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Unofficial GK Fan Fiction Contest : Rules

In an attempt to bring some semblance and order to the huge number of stories that have been posted to the Sierra newsgroups, I have undertaken the job of archiving all fan fiction postings that have been made to Sierra's General message board, St. George's Books, and (more recently) the Gabriel Knight Fan Fiction board. This is to ensure that everyone's effort doesn't disappear into the great "/tmp" directory in the sky...

This contest is open to anyone who has access to the Sierra message boards. This contest is created by gamers for fellow gamers to further our enjoyment and discussion of the Gabriel Knight series. Your entry can be a whole story, an introduction, a blurp, a conversation, a brief scene or anything you deem to be a suitable "prequel", "sequel" or connecting story line for GK1 and GK2. You can submit as many entries as you wish. In fact, we hope that each of you will submit more than one. And the length of your entry is only limited by your creative energy. We ask, of course, that you abide by the rules in the Sierra Message Board User Handbook when posting your story.

There are five categories where your entry will be considered:

1. The most humorous story, otherwise known as the "Move over, Tim" award. This is to salute Tim Curry for making some of us laugh out loud in GK1. Can you tickle our funny bones some more? Go for it!

2. The most realistic or probable prequel/sequel to GK1 and 2, aka the "Is it really you, Gabe?" award. Can you really guess what GK3 will be about? Do you know the games so well that you can think like Gabe? Let us in on your secret!

3. The best interactions and conversations amongst characters, aka the "It left me virtually speechless" award. Can you think of better come backs to those sarcastic Grace remarks? How about making the conversations at the Napoleon bar or the Gasthof a tad more interesting? Stupefy us!

4. The most romantic or passionately charged story, aka the "You hunk/enchantress you" award. This award is to recognize the contributions of gamers who were discussing the Gabe/Gracie story line. Here's a chance for you to dream up a new beau for Grace, or for Gabriel for that matter. And members of the Gabriel/Dean fan club, can you make your hunk even more alluring? Make our spines tingle!

5. And lastly, but most importantly, we want everyone to have a fair chance of being both a judge and a contestant. Therefore, we have reserved the most special award to be judged by all those on this board, webmasters included.

   This award goes to the overall best story, aka the "Ms. Jensen would be proud of you award". This, in part is a tribute to the designer of the wonderful games that we enjoy.

Please note that although we asked Jane Jensen to use her name in this award, Ms. Jensen is not involved in the implementation or judging of this contest in any way. We hope that you will all cast your votes for the best entry. A brief explanation of your choice would be appreciated. Your other fellow judges are:

• Ivar (Subbi)
• Jasper
• Karen
• Raymond (Voodoo Ray)

Deadline

After huge slippages from the original deadline of mid-August (hoho!) I have decided to announce the winners on Friday 26th September 1997.

The voting script that I have implemented for all the fan fiction entries will play a strong part in determining who the winner(s) will be (after compensating for the scandalous cheaters who have been logged attempting to vote multiple times, on multiple days, for the same fan fiction. You know who you are!).

This will be further supplemented by contributions from all the other judges who haven't been murdered in their beds, held hostage, or abducted by aliens!

The Prizes!

Ah yes! Thanks to the superb resourceful efforts of "an individual who just happens to know Jane", we have arranged for a personally signed copy of Jane Jensen's novel "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers" to be available as a prize to the winner of the "Ms. Jensen would be proud of you award".

May I just take this moment to point out that Sierra is in no way affiliated in this competition whatsoever. It is a purely fan-driven effort, which will be awarded to the fan fiction voted the best by the fans.

(Speaking as a collective) We have also arranged a small number of goodies which will be issued to each (uniquely) elected winner of the 5 categories above. These are a couple of T-shirts badged with... "Mask of Eternity" (Sierra's KQ8). Yeah, yeah, I know its not GK branded stuff, but I still think they make pretty cool prizes for an unofficial competition! Many thanks to "Hendley" (go see "The Great Escape" if you don't know what this character did!) for all their help with this!

In the interest of fairness ("and goodwill to all... people"), T-Shirts will be allocated strictly on a "one winner - one shirt" basis. In the case of an individual winning more than one category, the prize will be allocated to the next unique (and most-voted) entrant of that category. Unless you have two heads, this shouldn't be a problem!

Remember, its not too late to get those creative juices flowing. Don't worry about your literary skills. We're not really here to judge but to laugh, cry, read and reread your stories.

Everyone who enters this contest is advised that all entries should be posted to the Gabriel Knight Fan Fiction board. All entries should also entitle their entries explicitly as being "Fan Fiction : [Title]". The purpose of this is to ensure that readers are aware that they are reading material which is not GK canon.

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