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Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for us writers to take center stage for a time. The Black Garden as well as our friends over in Arts and Stuff are going to host a contest that is solely devoted to writers. The rules are simple.
For any who wish to enter, you are tasked with writing a short little anecdote that is to have a maximum of 300 words. The location for this piece of work is to be located in the picture provided above. The deadline for entering is this Sunday(14th) at midnight. For any who wish to enter, please submit your stories by placing them in the comments.
Judging will be done in two phases. The first phase will consist of a Panel of both groups reading over each story and deciding which seven are the best of the best. Once the first stage is complete, we shall hand it over to you, the audience, to decide who is ranked number one as lore master. The Winner of this contest shall receive a print of the Buried City signed by the Destiny writing team.
Good luck and Be Brave.
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I had departured from the tower earlier that day to go off to Mars,One of our more prestigious places during the Golden Age. I landed in an abandoned city completely buried from the sand.Inside on of the buildings is a vault filled with loot.It's last sightings was before the Collapse. Suddenly a ship with a carrier of Cabal Legionnaires dropped off about 50 feet from me.I slowly walked back into my ship where it was safe.There, I called in my Fireteam, knowing it would be too dangerous alone. I looked out from the window of my ship, hoping they had left. But no, they started advancing towards me! I turned the ignition on my space ship to escape. I slowly flew off to a safer place near the vault when a Legionnaire hit one of my engines with a rocket. I force landed into the sand just about 100 or so feet from the Cabal. I ran out of my ship and ran into an old skyscraper,hoping i could hide. Then, my fireteam member,Chuck came dropped out of his ship. "Where's Billy?" I asked "Went off to the Hellmouth. Guess i'll have to do" Chuck replied The Cabal came towards us. Chuck had his Wolf Launcher out and I readied my SPACE MAGIC.For about an hour we were fighting off countless hordes of Cabal. When all of a sudden about 15 people with pikes came out to fight the Cabal.The Public Event began. A Centurion came out of the ground, creating a powerful wave of dust to hit our faces. We all eventually brought down the Centurion and the Legionnaires.Collecting their amazing loot.Then, chuck and i advanced to the tallest building,to collect the loot from The Vault.