We enjoyed reading all of your contest entries so much that I wanted to take the time to tell you what we loved about each of your stories!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us and the entire Stonewall community!

• @Rayne: Most creative entry: this entry was ranked the highest of all entries in the area of creativity!  Reading this story felt as though we werre reading it as a visitor to the Iconian war museum on Earth, forty or fifty years after the events of "Midnight".  It was like we were reading the postcard, which was being kept under glass, along with a placard next to the display that detailed the circumstances of the exhibit's history.  It was very chilling and impactful, sending shivers down our spines!  An awesome and truly original contest entry - the graphic was so authentic and amazing!
• @NicholasJohn16: We'd read and loved this story before, during the last contest and the second read-through was no different.  Not only is this a tear-jerking tale of love lost, but it also made us feel as helpless as I imagine Nick to have felt in the story.  Thanks for sharing this true, tragic tale!
• @Duriansol: An interesting story about the courageous death of one of your toons giving rise to the life of one of your alts!  A truly original story that paralelled Spock's death and the transferrence of his Katra that ultimately, once again, gave rise to new-found life.  Great story!
• @Thval: We never thought that a story about a non-humanoid race could be so impactful, but as the story came to a close and tragedy struck from all angles, we found ourselves very touched and moved by the tale.  We couldn't imagine investing all of my memories and hopes for the future in finding that one person, only to have that hope so jarringly wrenched away.  Coupling that soul crushing defeat with the discovery of plans of treachery at the hands of those closest to us, made for one of the most powerfully tragic tales, and we joined Pa'Squal in his blood cry for vengeance!
• @Niko: The death of M’Freya's parents once again tugged at our heartstrings as her tale of tragedy and loneliness became her source of strength and the catalyst to her joining Starfleet.  We'd love to read more about M'Freya and how those events shaped the rest of her life in Starfleet and the adventures to follow!
• @TLara: We loved this terrificly original tale of both Sleg and Onara willing to sacrifice everything in the name of love.  It was great fun to read about an uncharacteristically brave Ferengi who was willing to risk everything to his name.  We always hoped there was room in the Ferengi heart for great bravery and your tale confirmed it!  This was a perfectly Ferengi story in every way and it brought smiles to our faces in spite of the tragedy that followed!

Click the button below to see an index of your entries that we'll be sharing with the community, the final standings and some artwork that I did for each of your stories!

Stonewallers: We're super excited to announce the winners of the Stonewall Character #TalesofTragedy writing contest!  Thank you to @GXV3 and @Jacien who helped me judge all of the amazing entries!  Each of us individually scored each of the entries in the categories of creativity, detail and impact.  The average of all three of our opinions was then used to produce a final score.  All of your submissions were amazing to read and really tugged at our heart strings in true tragic fashion!  Thanks so much for once again sharing your creativity with the group and we can't wait to run the next writing contest in a few months time.

The writers of our top three ranked entries will be contacted within the next day to arrange for delivery of prizes!  All of our other contestants will be awarded TWO Stonewall credits, which can be redeemed for in-game loot through our Stonewall Credit Store!

Click the link below to reveal the winners and read everyone's entries!

I know, Im sorry @Niko, @NicholasJohn16 and I are working on getting everything back online and back to normal asap

In the mean time, here is a list of all items we have, in text form.

http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/102473-stonewall-credits-store-items-list

I cannot seem to be able to view the store or how many credits i have, i keep getting a 404 page.

Completely true :P

I saw this and couldn't help but imagine that this would be @LarsAKALordZandor while reading the entries :D

Ask, and ye shall cry.

You brought this upon yourself, and that is the greatest tragedy of all.

This is me reading the entries... *grabs tissue*

hmm some good reads to ponder over

interesting

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Sadly I didn't manage to finish my story in time, but good luck to all participants! :)

That's awesome.  My PSN handle is Zander_Hawk.  Now I need to get a VR device for PS4 or PC.

Some friends and I will be playing Star Trek Bridge Crew and want to create a friends list of those we can play with who we know are LGBT or LGBT friendly so people can be themselves while playing or not be exposed to the usual online riff raff when trying to enjoy a space adventure.

Please let me know if you are going to be playing as well, what platform you're on (yay!  it is cross platform!) 

I will be playing on PS4.  My PSN handle is kaaleb

A friend and I have just started an LGBT friendly guild in ESO. Alliance of Vivec.  Feel free to join us :) Just a social/adventure guild.

