Most of the other genres already have one, so we should have one too!
Have your characters go on a huge quest for a magical object
BP the quest is a sub plot, not the main plot
TBP if the object turns out to be useless because all it does is make cheese
QBP it it is actually useful because it makes cheese
Cookies if the object really helps save the day by making cheese
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". . . it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." - Terry Pratchett
30,028 / 50,000
Okt 1, 2009 - 23 44
Include a dragon named Fred who really likes taking baths.
----------BP: Water is extremely bad for dragons.
DBP: Fred refuses to admit this, and is constantly sick as a result.
TBP: Fred refuses to admit that he's a dragon at all.
QBP and a cookie: Fred is convinced that he's a bunny, and threatens the other characters with his fiery breath if they call him a dragon.
2006: Overly-Complicated Polygon of LURVE - failed
2008: The Tender Kiss of Apathy - won
2009: No Boundaries - we'll see
591 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 00 10
Include a recurring character who can speak only in rhyme
BP If the character is NOT a bard
DBP If it's your MC
TBP If the character is not exactly the brightest bulb
QBP If the character has Tourette's
15,003 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 00 11
Orcs/goblins/trolls/etc are actually the good races.
Tell the story about one of the big bad's minions instead.
Have your farm boy hero be deluded into thinking he's a destined hero or lost heir to the throne, when in reality he's just a farm boy.
BP: Everyone knows this except him.
21,769 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 00 40
General Fantasy Dares:
Have a wizard who routinely turns enemies into fluffy bunnies.
BP if their logic for this is "Because it's funny."
DBP if they get yelled at for it.
TBP if the rabbits are highly abnormal colors.
QBP if the wizard comes up with another reason for turning people into bunnies, and then appends, "And because it's funny." on the end.
Cookies if this new reason is accepted.
Have a talking sword.
BP if the sword's personality is wildly incompatible with the wielder's.
DBP if the two trade insults in the middle of fights because of this.
TBP if the sword steals the MC's love interest.
QBP if the MC intimidates the sword by learning blacksmithing in order to threaten to turn it into a plowshare.
Cookies if the sword convinces the love interest to run away with it after the threat.
Urban fantasy dares:
Have a character who kills people via txt-tlk.
BP if no one can prove they did it.
DBP if there's a grammar nazi they just can't kill.
TBP if said GN manages to counterattack with a grammatically correct text that kills the txt-tlk killer.
Cookies if the txt-tlk killer accidentally kills himself with a mis-sent message.
Have a dramatic fight take place over ownership of a sandwich, using the plastic cocktail swords.
BP if the characters are the wrong size.
DBP if the characters are the RIGHT size for the swords.
TBP if the sandwich is used as terrain during the fight.
QBP if the fight takes place in a deli, using the entire sandwich-fixing counter as the setting for it.
Cookies if it turns into a wholescale war, complete with olive catapults and vinegar bombs.
Steampunk dares:
Include a chrononaut.
BP if they've come back from the future to avert a horrible crisis.
DBP if the horrible crisis never actually happens.
TBP if this is because someone wrote te history books wrong.
QBP if the chrononaut actually causes the crisis by trying to avert it.
Cookies if the chrononaut causes a paradox and gets erased for trying to change their own past.
Have a character obsessed with aether.
BP if the obsession extends to phlogiston.
DBP if this has nothing to do with the plot.
TBP is aether and phlogiston are proven not to exist during the course of the novel.
QBP if the character successfully makes a device that is fueled by aether and/or phlogiston despite said proof of nonexistence, and uses it to the bewilderment of everyone else.
Cookies if the character isn't a scientist at all.
35,529 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 00 40
Have one character convinced that the world is about to end and there's nothing that can be done about it
BP if this is due to something s/he read in a religious text
DBP if no-one else of the same religion believes him/her
TBP if there's a natural disaster on the day s/he thinks the world is going to end, which causes little or no damage.
QBP if after this point, the character maintains that the world has ended and they're all in the afterlife deluding themselves that the world still exists.
80,520 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 03 30
My list of fantasy dares up for grabs:
- 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
When in doubt, use whatever gives extra wordcount.
Hope dies last but is first to be resurrected from the ashes.
28 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 07 06
Sad things is, I think they are cute. Bam negative 4 points to me!
Hmm a dare for you to grab:
1 dimensional
3 dimensional
1d hero living in a mansion with people fawning all over him meets 3d villian who lives in a run down apartment, has bills to pay, annoying landlady, girl friend who is high mainetence and who wishes "to just be left alone"
----------So it's not that easy to get distracted...
Um, what was that again?
