The return of the weekly plot help thread!

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know you've all been waiting in eager anticipation for this thread to start up, and now you don't have to wait any longer!

So, for the new kids in the community, here's the basic gist:

This post goes up once a week. In here, you can ask for help on your plots. Each week I start a new post. You can keep asking for help each week, but try to ask for something new each time.

Also, if you want to get help, you also have to give it. Which means that you take time when you can to go through the help "requests" and see if there if anything that jumps out at you that you want to toss a suggestion at.

One of the beauties this community has is the willingness to help each other along in our 50k goal. And here is the place to do it.

And of course, that said, here's the BOO part.

With the thread means that these types of posts are no longer allowed to be individual posts in the community. So if you see one go up, feel free to leave them a comment and point them to the current week's help thread and the rules. I'll catch up with them eventually, but that kind of help (which alot of people are already doing for intro posts) is really appreciated!

So that's it. Feel free to start getting plot brainstorming down before NaNo, and help one another out. :)

Comments

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

Okay. Does Kaiba have any particular reason he'd like to mess with them? Say, conveniently telling them the (to him) obvious way out, simply because he likes to watch them squirm? Maybe he's got a grudge against one of them for, I don't know, mocking his Very Serious Coattails or something. Or they made his wife cry. Or they socked Mokuba upside the head for getting kidnapped again.

Alternately, there's the whole running-the-company schtick we so rarely see him do. The board's trying to vote him out of the presidency for spending all his time on children's card games and bailing out Mokuba, or maybe he donates too much of the profits to Puppy Torture Research or some other favorite scientific endeavor. (Charity's pushing it, unless he's secretly funding an orphanage on the side.)

So all of his free time NOT devoted to caring for his ailing wife is spent proving the board that yes, dammit, Kaiba is not a liability to KaibaCorp, and so he's constantly traveling around proving his worth to investors. Some time ago my dad pulled this for nearly two solid years, and lemme tell you, people get SHOCKINGLY scatterbrained about anything non-essential to their immediate happiness when they're swapping time zones every other week. Thus, he thinks about it briefly, decides he's a grownup and so are they and they can figure it out on their own damn time, and continues running around doing corporate things. While he does think of that solution, he's running in and out of town so much that he sort of loses track of time and eventually comes to the subconscious conclusion that he must have told them already, right? Really smart people also tend to assume everyone can think on their level anyway, so he's all 'they CAN'T have not seen this solution, it's just SO FLIPPING OBVIOUS.'

[technicolornina.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not really. It's nine years post-series. Although Atem has made his wife cry, several times in fact, because he's married to Anzu. (Yes, there's a fair amount of backstory there, why do you ask? >.<) And not only is Mokuba 23 in this story, he's living in America as a KaibaCorp liasion. I'll probably bring him in for something, but getting kidnapped isn't it ^_~

The company's already going to be a huge issue, because he has to balance the company with Anzu's apparent madness (she believes she's 17 and in love with Atem instead of 26 and pregnant with Kaiba's child). But the whole this-is-so-obvious thing . . . that might work. And then at some point when they're all "we've tried everything! It can't be done!" he can be all " . . . you're some pretty lousy suicides, then." Or something.

That totally works, thanks ^_^