Glad to know you think those are good ideas!
Would limiting the word count on rounds help out with the judging?
Yes. And I didn't want to put word limits on entries, BUT... That may end up being a route we should consider.
Good to know in regards to the images you used, I didn't see the footer at the end where you mentioned all images were from Pixabay for some reason, oops!
Another thing about all this is you mentioned @lordless.exile and his efforts with Manaia and I've been talking with him about working together and perhaps having our IFC world inhabit his world of Manaia, so maybe next season we can have our people land their and start our own colony/community and delve much more deeper in that aspect in regards to the storyline and we can sort of create a new main city and work on history and language and develop a storyline that has the visual artwork of his attached to it. I think that could be pretty cool!
I'd love to make this feel more and more like an RPG and having a world like his to work within would be pretty neat I think. And through doing that maybe we can each help each other to give life to each others virtual worlds and projects.