THE DARES BOARD!!! Post any dares you have here!!

Well, there is the Dares thread in the Reaching 50,000 words Section.

However, one could post what you've taken:

1) Name all your chapters after an album. I found an artist called November Doom (and isn't Nano a sort of November Doom?)

2) Put a random black cat in the story. BP if it belongs to the MC

More later...

A couple dares here from off the top of my head:

Have a charector who has an odd sleeping habit, one that often irritates the others they live with.
Bonus points if the charector is the romantic interest of your MC.
Double bonus points, if the romantic interest does it while sleeping in bed with the MC.

Have a charector who is always calm, serious, but when they have coffee, they begin "bouncing of the walls" in a manner of speaking.
Bonus points if the charector does it during a really serious scene.
Double bonus points if the charector does it during the climax of your story.

End your story with the same sentence or paragraph that you began it with.
Bonus points if it actually makes sense.
Double bonus points if you don't go back and edit it first.

More to come later, I am sure.
Night Silver

Oh! I love that last one! It reminds me of poetry. Wow.

At Clarion, one story had an Impala, the car, in it. After that, everyone put an Impala in their stories, just here or there.

Here's my dare. Include a ferret, or two or three. If there are three, name them three names that go together well and are NOT Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

Can you really guide your life using the tarot? No? But can you really guide your characters' lives with the tarot? I say yes.

Kill the character you specifically wrote to be everyone's favorite.
Double points if it's sudden and for no reason.

A penguin randomly show up in a middle of a fight scene.
Bonus points if it's in the desert.
Double bonus points if they show up in every fight scene.

Here are only a few of the zillioins of dares my best friend sent me:

1. Include a game of questions (from Whose Line) in your novel.
(If you don't know the game... Basically you can only speak in questions and as soon as you slip and don't speak in question form, you're out.)

2. Have a character who is so extremely obsessive about order that they can only talk alphabetically.

3. Have a character who carries a huge bag as a purse. For example, the Mary Poppins bag, the bag has EVERYTHING in it. However, everytime she tries to find her cell phone (even when it's ringing) she pulls everything out and still can't find it.

* Start your novel with the line "Where the hell are your pants?!"
* Start your novel with the line "Where the hell are my pants?!"
* Ninja squirrels hijack one of your chapters. And then are never seen again.
* Somewhere in your novel, there are seven goats sitting on an island.
* Don't forget to bring your towel: Have one of your characters always carrying his towel. Whether this is important to the plot is up to you.

Include a chocolate milk stealing monkey. Bonus points if he steals from the MC. Double bonus points if the MC tries to tell someone about it and is not believed.

Have a character that is prone to accidentally setting random objects on fire (waste baskets, slippers, dish rags, etc.)

Include the line "Let's vote. And the one's that don't vote get shot. Now that's Democracy."

Triple if the character knows his/her fate and is secretly looking forward to it.

Have a character purposely drink more than a Daschiell Hammett character. Bonus points if they double the total alchohol count in the whole of Thin Man.

Take your plot. Now write it backwards. Quadriple bonus if no one can tell.

Make page 57 of your novel a character. Bonus points if it makes an appearance in the first 25 pages.

- Include a character who likes to dress up his or her vacuum and take pictures of it.

- Appearance by the absinthe fairy who is extremely pissed off at having the wormwood ripped from her body... looking very dishevelled and just will not shut up at the pure injustice of it all

have a character who is named after some sort of famous character - like Harry Potter, or Sherman T. Potter.. or something of the like - only the character has no clue about the famous thing he or she is named after. So whenever someone makes a reference to the famous name, the character thinks the person making the reference is nuts.

Make at least 15 references throught your novel to the game of Monopoly.
Bonus points if your characters play a game of monopoly.
Double bonus points if the game leads to a disaster that becomes the turning point in your plot.

1. Have the Spanish Inquisition show up, unexpectedly.
+bonus: Play the whole thing straight and serious.
++bonus: If playing it straight, have someone say in all seriousness "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"

And MORE dares!!! Yay!!

