And the final conclusion has been posted (several days ago, in fact.)

Thank you for reading, those of you who have!

Dear foreign Itzal Sendoa, with six votes, has been declared the winner of The Emperor's Decree! May he see the sense in burning it as soon as he can.

Madames Trappery and, er... Reena, with five votes each, are tied for second and third place! May they learn their knots with grace and dignity.

Thank you all for writing, reading and reviewing - but wait! There are a few more posts yet to come...

...but who has won?

Now's the time to vote for your favourite - FAVOURITE - character/writer! Not just the one who did the best this week, but the one who, throughout the entire contest (or most of it), kept you entertained and held your interest hostage, who did the best, in your opinion, at keeping the story flowing, their writing technically and stylistically accurate, their character from being static.

(Note: Do not listen to the Voting page. It should be updated soon, but for now, remember: Favourite!)

Sorry for the wait - my head kinda... flew.

With Jenni's final grade in, there are only three contestants left! Voting for you favourite will begin on the 10th, so long as I find someone to stitch my neck together.

Thank you all for voting! The dead/run-off character shall be revealed to you by the 1st, or heads - will - fly, you have my word.

And will end in 48 hours, whenever that is. Time's gone a little wobbly. I'd hazard Sunday evening for those in Australia.

This will be the last voting round in which a character/author is voted out. After another week, there willl be the final voting in which you choose your favourite. So try not to kill that one this week, hee!

I apologise most sincerely to our audience for the delay in finishing last "week". It will not happen again, you can be assured. Health problems are our main excuse, and they're very good ones, so please find it in your hearts to forgive us this time.

I'd also like to thank everyone who's been checking back despite the apparent death of the story, as well as everyone who'll continue to read it now that it's alive again. ^^ Y'all rather rock for it!

And that's that.

The week is long indeed... Voting cannot be closed due to a tie which I can likewise not break. Voting will be closed as soon as I find the tie is over. Sorry for the holdup.

Now gimme all the gilders in th'strongbox!

Quite phenominally late, due to some problems with me getting online to start it up... but here at last!

Voting will end Tuesday, 10 PM for the east coast of Australia. Unless it doesn't, in which case it will end whenever my co-admin, IceRain, gets around to shutting it off.

But the cat came back the very next day
The cat came back, we thought she was a goner
But the -

Oh. Yes. With the death of Cidra, Week VI begins, with mumbles of more adventure and intrigue than even before!

And shortly we shall find who - WHO - you have chosen.

Until then, we have some juggling stoats to occupy your time with... Oh, dear, no, they've gone fled to Austria! Lucky juggling stoats.

Ehehe, a little late - but not as late as the news that Week V began. Ehehe.

As usual, Rochest - er, Tristan Tributes are very welcome.

Week V voting will end in roughly 39 hours.

And that's all ah have t'say about that.