Thanks manfred... I've been sitting on this item for months on my phone but have never transfered it to my PC. I decided it was time, and glad I am that I did.

I appreciate the comment and the vote, but what would it need for a 5/5? Go to Comment

Yeah I tried the url tags and they didn't work. I agree with the stingy on giving 5/5, I fail to give them and only on the rarest of occasions. But I do give them.

Thanks again. I have some more additions but don't know if I will get to them today. Go to Comment

Thanks again for the comments. . . it helps the creativity flow. Go to Comment

Thank you dreamer... nice to have ones work appreciated even after so long a time. Go to Comment

Yae to all the above - plus gets my wish I'd thought of that award

Even taking into account the current thinking on being stingy with 5/5 (which, by the way, I agree fully with and am trying to implement as best I can), this is a definite candidate for the top score


Great work - keep it up - 5/5 Go to Comment

There are many things I like about this post... good history (specific, yet easily to generalize to another world), not too powerful (needing two at a time!) and the curse. Also, it's hard to come up with something completely new, and to my mind, this is that. Go to Comment

Reminds me of some classic comic book tropes, the idea of some technology or item eventually corrupting the user, turning them into something they didn't intend (Doc Ock, for example). I can see the same idea functioniong for any fantasy race.

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Can't add to what has already been said, but I like this item(s) :). Go to Comment

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This is really cool. History is fantastic. Reminds me of all sorts of strange inventions and machines created during war to give any kind of advantage to one side or the other.  Original, nice history, very limited in use, what more can you ask for? Thanks.

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good good good

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Very nice.

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I fail to see your reasoning.
Why would it be in bad taste? They are absolutely demonstrating through magical means their innocence in the matter, and they aren't actually killing themselves. Even a religion with prohibitions against suicide would have nothing to fear from this, unless the person wasn't actually guilty, and then it would be a holy execution.
Or am I totally off-base? Go to Comment

He asks the master of links if I know a few sites...

http://www.strolen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=8023#8023

And some other good writing sites:
http://www.strolen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19913#19913
http://www.strolen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=24866#24866
http://www.strolen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29862#29862

okay... cut and paste them...

iAnd you people wonder why I index the IGW thread?/i Go to Comment

The story meandered a bit. Nicely executed, but needs to be tightened up some. (Sorry no pun intended). You might want to take it to a fiction site and see what advice writers might give about it. Go to Comment

To be honest, I need to print it out and go over it in text to review it as a piece of fiction. That is why I suggested a fiction writers site... they do that as a matter of course. Go to Comment

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4/5

I wish the Noose of Redemption really existed.If the story was a bit...tighter,haha, then it would be 5/5 Go to Comment

4/5

Whoops, it came out twice. Go to Comment

So I had a question for everyone here.

Knowing that if you were innocent you would willingly put the noose around your neck to prove it. Even though you know your innocent and you will not die (hopefully) would that not be a similar act of suicide?

So, would a priest or a Paladin or Holy Warrior of the church put on one? Knowing they were innocent, but by placing a rope of execution around their neck would that not be seen in bad taste? Just curious. Go to Comment