Dare: Have an entire scene spent picking flowers.
Bonus Points: Picking flowers somehow is vital to the plot.
Double Bonus Points: If the MC uses them to defeat the bad guy.
Tripple Bonus Points: If the bad guy uses them to defeat the MC.
Quadruple Bonus Points: If everyone is screwed by said flowers.

Dare: Include a rabid sailor.
Bonus Points: Have him bite your protagonist.
Double Bonus Points: Have him bite everyone else.
Triple Bonus Points: Make the bites fatal.

Include the line "You learn more if you don't knock."
+ Bonus points if your character discovers a murder.
^^The dare that nearly saved my plot last year.

Dare: Have your MC suddenly see a floating giant squid crossing the street.
Bonus: If it's the MCs imagination
DB: If the squid is really there and not the MCs imagination
TB: If it's Squidlius (A god I made up: the greek god of squid)
QB: If Squidlius crossing the street at that time and in that place is somehow crucial to the plot

Dare: Have a scene entirely spent on someone in a closet listening to a slumber party
QB: If the party sounds like a girls', but actually turns out to be the MCs little brother and his friends

Dare: If the MC has a little sibling of the opposite gender from the MC, make that sibling a pyromaniac.
DB: If the pyromaniac has a twin who's a pyrophobe.

Dare: Put Mario in your novel somewhere. I don't care where or how, but it has to be the little plumber dude from the video games. Maybe someone's toilet overflows...?

Dare: Shrink Jonas and have him fly on a miniature handglider through the MCs bedroom at night when the MC is browsing through a magazine.
Bonus: If the MC doesn't see Jonas
DB: If MC sees Jonas and whacks him with a flyswatter
TB: If the MCs cat sees Jonas and chases him around the room
QB: If the MCs pets featured in the next dare see Jonas and chase him around the room.

Dare: Give SOMEBODY in your novel three chickens
Bonus: If they are pets
DB: If they are super cute but accidently poop on MCs boy/girlfriend, causing breakup
TB: If they save the good guys from the bad guys
QB: If they simply show up on somebody's doorstep in a box as babies, and the family takes care of them.
LOSE ALL POINTS if the chickens are there to be eaten.

I made these ones up and sent them to my friend (Jonas is her brother, by the way), so if you don';t understand a part, it's probably because it's one of our inside jokes. The next ones, though, I didn't make up:

Include the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 in your novel somewhere.
BP if they're in sequence
DBP if you point out that they ad up to 108

Include a polar bear where a polar bear simply should not be.

Have two characters play Texas Hold 'Em for fruit.

Have you characters play golf at a totally innapropriate time.

Have a drag queen who runs around proclaiming himself "The Queen of Tarts".
BP if he actually gets subjects.

At the final villian/hero showdown, have someone break out a jar of pickles and announce that it's snack time. Delay the showdown until everyone has finished their snack.

And, finally, lines ot include-

"Chemicals come from Jesus?"
"Well, you could kill someone because they were RUDE, and it would be okay..."
"I like to think I'm an example of superior life in this universe."
"Well, this is a good quality long, awkward pause"
"Character A: I'm taking a vow of silence!
Character B: Quick, Character C, start singing!"

Have your chapters named after classical music. Bonus points if the composer shows up somewhere in the chapter. Double bonus points if the chapter number is the opus number. (YOU can guess why I like this one.)

At some point in your novel, have a character seriously consider how to kill a person using cutlery and/or kitchen implements that you wouldn't normally consider to be deadly weapons.

-Have one character ask another why s/he is not building a "teak hottub in Mexico." Have the other character stare back cluelessly.

-Have a cat follow the main characters around EVERYWHERE.
--BP if the cat is in places a cat simply should not be.
---DBP if the cat is always asleep when the characters notice it.
----TBP if the cat wakes up at the end of the story.

Include the line, ", have you got any more remarkably unuseful ideas?"

