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What Is This About?
I have a Hoi4 mod I am working called The New Order: Rises Again (TNORA). It is a fork of another mod that has a long and storied development that is too long and complicated to explain quickly. In any case, Farouk's Wild Ride was a storyline that was never implemented. It was a hilarious meme back in the day, and I don't feel I can do it justice by myself. Hence this contest. I hope to congregate all the submissions into the mod and hopefully create a hilarious series of events.
Rules
You will be given several prompts which you will use short story about Farouk doing something stupid in a foreign country. Your story can no longer then roughly two pages. To submit a story, write down the prompt you would like to use in this thread. First come first served and only one prompt per person. You may make submissions for multiple prompts, but you must then choose which submission should be considered for voting.
You have two weeks to apply for a prompt and submit your story. Please direct message me with your contest submissions. After the two week period, submissions will be closed and the contest will enter a one week public voting period. The top three submissions will be declared the winners and can the winning contestant can opt to either receive a copy of Hollow Knight Silksong OR Europa Universalis V when it releases. I will email steam codes to the winners, so have a throwaway or proxy prepared!
Because your submissions will be integrated into a game mod - which is played by people outside of KF surprisingly enough - I ask that you keep your writing reasonably family friendly. It's not that kind of mod.
Prompts Submissions
The Setting
The game begins in 1962 in an alternative history where the Axis won World War Two. The victors then had a falling out and each gradually went their separate ways, forming opposing power blocks. The humiliated United States leads the remnants of the free world and hopes to put an end to this state of affairs. Also the Germans tried to dam the Mediterranean but it didn't work (well).
Farouk
Our hero, King Farouk I of Egypt is much like his historical counterpart; hedonistic, arbitrary, and generally uninterested in ruling his country. Did I mention he is also FAT?
Egypt in 1962 is a protectorate of Italy. The Muslim Brotherhood, and Arab Nationalists threaten the stability of the nation, but Farouk absolutely does not care and decides to go on a multi-year tour of the world. The Italians can deal with the mess, it's party time!
(Farouk's Itinerary)
The real-life, actual Farouk was an absolute nutcase. Highlights include banning all red cars that weren't his, buying a 2 million dollar private train, staffing his government with idiots ("the kitchen cabinet"), constantly cheating on his wives (he was twice divorced) and owning one of the largest collections of pornography in the world (he possessed a vast collection numbering into the hundreds of thousands of pornographic photographs, postcards, calendars, playing cards, watches, glasses, corkscrews and so on). Once him and his entourage, consisting of his "kitchen cabinet", 30 Albanian bodyguards, assorted Egyptian secretaries and doctors, Sudanese food tasters and various other followers traveled across the French countryside in a column of 7 Cadillacs surrounded by motorcycle-riding bodyguards and an airplane flying overhead with orders to land in case Farouk wanted to fly instead.
Needless to say, TNO Farouk is no less liberal with utilizing state funds. What will he do in this strange and wacky world? Well that's up to you!
The Lore
I am happy to ask questions about the lore. The submissions should be consistent with established lore.
In regards to France, it's split between a bankrupt collaborator government, a semi-pirate state Brittany, and Burgundy - which is basically a super nazi hell nightmare. Zentralafrika is also led by Siegfried Müller, who is almost as equally disinterested in ruling as Farouk, and mainly spends his time shooting wild game and Congolese villagers.
Tag @Sooty Soot for information about India.
What Is This About?
I have a Hoi4 mod I am working called The New Order: Rises Again (TNORA). It is a fork of another mod that has a long and storied development that is too long and complicated to explain quickly. In any case, Farouk's Wild Ride was a storyline that was never implemented. It was a hilarious meme back in the day, and I don't feel I can do it justice by myself. Hence this contest. I hope to congregate all the submissions into the mod and hopefully create a hilarious series of events.
Rules
You will be given several prompts which you will use short story about Farouk doing something stupid in a foreign country. Your story can no longer then roughly two pages. To submit a story, write down the prompt you would like to use in this thread. First come first served and only one prompt per person. You may make submissions for multiple prompts, but you must then choose which submission should be considered for voting.
You have two weeks to apply for a prompt and submit your story. Please direct message me with your contest submissions. After the two week period, submissions will be closed and the contest will enter a one week public voting period. The top three submissions will be declared the winners and can the winning contestant can opt to either receive a copy of Hollow Knight Silksong OR Europa Universalis V when it releases. I will email steam codes to the winners, so have a throwaway or proxy prepared!
Because your submissions will be integrated into a game mod - which is played by people outside of KF surprisingly enough - I ask that you keep your writing reasonably family friendly. It's not that kind of mod.
Prompts Submissions
| Prompt | Writer |
| Farouk gets a wonderful idea to see the world | |
| Highlight reel of Farouk's past adventures following the Italian takeover | |
| Farouk withdraws absurd sums of money from the nation's treasury | |
| Farouk dumps all his duties (including raising his son) on Italo Balbo and his men | |
| Farouk plans his trip across the Med (Turkey, Italy, Iberia) | |
| Farouk flies to Iberia | |
| Farouk gets drunk on Portuguese wine | |
| Farouk spends boatloads of money on useless consumer goods in Barcelona | |
| farouk spends more money in Iberia |
The Setting
The game begins in 1962 in an alternative history where the Axis won World War Two. The victors then had a falling out and each gradually went their separate ways, forming opposing power blocks. The humiliated United States leads the remnants of the free world and hopes to put an end to this state of affairs. Also the Germans tried to dam the Mediterranean but it didn't work (well).
Farouk
Our hero, King Farouk I of Egypt is much like his historical counterpart; hedonistic, arbitrary, and generally uninterested in ruling his country. Did I mention he is also FAT?
Egypt in 1962 is a protectorate of Italy. The Muslim Brotherhood, and Arab Nationalists threaten the stability of the nation, but Farouk absolutely does not care and decides to go on a multi-year tour of the world. The Italians can deal with the mess, it's party time!
(Farouk's Itinerary)
The real-life, actual Farouk was an absolute nutcase. Highlights include banning all red cars that weren't his, buying a 2 million dollar private train, staffing his government with idiots ("the kitchen cabinet"), constantly cheating on his wives (he was twice divorced) and owning one of the largest collections of pornography in the world (he possessed a vast collection numbering into the hundreds of thousands of pornographic photographs, postcards, calendars, playing cards, watches, glasses, corkscrews and so on). Once him and his entourage, consisting of his "kitchen cabinet", 30 Albanian bodyguards, assorted Egyptian secretaries and doctors, Sudanese food tasters and various other followers traveled across the French countryside in a column of 7 Cadillacs surrounded by motorcycle-riding bodyguards and an airplane flying overhead with orders to land in case Farouk wanted to fly instead.
Needless to say, TNO Farouk is no less liberal with utilizing state funds. What will he do in this strange and wacky world? Well that's up to you!
The Lore
I am happy to ask questions about the lore. The submissions should be consistent with established lore.
In regards to France, it's split between a bankrupt collaborator government, a semi-pirate state Brittany, and Burgundy - which is basically a super nazi hell nightmare. Zentralafrika is also led by Siegfried Müller, who is almost as equally disinterested in ruling as Farouk, and mainly spends his time shooting wild game and Congolese villagers.
Tag @Sooty Soot for information about India.
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