[DarrylTheHitman]

This Week At MudWorld
Volume 1, Issue 14

- Immortal University Creative Writing Contest 2004

Congratulations to the winners of the creative
writing contest. Each winner gets their names and
URLs plastered via this news release on many different
websites. In addition, they all get their URLs posted
on Immortal University's website for no less then
three months. The first place winners gets their
website's image and URL posted on MudWorld for no less
than a month. You can read the winning submissions via
the link below.

http://www.mudworld.org/ImmU/contests/2004/

Best Overall
Iluvatar of PhoenixMUD - http://www.phoenixmud.org/

Fantasy - First Place
Angie Quixote of Midnight Sun -
http://midnight-sun.ludd.ltu.se:3328

Fantasy - Second Place
Kim A. of Avendar: Crucible of Legends -
http://www.avendar.com/

Fantasy - Third Place
Molly O'Hara of 4 Dimensions -
http://www.4dimensions.org/

Sci-Fi - First Place
Kratos of Dark Tower - http://www.farseek.com/dtmud/

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- Mud Staff Resource Page
Ever thought it would be nice to have some type of
gamer job service? Ever wanted to post your
availability to work on a game to the world? Ever
needed to hire someone and did not have any idea where
to start? Perhaps you should visit the Mud Staff
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Game administrators can post job openings. Game
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tell your friends!

http://www.mudworld.org/MSRP/

[Molly]

Congratulations to Illuvatar of PhoenixMud for his totally awesome story!

The big Prize couldn't have gone to a nicer and more helpful person either.

My own favourite was Angie's Silver and Blood though. The ending had me rolling on the floor in convulsions, it was so bloody funny, hehe.

[Angie]

Congratulations, Illuvatar - it was a great story.

And congratulations everybody else, all of the stories were fun to read, and it was a nice break from the usual building routine. We should have events like that more often.

(As a side note, Quixote is not my surname, it's just a state of mind!

[Angie]

Incidentally, I just noticed mudworld displays banners for the two category winners now, while the original contest specs said that was a reward for the overall winner. I sure am happy for the bit of extra promotion, but it seems unfair towards Illuvatar.

And yes, this is also a shameless bump over all the recent spam.

[Ntanel]

Iluvatar did not submit an image, so I just posted the two first places instead.

[Iluvatar]

Originally Posted by (Ntanel @ Aug. 17 2004,20:38) Iluvatar did not submit an image, so I just posted the two first places instead.

I was too ignorant to realize I needed to.  I've sent one to you.

[Iluvatar]

Thanks guys for the extremely nice words and I thank you for the wonderful stories you submitted. Actually ALL the stories were worth reading and I'm especially proud of the the Judges and Ntanel for taking the time to make the contest happen. It's really tough to be a judge and equally as challenging to do all the work necessary to run a contest like that.

[Ntanel]

The one you submitted did not meet the requirements.