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Nico Pengin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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Trapped in a Game: How One's Suspicions Exposed a Galactic Conspiracy

Nico Pengin

Submitted to Contest #182

Part 1: I've always been paranoid about the Unknown Blues. Even before I started playing Batey, I couldn't shake the feeling that they were hiding something from us. They came to Earth, saved us from certain doom, and then decided to keep us trapped inside their ship, Gibraltar, using us as entertainment in their twisted game, as this intellectual species was bored and needed to be entertained. At first, I was excited to be a part of the Batey league. It was a new, futuristic sport, and I was good at it. But as I played, I started to notic...

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Batey: Where Technology and Ancient Sports Collide

Nico Pengin

Submitted to Contest #181

Nico Pengin and his team, The Absolutes, had just come off a hard-fought victory in the first round of the high-stakes Batey tournament. The tournament was held inside the alien ship Gibraltar, which was run by the alien race, the Unknown Blues, which had saved the Earth from a recurring catastrophe caused by human mismanagement of the planet. The Unknown Blues were a technologically advanced alien race, with a deep understanding of physics and engineering. They had a humanoid appearance, but with distinct blue skin and elongated limbs. They...

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The Final Flip: A High-Stakes Batey Game in the Anti-Gravity Sphere

Nico Pengin

Submitted to Contest #180

Nico had always been a survivor. Growing up in the slums of a dying planet, he had learned to adapt and to make the most of every opportunity that came his way. When the Unknown Blues arrived in their massive spaceship, offering a chance for a select few humans to leave Earth behind and start anew, Nico jumped at the chance. The immigration process was straightforward, if a little unsettling. Nico was immunized against a range of diseases, and given a crash course in the customs and technologies of the Unknown Blues. He had never seen creatu...

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Batey Pending

Nico Pengin

Submitted to Contest #123

Nico looked down from the stage. He was too excited listening to the crowd roar for him. He thought to himself, ”They love me, they really love me.” He performed at a level that surprised even himself in this new sport called Batey. A futuristic sport inspired by the Caribbean Taino Indian sport. It was created through the mixture of alien technology and human innovation. The sport is a mixture of Quidditch meeting hacky sack with some technology sprinkled in. Add a crowd of roaring and adoring fans that just saw a sensational play by a dead...

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