allbingo | Public card / plot challenges

Hello, all! I wanted to stretch my plotting muscles, so I decided to tackle some seven-sentence stories (or seven-sentence summaries). To jump-start my thinking and give myself a set of creative constraints to work with, I put together a Bingo card for them. I'm amused by it, so I thought I'd share it with everyone.

I used the Demographics/Random Sets generator to put together a situation (taken from the Bingo Generator's list of Polti's 36 classical dramatic situations), a setting (taken from ysabetwordsmith's list of setting tropes), and a complication (taken from ysabetwordsmith's list of dramatic situations). I had the Demographics/Random Sets generator make sure to "Use each option only once per generated set", so that I wouldn't end up with repeats in situation, setting, or complication. Then, after I generated the random sets, I had the sets generator port the values over into the bingo generator.

The Demographics/Random Sets generator is still a bit buggy and clunky, but if you're willing to put up with its occasional misbehavior (like: occasionally buttons don't work; occasionally when you're trying to load a set of values from a comma-separated list, the list will be empty, and you'll have to re-load the list again and delete the duplicate empty list at the end), you can get it to do fun things like this. I've done "universe/worldbuilding prompt/word count goal" bingo cards; you could also do "a person, in a place, with a problem" combinations to kick off your plotting.

Anyway, just wanted to let people know that that was available to play with, and that hopefully I'll be able to continue to tweak and refine it. Here's the card I made, and feel free to play with it in any way you feel like:

Situation: Deliverance Setting: Forbidden Zone Complication: I Told You So	Situation: Revolt Setting: Spy School Complication: Out of Ammo	Situation: Abduction Setting: Bug War Complication: Hopelessly Outnumbered	Situation: Self-sacrifice for kin Setting: Torture Cellar Complication: Keep It Safe from Them	Situation: Daring enterprise Setting: Elevator Complication: Something Went Click
Situation: Self-sacrifice for an ideal Setting: Genius Loci Complication: Are You a God?	Situation: Pursuit Setting: Inside a Computer System Complication: Stranded in a Blizzard	Situation: Obtaining Setting: Underground City Complication: Caught in Bed Together	Situation: Ambition Setting: Abandoned Laboratory Complication: On Fire	Situation: An enemy loved Setting: Hotel California Complication: It Looks Hungry
Situation: Crime pursued by vengeance Setting: Red Light District Complication: Everything Is Spiders	Situation: Involuntary crimes of love Setting: City of Canals Complication: Pinned by a Boulder	Situation: Recovery of a lost one Setting: After the End Complication: Hull Breach	Situation: Conflict with a god Setting: Prehistory Complication: It's a Bomb!	Situation: Remorse Setting: Youth Center Complication: Stumbling in the Dark
Situation: Crimes of love Setting: Golden Age of Piracy Complication: Snake Pit	Situation: Adultery Setting: The War Room Complication: It Happens to a Lot of Guys	Situation: Slaying of kin unrecognized Setting: Last Fertile Region Complication: I Thought You Brought It	Situation: Rivalry of kin Setting: Opium Den Complication: No Parachute	Situation: Enmity of kin Setting: Sapient Ship Complication: Falsely Accused
Situation: Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one Setting: Herland Complication: Knife in the Back	Situation: Supplication Setting: Cardboard Prison Complication: Locked in with Monster	Situation: The enigma Setting: Galactic Sargasso Complication: Only One Spacesuit Left	Situation: Erroneous judgement Setting: Death World Complication: ... 05 ... 04 ... 03 ...	Situation: Fatal imprudence Setting: Bazaar of the Bizarre Complication: Naked in Public