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]

He would not know what category to put her in. Of course, he might err on the side of caution, and be maddeningly polite to the point of ridiculousness. Which would no doubt be annoying in itself.

I would die. It would be great.

[damncompass]

... does this mean that this is going to have to happen now?

Helena's going to kill me. But it will be a worthy death.

[never_shall_yield]

...I think it does. Oh, God. I think it does. If we get to choose pairs? sldfk I cannot cope. Javert hates me.

\o/!!!

[knightoftheswan]

(Mia-mun here in Lohengrin journal)

We had actually been talking about whether to do it with random pairs as mentioned above or choosing pairs, as we also had ideas of who would be hilarious to see handcuffed. More discussion will likely be had on this point.

[never_shall_yield]

Just an idea...maybe a mixture? Let some choose, if hilarity/angst/plot would benefit, and let other brave muns chuck their pups in for pot luck?

I suggest it simply because I have pups that pot luck could go badly wrong with - Javert, and Bruce Banner, for example. But Gene and Bruce Wayne would be fine with any random pairing. I'd happily throw one of them into the random pile, if I could choose for one of the others.

Your plot though, and I will follow whatever rules are laid down. :)

[knightoftheswan]

I do like the idea of a mixture. Then we can play out all the possibilities in it. :D

[never_shall_yield]

Sweet!

[timelessinventor]

*insert Helena's best innocent face here*

[never_shall_yield]

We are so going to hell. *grin*

[damncompass]

And my canon provides a helpful .gif:



Joshua: You're going to hell.
Claudia: I know!

[never_shall_yield]

Javert is suspicious, and starting to get scared. :D

[damncompass]

He's not even being trolled actually by the Donovans!

That might come later. Or when Claudia tries to pour purple goo on the handcuffs. >:D

[the_gene_genie]

I have spent the last six hours at work imaging Javert's horror, and laughing myself sick over it. Every possible situation has him spluttering in wordless outrage, and totally lost as to how to deal with it without someone being potentially insulted/outcast by society. Not to mention the simple task of extended conversation with one person. A female person.

This is going to be so much fun. Purple goo can only enhance it further. :D

[damncompass]

I should possibly also point out that Helena's a working woman, incorrigable flirt (both sides, darling, why limit yourself to half of the human race), atheist, and an absolutely unrepentant single mother.

:D?

[the_gene_genie]

Yes, I know! Apart from the atheist bit, which omg brilliant. I couldn't get past wtf Javert is going to say if she keeps calling him 'darling', because he'll possibly assume she's a hooker. Only they use endearments to strangers all the time!

I could go on and on about how deeply this will weird him out (and how much I'm looking forward to it),, but I think it's probably obvious. :DDD

[damncompass]

ahahaha. If he assumes she's a hooker, she's going to slap him. No, it won't hurt, but she'll feel better.

... This is going to be hilarious and awesome. :D :D :D

[spit_it_out]

Cue, further outrage. Assaulting a citizen! We know what he thinks about that. It might teach him a lesson though, even if it doesn't hurt.


...it really is. :D :D :D

[ceitfianna]

That is the best gif and sums the two of them up so well. Which episode is it from?

[minkhollow]

"Secret Santa," the S2 Christmas episode (which... for some reason wasn't on a DVD set until the S3 one).

[herr_bookman]

Seconding the idea of a mixture, as it's a good one. Sunshine-mun recommends throwing together pups who have issues to work through, as it might reap bonus character development points.

[herr_bookman]

*places "Gene and Autor" in the Goblet of Fire*

[the_gene_genie]

I read this at 2am this morning, and then couldn't sleep for laughing/imagining Gene's rage.

In short, I'm game if you are! :D

[herr_bookman]

There are a lot of people I want to cuff Autor to (*cue evil mujn laugh*) and Gene is definitely high on that list! But depending on the scale of this thing, I might just want to manage assignments/recaps rather than participate. :) TL;DR: Non-committal mun is non-committal, because she wants everything.

[the_gene_genie]

Lol, s'no worries. It really would not end well, if it happened. Which has never stopped me before! But, I'm easy. You do your thing. It's not like they need to be handcuffed to bitch at each other. :D