Questing for Greatness: Announcing the Apeiron Doodiquest Tell-a-Tale Tournament!

Fine Salutations to you, wonderful Apeiron faithful! On this most timely of Tuesdays we are announcing a new contest — the Apeiron…

Fine Salutations to you, wonderful Apeiron faithful! On this most timely of Tuesdays we are announcing a new contest — the Apeiron Doodiquest Tell-a-Tale Tournament! Think that you have the creative chops to put together a short story as clever as a fox and as twisty as a snake? Want to win yourself a Primeval Planet NFT? Well hold onto your socks and let’s go on a magical journey of discovery together~

A quick mini-announcement before we embark: summer is coming fast and hot, and we’re lookin’ at preppin’ some sweet t-shirt designs as the weather heats up. This is a contest for our DADIs, our awesome Apeiron Ambassadors. If you want to join, you’ll need to be nominated to be a DADI Jr. To get this done, head on over to our Discord and start being an awesome community member and clinch yourself that nomination!

Now then, let’s get down to brass tacks and talk about the Doodiquest Tell-a-Tale Tournament. A little context: over the past few months, we’ve been putting out Doodiquests on the daily on our Discord. These Doodiquests range in style and substance, but the general format is the same: they offer short’n’fun lil’ stories that present a meaningful moral choice. Do good: work your way towards the ultimate goodness ranks! Do bad: the same, but with evil.

We’re pretty happy with the way the Doodiquests have been going, and it’s been fun to see the balance between good and evil shift around…I wonder if that will be important later? More and more of our community doods have been swayed onto one side or another, battle lines are being drawn…but yes, anyway! About the Doodiquests: we thought: hey, why should we be the only ones dispensing stories from our ivory tower? Let’s get more people involved! And so it was that the Doodiquest Tell-a-Tale Tournament was born.

The Tournament will work like this: you’ll submit two short stories. The first story will be set in the Apeiron universe. In the story, you’ll present a moral dilemma for a fellow godling, and then offer potential solutions using the elements of fire, water, air, and earth. Two of these solutions will be associated with being good and will lead you down a holy path. The other two solutions will be associated with evvvvilllll. The dilemma and solutions should be written in not more than 150 words.

Once you’ve finished laying out the dilemma and possible choices, you’ll write down the outcomes to your branching story. These are what the people will see in the Doodiquest after they’ve made their choice. Again, each outcome should be no more than 150 words.

For your second story you’ll have a bit more creative freedom. It can be any genre just as long as it sticks within 150 words and has some sort of moral dilemma. Additionally, instead of four possible outcomes, this second story will only have two for players to choose from. Other than that, the world is your oyster, the sky’s the limit. Show us your creativity power, no holding back!

If you need any examples, hit up the Doodiquest channel in our Discord. There are tons of them there for you to get an idea of what we’re looking for.

Ok, so those are the rules, how about judging? Last week, we mentioned we were expanding our community’s role in our events, making a big push for more transparency and fairness, and this will be the first time we get to do so! Our very own Dood Council, recently expanded and made up of our most passionate and doody community members, as well as the Apeiron Community Team will be judging the Tournament and selecting the winners.

Besides satisfying the basic conditions for entry (i.e. moral dilemma, within 150 words), the judges will be looking for high quality writing and creativity. This will be the first contest (of many!) we’re running and judging jointly with our community, and we look forward to your thoughts on it. If you have any ideas about how we could make it even better, reach out to us!

Finally, rewards! Based on the size of the different language groups in our community, we’ll be breaking up our entries into three pools: English, Chinese, and Other Languages. For each pool, we’ll have the following set-up:

• For less than 30 entries, the top winner will receive a Primeval Elemental Planet NFT, and the top 3 stories will be featured as Doodiquests.

• For 31–61 entries, the top 2 will each receive a Primeval Elemental Planet NFT, and the top 6 stories will be featured as Doodiquests.

• For more than 61 entries, the top 3 will each receive a Primeval Elemental Planet NFT, and the top 10 entries will be featured as Doodiquests.

Basically, the more people involved the more prizes up for grabs!

The Doodiquest Tell-a-Tale Tournament will last one week, starting from the time of posting of this article (May 31st 19:00 GMT+8) and running one week (closing on June 7th 23:59 GMT+8). Absolutely anyone can participate! To enter the Tournament, submit your stories at the link HERE before the deadline. That’s it!

And that is how it’s going to go down, in a nutshell. Any questions? Haul yourself over to our Discord where someone will undoubtedly be there to help you. And while you’re at it, join our Telegram and follow our Twitter to stay up-to-date on all the latest Apeiron news.

As always, thanks for reading, godlings. We’ll see you next time!