Since surprisingly few of you were interested in writing a cut-scene featuring a stunning brunette, I figured I’d better go back to basics and open things up a bit.  Therefore, this month’s theme will be “strip”.  Your task is to write a cut-scene in which someone gets undressed.  It can be a PC undressing an NPC, or vise versa, or a PC or NPC stripping themselves.  Easy, huh?   

Here's the short: You submit a single AIF cut-scene of any length you want, it conforms to the assigned theme. All of us staff members each write a cut-scene of the same theme. All the cut-scenes get published next month. Everyone votes. Someone wins. If you beat the staff, you get ultimate bragging rights.

Good Luck!

• Submissions must be in the format of a single AIF cut-scene or `turn'. The cut-scene must include the player command.
• There is no limit (minimum or maximum) to the length of your submission.
• Submissions must be original, never released before (though they may be drawn from a work in progress).
• The deadline for submissions is November 29, 2007.
• All received submissions will be published in the December edition of "Inside Erin".
• Following publication, a voting mechanism will be set up. Everyone will be invited to vote. Voting duration will depend on the number of entries received. A single winner will be announced.
• Entries should be e-mailed to ninnyAIF AT gmail DOT com.
• This is the most important part: Submissions must conform to the following theme:  “strip” Your cut-scene should feature someone (or someones) getting undressed.· The criteria. What's going to make your entry better? Well, keep in mind that you're not writing an entire AIF. That means that this cut-scene is a self-contained entity.  Your entry should give an idea for the game’s back story and also feel like it is part of something that moves forward – your reader should really want to type in the next command.  Since the theme is ‘stripping’, we should really feel the need to be naked or to see that other character naked.