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Challenge RP!
Challenge RP!
So here are the rules; someone gives a set of totally random words, (fifteen of 'em) and another person tries to make a short story that logically contains those words. If they succeed, they can give another set which someone else gets to write a story for, etc., etc. There is no need to make characters.
Here is the first word challenge;
Phone, tree, alien, cupcake, granola, earthquake, telemarketer, gorilla, astronaut, rendezvous, baroness, vitamin, jungle-gym, indigestion, drapes.
submitted by Alias
(March 6, 2015 - 12:39 pm)
(March 6, 2015 - 12:39 pm)
I wake up in the morning with the ground rumbling beneath me, and I know instantely what it is. Earthquake! They're actually quite common here. I carefully dive under my bed and wait for it to cease, which it eventually does. I get up and walk downstairs to fix myself some breakfast.
It's a school day, so there's no time for pancakes, which is what we usually get for breakfast after an earthquake. However, Mom turned the radio on and there's no mention of school out. So I sit eating my granola and counting out my chewy vitemins.
My mom tells me to stop eating breakfast after I've eaten three bowls of cereal, saying I'll have indigestion. I obey, and as I'm putting my plate in the dishwasher I hear the telephone ring.
"I'll get it," I say, and pick up the phone. I groan when I hear it.
"Want to win 10% off a magazine subscription for Life Out There? Then call today at 675-5447-90076! The 100th person to call gets this grand prize!"
"No thanks, not interested," i say, sighing at the telemarketer. But then it speaks again.
"Okay, whatever. I don't care. I was supposed to tell you that you won and to recieve your prize you go down to the playground.... whatever."
"No, no," I say, "Tell me more."
"I will if you come," says the voice, perking up. "Rezendouvus at 3:15 sharp, next to the jungle gym with the gorilla and drape-like things in your school playground."
"Okay," I say, "See you then."
After school I go to the playround, which is deserted. When I reach the jungle gym (the "Gorilla Gym", we call it), I can't believe my eyes. It's an alien.
"Yeah, that's right," it says, in the same voice I heard over the phone. "I'm an alien. And keep your thoughts more respectful. You're talking to a baroness here."
I quickly bow to her, and she waves it off.
"Whatever," she says. "We're equals here. In any case, I need you to eat this."
She holds out a cupcake. A delicious looking one, too, with pink frosting and round sprinkles.
"Really?" I say, before I can stop myself. "You called me here so I could eat a cupcake?"
"Not just any cupcake," the alien scoldes. "A great future will come if you eat it."
I eat it.
******
((many, many, many years later))
"Goodbye, honey," Mom says for probably the bajillionth time. "Be safe, okay?"
"I'll be fine, Mom," I say, rolling my eyes. "I'm over twenty. I can take care of myself."
"But you're going to Jupiter," she says. "The first gas planet to be explored by humans. You're going farther than any human ever has!"
"Mom," I say, "I'll be safe. I went through years of astronaut training. I went on tons of other missions. I'm ready."
She gives me one last peck on the cheek, and I climb up into the rocket. I wave to the other astronauts as we buckle up.
******
((a few years later))
I take my first step on Jupiter. And another. And another. They did it! The scientists did it! Humans can walk on gas planets!
I take one stpe after another, and soon tentive steps turn into energetic leaps. But on one of my landings, I hear something strange. A crunch.
Before I know what's happening, I'm being sucked down....
****
I open my eyes and the first thing I see is the baroness.
"So you're finally here," she says. "Took you long enough. Whatever. Have a look around."
I do. The first thing I see is astonishing-- trees. They have trees on Jupiter! Wait till I tell the scientists about this!
"Oh, right, about that," says the baroness, "You're not going back."
"Wait, what?" I say.
"Yeah, you see, you're actually part Jupiterorian. You're staying here."
I had to stay. The others had left me.
I lived a nice life there. I met my dad, and got aquainted with him, and all that. But sometimes, I missed Earth. And I wonder what they've done now....
_____________
Taa-daaa!
The next words are:
Lipstick, piggybank, ice, crayon, humaniod, sunlight, monster, mermaid, clementine, dolphin, magazine, secrative, agent, tulip, fence.
(March 6, 2015 - 5:00 pm)
Nicely done. ;-)
(March 6, 2015 - 6:01 pm)
My alarm clock is absolutely deafening this morning. The pale buttercup-tinted sunlight splaying across my bedroom and the robins chirruping in the tall oaks towering over my backyard outside are definitely screaming "GET UP!"
So I do.
"...And there were all these humanoids and monsters and mermaids and secretive agents trying to take over the world," my little brother, Quinn, was babbling at the table when I trudged in for breakfast. "It was so cool."
"Sounds exciting," my dad agreed, glancing up to greet me. "Morning, Josie. Sleep well?"
"Okay," I replied. "Did my magazine come yet?"
"Ew, magazines," Quinn commented. "Lipstick! Perfume! And don't forget - how to flirt!"
"Do you have an off button?" I demanded.
"Want to find it?"
"Enough," Dad interjected, and I slumped in my chair, irritated.
