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Contest October-November Short Story Contest: and the winner is...

Discussion in 'Fluff and Stories' started by Scalenex, Nov 1, 2015.

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Which story or stories did you like best? You may vote for up to FOUR entries

Poll closed Dec 1, 2015.

  1. Story 1: Fear

    13 vote(s)
    59.1%

  2. Story 2: Tunnels

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  3. Story 3: Trial of Cuezaltzin

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  4. Story 4: The Ghosts We Have

    12 vote(s)
    54.5%

  5. Story 5: The Days of Terror

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  6. Story 6: Rat Poison

    8 vote(s)
    36.4%

  7. Story 7: In the Serpent's Eye

    9 vote(s)
    40.9%

  8. Story 8: Fool's Gold

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  9. Story 9: Midnight Chase

    7 vote(s)
    31.8%

  10. Story 10: Whispers in the Wind

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  11. Story 11: The Last Slann

    7 vote(s)
    31.8%

  12. Story 12: Secrets of the Southlands

    13 vote(s)
    59.1%
Multiple votes are allowed.
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  1. Hyperborean
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    Hyperborean Well-Known Member

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    Stuck at the RMV instead of reading lizardy stories? For shame
     
    Hyperborean, Dec 1, 2015
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  2. pendrake
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    Pretty much that was my day...

    My number was R003, btw. This meant they had to count upward to wherever they started over in order to :banghead: cycle back to the double Os.
     
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  3. pendrake
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    Update: I have read four out of the twelve...

    ...oh well, the witching hour arrived, I guess and it reported an error when I tried to vote. Alas.
     
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  4. Hyperborean
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    @Scalenex is the contest over, can we officially confess our sins?
     
    Hyperborean, Dec 1, 2015
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  5. Scalenex
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    Scalenex Keeper of the Indexes Staff Member

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    We have a tie between "Fear" by Spawning of Bob and "Secrets of the Southlands" by Spawning of Bob. A tie-breaker vote would obviously be unnecessary.

    All bow before Spawning of Bob and his and his bob-nificance.

    Kudos to everyone involved. This was a great contest in terms of both quantity and quality.


    1. Fear: Spawning of Bob:

    2. Tunnels: Essmir

    3. Trial of Cuezaltzin: DrakisKier

    4. The Ghosts We Have: Oldblood Itzahuan

    5. The Days of Terror: Oxytol

    6. Rat Poison: Bowser

    7. In the Serpent’s Eye: Hyperborean

    8. Fool’s Gold: Trociu

    9. Midnight Chase: Infinity Turtle

    10. Whispers in the Wind: Nahualpiltzintli

    11. The Last Slann: Scalenex

    12. Secrets of the Southlands: Spawning of Bob
     
    Scalenex, Dec 1, 2015
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  6. Essmir
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    Okay let me be the first to confess my sins in the gaze of Ssotek
    First I am not a skaven I am a norse that have mutated to a lizardmen thats why I am a bit hairy. I also have to apoligase for the bad ending I wrote it on a longship on the way to a halloween party on the last day of entry suronded by chaos marauders getting drunk and my usual prof reader (a marauder devoted to tzeetch )was besides me but he was also drunk.

    And then wath you all have been waiting for the picture  DSC_0483.JPG

    //Essmir
     
    Essmir, Dec 1, 2015
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  7. discomute
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    Fear was Bob's? That makes his critique even more interesting. I thought it must have been bowsers as he kept liking my gushing over it. ;)
     
    discomute, Dec 1, 2015
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  8. Bowser
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    I am quite deceptive that way! Haha!
     
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  9. Hyperborean
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    I remember one of the biggest things when I was writing mine was I had the skink speak rekspeil. It was one of those things where I knew that it's unlikely for a skink to ever do that but at the time I had a hard time segueing parts. But of course my research will be much better next time! I wanna thank @Scalenex and @spawning of Bob for their critques!
     
    Hyperborean, Dec 1, 2015
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  10. Bowser
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    Congrats @spawning of Bob
    And thanks for the critique! Also @Scalenex for your critique! It was quite interesting to read how others viewed the stories! And going back and reading how they viewed their own! Not an easy task!
     
    Bowser, Dec 1, 2015
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  11. Slanputin
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    I loved the theme for this competition, it's a shame life got in the way of my publication.

    But enough whining - well done everyone! I thoroughly enjoyed reading them all (although I forgot to vote, oops). Well done @spawning of Bob, and good luck keeping your crown for the next round :shamefullyembarrased:

    I'm hoping the next theme will be as inspiring. I'm expecting it to remain seasonal so lots of Warhamm/AoS spins on "Love, Actually", "The Snowman", "Home Alone", etc. ;)
     
    Slanputin, Dec 1, 2015
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  12. Oldblood Itzahuan
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    Well written, all! And thanks everybody for the useful critiques and @Scalenex for a fun contest yet again! I look forwards to seeing you all in the NEXT competition!
     
    Oldblood Itzahuan, Dec 1, 2015
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  13. Xholankha the lost one
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    Woot oxyotls birthdayyy
    just turned 8001!!! sweet
     
    Xholankha the lost one, Dec 1, 2015
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  14. Killer Angel
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    Indeed, Spawning of Bob is blessed by the Old Ones. :)
     
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  15. DrakisKier
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    Im glad three people liked my story. It started off as just a short tale about my new skink chief, as well as describing my other models and their colorings. Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but a picture can only tell one scene, where as a well crafted story can paint several pictures with that thousand words.

    I know I didnt follow the theme of the contest very well, but I still enjoied crafting my narrative.

    I intentionally chose not to have dialogue in my story, as I remember old lizzy fluffs having saurus be very stoic and communicate nonverbally. And before I started my story I did a little research, in incan language, Cuezaltzin literally means 'fire' so the story was a trial by fire, so to speak.

    Oop, gotta get back to work now.
     
    DrakisKier, Dec 1, 2015
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  16. spawning of Bob
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    Oops, late acceptance speech from the realm of low signal and ten percent battery.
    Thanks for the kind words (and votes). I try to do something different for comp stories hence the graphic story. Thanks to Essmir there - I wouldn't have even thought of doing it if he hadn't led the way last time.

    going back to pencil and paper just about killed me, but it forced me to work out some new techniques which will make
     
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    for better General art. better reply when i can actually see what i am writing on the screen!
     
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  18. Bowser
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    Happy Birthday!
     
    Bowser, Dec 2, 2015
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  19. discomute
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    Birthday? Spawnday, right?
     
    discomute, Dec 2, 2015
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  20. Trociu
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    Congratulations to everyone and especially Bob! Great contest, I had real fun writing the story and stretching my English. And I got 3 votes! :-D
     
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