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Bonus Round 2: Tic-Tac-Toe
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. There's a lot of text here, but if you read carefully and follow the instructions step by step, you will be okay.
RULES
Please refer to the first comment thread of this post for an example of how this round works.PROMPTING
- Select a ship to create your prompt card about. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Haruki & Kazuma). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Haruki/Kazuma). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Visit this card generator.
- Here is a visual guide to using it.
- The large text box is where you can list prompts if you have your own ideas. Please list at least 9 prompts; you can list more if you want. (The generator says you need at least 24, but it's lying.) Single words or short phrases are better than sentences.
- Otherwise, you can use the dropdown menu found right below it. Note: some of these prompts lists are NSFW. (NSFW prompts are a-ok as long as you tag for it.) If you don't like some of the options that appear in a prompt list, you can delete them.
- Text prompts only, please. Also, each card square must be unique—don't list the same prompt 9 times.
- In "Configuration Options," make sure you select 3x3 and (Normal prompt). This is the most important step!
- Leave the tic-tac-toe card with its default colors, so everyone can read it clearly.
- Click the "Create a bingo card" button.
- Scroll down to see the card that was created for you. If you don't like the prompts it picked, you can reroll by clicking "Create a bingo card" again.
- When you're satisfied, scroll further down the page until you see a textarea box full of HTML.
- Copy and paste the HTML from the box and into the body of your prompt comment, then post!
FILLING
Fill prompts by selecting an individual square to create fanwork for, then leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. (Optional:) If you can fill three squares from a prompt in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, you get a tic-tac-toe (and an additional point bonus)! You can also just fill prompts as you please and get standard points.
- Prompt squares are labeled as follows:
A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 A3 B3 C3 - If you're trying for tic-tac-toe, you cannot combine squares into one fill. If your fill can satisfy multiple squares, pick the most relevant square: e.g., one square is sailing and another is pirates and you make a fill about pirates sailing, it's mostly pirates so put down the pirates square.
- Each fill must stand alone as an individual piece, but all your fills can slot into a larger universe if you'd like.
- You cannot fill a prompt square more than once, but you can fill every square on a tic tac toe card if you want to.
- You cannot work with your teammates to get a tic-tac-toe. Only individually achieved tic-tac-toes get the bonus.
- Multiple people can fill the same prompt square. You cannot "block" others from getting tic-tac-toe.
- Remember to also follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art/images)
- 14 lines (poetry)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [SQUARE], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [SQUARE], [RATING]
|
Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.
If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.
SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!For prompts: 5 points for each tic-tac-toe card (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:First 4 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 5-10: 15 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21-50: 2 points each
Fills 51+: 1 point each
Tic-tac-toe Bonus: 2 points each for the first 12 achieved by your team
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only (see the line of links below this post).Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, A2, T
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Square: pandemic
Word Count: 525 words
Warnings for illness, apocalypse, starvation.
***
Japan and China have an edge over the Western world when the pandemic hits; their people are already used to wearing surgical masks to protect themselves from smog and contamination.
Their athletes stop running outside. They do laps in gyms instead, working out within confined spaces that are hoped to be infection-free.
They have to stop even that when a general quarantine is declared. Food is delivered, courtesy of the government, but everyone knows those rations are limited. Without farmers able to work their fields or workers able to show up to their factories, the machines of industry will come to a halt.
Crime rises; the police don’t patrol the streets or come out to calls anymore.
Eventually, the telephones stop working.
The Internet continues for a little longer and then that’s gone too.
By the time Nishinoya knocks on his window, Asahi hasn’t eaten a full meal in a week. The noise doesn’t startle him so much as make him look up in dull surprise; the virus doesn’t carry across species so raccoons and feral pets have been besieging human houses, feasting on the former dominant species to make up for their lack of kibble, but Asahi doesn’t think he’s so close to death that the animals should be coming for him already.
Nishinoya’s face is thinner, angles sharp, and the blond in his hair is nearly entirely gone. The rough cut of his hair looks like Nishinoya did it himself but he’s still managed to wax it to stand up somehow.
Nishinoya must be infected if he came through the city. The city is a charnel house with no one left to stoke the flames.
Asahi hesitates, then opens the window. The whole world is dying.
If Nishinoya dies with him, that’s kinder than leaving Nishinoya to die alone.
And it’s not as if avoiding infection is the same as avoiding death. Starvation would take Asahi eventually if the infection does.
The virus might be a kinder death.
“Hey,” Nishinoya says breathlessly, voice muffled by the Hello Kitty mask. “How many still alive in your house?”
“Just me,” Asahi says and holds his hand out to help Nishinoya down from the sill. He’s got enough strength still to pick Nishinoya up and swing him down but he’s aware of the other’s weight in a way he never was before. It’s too little and too much at the same time.
A sack, leaking dark red, comes with Nishinoya and Asahi stares at it.
Did Nishnoya kill one of the feral pets? Asahi’s thought about it but never had the courage. Glass Heart, they called him, and he thought that he’d rather die without the blood of innocent, abandoned pets on his hands when death was such a foregone conclusion anyway.
“Cherries,” Nishinoya says when he catches Asahi staring at it. “It’s cherry season, Asahi. Eat up.”
Asahi stares at Nishinoya for a second, then opens the sack and plunges his hand in.
The cherries gleam like glossy rubies, like wet velvet, and Asahi has never tasted anything so good in his life.