reQuest 2019: the reTurn (event)

reQuest 2019: the reTurn

Let's celebrate the new year with the reTurn of reQuest! The Quest of reQuest will run for the month of January and will involve YOU writing one or more writeups based on requests you will receive from other noders who are also participating. As a bonus for participating, you can also make requests from other noders for the writeups you want to read.

How It Works

Do you ever think, "I wish noder would write more like this"?

Do you ever wonder, "What do my fellow noders want me to write?"

The reQuest is here for you!

Each participating reQuester will receive at least 3 anonymous requests for a writeup, submitted by fellow reQuesters. A request might be for a topic, style or format. ReQuesters fill their requests by noding them! Be sure to /msg reQuest to let us know that you have filled your request, so that we can update the list here to include a link to all completed requests.

Requests from reQuest participants can be sent to the reQuest team by message; /msg reQuest from right now until 23:59 server time on 21 January 2019.  The early cutoff date for requests will allow participants plenty of time to fulfil all the requests on their lists. All requests will be listed anonymously in this public node from 00:00 1 January 2019 onwards. Additionally, private messages will be sent to each participant with details of their personal request list. As requests are made by messaging the reQuest team, the reQuest team (Nemosyn & Silverai_Me) will obviously see your request, however we will put up the request up anonymously so that others, including the recipient, cannot see who made the request. We will add all requests to the list, and in the event that no request is made for a reQuester, we will add some of our own to ensure that everybody has a steady trickle of requests through the month. As a courtesy, we ask each reQuester to make a maximum of 3 requests at a time, and consider that a reQuester will probably want to start reQuest with some requests but perhaps not with an overwhelming amount like eleventy billion requests to fill.

Writeups can be published from 00:00 server time 1 January until 23:59 server time on 31 January 2019 to receive rewards. You can pick which requests you want to fill, but a minimum one request must be fulfilled. You can choose to fill all of your requests too, if you want to. Requests can still be filled and published after 31 January 2019 and the link will still be added to this node, but belatedly filled requests will be noted as late and miss out on Quest rewards.

A request shall be considered filled at the noder's discretion, however the reQuest team reserves the right to pass ultimate judgement on a writeup, should they choose to exercise it.

Step 1: Join the reQuest

• Commit to writing one or more new writeups that fill your requests during January
• /msg reQuest asking to join

Step 2: Make Some Requests

• /msg reQuest with the name of any noder and what you would like them to write. This can be a topic, style, format, or simply a writing prompt.
• For ideas for requests to make, check out the list below for the names of participating noders, and have a look at some of their existing writeups, their homenodes, or chat to them in the Catbox to get an idea of what they usually contribute.
• Remember the aim is to encourage and inspire fellow noders, not to make them feel overwhelmed!

Sample Requests:

/msg reQuest I want Silverai_Me to write a song with 13 lines and one really good Australian slang word!
/msg reQuest I want Nemosyn to review "Vader's Little Princess" by Jeffrey Brown
/msg reQuest I want Tem42 to fill the nodeshell picket fences
For further ideas, see all the requests made last year in reQuest 2018.

Step 3: Fill your requests

• reQuest will update this post with requests from other reQuesters between 1^st January 2019 and 21^st January 2019
• Write an amazing, beautiful writeup in response to each request you receive
• Publish your writeup
• /msg reQuest with a link to your published writeup. The reQuest team manually updates this node, we don't know if a reQuest has been filled unless YOU tell us!
• Rinse and repeat!

Rewards

The reQuest 2019 Team will be distributing rewards upon Quest completion as follows:

• All participants who send in a request for someone else will receive 2 GP for the first 20 requests, and 1GP thereafter, with a cap of 100GP.
• All participants who fill at least 1 request will receive an easter egg
• Write 1-5 requested nodes - 50 GP, plus a bonus of 5 GP per node
• Write 6-9 requested nodes - 100 GP, plus a bonus of 10 GP per node
• Write 10-19 requested nodes - 150 GP, plus a bonus of 15 GP per node
• Write 20-29 requested nodes - 200 GP, plus a bonus of 20 GP per node
• Write 30-50 requested nodes - 300 GP, plus a bonus of 30 GP per node

Anyone completing more than 50 requested nodes shall be doing it only for the joy of themselves, their reQuester, and other readers from that point onwards.