Make one of your characters a fiddler. When someone invariably asks them to play "Cotton-Eyed Joe" or "Orange Blossom Special," have the character become violent.

Give Inigo Montoya and/or Jack Sparrow cameos in your novel.
+Bonus points if your novel is not a fantasy
++Double bonus points if they frequently return to give running commentary on the other characters' actions.

Have a character say something to which the response, "CHOPSTICKS! BRIDGE" is a perfectly reasonable answer!
+Bonus points if this is NOT anything close to, "What's 'hashi' in Japanese?"

- Have a male character - who is very clearly not a cross-dresser - show up at a Very Public Function wearing Very Girly Shoes.
* Bonus points if he actually thinks the shoes are cool.

- Have a character look to the IKEA catalogue as a source of spiritual guidance.

* Title your novel after a song lyric (or a portion thereof).
* Bonus Points if you title each chapter after after lyrics from the same song (in order).
* Double Bonus Points if you somehow manage to make your plot relate to said lyrics.

Have a character that obsessivly licks banana slugs, trying to get their tongues to go numb, but it doesn't work for them.
+Bonus points if it works for anyone else who tries it.
+Bonus points if this is a major plot point.
+Bonus points if you can make this angsty some way.

include:

-a character who is literally tongue-tied...bonus points if said character spouts completely incomprehensible soliloquies at inoppotune moments

-a character who constantly quotes Laffy Taffy wrappers

-a long, detailed explaination of Mr. Clean's love life...and why it has left him bald

>> Have a magic spoon in you story.
>>> Bonus pionts if it's a major plot device.

>> Have a character say "Do I look like some Japanese Anime Dog Demon!?"
>>> Bonus points if your story makes no references to InuYasha whatsoever.

>> Use the line ". . . but that's another show" as randomly as possible.

>> Have the characters stop the story to have a MythBusters-esque disclamer ("Do not try this at home" "... We're what you call experts" "We do this for a living")
>>> Bonus points if it's disclaming something mundane that we do every day

>> Have a character say " I don't think [enter name here] is an evil genius. He's not evil. And he's not a genius."

>> Have a random karaoke contest
>>> Bonus points if it's between the hero and villian
>>>>>> MEGA bonus points if the song "I Feel Pretty" is sung

Have a character that, when asked, "Where's So-And-So?" answers, "S/He went to go push the button."

Have someone go to a funeral. Have them believe this is a wedding, and no matter what, they will not believe that it is a funeral.
Bonus Points: If they think that the person in the casket is getting married.
Double Bonus Points: If the dead person in the casket is getting married.
Triple Bonus Points: If this involves some sort of zombie ritual.

I fully intend to use the following:

YAY!!!! Someone is using a LOST daer!!! The Texas Hold'em for fruit is totally a lost reference.

"Include the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 in your novel somewhere.
BP if they're in sequence
DBP if you point out that they ad up to 108

Include a polar bear where a polar bear simply should not be.

Have two characters play Texas Hold 'Em for fruit.

Have you characters play golf at a totally inappropriate time."

ALL of these were Lost references...

In other news, I'm going to try to use all of these:

*Include the line "Let's vote. And the one's that don't vote get shot. Now that's Democracy.” (Triple if the character knows his/her fate and is secretly looking forward to it.)

*Include the line "You learn more if you don't knock."
+ Bonus points if your character discovers a murder.

* Have a character that, when asked, "Where's So-And-So?" answers, "S/He went to go push the button."

*Have a character say something to which the response, "CHOPSTICKS! BRIDGE" is a perfectly reasonable answer!
+Bonus points if this is NOT anything close to, "What's 'hashi' in Japanese?"

* include the line, ", have you got any more remarkably unuseful ideas?"

* At some point in your novel, have a character seriously consider how to kill a person using cutlery and/or kitchen implements that you wouldn't normally consider to be deadly weapons.

*"Well, you could kill someone because they were RUDE, and it would be okay..."

*"I like to think I'm an example of superior life in this universe."

