looks at another boxed set of cyborgs.
Patrick Wilson of TVAG and I are on a quest. We are looking for scenarios for Astounding Tales! Oh, sure, I've written a bunch myself – look for the prize-winning The Vaults of the Visigoths and Mad Scientists of the Swastika – and there are a few great ones by other two-fisted game designers. But we are planning on producing a compilation of AT scenarios, and we'd like yours!
Here's what you have to do. Pick one of the following titles, which – not coincidentally – are the top-rated entries in our recent poll on the Astounding Tales! Yahoo! Group. Write a scenario based on the title. It can be 500 words or 5,000, a single scene or a riveting, cliff-hanging three-reeler. You can draw maps or simply describe the scene. I've written a guide to writing scenarios for AT - I'll send it to you if you let me know you want to enter this contest.
Here are the names. You can replace the much-admired "Ace McVitie" with a hero of your own. You can cut the longer titles as you like, so that Black Bandit Planes can be an adventure without any reference to the Swamp of the Jungle Child, and vice versa.
- The Phantom Jungle!
- Black Bandit Planes in the Swamp of the Jungle Child
- Zombie Crime: The Screaming Corpse on the Desert Island
- Bloody Night of the Screaming Savages
- The Sinister Fool and the King in Black
- Ace McVitie and the Secret Masters of the White Temple!
- Ace McVitie and the Revenge of the Screaming Spiders!
There will be small (but fabulous) prizes in the form of painted figures by mine own hand.
Patrick, as editorial guy, says-
- Any necessary maps or illos (such as required for play) be submitted as JPEGS and each be smaller than 1 Megabyte in size.
- Please use one font only for your text (preferably Arial or Times New Roman - nothing exotic and hard to read), and 12 Point.
- If your Scenario is a winner, we'll get with you on any "punching up" it may need, as well as decisions on graphics. Final Editing will likely be done by TVAG, but no intolerable changes will be imposed on the author.
I'll give you a month to do this, and will remind you in an annoying, hectoring tone, so that you all send it in at the last possible moment. Due by November 30th, then. Who's in?
Apply to professorbellbuckle@yahoo.com.