Scavenger Hunt Contest

WINNERS

FIRST PLACE: Uncle Nicolini, 76 UPVOTES
Leaving Havana | Letter Found After A Credit Card Purchase | Aliens in America
SECOND PLACE: carolynn w, 63 UPVOTES
Cells | I often think of the City; I often think of it when I am thinking of you | General Store
THIRD PLACE: JakdragonX, 62 UPVOTES
Daddy Is My Superhero | My Thoughts Are Not My Own | (1) New Voicemail

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GRAND PRIZE: ALSO Uncle Nicolini, 76 UPVOTES

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Introduction

The Library contains every book that was ever written, will be written, and many that never were. It's a treasure trove of knowledge, the only one of its kind the multiverse.

Unfortunately, a catalogue of that magnitude means finding things becomes a bit… difficult. The minds of the Archivists are branded with the details and location of every book at any time, but that kind of knowledge comes at a cost too high for most mortals. Some say the Library likes to lead people to what they're looking for, but it also likes to see people put in the effort to seek out some of the rarer tomes.

That's where you come in.

When many Wanderers notice a lack of titles for a specific section, a Scavenger Hunt is called. All Wanderers are encouraged and rewarded for doing the exhaustive task of finding new tomes for that section, pulling them from inside the Library and out, from forgotten shelves and burned out ruins.

The season culminates in a 6 day frenzy. The Huntsmaster will put the name of one of the more lacking sections in the Main Hall, and patrons are given 48 hours to find the best entry for that section they can. Three sections, 144 hours, and an infinitude of possibilities.

Better get hunting, Wanderer.

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Show Contest Rules

Rules

The Scavenger Hunt consists of three 48-hour periods. At the beginning of each period, the Librarians will produce a theme. This can range from something as general as Outer Space to as specific as Cursed Food. Your job is to write something, anything, that adheres to the theme of the period. It can be a traditional story, a letter, a treatise - if you can justify it in your author post, its allowed in.

You are free to solicit as much critique as you can get within the time period.

1. The contest will begin at 12:01 AM (EST) on Jan 22nd and end at 12:01 AM (EST) on Jan 28th. Contest voting will end on Feb 11th.
2. As soon as a theme is announced, entries for that theme are IN PROGRESS: they should be worked on but cannot be posted.
3. Once 24 hours have elapsed since the beginning of the IN-PROGRESS period, entries for that theme are OPEN and can be posted.
4. As soon as the NEXT theme is announced, entries for the PREVIOUS theme are CLOSED and cannot be posted for the contest. To clarify: you can still post articles for closed themes to the site, but they will not be considered as valid entries for the purpose of the contest.
5. Authors may submit any number of entries per theme, but only the highest-rated entry per theme will be considered for voting totals.
6. Once period 3 closes, entries will have two weeks to gather votes. After 14 days, votes will be tallied and winners decided.
7. All entries are allowed - no galleries (art-focused pages) this time. Sorry artists.
8. Entries can be as long or as short as you want.
9. Authors do not have to submit entries for all three themes; you may pick and choose which themes to submit to, but only authors who submit entries for all three themes will be considered for the Grand Prize.
10. No significant content edits may be made after the entry has been posted until the contest has ended. SPaG, Wikidot syntax, and CSS edits are allowed, but significant changes to the content are prohibited. A good rule of thumb is that if you wouldn't do it to someone else's work, don't do it to your own until the contest ends.
11. Contest entries will go through the normal deletion process. As there is no limit on the number of entries you may post, you may always reenter. However, you may not repost a new version of a previously deleted entry in the contest. You can always submit these documents to the site again, but they cannot reenter the contest.
12. Entries must be new and original. Preexisting drafts are not allowed.
13. Shenanigans Rule: The contest organizers reserve the right to disqualify entries and entrants for behavior they deem unsportsmanlike, such as downvoting other contestants' entries solely to gain a vote advantage or excessively self-promoting their articles. If you're not sure whether or not your action will fall under the Shenanigans Rule, ask either Rounderhouse or rumetzen

Tag your entries with 'hunt2021' and the theme's subtag, if applicable!

Remember: you can draft your stories in the sandbox, then post them to the main site when they're ready. If you want a refresher on the posting process, check out the Orientation's Guide To Writing tab.

Credit to A Random Day and ProcyonLotor for writing the original 144 Hour Jam Contest Rules

Not sure what kind of content belongs on the Library? Look at the Recommended Reading!

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Prizes & Requirements

1st Place prize for garnering the most upvotes across all your entries will be: Picking February's featured article, as well as a $50 Amazon gift card!

2nd Place: Picking March's feature. as well as an art piece of your request, courtesy of UncertaintyCrossing.

3rd Place: Picking April's feature.

Grand Prize
Requirements: Write three entries in a continuous story while not repeating any style tags — for example, you may have a third-person prose entry, a first-person narrative entry, a poetry entry, or a document entry - but you may not repeat one you have already done. Clarification: The person who fulfills these requirements while getting more upvotes than everyone else who fulfilled the requirements will get the prize.
Prize: $25 Amazon gift card.

Critic's Choice Award
Requirement: Comment on more than 50% of entries not your own.
Prize: A prize winner role on the Discord.

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Entries

Theme 1

FORGOTTEN CITIES

This theme is now closed for writing and posting! Scroll down to see the entries and next theme!

