FAI decided to hold a creative writing contest recently called “Tell Us Your Story.” The idea is for players to share interesting moments they have experienced in the world of Runes of Magic, whether they are funny, strange, or anything else worthy. During the two weeks period, we were pleasantly surprised by all the entries submitted! Thank you to everyone who sent in an entry! We thoroughly enjoyed reading all of them.
After careful reading of all the stories received, we have chosen the top three winners.
1st place- Smedley
2nd place- Meru
3rd place- Trobbins
All three will win special in-game items, and here is Smedley’s hilarious short story.
It was a dark night in the Howling Mountains and the only player online was a tired newbie named Noobstixx, who had been gathering resources for what seemed like all day. He was heading back to the Pioneer Village to see if any resources respawned when suddenly a level 50/50 mage priest wearing a long crimson robe with a light blue collar and wielding a small golden wand not much bigger than a tablespoon logged in. Noobstixx quickly hid behind a tree, thinking that the mage priest would PK him and steal his hard earned resources.
“Oh sorry I scared you, didnt think anyone else would be online.” The mage priest had a surprisingly calm and gentle voice. “Who are you and why are you here?” Noobstixx shouted, drawing his small beginner dagger that looked more like a butter knife than a dagger. “My name is Uberstixx, I often help out newbies in Silverspring and the Howling Mountains, but tonight i’m hunting for my old enemy Bloodystixx.
Then Noobstixx asked the most ridiculous question he could think of at the moment: “Oh really, can I come too 
?” Uberstixx chuckled and replied, “Well sure you can try and kill him for me but you wont be able to even get to him as a newbie, here, take this! Uberstixx muttered a spell and suddenly fancy dark green armour with strength runes embedded in the breastplate started to form around Noobstixx’s body. A golden butter knife also began to form on the ground. Noobstixx now looked like a level 50 (minus the butter knife).
They were now ready to find and defeat the extremely frightening Bloodystixx, so they headed north to Silverspring and then turned east to Ravenfell, as they arrived at the Abandoned Fortress, they saw Bloodystixx leaning against a wall, attempting to strike a cool pose. “So you came to fight me again, Uberstixx? Looks like you even brought a little friend with you!”, Bloodystixx taunted. “Actually I won’t be the one fighting, my “little friend” will be.” Uberstixx smiled and pointed at Noobstixx.
“HIM? Havent you realized he’s only level 5???”, Bloodystixx asked, chuckling. “Wait a minute he is?” Uberstixx hovered his cursor over Noobstixx’s name and realized it was true, he had forgotten to cast the Get-To-Lvl-50-In-5-Secs spell. “Oh well if you want me to fight him then I guess i’ll beat him up for fun!” Bloodystixx shouted his battle cry and charged at Noobstixx, daggers raised. Thats when the message showed up: “You cannot attack players below level 15″.
Now it was Noobstixx’s turn to retaliate,(Thanks to Uberstixx’s PK-At-Any-Lvl spell) so he lunged at Bloodystixx with his golden butter knife, killing him instantly, at that same moment, all of the game servers shut down.
THE END
