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Lord Andvarinaut Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:01 pm
 RP Prompt
Deadline: Thursday, July 31 @ Midnight PST
 Like any other RP prompt, we’re looking for creativity and originality as well as organization and structure. That means we want something unique in your response, but we also expect to see few if any spelling/grammar mistakes. Length is of little importance, although it’s doubtful that you’ll be able to answer the prompt properly in only a few sentences. So start showing us your creative writing skills!
Rules
1. Only one response per person.
2. Your response can only be a maximum of 5,000 words.
Restrictions
1. You are only allowed to receive a total of ONE Fafner from all the Contests.
2. If you win more than one Contest, you can choose which Pokemon you want.
3. You can give the Fafner you win to someone else, but ONLY to someone who participated in the same Contest that you won the Fafner from.
SPECIAL!!!
For participating in the RP Prompt, you will be eligible to win a Mini at a raffle drawing in the end! However, your response must seem like you put thought and effort into it, not some nonsense attempt simply to join the drawing.
Choose ONE of the below Prompts to answer:
Prompt 1 As an electronic genius, you manage you create a device that turns virtual data in real-life objects. Because of your love for Fafners, your first experiment successfully brought a real-life Fafner into your room. Unfortunately, you forgot that your duplicating machine was within the Fafner's reach. As a result, there are now a thousand Fafners in running around your house... and the city. Use all your Fafnerian knowledge to round up all these wild Fafners and send them back to the virtual world of Andvari - all before dinnertime and/or before your parents come home.
Prompt 2 The Fafner society is slowly splitting into two different political views: one favoring the ancient rule of the Royals and Nobles, and the new minority looking for independence from the aristocracy. You are acting as a spy for whichever side you choose, but you know nothing about the enemy (you have never seen the Nobles/Rebels). How will you go about infiltrating the enemy forces? Feel free to be slightly imaginative with the Nobles and Rebels.
Use the following Form to submit your response:
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:39 pm
Prompt: 1
Word Count: 917
Response:
Gazing at the various designs of Fafner making a muck out in the city of Lame-ityville, I ponder how in the world was I was born as a super Asian electronic genius. Oh wait... it's because my parents are Asian and everyone knows, Asians know how to fix your computer, and obviously it will be the Asians who brainwashed people with skills, thus taking over the world ((Whether it be food or technology)). Take the creator(s) of Pocky, Pokemon and Isle of Andvari for example. These people have us under their spells I tell you! Why else would I want to bring a Fafner to life? Simply because, not many people would kill me had I brought a Pokemon to life. Also... Pocky just happens to be real as well, so there was no need to make a picture of it real. Thank God/Buddah/Alah/Zeus/Ra/Flying Purple Spaggheti UFO Saucer and any other deities I forgot to name!
Whiplash! "What the...." I exclaimed after zoning out for a bit. A dark fafner with pale green markings decided to whip in the face jokingly. This fafner just so happens to be Talia, one of my most... evil fafners. "Why you little...! Throwing a pillow at her, she quickly scampered into the corner of my brother's messy closet. "Oh... I will get YOU! Just you wait! Stomping over to my computer, I decided to look for pictures of an iron maiden. No... not the band! The casket/closet of doom with spikes and other sharp objects that are perfectly placed to pierce minor organs in order to be the ultimate tool of torture! Well... I guess it could use some lemon juice... to poor into the wounds. Hm.... might be a bit too violent.
Scrolling back to Gaia, I decided to look for a cool pixelated weapon to turn real. Maybe a Demonic Pitchfork! Yeah! Oh hey look! A random pokemon fafner! I better catch it with my... handy dandy Shikai's Ball! DING! A Shikai's Ball is the ultimate tool against any fafner. Modeled after the Master Ball in Pokemon, the Shikai's Ball offers a beautiful area of 15 inches squared of living space for any Fafner. There just happens to be a bed, pool, and flat screened TV that comes with every Shikai's Ball. Now that's quality you can buy for only 100,000 gold!
