You and a fellow Clan member(s) are at large in Kinestia City with a small platoon of Naga Sadow troopers. As you lead your unit through the devastation caused by our attack, how will you respond to the chaos and violence around you?

Pick one of the following prompts.

Harsh But Fair?

You and your fellow member(s) will lead your troopers clearing out warehouses, commercial properties and private homes. Citizens or enemy forces that resist need to be quickly dealt with, either by forcing them to submit or eliminating them if they protest too much. Speed is essential in pacifying the area and you are to use your own judgement in how you achieve this.

Protecting The Innocent.

You appreciate the reasoning behind the raid, for the benefits the acquired wealth will bring to our Clan and its long term goals. However you believe that this can be done with the minimum amount of violence and that deliberate cruelty towards the citizens is unnecessary and unacceptable. You and your fellow member(s) will do their best to protect the innocent citizens from the more excessive violence and abuse other less honourable forces in the immediate area may carry out. A direct and blunt approach from you and your troopers may be necessary to prevent any cruelty you witness.

Submissions:

Teams must submit two copies, one "clean" document (without comments or track changes) for reading in PDF, .doc, or .docx format as well as a second "annotated" version where all writers' contributions are clearly marked using comments and Track Changes (in Microsoft Word) or by "Version History" in Google documents. Edits and comments in the "annotated" document must be clearly attributable to a team member. If using Word: for the "annotated" version, submissions must be made in .doc or .docx format with all tracked changes and comments visible. If using Google docs: you must share the document with the event organizers by clicking the blue "Share" button in the top-right corner of the screen and entering their email addresses. Be sure to give full "editing" access when sharing the document (you will see a dark grey pencil icon to the right of the email address entry box). Include a link to your Google doc at the beginning of your "clean" copy. Teams: Teams must be made up of two or three people. You must identify your team members by name and dossier number at the top of your document along with links to character sheet snapshots for each team member. You can create and find manual snapshots by going to the "Possessions and Loadouts" link in your admin menu and selecting the "snapshots" tab.

Word count: Each writer must contribute at least 500 words total and a roughly equal proportion of the total word count. For example, each member of a two-person team must contribute approximately 50% of the total word count, whereas each member of a three-person team must contribute approximately one-third of the total. A writer's substantive edits and comments will be considered when evaluating whether they contributed a sufficient proportion of the document.

The DB fiction rubric will be used to score this competition.