The challenge is to write a story to illustrate one of the following beats...
1. Buried alive
2. Fording/crossing a river.
3. Mortally ill gunman deliberately loses gunfight.
4. Shotgun wedding - forced to marry with a gun to the head.
5. Use of mirrors for cheating at cards
Any length story over 100 words (Chris centric), any AU, any rating, any type (gen/het/slash).
Artwork Responses:
Ride Across the River by Tarlan
http://www.michaelbiehn.co.uk/data/art/tarlan/art079.html
Underground by Tonny
http://www.michaelbiehn.co.uk/data/art/tonny/art001.html
Summary: The challenge is to write a story, or create artwork to illustrate one of the following beats...
1. A gun that won't shoot straight.
2. Falling off horse and getting dragged.
3. Horse in bar/saloon.
4. Sheriff/One of the Seven has to imprison woman (or man!) he loves.
5. Woman braves enemy fire to retrieve extra gunpowder when team's run out.
Any length story over 100 words. Can be any AU, any rating, any type (gen/het/slash).
Summary: Normal rules apply that the CHRIS LARABEE must play a center or pivotal role in the story/artwork! After all, it's what this comm is ALL ABOUT! Any genre, any rating.
1. Man pretends to be a ghost, terrorizing families into giving him money.
2. Continue playing cards during a gunfight
3. No problem killing in the heat of battle or in self-defense, but can't bring himself to kill a helpless victim.
4. Traveling salesman
5. Rattlesnake strike
Artwork Responses:
Ghost of a Chance by Tarlan
http://www.michaelbiehn.co.uk/data/art/tarlan/art081.html
Rattler by dolarabee
http://www.smokingkipper.com/misc/Rattlesnake-Vodka.jpg
Summary: We haven't had a new BEATS Challenge for a while. So, here are five prompts. The object is to write a story or create artwork that fits/uses the prompt. You can use one or more prompts in the story/artwork. The story/artwork can be any rating of Gen, Het or Slash, any genre and *MOST IMPORTANT* CHRIS LARABEE must be central or pivotal to the story/artwork - because that is what we are all here to read!!
So..to the prompts for the BEATS Challenge #4:
1. Barbed wire.
2. Dance-halls called hurdy gurdies - men often danced together, because women were scarce.
3. Fake death.
4. Someone has the mark of a knife on him, flogging marks, or the hot branded iron.
5. Vultures.
Chris falls in love again and he can't ignore it.
He falls deep and hard. Can be an original character or canon. Prefer a het story but do what you like.
Summary: So the other day I was watching the olympics and I thought hey wouldn't it be cool if there was a story about the seven in the olympics. It doesn't matter who does what. The story could even be set if you want in the ATF or The Firm universe as maybe an undercover operation for the seven. So this is my challenge. Categories:Other AU > MCAT, ATF, The Firm, The Agency, Other AUCharacters: ALL SEVEN
Summary: Chris has to rescue Vin from a very lovely bounty hunter who makes chris (maybe Vin as well) service her in bed in exchange for Vin's freedom. Categories:Old WestCharacters: Chris Larabee, Vin Tanner
A mysterious red cloud of dust cover Four Corners at night and at the morning all its inhabitants are changed. Vin return of a travel and few nights before reach Four Corners he dreams about six wolves waiting for him at a mountain pass near the city. A gold green eyes black wolf goes to him and watch inquiringly into his eyes. Vin wake up and resume his path. When he arrive Four Corners his six friends are waiting for him. Chris goes to him and watch inquiringly into his eyes.
Chris is the leader of the Four Corner's werewolf pack and he want a mate.
I dreamed this last night and I would love read about it in a story. Read about werewolf lore and the special interaction between Chris and Vin. And how the Seven and the other Four Corner's inhabitants handle their new lifestyle too.
With instincts strongly ruling over their acts and thoughts, will they lost part of that which make them humans and open the doors to the beast lurking inside? Will be the Seven able of keep on maintaining the law in the place? Will they want keep on doing so?
