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<h2>Spotlight</h2>
Every so often a member of the Sovereignty family or a particular character stands out, be it through model behavior, roleplay events, or sheer noteworthiness. And once a month we choose to honor these members by placing them in the spotlight! Nominations for the next Spotlight are accepted at any time and should be sent to <a href="/userlookup.phtml?user=katjaanimallover">Rawr</a>.

<h2>Warriors Name Game</h2>
You've seen 'em on the boards, and we're hosting one here! A description is given, names are suggested, and a winner is chosen. The winner will create the next round's description as well as judge it.

<h2>Create-A-Cat</h2>
An image is given and participants will have two weeks to create a matching character using the given form. At times certain pieces of information may already be filled out, and those should not be changed. The winning character will go up for adoption. Points are awarded to both participants and the round's winner.

<h2>Prompted Literature</h2>
This is a writing challenge that rewards both winners and participants with points. Given a prompt, members will create either a piece of prose or poetry that connects to it. Of the submissions, at least one winner will be chosen per round.

<h2>Prompted Art</h2>
Both winners and participants will be awarded with points in this artistic challenge. A prompt will be given and members will create an illustrated representation of that prompt. Of the submissions, at least one winner will be chosen per round.

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<a name="month"><h1>Spotlights</h1></a>
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<h2>Member Spotlight</h2>
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Member: Rii Username: rayria Characters: Snowpaw, Darkgaze, Sandkit Awarded: 50 points


Rii joined our guild well over 2 months ago, making her one of our older members. Since joining, she has been active in participating in guild related things, specifically activities. She has won first place in the literature prompt twice in a row as well as having won the Warriors Name Game. She has even recruited a member of Sovereignty. In addition to being outstanding at writing and roleplaying, she's fun, friendly, and a wonderful addition to our little family.

<h2>Character Spotlight</h2>
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Name: Tawnycloud Class: Lower Rank: Mother Roleplayer: Puppet (qassia) Awarded: 25 points 

Tawnycloud is much like any mother would be: gentle, caring and above all, fiercely protective of her kits. But what sets the beautiful mother apart from others is her strength. While she's not necessarily physically strong and doesn't appear to have any talents in the areas a subject should, she has a strong character and is able to overcome every obstacle with her kits including the dxxth of her mxte. Despite everything Tawnycloud has gone through, she remains friendly and open to others making her a valuable and well-liked member of the clan.

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<a name="name"><h1>Warriors Name Game</h1></a>
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<h2>Rules</h2>
1|| The winner of each round will receive 25 points and will create the next round's character description 2|| Each participant may suggest a maximum of three names 3|| The suggested name must be for the given description and must adhere to the naming guide's guidelines 4|| Members will have one week (until 02.15.2012) to neomail <a href="http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=katjaanimallover">Rawr</a> with their suggested names <h2>Description</h2>
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This she-cat is largely built and somewhat masculine in several aspects. She has a violent personality, and is quite reckless with her decisions -- she has a craving for fights and bloodshed just to get her own way. Her fur is short and jagged, painted a grey so dark that it almost looks black, with even darker stripes running down her back so dark that they are barely visible at all. Her eyes are a shocking amber, and her threatening stature fits nicely with her intimidating personality. However, as harsh as this she-cat may seem, she will always remain loyal at heart -- even if it's hard to shine through sometimes.
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<h2>Suggestions</h2>
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Jaggedfang Sootstorm Ebonyheart (Kaelyn) 
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<h2>Past Winners</h2>
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Hawkstripe, as suggested by Carrie
 Firewhisker, as suggested by Palm
 Brightstep, as suggested by Pheonix
 Berryblaze, as suggested by Rii
 Russetfrost, as suggested by Raine
 Scorchfur, as suggested by Leaf
 Mottledwhisker, as suggested by Cali
 Smallcloud, as suggested by Satsu
 Rookfrost, as suggested by Kaelyn
 Fernleaf, as suggested by Cazzy
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<h2>Rules</h2>
1|| All participants will receive 10 points 2|| The winner of each round will receive 100 points and will select the next round's image 3|| Each participant may create only one character per round 4|| The suggested character must be on a petpage 5|| The given form may be added to but not taken away from 6|| Members will have two weeks (until 02.24.2012) to neomail <a href="http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=katjaanimallover">Rawr</a> with a link to their suggested character

