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Contest July-August 2019 Short Story Contest Reading and Voting Thread

Which Story or Stories Do You Like Best? (choose up to three)

  • Story One: "The Polar Warpgate"

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Story Two: "Kroxigor's Magic"

    Votes: 6 37.5%

  • Story Three: "A Friend for Hard Times"

    Votes: 11 68.8%

  • Story Four: "Got Your Gear?"

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Story Five: "The Coward's Weapon"

    Votes: 6 37.5%

  • Story Six: "Peals of Thunder"

    Votes: 4 25.0%

  • Story Seven: "Two Strengths"

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • Story Eight: "Tzlatoc and the Gate Warden"

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Story Nine: "The Mythology of Ghur"

    Votes: 6 37.5%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
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I award Killer Angel the Scolenex Cup for the cuddly wuddliest story.

Honorable mentions to "Kroxigor's Magic" and "Two Strengths"
 
Scalenex said:
People are welcome and encouraged to keep up commentary but I'm closing the poll and calling the election.

The winner by a wide margin "A Friend for Hard Times" written by Killer Angel. Congratuations to him and thank you to all nine writers for nine excellent pieces!

Story One: "The Polar Warpgate" by @DeathBringer125
Story Two: "Kroxigor's Magic" by @Paradoxical Pacifism
Story Three: "A Friend for Hard Times" by @Killer Angel
Story Four: "Got Your Gear" by @WhenTheSkinksMarch
Story Five: "The Coward's Weapon" by @thedarkfourth
Story Six: "Peals of Thunder" by @CalebTheNomad
Story Seven: "Two Strengths" by @Y'ttar Scaletail
Story Eight" "Tzlatoc and the Gate Warden" by @pendrake
Story Nine: "The Mythology of Ghur" by @Warden

Special thanks to CalebtheNomad for a very strong first entry!
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Congrats to @Killer Angel for winning the contest twice in a row now! Have we ever had that before?

I’m honestly so pleased that my three favourite stories were three of the best entries - I voted for ‘A Friend for Hard Times’, ‘The Coward’s Weapon’ and ‘Kroxigor’s Magic’ which came first, second and joint third respectively - but all the stories were very well written as usual. Should have known that @Warden wrote ‘The Mythology of Ghur’ as he loves his in-universe written lore pieces, and I’m very impressed by the sequels @thedarkfourth and @pendrake wrote to previous short story contest entries of theirs.

I look forward to seeing what the next contest theme is in October (and hopefully I will actually enter next time :p)!

EDIT: @Scalenex, I don’t think you’ve awarded the Scalenex cup this contest yet!
 
Congrats to @Killer Angel for a fun story :) (I really loved the minor characters; they were done very well). I guess it's pretty cool that I somehow envisioned this theme roughly half a year prior, albeit with a Slann instead of a skink priest. Can't wait for the next one then - this one was enjoyable!
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
EDIT: @Scalenex, I don’t think you’ve awarded the Scalenex cup this contest yet!
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The pieces were excellent this season, but I'm not sure any of them are dark enough to qualify for the Scalenex Cup this season. That's why I asked Scolenex to give his own award this cycle.

Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
Sorry, don’t know what happened there with my memory. I’m surprised though that @Scalenex delegated the choosing of the theme to someone else.
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Yup.

Killer Angel said:
He was just short of ideas. ;)
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Indeed.

Killer Angel may want to consider delegating the next contest theme to someone else, or not.
 
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