Please note: any nodes nuked will not count towards your total. Rewards will be distributed a few days after the Quest ends, to allow last-minute writeups to be voted on and pass muster with the editors.

Background Processes

The reQuest 2019 Team will be updating requests made and filled, sending and monitoring requests throughout the month, and distributing rewards after the completion of reQuest 2019.

The reQuest 2019 Team reserves the right to pass ultimate judgement on a write-up, should they choose to exercise it.

Bugs, queries and requests should be sent to /msg reQuest

Blame and criticism can be directed to reQuest, Nemosyn, Silverai_Me, and deities of your choice.

About reQuest

This Quest was the brainchild of a catbox conversation between Nemosyn, Silverai_Me, & Estelore at the end of 2017. Upon receiving the e2gods blessing by Tem42 to run reQuest, the Quest was successfully run for the first time in January 2018. The reQuest Team having enjoyed themselves greatly and the quest itself being well received, we've decided to keep doing it.

reQuesters & Requests

Number of participants: 

20

Number of requests: 

139

Number of requests fulfilled before the end of reQuest 2019:

52

Number of requests fulfilled after end of reQuest 2019 (ongoing):

1

• Auspice
  1. Request: For Auspice: Please write about a supernatural person or creature who's been assigned to watch over a network operations center.
  2. Auspice to fill This node should be filled with sonnets!
  3. I want Auspice to fill the nodeshell The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true.
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
  4. I want Auspice to write a node for the Alaska, The Crimson Rider, and the End of the World category.
  5. For Auspice, Chord, Bookreader, Zeph, and anyone else who feels the urge: And we killed him and he's dead. needs some zombie flash fiction.
     • Filled on 15 January 2019: And we killed him and he's dead.
  6. I want Auspice to write a paradelle.
  7. i request Auspice fill My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• Bookreader
  1. Request: for BookReader: Please write up the Aztec Motel.
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: Aztec Motel
  2. Bookreader, please fill the nodeshell The Common Room of the Gods.
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: The Common Room of the Gods
  3. Can BookReader please put the collection of homenode riddles in a proper node where we can peruse them at leisure and have a guess?
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: Homenode Riddles
  4. Bookreader: Alwahiduddin on the Moon sounds interesting. What's that about?
     • Filled on 13 January 2019: Alwahiduddin on the Moon
  5. I want BR to write about his favorite fantasy creature, including ones he's created himself
     • Filled on 13 January 2019: January 13, 2019
  6. For Bookreader: node your favorite obsolete word.
  7. For Auspice, Chord, Bookreader, Zeph, and anyone else who feels the urge: And we killed him and he's dead. needs some zombie flash fiction.
     • Filled on 18 January 2019: And we killed him and he's dead.
  8. Bookreader should tell the story of a magic cat, and how it destroyed Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
• Chord
  1. Chord please fill songs form the woods and that form is not a typo. How? I believe it!
  2. I want Chord to write a node about the last porn blog on Tumblr desperately hiding from the bots searching for it.
  3. I want Chord to write a node about the worst Steven Spielberg movie featuring a shark and named after a piece of anatomy.
  4. I request chord write a ghost story.
  5. For Auspice, Chord, Bookreader, Zeph, and anyone else who feels the urge: And we killed him and he's dead. needs some zombie flash fiction.
  6. I want Chord to write a story about a family of 1,000th generation mammoth-wranglers who have to smuggle the last existing North American mammoth to a secret breeding program in Northern Siberia. Ideally, the story should involve a decommissioned Soviet submarine at some point.
  7. Chord should tell the story of a magic cat and how it almost destroyed New York.
