Game #6 (85 @ LJ)

[writinggame]

Chess board courtesy of clairshadows. Prompts by benebu.

This board is also posted on Livejournal. 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.

There will be no post secret this week

On this board, your movements depend not on the point value of the prompt but on what chess piece you are playing at that moment. Roll the dice to determine your chess piece.

Exceptions:
1a) You are at a Player’s Choice square. Move up, right, down or left according to the point value of the prompt(s).
1b) If the PC square's point value exceeds the board's limits, you should stay in the same column or the same row.
e.g. You're on the red PC square between R and G, going "Up" 3 squares. You stay in the same column but go back to the bottom line, arriving at H square.

2) When skipping a prompt, a pawn may move backwards as many squares as the point value of the prompt.

3) When a pawn reaches the top row (the C-A-PC-J-K-F-B-Q row), it turns into a queen.

Chess piece rules, courtesy of elalone:
1 - King: You may move one square in any direction.
2 - Queen: You may move any number of squares, in any direction.
3 - Rook: You may move any number of squares, either horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally.
4 - Bishop: You may move any number of squares diagonally, but not horizontally or vertically.
5 - Knight: You may move two squares vertically and one horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one vertically (L-shape)
6 - Pawn: You may move only up. On your first move, you may go one or two squares. Afterwards, you may only move one square at a time.

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

Home	Roll the dice to determine your chess piece: 1 - king, 2 - queen, 3 - rook, 4 - bishop, 5 - knight, and 6 - pawn. Start on any square you want on the bottom two rows.
A	Prompt: Array +2
B	Action: Balk +2
C	Character: Chatterbox +2
D	Action: Duck +1
E	Prompt: Elixir +3
F	Character: Fatherless +2
G	Prompt: Germane +1
H	Prompt: Hindrance +1
I	Action: Initiate +2
J	Prompt: Jolt +2
K	Prompt: Knife +1
L	Prompt: Lark +2
M	Prompt: Manifold +2
N	Action: Numb +1
O	Character: Old Stager +2
P	Prompt: Paucity +3
Q	Action: eQuate +3
R	Character: Rash +2
S	Action: Slack/Slacken +2
T	Action: Trample +2
U	Character: Uncanny +2
V	Prompt: Vertigo +1
W	Prompt: Wheel +2
X	Action: eXpiate +3
Y	Action: Yield +2
Z	Prompt: Zing +3

Player’s Choice: Move up, right, down or left according to the point value of the prompt(s).

Player's choice	Box A	Up
Prompt	Character	Action
Earworm +3	Lily-Livered +2	Ignore +1
Frame +1	Latecomer +2	Slander +3
Pack +1	Physician +3	Misread +2
Grudgingly +2	Kidult +2	Shear +2

Player's choice	Box B	Right
Prompt	Character	Action
Lacuna +3	Godmother +2	Win +1
Chore +1	Forward Thinking +3	Disqualify +2
Despondency +2	Unsuspected +2	Repeat +2
Burlap +3	Chain-Smoker +2	Deepen +1

Player's choice	Box C	Down
Prompt	Character	Action
Foursquare +3	Retreating +1	Assume +2
Deadline +2	Gentleman +2	Lift +2
Stencil +3	Determined +1	Seek +2
Track Record +3	Eager +2	Act +1

Player's choice	Box D	Left
Prompt	Character	Action
Cart +3	Vengeful +2	Shoot +1
Spick-and-Span +3	Cold-Blooded +2	Cure +1
Chamomile +3	Deceitful +2	Conform +1
Honed +2	Lazybones +2	Rebel +2

Picture Square. Roll the dice to determine your next chess piece. You may roll the dice again if you get the same chess piece. Move according to your chess piece, not the point value of the prompt(s).

You may use up to two of them, as long as they’re touching each other (either top to bottom or side to side).

Far from the Madding Crowd +2
I've lost my love and I care not, I've lost my love and I care not; I shall soon have another	the line dividing the seen from the unseen	the support of a lover's arm isn't of a kind best calculated to assist a resolve to renounce him
and I always had such a forgetful memory, too	the sorry look of a grand bird without the feathers that make it grand	how different the second nothing is from the first
how women take a favour of that kind	the stuff of which great men's mothers are made	dramas in which men would play a part
genuine lover's love	as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line - less directly as he got nearer	I would rather have curses from you than kisses from any other woman
I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband	a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal	as a pelican in the wilderness

Comments

G; L+2; Lavendar LeFey

[oswulf]

6+2=8 points total
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I was up like a lark the next morning. The night's rest had done me good. Feeling stronger, more recovered, feeling the weight of mystic exertion rising from my shoulders. The weight of the challenge I faced, on the other hand, seemed heavy as ever.

What's the point of an expert whose expertise is to tell you that everything you know is wrong? I moved vigorously through morning rituals, almost skipping the coffee entirely. I was all ready focused. I allowed myself the luxury of fully experiencing the sensations of existence. The sensation of the shower's warm water streaming down my back. The tingle of toostpaste on my tongue. The warm, bitter flow of coffee down my throat. I allowed myself to live in all the little moments, because I knew they were ephemeral. I knew my focus would need to shift to the forest and I needed, for at least this brief spot of time needed to savor the trees.