gamer_extreme_101
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1939
Registered: 03-07-2004
IP: Logged
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The Unfortunate Architect (+6)
Waking up one cold Quarsuary morning, you hear rapid knocking on the door. Upset, as you happened to have a bad case of insomnia, you grumpily walk towards your door. Suprised, you find Tortan Kuler, a fellow architect, outside your door. Opening it, you can hear him panting and gasping for air.
"Big...job...down...at...King...Heighert's...castle..." he tries to speak, still out of breath.
"Wait, just come on in for a cold glass of water" you respond. After taking a couple sips, he starts to calm down and speak properly.
"King Heighert just announced that he is recruiting architects to redesign his dungeon. He's offering over 200 000 greckles to anyone who can build him an amazing, one floor dungeon for all his prisoners!" he exclaimed.
"Bad news, Tortan. The only supplier on this continent closed his shop, and I only have a small stock left in my own basement for emergency repairs. There'll be no way I'll ever be able to get more supply in time for being considered a serious competitor".
"But, come on! 200 000 greckles! You could retire for that much money!"
"Okay, but I doubt the King will choose me for it...I'm used to having an unlimited stock for my dungeons. I could never make a dungeon with the little stock that I have."
"It'll be fine, but think about it: everyone will be the same situation as you. No one, even if they were from another continent could bring down a shipment in time to be a serious contender."
"I'll think about it. Thanks for the information, though" you finish as he gets up to leave. Looking down at your basement, you smile to yourself, thinking '200 000 greckles...That's a challenge that I just can't resist...'
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Yes, I'm running this month's contest, seeing as all the moderators are busy playing Half-Life 2...or at least deserve to play it. Actually, they're busy working on the next version of DROD, so I got the honour, the glory, and the stress of running December's contest.  But enough of my problems. Let's move on to the rules:
1) The hold must be exactly 9 rooms large, and each hold must be one exit/entrance room with the remaining 8 rooms being puzzle rooms.
2) With the architect's shop closed, the only stock you have remaining is:
-25 Roach Queens (And with them, unlimited roaches)
-16 Wraithwings
-110 Evil Eyes
-5 Tar Mothers (And with it, unlimited tar and tar babies)
-10 Snakes (Any length...you have a lot of snake food to spare)
-11 Goblins
-3 Brains
-3 Mimic Potions
-1 Invisibility Potion
-No spiders, sadly. They all seemed to disappear on you...
You do, however, have an unlimited supply of anything else. (Walls,pits, statues, scrolls, etc.)
3) All of the items above will die if not used soon, and it gets very pricey to clean out dead snakes and such, so all of the above items must be used. Not one less, and not one more.
4) For the sake of simplicity and ease of navigation, King Heighert requests that each room must be accessible from the entrance without having to clear out any rooms before it. This will also help so that, when you play each hold you won't be stuck on that hold forever because you can't pass a room that leads to the rest of them. With this in place, you'll at least be able to try other rooms.
5) When you are finished building the hold, send it to me with "Anyone Edit" permissions to gamerextreme101@gmail.com on or before Local Time:12-15-2004 at 06:00 PM If Christmas activities become an issue, be sure to let me know, and I can find some way to fit your entry in. I'm a considerate person, and I do know that Christmas is an insanly busy time of year, and I don't want this contest to take over your life.
6) Polls will open on December 16th, after I check all entries for the requirements. All holds will have anonymous names...so no one will know whose entry is which. All's fair in love, war, and architecting. The polls will judge based on implementation of all elements, creativity, and fun.
7) Every room in the entry must be solvable. If it is not solvable and you do not submit a fix for it, the entry will be consider 'Null' and will be out of the running.
8) After receiving an entry, I will send you 2 confirmation emails. The first one will be sent once I receive it, which should be sent around 12-16 hours after sending at the most. If you do not hear a response in that time, please PM me and let me know. This is just so we don't get any valid entries heading to the spam bucket (See Last Month's contest for more on the "Fun with Spam" adventure series)
The second email I will send you will be the email telling you if your entry meets are the criteria or not. If it does not, you will have until before the polls open (Around Local Time:12-15-2004 at 04:00 PM) to send it in. If I do not receive an updated entry before then, you are, sadly, out of luck.
9) Now that I've finished with the rules, time for some of the interesting stuff! Prizes include:
-Sadly, as hard as I tried to get Erik to give the winner 200 000 greckles, he refused. Instead, the winner will get 100 rank points and one of the fabulous items from the DROD Store . If you ask nicely, I could also manage a copy of JtRH for the winner...
-50 rank points and a loud cheer go to the second place winner.
-25 rank points go to third place, along with the knowledge of achievement.
10) If you have never participated in a contest before, I'll be kind enough to give you 10 rank points for submitting a valid entry. Hey,everyone's got to start out sometime!
11) If you have any questions or concerns, be sure to post them here or email me at the address shown above.
All I have left to say now if to have fun and be creative! All of the elements you have may not be considered much, but they can make for some really interesting rooms. And with a total of two weeks to build these, no one has an excuse not to enter!
[Edited by gamer_extreme_101 at Local Time:11-29-2004 at 02:33 PM: Added onto Rule 6]
[Edited by gamer_extreme_101 at Local Time:12-01-2004 at 10:39 PM]
[Edited by gamer_extreme_101 at Local Time:12-13-2004 at 10:40 PM]
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--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.
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This sounds a lot better than having me count every item (Which I probably will anyway).
I meant the secind one.
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