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ways_back_room2013-06-23 01:36 pm
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Proposed plot: Breakfast 42! with your daily dose of vitamins, minerals, and handcuffs!
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?
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?
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But while they're handcuffed together (any charries, really), how the hell do they a) go to the loo and b)change their shirt?
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Cracky pups chained to Lecter would be hilarious, regardless .
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Shirt-changing isn't that important (except for Hannibal, who would be furious if his plot partner spills anything on his shirt and will be zooming off almost rudely the moment they're freed to change his shirt and properly re-tie his tie, even if it was a polite fluffy partner and not a cracky one), but nobody that's baseline human can realistically not go to the loo. With a partner of the same gender, it would be easier, especially for male pups. In any case, it would present another occasion for much juvenile crack.
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Vyv has been partially eaten before. He's very strong though, if he chooses to use it, and nigh-on-impossible to kill unless you severely wound him and watch continuously, or blow him up so that no pieces can grow back, which most people wouldn't know. If Hannibal is baseline human then the options really are a near-mortal blow with Vyv jumping back up at the last second, or him trying something that ought to be fatal and Vyv just pulling it out. Either way he'd want to kick the crap out of Lecter for trying, rather than his usual brand of slapstick violence.
Vyv would be Very Noisy to Security should he realise Lecter tries to eat him (because he remembers Vandamir and Croup who could actually have finished him off), and realistically he wouldn't go to Teja as first choice. I'm happy for him not to be believed but I don't want to 'out' Hannibal in any way that might spoil your plans. He would be only slightly noisy about 'nibbal trying to kill him, because he'd get an entertaining scrap out of it with no real danger to himself. Either way, Vyv being nicked for kicking the crap out of him would be entertaining for me.
If he did hypothetically kill and eat Vyv, colon contents would count as fertiliser, so he'd basically end up crapping multiple growing miniature Vyvyans. Either that or he would need a caesarean. While an invasion of them might be amusing prior to reabsorption, it may put off some readers and Vyv would definitely be outing him and would have a lot of proof!
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'nnibal (I love the nicknames you come up with for my pups; 'Urq' was one of yours as well) wouldn't eat Vyvyan before killing him, so what he'll do first is try to chop off Vyv's hand (which won't work and only breaks 'nnibal's good ceramic knife) and then, later, stab him when he's completely beyond his patience. Which Vyvyan will survive easily both per setup of the plot, and his own canon.
There are some cracky posts floating around the Hannibal fandom on tumblr stating that 'Hannibal craps people' or 'His poo is people', so him trying to eat some part of Vyvyan and ending up crapping miniature Vyvyans would make sense at a later point, when he's outed in canon and I aim to out him in the bar as well. That, however, may be two years down the road. Knowing us and this place, we will both be here for that, so it's not all in vain to think about it already.
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Maru, re: loo-visiting and shirt-changing, I think I'll let people deal with it in any manner they like and encourage tons of communication--and warnings, if necessary. Crack awaits!
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