Month 2 is here.

Rules are here. Updates are in bold.

Prompt word:

Ice

Prize value:

$20.52

Runner-up prize(s):

Gift URL for the Indie Royale April Fool's Bundle

Giveaway duration:

00:00 AM GMT, 1st April 2012 - 11:59 PM GMT, 18th April 2012

E-mail all entries to thejadefalcongifts@hotmail.co.uk. Remember to include your Steamgifts profile name. The alternative is me crediting you under your real name, and that's not so smart.

Good luck!

The winners:

First place: chuckie001 (chose IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover) ($29.19 remaining)

Runner-up: Tzell

Odds of winning were 1 in 17.

Special mentions:

Incog: Came out of nowhere (because I didn't know who the hell he was since he didn't sign his entry until just now) to almost snatch second place

Inferno955: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

And now, explanations.

This has been a long, long, long time coming. At the start, it was, admittedly, laziness (something I'd anticipated with the "lol, as if" in the title). I procrastinate a lot. Part of my ADD, I guess. Still, that alone wouldn't have held me off from this for so long. At some point, pretty much every part of my life got infected by the Will Smith virus and got flip-turned upsidedown including, but not limited to, and in no particular order: the death of a pet that hit me incredibly hard, financial troubles that made me hesitate as I wouldn't be able to actually give the winner a game, general hard-hitting depression, trying desperately to keep up with a Support I couldn't actually deal with and potentially suicidal thoughts. On top of that, I have various personality quirks that told me, at the same time, a) "they've been this long, they can wait a little longer", b) "urgh, I've put it off for too long, what's the fucking point?" and c) "they've been waiting for too long already, fucking get it out, you incompetent dick." C actually won a couple of times, but not in a way that was good. This is actually the third(? I can't remember) time these have been uploaded, but I took them down the previous two times because I rushed it, I didn't take the time to properly look things over, I didn't really give a shit about it. I didn't say it partly because, at the time, you guys were spamming it wondering if it would be ever put up and I wanted to see if you'd notice and also because, like I said, I didn't really give a shit, so I didn't want you to notice. But, uploading today, I found that you may not have seen those even if I had pointed it out. Apparently wikispaces wanted me to verify my account with real money and made my wiki private by default until I had. I have no idea when this happened. What the fuck, wikispaces?

Anyway, it's been too fucking long. That said, the prizes have now changed. First place is now $41.04, the runner up prize is now $20.52 plus the Indie Royale April's Fool's Bundle. The special mentions plus the runner up (if already own the IR bundle) will get a bundle of their choice. Now, remember those financial difficulties? Yeah, I may not actually be able to live up to this for a while, but it's the only way I can think of to make it up to you guys. Order of priority is from first place to special mentions.

;_;
Sorry,
Jade

The pretty awful wiki for the entries (gets updated after winners are announced).