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Bonus Round 5: Clue
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)!
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)
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], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [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 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!
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 413
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“Cleaning rust off cheap jewelry is easy,” says the man behind the counter, and Taiga feels himself stiffen at the word cheap.
They may be grocery store vending machine quality, but they’re far from that label; they’re worth more than it’s taken to keep them, more than the brief period in which they’d tried to go without wearing them, more than whatever price Tatsuya had paid to repair his own chain.
“Could we get them plated?” says Tatsuya.
“It would be less expensive to get new ones, just between us.”
“I don’t care,” says Taiga. “Whatever it is, we can afford it.”
Tatsuya looks at him, but without the reproach Taiga’s almost expecting; it’s something like approval.
“Could you get them enlarged?” says Tatsuya. “If you’re going to plate them anyway. We’ll pay whatever fee.”
“Oh,” says the man. “Of course, then, of course. To what sizes?”
Taiga shrugs; he’s never worn another ring (never wanted to; for better or for worse this is the ring that defines rings for him—maybe when he wins a championship he’ll get one, but other than that there’s no occasion) and Tatsuya doesn’t seem to know his, either. The salesman seems to take this as an opportunity to push other sets of rings, wedding rings and garish jewel-encrusted things.
“May I ask the occasion?” he says, finally whisking the last of the ruby set away.
Taiga looks at Tatsuya; Tatsuya smiles at him. “We’re a little bit overdue for a resize, is all.”
“Oh, um!” says the salesman, clearly expecting something more official.
Tatsuya squeezes Taiga’s hand on the other side of the counter, probably visible from behind the layers of glass.
“Would you like me to clean the necklaces, too?”
Tatsuya shakes his head. “We’ll keep them for now.”
The chains feel a little empty right now, a little weird without the familiar weight of the ring resting between Taiga’s collarbones. But he thinks about the third finger on his left hand, the familiar place that had once seemed so empty without the ring around it, the place that has been waiting empty all those years, the tan line he’d had that first summer playing basketball in the sun every day with Tatsuya. It’ll be easy to get used to, especially right now when his hand is full, clasped in Tatsuya’s as Tatsuya fishes in his wallet for his credit card.
(“Let me,” Taiga says, but Tatsuya’s already inserting it into the chip reader.)