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Fan Area => Roleplaying (Communitive Storywriting) => Topic started by: steuben on October 09, 2005, 10:40:15 pm

Title: an open challenge
Post by: steuben on October 09, 2005, 10:40:15 pm: an old man walks in, leaning heavily on his cane. he takes an old gaunlet from from his coat. he holds it momentarily at arms length. his arm quivers with the effort. he drops it. it hits the floor with a clatter and rolls slightly. the inlays of gold and platinum can be faintly seen in the dark iron.

\"all you who tell us stories,\" he says. \"i lay this challenge at your feet. tell us your best, we the people will decide the rest.\"

he turns around, and leaves.

much good karma to moogie for originally thinking of this idea (http://planeshift.oodlz.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=4685&boardid=13) way back when.

the guidelines:
1. roughly 2000 words max. can be much less, but not to much more.
2. ps settings
3. postmarked no later then midnight (local time) nov 30, 2005
4. one entry per person, if you come up with a better one the previous entry can be withdrawn.
5. original works only. to keep things even.
6. a) submit works to steuben viscosa (steuben.viscosa@sympatico.ca) with \"ps open challenge\" in the subject line
b) include title, and forum name.
7. it should be able to get a pg rating. no foul language, no sex, no nudity, pre-9 pm prime time kind of stuff.
8. no prizes. fame and glory to the best three. just fame to everybody else.
9. selection will be done by popular vote, by forum members, from 11am (est) dec 1 to 12:00 am (est) dec 15.
10. anything else as needs must.

post or pm to discuss.
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Post by: Under the moon on October 10, 2005, 05:44:55 pm: i will write. 2000 words may be a crunch, but i\'ll manage.

*finds a solitary grove where no one will find him, and takes out his quill*
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Post by: Draklar on October 26, 2005, 06:20:02 am: Why no one temp sticked this? :|
I\'ll write something, I guess...
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Post by: steuben on November 03, 2005, 03:12:50 am: 28 days left and only two confirmed competiors. perhaps things will pick up in the next few days.
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Post by: Draklar on November 07, 2005, 01:27:19 pm: I have a question about the first rule. It says not much more than 2000 words. I suppose 2019 is all right, right?
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Post by: steuben on November 07, 2005, 04:31:54 pm: 2019 will work well. its one of those soft limits.
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Post by: Draklar on November 10, 2005, 10:43:07 pm: All right, the story was sent. How many contestants are there curently?
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Post by: steuben on November 10, 2005, 10:47:13 pm: excellent. i look forward to seeing it in my inbox this morning.

the running appears to still be a free for all. but as thing close in i\'m hoping for a good race.
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Post by: steuben on November 16, 2005, 10:54:04 pm: two weeks. two weeks left. i\'m looking for a competition here.

if this is your first time for such things. give it a try. we always welcome fresh faces.
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Post by: shorty13 on November 16, 2005, 10:57:55 pm: comeon Farren, you can win, just put in a lot of fight scenes :)
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Post by: Induane on November 18, 2005, 01:41:20 am: Can I post something I posted here along time ago?
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Post by: steuben on November 18, 2005, 04:31:48 pm: sorry. no. but, if anything new that you write is of equivalent quality to the piece that you sent, you should do well.
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Post by: Induane on November 18, 2005, 07:42:54 pm: correction - I posted a story in this forum a long time ago - I had recently changed it and brushed it up, and was going to post it here but I sent it to you already... so if its unacceptable that a version of that story I emaild you origionally appeared in a long lost thread then let me know and I will write a new one.
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Post by: Draklar on November 18, 2005, 08:09:47 pm: I think this rule was made so that people would write the stories within the contest border. As in within a set time and such. So that one person won\'t spend several months writing it, while other only two weeks.

I could be wrong though.
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Post by: steuben on November 18, 2005, 09:13:54 pm: *nods*

pretty much.

besides fresh works are usually better than ones that you are just brushing the dust off of.
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Post by: Cyl on November 21, 2005, 09:03:14 pm: I cant say for sure as my schedule is quite tight, and I aint as talented as most of the others, but at least it would give me some reason to write again, ...

yeah I will probably make a contributition..
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Post by: Under the moon on November 30, 2005, 03:21:57 am: *begins writing frantically now that he has a computer that actually works*
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Post by: steuben on November 30, 2005, 10:31:46 pm: /me is glad he writes stuff out long hand first... that is unless you\'re transcribing it to comp form.
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Post by: Under the moon on November 30, 2005, 10:43:45 pm: Both. I had half written on paper, the other half is still in my head and shall go straight to the keyboard.

Either way, I write very slow. :P

How many hours left? xD
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Post by: steuben on November 30, 2005, 10:50:13 pm: it\'s midnight local. so as i do a quick calculation, against known information, about 8 hours or so
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Post by: Under the moon on December 01, 2005, 01:02:09 am: The words have been cast upon the wind.
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Post by: Draklar on December 02, 2005, 01:01:23 pm: Apparently this thing is getting late... Any idea when it\'ll move on?