Turbine's Yuletide Contest
Turbine is having a contest that I thought some of you might be interested in. It's a festive, Yule screenshot competition. I'm willing to help out with the couple or kinship categories. ^^ The contest ends on the second of January. Good luck to anyone who takes part!
What's this? Why, we ought to get a kinship picture together at once! Anytime I'm on will work, just give me a holler.
Thanks for finding this, Laurinda! They definitely didn't give us very much warning on this one. We should try and put something together today.
Anyone have ideas for location, costuming, poses? Once we have our shot we can work together on a perfect caption to send out prior to the deadline.
If you'd like to participate as an individual or couple, please note that the deadline is 5:59pm on January 1st.
I agree there wasn't much warning!
As for location, we could try Forochel. The Northern Lights could have a nice effect on the picture. If that's too far we could try to find a nice spot in the Shire. Maybe one of the towns that aren't visited as frequently like Woodhall. The inn could look festive. It's a bit harder for me to think of costumes. Something bright would probably be good. And maybe we could all be holding a Yule mug.
Since it's a contest, someone whose computer can handle higher graphics should probably take the picture. I know my computer can only really go up to medium without much trouble.
I'm very interested, but unfortunately I can't do tonight. I need to be up early for work but I can do tomorrow after work if that can be arranged. It's a very interesting contest and it sounds fun indeed.
Thank you Laurinda for posting this!
We'll have a few "photo" sessions. The main one will be Monday (tomorrow) at 8pm EST, starting at the kin house. We'll head over to a decorated holiday home, and then out to Forochel. We'll provide a few outfit options.
Impromptu sessions will be called a few times over the next few days. We may not all have the chance at the TP, but hopefully we can come up with something good over the next couple of days. Or at the very least, have fun trying.
Today's photo session went very well! There were handstands at the kin house in front of the Grimreaver and then a jolly roaring match in Forochel. A very therapeutic session, I think. :p And I thought it would be hard to top dancing around the Unhappy Snowman yesterday...
While today was the main photo shooting event, it isn't the final one. I know some of you who wanted to attend haven't been able to yet. There will be a few more sporadic ones before the deadline though I can't say for sure how many.
And a huge thank you to Rosalie for staying up late for the sake of taking screenshots of our shenanigans.
I've put together the best shots from the last two nights. The screenshots themselves are a bit nicer than what you will see.
On night one we beckoned you to join us for a celebration. We also danced on the poor dying snowman, and drank to his memory.
Last night we did a few handstands in front of the kinhouse.
And we played music for the Grimreaver Who Stole Yuletide. I've posted a few different options.
And last of all we traveled out to Forochel for a primal scream.
These are my favourites:
This one would probably have a nice and sweet caption, welcoming you all to a nice evening with friends.
This was a very tough shot to get, but we finally had one with all of us screaming properly. I like how the group in the back seems to be hugging rather than screaming (though it looks like Thornie and Lilia have become very close friends, perhaps too close). I don't really know how to caption this one, but it is a pretty nice visual.
This is my pick for the winner so far. There's a clear narrative, it's easy to pick out a proper caption, and it reflects our kinship. The Grimreaver tried to steal Yuletide, but our music brought out the song in his heart. We could also go with the version where he really belts it out:
We have to pick a screenshot AND a caption. So please respond with your pick, and your caption. We have 31 hours until we need to send this over to Sapience.
If we end up winning one of the prizes, I will hold a random drawing to award my points to one of the participants in a shot we did not choose. I still encourage you to keep posting group shots--just put them up here swiftly! And I hope you'll enter solo and duo screenshots, as Pontin has. Good luck to us all!
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I vote for the last one us playing music
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Pontin, Legoan, Adibelle, Unnari, Jorunn
If we go with the last one, the caption could be "When life is Grim, play some music!" And then toss in a Happy Yule. Or "Have a Grimtastic New Year!"
I'll edit this post if I can think of some more.
Edit: Don't be Grim, wear a grin. XD Or something to do with "Grim's fairy tales..." There will only be more puns from me, I suspect...
I went ahead with the singing Grimreaver. Here's our caption:
An excerpt from How the Grimreaver Stole Yuletide:
"Every man and hobbit in the Shire, the tall and the small,
Was singing, without any daily sack of presents at all!
And what happened then? Well, in the Shire homesteads they say,
That the Grimreaver's Mathom House rep grew three sizes that day!
And the minute his enhanced xp came back for the night,
We rushed out of Skûmfil with nary a corpse-claw in sight.
The hobbits, women and dwarf played from dusk until dawn,
And can you believe it, the Grimreaver himself sang along!"
I love the Grimreaver's song! The lyrics are perfect. Thank you for putting them together; I think we'll definitely have a fighting chance at least but more importantly the whole event was lots of fun. I'm never going to forget all that yelling in Forochel. XD
Sapience said the winners should be announced on Monday.
And on a side note, he has 5 alt housing accounts. Not quite up to our standards, but at least we have confirmation now that what we do is officially sanctioned.