User blog comment:Alexandra Fletcher/Writing Contest: Legion and the Broken Isles/@comment-27972761-20160901160321

Since I had this question asked again I will go into detail more:

"Can I submit a colab story for my RP partner and myself?"

I am ok with people submitting colab stories, but I would have to read over it first before I accept like I have done with all the stories that have been accepted into the contest. If you are the one submitting, I would suggest writing the story from your perspective. I am ok with people putting other people's character's in the story, but my prizes are for a single person only. If the story is written more from your partner's perspective then the story would not be accepted unless they contacted me.

The only reason I am saying this is because because of the prizes. I will not split the grandprize and I am not going to fund two peoples 1 month game time. All the prizes will be given to the person who submitted. In terms of prizes and if picking the WMV full render (if the story wins), you do not get a choice in what I illustrate. The winner will be who ever moves me the most with their story and the scene in that story that tickles my muse and screams I MUST ILLUSTRATE THIS. I am having a judge (who does not play on MG but is a RPer) help me narrow it down just because of how many stories have been submitted and it is good to have a second set of eyes to maybe show me something I missed. I will be re-reading the stories at the end of the contest to refresh my mind.

But ultimately when it comes to the WMV full render grand prize I do not want someone pissed off at me because I didn't illustrate both characters, or one person in the edit took more precedence over the other. The person who submits -will be- the focus of the piece. There may be a chance that the second character isn't shown. This type of model edit normally takes me around 20-30 hours to complete. 10-15 hours on the figure alone, sometimes more depending on outfit like the Saelyna edit I did was 30 hours on the figure alone because of how complex the dress was. And 5-10 hours doing a background and blending the two together to get a final piece.

If the story happens to win first place, the WMV armored portrait will only be of the person who submitted. I will not be doing two.

Just a reminder on how the prizes work, there will be 5 winners:

Grand prize: (winner picks one) 30k gold and 1 month game time or Full render WMV edit of a scene from the story and 1 month game time Example: http://tallmancreations.deviantart.com/art/Saelyna-and-her-Succubus-Full-Render-WMV-Edit-626375073

First place: WMV armored portrait edit (if grand prize winner chooses the edit over gold, the 30k gold will be given to the first place winner) Example: http://tallmancreations.deviantart.com/art/Charzan-WMV-Edit-630327400

<span style="color:rgba(255,255,255,0.701961);font-family:Blizzard,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:normal;line-height:25.5px;">Honorable mentions (3 stories): <span style="color:rgba(255,255,255,0.701961);font-family:Blizzard,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:normal;line-height:25.5px;">10k gold