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Darkness rises-Chapter 1-The Demonic Siege of Llanowar
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A messenger hawk flies past you in the desert. It lands on your arm and you read the letter it is carrying. It says:
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Ok, ok. Enough of the prologue and more of the big idea. The idea is, you are a retired warrior in a time of crisis, and you receive a letter from Llanowar. Llanowar is being attacked by psychotic withered demons and dragons and ogres and orcs blah blah blah. You go to Llanowar with your fellow warriors {the other participants} and find out what the fuss is about. Your quest is defeating the head demons and recreating the woods. But, to do that, you have to go through three different stages of elvish-demonic warfare. At the end of each stage, I will hand out prizes (see below) to the "winners"(sort of). There are different types of hero and different prizes for those types. The types are-
Champion.
Hero.
Messiah.
Winner.
Saviour.
See below for the prizes you may win. Anyway, these are the three stages-
Shaldo, Demonic Trickster
Known for illusions and betrayal. Caused two wars.
Grinet The Insane
Known for mindlessly and cruelly killing.
Yygrasilin the Mind Consumer
Known for taking control of minds and then forcing the victim to kill/destroy nature and enemies.
Join here: https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/profile/TheDukeOfPork [the top comment{hopefully}] and ask me questions in the same place.
Please enter: This can only function with 10 or over members to function.
Hope you have fun and have a great day!
-The Duke.
(Boy, that took a while to write)
A messenger hawk flies past you in the desert. It lands on your arm and you read the letter it is carrying. It says:
Greetings, Warrior. I know you must be otherwise occupied with this crisis, but I desperately need your help.
Llanowar needs your help. I know you have long since retired from your jobs...But surely you understand our
situation. The demons
are attacking! They keep on attacking they have done so for a long time now, but they finally attacked my
tribe. I write to you in my final moments, begging you-and your fellow warriors to come to Llanowar and save us
all.
Best,
Nuy Harda, Llanowar cheif.
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Ok, ok. Enough of the prologue and more of the big idea. The idea is, you are a retired warrior in a time of crisis, and you receive a letter from Llanowar. Llanowar is being attacked by psychotic withered demons and dragons and ogres and orcs blah blah blah. You go to Llanowar with your fellow warriors {the other participants} and find out what the fuss is about. Your quest is defeating the head demons and recreating the woods. But, to do that, you have to go through three different stages of elvish-demonic warfare. At the end of each stage, I will hand out prizes (see below) to the "winners"(sort of). There are different types of hero and different prizes for those types. The types are-
Champion.
Hero.
Messiah.
Winner.
Saviour.
See below for the prizes you may win. Anyway, these are the three stages-
Stage 1-The trees are crying.
It is the beginning of the siege and the demons have noticed you are there. Inspired by your efforts, the elves are starting to fight back as well. All this causes nature to become upset and punishing any beings that cross their path.
Prize details-The prizes will be handed out to most members who have participated, and the only people who won't get prizes are the members who have failed more than 50% of their missions. (which isn't likely)
Stage 2-Demonic sacrifices.
The demons are starting to get angry that Llanowar hasn't surrendered yet, so they begin to make sacrifices of the elves. Many chiefs start to surrender, so you and the loyal elves have to fight the demons on your own.
Prize details-At the end of this stage, only a few participants get prizes. The participants who save elvish lives, defeat a main enemy[see below] and complete more than 70% of their challenges. That may sound easy but it's not, especially the second one.
Stage 3-The Pretender.
Your enemy, Shaldo, Demonic Trickster (see below) pretends to be an elf and wipes the remaining elves on your side. Now it's up to you to savwar.
Prize details-At the end of this stage, the participants will be given their ratings. (see above) There will be two messiahs, four saviours and the others are random. The two messiahs will be awarded Booster Boxes (see above) ant the saviours will be given a pack and a premium version of a card of your choice that I made. [premium cards can be used in the next season]
Your main enemies are-It is the beginning of the siege and the demons have noticed you are there. Inspired by your efforts, the elves are starting to fight back as well. All this causes nature to become upset and punishing any beings that cross their path.
Prize details-The prizes will be handed out to most members who have participated, and the only people who won't get prizes are the members who have failed more than 50% of their missions. (which isn't likely)
Stage 2-Demonic sacrifices.
The demons are starting to get angry that Llanowar hasn't surrendered yet, so they begin to make sacrifices of the elves. Many chiefs start to surrender, so you and the loyal elves have to fight the demons on your own.
Prize details-At the end of this stage, only a few participants get prizes. The participants who save elvish lives, defeat a main enemy[see below] and complete more than 70% of their challenges. That may sound easy but it's not, especially the second one.
Stage 3-The Pretender.
Your enemy, Shaldo, Demonic Trickster (see below) pretends to be an elf and wipes the remaining elves on your side. Now it's up to you to savwar.
Prize details-At the end of this stage, the participants will be given their ratings. (see above) There will be two messiahs, four saviours and the others are random. The two messiahs will be awarded Booster Boxes (see above) ant the saviours will be given a pack and a premium version of a card of your choice that I made. [premium cards can be used in the next season]
Shaldo, Demonic Trickster
Known for illusions and betrayal. Caused two wars.