45,175 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 07 24
- 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 yummy. I think I'll take all except the denial and the marriage (possibly end up together though)! That's given me an idea for a major scene too...
24,474 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 08 37
Ok so I like the cheese idea..
ROFL i can't stop laughing at this.
Thanks for the dare
Nw
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28,298 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 08 37
Have a talking sword.
BP if the sword's personality is wildly incompatible with the wielder's.
DBP if the two trade insults in the middle of fights because of this.
TBP if the sword steals the MC's love interest.
QBP if the MC intimidates the sword by learning blacksmithing in order to threaten to turn it into a plowshare.
Cookies if the sword convinces the love interest to run away with it after the threat.
I dare you to include two talking swords, that at least once get used in a fight against each other, and spend most of it talking to each other.
Bonus points if they get along really well, and spend the fight commiserating while their wielders try to kill each other.
Double bonus points if they end up having your novel's primary romance subplot.
BP if the obsession extends to phlogiston.
DBP if this has nothing to do with the plot.
TBP is aether and phlogiston are proven not to exist during the course of the novel.
QBP if the character successfully makes a device that is fueled by aether and/or phlogiston despite said proof of nonexistence, and uses it to the bewilderment of everyone else.
Cookies if the character isn't a scientist at all.
My mad scientist character in our Deadlands game fits this disturbingly well. It always weirds out the other players when I start in on a rant about how the turbine drives the spinning MAGNETS that produce a... a.. VORTEX in the LUMINIFEROUS AETHER, thus generating a stream of GALVANIC ENERGY, the very stuff of LIFE ITSELF, which can OVERRIDE the natural GALVANIC IMPULSES in the victims's FLESH... while making sketches of a device that'd actually work perfectly well (yes, you can use a generator to electrocute someone), despite all of the principles my character thinks it works on being completely wrong.
24,474 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 08 40
- 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
Ok.. I am holding sides now!
I do like the Forrest of Doom of Doom bit... AHH i have to add that to my storyline.
Nw
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42,831 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 09 45
Have a dramatic fight take place over ownership of a sandwich, using the plastic cocktail swords.
BP if the characters are the wrong size.
DBP if the characters are the RIGHT size for the swords.
TBP if the sandwich is used as terrain during the fight.
QBP if the fight takes place in a deli, using the entire sandwich-fixing counter as the setting for it.
Cookies if it turns into a wholescale war, complete with olive catapults and vinegar bombs.
Mmm, I'm so going to use this one, and leave this.
Have a character that can only use one kind of magic.
BP if this magic is the most useless magic ever.
DBP if it can actually make the main villain stronger.
TBP if it often goes wrong in even more useless ways.
Cookies for every balloon animal that it creates.
36,138 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 09 52
Yay for dares threads!
have a depressed gnome pop up every chapter
+ if he appears in completely inappropriate situations
++ if all he does is stare sadly at the MC
+++ if he does this after something funny has happened
++++ if he somehow is relevant to your plot
+++++ if he holds the key to defeating the villain
++++++ if he IS the villain
Have the MC obsessed with dares
+ if there's more than 5 dares per chapter
++ if he is really annoying about it
+++ if there's one in his party/group/ a friend that always does the dares
++++ if the dares are all inspirired from dares from the nanoforums ^.^
+++++ if one of the dares is 'to defeat the villain'
++++++ if the friend succeeds
+++++++ if this pisses of the MC, 'cause that was HIS job
+Cookie if a huge fight breakout over this and the friend becomes the new villain
have the MC be really vain
+ if he always carry a mirror with him
++ if it's a full-length mirror and he has a lackey carry it around so he can see himself constantly
+++if no one thinks this is strange
++++ if the MC's good looks somehow defeats the villain
+ Cookie if the MC reject the main love interest in the end because he loves himself too much
+ Chocolate chip cookie with milk if he then proceeds to try and kiss his reflection XD
Have the main quest to be for an unknown magical and mystical item.