Using my device of divine powers, I decided to mass produce these Shikai's Ball in order to catch all of these silly Fafners. Sadly, I am only an elf living in a plastic world. How fantastic! Anyway... there is only one creature that can help me now! That's right! It's Allen Walker my Kakashi Hatake Fafner! Luckily, Kakashi's data wasn't extracted yet! While my device was looking for my smexy fafner in Photobucket, I waited patiently. 80%.... 90%.... 5%... 100% Finally! Geeze... I guess my device can't even handle his smexyness.
As a magical dust appeared, the smexy Kakashi Fafner finally was in existence. "Eeee!" I let out in a fan-girlish scream and I tackled the Kakashi. Choking him to death, Kakashi surrendered and wondered what he must do in order to not receive such a hug again. Shifting my eyes around since I did not speak Fafner... I pointed to the Shikai's Balls and to a picture of the Fafners. Hopefully he understands... Pictionary? Pictionary is like THE universal language right? Watching Kakashi nod, I jumped around in excitement. By the time I looked back at him, he was gone! You think my reaction would be to think I was abandoned, but thankfully, the Shikai's Balls were gone too. I have no idea how he carried that many Shikai's Balls, but I will not question his smexy ways.
Thinking I deserved a good rest, I flopped on my bed and waited to doze off. Sadly, I heard a large flop in my room, thus making me sit back up. Looking at the pile of Shikai's Ball, I stared at Kakashi and wanted to crush him once again! He was just too awesome. Never should anyone question is Ninja ways! Getting up and walking to my device, I set it's mode to digitize. Man... this sounds like Digimon! Whatever... At least I can get rid of these Fafners and keep my Kakashi Fafner with m....... Nuuuuuuuuu!! Setting my device on "auto", I watched helplessly as my Kakashi Fafner went back into the Digital World. One might think, can't you just make him real again? Sadly now, as he went back in, my device really couldn't handle his smexyness twice. As a result... the device basically went, "Kabloom"
Oh well, I guess I should have made the humanoid Kakashi Hatake real... Would have been easier for him to escape. I guess I'll go dwell in a little corner now since my device broke, and now I am broke! Not in real life of course... In Gaia.... Did you really think Shikai was just going to let me have all of those Shikai's Ball for free? Heck no! I had to sell my entire account for it! Oh well, at least I have thousands of Fafners in my possession. Can't wait to quest for my next one though.... right after I... brain wash Shikai to give me my stuff back. ((And I know exactly how to do that. I shall rebuild my device and make Allen Walker real. How can she resist right? Riiiight???))
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:00 pm
Prompt: 2
Word Count: 285
Response:
If you are reading this, it means that I have failed in my mission to inflitrate the enemy ranks. Yes, the enemy. I don't care if they are Royal or not. Honestly, do you think that just because your parents were great, that you are too? That's crap, and you know it. And so did I. I've seen enough pety, prissy Fafners claiming nobility, and far too many educated commoners that could not be as great as they should be. This society is holding us back. We have to become independent of this aristocracy.
Here is what I did. Somewhere in this list, it went wrong. I never saw the Royalty before, and it puts me at a slight loss. Find the fault and rectify it. Our freedom, our rights, depend on us being able to overthrow the Nobility.
~~~~Rubeau
Plan To Spy on the “Royalty”
1.Talk to the local grocers.
2.Find who supplies food to the royal houses
3.See if you can get a job there
4.If not, see if you can get a job in the kitchens, or cleaning. Maybe working as a pet doctor or some other “filthy commoner job”
5.Once into the society, study them. Find out who is in charge. Try to poison their meals. Use something common, and not too bitter, unless in a fruit pie.
6.Talk to the other servants. (I call them slaves). Turn them to the rebellion.
