Let’s Play With the Script Frenzy Plot Machine!

[railenthe]

I’m insane.  I decided to go and attempt Script Frenzy.

 

Script Frenzy, for the uninitiated, is similar to NaNoWriMo.  Except that it happens in April instead of November.  And you write a 100-page script (minimum) in 30 days instead of a novel.  For short, it’s often called “Screnzy.”   Well, to be fair, NaScrWriMo really doesn’t flow.

 

To widen my experience, I figured I’d give it a shot.  So I linked my NaNo account to the site and—

 

“Ooh, what’s in here?”

 

A little machine widget sits in the top corner of the page: a caption says plot machine. 

 

“This could be fun…”

 

I click GO.

“What?!  This is madness!”

 

Three years into the Great Space Crusade, a talking lobster enters a love triangle with Siamese twins

 

Um…WHAT?
Full disclosure?  This sounds like a Futurama plotline.  One I am tempted to write now.

 

After saying "I don't" at the altar, an out-of-work lion tamer is mistaken for Elton John and goes with it

 

Now THIS one sounds pretty darn funny.  It doesn’t hurt that I have a mental image of said lion tamer already.  He favors white and teal suits and has a white ragdoll tomcat.  Undersized.

 

After a sex change, a merry band of woodland ninjas ingests a pheromone that attracts weasels

 

…did this sound like an episode of Gintama to anyone else?  Just me?

 

In a world ruled by evil flying elves, a baker with a PhD in physics plans a campout in a haunted bayou

 

This could be—this sounds like…what.

 

Unable to find true love, a duck with a death-wish swims across the Pacific Ocean

 

…This could actually be cute.  Does the duck warm hearts on his trip?  Does he find hope?!

 

After waking from a 100-year nap, Deepak Chopra opens a real estate agency on the moon

 

WHAT?!

 

While drowning in the Caspian Sea, a recent high school dropout receives the 11th commandment

 

I might be able to do something with that…

 

Tired of a monotonous day job, a 31-year-old masochist must open for Bjork

 

…NOPE TOO EASY

 

On a lifelong quest for pixie dust, a band of hippies befriends a young runaway with a secret

 

This seems a little easy.  But it sounds like fun.

 

In a world where sleep must be paid for, the cast of Riverdance tries out for the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders

 

OK, I’d fucking pay big bank to watch that one.

 

While camping on the roof of the Sears Tower, a god of the underworld teams up with David Bowie to save the world

 

Y-you mean THIS HASN’T HAPPENED YET?! IT MUST! IT SIMPLY MUST!!!

 

On the run from the government, a sentient alien sock puppet joins a group of undercover magicians

 

Don’t quote me on this one, but I think that may have been an actual plotline in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

 

Dressed like Liberace, a two-bit gambling tiger rushes an elite Southern sorority

 

Someone somewhere and somehow has to make this one work.

 

During a summer lightning storm, a bounty hunter must smuggle druids across the border

 

Uhhh…

 

After saying "I don't" at the altar, an out-of-work philosophy professor finds love in the afterlife

 

 

…okay, that’s just plain sweet.

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They're ALL episodes of Gintama!

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Aw crap...somebody's been stealing from my head again!

CLEARLY THE PLOT GENERATOR LIVES INSIDE YOUR HEAD

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

CASE IN POINT:

After being sucked through a black hole
a nuclear physicist with a broken heart
unknowingly arrives at a nudist colony

Most of the combinations are crack like that, but sometimes you get something that'll actually work outside of an Adult Swim cartoon.

I WONDER IF I CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS. XD

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

I get crack like that all the time. I was trying to think of a reason as to why the voice sample of an Ishida character for an Otome Game was so underwhelming and came to the conclusion that Ishida was saying the line whilst trying to get the producers to increase his paycheque because he has a blue cardigan to feed and said blue cardigan only eats really expensive gourmet rice crackers.

Did all that in thirty seconds. Now the strange relationship of Ishida and the demon baby blue cardigan is headcanon.

