CHALLENGE: Summer/Winter Holidays, Round Five - The Anniversary Edition
*\o/* Happy Anniversary! *\o/
Five years have come and gone, and here we are in July -- which means it's time to open up the prompts for Summer/Winter Holidays 5, The Anniversary Edition! Fifteen wonderful authors have written fics of 500 words or more to different sets of prompts, and ten artists have put together amazing works. Now it's July, and we're delighted to showcase them, one day at a time, for everyone to see.
This year, in honor of our 5th anniversary -- and the show's 50th! -- and so our prompt list is based on that theme. In some countries, each anniversary has a particular kind of gift associated with it -- and in some places, for certain anniversaries, you can receive a message from some important person in authority. So this year, our prompt list had 1) an anniversary (1st, 5th, 10th, etc.), 2) a gift (paper, wood, platinum, etc.); 3) an important person (their name or their job title or both); and 4) an event to commemorate.
Every creator was assigned one of the prompts, and we'll be posting their works over the course of the month. In addition, for the whole month of July, all of these prompts will be open for anyone in the comm to write or create to. As always, they're meant for inspiration - you don't have to include anything explicitly, just use the prompts to get the creativity flowing.
Please, please let our authors and artists know how great their creations are. And while you're applauding their efforts, we hope you'll offer some of your own.
The prompt groups are listed below, and they're all open for the taking. We've included the dates that we'll showcase each prompt, but you all can post your responses any day this month. They run the gamut, and so, we hope will your responses. Come and join our party!
Prompt #
Anniversary - Gift - Important Person - Event
Showcase Dates
Author and/or Artist
1
1st - Paper - Governor General Four - The Theft of Myrkos
1st July
yamx
2
5th - Wood - Deacon of the Thirteenth House - Darkening Moon
3
10th - Tin - President Aeternix - The Plague
4
15th - Crystal - Scribe of the Complex - The Eternal Argument
5
20th - China - The Chief Executor - The Death of the Wyrm
6
25th - Silver - Magisterium Tertialus - The Dream of Pajal
7
30th - Pearl - Chief Mariner - Midsummer
8
35th - Coral - Great Nycthos the 5 & 3/11ths - The Escape of Ammaliun
9
40th - Ruby - The Mender of Ways - The War of the Roses
10
45th - Sapphire - Librarian Thrace - The Imprisonment of Kherool
11
50th - Gold - Caesar Nine - Daybreak
12
55th - Emerald - The Holy Orb of Andrix - The Great Partitioning
13
60th - Diamond - Xenobotanist of the Sixth Hive - The Mutation
14
65th - Blue Sapphire - The Khan - The Flood
15
70th - Platinum - Engineer Primus - The Summer Revolution
First up is a fic from yamx written to prompt #1 - 1st anniversary - Paper - Governor General Four - The Theft of Myrkos. Look for it shortly - and enjoy the holidays!
As a gentle reminder, please don't crosspost stories for this challenge elsewhere until the challenge closes about one month from now. And don't forget - leave a comment in THIS post that we can use for voting in our next regular challenge poll!