Weekend Entertainment

[dejah_thoris]

Do you guys remember the prompt charts we used to use for fics back when the world was young and livejournal didn't suck? They'd come in several different flavors, but my favourite was the blocks of 100.  You'd roll a percentile dice (or use RNG between 1-100) and take a word from each of five lists or so.

I've been thinking about how sometimes you want to thread with someone and you don't really have any plot or endpoint that you're working towards.  You may have absolutely nothing in common with each other.  You just want to do something fun.  So I thought about making a prompt list for encounters in the Bar.   Because the bar is weird, all the time.  Strange things happen daily. (What was the phrase?  Six impossible things before breakfast?)  Anyway, a prompt list could maybe start with a list of locations (e.g. bar proper, kitchen, infirmary, library, garage, stables, etc) and it could have another section for the actual ideas for conflict or at least an interesting puzzle both pups could work on solving together.  What I need from you is well, prompts!  I'll start.

I lost the thing. (Yes, it's probably in the Lost and Found but we haven't checked there yet.)
I found the thing.
I have this thing and it's broken.
I broke the thing.
What the heck is this thing anyway, do you know?
Why is this thing buzzing?
Don't touch the -- ooo, you touched the thing.
My hand is caught in the thing.

The idea should be flexible, short and sweet, and not overly specific.  I'm sure you people are much more talented and inspired than I am at 1am in the morning, but I wanted to throw this out there regardless.  What's your favourite plot-inducing prompt?  Something that can carry a thread from introductions all the way a conflict and resolution.  Looking for stuff that will help you learn more about your pups while making their lives in the Bar that much more weird.  I can't wait to read what you come up with!

Comments

[bjornwilde]

I like this!

Some thoughts:
This is not my beautiful succotash. (wrong order, perhaps it's not even the other pups but something alien, like a klingon dish)
This is not my wonderful gin. (mixed up drinks)
Why is that box beeping/flashing/whatever. (it's not a bomb or anything, it's a machine that goes "ping". I know it's close to one of yours)
Don't go swimming in the water. (Strange creatures in the lake?)
Mixed up rooms or bathrooms? Signs get switched (the loompas or something else?)
Turtleduck mating season. (Maybe the turtleducks get aggressive or territorial?)

ETA: Is that a sonic screwdriver or are you just happy to see me? (doesn't have to be the sonic screwdriver, just some alien tool.)
It happened in L-space. (while wondering the library, something is spotted in the shadows. Is it The Librarian from the Unseen University, Wan Shi Tong from Avatar, or just book sprites?)

I think I'm doing this right.

[is_the_motion]

You should also add in:

'I AM the Thing'

[dejah_thoris]

Which iterates to:

I lost [pup].
I found [pup].
I have this [pup] and it's broken.
I broke this [pup]. (Totally looking at you Curtis.)
What the heck is this [pup] anyway? (Tars is rolling his eyes at me.)
Why is this [pup] buzzing?
Don't touch the [pup]! Oh no.
And my hand is caught in the [pup]. (please attach warnings as necessary).

[2goodarms]

....

The last one makes me think, "Curtis' new arm gets magnetized somehow right as he passes Bucky Barnes. Or vice-versa."

Or all the silverware in the bar ends up stuck to his arm.

[dejah_thoris]

Oh god, the isolates are leaking. Blue glowy shit EVERYWHERE.

[hate_gettin_older]

Andrew says THIS ISN'T MY FAULT I SWEAR

[dejah_thoris]

- Ancient elemental powering the [appliance] has escaped. Shenanigans ensue.

- That drink isn't what you ordered. Why are you sprouting [antlers, donkey ears, wings, a third eye]?

- You have insulted my ancestors by doing [X]! I demand recompense!

- Why is there a literal tiny rain cloud hovering over your head, following you everywhere?

- You walked through some mud at the lakeside. Now your footprints are glowing. Everywhere you step. It's still happening three days later.

- The rats refuse to serve you. You have to figure out what you did to offend them and make amends.

- Bar lost your dry cleaning. Here, wear this monkey suit.

- You just came down for ice and you're locked out of your room.

- There's got to be tons more. I know we used to do "Pay your tab" day. Kind of, all accounts due, and now you're stuck washing dishes to pay your tab. (Looking at you Gene.) There's the evil karaoke machine. There's demon bunnies. There's the giant squid and the merpeople in the lake. There's werewolves at the full moon. There's Oompa Loompas. Have the Oompa Loompas ever gone on strike? That sounds more like a bar-wide event, never mind. Hmm.

[lady_mary]

Anyone for a nice game of thing?

[2goodarms]

HEY, your game of thing resulted in another thing in my food/drink/hair!

[lady_mary]

Do you have a minute to talk about deity?

Do you have a minute to talk about wait rat rights?

[dejah_thoris]

Somebody left this pamphlet about Deity/Wait Rat Rights. Did you see this?

[lady_mary]

Why won't the jukebox stop playing song?


horses horses horses horses... dingalingaliiiing

[dejah_thoris]

Omg whatever song the jukebox plays, something from the song manifests in the bar! It was fine when it was just Margaritaville, but things went sideways when someone put on badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM.

[lady_mary]

Anyone for a nice karoake throwdown?

in the library

[shes_so_fetch]

I can't find Book anywhere!

Oh no! Book is heretical/scandalous/wrong about thing!

Stop! Why are you ripping a page out of Book?

WHAT? I AM A CHARACTER IN BOOK?

Re: in the library

[dejah_thoris]

Keep on walking, preacher man. Keep right on walking.

[ceitfianna]

Is that you on the thing or in the book?
So you look like someone I really like in a media thing, I'm going to stare at you now.

[dejah_thoris]

Ooo, that's dangerously close to canon puncturing, which should always be cleared with the mun before bringing it up!

[heatherandsteel]

I know, but when done right doppelganger stuff can be a lot of fun. Also when you add in other world media, you take out the canon puncturing. Complicated but a favorite avenue of mine. *gestures to my pups, three with James McAvoy's face*