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Seymour

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Developing Grimoire: A Day in the Life

In the dark recesses of his australian bunker, Cleveland Mark Blakemore grew impatient. Hordes of savage cybernegroes and gay chinese jews howled their hatred of the white race as they broke like the waves against his Thinkboy defense system, the searing heat of its near-endless napalm supply creating a dense fog amidst the ice that almost covered the growing mountain of untermenschen corpses. Cleve paid them little heed, however, for his inestimable IQ had already predicted their attack and its inevitable failure in 374.298 different scenarios; in a few moments, all that would be left was food for the cheetahs. No, what was in his mind was far less pedestrian than the post-apocalyptic world banging in his unwielding reinforced doors: Grimoire.

Fifteen years had passed since he first announced his magnum opus to a now deceased world. All his predictions had inexorably come true one after the other: the collapse of Amerikwa due to the influx of lower races enforced by socialist multikult media, the coming of the ice age, the nuclear missiles flying like a swarm of locusts while the horde of manboons drooled over Oprah in the televitz, never knowing what they didn’t know that they didn’t know until it hit them.

Now here he was, and still the only thing he could not foresee were the random surges of unparalleled creativity and brilliance in his Asperger’s gifted mind. Trying in vain to distract himself from the memory of his one failure and boredom, Cleve checked the computer system’s status and the number of food rations left in the silos and its estimate duration at this rate of consumption, but the numbers would pop up in his head before they could ever appear onscreen. He tried estimating the market price of baby meat, the current Dow Jones index and the probable date for the establishment of a utopian society comprised of his Aryan offspring with titanium bones, all of which consumed the better part of a minute.

Suddenly, his mind wandered. “What was it that I used to do to pass the time and escape Grimoire before the meltdown of civilization?” A semblance of a smile formed in his lips as he searched the shambles of what was once known as “the internets” cached in a small partition of his HD. A strange advertisement for internet poker hailed him to RPGCodex, where the last headline read “THIS IS LIKE THAT THING CLEVE WAS TALKING ABOUT”. Its forums, as usual, were filled with cynicism and disbelief. While some hailed ITZ as a refreshing return to the old-school days when life was hardcore and ironman, most pronounced it boring, banal, overhyped shit or, worse still, Fallout 3. Cleve lost track of the time laughing at those long gone angry cunts and their stubbornness in being wrong about everything, and next he knew it was late in the evening already.

“Oh well”, he thought, “I’ll finish Grimoire tomorrow”.
 

Reject_666_6

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She finally awoke amidst the dilapidated ruins of what she once called her hometown. Confused as to where she was, she rubbed the grit out of her eyes and looked around. The sight of the vibrant metropolis that she grew up in was replaced by a dull, gray and brown panorama. In the distance some buildings still remained erect, so like any curious woman she walked towards them for some answers.
As she reached one of the surviving houses, a small Pakistani fellow was clearing the rubble from the street in front of him. As she approached, she saw that he was unaware of her and seemed focused on mumbling something. Upon hearing her voice, the man seemed startled:

“-…grrrrmmm…discuss…grrrmmm…
-Heeeey, mister!
-A-whaaaaa? What are you doing here? How did you survive?
-I just woke up somewhere around that rubble over there, see? What happened to this place?
-You mean you don’t know?!? What’s your name, girl?
-Annabelle Karloff-Sonya, but people have called me Annie ever since that time I flashed them my melons unprovoked.
-THE Annie??” The man’s gaze dropped for a few moments as thoughts of obsidian zombies riding two bears occurred to him for some reason. He felt the urge to share his thoughts with the world, but the girl interrupted him with her questions.
“-Look, just tell me what happened here before I use my Clint Eastwood moves on you!
-It just appeared yesterday plowing through the city, hitting ass and leg and knocking down at least three buildings every time it thrust by them. Every channel’s broadcast was replaced by news reports of the destruction this creature caused. It said that all of Australia and Europe was decimated by its insidious heads. I don’t know what became of it after it left the city, but soon after it was out of sight I saw some kind of herculean super-human running towards it, yelling, “Itz coming for you, you banal, circumcised, mongoloid, unter-appendage!” At the time, I had no idea which was better and why, but I had a feeling the man knew his shit.

