edonil Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) Hope you all enjoyed the musical intro! Welcome to the next round of the Iron Quill, and we have a very interesting list of ingredients for you all to pick from...wonderful theme and everything else seems to tie to it quite nicely! Looking forward to seeing what people pick out and seeing some more stories! On to our regular business-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: How to Keep a Secret CHARACTER: The Bookkeeper LINE: "How hard can it be?" ITEM: Casket Starting Date For This Round: March 22nd, 2013 at 00:00 EST. Ending Date For This Round: April 12th, 2013, at 23:59 EST.Authors LordZombie ScrewedUpDice Stormlord XIII cybogoblin mephiston Ryu Silver Chocobo edonil joel OldManMyke Ender101 TitcherI'm going to be entering this round of the competition. Because of this, the esteemed Mako is going to be serving as judge once voting gets underway! Edited March 29, 2013 by edonil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZombie Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 I want in on the action this time. Sounds like a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrewedUpDice Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 I'm game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 I'm in as always! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybogoblin Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 I'm in as well. I do need something to do over Easter weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 I shall try to scribble something again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryu Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 I will also participate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Now that song has put me in the mind for a Levitcus tale ---------- Post added at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:13 PM ---------- Also nice song:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted March 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Yeah, I've always liked that one from Abney Park, tis a good one. All of you guys are signed up! Also, repeating the notice here- I'm going to be entering this round of the competition. Because of this, the esteemed Mako is going to be serving as judge once voting gets underway! Been wanting to participate for a while, but none of the rounds gave my muse anything to work with...this one, however, really grabbed my attention! Looking forward to competing with all of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 I'm going to give this a go! sign me up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldManMyke Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Sign me up please, looks like fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Oh no... the malifools are arriving en mass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldManMyke Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 You shouldnt have tweeted about it then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 more the merrier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender101 Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 Shhhhh.... Well I guess we can't keep secrets in here! I'll be joining again as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted March 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 Welcome to new and old! Good to see everyone so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryu Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 I believe "Ryn" is supposed to be me? A nice moniker no doubt, but I think in my case the n is upside down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted March 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 ...whoops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titcher Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 I am new to the forums but this looks fun. I am in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted March 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 Welcome to the forum and to the Quill, Titcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Eleven days to go for the deadline! Looking forward to seeing some stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryu Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) My thread is up "Iron Quill - The Hunters"; I have half the story written on paper already which I'll transfer over to the thread later tonight. Edit: Here's the link: http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?41093-Iron-Quill-The-Hunters Edited April 14, 2013 by Ryu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormLordXIII Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 Story was finished earlier this week. Sorry, I forgot to add the think to this thread! Enjoy. http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?40958-Iron-Quill-Can-You-Keep-A-Secret-Letters-to-Dahlia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) My entry is in. http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?41170-Iron-Quill-Can-You-Keep-A-Secret-Deadly-Ledger&p=529917#post529917 Edited April 12, 2013 by mephiston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titcher Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 I have posted my entry http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?41167-Iron-Quill-Pound-of-Flesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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