edonil Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 (edited) Welcome everyone, to February's Iron Quill! This is going to be a fun round, I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. We've got some really interesting mystery ingredients for you to mess around with. Hope you all enjoyed the hint at the top of the page to one of them. So, here's 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 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. 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. 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: Heroism in the Face of Defeat CHARACTER: The Pirate LINE: "I wouldn't have done that if I were you." ITEM: Brass Locket Starting Date For This Round: February 11th, 2013 at 00:00 EST. Ending Date For This Round: February 28th, 2013, at 23:59 EST.Authors: StormLordXIII Victoria ScrewedUpDice rancor709 cybogoblin Silver Chocobo mephiston Edited February 11, 2013 by edonil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Sign me up! This is gonna be fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrewedUpDice Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 This should be good. Sign me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancor709 Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 i'm in again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybogoblin Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Damnit, you used Muppets. I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrewedUpDice Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 I feel somewhat responsible for the Pirate thing, having picked it because I had no idea what to do with it, and foolishly liking a challenge. However, it seems the internet provides, in the form of the Great Lakes Pirates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Lets see if I can finish this one this time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted February 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Glad to see you all back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I'll shall attempt to put something together for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender101 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Arr har, sign me up me hardies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZombie Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 This looks like fun. I shall try it out also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 Made a start http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?39260-Iron-Quill-When-You-re-a-Professional-Pirate-Thunder-and-Brimstone&p=509570#post509570 Hopefully should finish this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I've finished http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?39260-Iron-Quill-When-You-re-a-Professional-Pirate-Thunder-and-Brimstone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 My entry can be found here http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?39389-Iron-Quill-When-You-re-a-Professional-Pirate-Away-boarders! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender101 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Shiver me timbers, I've unfurled the main sail and added me story to the lot! http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?39421-Iron-Quill-When-You-re-a-Professional-Pirate-The-Portrait-of-Captain-Monroe&p=511313#post511313 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Hi all, Unfortunately, I'm going to have to withdraw my entry. I'm at a public speaking contest in Jakarta right now and I haven't had the opportunity to put the finishing touches on it and the deadline is today. Edonil, please put me down for March's round. I'm definitely in and I love Iron Quill! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrewedUpDice Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 I seem to have taken a very different approach to everyone else. Find out quite how much here: http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?39300-Iron-Quill-When-You-re-a-Professional-Pirate-Radio-Wars&p=512112#post512112 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybogoblin Posted March 2, 2013 Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 Sadly, I've also decided to drop from this round. Real world factors (dang Yahoo!) conspired against me and robbed me of my free time. Let's just say that working on the weekend is not fun. Next month, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted March 2, 2013 Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 I did plan to enter this time. And then I got caught up in a totally different piece. It's 1500 words but has nothing to do with the theme, or malifaux for that matter! Ah well. One day I'll make it back to iron quill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Would the entrants like some feedback from me regarding their stories? I'm happy to receive any about mine. Let me know if you'd like it via pm or on your story thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 Would the entrants like some feedback from me regarding their stories? I'm happy to receive any about mine. Let me know if you'd like it via pm or on your story thread. Yes please, however is good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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