Annie, unimpressed with his boring story, stepped inside his house and turned on the TV to get more insight on the events that took place the other day.

“-...i-headed dick! Some eye-witnesses described it as almost 50-foot tall. Authorities are still stunned at the heroic display of the overman who brought it down single-handedly. The man was quoted as saying "I do at least one dick every day single-handedly; how could this inferior, almost dark-skinned, specimen pose any challenge. It’s like that thing I was talking about..." Sources claim that the monster was a result of a transvestite having his dick-removal surgery in the middle of a nuclear meltdown somewhere in Eastern Europe. One of the workers responsible for the meltdown, upon seeing the mutation take place, reportedly interjected "PULA CU MAI MULTE CAPETE, O DOAMNE E RAI!!!"
Then he died due to the fallout. Bla bla bla bla 500 words.”
 

spacemoose

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here's my submission:

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I am p confident of its success given the circumstances :)
 

Pseudofool

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It's more than 500 words and without ending so tough luck.

ADVENTURES IN SOLIPSISM

Deep within the kingdom of Solipsism, there was a Princess who had no business doing what she was doing just then, but, as per the Epic Guidelines that Ruled the Land, there was no one to stop her. The Princess, though betrothed to Lord Setaside, sought to blemish her chastity, not in some small, forgivable way, but in such a manner that, indeed, brought down the Epic Guidelines that Ruled the Land. Having had most commoners, layabouts, and hoodlums through one way or another, she had grown distraught, as her wedding was looming in the Not-Too-Distant-But-Not-Quite-Here-Yet-Future, and she still had not dissuaded Lord Setaside from their engagement, nor had she brought down Epic Guidelines that Ruled the Land, which, of course, bound them together.
So just then, the Princess had set out, alone, down one of the many roads that led out Solipsism. It wasn’t that the people of Solipsism were insular or xenophobic or afraid; rather they were simply too lazy to bother traveling, or trading, or even keeping records or telling stories about the people who came to visit them. So the Princess just picked any old road, as each would have as much intrigue, mystery, and hopefully, debauchery, as any other.
She was dressed quite appropriately in hiking boots, denim shorts, and a white blouse with the Official Insignia of Solipsism, which was, a rather discrete, blank box. It was now morning—for she had left at night—and the animal life and country side was already beginning to alter ever so slightly from lush pastures and sing-song birds to rocky hillsides and animals who made a good deal of noise but would not show themselves.
The Princess had foolishly neglected to pack a lunch, and so she was forced to roam around the rocky hillside, looking for some vegetation or, perhaps, a picnic basket that someone thoughtfully left behind. It was not long before she came upon one particular hillside, with one particular rock, where there was one particular sleeping creature. This was not an animal, she thought. For the creature, although sleeping, firmly grasped a large carafe with one of its green paws. She studied the creature’s features and eventually decided that it must be a goblin, though, of course, given the lack of storytelling, she had no basis for the claim—it just seemed to sound right, or look right, or something.
Suddenly, the creature woke with a furious hiccup that knocked the Princess directly on her rear. She landed quite awkwardly on a crag of rock, and yelped herself, which in turn, startled the once sleeping creature.
Then, to much dismay, the creature spoke, “Now look what you’ve made me do. Spilled my pious spirits, I have.”
The Princess quite startled by the whole incident, collected herself, stood up, smoothed her shorts, and very appropriately announced, “What ghastly world we live in that goblins are allowed to talk?”
“Pshaw, I am no…” the creature stopped, and held up a one finger, as if asking for a moment, and then preceded to belch. “What was I saying? Oh yes, I am not a goblin. I am an elf. An elf of quite high stature if I might say so myself.” Burp.
“An orc, then, you are. Have it your way. But these orcs must be lowly creatures indeed to have someone, nay, something, like you held in high stature. Hmmpf.”
“I’m an ELF, not an orc, an E-L-F, elf.”
But it was at this moment that a very lewd, yet a very effective thought came into her mind. “Goblin, return with me to my land, and I shall make it worth your while.”
“But why should I do that?” He covered his mouth, and burped into his hand.
The Princess then proceeded to tell the elf of her predicament, though, of course, she was not very eloquent at telling her story, having been at a loss for hearing them.
The elf took a great deal of time after her tale to respond, he walked between the crags of rock, lapped up his spilled spirits, burped thoughtfully, and finally, he spoke, “I’m sorry, madam, but I shan’t go with you. But I know of one who might be able to yet bring down these Epic Guidelines that Ruled the Land.”
Princess was quite disappointed, as she had never been refused before, much less by any such creature as a goblin, “Well my orcish friend, what say you?”
“I know of man, a princely man, at that, who might muddy your, um, sanctity, in the way you seek.” So the elf told the Princess of one of Dark Underlord, who had lived in seclusion not far from where they were now.
 
