Week 1 Game (Week 80 @ LJ)

[writinggame]

I'm unable to post comments on LJ because lilian_cho and writing_game are both Basic accounts. =|

Happy Holidays, regardless!

Board and prompts by lilian_cho.


Disclaimer: This is a manipulated image. The base image is taken from a popular Pirates boardgame. Not mine, etc. etc.

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.

You may go clockwise or counterclockwise on this board, but don't change directions midway.
Exceptions: 1) You are going backwards because you skip a prompt.
2) You are at a Player’s Choice Square.

All the general rules can be found in the profile.

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Home	If you think the ending of Inception is a dream, start from any vowels. If you think it's real, start from B, F, J, P or V. If you never watched Inception, start from C, G, K, Q or W.
A	Prompt: Abs +2, Abolish +3
B	Prompt: Blow your/their/etc. mind +2
C	Prompt: Chapter +1, Setting: Canada +3
Gypsy Card	You have coins to spend and visited a fortuneteller. She told you to pick two cards. You picked ___ and ___. (Use Picture tables).
D	Prompt: Die out +2, Dice + 2
Compass	You just saved a Mage from drowning. Out of gratefulness, the Mage called the ___ Wind to help you. (Use Player’s Choice tables).
E	Prompt: Eyes +2, Event +3
F	Prompt: Fastest +1
G	Setting: Grave +2, Prompt: Goosebumps +3
H	Prompt: History +2, Hussar +3
Skull and swords	Your main character caught the plague and died. Roll the dice to go to your next square (Count forward from this space). For the next three drabbles, write about a minor character instead.
I	Prompt: In common +2
J	Character: Judge +3
K	Prompt: Kin +2, Kimchi +3
Triangle Menace	A huge storm hits! Lighten your load or your ship will sink. Rewrite your last drabble, taking out 25 words. Give yourself the same points as the drabble you're rewriting. If this is not your first time braving the Triangle, you may rewrite any of your previous drabbles written for this game, taking out 25 words.
L	Prompt: Language +2, Setting: Los Angeles +3
M	Prompt: Movement +1, Malaria +3
N	Prompt: Neck +1, Setting: 19th Century +3
O	Prompt: Opposite +2
P	Prompt: Port +2
Q	Prompt: Question +1
R	Prompt: Rose +2, Rome +3
S	Prompt: Scattered +1
T	Prompt: Tongue +1, Character: Toddler +2
U	Character: Understanding +2
Triangle Menace	A huge storm hits! Lighten your load or your ship will sink. Rewrite your last drabble, taking out 25 words. Give yourself the same points as the drabble you're rewriting. If this is not your first time braving the Triangle, you may rewrite any of your previous drabbles written for this game, taking out 25 words.
V	Prompt: eVerything +1
W	Prompt: Wind +2, Wind-up +3
X	Action: eXplode +1
Y	Prompt: hello, I love You +2
Z	Prompt: Zircon/Zirconium/Zirconia +3

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Compass: You just saved a Mage from drowning. Out of gratefulness, the Mage called the ___ Wind to help you.
(Use Player’s Choice tables below).

Player's choice	Box A	North/Up
Noun	Verb	Adjective/Adverb
Mosquito +2	Dive +1	Brick-red +2
Acrobat +3	Line +2	White +1
Bird +2	Date +1	Essential +2
Alchemy +3	Document +2	Flighty +1

Player's choice	Box B	East/Right
Noun	Verb	Adjective/Adverb
Muffler +2	Cup +3	Groundless +2
Turban +1	Still +2	Different +3
Kohl +2	Horse around +3	Restored +1
Rabbi +3	Complete +2	Broken +2

Player's choice	Box C	South/Down
Noun	Verb	Adjective/Adverb
Mathematics +2	Part +1	Medieval +3
Translation +3	Sense +1	Balanced +2
Name +2	Complete +1	Main +3
Step +2	Prepare +2	Systematic +2

Player's choice	Box D	West/Left
Noun	Verb	Adjective/Adverb
Astronomer +2	Survey +2	Instrumental +1
Juice +2	Originate +2	Minor +3
Dye +1	Squeeze +2	Glassy +3
Dictionary +1	Soap +2	Soiled +3

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Gypsy Card: You have coins to spend and visited a fortuneteller. She told you to pick two cards. You picked ___ and ___.
(Use Picture tables below).
You may use up to two of them, as long as they’re touching each other (either top to bottom or side to side).

