The Review Club

Hear ye, hear ye!

The Kingdom of Cystia wishes it to be known that a new service has appeared in the form of the most Noble and Admirable Order of The Reviewers. This Review Club will be a volunteer force providing reviews on request to all of Cystia’s fine citizens. The details are listed below and all are welcome and encouraged to use this group to request reviews for their stories – this will make feedback available within a reasonable timeframe to those who want it. Special thanks to those fearless scholars who join The Review Club!

THE REVIEW CLUB
 

OVERVIEW

The Review Club is a group of volunteer Reviewers who read and review story-games on request. Reviewers pledge to complete a requested review within 4 weeks of assignment to a decent standard and can have up to 3 active requests at a time. Each Writer can have 1 active review request at a time.

REVIEWERS

1: Anyone can join The Review Club.
2: Reviewers can leave and rejoin at any time, as long as they have no outstanding Reviews unfinished.
3: Reviewers who volunteer to join The Review Club pledge to read and review any assigned reviews within 28 days.
4: The reviews must be of “a reasonable standard” (no single word or single sentence reviews!).
5: Each Reviewer may have up to 3 active review requests at a time, though only one of these can be for a 6-8 length story.
6: Reviewers receive additional points for each review completed in this way:
Level 0: 0 Completed Reviews (Peasant)
Level 1: 1 Completed Review – 1 Extra Point per review (Serf)
Level 2: 2 Completed Reviews – 2 Extra Points per review (Farmer)
Level 3: 5 Completed Reviews – 3 Extra Points per review (Craftsman / Craftswoman)
Level 4: 10 Completed Reviews – 4 Extra Points per review (Merchant)
Level 5: 20 Completed Reviews – 5 Extra Points per review (Knight)
Level 6: 50 Completed Reviews – 6 Extra Points per review (Lady / Lord)
Level 7: 100 Completed Reviews – 7 Extra Points per review (Prince / Princess)
Level 8: 200 Completed Reviews – 8 Extra Points per review (King / Queen)
Level 9: 500 Completed Reviews – 9 Extra Points per review (Emperor / Empress)
Level 10: 1,000 Completed Reviews (basically all the stories on the site) – 10 Extra Points per review (God / Goddess)
7: Reviewers who fail to complete a review within 28 days without good reason will receive a strike. Three strikes lead to permanent expulsion from The Review Club. One Strike can be erased by completing 10 assigned Reviews.
8: If no Reviews are assigned to a Reviewer in a four-week period the Admins will assign them a review.
9: Reviews are assigned to a specific Reviewer by request or sequentially to available Reviewers.
10: Only one 6-8 length story can be assigned to a reviewer at a time.
 

WRITERS

1: Anyone can request a Review for one of their stories, though they can only have one active request at a time.
2: Writers can ask for a specific Reviewer or Any, in which case it will be sequentially assigned to an available Reviewer.
3: Writers cannot ask for a specific Reviewer to keep reviewing the same story but they can ask for a specific Reviewer to review different stories they have written.
4: Writers who request a Reviewer who already has three review requests can join that Reviewer’s Waiting List.
5: Writers cannot provide deliberately impossible stories. Doing so will put them on a Banned list so they cannot request Reviews in the future.
6: If a Writer thinks a Review is especially poor (single words or sentence), they can appeal to an Admin and request a Strike for the Reviewer.

ADMINS

1: Admins will monitor the Review Club, assign requested Reviews to Reviewers and help to manage it generally.

MEMBERS OF THE REVIEW CLUB:

Cat2002116 Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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CavusRex Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Clayfinger Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Gryphon Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Mystic_Warrior Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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CYS has Skills?

I am calling for talent for CYS’ first CYS has Skills? competition!

If you have a hidden talent, skill or can at least flop amusingly across the floor for our judges, fill out THIS FORM!

One first place prize winner will win: 1) 100 pointless points 2) a CYS has Skills? trophy 3) a MHD comm worth $25.00 !

The date will be Saturday, January 31st. This should give you enough time to prepare your talent. Talents include but are not limited to: a dramatic reading of an excerpt of your own writing, playing or singing a musical piece, or drawing live caricatures. Please keep your talents under 5 minutes!

This event will occur on Discord.

More details to come.