JPjr Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Well the deadline just closed and like almost every bit of coursework and assignment I've ever had I handed mine in with seconds to spare. Who else has chucked their hat into the ring? Feeling good about yours? I had about 3 stories I was working on right to the end and really not sure I submitted the right one. 2 were a little more out there (a story about a group of, effectively, mushroom crazed Grot eco-terrorists & one about an art dealer who specialises in Orruk sculptures) but also potentially more interesting. I totally chickened out though and submitted one about some Evocators cut off and being hunted in Shyish, I'm just about happy with it and felt was a lot closer in tone to all the Inferno stories, but still not sure that was the best thing to do. Ah well it's done now. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBS Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, JPjr said: a story about a group of, effectively, mushroom crazed Grot eco-terrorists This idea is BRILLIANT! Submitted mine a few days ago. Quite happy with the quality, tried to make an effort adopting a "black library-style" writing, even if I'm not super fan. Coming up with a story wasn't too hard, it's the prequel to the whole narrative of my army project, which already had a lot of fluff developed. Was going to write it at some point anyway. It's maybe a bit too out-the-box for BL, as it's basically Order against "Order" within a Free-City, Sigmar's followers are presented as bad bois and there are no Stormcasts involved (Triple Hereeeesy!). Instant rejection Edited September 23, 2019 by VBS 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flemingmma Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I entered, big ol khornate chaos fight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingwalnut Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I put my hat into the ring. I like my concept and my characters, but boy do I feel rusty with my creative writing as I have mostly done various pieces of copy, ads, and forum posting. Gonna try to write more for a blog space and my Cities of Sigmar army. My concept, for those interested, is an old noble of Ghur becoming a Vampire and gathering a motley crew of an army to retake her old Kingdom overrun by Chaos. The idea of noble knights in Ghur is fun enough, and toss in Death magic, alliances/friendship with a Orruk Megaboss, and some cool fights, and it should be cool! The core centers around the trio of sisters pitted against each other (the vampire, the sister who turned traitor and fell to Chaos, and the sister who exiled herself to become a Sylvaneth monk). Lots of potential for familial heartbreak and drama. We'll see. If it gets rejected it may go into my project pile for "More dyanimic audio drama battle reports". If THAT ever gets off the ground, of course... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPjr Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 6 hours ago, VBS said: It's maybe a bit too out-the-box for BL, as it's basically Order against "Order" within a Free-City yeah that was my concern but I think you'd be ok there, there's definitely growing signs of internecine strife in the old mortal realms so it's an interesting thread to pull at. good luck! 5 hours ago, flemingmma said: big ol khornate chaos fight well, you know what they say, why mess with the classics! good luck with it! 4 hours ago, flamingwalnut said: but boy do I feel rusty with my creative writing as I have mostly done various pieces of copy, ads, and forum posting. Gonna try to write more for a blog space and my Cities of Sigmar army. yes totally, I must write tens of thousands of words a week in copy, press releases etc but it's been ages since I've written creatively or even any journalism so boy did I need a jumpstart to get going. as you say though now I've got a taste again I'm definitely up for just knocking out more, we should organise something like a monthly writing jam on here, just so people have some inspiration/reason to keep knocking stuff out. 4 hours ago, flamingwalnut said: The core centers around the trio of sisters pitted against each other (the vampire, the sister who turned traitor and fell to Chaos, and the sister who exiled herself to become a Sylvaneth monk). Lots of potential for familial heartbreak and drama. Plenty going on there, sounds interesting! Good luck! These kind of 'contests' are always a crapshoot as so many people will enter so honestly I'm not expecting much but hey it was an experience and got me thinking about writing again so all good. