Checkpoint 2: Ambitions and challenges

[nepenthee]

The challenge has garnered a good amount of webmasters, from familiar to new faces, yay! To anyone reading this while still debating whether to sign up: Do consider joining us even if you might not finish your shrine by the deadline. You are invited to make use of this space if it motivates you and drives the completion of your shrine along!

My questions this week: Do you have any specific plans for your shrine aside from the challenge theme, e.g. is there anything specific you want to achieve, something new you want to try out, a skill you want to pick up? Where do you foresee your biggest challenges?

Again, feel free to chat about anything, no need to answer any of these questions. Also note that any previous checkpoint posts will stay open and you are more than welcome to reply and continue conversations there!

Comments

[velvetdusk]

I swear, every update you share about this project makes it sound more alive—I can see the shrine taking shape with each post. The idea of the Gospel of Alex as both myth and manual feels perfectly in tune with that surreal reverence you've been describing in the show. I love that you're building the layout while writing the scripture—it mirrors the Taskmaster house itself, a sacred space assembling its own lore brick by brick.

The parchment background sounds divine for the tone you're chasing; it gives that aged, devotional atmosphere, like a gospel that’s been copied and smudged a hundred times. But I'm also haunted by the idea of sneaking the Taskmaster imagery in underneath, as if His presence is bleeding faintly through the page. That might give you both aesthetics at once.