edonil Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) Hope you all enjoyed the pun in the title. *wink* That's all mine, so feel free to groan and complain. Welcome to the second (fourth) round of the Iron Quill everyone! I know last month was a bit rough for people, hope to see things work out better this time around for all of you. As always, continually impressed by people's entries, keep up the good work! As a reminder, this is not an elimination competition, so if you're interested in joining in this round, please do! Hope you all keep having fun with this! As before, if I need to make any changes, I'll edit those into this thread in red. 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 four 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 1,500 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. New Rule! 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 four options to pick from. Pick two or more of these for your story. 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: Becoming the Mask CHARACTER: The Black Knight LINE: There are no coincidences. ITEM: Soulstone Necklace Starting Date For This Round: October 8th, 2012 at 00:00 EST. Ending Date For This Round: October 29th, 2012, at 23:59 EST. Authors: Mako The Perfect Mask Paddywhack Silver Chocobo Hope ThePandaDirector Absolution Black Salix060907 rancor709 Dear John FearLord Dark_Puppeteer Mask of Blood Cybogoblin El Indio Masquerade Somnicide chromiumboy Rebecca Ender101 Behind the Mask Mister Monkey Guildhouse Strikes Back Oh, and a cookie to whoever can find the reference I got the title from. *wink* Just to give you guys something to do, lol. Cookie awarded to Chocobo. Thanks for playing Edited October 27, 2012 by edonil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 Count me in, although my muse is in a twisted mood so no promises it won't get nasty in places! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 I'm in - I will finish this time! Dosen't that line come from a Terry Pratchet novel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 I'm in - I will finish this time! Dosen't that line come from a Terry Pratchet novel? Good guess, but not quite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 Good guess, but not quite. I'm in Also it's batman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 I knew someone was going to say that! However, not it again, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 V for vendetta, also should have been next mouth for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 V for vendetta, also should have been next mouth for that Mmmm...another good guess. *grin* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 also guest staring at the star theater, Hamlin the singing tyrant ---------- Post added at 09:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:00 AM ---------- BTW last one was a joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 (hands a cookie to Chocobo) Even got the video for it. *grin* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolution Black Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 hmm..the black knight....sorta playing into my hands there...may have to try and enter this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 Yum internet cookies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 yum iron quill The Iron Quill: In the Dark of the Knight - Hope http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?36182-The-Iron-Quill-In-the-Dark-of-the-Knight-Hope&p=461966#post461966 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePandaDirector Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 This might be too good to resist. I get more time on my the computer, so I could always do some writing rather than watching Modern Family, playing Skyrim or writing pages about Puppet Wars And who couldn't get Dark of the Knight? Best Disney film that isn't a Disney film =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salix060907 Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 I'll give a try again. Life seems a little less busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancor709 Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 I'll be throwing my quill in the ring again. Looking foward to writing this one up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearLord Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Screw it, my wife and daughter are going on holiday with her parents for a week this month, and I haven't done any writing in a while... Count me in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 I'll give a try again. Life seems a little less busy. Life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Puppeteer Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Consider this my first shot. I will enter this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybogoblin Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hi all. Mister Monkey suggested I take a look at this, so here I am. I haven't got a story in my mind, yet. I'll see what I can come up with between meetings at work tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Glad to see all the new people this time around, hope you all have fun with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Puppeteer Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Story is up. Can be found here. Mask of Blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 You and Chocobo astound me with how quickly you write, lol. Front page updated with links, thanks for putting in the notification. I'll be reading them later this week, for now I have a bunch of classwork to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancor709 Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 And Story link http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?36275-Iron-Quill-the-Dark-Knight-Dear-John&p=462868#post462868 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 You too?! Man, you lot make me feel like a slacker. *wink* Thanks for the notice, front page updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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