Objective In the midst of a wargames battle between the Blue Wampas and the Red Charhounds to ‘capture’ a village that volunteered itself and ‘claim’ it’s town hall in the northeastern reaches of the Karufr Lowlands, a young woman suddenly appeals to you and an enemy team member who were just now fighting each other, for aid. Her daughter, Lily, has been missing for several days after journeying into the Karufr Forest for mushrooms to help her ailing father.

According to previous intelligence, near the northern side of the forest there is a medium sized fort created by Gammoreans that serves as their home. Until now, there have been no reports or signs of aggression from them nor have they had any interest in contacting the outside world. They are, however, highly territorial and defensive of their land from all outsiders…including children.

You have three decisions that you can make.

Decision One Attempt to put aside your differences with your enemy combatant and forge a temporary alliance to work together and focus your attention to rescuing the innocent child who is missing from the forest. These are just wargames, after all, and helping innocents is important. But can you two really focus on working together? Decision Two Help the mother find her daughter, but refuse to work with the enemy combatant that you were fighting with. The enemy combatant also wishes to find the daughter as well, and the two of you have now made it a contest to see who can rescue her first and bring her back to the village as the final goal, even if that means stealing her from one another after her rescue. Definitely make for a unique bard story in the local tavern..

Decision Three Ignore the mother’s pleas and resume combat, your goal being capturing the town hall with just your enemy in your path and their leadership who is also within the village’s bounds. After all, orders are orders and the family are not Taldryanites but just mere commoners. Let the town guards handle it.

Rules

This competition can be completed either solo or with one member of the opposing team.

Solo

• You may pick any enemy combatant to be with you for any of the three decision points.

• Submissions must be at least 500 words, and must be submitted either as a PDF, .doc, or .docx format.

• Submission field and google links will not be accepted.

• You must attach a snapshot of your character, and a link to your chosen enemy’s active loadout.

Team of Two

• Teams must submit two copies of their submission, 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 "Version History" in Google documents. Edits and comments in the "annotated" document must be clearly attributable to a team member.

• 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.

• Each writer must contribute at least 500 words total and a roughly 50% proportion of the total word count. Example being, a story with 3,000 words, each writer must have contributed approximately 1,500 words. A writer's substantive edits and comments will be considered when evaluating whether they contributed a sufficient proportion of the document.

Grading

• Entries will be graded with an emphasis on: Creativity, Realism, Story, and supported by the Voice Fiction Rubric.