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7.12: He Said She Said Game [Results]

Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:57:42 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.12: He Said She Said Game [Results]

Last batch of stories by Breyzy, kuro_pantsu, Yin, lady_nova, and mako_lies. Note: one story had two male characters. I figured that was fine; I just changed the pronouns to match.

( Story 1 )
( Story 2 )
( Story 3 )
( Story 4 )
( Story 5 )

( Full results here )

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Extension for 7.10

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:53:56 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

Hey guys, I'm extending 7.10: Mythological Figures Graphics for a week, up until next Tuesday. We have one entry; I'd hopefully like to get a few more for voting!

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7.12: He Said She Said Game

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 05:35:16 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

Stories by Breyzy, Yin, kuro_pantsu, chacusha, and mako_lies:

( Story 1 )
( Story 2 )
( Story 3 )
( Story 4 )
( Story 5 )

One last round. Going back to "She Said, He Said". Put this as a reply to the thread below:

DEADLINE: Thursday July 3 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 10 points for filling out a form

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7.12: He Said She Said Game

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:26:44 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

Here's the results of the first round. Stories by chacusha, Breyzy, lightofeilia, Yin, and mako_lies!

( Story 1 )
( Story 2 )
( Story 3 )
( Story 4 )
( Story 5 )

Ready for the next round? Put this as a reply to the thread below. I'm going to see if this game works with the genders being not predetermined i.e. "They Said They Said":

DEADLINE: (Tuesday July 1), Thursday July 3 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 10 points for filling out a form

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7.02 - Villain Fic Challenge (Results)

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:30:45 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

I'm sorry these are so late, everyone! Due to the low participation the points for placement and participation have been adjusted, please see the contest FAQ stickied to the community if you'd like more information.

The winner of this challenge is amoris's fic Mykonos! 115 points to Team White Mage!

White Mages
amoris = 185 points
breyzyyin, Yin = 70 points

Warriors
breyzyyin, Breyzy = 70 points

Congratulations!

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7.08 - SCATTERGORIES (RESULTS)

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:22:52 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

Everyone did pretty good!

White Mages
Yin - 9 unique, 1 shared ( Round Chain ) = 28 points

Black Mages
Chacusha - 6 unique, 2 shared ( Ramuh, Ragnarok, Rabanastre ) = 22 points
Glacialphoenix - 10 unique! = 30 points

Warriors
Breyzy - 8 unique, 2 shared ( Round Chain, Ramuh ) = 26 points

Thieves
Lady_nova - 7 unique, 3 shared (Ramuh, Ragnarok, Rabanastre) = 27 points

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7.12: He Said She Said Game

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:19:30 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.12: He Said She Said Game

I need some more time to collect all the hair nominations and set up the voting (any seconding of the suggestions so far would be appreciated!), so in the meantime, a new activity: a game my friend taught me that she called the He Said She Said game.

( How it works )

If we get answers quickly (like > 2 by Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday), I'll run multiple rounds. It's fun when you quickly get to see the story you made, so ideally, just fill out the form really quick and we'll get multiple rounds in. :)

DEADLINE: (Sunday June 29, Tuesday July 1), Thursday July 3 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: You can fill out one form per round for 10 points each round

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7.11: FF Hair Battle! - Nominations

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:27:32 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.11: Hair Battle - Nominations

I've been wanting to do this for a while! Basically we're going to have a series of votes to determine who the Final Fantasy character with the best hair is! There are multiple categories, so multiple ways to have the "best hair". But first, I need help with nominations! I've already put in some nominations for some of the more bizarro categories (that hopefully have some good nominations from more obscure works), but now it's your turn to make suggestions!

( The categories! )
( Nomination rules / how to nominate )

DEADLINE: Thursday June 26 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 2 points for nominating in a category or suggesting categories, up to 30 points

P.S. These are the kinds of things I come across when searching for Final Fantasy hairstyles. ~~And now you have a pretty good ballpark estimate of how long I've been planning this activity.~~

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7.09: Song Lyrics [Results]

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:29:16 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.09: Song Lyrics [Results]

I hope it's all right if I close this up! New activity coming, but it's a bit of work so might take me a bit to get it up. Sorry about that!

NEUTRAL → WARRIOR*: 15 points
chacusha: 10 points
lightofeilia: 5 points

* Points have been donated to the current last place team.

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7.10: [Contest] Mythological Figures Graphics

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:51:57 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.10: [Contest] Mythological Figures Graphics

For this contest, your challenge is to take a Final Fantasy character(s) and make a mythology-themed graphic with them. Is Fran like Artemis? Is Lightning -- Odin connections aside -- like Thor? Take a character and connect them with a mythological figure.

