Fantasy Dares 2011

Have a character who is a pyromaniac
1 bonus point if the character denies it
2 bonus points if the character's mania is important for the story
3 bonus points if a friend of this character has pyrophobia
4 bonus points if the mania and the phobia are the only things that gives victory against the bad guy(s)
5 bonus points if they end up married

Oh goodness. My MMC2 is a fire-user, and MMC1 is a pyrophobe...I might as well go all-out and make MMC2 a full-fledged pyromaniac.

"Have a ruler/organization/whatever murder someone as a distraction
1 bonus point if it is a regicide
2 bonus points if it leads to a war"

You just dared my plot into existance :)

"Have a "holy" city in your world that all religions view as holy"
Well, it's actually an island in my world. XD

Challange accepted, the princess one might work with my princess and the pulper that one is going to so much fun.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

"Have a ruler/organization/whatever murder someone as a distraction
1 bonus point if it is a regicide
2 bonus points if it leads to a war
3 bonus points if that was the planned distraction
4 bonus points if the other nations/groups/whatevers see through the ruse but play along
5 bonus points if the plan backfires in the end"

Now I have a reason for my civil war to start!!!

Have a hero(ine) who does everything by the book/code/whatever
1 bonus point if he/she gets into trouble because of this
2 bonus points if loved ones of the hero(ine) die because of this
3 bonus points if the hero(ine) is the member of a secret society
4 bonus points if the organization exists to do something silly rather than saving the world
5 bonus points if the hero(ine) dies because he/she follows the code/book/whatever

This one is too easy I have a character that is perfect for this.

Silversweeper wrote:

Have a "holy" city in your world that all religions view as holy
1 bonus point if none of the religions had anything to do with the city in the beginning
2 bonus points if the religion that viewed the city as holy at first is long gone
3 bonus points if a war breaks out over the control of the city

Have a character who uses unnecessary suffixes to what he/she says
1 bonus point if it is "of Doom"
2 bonus points if the character never forgets the suffix
3 bonus points if other characters also start doing this after a while, despite having disliked it at first
4 bonus points if it is used on words that already have a suffix (e.g. The Forest of Fear of Doom)
5 bonus points if the first suffix also is "of Doom" (e.g. The Lands of Doom of Doom)
6 bonus points if it actually becomes important for the story (as more than an "in-joke")

Religion challenge accepted and passed, its the entire premise of my story. However, I've been playing around with adding a wisecracking pirate that will totally add suffixes sarcastically now. This thread is awesome.

Silversweeper wrote:
Didn't see this thread started yet, so here goes:


Have a ruler/organization/whatever murder someone as a distraction
1 bonus point if it is a regicide
2 bonus points if it leads to a war
3 bonus points if that was the planned distraction
4 bonus points if the other nations/groups/whatevers see through the ruse but play along
5 bonus points if the plan backfires in the end

Have a young orphan living on a farm seen as the heir of a throne despite not being the heir
1 bonus point if the princess the true heir was to marry is married to the fake heir
2 bonus points if the real heir shows up some time later and tries to claim the throne
3 bonus points if the princess doesn't fall for him instead
4 bonus points if he somehow manages to seduce her and makes her pregnant
5 bonus points if an evil henchman/the Evil Overlord himself shows up and tries to take the throne
6 bonus points if the forces of good turn to civil war because of this
7 bonus points if the princess falls for the "Evil Heir"
8 bonus points if she is pregnant with the real heir's baby at this time and already have children with the "Fake Heir"
9 bonus points if all of those wanting the throne dies during the civil war
10 bonus points if someone else is chosen as the new ruler and is accepted by both the forces of good and those of evil

Have a "holy" city in your world that all religions view as holy
1 bonus point if none of the religions had anything to do with the city in the beginning
2 bonus points if the religion that viewed the city as holy at first is long gone
3 bonus points if a war breaks out over the control of the city

Have a character who uses unnecessary suffixes to what he/she says
1 bonus point if it is "of Doom"
2 bonus points if the character never forgets the suffix
3 bonus points if other characters also start doing this after a while, despite having disliked it at first
4 bonus points if it is used on words that already have a suffix (e.g. The Forest of Fear of Doom)
5 bonus points if the first suffix also is "of Doom" (e.g. The Lands of Doom of Doom)
6 bonus points if it actually becomes important for the story (as more than an "in-joke")

