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== Welcome to FaramirFiction's Wiki! ==
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This is an interactive story, written by its readers. As you read the story, each page tells part of the story, and each page ends with two choices for what to do next. Click on one of the two links to read what happens next. When you reach the end of the part that the readers before you have written, you have the possibility to write the next chapter.
  
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This interactive story is all about Faramir, that much is certain. The rest is up to you, the readers and writers. The story starts out in Ithilien, amongst the Rangers, but we hope our Faramir will soon come across many more interesting characters: Boromir and Denethor of course, but also Aragorn (Thorongil?), Mithrandir, various Rohirrim, Haradrim and other humans, hobbits, of course an array of elves (did I hear "elf orgy"?), and what to think of Saruman, Gollum, the Watcher in the Water, the Nazgûl, or even Sauron himself?
  
<blockquote><div style="border: 1px solid black; text-align: top; padding:5px; font-size: small; background: #eeeeee;">
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'''Be warned that the rating of this story goes up to NC-17, includes slash, incest, violence and non-consensual situations. Also be sure to take heed of the more specific warnings you pass along the way.'''<br>
For now, we're just trying out this new system. Please have a look around and experiment all you want, there is no way you can do permanent damage. <br>
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'''Adults only!'''
'''Artists!''' Learn how to [[Images|Add your images]]
 
  
Let us know what you think by adding a comment in the [[Talk:Main_Page|discussion tab]] of this page
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If you click on the discussion tab, you can read what other readers have commented on a chapter, and also add a comment (you can use the plus sign next the the edit tab) of your own. Writers love feedback!
Learn more in the [[Help:Contents|Help]] section</div></blockquote>
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You can also edit any page here, but please, always be respectful of other people's work when editing, and bear in mind that in a ongoing story writers use information from earlier chapters. Learn more about [[entering chapters|entering and editing chapters]].
  
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If you want to reserve a chapter while you work on it, you can claim it by editing the appropriate article. Just write in that you're claiming it; the system will register your name and the date. We have some simple [[claiming|guidelines on claiming]] chapters: your reservation is good for five days, and you can only reserve one chapter at a time. Read the [[claiming|guidelines]] for more details.
  
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] is a type of content management system that allows all users to easily and quickly add and edit content, create links and new pages. The term "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian "wiki wiki", which means "quick" or "informal" - and that a wiki system certainly is: all you have to do to create a new page or link to an existing one, is put a word (or several words) in <nowiki>[[double square brackets]]</nowiki> (hence the logo).
 
  
There is a wide selection of wiki software available. This wiki runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]. You may have seen it before; it is the same engine [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] runs on.
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<center>'''[[Chapter 1: A Stranger in the Woods|Start reading]]'''</center>
 
 
All pages have their own discussion page (the 'talk' pages) where you can comment on the page's content; see the tabs at the top of your screen. There you'll also see a tab to edit the page. This is an essential part of the wiki way: all users can edit (almost) all pages; no one 'owns' a page. We trust you are all mature adults who respect one another's work, but even if we should be visited by a [[vandalism|vandal]], pages can be restored to their original state. That is what the history tab is for.
 
 
 
We hope however, that being able to edit and link will create a whole new level of interactivity. You might want to give just one option at the end of your chapter, and leave the other one to be filled in by whoever gets there first. Or maybe you want to enter a very long chapter without having to breaking it up into parts, and leave it to other users to edit in an option somewhere in the middle, in a place that best suits their needs. Perhaps you'd even like to create pages to provide background informations on (original) [[characters]] or [[locations]], all easily linked to from your chapter and those of others. Artists are invited to join in by [[images|adding images]].<br>
 
It's all possible.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<center>'''[[Interactive Story]]'''</center>
 

Revision as of 12:16, 12 September 2005

This is an interactive story, written by its readers. As you read the story, each page tells part of the story, and each page ends with two choices for what to do next. Click on one of the two links to read what happens next. When you reach the end of the part that the readers before you have written, you have the possibility to write the next chapter.

This interactive story is all about Faramir, that much is certain. The rest is up to you, the readers and writers. The story starts out in Ithilien, amongst the Rangers, but we hope our Faramir will soon come across many more interesting characters: Boromir and Denethor of course, but also Aragorn (Thorongil?), Mithrandir, various Rohirrim, Haradrim and other humans, hobbits, of course an array of elves (did I hear "elf orgy"?), and what to think of Saruman, Gollum, the Watcher in the Water, the Nazgûl, or even Sauron himself?

Be warned that the rating of this story goes up to NC-17, includes slash, incest, violence and non-consensual situations. Also be sure to take heed of the more specific warnings you pass along the way.
Adults only!

If you click on the discussion tab, you can read what other readers have commented on a chapter, and also add a comment (you can use the plus sign next the the edit tab) of your own. Writers love feedback! You can also edit any page here, but please, always be respectful of other people's work when editing, and bear in mind that in a ongoing story writers use information from earlier chapters. Learn more about entering and editing chapters.

If you want to reserve a chapter while you work on it, you can claim it by editing the appropriate article. Just write in that you're claiming it; the system will register your name and the date. We have some simple guidelines on claiming chapters: your reservation is good for five days, and you can only reserve one chapter at a time. Read the guidelines for more details.


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