"Josie, there are waffles in the freezer," he continued. "Get some fresh fruit, too."
I got up, flashing a look at my brother, and headed into the kitchen. One glass of water - six ice cubes - two waffles, maple syrup, and a clementine. Perfect.
"I counted all of the money in my piggybank last night. Fourteen whole dollars! So now I can buy Mom flowers for Mother's Day," Quinn boasted, ignoring me as I made a big deal out of sitting back down.
"Very nice," Dad remarked. "What kind of flowers?"
"I was thinking tulips," Quinn answered coolly. I could tell he had practiced exactly what he was going to say beforehand. I tried not to laugh.
"She already has tulips planted in the fence garden, genius," I countered.
"So?"
"So it's not original. Think of something else. And that doesn't include the paper flowers you make out of crayons and pipe cleaners in kindergarten. Real ones," I advised.
Quinn eyed Dad for help.
"Well, I got your mother a dozen roses for our honeymoon," he stepped in. "That was when we went to Florida, where we took that picture you love so much, Quinn."
"You mean the one with the dolphins jumping out of the water?"
"That's right."
"Okay, roses then," Quinn decided, satisfied.
Just then, Mom walked in sleepily, rubbing her eyes. "What roses?"
"Nothing," all three of us exclaimed in unison.
We looked at each other and burst into gales of laughter.
*****
Sorry, that was not at all my best writing. It was more of an on-the-spot, just-for-fun sort of thing!
(March 6, 2015 - 10:58 pm)
Oh! And the next words are giggle, curious, fortune, picnic, hairbrush, zombie, rainy, window, balloon, torture, violin, normal, eternal, doorbell, and messy.
(March 6, 2015 - 11:02 pm)
We zombies are so misunderstood. We have a life outside of eating brains you know! Unfortunately, no one is ever curious about the affairs of zombies. So anyway, my zombie friends and I decided to have a picnic! It was a rainy day but we weren't going to let that stop us! We had brain pie, liver sandwiches and fortune cookies! Everyone's said something normal, but the shy zombie, Kira, wouldn't say what hers said. So Aly giggled and started playing her violin and said that she wouldn't stop until Kira told! And Aly's violin is torture to listen to. So she said that it read, go prank somebody.
So, we did! We went to 779 Eternal st. That's where this really old couple of zombies lives. Their house is NEVER messy. They were perfect!
We tapped on their window, rang the doorbell three times, and ran like the wind! it was gold. In celebration, we popped a balloon with a hairbrush.
THE END
(March 6, 2015 - 11:46 pm)
Hello. I am a piggybank. Also, I enjoy wearing makeup. This is what happened when I saw a tube of lipstick on my owner's desk.
i went for it, of course! My owner is a secret agent, and therefore is very secretive about everything, and sets traps everywhere! I had to first break through a fence made of toothpicks, then went over a clementine peel. It was gross, but I kept going. Suddenly I saw a monster! A horrible, not-too-humanoid figure. Then I realized it was just a Beanie Boo of my owner's. Her name was Tulip. I walked past Tulip, around a clay figure of a mermaid caressing a dolphin, and over a crayon that was for some strange reason ice-cold. And then, there it was! In a shaft of sunlight, lying on top of a magazine. The lipstick! My prize at last.
Ta-daa! The story of a piggybank's trek across a desk for a tube of lipstick.
New words: green, bubble, marshmallow, wolf, blue, moon, dustbunny, mascara, sneeze, peanut butter, hummingbird, fort, sanitizer, tiles, candy.
As they say in the Starcraft community, glhf (Good Luck Have Fun)!
(March 6, 2015 - 11:26 pm)
My head met the cold green tile as I fell....
It all started when my brother and I were playing "Just Sneeze!", a version of "Ants in your pants!" We were sitting on the coffee table, eating marshmallows and candy, when my brother said, "I don't have enough space."
I raised one eyebrow. "Really? Because, wow, gee, there seems to be about a foot of space behind you!"
"I don't have enough space," he repeated. "Shove over."
And he pushed me a little, causing me to drop my marshmallow under the table among the dustbunnies.
He kept pushing me until he pushed me one spot too far, and I fell....
******
I woke in the hospital fort with someone with a huge overdose of mascara leaning over me.
"Yes, minor concussion," she was saying, "but nothing serious. You can take her home now."
I hear someone sneeze, then say, "You sure she's all right, miss?" in my grandmother's voice.
"Yes, she's fine," said the lady, sounding impatient. "Now hurry up, there are people with broken legs waiting out there."
We hurried out.
**************
After dinner (and hand santitizer my grandmother always made me put on) I walked into the garden by myself. It was quite peaceful in the moonlight, the moon giving a heavenly glow to everything. I felt a yearning to go past the stone walls blocking me. But I knew I couldn't, that there was a war going on behind those walls.
Then, suddenly, I saw a hummingbird. Not that they're not common in California; it's just I never had seen one during the night. Then, to my utmost surprise, it lifted its wing, out out came.... a bubble. It was strange, but I wanted to follow it. The bird was actually chirping, "follow the bubble. Follow the bubble." So I did. I followed the bubble.
