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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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Waiting List:

Clayfinger Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Waiting List:

Gryphon Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Waiting List:

Mystic_Warrior Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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RKrallonor Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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Will11 Joined: 19 January 2026, Reviews Completed: 0, Level: 0 (Peasant), Strikes: 0.
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And locked :)

If I were to join this club and someone were to request me to review a story whose contents I subjectively disliked, would I still be obligated to complete the review or would I have the option to decline?

I am afraid you would have to review it but you can enthusiastically record your dislike and explain your contemptuous but heartfelt disdain towards the author and all their work in your review :)

Hmm... a fair compromise I suppose. I'd like to join then. :]

Fantastic, welcome aboard! Don't forget, if the workload is overwhelming you can leave or pause at any time :D (just try not to leave any outstanding review requests).

And as the fourth he rode in on a pale horse, ready to fulfill his grim duty.

It's not that bad! But thanks and welcome :D

Well it was more in reference to being the 4th to arrive in the same way as a certain horsemen from that one obscure book nobody read does.

Don't worry the duty won't be grim to me, quite the opposite actually ;-)

I'll join

Fantastic, welcome :D

Huh. I thought I was a member of the Review Club, but I am not on the list...?

You are now :D

Well, I suppose I'll join. Need to read more 

This looks awesome! I would like to join! ^^ 

I'll join. Why not?

I'd love to join! Sign me up!

Lol, just realized I'm already in! Sweet! In that case, ignore my earlier message, it was a bit superfluous. I'd also like to make a request for a story review. Any members here, could you review "The Book of Vanishing Tales" by Cameron, if you haven't already done so. It's an older story that I think is really cool, and I've been meaning to write a review for, so hopefully I'll get some accountability by reviewing it alongside another accomplished reviewer :)

I'm sure there will be other requests, so don't feel any pressure to accept this one! Also, sorry to Gryphon in advance, I know you already reviewed this one, but I'm sure there will be another request that will be just as cool.

Reviewer: Any(except Gryph since he already wrote a marvelous review for this story :) )

I will probably regret this in the future, but I'd love to join this if possible!

That reminds me, Writers may also request reviews from the ever growing pool of Reviewers! As per the instructions, you may specify an individual or leave it open so one of the reviewers could take on the request.

I'll happily lend my services for this guild.