<h2>Character Template</h2>
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Name: name Age: in moons Gender: tom or she-cat Class: lower Rank: rank

*Power: describe power and its limitations Personality: assets and flaws History: may be either general or unusual *Relations: must get permission if relating to another roleplayer's cats Suggested Price: suggest a price or a price range for your character


*if applicable

Name: 
Age: 
Gender:
Class: Lower
Rank:
Power:
Personality:
History:
Relations:
Suggested Price:

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<h2>Suggestions</h2>
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None yet
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<h2>Past Winners</h2>
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<a href="/~toby_e51">Kaelyn</a> <a href="/~Datenroku#five">Satsu</a> <a href="/~LaMarmo">Brine</a>
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<a name="prompt"><h1>Prompted Literature</h1></a>
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<h2>Rules</h2>
1|| All participants will receive 25 points 2|| Submissions must somehow relate to the given prompt 3|| Submissions do not have to relate to Warriors 4|| Submissions must adhere to TNT's rules 5|| Submissions must be published on a petpage 6|| Each participant may submit only once per round 7|| The overall winner will select the next round's prompt 8|| All submissions must be sent to Rawr by midnight on February 26, 2012 9|| Results will be announced on February 29, 2012

<h2>Rubric</h2>
For Prose|| ---/100
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Petpage| 5 (is it easy to read?)
Capitalization and Punctuation| 10 (are they correct?)

Spelling and Grammar| 10 (are there any typos? is the grammar proper?)

Organization| 10 (does it flow? is it easy to follow?)

Creativity| 25 (what did you do with the prompt? is it interesting or unique?)

Story| 30 (does it make sense? was it engaging throughout?)

Bonus| 10 (does it have a wow factor? exceptional imagery, gripping characters, etc.)

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 For Poetry|| ---/100

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Petpage| 5 (is it easy to read?)
Capitalization and Punctuation| 10 (are they correct?)

Spelling and Grammar| 10 (are there any typos? is the grammar proper?)

Organization| 10 (does it flow? is it easy to follow?)

Rhythm| 15 (did it have a unique rhyming scheme, assonance, or repetitious syntax?)

Depth| 15 (how many layers are there? how deep can a reader dig to find meaning?)

Creativity| 25 (what did you do with the prompt? is it interesting or unique?)

Bonus| 10 (does it have a wow factor? unique philosophy, strong metaphors, etc.)

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 For Drama|| ---/100

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Petpage| 5 (is it easy to read?)
Capitalization and Punctuation| 10 (are they correct?)

Spelling and Grammar| 10 (are there any typos? is the grammar proper?)

Organization| 10 (does it flow? is it easy to follow?)

Speech| 10 (are what the characters saying believable?)

Stage Direction| 10 (can a reader clearly see what is going on?)

Story| 10 (does it make sense? was it engaging throughout?)

Creativity| 25 (what did you do with the prompt? is it interesting or unique?)

Bonus| 10 (does it have a wow factor? exciting story, excellent use of irony, etc.)

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<h2>Prompt</h2>
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<h2>Submissions</h2>
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<a href="/~Alaona">Letting Go</a> by Carrie <a href="/~rayria100">Graveyard Visits</a> by Rii <a href="/~epic_creamsoda">Forever & Always</a> by Leaf <a href="/~twiliey">Gone</a> by Spoon 
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<h2>Past Winners</h2>
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First Place: Rii for Star Gazing Awarded: 300 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: This story really touched me. I could relate to both of the characters and I love how you explained their relationship and how it unfolded as the story went on. At the very beginning it's not quite clear (at least to me) who is speaking when, but other than that I didn't really notice any technical mistakes. The description and imagery in this story is also beautiful.
 Grade: 79/100

