War Tutorial
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| Title: | War Tutorial |
| Creator: | Susan Garrett |
| Date(s): | spring 1998 |
| Medium: | multi-part essay with examples |
| Fandom: | Forever Knight |
| Topic: | how to play in a Forever Knight War |
| External Links: | "War Tutorial" on the War 9 website, Archived version |
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Susan Garrett's multi-part War Tutorial is considered essential reading for anyone contemplating taking part in a Forever Knight War. It takes the uninitiated through the process by which stories that involve multiple factions (such as attacks and counter-attacks) are proposed, discussed, written, and posted.
This is done by creating an imaginary scenario in which one faction proposes an attack on a second faction with the assistance of a member of a third faction, and continues with the reaction and follow-up. The scenario also includes the process of hiring a member of the Mercenary Guild to write a portion of the story. Each step in the scenario is discussed and analysed; there are examples of e-mails between the people involved; and the resultant war posts are included.
Contents
The following independently posted sections take the reader through various scenarios. As the sheer number indicates, at the height of the FK Wars, attacks were a form of complicated formalized ritual chaos.
- Orientation
- Setup
- Planning - The Idea
- Planning - Contact the Target
- Planning - Hire a Merc
- Planning - Make a Plan
- Planning - Review the Post
- Diversion Post
- Attack Post
- Planning - Reaction Post
- Reaction Post
- Reaction Post
- Planning - Contacting the Victim
- Recap
History
Susan Garrett's "War Tutorial" was originally posted to [email protected] and then included in the material on the War Nine website[1]. It has since been linked to from several later war sites.