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New York Presents: A Short Story Contest Started by: Alexander on Apr 22, '13 21:58

 

Good day ladies and gentlemen of our fair cities. I come out here to announce a new contest being sponsored by New York. After the largely successful contest ran by the Gods a week ago, I figured we would keep the good times rolling and listen to a few more stories!
Here's how the contest works! Two people partner up, where you're from doesn't matter. Then you tell a story from your partners point of view, and they do likewise. For example, I partner up with Roksana. She would come out here and tell a tale as if she was I, then I would tell a tale as if I was Roksana. 


Once all of the entries are submitted, a panel of judges who are not participating will judge them. The first place winner will receive 10 million dollars! Second place will receive 5 million dollars! 3rd place will receive 2 million dollars. Prizes are eligible to increase if members of our society are willing to sweeten up the pot a bit.


If anyone has any questions, comments, issues, or whatnot, please contact me me. Anyone wishing to judge, please send me a mail entitled Judges so I don't lose tract of it.


Thank you for your time, and good luck!

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Is that one prize divided by both  parties?

Also would it be required of us to submit who we are partnered with before hand?

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Is that one prize divided by both  parties?

Also would it be required of us to submit who we are partnered with before hand?

 

The winning pair will split the prize. As for submitting prior to the entries, you can do that, or you can make mention of your partner before your start to tell your tale. 

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A unique twist on the normal story telling activities good sir, congratulations on that. Hopefully it will get some creativity flowing and encourage a bit of fun from all. Kudos on that, kudos.

If I might be so bold to ask, is there a deadline on the date for submission of names of potential entrants and/or submission of the entries themselves Godfather Alexander?

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If I might be so bold to ask, is there a deadline on the date for submission of names of potential entrants and/or submission of the entries themselves Godfather Alexander?

Silly me, I forgot to mention, all entries should be submitted by  April 27 23:00.

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Hmmm. I like it. It's not often you have to tread carefully when telling a tale in these streets, but to speak about an associate or even superior?

There is a certain degree of staying true to their nature and idiosyncrasies to consider. I shall attempt to enter, should I find a date...

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Sounds pretty awesome to me Godfather, just a quick question that I just realised doesn't seem to have been addressed; 

Would we post our stories out here in the streets, or direct your attention to the back alleys to maintain secrecy? 

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Would we post our stories out here in the streets, or direct your attention to the back alleys to maintain secrecy? 

Please, post them here for all to enjoy. Good point Anna!

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how many words would you count a short story as?

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how many words would you count a short story as?

That is up to you sir. Whatever you believe will compliment your story the best.

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Im going to extend the contest entries until April 28th 23:00. This will allow for more time for stories to be told, and people to participate. Thank You ladies and gentlemen

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An additional 12 Million dollars has been tossed into the prize pot. Im sure that makes everyone even more interested in participating!

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I'd be delighted to participate sir Alexander, i'm just a little busy at the moment but I believe myself and a friend will attempt to do this soon.

Mudkip smiles and tips his little bowler hat that barely fits his head all while making mudkip sounds all the way back to the HQ

'Muuuuuudkip mudkip kip!'

Mudkip approves of this

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Mudkip woke up to find a crashed house, a person whose identity he couldn't determine lying next to him, and heard a loud crash outside. He begins to get up and sees a "Ditto" name tag on the nurse uniform and a disturbingly higher number of condoms on the floor after one of his sexcapades than usual. He gets up and starts walking towards the front door and notices how many mobsters from other cities are sprawled out on the floor and the furniture. When he finally gets to he front door he notices -iocaste drove a car into the 8' Perimeter Wall. Angered at the fact someone just wrecked the brand new crew defense he starts to yell at the Frenchman when he notices Godmother Lilac's car coming towards his HQ and remembers that he was strictly told to celebrate with DT members only. In a rush he fires his gun in the house to wake everyone up, and they all wake up with weapons pointed at Mudkip.

Shortly after one misfire by SpikeSpiegel that almost hit Mudkip, Mudkip began to yell at the crowd,

"Those of you not from Detroit there is a secret tunnel in the back room, Lilac is coming and she'll probably shoot anyone who's not supposed to be here."

The crowd goes running to the tunnel, and EAforAA approaches Mudkip,

"You do realize that's supposed to be a SECRET tunnel don't you? When they come out the other side every other city will know a secret entrance into our HQ..."

