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  Wow, lots of high quality entries this MAGS go-round!  Nice job!

To write a story that good and not in your native language... AMAZING!!!

He's coming off fresh background blitz and coloring ball wins, and now he's gunning for the writing comp.  We get it Rocchinator, you are multi-talented

I assume he will enter the music competition next.  The only way I'll ever step foot in that thread is if there is a beatboxing themed round.

[Misj']

Concept: Misj' - I really like the idea of an evil professor who mind-controls animals being cornered in a jungle.
Playability: lorenzo - I started pathfinding and puzzle solving as soon as I looked at this background.
Artistic Execution: Misj' - This is truly stunning; kudos.

Was tough choosing, great entries all around.

Also, are these bargains with the devil Kconan our FWC entries? That will certainly save a lot of time.

I'm gonna need more asterisk trophies...

Right now Mandle and I are tied on votes for the 500 word stipulation, if another entrant wants me to drop it then please speak up and I will waive it.

Why the 500 words line in the sand?

Doesn't that just discourage people who have a quick and simple, but potentially good, idea and/or encourage them to pad their story just to reach that limit?

It's not an assignment like something required for school, it's an optional competition and this round is for short stories and not simply ideas alone or sketch stories.  I could see people trying to pad for 1500 or 2000 words, but 500 isn't a tall order.

[-> Anything goes storywise as long as a pact with a literal or a figurative devil is made-> Short story, not a sketch story, so at least 500 words-> Deadline is Wednesday, July 12th]

  Everyone wants something...and what if there was a "shortcut" to getting that something?  Perhaps that shortcut comes at a sinister cost, which begs the question, does the end justify the means?

Rules:
-> Anything goes storywise as long as a pact with a literal or a figurative devil is made
-> Short story, not a sketch story, so at least 500 words
-> Deadline is Wednesday, July 12th

The voting categories will be:

Best Bargain:
Best Devil:
Best Setting/World:
Best Writing/Style:


There will be tailored trophies for the top three.  I'm taking your forum avatar head, shrinking it, and adding gold, silver, or rusty tin colored horns.

  Before I put up the next comp, I want to know...Have we done the Faustian bargain as a theme before?  Basically. something like a literal or figurative deal with the Devil?  It feels familiar, though I couldn't find anything from searching previous comps on the forums.

  So I spent roughly 45 minutes to an hour skimming the back half of Baron's non-Swarm, non-forum game, and non-"I like the cut of your jib, yous got moxie kid"-newbie thread posts and would jot down the post number for later review when something caught my eye.  Skimming/reading I chuckled often, and occasionally had a deep thought or two.  There is only one big deleted scene:  I took some itinerary Baron had posted and really "truthed" it up...but then I saw it had some personal stuff on there and so it went to the cutting room floor.  I was going to use the Dung Shoveler game, and then I stumbled across Baron's Tree Planting Simulator like an old prospector striking a large vein of gold.

  Anyways...Fun round!  Congrats to Sinitrena, and the vast multitudes of bronze hairpiece recipients.  I'll start a new comp in a few days.

[Frodo's]

Either kconan put a lot of time into looking through Baron's old posts or he knows Baron's post way too well off the top of his head. Are you cyber-stalking Baron, kconan? Be honest, it's just between us.

Oh it felt weird at various points, lots of skimming and reading old posts...I'll release a brief "making of" after the comp.


Best Alternative Truth: Frodo's sentient being works along with his paranoid delivery.

Best Alternative Truth Spouter: Mandle, as his character's ruse works.

Best Alternative to a Plot: Ponch's newspaper.

Best Alternative Writing: Sinitrena, as I like the idea of kids debating "what is truth?" and trying to wrap their head around it when we usually have adults either debating or spouting mis-truths.

Best Alternative Thought Provokingness: Sinitrena takes this category because her entry got me thinking about kids wondering if facts or truths are really supposed to be a hazy and imprecise thing, and if they understand how bias comes into play.  Also, I went down a dark mental rabbit hole of how the current "facts don't matter" environment will affect our kids now and future generations.

Good stuff!  I had never heard of Future Wars: Adventures in Time until just now.

1. Rocchinator
2. Tabata
3. arj0n

Have to add, lots of really good ones this round...but Rocchinator's is one of the best Coloring Ball entries I've ever seen.

Unless... it wasn't really deleted...You just have to look for it, to see the truth. 

No worries, its merely a ding in my tinfoil hat!

So it is confirmed.  The mods are lizard people!?  It's a conspiracy at the highest levels!

Redacted.

[Spacebar is plant/unplant, Enter is pause (for food/drink)]

I think many of us are of a like mind...

Oh, really?  Are we of like mind?!  Who's mind do you really have?  I'm on to you Baron, or should I say "Baron".  Read on sheeple, because I've just lit the fuse for a one megaton TRUTH BOMB! 



Who is the REAL Baron!??!!??  I promise this is bigger than that Round-Earth conspiracy theory!  See below for irrefutable evidence!

Baron wants the AGS masses to think that he is this seemingly nice guy who very often wins AGS writing comps (RIGGED!  FALSE FLAG!) and is a talented gamemaker.  BUT... Isn't that just what he wants you to believe?  Wouldn't that be convenient, wouldn't that be a perfect cover?!!??  How cozy!  Join me, be a Baron truther!  Full disclosure, I make no money from this at all!  Except for my books Beware-In Baron and BARON: Infamous Infamy (available at www.crackpotmerch.realtruth.org and gun shows in Mississippi), speech engagements, kickbacks from Alex Jones, and the various donations from you people, my followers who know the real TRUTH.


AND don't take these allegations from me fellow truthers, take it from…Mr. FILTHY LIAR HIMSELF!

