(definites)
1) The story will be called "The Slopes of Andoria"
2) It must involve Shran being aboard Enterprise for some reason, with the reason for his presence being at the disgression of the author who first writes his presence.
3) Trip and T'Pol must go down to the surface of Andoria, again at the disgression of the author who first writes them on actually on the planet
4) The story should take place within six months of "Terra Prime", ie, no later than July 2155
5) Each chappie must be between 1.5 to 2.5 pages, or approx 1600 - 2700 words long (to give some leeway), should preferably end with a cliffie, and should be submitted to me for beta-ing before it can be posted.
(tenatives)
6) As we are only six, to get a story of any length we shall have to do at least two round robins. Kotik has been nominated for first dibs, but other than that the order is up to us. I'd like third, for no other reason than I do, but that's flexible. When we get to seconds, I suggest the order doesn't have to be the same, so long as you've not written one of the last 3 chappies.
7) Each chapter should be written within 7-10 days of the last posting, if at all possible. If not, keep us updated on the progress. If we've not heard anything from you in 2 weeks on the progress, you may be skipped (to keep the story moving).
If the story is not completed by 2 round robins (ie, 12 chappies), we can begin a third. Any author unwilling to continue at this point may say so, but any joining up must agree to at least the inital two. Additional authors can join at any point, if they add their name to the list and are told what chappie is theirs to write. My own suggestion is also, try to stick to canon as much as possible. The story can (and will) go AU, possibly dip into MU, and a whole host of other things, but we can't suddenly pretend, I dunno, that T'Pol never had the trellium addiction or that the events of "Home" didn't happen. Not saying some minor tweaking can't be made, but try to stick to what was on screen. The suggestions of what season 5 was to entail should be up for grabs as well (if we're going to take Shran, we might as well take the lot) but aren't nessicary. In fact, the less we have any idea what might happen, the better...
- and I am very curious about yours!
, so hopefully we'll see it up soon.
