Loksfjoer

RPGC: General Discussion

That is true. It would be nice to see more people voting.

I'll see what I can do about that.

RPGC: General Discussion

We'll also have to put a stop to reoccurring characters, like how the bard Mikhal appears in quite a few of Calle's stories. She might as well announce it's her work if he shows up.

@BrokenPromise

I'll just have to be very clever about it. I could write about a bard with a lyre called... Marc and his grumpy friend... Joshua. Foolproof, no-one would notice! :P

But @Roach makes a good point. Back when mdk and RomanAria hosted these contests, people could specify if they wanted the entry labelled with their name or remain anonymous. It seemed to work well back then. I often let my name be mentioned, most of the time because I was writing about a character I had used before and people would know which story was mine anyway.

When allowing contestants to vote and review, it's will become clear fairly soon who wrote what entry, unless everyone will write a mock-review of their own work too.

Also, @BrokenPromise, I love the image. Thank you very much.

RPGC: General Discussion

Thanks for your input so far :)

@BrokenPromise, the dimensions for images are: max 231 px wide and around 110px tall. If you could make something I would appreciate that.

Nobody Will Believe It [SporkoBug and Calle]

Benjamin rubbed his face. How could this have happened? What medicine had this effect on people? But they had to deal with this. There wasn't anything they could do for Ari, except hope the doctor really did want to help her breath again.
"Hello Ray," Benjamin said to her. "I'm Benjamin. I'm a friend, so you don't have to be afraid of me, okay? This is Dia, she's a friend too, just like Ari is. I just want to know what you remember, about yourself and this place."

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The doctor noticed the changes and lowered the needle. "Calm down," he said to Ari. "Are you feeling okay with just the extra oxygen? Are you experiencing any other side-effects from your pills?"
He took a stethoscope to listen to her heart and lungs.

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"No, you are helpful. Thanks for telling me." Marc flashed a smile and looked at the book. "So, were you planning on buying that?" he asked her.
That was what the conversation was about before it had turned into the dark possibility people never got better in the asylum, a thought that made him shudder, and he was more than happy to return to that and more light-hearted topics of conversations. He did promise himself one thing: the next day he would look more closely into the files of the people that were listed as discharged for transfer or returning home.

RPGC: General Discussion

I'm going to take a vote here.

In the past RPGC was done in two ways.

1: Entries were handled anonymously: they were either sent to the RPGC account or to the contest mod hosting the contest and then collected in an entries thread by a contest mod without adding their name.

2: Entries were not anonymously: they were posted in the thread and collecting in a new thread for voting.

I see upsides and downsides to both methods, so I am curious about what the general writing contest participant prefers.

RPGC #27: To the sky! (Prompt and Discussion)

Please PM @Calle the entries and give it as title RPGC#27 - Title, this tread will be used for the prompt and the discussion only.

RPGC: Contest Discussions

RPGC #27 is now live! The sky is the limit! (as long as the sky is under the 5000 words)

If you have any questions about this contest, feel free to ask here.
For general conversation, please go to the RPGC: General Discussions Thread

RPGC: Contest Discussions

Instead of creating a new discussion thread for every contest, in the Prompt and Entries post, I will link to this post where all questions about the RPGC can be asked. Make sure to add the number of the RPGC you're asking a question about in your post. I will also announce in this thread when the new RPGC is live.

Please keep this post only for questions about the specific RPGC's, for general conversation and discussion about them, please go to the RPGC: General Discussions thread.

And there is also a thread specifically for suggestions regarding RPGC's: RPGC Suggestions

RPGC: suggestions

Here you can leave your suggestions for the RPGC's. Both suggestions for contest themes and suggestions about the technical aspects of the contests (like the rules, word count, duration, etc.).

Please keep the posts here relevant to the topic. Suggestions only.

For general conversation about the RPGC's, please go to the RPGC: General Discussions thread

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These suggestions have been noted and one of them will soon be used. Both a maximum word count and a minimum word count have been added:

I can write this better: Find a prompt made by someone else. And write the same thing better, using the same/lesser wordcount. The compare/contrast possibilities are endless.

See it from my side: Where you write the same main story twice, but from a different person's perspective in the story. Obviously, better if the two side oppose in some way. Another that could be quite fruitful with possible plot lines.

Memento Plotline: Where you have to write your story in non-chronological order, yet it still actually has to make sense and be understandable in the end. Just another challenge that sounds enjoyable.

And just for general ideas I'd like to see:
Time Travel.
Murder Mystery.
Paradox.

(Also please, please add a minimum and maximum word count rule again and enforce it. One can at least hope right?)

@SleepingSilence

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This suggestion will be added:

I'm the last person who should be posting here, probably, but never mind.

Simple idea pitch. Story of the week, say, 200-500 word entries with a voting system? One week to write, one more to vote 'n stuff, and start the next cycle after that. Stuff along those lines so there's a point for this forum to exist, as compared to grand writing entries.

@ArenaSnow