And with that, the Mortifex challenge was closed.

[quinara]

As the sun fell on All Hallows' Eve, Buffy and Spike and Mortifex were locked in a battle to the death. The night wore on and, eventually, the castle fell, the hordes of undead crumbling into dust. Buffy and Spike couldn't be sure quite what had happened, but, as they looked around and realised that Mortifex was nowhere to be seen, they knew they were victorious.

... Or were they?

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Well, Fag Enders, what can I say? We've had an absolutely fantastic few days, and I know I'm speaking for all the mods when I thank everyone for taking part, for creating so many shiny things and leaving lots of lovely comments to let the creators know their work has been appreciated. (A certain mod aka me needs to catch up in this regard, but I think it's beyond thrilling that you've managed to outpace my capacity to read and watch - it doesn't happen often!) I know I was slightly nervous in the first few hours that no one would be inspired at all, but I think it's been a fairly resounding success, yes? So massive hooray on that front!

But how, I hear you cry, have the scores panned out in this undead killing extravaganza?? Well...

In joint fifth place with one kill each are rahirah with her fic, rebcake with her fic and smells_corrupt with hers.
Then, in joint fourth place with two kills are anviloverheaven with her fics and gryfndor_godess with hers.
In third place is readerjane with an impressive spree of seven ficcy kills,
While our much deserving runner up is slaymesoftly with an even more bloody massacre of nine ficcy kills!

In first place, however, is our gunslinger extraordinaire: brutti_ma_buoni! Littering the killing fields with a whopping nine fics, one icon set and four vids, she takes the title with a grand total of fourteen kills. (Plus a vid I've just noticed, which I'm not counting because the time stamp is 7:03, but that just goes to show that she can't stop the slaughter!) Congratumalations!!

Us modly peoples must now retire to sort out tomorrow (/go to a party), but rest assured that Fag Ends will be back for November, and we hope to see you there. Our gunslinger will be picking out our theme (and will be hearing about it shortly, don't worry), but, until then, thanks again to everyone! And normal comm rules still apply in terms of posting, so if there's anything you still have up your sleeve to post for Something Wicked This Way Comes, either in response to the Mortifex prompts or anything else this month, you can still post about it until midnight your time!

Cheers! Please tell me if I've made any mistakes.

Comments

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats to all those that contributed.

I will be contacting the winner forthwith and finishing off the prizes. Yay!

[quinara]

Yaaaaay!!

[shapinglight]

Yay! That was fun!

[quinara]

Massive yays all round!! :D

Well, obviously I dispute the accuracy of the timestamp *huffle*

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

It has been fab. Seriously. I've been sillier and more inspired than for any other challenge this year, which is saying something. There has been some truly great fic (readerjane's stuff is *awesome* isn't it?) in among the fun and frivols.

Thanks guys.

(And I'd appreciate it if you didn't run another one like this for a leetle while. Am totally knackered.)

The time stamp never lies...

[quinara]

Cheers for being inspired!! Everyone's contributions have been so great, and it's always interesting with something like this to see what prompts actually get out of people, because even though we're all in Buffy fandom we come to things like necromancers and zombies with such different perspectives. It's fun!

(Luckily for you, I'm not sure we have quite the energy for another event like this super soon either!)

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

This was so much fun! It was a brilliant idea and obviously sparked a huge amount of fic. Thank all you mods for all the hard work you did (and do) to keep this community going.

[quinara]

Modding is our pleasure!! Thanks so much for playing - you were awesome! :)

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Brutti was awesome; I was just trying to keep up. :) And, as always, everyone just outdid themselves for this community.