[HCC/Meta] High Concept Challenge #56 : Sheep

[Saxon Brenton]

I've just spent the morning trying to update the running list of High 
Concept topics, because man it is getting hard to remember what's 
already been used.  
 
But anyway, after a bit of thought, I believe I shall declare High 
Concept Challenge #56 to be: Sheep.
 
Interpret that as broadly or as narrowly as you wish.  The animal.  
The insult of being a mindless conformist.  Any phrases, like 'being 
sheepish', 'A wolf in sheep's clothing' or 'Lions lying down with 
lambs'.
  
Deadline in the usual period of three-ish weeks, so let's make it the 
14th October 2015.
 
Go play.  Have fun. 
  
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And for archival completeness, behold the fruits of my mornings labour:
 
The Running List of High Concept Challenge topics.
 
2009 
 01 - 'The Forgotten Man'
 02 - Superhuman worried about kids; uplifted but 
      non-anthropomorphic animals 
 03 - Talking to animals 
 04 - Kitbashing 
 05 - Anachronoid
 
2010
 06 - "When the Earth becomes infested with hardwired aliens, one 
      Earthling and his/her chocolate respond by swimming." 
 07 - Olympics 
 08 - Opposites 
 09 - The Red Planet 
 10 - The Immigrant Experience 
 11 - Death traps 
 12 - Under the weather 
 13 - A legacy reclaimed 
 14 - Surprisingly awesome animal hero 
 15 - The new job / Subterranean world 
 16 - The epic poem 
  
2011
 17 - Zombies 
 18 - Unicorn / sasquatch war 
 19 - 'What is the secret of the silver skull machine?' 
 20 - Behind blue eyes   
 21 - Summer blockbuster! 
 22 - Someone else's characters 
 23 - Mythrepresentation 
 24 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 
 25 - Le challenge French 
 26 - 24 minute challenge 
 
2012
 27 - The element of surprise 
 28 - The last place you'd think to look 
 29 - 'Recast In the name Of good, ye not guilty' 
 30 - 'The Challenge From Before' : Legion of Net.Heroes #50 
      collaboration 
 31 - Big monster battle 
 32 - Lateness : in the running behind schedule sense
 33 - (Neo)Edwardian comedy of manners and/or an apocalyptic 
      Christian rapture 
 34 - Working class hero
 
2013
 35 - Ruined forever! 
 36 - Secret identity discovered   
 36.5 One minute origin : brief and distilled origin story for a hero
 37 - Collaboration challenge : story produced in collaboration with 
      another writer
 38 - Super-pets  
 39 - Movie plot mash-ups : a combination of three different movie plots
 40 - Missing adventures
 41 - 'Christmas, with all its ancient horrors'
 
2014
 42 - Beyond the walls of genre
 43 - The Eruption of the fantastic into the mundane
 44 - Back from the dead
 45 - An awkward situation
 46 - Waiting For the bus in the rain : challenge of public transport
 47 - Team-up
 48 - A whole 'nuther country
 49 - Slice of life : Two or more genre characters share a pizza, and 
      nothing happens
 50 - An anniversary celebration
 
2015
 51 - 'The truth about my identity'
 52 - Shipping : in the fandom sense, not the commerce sense
 53 - Gender defenders
 54 - 'Neon Talking Super Street Bat-Luge' : insert an element to 
      promote a tie-in line of toys
 55 - 'Required elements' : a specific prop, line of dialog, character, 
      animal, and location
 56 - Sheep
 
 
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Saxon Brenton