Contest [Issue 63] Continue the Story

[Hex 11,520]

 

 

 

 

Continue The Story

 

 

 

Hello tankers! This month, I'm bringing a rather old yet interesting contest back to the Newspaper, but with a slight twist. Read on to find out!

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Pee Poo Paa a.k.a Introduction:

 

So, basically, I'll be providing you guys a with a paragraph or two of the beginning of a 'story'. What you have to do is to continue that paragraph, writing a story based on the theme of paragraph you select. Keep all of the rules of story writing in your mind, while providing the story a end of your choice. In the very end, give your story a suitable title and publish it below.

 

As for the paragraphs ~

 

 

 

The Stories:

 

Story 1 -

by

 

2089. It was a time of death and despair -- the Earth had just survived famine, drought and whatnot. With the population rising and more and more people dying each year, thanks to food and water shortages, the planet was rotting to its core. Scientists all over the world were gathered to find a solution and to put an end to the madness, where it all but went wrong. Terror struck the planet - there was nothing but rock and sand. The air became toxic. Plants and animals died. We, the humans, were on a path to extinction. Someone had to stand up and do something - someone who would work not for themselves, but for humans, and mankind.

 

Years passed. The promised success never came. The population dropped by millions each day. Gangs of robbers and scavengers lurked the surface, acquiring anything useful that laid in their path.

 

I was a lead scientist working at the Center of Population and Environment Control, or what was left of it. I received a message from my Center last night. I had to face an unforgiving reality -- I had been put in charge; I had to change the Earth and return it to normal...

 

Story 2 -

by @tweezers

 

The gravestone before him was stone.

Grey, and chilled by the wind that swept through the graveyard, the words carved into it reflected the weak sunlight that filtered through the trees surrounding him. Three lines. A name. Two dates. A quote.

The same quote that was on a scrap of paper next to her the last time he had held her, the same quote that was underneath her final paragraph. The same quote that she wrote before she took her own life.

But now he knew differently.

He took out the card that had arrived in his letterbox five months after the burial. Two days before today. It was plain white, with a few lines printed on it. Anonymous.

It said that she didn’t do it. That it was someone else. Someone else who took her. Someone else who took her away from him forever.

It had an address. He would find it. And...

 

Story 3 -

by @Savage

 

Rain fizzes down onto the hard ground, crashing like lead onto the heads of the shivering men crouched just inside the deep groove cut into the sodden ground. Most lack helmets and many with gaping ugly wounds are struggling with the cold. Not far away, a streak of lightening rents the sky. Thunder's drums roll steadily on in the background.

 

The men are tired, exhausted in fact. Many are drooping like unwatered plants as the clutches of sleep grow ever stronger on them. Several are already lying in the thick layer of cold mud at the bottom of the trench, too tired to care where they fall. To the left there is a gaping hole in the trench wall, where a shell has ripped the earth clean away. The muddy water is stained red in places; red with human blood. A rifle lies nearby, seemingly twisted into a knot by some powerful being in a fit of anger.

 

Still the men hold their positions, gazing with tired eyes across the barren landscape. Little can be made out through the rain, except a few stunted trees.

 

A radio transmitter suddenly crackles into life inside the trench, loud even with the hammering of the rain. The men are aroused, and one reaches for the transmitter and flicks the switch...

 

 

 

The Rules:

• There is no word limit, however, I'd advise keeping it between seven hundred to two thousand words. This word limit is except the parts already given to you!
• You may keep the story going or end it at a definite point.
• Plagiarism is strictly forbidden. Plagiarizing one's story might lead to a disqualification from all future contests. Furthermore, reserving posts is not allowed.
• You may select only one paragraph to write about.
• Please include your story in a spoiler.*

* How to make/code a spoiler

 

 

 

Prizes:

 

1st place - 40 000 crystals

2nd place - 30 000 crystals

3rd place - 20 000 crystals

Consolation - 5 000 crystals

 

 

 

Deadline

 

The deadline of this contest is 1st May, 2017.

 

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Time to start thinking tanker. Good luck!

 

 

          |          tweezers          |       

✯ DestroyerPdox ✯                                                                                   

                         

 

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Hexed

[Lynus_the_Egg 3]

Does the story have to be related to Tanki?

[Hex 11,520]

^ I think you misunderstood the contest. The starts of three stories are given, you have complete either one, not each of em. The tanker who writes the best piece (one winner for each story) will win.

Edited April 8, 2017 by Hexed

[sre123 595]

Three of them are different, right?
Gosh, I thoght the second is the continuation of the first, and thought that I forgot English. lol  :rolleyes:  :rolleyes:

[Tofu 6,773]

Tweezers with them pro signatures

[Hex 11,520]

Three of them are different, right?

Gosh, I thoght the second is the continuation of the first, and thought that I forgot English. lol  :rolleyes:  :rolleyes:

Yeah, they're different.

[Truthteller 4,204]

When he flicks it it means he turned the radio on?

[Crip 4,735]

When he flicks it it means he turned the radio on?

