Re: "creative liberty", we (Cen and myself) will respect that which is specified for us, and should we have questions, we will ask before acting.

Furthermore, we will always run our concept by you for your approval before presenting it officially.

For these reasons, the deadline is for entry closure. When this will actually start depends on how much sorting out we have to do, as well as the promptness of your responses.

I'm sure it's after the deadline, which is in a week

Uhhh, just to reiterate, the deadline is 5th July 2009. A little under 3 weeks, in other words.

I've replied to all the emails I've received. To update so far, this is:

PoisonArrow- Frank the Sky-Pirate (ready to submit)
Pixie214- Pixel the Pixie (ready to submit)
bluydee- Bluydee the bounty hunter (fine-tuning)
FireflyIV- Firefly the Spectral Graffiti Wizard (fine-tuning)
jdoggparty- Richard and Garrett the Street Kid Duo (ready to submit)
ShintetsuWA- ShintetsuWA the wolf (fine-tuning)
Thoadthethoad- Thoad the Zombie Slayer (submitted)
random_player_of_ag- Randy the Shapeshifter (fine-tuning)
crimsonblade55- Crimson the Mysterious Swordsman (ready to submit)
Zega- The Bananaking (fine-tuning)

As you can see, things are starting to shape up! For those of you who I've said are ready, please be patient as I'm not going to open the Official Characters Thread just yet (until more people are ready...it tends to get mis-posted in).

I'm still waiting on a number of people...not gonna name names heh heh *cough* differential *cough* alt *cough* nicho *cough* kingbogan *cough* jezz *cough* pazx *cough* klaushouse *cough*

I see xzeno also said he'd join. Xzeno, I should warn you, I've stated in the FAQ that submitting a character sheet and not withdrawing from the tournament requires you to give me permission to use your character in this project insofar as your participation extends, because it requires you to submit the sheet to the Official AG Characters thread and expunging characters from story records is a real pain. If that sounds unreasonable to you, I'm afraid I'm not going to compromise on this!

I should make this clear to everybody else- if you do withdraw after the tournament begins, I'll be using your characters up to the point where they exit (no more). If this may prove to be a problem for you, you should withdraw your application before the deadline.

@ Pazx:

is it OK if I use two people, like in the MWT? Pierce and Mary...

Because I can't decide who to enter as.

Yes, so long as they act as a single team, and preferably if one of them is "the main" character.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. As for the MWT, "bogan war" references should be left out of the MoW!

I will make maybe ONE reference, after that, there will be no more!