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How to Join: Auditions

BTOCT is a written-only elimination-style bracket tournament and uses standard audition practices to pick the official roster. Please read and become familiar with what is required in order to audition. Deadline: May 12th 2025

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BifrostTerminalOCT staff is offering prospective competitors the opportunity to have their auditions checked for accuracy PRIOR to being officially submitted. This service will be utilized to make sure all requirements are met and that the submission would not be automatically rejected due to missing requirements or unauthorized inclusions. Note that this is not a judgment on quality or placement; this is to ensure that your audition will reach being judged and will not be automatically tossed out due to failing to adhere to the requirements.

This service will close two (2) days prior to deadline. Current last day to submit an audition to be checked: May 9th 2025.

If you would like to have your audition checked by staff, please fill out the request form by clicking here or do so via the Create-A-Ticket section of the Discord server.

Click here to read the prologue to BifrostTerminalOCT.

Click here to read the canon event of the auditions.

Audition Requirements

  • Make an account on The Archives of Thraelos, create your character[s] page[s] and your creator page
    • Create a page for the character[s] being entered
      • Follow these instructions on how 
      • A visual reference image is not required, but in lieu of one, you should make up for it in extensive descriptions of the character visuals
        • You may draw your own visual ref or commission someone to
        • Picrew, Heroforge, and all other F2U (Free To Use) assets are allowed for visual ref
          • YOU MAY NOT USE GENERATIVE AI IN ANY FORM
    • Create a page for yourself (or you and your partner if you are a team)
  • Within your audition entry, you MUST meet these requirements:
    • Your character[s] must have found their way up to The Bifrost Terminal
      • The details are up to you and your imagination
      • Kazuya is not an option, however
    • Your character[s] must be LOCKED IN to The Bifrost Terminal within your entry, as per the provided official scene
      • Consider this provided scene canon, but the details pertaining to your character[s] and how your character behaves, perceives, and thinks throughout is up to you
  • Word count maximum limit: approximately 25,000
  • You must submit everything through the official submission form before the deadline-- May 12th 2025 23:59:59 EST-- to be considered

Audition Rules

  1. GenAI, in any form at all, is STRICTLY PROHIBITED
    1. Anyone caught utilizing generative AI for any portion of their work in BTOCT will be promptly removed and banned from any future ThraelosVerse participation
  3. The work must be primarily text-based
    1. You can create visual art or non-text supplementary aspects to add to your entries, however the story as a whole must be complete within, and able to be followed within, text format
    2. You will be judged only on the prose/text portion, so be sure to focus on that
    3. Format, is up to you, but keep the text/prose as the focus in mind
  5. The audition entry must be a “complete” work
    1. Auditions with incomplete story will not be accepted– do not turn in WIPs (Works In Progress) as they will be automatically rejected
    2. Story must be able to be followed from beginning to end, even if unpolished (bare bones plot point lists will not be accepted)-- remember: finished, not perfect
  7. Must all be submitted via the official submission form before deadline-- May 12th 2025 23:59:59 EST-- or the audition will not be considered
  8. Must be your original work

BTOCT Auditions Deadline

Monday, May 12th 2025 23:59:59 EST

Ready to submit your audition and embark on a journey into

The Bifrost Terminal?