Second Place: Raine for Darkness Eternal Awarded: 200 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: What impressed me the most was just the originality and creativity of this piece. I don't know what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. Secondly, I love the all the names of the characters, places, and things in the story. Very creative, once again. Maybe it's just me, but the end seemed a bit rushed. I mean the story can't go on forever, I know, but it was summed up so quickly that I'm still not quite sure what happened and how Solyss gained power. There were also a couple minor spelling and grammar issues, but nothing that I really need to point out.
 Grade: 74/100

First Place: Rii for Lost Autumn Romance Awarded: 300 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: I loved the imagery that went into this. Technically-speaking, this piece was almost perfect. It could have been improved by better indicating the shift from reality to--and forgive me for this word but--hallucination. I had a hunch as to what was going on so I was fine with the sudden use of "he," but the transition could be smoother. I loved how an entire relationship was summarized by a mere paragraph as did I love what I thought was a vague implication that this sort of meeting with her late husband has happened before. That she's still full of melancholy at the end made it clear to me that despite the pleading of her husband's ghost, her time was short, and to read deeper into this, that could be connected to the fact that winter (what is usually associated with death) is on its way.
 Grade: 78/100

Second Place: Cali for An Autumn Breeze Awarded: 200 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: Although there were a handful of typos and fragments, the overall story was one that I thought engaging. I found myself hanging on the words, because I wanted the family to take the cat in and had to see what the girl would ultimately decide. The beginning had a vagueness about it, and while that did prompt further reading to find answers, there was room for confusion. Specifying a bit more might benefit as would additional description, perhaps even a bit of dialogue.
 Grade: 68/100

Third Place: Alex for Dancing in Autumn Awarded: 100 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: There wasn't a rhyme scheme, but I did find something interesting. I don't know if this was intentional, but there was a certain similarity I discovered between the words "down" and "ground." I read them to rhyme, and I did want to mention that because, for me, that faux couplet made the poem seem all the more poetic. There was a clear repetition involving the sky and the wind, and I did like the end in which the leaves rose up again as if to give a sense of rebirth. I can't extract much else from the poem, however. One thing worth mentioning is that there was no punctuation, and I would suggest adding it in where necessary.
 Grade: 65/100

First Place: Revv for Fear Awarded: 300 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: For the record, I'm not a huge poetry buff, but I certainly tried to give Fear a solid evaluation. To begin, although there's such a thing as artistic style, every line of a poem should be capitalized and a few of the commas should actually be semicolons. As a sequence of events to illustrate hearing what's not there, the poem was very well organized. Neither the rhyming scheme nor the meter was consistent throughout, but that didn't make the poem any less effective. A few of the rhymes stuck out to me because they were less obvious, such as "scare" and "there." Overall, the poem had a nice flow and read well. Its concept was easy to relate to, and I personally can't tell you how many times I've looked over my shoulder fearing that someone was there. Even so, I wonder if the poem could have been improved by drawing from other images or instances of fear in order to better encompass its experience. For me, Fear was a very fun read, and I very much enjoyed how something so simple was made into something chilling.
 Grade: 72/100


Second Place: Alex for Untitled Awarded: 200 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: Untitled struck me as an excellent skeleton and snippet. The structure and the technical bits such as spelling and grammar were all there as was the gist of its dark storyline, but I felt that it could have had so much more flesh. The description that did show up was good, and I wished that there was more of it. I also wanted to know more about what our protagonist was feeling, what the face of her dead father looked like, and perhaps some more about the protagonist and her family prior to this traumatizing event. I had a lot of questions by the piece's end (who was the protagonist? what was the monster doing? how did the monster get to her house? why her family?), and while it can be beneficial to leave some questions unanswered for the sake of generating reader curiosity, others might be better off answered. I'm convinced that if this was given more detail and background, then it would be just phenomenal. I wholeheartedly hope that Untitled is expanded on.
 Grade: 61/100


