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

Mini-Games Challenge!
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Welcome one and all to the mini-games challenge! This idea came to me as I (and I hope many others) will be practicing “social distancing” during the current pandemic. Variety is important to keeping sane during times of isolation, so this came out of a desire to have more choice in writing challenges. Think of this as Mario Party mini-games or a carnival of writing challenges; along the same lines as a “Writer’s Block Breaker” thread, but less prompt-like inspiration, more challenge-like.

How this will work:

Anyone can post a challenge!*(see rule 1) Please see below for the types of challenges preferred. I will keep an index of challenges below, but each individual challenge post should also include an index of submissions. Please quote the challenge you are signing up for (if applicable) or submitting a fic for.

What types of challenges can I post?

Keep it small and relatively basic, but 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). Or to allow people who might not want the full responsibility of hosting a challenge to get their feet wet in creating a challenge. If you are from the pre-move times, you might remember all the character and ‘ship threads we had, all hosting a challenge – this is your time to bring back your Ben Skywalker/Jysella Horn specific challenge. Force people to write poetry! Make it specific to a character, relationship, media, etc. But also remember, these are ‘mini-games’ so keep it basic and fun. If posting a “pick a number” challenge, please limit it to 5 entries.

But please try not to make it too boring (IE simple prompts). Think more complex than the drabble challenge, but not quite as in-depth as the dare challenge. Typical song or quote challenges are the area we are aiming for.


Rules

1. Everyone gets one ‘freebee’ challenge – meaning they do not need my approval to post. After this, you must PM me (Briannakin) for my approval on future challenges - this is mostly to prevent over-spamming of challenges that might be too simple or confusing – but we do want lots of variety in this thread.

2. Explain your challenge. It can be your personal inspiration for the challenge or an explanation of the music genre/long-lost ship/etc that is the basis of the challenge. It doesn’t have to be long, just let people know what they are getting into.

3. Do be offended if someone passes by your challenge – some things just don’t spark other’s muses

4. Sign up for as many challenges as you wish

5. You may combine challenges if that is what strikes your muse’s fancy, just make sure you quote all applicable challenges.

6. I wont keep this thread open for new challenges indefinitely, but story submissions can still be made.


Have fun!

 

Challenge Index

2020 Challenges
Teenage Briannakin’s Late 2000s Emo/Punk-Rock Song Roulette!
OC/OC Challenge
Mulan Quote Challenge
The Idiot’s Array Sabacc Card Challenge!
Classical Music Roulette Challenge
The James Bond Quote Challenge
Missing Scene Challenge
The First/Last Line Challenge
The JOYS OF YIDDISH Challenge
Legends Couples Whose Journey Begs to Be Written
Mav's Musical Medley Mini Challenge
The Mashup Menace
The Secret of the Rune Challenge
The Pride Challenge
Firefly Challenge
Norman Rockwell Challenge
The Looney, Looney Chuck Jones Cartoon Challenge!
The Language of Flowers Challenge
The Haiku Poetry Roulette
Guitar of Fire Roulette
The Nursery Rhyme Challenge


2021 Challenges
The Latin Phrase Roulette
Much Ado About Nothing Challenge
Raiders of the Lost Ark Quote Challenge
The Gilbert and Sullivan Challenge
The Badly Received Character Challenge
The Alice Cooper Song Roulette
The Pretty, Dreamy, Yet Wistfully Sad Classical Piano Challenge
The Discworld Challenge
The Xenobiology Challenge
Master and Padawan Adventure Challenge
The Lore Olympus Quote Roulette
OC Name Challenge
Poetic Nature Word Roulette
The Louis Armstrong Challenge
The BNHA Quote Roulette
The Cotton Candy Grapes Challenge
Remembering the Romanticism Roulette
The Dead Poets' Society Quote Challenge
The Bruce Springsteen Song Challenge
The West Wing Challenge
"Cozy Comfy Reads" Challenge
Star Wars Wildlife Watch
The Apocalyptica Challenge