7.Try and date or marry nobility. Change their minds and promise them a good life, then persuade the parents. Or backstab them. Nobles backstab each other all the time, I hear
8.Above all else, never use your true name. But speak true and someday, they will listen and believe.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:14 pm
Prompt: 1
Word Count: 1,412
Response:
One late night, while my parents were out of town and my brother was over at a friends, I happened to watch the movie "Indian in the Cupboard". I thought to myself, "It would be so awesome if I could turn my toys and stuffed animals...or better yet the pets I have on Gaia into REAL LIVING CREATURES!!" Remembering that I had an old cupboard of the same sort as the one in the movie, only more modern, I began to think of how I could make my computerized pets...real using it. So Putting my Indigo abilities to work (after watching that episode of Johnny Test where his sisters make video game characters come to life) I concocted the REAL-LIFE MAKER Version 1.0, RLM for short, and it only took me seven hours and the innerts of my brothers old computer, our old printers, my old game boys, and several other things which if I mention...the Feds might be on me for.
Now I had to decide what to make real...or at least bring to life in our dimension. Scanning around in my journal I realized that I wanted to bring to life my favorite pet, MY FAFNERS!! So being the genius that I am, I chose Jasmine, my sweet little caterpie fafner to be the first to join the real world. Selecting her and putting her image in the program, I initiated the process and all sorts of lights and colors started emerging from the cupboard which was now the 'RLM'. Within a few minutes, the lights faded and movement could be heard coming from it. I don't know if I was in a state of shock, fear, or excitement, or some mixture of the three, but my whole body was shaking as I reached over towards the door to the device. Carefully, I unlocked the door and opened it, and looking up at me with big eyes was Jasmine, my adorable little Caterpie cosplay Fafner. "Oh...My...GOD!!" I squeeled in absolute glee as if it were Christmas day and I had gotten that puppy I had always wanted. I danced around yelling. "I DID IT!! I DIIID IT!! NOW EVERYONE CAN HAVE THEIR FAFNERS IN REAL LIFE INSTEAD OF JUST THE PIXILATED RENDERINGS ON THE COMPUTER SCREENS!!" I am sure if anyone had been around, they would have shipped me off to the loony bin where they would have dubbed me certifiably insane for life and unable to be helped by any person or persons on the planet.
As soon as I got my berings, I calmed down and went right back to Jasmine, only to find that she had disappeared. "Ohhhh shiznit...." I said...and immediately started running around looking for her, wondering where she had gotten to, and hoping that my dog hadn't gotten to her...and that she hadn't gotten into my duplicating machine that I had created last week out of spare car parts and my old lap top in order to make more ice cream...and possibly create more money (DONT TELL THE FEDS!!) and also to make a duplicate of my brothers Wii cause that boy dont share. "Jasmine...Jaasmine!" I called, and then...I heard it, or should I say them. The sounds of both of my ingenious inventions start up and I ran into my room and saw Jasmine in the 'copy machine' with her tail on the Create button while the screen was on all of my fafners...plus all other pokemon cosplay fafners. My jaw dropped and eyes went wide as I saw tons of poke-fafners come exploding out of the 'RLM' including my own Tiger, Typhoon, and Rio (Arcanine, Absol, and Riolu). Dozens of Caterpie cosplay fafners appeared also from the copier as well and I couldn't tell which one was the original Jasmine and which ones were the copies. "Ohhh Dagda...mom and dad are gonna kill me..." I said to myself as Rio came up and nuzzled me against my leg, as if automatically knowing who I was. Also as if they knew who I was, Tiger and Typhoon also came over to me and sat down calmly, just like their personalities. "Thank god for you guys, least you two aren't crazy." I said as I picked up Rio and nuzzled him as countless pokemon fafners ran amuck through my room...and my house. Including the extremely destructive Dialga and Palkia ones who were now having a battle between each other in my front living room.
I heard a crash of glass come from the front room so I ran out to there, with Tiger and Typhoon at my side, only to find a gaping hole in the front window, allowing all the Jasmine copies to get out, along with all the other Pokemon Fafners. "I am in sooooooooooooooo much trouble. Not to mention Elvy-chan is gonna kill me for making her Fafners real and then letting them get away ><;" Just then, one of the Jasmine copies hopped up on my head and smiled, squeeling or something happily. I blinked and looked up at her then remembered. Whenever I roleplayed her in the thread, I always had her on my head...this HAS to be the real Jasmine. I looked up and smiled, "Jasmine?" I asked, not knowing if she'd understand or not, but thinking she probably wouldn't. She gave me a strange look...so then I lifted up Rio and put their faces together, to which they both smiled and nuzzled each other, at that moment, I knew that it was the real Jasmine. Suddenly I heard screaming and yelling from outside and I ran over to the window and looked outside...only to see people runningn out of their houses in terror at all the Pokemon Fafners that were unleashing their attacks and abilities on the unsuspecting populus. "I am so dead...but how do I fix this?...How do I get all those Fafners back and back in the computer world where they belong?" I asked outloud.
