Competition: Micro Fiction 5

Finished
Micro Fiction 5

Prompt: A New Hobby

Rules: - Participants must submit entries in .pdf, .doc, or .docx format, or use the submission text field (markdown capable).
- Entries must be a maximum of 500 words. Any entries that are over 500 words will be ineligible for placement.
- There is no minimum word requirement.
- Your story must be centered on one of your dossier-linked characters, be it your Main, Alt, or other slotted NPCs. Additional NPCs, including ones listed on the wiki or created/invented to tell your story in this fiction, are allowed and strongly encouraged.
- Due to the length of fictions, Clusters of Ice will not be awarded.

Grading Method: Grading will be done utilizing the official Fiction Rubric.

How the scoring works: Participation will be key here, all participants submitting a valid comp entry will be awarded with 1 point towards the overall event placement with the top 3 placements per completion earning more.

1st place: 4 points
2nd place: 3 points
3rd place: 2 points
Participation: 1 point

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Micro Fiction Series
Organized by
TuQ’uan Varick di Plagia
Running time
2024-06-21 until 2024-06-25 (5 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Other
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
7 subscribers, of which 2 have participated.
Results
Member
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir
Textual submission

Foxen grunted as he looked between the diagram laid out before him and the manual beside. He had already memorized many new files on stone-building into his memory files, but still this newest home improvement project was a tricky one. Unlike the other adjustments he'd made in the last two years, chiefly wood and carpentry based for Flyndt, the digging out and setting of a cellar was a new challenge.

The physical parts had been simple. Digging, breaking rock, breaking more rock, hauling that rock, getting distracted by Flyndt apparently enjoying him breaking rock, and so on. Even laying the cement and foundations was simple, as was the wooden frame. The geometry inherent to stone building appealed to him greatly. He understood fault lines.

But what would be more aesthetically pleasing to Aibyss? Fifteen rows by fifteen columns of stones that were cut in rectangles of 57x34cm or triple that with smaller oblong shapes?

Decisions.

"Hrm," Foxen grunted again, and went back to his literal drawing board, attempting to sketch another exactly precise and to scale pattern for review.

Placement
1st place
Member
Grand Master Declan Roark
File submission
Short Fiction 2.docx
Placement
2nd place