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In October of 2020, the Starmourn team launched what they hope will be the first in a yearly tradition of Halloween writing contests. The goal of this contest is to bring a little spine-tingling space horror to the universe during the spookiest month of the year, along with letting players contribute their own creative twists to the game’s lore. | In October of 2020, the Starmourn team launched what they hope will be the first in a yearly tradition of Halloween writing contests. The goal of this contest is to bring a little spine-tingling space horror to the universe during the spookiest month of the year, along with letting players contribute their own creative twists to the game’s lore. | ||
This year’s contest asked for players to come up with a frightening story whispered about by members of their character’s race. The following stories should be considered, if not true, at least canon. | This year’s contest asked for players to come up with a frightening story whispered about by members of their character’s race. The following stories should be considered, if not true, at least canon. Our winners also make an appearance in the bloody hieroglyphs of Rapadruk Manor, if you're willing to pay the painful price to read them. | ||
Check out our winning contest entries below! | =2025:= | ||
The theme of this year's Scare the Storytellers was "misunderstood legends." We've challenged players to identify a mob or experience in game and create a legend about it from the perspective of an in-game character that doesn't fully understand what they've seen. | |||
The winning entry (and maybe some others) will have their tale brought into the game's canon, and the menacing creature of legend will be available to fight next Rapadruk as NIGHTMARES. | |||
===WINNER=== | |||
Kylo - The Brood Mother '''[[:The Brood Mother| Read File]]'''</br></br> | |||
===OTHER ENTRIES=== | |||
Picram - Repak, the Stealer of Keys '''[[:Repak Stealer of Keys| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
Afesotinuilar - Bad Dog, a Fatar serial killer '''[[:Bad Dog| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
Corescil - The Burrower Beneath '''[[:The Burrower Beneath| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
Lupisentia - The Ghost Children of Tranquility '''[[:Ghost Children of Tranquility| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
Tuesday - Second Hand Spectres '''[[:Second Hand Spectres| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
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Check out our winning contest entries from prior years below! | |||
=2024:= | |||
In 2024, we had two experts show us how it's done; the two tales of a cursed body-hopping serial killer and an all-too-real infant-killing furniture factory made our blood run cold. | |||
===WINNERS=== | |||
Picram - Decheeran - The Haunted Site'''[[:The Haunted Site| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
Svatlina - W'hoorn - The Twisted Soulhunter '''[[:The Twisted Soulhunter| Read File]]'''</br> | |||
=2023:= | =2023:= | ||
Goosebumps, anyone? In the 2023 installment of Scare The Storytellers, we were startled, spooked, and scared witless by tales of the Toh's darkest twin, a forever-suffering engineer lost in space, a light-devouring abomination, and a punisher of naughty children. | |||
===WINNER=== | ===WINNER=== | ||
Picram - Decheeran - The Lys '''[[:The_Lys|Read File]]'''</br> | Picram - Decheeran - The Lys '''[[:The_Lys|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
=== | ===OTHER ENTRIES:=== | ||
Poet - Arrick the Everdying '''[[:Arrick_the_Everdying|Read File]]'''</br> | Poet - Arrick the Everdying '''[[:Arrick_the_Everdying|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
Stelil - The Creeping Black '''[[:The_Creeping_Black|Read File]]'''</br> | Stelil - The Creeping Black '''[[:The_Creeping_Black|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
Adazay - Stern | Adazay - Stern Emmaliare '''[[:Stern_Emmaliare|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
=2022:= | =2022:= | ||
I'm still shaking from these submissions! Dive in to 2022's submissions for tales of ravenous Lha Ti, lost Amaian women, critters feasting on lifeforce, an alluring fire-haired vixen, and the shadows which plague us. | |||
===WINNER=== | ===WINNER=== | ||
Asteyr Dreya - Katsyi, Lost to the Depths '''[[:Katsyi|Read File]]'''</br> | Asteyr Dreya - Katsyi, Lost to the Depths '''[[:Katsyi|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
===OTHER ENTRIES=== | ===OTHER ENTRIES=== | ||
Desmond - '''[[:The_North_Star|Read File]]'''</br> | Desmond - The North Star '''[[:The_North_Star|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
Shulamit - '''[[:Questioning_Terraworm|Read File]]'''</br> | Shulamit - Questioning Terraworm '''[[:Questioning_Terraworm|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
Arissa - '''[[:The_Barrel-Eyed_Whale|Read File]]'''</br> | Arissa - The Barrel-Eyed Whale '''[[:The_Barrel-Eyed_Whale|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
Akiko - '''[[Shadows_Of_The_Undercity | Akiko - Shadows Of The Undercity '''[[:Shadows_Of_The_Undercity|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
=2021:= | =2021:= | ||
This year brought us another round of chilling tales of monstrous children, vigilante murderers, empty Decheeran buds, and many unknowable beasts. | |||
===WINNER=== | ===WINNER=== | ||
Afesotinuilar Matari - The | Afesotinuilar Matari - The Sorrow of Suaha '''[[:The_Suahagan|Read File]]'''</br> | ||
===OTHER ENTRIES=== | ===OTHER ENTRIES=== | ||
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=2020:= | =2020:= | ||
In the inaugural installment of Scare the Storytellers, our timbers were thoroughly shivvered with tales of | In the inaugural installment of Scare the Storytellers, our timbers were thoroughly shivvered with tales of lost legacy, encroaching bodily infections, and monsters that stare back from the void. | ||
===WINNER=== | ===WINNER=== | ||
Kass Star-eater - Rust '''[[:SM-SKR-03:_“Rust”|Read File]]'''</br> | Kass Star-eater - Rust '''[[:SM-SKR-03:_“Rust”|Read File]]'''</br> | ||