+if no one knows what they're looking for
++if they on several occasions throughout the story run across the item, but fail to recognize it
+++if it's a really ordinary object
++++if it¨s a cheese grate
+++++if the villain is lactose intolerant and is defeated by having grated cheese blown at him
++++++if this was entirely unintentional
+Cookie if it was one of the villains minions who did it
some silly ones i wrote last year, that kinda stuck with me:
I dare you to have a flamingo pop up every chapter for no reason
+ if it's in a world without flamingos
++ if no one thinks this is strange
+++ if this somehow fits in with the rest of your story
++++ if the MC after having seen it for a few chapters starts pointing out that they're being followed by a strange pink bird
+++++ if the MC is the only one that notices it
++++++ if the MC's friends start to think he's not right in the head
+++++++ if the MC start suspecting the flamingo to be working for the villain
++++++++ if the flamingo is working for the villain
+++++++++ if the flamingo IS the villain
++++++++++ if flamingo takes over the world
Cookie if MC decides that strange pink birds are actaully very cute and join forces with the flamingo
Have the MC be almost obssessed with defeating the evil guy
+ If there is no evil guy
++ if MC's friends point this out
+++ if MC ignores them and continue to hunt for the villain
++++ if MC has a cute, big-eyed squirrel as a companion
+++++ If the MC's a man
++++++ if the squirrel is/or becomes the villain
+++++++ if no one believes the MC when he tries to tell people that the squirrel is plotting their demise
++++++++ if the squirrel defeats the MC
Cookie if this all happens in the first half of the story and the second half is dedicated to building up the new squirrel-empire
Have a cute animal (bunny as a typical cute animal) suddenly appear in the middle of a fighting scene
+ If it's an important fight
++ If the MC ignore the rest of the fight to chase after the cute animal
+++ if the MC gigges like a little schoolgirl as the MC does this
++++ if the MC is a man.
+++++ if at least one of his friends dies because of this
++++++ if he's the only one that survives
+++++++ If he then prceeds to kill himself in guilt
+Cookie if this doesn't end your story, but the story continues with the cute animal
+Chocolatechip cookie with milk if this was all somehow part of the villain's plan
Mountains of Chocolate cookies if the cute animal was working with the villain from the start
Have the epic battle of the story be something silly, like a snowball fight.
----------+ if it's REALLY epic
++ if someone's mortally wounded
+++ If it's the MC's and villain's last battle
++++ If the villain monologue between throwing snowballs (or whatever silly thing you've chosen)
+++++ if this fits perfectly with the rest of your story
Cookie if the MC's friends and villains minions join in for the fun of it
nano 2009: A scifi-horror with a hint of fantasy yet to be named... I am far out of my comfort zone T.T
12,304 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 11 42
BP: Water is extremely bad for dragons.
DBP: Fred refuses to admit this, and is constantly sick as a result.
TBP: Fred refuses to admit that he's a dragon at all.
QBP and a cookie: Fred is convinced that he's a bunny, and threatens the other characters with his fiery breath if they call him a dragon.
LOL!!! I may just have to adapt my world setting to allow Fred to exist... Just so I can do this dare!!
----------It might actually work with what I'm doing too, as the water is disappearing from my world.
Namaste
An Author is someone who gets paid to tell them where to go, and how to get there.
50,101 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 12 18
Have the epic battle of the story be something silly, like a snowball fight.
+ if it's REALLY epic
++ if someone's mortally wounded
+++ If it's the MC's and villain's last battle
++++ If the villain monologue between throwing snowballs (or whatever silly thing you've chosen)
+++++ if this fits perfectly with the rest of your story
Cookie if the MC's friends and villains minions join in for the fun of it
Does it mean that there's something wrong with me when my first thought was that this was actually do-able in a particular Role-Playing Game inspired world setting?
I mean, really, this could be done. Seriously.
All it takes is a suitably magical school environment.
Darn. Now I have to actually write this. Do I still get the points if it's not in my NaNo novel but an independent short story?
----------2007- Artifacts
2008- The Stilton Incidents
2009- The Dragoon and the Phoenix
15,003 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 16 26
I might snag the talking sword one, although it could very well transfer over to some other kind of weapon if swords don't work in my story. Sounds tremendous fun!
4,158 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 17 24
- 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
I adore all of these! <3 Dang, you're brilliant :D
----------"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." -Karl Marx
0 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 22 22
I dare you to include two talking swords, that at least once get used in a fight against each other, and spend most of it talking to each other.
Bonus points if they get along really well, and spend the fight commiserating while their wielders try to kill each other.
Double bonus points if they end up having your novel's primary romance subplot.
ROFL!!! I think I might just try to include this sometime!
Do I get triple bonus points if another character hears the swords whispering sweet nothings to each other and mutters, "Get a room, you two!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~] >^.^<_) [*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
----------*
* Cats are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
1,770 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 05 46
Have your MC be not only a magic Hero, but also a proctologist.
BP - if the extended knowledge of the human posterior is somehow essential to solving the big magic quest.
DBP - if this is not in an comic fantasy.
30,412 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 06 12
Oh my Lord... I'm SO ninja'ing the flamango dare!
Mine are for urban fantasy:
-Give your MC a really ridiculous car that s/he hates, but keeps, because it's a magic car.
