Bard's Tales Contest

This contest has ended, thank you to all of the participants for your great submissions and congratulations to the winner, Superscientist.

There are plenty of Bards dotting the lands, though you may know them better as musicians, and they play many beautiful songs to the delight of all who listen. But, who can forget their other duty? It is their charge to recount the great legends of old to every passerby, to bring tales of great deeds and greater heroes to those who have lost all hope and/or are stuck farming! You must admit, however, that Barrows Brothers and Waldo the Demon Slayer do get rather boring after the eighth retelling. We must provide them with new material!

This contest is simply to create the best legendary tale in short story form! You must introduce your characters, enemy, and conflict AND end it all in a fantastic fashion inside a story that can be read in one (or two) sittings. Be sure to put the Bard's Tales Template at the top of your article!

You will be judged based on how entertaining the story is, how amazingly-awesome-spectacular the characters are, and on your grammar. You know that English class you are taking/took? Yeah, you’ll be using some of that stuff.

Entries

 * Example: Vadid and Lothiag – Berus
 * Saradomin's Gifted Knight – ~Antelope/Valencia~ 'Bringing revenge to others' | Page * Talk * Support
 * The Last Stand of William the Great - FEARTHEWAFFLE 03:26, November 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Skirmish in the Sandstorm - Superscientist 09:55, December 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Father and Son-Coroxn 13:17 January 23 2011

Results
After a slight (coughcough-one full month-coughcough) delay, I have finally gotten off of my lazy butt and judged the contest.


 * First Place: Skirmish in the Sandstorm by SuperScientist. This story could very easily be added to Gielinor and it is indeed make a great tale for the poor desert cities that for some reason seem to lack them.
 * Second Place: Father and Son by Coroxn. This story is very well written and would definitely make a good tale for Edgeville, but I do wonder if the old man patched the second ending on to give a happy ending to a tragic tale...
 * Third Place: The Last Stand of William the Great by FEARTHEWAFFLE. This story is one that would be repeated amongst the citizens of Edgeville for generations to come!
 * Fourth Place: Saradomin's Gifted Knight by Antelope/Valencia. This is an interesting tale about two of his characters growing up and explaining a bit of their backstory. It has a hilarious use of "thy" :P.