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On brawling, by Sebmojo: brawling what so someone said something mean and your bottom lip is doing that quivery thing and you feel like you can't go a single second more without punching a motherfucker? thunderdome has just the thing. you can't fight here it's the Thunderdome when two people hate each other very much, and one of them is you, you get to slap down a challenge. make it big, make it brassy; you're slapping your sex bits down on the bar, try and make 'em bounce a little. help someone's slapped me with something help accepting brawl challenges isn't required, but if you like to sling the poo poo around (and you should) then failing to back up your bad words with good ones will be remembered. how does it work? once you've thrown down a challenge, and had it accepted, a brawl judge will step up just like that weird bartender in The Shining. they'll give you a prompt, a word count and a deadline. they'll also, and this is real important, state the this means if you fail to submit by the deadline then you get banned. the judge doesn't need to give you an extension. what do you mean banned brawl toxxes are obligatory. if you're actually a literal secret agent and you've just discovered you're parachuting into Syria in two hours time then get on irc, snivel at your judge and maybe they'll remove the from the prompt, but expect that to be a one-time mercy if you gently caress it up. anything else? don't challenge anyone until you've done a few rounds, good grudges take time to fester, don't step up to judge a brawl unless you've at least got an HM or the participants have asked you to, and declining a random drive-by brawl is more acceptable than one with a grudge behind it. this place runs on words, and hatred, and you gotta fuel the fire is that it yes, fight well you horrible monsters sebmojo fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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sandnavyguy posted:it's
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2018 11:04 |
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get your goddam fight on you babbling numpties
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 21:29 |
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what where our prompt the gently caress WHERE
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 07:51 |
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who by fire vis a vis the fire imma use to burn all you're bitch asses
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 09:10 |
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Antivehicular posted:From IRC just now: Guiness13 posted:That's funny, Take This Waltz would have been my second choice, too. that sounds like a villainous act, anti-v you probably want to get some satisfaction 750 words, the worst heist by the smartest criminals due 18 Jan 2018 2359 pst up and face to bloodshed sebmojo fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Jan 8, 2018 |
# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 09:20 |
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flerp posted:flerp is an idiot a brutal truth we all grapple with daily
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 10:59 |
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CantDecideOnAName posted:Fine, stay as the bitch you are. Time waits for no man and neither do I. I'll fight you. . Someone do the needful.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 10:50 |
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In mortal chains 378 words sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 2, 2019 |
# ¿ Jan 15, 2018 09:02 |
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Crow 14 words Crow Crow Crow CrowCrowCrow Crow Croooooow crow crow Crow cr Ow cr ow Crow
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 11:00 |
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yeah, in
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 12:19 |
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Antivehicular posted:Antivehicular vs. Guiness13 Leonard Cohen Song Selection Grudgematch 2k18 brawl post So this is a straight up segment from a breaking bad episode with the lightest coat of paint, but it's well delivered, hits the prompt well, and does a solid job of characterisation. It could have done with a little more challenge, and it's a snippet out of the middle of a story, but i guess 750 words doesn't leave you much to play with. Guiness13 posted:Guiness13 v. Antivehicular brawl This is competent enough in its words, but is fatally dull in the story it tells, which is: people walk into a room, and then leave it. i think you could have vastly improved it with some better descriptive details and some actual character/emotion. It's also a snippet out of a bigger story that doesn't really resolve anything. Overall these weren't terrible, but one was decidedly less terrible even though it was a borderline actionable rip off of a famous tv show ANTIVEHICULAR TAKES THE PRIZE thank you for participating in this completely not contrived face off god bless you both and I hope neither of you die in the next little while.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2018 12:44 |
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Unfunny Poster posted:Should mention that any critique on my entry is welcomed. This is every story, all the time. You dont need to say it. Anyone who wants to crit should just do it like a crazy person, just fuckin do it.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 17:58 |
