Requiring Spectrum... or an Exorcist? - by Chris Bishop
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UPDATES NOVEMBER 12, 2023: LAST STORIES POSTED HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE ENDED! At last, this year, this is the last posting week for the Halloween Challenge. Yet again, we have a brand new story, as well as our second reposted story this year:
by Marion Woods. Captains Scarlet and Blue have more than vampires to worry about on a visit that stirs up far more than they bargained for.Halloween Challenge. ff 187. Originally posted October 8, 2004. by Sharn. After his stint as acting commander of Cloudbase in ‘White as Snow’, Captain Blue receives some peculiar feedback from his colleagues. Halloween Challenge. ff 756. With eight new stories this year, plus our two reposted stories, we can qualify this year's Challenge as yet another success. As always, many thanks to all who participated, be it by submitting stories, or by visiting these pages to read them. Like every year, the Challenge gives us the opportunity to receive submissions from newcomers. In the last few years, many have joined our ranks, and continue to surprise us with entertaining stories. And yes, let's not forget those who have been long contributors to this site! Again, many, many thanks to you all! I'm sorry to say, I was unable to produce a new story this year for the Halloween Challenge. But perhaps, maybe next year, I'll be able to join you again. The Challenge will certain return, as long as people are willing to participate to it. In the meantime... Yes, what's coming up exactly? You've got it! The Christmas Challenge is rearing its white bearded head! Coming back soon for the official announcement! UPDATES NOVEMBER 6, 2023: NEW STORIES POSTED! On this first week-end after Halloween, we have THREE new stories for you to enjoy! So with no further ado, we present them to you:
by Janet M74. Adam isn't sure what's going on, but something is. Because one minute there's Paul, and then another there's Scarlet. And another Scarlet. And another… Halloween Challenge. ff 753. by Janet M74. It was the happiest day of Paul's life. And then it wasn't. Halloween Challenge. ff 754. A DIFFERENT KIND OF GHOST STORY by Shades. It was just a simple, nighttime stroll through Paris. Halloween Challenge. ff 755. Exceptionnally this year, the Halloween Challenge will run until November 10th. So there might still be time for you to send a very short short story, or even a picture, montage, or drawing you might have made under the Halloween Challenge theme, featuring any of the show's characters or even craft or vehicle. Check the rules below for more information. Send your submission to spectrum_hq@hotmail.com as soon as possible to meet the deadline! Come back to this space at the end of the week to see if there's more goodies for you to enjoy! UPDATES OCTOBER 31, 2023: NEW STORY POSTED! HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE! On this fourth week of our 2023 Halloween Challenge, we have a new story, as well as the reposting of a story which had been previously posted 20 years ago: ENDGAME (2) by Shades. An endgame is the very last part of a strategic game. The last few moves are usually the most decisive. Halloween Challenge and Multiverse story. ff 752. PARALLAX VIEW by Chris Bishop. An accident in the R and D Department on Cloudbase catapults Captain Scarlet in a parallel where he is mistaken for that world's other Scarlet - who is still a Mysteron agent. Halloween Challenge and Multiverse story. ff 138. Complete two-part story. Part 1: Through the Mirror - Originally posted October 19, 2003. Part 2: Evil Twin - Originally posted October 31, 2003. UPDATES OCTOBER 23, 2023: NEW STORY POSTED! Third week into our Halloween Challenge for 2023, with another new story for you to read: by Sharn. On the eve of the longest day of the year, Captain Blue faces a predicament born of a haunting imagination from centuries past. ff 751. UPDATES OCTOBER 15, 2023: NEW STORY POSTED! Second week into our Halloween Challenge for 2023. This week, we have a crossover story to offer you: by Shades. The newest Mysteron threat seemed simple enough, the investigation straightforward as Ochre, Scarlet and Blue got to work. Then it got complicated. A Thunderbirds crossover story. ff 750. As you can see, all kind of stories can be submit to the Halloween Challenge. Crossover stories - which are a fan favourite genre amonsgt fans - are always welcome for the occasion! If you have some of those - providing one of the fandoms is 'Captain Scarlet' of course - we invite you to contact this website and submit it for the Challenge. You'll make a lot of people happy, including this webmaster! UPDATES OCTOBER 6, 2023: FIRST STORY POSTED! This week marks the first posting for the Halloween Challenge, 2023 Edition. For this week, I chose, not exactly a fanfiction story, but instead a rather interesting conversation between one of Spectrum HQ prominent collaborator and a well-known "entity" that made the headlines all through the year. by Clya Brown. A conversation between the author and ChatGPT about the pseudoscience of the Mysterons. Halloween Challenge. ff 749. We'll probably hear again of ChatGPT over the coming months, if not years. so let's keep an eye on it! UPDATES AUGUST 15, 2023: 2023 HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE EDITION NOW LAUNCHED! Halloween may be a couple of months away, but really, it is now the time to think about Spectrum HQ Halloween Challenge. And here we go... Drum rolls now... On this August 15, 2023, Spectrum HQ launches its Halloween Challenge! You do know what this is all about, right? Unless you JUST stumbled on this page and are wondering... 