BronxWench

You can put them in the main story summary, which avoids the chapter-spoilers. That's perfectly fine. You could even put them all at the top of the first chapter, if they don't fit in the summary field, which is only 240 characters. As long as they are somewhere a reader will see them, and know what to expect in the course of the story, we're good. The reasoning is that certain things are triggers, and we don't want readers getting blindsided by running into content they'd not willingly have read. And in the forum thread, if you wanted to include them in the index, next to each chapter, that's absolutely fine as well. Since readers would find the index url after reading a chapter, it certainly wouldn't be a spoiler for them.

We actually only allow an index in the case of a drabble or oneshot collection. A summary is permitted as a chapter on its own only in the case of a round robin, where the author initiating it sets forth the rules and procedures. As far as tags, we would require those to be in the actual chapter, or in the story summary on the archive page. Having said all that, what you CAN do is create this index and summary, with links to the chapters, right here in the forum. You can then add the url for the index thread in the story, at the top or bottom of each chapter if you'd like. I'd recommend using one of the Fan Fiction threads, as most of us do for review replies, because those threads are open to forum guests to read and reply.

The author hasn't been around for a couple of years, so it doesn't look too hopeful, but I've seen stories get picked back up after an even longer hiatus.

I believe the story you are looking for was written by Fallen, and was called Inversion. Sadly, the story was taken down, presumably by the author since I'm not seeing any staff action with regard to the story. I remember this story myself, and it was excellent, so I'm sorry it's gone.

Links for above: Abandoned Child by Dreamer27

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someonenotme removed all stories from the Internet and will not be putting them back up anywhere. For anyone who may have retained a personal copy, please observe the author's wishes and do not distribute that story to anyone.

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Yes, well, that argument probably won't work. I have a feeling this is going to be a paean to pop culture misconceptions at their finest. Or game culture misconceptions. I'm not even bothering to point out that "warlock" quite literally means "oathbreaker" and is NOT a male witch/magic user.

Okay, I'm in!

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You can also search story summaries using those tags as the search criteria.

Okay, Sam and Trey aren't cooperating... Author: BronxWench Summary: The veil is thin at Samhain, and dark things are stirring at the turn of the year. Will Teagan survive his first Ritual? Title: Feed the Land

It's here on AFF, too, so you don't need to wander off to strange sites... Unintentionally Yours by Dinkel

It's perfect!

Merely changing the players is not actually sufficient to make a story unique. In order for the story to be merely similar, it would need to have substantive differences in setting as well as in the actual sequence of events in the story. It's one thing to be inspired by a story and write something influenced by it, but my caution to anyone taking this challenge is that merely copying that Castle story and substituting Bracken will not be permitted here. If anyone taking this challenge needs or wants clarification, I'm happy to assist. However, the site's Terms of Service is pretty clear.