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Story Contest Guidelines The Story Contest is a weekly contest, which is open to all members of the community. You are invited to share your stories and participate in the contest. There will be 3 places awarded for the top stories, with prizes consisting of legend marks and other prizes, depending on the sponsor. * Do NOT use names of real characters. * You must sign your character's name at the bottom of your entry. Before participating, please review the following rules: 1. Entries will only be accepted from currently registered characters. No late entries will be accepted. You are given ample time to write your story. 2. You MUST send your story to "IYAGI". 3. Entries may not be submitted on behalf of another character, past or present. If such an entry is received, it will be considered plagiarized. 4. A total of 3 places will be awarded for each contest. The judges' decisions in this matter are final. 5. Entries must not exceed a single n-mail in length. 6. Entries must be "In Character". 7. All entries must be your own, original, unpublished work. Note that your entry may not be published to any medium (e.g., the Internet, in print, even not in another Story contest in Nexus etc.) even if you wrote it. 8. Your entry must be your sole work; you may not collaborate with friends, colleagues, family, or anyone else to create your submission. 9. All entries must comply with any other applicable Nexus and/or Kru Interactive laws, rules, and regulations. 10. Entries are not allowed to have any alcohol, drug, smoking and/or sexual references. 11. Story contest entries are not allowed to contain lines or characters not pertaining to the story itself. This includes all "ASCII" and "artwork" or "decorations" made by using assorted characters found on your keyboard. 12. Your entry must not contain any game name inside the story. If any name other than an NPC or Event character appears inside your story, it will be disqualified and you will be notified. You may not use any character names, or hints that may identify a person. If your entry includes any names, you must add a record at the end of your work that you certify that none of the names used belong to any existing/previously existed characters. If your entry includes NPC, Event or Legend names you may add a record at the end of your work explaining that the name belongs to such character. Revels Department reserves rights to deny your story/ask for the name to be changed. Sample: The names XXX and YYY are not existing/previous character names. Dionysus is NPC-name Blight is Legend-name 13. Only ONE entry per person. (This is not per character but per person. If you have four characters you may NOT send in an entry for each of them. You are limited to one entry for all of your characters in all your accounts) <b>ON PLAGIARISM: Please review the following guidelines before submitting your entry to ensure that you are not in violation of any of them. Submitting a plagiarized entry mandates a "Serious Other Crime" jailing and lifetime revels and story contest ban. 1. Using someone's work other than your own is an extremely serious matter. Not only is plagiarizing unethical and immoral, but it is also grounds for expulsion from Colleges or Universities and is grounds for termination from employment from any writing or publishing environment. Kru must take a similar view on plagiarism. Since Kru Inc. in effect becomes the "Publisher" of your work; Kru Inc. must endeavor to prevent publishing plagiarized work. continued... | |