Theme 1 Entries

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• Idolatry, found by Din-Bidor
• From the Journals of Agent Hopper: Home Bittersweet Home (or Free as a Bird), found by (user deleted)
• Daddy Is My Superhero, found by JakdragonX
• Skyless Heaven, found by Rigen
• Fata Morgana, found by Elenee FishTruck
• I often think of the City; I often think of it when I am thinking of you., found by carolynn w
• Visiting the Lake, found by swampyyy
• A Quick Visit, found by LittleFieryOne
• Leaving Havana, found by Uncle Nicolini
• My Island, found by aismallard
• Tattered Remains, found by The_Spider_Queen
• Descent Into The Necropolis of Atun-Katur, found by Sebarus
• Philae 436, found by Reasonably Psychotic
• Goodbye, Great Gargagol, found by RockTeethMothEyes
• The Multi Unitraversal, found by Snapdragon133
• coldcircuit, found by etoisle
• Starlight On Steel, found by Oboebandgeek99
• Paper Town, found by Ellie3
• Excerpts From An Architectural Book, found by Thick Soup
• The Black Hole File, found by ZeroMan
• I'll Take You to the Parashops, found by Lt Flops
• Hayec-Davm and the Forgetting Plague, found by Indices
• Rough Sleeper, found by Modulum
• Memories Of The Past, found by weizhong
• Visviseha, found by Impperatrix
• The Greater City of Lesser Athens, found by Fish Salad
• Far Places, found by Dappermancer
• Walking Dead Paths, found by MalyceGraves
• Madame Deja Velough's Spell For Seeing Forgotten Cities, found by TheRiceandCake
• Standing Stones - An Unhistory of Halloway, found by SheaPM
• A Legend Found Scrawled in the Margins of Edith Hamilton's Auto-Biography, found by Sonderance
• A Guide to England's Railway Stations: Orlington, found by Dysadron
• Nekra Myrminkia (Dead Ants), found by Draven Addams
• Walls of Glass, found by FoxBeregan
• A Visit, found by Calibold
• Snakes in the Ruins, found by Malvarik1
• Beer, Guns, Zombies and Madness, found by lulatred
• Made A Little Playhouse In Your Soul, found by Pedagon
• Pareidolia, found by (user deleted)
• The Eyes In The Dark, found by BrokenOrdinance
• A City Wrought of Silken Thread, found by Tyumen
• We Did Not Fall In A Day, found by Arbiter_Darkness

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Theme 2

Alien Invasion

This theme is now closed for writing and posting! Scroll down to see the entries and next theme!

Theme 2 Entries

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• True Disciple, found by Calibold
• Cells, found by carolynn w
• Falling, found by SheaPM
• Stone to Bind, found by (user deleted)
• What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, found by Draven Addams
• A Quiet Invasion, found by Thick Soup
• Snakes in Space, found by Malvarik1
• Foreign Concepts, found by ZeroMan
• An Excerpt from "Areian Diaspora - In Their Own Words: Now Fully Annotated by Famed Areiopologist Edith Hamilton IV", found by Sonderance
• Beer, Guns, Aliens and Sadness, found by lulatred
• Another Brigaded Memory, found by yoyoflux
• Mirrorman, found by minmin
• My Thoughts Are Not My Own, found by JakdragonX
• Interstellitigation, found by margssentif
• A Cold Moon Sets On The Shelves, found by Sebarus
• The Other Cometh, found by MalyceGraves
• Mandilus 48d, found by Reasonably Psychotic
• From The Earth Itself, found by Dappermancer
• Interplanetary Colonization, found by Lt Flops
• The City From Afar, found by weizhong
• Aliens In America, found by Uncle Nicolini
• Burning Memories, found by Cyvstvi
• The Contrary Traveler's Story, found by Indices
• The Sleep and his Six Children, found by Impperatrix
• What are we to a Genius Loci, if not Aliens?, found by (user deleted)
• They See Right Through You, found by Pedagon
• WIW S3 e11, found by Dysadron
• Lost World, found by The_Spider_Queen
• Thus Spoke Enoch, found by Seraphannim

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Theme 3

Peculiar Purchases

This theme is now closed for writing and posting! Scroll down to see the entries!

Theme 3 Entries

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• The Price Of Paradise, found by weizhong
• Lognagh Pier Market, found by (user deleted)
• (1) New Voicemail, found by JakdragonX
• The Worth of a Soul, found by MalyceGraves
• Remnant Of Another Future, found by Calibold
• Gaining Purchase, found by margssentif
• Letter Found After A Credit Card Purchase, found by Uncle Nicolini
• it's okay, found by UraniumEmpire
• Ettot the Barbarian's Perilous Dragon-Slaying Adventure!, found by Draven Addams
• an ageusic vintner’s panegyric, found by Indices
• Price Check On A Darling Duelist, found by do_the_right_thing
• Items, Purchases, and Other Oddities Gathered by Agent Hopper on His Travels, as Catalogued by Archivist Silvia Haven (Abridged), found by (user deleted)
• Rememberance, found by Thick Soup
• ferryman, found by minmin
• Snakes in Debt, found by Malvarik1
• General Store, found by carolynn w
• Morty's Meat & Munchies, found by Impperatrix
• Working Overtime, found by ZeroMan
• The Self-Appraising Shop, found by Indices
• "On Accompanying My Mother to the Areian Festival of Asterion (at the Age of Nine)" by Edith Hamilton V, found by Sonderance
• The Musician's Cat, found by Din-Bidor
• I Purchased a Story, found by Dysadron
• Beer, Guns, Capitalists and Greatness, found by lulatred

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