'Now what the hell is this exactly? Stick with me and read on. I will explain it all to you. If you're here, I can assume that it is because you love Captain Scarlet (classic series or CGI series). And maybe, you also like Captain Scarlet fan fiction. If so, you'll be in for a treat! As per our tradition, this time of year is the period for Spectrum HQ to launch its Annual Halloween Challenge! Annual as in... this is the 22nd year for this Challenge! Who could have imagined it! 22 years already! The Halloween Challenge is a Fan Fiction Writing Challenge, in which YOU, the fans, the visitors, the authors or would-be authors, are invited to participate, by writing your own story and submitting it to the Spectrum Headquarters website. Any writer, from anywhere around the world, whether already established on this website, or known by his or her works in other websites or fanzines, newcomers or even totally unknown, can join in the celebration. But... WHY do we launch the Halloween Challenge in the middle of the summer, you keep asking? Quite simply, it's because it takes time to write a story, and the best way to insure that there will be enough time to do so, is to launch the Challenge early! We want to give every writer as much time as he or she needs to conceive and write a story. Who knows what you can dream up, while relaxing by the pool, under a scorching sun? And what is there to do, when it's been raining for days, and you're stuck inside the house or a café? Maybe a few of you already started their Halloween story! And who knows, you might have more than one story to offer! Taking inspiration from either of the two Captain Scarlet TV series, the comic strips, the audio adventures, the novels and short stories, any other materials, even other fan fiction, you can create your own story abour your favourite hero... be it Captain Scarlet himself, or anyone else from the cast. Or maybe you prefer to write about villains (after all, this is Halloween), so Captain Black, the Mysterons themselves or any other characters are fair game! Started in 2002, the Halloween Challenge became, straight from the beginning, and without a single doubt, the favourite of both writers and readers alike (closely followed by the Christmas Challenge). For the last years, many great stories were submitted during this challenge, and many of these stories remained, to this day, amongst readers' favourite. Some of these stories can even be said to have achieved the rank of 'classics', amongst all the stories to be presented on this website, either during a challenge or not. These stories presented during the Halloween Challenge star your favourite Spectrum characters - Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue, the Angels, Captain Black and all the others - and put them in adventures that range from fantasy to fantastic, strange, completely weird, even wicked and totally horrific... Every kind of fantasy is permitted, every twisted little idea can be put into a story during the Halloween Challenge. Main characters can even die, definitely, or turned into Mysterons, as you can see by yourselves, from tales presented in the past years. Even the indestructible Captain Scarlet fell victim to the might of the Halloween Challenge! The Mysterons may win! Oh yeah, they definitely can! All is fair game during the Halloween Challenge! The only limit is your imagination (however sick it may be...) ADDITIONALLY, there is also the possibility for people to also present special pictures during the Halloween Challenge, either to go with a story - or as a stand-alone presentation. See below for more information on that. And now, for the official launching: The 22nd Edition of the Halloween Challenge is now launched, on this year 2023, and you are again invited to participate in great number! The Spectrum Headquarters website offers you yet again the chance to write another story of the same eerie and creepy trade as described above! So to your pen and keyboard, writers and would-be writers, those who had written one or more than one story in the past, and those who are simply waiting for that elusive plot idea to write your own Scarlet story... Search into the darkest place in your soul and your evil, sick and tortured mind, and start writing! Here's again your chance to enter the challenge! There's plenty of fun to have for everyone, and so, you are all welcomed to this yearly treat or trick event! The same rules as for the previous years apply of course, in order to participate to the Challenge. So if you are a regular, you know what they're all about. For those of you who are new, and wish to try this challenge for the first time (come on, we DARE you!) you'll find below the rules you have to follow in order to participate! We are hoping that many stories will be submitted to us and that again, the Challenge will be the success it always was! And that can only be achieved if MANY OF YOU participate! TO PARTICIPATE: On the basis that 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons', with its eerie atmosphere, is indeed a perfect subject for Halloween-themed stories, to participate to this challenge, you have to write a Captain Scarlet/Halloween story, that would be posted on the Spectrum Headquarters website. All Captain Scarlet stories will have this in common that they will share an Halloween and/or horror/fantastic theme. Interested people can contact the webmaster at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com or scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com to announce their project, or to submit their story, or for further information, if needed be.
