Competition: [Pro Bowl VIII: Week Two] Scenario Fiction

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[Pro Bowl VIII: Week Two] Scenario Fiction

Objective

Jedha is a world that is often nothing more than wreckage, the moon itself slowly falling to pieces. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that the former Pilgrim Moon doesn't hold its own brand of danger, posed both by the environment and foes of the Brotherhood it harbors. Your Clan has ordered you to the broken ruins of the Temple of the Central Isotoper on Jedha to retrieve information held by Children of Mortis remnant forces that are using the structure as a rally point. However, your efforts have not been overly successful and you have been left captured by the enemy. Using only the items you can find around your cell, you must figure out your next move. Do you simply make your escape, dodging those that are likely trying to stop you as you make your way to your ship? Or will you attempt to find your target and retrieve the data?

Craft your story using only the items provided, found on the body of a fellow prisoner:

Rules

  • Entries must be a minimum of 500 words. Any entries that are under 500 words will be disqualified and ineligible for participation or placement.
  • There is no maximum word cap.
  • Entries must be submitted in .pdf or .txt format or using the submission box on the Brotherhood website.
    • No GoogleDoc links or .DOC files, please download as a .pdf using "File" -> "Download as" "PDF Document (.pdf)" and submit through the website
    • If your entry is not PG-13, please make sure to hide your entry by unchecking the “Allow people to view your submission after the competition has been judged” box
  • Your story should be centered on your Main or Alternative/NPC characters. DJB Wiki NPCs, or other characters that you create or invent to tell your story are not only allowed but encouraged. However, your narrative should focus around one of your own characters with an active CS.
  • A snapshot of your character must be selected and submitted with your entry through the checkbox submission field to be eligible for placement. Items included in your loadout, however, cannot be used.

Grading: Grading will be done utilizing the Fiction Rubric, and judged on how well and how many of the provided items your character makes use of in the story.

This event has a 3x placement modifier.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Pro Bowl VIII: Week Two
Organized by
Master Selika Roh di Plagia, Adept DarkHawk Sadow
Running time
2024-09-09 until 2024-09-15 (7 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Novae and Clusters of Ice as per VOICE guidelines
Participants
14 subscribers, of which 8 have participated.
Results
Member
TuQ’uan Varick di Plagia
File submission
Pro Bowl VIII scenario fiction.pdf
Placement
1st place
Member
Combat Master "Aequitas" Anderson
File submission
The Tower.pdf
Placement
2nd place
Member
Lieutenant Colonel Narman Losa
File submission
DJBProBowl24week2Fiction - Narman Losa.pdf
Textual submission

Sorry that I phoned in the second half. I ran out of time to finish it the way I wanted and participation is better than nothing.

Placement
No placement
Member
Warlord Furios Morega di Plagia
File submission
furios_fiction_week2.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Alaisy "Aphotis" Tir'eivra
Submission
Alaisy "Aphotis" Tir'eivra opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Nora Olen
Submission
Nora Olen opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Azmodius Equesinfernum
Textual submission

Azmodius awakes to find himself in what appears to be an old stone room approximately ten meters by ten meters by ten meters. Feeling a little groggy he attempts to get up and winces at a sharp pain surging along the back of his neck. He reaches towards the area and removes what appears to be a dart. “Oh man, how did I not see this coming? A Friggin dart? I’ve anticipated strikes from some of the best martial artists in the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. I even anticipated Furios throwing thunderpunches while sparring. I've deflected blaster bolts coming from miles away. How did I not catch a friggin dart. And what’s in it? Poison? Ugh, If Furios hears about this I’ll never hear the end of it.”

Azmodius stands and looks to the wall he was laid up against to see a door sized opening with a door sized door made of bars of some kind of metal. “This looks an awful lot like a prison or holding cell of some sort, judging from that one and only door sized opening in this approximately ten meter by ten meter by ten meter room, fitted with a door sized door made of metallic bars. Those Children of Mortis must have captured me using some kind of poison then dragged my unconscious body further into their base. Lucky me!”

As he takes a step towards the door sized opening containing a door sized door made of metal bars, he almost trips over something. “Huh, I didn’t notice you earlier. Sorry about that”, he says to what is quite obviously the corpse of an old prisoner. Upon further inspection, he realizes that the corpse isn’t all what it seemed to be. This corpse, wasn’t just a regular corpse laying on the floor of a ten meter by ten meter by ten meter room with but one door shaped opening fitted with a door shaped door made of metal bars, but was all of those things in addition to containing what could only be described as ‘some probably sweet loot’. “Hey bud, do you mind if I totally jack what looks like some probably sweet loot? I figure you probably won’t need it on account of being a corpse and all.”

After a brief moment to allow the corpse to consider its feelings regarding having its probably sweet loot looted, Azmodius began to take inventory of what was most sweet of the probably sweet loot. “ok, looks like we have a flare, a glass eye, a hairbrush, a hydrospanner, a Nerf-wool towel, a remote detonator with nothing linked to it, a MerrSonn Model 44 Blaster Pistol with a drained power cell, a Baobab EZ3 Airbrush, and a Mace Windu action figure with kung-fu grip still in its original packaging!” Azmodius was particularly excited at finding such a rare piece of memorabilia in a condition experts would describe as ‘mint’.

Giddy and arms full with his newfound loot, Azmodius proceeded to the door shaped opening fitted with a door shaped door made of metal bars of some kind and kicked it open with a force enhanced kick. It appears that his captors never considered that their captive had spent years intoxicating himself with such a wide variety of substances and had thus developed a strong immunity to many poisons and toxins that would render any normal captive to a corpselike state. The trip to complete his objective and return to his ship was rather short and uneventful aside from a few well placed kicks aimed at a few members of the Children of Mortis, some machinery, and more architectural features barring easy passage of course.

Placement
No placement