Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished guests of indeterminate or eldritch gender!
Welcome to the Kyren Story Auction Game! Long have the goblins of Mercadia secretly plotted from the shadows against the rulers of this forum and now I have let loose the floodgates and all shall play the games of the Mercadian bazaar!
The game works like this:
First, there's an auction where people use points to bid on story prompts!
Then, the winners of the bidding round write a bunch of stories!
Finally, our kangaroo court made of goblins rather than. strictly speaking, kangaroos will rank the stories based on their prose, narrative coherency, effective expression of the prompt, etherial shimmer, avoidance of love triangles, and whether or not my students are making me want to pull my hair out! The higher your rank, the more points you earn back!
Here's how bidding works:
1. Each time you bid, you can add up to three points total divided as you choose among one, two, or three prompts
2. As soon as someone else bids, you can bid again--but you can't bid right after yourself!
3. Your TOTAL POINTS ASSIGNED TO ALL PROMPTS must not exceed the points you have available
4. If you win a bid, you gain that prompt and can write about it... but you pay for it with the bid's worth of points, just like a real auction.
5. You can at any point declare your bidding over. You may not bid after that point.
6. In the event of a tie, the first person who reached the high number wins.
7. In the event of someone winning more than one bid, first the lowest winning bids by that player are instead forfeited, and second if there is still a double win any ties that player would have won are instead forfeited. If that STILL doesn't fix things, bugger it, that person just wins two prompts that week, congratufreakinlations, I hope you're happy.
8. Bidding ends when no more moves are possible OR after three days have passed, whichever comes sooner.
You can post stories at any point during the week based on your prompt. At the end of the submission period the pieces will be ranked and receive awards based on their ranking.
Out of a spread of eight prompts, typically the award spread will be like this:
1. +16 points
2. +13 points
3. +11 points
4. +9 points
5. +7 points
6. +6
7. +5
8. +4
HOW TO JOIN:
Simply ask to join and I'll give you ten points to join in on the bidding and add your name to the running tally.
This Week's Prompt Theme:
M10-M15: Core sets, Doors, Pets, and More Yet!
Write a story that features, in some way, one of the following cards:
1.
Door of Destinies 2.
Gargoyle Castle 3.
Aeronaut Tinkerer 4.
Vampire Nocturnus 5.
Wild Evocation 6.
Witchstalker 7.
Indestructibility 8.
Door to NothingnessStories will be due: December 1st
~Current Game Status~
RuwinRebornPoints: 13
Completed:
Gift of OrzhovaMothballed:
Docket:
Tevish SzatPoints: 27
Completed:
Vectis Agents,
It That BetraysMothballed:
Docket:
TheAmazingSquidPoints: 9
Completed:
Bazaar TraderMothballed:
Docket:
HeliosphorosPoints: 15
Completed:
Priest of UrabraskMothballed:
Docket:
AaarrrghPoints: 11
Completed:
Caged SunMothballed:
Docket:
RazorbornePoints: 10
Completed:
Mothballed:
Docket:
YxoquePoints: 21
Completed:
Tethmos High PriestMothballed:
Docket:
Lord LunaEquie is mePoints: 15
Completed:
Eaten by SpidersMothballed:
Docket:
Points: 10
Current Phase Is:
BIDDINGPhase Ends: Saturday Night
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