edonil Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Hey everyone, welcome to another great round of the Iron Quill! Been nice to see all the new faces, and hope to see many more! If you're not sure about entering, I encourage you to take the time, it's a lot of fun and a great way to get the rust off old skills or break in some new ones. Malifaux is a great setting to play around in, as I'm sure all of us would agree! The Rules: 1. The list of participants will be brought together in the starting thread as people sign up. Participants may sign up at any point in time, by posting their interest in this thread, or by posting up a story. The Mystery Ingredient will be announced in the starting thread for each round. When you post up your story, please include the name of the round in the title. 2. The Mystery Ingredient will be two of five things. The Ingredient may be a character, a phrase, an item or a more generic theme. The Mystery Ingredient should be used in each entry, but doesn't necessarily have to be literal. Be creative here! (As an example, the Character: The Black Knight could be an armored knight in black, or a villain with a code of honor. It's up to you as the writer to interpret!) 3. All entries must be set in the universe of Malifaux, or a recognizable Alternate version thereof. 4. Entries should be no more than 1,750 words in total, and should be complete self contained stories. Try to stick to this length as much as possible, a reasonable overage will be allowed at the Judge's discretion, but stories that are too long by the deadline will be disqualified. If your initial draft is too long at first submission but, through author feedback, is brought to the word count, that's fine. 5. Participants will have three weeks to complete their entry and post it on the forums in a new thread using a format that identifies easily that the story is an entry and what round. For example: Iron Quill Round 1: The Dark of the Night (or something). ON EDITING: All stories can be edited as much as people would like. If a story is going to be modified to such an extent that it no longer matches the original story, please start a new thread. WIP will not be necessary in the title, but it is requested that any story that isn't completed have it at the top of the post. When the story is finished, please remove WIP from the post. Edits can be made up until the deadline, but any edits made on the deadline or afterwards will disqualify the entry from the competition. (As an editorial note- please don't make me do this.) 6. The winner(s) of each round will be determined by a blind score from a public and a private poll. The public poll will be a thread created in which anyone who reads the stories can vote. The private poll will be for Judges and Authors who have weighted votes they can hand out. Each Judge/Author can award each of the following to different stories: 3 votes, 2 votes, 1 vote. At the same time, the Judges/Authors are requested to leave criticism and feedback. These polls will be open for one week, at which point the winner of the round will be announced. Any Judge/Author votes that have not been submitted by that point will be spoiled. You cannot vote for yourself. Most Improved Award: Now that we have some competitions in the bag, I want to start a 'Most Improved' award for each round. When you give me your weighted votes (or any readers who want to join in on this one), name the author you think has improved the most this round, either from last round or from the beginning of the competition. 7. When you put up your story, put up a post in here saying so. That way, we have a central location that is being updated as time goes on, which lets people subscribe to the thread and keep track of what's going on. I'll have a central list here as always, but please take the time to do this, it'll make life easier for me and other writers to give you feedback when we know the story is up before the round end.MYSTERY INGREDIENTS: Continuing from the last round, you've got five options to pick from. Pick two or more of these. Because of this, you're going to need to put in your entry, either at the beginning or the end, which Ingredients you used. And with that out of the way, here's what you're all waiting for anyway:Theme: HonestyCharacter: A responsible adultLine: "You've got a lot to learn about how it's done around here."Item: A sharpened blade Location: Confined Space Starting Date: May 14, 2014, 00:01 EST Ending Date: June 3, 2014 23:59 EST Authors: Hateful Darkblack StormlordXIII Ierocis ProximoCoal Valhallan42nd 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateful Darkblack Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Ha! Two days until the starting date. That seems like cheating to take all that extra time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted May 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Oh, don't get me started. lol, looking forward to seeing what you come up with! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'm in for this round! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ierocis Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 That was one awesome motivational video you tossed in there, Edonil. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 I might give this a go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhallan42nd Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'm in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted May 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 That was one awesome motivational video you tossed in there, Edonil. Well, it was that or Billy Joel's Honesty, lol. I figured Abney Park would be better for Malifaux. Hey everyone, welcome to the Quill! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Ah. I wrote a story for this, but it's 3,800 words long! Should have read the instructions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ierocis Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Ah. I wrote a story for this, but it's 3,800 words long! Should have read the instructions At least you have ample time to try and shorten it. I like to story premise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 At least you have ample time to try and shorten it. Heh, no I don't think I'll be doing that :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted May 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Ah. I wrote a story for this, but it's 3,800 words long! Should have read the instructions It happens. Great to see you writing again, though! If you want to give it another stab, I'll not complain about seeing more of your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I have had a crack at writing something for this, which you can see here. Hope this matches what was intended. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted May 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 Just a reminder for folks, we've got a week left! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 Looks like I just showed up! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateful Darkblack Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 Here's mine! (I got distracted by PMF stuff.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashenlion Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 I gave a go, might edit it a time or two. A Balanced Scale 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Don't think I'll be able to make this round, sadly! Too many deadlines approaching for some other projects. Best of luck to everyone, though! I look forward to reading their stories, and hopefully I can make next round! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T.A. Hoffman Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 Ok I got something up finally Woot! http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/101371-iron-quill-honesty-the-ashen-landscape/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFezzington Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 After totally failing to follow through and write anything last time, may I present 'The House Always Wins' http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/101390-iron-quill-honesty-the-house-always-wins/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Are we voting for this now? Sorry for being impatient but I fancy doing some more writing and it feels like I wrote my story ages ago. I need another topic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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