Re: Dares 2011!

Yay! Dares thread. I've already taken half a dozen. It's such a relief to be doing a comedy novel this year, most of the dares won't even be out of place ^_^.

Leaving:

Have a character who makes T-shirts for the other characters with puntastic designs based on their roles in the story.
BP if these t-shirts predict roles characters are going to play in the story.
DBP if at one point a scene seems to be going wrong and the character who makes the t-shirts hurries on, gets two characters to switch t-shirts and suddenly everything makes sense (and there is a collective 'oh' from the ensemble).

Have a character who can only think upside down.

Have a character who makes everything a competition.

In one scene have a gun belonging to someone called Chekov. It has nothing to do with the plot, it has nothing to do with the scene, it's just mentioned. Then, in the final scene of the novel, have the gun suddenly return as a huge plot point.
BP if it's not used to shoot someone, but in some other, random way.
DBP if you can do this in some way that the reader doesn't notice the significance until after they've finished reading the novel (a Fridge Chekov's Gun, if you will)