Forums › English Language Forums › General › Treasure Vault

Search

Creativity Challenge, MKII - Contest Entries Open

12 replies [Last post]
Wed, 08/06/2014 - 19:47
Portrayt's picture
Portrayt

Hello!
It is my pleasure to once again announce the Creativity Challenge, MKII!
The object of this event is to promote imagination, appreciation of art and literature, and most importantly fun.
Here's the idea:

For this Challenge, knights must create some form of Art (drawing, comic, animation etc) or some form of Literature (short story, poem, typography etc) based off of a song called "The Gold Bug" by The Alan Parsons Project.
Lyrics are nonexistent, as this is an instrumental to challenge your imagination.
This song is intentionally obscure as to inspire original thoughts!
There are no minimum requirements as far as length or complexity of the creation, but keep in mind that quality usually correlates with time.

Deadline for completion is August 24th at 12pm EST.

There will be three winners (1st, 2nd, & 3rd place), as well as an honorary mention. Each place (excluding the honorary mention) will be able to choose one prize from the list below:
No two winners can select the same prize.
As of yet, Prizes are still being decided. Donations for prizes will also be accepted. Check back here for the prize list once I've updated it.

Enjoy, and let's have some fun!

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 21:13
#1
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
:/

*at the start, without human voices*

Hmm, a legion of almirian crusaders, returned from their glourious conquest in the east, with their ivory armour and diamond speares they marched on the marble stone road. All the way back to the citadle...

*lyrics kick in*

And then... they started to strip and have dance party on the road???

Almirian soldier: "Relax stranger, our boys finght hard, and they play even harder!"

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 21:17
#2
Sonosuke's picture
Sonosuke
(~O ,O)~ #Sonosuks

Hey, what happened to that one request of Midnight and Affraiel during Oktoberfest?

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 21:20
#3
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
@Sono

Still working on it. And also, I have stuff to do IRL.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:32
#4
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
@Sono

Done

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 15:39
#5
Isekuube's picture
Isekuube
:3

I woke up.

I looked around. Desert. Nothing but endless desert. Honestly, I had no idea that Cradle had deserts. Nevertheless, I was very uncomfortable, as I was half way buried in sand. I looked up onto the nearest sand dune. There was a strange banner on it. I trekked up the slope, tumbling down on occasion. I studied the banner. It was crisp to the touch and the blue and orange colours were faded. It was a very exotic pattern, I had no idea what it meant if it even meant anything. I took my gaze away from the beautifully crafted banner and I put it onto the great dunes of this desert. The dunes went up and down as if they were waves, the sun reflected off of the sand creating a magnificent orange and golden colour.

I decided I would slide down the dune. As I slid down, I my face was greeted with hot air. It stung, but I didn't care, the landscape was what was on my mind. My boots were filled with sand, my veins were filled with adrenaline, and my mind was filled with adventure. As magnificent as it was out here, I knew I had to get going, the golden sand was not going anywhere. Walking was tough, pain from the sweat that got into my eyes made me cry. Or was it the sky?

{ Walking, walking, walking. Will it ever stop?

The dunes were beautiful, where angels sat atop.

Walking, walking, walking. How much do I thirst?

I thought so much, yet my love for nature is unrehearsed.

Walking, walking, walking. Whatever is the use? }

My need for water is very much profuse.

I stopped myself. There was no water in sight. I was going crazy. I smiled and fell backwards. Looking up at the sky, at the sand. I let it slip through my fingers the feeling was unmatched. The warm air seemed to coerce me to sleep. The seductive landscape drew me in and I was losing myself. I let out a deep sigh.

I closed my eyes and waited for nature to take me away.

The banner? Oh. No. It's fine. Another adventure for another day.

~

*Katniss voice* Thank you for your consideration.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 21:37
#6
Pandafishie's picture
Pandafishie

>haven't listened<

Free bump

Moar people should enter.

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 21:59
#7
Colray's picture
Colray
you know

I want to enter, but the song just isn't giving me any ideas.

Sun, 08/17/2014 - 04:11
#8
Ariave's picture
Ariave
Meow

The deadline is today, the prizes haven't been mentioned, there are like 5 posts. What is with this topic? Please explain!

Sun, 08/17/2014 - 10:27
#9
Portrayt's picture
Portrayt
Well.

There aren't really enough posts to even have 3 winners, and I'm still waiting on the winners of the last contest to contact me as for their prizes (only 1/3 have). Thus, I can't really display the prizes since I'll be using some of the ones from the last contest, but I'm not sure which yet.
I will extend the deadline, as apparently the Treasure Vault is slower than I thought. Enjoy the extended time, by one week.
Best of luck!

Mon, 08/18/2014 - 17:51
#10
Nechrome's picture
Nechrome
Homestuck!

The TV is gonna be even slower than usual now that school's started back up for some of us.

I've been working on something for this, but didn't finish it in time for yesterday. So the extended deadline is very nice :3 although I'll still probably not finish it in time anyway.

Someday I will finish the dozen short stories that I never got around to finishing.

Wed, 08/20/2014 - 02:47
#11
Portrayt's picture
Portrayt

@Lordofnecromancers, My friend, how much time do you need? If you can give me an estimate, I don't think anyone'd have a problem if we worked something out.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:16
#12
Nechrome's picture
Nechrome
Homestuck!

I honestly have no idea how much time I need. Short stories that are actually short are hard to write.

Let me put it this way; I am still in the process of writing up my short story entry Soldiers of Almire for Tev's Great Big Contest 1 POINT FRIKKIN 0 which was like 2 years ago. Someday, I will finish it and give it to her several years after the contest has ended and she will be surprised.

Then I get to work on and finish my entry All the King's Men for Tev's Great Big Contest 2.0 which was 1 year ago.

And then a bunch of other miscellanious short stories.

Sooooo yeah.

Short stories.

idk Ima just really try and limit myself to something brief and concise, instead of some short story that ends up being 20k words. Unfortunately that kind of thing just doesn't come naturally to me. But I will try.

tl;dr nah don't bother holding up for me

Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system