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 KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[kiyala]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Mayuzumi Chihiro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: what is this
Word Count: 631

***

The first thing Mayuzumi sees is a walking, talking snowman.

Well. It doesn't walk so much as it hops along the snow, its stick arms waving with each movement, its carrot nose sagging like it's going to fall off entirely.

"Did he make you," Mayuzumi sighs, looking down at the snowman. It comes up to knee height and it looks—bad. There's no other word for it. The snowman looks horrible, like if a child had made it with only a vague idea of what snowmen were meant to look like.

"Tatsuya made me!" the snowman replies cheerfully. Mayuzumi doesn't know how it actually has a voice, or where it's coming from, but he's stopped questioning these things. There's a blanket of snow covering most of the world and he's pretty sure it's because his boyfriend is pissed off. There are more important matters at hand right now.

"Can you show me where Tatsuya is?" Mayuzumi asks, bending down with his hands braced on his knees, the way he would if he was talking to a child.

The snowman stares at him with its beady eyes. "Don't patronise me."

"I'm sorry," Mayuzumi sighs. "Could you please take me to Tatsuya? I'd like to speak with him."

"He probably doesn't want to speak with you," the snowman replies, but leads him across the snowy field anyway.

Mayuzumi didn't really know what to expect of the north pole before coming here, and he's pretty sure that what he's seeing right now isn't exactly an accurate representation of what it normally looks like. Then again, it's not normally the domain of an ice mage with an incredibly short fuse and a flair for the dramatic.

He thinks that he can see a palace in the distance, made entirely of ice. If that isn't bad enough, there's a labyrinthine path leading to the entrance, also made of ice that sticks out of the snow like massive pieces of jagged glass. Mayuzumi follows the snowman, making sure not to lose sight of it, until he gets to the door. He desperately wants to make a joke about how Himuro is doing the exact opposite of letting it go, but he knows that won't go over well right now.

When he steps inside the palace, he finds Himuro sitting there on a throne, also made of ice.

"Even if you can't feel the cold, I'm sure that has to be uncomfortable," Mayuzumi says, and supposes that perhaps that's not the first thing he should have said to Himuro after their fight. He clears his throat. "You're sending the entire world into another ice age because I forgot our anniversary."

"Yes I am," Himuro says frostily.

"I think that's. Well. There are a lot of people suffering for my mistake, and that doesn't sit well with me. Tell me what I can do to make it up to you."

"Do you really want to?" Himuro asks, regarding him coldly. "Or are you doing it simply because you feel responsible?"

"It was our five year anniversary," Mayuzumi points out. "We wouldn't have lasted five years if I didn't actually care about you."

"If you cared about me—"

"—I would have marked my calendar, I know." Mayuzumi sighs. "I'm sorry. Writing deadlines. You know what they're like."

Himuro sighs slowly, and the room feels a little colder. "I'm happy in my ice palace, Chihiro."

"You'd probably be happier in our apartment," Mayuzumi replies. "The chairs are more comfortable there."

Slowly, Himuro's mood thaws. He smiles at Mayuzumi and gets up from his throne.

"You really came all this way to bring me home."

"I did," Mayuzumi replies, wrapping an arm around Himuro's shoulders and guiding him out of the palace.

Around them, the air begins to feel a little warmer.

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[cherrysalmon]

what is this? SOMETHING I LOVE VERY MUCH

i had no idea what i wanted when i prompted this and you made it. amazing?? the fhfjdfjskd snowman oh my god... himuro why are you so Dramatic (tm) and mayuzumi's exasperated trekking through the snow to find him... "we wouldn't have lasted five years if i didn't actually care about you" AAAAAA i love it when mayuzumi Cares. and actually Does Something to try to get himuro back and it works...thank you so much...!!! i love this fill, shoves it in my mouth,