[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!

[Nicky.]

Awesomeee!

Who is gonna be team leader?

[Sam]

Has to be you Nicky

[Nicky.]

Okey

I think we should get a basic plot of the story, like get the setting, plot and that, then when we get the characters, we can intigrate them

I would love to write it btw - I love writing stuff like this.. got a B in English exam yesterdayy but if someone wants to write it more than me then just say :3

[Sam]

By the way i thought of a rough idea.

How about a "The Wizard of Oz" type of idea. eg. "The Wizard of TiBB" or something catchier..

The plot could be say... a little boy from TiBB called Madonna, along with puppy Firewire, are searching for the magical Britney of Oz.

Britney of Oz, is a TiBB legend, loved by lots and hated by just as many. Madonna is trying to find Britney to get a signed CD.

On his way he could bump into characters like Fom searching for a music contract, Billy searching for Diana Vickers. You get the idea.

Britney has been described as a legend by many on this forum, and the whole idea could be a group of people trying to find her to get help, just like the wizard of oz.

All to find out "the man behind the curtain" is actually someone like Ross ?

[Sam]

EDIT: Damn i forgot it had to be an original story...

Well it could be about a group of people who come together to find Britney to help them with there problems, but discover its actually an Evill TiBB baddy.

Thats not using the wizard of oz name or story :P

[Nicky.]

Hmm.. possibly, but I think it would be better to come out with our own story line..

[Nicky.]

omg - no way are we having Britney!

The other team got a few haters for having Britney in their video

[Sam]

But Britney could die in it. Everyones happy.

Who killed Britney? A TiBB murder mystery.

Well what do youu suggest?

[Nicky.]

I suggest not Britney!

And if we kill her.. the other half the forum will hate us! So let's leave Britney out of it!

I think we should have a really humorous, original, story that involves the 6 characters.. uses there likes and dislikes, and takes the piss out of them a bit xD (in a funny way though)

[Tom]

YES! I love that idea

If we put Britney in then it has to be negative (and then we'd still have Andy, David etc still on side)

Maybe she could be the witch?

I do love the idea though

and yeah Nicky for team leader, has to be, shes the only one who hasn't yet

[Sam]

We would have to be clever about it though.

Matt says " the quest to find Britney is fine as long as Britney isn't a character and its' not based on any existing story"

As long as there is not references to the Wizard of Oz as such in it we would be okay.

Maybe one character could want her to sign a CD, some are more fan types, then you have characters who just want to meet her so they can kill her.

To cover the "we cant use britney bit" it could turn out that Britney could turn out to be a forum member with a multiple account or something. Or maybe a hater in disguise.

[Nicky.]

Fine, if you guys wants Britney, have her in it, I'm just saying,

Half the forum hate her, the other half are protective of her..

If we put something negative to do with her in, the protective half will kill us, if we put her in positively, the hate half will kill us, and if we put her in at all, it makes us look like we having nothing else to work with..

Just don't say Nicky wanted Britney aswell

[Sam]

Originally posted by Nickyy
Fine, if you guys wants Britney, have her in it, I'm just saying,

Half the forum hate her, the other half are protective of her..

If we put something negative to do with her in, the protective half will kill us, if we put her in positively, the hate half will kill us, and if we put her in at all, it makes us look like we having nothing else to work with..

Just don't say Nicky wanted Britney aswell

Well that's why we'd have characters in it that hate her and like her. I do know what you mean though. But in the other video the team made, people got annoyed because it display Britney being praised with a shrine of CDS. IF we had characters that argued about her in it, but still had a common interest to meet her, whether that would be to kill her or kiss her, i'm sure it'd be fine...

You're team leader though..

[Matt]

Snig has confirmed to me that

You have chosen Nicky as your team leader.

[Nicky.]

I'm just saying that Britney is a very touchy matter on this forum.. I don't love her or hate her.. I don't mind if she is slated or protected.. but I think it would be a mistake to include her, because of the touchyness..

Also, the quest to find Britney is a bit weird.. because some of the forum wouldn't want to find Britney.. xD

Just saying though ^.^

[Sam]

Originally posted by Nickyy
I'm just saying that Britney is a very touchy matter on this forum.. I don't love her or hate her.. I don't mind if she is slated or protected.. but I think it would be a mistake to include her, because of the touchyness..

Also, the quest to find Britney is a bit weird.. because some of the forum wouldn't want to find Britney.. xD

Just saying though ^.^

Not everyone on the forum would be finding her.

What's your idea for a story plot then?

[Nicky.]

I like the idea of finding something, so maybe 5 of the members could all go on a 'quest' together, or one person could set off on their own and find the others along the way, only to find the thing they are looking for is the 6th member, whoever it is.

We would need the thing they were looking for to be really really funny

[Tom]

What about a brief mention like 2 people arguing over her, just basically 1 sentence?

Like one of the Britney Brigade saying to Fom when on search for a record deal (if he does that) "well Britney is better than Kelly anyway" that kind of thing

[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.

[Nicky.]

Britney being mentioned in it would be fine - I just don't think it's a good idea to revolve the whole storyline around her :3

and about the question, I didn't have a clue.. and also my MSN went funny..

I got

Matt says :
What does GMT stand for?
Sam says :
Sent
Matt says :
Correct Sam

All in one go.. so I couldn't have got in anyway xD

[Tom]

Meh its only first pick, no worries Nicky

[Nicky.]

Goodgood!


Matt said he will do the picking when at least 2 of each team are online

[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.

Nicky picked the following characters for your story:

• .Andy.
• Dezzy
• Fom
• Madonna
• TomRocksUrSocks
• Twilight

[Nicky.]

Hope they're ok guys :3

Tomrocksyoursocks was left last btw xD