Gypsy Cards +2 each. Prompts from 31_days's September 2011 themes.
All the gates of love you won’t walk through.	Baby, you can kiss my friends.	All your cities I will burn.
My mother is an acrobat; I do the best I can.	Take this, my darling, for the damage I have done.	You can’t win a race with a cannonball.
How a man of the sea became a man of the road	She’s long gone with her red shoes on.	Come and take him by his lily white hands.
My race is run beneath the sun.	There’s frost on the window, no bread on the shelf.	He knew the lights would all be burning bright.
Won’t you let this body your burdens share?	It’s hard dying, but it’s harder being born.	I’m writing a letter that you’ll never see.

Comments

Home, E +3, Merlin

[lilian_cho]

The ending of Inception is ALL A LIE. (Well, the Dom part, at any rate.)

Abusing my modly powers to screen relevant comments again because this fic won't go live until Jan. 23rd.

Event +3, 198 words

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It had been four years since Hunith Emrys had remarried and become Hunith LeFay, but half of the time Merlin still felt ill-at-ease in the trappings of their new world. Even though his stepsister Morgana had taken him firmly in hand and dressed him in the latest men's couture for the occasion, no amount of tailored designer formal wear would hide the fact that he was Merlin Emrys, twenty-year-old uni student prone to overenthusiasm and the tendency to pick the least appropriate subject for polite dinner conversations. This latter tendency was possibly why people didn't believe him when he claimed to be an empath.

Take for example right now, with Merlin talking to Lord Godwyn, Gorlois LeFay's business partner and eighteen-year-old Elena's doting father.

"Elena has the most beautiful complexion and dark brown hair," Merlin remarked.

Godwyn smiled, looking in the direction of the refreshment table, where Elena was talking to a hopeful suitor and, stumbling over nothing, promptly spilling a plate of hors d’oeuvres all over the young man's pristine suit.

"It's so interesting considering you and your wife have fair skin and blond hair," Merlin said.

Godwyn whipped around to face him. "I beg your pardon."

+3, H +2, Merlin

[lilian_cho]

Completed E square, gained 3 pts, moved 3 squares to H square.

Total pts: 3

History +2, 195 words

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He tapped a finger on the blotter next to the heart-shaped jewel. "Either this is a very convincing fake, or you have come into possession of this jewel through less than legal means. Either way, we're not—"

"Not that kind of bank?" The man smoothly interrupted. In his tasteful grey three-piece suit, he wouldn't have looked out of place in a fashion spread, if not for the cold glint in his clear blue eyes.

Arthur Eisenhardt—if that was indeed his real name—gave his left suit sleeve a yank and made a show of taking off his expensive watch. On the inside of his wrist, formerly hidden under the watchband, was a series of tattooed numbers—001.

"Did you know? I was Facility X's youngest and first test subject," Eisenhardt said conversationally. "The research team was quite overjoyed at what my mutation could accomplish. They told me I was one of the strongest mutants in history."

Meanwhile, Anhora's hand slowly inched toward the panic button concealed under his desk drawer. His left arm jerked upward and smacked himself on the forehead. He found his wrist anchored to the arm of his chair by his...watch?

+2, I +2, Merlin

[lilian_cho]

Completed H square, gained 2 pts, moved 2 squares to I square.

Total pts: 5

In common +2, 190 words

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Merlin had to admit that there were definite perks to being the stepson of Gorlois LeFay, and by extension, part of the world of riches and glitz. One current perk was enjoying a beautiful orange Miami sunset while the yacht he stood on sailed across the water. What do you know, those sunset postcards weren't photoshopped after all. This impromptu yacht party was thrown to celebrate Peregrin—Pellinor—Lancelot's-friend-whatshisname being hired by a famous law firm, and Merlin was dressed in his signature feral red scarf and the brown leather jacket he picked up at a Renaissance Faire.

Considering that Lancelot DuLac, the yacht's owner, belonged to the same social circles as the LeFays, he surprisingly had a lot in common with Merlin. Lancelot was adopted at four years old by the Eldreds, and while he felt loved and gratitude for his elderly parents, a small part of him never stopped feeling like an impostor. If being too nice and self-effacing was a mutation, then Lancelot was most definitely a mutant.

"Northumbria V," Merlin pronounced the name of the boat. "What would a three-person family need five yachts for, anyway?"

Mutants: Second Generation (Gen | Arthur/Merlin pre-slash, PG-13, ~9K)

[lilian_cho]

Characters: Arthur/Merlin pre-slash, Morgana, Gwen, Gwaine, Leon, Lancelot, Morgause, Anhora
Word Count: ~9K
Content Notes: SPOILERS for X-M:FC. Italics.

( Read it @ DW | AO3 )

Re: Mutants: Second Generation (Gen | Arthur/Merlin pre-slash, PG-13, ~9K)

[lilian_cho]

Why is my website down? Whyyy? ;_;

On the other hand, this is the first time I ever caught it down since, like, 2005, so that's a really good track record.

This board is now closed

[benebu]

...and the next one is up.