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faderiftooc2023-03-22 12:24 pm
cozen) wrote in faderiftooc2023-03-22 12:24 pm
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
As originally discussed here way back in October, Bastien's putting together an anthology of Rifter tales/legends/histories to try to have published in Orlais. They'll be edited to make them understandable/relatable and come with little introductions comparing them to different Thedosian works or historical events, with an overall goal of underscoring that rifters are interesting but not, like, demons, and their cultures are not really that different from Thedosian ones.
If you want your character to submit something, fill out this short form. If they're submitting the plot of a book/movie/etc. that already exists (for real or in their canon) and has its own wiki page or something somewhere, you can link to that rather than recapping it from scratch. If it's something you're making up, you can just give me the gist. If they'd make any changes (renaming characters, making the bad guy the good guy, etc.) that is good and hilarious.
Bastien might also include some things he picked up on his own during Riftmas, finger guns.
If you want your character to help another way, such as by taking a pass at editing the manuscript (please, Bastien can't spell), helping review for anything that could be used as ammunition by the "rifters are scary demons" camp, etc., you can fill out this short form:
This will all mostly take place via a report that just says what was in the book, who helped, and whether or not the effort was successful at all—that's up to the mod who is not me—but I am also happy to RP about it if anyone wants!
The deadline is March 31.
If you want your character to submit something, fill out this short form. If they're submitting the plot of a book/movie/etc. that already exists (for real or in their canon) and has its own wiki page or something somewhere, you can link to that rather than recapping it from scratch. If it's something you're making up, you can just give me the gist. If they'd make any changes (renaming characters, making the bad guy the good guy, etc.) that is good and hilarious.
Bastien might also include some things he picked up on his own during Riftmas, finger guns.
If you want your character to help another way, such as by taking a pass at editing the manuscript (please, Bastien can't spell), helping review for anything that could be used as ammunition by the "rifters are scary demons" camp, etc., you can fill out this short form:
This will all mostly take place via a report that just says what was in the book, who helped, and whether or not the effort was successful at all—that's up to the mod who is not me—but I am also happy to RP about it if anyone wants!
The deadline is March 31.
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Submission: She genuinely is going to introduce (an edited version of) The Wrath of Khan to Thedas, you're welcome
Notes: You know this guy, though given that she's a) doing it from memory and b) it's an entry in a franchise, she'll probably streamline and cut it down a bit, in addition to translating many of the sci-fi elements into magic or their Thedosian equivalents.
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Form of Assistance: Charcoal illustrations, editing and proofreading if needed
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Submission: Wolfenoot
Notes: An explanation of Wolfenoot as a holiday, originating with a human boy. Shifters loved the idea, picked it up, and within a few years it became a tradition in the Shifter community that a lot of non-shifters celebrate as well. Jude will include the Wolfenoot Toast.
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Submission: The Adventures of Brave Ivanhoe, which is a collection of three parabolic stories (out of apparently dozens) featuring an affable errant knight type figure named Ivanhoe. Vibe is very Don Quixote meets The Pilgrim's Progress, in that everything detail is explicitly lending to some kind of religious and/or moral allegory but Ivanhoe has a kind of folksy appeal.
In the first story, Brave Ivanhoe comes across two feuding brothers—Cowardice and Spite—in a wood. Ivanhoe takes it upon himself to broker a treaty between them. But when consulting with each party, he's instead convinced by each brother to act as their substitute in the duel and finds himself dueling...himself until exhausted.
In the second story, Brave Ivanhoe is caught in a storm and takes shelter in a cave. Inside the cave is a pond in which there lives a talking fish. Ivanhoe tries to convince the fish that it can live a better life in a river if it will only jump into his waterskin and let him take it there after the storm has cleared. The fish, who has only ever known its dark pond where it lives alone off the sustenance of some magic algae, refuses to believe there are such things as rivers or seas because he's never seen them. Eventually, the storm passes and Brave Ivanhoe has to give up and leave the cave without the fish.
In the third story, Brave Ivanhoe—who has become penniless by this means or that—discovers the carriage of a wealthy woman stranded in the road. The axle has broken and her four beautiful horses have all run off into the woods. If he returns them to her, she promises to reward him generously. Brave Ivanhoe pursues the horses, but each time he catches one it tells him a sob story about how terrible their mistress is and soft hearted Ivanhoe agrees to be merciful and release them even though it means he may starve. When the last horse has been released, he returns to the wealthy woman's carriage and offers to pull it himself. At this point, the woman reveals herself to be the witch Adda (—"A very common figure in Kalvadan folklore," Wysteria explains), who was each horse in disguise. To reward Brave Ivanhoe for his kindness, she nurses the various hurts he suffered while trying to catch the horses and gifts to him a magic apple that can be eaten down to the core and then overnight becomes a whole apple again.
Notes: Wysteria doesn't write this down, claiming to be terrible at storytelling, but she will recount the story verbally to Bastien. She is, in fact, a terrible storyteller, so he'll have to salvage the good parts.
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Submission: Nothing.
Notes: He will loiter around where Bastien is and drop heavy hints about how it would be funny and cool and great if this actually happened. Not him though, he's busy, haha.
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Form of Assistance: Will provide publishing connections in Orlais (has an agent and a deal with a publishing house still), and will sweeten the pot by providing some recent, unseen works of poetry by Ilde Sauvageon to include which are not 'rifter stories' but in her known style clearly refer to (romantic, sexual) involvement with (specific — and, to a keen reader, plural) rifters, unclear from the writing whether these are past or present. A fun blind item that could hint at future collections.