Promise Auction 2013
Promise Auction 2013
Every year Durham University Treasure Trap runs a promise auction to raise funds.
People offer something using their skills, and people bid against each other for each promise. Whoever offered the promise will undertake the promise for the person that wins the auction.
How to Submit a Promise
You can submit a promise offer by e-mailing [email protected], stating what you wish to offer as a promise, and any caveats.
How to bid on an Promise
Bidding on the Promises will take place after the Interactive on Thursday 20th June in Kingsgate, Level B, Dunelm House, DH1 3AN.
List of Promises
- Josie Adam promises:
- to knit you a thing. Any thing. Rule 7 only applies with regard to cost of materials.
if costs are above £15 would expect buyer to cover it. (For reference, a scarf is about £3 – £5 £5 worth yarn, a large hooded shawl/half cloak is about £20 worth).
- to knit you a thing. Any thing. Rule 7 only applies with regard to cost of materials.
- Freya Copley-Mills and Amy Clarke promise:
- one edible phys-rep for any system – previous examples have included scultpted icing hearts for sacrifices, companion cube cakes, dissectible gnoll-baby cakes, actual cakes for IC weddings themed to match group colours with tiny cake-toppers of the PCs, fake swans heads to match to attach to roasts for banquetting, etc.
Stipulations: need at least a month’s notice before the event so we can make time around work, and we’ll need you to be around for design input; you buy the ingredients if they go beyond what’s in our cupboards anyway!; we totally can’t manage to transport it also, that’s on you; depending on what you want, please be warned it may be technically edible but mostly taste of food dye!
- one edible phys-rep for any system – previous examples have included scultpted icing hearts for sacrifices, companion cube cakes, dissectible gnoll-baby cakes, actual cakes for IC weddings themed to match group colours with tiny cake-toppers of the PCs, fake swans heads to match to attach to roasts for banquetting, etc.
- Freya Copley-Mills promises:
- to make an IC document for any system, either via type-setting or calligraphy, inc. wax seals, distressing effects, pyrography on suede, laidwork, etc.
Stipulations: need as much notice as you can give me, increasing exponentially with additional design elements – typesetting and basic distressing easy; wax seals dependent on elaboration needed; pyrography and laidwork, omgbbq; you buy the materials if it goes beyond what’s in my cupboards anyway!
- to make an IC document for any system, either via type-setting or calligraphy, inc. wax seals, distressing effects, pyrography on suede, laidwork, etc.
- Reesha Dyer promises:
- to write a personal themetune/themesong for someone; and sing/play it at at least one social event when they enter the room. Rule 7 applies.
- to make a set of jewellery containing (all of – Rule 7 does NOT apply – expensive material must be paid for).
- all 22 holy symbols of the current DUTT gods, in whatever style and materials you want.
- all 7 mage foci, in whatever style and materials you want.
- the holy symbols of 3 dead/tiny gods from the DUTT system, in whatever style and materials you want.
- Hannah Earnshaw promises:
- to write a short story of about 3000 words.
- to make one drawing – pencil or digital.
- to make one hand-made soft toy
- Jemma James promises:
- a mystery box.
- a bottle of fully personalised cocktail, styled after either the winner or one of their characters.
- Ellen Green promises:
- Baked Goods
N.B: This promise will be full-filled in Michaelmass Term later this year.
Rule 7 applies. No porn.
- Baked Goods
- Aron Kearney promises:
- to be someone’s weapons training partner for a month (31 days), outside of standard TT weapons practice.
Rule 7 applies with regard to University and Society obligations coming first. - to paint for you one unit of miniatures.
Rule 7 applies to unit size. - to teach you to play one of three Games Workshop games.
(Warhammer fantasy, Warhammer 40k or Lord of the Rings).
- to be someone’s weapons training partner for a month (31 days), outside of standard TT weapons practice.
- Tim Knight promises:
- to make or help make an oc or ic poster.
- to proof read a scientific report or paper etc upto 20 pages not including references in that page count.
- to play a song of your choice at a full collapse.
- Zoe McAuley promises:
- to write one short story, of upto 2000 words in length, on any subject, provided I know enough to write about it (characters I’ve encountered, films/shows I’ve actually seen, books I’ve read). You can ask for porn, but you may regret that choice when you get it.
- Ruth Mills promises:
- to draw a digital picture of the winner’s character (or whatever you want subject-based), upto “Teen” standard (meaning not adult/mature requests). Example: http://imgur.com/a/Eoo1R.
- Danny Scott promises:
- to paint a unit of miniatures, alternatively I will paint less miniatures to a higher standard. I will bring a miniature to the auction so I can show the quality I will be offering.
- Rob Smith promises:
- to draw a thing, essentially the person’s character and a background, along with some expression pictures maybe? No porn.
- Jonathan Titterton promises:
- to make an IC or OC poster.