Ungod

It took some convincing, but our judges (me) finally got off their lazy rear ends and produced a judgement.
First place goes to Nepgear for exquisite marching and nailing the high notes - 20
Second place goes to Ungod for creative maneuvers with expressive movements - 18
Third place goes to Tamu for carrying the bass end of our songs - 13
Fourth place goes to Fang Archbane for highly energetic dance moves - 9
Thank you all for marching with us! Thank you too, our audience, for watching!

So the final tally of evenings won is as follows:
Demonic God - FOUR
Ungod - TWO
Clair de Lune, Aelis, Dracoloth, Nepgear, klawdees, Chewett - ONE each
Chewett will do the honors of awarding the nightly prizes.
I am awarding a wish point to Demonic God for sweeping the series.
Let's congratulate all our participants!

And with the end of the 16th Anniversary I shall declare this contest closed.

Results are in as follows:

1. Most votes in a single original post + 3. Most Untouchable - Chewett, with the following post; which had a single reply, with ten votes and an additional point for scoring more than its reply:

2. Most votes in a single reply post + 4. Most Savage - jakubhi, with the following post, scoring four votes and outscoring the post it did reply to, for a total of five points:
Please post, in this thread, in order (Chewett/jakubhi/Chewett/jakubhi) as to the choice of creatures thou wouldst like to receive; from the four listed: Coloured Elemental, Coloured Winderwild, Coloured Priest, 16th Anniversary Elucubratie


Notable mentions to Aelis and Ledah, scoring nine points each for these original memes: 
To Demonic God for posting sixteen times in this thread (MaGoHi had the second largest number of posts at eleven).

They all look amazing, and its such a nice thing you tried.
I would like all participants to receive  something for trying, so i am sponsoring an additional 2 gold to all 3 participants. Gold will be sent to kaya for distributing.

Not much decoration here, but I'm of the opinion you don't need much to get a party going. 
Just lay a blanket, open the picnic basket that contains wine and bacon and just enjoy...this is a chill place to wait (for years) for those MP3s to direct them to the spear&halberd rack, teach them to use the whetstone and everything. 

'Evening!
I hear there's a scholarly interest in the lands of Marind Bell, pertaining to mandalas - some SoE members are quite interested in that imagery with 'cosmic'  or 'absolute' meanings. What that means is, there's ways to make money! Or get some anniversary creatures and bonuses.
SoE will pay a hefty sum for a mandala with MD symbolism, but it must be within standards (hence they will judge the submissions) AND all rights to that imagery will transfer to said alliance. As for the manner of presentation, it can be drawn on paper, digitally created, or even crafted. Feel free to submit it to me (Ungod) or post it in this thread - winning submissions have the chance of remaining anonymous. Ah, the deadline? Until the end of this month.
So let's get down to business - what hefty price are we talking about? 1st place gets an anniv crit and 1 goldenavitoken, 2nd 1 anniv crit (and 1 gold if SoE wants to acquire the rights*), 3rd 1 anniv crit (and 1 gold if SoE wants to acquire the rights). 
*Disclaimer: if SoE decides to acquire the rights for that mandala, you can't refuse
What? That's not enough? That's the offer, take it or leave it. This scholarly interest is only in bud; who knows, it might be more profitable in the future...
(a little help for those confused by the many types of mandalas:
 

Hope you all enjoyed the events of the 16-year celebration of the birth of Magic Duel.
Here is a link to all the wonderful story telling at the MDA.
Thanks to all that participated in this event, which led to the reformation of the Legend Speakers alliance.
 

Marind Bell should be finished, but I made a small error - inverted the text for the two arrows at Wind's Gate (and now I cannot correct them).

i fixed it. created a dummy item to switch one of the strings to, then corrected the other one, correct the one connected to the dummy item, then deleted the dummy item

Not much decoration here, but I'm of the opinion you don't need much to get a party going. 
Just lay a blanket, open the picnic basket that contains wine and bacon and just enjoy...this is a chill place to wait (for years) for those MP3s to direct them to the spear&halberd rack, teach them to use the whetstone and everything. 

Here's a the results!
@Aia del Mana - 188 @Fyrd Argentus - 184 @Yoshi - 181 @Kaya - 181 (Yoshi submitted earlier) @Nepgear- 177 @Jubaris - 174 @Dracoloth - 165 @Pipstickz - 164 @Aelis - 160 @Ungod - 116 Congratulations to the top masons!
In addition, @Aia del Manaand @Fyrd Argentusboth presented solutions that are quite fascinating. They both won a WP each! Congratulations!
Below are each player's submission, in order:

Since i received no submissions, i close the quest this evening (with the answer). 

Well, surprisingly close! I'm disappointed I am not able to give my own posts a little blue heart or green arrow, but I suppose the 7 of you who voted will have to do.
In first place we have the one, the only, Clair de Lune! The voice only gets ever more incessant, so I hope we can arrange the ceremony soon, I certainly hope within the next 6 days...
In second place we have our incorrigible bacon lover, MaGoHi! He has, of course, chosen the 'free' murder, most wise. On a personal level, I hope you choose your next victim more wisely...
In joint third we have the dynamic duo Steno and Ungod! Clever, clever, deliberately gaming the system to come in joint third... I expected no less from you two! Very well, you each get 5 shiny gold coins... I am truly generous.
Well, that's all folks! Thank you to all my wonderful participants, anyone who showed up to vote, Chew for helping with certain abilities, and last but not least the ever lovable Granos, who has very wisely kindly stayed dead this whole time!
I hope to see you all for next years murder...

17 august 2011
I was proposing Mur the recipe and the possible effects of a deliriant tea.
So naive, but already a lashtal. Mur's reply was hilarious.
Good memories...

was doing some clean-up and apparently, the oldest forum message i have (not deleted) is one on the Heat Wars organized 6 years ago; next in line is from 5 years ago, about a possible infiltration in KoB (when I was a knight)
what is *your* oldest forum message?

First post was a Oct/2009 quest submission where I dressed as a Dark Archer (I'm glad the picture isn't there anymore haha). Been questing like crazy ever since.
 
First PM was a Nov/2009 conversation with Pamplemousse regarding another forum post. That was shortly after (a month or two) she had left the Archivists to join the Sentinels and fight in the war that culminated in the burning of Khalazdad's cube. Young Aelis felt he was exchanging messages with a celebrity back then.

Mallos  366
Started conversation: July 31, 2011
  Stephen King is awesome. Best books I have ever read were the Dark Tower series. 

__________     Message to Burns from 9 years ago. The most pertinent topic to MD, certainly. I admit I also haven't read too many books.

didn't we all...at least, I did the same

Respect.
You win a safe stay inside Necrovion.
It lasts one week, so contact me when you want it started.

was doing some clean-up and apparently, the oldest forum message i have (not deleted) is one on the Heat Wars organized 6 years ago; next in line is from 5 years ago, about a possible infiltration in KoB (when I was a knight)
what is *your* oldest forum message?

didn't we all...at least, I did the same

My first forum interaction was in February 2009 responding to Sagewoman's wall posting where she demanded I update my profile 
And then I responded to Gargant's topic which asked people how did players get their username, after which I immediately started posting on 'new ideas' for MD (kinda funny, didn't start to grow roots yet but I'm sharing how I got my name and how can the game get better )