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Towerfall 1332 words sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 2, 2019 |
# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 09:37 |
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Exmond posted:Flash rule: Your story must include a ghost instructing you on puberty Interprompt: write a story about this in 200 words
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 19:36 |
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Unfunny Poster posted:Just got to reading the comments about the piece and these were really helpful. I'll be sure to keep these in mind for my next entries and work to avoid the mistakes I made. Infinitely no-one cares
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 07:50 |
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Deltasquid posted:Snarf marf marf snarf glarf flarf blarf. Warf farf farf garf. Marf! Flarf, barf zarf (barf, lol). well put
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 10:30 |
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Gravedancing 1005 words It's a mistake to think the past has gone, just because it happened a long time ago. Like the ground under your feet, it's what you stand on. Around 0940 the doorbell rang. I'd set it to the sound of distant gunfire, so I had to grip the bench for a moment as waves of nausea washed through it. PTSD, it's what's for breakfast – better than the four boxes of nano-enhanced cybercereal bullshit I'd been staring at for the last two minutes, anyway. I ran metal fingers through suddenly sweaty hair and raised my voice for the arbeiter. “House, who is i--”. The answer from the house system came a little faster than instantly, overriding the last letter of the question. “Unknown. Female, 168 centimeters, armed.” I took three shaky breaths, and the door bell went again, ratatat, tat. Tat. The sound was from a recording of a mission that went bad, Myanmar in 2041. It was a reminder not to take chances. I looked down and my arm was elbow-deep in the second drawer down, hand on the butt of a splinter pistol. I pulled it out and checked the clip. “Give me a --” The picture came up before I'd finished my sentence, projected onto the cupboard door. Black hair, red lips, long coat. I frowned at the proddings of memory, then shook my head. Seven steps and I was at the door. I cracked it open. “I think I'm supposed to say you've got some nerve coming back here,” I said. Nancy Mulligan looked at me with cool violet eyes, hands deep in the pockets of her long coat. “And what aren't you supposed to say?” “Come in, Nancy.” I pushed open the door and gestured with the gun. “But slowly. Tea?” Five minutes later we were sitting around a little table drinking herbal tea. My gun was on the table, hooked into the arbeiter's camera and the trembler switch in my limbic system. “One last job,” she said. She reached into her coat, and time slowed down as the lenses put a red threat halo and pulsed a KILL Y/N? command at me. I shook my head infinitesimally, and she smiled as she pulled out a speakstick and tossed it on the table. “Sure,” I said. “What you got. House, unfold that thing for us.” The glowing spot on the table blinked twice in acknowledgment and a spidery information lattice unfurled from it, filling the room with her scheme. “It's Macready. He survived Myanmar. He's coming for you, for us. I figure we burn him first, and hard. He's laundering drug money through property transactions, here, and here...” As she highlighted the junctions of her plan I watched her, instead. She'd had work done, we all had, but subtle. Pheromone enhancers, reflex boosters, an ominous fluidity to her movements. She finished talking, looked expectantly at me. I shrugged, smiled. “One more thing, Raul – are the recordings safe? It's what he's after, making sure no-one knows what he did.” Her eyes were gleaming in the reflected light of the plan and I felt a remembered spurt of desire for her. Probably the pheromones, a part of me thought, but there had been something more. That hot, endless night in Akyab, waiting for the freighter to dock, calling of gulls and the diesel smoke in the moist sea air. “They're safe. But, really, this is some incredibly elaborate bullshit. How much did he pay you?” The room was silent as we stared at each other. I could see, in the utter stilness of her expression, the branching plot of move and countermove, and I supposed she could see it in mine. Finally she glanced down at her tea, then looked up and smiled. Mona Lisa-like. “It wasn't cheap. I like you too much for that Raul.” “Right back at you. Nancy.” I hesitated for a moment, then triggered the kill switch with a twitch of my ears. Nothing happened. In spite of myself I glanced at the gun, and Nancy guffawed. “Seriously? Using an arbeiter?” With a blurred whipcrack of her leg she hooked the table and sent it flying at me, then launched herself across the room. I blocked it with a whirring of metal arm and felt a shock of hot blood as her fingernails sliced through my shirt. She was on top of me now, knees on both my arms, razor nails at my throat. “He'll be here any minute. Tell me where the recordings are and we can take him. There's info in there that will bring him down cold. I don't want to have to do this, Raul. You mean a lot to me.” I looked in her eyes and I truly believed it. I thought for a moment about what might have been, what might still be. Then the door bell went, rat a tat a tat and she stiffened, caught by the same drat prison of memory I lived in day by day. I extended the carbon flexors in my metal arm, pincered the splinter gun to me and put fifteen slivers into her back. Her eyes were beautiful dead, too, expensive Korean neurocrystal. I closed them forever then stood up as the door bell rang, again, checked the camera. It was Macready. I walked, stiff-legged, to put another shovel of dirt into the grave of my past.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2018 09:04 |
