Application for Builders on Castle Marrach

[Aziel]

Castle Marrach is looking for a few good builders to join our Story Staff.

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Requirements:

A) Creativity
B) Strong grasp of english language and excellent grammar usage.
C) Must be 18 or older
D) Code experience not necessary but a technical sense is a must. Building is more than just writing room descriptions. While it is not about coding, you do need to grasp how rooms work, how exits connect and what the various options mean when setting up a location.

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If you are still interested in applying for a building position on Castle Marrach, please fill out the following and email me at the address provided below.

1) Name
2) Character Name on Castle Marrach
3) How much time can you give to building
4) Past building experience, if any (not required but useful)
5) Why you want to build for Castle Marrach

Also, provide the following writing sample.

Describe the following rooms, including half a dozen details:

--An abandoned gold mine shaft--
--An enchanted meadow--

Include glance, look and examine descriptions for the room. Glance is what you see when you first enter the room, look is what you see when you 'look' and examine is what you see when you 'examine' the room.

For the details include the brief, look and examine descriptions. Brief is the name of the detail when you interact with it, such as by 'point at fireplace', which might emit: You point at the roaring fireplace. Look and examine are same as above.

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Technical Information

1) This is a non-paid, volunteer position.
2) Applying does not guarentee acceptance into Story Staff.
3) If selected as a builder, all work done will fall under the Participatory Content as defined in the Skotos Terms of Service. Please review this before applying.

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Email this to aziel@marrach.skotos.net with the subject 'Builder Application - (Character Name)', IE: Builder Application - Aziel.

If you have any questions you may page me as StoryCoder Aziel on Castle Marrach or email me at the above address.

[Aziel]

For those who might not understand the detail aspect of a room, below is a small example.

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--A living room--

Glance: A small living room, sparsely decorated.

Look: A small living room with a large bay window, a black ceiling fan and hardwood floors.

Examine: A small living room with white walls, a high ceiling with a black ceiling fan, a large bay windows with white blinds and a highly polished hardwood floor.

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Details Might be as follows (I will not describe all of them, only the first one):

--Bay Windows--

Brief: large bay window

Look: A large bay window through which you can see the house next door.

Examine: A series of four windows make up this large bay window through which you can see the house and yard next door. The lawn outside has not been cut in several months.

Other details (non described):

Ceiling fan
Hardwood floor
White walls
Doors
Ceiling

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I hope this clears up an potential questions one might have about rooms and details.

One other thing of note to remember. While using large words proves that you might have a huge grasp on the english language, which is required, descriptions should be written for the average person who did not major in english. Write detailed but write using smaller, easier to understand words. If I have to spend time at dictionary.com looking up multiple words to understand the description you wrote, it'll be ignored.

Thanks for your interest!

[Yaoi]

Any Word on whether or not they are still accepting applications ? Or if new builders were picked ?

-kai

[Aziel]

I'm still accept applications. So far I've had very, very few people send in. That is to say, I've had one person show interest so far.

[Kyle]

B) Strong grasp of english language and excellent grammar usage.

take this out

[Tyr Gunn]

Aziel, just so you know, I'm very interested. I'm currently filling out the application, but with Chrismas and such, it's been hard to focus. I'm sure you understand.

~Michel

[Mairead]

Ditto the above..... Things are insane around her right now... I just did a 14 hour shift.....

[Janwin]

Aziel, sorry it's taking me a little while to send in that application... Christmas, work, etc, kinda hard to get it done... That and I lost my original copy cause my computer crashed... But I'll get it to you...

[Yaoi]

Everybody already told you why I haven't sent my app in yet.XMAS and other stuff.

-kai

[Tameron]

By builder do you mean coder or plotter?

[Umichan]

Neither.

From what I understood:
Coders code objects/rooms/etc.
Plotters create plots for players and for the castle's story to continue writing itself.
Builders work in the shadow and write descriptions that will be later used by the coders to create objects or rooms.

[Aziel]

I shall be accepting applications through the 8th of January. After that, the position shall be filled.

[Skout_]

I just wanted to note that while this being a sticky put it at the top of the list, I for one tend to quickly jump down the growing list of stickies and go straight to the newest messages. I never even saw this post until it was pointed out to me.

-Skout-

[stickyjellypoo]

You still have til tomorrow to get your app in Skout. It's not too late.

[Aziel]

When I wake up at 5am CST on Thursday morning, any applications that are in my email will be considered, any that arrive after that point will be saved and considered in the future if we choose to expand the building team.

This thread is now unsticky and will drift away soon.

Thanks for the interest shown!