Competition Winners of the Codex 10th Anniversary Short Story Competition

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Good Old Games; RPG Codex; Short Story Competition

In honour of our 10th birthday recently, we held a short-story competition and looked back at 10 years of Codexian madness. After much some debate, we can finally announce the winners:

1. 10 years inside the asylum
agentorange - With his never-ending and yet beautifully worded sentence.
Erebus - With a must-read guide to the Codex.

2. A Date with the Codex
Gregz - If leather fetishes and SURPRISE endings are your thing.
Erebus - For assisting HawkeTheChampion fulfil his romance options.

3. A Decade of Decadence - 10 Whole Years of Decline
CappenVarra - Because everything is shit.
Erebus - While it was the only other entry we actually got in this category, it is actually good.

4. Speculative fiction - What if we did scale to your level?
Grotsnik - I'm the goddamn Batman.
Chateaubryan - You are now entering... The RPGCodex Zone.

5. Ten Prosperous Periods of Posting: A Poem.
Telengard - The first entry we received in this category, and the best.
Darth Roxor - For a decline, unexpected and unabated.

Honourable mentions to commie and artakserkso in this category.​

The two best entries from each category are getting a game of their choice (up to $10) from Good Old Games. And yes, we know we said you could only win one category but Erebus had so many good entries that we decided that was merely a guideline.

Congratulations to the winners! Each of them should PM me for their game(s).

 

[Infinitron]

Links to the actual stories, please!

 

[artakserkso]

Massive to the winners!

 

[Morkar Left]

Congrats to the Winners! And Erebus who takes it all!

Links to the actual stories, please!

This. I know diehard codexers do it only for the money but a little more lulz fame can't hurt either. Show it to the unwashed masses!

 

[Achilles]

Congratulations everyone!

 

[Storyfag]

Congrats, guys

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Shit, I completely missed this. Ah well. Good job bros

 

[Telengard]

For your convenience, and because I had nothing better to do - direct links for the winners:

10 Years in the Asylum
Agent Orange
Erebus

A Date With the Codex
Gregz
Erebus

A Decade of Decadence - 10 Whole Years of Decline
CappenVarra
Erebus

Speculative fiction - What if we did scale to your level?
Grotsnik
Chateaubryan

Ten Prosperous Periods of Posting: A Poem
Telengard
Darth Roxor

 

[Gregz]

Telengard

This was great:

Very well, then what of Diablo III's six million sold?
Surely that is a worthy feat to behold?

Ah, Diablo!
The troll did stand and give a salute,
And he even bowed his head to boot.

A thousand dollars was spent on a single game,
And that is only the beginning of their fame.

That their pickpocket skill was raised to such a degree,
Deserves a great deal of respect from me.

But as for playing that auction house simulator,
I'd sooner use their box as an anal vibrator.

 

[Mother Russia]

Awesome! More of these short story competitions please, and next time let them run for 2 months. I would have loved to participate, but didn't find time to get my creative juices together. With more time, I can plan before I write.

Erebus's reward is certainly well deserved, but I humbly suggest that no matter the number of entry's by one poster, only one should be allowed as winner in all categories, because that gives other deserving people an opportunity to win as well.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Congrats to the winners! And I agree with Mother Russia, as I'd like to see more of these. 'Twas fun to read.