Bonus Round 5: Clue

[referees]

SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

Sometimes, all you need are a few little details to imagine something bigger. This round is inspired by a classic board game with a cast of colorful characters, but for SASO your only limits on "who", "where", and "with what" are what you can imagine (and the SASO fandom list, of course)!

This round closes on 5 August @ 7PM EDT. (Countdown Timer.)

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with the format of a Clue mystery - "[character] in the [location] with [item]", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
  • Example: Sawamura Daichi in the teachers' lounge with the Hello Kitty! lunchbox
  • The person in your prompt MAY be a member of your ship, but is not REQUIRED to be part of your ship. They must still be a named character from a SASO-nominated fandom.
  • Your place must be a physical location, not a state of being or a state of being. However, this location is not required to be real, nor must it be from the same setting as the characters.
  • The "item" used must be a physical object that the character can hold or manipulate.
  • Unlike the board game, your prompt is NOT required to imply murder. The scenario implied can be anything at all! (As always, please tag properly!)
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your Clue-inspired fanwork.
• Remember to 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)
• 14 lines (poetry)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> (the ship your prompt is focused on. "&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. Format the ship name any way you want, but clarity is more likely to get you fills.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; these apply to content *in the prompt itself* and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If your prompt doesn't require tags, write "None" here.) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Prompt:</strong> [Character] in the [location] with the [item].	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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 each (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

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!

Comments

FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[fickle]

Ship: oikawa/kageyama
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 464 words

Warnings for blood, death and bad decision making.

***


The blood on his hands drips into the dirt as he digs. He pauses every now and then, scrubs his hands with earth. lood is good for the soil, right? It enriches it with vital nutrients or something.

Kageyama never paid much attention in biology. He never paid much attention in chemistry either which right now is the biggest mistake he's ever made because if he had paid attention in chemistry, maybe he would have known how to dissolve the corpse or acid it to ashes or something like that.

Instead, he's stuck with the old-fashioned methods which in this case means digging a hole in the garden at midnight and hoping none of the neighbors decide to wake up and look out their windows. The fence is high enough that anyone going to let thei dog or cat out in the night won't see him but he's not sure about anyone looking into the garden from the bedroom window.

Oikawa never liked sunbathing naked in the garden because he said other people would see. Heh. If they look out now, they'll see Oikawa but he'll be all covered up.

Kageyama's not even sure why he put Oikawa in a trash bag. It seems so disrespectful now! But at the time, he just wanted to get Oikawa out of the house without leaving blood everywhere and he didn't have any other waterproof bags that were big enough and trying to chop Oikawa up to fit the pieces into the waterproof sports bags would have been so very messy.

Also possibly impossible. Kageyama's not sure how much strength it takes to saw through bone and whether or not he possesses it, but he does know he doesn't have a strong enough stomach to mutilate his lover like that. It's bad enough that he killed Oikawa and then puked on him!

Some small part of his mind screams it's not too late, he can fill in the hole, he can put the body back, he can call the cops and say it was just an accident. He pushed Oikawa, yes, but he didn't mean for Oikawa to fall backwards and hit his head on the glass table and he definitely didn't mean for the steak knife they'd used to cut up their dinner to fly into the air and then thud itself into Oikawa's chest when it landed!

The rest of his mind considers the likelihood of the cops believing that Oikawa accidentally got stabbed by a flying knife AND bashed on the back of the head, and decides that digging a hole is a better option.

It's a good thing he has so many muscles from playing volleyball.

Digging graves, as it turns out, is exhausting.

Crying the whole time doesn’t make it any easier.

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[kitaiichis]

OOOOHHHH this is.....Good. i like that in kageyama's thoughts there's a slight disconnect between oikawa & oikawa's corpse. even while he initially covered oikawa up for practicality (i'm laughcrying at oikawa in a trash bag, holy shit, ur tryin ur best with what u got kageyama!!) he's still thinking about oikawa when he was, well, alive, and his preferences & habits.

just!!! kageyama's back-and-forth between practicality first then sentimentality after is really good, and plays into his old habit of rushing into what he thinks is most efficient before realising how that might affect his/other's feelings :") he really does dig graves in more ways than one... thank you so much for this fill!

p.s. i just immediately lost it at this, it played out so hilariously in my head, oh my god:

He pushed Oikawa, yes, but he didn't mean for Oikawa to fall backwards and hit his head on the glass table and he definitely didn't mean for the steak knife they'd used to cut up their dinner to fly into the air and then thud itself into Oikawa's chest when it landed!