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Would you like to see Fluff Contests?
Topic Started: Jan 5 2005, 03:56 AM (1,271 Views)
Darmort
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Black Tavern Mercenary
If there's a competition i'm joining! And isn't Hashut Malal? yes he is, Malal is Hashut, it was one of the older edition peices of Fluff.

But if there is to be a competition i'm joining, so i'll start thinging of mine straight away.


PS. If we enter a story here can we post it in other places?
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The Flying Beaver
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No, malal is the fifth chaos god, and hashut is the chaos dwarf god.
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Gurkhal
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But what I have heard Hashut is a minor Chaos god.
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The Flying Beaver
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Clanlord
He is still not malal like darmort said.
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Lightbringer
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Evil Wizards Inc.
There is no fifth chaos god (not including Lagoth :P). The five powers where meant to be the four gods and undevided.
There was a fifth god, Malal, who does not exist anymore because GW removed him from their setting (or demoted him to a minor entety, which there are millions of in the realm of chaos).
Hashut is sometimes said to be an aspect of Khorne. Might be true, might be false.


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But if there is to be a competition i'm joining, so i'll start thinging of mine straight away.

PS. If we enter a story here can we post it in other places?

Just don't write to much before the final rules are out :P

You can't post you fluff or comment on it during the competition itself, that includes on other sites since the judges can happen to see it and they are not supposed to know the author. Once the judging is over, all stories will be posted here on this forum so that people can see them, and you are after that free to do whatever you want with them, its your story after all :P
And the winner can post his fluff on other forums and brag about how it won a competition :P
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Lightbringer
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Evil Wizards Inc.
Here is a propper write up for the campaign. Please note that this is NOT THE FINAL RULES, you will be informed when the contest is really on.
But I want to hear everyones views on these rules, if they are good or not, if they need rewriting to avoid missunderstandings etc. Please remember that this is a "test run" of the competition, and thats why we limit it to chaos this time.


Rules of the competition:
§1 All stories must be written by the one that enters them into the competition, you cannot submit an entry for someone else.

§2 The stories must be set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, and must be about chaos in some way (Only Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Undivided). It can be about a village attacked by chaos forces, the chaos forces doing the attacking, a deamon, a priest hunting said deamon or anything else where chaos plays a major part in the story. Also, you may not center your story around official GW characters.

§3 Entries must be between 1500 and 2000 words. To avoid misunderstandings different interpretations and arguments this interval is absolute, if you are one word over, you must remove one word.

§4 No "to be continued" or continuations from old stories are allowed. Your entry must be able to stand on its own, with a propper beginning and ending.

§5 All entries will be given to the judges without the name of the author to ensure that judging is unbiased, therefore you may not use characters you have used before in other stories rules or posts, since this would give away your identity to the judge.

§6 During the competition, you are not allowed to post your fluff here or on any other site, nor comment about its content. Doing so will get you disqualified. After the competition is complete, you will of course be free to do what you want with your story.


Other info about the competition:
§ Organizer – Lightbringer
§ Judges – Lord Marixis, Whitethunder500, rogge_85
§ Once the judging is over, all stories, with their ranking, will be posted by the organizer at the Cotec forums.
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Whitethunder500
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Insane until further notice.
I think they're fine LB.
Here's a suggested timeframe:
starting next weekend, all entries in 3 weeks from then, to allow any newbies to join from ther.

If we all agree on that, then I'll lock this(or delete it) and put the final bits in a separate topic
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Lightbringer
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Evil Wizards Inc.
Fine with me.
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snyggejygge
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Lightbringer
Jan 15 2005, 05:25 PM
There is no fifth chaos god (not including Lagoth :P). The five powers where meant to be the four gods and undevided.
There was a fifth god, Malal, who does not exist anymore because GW removed him from their setting (or demoted him to a minor entety, which there are millions of in the realm of chaos).
Hashut is sometimes said to be an aspect of Khorne. Might be true, might be false.


Actually he was removed since the creator of Malal had the rights to him but quit GW...
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Lord Marixis
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Whitethunder500
Jan 15 2005, 06:22 PM
Here's a suggested timeframe:
starting next weekend, all entries in 3 weeks from then, to allow any newbies to join from ther.

Seems fair enough. It will give any newcomers time enough to learn about the competition and write, but it will also give our "main" writers (i.e. those who are currently here and willing to write for the contest) time to thik up characters and places. After all, they will have to get a completely new story line, as they cannot even mention their current characters. This takes time.

Oh, and LB, I know that we won't grade them in one night. I just used that to get my point across. ;)
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Lightbringer
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Evil Wizards Inc.
Doh! Grading. The rules must of course say something about grading.
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Lightbringer
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I am thinking of this grading system.

Grading:
The entries will be earn points in three categories. How well it is written, how good the story is, and how inspirational it is. Each categories can earn you between 0 and 5 points, meaning your total score will range from 0-15.

§ Writing Skill: How well does the story convey they feeling of another world, how much does it make you a part of the story instead of just making you the observer? Spelling will not in general give you lower points (since not all people have English as first language), but at least spell check it with the computer.

§ Story: How original is it, does it have a good plot and good characters? Your score will be lowered if the story is not believable, or does not properly fit, in the Warhammer world.

§ Inspiration: Did it make you go Wow! Did it make you want to create something of your own, paint or convert something, or perhaps read more fluff? How inspiring was it?
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daemonic badger
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Feaster of Pain and Pleasure
sounds all good to me, one thing, can it involve Malal, as well as one of the four gretaer gods?
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snyggejygge
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High Zar of Khorne

As Malal fights the other chaos gods I would say yes, but that depends on the judges...
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Darmort
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Black Tavern Mercenary
Looks good, now to write about.. no, wait, can't share my Character's name :P

I'll start right away, I have a few ideas already. *Fires up Word*
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