Week 4 Game (Week 83 @ LJ)

[writinggame]

This week's board is made by somigliana, the prompts are from benebu, and the dice is made by rea_saint.

The game is also posted on LJ. You may play on either site.


The goal of Writing Game is not to make multiple rounds around the board, but to accumulate as many points as possible.

You may switch fandoms/worlds whenever you first pass 20 points, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, then free for all.
e.g. Total points: 19. Complete a +3 prompt.
This brings you to 22 points. At this point you may switch fandoms/worlds.

All the general rules can be found in the user profile. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Home	Roll the dice. Post the result in the comments.
Diamond	Choose from the An Insular Possession table below
PC	Choose from the Player's Choice tables below
A	Prompt: Art +2
B	Prompt: Bond +2
G-J	Write any prompt from G to J
C	Action: Challenge +2
D	Prompt: Dab +2
E	Character: Emboldened +3
F	Prompt: Fence +2
X-B	Write any prompt from X to B
G	Action: Gyrate +3
T-W	Write any prompt from T to W
H	Action: Heat +1
I	Prompt: Intrinsic +2
J	Prompt: Jigsaw Puzzle +3
K	Character: Killjoy +2
L	Prompt: Limit +1
M	Action: Match +2
N	Prompt: Name +1
O	Prompt: Oceanic +3
P	Prompt: Pole +1
Q	Prompt: Qualm +2
R	Prompt: Reverence +3
A-Z	Write any prompt from A to Z
S	Prompt: Shock +1, Foreshock +3
C-F	Write any prompt from C to F
T	Action: Tackle +2
K-N	Write any prompt from K to N
U	Character: Unapologetic +2
V	Action: Vex +3
W	Action: Wield +2
X	Prompt: aXiomatic +3
Y	Prompt: You-Know-Where +2
Z	Write a drabble featuring a character acting on impulse +4

For the Player's Choice squares, you can only take more than one prompt if the ones you choose are in the same row.

New Player's Choice rule: You have to follow the prompt categories (Prompt, Character or Action). If you use a prompt outside its category, you will lose 1 point.

Player's choice	Box A	Go on the ladder
Prompt	Character	Action
Elopement +3	Lithe +1	Galvanize +2
Double-breasted +3	Many-Sided +2	Misuse +1
Dewey decimal classification +3	Flustered +2	Gape +1
Deceptive +1	Madcap +3	Romance +2

Player's choice	Box B	Ignore the ladder
Prompt	Character	Action
Trainwreck +2	Femme Fatale +3	Covet +1
Diamond +2	Quick-tempered +2	Follow +2
Fault +2	Flippant +2	Cure +2
Flight +1	Unyielding +3	Put up with +2

Use a maximum of two quotes for prompt(s), only if they are touching (ie, next to each other, or above/below each other).

Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession table +2 Each
no longer possible to tell whether it is love or contempt which unites	uncertainty is a kind of freedom	There is a Cape Horn of the mind, too
Well, matters, I allow, may only look up, we are so low, and that's a fact	He died of a broken heart. Of what else?	I should always betray a principle for a friend
every man a brother and none a friend	The seven years between nineteen and twenty-six are, it may be seen, long ones	a sense of physical emptiness; fortunate and strange
How we may wonder at our earlier self	now becomes then	the price for turning a blind eye is now subject to review and increase
the distinction between meum et tuum	a damn carefree, disloyal sort of a dog	tea as drunk in London

Comments

+2, E +3, Teen Wolf (Regency Romance AU)

[lilian_cho]

Completed F square, earned 2 points, moved 2 squares to G square, ignored G square, moved 3 squares backward to E square.

Total pts: 8

Character: Emboldened +3, 200 words
Snippet from part 1.2
P.S. Lord Davenant = Danny

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"Item, two brown eyes, with lids to them," Stiles blurted out.

Since the man just continued smiling, he could only deduce that Lord Davenant—for surely it could be nobody but him—was used to people losing temporary control of their faculties in his presence.

"Stay still, blackberry thief." Davenant looked amused as he approached Stiles, who had reflexively frozen at the command.

"Is it a custom for gentlemen in these parts to trespass in only a shirt and waistcoat?" he asked conversationally as he set to gently disentangle Stiles’ shirt.

Stiles had to fight the urge to squirm as Davenant freed his shirttail from the last clinging thorns. He moved one step away, narrowly missing the basket of berries, and said, "No, but why would anyone wear a riding dress to pick blackberries? The purpose of a riding dress is for riding, don't you agree?"

When he saw that the man looked rather bemused, he continued, "I'm terribly sorry for trespassing—it’s just, my dog, you see—and we have an understanding with your bailiff. At any rate, you can't tell me you're going to miss these blackberries!" Stiles finished this half-incoherent speech on a less than satisfactory note.

Styals, a Single Omega

[lilian_cho]

Part 1.1 is up on AO3.

Total pts: 11