Have a character who is a pyromaniac
1 bonus point if the character denies it
2 bonus points if the character's mania is important for the story
3 bonus points if a friend of this character has pyrophobia
4 bonus points if the mania and the phobia are the only things that gives victory against the bad guy(s)
5 bonus points if they end up married

Have someone introduce a character with a whole load of "weird" titles
1 bonus point if the character turns out to be a child or someone else that one might not expect after hearing the titles
2 bonus points if the titles are "evil" but are given to a "good" character (or the other way around)
3 bonus points if this character turns out to be important
4 bonus points if the character demands that you use the whole list of titles when speaking to him/her
5 bonus points if the Evil Overlord turns out to have "good" titles (or the opposite) in addition to the first character
6 bonus points if someone confuses them with each other because of this

Have a technologically inferior race/people defeat those who are superior to them
1 bonus point if they look (and act) somewhat like the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi
2 bonus points if they are important for more than this
3 bonus points if at least one main character comes from this race
4 bonus points if the ones defeated by the "Ewoks" once defeated those who were superior to THEM
5 bonus points if one of the female main characters think that the "Ewoks" are cute
6 bonus points if they are offended by this
7 bonus points if she is on the other side
8 bonus points if the only reason her side lost was because she thought that the "Ewoks" were cute
9 bonus points if the only reason for the battle was that she offended the "Ewoks" by telling people that they were cute

Have a hero(ine) who does everything by the book/code/whatever
1 bonus point if he/she gets into trouble because of this
2 bonus points if loved ones of the hero(ine) die because of this
3 bonus points if the hero(ine) is the member of a secret society
4 bonus points if the organization exists to do something silly rather than saving the world
5 bonus points if the hero(ine) dies because he/she follows the code/book/whatever

Tell the story from the villain's point of view
1 bonus point if you don't reveal this until the end
2 bonus points if the evil deeds the villain does are no worse than those of the hero
3 bonus points if many characters are confused and joins the villain's side
4 bonus points if the reader is equally confused
5 bonus points if you do not reveal it at all
6 bonus points if the villain dies at the end when people still believe that he is the hero

Have a hero who is forced to do the opposite of heroic most of the time
1 bonus point if he has to lock a princess in a tower
2 bonus points if he has to get rid of a magical weapon of some kind
3 bonus points if he has got to allow the evil overlord to conquer the world/country/whatever
4 bonus points if he has to be killed by a dragon

Have your characters carry around their ancestors' spirits at all times without being aware of them
1 bonus point if the ancestors notice things their descendants fail to see and try to warn them without succeeding
2 bonus points if the ancestors of two characters can see and spak with one another at will
3 bonus points if the ancestors of the hero and the villain get along very well and try to make their respective descendants to live in peace with one another
4 bonus points if the ancestors of two characters who are in love are enemies and try to sabotage the relationship
5 bonus points if there is a character who can see the ancestors of others and tries to resolve the conflicts

Actually, my plot mostly revolves around the characters KNOWING that their ancestor's spirit is inside them.

One of my characters (sadly not for NaNo) is a seven-year-old pyromaniac girl. It freaks the life out of her quest team, not least because she keeps eating their camp fires.

Sorry. Couldn't help saying that. Some of those dares completely cracked me up.

Silversweeper wrote:
Didn't see this thread started yet, so here goes:


Have a ruler/organization/whatever murder someone as a distraction
1 bonus point if it is a regicide
2 bonus points if it leads to a war
3 bonus points if that was the planned distraction
4 bonus points if the other nations/groups/whatevers see through the ruse but play along
5 bonus points if the plan backfires in the end

At the point where I'm at now it was a planned distraction and let's see, it might backfire in the end.

That makes for a nice quirkiness.

That's hilarious! I was just thinking about adding a villain, and now I am so tempted, just to write that. I might just have to do this one.

I am so stealing this one. It sounds like something my MMC would do, not only to annoy the emperor who is the villain, but to annoy his friends too. Particularly the sorcerer, who is convinced the coin isn't magical but he can't prove it unless he can get his hands on it. Which MMC will not allow because... well he's an obnoxious little git sometimes. =)

that is awesome!! and hilarious....

I love cookies so I am definitely doing this! :)

This completely just inspired me! Now to rehash it for Camp....

