Best FfH Shadow game-play Story Contest

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Here's a contest to celebrate FfH year two. Write a story based on a game of Shadow, and post it in this forum:
stories and tales
Here is an example:
Forging of the Kuriotates

No particular requirements, other than that I can understand it--use English, punctuate now and then, edit if needed, etc.

Advice:
1) Don't start right away, you probably want to wait for a patch or two.
2) You should have some pics (hit [prtScrn] key in-game, pics are stored here: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\ScreenShots on your computer, probably.) How many is up to you (probably less than I did in the example)
3) It can be more story or more strategy as you like, but should have a bit of each.
4) Length is not an critical, nor do you need to play to victory.

Judge's decision (mine) is final, one winner will get a prize worth about $25.
Deadline will be January 31. Start a thread in the Stories and Tales sub forum (in case you haven't figured out, I'm using you as advertisement ;)) and post a link in this thread.
 
Hmm, Jan 31, eh? I might have to make my first game a Quick one...
 
Okay, I got my first taste of the Amurites recently. That random map game was brought to an early demise, though, due to a perpetual "Waiting for other civs" problem. I'm going to deliberately choose them for this contest. And, I'll use your map, of course.

Now, do I want to mess with the Barbarian settings again?....
 
Good thing I dug this thread up from page 2. I will give this a go, since I like doing AARs but I rarely do em (and almost never finish), and I need to practice on my story telling.

This contest is still going right?


Good idea to post in Stories and Tales forum, will be good advertisement! I think the mods, and mods in general would have more players if more just knew more about them. And FfH is in such a shape that it is pretty user friendly by now.
 
Definitely crop them. And, if possible, put the image embedded within the post. I'm too lazy to click on image links when I'm reading these things.
 
I upload them using CFC's easy upload system. I crop my images so I just show whats important, and then I reduce the size to 80% of original. And I play at 1280x1024.

I try to keep my images small enough so they don't take up too much space, and if they do I keep em in a spoiler tag. I don't like it if I make a horizontal scrollbar, and I only use 2/3rds of the screen with my browser.

Anyways, my story is now done.

I added some FfH background story entries to some of the older posts, and the Amelanchier pedia entry to my last post. Cause it was fitting. :)
And I wrote a short fictional element at the end, so that it's not all just descriptional. Hope you like it.
 
After I finish my current game I may do a quick one as Pepentark and try to role-play whatever traits he happens to have at a given time.
 
Hmm. This sounds quite entertaining. And ironic, because I'd already been considering doing this. :lol:

Not make a contest, that is, but write a report/story.

Unfortunately I go on vacation (computer-less vacation, mind) soon so I might not have time to. But I shall definitely have to try and see if I can! So with any luck maybe I can put in a contribution.
 
So yeah, decided to give this a go, as an experiment. We'll see how it pans out when all is said and done. :D

A Tale of Erebus told

By yours truly. Not much to look at yet, my friends kidnapped me just as I was getting started, but I'll add more to it when I have the time to. :crazyeye:

And, speaking of. Someone who's less of a nooblet than me might be able to tell me how I can attach more than five pictures to the posts I make. I know it's doable, but apparently I've not been able to figure out how. When I used the Attachments function in the Message box it would only let me add the five and then it said no-no. Which would mean I would have to split my writing into a whole lot of posts if I want to have more than five pictures in each, which I do. So.. Help! :lol:
 
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