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May-28-2008 15:41

To celebrate 1 year on The Intelligence Agency we are holding a couple of Birthday Party contests!

The first one is an Arch Villain Hunt in 50 Words or less.

Heres the Idea: You are hunting an Arch Villain. Using a given opening line, you must write a story that uses 50 words or less.

The opening line does not count toward your word total.

Jul-9-2008 20:03

Still sortin' through the paperwork and the red tape, huh? Yeah, big reason why I got outta the business. Well, let us know when y'all get things sorted out, okay? Good luck!! ;-)

Jul-10-2008 14:29

Hi all,

Thanks for your wonderful stories on what was quite a challenging competition. It was a difficult one to judge too, because it was obvious that some time and effort had been spent in these stories. Fortunately we get to choose 2 winners! Yay!

Firstly, the best single story. We decided that Ctown28's story about Delhi really struck a chord with us all... but I couldn't help wondering what would have happened if he kept getting repeats of "Is a man"...

Our second prize goes to the story that we thought really captured the idea of being on a Villain Hunt, linking the story and keeping the theme in such few words was a tough trick to pull off. In the we loved the mention of Cairo in the ending too. ;)

Jul-10-2008 14:48

So, the second prize goes to Anikka ;)

Jul-10-2008 23:53

Congratulations, Ctown and Ani!! Nicely done both of you!! Thanks to everyone at the Intelligence Agency (no, the Sleuth one ;-), for doing this contest. Great idea and wonderful contest!! ;-D

Jul-11-2008 11:13

Congrats, Ctown and Anikka!!! You both deserve to win!

Thanks TIA for the contest! :D

Jul-11-2008 12:37

Congrats you two well done. Nice to see ani winning a contest after some of the great ones she has put on herself :)

Jul-11-2008 18:00

Thanks TIA, I always enjoy playing in these contests, never did I expect that entry to win. I was jsut trying to be silly. I must admit the inspiration for burning places to the ground came from none other than smkshady, who has probably run out of lighter fluid and matches by now! Not to worry Shady, with this prize money maybe I can get a flame thrower and we can team up on Delhi together! ;-)

Ooooh, hows that for a new item idea. A flame thrower can be +100 tough! Are you listening Ben? ;-)

As always great entries by everyone, in my eyes we are all winners because we got to read each others entries! ;-)

Jul-13-2008 00:59

Congratulations peoples :)

Jul-13-2008 06:28

TIA wishes to thank all those who participated in our contest and made it a success and to congratulate our three winners. All entries were very imaginative and fun to read which made it difficult to choose. As far as TIA is concerned you are all winners and we hope you have enjoyed writing them as much as we enjoyed reading them.

Thank-you.

Jul-17-2008 12:03

Thank you very much, TIA, I had a blast writing for your contest. :)

Sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been ill and this is the first chance I've had.