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Special Event of Dooooooooooom
The Summer of Whump
Running from Right Now to 6 September
Schedule of Events
Special Color: Summertime Blues
1. L'esprit de l'escalier
2. The band's breaking up.
3. Aches like an old wound.
4. Stared at by the book you've been meaning to read.
5. Storm clouds on the horizon.
6. Heat does strange things to people.
7. Unfulfilled
8. I thought I could trust you.
9. They're/It's gone now.
10. Feels like you're drowning.
11. Without respite, without cause.
12. The last one was better.
13. Lacrimae Rerum
14. Day just like the last.
15. Droning insects.
16. Melting ice cream
17. It’s still not done
18. Bummer of a trip
19. And came there never again as a living person.
20. Summer moved on
Complete by the deadline for twelve novelty beads.
~*~
Challenge: Summer Blockbuster
Do a mosaic of at least 2,500 words using your favorite action-oriented media source as the second cannon.
Complete by the deadline for three novelty beads.
PLUS, you get another novelty bead for any subsequent installments using the same second cannon posted during the event period.
IT IS SUMMER WHO CARES IF YOU ADVANCE YOUR PLOT? GO BLOW SOME STUFF UP.
~*~
Bonus Challenges: For a limited time, you get novelty beads doing any of the following.
-Completing any of the following colors: Caput Mortuum, Feldgrau, Gunmetal, Bone Black, Arsenic, Fever Red, Sulphur, Gules, Sable, Sherry, Black Leather, Fire Opal, Rust, Verdigris, Sickly Green, Atomic Tangerine, Byzantium, Blood Red, Surgical Steel, Camouflage Green, Shadow, Bone. ~ Five per color completed during the festivities; you do not have to have started the color after the challenge starts.
-Completing War is Hell ~ Ten Beads (in addition to any colors completed during the event)
-Starting a conflict-based AU and posting 2,500 words of it. ~ Three Beads
-Advancing a conflict-based AU by five installments or 5,000 words. ~ Five Beads
~*~
Event: Midsummer Night's Dream
August 4 - August 10
-Surreal and Dreamy Dead-Time prompts to be issued by the mods
-Dead-Time meaning no more than one hour can be spent on any stories produced (it's like flash fiction).
-And you must use a prompt before pulling a new one, although you can mulligan if nothing comes to you in a day.
-Stories to run in the comm at one novelty bead per. But, you can pull as many as you want through the event. Hurray!
~*~
Event: Hospital's Full
TBA
This season’s RP post will be hospital-themed. We are currently recruiting medical professionals as hosts. I know this comm and I’m sure you can provide patients.
~*~
All novelty beads from this event will be presented at the end of the festivities. The person who acquires the most novelty beads from Summer of Whump Challenges shall be crowned the Supreme Whumpmaster and given glories to that end.
SWL is not eligible for this title as the mop precludes her.
Running from Right Now to 6 September
Schedule of Events
Special Color: Summertime Blues
1. L'esprit de l'escalier
2. The band's breaking up.
3. Aches like an old wound.
4. Stared at by the book you've been meaning to read.
5. Storm clouds on the horizon.
6. Heat does strange things to people.
7. Unfulfilled
8. I thought I could trust you.
9. They're/It's gone now.
10. Feels like you're drowning.
11. Without respite, without cause.
12. The last one was better.
13. Lacrimae Rerum
14. Day just like the last.
15. Droning insects.
16. Melting ice cream
17. It’s still not done
18. Bummer of a trip
19. And came there never again as a living person.
20. Summer moved on
Complete by the deadline for twelve novelty beads.
~*~
Challenge: Summer Blockbuster
Do a mosaic of at least 2,500 words using your favorite action-oriented media source as the second cannon.
Complete by the deadline for three novelty beads.
PLUS, you get another novelty bead for any subsequent installments using the same second cannon posted during the event period.
IT IS SUMMER WHO CARES IF YOU ADVANCE YOUR PLOT? GO BLOW SOME STUFF UP.
~*~
Bonus Challenges: For a limited time, you get novelty beads doing any of the following.
-Completing any of the following colors: Caput Mortuum, Feldgrau, Gunmetal, Bone Black, Arsenic, Fever Red, Sulphur, Gules, Sable, Sherry, Black Leather, Fire Opal, Rust, Verdigris, Sickly Green, Atomic Tangerine, Byzantium, Blood Red, Surgical Steel, Camouflage Green, Shadow, Bone. ~ Five per color completed during the festivities; you do not have to have started the color after the challenge starts.
-Completing War is Hell ~ Ten Beads (in addition to any colors completed during the event)
-Starting a conflict-based AU and posting 2,500 words of it. ~ Three Beads
-Advancing a conflict-based AU by five installments or 5,000 words. ~ Five Beads
~*~
Event: Midsummer Night's Dream
August 4 - August 10
-Surreal and Dreamy Dead-Time prompts to be issued by the mods
-Dead-Time meaning no more than one hour can be spent on any stories produced (it's like flash fiction).
-And you must use a prompt before pulling a new one, although you can mulligan if nothing comes to you in a day.
-Stories to run in the comm at one novelty bead per. But, you can pull as many as you want through the event. Hurray!
~*~
Event: Hospital's Full
TBA
This season’s RP post will be hospital-themed. We are currently recruiting medical professionals as hosts. I know this comm and I’m sure you can provide patients.
~*~
All novelty beads from this event will be presented at the end of the festivities. The person who acquires the most novelty beads from Summer of Whump Challenges shall be crowned the Supreme Whumpmaster and given glories to that end.
SWL is not eligible for this title as the mop precludes her.