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Mod Matthe

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Zulkir said :
Submission sent!

Will the winners be listed at any point or is it more a case of when the Library is released, go scramble to find your book?


Go find your book - I intend to release a list once Menaphos has been explored for a while.
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03-Apr-2017 16:03:16

Deltaslug

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Hmm ... 250 word limit?
That can curb creativity a little.

Any limit to having "multiple volumes"?
The History of X Vol 1-4
The Tale of Y Parts 1-4
(# of vol/part/chapters are variable)

This would allow people to have 500 or 1000 words, but spreading it over 2 or 4 books.

03-Apr-2017 16:07:41 - Last edited on 03-Apr-2017 16:08:16 by Deltaslug

Lopendebank3
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I am kinda wondering, when I think at the great library, I also kinda think at Avatar the last airbender, where there is one great library located in the desert, containing mainy pieces of books and mostly scrolls from all over the world, are there also some (interesting) scrolls added not from the desert to Menaphos? EXP is not important, it's important to have fun and play with your friends. :) - Lopendebank3

03-Apr-2017 16:17:15

Mod Matthe

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Deltaslug said :
Hmm ... 250 word limit?
That can curb creativity a little.

Any limit to having "multiple volumes"?
The History of X Vol 1-4
The Tale of Y Parts 1-4
(# of vol/part/chapters are variable)

This would allow people to have 500 or 1000 words, but spreading it over 2 or 4 books.


No - most books in game are very limited on word count and so we decided that we would offer 250 words as a reasonable limit to tell a story on, but would not remove our capability to add the books. Every book has to be localised in the other languages RuneScape is available in and so we needed to consider that in our choices. At the point we allowed 1000 word submissions we would only be able to consider adding 2 or 3 people's work to the game.
Mod MattHe | Former Community Manager, now in Events & occasional Lore Monkey

03-Apr-2017 16:24:51

Mod Matthe

Mod Matthe

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Lopendebank3 said :
I am kinda wondering, when I think at the great library, I also kinda think at Avatar the last airbender, where there is one great library located in the desert, containing mainy pieces of books and mostly scrolls from all over the world, are there also some (interesting) scrolls added not from the desert to Menaphos?


As I said a little earlier the library is in Menaphos, so relevance would be a really positive thing. It is not the case that everything in the library would be desert related though, but we would prefer a big chunk of it to be suitable.
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03-Apr-2017 16:26:18

Mod Matthe

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July said :
I'll give this a try.

Just wondering: is the presence of this library in Menaphos a deliberate reference to Alexandria's library of ancient Egypt?


No.
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03-Apr-2017 16:26:30

Mod Matthe

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Lord of Time said :
Say, are parodies accepted? I might write a short parody on something, but I'm not sure whether or not I am allowed to do that.


Potentially, it would depend entirely on the parody.
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03-Apr-2017 16:26:51

Deltaslug

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Mod Matthe said :
Deltaslug said :
Hmm ... 250 word limit?
That can curb creativity a little.

Any limit to having "multiple volumes"?
The History of X Vol 1-4
The Tale of Y Parts 1-4
(# of vol/part/chapters are variable)

This would allow people to have 500 or 1000 words, but spreading it over 2 or 4 books.


No - most books in game are very limited on word count and so we decided that we would offer 250 words as a reasonable limit to tell a story on, but would not remove our capability to add the books. Every book has to be localised in the other languages RuneScape is available in and so we needed to consider that in our choices. At the point we allowed 1000 word submissions we would only be able to consider adding 2 or 3 people's work to the game.


Fair enough.
My idea was in the line of having 4 distinct books that each have the 250 (or less) word limit.

Never hurts to have clarification.


Sent in a pair of submissions myself (on my main's username).
Hope they're at least entertaining :)

03-Apr-2017 16:31:00

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