MCWC IV - Submissions

**Scottish King** · November 10, 2013, 05:32 PM

MCWC IV

Eligibility

The submitted story must be at least 1,000 words long, or be a serialised story or collection of short stories that have two updates of 500 words or more each in the month of Nov-Jan.
The winner of the previous competition cannot compete in this current competition.
Only one submission per person.
Nomination deadline: the last day of the month
The competition is open for a month, followed by a one week, multi-poll vote.
If there are less than 5 submissions, the competition is extended for another month.
Usually authors nominate their own work. If you would like to nominate somebody else's work, please ask for the author's approval first (or encourage the author to nominate his work)!

Information to provide
Title and link to the original story thread
Author

Short description/teaser

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Asking for votes is not allowed and will result in an immediate disqualification and ban of 3 months from the Competition forums.

The competition manager will take whatever steps necessary to insure the integrity of the competition.

Awards
4 points for the Winner
3 points for Second Place
2 points for Third Place

Points are accumulated towards the awarding of the Writers' Study Competition Medals.

Open till Jan 31st

Please see the Writer's Study Information and FAQ Thread for more details.

**Rex Anglorvm** · November 20, 2013, 07:14 AM

I figured its about time I gave this a whirl

The Metal Tales

The metal tales is a series of short stories based around horror, the supernatural and anything else I can think of.

**Dance** · December 26, 2013, 09:05 PM

(Original picture: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/a/...reneaigner.jpg)

In 289 AL, Balon Greyjoy led a rebellion against the usurper king, Robert I Baratheon. Proclaiming himself king, Balon ordered his armies to strike at the rest of Westeros to expand his newly independent kingdom and to show the servants of Robert that his kingdom was to be feared. Reinstating 'The Old Way', Balon gained the support of nearly the entirety of the lands under his immediate control.

Harren the Red, considered by many to be a hero of the Ironborn, was the most feared sea captain and warrior in the entirety of The Iron Islands. Some say, he was the most feared Ironborn, ever. A man of over seven feet tall, with limbs as thick as tree trunks, he is rumored by many to be the son of the Drowned God, himself. Wielding a giant red weirwood-shafted great maul, with a Valyrian steel headpiece, his weapon alone was a testament to the distances he's traveled with his ship, "The Iron Warden".

At news of the planned rebellion and reinstatement of 'The Old Way', Harren and his reavers returned to the Islands, for the first time in years, to heed the call of war. After more than a decade of pirating the coasts of Essos and Sothoryos, his reavers are among the most skilled raiders in the known world. Returning with offerings greatly exceeding any other of his kinsmen, Harren's reputation and notoriety has only grown in the Islands, with tales stretching throughout Westeros as well, of his antics abroad.

Now, with the unsuspecting Greelanders in Westeros, Harren was given the opportunity of the first strike of the war. One he intended to make none forget...

**TheDarkKnight** · December 30, 2013, 12:44 AM

So if this is still open I'd like to submit.

I've updated my story A House Divided twice in the past two days, but I would prefer to go with a chapter I wrote a while back. Would that be okay?

**Dance** · December 30, 2013, 05:44 PM

Anything since November (or in the month any competition begins onward) is a fine addition.

**TheDarkKnight** · December 30, 2013, 09:07 PM

Well then I submit chapter twelve.

**HunterKYA** · December 31, 2013, 06:23 PM

Would I be amiss if I submitted something from Titanium Core. Granted, it isn't a full-fledged story just yet, but the Intro and character descriptions alone are lengthy enough to be considered short stories in themselves.

**Dance** · January 01, 2014, 02:20 PM

@Hunter:

The competition is open until January 31st, 2014. Therefore, anything submitted in that time will be credited!

I hope you can get two chapters together by then, thus making it valid.

P.S. I find your efforts in background creation brilliantly commendable! Creating a universe for a story setting is certainly no easy task.

**HunterKYA** · January 19, 2014, 09:18 PM

Titanium Core

Tyler Braedan, founder and leader of Titan Company, leads his merry band of mercs across the stars aboard the Centurion, in their quest to create mischief for the Alliance while living on the fringes of civilized space. In these adventures, Braedan hopes with each successful mission, it brings him closer to exacting justice on a former commander, who'd ordered the massacre of hundreds and destroyed all evidence to hide his involvement from the galaxy.

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · January 27, 2014, 07:14 AM

Starscape

Flavius Aetius, a genetically modified supersoldier, has returned from the unknown regions of the Galaxy to build an Empire on the fringes of Federation Space. Beset by an advanced race of conquering insectiods for the past 500 years, the Human speicies has struggled to survive in the harsh world of the Milky Way. Eventually, with his help, they overthrew some of their opressors. But now Aetius, and his Legionnaires, will turn humanity from a race of victims to one conquerors.

Lieutenant Jenkins, a Federation Soldier, jumps across Federation Space to visit the old tourist colony of New Itallia; only to find that this "Old Attraction" isn't so old anymore - as it glistens with hyper-advanced cities and is controlled by a powerful, secretive technological empire. Overwhelmed by the sheer power of this new civilization, the Federation begins operations to steal it's technology for themselves. As an ambassador to the Romans, Lt. Jenkins can only watch as the beginning of a Galactic War unfolds...

The Titans, once a 100 million year old Galactic Superpower, are now a species of Giant Millipedes that lumber across the swampy super-forests of the Human colony Coal. Their legacy has influenced the Galaxy in more ways than one, and many of which that are yet unkown. Their technology brought the Romans to their level of extreme advancement, and protected the Galaxy from external threats; but now it has created internal ones. With the entire universe threatened, they may yet again take control of what they once owned to stop the danger, and Humanity is in the crosshairs.

Starscape is chop full of adventure, combat, and action: and there's more coming. The technology is all based on real scientific theory, and the Aliens are both sophisticated and terrifying races. Watch Flavius Aetius, a man created for war, smash the galaxy to pieces in his rampage of conquests, and bring the light that is Nova Roma to the rest of the Milky Way.