ROUND ROBIN RULES

Deadlines up... read this whoever volunteered. If you are not on this list, you are not part of this!!!

Rules:

"PLAYERS:"
1. Yinyang@altered.com or Piccolo@cyber.atlanta.com (Jang Choe)
2. rpm39788@Bayou.UH.EDU (RPM-acct 3/5)
3. eabecerr@henge1.henge.com (Edward Becerra)
4. sterman@sprynet.com (Richard Lawson)
5. jdrutsch@ucdavis.edu (Jeff Rutsch)
6. arromdee@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
7. sandborn@microlink.net (GL Sandborn)
8. jackji@efn.org (Jack Ji)
9. averz@u.washington.edu (A. Verzwyvelt)
10. terry@thenet.net (Terry Marks)
11. ranchan@mail.accent.net (Lucas Muzzatti)

Interested ppl:
1. kergma@sv.net.au (Kergma)
2. ayerss@rpi.edu (Stephen Ayers)
3. s669330@aix2.uottawa.ca (Cynewolf)
4. DJT2445@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (David Tai)

ppl I had to kicked out from the orginial:
1. ranma@tendo-dojo.ranma.net (WWolf) You understand right?
2. lizsue@mtc.ultranet.com (Lizsue) She's gone from the internet

Rules:

The Players above, right after they get this message, MUST
respond and tell me if the e-mail addresses are correct. Okay
there. Now lets continue.

Okay, notice those players above, copy it exactly from 1-11.
Did that? Good. A new list will be sent later, but copy them for
now.

The object of this project is to finish the fanfic, make it
good, and have fun. I will start because I'm #1 on the list at
the top and also, I already started that fic anyway. I will
write the beginning of the story (Which I have already done,
(this was for the orginal project which had only 3 players)) and
send it to guy #2, who is RPM. Then guy #2 will add a few stuff
to my fic then send it to guy #3, who is Ed. Then so on. When it
gets to the last person (Who is right now, Lucas) Lucas will
send it back to me. Now, that's ONE cycle. A cycle is when all
the authors got a chance to write in the order I gave you above
in the column "PLAYERS." Make sure that you include the orginal
work, along with your work, when you send it to the next guy.

Now, since one cycle has completed and it's sent back to me,
I have the option to finish it. If I don't finish it, I'll write
more and send it to person #2, and he can decide if he wants to
finish it, if not, he writes more, and sends it to the next
person and so on until someone finishes it. This will happen
till the last person on the list (Lucas...) gets it again. If
*he* decides not to finish it, I have to. So, after cycle #2, I
have to finish it no matter what. AND NO EPILOGUE!! IF THERE IS
ONE, IT'S BY THE GUY WHO FINISHED IT.

Now, whoever finishes the fanfic, WILL send it around for
one more cycle. The guy who finished it, MUST indicate CLEARLY
that he is truly finished with the fic. If he doesn't, someone
might continue the story... and it will never end... :(

Well, on that 3rd cycle, the authors proofreads the entire
story. THE ONLY THING THE AUTHOR CAN CHANGE IN OTHER PEOPLE's
parts are GRAMMAR MISTAKES. (ie. missing commas too, ,m,a,ny
commas, caPitolzation erroRs, mispelings, ect.) But, the authors
can change around, do whatever he wants on his parts only. Oh,
this 3rd cycle where you write your final Author's remarks about
the fic.

Okay, everybody checked the fanfic right? Then it goes back
to the guy who finished it, and he will send it off to wherever
(ffml, rec.arts.anime.creative) for ppl to enjoy reading. So the
story should end in the 3-4th cycle.

Okay, when you get the story and add to it, anything goes.
You can put anything you want, do whatever you want if it flows
and corresponds with the story. The length of your part can be 1
sentence to 200 pages. Oh, you have 5 days to finish your part.
Okay? 5 days.... Don't tell me your busy, cuz all you need to do
if write a sentence if you are. I don't want to drag this thing
till the next century you know. Oh when you send your parts, be
sure to have ALL the orginal parts to it. And send it through
Private e-mail ok? I don't want spamming in the ffml, and
besides I want this to be top secret.