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccentricCircle Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) I figured I'd do a warcry story so as to a) be topical and b) not have to write about stormcast. The result is "Archaon must die" where a motley warband decide to assassinate the everchosen. I mainly wanted a slightly dysfunctional chaos crew with different backgrounds and clashing personalities. Including an exiled skaven assassin who rides around on the horns of his bestigor "mount" and delights in shooting people before they get within axe range. The beastman, for his part thinks the skaven is his pet. It seemed like a good time for a more multicultural take on chaos, with a warqueen who wants to be everchosen in the lead. We shall see what they think. Edited September 23, 2019 by EccentricCircle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonnenspeer Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I wrote about a small group of deepkin trying to find a cure for their vanishing souls at one of the stormvaults. Was hard work as Im not a native speaker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPjr Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, Sonnenspeer said: I wrote about a small group of deepkin trying to find a cure for their vanishing souls at one of the stormvaults. Was hard work as Im not a native speaker. nice premise, very on trend. good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonnenspeer Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 24 minutes ago, JPjr said: nice premise, very on trend. good luck! Thank you. Its "betrail from within" and I plan some nice twists Curious how you guys doing. Good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyriakin Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) I am writing a novella called "A Sword Up the Wrong 'Un" about Hellstrider Champion that goes around doing every mortal, undead, daemon and even, during dry periods, his own mount. It's brilliant. He had been told by a trickster Changeling (posing as a Keeper of Secrets) that it will turn him into a Daemon prince, but, in fact, it just makes him really, really tired. Think "Chuck Tingle plus Josh Reynolds, minus Josh Reynolds". Edited September 23, 2019 by Kyriakin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPjr Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) finally someone is fleshing out the mortal realms and filling in all the holes. Edited September 23, 2019 by JPjr 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordrim Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) I was gona write a story about ogor gutlord/tyrant who was keeping his hold in aqshy, a top of storm vault. He didn't know about the vault. One day nighthaunt started sieging his hold, which was great annoyance to ogors since they could not eat them after beating them. Then ghosts open the vault and managed to take artefact from there. Story would have ended on gutlord matching to a realmgate to Shyis to get the artefact back. The gutlord didn't know what the artefact was or even about its existance before the vault was opened and it was taken. But since inside his hold he rationalised that it was his and he is gona get it back. Got about halfway but ran out time to finish and to submit it. Edited September 23, 2019 by Nordrim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPjr Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Nordrim said: One day nighthaunt started sieging his hold, which was great annoyance to ogors since they could not eat them after beating them. sounds good, you should crack on and just write it for yourself. funnily enough I'm sure I've either read someone else's story (canon or fanfic) about a tribe of Ogor's that did start eating ghosts, trying to remember what it was now... EDIT: aha! turns out in was on this very forum a few months ago... Edited September 23, 2019 by JPjr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moldek Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I had a previously written piece that I was thinking of submitting, but it didn’t really fit the prompt (I posted it on the narrative forum a while back). I had a couple other warcry ideas, but didn’t really have the time to work on them. So next time I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Ben Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) On 9/23/2019 at 11:43 AM, Moldek said: I had a previously written piece that I was thinking of submitting, but it didn’t really fit the prompt (I posted it on the narrative forum a while back). I had a couple other warcry ideas, but didn’t really have the time to work on them. So next time I guess I can join the list of folks with more ideas than time/willpower to follow through. I was thinking of going with the betrayal storyline. There are many details to fill in and conveniently timed events for 'plot reasons' which would need actual reasons for happening. But anyway the basic sketch of the plot was: A woman fleeing chaos/stormcast conflict gets taken in by a village. She makes a new life and friends in the village but something isn't quite right. Turns out the fertility God the village worships is actually Nurgle. One of her village friends becomes pregnant with a baby which is going to fulfil a prophecy about a blessed 'messiah' who will bring Nurgle's true 'blessing' to the land. Horrified, she secretly contacts the stormcasts, but the woman goes into labour before they arrive. She is attending the birth and gets handed the baby (who does appear very 'blessed' by nurgle, the whole thing would probably be pretty gross). This presents her with the moral dilemma