edonil Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 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. Also, if I do not hear from you about your Author votes, any votes you have earned will be disqualified. I will make sure to reach out to you first, but you should be voting. 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: MetamorphosisCharacter: CourtesanLine: "That's why we never came back here!"Item: Music Box Location: Doorway Starting Date: June 17, 2014, 00:01 EST Ending Date: July 8, 2014 23:59 EST Authors: Vinush- Lucille Brewmaster- With Friends Like These ProximoCoal- Moth Hateful Darkblack- Warehouse Inventory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Count me in. Vinush 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 17th times a charm? (tried doing all this from my tablet, but couldn't quite get the dumb link thing to work lol) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted June 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Seems to be working now! lol. You sir, sicken me. One day I shall have speed writing skills like you... one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Would it be less irritating or more irritating if I told you that I actually wrote 2300 words (that are well on their way to becoming a 5000 chapter), and this is the condensed version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 I'm in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Here's my WIP of my entry. http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/101698-iron-quill-metamorphosis-lucille/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Awesome start Vinush! I look forward to seeing it develop! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salix060907 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 I'm in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WookieeGunner Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 This might sound like a silly question, but does the story have to be set in the Canon universe or can it be set in an alternative Malifaux universe. In other words, can the story fill in a gap in the history of Malifaux that Wyrd hasn't expanded on yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Either or is fine wookiegunner Point #3 on the thing Edonil posted at the way tippy top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 My first draft is up here, I'd really appreciate some feedback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WookieeGunner Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Thanks. Some how I missed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Whenever I right a story I always want to write some rules for them aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted June 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Sounds like a good plan to me, Proximo! If nothing else, would be fun to see a list of Iron Quill NPCs for people running TTB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Updated my story to v1.2 Vinush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 Are you penalised for going under the word count? I think anything else I add in to my story wouldn't really help move it along any... Vinush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted June 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 Nope! It's just a maximum. If you think you can tell a great story in a hundred words (for crazy example), go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Mine is now no longer a work in progress, it's finalised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renen Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 I'll give it the old 'Guild try!' Cheers, Ren 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateful Darkblack Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 Oh, hey! Didn't realize I had another week! I figured I'd need to be done by the end of the month, so I just worked on it today. Just finished my entry here: Warehouse Inventory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T.A. Hoffman Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Yay! I managed to finish my entry. here it is! http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/101985-iron-quill-metamorphosis-drawn-to-chaos/ Drawn to Chaos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted July 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 Voting thread going up in the next couple of hours folks, sorry for the delay! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 please link all relevant threads, including the next topic, on here please so I get the update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted July 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 Here you go, Proximo! (no, I did not intend that to rhyme) http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/102049-iron-quill-metamorphosis-voting/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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