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Dec-12-2009 22:56

Happy Holidays!!

The people of Wish On a Star would like to present the second of two contests we're sponsoring this year. We hope everyone has some fun with this one.

One of our favorite of the games among the Wish zoo is Corrupt A Wish (pun sorta deliberately intended ;-). We'd like to see what you all can create for wishes, and decide how you'd go about solving them, holiday style.

The Premise

You need to imagine a wish, then come up with a way to corrupt it (unlike the regular game, YOU will be doing both roles for this contest). All entries MUST include a holiday theme of some kind, based on any holiday taking place between December 1 and January 31 (you must specify which holiday you're choosing, but we're not picky which one you use).

The Rules

The rules are very simple. All entries *MUST be no more than 2000 characters (ie--One post).* The more detailed and creative you make your wish and corruption, the better it will be received by the judges (ie--a three-line entry is going to hit the dustbin fairly fast. This is for honor, glory, and PRIZES, people.) Spelling, punctuation, and grammar, as always, are part of the judging criteria, so make sure that spell-check is your new bestest-best-friend (might wanna include a stocking stuffer for it too; it's had a hard year. ;-). No, it doesn't have to be set in the Noir-era necessarily (though that will probably earn you bonus points with the judges). And no, it doesn't have to be mystery- or Noir-themed for a plot (though again, if you do manage to work some element of that into your creation, all the better ;-). All entries *MUST be submitted by December 31, 2009 at 11:59PM (ie--server turnover).*

The judges and prizes will be announced once we've received all the entries (we don't wanna reveal Santa's secrets too early, now do we?? ;-)

An example of a holiday Corrupt-A-Wish follows.

Good luck, happy imagining, and...

Happy Holidays from all of us at Wish!!

Dec-12-2009 23:04

An Example (taken from the Corrupt-A-Wish board)

I wish I could get a stupid car! (courtesy of Molly Maltese--many thanks!!)

*****

*Kaping!!*

The mystical elves from the South Pole have done it again! And just in time for Christmas too!

They've loaded up Santa Cluz's sleigh with all sorts of interesting things for good girls and boys all over the world! And guess what!! They managed to stuff a brand-new car in the bag, just pour vous, Molly! YAY!!

First off, Santa Cluz isn't the, err, brightest, of stars on the ol' Christmas tree of life. Soo, you climb into your shiny new baby and stick the key in the ignition. ..... Doesn't fit. Hmmm.... You try again. And AGAIN!! Just when you're about to stick Santa's key where the snowballs don't fly, you see a small keyhole on the glove compartment, with a post-a-note saying, "Stick in here."

Ookay. So, you try the key in that lock, and it fits. You open the glove box to find...

An exact duplicate of your key.

("Whasgoin' on round here, Cluz?" you wonder.)

Okay, take two, with the new key. You put the new key in the ignition with a great deal of skepticism this time, to find out...

IT WORKS!!

You jump back in your seat in alarm as your car starts ROARING at you. You try hitting a button on the radio. Instead, the windshield wipers go off. (What the...?) You turn on the lights. The trunk flies open. You turn on the heater. The 'low battery' light goes on on your dashboard. You get out and open the fuel cap, only to see a sticker over it: "This vehicle runs on hairspray and styling products only. No gasoline allowed."

You're ready to break into tears, when you happen to glance towards the glove box again, and see a small note, with a bright red bow stuck on it:

Dec-12-2009 23:08

Dear Molly,
You've been a very good, if somewhat baffling, child, this year. So I've given you your heart's desire. Here is your *Stupid* car. May you have many, many long years of enjoyment out of it. Or hair-pulling, whichever comes first.
Love, Santa Cluz
P.S. -- No refunds, exchanges or whining allowed. Marry Xmus. S.C.

(Entry itself is 1967 characters. Again, thanks to Molly Maltese. ;-)

Dec-13-2009 16:50

lol, ah yes. I remember this wish dearly, and how I was thoroughly schooled.

I just sort of stared at the screen in wonder for a moment or two after I read it, it was THAT impressive.

Dec-13-2009 21:29

Now that's true praise indeed. I'm honored, Molly. ;-D

Breit

Dec-17-2009 13:40

I know, i know, i'm ineligible. But i just posted this to the other Corrupt-A-Wish board and i just couldn't resist spreading the joy of perversity fulfilled.

Wish of M. Lacrimosa: I wish the cast members of the Christmas play would memorize their lines instead of using that goofy projector to display their lines on the wall of the back of the church.

Dec-17-2009 13:40

Good news for you! The bulb that projects the lines for the cast on the back wall of the church burns out with a great big poof! Right in the middle of rehearsal, the back of the church goes black, throwing EVERYONE (except you) off their lines. Panic ensues and players dive off the stage to find their script books (the show must go on after all!).

Even better news for you. Because the cost of a new bulb for that thingie is around $500, it's going to take a LOT of bake sales to replace the thing. So for the next, say, 6 months, the projector thingie is out of commission. Since the play is in two days, each person in the play (except for you) does a crash course in rote memorization. They do manage to remember their lines and the show goes on to mad applause for everyone (especially you)!

Now the bad news. Turns out the play they do year after year after year that you memorized your lines for three years ago was deemed old and boring. So they wrote a new one! Unfortunately, you were out the practice that they brought out the new scripts and nobody bothered to inform you that you needed a new copy. Because everyone was concentrating on reading their lines from the projector thingie, nobody caught that you were reciting the wrong ones. Oops.

The play is a marvelous success with EVERYBODY in the church laughing whenever you speak. It is only at the cast party that they announce that you've been using the lines from the old play, thus earning the booby prize instead of that MVP you've been vieing for. Too bad! Well, at least you have a whole year to get the new script and memorize everyone's lines in it so that you can play ALL the parts. That MVP trophy will be yours for sure! (Ha ha ha and Ho ho ho laugh the Fairy Godmother and Santa Cluz. Oh no, what on earth does this mean for our hero?, we ask...)

Dec-17-2009 17:58

Using Luc’s wish from “Corrupt a Wish”:

I wish the caroling door to door was still popular and that a group would come to my door.

They still do, and this year they manage to make it to your trailer park and sing their little hearts out for you. What makes it even more exciting is that they aren't associated with any officially recognized church and what you have is a blend of members from "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" and women from the strip club down the ways from your "neighborhood". (http://www.thesisters.org/meet.html) What they sing are revamped holiday and show tunes that are mostly about Santa slumming it at a Bath House after a long night of delivering toys. All in all it would be hilarious, however you have your family over and they are only singing at your trailer, for over an hour. And your family wonders why they have even revamped a version of "Walking in a Christmas Wonderland" into "Walking Round in Women's Underwear", including the line, "Lacy things, Luc's wife's missing..." (http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs_womens_underwear.htm)

And to top it off your Uncle has his new video camera and is filming the entire thing and it gets posted on various blogs and websites becoming viral.

Dec-17-2009 17:59

(ps, I corrected the grammatical issues from my post on "Corrupt a Wish")

Dec-18-2009 01:00

How'd she know about my uncle?

Dec-31-2009 00:25

Hear ye, hear ye! Only 24 more short hours to come up with your Christmas wishes and corrupt them to your hearts' delight(s). All entries must be copied and pasted to THIS thread (no, entries on that other one don't count). Then you get to watch me drum up a goose. Er, goose a drummer. Dopf!, find a basket of poisoned apples. No, that's Crunch's. Well, we'll wrap something up and slip it it in your locker... Have fun all! L