Grinet The Insane
Known for mindlessly and cruelly killing.
Yygrasilin the Mind Consumer
Known for taking control of minds and then forcing the victim to kill/destroy nature and enemies.
These are the prizes you may win while participating-
Reward packs
Possible contents-
Favourites. Guaranteed win on next stage. Follows.
Reward box
Contents-
Six reward packs. [see above]
A premium version of an enemy. [Premium cards can be used on your side in the next season)
Challenge prizes [prizes you win from completing set or option challenges.]-
Set win on the next challenge.
Favourites.
[Note: Not every challenge has prizes; 64% chance of a prize in set and options challenges. {and only in set and options}]
Reward packs
Possible contents-
Favourites. Guaranteed win on next stage. Follows.
Reward box
Contents-
Six reward packs. [see above]
A premium version of an enemy. [Premium cards can be used on your side in the next season)
Challenge prizes [prizes you win from completing set or option challenges.]-
Set win on the next challenge.
Favourites.
[Note: Not every challenge has prizes; 64% chance of a prize in set and options challenges. {and only in set and options}]
Join here: https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/profile/TheDukeOfPork [the top comment{hopefully}] and ask me questions in the same place.
Please enter: This can only function with 10 or over members to function.
Hope you have fun and have a great day!
-The Duke.
(Boy, that took a while to write)
Comments
@sorinjace @AboveAndAbout @Ranshi @The-DM @TheRacingTurtle @Rayne-Lord
@CassZero @shadow123 @Yonkers11 ;
Looking forward to hearing from you
So if I could get a little more information as well, I could decided whether I have time to commit to this.
Sorry about the ping and being vague. Yes, I would provide prompts for you to follow which could be Set (a series of challenges), single (1 prompt) or optional (less cardmaking, more deciding where to go in llanowar and what to do, with some cards).
Sorry again for having to be pinged, I just really want this contest to work.
While we're on that score, what's your opinion on the member minimum? Do you think 15 is too much? Or too little?
If you're busy, like shadow, this won't take, like, ages, it'll go on until the end of febuary or the start of march. Whether you've defeated the demons
Thanks for joining!
The Duke
I guess be prepared to change things up a little if your responses so far aren't where you want them to be? You can make some changes to adapt to a different participant number without throwing out your ideas. Once you have started though, don't change the rules. I figure people would be upset if things get changed on them once they begin investing time and effort.
Good luck mate, looking forward to it
1.) Have a limited time sign up if this is the type of contest that you can't join later on, and have the sign up here. It would make it less work on the contestants and it would possibly cause less confusion as to how to get involved. You can list the participants here and on the other site, but bouncing around to sign up just seems like a lot of work to get involved.
2.) Don't refer to your prizes as booster packs. As you already saw earlier, that too will cause confusion. I would call them reward packs or something if you are trying to be different in your description then the normal description of prize(s) of other contests.
3.) Lay out your rules as to what you are wanting cardsmiths to design for each stage you have. For example, in stage 1, since you only put lore, then going off your provided lore, you might be looking for cards that search for land and/or destroy land(s) since "nature is getting upset." It's only an example, but it is your contest, so you should know what you want cardsmiths to create, it's up to you to decide how well the submitted cards are done to the specifications of the stage of the contest. Contestants should also put what stage their entry is for when submitting their card(s).
4. Is there a limitation to entries? Is there card types not allowed? Should the cards entered only be created on mtgcardsmith.com? How long does each participant have to submit an entry to the stage they chose? Do they have to do all stages? These are examples of things you should post in your rules.
I hope these tips help @TheDukeOfPork. I'll join. Could be fun, and it looks like you could use more participants! I'm also still going to create cards for mystery box and cards for cardsmiths 2021, but yes count me in. I'll see if Amara or dechujoh want to join, but meantime please edit your rules for more clarity.
1-Cards on other websites are allowed.
2-Only new cards.
3-No joke or inappropriate cards.
4-Only one card per prompt!
Prompts
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Each prompt will either be A set, an optional or a single.
Optional
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Optional prompts are a collection of prompts where you decide which one, for example-
Optional prompt-
You see a demon in the woods, stalking elves. You stay in cover but it turns it head to you. Do you-
- Approach the demon.
Or...Set
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The set prompts is where you get a set of prompts you have to match. Such as-
- #1-Create a green creature with trample.
- #2-Create a card that has protection from 2-or-more colours.
- #3-Create a two-mana black card.
- #4-A white card with lifelink.
- #5-A non-black card with deathtouch.
Single********
Single prompts are pretty simple: one prompt which you have to follow, such as-
- A card with 2-or-less toughness.
Prizes*********
Prompt prizes are only included in Set and Optional prompts. There is a 64% chance of getting one in those prompts. Such as-
Optional prompt-
[LORE]
OPTION 1
Or...
OPTION 2
Prize: Follow, 100% chance of a prize in the next optional.
I hope this helps. If you are confused or have questions, please PM me.