Adventure Dares, 2011

So! I'm sure you've all seen the epic Dares threads in some of the main forums. To help kick start your plot a bit, let's have our own little party here, shall we? Share your dares for Adventure stories!


Example:

* - introduce a character who forgot a vital eating utensil (say, a fork)
** - meet up with an indigenous group of peoples who have said eating utensil
*** - who then throw your character in prison for not possessing said eating utensil

* refer to the difficult of the dare, should you choose to accept it.

I tried this for last year's NaNo =

* - Have a fight scene, in a kitchen, involving only kitchen utensils. No points for knives or frying pans.
** - Involve a cheesegrater.
*** - Involve a blender.
**** - Involve a dishcloth.

ALSO

* - Have a character communicate with their ally/partner through a wall using morse code.
** - Use a crowbar, because it's a thick wall.
*** - Use a machine gun, because it's a really thick wall.
**** - Use a teddy, because it's a thin wall, and there's nothing else handy, and they don't want the guards to hear.

"FrankieSunflower" wrote:* - Have a fight scene, in a kitchen, involving only kitchen utensils. No points for knives or frying pans.
** - Involve a cheesegrater.
*** - Involve a blender.
**** - Involve a dishcloth.

I've got my dares from last year still . . . let's see . . . oh, yes, they're on this post-it. :D

Have a battle between the heroes and the villains in a supermarket.

+ If they throw fruit and/or vegetables at some point during this fight
+ If someone shouts "Ahhh! Onions!"
++ If one of your heroes gets one of the villains by getting onion juice into their eyes
++ If one of your heroes gets onion juice in their own eyes
+++ If onion juice in anybody's eyes is the culmination of the fight
++++ If the villains have guns and the heroes only have onions, and the villains lose and run away

Invoke the trope "Only a Flesh Wound" in your novel.

+ If you subvert it
+ If your character is actually seriously injured, but invokes the trope as a joke or sarcasm
++ If it's not a serious injury at all, and one of your characters says this while slapping a band-aid on the other: "Just a flesh wound; you'll live."
+++ If this "wound" in question is a paper cut.
+++ If your character is actually significantly injured and this character puts hand salve or some other wildly appropriate thing, like chapstick, on the injury.
++++ If they use orange marmalade.

Take your favorite action movie and pick five tropes from it, and invoke all of them in your novel.

+ If you pack all of them into one chapter.
+ If you subvert one.
++ If you subvert them all.
+++ If one of your characters mention the movie you picked the tropes from at any point.

Add a spell for summoning frogs

+ If your character actually uses it
++ If they then can't get rid of the frogs
+++ If the spell is "Here froggy, froggy, froggy"

Have a person who only speaks a foreign language, with no way of translation.

+ If this character is actually vital to the plot.
++ If this character is hiding the ability to speak English, and reveals it at the end of the plot.
+++ If they speak Pig Latin.

Lols, I'm gonna be frequenting here :D
Good thing this site isn't blocked at school.

How about:

*If one of your characters calls another a 'wiffling fool'.
** If it's a character's last words to their killer.
*** If it is the protagonist speaking to the antagonist (or vice versa).

How about:

*If one of your characters calls another a 'wiffling fool'.
** If it's a character's last words to their killer.
*** If it is the protagonist speaking to the antagonist (or vice versa).

*** Have your character reference a TARDIS in a positive way referring to an ally.
***Have the protagonist find the one object that the antagonist has been looking for and willingly turn it over to him with no incentive.

Taking. :D It's the perfect description of my non-villain.

:/ Quote button doesn't work. That would be Sparta!'s "wiffling fool" dare.

Nano_bot and Sparta, I will definitely do your dares. Everyone else, I'll try my best, though the one about a foreign language isn't going to work at all for me simply because I'm using the Aliens Speaking English trope. Sorry.

Anyways, here's a dare of my own.

+Have your character attempt to get out of a situation using something they saw in Looney Tunes.
++Have it be something other than the 'Duck Season, Rabbit Season' trope.
++Have it actually work.

These characters always make me laugh, so...

* Have a bored, jaded character who blandly comments on or mocks the action in between tense scenes.
** Have this character, and especially their jaded insight, be important to the plot instead of comic relief
*** Have this character ambiguously aware that they are in a story, and constantly predict the cliches and tropes in the genre
**** Calling these tropes and cliches out by the formal or common terms (such as tropes) for them.
***** Have them do the last by explicitly referencing TVtropes or similar sites!

Here's one:
+ Have a character think they are in a video game
+ Have them refer to or act out cliche video game elements
++ Have other people agree with this character's opionin that they are in a video game
+++ Have the character attempt to load a save/restart something
++++ Have them list a number of diologue options out loud, then choose one, in conversation with a charicter who doesn't think it is a video game
++++ Have it turn out that it is indeed a video game at the end, but through the rest of the book the impression is given that this character was crazy and it wasn't

Stealing SO MANY of these! I can't wait!

This looks fun. Let's see.

*Have one of your characters collect pocket watches.
**She has over twenty on her at all times.
***All of them are five minutes slow except one which she 'corrects'
****This saves her life at the end of the book.
*****She never realizes they were slow

I'm going to be stalking this forum and Fantasy Dares, extensively. I have major plotholes. Also, I'm stealing, like, ALL of these dares.

*Have one of your characters collect pocket watches.
**She has over twenty on her at all times.
***All of them are five minutes slow except one which she 'corrects'
****This saves her life at the end of the book.
*****She never realizes they were slow

I've already got this one! :D

* MC must communicate with person across river
** Normal communication channels are down
*** MC must use semaphore to get message across river
**** MC does NOT know semaphore and must use a Girl Scout to relay message
***** The Girl Scout in question is a Brownie (first or second grader)
****** She continues her camping trip without further interruptions.

Stealing the kitchen one and possibly the gender one :3