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For this year, I’ll be the primary host of the PlaneShift Community Awards. It seems like it should be fun! I’ll be working with Jessamine, so feel free to bug her too!

You’re allowed to nominate a player two to four times, but it's preferred if you can keep to nominating the same player only three times.


The Awards are split into two parts: Nominations and Voting. The Nominations open first, and once they close, Voting starts. You can only nominate once and can only vote once. You may not nominate yourself, but you can vote for yourself if you get nominated by others for any given category. Try to nominate someone for every category, but if you can’t think of someone for one, just leave it blank. To keep things simple, the award categories are separated into two sections: Character Awards and Player Awards.

Please send your nominations via PM to Tidebringer (me) or Jessamine, since we’re working together on it this year. To make things easier, just copy and paste the categories listed below with your nominations written next to them.


Nominations begin today, November 18th, and end on December 2nd at roughly midnight GMT (give or take a little for human error). Nominations will only be accepted for those two weeks, so make sure you get yours in before it’s too late! Once the nominations close, I’ll put the results up in a separate thread, with the top three or four names per category. Voting will open December 3rd and close on December 10th at roughly midnight GMT. Voting only lasts for one week, so make sure you vote!

For those who need or want it, here’s a link to an online time zone converter: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

Questions? Post them below, or send me or Jessamine a PM. Have fun!


Character Awards
Friendliest Character:
Meanest Character:
Biggest Mary Sue (a perfect character with no flaws, tragic past, etc.):
Most Charismatic Character:
Most EVIL ( ) Character:
Most Chaotic Character:
Most Lawful-Good Character:
Most Helpful Character:
Creepiest Character:
Scariest Character:
Shadiest Character:
Unluckiest Character:
Luckiest Character:
Funniest Character:
Strangest Character:
Clumsiest Character:
Most Active Character:
Most Volatile Character:
Character with the Best Description:
Favorite Child Character (can be an actual character or one that's written by a player):
Most Likely to be Mugged:
Most Likely to be Doing the Mugging:
Most Likely to be Found in Kada's:
Most Likely to be Found in the Arena:
Most Likely to be Found at the Market:
Most Likely to be Found at Harnquist’s:
Most Eccentric Character:
Most Fashionable Character:
Happiest ( ) Character:
Most Paranoid Character:

Player Awards
Most Community-involving Roleplayer:
Most Descriptive Roleplayer:
Most Ambitious Roleplayer:
Best Story Writer:
Worst Speller:
Most Likely to Have Their Character's Pose Fill the Entire Chat Window:
Funniest Forum Poster:
Best Artist:
Biggest Oldbie (AKA the 'He/She/Kra's STILL Here?!?' Award):
Most Helpful Player:
Biggest Power Leveler:
Most Active Player:
Most Active Developer:
Most Helpful Developer:
Most Active Game Master:
Most Helpful Game Master:
Most Creative Game Master:

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EDIT (02:45 GMT, 18/11/2017):

• Added "Shadiest Character" upon request.

EDIT (20:15 GMT, 19/11/2017):

• Edited rules so you can now nominate the same player 2-4 times, with three times as being the preferred max if you're able to get away with it.
• Added "Most Chaotic Character", "Unluckiest Character", "Strangest Character", "Clumsiest Character", and "Most Volatile Character" from suggestions.
• Changed "Best Roleplayer" to "Most Community-involving Roleplayer", "Most Descriptive Roleplayer", and "Most Ambitious Roleplayer" for better variety.
• Changed "Most Liked Developer" to "Most Active Developer" and "Most Helpful Developer" for better variety.
• Changed "Most Liked Game Master" to "Most Active Game Master", "Most Helpful Game Master", and "Most Creative Game Master" for better variety.
• Removed "Biggest Forum Spammer" and "Most Argumentative" as they'd become outdated/pointless/odd.

Apparently -- as Can-ned Food observed and pointed out -- I made a mistake with the polling options (go figure ) so here's the fixed version: http://207.244.96.64/PlaneShift/smf/index.php?topic=43306.0

Of course this one can be deleted/ignored now.

  Xxaallya closed her eyes. She had to do this. But why? She put her right hand to her head at the sound of the distant, tenfold voice. Five female, four male, one kran.
 "No, don't..." She tried to clear her mind, she clenched her left hand into a fist, claws digging into her skin. She had to do this. She had to look inside. The ten voices laughed simultaneously in her head, distant, echoing. Do what, sweetheart? Kill yourself? Fat chance.
 "Enough of you!" Xxaallya screamed, digging her claws in further. Blood trickled out of her hand, but it seemed infused with all six ways at once. "I'm tired of your prattle! Begone!" She slashed the air violently with her claws. In her mind, there was silence. She waited a second. Ten seconds. She took a deep breath, and focused on herself. What she knew was her. She let the breath out slowly. Closing her eyes again, she focused on her mental realm. There was a job she needed to get done.