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Inter prompt NEVER EAT ANYTHING LARGER THAN YOUR HEAD 200 words
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2018 00:21 |
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Yeah I'm in also, inscribe my name on the list of the damned etc
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2018 19:52 |
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Oh yeah and flerp, you simpering dweeb, put your goddam wordfists up. I feel like having a brawl that you don't judge, for once.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2018 00:04 |
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Exmond posted:Can I make this everyone's worst nightmare and judge? Write a good story first
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2018 01:36 |
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Castles in the clouds 1000 words sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 2, 2019 |
# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 05:56 |
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Interprompt: the pirate who fell in love with the mermaid or vice versa 300 words
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 09:18 |
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BeefSupreme posted:wth no judgment??? this place has really gone to the weeds Fast judging is bad judging, now
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 08:05 |
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Exmond posted:I am going to do LiveCrits, since it worked well last time. This will also be my second read of some drafts so huzza Real nice crittin.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 09:15 |
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So is judging but it has deserted us here is my judgment instead
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 21:21 |
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In with one of these days
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2018 21:35 |
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Sitting Here posted:flerp i'm gonna need someone to vouch for your brawl real quick or your rear end is grass. Mojo was confirmed via irc clint_nodding.gif but he's actually shaking his head real slow
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2018 09:24 |
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One of these days Boarded up on memory lane 900 words sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 2, 2019 |
# ¿ Feb 12, 2018 06:46 |
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TheGreekOwl posted:Before I offer to be in, I have issues. Lol
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2018 05:13 |
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Exmond posted:I don't really understand this post. But since you highlighted part of Ironic Twist's crit, Ironic Twist I apologize if you took my crit badly. It was meant to be praising your story and damning my own reading comprehension. jesus don't be such a snivelling weeble, crits are good, keep doing them, don't flounce
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2018 07:38 |
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Sitting Here posted:You sound like someone who wants to get brawled by me Yeah I'll judge that, let's say 'the terminator' as a prompt (but with no violence) and 850 words. Due 24 feb, 2359pst. Toxx up. Oh and doof and exmond probably need a fight, someone else can judge.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 13:44 |
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Chairchucker posted:Although reminder, if you think brawls are dumb just say no thanks, don't let these dumb tools pressure you into something you don't actually want to do, like has definitely happened in the past We're here to make stories, chucker.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 14:10 |
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DRAFT FLORPBRAWL [i]The Midnight Zone 750 words sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jan 2, 2019 |
# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 07:44 |
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flerp posted:It’s black eyes gently caress youuuuuuu
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 09:04 |
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flerp posted:wow its almost like drafts have mistakes in them It's almost like u have a mistake in you
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 09:13 |
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So things are getting fighty which is good especially when you are dumb and come from seattle -- oh wait I stuttered. Wellington crew is calling out you seattle buttlords, fight us. I mean lol space needle it is not even in space. It's on the ground. It is a ground needle.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 11:11 |
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with the Akkorokamui
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 20:42 |
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Fyi we are in a training montage to this tune at the moment, writing more and more elaborate sentences and sitting under waterfalls with keyboards etc seattle crew going down hard, when they bother to show lol
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 20:54 |