edonil Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Hey everyone, welcome to another round of the Iron Quill! This is going to be an exciting one, I hope, not in least because this is the first Iron Quill with official sponsoring by Wyrd! \o/ So, this month, in addition to the bragging rights our authors always get, Wyrd is also offering a box set to the winner. Should be an interesting time! Now onto the rules!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. 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: The Price of Progress Character: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing Line: "It would be so nice if something made sense for a change." Location: The Industrial Zone Item: An Incomplete Deck of Cards Starting Date: October 7th, 2014, 00:01 EST Ending Date: October 28th, 2014 23:59 EST Authors: Hateful Darkblack - Punch Cards admiralvorkraft - Factory Girls Paddywhack Victoria Vinush Lord Byron Praetor Dragoon Jackdawinchains - The Printer's Mark Krehtsturm Proximocoal - Progress Wessex Moxypoo - Discoveries Cavalier Artist Brewmaster - Just Another Day Lord Byron - Miner's Bluff Nikko Andass Treemonkey - The Wink No Gods or Kings. Only Man - Another Turn Trow - Man With a Badge Kadeton - Your Lucky Day 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateful Darkblack Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yaaay! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiralvorkraft Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I'm pumped! Great ingredients across the board. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Awesome! Now then, haven't done this in a while.... Where are my thinking grenades? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucidicide Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Mmm stories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Aww, actually, I may have to pass up this time again. Rats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Welcome back everyone, great to see the old guard back! Oh! One bit of exciting news, we're going to have a guest Judge for this round! Aaron has graciously agreed to be participating as a Judge. Give him a warm welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateful Darkblack Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yay! Welcome Aaron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 So sweeeeet that you guys are getting support for this one! Count me in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinush Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'm in, and welcome aboard Aaron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolution Black Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 OOhh officialdom! I don't know how a maverick like me will sit with that lol.... I may be tempted to get back into this writing malarkey now other areas of life are settling down... A return to my Absolution Black saga is long overdue! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Byron Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 I'll give it a shot, please sign me up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 I'll be following this, sounds like fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancater Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Hello folks, well I plan to at least give this a brawlers attempt. So put me down as an author lets see how I go. Good luck to everyone, should be entertaining. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetorDragoon Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Sign me up too. Might improve my writer skills. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiralvorkraft Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 ...And it's up. Maybe subject to changes depending on my levels of time and energy. Comments, critiques, etc. are always welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackDawInChains Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 I'd like to tentatively throw my hat into the ring for this please... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krehtsturm Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 I'd love to sign up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProximoCoal Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I'm in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wessex Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 I'm definitely interested, will make sure something is uploaded by the 27th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxypoo Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Count me in! Definitely need some writing practice, and this gives me some incentive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavalierartist Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 I'll give this a try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewmaster Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 LLLLLADIES and GGGENTLEMEN! I'm, like, back or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Byron Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Posted! Iron Quill - The Price of Progress - Miner's Bluff http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/104005-iron-quill-the-price-of-progress-miners-bluff/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikko Andass Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Please count me in as a participant. A one week deadline is just the sort of writing challenge I like! - Nikko **P.S. I'm sort of vague about the "rounds" and such - what does that mean? Elimination rounds? Multiple submissions? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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