Specifics

After deciphering the transmission and destroying the Peace Brigade freighter, you allow an inward smile. The Dark Council will be pleased. Reward and fame could soon be yours. Before sinking too deeply into fantasies of accolades and ceremonies in your honor, the ComNet console comes to life again with an incoming transmission from the Dark Council...

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Do not fail...

OOC: This is the second phase of a three phase competition. The writer will translate and decipher the encrypted text. Using the decoded information, he will write his story using the new information picking up where his previous fiction left off from. Follow the parameters of the order until the mission is successfully completed.

Encryption Hint: Don’t be bashful.

Platform

(Fiction/Puzzle) Word or Rich Text Format in 12pt standard font. Single-spaced. Four page minimum.

Comments

In addition to normal crescents, the writer with the best, complete three-phase story will be declared the overall winner and have his character featured in a future plot update and be permanently added to the Dark Brotherhood storyline. If no writer submits a complete three-phase story over the course of the competition, then no writer’s character will be added to the storyline and the competition will award all medals normally.

If you don’t submit a story for this second phase of the competition, you can still submit to subsequent phases, but unfortunately won’t be in consideration for overall winner.

If the puzzles prove too difficult to solve (they shouldn’t though) email me for an additional hint. The best written story with correctly solved puzzle will be this phase’s winner.

Email submissions to [Log in to view e-mail addresses] Please put [Fiction] in the subject line of your email. Include basic ID Line and PIN in the document file name or the submission cannot be counted.

Awards

2nd level Crescents for First, Second, & Third place. See comments for additional special award information.