Due to a vexing temporal rift (well, a friend's out-of-town wedding), the DBO Challenge took an unannounced week off. Rest assured, we're back on schedule - and future breaks will be indicated ahead of time.

Anyways, if you haven't sampled Week 3's entries, now is a good time to grab some headphones, crank the volume, and experience the aural landscape your fellow DBO members have crafted.

Using an Excel sheet's RAND() function and a list of Week 3's participants, I randomly selected two winners to receive "SmashMuck Champions" beta codes:
Stephen Laughlin
Mid7night

Keep an eye on your email inboxes, gentlemen. Everyone else, take a look at the DBO Challenge Leaderboard, which has been updated to reflect Week 3's participation. Please glance over it and make sure I've awarded each of you the proper number of points.

Deadline: 6:00pm EDT on Tuesday, April 16th.

The re-release of Pathways Into Darkness is an excellent opportunity to do a Challenge focused on the rich legacy of games preceding Destiny. Your task this week is to write a limerick about one of Bungie's previous titles. Please stick to the standard limerick form of AABBA. (more details)

Available Points:
+1 point for participation

Bonus Points:
+1 point for the "best" limerick about Gnop!, Operation: Desert Storm, or Minotaur
+1 point for the "best" limerick about Pathways Into Darkness or Marathon
+1 point for the "best" limerick about Myth or Oni
+1 point for the "best" limerick about Halo
+2 points for "best" overall

You can enter as many times as you like, in as many categories as you want, but you can only win bonus points once. Note that "best" will be determined by myself or an impartial judge of my choosing.

Bonus Prizes:
Two entrants (randomly selected) will each receive one code for Master Chief armor for your Xbox Avatar.

TLDR: Write limericks about about any previously released Bungie game by 6:00pm EDT on Tuesday, April 16th.

A cyborg quite skilled at war
Leaving bodies all over the floor
Traveling far through space
Whilst giving evil chase
Haven’t I done this before?

I'll let you decide which game it's from :)

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I don't get it at all, except for the AABBA rhyme scheme...

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A weapon from eons gone by
Lies dormant, a ring in the sky
When along comes a green
Armored chaos machine
Who destroys it with his lovely AI

*I couldn't think of a better adjective than lovely. I went from awesome, to sexy, to trusty, and lovely seemed the best fit at the time.

A young paddle in his prime
Just managed to block in time
He sure had the knack
Though the ball raced back
And it flew straight past the line... :(

343 Guilty Spark was alone
Then along came Cortana and John
His advice they rejected
Protocol was neglected
They demolished his halo, his home

Engines at a thunderous roar
Our rifled cannon craving more
Mother Earth is bleeding
A menace fleeting
Victory for VII Corps

- Operation: Desert Storm

Seriously don't know how to write these things. Even the how-to guides for kids were confusing. :P

A weapon from eons gone by
Lies dormant, a ring in the sky
When along comes a green
Armored chaos machine
Who destroys it with his lovely AI

*I couldn't think of a better adjective than lovely. I went from awesome, to sexy, to trusty, and lovely seemed the best fit at the time.

This is nearly perfect - but the 'it' in the final sentence screws the meter. You should consider dropping it. :) (Still works nicely as a limerick without it.)

Cortana was your favorite A.I.
You assumed that she would never die.
As she approached rampancy
she got more and more bosomy
and then with a touch said goodbye.

I know this isn't a Bungie game, but once I got the "B" rhyme I couldn't resist.

There once was a lass with a dream
who was charged with a dastardly scheme
Her soldiers were bots
with questionable thoughts
Not men, but deadly machines.

I'll trade in my armor for robes
And a starship for orbiting globes
But I'm keeping my gun,
it's best on the run
For exploding occipital lobes

My team all took off in a rush
But now all I hear is a fuss
We tried to throw heat
But soon know defeat
'Cuz nobody guarded the pus

At first I just thought it was Pong
But I think I've been doing it wrong
'Cause every time I try
I very promptly die
As soon as the ball comes along.

I know that the task is tall...
The programming team so small...
But lock him away,
And give him his pay,
So haveblue can remake them all.

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A limerick challenge? Good thing Duncan isn't allowed to participate. Wouldn't even be a challenge. Speaking of things Duncan is stupidly good at, next challenge should be taking an existing song and rewriting lyrics to make it about destiny.

