Yeah! Two judges! Volunteers Needed !!! Anyone?

I did my bit

I can do some judging next weekend if you'd like.

Postponing one week if needed won't hurt.

I believe BSparrow agreed to judge for us, she is going to take a look some time this week I believe. Thanks for the offer though, if you can get it done by Saturday afternoon I'll accept. Thanks for the help, both of you :goodjob:

I guess I could read it Friday night and such.

Thanks Solidor !!

Sorry about the lateness; real life is kicking my butt. I've got half the stories done. The rest will be judged and rated with comments by Friday... promise!

Thank you very much for filling us in, Sparrow. So as soon as you finish those we can finally finish this contest

A final thank you to everyone who helped: our writers, our judges, and all of our readers. We couldn't have done this without you all, and even if it was a little late, I still count the third Feyfolken a full success. Thanks guys :goodjob:

And done. :dance:

Heh. At this rate, the 4th contest is going to take upwards of 6 months from start to finish.

And I do hope we're having a 4th contest. Just maybe not right away. :celebration:

Alright, thank you very much Sparrow, we may now finally announce the results It was very close, not helped by the small number of judges, but we do have at least a clear overall winner. Plenty of ties in the subcategories though, so I apologize for that. Now then, for the exciting conclusion of the third Feyfolken Writing Contest, I give you *drumroll...* the winners!

For most creative story, we had a four way tie (sorry) between Rise of Dagoth, The Innocent, The Red Hat, and The Lizard's Offence, all with judges scores of 12 out of 15.

For most developed story, the winner is Rise of Dagoth with a 12 out of 15. Second place is a tie between The Lizard's Offence and The Red Hat.

For best characters, the winner is The Lizard's Offence with a score of 13. Second place is a tie between The Innocent and Rise of Dagoth.

For the best feel in an Elder Scrolls setting, we have another tie between The Innocent, The Lizard's Offence, and Rise of Dagoth.

And the overall judge's favorite, considering all aspects of competetion, is The Rise of Dagoth with an average score of 11.8 out of 15. Second place goes to The Lizard's Offence with a 11.6, and third to The Innocent with an 11.4.

And of course, the public's favorite was the gripping Odd Affair of the Priest of Chorrol with five total votes. Second place goes to oddly hilarious The Red Hat with three votes.


Congratulations to all of our writers for doing so well, all of the stories were simply fantastic. You will all be recieving your judge's critiques by messenger shortly. And of course, here are the fine ladies and gentlemen who contributed to the contest:

The Rise of Dagoth- Malx
The Odd Affair of the Priest of Chorrol- Rachel the Breton
The Lizard's Offence- Polish Gamer
The Red Hat- Shades
Words of the Nine- Fire Hawk
And the Innocent- Me, Darkom

Thank you all again for participating, I for one had plenty of fun writing my own story (though looking back I don't much like it) and even more reading everyone else's. I hope everyone else similarly enjoyed themselves, and I would love to see everyone again next time (sometime over the summer, perhaps).

Thanks everyone :goodjob:

Red Hat:
Thankyou judges! I have comments on your comments.

The paragraphs were short because his line of reasoning is short. Torline changes his mind on the slightest whim, so it's best in the story that he doesn't dwell on any subject for too long other than his direct self interests. He's selfish.


I really hope you don't think he's a sterotypical man. :batman:

Traffic I suppose is derived from a 13th century french word, but there has never been a time without a concept of traffic. People do move about cities you know.

Actually I was thinking the other direction with this story, like the ancient egyptians could be having these troubles. The thing is though that I'm pushing the word limit with this story as it is. I can't afford to throw around superfluous references in that space, so I flat out said that it was in Skaven (from the map of course), that they were Redguards, and I included info about how their temple and power structure generally operated. I think you didn't feel it was enough because I didn't use instantly familiar names and locations to allow myself to skip description. I can correct that in the future.



It happens that way because even though Torline is involved, he is impotent and frustrated. The fighter's guild was there to show that more organizations in the town were corrupt than just the operations at the temple, and as a reason to get Torline back to the temple.

The Prince actually is kind of who Torline would be if he had power. Insanely selfish, which is part of the story, because most of the people in the story are that way. They use people and have no qualms about it. They force Torline to wear a hat he loathes because they think it's funny. They don't care enough about him to know that his name is Torline, they think it's Shenk. The prince says Shenk Tor because nobody is willing to correct him. He's kind of like Nero, who killed his mother who had killed his uncle, and I think is realistic in that he's been spoiled since birth with nearly unlimited power in a society that doesn't care.

Thank you Judges, and Darkom for holding the contest!

HOOOOORAY FOR MY RED RITER!!!


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...no whistle? ROFL !! - Thanks Foxy!

Congratulations to everyone who entered, and especially to mALX, whose writings always amaze, amuse, and entertain us. Maybe by summer (or whenever the next contest arrives), I will actually have time to read and vote on the entries.

Congratulation's to all. Great result's for every one, it was definately close. All entries where excellently written, I just wish there could have been more to each, so I could see a longer lasting developement in each. But alas, they where short stories, but they where as enjoyable a read as any novel.

Thanks Treydog and Solidor! And Solidor, thank you very much for stepping up as judge, you are greatly appreciated!

I think I will be writing next time.