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Post by The Muse on Jul 22, 2009 21:30:33 GMT -5
Greetings SlayAlive Scribes! Ready for the next challenge? I'm sure you'll find this one exciting. Prompt: Illustrate a battle scene from within the Whedonverse (BtVS, AtS, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible). Format: Prose. Word count: 500-1000 words. Deadline: All submissions must be submitted to me, The Muse, by 11:59 pm on Wednesday August 5th. Please fill out this form to attach with your submission (using all areas that apply):[/u] [/size][/li][/ul][/quote]
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Post by hitnrun017 on Jul 22, 2009 21:53:25 GMT -5
Bwahaha! That picture is hilarious! This is a cool idea, but a couple questions: - Does it have to be a "battle", like with a lot of people? Or can it just Character A vs. Character B? - And does it have to follow continuity? Or can it be an Alternate Universe type of thing? For example... what if we wanted a crazy character choice like.... Cordelia and Fred go totally insane and just start beating the crap out of each other.
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Post by Emmie on Jul 22, 2009 22:28:55 GMT -5
I'll interpret for The Muse here. - The battle can be large or just between two people. - It doesn't have to strictly follow continuity. In fact, I'd imagine that going AU and being creative would make for an even better story. You could even make it be a crossover battle between Dr. Horrible and Buffy - it's still in the Whedonverse, after all.
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Post by hitnrun017 on Jul 22, 2009 22:32:14 GMT -5
Such a great interpreter, thanks! All kinds of cool, crazy ideas.
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Post by Rebecca on Jul 22, 2009 23:04:48 GMT -5
I have to say that A) Battle scenes pretty much bore me in any medium with exception to comics and B) Writing, especially prose, scares the begezus out of me. But I will enjoy reading these. Perhaps I'll participate in one of these sometime.
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Post by Emmie on Jul 22, 2009 23:09:13 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to a showdown between Bad Horse and Illyria, personally.
I cannot imagine such a battle ever being boring!
Oooo or Dr. Horrible could face off against Warren - a freeze ray battle to the death!
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Post by The Night Lord on Jul 23, 2009 1:24:47 GMT -5
Oooh, fight scene. Should be fun!!
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Jul 23, 2009 1:45:09 GMT -5
You mentioned Dr. Horrible and suddenly I realized there's perfectly good Hammer/Horrible material there. Holy carp and tuna. I will ecstatically pound out another fic for this challenge.
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Jul 23, 2009 4:33:12 GMT -5
Hmmm, this will be a tough one! I'm dry for ideas right now but I will bash some out eventually...
Also: I love how the Muse listens to the people. *hugs Emmie... I mean, the Muse...*
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Jul 23, 2009 6:35:04 GMT -5
Damn. This will be hard. Let's see; punch, kick, round-house kick(what is that?), back-flip(is that a real word?), strangeling, chocking, hitting...
I don't know many more words that can describe fighting-moves.
I can see it now.
"Buffy did this cool hook thing with her arm, and Spike went flying and landed on his back, then he like, did this flippy thing with his legs and he was up on his feet again."
I don't think I'll get many votes this time.
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Jul 23, 2009 7:03:10 GMT -5
Oh lol! I didn't even think of the 'battle' as an actual battle with fighting and stuff... my mind automatically went to a 'word' battle...argument/confrontation/verbal fight!
It will be interesting to see what people come up with for sure! There is a lot of possibilities and the content will really challenge our imaginations.
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Jul 23, 2009 7:34:06 GMT -5
Well, mine will have some verbal battles too. But I think the muse meant physical battle.
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Jul 23, 2009 8:26:09 GMT -5
Yeah I think you're probably right! I must of been misled by my thoughts and the discussion in the prompts thread...
Hmm, tougher than I thought!
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Jul 23, 2009 8:54:42 GMT -5
I hope we don't have to have too much violence. My fic includes chipped Spike, so he mostly just ducks while the other person throws things.
Not really a epic battle, just a "disagreement". Probably not what The Muse had in mind.
The Muse, can we have a silly fight scenes? Something similar to the Harmony/Xander fight-scene perhaps?
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Post by Secret Scoobie on Jul 23, 2009 9:20:25 GMT -5
Well to me that sounds like it fits the theme, and I'd probably go down a similar road... Up to the holy Muse though
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Post by Midnight Butterfly on Jul 23, 2009 9:27:08 GMT -5
YAY People liked my idea *runs off to start writing*
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Post by VampSlayer on Jul 23, 2009 11:53:28 GMT -5
Im in!
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Post by The Night Lord on Jul 23, 2009 14:53:11 GMT -5
Sky, a roundhouse is an attack where a person does a small spin, before unleashing a head-high kick, striking with the heel. Or they can aim at the chest or stomach. One of my favourite moves to do and you see Buffy do a fair few of them as well
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Post by Emmie on Jul 23, 2009 17:17:24 GMT -5
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Post by The Night Lord on Jul 24, 2009 0:45:48 GMT -5
I sent mine in, but then I realized that it doesn't really showcase my ability to write a fight scene and it's quite small too. I want to change my entry, but I have two other fight scenes, however, one is over a thousand words and the other is over two thousand words. Hmm, dilemmas...
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