Well, I know I said this game was going to be done in September.  And then November.  And then January...I guess I'm just a filthy, filthy liar!!

Don't let the trivial things like context distract you fellow Truthers!


Exhibit A!  According to a random website (http://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2015/03/tidalforall) the Illuminati conference is on March 29th.  Baron very rarely posts on that date.  Why??!!  It can only mean that he is front and center at the Illuminati meeting!  What is he doing there?!  Perhaps updating the lizard overlords on what the regular humans are doing!  Google search “Baron” and “Lizard”, and you will notice there isn't zero results!  ALSO, I've personally seen no evidence that disputes the notion that Baron could actually be a lizard person himself.




Wake up sheeple!  Just look at Baron's personal text in his profile, wouldn't someone actually evil claim to be “not-so-evil”.  We get it Baron, thou protests too much!  I bet you would say that you don't regularly check-in and update your Lizard masters, which is exactly what someone who regularly checks-in and updates lizard masters would say!


Is he a ruthless dictator in-waiting? 

The Game of Diplomacy…Sure I could back-stab people online, but it's just not the same as looking your erstwhile ally in the face and doing it.

Sure sounds like it!  AND, it seems some form of crude currency has already been created so he can hit the ground running after the takeover of his New World Order.  He also eagerly played the forum game King Simulator and “roleplayed” as a ruthless tyrant!


Is Baron moral?  Here he outright refuses to take a morality test!

Spoiler

I can't help but feel that there are better places online to have a human super orgasm

[close]

What's the matter Baron?  Afraid the World will see the results?!


Is he a boob expert?

The plot and characters for this game are very unique â€"I look forward to playing the finished game.
One minor point â€"not that I'm a boob expert or anything…

Maybe.  Maybe not.  Kind of unrelated actually.  Anyway, further onward to the TRUTH fellow Truthers!


What about AGS gaming, does he have our best interest in mind?

...Some ideas:
          REDACTED
          DEATH PANEL
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WHAT KIND OF MONSTER WANTS AN AGS DEATH PANEL?!


OR AGS Art?

What happens to a game sprite when she gets hooked on Crystal Meth, you ask?

WHAT KIND OF MONSTER GIVES METH TO A SPRITE?!


Back to the lizard overlords.

Aha!  The internet was down at work today!  IT BEGINS!!!!!!  Well, it was back up within the hour, but hey even the stock market bounces back a bit during a financial crash.  Also my truck made a funny noise on the way home.  Either it's starting to turn against me and the armaggeddon is nigh, or I might have hit a squirrel.

So Baron, or “Baron”, is this code to prepare your small AGS cabal (the others you are in cahoots with) for something to possibly happen?!!   The lizard takeover plan hinges on roadkill?!


I know what you are saying fellow truther, I mean possibly aside from that I'm a deranged paranoid kook, YOU are saying “What about Baron's games?”  But KConan (AKA Truthspouter Prime), he has a very impressive body of work.  You know what I say?  Ok true, but what about his BRAINWASHING Simulator!!!?

Last year I started a treeplanting simulator which was meant to train people...
REDACTED

Spacebar is plant/unplant, Enter is pause (for food/drink)

PLANT PLANT FOOD PLANT PLANT FOOD PLANT PLANT FOOD PLANT PLANT FOOD PLANT PLANT FOOD UNPLANT-AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!  GET OUT OF MY HEAD!


Speaking of mesmerizing, here he uses a more subtle persuasion method via a “harmless” photo of his kitchen counter:

I used to be like you, toiling in my own filth, until I lost my back office.  Now I do all my work at the kitchen counter...

Do you see it?  On top of that sweet butcher block countertop there is a computer, looking at a photo of another computer presumably looking at a photo of another computer which is also presumably looking at-AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!  GET OUT OF MY HEAD BARON YOU HEAD GETTER-INNER!


And then, fellow TRUTHERS, there is one of Baron's lesser known and seemingly innocent pixel art characters:

On the surface he's so cute…so innocent…hehe, look at that little guy…BUT NOT SO FAST!  I have it on good authority that this is the blueprint for an army of mutated banana men soldier-clones!  Google Search “Banana man” Wait, stop, NSFW!  Just go check with Alex Jones on the stuff that they (meaning BARON and his ilk; trace the ilk people!) are putting in the water which turns frogs gay and people into banana men.  Brother Alex will learn you!  The truth is out there.


Education?  What?!

Balmy +2 Celsius.  Marked latest midterms from first year (read freshman in USspeak) geomorphology class -rare excitement indeed...

This sounds like fact-based science, there is no room for that Baron - you elitist!



Follow the money sheeple!  Trace the tail of the snake all the way to the head!  The real truth,
the one they don't want you to believe, is out there!


-KConan AKA TRUTHSPOUTER PRIME signing off

  Great theme! I've got an idea for this one...Assuming someone else isn't of a like mind and beats me to it, I'm in.

[Baron]

I enjoyed all the entries, and the various treacheries found within!  I have tallied, and tallied again...and Baron wins!


: Baron's great writing has earned him the poisoned, blood-red Dagger o' Gladiatorial Guile

:  Mandle, creator of this round's dastardliest character, receives the silver Dagger of Despicable Dastardliness   

:  Blondbraid gets the blonde Dagger of Crafty Coldness for A Cold Blade



Good times, you are up Baron.  Hehe, Dirty Phoenician bit.  That will stick with me for a while.

Need Blondbraid to vote, and maybe - hopefully - we can get a few more voters and then we'll wrap this up.

I recall beta testing something you made years ago that was pretty cool.  Good luck with your new engine.

Jimmy The Troublemaker?

This:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=46251.msg627167#msg627167

I remember it only because I got some Ultima vibes.