Competition: Toss a coin to your...

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Toss a coin to your...

You are called to do the work others run away from.

In a minimum of 500 words, pick a contract from the quest board and slay your monsters Witcher!

  • A remote defense base in Hoth has called for help to deal with what they suspect to be a pair of Wampas harassing their patrol routes. The commander of the base has put a bounty on this creatures. 15.000 credits for those brave enough to get rid of them for good.
  • A rampaging Mudhorn has been destroying small villages that are unfortunate enough to be on its path. Officials in Anchorhead, Tatooine, are now very worried, as latest reports suggested the creature was making its way towards the spaceport. They're offering a hefty sum of 50.000 credits to anyone who manages to protect the spaceport from the creature's rage.
  • The planet Ach-To is plagued with Porgs. Apparently something, or someone has been giving these critters a substance that makes them savage and attack anything on sight. The Jedi Council in Coruscant has petitioned a reward of 500 credits be awarded for each Porg you successfully take care of. Beware, they are in the thousands...

This competition awards 2nd-level crescents and will be graded according to the Fiction Grading Rubric

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Trials of Grass
Organized by
Dr. Aru Law
Running time
2022-01-01 until 2022-01-31 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Second Level Crescents and Clusters of Ice as per VOICE guidelines
Participants
14 subscribers, of which 3 have participated.
Results
Member
Ambassador Revak K'Urr
File submission
Toss a coin to your....pdf
Placement
1st place
2nd place
Sulon Tiful
Member
Sulon Tiful
File submission
Wampa Marauders.pdf
Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Creon Neverse
Member
Creon Neverse
Textual submission

A voice call from Creon’s *Slicer Remote Control Pad*:

“Consul [Revak](https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Revak_Kur), I would like to ask a favor of you.”

“That depends, what’s the favor?”

“May I use the [Idiot’s Array](https://wiki.darkjedibrotherhood.com/view/Idiot%27s_Array) for transport and some cold storage units?”

“Sure. It’s still back on the [Asclepius Space Station](https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/items/45283) where you left it. May I ask what for?”

“The Council in Coruscant issued out a bounty for Porgs. 500 per Porg. I’d like to make some extra credits and feed the Jedi with a quick round trip.

“Sure thing. The Freighter’s yours to use.”

“Thank you, Lord Revak.”

**Ahch-Too**
**A few days later...**

The average Porg weights anywhere from 2-4kg, Creon used 4 to calculate it would be 250 Porgs per metric ton. The Bathleen-class freighter dubbed the Idiot’s Array could feasibly carry up to thirty million Porgs. This total could potentially 15 Billion credits for a planet’s worth of poultry! He had the necessary resources and the hunger for more wealth and power.

The temperate zone preference for these birds changed from closer to Ahcch-Too’s equator to further away depending on the seasons. They do not have to travel far, as they had plenty of fish to feed and islands to sleep on. Creon wondered how they stayed hydrated with fresh water. He landed on a spacious enough land-mass coated with grass. Creon took flight on his jetpack and used his J19 electroscope’s zoom function to the direct feed from the macroscope to his centralized HUD display. Whenever he would see an island with a porg population he would land closer and began firing blaster bolts from his vambraces. The ID10 droid could carry the corpses one by one to the Array and record all the noises being called from the Porgs. It recorded each squeak, each burble, and each song.

The recording of these noises was then transmitted by the ID10 to the Idiot’s Array’s outdoor sound system. It was used for the hardcore parties when it had been under the care of the Wildcards. These calls were used to Lure the nearby Porgs that heard its call to gather closer. The neighbors were curious by the noise and collected within Creon’s regional kill zone. He used telekinesis to carry groups at a time. In areas with high populations Creon used the rapid-fire function of his rifle. It would have to have been intentional for him to have missed how slow the Porgs were running and flying. One shot was one kill. He had missed the easy target practice. The groups better known as a “murder” tried to be aggressive, but there wasn’t enough to be an issue.

**1 Month Later**

The hunt became a tedious eight-hour workday and Creon took days off to rest and eat. Had it not been for the Cold Storage Containers, most of the reaping harvest would have gone rotten by this time. In the end, Creon was able to collect 4,000 Porgs within the time span he had. He could stay for longer, but would rather take the population he had now and wait to return until after the mating season. Controlling the population made for a long term business plan. For 500 per Porg Creon was due 2 million. With that many credits, he could finally make a comfortable living for himself and his wife.

**End**

Placement
3rd place