Good story. It kept me interested to rhe end. At first I thought it would be the simple consequences of the elf's acyions but at the end, it looked like the guild lord had conseques of his actions he was going to have to deal with. I liked it but being honest I had to dock some points for not following the theme os 1 page. Keep up the good work and see if you can edit your stories down to fit the format snd you are gold. That is a hard thing for me in me writing.

You asked for more brutally honest feedback on the Discord server so I'll outline my marking scheme.

Concept & Originality: I partly rate this on how it fits into the universe, since many stories can be Warhammer with a few name changes. Characters acting outside of the way their faction "should" behave is no bad thing, but the concept of a Dark Elf pulling rank, so to speak, and leveraging their father's connections is something that seems to fit more into the WH40k canon than that of One Page Rules. At best, the scene had nothing in particular that made the dwarf uniquely dwarven nor the dark elf uniquely dark elven. It was just any dad murdering any man who had attacked his daughter. As for the concept, well, an angry dad revenge fantasy on his daughter's assailant is pretty well-trod ground. From my marking scheme I gave this 2 stars: "Very standard story with no new elements".

Flow & Clarity: The flow of the story is not my favourite, simply because the elf being hit by a hammer once while the dwarf shouts about how angry he is about his daughter would have been plenty for me to grasp the situation. Perhaps a time jump to where the characters are explaining the political reality, and thus what the dwarf is sacrificing by choosing to kill the elf, would have broken things up, but as it was it felt like we knew the elf was losing the fight from the first paragraph, and too much time was given to describing a concept I already understood. Grammar and spelling, however, had no problems. I rated this 3 stars: "3. Obvious errors or flaws in pacing, but not enough to impact understanding of the story."

Adherence to the Theme: Not only was the theme of Consequences addressed, it was addressed on two levels - both the consequences of the elf's actions and the consequences the dwarf is choosing to accept. This was about as closely adherent to the theme as I've seen so far, so I gave it 5 stars: "Theme the most important part of the story and explored on more than one level."

Style: The submissions were required to use the provided formatting and to fit on one page. All of that white space should have been single line breaks and indentation on the first line of each paragraph. Dialogue that does not terminate needs to end with a comma immediately before the end quotation. You should describe the speakers' tone or volume rather than using caps for dialogue.

Content-wise, it's a fine scene. The concepts of dwarves vs elves/dark elves being naughty is not unique, but this was a good offering to those ideas. You could have spared a few of the repetitive beats of dialogue and used that word count to be more descriptive of the setting, the actions, the emotions we are observing. Dropping the consequences line at the end was a bit on-the-nose, but some people like that.

3.5/5

the emotions of the story hit like a shock hammer. I really enjoy your writing style.

Really good on-theme story. Good use of dialogue to tell the back story. Great job :)