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

Ooh, I love me some Shakespare!

Could I have #3 in your wonderful challenge, @WarmNyota_SweetAyesha?

 

I don’t see why not, seeing as these aren’t deadlined, though yeah, it might depend on whether the author is still around. But if one isn’t, another surely will be!

 

Exactly this, @Kahara! There are no deadlines on anything in here, so if the author is still around, please feel free to request anything you'd like.

 

Hello, all!

Isn't it crazy that it's almost September already? Looking at the calendar, I realized that it was more than time for another round of mini-games. That's right: THE MINI-GAMES ARE NOW RE-OPENED FOR 2023 CHALLENGES!

If you submitted a challenge last time around, consider this a fresh start; you are now free to post a new challenge. We only ask that you PM a mod first before posting any subsequent challenges, just to keep from too much congestion in the thread. (Please don't hesitate to do so, that said. We don't bite. ) Nothing has changed about the guidelines for posting challenges. The rules are still the same: keep your prompts small and relatively basic. Think more complex than the drabble challenge, but not quite as in-depth as the dare challenge. This really is the chance for those niche challenges that would otherwise might not see a ton of participants to be posted (though you can also make it broad). If you are posting a “pick a number” challenge, please limit it to 5 entries.

And as always, of course, you may request numbers from any of the previous challenges! Just as you may still post stories for old prompts - in fact, we rather encourage you to do so! There are no deadlines for these games.

If you have any questions or concerns, as always, please feel free to contact any of your mods!

Now, this time, to start off with something a little different . . .

THE TUDOR ROULETTE​

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Ambition. Faith. Greed. Power. Enlightenment. Passion. Glory. Legacy . . . that sounds like a Star Wars story right there, doesn't it? But this time, it's not; instead, it's time to take a bit of inspiration from the fraught times of the Tudor era in Sixteenth Century England.

It’s time to play a game of Tudor Roulette.

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is simple. Pick a number, one through five, and I will give you a quote from a famous personage of the time to use as inspiration for a story. You may stop there, and perhaps the wise shall; however, gentle writer, should your ambition prove yet still more bold, there are further elements you may select. By rolling your own dice through a random number generator, you may choose a virtue and/or a vice to include, as selected from the Pageant of Chateau Vert, where masked courtiers danced, identified only by each character. Should that alone not sate your appetite, you may even endeavor to include a further element by selecting a symbol of Tudor rule of your choice – only, be careful not to lose your head by taking on more than your muse can rightly endure!


Who Will Fall and Who Will Rise

1. earlybird-obi-wan - Virtue: Honor; Vice: Scorn | Symbol of Power: The Ocean | Quote: “A pig, an ass, a dunghill, the spawn of an adder, a basilisk, a lying buffoon, a mad fool with a frothy mouth.” -- Martin Luther, on the subject of Henry VIII | I am a what

2. Findswoman - Virtue: Mercy; Vice: Danger | Symbol of Power: The Rose and The Pearl | Quote: Much suspected by me,/ Nothing proved can be,/ Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.” -- written with a diamond on a window at Woodstock, by Elizabeth I

3. devilinthedetails - Virtue: Constance; Vice: Disdain | Symbol of Power: The Pelican | Quote: "For we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.” -- Catherine of Aragon in a letter to her daughter, Mary I | [Avatar: The Last Airbender] The Legend of Pelican Mothers

4. WarmNyota_SweetAyesha - Virtue: Kindness | Symbol of Power: The Pelican | Quote: “As the holly groweth green/ And never changeth hue,/ So I am, ever hath been,/ Unto my lady true.” -- from “Green Groweth the Holly”, a song by Henry VIII, for Catherine of Aragon | The Road I Was Meant to Travel

5. ViariSkywalker - Virtue: Perseverance; Vice: Strangeness | Symbol of Power: The Pearl | Quote: “No crooked leg, no bleared eye,/ No part deformed out of kind,/ Nor yet so ugly half can be/ As is the inward suspicious mind.” -- a verse by Elizabeth I, written on her French Psalter


From the Pageant of Chateau Vert

Virtues
1. Honor
1. Perseverance
3. Kindness
4. Constance
5. Mercy

Vices
6. Danger
7. Disdain
8. Scorn
9. Malebouche
10. Strangeness


Tudor Symbols of Power

1. The Pelican: a mother’s love; a queen’s love
2. The Ocean: for victory and conquest
3. The Phoenix: for rebirth and longevity
4. The Rose: for heritage and legacy
5. The Pearl: for the moon and purity





(Now step right up and offer a challenge of your own! )

 

Ooh, a Tudor Roulette Challenge! And what perfect timing too since I am currently reading Jane Seymour: Haunted Queen by Alison Weir, and recently read the earlier novels in that series focused on Anne Boleyn and Katharine of Aragon, so I am very much in Tudor England mode

@Mira_Jade I would love to take quote number 3. I also rolled for the random virtue of Constance, the random vice of Disdain, and the random symbol of the Pelican. So we will see what craziness I will concoct with that medley

As for my challenge, it is, drum roll please:

The Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Challenge



Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his horror, but his poems also contain elements of the fantastical and the romantic that demonstrate the depths of his creativity. This challenge is designed as a tribute to some of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe poems, and, of course, as a celebration of rhyme and rhythm as well.

To participate, pick a number, receive a verse from one of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems, and write a story inspired by the assigned verse.



The Brave Souls Who Claimed Verses:

1.
2. Claimed by @Chyntuck
"And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the sounding sea." --Annabel Lee
3. Claimed by @Mira_Jade
Hear the sledges with the bells–
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight
Keeping time, time, time
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells.” –The Bells
4. Claimed by @Kahara
“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand–
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep–I weep!”--A Dream Within a Dream
5. Claimed by @earlybird-obi-wan
“‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied.”--Eldorado

Index of Entries by Our Brave Souls:

1. Jedi ferry by @earlybird-obi-wan
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