are irrelevant during boss battles, as long as the work fulfills a request.

During a boss, each team member is capped at 50,000 points, with no cap on the number of works.

Team members (and only members of that team) should post works to their respective team collection.

Good luck!