2022 Challenges
The Jane Austen Quote Challenge
The Xena Quote Challenge
The Uncle Iroh Quote Challenge
The Story Cube Challenge
The Baroque Challenge
Off the Beaten Path: SW Planets Challenge
The Women of Country Challenge
Dream Theme Challenge
Shakespearean Theme Challenge


2023 Challenges
The Tudor Roulette
The Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Challenge
The Disney Villain Song Challenge
The Starset Roulette
The Greek Island Roulette
The Classical Epic Challenge
The Abominable Bunny Challenge
The Cats Challenge
Putting the "Star" in "Star Wars"
The Islamic Architecture Roulette
The Bingo of Obscure Sorrows
The Madonna Challenge
The Stranger Things Soundtrack Roulette Challenge
Jim Gentry Mini Challenge
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Roulette
Australian Song Challenge
Paperwork Challenge


2024 Challenges
Obi-Wan Kenobi Sass Master Challenge
The Underrated Gems of the Early 2000’s Challenge
The Story Building Challenge
The Market and Bazaar Roulette
The (Surrealist) (Woman) Challenge
The "Calvin & Hobbes" Philosophical Challenge
The Random Quote Lottery
The "Ocean Souls" Nightwish Challenge
Stories from Silence: An Arvo Pärt Roulette

 

Teenage Briannakin’s Late 2000s Emo/Punk-Rock Song Roulette!



Well… this is going to be embarrassing. I recently found my hot pink iPod Nano from ~2008. As you can expect, it’s filled with the most Emo, hardcore songs you can imagine. So I picked 5 of them (the classics) and made a roulette, so you can indulge any characters or fandom in some extreme angst, anarchy… or just the archetype of teenage cringe (including ridiculous bangs). Use the song to inspire you or use the title or lyrics however you may chose. Because some of these just don’t make sense (if in doubt, just write Vader).

1. Mira_Jade Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Goin Down
Fic: We're Going Down Swinging
2. TheRynJedi - Slipknot - Snuff
3. hitokiri-black - Three Days Grace - Pain
4. casting - Linkin Park – “Numb”
5. devilinthedetails - Thirty Seconds to Mars – “The Kill”

 

OC/OC Challenge!



When I first began writing fanfic, I wasn’t much for romances, original characters, let alone original characters in relationships with original characters. Yet here I am, 10 years later, almost exclusively writing OC/OC. Funny how that works. Anyways, my muse is eternally grateful we have the more general MMM and OTP challenges which work for OC/OC writers as well as CC writers, but I wanted to take this opportunity to show some love, and challenge, OC/OC writers specifically.

I’m going to give you a (longer) prompt with a few variants (anyone can pick whatever they want, or you can have a number generator give you something at random). You must write a romantic fic with your OC/OC paring, BUT (1) ALL other characters must be CC and (2) you must write it in a way in which people unfamiliar with your OCs will understand what is going on.


Prompt:

On their way to a [romantic picnic, government dinner/ball, seminar, couples therapy] our romantic duo get waylaid by [a crashing vehicle, fowl weather, allergies, a fire nation attack (or equivalent)]. It’s alright, because one saves the other with [pure dumb luck, last minute shopping trip, mounted beast, a cooking utensil], but not before one of the two utters the phrase:
[-‘always the damsel in distress’
-‘what kind of demands are these?’
-‘Look at what I made!’
-‘I’ve never loved you more!”]

In the end, because our romantic duo gets to [cuddle, share an awkward kiss, pose for a incredible photo, drink to old times].

Index

Dis Dress by Kit’

 

Okay, this is one that I came up with the other day when @Findswoman mentioned a list of tarot card related prompts:

The Idiot’s Array Sabacc Card Challenge!​

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As well as being used for the game of the same name, sabacc cards could be used for divination and cartomancy. Besides the regular suit cards (staves, flasks, coins and sabers), there were eight “face cards” with figures or symbols on them. Each card had a specific meaning in such fortune telling.

Care to take a chance? Draw a card, find your fortune, write a story based on its meaning!