"I do now... but all we can do now is say -iocaste drove by to say congrats and force everyone else out so that Lilac doesn't kill me."

Mudkip goes running back to the front door and sees Lilac finally pulling in, straightens himself up as best as he can and waits for the Godmother. She approaches him and her eyes immediately look over his shoulder,

"I see you couldn't wait until I left to kill that man?"

Horrified Mudkip turns around to see a dead man laying in the back corner that was once blocked from his vision by the mass of people. He turns back to the Godmother, clears his throat and says,

"That's why -iocaste stopped by ma'am, this man was selling information about the family and my good friend came to warn me. He was in such a rush to leave and not be seen when he realized he was in the HQ that he drove into the wall."

Lilac sighs and says,

"Well it's not what I wanted to hear but you didn't mess up as much as I thought you would. It's nice to see that you're still alive EAforAA."

Lilac turns to her Body Guard and hands him $50, and starts walking towards -iocaste so Mudkip follows closely behind. Lilac knocks on the window and notices the frenchman passed out. She opens the door, sees his starting to come to his senses and pissing himself at her sight, so she smiles and says,

"Thank you friend, I'm disappointed you can't drive a vehicle but without your help we'd be in a lot of trouble, I'd hug you but you appear to have wet yourself."

-Iocaste is lost for words and just sits there dumbfounded. Mudkip quickly chimes in,

"Didn't you have somewhere to go? I thought that's why you were driving so recklessly. You can use SadPanda's car, it's just around the back."

With everything going much smoother than expected, Mudkip begins to believe he handled everything well until he gets smacked on the back of the head. Then Lilac says,

"I said no prostitutes, they're supposed to be out making us money not pleasuring you. God, you're so disgusting. Clean everything up by the time I get back."

Lilac walks towards her car, then turns to EAforAA who is standing next to the vehicle and hands him a contract. After a quick nod the driver takes her away. EAForAA shows Mudkip the contract that says he has to be in another city and he has to leave now. Mudkip sighs and says,

"Well that's just great, alright go handle that while I go get some supplies to make a new secret tunnel and repair the wall."

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WHATWOULDWHEREIDO had been lonely since the death of his father in a Detroit gangland slaying but he had not been that bad off, his father was a deadbeat who didn't give shit to WWWWID

'Whats on today's agenda..' WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO says to himself before going outside to get some fresh air when he notices some weirdo outside pretending to be a lion

'What the hell are you doing? You're not a real lion..' WHATWOULDWHEREIDO kicks the lion several times until he admits that his name is Iocaste and he is not really a lion, but instead a french man that had come to America years earlier

'What is it with these fucking weirdo's outside all the time now? WHATWOULDWHEREIDO heads to the local corner to get a newspaper to see if anything good has been going on as of late when a manly looking hooker walks up to him and attempts to seduce me

'Hey baby, you looking for a good time? I could show you a great time' WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO recognizes the man whore as a local Philadelphia man known as Jono to his peers, he wondered why he was whoring himself out on the corner on this cold Detroit day when he sees the local paper boy and takes a paper from him without paying

'Lets see..' WHATWOULDWHEREIDO skims through the paper about several bums being slain all around the country and something about a young kid pretending to be a sheriff who actually ran a criminal Syndicate within Detroit

'Hell.. a kid actually running a crew AND pretending to be a sheriff? God next this world will allow scouse's to run cities..'

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO throws the paper back at the boy and nearly knocks him over and walks away to hopefully find a job somewhere as he was broke and jobless

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Mudkip wakes up after having Almonette drive him to downtown Detroit for supplies, he steps out of the car and notices a crying Zero_McHannon. He slowly approaches the man, pats him on the back, and steals his wallet. After seeing there's barely anything in it he says,

"Stop crying like a woman, you're making your Crew Leader look bad, you're supposed to be a RHM for God's sake."

Hearing louder weeping noises Mudkip knew he'd never suspect him for taking his wallet and heads into the munitions store. He begins picking out dynamite for the job and just grabs an armful. Eventually one of the attendants of this underground munitions store approaches him and asks,

"What exactly are you planning on blowing up? Unless you're blowing up a fort there's no way you'd need that much."

"I'm looking to disable a tunnel."

"They're structurally going to collapse from a small explosion anyways, you shouldn't need anywhere near that much."

"Fine."

