Comments on 'The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]'Scurrying into the open arena, Urs wasn't worried even though the last shaper had been very impressive. Starting with a blossoming burst of stink, Hruz had woven the blaze into a geometric carnival. Orange lines bisected purple. Pink icosahedrons flew, surrounded by krumnok pentagons. It had been impressive and had yielded a chorus of snorts from the eauditorium.
The three judges sniffed her name in unison and Urs began. Unsheathing her four scent-shaping glands, she trickled out smell in smoky waves, interlocking in a giant ephemeral tapestry. Inwardly beaming, Urs readied to unleash what she had learned in the bogs on the other half of the world.
Tendrils morphed into lumps, rising from smog cesspools, forming into people, building homes, fighting wars. The eaudience rattled their intake glands in amazement. Urs was retelling history in stink! Wars, inventions, art--all rendered in Urs' distinctive scent.
When she had finished, the high, long-glanded judge expelled deeply, "I smell a winner."2008-07-17T01:22:20Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/36891Comment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>that was “Crazy Unique” ..<br />Very good! .. wow.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=806962008-07-17T01:22:20ZALRO613 ♪ LoA ♫http://ficlets.com/authors/alro613Comment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>I was envisioning an opera-like performance. Brilliantly told.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=805532008-07-16T19:38:58ZPyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)http://ficlets.com/authors/pyropunkComment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>Thanks, RainDance.</p>
<p>I was just thinking about how snakes and other animals can “see” in scent, and thought it could work with that.</p>
<p>I’m not even sure these folks (?) have eyes!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=795932008-07-13T19:34:03ZThe Unnamablehttp://ficlets.com/authors/the_unnamableComment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>That was awesome.</p>
<p>You just created a whole new species in one ficlet, and told a story at the same time!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=795782008-07-13T18:52:49ZOrangeOreoshttp://ficlets.com/authors/orangeoreosComment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>That is way cool. I love how scents can create pictures. Do these… “people”(?) see with scents?</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=793592008-07-13T01:02:09ZRainDancehttp://ficlets.com/authors/raindanceComment on The Olafactorial Games [I Smell a Winner Challenge]<p>Wow! very unique world and culture of creatures you have created in such a small space! I love the shapes that mimic the smells for a multi-sensory experience. If this were a book, I might cringe at the scents described!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/36891?basename=785532008-07-10T15:32:52ZMistress Elsha Hawkhttp://ficlets.com/authors/mistress_elsha_hawk