This section exists specifically to ensure there is no ambiguity or ambivalence in what, precisely, the challenge requires of each participant. If you have any specific questions which are not addressed here, please send them to
@Terminal for resolution.
For
The Eleventh Labour, I have asked you to write about a character meeting another and either perishing with grand consequence or else slipping by only to dwindle into nothingness.
Q. The Labour requires a character who is resplendent, gloriously, graceful, and effortless?
A. I require a Mary or Marty Stu. Perhaps faintly toned down to something that can be swallowed without choking, pointedly.
Q. They must rise above all others?
A. They must have no equals -
nor anybody who is greater than they might be, though what precisely that caveat might entail I leave to your own discretion.
Consider that one part to be advice rather than an actual challenge parameter.Q. They must be sought out by another?
A. A natural consequence of being the brightest light: You tend to be noticed. Your character may draw a mere moth to themselves...or perhaps something more formidable.
Q. My character must perish upon meeting with the other?
A. Yes, although unlike in previous Labours I have elected to be more lenient in this regard. Your character may engage in or utilize any number of highly illegal shenanigans in order to cheat death - though it is required that they actually die at some point during the story.
Q. They must overwhelm or else empower their foe?
A. Your character's death might well serve to bolster their foe beyond their previous limitations. If they can survive the process.
Q. My character can choose to avoid the conflict entirely?
A. Yes. If they deem the risk of an encounter unacceptable, they may always decide that death is highly overrated and opt-out of the confrontation.
Q. If they evade the confrontation, they must wane?
A. Power is born of adversity. Without any challenge to keep them sharp, your character must fall and decay, withering until naught is left but a mundane husk.
Q. How long can my story be?
A. As long as you feel is necessary. I will read any and everything submitted, irregardless of length, and write a review on it. Do not let the short three-day judging period dissuade you. If you have a 800,000 word brick for me, I will take it. Similarly, extremely short stories are also welcome. It is entirely possible for segues as short as three paragraphs long to clear the challenge.
KactusPunch
Crown Sage
MarshalSolgriev
SkyeOfStars
princess
Zeroth