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Tale Contest 2023

Limspaces and thresholds may set the scene, but it's the stories that lie at the heart of our site. What happens when naive explorers wander too far into the unknown? Why are certain people drawn to investigate liminality in the first place? The stories left to be told are boundless. Tales of any kind may be entered for this contest.

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Congratulations to totallyunison on winning the contest with PAWNPAWNPAWNPAWN which finished with a rating of +10. In second place is knafflad's Journey To The Houndstooth Pt 1 which finished with a rating of +8.

Tied for third is four articles which each finished with a rating of +6. They are Heart of The Icy Seas by BlueTangs Rock, The Form In The Fog and Scav's Redemption by Nautilus98, and Founders Valley Pt 4 by knafflad.

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Submissions

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Create a submission by entering the page's name or title. If you are unsure what to enter, feel free to ask a staff member for assistance.

Note: this module creates the entry under the contest category so that voting is disabled, but once the voting period begins, all entries will be moved out of the contest category, which will change the URLs slightly.

(If this module doesn't work for you, create the page manually and add the tag "tale-contest-2023". You may ask a staff member for help.)

Contest Entry	Author
Founders Valley Pt 4	knafflad
PAWNPAWNPAWNPAWN	totallyunison
Death Rat Encounter: A Tale of The Backrooms	BlueTangs Rock
Scav's Redemption	Nautilus98
The Form In The Fog	Nautilus98
Nadir Storytime	Nautilus98
The Men in My Bed	Egg2
Heart of The Icy Seas	BlueTangs Rock
Journey To The Houndstooth Pt 1	knafflad

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RULES

1. Site rules still apply to entries submitting to this contest.
2. Only tales may be entered, including prose and documents.
   • Prose is any narrative story, typically written without a rigid format. Documents are in-universe documents, information recorded in the Archivist Database which isn't a limspace, threshold, entity or object.
   • Already uploaded articles cannot be entered but works-in-progress from before the contest may be entered.
   • Collabs are also accepted.
3. Votes by authors on their own entries will not be counted toward final scoring.
4. You are required to get crit like for any other article. Once voting begins, entries will be moved to the default category and treated like regular articles.
5. Each author may submit up to three entries to the contest. Collaborations between multiple authors count as an entry for each author.

INFO

1. There will be a six week writing and uploading period followed by a one week voting period.
   • Voting will be disabled during the six week period and resumed during the voting period.
2. The contest winner will get the "contest-winner" tag on their article, the "Contest Winner" role on our Discord server and 5000 ActivityRank XP.
   • Second place and third place will get 2500 and 1000 experience respectively.
3. For determining winners, each author's highest rated entry will be considered and the rest will not.
   • If an author manages to write two or three articles that wind up in the top three rated entries, the author will be awarded a custom role on the Discord called "Contest Legend" and a bonus 1000 XP for each entry.

+ Additional Info

• If desired, authors may enter their articles anonymously. The benefit of uploading anonymously is that readers will not be biased for or against you when voting on the entry.
  • This will be done through a staff dummy account, and all anonymous entries will be uploaded simultaneously on the day voting is opened. In order to have your article uploaded anonymously, contact Vizlox.
  • Note that users who enter anonymously will still be required to get feedback on their entries, so if you wish to remain completely anonymous, you will be responsible for acquiring critique in private and getting crit from users who are willing to maintain your anonymity during the contest. Vizlox will ask for proof that you received at least the minimum required crit to enter. Information about anonymous entrants will be kept a secret unless it becomes necessary to bring to staff's attention, at which point it will be discussed between the admins.

DATES

• Writing Starts: February 3
• Voting Starts: March 13
• Voting Ends: March 19 at 11:59 PM EST
• Winners Announced: March 20

Icon used: fairy tale by Laymik from the Noun Project (CCBY)
Vertical banner art by knafflad