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[Gothars]

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, and

¨¨¨™¤¦¤™¨¨¨ Welcome to the second Starsector fanfiction contest! ¨¨¨™¤¦¤™¨¨¨

                     ...I can hardly believe the first one was already three years ago.

This time we have actual prizes and an amazing first prize!

Prizes

First prize: A 90x60cm (~35"x24") printed canvas (on a 4cm thick stretcher frame) of David's Starsector painting "The Hound and the Hangar". Here's the actual thing:

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The catch: You'd have to pay the shipping costs yourself. That comes to 7€ within Germany, 16€ to EU and 35€ to the USA and non EU Europe (and free if you come by and get it yourself ). If you don't wan't to pay this the print is offered to the next winner (and so on).
And additionally: First pick for two Steam/Origin keys from the list of games below.

Second prize: Second pick for two Steam/Origin keys from the list of games below.

Third prize: Third pick for one Steam/Origin key from the list of games below.

Game List:

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These are Steam keys if Origin is not mentioned. Content is subject to change.
If you want to donate game keys to this prize list you're very welcome!

Awesomenauts
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin Key
Capsized
Cities in Motion 2
Company of Heroes™ 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West
Crayon Physics Deluxe, Aquaria, and Dungeons of Dredmor (Counts as 2)
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
Dark Scavenger
Dead Space 3 Origin Key
Dead Space Origin Key
Dear Esther
DLC quest
Dungeon Defenders
EDGE, Anomaly, and Osmos (Counts as 2)
English Country Tune
Garry's Mod
Gunpoint
Hammerwatch
Hard Reset
Hotline Miami
Intrusion 2
Jolly Rover
LUFTRAUSERS
Medal of Honor Origin Key
Metro 2033, Risen, and Sacred Citadel (Counts as 2)
Mirror's Edge Origin Key
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
NiGHTS Into Dreams
Oil Rush
Orcs Must Die! GOTY
Papers, Please
Proteus
Race the Sun
Sanctum: Collection
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Sonic Generations
Sol: Exodus
SteamWorld Dig
Super Meat Boy, Lone Survivor, and Braid (Counts as 2)
Thomas Was Alone
Tiny and Big in Grandpa's Leftovers
Vertex Dispenser
Viking: Battle for Asgard
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
World Of Goo

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Theme

The theme of your shortstory should be: The painting in question! Your story should in some minor or major way be connected to what you see in the picture. You can include the whole picture or only the smallest detail, your story could revolve around it or just brush it in passing. Just make sure the connection is recognizable. Now that I've got this hanging in my home office, I would love to fill all the little details with meanings and stories

Conditions for participation

- Stories have to be submitted via PM to Gothars until November 15 24. No public posting please, they will get published together after the deadline.
- There is no mandatory registration, but it would be nice if you could send me a timely PM if you plan to participate.
- The maximum word count is 2500 words. Feel free to stay below that though, there is no minimal word count. Quality is judged, not length. Please choose a title for your story.
- It is OK to re-use (and re-model) already written stories. They still have to fit the theme, though. It is also allowed to use (not too big) pictures. Deviating formats like poems, comics, ballads or graphic novels are also allowed.
- You can submit up to two entries.

Conditions for winning

- You should be an active member of the community. What that means precisely we would have to look at in each individual unclear case. I just don't want anybody registering here just to grab prizes.
- I'll judge and rank the stories myself. I'm happy to accept one or two co-judges, though! (They'd of course be exempt from winning prices in the contest.)
- Depending on participation, maybe there will be some special prizes


I hope many of you will write or craft something and wish you lots of fun doing it!  

[Tartiflette]

I'm tempted by that canvas, but not by the games (I already have all those I wanted in that list)... Problem is, I have so much things to do already! And I'm soooo bad at writing with a proper grammar.

If this pick up, I'll gladly help with the jury though. _{(if it doesn't I may write a short one just for the easy grab, mwahahaha)}

[Thaago]

Oooh, fun! I would be more interested in the games as I'm in the US and don't want to pay shipping. I'll probably rewrite my old hound story and think up something new...

[Farlarzia]

Sadly my writing skills are terrible!
Looks like this will be fun to observe however.

[Histidine]

I'm in Anyone else?

[Clockwork Owl]

Er... Not sure... Maybe not. Can't do it in 3 days. (BIG exam coming in 12 November)

[Gothars]

If this pick up, I'll gladly help with the jury though.

Yeah, sure, you'd be welcome   Tell me at or before the due date if you're in.

Er... Not sure... Maybe not. Can't do it in 3 days. (BIG exam coming in 12 November)

Good luck with that. You can just try and see if you can write something afterwards. As said, no need for great length.






We have three people and some maybes up to now, which is nice, but some more competition sure couldn't hurt. You can also participate just for fun, you know

[Clockwork Owl]

Well it's not like I'm working hard for it, tho... Then it's after November 1st, when I get my University admission interview done.

[Gothars]

So, we have 12 days left! I received two stories so far and am looking forward to more

I was thinking, maybe it would be a good idea to have a public poll about the stories to determine the most popular one. Seems like it could be fun and get more people to actually read the stories. I'd still decide on my personal winners and give prizes out accordingly, except maybe for an additional "popular winner" prize.

Would that make any of the authors uncomfortable?

[Histidine]

Sure, public poll would be fine by me 

and not just because I already know I'm gonna totally win by a landslide

[mendonca]

Yeah, good for me.

Especially as I still have the chance to rewrite the whole thing in to a load of populist garbage thereby ensuring victory.

(Are the youngsters still reading about Vampires these days???)

[Gothars]

Just a reminder, only four days are left! If you planned on writing something, better get busy

[Clockwork Owl]

If not exhausted out after exam, I might try to rush it...
Oh and thanks for kindly PMing me Gothars

[Gothars]

Good luck with your exam, man

[Piemanlives]

Lets see, 3 days to write a story with a prompt in the form of a painting?

Bring it on.