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Grimoire: Future

Cleveland reclined back into his office chair. Hands behind his head, he closed his eyes and let out a sigh of relief. Grimoire, his life’s work, what he will be remembered by when he passes, is finally complete. He leaned forward, put his shaking hands back onto the sweat-coated desk. He opened up his internet browser, eager to tell his brethren at the codex that his work had finally been finished.

Cleveland’s fingers majestically flowed across the keyboard, creating a beautiful, masterfully crafted forum post that would inform the masses of his success. He attached his favorite screenshots of the game to the post to prove that this was for real, and not some kind of sick joke.

Cleveland pressed his left mouse button triumphantly, sending the post to the series of tubes that is the internet. He could only imagine the joy in everyone’s hearts that this news would cause. He could see the reviews now, all of them overwhelmingly positive.

Even the codex's review.

As he impatiently mashed the F5 key, he felt some doubt that his game wouldn't be as well-received that he hoped it would. What if they hated it? What if no one cared anymore?

All of his questions were answered when the first wave of comments appeared. “Graphics suck,” said FlameThrower, formerly known as MetalCraze. Then came slenkar, saying, “Demo or it didn’t happen.” Others called him a liar. Most expressed their anger at the grotesquely long development cycle of the game.

Cleveland felt crushed. All of these years working on the game, for nothing. Nothing but complaining and moaning. Maybe Grimoire wasn't ready for this world, he thought. Or maybe, the world wasn't ready for Grimoire.

Whatever the reason for their dismay, Cleveland felt that he needed to delay the game some more. It just needs another month or two in development, that’s all! He quickly typed in his announcement that Grimoire would not be coming out yet after all. “Polish issues,” he said. To which Volourn said, “r00fles!”

Everyone else just cursed.

But this did not deter Cleveland, not at all. He knew that if he just took a little more time making the game better looking, it would be better received. Grimoire would see the light of day, and when it did, it would no doubt be dubbed the greatest game ever made by the folks of RPG Codex.
 

Jaesun

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5 minute drunken post story... hope you enjoy....

“This is SHIT!” exclaimed SkywayMetalcraze.
“Patience, young one.”
The old man comforted the young and brash SkywayMetalcraze. All too often, these new recruits were quick to judge and lost site of the enormous task at hand.
“The Age of Decadence MMOG is indeed shit, as you might say, but lets us not forget, we follow the Biowarian ways.”
“r00fless.” muttered SkywayMetalcraze, under his breath.
After the incredible and destructive RPG wars that ensued in 2012, SkywayMetalcraze found himself alone, and without focus for his hatred of RPG’s. Bioware, Iron Tower Studios and Cleve, lead a terrible war, and marketing campaigns that left the entire state of the RPG gaming community into splinter cells of hatred. EMP suicide bombers would approach each companies fortresses, in an attempt to destroy the companies within their selective targets.
“Master Geralt… fuck I hate your name. And I just fucking HATED that game, but anyways, what the fuck are we going to do NOW!” as he slammed his fists onto the desk in front of him.
“We have them all, EXACTLY where we need them to be my young friend.” Said Master Geralt, with just a twinkle in his eye.

SkywayMetalcraze gave Master Geralt a sudden but puzzled look at him. “Saint has been eating nothing but Taco Bell and has been repeatedly shitting down the exhaust vent of Cleve’s vault and we cannot break his defenses! EMP’s are useless! And Vince still has not produced the combat demo of Age of Decadence and he now is stating they will release an Age of Decadence MMOG! This is madness! Even when Annie has an entire p0rn site dedicated to her tits, with proceeds going to Iron Tower Studios, the fucking retards of the community still support Vince! Fuck! How can Bioware possibly survive with all this fail?”

“Mature gaming” remarked Master Geralt. “And pics of ScottishMartialArts….”

