The longest journey - A traveller’s challenge
Welcome to an adventure unlike any other. Let’s embark on a journey through your worlds - but instead of just a short trip and a single destination, let’s visit a few more places through a series of monthly challenges.
Each month will have a new prompt for you, and while you can certainly connect all five of them to form a coherent story, you don’t have to! Single articles work just as well.
If you want to skip a month because the prompt isn’t to your liking, just wait a month and rejoin our journey at a later point.
Do I have to submit something for every prompt?
No, of course not. Participate in any of the five prompts that call to you. There’s no obligation to take part for every single one.
Do I need to write prose/a specific template?
Not at all, you can choose any style or template as long as your submission fits the prompt.
How long does my article have to be?
You can submit art, maps,articles, even timelines if it fits. However, articles need to be at least 300 words long to be considered, but old, reworked articles can be submitted if they fit the prompt.
How much time do I have?
There are a total of 5 prompts over 5 months. The first chapter of this adventure will run from 7th September to 7th October. Submissions for the first prompt have to be entered within that timeframe to count.
How do I submit an article?
Simply comment with a link to your article
Are there rewards? Is this a judged challenge?
There will be badges for each completed prompt and there might be a special one for all the feral people that complete them all.
Each month will have a new prompt for you, and while you can certainly connect all five of them to form a coherent story, you don’t have to! Single articles work just as well.
If you want to skip a month because the prompt isn’t to your liking, just wait a month and rejoin our journey at a later point.
A traveller's guide
Chapter One
The road ahead
This time, you'll get Septembers prompt, the first step of our journey - you can answer this prompt from the 7th September to 7th October:
Write about..
Where does the tale of your journey begin?
Is it your home? A place on the edge of the known world or civilization? Is it bustling with life, brimming with secrets or just one last safe haven in a storm? Be it a dungeon entrance, a frontier city, a spacedock, even a state of mind - or something entirely different - whatever it is, write about it.
Like a giant manta ray, the "Vikramaditya" slowly moved away from the spacedock, maneuver jets firing in gentle bursts. As the engines flared to life, Captain Arjun watched from the bridge, eyes fixed onto the abyssal dark, wondering what awaited beyond.
As the first light of dawn crept over the horizon, Tariq stood at the edge of his camp, feeling the desert’s breeze against his skin. The faint smell of campfires lingered in the air, a comforting reminder of home. Behind him, his camel, loaded with supplies, shifted restlessly. The sky blazed with shades of gold and crimson as the sun began its ascent. Taking a deep breath, Tariq made his first step into the vast, silent desert.
Catlyn sat in a dimly lit corner of the nightclub, her fingers nervously tapping on the edge of her cyberdeck.“Why me?” she asked, her voice barely audible over the thunderous beats. The grizzled orc opposite her leaned back, a knowing smile tugging at his tusks. “Everyone starts somewhere, kid. You’ve got the skills. Now you just need the experience. You in?”
These journeys have already begun..
Following are all the wonderful articles that have been submitted so far - if you read this, be sure to check them out, you might just find a new favorite world.
Spacetrash
SalamanderSwafe
Piggie4299
Some journey's begin later than others - but any path is worth travelling
Here you find the corageous souls who started telling of their journeys even after the challenge ended - give them a visit!
YOOOOOOOOO!! I am SO joining :D
Glad to have you - cant wait to read what you come up with!
Sit down, my friend, and let me tell you of Aran'sha . A world where the sands shift and the stars sing, where the wind carries secrets and the twin moons keep silent vigil over it all.