1.@theRynJedi, Commander of Staves: A messenger on a fool's errand.
2.@briannakin, Six of Sabers: a journey’s end: What's Next?
3. @mysterycultist , The Destroyed Starship: cataclysmic changes in the near future, death and destruction
4.@WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, The Satellite: a lot of fairly nasty things...deception, deceit, betrayal : Fractured Ties
5. @devilinthedetails , The Wheel: luck, both good and bad, the beginning and the ending of things, random chance: The Shape of Life
6. @Kahara, The Universe: the subject will have the opportunity to do everything he or she wanted to do.
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Also, @devilinthedetails, may I have quote #3?

 

YES! We've got some good challenges started!! I'm going to try not to overload my muse since it's just starting to peek out again.

I can't resist a 'fate' challenge. I'll flip over card number 2!

 

Also @devilinthedetails , your song for the emo/punk song is... Thirty Seconds to Mars – “The Kill”

 

@devilinthedetails Your card is: The Wheel, which implies “luck, both good and bad, the beginning and the ending of things, random chance”.
(and I like my quote; it has a very Jedi vibe to it! I hope I can come up with something that won’t bring dishonor on my cow )

@Briannakin You get my favorite the Six of Sabers, which means “a journey’s end”.

 

Classical Music Roulette Challenge.

Yes, you read that correctly.



My angst is so strong that metal isn't quite--well, metal enough to contain it. Only something like a Beethoven symphony will do for my soundtrack.

It's time to choose: you pick a number, and I give you a piece of European classical music to inspire your story. Since there are but five numbers, and five songs, I was limited in what variety I could provide, but I can at the least assure you they are not *all* by 19th century German composers.

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1. WarmNyotaSweetAyesha Antonio Vivaldi - Summer (from the Four Seasons) / Unfading Shores
2. Kit' Frédéric Chopin - Nocture No. 7 in C Sharp Minor Op. 27 No. 1 / The choices we make
3. Mira_Jade Felix Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) / As Rolls a Thousand Waves to the Rock
4. Kahara Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") Finale
5. Findswoman Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune / Bright Sadness

 

SQUEEAGE!


@Raissa Baiard may I have card #4 and @devilinthedetails - can I have quote #2?

Thanks.

 

[mention]Briannakin [/mention] this is amazing! Thank you! Also definitely taking part in the romance challenge!

[mention]devilinthedetails [/mention] could I please have the number 1 for the Mulan challenge?


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Here we go! The James Bond Quote Challenge!

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Pick a number and I will give you an iconic line from 007 himself. Extra props for incorporating the line into your story, but you can just be inspired by it, too. Genre, characters and length are up to you. Star Wars or NSW, but it would be cool to see an NSW that is NOT a James Bond movie.

1. "Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?" (Casino Royale, 2006) claimed by @TheRynJedi
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3. "Oh, I travel -- sort of a licensed trouble-shooter." (Thunderball, 1965) claimed by @WarmNyota_SweetAyesha
"Holding Fast to What Matters"
4. "They say you’re judged by the strength of your enemies." (Quantum of Solace, 2008) claimed by @Briannakin
5. "Shaken, not stirred" from Goldfinger (1964) claimed by @Kahara

 

@divapilot -- this is tooooooo cool!

Can I have #3 please?

 

You got it!
#3 in the James Bond Quote Challenge is: "Oh, I travel -- sort of a licensed trouble-shooter." (Thunderball, 1965)

 

I have an idea already for the Sabacc card challenge (and the prompt is just perfect for me! I must say), I gotta do this:

Having written a NSW (not Bond) with a Bond quote, I gotta see if I can do it again. I'll take #4!

 

@Briannakin
Perfect! Your quote is: "They say you’re judged by the strength of your enemies." (Quantum of Solace, 2008)

 

Missing Scene Challenge

Write a vignette, short story, or longer featuring a missing scene from SW any era or continuity (Legends or NEU) that you wish had happened or think could have happened. It could be crucial to later events or smaller in the scheme of things but still have a ripple effect.

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Index
devilinthedetails has written a superbly in-character moment for Anakin and Obi-Wan
When the Battle's Lost and Won

 

Your card is: The Satellite implying "a lot of fairly nasty things...deception, deceit, betrayal."

 

You got: Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Goin Down

 

@Mira_Jade : For your song, you have received Felix Mendelssohn - "Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)".