SkywayMetalcraze’s jaw dropped. Master Geralt grinned and gave SkywayMetalcraze a wink. “I… see my master. Bioware is wise, more wise than I could have anticipated…. I am speechless.” “It is ok my friend, we who follow the way of Volourn always have a special are you fucking dumb card up our sleeve.”

“So the Desire Demon in Dragon Age 3 is…” “Yes, my young friend… yes” Master Geralt eyes beamed to SkywayMetalcraze.

“r00fles” said SkywayMetalcraze.
 

spacemoose

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ok ok you guys this one's for real

Once upon a time there was a young boy named Cleve. Cleve was 49 years old and lived in GD, Codexia. While walking home from school one day, a fat Kingcomrade jumped out from behind a a gaping anus and tackled Cleve to the ground. But just when he was about to let out a scream for help, Cleve realized that the fat Kingcomrade was only licking his face, not trying to bite it off. At that moment, Cleve decided to keep the fat Kingcomrade as a pet. And on the way home he decided to name his pet fat Kingcomrade ''Butthurt Detected.''

When Cleve and his new pet finally got home, guess who was standing on the front porch? That's right, it was Cleve's mother, Jews. And boy was she surprised to see a fat Kingcomrade following Cleve into the yard! ''What in world is that?'' shouted Jews. ''It's a fat Kingcomrade,'' answered Cleve. ''Dah, I can see that, Cleve, but what on earth is it doing here?'' said Jews. ''It's my new pet!'' answered Cleve. ''Oh you think so do you?'' remarked Jews. ''I wouldn't get your hopes up. You know how your father hates fat Kingcomrades. But, well, I suppose you can keep him until your father comes home.'' And with that Cleve grabbed Butthurt Detected by the scruff of the neck and led his new pet into the house--even though he knew his father was probably going to dissaprove.

Once in the house, Cleve and Butthurt Detected played and played, that is until Cleve's favorite television show, ''No Jews, Just Right,'' started. At that point Cleve forgot all about Butthurt Detected having an unsupervised run of the house. That is until half way through ''No Jews, Just Right,'' when Cleve was brought back to reality when he heard his father shout, ''heil hitler!! Cleve! Get your supple ass in the raperoom...NOW!!'' With that Cleve rushed into the raperoom to see what all the fuss was about. When he entered the raperoom, there stood his father, Elder George, pointing toward the grimoire. ''Will someone please explain that?'' asked his father. Then, as Cleve followed his father's finger to where it was pointing, he instantly knew what his father was so upset about. There, smack dab in the middle of the grimoire, was the biggest pile of Kingcomrade doo-doo he had ever seen!

''I don't EVEN want to know how that got there,'' said Elder George. ''But you had better get it cleaned up now! And you had better get rid of whatever it is that could have done such a thing!'' Well, knowing his father as well as he did, Cleve knew there was no sense even asking his father if he could keep Butthurt Detected for a pet. So without hesitation, Cleve set out to find where Butthurt Detected was hiding. After a few minutes of looking, Cleve discovered Butthurt Detected crouched beneath the table that Cleve did his cocksucking on. ''Come on, Butthurt Detected, it's time to find you a new home. And hey, don't look at me that way, I'm not the one who did the dirty deed on the grimoire!'' scolded Cleve. ''Thanks to you I'll never get to have my own pet Kingcomrade!!

And with that Cleve led Butthurt Detected out of the house and down to the local gaybar in the bunker. They had a pet section and Cleve knew the owner would find Butthurt Detected a good home. So after saying good-bye to Butthurt Detected, and thanking the owner of gaybar in the bunker, Cleve walked backed home and attempted to dround his sorrows by slamming down a half dozen mannschafts. But Cleve's pitty party came to an abrupt end when his father reminded him about the mess he had neglected to clean up. And low and behold, midway through the clean-up, Cleve suddenly became thankful that someone else was going to have to do it from now on. The End.
 

spacemoose

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and a version for the more easily entertained section of the codex:

