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

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

  • Story 1: Fear

    Votes: 13 59.1%

  • Story 2: Tunnels

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Story 3: Trial of Cuezaltzin

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Story 4: The Ghosts We Have

    Votes: 12 54.5%

  • Story 5: The Days of Terror

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Story 6: Rat Poison

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • Story 7: In the Serpent's Eye

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Story 8: Fool's Gold

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Story 9: Midnight Chase

    Votes: 7 31.8%

  • Story 10: Whispers in the Wind

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Story 11: The Last Slann

    Votes: 7 31.8%

  • Story 12: Secrets of the Southlands

    Votes: 13 59.1%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
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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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
 
Okay let me be the first to confess my sins in the gaze of Ssotek
spawning of Bob said:
Story 2 Tunnels

The character in Rat Poison was obsessed by skaven. I swear the author of of this is a skaven. I've done a couple of skaven short stories over on the Under-empire forum, and read a lot more. The author has nailed the mood and speech of these cuddly comedians.

The nasty history of the tunnel, the smell, the mood the panic - well portrayed.

What let me down was the balance at the end. The dialogue and inter skaven interaction was the strongest element, but close to the end it just stopped and got replaced by "The folowing hours are calm.... They're only three of them left now.... devouring Scratch as it goes."

It became a bit of a dry history lesson because it moved away from the rat's perspective. This is another one that I think would be better witha redo and more detail being put into the last section.

This one had a few English Grammar and spelling issues, but the meaning was clear. I also spotted this: "Then doesSsotek closes his jaws..." A clue to the author's identity perhaps?

Don't worry Ssuperman - your ssecret is ssafe with me!"

Forfærdelig
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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
 
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!
 
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. ;)
 
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.
 
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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