Remember, the Spectrum Headquarters website is not only a fan fiction archives site, it also contains a fountain of information about the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons television series. Its sister domain Skybase Central, although at the moment not as developed, is also built with the same idea in mind. Both can be used to help you write your story with better accuracy of the Scarlet mythos and backgrounds. Feel free to consult it! Hey, by the way, we ALSO have the S.I.D. Database website, where you can find fan fiction stories from other Gerry Anderson shows! Why not try your hand on a Thunderbirds Halloween story, or a Stingray one? Or better yet! Why not write a Thunderbirds or Stingray and Captain Scarlet crossover Halloween?! Hey, anything is fair game! So if you have a project for an Halloween story, contact the webmaster at scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com and tell us about it. All the announcements will be added to a list on the HALLOWEEN STORIES PAGE. Check it often to know what stories are coming our way in October! It will be fun to see how many people out there will came up with demented, crazy, thrilling and even scary stories all at once. A SPECIAL NOTE: Multi-parts stories , or stories out of theme, that are submitted to the website during the challenge won't be refused, but they will not be considered part of this project. As the Halloween Challenge is expected to be a busy time for the collaborators of this website, these stories might be posted only after October 31, when the Challenge is completed. Remember that the End Credits Challenge, the Challenge of Five, and the Multiverse Challenge are year-long event, contrary to the Halloween Challenge (and in its time, the Christmas Challenge). And, additionally to this, you don't have to use any of these challenges anyway, in order to send us a story. A 'regular story' is most welcome! Which means that whenever you want, you can send a story to answer those other challenges. INSPIRATIONAL PICS: Do you need ideas? Are you looking for inspiration? Maybe we can provide some kind of a kick-start! During the previous years, many pictures and animations have been created to illustrate the Halloween page, or have been submitted during the Halloween Challenge. Most of these illustrations are "stand alone" and have not been attached to any story at all. So, if ever you need it, you can use any of them as inspiration for your own story. You can even use more than one pictures if you want! Take note that you have no obligation whatsoever to specifically base your Halloween story on any of these pictures. They're simply offered as a complement for those of you who might need or want some inspiration. Stories can be short or long, and you can elaborate all you want. It's for you to decide. Just click on the thumbnails below for a larger view of the picture.
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DRAWINGS, PICTURES, MONTAGES, ETC.
In addition to the writing challenge, you can also contribute drawings or pictures - to be put with your story if you are a writer, or as a stand-alone artist rendition of an Halloween/Captain Scarlet action scene, that will then be put on the HALLOWEEN PICS page. I know there are talented people out there in the artistic field, and your contribution would make a nice addition to this project.
Accepted for this project will be original drawings, paintings, pictures, montages, collages, even one line comic strips that will all be sharing the same Halloween/Captain Scarlet theme. I hope a lot of you will be able to participate again , and will have the time to write and submit a story of your own. You will have until October 27 to submit your masterpiece(s).
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