Prompt

You and your partner's characters (and any other NPCs or characters you wish) arrive at a pre-determined set of coordinates for a raid mission only to find an Iron Legion vessel adrift and functioning on minimal power. According the mission briefing your team received the vessel, known as the Charon was supposed to be transporting a weapons development team of some kind, but the weapon in question is unknown. Reconnaissance of the derelict vessel indicate all the escape pods and hanger bays were destroyed from the inside. The decision is made to board the vessel and recover the weapon or any intelligence relating to it. (The vessel type of the Charon and any crew detailed are up to the authors of each entry)

Shortly after setting foot on the vessel your team is attacked by a small pack of Rakghouls and in the chaos you are cut off from your point of entry. Now you have to make your way through the dimly lit ship to either try to accomplish your objective or simply get out alive. How do you escape the vessel? What happened there? What is the weapon and do you find it?

Instructions

This is a coop fiction meaning that two and only two members must collaborate to create an entry. There is no sign up process, find a partner and get to writing.

• Entries must be posted on Discourse under the Fiction section with "Last Voyage of the Charon" in the post title.

• Both members of the team must submit to the competition with the names and PINs of both authors and a link to the Discourse thread where their entry is posted.

• Each participant must post a minimum of 500 words.. Any team that does not meet the minimum word count per participant will be disqualified. There is no upper limit on post counts or word counts, though remember this is a cooperative effort so try to split the posts as evenly as you can.

• This is a fiction competition not a run-on so there are no restrictions on post counts or post orders so long as both participants meet the minimum word count. The piece will be graded as a whole.

• Entries that feature both writers work evenly may have a chance at placing higher than one writer doing the bare minimum with the other writer writing significantly more, but it will ultimately be up to the organizer's discretion.

• Clusters of Ice will be awarded based on the word counts of each participant (as if their posts were individual fiction entries).

• Entries will be graded as a whole using the Fiction Rubric. Teams will be scored and placed as a unit. Only CIs will be awarded individually.