This is a new (and open) universe challenge more than a story challenge and one with bits of Supernatural (the TV show) on it. Oh! And a slash too... Truly, I don't know if you can post a universe challenge instead a story challenge but here I go.
After the horrendous deaths of Sarah and Adam Larabee at the hands of a werewolf, Chris Larabee and his friend Buck Wilmington embark themselves in a crusade to wipe the Earth of the supernatural creatures who prey on the humans.
Their group of two quickly increase when EMT Nathan Jackson witness the bloody attack of a vampire clan on a orphanage located in the poorest part of the city and demand join to them to help in their fight after see them try stop the vampires. Later, is the turn of Josiah Sanchez, Ezra Standish and JD Dunne to join the group.
Josiah is a Social Worker who uncover a ring dedicated to culling homeless to feed them to varied creatures (kinda catering service to nightcrawlers) and who will help Chris and the others to kill the ring leaders and dismantle it. Ezra is a victim who the four rescue from become the meal of a Lacedon (aquatic form of the Ghouls according to role playing game Dungeons&Dragons) and who sensing a healthy profit to be extracted of their enterprise resolve become their unofficial PR and manager. JD goes to them asking help to avenge the mysterious murder of his adoptive parents and who then will join their venture as computer expert (navigating the Net for anomalous incidents which may be caused by supernatural creatures in the prowl).
Unknown to Chris, Buck and Nathan, their new comrades keep important secrets from they: Ezra is a half-elf (elven mother/human father), JD a magician (his birth parents were killed for a rival order of Mages and his memory of the event was wiped but his knowledge of his inheritance survived intact) and Josiah a werewolf. All three of them will confess about their true nature when the seventh member of the group arrives.
Vin Tanner is a very unique bounty hunter: he hunts humans and werewolves who are a danger to the society. His last bounty is Eli Joe, a werewolf who has made himself apart of Lupine Council's rules and who indiscriminately kill and/or force the gift of their kin on his human preys (in turn making them killer beast who prey on another humans).
When Vin and Chris understand both of them are chasing the same quarry they join efforts to exterminate it. Vin save Larabee's live and Chris ask him to join his group. Nevertheless, before Vin accept his offer he feel the need to be honest and reveal to the six men his true nature. Chris is shocked and angry at first but then relent and understand Vin is a good sort and a fine addition to his group. The confession of Vin prompts Josiah, Ezra and JD's. Now, the seven will fight together the evil in their city.
Summary: Chris and a female (canon or ofc) escape form some badguys but they are chained together. (handcuffs, whatever etc.)
This causes a lot of sexual tension. Categories:ATF, Old WestCharacters: Chris Larabee
I would like to see a storyline where Chris Larabee, in the ATF series, meets up with Mark Johnson from the Runaways series, back when he was around 15 or so. Chris can meet him as a snitch, or a homeless kid living in Purgatorio or anywhere really, where Mark tries to help him and is injured, or Chris is injured, and the two end up with a special bond and Chris takes him in as Mark's guardian/foster dad. They have a special relationship and Mark can help him out on the streets as he is used to being out on them. I think this could be a great AU and lots of stories could be written. They each bring a lot of baggage with them emotionally and help each other heal and enjoy life again.
I love the "Little Britches" stories and the relationship between Chris and young Vin, but I'd love for Chris and Mark to develop a relationship as an older teen.
I have thought many times about this kind of series, I am not a writer, but LOVE to read all of the fiction stories about M7 that I can find, especially stories featuring Chris Larabee!!
Summary: When Sarah Larabee is killed in a car crash that let her young son crippled, her husband Chris make their ranch in a special place to disabled children in memory of both losses. One day, a young man named Vin Tanner appears asking a job. Chris see he is great with horses and employ him desperately in need of a new groom and riding instructor. Step by step, Vin will carve a niche for himself in the Larabee family and into their hearts, offering them warmth and laughs in change of their friendship and quick acceptance.
Slash (pairing - Chris/vin) Categories:Other AU, KidsCharacters: ALL SEVEN, Casey Wells, Inez Recillos, Judge Orin Travis, Mary Travis, Nettie Wells, Raphael
