Challenge Mini-Games Challenge (Now Open For NEW 2024 Challenges!)

Oh wow! What a great reaction, folks! I am so excited to share, and can't wait to see what comes of the prompts!

Yay! I had so much fun thinking up this one, as you can well imagine, I know!

For you, if I could be so humble as to suggest #4? The rune Gyfu (ᚷ) represents the 'G' sound, and symbolizes gifts and generosity, especially as regards the back and forth giving and receiving found in close bonds of friendship. Your stanza from the Rune Poem is: "Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one’s dignity; it furnishes help and subsistence to all broken men who are devoid of aught else."

Oh how I do know your love of all things esoteric!! I hope that this one strikes your muse's fancy, because I had more fun coming up with this silly little challenge than words can rightly express!

#2. The rune Naudiz (ᚾ) represents the 'N' sound, and symbolizes need and distress, but especially in the sense that hardship offers the opportunity for the strong to rise equal to their challenges and persevere for the best. Your stanza from the Rune Poem is: "Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes."

I am so glad you think so! Of course you may!

#1. The rune Sowilō, or Sól (Σ) represents the 'S' sound, and symbolizes the sun and life. When written double, side by side, the rune is changed to encapsulate victory. For your stanza from the Rune Poem, there are two translations that are equally fascinating, each in their own way, so I'm going to include them both! One, an Icelandic version: "Sun is the shield of the clouds and shining ray, the destroyer of ice." Then, the Anglo-Saxon version: "The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers when they journey away over the fishes' bath, until the courser of the deep bears them to land."

Yay! I am more than happy to share:

#5. The rune Hagalaz (ᚺ) represents the 'H' sound, and symbolizes hail, the shock of change, and the driving forces of fate beyond the control of men. Better yet, it represents persevering through those changes, and weathering them just the same as a storm. Your stanza from the Rune Poem is: "Hail is the whitest of grain; it is whirled from the vault of heaven and is tossed about by gusts of wind and then it melts into water."


Alrighty, there is already just #3 left for the Secret of the Runes Challenge! Though I would be happy to add one or two more as interest demands.

 

Wow! Heady stuff, indeed—love it! Thanks so much! And...

...it really rather does, doesn’t it? In fact, I’m getting thoughts about the whole Rose Evergreen group, here...

 

@Kahara - Yay! I am all too happy to share.

#3. The rune Jera (ᛃ) represents the 'J' or 'Y' sound, and symbolizes plenty and prosperity, especially through the reaping of the harvest. It is where we get our English word year from. Jera carries with it the idea of a cycle, which is depicted by the brackets of the rune; no matter what, nature persistently marches on. Your stanza from the Rune Poem is: "The new year is the hope of men, when the gods allow the earth to give her bright fruits to rich and poor alike."


Alrighty, folks, but that's already all of the numbers for the Secrets of the Runes challenge! If anyone else wants a rune though, I would be happy to come up with a few more.

 

My apologies for the double post, but I am all too happy to share that my muse was able to hunker down and write an answer to @Briannakin's Emo/Punk Rock roulette! We're Going Down Swinging is a pre-KotOR vignette featuring Meetra, Alek, fem!Revan, and a whole lotta circa late 2000s angst as only Fall Out Boy can inspire!

Inspiration is a funny thing, too, because that was my one prompt that I honestly didn't have an idea for right away. But, after letting it percolate a plot bunny came out of nowhere and now here I am. That's why these mini-games are such gems. You never know what's going to come of them, in more ways than one! I can't wait to see what everyone else writes as their own prompts spark ideas, because we've had some amazingly fun and creative founts for inspiration so far! I can only imagine how varied and clever the resulting stories will be.

 

I have written a short story (less than 800 words) starring Ahsoka and Rex set during the Clone Wars based on the Yiddish word "kvetch."

Acronyms of the GAR

Thank you for the inspiration!

 

@Mira_Jade , I want to say a huge sorry and an equally huge ohwhatagooseiam! I totally missed your request for one of my Yiddish prompts a few days back:

...and then I went and assigned that very one to @TheRynJedi when she asked for whatever was left. I’m really sorry for that silly mistake.

So, in order that both of you may have a prompt, I’ll give you, Mira, an 8th word, which is:

kvell: to be bursting with pride or pleasure (over someone’s achievements, especially those of a child or child figure).

And I know that makes way more than eight in my list—for which I further apologize—but I really did want to make it up to you when I saw I’d totally skipped over your request! Once again, really sorry about that, and I hope this will make up for it.

 

@Findswoman - You are too dear for words! Do you want to know something equally funny? I signed up for such a gaggle of prompts that it completely slipped my mind that one was missing. So no worries in the slightest!

But yay! I am very grateful that you expanded your list for me, and am all too happy to tackle that prompt too! Kvell is a Yiddish word I'd already gleaned from you and absolutely love, so I'm thrilled to use it as inspiration now.

 

Yay! I made a story index and link for it in my Mulan challenge post.

(And as a shameless reminder to everyone else, there is still #5 available if anyone wants some Mulan inspiration...)