First Place: Kaelyn for Ring of Fire Awarded: 300 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: Considering its pre-story breakdown of all things related to demons, Ring of Fire was clearly given a fair amount of thought prior to its conception. That said, I wish that there was more information to be squeezed directly from the text about this fantasy AU. There was at least one typo and a few misplaced commas, but overall the work was of a good quality. Imagery was well used in spite of a few cliches, and the vocabulary as well as the punctuation was pleasingly varied. The characters featured in the piece are left ambiguous even by the end, though I still felt most attached to poor Mrs. Kindra. I enjoyed how each section prior to the climax gradually built up to the introduction of Leigh. As a short story, it followed a solid plotline and incorporated the prompt in an interesting way that even included a prominent symbol. All along I thought the protagonist was to find hope amongst tragedy; little did I know that he himself was the story's hope. And--excuse the cheese--I myself hope to see more of this author. Grade: 70/100
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<h2>Rules</h2>
1|| All participants will receive 25 points 2|| Submissions must somehow relate to the given prompt 3|| Submissions do not have to relate to Warriors 4|| Submissions must adhere to TNT's rules 5|| Submissions must be posted on a petpage 6|| Submissions must include a description of the process behind the piece 7|| Each participant may submit only once per round 8|| The overall winner will select the next round's prompt 9|| All submissions must be sent to Rawr by midnight on February 26, 2012 10|| Results will be announced on February 29, 2012

<h2>Acceptable Art Forms</h2>
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Collage 
Comic 
Design (poster, fashion, etc.) 
Digital Art (pixel, vector, paintings, etc.) 
Fan Art 
Fractal Art 
Mixed Media 
Photography 
Photo-manipulation 
Sculpture 
Traditional Art (pencil, pastels, paints, etc.)

<h2>Prompt</h2>
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<img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/2mzy4j6.gif"> Neomail your submission to <a href="http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=katjaanimallover">Rawr</a>

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<h2>Submissions</h2>
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<h2>Past Winners</h2>
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First Place: Palm for Rise from the Ashes Awarded: 300 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: I love the beautiful simplicity of this piece, yet at the same time the detail that went into stuff like shading or the face of the bird including the red eyes. Your idea for the prompt was pretty unique. Also, I've worked with MS Paint before so I know how difficult it can be. Just quickly pointing out, some of the white spots around the bird are a little distracting especially since they stand out from the grey/red.

Second Place: Kaelyn for A Golden Gift Awarded: 200 points + 25 points for participation Feedback I love how you pulled characters from the roleplay even into the art! And you paid attention to the detail of the cats from their pictures such as the color of their eyes, the markings in their fur, etc. I also love the position they're lying in with Nightwing's paw around her kit. What could use improvement is the background behind Nightwing and Golden(kit), and the direction of the color pencil strokes (specifically their fur) could look a little more natural.


Third Place: Leaf for In My Arms Awarded: 100 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: I have a soft spot for sketches, and this is really good. I think my favourite part is the facial -disallowed_word- primarily his hand (what should be larger) and leg (what should stick out more)) seem a bit off. I'm not sure how intentional this was, but the bench has a skew to it that makes it seem as though the boy might soon fall on the girl.


Second Place: Night for Autumn Tigers Awarded: 200 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: I must confess that I don't know too much about photo-manipulation, but blending pictures is hard, and those tigers really do look as though they could be in that autumnal forest. While there are a few sharp, telltale lines, it doesn't look forced like some other photo-manipulations I've seen. The color of the tigers complements their background and I love that there's some prominent green in this picture, which is different, so excellent selection on your part. The bordering forest images did confuse me as I'm not entirely sure why they're there. Perhaps they enhance the autumn feel, but I'm under the impression that the center image can stand alone.


Third Place: Raine for Leaf Chase Awarded: 100 points + 25 points for participation Feedback: The movement in this picture is a plus. My favorite part of the whole is the kits playing in the background, and I love how the foreground's leaf is shaded. Also in the foreground is a cat, and I'm fond of the way its eyes are colored. The whiskers look great. However, the placement of the foreground's cat could be bettered (perhaps pulled closer to hide the front paw) seeing as the background image doesn't give much ground for such a closeup. Additionally, the tail could be made longer. 

 
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