And now for something completely different.
Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished guests of indeterminate or eldritch gender!
Welcome to the Kyren Story Character 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 prompts!
Then, the winners of the bidding round compose a bunch of character biographies based on their selected prompt!
Finally, our kangaroo court made of goblins rather than. strictly speaking, kangaroos will rank the submissions based on their cohesiveness, originality, effervescence, and whether or not I've managed to find a new apartment! 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 submissions at any point during the week based on your prompt. At the end of the submission period the pieces will be ranked and receive point awards based on their ranking.
Out of a spread of eight prompts, typically the award spread will be like this:
1. +10 points
2. +8 points
3. +7 points
4. +6 points
5. +5 points
6. +4
7. +3
8. +3
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:
Character Origins!
Write a character biography (not necessarily for the plane that this card comes from) featuring or based on, in some way, one of the following: (Note--the character does not have to be the figure depicted in the card art)
1. Orbs of Warding
2. Meteorite
3. Blood-Cursed Knight
4. Evolutionary Leap
5. Avaricious Dragon
6. Demonic Pact
7. Thopter Spy Network
8. Relic Seeker
Stories will be due: December 15th.
~Current Game Status~
RuwinReborn
Points: 19
Completed: Gift of Orzhova, Door to Nothingness
Mothballed:
Docket:
Tevish Szat
Points: 35
Completed: Vectis Agents, It That Betrays, Aeronaut Tinkerer
Mothballed:
Docket:
TheAmazingSquid
Points: 12
Completed: Bazaar Trader, Wild Evocation
Mothballed:
Docket:
Heliosphoros
Points: 15
Completed: Priest of Urabrask
Mothballed:
Docket:
Aaarrrgh
Points: 11
Completed: Caged Sun
Mothballed:
Docket:
Razorborne
Points: 14
Completed: Door of Destinies
Mothballed:
Docket:
Yxoque
Points: 24
Completed: Tethmos High Priest, Gargoyle Castle
Mothballed:
Docket:
Lord LunaEquie is me
Points: 15
Completed: Eaten by Spiders
Mothballed:
Docket:
vlord
Points: 14
Completed: Vampire Nocturnus
Mothballed:
Docket:
Neru
Points: 10
Completed:
Mothballed:
Docket:
AzureShade
Points: 12
Completed: Indestructibility
Mothballed:
Docket:
Tolarian Epidemic
Points: 18
Completed: Witchstalker
Mothballed:
Docket:
Current Phase Is: Bidding
Phase Ends: End of the day Saturday
Do you think the competition aspect of these games is bad though? Serious question, I'm always a little leery of competitions myself, though usually only because eliminations and "final" winners rather than ongoing games feel... bad to me.