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Phoenix666 writes:

ArsTechnica announces a writing contest:

Here's the dealy-o, faithful readers: if you'd like this copy of Mass Effect: Andromeda and this RC Nomad to be yours, we're going to make you work for it. Specifically, you need to write a short story (500 words max) set somewhere and sometime in the Mass Effect universe. Where and when is up to you—it could be during the original trilogy, or during Andromeda, or anywhere else along the timeline. It could be about the time you were an itinerant dance instructor and you met up with Commander Shepard to try to finally teach him or her the right moves; it could be a noir-themed Sam Spade-esque look at the Citadel from the perspective of a burned-out C-Sec cop; it could be a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-style comic existentialist peek behind the scenes of life on the Normandy as Shepard and crew flit around the galaxy.

It could be anything, as long as it's at least mostly work-safe. No 500-word descriptions of asari tentacle porn, please (but speaking of asari, a 500-word flash fic called "Asari, Not Sorry" about an asari debt collector in the Citadel Wards would be pretty awesome).

FanFic idea #1: Miranda, Liara, and Shepard in a hot tub, when suddenly Harbinger asks to join in.

[Ed Note: There is a caveat. "It could be anything, as long as it's at least mostly work-safe. No 500-word descriptions of asari tentacle porn, please."]

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