• Estelore
  1. Request: For Estelore: Please tell us the best Welsh word
     • Filled on 28 January 2019: hwyl
  2. reQuest Estelore to fill There is no goddamn thing such as a succinct sonnet.
     • Filled on 25 January 2019: There is no goddamn thing such as a succinct sonnet.
  3. request Estelore anonymise
     • Filled on 31 January 2019: anonymise
  4. I want Estelore to write a steamy fanfic about the Greek Gods.
  5. I want Estelore to write a node about conlanging.
  6. Actually I would like multiple people to fill that one: someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• etouffee
  1. I want etouffee to write a poem about an extremely unattractive dog
     • Filled on 24 January 2019: scruffy
  2. Request: For etouffee: Please create a poem which includes the following words: cascade; pickle; zoological.
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: A certain zoo employee
  3. I want etouffee to write a poem about the extinction of a butterfly.
  4. etouffee to fill Your own black intention, please.
     • Filled on 06 January 2019: Your own black intention
  5. etouffee to fill unremember.
     • Filled on 25 January 2019: unremember
  6. To etouffee: fire, music, a woman, and a mirror. Inkstained fingers.
     • Filled on 27 January 2019: the night absolutely into me
  7. I want etouffee to write a poem about a really, really angry raindrop.
  8. hey, etouffee to ALSO write about neurosyphillis. Does not have to be a poem but it could.
• Evil Catullus
  1. Fill a nodeshell softlink in one of gate's stories
  2. I request EC write a ghost story.
  3. For Evil Catullus: Tell us about a sea monster.
  4. Another request: For Evil Catullus: Please write a review of a movie you really love.
  5. I would love an update daylog from Evil Catullus.
     • Filled on 30 January 2019: January 30, 2019
  6. I request EC fill You smell desperate. I like that about you.
• jessicaj
  1. Can jessicaj please fill any nodeshell softlinked in one of gate's stories?
     • Filled on 16 January 2019: The friction between yes and no
     • Filled again on 26 January 2019: About Pride And Butterfly Ashes
  2. I request Jessicaj write a ghost story.
     • Filled on 16 January 2019: The friction between yes and no
  3. Please tell us about either the best or the worst shoe.
     • Filled on 26 January 2019: The worst shoes (combining the best and the worst shoes)
  4. I would like jessicaj to explain the pros and cons of the designated hitter in baseball.
  5. Please write a daylog which includes the words shampoo, bebop, samurai, wallaby, and cowboy.
     • Filled on 16 January 2019: The friction between yes and no. "It isn't a daylog, but I did use the words; cowboy, samurai, wallaby, shampoo, and bebop in it as well..."
  6. I request jessicaJ node her favorite recipe.
  7. I request jessicaj node her favorite dessert recipe.
  8. Have jessicaj write about a time she had a really good day.
• Jet-Poop
  1. I want Jet-Poop to do a factual writeup about a comic book writer/artist/whatever he thinks is way overrated
  2. Jet-Poop fill The Heart and Soul Nebulae
  3. I want Jet-Poop to write about that time in Kalamazoo when he saved twelve buxom babes from the demonic wheelbarrow. We've heard the stories. What is the truth?
  4. I would like Jet-Poop to explain Gwenpool to me.
     • Filled on 13 January 2019: Gwenpool
  5. Jet-Poop: node a favorite internet rumor/spookypasta.
     • Filled on 19 January 2019: Search and Rescue Woods
  6. To Jet-Poop: You noded Spider-Gwen; might you node Gwenom?
  7. I want Jet-Poop to write a node about Pope Gregory VIII without doing any research whatsoever.
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: Pope Gregory VIII
  8. Actually I would like multiple people to fill that one: someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
  9. I request Jet-Poop write a ghost story about a ghost animal.
     • Filled on 30 January 2019: An Incident Illustrating the Dangers of Reckless Paranormal Experimentation
• lizardinlaw
  1. I want lizardinlaw to please node about the kids book Sam and the Tigers
     • Filled on 13 January 2019: Sam and the Tigers
