Dear sirs dear ladies,
Time has come for some clarification and for results to be published.
The whole quest was admittedly paradoxical. How to use a sundial in a realm where it's not clear what/where the Sun is?
Some of you would remember from the story mode that the Sun is almost motionless, some of you noticed places within the realm which seem to suggest multiple light sources; then we have the Soldiers of the Inner Sun… So, what is this all about?
Aleyster Crowley, Mur and other heretics out there seem to suggest to "behold within and not above", for within each of us there's "one star in sight".
If we consider a star as the central source of light, life… (once transposed within, even ideas), if we consider it a purpose, a direction we're aimed to, I think we may try to scratch the surface of what's all about.
If everybody holds a Sun within, if everybody "casts a Shade"... We could consider Time as something entirely subjective, an expression of our own consciousness.
How to measure it, anyway, is a completely different matter, of which I have honestly no idea...
Of course, that's why I created this quest!
Unluckily I didn't receive that many submissions, but all of them were really interesting thus very difficult to judge.
For this reason, they've been rated with the help of two persons, whose names I won't disclose.
Thank you very much, you know who you are.
So, here are the winners!!
1st place - Tom Pouce (motto: "in MD yur always at yur same lucky time")
2nd place - Plix Plox (motto: "A shade’s shadow and an elemental’s glow are the primary basis for time to be told")
3rd place - Maebius (motto: "There is time enough for all of it, and all of you.")
4th place - ignnus (motto: "An aramor with a sundial is better than a morp with a broomstick.")
5th place - Shadowseeker (motto: "The sundial only works as well as the one who reads it.")
And the rewards!!
[s]A Swordshade[/s] (picked by Tom Pouce)
[s]An Angien's egg[/s] (picked by Plix Plox)
[s]A heavily aged Blood Pact Archer (sponsored by TKs)[/s] (picked by Shadowseeker)
2 BMMO enchanted stones (Toadspeak and Attacklock)
[s]2 Protector's enchanted stones (Movelock and Freeze)[/s] (picked by ignnus)
Based on the place in the graduatory, winners can choose the reward they prefer.
Tom Pouce picks first, then Plix Plox, then Maebius and so on.
Just state here what you wish or send me a message, I'll keep this topic up to date.
Thanks a lot to all who participated!!!
Edit: My bad, I forgot to mention a wonderful hand made drawing by Maebius... You're AWESOME!