Any guild member should be able to invite a player that is in-game to the guild. The command is "/ginvite character name"
We have been discussing the use of discord so if you'd like to talk more about it, Panaeon, feel free to send me a private note here on the site. I thought I'd changed the permissions for the guild ships so that regular members can move them but I'll double check.

Hey Karsten,

I love SWTOR. It's a really awesome game. I started on EU server (Tomb of Freedon Nadd) and therefore was never able to join Stonewall guild. I got 4 characters level 70 (2 Sith [they are AWESOME :)], 1 Jedi, 1 smuggler on republic side) and went through the story-line alone. Each of them is with different guild and all these guild die-off with time which is a pity.

Max

Thank you to everyone who entered the #TalesofTragedy writing contest!  The contest is now closed.  We'll be reading through everyone's amazing entries and will announce the winners during the week of May 8th!  Good luck to all!

I have been inviting a new character from @LarsAKALordZandor to KoS and was wondering why no one had moved the ship to Corellia for the Rakghoul Event for easier access and possible Orbital support.


I kinda got the Conquest Objective done on my own within 2 or 3 days, but it's kinda sad to play alone and even though server population is significantly higher than on "The Progenitor" (where I am Guild Lead of a LGBTQ-friendly Guild and unfortunately there the server population is so low, that it's hard to find any new recruits, why I wanted to see how it is going on the Harbinger with you "Homies"), it's not as easy to find decent folks to team up with as I hoped it would be on a server with this amount of activity.

I just made friends with another long-term inactive player yesterday with my Trooper "Craí", whom I couldn't invite to our Guild because no one was there to do it. So a funny dude invited me to "Ten Inches Unbuffed" with him, which he and his best friend just created earlier with flagship and Guild Bank, that I could even help him understand functionality with in some parts.


You know, it's nice helping each other out in a social environment...but for that to be perceivable, there must be other people present with their characters to interact with and share a common goal, excitement in second instance (after "presence")

I also was logged in to Teamspeak for a couple of times...with the same amount of (in-)activity.

So, if you're using Ventrilo or - even better - Discord now, I don't find any information here about it pinned to the top of any of the KoS-Forum Threads I've seen so far...which is actually contrary to what the Guild Motto says, that pops in everyone's face at login stating there is a faction-spanning App available on this website.

Also, I just found half of my text being cut off and deleted for this post and I'm really annoyed by it.

I was suggesting making Guild Leadership more flexible and put active players in a position of actually doing stuff with Flagship (since it gives Orbital Support and a nice base for Event Activities like the current Rakghoul Event.

In addition, I'd also like to suggest using a more flexible - and FREE - communication channel (because the Teamspeak Mobile App costs a few EUR/USD on the Google Appstore at least, whereas the Discord App is free for all Platforms and very flexible to use as chat app, too).

I can help setting things up, IF someone asks me to do so nicely. But I'd also like to keep the GA(y)MING "Atmosphere" casual since it shouldn't feel like work in a leisure time activity, i.m.h.o.

So, if you want to save the Guild, then let it come back to Life...if necessary even open it up to LGBTQ-FRIENDLY players. But without (social) activity, it's plain useless in a Game, that is based on Teamplay and social interaction.

With my other character I stand in awe on how quickly a Guild can be set up and grow. Even though I think the attention span of people is decreasing with time and few are willing to work out any difficulties. But that's just how Life works. Life still happens in a Game Environment,
because you cannot take the human factor out of the Gaming Experience because it's friggin Humans, who play it. :-P

Anyway, I'm gonna be on again and since you know my second character name now, too, feel free to add him to your FL to see, if I'm on and send me a message, so I can do the same. Thanks in advance and hope to play with some (more) of you sometime (soon?).

Hugs and cheek(y) kisses...

Karsten (aka Panaeon/Craí )

My Jedi Shadow is learning Biochemistry (350+ atm of this post) and has fitting support skills Bioanalysis and Diplomacy.

My other character ("Craí"), has started Armormech, Slicing and Underworld Connections, but is not in KoS since nobody seems ever to be online these days.

My Jedi Shadow is learning Biochemistry (350+ atm of this post) and has fitting support skills Bioanalysis and Diplomacy.

My other character ("Craí"), has started Armormech, Slicing and Underworld Connections, but is not in KoS since nobody seems ever to be online these days.