Tasks are how you improve yourself. They're the Garden's mechanic for getting better at something — build a habit, practise a skill, do the thing you said you'd do — and they pay out in your own progression: XP, BLOO, and Skill levels.
That's the whole difference between the two mechanics in the Garden:
- Tasks improve you. You get better, you level up, your Skills grow.
- Missions improve your Garden. You reach out to other people, and the relationships around you get healthier.
The shortest version: helping yourself is a Task. Helping someone else is a Mission.
What a Task Looks Like
Your Game Master writes Tasks and assigns them. Each one has instructions, a reward, and a rule about how often you can do it:
- Once — a one-off. Do it, claim it, done.
- Unlimited — repeat it as often as you like.
- Timed — repeatable, but with a cooldown between attempts. A countdown ring on the card shows exactly how long until it comes back.
How a Task Completes
Some Tasks you complete yourself; others notice you did something and complete on their own:
- Mark it done — the honour-system version. You did the thing, you say so.
- Scan a QR code — proof you were physically somewhere. Sometimes the code is hidden from the app on purpose, so you have to actually find the printed one.
- Finish any Milestone — completes automatically the next time you finish anything on the Journey.
- Finish a specific Milestone — tied to one particular piece of content.
- Log in today — the habit mechanic. Show up, it fires, once a day.
What You Get
A Task can pay XP and BLOO — the same Journey currencies everything else pays — and, separately, Blooms into one specific Skill. That last part is what connects Tasks to the Garden: doing the work raises the Skill level you're actually known for, which is what colours your node.
Where To Find Them
Tasks live in their own panel in the Garden dock, showing what's available right now, and on their own full page if you'd rather see everything at once.
Where To Go Next
- Garden Missions — the other half: growing the Garden rather than yourself
- Skills & Blooms Explained — what the rewards actually mean