A cyborg quite skilled at war
His AI friend opening doors
Traveling far through space
Whilst giving evil chase
Haven’t I done this before?

A weapon from eons gone by
Lies dormant, a ring in the sky
When along comes a green
Armored chaos machine
Who destroys it with his lovely AI

This is nearly perfect - but the 'it' in the final sentence screws the meter. You should consider dropping it. :) (Still works nicely as a limerick without it.)

A weapon from eons gone by
Lies dormant, a ring in the sky
When along comes a green
Armored chaos machine
Who nukes the old halo goodbye

*I really wanted to include Cortana, but I probably would have just re-written the whole thing.

Here lies a man named Avery
Who knew that ladies liked artillery
He liked to talk trash
Had cigars hot with ash
Along with Spartan-like bravery

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The baddest bad ass in the land.
I hold a shotgun in each hand.
When I come on 4 Pfhor
As I walk through the door,
They're gone with a blam, blam, blam, blam!

My lyrical rewrites are gold;
they're funny (or so I've been told).
If I were more bold
I wouldn't withold
the lines about Claude being young.

Hmmm, that last part doesn't sound right.

Can't switch to my teammate's film view
They say there will be a patch soon
Now, I'm not a hater
But 18 years later
There's still no damn patch for M2!

Hypo spray is the way you replenish
Your health when it gets into reddish
Keep one just in case
you need a boost when you face
The AI with a foot fetish

One summer I went off to try
To beat Halo 2 and never die
It would have been easier
if not a bit cheesier
If Twin galaxies let me sword fly

Blam your mom dink ling ling se7en
Waiting up there in the heavens
The aliens board
Stopped by a cyborg
Carrying more than 2 weapons

The shotgun sure looked good on paper
We'll figure out how it works later
It floats and reloads
the ammo then goes
and teleports into the chamber

There once was a silly old man
Who lived way out in Kazakstan
His views on games
Are pretty lame
And that's where our rapport began

Upon a hog of steel
To the world he'd reveal
With some ingenuity
And Marine grenade gratuity
That Pig would ascend beyond automobile

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There one was a girl from the moon
Who had all the brains of a spoon;
Her parents' genes be d***ed -
With tactics in demand
She said "to war", stranding her platoon

There once was a girl with eye candy
Who used to dress fine and dandy;
Not so in Halo 4 -
she must have felt skin's for
Making hard-light body handy

There once was someone marked with shame
- the one you played for half a game -
Who stood up for his race,
Fought the Flood face to face;
And then Halo was never the same

There was from Eridanus II
A demon warrior clad in green hue
Saved the world once or twice
With his friend as the price
And started asking, "I am who?"

There once was a Spartan S.P.
an idiot, trigger-happy...
and a leader of men ?!
Well, if she talks again
I'll lead my foot through my TV

There once was a lad named Preston
Who we placed all our hopes on to win
But in a moment of need,
a heinous deed!
He absconded us for his ex-kin

There once was a scientist spy
Who gave us our cyborg and A.I.
But for her many a crime
hypocrytes gave her time
But now have none on who they can rely

There once was a Spartan S.P.
an idiot, trigger-happy...
and a leader of men ?!
Well, if she talks again
I'll lead my foot through my TV

This one is my favorite :)

Old Cortana's really all right
If a bit chatty during a fight
She crosses her fingers
My suspicions they linger
And still I wonder about that sight.

There was was a green man named Chief,
Wherever he went accompanied by a thief
They upset a prophet
Whoever'd thought it?
And in the end it all came to grief!

Old Cortana's really all right
If a bit chatty during a fight
She crosses her fingers
My suspicions they linger
And still I wonder about that sight.

Cortana is stupid and dumb
I know it's not natural, shut up!
So do something useful
While you're still youthful
and help me get off of this dump!

Green armor and visor of orange
...
...
Crap...

Edit: I know, I know, it's gold

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Konoko could break your neck with ease,
Doing acrobatics sans trapeze.
Her boss, his hair like Bozo,
Took her side 'til she went rogue,
Sounding, oddly enough, just like Keyes.

BTW, what masterpieces are we discussing?

