Credits go to Kira for coming up with the banner. Maybe she's not a Scrooge after all! The person in the banner is our very own Harly Mystile. He was once a jovial chap, until one day he invested his fortune into a property that lasted only a short while before the heavens reduced it to ashes. Before he could react, the charred plot was snapped up by another individual with deep pockets. Poor Harly. Bah, Humbug, indeed!
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"Bah! Humbug."
"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
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We all know a Scrooge. There's always one miserable person in the family or within your circle of friends and acquaintances who brings down the festive mood at this time of the year, as if Oliver Cromwell himself physically turned up to a yule ball. You can't even comfortably enjoy a party without the atmosphere turning dour and constrictive whenever this individual is around. If only there was a way to ensure that this cold-hearted codger is visited by three spirits one night.
But between us, and I don't mean to brag, but I can totally handle an encounter with way more than three spirits in one evening in any Chuisrtsmas parrhteh *hic*
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RULES!
- Your task this time is to write a short story that is loosely based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
- The Scrooge and the three spirits in your tale must either be Final Fantasy characters or your fellow FFF members. Or both!
- The word limit is 1,500 words. Your story need not be as long as 1,500 words. This is just the upper maximum.
- Submit your entries either by private message to Linnaete on this forum, or send me a message on Discord.
- If you are submitting an entry, please try and at least do so in some kind of attachment or link to something like Google Docs. Don't copy and paste the entirety of the text to a private Discord message for example.
For the time being, I'll set the deadline for Christmas Day (the 25th). New deadline: 31st December (New Year's Eve)
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Once the deadline passes, submissions will be uploaded in a separate voting thread. Unless every single one of you here is a Scrooge and isn't celebrating any festive event this month. Never fear, gamers, because the UK games retailer GAME has the perfect treat for you. It's called the Christmas Tinner. Here's what you call a December delicacy that makes Ebeneezer Scrooge's gruel look positively appetising by comparison!
Once the deadline passes, submissions will be uploaded in a separate voting thread. Unless every single one of you here is a Scrooge and isn't celebrating any festive event this month. Never fear, gamers, because the UK games retailer GAME has the perfect treat for you. It's called the Christmas Tinner. Here's what you call a December delicacy that makes Ebeneezer Scrooge's gruel look positively appetising by comparison!
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