----------2pts: The MC has to say something like "Hipper-squibble snargle-snoof" at top volume to make the magic car work.
3pts: The car isn't actually magicl at all. And the MC doesn't realize until the climax of the book.
4pts: That discovery IS the climax of the book.
5pts: You take this dare and you're not writing urban fantasy. (Imagine a bard pulling around his flying prius.)
"Procrastinate today. Don't put it off."
~Ellen Degeneres
38,083 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 13 30
Dare: The MC is a pacifist.
----------BP: ... who needs to *kill* the villain.
DBP: S/he does it anyway because the world peace shall be restored, or for some other clichéd reason.
TBP: S/he DOESN'T do it and allows the villain to take over the world.
Cookie if you can include both DBP and TBP :P
2009 - The Fateless/Den Ödeslöse
Current mood: Unmotivated
Days without writing: 0
Days reaching 1667: 11/14
28,474 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 15 02
I dare you to have a flamingo pop up every chapter for no reason
+ if it's in a world without flamingos
++ if no one thinks this is strange
+++ if this somehow fits in with the rest of your story
++++ if the MC after having seen it for a few chapters starts pointing out that they're being followed by a strange pink bird
+++++ if the MC is the only one that notices it
++++++ if the MC's friends start to think he's not right in the head
+++++++ if the MC start suspecting the flamingo to be working for the villain
++++++++ if the flamingo is working for the villain
+++++++++ if the flamingo IS the villain
++++++++++ if flamingo takes over the world
Cookie if MC decides that strange pink birds are actaully very cute and join forces with the flamingo
I so love and I'm going to use it.
If nothing else it'll add hummor conidering my story is set in the Underworld
Flamingo + Underworld = Lolz
33,239 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 16 26
Have a wizard who routinely turns enemies into fluffy bunnies.
BP if their logic for this is "Because it's funny."
DBP if they get yelled at for it.
TBP if the rabbits are highly abnormal colors.
QBP if the wizard comes up with another reason for turning people into bunnies, and then appends, "And because it's funny." on the end.
Cookies if this new reason is accepted.
I DIED. I'm so doing that one :D
32,649 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 18 07
- 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")
I could see that working:
----------Bad Guy: Now that I have forced you to take my truth serum, tell me. Where is the rebel base?
Suffix Guy: The forest... of Doom.
Main Characters killed:6
Times 4th wall broken:9
Fight scenes: 12
When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it.
0 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 22 04
Create a world where everyone has strange hair colors (pink, purple, green)
BP If your MC has a normal hair color
DBP If everyone tells the MC that their hair color is wierd
TBP If domesticated animals also has strange fur colors
QBP If the antagonist dyes their hair frequently
Cookies If you have a purple bunny
80,520 / 50,000
Okt 4, 2009 - 01 16
Some more dares:
- 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
When in doubt, use whatever gives extra wordcount.
Hope dies last but is first to be resurrected from the ashes.
4,158 / 50,000
Okt 4, 2009 - 06 52
- 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
I might just switch my story over to fantasy just to use this one...
----------"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." -Karl Marx
32,327 / 50,000
Okt 4, 2009 - 17 26
Have a villain use a FAKE All-Powerful Super-Shiny Orb of Total Awesomeness to trap the protagonist or another antagonist.
Bonus points if the uber-Orb was never real in the first place
Have a really powerful mage character use a machine gun to kill the villain (this is where time traveling is useful)
----------Bonus points if the MC also nukes the villain's lair.
When you are stuck, insert a time-traveling airforce to bomb ancient beasties and wonders.
50,023 / 50,000
Okt 4, 2009 - 19 17
- 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
I'd totally run with this... if I didn't already have my plot outlined >_>
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2006: Angel of the Time Lord - WON
2007: Nothing in Tennis - WON
2008: Shattered Reality - WON
2009: Beyondseer - ?
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2006: Angel of the Time Lord - WON
2007: Nothing in Tennis - WON
2008: Shattered Reality - WON
2009: Beyondseer - WON
134,494 / 50,000
Okt 6, 2009 - 08 33
Dare: Have your villain carry around a book instructing him on how to kill the hero.
----------BP if it's written in a language the villain doesn't understand
TBP if the villain needs to go to the hero in order to get it translated
QBP if the hero doesn't understand the language as much as he thinks he does , and gives a bad translation
Cookies if this saves his life
NaNo '08 - Head Over Hand-Bought Courtney Lebosse Drenched Mauve Flip Flop Heels 50K - WON!
Princess Unknowing (unfinished) 78K WON!