I'm curious to hear you speak considering your rhyme 'dumb' with 'up' and 'pump'.

Their deaths were but the prologue
First breaths to last was a short jog
Bodies quickly degrade
Whoa, a big pile of grenades
Now where'd I park my warthog?

I'm curious to hear you speak considering your rhyme 'dumb' with 'up' and 'dump'.

Like rhyming 'prophet' and 'though it' is any better :-p

Fixed that for you by the way.

I'm curious to hear you speak considering your rhyme 'dumb' with 'up' and 'dump'.

Like rhyming 'prophet' and 'thought it' is any better :-p

Fixed that for you by the way.

Does when I say it.

Fixed that for you, by the way.

But I couldn't help myself. :)

Played the pawn to crazed rampant villainy
Your construction a glaring discrepancy
Transported star to star
I know who you are
When all become one, You are Destiny.

Zooming with my paddle
Thought I'd win the rabble
Gnop it sang
Pong it rang
Only game that could me baffle

A ball is in the air
A bounce is made with care
Anger and shame
He lost the game
And then he shouts "No fair!"

That works meter-wise, right?

A ball is in the air
A bounce is made with care
Anger and shame
He lost the game
And then he shouts "No fair!"

That works meter-wise, right?

Yep!

(I'm not too worried about meter, though. If I was, I'd have to disqualify the majority of the entries! :P)

A ball is in the air
A bounce is made with care
Anger and shame
He lost the game
And then he shouts "No fair!"

That works meter-wise, right?

Yep!

(I'm not too worried about meter, though. If I was, I'd have to disqualify the majority of the entries! :P)

My meter is PERFECT... in my mind...

The battle was not going well
They were blowing our ships all to hell
She went for a stroll
According to Cole
And that was the day that Reach fell

There once was a man all in green,
Though his enemies thought him obscene,
Withstood many a blast,
Now he is the last,
And none, could know where he's been.

Too long has the woman of blue,
Flown through time and space it's true,
As her mind starts to fail,
They continue to sail,
Past the stars, to worlds anew.

A white ball and a black backdrop,
If skillful there's no need to stop,
Obtuse angles he bounces,
Poor players he trounces,
All thanks to a game called GNOP.

On a mission to the Yucatan,
Is a black ops special army man,
An awakening god, who knew?
At least it's not Cthulhu,
And hot weather grants you a sweet tan.

Somewhere around the year 2032,
Is a woman with guns that go "pew",
The earth is polluted,
The plot is convoluted,
And her body-suit was skin tight and blue?!

A whole week and this was the best I could come up with!

A file blackened by ONI
They just call him "the Rookie"
Despite being late
He'll still escape
Without even an injury.

The world was clogged with pollution
The chrysalis its only solution
The Syndicate’s plan
Sell one to every man
Here’s to some rapid evolution!

My archers are all in a line
My knights, just down the incline
A Dwarf gives a yell
My knights think oh hell
But surprisingly everything’s fine

So, are you two going to just make out and get it over with?

Claude and Cody first.

Claude and Cody first.

Right after you and Tex.

Due to a vexing temporal rift (well, a friend's out-of-town wedding), the DBO Challenge took an unannounced week off. Rest assured, we're back on schedule - and future breaks will be indicated ahead of time.

TLDR: Write limericks about about any previously released Bungie game by 6:00pm EDT on Tuesday, April 16th.

:(

I stopped Checking because you stopped posting. Now that I found this (we have a first page? :P) ... it seems the deadline has passed. :( :(

There once was a guy named ncsuDuncan.
Who want to a wedding and got drunken.
He forgot to post -
at the very most -
Why the weeks post would be shrunken!

(Your name also sucks for limericks... you monster)

Just Because:

A boy named John became chosen
Thanks to King of the Hills locomotion

So in the middle of the night
They Flash Cloned him out of sight

So that he may be stolen.

Claude and Cody first.

Right after you and Tex.

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So, I didn't enter for this week, but I DID make up a limerick that I never posted that I ended up sharing with the folks who came to HBOhio.

At their insistence, they asked that I share it.

There once was a man from Connecticut
Who liked to throw LANs for the heckuvit
Hes known as a MOD
And has a great bod
And now I can't remember the rest of it