  Xxaallya found herself in her mental realm. It changed every time, always something was different. She ached where her scars were. The old wounds were acting up. Always did. Her right forearm and hand, the enki claw marks down her spine, and that scar from her right temple, down past her eye and onto her cheek. Not to mention the wound leading to her heart and the twin ones just below her chin, one on either side of her neck. She looked down. Same clothes. Brown tunic and pants. Her hands had leather gloves on them. She looked around.

  This time, the realm was a large, grassy valley, flanked on every side by large, rolling hills. The ground was soft and springy, and the air was clean and fresh. Xxaallya wasn't fooled. She looked around. That rock, there. Harmless, yes? No. Simply immobile. Silenced. That tree? A deadly enemy. That breath of wind, that silent pool, that gentle crystal ray? All killers. She looked in the distance. That tiny flame, the tall, rough mountain, the quiet desert sand? They could destroy everything. She spotted a golden hue. The fields of grain. One of the most dangerous things there is. But where was it? She needed to find it. Badly. She searched through the grass, ripped clouds apart, moved stones, and splashed through puddles.
 "Where is it?" She asked, angry and confused. "It has to be here. It always is," She looked up at the shadowy crystal. The deadly thing. She shook her head. "Of course."

  Xxaallya flapped her wings and flew close to it. She held her breath. She hated doing this. Relying on them. Letting her breath out, she unclenched her left hand. A couple deep breaths later, and crystal energy was glowing at her hand. She formed it into a barrier around her hand and arm, pushing it in, splitting the darkness apart. She reached in with her hand. Ah, yes, there it was. She grabbed the metal mask and pulled it out, withdrawing several yards as she stopped providing crystal energy to the shadowy orb. She watched as the two forces warred, and as the shadow orb appeared to eat the crystal energy, engulfing it in darkness.

  Xxaallya noticed a strange tune was playing. Sad, happy, and angry at the same time. It was full of grief, regret, love, joy, and hope. The notes of the song resounded through the realm, and Xxaallya shed a single tear as it unveiled the emptiness within herself. Her heart ached. Or, at least, the space her heart should be did. She rubbed her hand over the mask. It was a burial mask. She was searching, for something, anything. A sign. A clue. A message, maybe.

  The song started to fade, the music gave way to quiet. Silence fell, and her time there was up. She plummeted from the sky, watched as the blackness engulfed her world, observed the death of her control as one would the death of a fly. Indifferently. She saw, emblazoned in the blackness, the emptiness, ten runes, glowing, fierce. Crystal, shadow, water, flame, earth, air, forest, mountain, desert, and field. She fell far beneath them, and they whirled, spinning around faster and faster, shrinking, and finally settling into an indistinct spiral, swirling gently, with ten tiny points of light, unrecognizable as having once been runes. Then, even that went dark, and Xxaallya awoke.

[The next segment will most likely also be by me. Perhaps a diary segment, hmm? Hope everyone enjoys. ]

[This is a RP that is happening IG. It's kind of already been going for a while, but not really... I'm sort of expanding it now.]

  A fenki runs down the road from the gates in East Hydlaa, carrying an old leather book in her arms. She glances quickly up at the sky, then flattens her ears against her head as a drop of rain lands on her.

  Somewhere near Jayose's library a gust of wind tears a page loose, blowing it away. The fenki doesn't notice, keeping on running down the road, around the bends, out onto the plaza and past the fountain. She runs up the ramp leading on Octarch's Way, tripping on a jutting stone and twisting her ankle painfully. She cries out as she notices a breeze carry off another piece of paper, blowing away. She feebly attempts to grab it, but it is out of her reach. She hisses as the rain starts to pick up, putting the book in a pouch. She struggles to stand, but winces as she puts her weight on her right foot. She begins to crawl on all fours, heading to Highwatch.

  She inches her way up the steep stairs, which to her must seem a never ending cliff. When she finally reaches the tavern, the rain is coming down quite heavily. She crawls to the fire, wrapping herself in a blanket, and pulls out a letter to read, which has obviously been read many times before.

[By the way, those papers are actually out there, and are a way to join the RP. And, of course, there are other ways to join in.]

How would you RP a child? Would you put in a section about him/her/kra and RP their part using /my? 

My character is... Expecting.