More stupid rules. I'm sorry, but I need to make stuff
clear. When writing the fic, make it flow, make it like one
person wrote it. Lets say this is the story: (It isn't okay?
The real one is different)

Got it? Remember, this is only an example, not the real
story. Okay, I wrote that, then I send it off to RPM. RPM, if
he's intelligent enough, and I know he is, SHOULD continue it
something like this:

My name is Morisato Keichii. As you know by now, I have
three goddess living in my house. Well, in a few days, my aunt
from Nagoya is visting me. The problem is, she is very
conservative and frowns upon me engorging myself with women.
Well, what is she going to do when she sees me with three
goddesses?! AGGRGGAHHHH!!
"Hey Keichii~~" Urd said coming in.
"What do you want?" I said to her.
"I just heard your uptight Aunt is coming. And I figure
that we loosen her up a little."
"What?"

You get the point right? I mean, it SHOULDN'T be like
this....

My name is Morisato Keichii. As you know by now, I have
three goddess living in my house. Well, in a few days, my aunt
from Nagoya is visting me. The problem is, she is very
conservative and frowns upon me engorging myself with women.
Well, what is she going to do when she sees me with three
goddesses?! AGGRGGAHHHH!!
Then Keichii sat down and thought for a second. It seems
like he's really thinking then when Urd came in and told him that
she knows her Aunt is coming....

See the problem? Yup, switched from first person to 3rd
person. Another way it SHOULDN'T be done.

Keichii: What?!

Urd: i heard....

Now, that is the stupidest mistake you can do. Switching
prose into Script, now that really hurts the flow. (It won't if
you do it right, but lets keep it in one format okay?)

Well, I'm going to tell you right now for you Script people:
My story's is already in Prose!! So, you better sharpen up your
prose technique.

Final word is that I know you guys have some common sense.
But I know there is going to be misunderstandings, heck even
after all these rules I gave you, there is a 50 % chance that
someone's gonna mess up! I hope all these rules didn't scare you
off.

FINAL FINAL WORD. For you PLAYERS, I need response that you
got the rule sheet!!! I also need the response if you are really
doing it or not and if that e-mail address is correct!! I give
you 24 hours from the time I sent this to respond!!!

For you guys that are interested: (This means YOU,
Stephen, David, Cynewolf, and Kergma!) I need response in next
24 hours from the time I sent this if you are still interested.

I will send off the final list of players to the players
after that 24 hour period. If I didn't get a response, you are
kicked out.

Last Stinkin' Word. Put at least a little more than normal
effort into this. I know, you have work, school, other fanfics,
and C & Cs to work on, but take this into one of your things to
do that has a little more than importance. Why? It's not you
who is writing this, 9 other (maybe 11 other) ppl are writing
this. That means you have to show respect to the other players.
Okay? Thanks for this project, I hope this becomes one of our
best projects. If it's fun, we might do another one.

P.S. :P
Brief summary on the cycles:

Cycle: DEFINITION: When the story is sent and wrote on by
everybody in the "PLAYERS" list in order.

Cycle one: THE WRITING STAGE: Person #1 writes and goes around
the authors from 1-11 continuing it. Then the last guy on the
list sends it back to person #1.

Cycle two. THE WRAPPING UP STAGE: Anybody from person #1 through
the last guy can finish the fic. If it's not finished by the
last author on the list, it is sent back to #1, for he must
finish it.

Cycle Three: THE REVISION STAGE: Whoever finishes the fic,
sends it again for one more cycle, thus cycle three. This is
where the author revises his/her stuff (if he wants), corrects
other ppl's GRAMMAR mistakes, and puts their "Author's Comments."
(if he wants) This will happen till the fic goes thorough the
cycle and goes back to the guy who finished it.

Now, the guy who finishes it, sends it to RAAC and ffml and
wherever fanfics are seen.

We are now sick and tired of that fic, and the authors swear to
never to do this again, except the other guys who wants to
participate but didn't in the first one. (Plunger? PhoneyNT? John
Biles? Stefan Gagne? Mousse Lee? Marisa Price? Caroline?) :)

If you have questions, contact me.