  2. I want lizardinlaw to fill the nodeshell imperforate anus.
     • Filled on 17 January 2019: imperforate anus
  3. I want lizardinlaw to write a short fiction piece about a snail who is also a doctor.
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: slow medicine 2
  4. Lizardinlaw should node neurosyphillis.
     • Filled on 29 January 2019: January 30, 2019 & neurosyphilis
  5. For Auspice, Chord, Bookreader, Zeph, and anyone else who feels the urge: And we killed him and he's dead. needs some zombie flash fiction.
     • Filled on 19 January 2019: And we killed him and he's dead.
• mauler
  1. Request: For mauler: Please write up the East/West Bowl.
  2. mauler please explain how sometimes predictable is nice
  3. mauler to fill: someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
  4. I want mauler to write a movie review in iambic pentameter.
     • Filled on 07 January 2019: Mary Poppins Returns
  5. A challenge to mauler, Zeph, and The Custodian, if that is allowed. A race to see who can node Gu (AKA jincan) first.
     • fulfilled by The Custodian
  6. I want mauler to write a node about Benvenuto Cellini, but everything in the node has to be a lie.
• Nemosyn
  1. Request: For Nemosyn: Please write up the best unnoded Australian musician or band.
     • Filled on 04 January 2019: William Barton
  2. reQuest Nemosyn a really efficiently written sonnet that packs a lot of meaning in, with no waffling
  3. I want Nemosyn to tell me a nightmare.
     • Filled on 13 November, 2019: November 13, 2019 (a late entry)
  4. Nemosyn: cliché. Node us one more thing you know about writing.
  5. I want Nemosyn to write a recipe about something really tasty.
     • Filled on 04 January 2019: 50 Ways to Make a Muffin
  6. Actually I would like multiple people to fill that one: someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
  7. Nemosyn to node modern jive dance
  8. Nemosyn to node the Winged Hare.
• RedOmega
  1. I want RedOmega to fill one of her nodeshells.
  2. Request: For RedOmega: Please write about the book you love the most.
  3. RedOmega fill another near-Rincewind experience
  4. I want RedOmega to node a recipe she likes, such as for pickled onions or pasta salad.
  5. I want RedOmega to write a short poem.
  6. RedOmega to drink and node the celery soda if she has not done so already
  7. I want RedOmega to write a short fictional piece.
  8. I request RedOmega write a hot and spicy sexy story involving a ghost.
• Serjeant's Muse
  1. Request: For Serjeant's Muse: Please write up the weirdest chess variant you know.
     • Filled on 02 January 2019: racing kings
  2. I want Serjeant's Muse to write about Pai Sho.
  3. Serjeant's Muse: I would like to know more about MtG's Un-sets.
  4. To Serjeant's Muse: What are the colour and flavour of curiosity?
• Silverai_me
  1. I'd like Silverai_me to node Tim Minchin... ;-)
  2. Request: For Silverai_me: Please fill this nodeshell: The Great Emu War.
  3. I want Silverai_me to write a review of something he hates. Movie, book, or coworker.
  4. Silverai, Tell us about circus training!
  5. I want Silverai_me to write a node explaining sunspots, but it cannot mention the words "magnets", "sun", "fields", "the", or the letter "d".
  6. Silverai_me to fill voluntary non-binding postal survey "vote" on same sex marriage.
• Sol Invictus
  1. Request: For Sol Invictus: Please write up your favorite Egyptian pharaoh.
     • Filled on 01 January 2019: Ahmose I
  2. from Sol Invictus - a review of any Roman Emperor or US President (e.g. an opinion-driven essay. I wanna know what Sol thinks)
     • Filled on 06 January 2019: An Assessment of Richard Nixon, Part I: Pre-Presidency. Sol Invictus advises that Part II is on its way.
  3. I want Sol Invictus to write about their evil twin Luna Evictus.
  4. I want Sol Invictus to hit the "random node" button and make a writeup out of whatever comes up.
     • Filled on 28 January 2019: malware
  5. Sol Invictus, node something you want to node, but it too boring to write unless someone actually shows an interest.
     • Filled on 25 January 2019: Bathory
• Stuart