Once upon a time there was a young boy named Kingcomrade. Kingcomrade was kingcomrade years old and lived in Kingcomrade, Kingcomrade. While walking home from school one day, a kingcomrade kingcomrade jumped out from behind a kingcomrade and tackled Kingcomrade to the ground. But just when he was about to let out a scream for help, Kingcomrade realized that the kingcomrade kingcomrade was only licking his face, not trying to bite it off. At that moment, Kingcomrade decided to keep the kingcomrade kingcomrade as a pet. And on the way home he decided to name his pet kingcomrade kingcomrade ''Kingcomrade.'' When Kingcomrade and his new pet finally got home, guess who was standing on the front porch? That's right, it was Kingcomrade's mother, Kingcomrade. And boy was she surprised to see a kingcomrade kingcomrade following Kingcomrade into the yard! ''What in world is that?'' shouted Kingcomrade. ''It's a kingcomrade kingcomrade,'' answered Kingcomrade. ''Dah, I can see that, Kingcomrade, but what on earth is it doing here?'' said Kingcomrade. ''It's my new pet!'' answered Kingcomrade. ''Oh you think so do you?'' remarked Kingcomrade. ''I wouldn't get your hopes up. You know how your father hates kingcomrade kingcomrades. But, well, I suppose you can keep him until your father comes home.'' And with that Kingcomrade grabbed Kingcomrade by the scruff of the neck and led his new pet into the house--even though he knew his father was probably going to dissaprove. Once in the house, Kingcomrade and Kingcomrade played and played, that is until Kingcomrade's favorite television show, ''Kingcomrade,'' started. At that point Kingcomrade forgot all about Kingcomrade having an unsupervised run of the house. That is until half way through ''Kingcomrade,'' when Kingcomrade was brought back to reality when he heard his father shout, ''kingcomrade!! Kingcomrade! Get your kingcomrade in the kingcomrade...NOW!!'' With that Kingcomrade rushed into the kingcomrade to see what all the fuss was about. When he entered the kingcomrade, there stood his father, Kingcomrade, pointing toward the kingcomrade. ''Will someone please explain that?'' asked his father. Then, as Kingcomrade followed his father's finger to where it was pointing, he instantly knew what his father was so upset about. There, smack dab in the middle of the kingcomrade, was the biggest pile of kingcomrade doo-doo he had ever seen! ''I don't EVEN want to know how that got there,'' said Kingcomrade. ''But you had better get it cleaned up now! And you had better get rid of whatever it is that could have done such a thing!'' Well, knowing his father as well as he did, Kingcomrade knew there was no sense even asking his father if he could keep Kingcomrade for a pet. So without hesitation, Kingcomrade set out to find where Kingcomrade was hiding. After a few minutes of looking, Kingcomrade discovered Kingcomrade crouched beneath the table that Kingcomrade did his kingcomrading on. ''Come on, Kingcomrade, it's time to find you a new home. And hey, don't look at me that way, I'm not the one who did the dirty deed on the kingcomrade!'' scolded Kingcomrade. ''Thanks to you I'll never get to have my own pet kingcomrade!! And with that Kingcomrade led Kingcomrade out of the house and down to the local Kingcomrade. They had a pet section and Kingcomrade knew the owner would find Kingcomrade a good home. So after saying good-bye to Kingcomrade, and thanking the owner of Kingcomrade, Kingcomrade walked backed home and attempted to dround his sorrows by slamming down a half dozen kingcomrades. But Kingcomrade's pitty party came to an abrupt end when his father reminded him about the mess he had neglected to clean up. And low and behold, midway through the clean-up, Kingcomrade suddenly became thankful that someone else was going to have to do it from now on. The End.
 

spacemoose

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I could have fitted a few more "this poll is missing an option"-s in there but its too late now, I guess my masterpiece of humor will never achieve the next level
 

PlanHex

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I wrote a short outline for a screenplay instead.



