My theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers.
Knowledge Kidnappers Quest - (Or Party versus Party) -
Underrated Bag
(See letter K post or letter p post for details.)The underrated bag is like a bag-of-holding, except it's smaller (about the size of a baseball) and only holds certain objects. The underrated bag weighs one pound. Everything in the bag is replenished once per hour, if need be. Here are the items:
- chalk
- quill and ink
- 3 sheets of parchment
- wax, dark green
- small mirror
- soap
- whistle
- 2-ounce edible water bubble (Ooho)
- empty 20-ounce bottle
- empty 4-ounce vile
- 10 pounds of potatoes in a brown burlap sack
- fire starting kit (flint & steel, matches & dry moss, Zippo & shredded newspaper; whatever is appropriate for the world)
- a cast-iron skillet
- a kettle
- a torch
- 5 throwing stars
- a bell
- 50-feet of string
- 20-feet of rope
- a lock with a key
- dark green bath towel 30″ x 58″
- dark green wool gloves
- dark green wool socks
- talcum powder
- a deck of playing cards
- a novel written in common (the same one if you put it back in the bag, a new one if you don't put the other back and an hour has passed)
- a bucket
- 3-pounds of hay
- a fishing tackle with supplies
- wooden fishing pole
Nothing else can go into the bag, and nothing else can come out of the bag. If an empty container is filled, it cannot go back into the bag. Damaged items cannot be put back into the bag (but there will be a new one in the next hour).
I need me one of these bags! In terms of a writing prompt, I could see someone rummaging about to try and find something, not for the item itself, but for the wrapping or something - need to put a hood oversomeone's head? How about the burlap sack that used to hold 10 lb of potatoes...? Or perhaps someone is trying to send a message by influencing the novel that comes out...?
ReplyDeleteReally enjoying your challenge, even entries that are a bit gross (ring of all-seeing anyone?).
If you'll forgive me for pointing it out (because I've spotted it on a couple of posts): vile = gross; vial = receptacle.
I'm giving your challenge a shout out on my own blog.
David
@Breakerofthings from
Fiction Can Be Fun
Calling by as an A2Z supporter