Field Maneuvers: Rules of Engagement

[looselipssinkships]

Loose Lips Sink Ships has an optional game component wherein players can earn points, and points can be used to gain rank, bragging rights, and graphics.

How it Works:

To earn one point: Fill any prompt by creating a qualifying work and posting it to the masterlist.

To earn two points: Fill one of Colonel Kink's Memorial Prompts with a qualifying work, or fill a prompt fitting Colonel Kink's Theme of the Fortnight with a qualifying work. They must be filled before the next newsletter is released.

A Qualifying Work is a complete fic in English of at least 1000 words (chapters or parts of a story do not qualify), or a polished piece of art not drawn on lined paper, or a vid that is at least 30-seconds in length. It must be a new work, not a repost.

Colonel Kink's Memorial Prompts will be selected at random from older, unfilled prompts, and posted in the Mail Call newsletter on Dreamwidth and Tumblr every 14 days.

Every fifth Mail Call, memorial prompts are replaced by Colonel Kink's Theme of the Fortnight. Any fill posted that complies with the theme of the fortnight will be worth two points, no matter what prompt it's created for.

To indicate that your work is intended to fill the memorial prompt or theme of the fortnight, submit to the masterpost from the prompts page as normal, but make sure to check the box on the submissions page reading: "This fill counts for Field Maneuvers' Memorial Prompt/Theme of the Fortnight."

Scoring

3 Points: Second Lieutenant
9 Points: First Lieutenant
18 Points: Captain
30 Points: Major
45 Points: Lieutenant Colonel
69 Points: Colonel
85 Points: You get one free trip home, or to the Korean Peninsula*

*Offer not valid in Quebec or Puerto Rico, or anywhere else. Participants must be 18. Participants must understand that we're joking.

With each rank increment, participants will receive a 100x100 icon with the appropriate rank flash and their username. Scores will be announced every fourteen days in Mail Call.

How to Sign Up

To opt into the game, please comment in reply to this post. You must include the username you plan to post fills under. If you have posted fills to this meme prior to signing up, you may retroactively claim them for a value of one point per fill. Please mention what fills you'd like to claim.

If you don't want to play any more, please comment with "I hereby resign my command, effective today. Signed, [username used to submit fills]," or private message this DW account.

Questions? Concerns? Missed Fills? Comment here. Anon commenting is currently on.

Comments

[arwen88]

I want to sign up! Arwen88 here! Can I claim my two previous fills? The "babe looks disturbingly good in a dress" and the "top!Nix!" <3

[looselipssinkships]

Sounds good! We'll put you down for starting with two points.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

thrillingdetectivetales reporting for duty! Claiming two previous fills: Sledgefu canon divergence where Sledge wakes up before Snafu leaves the train, and a Webgott + Leckie Pacific AU.

[looselipssinkships]

Excellent. Two points for you!

[impala_chick]

impala_chick reporting for duty! This will definitely incentivize me to get writing (I hope).

[looselipssinkships]

Look forward to fic from you!

[impala_chick]

Thanks :)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

OMG YOUR LIEBGOTT ICON IS KILLING ME!!!! So precious!

[impala_chick]

Thanks :D I love yours too! That boy's got swag.

[muccamukk]

Me too, please.

Username: muccamukk
Previous fill: Bill/Joe, putting on greasepaint

[looselipssinkships]

All right, have added one prompt. Good luck!

[scandalinbohemia]

Reporting for duty, nickname fiorediloto, please! I see a glorious career as an enlisted man ahead...

[looselipssinkships]

Wonderful! We look forward to watching your rise through the ranks.

[slightlytookish]

I love this idea.

I'd like to sign up, please (and hopefully actually write something!). Username: slightlytookish

[looselipssinkships]

Excellent. We will add you and look forward to you taking up the challenge.

[(Anonymous)]

signing up for rozwell on AO3. don't have a dw but did do a gk fill for nate/ray political au. :)

[looselipssinkships]

Excellent. Welcome aboard the humvee!

[lt_aldo_raine]

lt_aldo_raine reporting for duty, claiming the Webgott biter fill!

[looselipssinkships]

Hey! Happy to have you aboard, and definitely promise that you'll need to jump out of only a small number of airplanes.

Minimum length for fills that get points is 1,000 words, but I will keep track of you for future points!

[(Anonymous)]

skyearth85 here to enlist!
And I forget to enroll before posting my fill, sorry -.-

[looselipssinkships]

That's okay. There's a computer thing that keeps track of points, we'll get you set up.

[(Anonymous)]

*salutes* 3milesup reporting for duty!
Also, I'd like to retroactively claim the "Jolly Saint Luz, all the little things he did to try and make that Bastogne Christmas more bearable for everyone." prompt fill, for the theme of the fortnight :)

Thank you <3 and now I'm off to save the prompts, bye..^^

[looselipssinkships]

Welcome aboard! We've added you to the list, and included your fill. Look forward to what prompts you save <3

[churchkey]

I would love to get in on this but I have a dumb question first - sorry if this has been clearly outlined somewhere and I'm just missing it (I'm a teacher and it drives me nuts when students ask for instructions I've already given a million times and are clearly described in multiple places... anyway, sorry if I'm doing that). Here it is - if I see a prompt I'm interested in responding to, do I need to claim it or sign up for it? Or do I just complete the 'fill' form on the website once it's finished? I would use the username churchkey. Thank you in advance!

[looselipssinkships]

If you want to play the points game, sign up here, and then proceed as below, and we'll count your fills for points automatically.

If you want to fill prompts (be left out of the points silliness, or not, as you like), you can simply press the +fill button on the website and fill out the form. Your fic will then go in the round up posts, and be listed on the site masterlist.

There's no advance claiming, and you can fill prompts other people have already filled, or you yourself have already filled.

[looselipssinkships]

If you have time, you can complete the fill button on the prompt page now that you've done a fill. That way it will get posted to the masterlist (as our 100th fill!) and go in the newsletter round up.

[churchkey]

I'm on it, thank you for the reminder!

[partypaprika]

I'd like to sign up--ao3 username is partypaprika!

[looselipssinkships]

Lovely! Will do!

[soldiers_and_medics]

soldiers_and_medics on ao3, reporting for duty! I'd love to join :)

[looselipssinkships]

Welcome Aboard! We've got you all signed up

[ksansart]

I would like to join too! Thank you!
Ao3 username: Mrksan

[looselipssinkships]

Excellent! We will add you to our lists.

[paintstrokes]

Reporting for Field Maneuvers!

I'll be posting on AO3 as 'paintstroke', just added my first fill with "Touchstone" for the Generation Kill prompt "Brad's dick is only Nate's fourth favourite thing about him" a moment ago.

[looselipssinkships]

Have signed you up and included your story!

[speirtongirl]

Hi! I'd like to sign up. :) My AO3 username: masongirl

[looselipssinkships]

Lovely! We've added you as starting out with one point.

[anthrobrat]

Is it bad that I am just now figuring out how to sign up to earn points in field maneuvers?
Why am I like this? Anyway, sign me up! Maybe it’ll get me writing more!
My AO3 is anthrobrat lol

[looselipssinkships]

Nope! Welcome! We'll list you as starting with 1 point for the fill you already did.