Kriskah Arcanu

About the personal ad contest This was mostly an all about fun contest, designed to promote the job market. It was based on the idea of generate an atmosphere for character development and interrelation inside the realm. Now I see many flaws on the evaluation, like I should have rewarded more the actual getting hired issue, which it is actually the most important thing. Anyway, this was a new experience and it was fun. I hope eventually people will get a bit more involved. Maybe next time we can build a scenario, like a villain’s arena for confrontation and evaluation of the best villain on MD, or an aula magna for lectures so everyone can offer their lessons, stories; or an artistic stage for poets and musicians… I don’t know. You must know It isn’t easy to generate space for RP on MD, specially during head contest In a few hours I will be posting the results.

[quote name='Fenrir Greycloth' post='35547' date='Jun 28 2009, 12:03 PM']One's a vegetable and the other is a fruit.[/quote] :nea:

[quote name='Liberty4life' post='35148' date='Jun 27 2009, 11:57 AM']eh poetry co? that doesnt tells me who it is, or is there a player called Poetry [/quote] The idea for me to publish small ads at the forum was to get people curious about the job market. [b]The contest will not be held at the forum.[/b] The player's name is Blackwood Forest and he will have the complete ad on his papers so you can evaluate it. (BTW, I believe his native language isn't English he went idle inside Wind's Sanctuary, I think its ok) Regards, K

The [b]"personal ad contest" will last 24 hours[/b], please PM your votes after evaluating all contestantants. The results will be post at the forum on day 178, 23.00 hrs. Evaluation criteria: [b]Originality[/b] (5 points),[b] Humor [/b](2 points), [b]Eye Candy displaying[/b] (2 points) and an extra point for actually [b]been hired[/b] : 10 points Example on how to vote: PM Subject: VOTE Players name 4/1.5/1.5/0 = 6 Players name 3/2/1.5/1= 7.5 etc... Everyone is alloud to vote except for newborns alts Regards, K

Hehe, this is gonna be fun I hope to see you all tomorow, remember the job market is not at the forum, all ads have to be displayed on your papers. If you cannot attend you also may go idle outside Winds Sanctuary. Regards, K

Thanks so much for participating. Please put your ad on your papers also so people can see it on game too. I have to say it... there are a few ads that will definitly rock.

Just received a new add: You know what to say, but you don't know how? Want to impress your love... or need somone to blaim... but with class? Poetry might be the answer you are looking for Call us - we'll write it for you Poetry co

A small [b]change on schedule[/b] The auction will start tomorrow at [b]23.00[/b] I appologize for the inconvinience. Regards, K

Hmmm... I belive I tried to send them to Kyphis the Bard, dindn´t realize that was not your player name. I appologize. Coins sent

OF TOPIC: Well I allready have a topic for discussion on my papers. I intend to continue writing about it soon. It is titled: Public Space, Marketplace & Community, it can be place as a Cultural or Economic área. I've spoke with a few people about starting a small group of discusion, mostly market related, anyway will see how it goes.

Just an idea... If there is enough interest from the communiy, it will be great to start conforming grups of discussion on topics like History, Politics... War.. in terms of helping to increase our bookshelves of MD documents. The "K" instrument might be very usefull for these groups to wright and edit the material. K

Excelent Will there be topic divisions? It will be interestig to see like Politics, Science, History, etc

[quote name='Fenrir Greycloth' post='34641' date='Jun 24 2009, 03:12 PM']They are naked mole rats.[/quote] And you say my butcher contest ad is cruel Well from what I see having children could be easily assumed by others as a lack of creativity on rp, specially if that is merely a reflexion of lack of ideas to ad on your own character projects. Other then that I believe everyone should be able to procreate dracul-angels as long as they want even if it is seen as a pointles overpopulation to others. BTW I am going to start selling baby stuff... how come that didn't occured to me before :fool:

Sorry, I just used a very old and dirty marketing system to call everyones atention

More details at: [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.php?showtopic=4256&pid=34616&st=0&#entry34616"]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com//index.p...amp;#entry34616[/url]

I received a few more self ads: A doctor specializing in neurology, genetics and surgery. Also a scientist interested in studying just about anything and everything. Willing to teach some medicine, and happy to give any information he's collected, with few exceptions. [b]1- 9990-DRWHO[/b] CALL NOW and you will get a NeuroScan for free. MD strees you out? Take lessons on stress relief, massage therapy and incense therapy. [b]GREM&REN[/b] Relax Therapy Center. I will be placing all these adds on my wagon, no charge [b]Small contest:[/b] Best "personal ad" during the item's auction will be rewarded with 10 MDS Second best 5 MDS Third 3 MDS Evaluation criteria: Originality, Humor, Eye Candy displaying. Requirements: Only in situ constestants will be evaluated, even if they are IDLE The aution´s atending public will be playing judge during the contest. Good luck. Next item's auction Day 177, 23:00 hrs Outside Wind's Sanctuary

That puppy is suffering, we all are... believe me.

