*heavy German accent* I haf returned vith new und improved methods of torture. I am allowed to genially poke fun at the accent...I am half German, after all.

Your challenge for week forty-one is to write a short story based on this song. Now, before you complain that it's in German, here are the translated lyrics. I gave you the German recording because it just doesn't sound as epic in another tongue. If you do it, pleaseohplease show us what you write?

Remember, in order to receive points for completing the weekly challenge, you MUST declare it by Monday at midnight.

As always...



If this is your first time on one of these quests, you'll need to see the initiation pamphlet.

Also, I would like to remind everyone that any weekly challenge pieces that are posted on the forum will be eligible to be featured in our newsletter. Please post a link in this thread if you would like it to be considered. So far, we do not have any submissions for the next feature.

If you could write your sign-up post in a similar format to the following, it would be appreciated:
Goal: weekly challenge (or whatever you decide to do)
Timezone: PDT


WRITE!!! *turns over hourglass set to run out at midnight on Saturday*

Brave warriors for the week of January sixth through twelfth:

Katharina: Write five chapters in WIP (CST) COMPLETE
Lycanis: (PST)
 Weekly challenge COMPLETE
 Personal goal: Work on The Tree, reply to letters, review Peter's Angel, revise a Vadra post. COMPLETE
Azlyn: (CST)
 Weekly Goal COMPLETE
 Personal Goal: Write 500 words in novel development COMPLETE
Juliet: (GMT)
 Weekly Goal. COMPLETE
 Personal Goal: write letter. COMPLETE
Astronomer: Write in Politics report and start chapter three of Staffs (EST) COMPLETE
Aratrea: (EST)
 Weekly Goal COMPLETE
 Personal Goal: Finish my articles on the Creation of and the clouds of Ritharael COMPLETE
Aubrey: Write a short story for my Writer's Group challenge (CST)
Leandra: Weekly challenge (EST)

Personal Goal: Write five chapters in WIP
Time Zone: CST

Weekly challenge
Personal goal: Work on The Tree, reply to letters, review Peter's Angel, revise a Vadra post.
*considers weekly challenge*
*edit* *reads lyrics* Deal. *adds weekly challenge* *listens to song*
*edit* *adds another thing to his personal goals list*

Personal Goal: Write 500 words in novel development
Timezone: CST

*Ponders weekly goal and shall continue pondering throughout the day*

Weekly Goal. (That story isn't suited to prose in my opinion...poetry fits it. But I'll do a sort of a spin off of it.)
Personal Goal: write letter.
Zone: GMT.

Just for the record, any sort of spin-off counts as part of the challenge. Even if the song gives you an idea for something related, but not the original story, that's good too.

All right, I think I'm ready to try this again.

Personal Goal: Write in Politics report and start chapter three of Staffs
Time Zone: EST

It's high time I started writing again.

I hearby add the weekly challenge to my goals. Mine won't be exactly the same story either, I'm changing the characters around a bit.

So are goals are now:

Weekly Goal
Personal Goal: Write 500 words in novel development
Timezone: CST

Weekly Goal
Personal Goal: Finish my articles on the Creation of and the clouds of Ritharael
Timezone: EST

What a beautiful, eerie song. I'm pretty sure I've heard this without the lyrics somewhere else... Anywho! I wish I could do it, but I've got a formatting job to complete this week.

Personal goal: Write a short story for my Writer's Group challenge
Timezone: CST

Weekly challenge done! I thought I'd better do it quick while motivation and inspiration was up.

Since you asked for it, here it is, in it's unedited glory. I kinda just was having fun. *rambles* The piano part fascinated me, so I went off that.

Anywho.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZyJ ... 1dc9Q/edit

*meant to listen to the song and consider doing the weekly challenge*
*decides to sign up for the weekly challenge even without any plans/ideas*

Weekly challenge
Timezone: EST

I would do a personal goal, but it's fifteen minutes to midnight for me, and I don't have one at the top of my head...

Weekly challenge and personal goals complete.

Hurrah! I've completed my personal goals.

I thought I was going to be done early, but it seems everyone else has finished theirs already. Even when I work ahead, it seems I'm still a procrastinator.

I haven't finished mine yet. But, I will finish it by tomorrow.

Weekly challenge finished. * tries to act nonchalant so Raven won't notice *

Personal Goal almost finished...now, if I just don't forget to tell you later on today when it's done, we'll be great...

I'm regretfully dropping out this week. I have a book formatting job that's due today, and it's really intensive, so I backed out of the writing challenge even though it made my group leader cry. (He was teasing. )

Aww! That's too bad, Aubrey! Hopefully you can do better next week!

Personal Goal finished.

Personal goal completed!

I also completed my personal goal.

Personal Goal and Weekly Goal completed!

And for Raven's (and any other curious onlooker's) enjoyment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ju0 ... X-rYE/edit

*begs Lycanis and Juliet to share their attempts*

*can't wait to read Azlyn's and Aratrea's*

This week is now complete.

Scoreboard.

Week Forty-Two.