Oh my word, this is amazing <3 please can we play story tag again! I haven't your skills for immersive language so you'll need to give me something easier for the next one ;) but oh this is so very good!!
The first part is brilliant, brought along in the moment with the being that encountered the disc, and described so well. The tone, mixing philosophy, and humour, is so much your trade mark and makes for such an entertaining opening.
You pull together so much, so very well. It just, wow! The being, taking the form of the Kraken (or the place of, not that is matters for the plot) is genius. I had no idea how you'd do this, but you, as always, create such a complete picture. The robo-pirates, refusing the back down, determined to slay the beast even as they seem to realise what it may be, or at least, that it is much more than it seems.
The bond created by the connection between Jevil and Wither is fantastic, and I love the ending, a prophecy with gift and curse, I wonder will there be adventures more?
The results and next round are out, I sincerely hope you will gift me another wonderful story <3
UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for the compliments! I would so love to play story tag again, doing one rn with @brisby for a character named Saddie (the Thief/Goat). So whenever yah feel like it, I shall humour a prompt towards yah or yah can give me a prompt to enjoy expanding upon. Whatever shall be the case, just DM me on Discord and we can work this detail for our story tag / ping-pong programme later.
I wondered how that Jevil preface to this entire post was going to work out, glad it produced the feelings it did in yah. Also, equally on that through the medium of my trademark, I enjoy respecting the reader by having fun with them; to treat them with knowing stuff while making their minds paint the picture itself with what a provide. Anyways, when ideas bake for a while and yah got contingent events happening in life, it always necessitates some connections where it is warranted; here, this self-imposed rule still applies and I shall give anything I'm given the due respect it deserves. Anywho, seeing der Kraken in yer original ending gave me a bright idea when stitching that for the "Tell me a Story Contest" when the golden disc was mentioned. Because there's one being that would enjoy, other than a multiplicity of others with similar interests, historical items like the golden disc, Jevil. So I used Jevil as a driving vehicle to not only connect my "Finish the Story" prompt with thy ending, but to also connect it with thy "Finish a Story Contest" as well - other factors and references are duly noted as well as per usual with me and my monoverse, multigalaxy story. (I really need like an anthology book that'll encapsulate all my fictional works while still giving the due respects to the music I use and the contests I used to create my fiction.)
To return from a digression, when yah hinted at the robo-pirates (which I was humouring as well in the prompt along with other survivors of The Void equally mixed in with them), I was sold in the "Tell a story to me" prompt that I had to do it then and there. Anyways, taking them and working on them was a blast and I wanted to respect the idea yah made explicit of which I made implicit with the crew. On the point of the bond, I do agree and cosmic beings do have a heart in a heartless Universe (except Him and His New Angels along with The Void - which I might add I don't make clear distinctions of except in how they operate and their primary concerns. Keep that in mind Internet and record this asterisk wherever I make reference to them, I'll reveal their non-distinction later down the road). Anywho, the ending had to be a nice bow and I'm glad yah recognized the nice bow I put on this entire post. To answer the last question, Wither (or later Cap'n Wither) already has an adventure within the New Angel Saga which goes by his name: Cap'n Wither. For which Cap'n Wither is a direct sequel to A campfire story for It - unsurprisingly this story is a direct prequel to both of them. So maybe yer next round will help me build either a sequel, midquel or a prequel to all three of these items?