*"Well, this is a good quality long, awkward pause"

* End your story with the same sentence or paragraph that you began it with.
Bonus points if it actually makes sense.
Double bonus points if you don't go back and edit it first.

If all goes well, I actually want to have the kitchen appliance murder discovered by those that don't knock...

I'm amazed. Despite the fact that my work does not lend itself to this sort of thing, I actually found one I can use.

It somehow seems appropriate to have either a Stasi or Gestapo agent say "You'll learn more if you don't knock." I shall include that.

GP
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2006 NaNo winner - Berlin, Witnesses at the Crossroads of History

because me and my friend are goofballs...

name a character Phraed (pronounced Fred).
*bonus points if it's a major character

I intend to use this name but it'll be a minor role so no bonus points for me.

I already did that years ago. LOL!

Dare: Have a character who is the reincarnation of Agrippa. Bonus points if the character is a military officer or state department official.

Dare: Have your two lead characters disagree on a hobby. Make this squabble a consistent feature whenever they converse.

Dare: Mention Nanowrimo at least once. Make it seem natural.

Dare: Spend an entire chapter describing the decor and set-up for an upcoming party. Bonus points if we never see the actual party take place.

PW

Nice.

My Phraed is going to be a female... a rather dorky, annoying female.... who just happens to be personal assistant to the main antagonist of my story.

Dare that comes from watching Babylon 5:

Have two characters send off a third with this exchange:
"You shall know pain."
"And you shall know fear."
"And then you will die. Have a nice flight!"

Variations on a theme.

Create a character who always speaks by relating things or using lines from a single source. Examples:

A character who talks only by using lines from Shakespeare. He/She knows them all and constantly finds lines that make sense in the context of the conversation.

A character who regularly quotes lines from Harry Potter, often quoting which book they came from. Extra points if he/she includes lines from the movies and points out they aren't really canon since it was a movie line and not from the book. More extra points if he/she points out places where the movies differ from the books. More extra points if the character is a red head and focuses on lines spoken by a Weasly!

A character who speaks or constantly talks about his/her obsession with movies in general. "Oh, you mean just like what *** did in ***. Remember, he had to *** and then he ****." Extra points for each movie cited, and even more points if you include all six Star Wars movies or all 5 Harry Potter movies. Lots of extra points if you include something from really old movies. A bonus if you use something from Singing in the Rain or It's a Wonderful Life. Double bonus points if you can include something from The Court Jester!

Suddenly, after introducing your protagonist, leave them and switch to a new one who's life has nothing to do with them.
+ if you do this more than once.
++ if one of the early protagonists comes back way later for some stupid reason.

Wow, it's like you've read my book before I've written it.

I've already sent my first character off for no apparent reason, the second is abandoned in the middle of nowhere, and I've just skipped to a completely different character in a completely different situation.

That's highly cool. I've introduced five characters, killed one, maimed another, and abandoned the very first one mentioned in the very first word of the book in the middle of nowhere. He won't show up for a very long time.

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In one brief moment of clarity, he saw the whole picture: life, the universe, and his place in it. If he can do it again, he has a chance to achieve what everyone wants.

Gravitas

I might title mine after a song lyric, if I can find an appropriate one. I did that last year.

Might be a good idea for the chapter titles, too. I think I'm going to end up with like a million chapters and I can't think up titles for any of them.

Here's the dares I have for your using pleasure in this time of, well, insanity that is called NaNo.

Have a Charactor who dreams every night, and instead of waking up screaming, they wake up doing something even stranger, such as laughing, ect.
Bonus points if its a dirty dream.
Double Bonus points if its the MC.
You win cookies and ice cream if the charactor isn't sleeping alone when they do this.

Have a Charactor that often gets to referred to by other charactors as either the Comic Relief boy or the Comic Relief girl.
Bonus points if they are actually the opposite gender than what they are called.
Double bonus points if the charactor is actually not comedic what so ever.

Use the line, "My food is swimming like fish in my plate! And it's YOUR fault!"

