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This holiday season while you count your blessings, remember that your admin-given commendations are one of them. Sometimes they're truly deserved, sometimes they're just a gift for being funny, or because of blatant favoritism.

But do you know who lies awake alone on a cold night, and doesn't have any commendations? That's right, the Wardens. (Lol.) Somehow in our land of plenty, where commendations seem free for the taking, a veritable caste system has arisen, and you know how CYStians feel about countries with caste systems.

This holiday season, you can help out these disadvantaged CYStians, who are like you in every way, except for the fact that God made them Wardens. (Lol.)

For every 1000 points donated, we can come together as a community, combine our resources and buy a pity comm for a deserving Warden. (The 1000 doesn't have to fully come from one person, just donate what you can spare and it'll be tracked in a pool.)

Now you may ask, what makes a deserving Warden? Well it has to be one in the top ten list by the end of the year, because I mean, the bar is not high, wtf have the rest of you been doing all this time? Lol.

The qualifying Wardens can choose to share the comms equally, or compete for them, but since we're dealing with Enterpride, Petros, and Chris here I already know what the answer will be. Therefore whoever does best in the New Year's contest will gain the entire prize.

And if none of them have a qualifying entry? Then lol, guess people will learn better than to try and help an Order that won't help themselves again.

And I will make the first donation of 500 points.

I'll donate 10 points! 

What a trooper, thanks Random Noob. I hope others take heart from your generosity.

Well... I'm trying to get points not lose them but whatever. I'll donate 7. Specificaly that because it'll even me out to 300. I'm also not willing to risk many points from what I've seen of people's ability to get in an entry here.

When even the tiny gullible child has no faith in the Wardens lmao

What is this nonsense? I always assumed CYStia is a righteus meritocracy. I will not sacrifice my hard earned points to make some good-for-nothing's feel better about their laziness.

Bah humbug!

Lol.

I like this idea. I'll donate 2000 points, buying 2 comms for the wardens.

Milton, Clay, Chris, Enter, Petros, Stargirl, Ace, I feel like we've got some pretty cool CYStians in the running for this prize. I like it!

Best of luck to y'all!

Also, I just realized some of the CYStians mentioned are not in the top ten, and thus, wouldn't be in the running for the prize.

Is it possible for some of their story games to get commended, so they can jump up the ranks?

Storygames by Wardens not in the top ten that seem Comm-worthy(but it's up to the discretion of the mods)

1. Bird in a cage by Ace

2. Of Dreams and Daemons

3. Duke of Agincourt

RK just sacrificed ALL his points to you pathetic losers, wow.

I still got 69(lol)

Why would he do this? I'm suspicious

Observe how he immediately tried to get Milton boosted into the running. When in doubt, always assume Gayzette cronyism.

I see... I see

I'll take Duke of Agincourt under consideration.

Yay! There's definitely no inter-gazette nepotism going on here.

Have I mentioned by the way that I need $2000 for a new laptop?

Thanks for the recommendation RK :]

Unfortunately, I only have like a sixth of the commendations required to qualify. I doubt I can make myself eligible for this.

As for the point donation thing, I'd be willing to donate some points provided one of the eligible contestants is actually willing to confirm that they'll participate in the new year's contest.

Looks like you need 100 commendations in less than two months, which means you could do one of the following:

• Get 100 posts commended
• Write 50 feature-worthy comments
• Publish two 29k storygames
• Publish a 100k storygame

However, my best advice would be to combine these techniques, e.g. finishing a 29k storygame (which, if I remember the calculation correctly, was the optimal number which gives you 54 comms), reviewing 20 games (another 40 comms), and creating 6 funny/ helpful/ artistic posts. Now doesn't that sound feasible?

Also, as a plan b, I'm sure if you get within the top ten before the contest ends, which gives you a few more months, you could potentially qualify for stealing the commendation prize pot.

Damn.. I actually didn't know getting a story game featured gave so many comms. Maybe it isn't as hopeless as I thought. :D

Guess I'd better get to work on producing something feature worthy. I might as well end the year swinging.

Why write a featured comment when you can post a couple of sentences agreeing with Mystic?

That wouldn't work 99 more times, unfortunately. I did double-check some recent commendations first to make sure ironic comms still occurred and this wasn't an abuse of my power.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Oh by the way, Mystic is pretty cool

All those points for 2 comms? Congrats, you've saved a Warden the trouble of writing a featured comment or creating two funny posts!

(Unless I've misunderstood and it means two storygames would get commended, in which case that is a very different scenario)

But the Wardens are incapable of helping themselves.

I could potentially consider giving out 1 comm per 500 points, but originally I thought that would actually make it too easy given the number of surplus points floating around and the fact anyone can pitch in over the next month and a half. I hadn't quite expected anyone to throw their whole pot in though.

I think I'll refund RK half those points though just for extreme wholesomeness.

Obviously I'm not offering to commend storygames lol, they'd have to produce storygames worth commending first now wouldn't they?

I'll hold off on donations until I see any actual effort, then. I wonder if this allows a Warden to buy comms for themselves using points (or if they even would).

They can add to the pool, but they still need to get themselves in the top ten and then step over their unmoving neighbors in the contest.

Can't say as I approve of this as the Wardens should be pulling themselves out of the mud by their own bootstraps, but I'm sure this will all fall on deaf ears.