Subject: Ah, not being misunderstood is so difficult.
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Posted on: 2016-05-15 11:00:00 UTC

someone said specifically that if the story only had one or two lines relating to the prompt, that was okay

That would have been me, in the discussion we had with Data Junkie about how the prompts are so limiting. What I said was all about working around the limitations, like


  • If the Stu claims that your agents can’t do anything to him, because he’s immortal, find him a fate worse than death.
  • If the prompt claims that it’s about a robot wearing a paper face mask of a canon character, use this as a starting point ("the first two sentences") to make your agents bicker about their different perception of this canon character, or recent developments in this canon, or the advantages and disadvantages of wearing a paper mask, or to make anything happen that may, by the weird laws of PPC HQ, be caused by meeting this robot. As long as it is a good story, nobody will complain that it’s not actually about the robot.

Telling a random story, where the agents meet the robot only near the end and barely react to it, apart from Kelly contemplating a memory for one paragraph, doesn’t work around the limitations.

HG

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