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Bungie.net Writing Contest (With fabulously lackluster prizes!!)

Here ye, writers of the Bungie community: I challenge you all to write me a story. A story of love and hate. Passion and desire. Of good vs evil, and the struggle of all mankind. I want this story to be the greatest combination of words the world has ever seen. It must make us laugh, and it must make us cry. This story will be scrutinized by the highest authority of everything that is everything.. the Bnet community. Your story will be held to the highest standards of literary genius, and if your work succeeds, you'll be modestly rewarded with your choice of one of two Xbox Live arcade codes I happen to have lying around. (The Maw, Robotron: 2084) Are you up to the challenge? If so, here are the rules.. 1) The hero/heroes of the story must include a member of the web team and mod team. 2) The villain/villains of the story must include a member of the web team and mod team. 3) All other characters in the story must be Bnet members and/or celebrities, musicians, famous fictional characters, etc. [b]Keep it clean-ish, and keep it fun. Outright flaming, bigotry, etc will disqualify your entry.[/b] Voting: To vote for your favorite story, reply to the story with a "+1". Feel free to comment on the story however you like, but your comment will only count as a vote if it begins with "+1". This way, you can change your vote later if you need to by editing out the "+1" from your previous choice. Duplicate votes by a poster will be ignored completely, resulting in none of them counting. I will reserve my vote to resolve any tie-breaker needs we may come across. Whichever story has the most votes on the deadline of [b]Sunday, January 5th[/b] will be crowned victorious and given the choice of codes. (The runner-up will be offered the remaining code.) Do it for glory. Do it for power. Do it for an arcade game you probably won't play, but what the hell it's free, right? LET THE GAMES BEGIN! [b]~~ Game Over, Man! ~~[/b] First, I'd like to thank everyone who participated. You guys provided some creative and hilarious stories over the last week. I'm sorry we didn't get a bit more interaction, but at least a few of us had a great time reading your work. The contest ends with a tie between DE4THINC4RN4TE and ChorrizoTapatio, each with a very manly vote count of one vote a piece. DE4Th provided us a insider's look at the release of Bungie.next, while Chorrizo offered a tale of war amongst the ranks. Due to the tie.. I will be the deciding vote. It's a tough choice, and each story deserves a place on the shelf next to any great work of literature... but ultimately, I chose Chorrizo's because of the inclusion of average Bnet members and a twist ending that made M. Night Shayamalan himself wake in a cold sweat. Congratz, Chorrizo! I'll PM you in a second with your choice of codes. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this, I hope everyone had a good time.
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  • Edited by DE4THINC4RN4TE: 12/30/2013 7:58:00 AM
    I decided to go with some historical fiction of a [u]very[/u] important event within B.net's History. We're the bad guys and the good guys. So is the web team. [i]He[/i] is simply watching it unfold. Enjoy. [spoiler]Temperatures outside had plunged to one of their lowest points within the last year. Gusts of wind threw around drifts of snow, randomly rearranging the landscape every few minutes. While not entirely uncommon this time of year in Seattle, it was certainly not the kind of weather one wanted to be stranded in. Yet this did not faze the inhabitants of Suite 207. The incessant beating the wind enacted upon the structure of the Complex housing Bungie headquarters was only matched by the sporadic beats of Tom Gioconda's heart. He had just received word from a coworker, an underling within the web team that he oversaw, that the build had been finalized, and the servers prepared. Looking over the code scrolling by, he thought back to the thousands of man-hours it had taken to prepare what sat in front of him. His web team had poured their blood, sweat, tears, and even souls into the project. Together, they had crafted a new forum software for the inhabitants of Bungie.net, one to usher them into a glorious new era of gaming. They had pulled the plug on the older site earlier that day, much to the dismay of several prominent netizens. If their was one thing that he had learned throughout his years at Bungie, it was that wherever there was change, someone would take it upon themselves to make as big a deal as possible about it-- And the inhabitants of Bungie.net were no exception to that rule. Tom, or as he was known on the site, "Achronos", had witnessed entire hordes of people come and go across his carefully pruned digital landscape. Watching entire communities rise and fall had become common place for him. Some stuck around, both annoying and pleasant. This reflected back to the real world upon the team he had spent all this time working with. He wondered what peoples reaction would be to the new site. Would they be filled with awe and wonder? Or perhaps anger and disgust. It had been a real journey, filled with a colorful variety of people. Each contributed their part to the story, both big and small, and good and bad. Lifting his finger over the enter key, he paused, holding his breath. While it would take at least a day or more to upload the code to the servers, he knew this was the defining moment for him. Everything he had oversaw for the past few years would soon be shown off to the world. He would sit watch through the night, ensuring the success of the data's transfer. It had all come down to this. The winds howled outside as he released his breath, bringing his finger down on the enter key. Watching the status bar begin to slowly fill, he began his vigil, smiling at the thought of what was to come. Bungie.Next would soon be upon us all. (Jan. 8th, 2013)[/spoiler]

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