Title:
A day in the life of developing Grimoire and AoD Online in Volurntopia starring DarkUnderlord as the 50ft Multi-Headed Dick

Basic outline:
VD and Cleve are developing their respective games down in Cleve's bunker {royal game-making place} when Queen Volurn {Volurntopia allows princesses to inherit the throne} stops by and tells them to combine their efforts
They unify their games/code+art into a single mind-blowing game and make DarkUnderlord test it

DU "accidentally" spills a cup of semen {that he made from wanking to The Witcher sex cards while no one was looking} on the keyboard while testing the game, gets zapped, and transforms into a 50ft Multi-Headed-Dick
The giant DU multi-headed dick monster starts smashing up the place and fights aliens and Mothra and stuff

Epic conclusion leading in to the inevitable sequel:

Our heroes stand in awe as the giant multi-headed dick strolls down the streets of Volurntopia towards the Statue of Romance Options {giant David Gaider statue}
Multi-headed dick hits David Gaider statue in ass and legs

Volurn: "MULTIHEADED DICK HITTING ASS AND LEGS OH GOD ITS HEAVAN"
Cleve: "This is just like that thing I was talking about. Let's go back to my bunker until this blows over"
Volurn: "We can't! We must avenge DGaider!" [SHOW EAGLE CRYING]
Cleve: "I say hiding in a bunker is better. What say you, VD?"
[CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON VD] VD: "I vote kingcomrade" [VD COCKS HIS SHOTGUN]
 

Hoaxmetal

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thesheeep said:
Reading all those entries makes me very happy that I already slept and they won't give me nightmares...
I think about your kind every night before sleeping. You're hopping fences and shit.
 

Hoodoo

It gets passed around.
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roses are red
violets are blue
bethesda is bad
and volourn hates the joos
 

Annie Mitsoda

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This is for you, DU.

The entrance is exactly where your contact said it would be: carefully concealed, a nondescript building housing an average door that looked like it ran to elevator maintenance, an equipment locker that opened into a dank hallway that led further and deeper than the one lone bulb at the entrance could illuminate. You hesitated for a moment, not sure you wanted to venture on… but curiosity and resolve grip you and you head forward into the passageway.

Ten minutes later you feel the passage open up, smooth concrete vanishing from underneath your left hand, the surprise of it nearly sending you pitching into the darkness. You curse yourself for forgetting a flashlight, then remembering what your contact said about the denizens not liking the brightness. And – ah, there’s a dim light in the distance, a huddled mass being one-by-one ushered through a thick, barred door into the room beyond.

You breathe a sigh of relief as the voice behind the door accepts the password – again you mentally thank your contact – and you, too, are motioned in as the portal creaks open. Behind you, you see a man: older, bearded, bespectacled, round-faced. You think you know him, and when he sees you looking he quickly hides his face. It must have – must’ve been your imagination. You head inside.

The room is dark, full of lurking faces, indistinct in the gloom and the muted light. There is a slight murmur in the air: tense, withholding excitement like a dog at a chain, hungry for blood. At the center, under the lone lightbulb, stands a man with a malevolent gleam in his eye, his mouth twisted into a smirk as his gaze crawls over the assembled. You know this must be the man your contact spoke of – the only Dark Underlord. Your breath catches in your throat as he speaks, killing at once all other conversation in the room.

“Ladies and gentlemen – you all know why you’re here, don’t you?” A hoarse, vicious cry of glee rang shakes the walls, and the man holds up a hand for silence. “Of course you do. Let’s introduce our contenders, then…”

“To my left – the Princess of Pretty, the Sultan of SHIT – you know him as… VOLURN!” Boos and jeers erupt from the assembled as a creature slinks out of the shadows, hissing ssssssssozzy through broken teeth.

“And to my right – the Lord of LPs, the Mullah of Majestic – Andyman Messiah!” Cries and cheers spring out as a proud horse prances into view, a war-horn affixed upon his head.

“Now, I hate to say it,” the Underlord said with mock apology, “but it is impossible to totally avoid combat on the Codex. But… that’s sort of the point, now isn’t it?”

“FIGHT!” he bellows, and the world dissolves into blood and noise.
 

Andyman Messiah

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Annie Carlson said:
“And to my right – the Lord of LPs, the Mullah of Majestic – Andyman Messiah!” Cries and cheers spring out as a proud horse prances into view, a war-horn affixed upon his head.
Awww... That's the sweetest signature material someone's ever written for me. Wham bam thank you, Ann!
 

Murk

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it's 3:45 am and instead of sleeping I'm writing this shit. I hate myself :(

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I present a short story about a young group of master actors attempting to enact the greatest epic ever written to the acceptance of Her Majesty the Grand Dragoness, Volourn.

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The manager came into the room in a hurry while mumbling obscenities to himself. More changes to the script, no doubt.

