Admiral:
Right, with Artisan’s Contest and Golden Hat finished it’s time to turn towards one of the reasons I volunteered to arrange those contests in the first place: A contest to promote the CD culture stuff we’ve got going in the background section.
So now with two recent miniature contests under our belts noone can say this time around that they’d rather have Golden Hat or Artisan’s Contest if or when we let loose the novelty. 
Here’s the idea:
A long succession of short contests with 2-3 weeks deadlines at average. Named “Scribe’s Contest”. They will be text contests, although we will try at least one audio contest with longer deadline (and juicier miniature prize if possible) to see if it works.And here’s where the volunteers come into the picture:
The themes will roughly be Chaos Dwarf famous quotes, popular sayings, religious hymns/sacrificial mantras, monument inscriptions, songs and even Hobgoblin variants of some of them. We’re trying to map out the oral and written culture of Chaos Dwarfs, true to the spirit of their portrayal through WHFB’s editions and indeed members’ fiction here on CDO, such as Thommy H’s armybook.
We’ll start with something relatively simple, such as CD children songs contest. The background description from the CD songs thread will be posted along with clear-cut contest rules and useful suggestions in the announcement thread, and we’re go. Voting as usual.
If succesful, we’ll launch one or more contests for short or medium-sized CD legends, but many of the contests will basically be about short texts, even one-liners. So make those words count.
If possible, we’ll wrangle out as many contests about different areas as possible, if participation and interest is high enough.
Brainstorming
We need someone to make a banner for the contest, akin to Artisan’s Contest. We can’t use AC for this, because then we would spam Artisan’s Contest with text competitions. Better set up a separate thing instead.
The banner maker should not only provide a nice banner, but if possible a whole slew of banners (through contests 1-20 or something like that) to start with. The text “Scribe’s Contest [latin number]” in the font style used by CDO. We’ll have to ask the Staff for files if no one already have them.
We need a medal-maker. Gold, silver bronze, complete with model files for those who have won the contest multiple times. So apart from the single medal, we’ll need gold, silver and bronze medals with a small “2” up to at least “10” in the right corner, exactly as on GH and AC medals. The design of the Scribe’s medal could be something simple, like a rune of Hashut or a ziggurat or anything else you fancy, but it’d need to conform to the Chaos Dwarf Online medals things like colouring and black outline, and not look out of place next to the others.
We need several volunteer miniature donators, who will also pay postage to the winners. Because there’ll be a string of contests, we’ll need a small reservoir of prize-donators before we start. The prizes certainly don’t need to be big or rare.
I could donate a flayman (of the winner’s choice) and some other scratchbuilt thing further down the road, but not initially for the contest. I’ve got studies, GH XXI prize-making, WoH #13-making, submissions, my own army and real life stuff to keep my hands full. Not full enough to stop me from organizing Scribe’s Contest, though, because Contest threads and rules are basically just about writing for some hours.
We will also need a kind admin who sets up a Scribe’s Contest archive like Artisan’s Contest and Golden Hat already have on CDO’s first page, and then keep it updated. Said admin should also upload medal files to CDO and maybe even award them to winners, if I can’t handle it after a lesson by the Staff.
So, to see this thing launched sooner rather than later, we need volunteers. Are you up to it? Sign up here!
Uncle Hashut wants you. :hashut
Feedback and ideas wanted. This is an attempt to make the CD culture stuff into a true community drive and get more variation and styles into the “genres”. Further down the road we could eventually release it in “CDO presents” packages.
Don’t worry, the Scribe’s Contests (if approved by the Staff) will be run by me and won’t interfer with the “schedule” of Golden Hat or Artisan’s Contests. Those two competitions will have precedence whenever they sail up, but it should be possible to run a Scribe’s Contest and a GH or AC simultaneously since the SC won’t require as much time to complete an entry as miniatures-contests do.