Yes, just like @Sia.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ninja 10,468]

I wonder why reporters can't write cheerful stories. Why all death and destruction? O_o

[Penguin40 1,714]

I wonder why reporters can't write cheerful stories. Why all death and destruction? O_o

exactly :p I didn't even understand Savage's story, and am at a total loss on how I'd continue Pdox's, if I had to choose his. So Twee's is the best choice for me :p

[Ninja 10,468]

exactly :p I didn't even understand Savage's story, and am at a total loss on how I'd continue Pdox's, if I had to choose his. So Twee's is the best choice for me :p

Same, though I thought it was me :c

[Tofu 6,773]

I wonder why reporters can't write cheerful stories. Why all death and destruction? O_o

Something to do with the job

[Ninja 10,468]

Something to do with the job

How many reporters die on the job each day?

[Tofu 6,773]

How many reporters die on the job each day?

We had a database, but it's way outdated now

[Daniel898 327]

• There is no word limit, however, I'd advise keeping it between three to five thousand words.

 

Three to five thousand words? Or three to five hundred words?

So basically, we continue the introduction and end the story after we write 3000 - 5000 words?

 

[kaisdf 3,320]

3000-5000    D:

Wowz thats gonna keep me busy for a while XD

 

How does the consolation prize work? Is it anyone who enters has a random chance of winning it, or is it a 4th place thing, or...?

 

Also, if I don't quite finish in time, can I just submit what I've done?

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Just read Yiper's, and thought "Yes! World war blood and gore is something I can do!"

Edited April 9, 2017 by kaisdf

[Penguin40 1,714]

 

• There is no word limit, however, I'd advise keeping it between three to five thousand words.

 

Three to five thousand words? Or three to five hundred words?

So basically, we continue the introduction and end the story after we write 3000 - 5000 words?

 Yep. Continue intro, write a full length story in 3k to 5k words. Sadly, this is gonna be tricky, considering I can write 3k words in one single part of a series... 

3000-5000    D:

Wowz thats gonna keep me busy for a while XD

 

How does the consolation prize work? Is it anyone who enters has a random chance of winning it, or is it a 4th place thing, or...?

 

Also, if I don't quite finish in time, can I just submit what I've done?

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Just read Yiper's, and thought "Yes! World war blood and gore is something I can do!"

Yep, consolation's like a 4th place, except multiple people can nab it.

 

Indeed, 4k words will keep you busy, but it's harder for me to make a full length story that short because I'm used to making ridiculously large stories :c

 

Also, I doubt you can send an unfinished story in, nobody will understand and then you're out. XD

[Hex 11,520]

I wonder why reporters can't write cheerful stories. Why all death and destruction? O_o

3000-5000    D:

Wowz thats gonna keep me busy for a while XD

 

How does the consolation prize work? Is it anyone who enters has a random chance of winning it, or is it a 4th place thing, or...?

 

Also, if I don't quite finish in time, can I just submit what I've done?

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Just read Yiper's, and thought "Yes! World war blood and gore is something I can do!"

I didn't write it here but - because I thought you might all figure this out - the theme of this contest was writing a death/drastic story in under 5k words, but still above 3k. I know this is really hard, but the prizes are really tempting too :)

[Penguin40 1,714]

I didn't write it here but - because I thought you might all figure this out - the theme of this contest was writing a death/drastic story in under 5k words, but still above 3k. I know this is really hard, but the prizes are really tempting too :)

It's hard for me not 'cause iit's too long, but because it's too short :P tho i'm looking forward to writing, have a few surprises up when I'll do my entry :D

Edited April 10, 2017 by Penguin40

[r_Valk8 2,086]

Is it best out of all the entries or different winners for different stories?

[Hex 11,520]

Different winners for different stories.

[Bugs.meeny 1,013]

The best contest imo :)

[Hex 11,520]

 

 

Story 4 -

by @78190-facebook78

 

At the time of his beautiful sunny day he saw a box of supplies fall he was gone to see what it was, but it was a trap send by the Black Tankers Fighters who was hidden on the roof of a house where he can not see them and as he was married to a young girl tankers and who after 1 month was abducted by the Black Tankers Fighters, then he was sad and thought only of his girl tankers abducted by Black Tankers Fighters, one moment he said " I would come to look formy girl tankers at the Black Tankers Fighters "and this day he did wath he had in mind and everything ended in order, but the story is not finishes...

 

Umm, that's not how you do it. Please read the introduction and rules again :)

Edited April 11, 2017 by Hexed

[KillerGnat 3,135]

Hmmm. Pardon my ungratefulness, but I think the prizes are a bit small compared to the expected word count. I'm not saying 40k is anything to sneeze at (heaven knows I could use that) but it's exactly the same amount as previous Continue The Story contests. The problem is, the word limit for those was set at 500 whereas the minimum for this is 3000. A whopping 6 times more. I'm not saying the prize pool should be 6 times more than it is right now, but an extra 10k or two would be fair I think. I'll probably enter either way, but considering this will take approximately 6 times longer than the other contests, I'd like it to be a bit more worth my while :).

[Crip 4,735]

exactly :P I didn't even understand Savage's story

That's because my writing is almost too descriptive. I prefer it to writing a narrative.