"Yes Mr. Guyder, what are we changing this time? Has the dragon prince become a princess of the neighboring kingdom to whom a Lich was promised her hand? Or perhaps our plucky hero of chosen god blood isn't modest and humble enough and we shall strip him of his tattered rags for a rag? What could we possibly change this time, a-hmm?"

Mr. Guyder the manager stood rather unstill in his shaking bout.

"I'm so sorry my dear young artists to force this upon you! You know I would not if I didn't have to! All these changes, they require so much... effort! Tis her Grand Dragonessship the lady Volourn! She demands more, much much more! She says this current play is so sozzy that she, in her holy righteousness, “could not sozz out of it if she was made of sozz itself!” And to be quite frank, my dear young masters, I've no idea what in the blasted hells a sozz is!”

I must admit, I did feel for the man. He had slaved much in helping to create the greatest epic of our time but her Ladyship, the Grand Duchess of Rooflia, was most displeased with our stories in any shape we had presented it. We had gone from a simple tale of a philosopher teaching his young student the meaning of perspective with minor social commentary to an adventurous tale of a philosopher's escape from being condemned to death to a story about a man who rescues a philosopher from a tyrant king to a dragon wielding dragon princess who destroys a world devouring dragon and marries its daughter to become grand dragon of a dra-OH BLAST IT ALL TO HELL THIS IS PURE DRIVEL!

“Mr. Guyder I can take NO more of this! Her Draconic Excellence shall have to deal with the script as is, we are on in 5 minutes and there is no possible way to convey any changes to the crew and stage hands at this point! We simply can't make with another idiotic change!”

Mr Guyder wasn't sure of what to say next...

“Young sir you know that her Majestic Majesty of Ma... the Queen hasn't been most understanding of not having her way, not since her great metamorphosis into her true female form. I do so shudder to think what she'll say...But alas I do so understands, I do! I shall simply make with hiding and allow the show to be as it is...

-At the end of the finale of the play-

Lead Actor: “Well, the audience seems rather unresponsive...”

Supporting Actor: “What did you expect? With all these changes the story had gone from pretty good to some banal boring piece of shitty shit.”

Lead Actor: “Well I thought it was alright...”

Supporting Actor: "Plebe."[/i]
 

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poocolator said:
Hoaxmetal said:
# Attack of the 50-foot Multi-Headed Dick.
Someone needs to write this Lovecraftian style.
I second this.
The award should go to whoever can reproduce Lovecraft's style in telling this story.

Okay, this isn't an official entry, because I'm going to bust the hell out of the 500 word limit. Still, I thought it'd be an interesting exercise in creativity to go Lovecraftian on such a ridiculous premise, so here we go. It's a work in progress, of course. Those of you more familiar than me, let me know if I'm hitting the mark or not. :D

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The village didn't call to mind anything familiar, beyond the typical seaside hamlet seen dotted all along the New England coastline. The requisite quaint marina reaching out into the shallow waters of the small harbor, adorned with it's gigs and dinghys greeted us as our motorboat glided in alongside the weather and seaworn pilings that supported it. A sign, faded and cracked, barely read "Arpygee Codessia".

"That's an unusual name," I casually offered to the pilot as he shut down the boat's engine. "It calls to mind Latin, but with a vernacular twist."

The pilot, a gruff-looking man of about 50, wearing a peacoat with a permanent ash stain from the permanent cigarette he seemed to have dangling from his lips, fixed upon me with his steel grey eyes and scoffed, "Don't letchyer learnin' hang out like that, doc. The locals ain't impressed by no degree."

I was taken aback by the apparent accusation, but I stifled any outward appearance by the casual afterthought. "It was just an observation."

I helped the man secure the mooring line, and grabbing my leather attache, followed him along the uneven surface of the dock to terra firma, some 20 yards ahead. Behind me, I could feel the chill on the back of my neck as the wind came inland, and with it, the damp fog which hitherto clung to the water further off shore. I reached up and tried in vain to turn my collar up, but the moisture in the air had taken its toll, insistently weighing the fabric down.

It was 4:20, according to the clock in the dockhouse, though its accuracy was questionable. My pocketwatch had uncerimoniously refused to work about 2 hours out of Boston, and with the fog and overcast conditions, reckoning the time was nigh impossible. 4:20 seemed as reasonable a time as any.

(to be continued)
 

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