Ha! That actually sounds awesome lol. Challenge accepted :P

Double accepted, only with my world's version of pudding :D

Going for it :)

I didn't initially take this dare but I ended up doing so as I wrote. I don't think I managed to get pudding in *every* chapter. But no one ever did eat it :D

Clarification on this, since I can't find an edit or delete button.

Quote:6 bonus points if he would have had just as much power as the king's brother, but killed his brother anyway just for the title

Quote:6 bonus points if being the king's brother would have made him just as powerful as the king, but killed his brother anyway for the title

I'm probably going to use this, because I was thinking about killing off the king in my story. But too bad I don't have a tyrant uncle in my plot; I only have the king's son who wants to destoy the kingdom, so he decideds to kill his father so he could become king, but not after he forces FMC, with whom he is in love with, to marry him, just to secure his position as the next king. Oh, well.... ;)

Two bonus points for me! I lost the rest because Antoine is the good guy and Enrico really, really deserves what he gets coming to him. Also Antoine is the eldest and he has no intention whatsoever of killing his baby brother. Kid's cute!

Four bonus points without even trying. Lose out on five because it's his wife. And he's an Emperor.

Shh. It's a mystery. Everyone thinks his consort did it because said consort is getting a little too old for his job.

Also, the Empress is not so much a terrible ruler because she makes bad decisions, but because she's a sadistic evil controlling bitch.

Also, said consort's father (the Emperor's Justice) definitely is playing both sides of this...

This is hilariously what happens in my non-NaNo WIP I've been working on for years, with some minor tweaks. :) Totally made my day!

Have the king assassinated.
1 bonus point if he is killed to establish a new king <- This
2 bonus points if he was a good ruler <- This
3 bonus points if the new king is a terrible ruler and makes all the wrong decisions <- This
4 bonus points if the killer/new king is a member of the old king's family <- The killer is, but the new king isn't the killer.
5 bonus points if it was the second born in the family line <- The killer is but is not the king's brother, is the king's second daughter.
6 bonus points if he would have had just as much power as the king's brother, but killed his brother anyway just for the title <- Not in this book, but in some other point of the story.
7 bonus points if he tries to kill the old king's child but fails <- The new king does.
8 bonus points if the child grows up knowing nothing of his past, but some random old man gives him a five-minute history lesson on why he must lead a rebellion against his tyrant uncle <- Almost. Is not her tyrant uncle, the aren't related.
9 bonus points if the child leads the rebellion perfectly, despite having no military experience, and becomes an amazing ruler, despite lack of education <- With a few obstacles, but yes.
10 bonus points if the tyrant uncle has a mustache <- Without a body, I can't do it.

Bahaha, I want a goat to save my world. Wait, the world is not coming to an end. Shoot. I would have a goat who'd totally be up to it, though. *sadface*

I dare you to... have circus come to the town your hero is currently in
Bonus points if said circus is an important meeting place for your characters.
Triple points if your hero and the antagonist have a fight during the show and everybody thinks that's totally what should be happening.
Cookies if someone runs away from home with the circus when it leaves town.

ooh. Can't use the salt dare in this NaNo, but I'll totally save it for my modern fairy tales 'verse. ^.^

I probably WILL include a blind lunatic, though. It would be spectacular if he came along and gave my MCs the direction they needed to go next, and then claimed one of the many goats would save the world. XD

I do like the idea of a blind seer initiating a quest :>

blind seer is totally what i needed. thank you so much.

Um...I might actually use the salt one...LOL!

The salt one? I've done that. In real life!

The salt one, for sure! Accepted. :)

I could most likely add the salt one into my story pretty easily. :p I just have to come up with a ritual of some sort. xD Bet if I keep reading this thread I'll find one. :p

Won't be using it in this story, but totally making a note of the salt one as it would be perfect to use in the urban fantasy I want to write at some point.

omg, this is so amazing. YES.

I think I can even work the goat in!

Hee! My MC is actively trying to avoid being name a Chosen One, so this will be awesome!

Also, goat. I'll see what I can do. :D

*snickers* I can take so many of these. The 'Villan as hero' one, the hero who isn't heroic, the holy city, and now this one. My main character actualy IS a mad blind seer who's probably going to destroy the universe just by existing. lol

x5 if the character's gaudy clothing is referred to as "gay attire" :)

x5 if another character is forced to borrow gaudy clothes, and wear them to the final battle.

