Since Kir is extra-busy with RL work, Jac has asked me to come up with Monthly Topics for March. Don't worry about the late posting - you'll get extra time (see at the end)
In honor of the new due date, both topics are loosely based on the third anniversary of the split.
Story: Change one thing
Think back to the times of the split. Now, at this turning point of history, change one detail. Maybe someone gets killed during the Exodus, maybe one person in the seven is replaced with someone else, maybe Ronin does dismiss Astatine... Now, with that one thing changed, come back to the (likely quite different) now and write a story in the changed universe.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since there's been a few justified comments that not everybody might know their way around the split history, you may substitute another important event in your DB history. Since that's however a completely different piece of cake and not really comparable, I will judge those entries separately from those dealing with the split. So in essence, you now have three MTs instead of two. You can enter separate stories for both versions of the story topic if you want.END UPDATE
Please place the explanation of the change you made at the END of the story, not at the beginning. (You don't need to explain it as part of the story, a separate explanation is fine) Ideal stories will depict the new universe well enough that the change can be deducted. This should be a serious (and likely anti-utopic) story.
Minimum 2 pages (7000 characters)
Poem: Three
It's been three years since the split. On the night of the anniversary, you have a vision related to the number three. Is it the Force telling you something or just the bad booze you drunk ?
Rules: Any poetry form, but your poem's structure must somehow reflect the number three. Three lines per stanza, three words per line, three syllables per word or something completely different - just make the 3 obvious. Humor is permissible if you follow the rules.
Minimum 81 words.
Send your entries to [Log in to view e-mail addresses] with subject "Monthly Story Topic" or "Monthly Poem Topic".
Due date: APRIL 11, 2006, 11:59 PDT.
I will not admit late entries since I want to have both topics graded and awarded on Independence Day, April 12.
Jac will release (or have someone release) the next MTs on April 1, so there will be an overlap and you'll have two topics running at once. So don't start too late.
Have fun!
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I have a question. How would members who weren't around during the split and don't know anything about it write about this topic? Wouldn't writing about this topic necessitate a certain level of knowledge about the split and what went on during this period of DB history?
Looks like it would to me. May want to add a section allowing a newer member to investigate the Split so that a wider range of people can make full use of the MT.
http://grievance.darkjedibrotherhood.com/ might help a bit :)
I am an active member but have no knowledge of this. I joined in November 2006. I think it is a wonderful concept and probably (I do not know) an interesting topic but I will not be able to participate.
Whoops! I joined in November 2005. That would be an interesting topic in itself.
I agree that thinking about how singular events may have changed things radically since the Split would be an interesting topic, but since it requires a specific tenure, maybe just change it to "changes in a singular event in your history," which may include the Split, or even before. For members who remember Crona, perhaps they might want to write about how that incident may have, or should have turned out better. Some people may want to write about the ascension of Thedek, or the war between Arcona, Naga Sadow and Tarentum, or the Feud between Scholae Palatinae and Taldryan.
Either way, a lot of options. And just for the sake of people who weren't around, the Split and the events surrounding it were an interesting time. It might not hurt to start talking to people in your Clan, or around the Brotherhood as a whole, to find out about it. If you email me at bloodfyre@gmail.com, or find me on IRC, I'll be glad to talk about it.
Hate to be the one to bring it up... any idea when results for last month's competition will be out? I just don't want a repeat of "Greatest Warrior", where we never got any results.
Uhm... even if you have not been around at the time of the split, this will work. all you need to do is write about someone dying you KNOW has been around since then, Antei being occupied by another force etc. Be inventive. And you can always ask us oldtimers :o)