As if knowing exactly what I said, Tiger and Typhoon looked back and forth at each other, making strange noises in what I can only assume is their native tongue. Suddenly they sprang off out the window and down the street, after the rogue Fafners who were causing the chaos. "I think I need to get to work on a solution..." So at that, I ran to my computer and started to create a 'digitize/download' program for the 'RLM' so I could get the Fafners back into the computer. Just as I finished, Tiger returned with two of the Fafners, the Gorebyss and Ampharos. "SWEET! Thanks Tiger!" I said, hugging him. He released the 'fainted' pair and nodded, as if he knew what I was saying again and left to get more of the escapees. I put the two in the cupboard and closed it and hit the 'initiate' button under my new 'Download' program and the same display of lights appeared. Within a minute, it was done. I opened the cupboard and they were gone. "It Works!" I exclaimed happily. Over the next few hours, Tiger and Typhoon brought back the many Fafners that had gotten loose and I put them back where they belonged, on the net where everyone could enjoy them and where no one would be harmed by their mighty awesomeness.
Soon, they were all gone, all but my 4 Fafners. I hugged them all lovingly, as over the hours, I knew that I had to send them back into the pixilated universe that the World shares on a daily basis. "Well...It was fun while it lasted guys...sort of." I said with a laugh. "But it's your turn to go back home." With a sad smile, I helped them all into the device and started the download, and within two minutes, they were gone, back into their computerized world where I will always love them. As for the window, house mess, and city-wide terror you ask? I called a window replacement place who came and fixed it within a day, cleaned up the house myself (which took all night and most of the day which meant I didn't sleep at all that night), and the news said that the 'creatures' were merely a mass hallucination caused by something in the air. Talk about government cover-up. And all this before my parents got home the next day at 5 in the afternoon...man I'm good! To bad my brother wasnt there...I would have loved to use flamethrower on him.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:12 pm
Prompt: 1
Word count: 1,328
Response:
Well I wouldn’t say it was genius, more like an accident but I’ll take the blame. I was just playing around with a bunch of stuff I found in my garage. Wires, an old computer, a big metal…thing…I think it’s a tube. Well you see I was trying to duplicate what I had made earlier in the year, I’m pretty sure it’s a duplicator, at least it’s a big metal box that gives me an extra pencil when I put one in. I had been using it for school supplies this past year. I had it nearby and was trying to wire everything the same when I got an IM from my buddy Elvish. I went over to my computer but my wireless router was acting up again, so I decided that maybe adding it to my pile-o-junk machine might sup it up a bit.
That was my first mistake
With the router connected the internet worked perfectly, so I decided to go and count the bumps on the fafner thread. After all its my job now biggrin Well As I saw my signature I saw one of my favorite fafners, Justine. I rolled my mouse over it to pretend to pet her and noticed that it was clickable!
“I put a clickable link in my sig??” I asked myself…I didn’t remember doing it and fearing I was hacked I clicked to see where I was going. Well right after I clicked my computer started making that icky dial up noise and all kinds of data started showing up on my screen. Fearing that my computer would explode I dove under my desk with the grace of a scared duck and waited for the boom. I waited….and waited….and then got curious. There was never a boom, a sizzle maybe…but no boom. So I decided to investigate
I peeked at the computer from under the desk and there it stood smoking. Note to self, do not connect to high powered thingies…I made sure to ingrain that into my memory. Well seeing that nothing would explode I got up from the desk and bumped into my cat…no wait this was too big to be a cat. I looked down and Saw my fafner Justine staring up at me in a confused way. We both stood there not understanding exactly what happened when it hit me first.
