Proposed plot: Breakfast 42! with your daily dose of vitamins, minerals, and handcuffs!

[herr_bookman]

All right, y'all! So I was reading up on other people's RP comms and found an interesting entry (backdated to 2009) where two characters were randomly handcuffed together as part of a curse.

So who else is drawn towards the idea of bar-wide, randomly-selected handcuff shenanigans?

The logistics might be a bit ridiculous--especially if there's four or more people to a thread--but seven out of eight experts agree that this has the potential to be hilarious. Just imagine: Sunshine and Eric! Lohengrin and Fakir! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! All voluntary, of course. I'm not sure how long this will last, or how long it needs to. We may even just make it a party post.

One possible inciting incident that Mia-mun and I were batting around might be that Bar gets a limited-edition assortment of sample-sized boxes of "Breakfast 42", which she then offers up for free. Randomly selected pairs will each be assigned a type of cereal, each of which only has two boxes. The next time the pups pass one another after eating it, they'll be magically cuffed together.

Obviously the handcuffs are unbreakable and inescapable by magic or force, and pups cannot damage each other--though they can damage themselves. We encourage all attempts at escape, however futile they are. (Please DM each other first. This won't work well without excellent communication!) I'd also like to offer the proposition of the cuffs as nullifiers to all sorts of magical powers, though that's not necessary.

There are two ways out of this:

1. One lucky pup will receive a glow-in-the-dark, plastic police badge as a prize. It, of course, holds the key to all the cuffs, though since it looks like a kitschy toy, it may end up lost...

2. Once the cereal runs out, a timer will be set for all of the cuffs to break.



ETA: So, so far we've had a good response and a decent amount of feedback! Thank you! :) Here are some more discussion points:

A. Should the selection be lottery? Hand-picked? A mixture? I like the idea of a mixture, but time-zones have been brought up as a concern, so going with an entirely hand-picked roster may be the way to go.

B. "Pups cannot damage each other" is literal. For example, Pup A may try to cut Pup B's hand off, but they will fail. All pups are immune to physical damage from their cuff-partner. Similarly, the cuffs will fit on any pup.

C. This is super complicated already! If anyone has suggestions for simplifying it, then hit us with them, by all means.

(More) Thoughts? Critique? Bueller?

Comments

[never_shall_yield]

Oh My God. HAHAHAHA.

In conclusion: yes.

Though probably not with this pup. I'm not that cruel to anyone who would be paired with him.

[damncompass]

And now because my brain wanders. I can't decide if Helena and Javert would be the most hilarious thing ever, or the worst thing ever.

[never_shall_yield]

;slkd;slkj

OK, simply the fact of him being cuffed to a woman would be utterly hilarious, because Lord, would he not know what to do with that. Inappropriate! Outrageous! And downright mortifying!

I, for one, would die of laugh.

[damncompass]

And Helena would be even -more- frustrating because it would just not faze her to be stuck with a man. Probably quickly become annoyed by Javert, but still.

[street_sparrow]

...we shouldn't. We really shouldn't.

Can we?

[never_shall_yield]

*brain break*

I really don't think I can. I'm cruel, but not that cruel. *points at thread above* That whole crackfest will be 0_0 for him - to then fetter him to Gavroche, with their history...well, I don't want him to jump off the roof when it's all over, lets put it that way.

(I mean, part of me loves the idea obviously, because I'm a total cow. But the other part, the one that actually wants to give the man a break from himself, is winning in this case.)

[ceitfianna]

Yes, I love this idea. It has so many possibilities.

[damncompass]

Joshua... will totally kill me, but Iiiii might be persuaded to throw him in.

Not Helena, though. She's had a bit too much in the non-moving department.

[gavin62truck]

pups cannot damage each other

Well, that rules out Tommy and Voodoo :p

[innerbrat]

But Korra and Tommy might end up damaging Voodoo more...

[gavin62truck]

Oh, well, there's that kind of damage, yes...

[bjornwilde]

I kinda wanna throw Anton or Hank at this and see what happens. ; p

[ladyoflorien]

I haven't read all the comments yet and I am le tired, so mea culpa if I say something someone else has already said. I just wanted to say a) I love this idea! All of mine are totally up for grabs, and b) regarding your A point, particularly the issue with time zones, I do have an idea.

Milliways has done "car keys" plots in the past, where basically you're paired up with three random pups and you have an allotted amount of time to tag those three pups. The idea is to get pups/players to reach out a bit. I have been sorely missing these, but not having the time and energy to head one up myself I haven't been pushing for one. What would happen if you posted a backroom "sign-ups" sheet in the vein of a car keys post, but have sub-threads for time zones? That way people can tag under their time zone (ie: "Britain (GMT)" "Eastern US (GMT-5)", etc.), state their hours of availability, pups on offer, etc. Then it can be up to you whether you or a team of someones assigns pairings, or if you leave it open for other players to "claim" that person (ex.: I tag under "Eastern US (GMT-5)" and offer Porthos, then the first player to comment saying "I'd like X character to be handcuffed to Porthos" is the winner).

In the case that this made sense and sounds good, I'll totally offer my services in helping to assign pairings if needed. Otherwise ... words what are they, where is my bed? zzz.

♥

[herr_bookman]

This is great and you should feel great. I think I might have people list their pups and their timezone in tags, though, rather than guessing at which threads to lay down. The "first player claims" idea is brilliant, with the understanding that the remaining unclaimed pups end up either a. in a lottery or b. withdrawn? We'll see.

Thanks for your input! Gold star for you. <3 Anyone want to add to this?

[guppy_sandhu]

I second carkeys but would like to vote for lottery, so that nobody gets the 'last picked for sports' moodlet.

Also random combinations can often lead to new interactions and friendships.

Am I mean enough to have someone get chained to Vyvyan?

[camwyn]

If people are interested, I'd be willing to set up a car keys plot again...

[ladyoflorien]

YES PLZ.

[herr_bookman]

I've heard a ton about this in crackchat, and I'm pretty keen on the idea m'self.

[hasthehighground]

:DD Do eet.

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes please, excellent idea! I don't yet know who I'll want to be doing that to among my charries, but I'll throw a few into the hat. Any suggestions?

[herr_bookman]

... *wants to say "Lecter" but just can not*

[yakalskovich]

It's not properly Milliways before something totally cracky befell the character, some ridiculous thing that is totally beyond their reach and fundamentally fails to take them seriously. Lecter should be paired either with somebody intentionally cracky and annoying he then can't go ahead, butcher, and eat (dare I think along the lines of Vyvyan here?) even though he might try to and then see he just can't (I can just imagine the fallout: afterwards, Vyvyan to Teja: "Oy, that tosser tried to kill me!"; Teja to Vyvyan: "Any sane man would have, merely for a moment's peace: - even if you spoke the truth, which I doubt, I could not fault him!"), or with somebody fluffy and annoyingly harmless whose constant presence would force him to be 'good'; here, I might be thinking along the lines of pony or sweet little non-Karkat troll...

But while they're handcuffed together (any charries, really), how the hell do they a) go to the loo and b)change their shirt?

[batyatoon]

... tempted. so so tempted.

*eyes Kali*

*eyes Cavilo*

*eyes Nepeta*

[boomsticking]

Ahaha want. Wannnnt. I play two cops and I wannt!

[herr_bookman]

Bwha. I haven't forgotten this, don't worry! <3