of killing her friends baby or risking the deaths of thousands, or even millions, if the prophecy is fulfilled and the baby grows into a great champion of Nurgle. She raises a knife to kill the baby but can't go through with it and runs away. As she is pursued by the angry villagers, she finds the stormcasts answering her call. The chase reverses as she and the stormcasts try to hunt down the nurgle cultists from the village, including her friends and the baby. It reaches a point where the stormcast can't find the cultists, but she knows where they will be. Knowing the stormcast will kill the child and her friends if they find them, she is faced with the same dilemma all over again. And...... then I hadn't decided how it would end. Maybe the protagonist betrays her friends and then gets killed by the stormcast herself because of her exposure to chaos. That would definitely be the miserable but tidy way to go. Also doubling up on the whole betrayal theme. Maybe she decides baby killing isn't the way to go, and lures the stormcast into a trap before falling to the worship of nurgle. Edited September 25, 2019 by Dr Ben spelling mistake! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamik Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 I submitted a pitch for a story about a wilderness clan pushed out of its ancestral homelands by a growing city. The clan heads north to the ruins of a city wracked by plagues in the Age of Chaos, and they hunt a hideous Nurgle-y beast covered in bloodshot, dripping eyes--basically conjunctivitis as monster--and its master. In any case, acceptance or rejection, it's given me the chance to think a lot about the sort of Free City dynamic I want for a future army, and it's given me the opportunity to develop my Silva Lacrimalis setting. We'll see! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moldek Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Dr Ben said: I can join the list of folks with more ideas than time/willpower to follow through. I was thinking of going with the betrayal storyline. There are many details to fill in and conveniently timed events for 'plot reasons' which would need actual reasons for happening. But anyway the basic sketch of the plot was: A woman fleeing chaos/stormcast conflict gets taken in by a village. She makes a new life and friends in the village but something isn't quite right. Turns out the fertility God the village worships is actually Nurgle. One of her village friends becomes pregnant with a baby which is going to fulfil a prophecy about a blessed 'messiah' who will bring Nurgle's true 'blessing' to the land. Horrified, she secretly contacts the stormcasts, but the woman goes into labour before they arrive. She is attending the birth and gets handed the baby (who does appear very 'blessed' by nurgle, the whole thing would probably be pretty gross). This presents her with the moral dilemma of killing her friends baby or risking the deaths of thousands, or even millions, if the prophecy is fulfilled and the baby grows into a great champion of Nurgle. She raises a knife to kill the baby but can't go through with it and runs away. As she is pursued by the angry villagers, she finds the stormcasts answering her call. The chase reverses as she and the stormcasts try to hunt down the nurgle cultists from the village, including her friends and the baby. It reaches a point where the stormcast can't find the cultists, but she knows where they will be. Knowing the stormcast will kill the child and her friends if they find them, she is faced with the same dilemma all over again. And...... then I hadn't decided how it would end. Maybe the protagonist betrays her friends and then gets killed by the stormcast herself because of her exposure to chaos. That would definitely be the miserable but tidy way to go. Also doubling up on the whole betrayal theme. Maybe she decides baby killing isn't the way to go, and lures the stormcast into a trap before falling to the worship of nurgle. Cool story! I think you could probably write it in a much more condensed version, say starting with the girl hiding in the woods with the baby, trying to decide wether she should run away or go to the stormcast who are currently raiding the village. With a few dialogues and recollections you can deliver the story piecemeal as you reveal what exactly she’s hiding and why... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonnenspeer Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 9/25/2019 at 10:58 PM, Moldek said: Cool story! I think you could probably write it in a much more condensed version, say starting with the girl hiding in the woods with the baby, trying to decide wether she should run away or go to the stormcast who are currently raiding the village. With a few dialogues and recollections you can deliver the story piecemeal as you reveal what exactly she’s hiding and why... And the final twist would be that the stormcast kill the baby, but that was part of the prophecy, because its blood causes a Feculent Gnarlmaw to grow... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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