  1. Request: for Stuart: Please write about the greatest or most important person in roller derby's history.
  2. I want Stuart to fill the nodeshell Demons snatch unclaimed prayers out of the air to admire their gossamer wings.
  3. Stuart, tell us a gardening secret we probably don't know!
  4. I want Stuart to write a node about soccar, but without ever using the word "ball".
  5. I request Stuart to write about his favorite thing to garden and why its his favorite.
• Tem42
  1. Request: For Tem42: Please write up Abuwtiyuw, one of the earliest domesticated dogs with a known name.
  2. reQuest Tem42 fill organophosphate
  3. reQuest Tem42 fill soul man
  4. Tem42 to fill do you even science.
  5. I want Tem42 to review a random politican on their entertainment value.
  6. I want Tem42 to write a review of a movie they have not seen. In great detail.
• The Custodian
  1. Request: For The Custodian: Please write up the best secret in New York City.
  2. I want The Custodian to review a bad musician from the 1990s.
  3. I would like The Custodian to explain how Pugachev's Cobra works. Already noded under Cobra Maneuver
  4. A challenge to mauler, Zeph, and The Custodian, if that is allowed. A race to see who can node Gu (AKA jincan) first.
     • Filled on 03 January 2019: Gu poison
  5. The Custodian: Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
  6. The Custodian please write about Harlem Ship Canal.
     • Filled on 02 January 2019: Harlem Ship Canal
  7. I want The Custodian to fill a nodeshell.
  8. Actually I would like multiple people to fill that one: someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
  9. I request custo write a ghost story.
  10. I request the custodian to write about a sentient space ship that hates its job.
  11. Let's ask The Custodian to write something about Japan converting its helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers.
• TheDeadGuy
  1. reQuest The DeadGuy: I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
  2. TheDeadGuy to node elbow tit heh heh heh
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: elbow tit. Note: Previous existing WU updated for this reQuest
  3. A request for TheDeadGuy: Who is the guy behind the scenes at Rancho Nuevo who does all the crap jobs no one else wants to do?
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: Marching on a road of bones
  4. Request: For TheDeadGuy: Please fill this nodeshell: Marching on a road of bones.
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: Marching on a road of bones
  5. TheDeadGuy to node someone else's personal mythology and it can't be one of his queens.
     • Filled on 08 January 2019: Marching on a road of bones
  6. I request the dead guy write a clear and concise explanation for all the metaphor stuff he talks about with personal mythologies stuff. A TDG-to-pleb dictionary, perhaps.
• Zephronias
  1. Request: for Zephronias: Please create a crossover featuring Bri and Faust, Mia, the Man with the Terrible Eyes, and X'melborp and Human Greg.
  2. I want Zephronias to write a story about a hunter caught in his own bear trap being contemplated by a bear.
  3. Zeph should tell us about Gashadokuro.
     • Filled on 24 January 2019: Gashadokuro
  4. A challenge to mauler, Zeph, and The Custodian, if that is allowed. A race to see who can node Gu (AKA jincan) first.
  5. Zeph: node a favorite internet rumor/spookypasta.
     • Filled on 26 January 2019: tribe twelve
  6. I want Zephronias to write a review of a book they've never read and barely know anything about. No research allowed.
     • Filled on 10 January 2019: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
  7. Please may Zeph write some more Stories from the Home?
     • Filled on 05 January 2019: Making Friends and Losing Sleep
  8. For Auspice, Chord, Bookreader, Zeph, and anyone else who feels the urge: And we killed him and he's dead. needs some zombie flash fiction.
     • Filled on 22 January 2019: And we killed him and he's dead.
  9. Zeph should tell the story of a magic cat, and how it almost destroyed Disney World.
  10. More more more Stories from the Home from Zeph.
      • Filled on 14 January 2019: Pair of Eyes

Overview for individuals: