Yeah, well, Alt, I think now is as good a time to post this little warning:
1) The Way of Moderation is my creation and as such I have executive rights to its direction in entirety.
2) What this means is that I can go on unabashed, flagrant powertrips and nobody can do anything about it (except boycott the event in protest, which, furthermore, I can manipulate people into doing if I want them out.)
3) I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be biased. I'm going to be petty. I'm going to do all kinds of random things to your characters for the sake of self-enjoyment and writing a good story. I'm also going to be influenced not just by the characters but on how much I happen to like you.
4) Fortunately for all of you I wiped the slate clean; some of us may have had differences in the past but I ignored all of that and am merely assessing you from the period of the beginning of the WoM (which really was back in June, just so you know).
In short, this is a most unmoderator-like tournament. Your sole purpose here is to convince me of your worth in this unfolding story. As I said, convince me! If your character isn't compelling enough, you'll have to resort to fanning my ego and sucking up (but careful, too much sucking up is annoying). I suggest sparing use of "this is the epicest story I have ever read ever" and "you're the best, Strop" plus a small dose of prostrating yourself whenever I write on this thread...
Bwahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaa~
p.s. I'm actually serious about those four points I've listed there.
