Category: Ideal Reveal

12/3/13

Week Six: THE FINAL THREE!

A very special congratulations, HouseAuthors! You are the final three! You’ve debated and battled it out against seven other formidable opponents, and have shown yourselves to be the best authors of the Enlightenment! While you three have all shown considerable strength and talent, alas, only one of you can win!

This final set of challenges will be slightly modified, and will force you to draw on every literary power you have as we race to a fantastic conclusion. In order to win this game, you must solve a difficult riddle that relates to your time in the House. This riddle can be solved based on your own thoughts and observations, but also through clues that you have either already obtained, or may win this week through challenges. But beware, some of these clues may lead you down the wrong path!

Since this is our finale, we’re going to ramp up the excitement right away, by offering you the chance to earn a very valuable clue this instant! In the garden is a locked box containing a major clue for you. In order to open the box, however, you must agree to vote out one of your own. This is not mandatory, so if the three of you can’t decide on who to eliminate, you’ll simply continue on with the game without that clue.

This opportunity won’t last forever! If you do decide to access the clue, you must vote someone out in the next hour! Good luck!

11/23/13

Week Five: Ideal Reveal

HouseAuthors! I know you must all be feeling a bit down knowing that you only have two more weeks here, and I’m afraid the Ideal this week won’t due much to lighten your spirits. Mr. Baudelaire excluded, most likely…

The Enlightenment. The glorious, intelligent Enlightenment. Such a time of intellectual prosperity! The happiness of shared knowledge! And then death!

Yes, you heard me correctly! Death! Your Enlightenment Ideal for Week Five is Death. In the works of all five of you, there’s a focus on death in at least one form or another. In a time where science, social policy, and economic standings are in flux, you authors seem hung up on death! The majority of our departed HouseAuthors also wrote on the subject, and while we could have easily started off this game with Death as the first Ideal, I’m very happy with the way the remaining five of you all keep death in the spotlight when you wrote.

I’d like to say that we’ve eradicated Death in our Realm, but a recent glitch has forced us to enact some… questionable methods to keep the Realm on the path of Enlightened Normality. Regardless, I’m curious to see how you five question, accept, reason with, or even deny Death!

11/11/13

Week Three: Ideal Reveal

You’ve managed to survive to Week Three, HouseAuthors! Hurray! I hope you’re all getting enough rest, because this week’s Ideal is going to be quite the challenge: Modernity/Breaking With Tradition (Scientific Advancements).

We have all seen history evolve rapidly during periods of great technological and scientific discovery, and many countries experienced their own distinct Industrial Revolutions. Always, there comes points in the timeline where the knowledge and understandings of medical, mechanical, and natural phenomena become obsolete in the face of modern advancements.

Where do you and your work find yourselves fighting for here, HouseAuthors? Do you believe science is the way of the future? Or do traditional beliefs have some better solutions?

11/4/13

Week Two: Ideal Reveal

Welcome to Week Two, HouseAuthors! For tomorrow’s Head Thinker Challenge, please be prepared to show evidence in your texts that supports this week’s Enlightenment Ideal: Female Equality/Societal Views of Women.

This is sure to be an exciting challenge, for quite a number of you focus on these issues. And not only that, but you’ll find a strong competitor in the esteemed Ms. Woolf and Sor Juana. If Ms. Woolf wins, she’ll be the most powerful player in terms of victories alone. You better start prepping, gentlemen!

To help guide you in the direction I wish this debate to go tomorrow, please note that the winning HouseAuthor will be arguing in support of this realized Ideal in our Realm. Here, we’ve successfully fought to eliminate male oppression, and every right a man had, a woman has now! In fact, you could say that women are the new men here.

That is, if we… No, I shouldn’t reveal too much so soon! Ah, that’s it! I’ll reveal a key characteristic of my Realm to the HouseAuthor that’s voted to be decapitated at the end of the week!

Best of luck to you all!

10/28/13

Week One: Ideal Reveal

HouseAuthors, the Ideal you’ll be focusing on for tomorrow’s Head Thinker Challenge is…

Predestination & Social Mobility

Our Enlightened Realm has cast off all notions of predestination in favor of complete free will. There is no higher power that’s already planned out the path we’ll take in life – it’s all up to us.

Our choices.

Our decisions.

Our future.

We have also cast off the shackles of the Great Chain of Being, and fully believe that those that work hard enough can rise in social ranks if that’s what they so desire. In fact, everyone in our Realm strives to be in the highest of high social classes!