Hearken once more, meatpuppets. Your masters again play a tune for our vile amusement, and like pretty marionettes you shall dance and cavort to our whimsical dirge!

TLC Scenario Writers Challenge 2008

Same deal as last year: write the best Kult scenario your feeble mind can conceive and submit it for judgement. Use whichever rules edition you please, including whatever creatures, concepts, characters and cults you wish to produce an interesting horror story able to be played with minimal preparation.


HOW TO ENTER...

Submissions should be presented in the usual text formats (DOC, RTF, PDF, etc.) emailed to myself or another member of TLC staff with the competition title as the message header.

The competition deadline is July 31st 2008.


HOW TO WIN...

We were disappointed to learn that, this being an election year, the dark lord Astaroth will be unable to attend as judge for the 2008 competition. However via some eleventh-hour sacrificial ritual re-routing, we were able to persuade the goddess Minothorgon, She Who Waits Below, gatekeeper of Achlys, consort of the Void to fill in. This year we theorise there will be only one entrant: the winner. If you're not him, you've already been erased from history.

How will/did this soul avoid being cast screaming into the maw of oblivion? Easy...

Write something cool. It is said that Achlys is a lot like Eurovision: somehow, nothing cool ever finds its way in. If you have fun writing your scenario, chances are high that people will have fun reading it, playing it and showering its author with prizes.

Substance. Don't submit some half-baked outline of a plot. Your scenario must have a reasonable depth of theme and characters, ingenuity of scenes, an overall atmosphere of horror, and most importantly the potential to offer a memorable roleplaying experience. The scenario's length is not a high priority, but will be considered.

Playability. Artistry and imagination is one thing, but the end result has to be of use to other Kult GMs looking to entertain our players. Lay your scenario out in an intelligible manner, and design it to be fun and manageable, neither excessively linear nor too vague and open-ended.

Cosmetics will not be an issue. A good adventure is a good adventure whether presented in 12pt plain text or blinged-up InDesign PDF. If you feel you need to include area maps or other supplementary material (which would be nice), they can be as basic as you require. Don't worry either about perfect grammar or writing skills. To She Who Waits Below all human language is as the squealing of dying rats. That said, she does prefer things to be written in English.


WHAT YOU WIN...

First prize is the ability to continue to exist. Plus you get first pick of TWO items from the below list. Based on the quantity of submissions, up to two runners-up may be spared from oblivion and can each choose one item from the remaining prizes.



Prize List

KULT: Death Is Only The Beginning

Legions of Darkness

Metropolis Sourcebook

The Judas Grail

Kult Player's Companion

Fallen Angels: Adventures in New York

Library link.

Tribe of Circle: Children of a Weakened God

Tribe of Circle Myspace

Jean-Paul Antelmi's numinous martial-industrial musical stylings are deeply evocative of the Kult mood: dark, epic, beautiful and baroque. 2006's triumphant Children of a Weakened God might just be the ideal road music for your next jaunt beyond the Illusion.

All goods are in mint condition, and will be shipped to the recipients free of charge.


We (TLC community) reserve the right to...
Use all contributions as the members and staff of TLC wish in order to promote Kult. Any plagiarism will automatically mean a ban from the competition. If you do not want your name/nick to be associated with the competition, please say so in your submission e-mail.

At the competition's close all entries will be made freely available in the downloads section.

Now, Toil!

"The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.
Let the disciple slay the Slayer."
- The Voice of the Silence

:: Projects ::

Oh, nice! I hadn't realized it was about that time again... Good stuff.

I have all those books already, though, so perhaps I should give somebody else a chance...

I have something nice I will try to complete for this. I will have to make myself some time to finish this thing...

I must try to complete mine...

No Johnstone fairplay here, bring it on!

Other prizes will be revealed soon - I'm sure everybody likely to enter already has these books, so something special is being arranged.

...mmm... so beautiful...

Haha, I don't have actually any of these books so I will try hard this time
Indeed, delicious! She Who Waits Below... I hear her call!

This banter and trash-talk is luring me in like I was the first mate on the Argo

What do you say Johnstone? You in?

Would sexual favours up my chances?

Oh, that's right! My reputation is on the line!

Crap, now I gotta write something, I guess. Hmm. A scenario about Ari's sexual favours maybe?


No, wait! I know... cannibal paedophiles!

ahem, sorry.... what i meant to say was:



All who dare to stand against me, I will drive you weeping to your doom, crushed under the glorious might of my wordcraft. Your pitiful screams will fall on deaf ears, failing to move a heart that feels no mercy. I would wipe your blood from the floor with the pages of your pitiful manuscripts, if not for the fact that when this is done none of you will even exist.



Okay, there you go, now I'm committed.

\m/ . *_* . \m/

*standing ovation*

*joins Underspawn* that was THE speech!

Everybody should catch this thread - so I'm bumping it... Anyways, who's planning on entering the competition?

I know I am. And I'm going to have a real submission this year, not some half-baked one-shot adventure... (I hope)

Uh, this thread is pinned to the top of the page, Torb. Or does everybody except me go straight to the activity page?


You hope? You better!

Sure, I am entering. But this time I shall make something quite better than last time (not mentioning that I have to edit The Book of Astaroth...)

Won't even announce myself this time - for fear of eternal damnation. Suffering from severe writers block this year.

Announcing your plans = good way to hear the Lictors laugh.

Quote:

Originally posted by Underspawn Announcing your plans = good way to hear the Lictors laugh.

Ah, but scribbling your name here in blood as one who will type up an adventure - you will have committed to such a degree that it can considered a Pact With Dark Powers. She Who Waits below will surely give inspiration to such feeble souls as my own... and with everyone knowing of my pact, it will be harder for me to break it

Mwuhahahahahaha...

This is going to be so fun...

I can percibe a very high confidence in some members... well, we'll see in a couple of months if that was correct...

And of course i'm in, this will be my first challenge.

Fresh Blood! Fresh Blood! Fresh Blood!

... i guess i can say that too...

Mwahahahaha!

I'm in.

Now, I actually have to try to write something in english that someone can manage to read.

Good luck on ya you poor soul !

-Fabrice