Thanks everyone for your votes. Thanks also to my worthy opponent. Your story was great and I share the win with you. Kalel21, this was a very fun contest and thank you for running it.

My deepest appreciation to you all.

Afterword...

By the way, my apologies once more for the delay in submitting my final entry. I wanted to make it a good one - and actually I had a first attempt at the story that I wound up scrapping. It was an adventure of the Wranglers of the Unknown. Their mission was to go back through time to the year 1851 and defuse a bomb that the terrorist organization called T.H.A.W.M.U.S. had implanted inside Moby Dick. Ahab's harpoon was going to set off the bomb and destroy an undersea city, starting a war between many nations both on the surface and beneath the waves. I assigned characters to all of us, using fictional names - then realized that I would not be able to keep the story at the 600-700 word limit that I had imposed upon myself. As it was, the second attempt came in at 714 words, but it was more faithful to the theme that was provided.

As you can see, I tried re-using characters and names based on our group in the final version. Alas, I was not able to fit in Norym and Wintremute - or myself for that matter. I hope none took offense at this, as even Grand Admiral Norr-Tonn was a true hero to his own people of Lemuria and the AAV Jawa-Spayess went down fighting bravely in the Battle of R'lyeh. (In consolation, I offer that Captain Saynt-Dumah's first mate was the formidable Mister Ym-Norr and that Wintra-Moot was Fishma-Zell's plucky best friend, as well as the ship's cook. They were among the handful of survivors.)

I hope you had as much reading as I did writing it.

And that, finally, is all that I have to say about that.

Peace out.

WotU FTW!!!!!!!

Congratulations CharlesX.

I've got two new games up that need players--a SF game called Defense of Earth and a SF RPG Cooperative game called Interstellar Merchant.

I've started another game thread that also obligates players to be creative:

Create a Universe game