I did liked the song fo a week or tow but... hmmm maybe I am more of a cat person... C'mon it is Winds Sanctuary we are talking about!... shouldnt the music be more sanctuarish? :megashock:

Saquen a ese pobre perro de la vitrinaaaaa! :aggressive: (Translation: Get that poor dog out of the windoooow!)

Yes, people with four items can buy Grido. quote myself: "so not all offers wil be accepted, only those made from players with 4 or less items." When did I said they couldnt? I havent thought about the multiple items situation... hmm like the blue glowing shards... hmmm... don't know... maybe we can make an exception. K

[quote name='dst' post='34408' date='Jun 22 2009, 08:32 PM']Playing devil's advocate: why ban players who have more than 5 items from the auction? Isn't that also abusive?[/quote] Si lo es, pero soy mala muuuy mala (Translation: Indeed, but I am bad reeeealy bad) [b]MUAHAhahahaha[/b] Is that an evil laugh in English too?

[quote name='Grido' post='34374' date='Jun 22 2009, 03:13 PM']''only those made from players with 4 or less items. '' not that this is avoidable, but, people can transfer items to their alts so they have no items, buy the items at auction, then put the items back on themselves[/quote] Items are easily tracked The number of players with more then five items is quite visible to all, so if they would cheat using their alters or other player to shop during the auction, I do believe we can easily track the items and detect abusive collectors... so I trust people won't do that. The list of players with 5 or more items is quite short: [1] Junior [2] .Pamplemousse. [3] .Kragel. [4] Kriskah Arcanu (not for long) [5] .Metal Bunny. [6] .Calyx of Isis. [7] SubZeroo [8] Aeoshattr [9] .Peace

[quote name='Liberty4life' post='34335' date='Jun 22 2009, 12:54 PM']its about time, nice thing to see it again with double number of items since last time up for sale, i hope that next time it will be 12 or more items [/quote] I was hopping to get a few more but I did not succed (Has anyone seen Junior?) I encourage people to come and trade their items too, I could use some company There will be a [b]Job market[/b] too, I am still waiting for more people to send me their "personal ads" so I can announce them as well. Regards, K

ITEM'S AUTION [b]Day 177 23:00 [/b] Outside Wind's Sanctuary Items on display Cloth breathing mask Flask with stone oil (*) Handcrafted Dovewing (*) MDA Decorated Mug Silver Jambiya Uncut orange Sapphire Some items will be openly auctioned (currently offering an auctioner job) and others will be silent auctioned (by PM) so the auction won't be so long. Items auctions main pourpuse is to aloud items flow, so not all offers wil be accepted, only those made from players with 4 or less items. Only players on location can make offers, and two items will be the max per player to aquire. Players with 3 or more items may only buy one item during the auction. Thank you for understanding, K (*) Very special item that comes with a big responsability. People interested in aquiring it please PM.

[quote name='Kafuuka' post='33755' date='Jun 17 2009, 05:42 PM']I also consider the contest to be a success. We originally stated that if we got more than a dozen of participants, we'd give an additional prize to the category winners and we did get 17 valid entries. Sadly we did not reach the 25 mark. I still believe that for a first edition 17 is a good number and that it merits a second edition. Logically that would be held 90 days from now, since then we should have all fresh people in the [10, 100] range. What follows are my observations while organizing and should be helpful to whoever organizes a similar contest in the future. (not saying that I don't want to do it, but three months is a lot of time, and if this ever sees a twentieth edition...)[/quote] It was a succes considering the contest had almost none publicicty. I want to thank King Bull, pamplemouse, stormrunner and everyone who pm their adepts to inform them about the contest. I am sure next one with better publicity will get many more contestants Just a few ideas for next contest: About the score system. I don't see a problems with decimals if you can correct the total sum at the end (I dont know the expresion in English, is when you, for example have a result of: 8.6 , that goes to 9.... and 8.4 will remain as 8 ) For evaluating roleplay, which I believe is quite complicated, there could be a anonymus jury to meet the contestant and evaluate them on regular conversations without them knowing. I am not sure about a new contest for veterans, it will have to be very different from the one from the festival, with many categories as well. I'm sure if it is presented in an original way it could be great Anyway, Awiiya, Intrigue, Willhem and Kaf, I know you work really hard on this, so all I have to say is thank you for that, I trully hope we can do this again K