Weekend of the Black Mouse Writing Challenge (27, 28, 29)

by **Saiyin** on July 27th, 2018, 11:51 pm

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I love this challenge!
I'm signing up. :nod:

Thread: Alone With A Fear
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by **Naali** on July 28th, 2018, 1:45 am

Naali is in..

Right up her alley..

Thread: Black mice, Red ball and Red blood
Summary: Naali finally learns the basics of defending herself. She also learns that even if you can fight you can still get hurt

The ball was used by children to annoy Naali. The mouse was a dinner guest.

Word Count:2654

by **Dovey** on July 28th, 2018, 1:54 am

SIgning Dovey up for a prize acquisition thread! Let's see if I can do this.

Title - WC

by **Kreig Messer** on July 28th, 2018, 3:55 am

Gonna do a skill thread, and I'm curious enough to try and incorporate the mouse and ball.

Thread: [Tall Johnny] Of Boredom, Red Balls and Mice
Summary: Kreig is confronted by Tall Johnny and Olav about his apparent boredom whilst training, with Olav using a red ball to pain a metaphor of a child growing bored of playing ball and then discarding it on the ground. Tall Johnny informs Kreig that he is free to request various fights within Tall Johnny's power. After the completion of the conversation, Kreig spots a black mouse that was playing with red ball, eventual leading to brief shenanigans that leave Kreig with a bruised dignity and several gold mizas shorter.
Word Count: 3,798

by **Maore** on July 28th, 2018, 5:43 am

I'm going to sign up for this, doing a skill thread.

by **Crylon Stonecraft** on July 28th, 2018, 12:58 pm

Signing up for Crylon, will be an item acquisition thread -Muffin Tin.

Thread Link: Thread link
Word Count: 2,947
Summary: Crylon and Johan meet at his dojo. When they first meet Crylon comments on the mouse wondering what it is doing there. There training is then interrupted by its squeaks.
-They then feed it using the muffin tin he discovered with the muffin inside, while beginning a new exercise to train hand eye coordination using a small red ball.
-They also take the mouse along with them for the next bit of training.

by **Farris** on July 29th, 2018, 5:06 pm

Thread Link: A Nuisance at Best

Word Count: 3629

Summary: Xypher and Farris have some mental discussions while practicing magic at the Gem and some randomness ensues.

The red ball is stolen from the Fence and used throughout the thread.
The black mouse is an NPC that Kelski is making, a Kelvic named Ember (but Farris doesn't learn her name or relation just yet)

by **Jomi** on July 29th, 2018, 5:36 pm

I'm signing Jomi up for a skill building thread!

by **Belugnir** on July 29th, 2018, 5:38 pm

Ugnir gon do me some skill grinds...

Total word count from the thread sitting on 6197 wordses.

Blade, Globe and Rodent

I went all over the place between doing some manual labor for Endurance and Bodybuilding to having some bickering for cultivating Intimidation to having a heated sparring session go by, sporting the use of Poleaxe, Flux, Unarmed Combat, and yet more Intimidation and I guess I could skim additional endurance from the whole combat ordeal... including some extra coin on the side, so I'd say it was a solid grind all over the place.

As for the red ball and the black mouse, while they are scarcely mentioned, I've went with the idea of having the ball be displayed at the very start of the thread and near the point where it took a turn from bickering to a physical confrontation, as a means of its presence being a sign of initiating each of the two conflicts respectfully.

As for the mouse, I figured it could play a role in resolving the conflict by revealing itself and taking action to interrupt the ongoing brawl, bringing both parties back to reality and the fact that they weren't originally supposed to beat each other bloody.

Then I had both the rodent and the ball reoccur by each other's side, namely with the mouse using the ball as a chewing toy, at the end, as some abs sort of symbolism referring to the fact that the conflict had been settled.

(I feel as though I've thought, and rambled, way too much and written way too little in comparison about the objects that were requested in the challenge, still, it was a fun thing to integrate, and I pushed way past what I thought was my limit in the sheer amount of any form of sensible writing while doing it, so... Imma go ahead with a double yay over this one whatever someone might say in retrospect.)

by **Sanabael** on July 29th, 2018, 5:41 pm

I'm going to do a skill-building thread with San. What skill? Still a mystery.

Thread: 2,886 words
Summary: Sanabael practices hitting a punching bag, and gets shown up by a young girl who was playing with her ball and pet brat in the same area.

Decided on unarmed combat, though maybe it was more boxing...either way, a really neat and interesting challenge!