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

I think that beats anything I've done. Except that maybe the reason Kirk Thornton's approach to Jade (from Tales of the Abyss) versus Jin (Samurai Champloo) was because he KNEW his character in the latter was Mr. Fanservice and decided that it'd be best to play his every non-fight line in this husky, sexy breath (and some of the fights, too. That and the fact that this dub is excellent is why I like it. But mostly DAT VOICE). Even his deadpan-snarking is sexy. I could listen to him read the label of a shampoo bottle. Or a shopping list. Everything he says in character sounds like it could be PORN. (*Heard in Jin's voice: "Milk. Vodka sauce. Butter. String cheese."*))

While on a shopping spree
A Zen gardener
is mistaken for Elton John and goes with it

I wasn't paying attention once to a character that I'd put together for a placeholder. He became the single biggest lech in the story. Or at the biggest one that was willing to admit it. Watch what happens when he talks to HIS PATIENT:

“Long enough to wonder what exactly is going on,” he said with a shrug. “I’m a healer, not an engineer, so I don’t know what any of this is.”
Reiluz waved a hand dismissively. “It’s a hobby of mine. What are you looking for?”
“You, actually,” Anu said. He stepped inside of the chamber, closing the door behind him. “I’m supposed to keep an eye on you, after all.”
“You’ve already examined me,” Reiluz said.
“You’re a man who underwent Augmentation under unorthodox conditions. If I don’t keep an eye on you and something happens, Lord Illuminatis will have my head.”
Reiluz shook his head. “…whatever you say. What do you need me to do?”
Anu tilted his head, thinking. “Hmm…strip.”
“What?”
Anu smiled. “I should explain, I suppose—”
“I know what you meant!”
“I’m sorry, did I offend your sensibilities? Should I buy you something first?” Anu said, apparently thinking hard on the question. Then he threw his hands up whimsically. “Oh well. Now, lose that top-robe…or would you rather I do it for you?”
Reiluz began undoing the rope on his linen top-robe almost immediately.
“Oh…so much for my fun.”

He was supposed to be there for one chapter, two at most. Now I'm seriosly considering pulling a one-shot canon screw where he beds everyone.

Including the pope.

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

*snort* I would read a book for that guy.

Never underestimate a placeholder. Sometimes they can steal the entire show from under your nose. (This is why I spend so long trying to work out what's going on with my placeholders when I start to put them in.)

It's a good thing I don't write seiyuu fanfiction. There would be entire chronicles about Morikawa, his hair dye and every other seme seiyuu out to steal his ukes during BLs. I'm almost tempted to just let rip and change the names since nobody is like that in reality.

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

I've since discovered that if I do not plan a redshirt's death out to the most minute detail, he winds up making a case for himself.

The novel's kind of dark until he shows up. Right when things are getting kind of dark, he makes some sort of comment. It usually involves an innuendo of some sort.

Or he just SAYS it, in the in-universe-pope case.

“He cannot hear you,” Selenos said. “If this is relevant to him as well, you can either wait—or have him pull it out of your mind.”
Anu started. “He can do that?”
“Why do you think I never try to cover my tracks around him?” Selenos asked.
The Oracle’s eyes returned to normal. “I would advise the both of you to remember that I am still here.”
Anu bowed. “Your presence cannot be ignored, my Lord Oracle. If not for you we would not be here—or so I’ve heard.”
Rivenel gave Anu a flat look. “Perchance, has anyone told you that your mouth might get you into trouble?”
“Hmm. I must say that I rather prefer it that way,” he answered.
Rivenel’s face took on a look of scandalized indignation. “S-such lewd behavior!”


It gets worse (?) after a fight. Keep in mind everyone's a bit bloodied from the fight (and by 'a bit' I mean HOLY CRAP IT WAS BRUTAL):

“…and then there’s the fact that our newly Ascended friend here isn’t wearing his robes,” Anu added. “No wonder we’re drawing the looks, hmm?”
Everyone turned to look at Anu.
“What?”

He seriously doesn't see the issue.
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Heck, there's a cracky story in that right there! I'd check it out. XD