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

[Scott Eiler]

On 9/19/2015 8:15 PM, Saxon Brenton wrote:
> 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'.

Hmpf.  I suppose I shall sit this one out.  I am on track to deliver a 
story about a certain other species of herd animal within the contest 
period.  I could perhaps declare them "sheep".  But I have found it does 
not attract votes to shoehorn my concepts into the Challenges.

But congratulations, Saxon.  Yours is the concept I voted for.  8{D>

Oh, and thanks for the concept list.  This is probably worth putting in 
the LNH wiki, if it isn't already.

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>
> And for archival completeness, behold the fruits of my morning's 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
>
>
> ---
> Saxon Brenton
>
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