The bubble looked blue after we past the gate. Then there was war raging. I could see it. It was so terrible, so awful. I didn't want to go near it.
Luckily, the bubble lead me into the woods. Once we went a certain way, it stopped. I stopped too.
"Listen," it said, "I know your story. I know your parents died in the war, I know you're living with your grandma. I can change that.
"All you have to do is join the wolf."
"The wolf?" I was asking. "The wolf?"
**********
Then I woke up, grandma leaning over me.
"Are you all right?" she said. "It seemed like you were having a dream. You having a cuncossion, I'm not surprised."
____________
Ta-daa!
The nest words are:
pancake, cranberry, starfish, snow, underworld, Ireland, luck, gold, radiator, A/C, cactus, wood, pencil sharpener, coffee, shoe.
(March 7, 2015 - 8:51 am)
It was probably a bad idea to sneak into the Grimmins' backyard. Obvoiusly I had a reason for going. But nobody cares about that of course. My Bubble Blaster was lost in the lilac bushes in her yard, and I couldn't just let a $499.99 toy get eaten by some hummingbird. So i did the only logical thing and went and got it. The perfectly arranged tiles looked like they had had 3 layers of hand sanitizer wiped onto them. It was so perfect it made me want to puke. I got my toy and got out of there. It was going so perfectly. Then I had to sneeze. And thats how I got stuck cleaning my room. Ya think I wanted to spend my perfectly good saterday picking up wolf stuffed animals and oddly shaped dust bunnies?? Nope. I did find some good candy, however. So many years of hiding Peanut butter crushes in my closet in case I got locked in without food has finally paid off! So not all that bad. I found an oldmake-up kit too with ugly green eyeshadow and some mascars that was long over expired. I ate some more candy. I thought about what I did. I didn't deserve to be punished. I should at least get my Bubble Blaster back! I had an idea. I would sneak back into Mrs. Grmmins's yard. I would get back the Bubble Blaster I had left. Good bye empty blue moon ice cream cartons!! Hello Bubble Blaster!!!
Next words; Cat, creep, wall, board game, lamp, restaurant, lost, television, street, wand, paper, dollhouse, tree, ocean, and lullaby. Good luck with that!!
(March 7, 2015 - 9:36 am)
It was probably a bad idea to sneak into the Grimmins' backyard. Obvoiusly I had a reason for going. But nobody cares about that of course. My Bubble Blaster was lost in the lilac bushes in her yard, and I couldn't just let a $499.99 toy get eaten by some hummingbird. So i did the only logical thing and went and got it. The perfectly arranged tiles looked like they had had 3 layers of hand sanitizer wiped onto them. It was so perfect it made me want to puke. I got my toy and got out of there. It was going so perfectly. Then I had to sneeze. And thats how I got stuck cleaning my room. Ya think I wanted to spend my perfectly good saterday picking up wolf stuffed animals and oddly shaped dust bunnies?? Nope. I did find some good candy, however. So many years of hiding Peanut butter crushes in my closet in case I got locked in without food has finally paid off! So not all that bad. I found an oldmake-up kit too with ugly green eyeshadow and some mascars that was long over expired. I ate some more candy. I thought about what I did. I didn't deserve to be punished. I should at least get my Bubble Blaster back! I had an idea. I would sneak back into Mrs. Grmmins's yard. I would get back the Bubble Blaster I had left. Good bye empty blue moon ice cream cartons!! Hello Bubble Blaster!!!
Next words; Cat, creep, wall, board game, lamp, restaurant, lost, television, street, wand, paper, dollhouse, tree, ocean, and lullaby. Good luck with that!!
(March 7, 2015 - 9:36 am)
Of course I would get babysitting duty again. Son't my parents understand that I have a life?
My sister Lily's off in the corner, playing with her dollhouse. When she sees me preparing dinner, she asks in that sweet little voice of hers,
"Katie, can we, can we play restaurant again?"
"Of course," I tell her, and grab some paper to make a menu. As I draw a picture of pizza and then one of a juice box on the menu, my cat Muffin jumps on my lap. I smile as I hand the menu to Lily. "Welcome to Ocean Dreams Cusine," I say in my waitress voice. "The Special f the Day is written on the wall." Lily laughs and eats up her pizza.
"Katie, can we play a board game when I'm done?" she asks me. I nod as I look out the window, where the street lamp gives an eerie glow to the trees, one that gives me the creeps. I pull out Lily's favorite board game, one that involves drawing cards to get a princess ready for the ball. Lily looks at the pieces with a frown. "Where's the magic wand one?" she asks.
"It must be lost," I tell her. This sends Lily's lip a-quiver, a sure sign she's about to cry. When she gets like this, the only thing one can do is sing her a lullaby and hope you can calm her. "Shh, it's okay," I tell her. "How about we watch some television instead?" Lily mods through tears.
Sometimes I forget how hard being a big sister can be.
Next words are:
Rainbow, hedgehog, pajamas, sweater, laptop, salt, crayon, tears, and basket!
(March 8, 2015 - 4:07 pm)