The best of the last four years of Writers’ Guild came to a close on Monday with a quality plot twist in real life: over a dozen students wrote not only stories, but individual prompts for one another, making the entire packet a love letter to Guild.

Some prompts invited writers to work with incredibly little direction (“Write a story about a guy who likes potatoes”); others made inventiveness even more challenging than it already is (“Write a story about yourself with any fantasy powers of your choice; your character must complete something and win exactly $87,134 upon completion”). The writers, even under an unusual time crunch of only one week, delivered above and beyond.

One story turned a prompt about a character doing something while asleep into a horror story about a haunted house with tentacles emerging from wardrobes and staircases that changed length. Another writer, asked to contribute to the internet lore of the SCP Foundation, produc -ed a file in which the Bee Movie and a meme about about a television show were deliberately orchestrated by the Chaos Insurgency to cause global catastrophes.

There were stories about people pulled from alternate versions of the world, stories about Johns Hopkins University students turning themselves into potatoes, and meta stories about writer’s block ending with Rickroll links disguised as GoFundMes for exactly $87,134. And who could forget the commentary at the heart of Guild, the famous “I like your story, but…”?

Yoni Kogan discontinued Dovid Engelsohn’s long tradition of rating stories from 1 to 13 (with 8 being the highest) in favor of grading prompts from 1 to about 7, with 6.3 being ideal and decimals mattering more than you’d think. After discussing each story, not only the authors but the prompt-makers themselves rose to reveal and explain their creations.

This love letter of a Guild packet concluded with a beautiful signature story by Guilderbeast Rafi Taubenfeld, a story in which the consequences of every writing decision are more real than the Guild knows, and which expanded upon the club’s tradition of including a special symbol in each packet.

Thank you to Rafi Taubenfeld and Betzalel Graber for running an incredible year of Guild for us all, and here’s to another year of extremely self-possessed political messaging and pretentiously written joke stories led by next year’s Guilderbeasts, Betzalel Graber and Gavriel Ovits, together with their Assistant Guilderbeast, Yitzchak Engelsohn. Your pen is your gun and your soul is your ammo.

Let the future look upon your works, ye mighty, and despair!