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Correct!

No, no, no....  You're supposed to guess and ask a question, thereby slowly unravelling the mystery.

Btw, no.

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Media: Book
Fact: He likes curry

Sherlock Holmes?

Does he have any identifying birth-marks?

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No, I don't really expect a response, since Andorxor hasn't been around for a couple of years.  But this game looks fun -any one up for a resurrection? 

media: cartoon

Fact: He used nun-chucks. 

The very sad fact of the matter is that I'm not exactly sure who my boss is.  He might very well be a wanker, but he's an aloof and remote wanker at least.  I'd say he's a very hands-off wanker, but the mental contortions required to wrap your head around that one are not recommended for people who really would rather not know.

Blade Runner.

Look, trebled urine! (4)

Literally every game, every movie, every story nowadays you stumble upon is now full to the brim with the same old "zombie" and "apocalypse" crap.

@ADEEL: I must have missed your entries in the last five non-zombie related topics....

But seriously, almost all the voting criteria reward putting a creative spin on the genre.  I would agree with you that same old = garbage.  I challenge you to gussy the old girl up a bit and see if we can't rekindle some of that old romance.

@SELMIAK: That's awesome, but is it your own work?  I need clarification.

[November 15th, 11:59pm Hawaiian time]

Diaries of the Zombie Apocalypse

Hey there aspiring writers!  This biweek's theme is something I was considering for a writing blitz in the last few days of October, but even though Hallowe'en is past I still think it will be fun.  Your challenge is this: provide glimpses of how the zombie apocalypse would play out if adventure game players were the main survivors.  Sure, have the first-person shooter addicts in there if you must, but I'm not looking for a play-by-play of who shot whom: it'd be much more interesting to see how a thinking person would go about evading or surviving in close proximity to an army of famished undead.  True to the nature of written material during an apocalyptic event, I want you to keep it short, even incomplete and maybe even chaotically disorganized.  Would anyone really know what was going on?  Would events on the ground really make sense to those who were living them?  So I'm looking for brief vignettes, log entries, messages in a bottle, a paragraph, or even just a sentence written out in blood on a wall.  The challenge is to say as much as you can in the briefest of stories. (...But, I'm not going to set a word limit, so if you really want to crank out a novel knock yourself out )

A note on zombies: any reanimated or permanently mentally altered semi-cannibalistic human will do for me: don't think you have to conform to any kind of pre-defined zombie criteria.  As long as they are relatively dumb and hungry for people, I'm good.  So they could be the traditional risen dead, or just infected with some sort of mood-altering plague, or victims of some parasitical alien brain slug species, etc.  Be creative!

Voting will be based on best character, atmosphere, word-style, creativity of survival tactics, efficiency (best story per word used), and best scenario (entertaining combination of zombie type, setting and personalities involved).  The contest closes on November 15th, 11:59pm Hawaiian time, and voting will commence the next day.

Here's some visual ideas to get your brain fluids flowing (and thereby make your brains tastier for zombies!):







Good luck!

The people have spoken!   Stay tuned and I'll have the next topic up shortly in the next exciting instalment of...

The Fortnightly Writing Competition!

CaptainD got it without a word count.  Yes, he is that awesome.

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teamless = solo, while a "manipulator" is literally a "hand".  Take away the bad grades ("D" is a bad grade where I'm from....) and you get "Han"

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I still like Steve Pain....

A teamless manipulator, without the bad grades

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Steve Pain

I get "Steve" from sanctified (ie a saint or "St.") and First Lady (who traditionally has been called "Eve", despite the fact that the very first lady was almost certainly a nameless amoeba ).  "Means of earning a living" under normal circumstances would mean "labour", but in Eve's case labour was special since some jealous and self-absorbed deity cursed her specifically with pain during childbirth (ie "labour") for nibbling on his fruit.  Obviously he had a very weak grasp of proportionality, but I hear he had a smart mouthed kid some years later that mellowed him out a bit.  Anyway.... "Steve Pain".  Except... I don't know who that is.

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Yup, Hana's got it.

That's cool.  Lots of great authors struggled with alcoholism, so you're in good company.   Or at least you would be, if you were writing.  Which you could be doing if another contest started.  Which would happen if this one ended.  At some point.  (*nudge nudge*)

Modern slave alien (8)

Ah, stuck for four days on a dead train with only our scary stories for company.  The horror!  The horror!

Wow, that was a long train trip....  Where do you live, Siberia?

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Pixelated?

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Although I'm not sure about the spelling.  

Wow, it's like a cryptic tennis match in here!  Do you guys grunt when you make a return?

But... I don't work in a pub.  By day I am a professional male ballerina; I'm thinking about changing my name to "Barreon" for the sake of clarification.