edonil Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) Welcome one and all to this year's Halloween Iron Quill! I hope you're all ready for some wonderful stories, and prepared to write a few of your own. In case you don't recognize it, the above song is from the musical Sweeney Todd, based on the old play story The Demon Barber of Fleetstreet. Quite appropriate for Malifaux, I'd say! Onto the rules before you're given the ingredients for the round: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: The ReapingCharacter: Barber Line: Nobody Comes Here Anymore Item: Railway SpikeStarting Date: October 8th, 2013 00:00 EST Ending Date: October 31st, 2013 23:59 ESTAuthors: Victoria Kitsune Sidhe Howard Vaux ScrewedUpDice Silver Chocobo Phototoxin madjackdeacon LordZombie Edited October 14, 2013 by edonil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 Allright, sign me up! We'll see if I can actually finish a story this time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Sidhe Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 Same here. Hopefully I'll be able to even start a proper story this time around. ^^;; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Vaux Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 How do the mystery ingredients work like just have a character that is (x) and a the item(y) used in the story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Yep! That's all you really need to do. It's an inspirational piece. Some people have taken the character and made them their central character, while others have made the character a bit piece. Heck, at least one person made the character ingredient the dead man in their story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrewedUpDice Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Lets see if I can't get something written a bit more on time this round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Back in to win Got an idea to die for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Chocobo! Long time no see, glad to have you back, mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Sign me up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm gonna use my same character as the last time I entered and continue the story. Woohoo! I know what I'm gonna write about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madjackdeacon Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZombie Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Well, I do have a little more free time. Maybe 7th times a charm? Toss me in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2013 Hey everyone, just a reminder you have 6 days to get your entry posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted October 26, 2013 Report Share Posted October 26, 2013 I got 1300 words written this afternoon while waiting for someone to appear with a piece of equipment. If I can condense the entire introduction bit into 200 words in the next few days, I'm in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I managed to finish it off today. No idea if it works or not, but that's what posting it up is for! Heh. So here it is: The Futile Precaution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Just finished mine too. Chunky at 1500 words. Hope people like it. The Demon-Barber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mephiston Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 Was everyone off taking part in NanoWriMo or has this lost all its steam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 I don't know if this ever got sorted out which was a pity as it was my first one.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 I don't know if this ever got sorted out which was a pity as it was my first one.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted January 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Sorry about that, it's my fault there. I was going through a few cases of anxiety attacks at the time this wrapped up, and in the end, with only two authors, I just moved ahead with the next one once I got my head back on straight. So sorry about that, Phototoxin and Mako. :/ I know it's not quite the same as knowing who the winner was, but I'll be leaving you guys feedback this week to try to make things up. Hope you decide to participate in the future and don't let this sour things for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted January 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Sorry about that, it's my fault there. I was going through a few cases of anxiety attacks at the time this wrapped up, and in the end, with only two authors, I just moved ahead with the next one once I got my head back on straight. So sorry about that, Phototoxin and Mako. :/ I know it's not quite the same as knowing who the winner was, but I'll be leaving you guys feedback this week to try to make things up. Hope you decide to participate in the future and don't let this sour things for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Grr *shakes fist at ed* *grin* Not that I've got time for it at the moment, but no doubt I'll return at some point. Eventually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Grr *shakes fist at ed* *grin* Not that I've got time for it at the moment, but no doubt I'll return at some point. Eventually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 No worries, Just wondering! I'm hyper busy at new job which involves a lot of writing type things so might be able to get something done over lunch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 No worries, Just wondering! I'm hyper busy at new job which involves a lot of writing type things so might be able to get something done over lunch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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