S&S Invitational: Valentine's Edition

🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺

-Valentine's Edition-

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Rise of the Pixels collaboration. I can assure you the good folks over there appreciated your hard work and creativity.

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🧹 HOUSEKEEPING 🧹

I know I owe you a review @trashyomen! This past week has been super hectic for me! Sorry! Forgive your boy! I promise to get to it as soon as possible!

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The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌

🥳 Last Invitational Winners 🥳

Seeing as how these are special editions with rules of their own, there will be two sets of winners. One chosen by your standard S&S crew, and the other by the great folk over at Rise of the Pixels. The latter will focus more on the lore aspects.

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
@trashyomen with The cure for loneliness

As far as I am concerned I was always alone, I could joke that when I was born both my parents missed the date. The lack of socialization during my infancy might have contributed to that, or the fact that my brain doesn't seem to function like everyone else's.

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🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
@kei2 with AnaMaeda; Alter Ego

“It's not creepy, Ana. It is very natural. Victorine as Ana fondly called the fusion between Victor and Victoria walked in front of her to block her way. Ana could now see her tanned skin and thick black hair in Victorine’s purple eyes.

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🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
@chm-writes with TRANSTEMPORAL TRAVEL.

"Ye shall seek but will not find, ye shall smell but will not deduce, ye shall see but would not see, ye shall hunt in the outside but shall have it in your abode. "The old wizard, Aaron finished reading the note in his hand. Aaron was an old man, in his late sixties or early seventies, he had a full head of hair and a very long, white beard.

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Lore Winners

🏆 Winner: Studio License: Rise of the Pixels (~21.5 HIVE current value)
@kei2 with AnaMaeda; Alter Ego

Explored fusion brilliantly. Bravo. Since you already have a Studio License, please contact @jfuji for a different, super-duper, prize! 😮

🎖️ Runner Up: 8-bit NFT pack (~8 HIVE value)
@trashyomen with The cure for loneliness

Very well written. Kudos, truly. But light on the prompt/lore aspects. Contact @jfuji for your reward.

🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐

• Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
• Entries must be between 800 and 1500 words.
  Note: this does not include any intro/footer text.
• You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
• Deadline for submission is Wednesday, 21st of February (23.59, GMT + 01);
• All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
• Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬

🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑

The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: 15 SCHOLAR, other goodies

IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂

🤺 Genre and Theme 🤺

The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:

🎥 Genre: ACTION
🤹 Theme: VALENTINE

It's that month of the year again! I know! I can barely hold my excitement too! Let's try and spice up our love lives with some ever-needed action, shall we? Pay attention! The theme is Valentine's and not Romance. Doesn't mean you cannot have a romance story, just means if you do go for the romance route, it needs to be centered around Valentine's. Wait, you can talk bout Valentine's without it being romance? I leave that up to you. 😉

May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!

We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗

A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.

Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.

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About the Scholar and Scribe Community

Scholar and Scribe is a creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself apart from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.

The Scholar and Scribe banner icons were designed by trashyomen. The cover image was designed by @jfuji.