[All the teams are ushered to their own tables, secluded somewhere in the depths of the garden. There's a pot of tea (because of course there is), a bowl of fresh-picked fruit, and a messy stack of blank papers and pencils. In the very center of the table is another piece of paper, this one with a very simple set of instructions written across the top.]
• As a team, create a list of story elements. This list must include:
-A setting -A hero -A villain -An object -A one-sentence quote
• General elements are usually better than overly-specific ones. No gaming the system! (Yeah, I'm looking at you, smartass.)
• That's it.
• So get goin' already!!
[OOC: You have 1 hour (7 PST/10 EST) to submit your list.]
[The paper with your list suddenly rolls up and disappears in a tiny puff of smoke. After a moment, another paper appears and drops on the table in its place, unrolling itself helpfully to reveal a new set of instructions.]
• Write a short story using the following elements:
-The place: A kingdom near the beach on an island! -The hero: Kong and Shoelace -The villain: Someone with really bad luck -An important item: A golden idol -The line: "Everyone knows, in any game of chess -- No one beats the queen." ♥
• Stories will be judged by the other teams on the basis of both creativity and quality.
• So if you can't be good, ya' can at least try to be weird!!
[OOC: You have until 10 PST/1 EST to submit your stories! Have fun!]
Kong and Shoelace are knights of the kingdom. Their job is, like police, to stop bad people and enact justice. They follow orders. Their orders are to get a golden idol for their master. But it brings bad luck to whoever has it. So not only does the person have bad luck, but because they have it, the knights are after them. The bad luck, logically, is to own this golden idol. QED.
They take the person to the King. The King holds the idol, and keeps all the wealth, because monarchies aren't democracies, so they are not voted for; they have blood and wealth, which gives them power. So the poor people still have nothing.
But the idol is too beautiful. So the Queen kills the King for it, and then rules to country. She says: "Everyone knows, in any game of chess -- No one beats the queen." But now she has all the power and wealth, and Eurocentric culture at the time of monarchies being in power was very misogynistic. So the Queen is viewed as "weak," and she gets killed by a prince, or a baron, or an emperor, for the idol and their land. The idol is now a symbol of power.
Kong and Shoelace see this power struggle as a chance to start a lower and middle-class uprising. They are the first two people to be voted and earn a position of power. Congratulations.
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PART 1
• As a team, create a list of story elements. This list must include:
-A setting
-A hero
-A villain
-An object
-A one-sentence quote
• General elements are usually better than overly-specific ones. No gaming the system! (Yeah, I'm looking at you, smartass.)
• That's it.
• So get goin' already!!
[OOC: You have 1 hour (7 PST/10 EST) to submit your list.]
DISCUSSION
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The setting is a city.
The hero is a robot.
The villain is their creator.
The object is a "soul."
"You can't ever have one."
PART 2
• Write a short story using the following elements:
-The place: A kingdom near the beach on an island!
-The hero: Kong and Shoelace
-The villain: Someone with really bad luck
-An important item: A golden idol
-The line: "Everyone knows, in any game of chess -- No one beats the queen." ♥
• Stories will be judged by the other teams on the basis of both creativity and quality.
• So if you can't be good, ya' can at least try to be weird!!
[OOC: You have until 10 PST/1 EST to submit your stories! Have fun!]
DISCUSSION
no subject
no subject
TURN IN
no subject
They take the person to the King. The King holds the idol, and keeps all the wealth, because monarchies aren't democracies, so they are not voted for; they have blood and wealth, which gives them power. So the poor people still have nothing.
But the idol is too beautiful. So the Queen kills the King for it, and then rules to country. She says: "Everyone knows, in any game of chess -- No one beats the queen." But now she has all the power and wealth, and Eurocentric culture at the time of monarchies being in power was very misogynistic. So the Queen is viewed as "weak," and she gets killed by a prince, or a baron, or an emperor, for the idol and their land. The idol is now a symbol of power.
Kong and Shoelace see this power struggle as a chance to start a lower and middle-class uprising. They are the first two people to be voted and earn a position of power. Congratulations.