A challenge has a certain number of steps, which lead to a story and possible stripping of titles.<br/><br/>1. Challenge<br/>2. Answer and Outline<br/>3. Story Post<br/>4. Obstacle Post<br/>5. Resolution post.<br/>6. Voting<br/><br/><strong><br/>1: Challenge;</strong>On his or her turn, a player has the choice to either challenge for a title, or Dwindle.  If an immortal dwindles, it loses a title to oblivion, reducing the total number of titles in play by 1.  When making a challenge, a player may either ask another player to randomly determine the tone, or do the rolls himself.  A player announces a challenge in this format:<br/><br/>"<em>This is a/an [tone] story about [title] and [title]"</em>ex: This is a Glorious story about the Snake and the Eternal virgin.<br/><strong><br/>2: Answer and Outline:</strong>The challenged player responds by creating a story outline, defining the identity of the two titles.  Titles can manifest in stories as<em>Actors</em>,<em>Props</em>,<em>Realms</em>, and<em>Wisps.</em>Actors are physical beings of great individuality and personality; main characters in a story.  Props are physical objects of great importance, like the one ring, or the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  Realms are locations of extreme importance, like the Death Star and Big Ben.  Wisps are groups of individuals, such as a pack of werewolves or a platoon of soldiers.  A story can be of any rating, and I'll create threads in different forums as needed to cover this.  (A challenge is automatically won by the challenger if the defender proposes a concept of a rating that the challenger clearly cannot handle)  The format used to respond to a challenge is something like:<br/><br/>"This is a/an [tone] story about the [identity] [title] and how he [verbed] the [identity] [title]"  ex: "This is an unbound story about the Actor Snake, and his attempt to seduce and deceive the Wisps of the Eternal Virgin."<br/><br/><strong>3: Story Post:</strong>The challenger takes the answer and writes a post describing how the manifestation of his title did whatever the story is about.  The challenger must follow certain limitations based on what aspect of his title he is portraying.<br/><br/><em>Actors:</em>Writing portraying an actor must be in first person and past tense.<br/><br/><em>Props:</em>When portraying a prop, no details outside the immediate vicinity of the prop may be referred to, and the prop may not take actions on its own.  (although a player may create characters to use the prop.)<br/><br/><em>Realms:</em>When portraying a realm, a player must write in present tense, and cannot refer to the internal thoughts of people in the story.<br/><br/><em>Wisps:</em>When portraying a group of wisps, the challenger must introduce some conflict within the group.<br/><br/><strong>4. Obstacle Post:</strong>After the first story post, the defender gets a chance to introduce obstacles to hinder the progress of the challenger.  He writes from the perspective of the defending title, following the same restrictions.  (and keeping in mind the golden rule)<br/><br/><strong>5. Resolution Post:</strong>Once he has encountered the obstacle, the challenger may describe how he or she overcomes it.  Following all normal restrictions.<br/><br/><strong>6. Voting:</strong>After the resolution post, the players vote on whether or not the challenger was successful, and change titles or grant indulgences as needed.