In your entry you can use any combination of images of the character(s), images of the mythological figure, other elements symbolic of the mythological figure/atmospheric stock photography, a relevant quote/description, etc. You can make it simple or complex. Any mythology counts -- Greek, Aztec, Norse, Chinese, Biblical... it's up to you!

Some quick examples: photoset, single graphic

Spoiler policy is in effect for Final Fantasy Type-0.

DEADLINE: Tuesday July 8 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: You may submit one entry worth 20 points
- First place: +125 points
- Second place: +75 points
- Third place: +50 points
- Mod's Choice: +40 points (if there are enough entries)
- Voting: 5 points

ENTRIES: 1

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7.07: Horror/Ghost Stories [Results]

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:28:17 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.07: Horror/Ghost Stories - Results

No entries, no points. Sorry about that! Just gonna close this up and post something new...

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7.02 - Villain Fic Challenge (Voting)

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 03:19:22 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

7.02: Villain Fic Voting

( ENTRY #1 -- Mykonos )
( ENTRY #2 -- Regret )
( ENTRY #3 -- Existence )

( Voting )

Voting ends: Thursday June 12 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59A GMT)

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7.09: Song Lyrics

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:03:54 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.09: Song Lyrics

For this activity, your task is to give a Final Fantasy song of your choice lyrics! They can be serious lyrics or you can go the Brentalfloss parody direction. If you have a song and lyric style in mind, go for it! Otherwise, there will be a suggestion/requests thread to give you some ideas of songs that might work well with lyrics.

You get 20 points per stanza for up to two stanzas -- you can write two stanzas for a single song or write a single stanza for two songs. What counts as a stanza is usually about four lines of lyrics. Taking Blinded by Light as an example:

Section A lasts from about 0:11 to 0:33 and repeats again until about 0:55 (two stanzas)
Section B then picks up from 0:58 to 1:30 (could be one or two stanzas)

Basically, if the same melody line repeats exactly, each time it repeats will count as a separate stanza. Lyric writing is kind of hard, so I'm going to be lenient about what counts.

DEADLINE: Sunday June 8 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 20 points for writing for writing a stanza of lyrics, up to 40 points; 5 points for requesting songs, up to 10 points

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7.06: "Advice Animal"-style Memes [Results]

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 06:45:58 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

No points for this one. Sorry for the lateness. Will post new activities!

Also, I'll be extending the Ghost Stories contest to Friday June 13 (Friday the 13th! Spooky!).

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7.08 - SCATTERGORIES!

Sun, 25 May 2014 03:45:05 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

Hey all! I'm sure everyone has heard of scattergories but if you haven't, see below on how to play!

RULES
- There will be 10 and a given letter for everyone.
- Your job is to have an example for each category that begins with the given letter
- For example, if the category is Games and the letter is F, "Final Fantasy" works as an example, so does "Fallout".
- You get 3 points for a unique example, and 2 points if it's not unique.

Final Fantasy is pretty vast so it's likely that everyone will get full max points, but hey, points!

The given letter will be R! Fill in the form below and submit!

This activity ends Sunday June 1st 11:59PM EST!

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7.02 - UPDATE (extension)

Thu, 22 May 2014 03:01:58 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

Hi all, just announcing an extension for the Villain Fic Challenge here. You'll have until the end of the month to post your entry in the comments or email them to finalfantasylandmod@gmail.com!

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7.05 - MINORITY RULE (results)

Thu, 22 May 2014 02:58:51 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

1 vs 3, so there's no need to continue on to multiple rounds! Chocobos are a minority around here ~~and pretty soon they'll be food~~

BLACK MAGES
Ets - 10 points
Glacialphoenix - 5 points

WHITE MAGES
Amoris - 5 points
Yin - 5 points

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7.07: [Contest] Horror/Ghost Stories

Fri, 16 May 2014 12:30:26 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.07: [Contest] Horror/Ghost Stories

For this contest, the challenge is to write an FF-themed horror/ghost story. Imagine the kind of story you'd tell if you were sitting around the campfire and wanted to unsettle the other people in the circle, and cause them to look over their shoulders uneasily. That kind of story!

You could have a party of FF characters sharing ghost stories, or have one of the characters experience a creepy incident, or just write a fic focusing on the horror elements present in FF games. Have fun playing around with building up suspense and that feeling of terror.

DEADLINE: Friday June 13 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 25 points for submitting up to one fic (no word limit) - your fic can be crossposted to moogle_workshop afterwards to get any difference in points

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7.04: [Contest] Art Contest - Green [Results]

Fri, 16 May 2014 12:10:21 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.04: [Contest] Art Contest - Green

Well, we got one gorgeous entry. It's under the cut. That's pretty good given the number of members we have, so I'm just going to move on for now (and work on recruiting more!).

( Art & points )

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7.06: "Advice Animal"-style Memes

Fri, 16 May 2014 04:51:29 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.06: "Advice Animal"-style Memes

I hope I can explain this. The challenge here is to take a Final Fantasy character, put their head over a pinwheel background, and make them into an Advice Animal-style meme.

Some examples of Advice Animals: Socially Awkward Penguin (sums up awkward scenarios), Courage Wolf (all about motivating people to live courageously), and Good Guy Greg (meme summarizing that legitimately decent guy you know). They often feature a two-line joke, setup on top and punchline on bottom. More information on these kinds of memes at the Know Your Meme page.

Your task is to do a Final Fantasy-themed meme of this type. For example, you can have "Ridiculously Optimistic Snow" and then make some example memes inspired by his FFXIII antics.

So to get 30 points for this activity:
(1) Decide what your meme will be about, name it, and make a template for it (e.g. in an image editing program). There might also be tools to do this, but I'm not sure.
(2) Using your template, make 4+ examples of how you'd use it. You can do this fairly easily in an image editing program, but there are also definitely tools that help with this (quickmeme, memegenerator, etc.)

DEADLINE: Thursday May 23 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 30 points for making a meme and 4 examples

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7.03: Tag Banners [Results]

Fri, 16 May 2014 04:07:56 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.03: Tag Banners [Results]

Thanks for participating! Here are people who earned points for their team.

Thieves
kuro_pantsu - 10 points
sai_salamander - 10 points

Warriors
breyzyyin (Breyzy) - 10 points

White Mages
amoris - 10 points
breyzyyin (Yin) - 10 points

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7.01 - Taboo [Results]

Mon, 12 May 2014 02:11:17 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

Thanks for playing! Here are the points awarded:

Black Mages
glacialphoenix - 30 (word given = Archer)
chaos_cat - 20 (word given = Jump)
ets - 25 (word given = Moogle)

Thieves
sai_salamander - 30 (word given = Staff)

White Mages
breyzyyin (Yin) - 10 (word given= Mythril!! No one got this one, sorry Yin!)

Neutral
chacusha - 15 (word given = Antidote)

<3

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7.05 - MINORITY RULE

Mon, 12 May 2014 01:59:24 GMT

Posted by: lightofeilia

Hi all! It's time for: MINORITY RULE!

In this luck-based game, I will give two choices (A vs B), and all you need to do is reply to the appropriate question thread with your selection and pray that you are part of the minority! This is because at the end of the deadline I'll tally the answers and the selection with the most votes loses. They get eliminated, and the winners will go on to the next round, and so on until there's only one winner left. In the case of a tie, players will have to re-vote again. If there are two people left at the end of these rounds, they'll both win.

POINTS:
- 5 points for participating
- 10 points for surviving each round

DEADLINE for 1ST QUESTION: Wednesday, May 14th, 11:59 EST

All comments are screened.

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7.04: [Contest] Art Contest - Green

Thu, 01 May 2014 04:23:14 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.04: [Contest] Art Contest - Green

This activity will have voting. For this contest, all you have to do is submit a piece of drawn art featuring the color green. You can depict a character who (or a setting that) has a green color scheme, take someone who doesn't typically wear green and put them in the color, experiment with a green palette, etc. -- it's up to you. :)

This contest is only open for two weeks so don't think you have to submit a polished masterpiece -- it's mainly just to get your creative juices flowing.

DEADLINE: Thursday May 15 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: You may submit one piece of artwork worth 50 points
- First place: +175 points
- Second place: +125 points
- Third place: +75 points
- Voting: 5 points

CURRENT ENTRY COUNT: 1

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7.03: Tag Banners

Thu, 01 May 2014 04:18:54 GMT

Posted by: chacusha

7.03: Tag Banners

As is traditional, gonna start this cycle off with some tag banners! This challenge is super easy: just make a small banner with your name/ username, the class you've been sorted into, and a picture that fits your class. You can then use this tag banner while sorting, submitting to contests, etc. (anytime you'd need to specify your team name).

Tag banners should be no more than 350 px wide, and 200 px tall. (Wider tag banners okay as long as the height is significantly less than 200 px.)

Submit your banner in the comments to get 10 points for your team.

DEADLINE: Thursday May 15 @ 11:59P EDT (3:59AM GMT)
POINTS: 10 points total for submitting a tag banner

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