Have a Charactor actually crying over anything not usually taken litteraly, such as, "have the charactor cry over spilled milk. Have them freak out if they see a black cat, and so on.

My last one, have a charactor who goes around, saying, "Wait for the other shoe to drop," and is often seen looking up, as if watching for shoes.
Bonus points if they do this even when inside.
Double bonus points if they are hit with a shoe, and are proven right with the second shoe following it, (perhaps hitting another charactor)
Triple bonus points if only one shoe falls, and they get real upset.
Cookie if a charactor gets killed by said shoe or shoes.

I would love to know if you take this last one! I love it!
(I used the line about food swimming like fish. I love it! I laughed so hard, my whole family stopped watching what they were watching, and looked at me. It's not like they don't do that already though!)

Enjoy!
Night Silver

lol, I think hogwartsbound1 was planning on doing something simalat whether you posted this or not. I did this in another novel that I wrote a few years ago.

I've been sitting here trying to read these posts through the haze of my laughter induced tears! Thank you all for your delightfully funny Dares! I'll add one of my own because as a first time WRIMO it's one I am using to keep it interesting:

"Name every character after a product familiar to Society i.e. Jenni-O, Keebler, Comet, Ajax, Olay, etc.

**Double Bonus if the name relates well to the characters personality i.e. Kleenex as a name for someone who is constantly crying or getting a cold.

***Triple Bonus if two characters that hook up have names that go well together in a cliche-ish way i.e. Milk and Honey.

"Bang it out! "

I've already written this little dare out. The MC wakes up from a dirty dream, laughing at it, while sleeping with a different woman than who was in his dream. The dream makes him highly aroused, and he ends up "doing it" with the woman in his bed.

Wohoo!!! I get an awesome sexy scene, double bonus points, plus I win cookies and ice cream! Yay!

There are some great ones here. ^^ I have to do a random story next year so I can make it wonderfully dare-based.

Um. Dares.

Dare: The characters play poker at some point in the novel. It doesn't matter what kind. They can even be playing Texas Hold 'Em for fruit. Then include the lines:
"Now, how can we make this more interesting?"
"STRIP POKER!"
+BP if they actually start playing strip poker.
++DPB if this is critical to the plot in some way.

Dare: Have a wild animal roaming the streets and acting like a person.
+BP if it can't talk.
++DBP if no one notices or cares.
+++TBP if the animal is the main character.
++++QBP if the animal is a white wolf.

Dare: If there is a prophecy in your story concerning a Chosen One or something similar, make the Chosen One someone other than your MC.
+BP if the CO is your MC's pet.
++DBP if the MC's pet is a goldfish, chicken, or some other seemingly useless animal.

Dare: If your story involves some kind of Riders, make them ride something random like emus.
+BP if the animals the Riders ride do nothing to help the Riders (maybe they're turtles, for example.)

If anyone here knows what the card game Munchkin is:
Dare: Include references to Munchkin or one of its variations (Star Munchkin, Munchkin Bites...).

For anyone who takes the pyrotechnic sibling dare:
+BP if the sibling's name is Tim.

Dare: make defenestration a major theme in your story.

Dare: include the word 'kerfuffle' in your story.
+BP if it is a chapter title.

Dare: include the word 'ostrobogulous' in your story. (You'll probably want to google it, cuz it's not in the dictionary.)
+BP if it is said in dialogue.
++DBP if all listening characters know what the word means.

Dare: have a character who speaks using strange and obscure words such as "kerfuffle", "ostrobogulous", "quash", and "pneumonoultramicroscoposilicovolcanoconiosis".
+BP if the antagonist talks like this.
++DPB if everyone talks like this.

Dare: include roof-cleaning ninja assassins in your story.

Dare: include Communist squirrels in your story.

I started and ended mine with the same sentence, no edits needed. It actually made the story come to an excellent close!

Hogwartsbound1: I don't think that Squidlius is a Greek god. I think he's a Lexian god.