“OH MY GOD!!! YOUR ALIVE!!!” I screamed, more to myself than anything. But I guess I screamed too loud because it made Justine jump back and land right into my duplication machine! She must have bonked it pretty hard because it seemed to scan her for a rather long time. I ran over to it,
“oh no oh no oh no Justine??? Are you ok??” I was pretty sure she didn’t understand m but I was still worried. My machine finally spit out the fafner and I caught her and swung her around in a circle.
“My very own fafner!!! Now I have a pet that no one else has I’ll be the talk of the town!” I spun until we were both dizzy. Whoa I must be seeing double…no wait quadruple…how fast did I spin. Suddenly I was seeing Justine everywhere, man I must have been dizzy. No, wait, there were a bunch of Justine’s! My garage was full of them! They kept stepping out of the duplication machine! I ran over to it and shut it off, but there were already so many, maybe even a thousand! I wanted a fafner but not this many….well not of the same!
I tried to hit the button to close the garage and trap them all with me, but too late! They were already spilling out, exploring around them and pouncing on all of the bugs in my dads nice and manicured garden! The garage door wouldn’t even close because they kept passing by the sensor. Finally I heard the grating sound that means my ancient garage door was closing but when I looked around I was trapped in my garage alone! I opened the Garage again and felt like I had swallowed a rock, there were so many! And my parents were in the house! I was lucky my father was not gardening as usual or he might have seen them.
I had to get all of the Justine’s back into the computer or else they would…they would….wait Justine was just a curious fafner…yeah she was mean sometimes but she was mostly good…what could she possibly do? Then I saw them hunting my cats, oh yeah she is a hunter, ok back into the computer they go…THE COMPUTER!!! It was fried and sizzling in the garage. I began to frantically search for anything that could take in data. That’s when it hit me, I remembered that if you take a picture of something it steals your soul! I wondered if it would work with artificially created fafners…..well only one way to find out if they had souls right. So I grabbed my camera and I headed back out into the Justine infested Wild. I quickly snapped a picture of the closest Justine and sure enough she was zapped into my camera and re-datafied.
Confident in my new abilities to catch the Justine’s running around I began to chase after all of them and snap pictures. But after the first 3 or so Justine became wise to my plan and they all ran to hide. I could only get those which had hidden in my garden, since the low bushes didn’t give much cover. But that was only a few…maybe 20!...I needed a new plan.
I sat down and looked through the caught Justine pictures to see if they had anything specific that they were doing. They were all just looking at my plants…one was chewing on a flower…chewing.. hunting.. ooooo they were hungry! THAT’S IT!! I got out my dads BBQ and I robbed our refrigerator or all the raw meat/vegetables that we had and I put them to cook. Sure enough once the smell started getting out I saw a few eyes poking out of the corners of the houses and I saw a few tails switch in the bushes.
“Come on it’s all here for you Justine!” I called to entice them out. I set a table and got a bunch of paper plates out just to set the mood. Once the food was cooked I set everything in the plates and waited. One by one they all crept out and started to munch away. Once they were full they all just found shady spots to sit down and sleep in. That’s when I made my move, as each one sat down to sleep I snapped a picture of it and then hid away my camera again. Justine didn’t eat as much as I thought she would and so the food lasted a nice long time. Finally there were only about 20 Justine left and I rounded them up with a smile.
“Come on guys what about a group picture to send back to your parents? I’m sure they want to see where you are!” The Justine’s didn’t seem to understand but they all bunched together to hoe for safety in numbers. As soon as I could fit them all into my camera frame I snapped the picture and off they went. I got out my upload cables and started to head back to the garage when I remembered that my computer was dead.
“Awh man what am I going to do with all these poor babies in my camera??” Well I guess I just have to wait until I get a new computer. I heard my mom and dad coming into the back yard
“Um Daughter why is there so much food missing from the fridge? And why did you BBQ?”
I took that as my cue, “Well you see mom, dad I have something to tell you about my computer…..”
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:53 am
Winner
ElvishSorceress
Runner-Up
Lunaur
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Lord Andvarinaut Vice Captain
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