UPDATES: Halloween Challenge 2017 Edition

by **chrisbishop** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:06 am

Yes! This is the time of the year again! Time to begin posting for the Halloween Challenge!

And for this year's edition of the challenge, here's our first story:

FROZEN
Original series
Suitable for all readers
by Marion Woods. Halloween finds Captain Blue facing up to a bleak future. ff 632.

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/fa ... frozen.htm

Enjoy and come back soon for more!

by **Lt. Pine** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:47 am

I submitted my story last night. Whew! I think I spent too much time with my characters. I was dreaming about them at night!

by **Marion** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:40 pm

That's not uncommon... little devils get everywhere

by **Carrie** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:51 pm

That's a good thing, means you've been immersed... :grin:

Looking forward to reading your story.

by **chrisbishop** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:31 pm

Second week into our Halloween Challenge this week, and we have another story to offer you:

The THANKFUL VILLAGE
New Captain Scarlet Series
Suitable for all readers, Action-oriented/low level of violence

by Cat 2.
The newest of enemies have been with us for a very long time.
ff 633.

We have more stories to come in the coming weeks. And if you want to participate, you still have plenty of time.

Check the Halloween Challenge page for information.

See you next week!

by **chrisbishop** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 7:36 pm

Hello all!

This is the third week of our Halloween Fan Fiction Challenge and a new story is now available online!

NOT SUCH A RESTFUL NIGHT
Original series
Suitable for all readers/Action-oriented/low level of violence
by VMR.
Captain Scarlet is given the simple task of delivering some important documents to a W.A.A.F base in the middle of a desert. What could go wrong? ff 634.

Other stories will be posted in the following weeks! Come back again for more!

by **chrisbishop** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:14 am

We continue the posting for our Halloween Challenge, 2017 Edition!

This week we have plenty of new stuff.

First, a two-part story, by one of our recent members to this forum. Andrew Jones, a.k.a. Lt. Pine:

TRAGEDY ANGEL
Original series Suitable for all readers Action-oriented/low level of violence
by Andrew J. Jones.
Fate has not always been kind to Conrad Turner or Tori Beth Adams, whose lives have been entertwined nearly since their births. After the Mysterons took control of Captain Black, that link could prove deadly to her. ff 635.
PART 1 - PART 2

Secondly, we added the reposting of a Halloween "Costume Party" feature we had, way back when. I was informed by another of our members (thanks Carrie!) that the link was broken for this particular one. So, I repaired it, and took the opportunity to might slight adjustments, before posting it again fro everyone to see.

A LITTLE NIGHT DRAMA
Original series Suitable for all readers
"A Play in 13 Act". Reposting of the original 2006 Spectrum Halloween Costume Party, by Caroline Smith (with collaboration of Chris Bishop, Keryn, Hazel Köhler, Mary J. Rudy, Marion Woods and Siobhan Zettler). Halloween Challenge - ff 297 - Originally posted October 31, 2006.

Come back next week for more!

by **chrisbishop** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:01 am

Hello again to our Halloween Challenge updates!

This week, we have one brand new story to offer you, as well as another reposting.

First, our hew story:

THE ACCURSED
Original series Suitable for all readers Fantasy/light horror
by Caroline Smith.
On All Hallows Eve, they would come for him.

Then the reposting, which is a two-part story:

DEAD OR ALIVE
New Captain Scarlet series
Suitable for all readers Medium level of violence
by Adam Blue.
Skybase welcomes a new captain within its ranks, but when the members of her old Special Forces unit go into a killing spree, Spectrum suspects that there is more to her than meets the eye.
PART 1 - PART 2

Next week-end will be the last posting for this year's edition! Come back to check it out!

by **Marion** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:25 pm

Been a good year so far, Chris - looking forward to the last stories!

by **chrisbishop** » Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:09 pm

Three brand new story brings an end to the 2017 Edition of the Halloween Challenge!

First, Marion Woods offers us her second Halloween story this year:

THE CERTAINTY OF RETURN
Original series
Suitable for all readers
Fantasy/light horror
by Marion Woods.
They say that ‘time flies when you’re enjoying yourself’, but one Halloween Captain Ochre is destined to find out just how fast it can go.

Second, one of Spectrum HQ's most prolific contributors of a few years back makes a return!

HERE'S TO YOU, PATRICK DONAGHUE
Original series
Suitable for all readers Ation-oriented/low level of violence
by Sage Harper.
An unsuspected nightly visitor guides Captain Magenta through a supernatural journey.

Lastly, I present you my own offering for this year's Challenge, with a short story:

THE GARDEN
Oiginal series Suitable for all readers
by Chris Bishop.
In a place of peace and beauty, Scarlet makes an unexpected encounter.

We thank every participants for this year's edition of the Halloween Challenge!

by **Carrie** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:37 pm

Great stories, everyone, another Halloween challenged sorted.
Sorry to be late with kudos/comments..but better late than never, as they say..

Cat2 - interesting tale about those 'grateful villages' it's nice to learn something new while you're reading fan-fiction!

Lt Pine - nice first story. I think the inspiration fairy must have sprinkled the same dust over both of us, I swear to you I had no idea you had written a story about Captain Black in a graveyard as well - totally spooky!!!!

VMR - loved the references to a certain iconic song - very clever.

Marion - TWO stories - oh how you spoil us...

Sage - welcome back, it's been a while. Good to see you are still scribbling away.

Chris - such a poignant tale for Halloween. I'm wishing that's how it could be when the time comes..

by **Lt. Pine** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:06 pm

Thanks, Carrie. Captain Black and a graveyard seemed to be ideal Halloween material. Your story was nice and eerie, although we must have different sources for the names of Conrad's parents. ;-$

I dug mine out of a web site of "Worst Baby Names":

Emily is an English version of the Latin Aemilila, which comes from the word for "rival".

Cameron, this Scottish name means "crooked nose".

by **Carrie** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 9:10 pm

Yes Andrew..graveyards and Captain Black, the title credits in the show sort of give it away, really.

I honestly can't remember how I found the names for his parents although a quick search on google throws up the derivation of Conrad from the proto-Germanic Konrad, meaning 'bold counsel'. Hmm...didn't quite pan out that way, unfortunately for him or Earth.