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).

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Comments

FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, T

[moetushie]

Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: road trips, totally plagiarizing my own travels thru KS, police stops, weird feels that come from long road trips
Word Count: 800

It's been too long since I read American Gods so the reference is lost on me, but I hope you like it regardless???

Read on AO3

***

The apple pie he’d bought outside of Omaha had cooled to the point that the crust was chalky and the filling was sweetly acidic to his tongue. He bit off another chunk of it and chewed it determinedly. It was better than talking, anyway. Tatsuya, whose turn it was to drive, glanced at him for a moment, his lips curving upwards into a cool smile.

Then he turned his attention back to the road, saying nothing.

Taiga had thought … Well, when Tatsuya had suggested this cross-country trip to celebrate Taiga’s high school graduation, Taiga had agreed instantly, without thinking too hard about it. After all, if he was going to school in the US, he had get used to being here again, didn’t he? And what better way to refamiliarize himself with his adopted country than a couple of weeks on the road with his favorite brother?

But things had gone wrong almost as soon as the rubber hit the road. Nothing seemed right, or feel settled. As the miles piled up, Taiga realize that he hadn’t spent such an extended time with Tatsuya since they were both kids. In some ways he didn’t know the new Tatsuya, and Tatsuya didn’t know him. They both wore the ring around their necks, but that didn’t mean… No, that meant something, all right. It was just Taiga wasn’t sure exactly what it was, not anymore.

“Is it good?” Tatsuya’s voice jolted out of his reverie and Taiga almost choked himself on his seatbelt.

“What?”

“Your pie, Taiga,” Tatsuya said, faintly amused.

“Oh, yeah, no, it’s horrible. Want a taste?”

Tatsuya wrinkled his perfect nose. “I’ll pass. We’ll be there soon.”

There was the geographic center of the contiguous United States. There wasn’t exactly a lot of things to do in Kansas anyway, but Taiga thought take a picture and putting it on Instagram wouldn't be too bad. But the sky was getting dark -- they would probably have to stop and find a motel soon and might not get to Lebanon until tomorrow.

“Tatsuya, I wanted to ask --” Taiga began, but he never got a chance to finish that sentence. Behind them, police lights flashed and Tatsuya swore quietly under his breath as he pulled over. They hadn’t been speeding, Taiga knew that -- he wasn’t sure their tiny, dust-streaked rental car could speed, actually, and getting up the Rockies was a real worry -- so he tried to relax and put on his best face forward.

The policeman, when he ambled over to their open window, was hard to make out in the gather gloom. His mirror sunglasses reflected back what little light there was, and his skin was ruddy under the dust of the highway. He tapped against the glass of the half-rolled down window, staring at Tatsuya.

“Kid,” he said, “do you know know how fast you were going?”

“About fifty, sir,” Tatsuya said and the officer blinked at him. Taiga wanted to grin. He’d probably marked the both of them as a couple of foreigners, easily scared. But Tatsuya always had nerves of steel -- that didn’t change.

“Well, you were going a little faster than fifty, according to my scanner. What’s a couple a guys like you doing in Kansas?”

“Just passing through,” Taiga said.

“Where to?”

“California,” Tatsuya said. “Officer, are we free to go?”

“California, huh. Well,” the officer said, hitting the top of the car with flat of his hand. “Well, this’ll be your warning. Watch your speed, all right?”

Tatsuya nodded and they were off again, driving in silence for awhile until Taiga sighed. He tossed the congealed mess of a pie into the plastic bag that served as their trash bin and looked over to Tatsuya. The fine line of tension that had been present in the corners of his mouth and eyes had finally begun to dissipate. He glanced over at Taiga and for some reason, he began to laugh.

Not knowing what else to do, Taiga began to laugh as well.

“You looked so worried back there,” Tatsuya said, in between giggles. “Like that cop was going to haul me away or something.”

“I don’t know, I was -- I was thinking of all those crazy situations and I -- I’m glad you’re okay. We’re okay.”

“Yeah.” Tatsuya paused. “Taiga, do you want to stop or should we keep driving?”

“Keep driving,” Taiga said decisively. “Straight outta Kansas.”

“Yeah,” Tatsuya said, smiling at him and Taiga felt warm. Maybe the distance between them wasn’t as great as he thought. Tatsuya had grown up, but so what? So had he. They were still brothers. And Taiga still loved him. And he was pretty sure Tatsuya loved him too. They were going to be all right.

As soon as they got out of Kansas, anyway.

Re: FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, T

[cherrysalmon]

im so late to commenting rip but it's totally fine w/o the reference!! AAA i approve of using your own experiences lol (i love roadtrip fics that do this! it rly brings the situation to life)

i really liked the tension in this - how kagami's still uncertain about their relationship in the beginning, how tatsuya's all calm and collected through the entire exchange and them just laughing from the whole kind of surreal deal, tatsuya smiling at him!!! im warm

new lesson learned kansas doesnt seem like the best place to visit dfjdsh, thank you for filling!!