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Journey into Fear - A Survivor-style writing contest with progressive deaths

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Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:57
Mayaura's picture
Mayaura

This is a writing contest. Every participant will receive a prize with those surviving longer receiving better prizes. Here’s how it works.

There is a fearsome creature loose in the Spiral World. Mawashimono, the Dragon Princess, has been charged with assembling a team of up to 10 Special Investigators. But be warned, at the end of each chapter one character will die!

RULES

Each chapter will begin with a short story segment from me laying out your objectives for that chapter. After I post the objectives, you will have three days to post your story. Failure to post a story within the time limit will result in your elimination by the death of your character. I’ll write the death sequences.

In addition to chapter objectives, there are standard objectives as follows:

1) good spelling and grammar
2) good dialog
3) character development
4) conflict and resolution
5) creative story telling

The character in the writing that I feel least achieves the objectives will be killed by the creature, ending that writer’s participation in the contest. With each chapter a writer will be eliminated until only one remains.

Each post must be between 800-1000 words.

Everyone will receive a prize for participating, with those surviving longer receiving better prizes.

If you would like to participate in this contest, complete a character application similar to the one below:

CHARACTER APPLICATION

Character’s name: Mawashimono, the Dragon Princess

Character’s personality: Fiery, courageous, fairly serious but also sensuous

Character’s appearance: Storm dragon helm with fiery halo (tiara) and fiery eye, radiant silvermail with regal wings and a sunshine aura

Notable characteristics: Carries a specially enchanted Lionheart honor blade and a rapid firing Argent Peacemaker. Has a weakness for dark chocolate, fresh baked cookies, and incense. She can breathe fire and fly short distances.

After a week of accepting applications, I post the list of the characters that have been accepted into the Special Investigators, and start the story.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 07:58
#1
Vertigo-Lyca's picture
Vertigo-Lyca
Character App

(I've been in quite the mood to use my Gremlin OC, if you prefer I don't use it, I have a knight I could use!)

Name; Nylocke

Race; Gremlin

Gender; Female

Personality; Clumsy, but speedy and quick to movement, she's very kind and sweet and innocent, and would help save her friends in any way possible.

Appearance; Baggy Ghostmane suit (As if it were a size too big.), White fur, Sky Blue eyes (Never wears goggles), tiny body frame. Her suit's symbols were removed, and a Love Puppy's forehead heart symbol is added to her shoulder, as well as the usual red scarf and leg wraps being dark purple instead.

Notable Characteristics; She's much smaller than a Gremlin usually is (For comparison ideas, at human height average of 5'7-8", she's 5'2", however not being her actual height as I don't really know the average Gremlin height.), she's also very weak for her thin frame, but her light body makes her nimble all the same, even if she's clumsy. She usually carries around a knight's proto-sword as a weapon, but do to her strength, she uses it like an unwieldy claymore.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 18:50
#2
Colray's picture
Colray
this seems interesting

Character’s name: Raymond (Ray) Elric

Character’s personality: confident, friendly, doesn't take offense to much.

Character’s appearance: Azure Guardian Armor, Azure Guardian Helm(mask up for better vision.), Ironmight Plate shield, Munitions pack with the missiles replaced with survival gear.(Flashlight, matches, and some rations.)

Notable characteristics: Ray is regular sized, slightly built. He wields a battleaxe. Single edged with an extendable handle. Aside from the Axe he carries a Valiance for ranged combat, though he's not very good with it.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 20:32
#3
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
Saboteur, the professional mansassin

Character’s name: Pythonne (Saboteur) Sillinesky

Gender: male

Race: Isoran

Title: demolitionist second class

Character’s personality: typical soldier of war and a part time action hero, bad team player and explosive inclined.

Character’s appearance: Full volcanic demo, volcanic bondoiler and knight vision goggle.

Notable characteristics: Pythonne's, or rather, Saboteur's face is never seen, his voice wheezes out of the vent of his demo helm, sometimes, if you can peep while he was taking a shower (aren't you the nympho? Or the Homo sexual male...) you can see parts of his body are stained by a rocky substance, seemed like obsidian.

Little is know about Saboteur's past, he once belonged to the omega squad during an event known as the 'winter kingdom', where a clockwork aristocrat by the name of Vern launched a rebellion against the spiral order, he occupied Haven for a short time before the spiral order counter attacked. However, despite the victory, Saboteur's entire unit was wipped out. He was later sent into a asylum due to PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder).

Saboteur seems to have double personality, one is his usual self while the other seems to be a person called 'Mezizas'. He often have arguments in his own mind against Mezizas, who he referred to it as an 'arrogant witch'. However, it is really hard to tell whether or not Saboteur's illness was caused by his inner demon or something else completely?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:55
#4
Mayaura's picture
Mayaura

didn't seem to be enough interest

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