[Matt]

Before beginning this task, you must elect a team leader. This must be a unanimous decision. As soon as you have chosen your leader, please contact me (via U2U/MSN) to let me know who your leader is.

Creative Writing is becoming one of the most popular sections on TiBB - so for your fourth task, you must write a short story involving TiBB members.

After electing your team leader, both teams will take turns to select members to include in their story. Each team will be allowed to pick six members from a list of 12.

Once you have chosen members, you should plan your story, and then write it. It is up to you how you split the work, but your story must be no more than 1,500 words long in total.

When you have finished writing your story, you should inform me.

You have until Monday at 5.30pm to write your story. You will then post your story in its own thread in the Creative Writing forum in two parts - the first should be posted at approximately 6.00pm on Monday, and the second at approximately 9.00pm on Monday.

A panel of judges will choose the winning team, with the losers facing the next firing on Tuesday.

Rules:
1. Your story must be completely original, i.e. not directly based on any existing story or TV show.
2. Your story must be no longer than 1,500 words in total.
3. Only the six characters you choose from the list can be the main characters in your story. Other characters must be non-speaking/inactive.
4. The deadline for completion of your story is Monday at 5.30pm GMT.

If you fail to fully complete the task, or adhere to the deadline/posting schedule outlined above, then you will automatically lose the task and face the subsequent elimination.

Good luck!

[Sam!]

Oooer. Can I be team leader this time? As I aint been Team Leader yet and I'm the only original TeamFetch contestant left! lool. And both of you have been team leaders

[Loukas]

Originally posted by Sam!
Oooer. Can I be team leader this time? As I aint been Team Leader yet and I'm the only original TeamFetch contestant left! lool. And both of you have been team leaders

I think that is fair. If you have not been leader yet AND you the only original member of the team left i think you should be leader too

[Matt]

You have until 3.30pm to pick your Team Leader. Please inform me who you have chosen at that time.

[Matt]

Sam has confirmed to me that

You have chosen Sam as your team leader.

[Matt]

A quick update, since the work is supposed to be done here.

I have just asked the two team leaders, Nicky (Oinks!) and Sam (Team Fetch), a question via instant messenger. They were asked to respond via U2U. The leader that answered correctly first won their team the right to choose first from the list of contestants?

The question was: What does GMT stand for?

The answer is Greenwich Mean Time. Sam! responded first, so he won for Team 2. Nicky subsequently expressed that she did not know the answer.

[Matt]

Another update:

Team leaders Nickyy (Oinks) and Sam (Team Fetch) have now chosen characters in an instant message conversation. They chose one by one, with Sam going first.

The 12 available characters were: .Andy., Billy, bronaaaa, Dezzy, Firewire, Fom, Madonna, Princess, Ross, TomRocksUrSocks, Twilight and WATERS.

Sam picked the following characters for your story:

• Billy
• bronaaaa
• Firewire
• Princess
• Ross
• WATERS

[Sam!]

We have a nice cast

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally posted by Matt
A quick update, since the work is supposed to be done here.

I have just asked the two team leaders, Nicky (Oinks!) and Sam (Team Fetch), a question via instant messenger. They were asked to respond via U2U. The leader that answered correctly first won their team the right to choose first from the list of contestants?

The question was: What does GMT stand for?

The answer is Greenwich Mean Time. Sam! responded first, so he won for Team 2. Nicky subsequently expressed that she did not know the answer.

how could she NOT know that answer ? :S

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally posted by Matt
Another update:

Team leaders Nickyy (Oinks) and Sam (Team Fetch) have now chosen characters in an instant message conversation. They chose one by one, with Sam going first.

The 12 available characters were: .Andy., Billy, bronaaaa, Dezzy, Firewire, Fom, Madonna, Princess, Ross, TomRocksUrSocks, Twilight and WATERS.

Sam picked the following characters for your story:

• Billy
• bronaaaa
• Firewire
• Princess
• Ross
• WATERS

good choices Sam!

[Matt]

Announcement

The deadline has been moved to 6.00pm. This means that the first parts of the stories will now be posted at 6.20pm.

[Matt]

Hello,

Sam has confirmed to me that you have finished your story.

I have cleared use of a seventh character. However, according to http://www.wordcounttool.com, your word count is 1528, making your story 28 words over the limit.

EDIT: Okay, I've changed my method of word count judgement to Microsoft Word since that seems to be the tool both teams have used.

Therefore, you're under limit at 1,468 words.

[Matt]

DEADLINE

The deadline has now passed. No more changes can be made to your work.

Please be prepared to post the first part of your story at approximately 6.20pm.

[Matt]

You can post the first part of your story any time now in the Creative Writing forum.

[Matt]

You can post the second part of your story any time now in your story's thread.