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The Terrible Trivium
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:15 pm


I'm working on filling staff positions at the moment. Currently I'm looking for people willing to do the following jobs.

Run the book of the month
If someone could run the book of the month for me it would be great. What you would need to do is; each month take book suggestions and make a poll. Then take the winner and make it next months book. It would be great if this took place around the middle of the month so members would have a chance to get the books in time. To learn more just check out the current book of the month thread.

Run contests and games
If anyone would be willing to run a current contest or come up with a contest or game of their own it would be great. I can provide you with some gold each month to be used as prizes, I just need people to run them for me.

Check back for updates on jobs needed.

Sincerely Miss Nat
PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:07 pm


I've got an idea for a contest. I kinda got it from another thread I am subscribed to. A "Name the Character" contest. Currently the contest I play in is a Stephen King contest and it only pays 100 gold, but I can come up with characters from some of the many many books I own. Basically, I can name a character from a book and the first person to post or PM me with the correct answer (the book the character is from) wins. I can also name the author, maybe, I'm not sure about that, so I guess I could use a little feedback concerning those pesky little details. PM me with any ideas you might have and I'll try to get started as soon as possible. biggrin

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Lillith D-Knock

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:44 am


I have three suggestions:

1. The first one is to create a subforum for testing ideas you know kind of like the one that Gaia has at the bottom of the forums list. I mean its just an idea and you wouldn't have to have anybody run it or anything.

2. My second idea is about this game that I learned how to play while I was playing on Diablo 1. It's called Petals Around the Rose. I don't know if anyone in the guild has heard of it or not, but I would be willing to host the contest. How it goes is you would roll five 6-sided dice, then they would have to guess how many petals are around the rose. You can't tell them how to figure that out, they have to figure it out on their own. Since I know how to play it though I would know if they are right or not. If for some reason they don't trust me to be neutral in telling people who won then I could send them to a site that sort of hosts the game and they could go see the sight out for themselves. Maybe that will help with a trust issue that might crop up.

3. My third suggestion is like a mad lib contest or something. You can either get someone to make up the little story and put blanks in it, or you can get them to borrow it from an actual mad lib book. Anyways what you do is you post the mad lib with blanks, then you sort of randomly put adjective, adverb, noun, pronoun and stuff like that under the blank. Then you let a contestant fill it out and you have them post their version in the thread or they can pm it to the host of the contest. Then you can keep each entry confidential until you receive all of them. Then you post them in the first or second post of the thread and you ask the guild members to vote for the one they think is funniest or the best or whatever.

3-2. A twist to my third idea would be doing taking a paragraph of text out of a book and putting blanks on important words and a few unimportant words. Then put what type of word is supposed to go there like noun, pronoun. Then you take the entries and whoever has the paragraph closest to what it actually said wins.

Anyways that's just a few ideas I had.
 
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:29 pm


I would say go ahead on all contest ideas currently suggested :]

Sincerely Miss Nat

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Lillith D-Knock

PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:40 am


So did you want us to wait for start them in a subforum or the main guild forum?  
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:23 pm


Main guild forum would be best since that's where most of the members mainly visit.

Sincerely Miss Nat

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:45 pm


I agree. Especially since that's where I already created my contest.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:48 pm


I would love to do the contests...

1. Tek Tek Contest- Basically there's a theme each month and people will create a character with their own material or using tektek based off of that theme.

2. Cover Art contest- People can do a new cover art for a book of their choice or they can do art on a character or something?

Also, i wouldn't mind doing book of the month either biggrin

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