Hey, everyone. Glad to see you all back here in the (apparently) not-dead contest section. It’s been a while, I know, and I’m sorry – but hey, we’re back. That’s what matters, right?

There are going to be quite a few changes made to the contest section in the upcoming weeks and months. Some of them have already come into play – Terminal is no longer able to continue as contest moderator, so I will be taking their place. Their contests (The Twelve Labours and the ongoing Final Hazard) are not to be continued. More can be read in their announcement thread here. I will be working with Terminal to give the awards to those who have not received them yet for the final four Labours.

In regard to RolePlayerGuild Contests (colloquially known as RPGC), there will be many changes and expansions made, some of which are still pending development. A new RPGC in the standard format will go live on Monday, May 8th, and we’ll play it by ear from there. Be on the lookout for new contests and maybe the return of some very old ones.

Also – I know this has been promised so many times in the past but now it’s actually possible for me to do, so: in the next couple of weeks everyone should be getting their trophies from RPGC #5 and onwards.

We’re also looking for more staff. As the contests expand and diversify we’ll need more brainpower and evil minions I mean, uh, willing volunteers! behind-the-scenes. Shoot me a PM if you’re interested and we’ll work from there.

Anyway, I think that’s all I have for now. Shoot me a PM if you have any questions, and if not I’ll see you all on May 8th for RPGC #14.

The awards/trophies have to be put in by Mahz by hand, one at a time, so they'll happen it'll just likely take some time.

you should get the upcoming RPGC onto the front page where it currently has that twelve labors thingy. try to attract people before it starts too.

@Ellri thanks for the great idea, Ellri. Let's see if this time I've managed to do it without borking the link...

It seems fully functional to us. So we do believe you achieved it.

We won't ask about theme (as that is supposed to be secret) but how long will the contest run before entries have to be in? We do hope it is considerably more than a week...

Color me excited.

Woo woo!

@Ellri Right now I'm hoping for fourteen full days as a submission period (So if it goes up on monday the eighth as I'm shooting for, all the entries will be posted for voting and reviewing as soon as I wake up on Tuesday the 22nd) and then a week as a voting period? If not two weeks as a voting period. But the writing period will be no shorter than two weeks - and I might extend it, depending on how these first couple of contests go.

Tomorrow's contest is likely going to go live in the evening for all of you folks residing in Europe. (I'm shooting to have it up no later than 20:00 GMT) As much as I love you guys I'm not getting up at 4:30 AM to start the contest and it's either do it that early or save it till after my exams are in. As mentioned above the deadline for submission will likely be midnight on the 21st, to be posted on the 22nd.

@RomanAria

4:30 AM! 4:30 AM! 4:30 AM!

Chant with me people!!

@Dark Wind ...we'll see what I can do.

EDIT: holy heck I just turned off ghost mode for the first time in a year and a half it's so weird to see my name in the list of users... ANYWAY. Moving on.

As much as I love you guys I'm not getting up at 4:30 AM to start the contest

What? BLASPHEMY!

_{on a more serious note... it is understandable.}

It's currently 1:15am EST, is that good enough?

@RomanAria *glomps*

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!

I mean, I'd love to be an evil minion volunteer! Yes. No nefarious plans here, not at all!

I do hope we'll have an objectively rated contest in addition to one with a popularity vote. That was one aspect of TTL I did rather like.

AND GO YOU! *pompoms*

As I said I would have gotten the things up this morning if my 4:30 alarm had actually gone off. >-> ETA is as declared before, 20:00 GMT. Sorry for the inconvenience.

no worries. Pretty sure that "demand" was a joke anyways.

As I said... I had a few technical difficulties (Namely, the banner art getting corrupted the last time I tried to save and now my computer is overheating every five minutes! -.-) Contest is still going up tonight, just might be a few more hours belated!

*reaches for torch and pitchfork*

A new RPGC in the standard format will go live on Monday, May 8th

*Looks at calendar*

*Looks back at screen*



Don't wanna be a nag, as I understand there are some technical difficulties going on. Just lettin' ya know I'm waiting impatiently patiently!

@Vashonn Yeah sorry about that. My computer is a pile of poo at times. In any case I've gotten the hefty graphics things done and am now working on coding my post to make it pretty. ETA <1 hour. Thank you for your patience.

Aaaand it's live. <3 get us the writeythings precious, yesyes.