The 7 Sins: GREED

[The Grey Dust]

SALIGIA: The 7 Sins

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven

Paradise Lost, Lines 258-63.

The first of the new writing competition series begins.
For those of us new to the RPG writing competitions and have no idea what they are, take a peek at an Introduction.

For those of you who participated in the Twelve Labours before or RPGC, you may be interested to know that this series will have a distinctively different thematic orientation. There are seven in total, and each one will hopefully amuse both reader and writer, inviting each to contemplate on each dreadful Sin.

Let the Second Sin Begin. Submission ends at 11:06 AM GMT, Monday July 17th 2017.

Entry Rules:

1. Follow the standard guild rules and these rules and also these rules.
2. Follow all T7S Official Rules.
3. Send your entry to @The Grey Dust by July 17th 2017 by 11:06 AM GMT, and state if you wish to submit anonymously.
4. No explicit/mature material, no exceptions.
5. Judges cannot submit entries, they must remain anonymous until after the final tally.
6. Judges reserve the right to simply toss out any story if it does not possess a basic modicum of good sense and taste.
7. You must use your own characters, and give credit to any franchises due if any are used.

Prizes:

For now, all winning entries will be given recognition for success. In the future, winning participants may receive a forum trophy as well as a unique, custom forum title which they can activate and deactivate at their leisure.

All winning entries will also be saved to a public archive. As a reminder, unless you specifically give me permission to include authorship of an entry, every posted story will remain anonymous.

[The Grey Dust]

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THE SECOND SIN

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GREED

"There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall."

A Christmas Carol

THE CHALLENGE: The Second Sin

GREED

Another
Virtuous
And
Righteous
Individual
Turns
Into
Antithesis

Corrupted for Greed:
Your Challenge is to corrupt a saint in any way you can.
They must be a morally upright character fighting temptation.
And then you must change them, until they are a mockery of their former self.

Clarification of the Challenge Parameters

This section attempts to illuminate any ambiguity or ambivalence, although hopefully the above is enough. They are intentionally left vague to a certain degree, with only 2 or 3 large parameters to fulfill. If you have any specific questions which are not addressed here, please send them to @The Grey Dust for resolution.

For GREED , You have been asked to transform a morally upright character, and make him the opposite of what he once was.

Q. The character must be perfect?
A. Perfect? Only if perfectly moral. The character must be a just and righteous entity. They may be flawed, faceted with as many or as few imperfections as they may have, but they cannot be anything less than morally upright. They must be pure in a sense of either having atoned for past misdeeds and forgiven, or even more difficult to be without fault at all. You must characterize the entity carefully as to be the most virtuous one in the tale.

Q. How much change is required in the story?
A. As much and as many changes it requires to completely transform someone into something they would berate in their past. Change can happen all at once, it can happen slowly overtime, however somewhere in the story there must be a clear transformation demonstrated.

Q. The story must end with just a change?
A. Possibly, the ending is for the writer to decide upon how to close a tale. After all, men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if...

Q. How long can my story be?
A. As long as it needs to be. It is not the length of a story which matters but substance found within it.

Credits

Thanks again to @mdk, @Terminal, @RomanAria, and the entire RPGC crew for everything!

Great thanks to Lord @mahz and the other members of the guild staff for helping to renovate the guild and enabling the features that allow us to reward contestants and to advertise our presence.

The intimidating image of the Ebenezer Scrooge up above was made by Ravenscar45 on DeviantArt, whose profile can be viewed here.

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[Silver Carrot]

Is this still open?

[RomanAria]

@Silver Carrot Sorry, mate, but I'm pretty sure this one is dead and buried. That said, the revamped RPG contest will be going live within a day, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

[Silver]

That said, the revamped RPG contest will be going live within a day, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

@RomanAria

I am embarrassed at the amount of times I've checked back to see if there were any updates.