RPA Decathlon - [Updates every 2 days]

[Azazeal849]

Welcome, and thank you for dropping by! This is the RPA decathlon, a collection of ten different writing challenges that will be revealed over the course of the month! If you have any questions about a particular challenge, please don’t hesitate to PM myself or another mod.

Rules:

1. New challenges will be revealed every 48 hours at the bottom of this post. Be sure to check back regularly!

2. If a post you submit is M or R rated, please label it as such. Obviously, all the standard RPA rules also apply.

3. You may submit a single post per prompt.

4. Submit your posts here in this thread using [hide] tags, with the challenge title clearly shown in the spoiler text (to do this, use the code [hide=challenge title text here]).

5. Deadline for submission for all prompts will be midnight EST on the 30th of April. This is to be fair to members who might not be able to log on every day - we’d rather test your creativity than your writing speed!

6. Badges will be awarded to all players who rise to the challenge! Completing 6 prompts within the month will earn you a bronze medal. Completing 8 will earn you a silver. Completing all 10 will earn you a gold!

Spoiler: Competitors and Scoreboard 

Competitor	Completed Challenges
Alura	1,2
Asharasahara	1,2
Member 3	-
Member 4	-
Member 5	-
Member 6	-
Member 7	-
Member 8	-
Member 9	-
Member 10	-

Also, a big thank you to our previous organiser of this event, @Nazgul;

On your marks.

Get set.

Go!

The Challenges:

2nd April: Event 1 - The 100 Word Sprint. This event requires you to write 100 words on a specific topic. While it is allowed to go a little over the 100 words, those who go under will be disqualified.

The Topic: Kittens!

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4th April: Event 2 - The High-ku Jump. This event requires you to write a haiku poem. For those who do not know, a haiku is a short poem of three lines, which have five, seven and five syllables respectively. For example:

This is a haiku
Five syllables then seven
Then five once again

The Topic: RPA

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6th April: Event 3 - 220 Word Hurdles. This event requires you to write 220 words on a specific topic. However, there is a trick! Your post must contain five instances of a chosen word - that word is the hurdle! While it is allowed to go a little over the 220 words, those who go under will be disqualified.

The Topic: Friendship

The Hurdle Word: Hate

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8th April: Event 4 - The Plot Put. This event requires you to write a plot summary for a film that you have just invented - the kind of summary that might be read out by a deep, dramatic voice during the film’s trailer! Minimum 100 words.

The Title of the Film: Rebirth

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10th April: Event 5 - The Copy Throw. This event requires you to write advertising copy (an advert script). The name of the product is fixed and appears below, but beyond that it’s up to you. Perhaps it’s a movie, a TV show, a household product, or a vacation home in the Alpha Centauri system. Whatever your heart desires!

Name of Product: Sand Shark

[Alura]

Spoiler: EVENT 1 - The Hundred Word Sprint: Kittens! 

"Kittens, Maureen! I said kittens a thousand times, not kittens!"

Maureen looked one verbal barrage away from a complete breakdown.

The dark-haired fashion maven addressing her threw up her hands, a cheetah-print belt dangling from one of them dramatically. "All this fur besmirching my designs and from these… creatures. Meanwhile my kittens are abandoned in some factory in Thailand?"

Maureen jabbed her arm at the line of models cuddling a coterie of cute cats and snapped back sharply, "You sent the wrong form to requisitions, Dolores!"

With that, Maureen clicked emphatically for the rear exit atop her own kitten heels.

Spoiler: EVENT 2 - The High-ku Jump: RPA 

Like budding blossoms
Muses bloom into merry
Roleplay Adventures.

