Guildmates,

I am announcing a contest open to Warrior Mages for theories based on Guild subjects. Participants will submit a thesis of their own, with supporting evidence found within Guild lore. The subject can be Historical, Magical (Spells, Artifacts, Research, etc.), Planar, or something else directly related to our guild as a whole. The work must make an attempt to illuminate a point about a previously unknown facet of your subject to the Guild at large.
A winner will be chosen by a small panel of judges and the winning work will then be submitted publically to all Guildmembers.

The Prize: a watered steel sigilated ring ensconced with pure white spiritwood

This sigilated ring is connected to the Plane of Water and works in the same manner as other well known sigilated rings.

Participants must be standing at Circle 30 or higher within the guild and will be forced to demonstrate their guild affiliation before the prize will be awarded. In addition, the work should be your own and any attempts to submit someone else’s work as yours may result in disqualification.

Please see below for further details.

(OOC:

The contest will last roughly 30 days unless I decide to extend it.

Please submit all entries in e-mail (not word docs) to my play.net address.

The winner will be forced to display their circle and guild by way of title and likely spellcasting or any other option I deem necessary. The intent is to ensure a WM gets use of the prize. While in general I’m very supportive of playability for deceptive characters and thieves, when the prize is something I had to pay RL $$$ to acquire: we are working on a different field.

While I only intend to reveal the winning theory to everyone on the forums, if others would like their work submitted regardless of win or lose, let me know and at the end I will post them.)

Signed,

Perune

This is an awesome idea. Please post or otherwise make available all entries once the contest is done.

Javac
That one guy

If you have questions or comments in regard to this post please email me at DR-JAVAC@play.net.

I would participate, but I'm only 13th circle. :\

So are you going for something more akin to a masters thesis, or a doctoral dissertation?

Warmagery is serious business.

hmmm...

Am I gonna get banned from the Guild for my thesis on my 'illegal' esoteric planar research into Elemental Planes not taught by the Guild which completely destroys most 'magic theory' found in those highly inaccurate books full of lies we tend to find in our libraries?

Can I be vague or redact large portions of potentially sensitive information?

or do I go with the safe bet and write about "Just How Old is Gauthus?"

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Powerhaus' Theorycrafting

Hypothesis: Blackfire is Love, Blackfire is Life

Null Hypothesis: Blackfire is only slightly less awesome than the most awesome thing ever.

Equipment: (1) Blackfire scroll, (1) room full of bone wyverns

Methodology: I burned them, I BURNED THEM ALL AHAHAHAHAHA

Results: Hypothesis upheld, Warrior Mage sorcery is love, Blackfire is life.

>Am I gonna get banned from the Guild for my thesis on my 'illegal' esoteric planar research into Elemental Planes not taught by the Guild which completely destroys most 'magic theory' found in those highly inaccurate books full of lies we tend to find in our libraries?

I want to read this book. Just 'Chamber of Secrets'-it-up and use an anagram generator for I AM POWERHAUS CINDERGROVE.

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"Forbidden Practices and How to Inspire Them" by P.O.Werhaus

I figure I should use a pseudonym...

As long as I hit all the strokes of a literary best seller, it'll be a win: a relatable protagonist teetering on the brink of the dark side and murder a bunch of likable teenagers.

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You make a few adjustments to the Zoluren, and you feel confident that it will recognize you as its owner.

So when's the deadline?

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Hey everyone, I wanted to give a quick update on this:

I haven't received a lot of these and would definitely like to see a few more, and I've heard through the grapevine that there are definitely people working on a few.

I'd like to receive these fairly soon, say within a week or so. If you think it's going to take longer than that, please just drop a line here and let me know you're working on it but it may take a bit more time.

Thanks.

I'm working on one but its taking me longer than I realized it would, freaking tough to research things to support my hair brained ideas

I punched reality right in the physics with my paper and caused my puter's motherboard to blow, and now I have to rewrite it using the notes app on my phone...

or my dog ate it, if that's more believable...

I'll try to be done in a day or two.

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You make a few adjustments to the Zoluren, and you feel confident that it will recognize you as its owner.

The last thing I 'broke' in game ended up being really really really neat and I wish we could all have fun and play with it; but I'm not allowed to share...

::sadface::

You say broke, I say unintended feature.
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Almost better than that! And as a WM it is something we should prolly be able to do anyways... just not the way I did it.

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