Mudkip pulls out his gun and shoots the man and begins walking towards the car. Shortly after he sees the man struggling to his feet, thinks "I thought I killed you" and fires his gun again. The shot sets off one of the bombs and Mudkip sees firsthand why you don't fire a gun in or at an armory as the building starts to collapse from one explosion after the other. As Almonette speeds away Mudkip reminds her they still need more supplies so she takes the car over towards the local hardware store. Along the way they both notice a man wandering pointlessly.

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WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO had been walking along the streets of Detroit when he accidentally bumps into a large hooded man and he thinks nothing of it and keeps walking away until he feels someones hand on his shoulder and he looks back to find the hooded man behind him

'Hey you.. Watch where you're going kid or you may find yourself in some trouble' Said the hooded man whom he didn't recognize but a minute later the man knew whom he was despite him having not a clue to whom he was

'You.. I know you, or at least I knew your father, my name is Zero McHannon and I work out of Detroit if you're looking for some work' Said the man known as Zero

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO didn't really care what the mans name was but wanted to shoo him off as soon as possible and said 'Zero, eh?' 'And I thought one was the loneliest number' Before seeing the man run away with tears in his eyes while WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO was laughing his ass off about the big man crying like a child

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO starts to think about his career opportunities when he hears a gunshot go off nearby and he goes to investigate, He sees several naked mobsters run out of a large building that seemed to be someones warehouse that was Insanely well fortified, hell it had Barbed wire and an Electric fence.. Whoever owned it was a powerful man

After seeing the french lion thing crash his vehicle into the fence and then running off into the distance he saw a man trying to wake up several passed out mobsters on the lawn of this warehouse when he saw a woman get out of a car surrounded by hundreds of bodyguards and start walking towards the warehouse and the man who was trying to wake up the passed out mobsters ran in fear of this woman and hid in the shed in the yard

'Heh.. The man clearly isn't very smart, hiding in plain sight from what seemed to be his boss, what a feck wit' WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO says to himself and then thinks.. He says a lot of things to himself, perhaps he is slightly crazy?

 

 

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO had grew tired of working for the boy known as CarlGrimes, Carl didn't appreciate the way WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO got things done, despite them getting done on time and without compromising anyone or anything, Carl didn't like the way WWWWID did things, in the most creative way possible and was looking for a better career opportunity within Detroit, someone that he could work for that wasn't some little kid that constantly yelled at WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO from his room because his mother Lori Grimes was constantly telling him to stay inside the house

'Bleh.. A 12 year old telling me that I'm childish.. Seriously' WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO thought to himself while walking around a park in Black Bottom, Detroit when he sees the same man from earlier at the warehouse who had been hiding from the woman heading into a hardware store and he figured he'd spy on him a little to see who the man is

'Hey you, why are you buying a shovel, a bodybag, condoms and a baseball bat?' WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO smirked a little to the man who seemed to be laughing a little while his Bodyguard lady was smiling at the question and then the man finally spoke

'Yeah, I've got to repair something in my headquarters that some drunk fucked up so I have lots of fun things to work with right now heh, though.. I've seen you before I think, you work with Carl right?'

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO nodded to the man but didn't mention anything else when Mudkip noticed  that WWWWID seemed unhappy about the mentioning of Carl

'Are you unhappy with Carl? I would be willing to take you into my HQ, but be warned.. We're full of fuck ups and weirdo's but it seems you fit into the category well heh'

WHATWOULDWHEREWASIDO was about to beat Mudkip about calling him weird until he looked past that and noticed he had a way out of the tyrants that were Carl and Zero and he nodded

'I will join your crew on several conditions..'

Hours later WWWWID was a member of the Water Gun Syndicate and WGS member SadPanda was seen wearing a pretty dress picked out by WWWWID himself and he knew he picked the right choice

 

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I misspoke earlier, I meant to say the deadline April 29th 23:00.

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Katniss skips toward Alexander, pressing a leaflet into his hand.

"Always late, but worth the wait?" she asks with a wink and giggle.. "From the disturbed but beautiful minds of Joga Benito and Katniss Everdeen, we proudly present A Sock Too Far! Thank you to you, Godfather Alexander, as well as your associates in New York for a fun, entertaining contest. Much appreciated!"
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Thomas arrives late, dripping wet and with a clear limp. Behind him Roberto Scardacci clutches at his torso, wheezing uncontrollably. The pair look terrible, Thomas approaches Godfather Alexander and grins tenaciously.

"Signore... Sorry we're late, but we've got an amazing tale to tell to excuse us... It's called At Home with the Lucania's"

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