Spoiler: EVENT 3 - 220 Word Hurdles: Friendship 

Bard could not hate leaving his family behind more, though he was told they must set sail again to the distant island where his father had been slain. His mother kept her composure at the thought, but he could see the haunting in her eyes. Brida could not hate being left behind more, her dearest friend off to fight while she remained behind with the other daughters of the village. She could fight. Why should she not go sailing with the other warriors? It was the way of things, and each had work to do; but the distant thane who held so much hate for their attempts at conquest now threatened to follow them back across the waters. His hate had grown so much, in fact, that he had called down other warriors, 'pirates' from the north to help him press his advantage. Whether Bard and Brida would see each other again, they did not know. She saw him off with extra venison and a hug, telling him to return. He was brave, but his hate for the men who had killed his father did not make him eager to leave everything he had known behind him. He would defend them afar and she and the others who remained would defend what was left behind, she promised as they parted.

Spoiler: EVENT 4 - The Plot Put: Rebirth 

Gaurav was young, handsome, and one of the smoothest grifters in the world. Little did he know when he and his partner, Gurmeet, hatched a plan to con their way into one of the wealthiest families in India that he would end up learning a karmic lesson. Upon hearing the bridegroom talking over his scheme with Gurmeet, Agni decides to give him one chance to turn aside from his schemes against the sweet Mukti and her family. When the groom does not listen to the disguised deity's advice, the god decides to give the con artist a glimpse of what his actions are creating for him in his next life - and give him one last chance to change and become a better man for his new bride and her family. As they walk around the fire at the end of their marriage ceremonies, Guarav falls to the ground and the flames roar.

Follow Guarav, as he goes from slick grifter to desperate do-gooder in his journey through his past and present under the watchful eye of Upadrasta, the Overseer of the karmic cycle. Will he learn from his mistakes before it's too late and wake into his own body? Or will he ignore Agni's lessons and pass on into his reward - or punishment - in the next life?

Find out when Gaslight Studios presents Rebirth!

Coming soon to an afterlife near you!

Spoiler: EVENT 5 - The Copy Throw: Sand Shark 

Children tracking a veritable desert into your home?

Indoor/outdoor pets tracking burrs, dirt, or leaves in and making a mess?

Never fear! Introducing the brand new Sand Shark from Cousteau Unlimited, the company that brought you the household favourites the electronic Calypso Insect Killer and Melchior Drain Cleaner!

You may be thinking, "Alura, why do I need the Sand Shark? I already have a standard, ho-hum hoover at home."

Well, let me tell you! The Sand Shark operates as a wet/dry vac as well as a steam cleaner, so all those inexplicable wine, coffee, and cuttlefish stains practically jump right out of carpets. Save time and money by removing unsightly debris and stains yourself without hiring costly maintenance services to do it for you! But don't take my word for it! Have a look at this man enjoying his Sand Shark at home!



As they say (including here) a picture is worth a thousand words! Don't delay, buy your Sand Shark today for four easy payments of 99$: because life is a beach; but your home doesn't have to be!

Void where prohibited. The Sand Shark is a registered trademark of the ocean and should never be used by a human person. If you can lift it then good luck, though, I suppose! All art in this advert is definitely to scale and professionally done. Please be aware that Sand Sharks are wild creatures and should never be purchased directly from the ocean. Doing so nullifies the warranty. Some Sand Sharks have been known to consume all of the shrimp cocktail whilst only leaving the sauce for the rest of your house guests like the true sociopaths that they are. Not that I'm bitter, it was just a lovely seafood tray and it hoovered literally all of it but the sauce. Who does that? Ahem... anyway, order our product! It's probably legal somewhere!

[asharasahara]

Spoiler: The 100 Word Sprint 

Sharp little claws and the softest paws. Whiskers and ears that twitch at new smells and sounds. Thin little bodies and tails that can puff up in play and in fright to be a larger threat than the thing that caused the startle and surprise. Some grow to know the feel of pavement and grass beneath their paws; others grow to know soft things and sisal rope, sometimes together, sometimes alone. Soon the small and young will be large and grown but, for now, a kitten will be a kitten, learning and growing and simply being in the expansive world.

Spoiler: The High-ku Jump 

Adventuring here
for more than a day or year
into the unknown