From the newsletter: Writing Challenges

Deborah Leighton Plom has started writing challenges for players of Firefly sims. The challenge is to write a story of up to 400 words in which play-ers expand on characters in various ways.

The posts (which are not in-game) are posted on a separate forum thread and are supposed to give insight in the back-ground of players’ characters. They are also a possible re-source for GMs to use as a reference when writing storylines for those particular characters.

The first writing challenge is set on Unification Day roughly two years ago from the date most of our Firefly sims are currently taking place on.

So far, four players have posted a story. The stories are about a doctor working in a hospital on Londinium, a secu-rity officer working in a burlesque club on Greenleaf Skyplex, a man in the resort city of Rishi on one of Ariel’s moons which seems to have a mysterious connection to the Londinium doctor, and an Alliance officer who is commanded to report to his superiors at once.

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Leighton Plom posted on Facebook, asking whether people would be interested in writing challenges. The positive feedback was enough for her to put the idea into practice. (mb)

Firefly writing challenge

In the first of what will hopefully be a regular thing around here, Deborah Leighton Plom has set a writing challenge for the Firefly sim. I'll let her describe it:

Character back stories up to 400 words.
Most sims are set in September 2519 currently (except for An Baile Ur), so for most people it'll be a case of where your character was and what were they doing two years or so ago, (around the date of Unification Day maybe, though not necessarily).
Any player with a character in the Firefly sims can post here.

Post your entries in this thread.