Story contest

Write a story for the web site!


ANNOUNCING....a story contest hosted by Diana the Valkyrie!   Contributors
will submit stories using the following situation, in the knowledge that they
may appear on this website.  The winner for Best Story Submitted will receive
not only eternal glory, but also a year's Silver Membership in Diana's Website.

STORY PARAMETERS


The mercenary heroine, Vara, hired by the local queen, must penetrate a
stronghold held by a group of renegade amazon mercenaries by night.  Her
objective?  To ride out of the fortress the next morning with the nude body
of Omphale, the beautiful renegade captain, slung before her on her horse's
saddle, and leading the other renegades' horses bearing the bodies of their
slain (or even captive) owners.  Before she does so, she must sneak into the
fortress and into Omphale's sleeping chamber (where she may be sleeping with
her favorite female bodyguard -- or somebody else.)  

Getting there will require intimately, neatly and (as quietly as possible)
"silencing" four or more female sentries along the way,
checking/searching/feeling up their bodies, possibly stripping them (for
disguise or looting purposes), and hauling them off to where they won't be
found for a while.  Weapons and techniques for "silencing" may include a slim-
bladed dagger, deftly placed so as to minimize outward bleeding; a blunt
instrument for knocks on the head; rope or cloth garrotte; spear used for a
stick-strangle; and bare hands or arms for neck-breaking, strangling, or
blows. Of course, Vara's preferred weapon is a sword for any battle with
alerted amazons  --  perhaps also Omphale's favorite.   

Vara's potential foes -- whether or not they get a chance to use their weapons
-- can be armed with swords, spears, bows, crossbows, flails, double-headed
hand axes, clubs, etc., and (so that Vara has a reason for appropriating a
disguise)  they should have some distinguishing mark of clothing or fur though
their scanty costume can otherwise vary (from bare breasts and loincloth
upward) given their status as renegade "irregulars."  

Any young male or female slave may also be "silenced" (possibly lethally)  to
avoid an alarm,  though Vara would prefer to bypass them in her quest, since
any such slaves remaining alive after Vara takes the fortress become her
property (as will the property of any defeated enemies) and will take such
orders to clean up the place, etc., as she issues them.   Vara, of course,
must and will be victorious!  (And, of course, she loves her work...)

Artwork inspired by the finished stories or the above concept will also be
appreciated.

Knobkerrie