Objective One:
Collaboration…
Work with another person who is participating in Cress d’Wiles! Each of the two writers should have one drow character. Are they working together or trying to kill one another? Or is it something else completely? You can either create an original short story or use one of the objectives below (it will not count for both objectives). You can work with more than one person, however you will only receive one point for all collabs entered.

Complete:
Shadow War by ~Havoc892, House Lhuhari and ~Grammer
---Havoc's Version
--- Grammer's Version.



Objective Two:
The following have to be in the writing in some way shape or form.
-egg
-cork
-curtain
-prison
-radiance
-fork
-brush
-knowledge
-state
-fuzz
-tender
-flake
-hinder
-limpid
-skulduggery
-maecenas
-today

Complete:
Drow Tale by ~Eternal-Pretenses, House Aleanandar



Objective Three:
A new invention…
Time to think up a new device of torture or weapon of war! How does this invention impact the drow? Does it benefit everyone or is it exploited by a single family?

Complete:
Sole Survival by ~Havoc892, House Lhuhari



Objective Four:
Love-Triangle…
It even happens in Drow society, but often with deadly results. From the perspective of all three involved parties and one of them parties won’t live to see another day by the time it’s through.



Objective Five:
Office Space…
Probably the only thing worse then running for your life is being stuck in a dead-end job in a cubicle while the renegade fax machine eats the eighth thing you’ve tried to send! To top it all off, the boss just took your red stapler! Write about how a drow would survive in an office environment. It does not have to follow the premise above, but should be in an office environment, and include a boss and coworkers.

Complete:
Office Space by ~Eternal-Pretenses, House Aleanandar
The Fax Thing by ~arkaham



Objective Six:
Cults Across the Underground…
There’s a new faith on the rise and it’s taking people by storm! Just what kind of faith is it and how it affects the population. Not to mention, how do other faiths take to this new one?

Complete:
The Greater Faith by ~Havoc892, House Lhuhari
Objective Six: The Cult by ~Flane-kanja, House Erenaeoth



Objective Seven:
FEAR…
What frightens you more? The evil that you know, or the evil that you don’t know? Your drow has just come face-to-face with that they fear most. Record what happens!

Complete:
Objective Seven: Fear by ~Flane-kanja, House Erenaeoth



Objective Eight:
Not Just a Walking Corpse…
Undead can cover all sorts of stuff, but right now, they’re a major problem for your drow! Write a piece that features heavily with the undead, including zombies, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, ghosts and any other form of the living dead.

Complete:
Death Drow and Dark Tastes by ~Eternal-Pretenses, House Aleanandar:



What is Cress d'Wiles?
Cress d'Wiles, Drow for Web of Words, is a special club, so to speak for the writers of Lolth-Scourge. It is to balance the projects that the artists get to do such as the card deck and the calendar. Members of Cress d'Wiles get a year to complete as many of the eight objectives as they want to or can do. At the end of the year they will receive a point per objective met, maximum 8 points per year.


Okay, so how will this work?
There are eight themes, assignments or requirements. Each one has to have a short story that satisfies that objective. That means each writer that participates will write up to eight short stories, their choice if it is the same character or even the same storyline all the way through.


How do I participate?
Send a note to the club informing you wish to be a part of the Cress d'Wiles. All active writers are displayed that do so in this journal, so you know who is participating in case of a collab assignment. Also, please participate with ideas. Send some ideas via note.


Is there any limits to the stories?
Only in the maximum length accepted and, of course, the main character or a main character must be Drow. Try to keep the stories under 10 typed pages, which is around 4,000 words. Poetry is also allowed as long as the objective is met. Everything else except the one-year deadline is up to the writer.


How do I submit the stories?
Send the link to the work via note, just like submitting monthly art.


How long do I have to complete all eight objectives?
You have until December 31, 2008 to complete as many objectives as you desire.