Huh. I do have one character that I haven't really fleshed out. She could totally rock the weird clothes. I can see where I could use it near the end of the novel, too....

Challenge accepted!

Taking this, up to TBP. It would be perfect for my slightly crazy character.

I love this so much that I will force it into my story whether it likes it or not!!

Sven was already planned to wear ridiculously gaudy clothes and several of the other characters comment on it, but now I'm gong to have to try and get all the bonus points. Hahaha!

I'll take the first bit ( I think) and possibly the first two bonus points. :)

I may make a short story based on this.

Brilliant!!!! It's ideas like this that inspire me to write! =]

I might just take that dare. I'm doing a humorous style anyway, so this will fit perfectly.

x5 if the the character who said the line is the same character who previously said whatever "that" was. ;]

I might take this one, just because it fits one of my groups of characters so well. Also, I might even try for the QBP, since this particular group gets called out on everything near the end.
One thing: does a dare count if you were going to do it anyway? I actually already have 2 characters with unnecessarily long titles and I have 2 borderline pyromaniac characters, none of which actually posses fire magic.

Well theres a distraction for you... "We have to get our out the back before someone realizes she showed up to this stupid thing."

"You're right... I'll accidently dump some punch on Ka'lon over there and get him to throw some of the cake at me. I will duck causing it to hit one of those kids in the corner. That should be all we need to start a food fight and you can sneak out while its happening."

LOL Priceless. Don't know that I will find a place for it. But, its priceless.

I think I could go Quadruple on this. Oh yea!

That... is very very tempting. Especially when some of my MCs are a stressed-out 17 year old new Queen, a very mischievous transformed dragon, and a new knight with a red-head's temper. It's not that hard at all to imagine a food fight breaking out in the royal banquet hall! XD

I think I can actually do this one, up to DBP or TBP. (I'm pretty sure a detective agency is an inappropriate place to start lobbing food around. XD)

Even better, I can use it as a character moment! Yay!

Male dressed as a female? I'm so using that. Now I just have to figure out why....

I was already doing the non-generic medieval european. It's a steampunk novel, more Victorian than medieval, though... still sort of Europe.

Also, one of my two male main characters disguises himself as a girl in order to get into the sovereign's palace and make contact with the other male main character. No one questions a pretty young girl going into the earl's chambers. They would wonder about the young man, however.

I do have an incubus character who might do the innuendo speaking without realizing it :)

Quote: I dare you to use a setting that is not generic medieval european.

I'm already doing a world much like ours only with elves, dragons, etc. Does that count?

Totally doing the innuendo one: medieval style.

I'd be cheating if I took the Non-generic fantasy dare, I was already planning that =3

But I'm considering having a grab at that "character who speaks entirely in innuendo" as innuendo is very strange and foreign in my fantasy as most people favor the laconic and the blunt.

all three of them accepted!!!! =D

I COULD do the intire inuenendo thingy, was trying to figure out more stuff about Kitsune! XD This is perfect for him! Taking it all the way! XD

No medival eurpian setting for me! Ha ha! Underworld, ghosts, telaportation because of a specific asgrialconjunkstion.

Thank You... You just gave my youngest three kids the start of the plot for their joint Nano venture.

Interesting.
This might be fun! Taking note.

does it count im alreadty doing that to like nine fairy tales?

hahaha, taking this purely for the TBP. awesome.

Don't know when I'm going to use it (Might be in a few years) but it is definitely going into my ever-growing collection of dares.

I dare you to have a character that never speaks
BP If this is never explained
DBP if all the other characters try to get him/her to speak
TBP if at a critical juncture the character speaks and saves the day with like one word (ie it might confuse the villain for those precious few seconds that this character who has never talked all of a sudden is talking)

shiremaya wrote:
Will be taking some of these (unintentional innuendo, kosher salt in a spell, gaudy clothing)

I dare you to include a plan where one of the MCs must act as bait.
BP If they refuse to cooperate
TPB if you use the line "What do you mean why do I have a problem with being bait in a plan you admitted probably won't work?"
QBP if they end up using a dummy instead of the character
A batch of fresh chocolate cookies if the dummy is very obviously fake but it works anyway

I'm going to go for TPB =3 thanks!

Taking it.