Oh geeze. Okay. Oh shit. Hey guys, can we talk outside for a minute? Thanks. See, it's Thunderdome's birthday and I haven't thought of a gift! I mean, we could get TD shitty words like we did last year, but I'm pretty sure it has enough of those already. Four years. Four fuckin' years, and I still have no idea what to get this goddamn dome, but I'm sure we can come up with something together.

OH oh oh oh oh OOOOH. I know. Thunderdome loves flashrules.

When you make your 'in' post, you will come up with a flashrule for the person who signs up after you. Obviously, your story has to involve the flashrule you receive from the person who signs up before you. Yes, yes, i know, goons are terrible and bad at things. Never fear! I've come up with a simple formula to make this as goon-proof as possible!

Flashrules will look like this:

[CHARACTER] wants [THING].

Examples would be something like

A DOG BREEDER wants to WIN A BEAUTY CONTEST

or

A QUADRIPLEGIC PERSON wants to WIPE THEIR OWN ASS FOR ONCE

or

A SINGLE PARENT wants to GO TO NEPTUNE

or

A FLOWER wants to BRING DOWN A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT

and so on.

The first person to sign up may choose one of the four examples I just gave. Every 'in' post must contain a flashrule in the above format. Be as wild and ridiculous as you want. I will be looking for evidence that you used the character and conflict you were provided. Since I know you're all going to try and fuck each other over as hard as possible, I will make allowances for loose interpretations as long as I can more or less see the CHARACTER and WANT in your story.