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≻ SEPT 2018 :: prompt suggestion submissions now being accepted for the SS50 & SS100 challenges!
≻ OCT 2018 :: prompt suggestions & mini challenge foreshadowing update
≻ NOV 2018 :: prompts & mini challenges reinvented!
≻ SEPT 2019 :: new challenge area mod & three months rule
≻ NOV 2019 :: tweaked rules for mini challenges
≻ APRIL 2020 :: temporary COVID19 measures

A DECREE OF THE BEAN

Hello everyone and welcome to the revamped challenge area for all your drabble and ficlet needs! As you can see, this subforum (along with all of the fanfiction forum) has received a new look! So go ahead and get acquainted with that, but please make sure to wipe any drool off the floors and do not eat too much or else risk a belly ache.

There are still some major revisions in the works revolving around the very nature of mini challenges and the prompts to both the SS50 and SS100 - AND THIS IS WHERE ALL OF YOU COME IN!

That's right, we are looking to entirely rejuvenate the prompts and want YOUR input! Just how do you do that? By filling out this form, of course! These prompts will be used by our writers to generate a drabble or ficlet. Your list can all be along one theme, or the words can be randomly selected. Please submit no more than 10 per list, although multiple lists may be submitted Entries with be accepted throughout the month of September.

A DECREE OF THE BEAN

A special shout out to those who submitted new prompts! Thank you for your time and creativity those are currently being combed through and you will be seeing changes taking place there soon!

On a similar note, mini challenges are also undergoing a revision and currently are not being accepted. Stayed tuned for those changes as well!

A DECREE OF THE BEAN

THE WAIT IS OVER! Last month we asked for member submissions for new prompts for the SS100 and SS50 respectively. We are pleased to reveal those to you now along with a NEW system of challenge creation! You can read all about it in the Flavor Guide alongside the rest of the guidelines for a Bertie Bott's Challenge, but here are all the juicy details:

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PROMPTS

When you open up a box of Bertie Bott's, you never quite know what you are gonna get. We have taken this philosophy to heart with our SS100 and SS50 where the power is now given to YOU, the writer, to reach into the box and pull out a fistful of beans. In the spoiler below are groupings of 10 prompts (21 to be precise!) for you to use to complete your challenges. For the SS50 you may pick ANY 5 sets of 10 from the list. For the SS100 select ANY 10 sets of 10. This selection must be done and included when you submit your thread for approval.

SPOILER!!: Groupings to select from

GROUP 1
1. Spellotape 2. (Newt Scamander's) Magical Suitcase 3. (Hagrid's) Pink Umbrella 4. Vanishing Cabinet 5. Wireless 6. (Weasley's) Clock/Grandfather clock 7. (Hermione's) Enchanted Coin 8. Rubber Duck 9. Hogwarts Express 10. (Moody's) Magical Eye

GROUP 2
1. Obscurial 2. Kowalski Quality Baked Goods 3. Occamy Eggshell 4. NoMaj 5. MACUSA 6. Ilvermorny 7. Rougarou 8. Gigglewater 9. Magizoology 10. New Salem Philanthropic Society

GROUP 3
1. Gilt 2. Nobility 3. Rushing 4. Warmth 5. Crimson 6. Righteous 7. Fury 8. Sword 9. Kingdom 10. Roar

GROUP 4
1. Judgement. 2. Roll call 3. Slick 4. Reign 5. Creek 6. Turtle dove 7. Silk sheets 8. Sunrise 9. Silver 10. Nocturnal

GROUP 5
1. Barrels 2. Tickle the pear 3. Overstuffed armchair 4. Duffer 5. Midnight feast 6. Pay it forward 7. Broom polishing kit 8. Buddy system 9. Dedicated 10. Potato

GROUP 6
1. All night study session 2. overdue library book 3. Overthinking 4. Riddle of the Spinx 5. Eclectic 6. Obnoxous 7. Bronze 8. Dictionary 9. Point Me 10. Diadem

GROUP 7
1. Comfort 2. Dawn 3. Growth 4. Bed 5. Supper 6. Teapot 7. Photo 8. Desk 9. Hearth 10. Midnight

GROUP 8
1. Spring 2. Summer 3. Fall 5. Feast 5. Winter 6. Snowball 7. Yule Ball 8. Orchideous 9. Lumos 10. Nox

GROUP 9
1. Fire 2. Water 3. Earth 4. Air 5. Wood 6. Metal 7. Flagrate 8. Duro 9. Aguamenti 10. Wingardium Leviosa

GROUP 10
1. Feather 2. Hoof 3. Gallop 4. Horn 5. Fur 6. Slither 7. Scale 8. Talon 9. Soar 10. Prance

GROUP 11
1. Cuckoo 2. Eon 3. Era 4. Hourglass 5. Timeturner 6. Pendulum 7. Sundial 8. Past 9. Present 10. Future

GROUP 12
1. Age 2. Caramelise 3. Flambe 4. Fold 5. Garnish 6. Hotchpotch 7. Scoop 8. Simmer 9. Sprinkle 10 .Whisk

GROUP 13
1. Herbology 2. Transfiguration 3. Defense Against the Dark Arts 4. Astronomy 5. History of Magic 6. Charms 7. Potions 8. Hogwarts, A History 9 Homework 10. Cauldron

GROUP 14
1. Muggle Studies 2. Ancient Runes 3. Divination 4. Care of Magical Creatures 5. Arithmancy 6. Dragonhide gloves 7. Duel 8. Quidditch 9. Hogsmeade 10. Apparition

GROUP 15
1. Licorice Wand 2. Sweet Tooth 3. Chocolate 4. Jelly Legs 5. Mooch 6. Butterbeer 7. Rock Cake 8. Ooze 9. Epicure 10. Groak

GROUP 16
1. Patronus 2. Wand 3. Boggart 4. Expelliarmus 5. Incarcerous 6. Dumbledore's Army 7. Undetectable Extension Charm 8. Unbreakable Vow 9. Unite 10. Stupefy

GROUP 17
1. Parseltongue 2. Avada Kedavra 3. Crucio 4. Imperio 5. Blasting Curse 6. Drink of Despair 7. Hurling Hex 8. Sectumsempra 9. Inferius 10. Horcrux

GROUP 18
1. Sorting Hat 2. Telescope 3. Quill 4. Dress robes 5. Common room 6. Whomping Willow 7. Portraits 8. Headmaster 9. Staircase 10. Dungeon

GROUP 19
1. Veela 2. Kneazle 3. House elf 4. Owl 5. Pureblood 6. Muggle 7. Animagus 8. Thestrals 9. Leprechaun 10. Goblin

GROUP 20
1. Pensieve 2. Wizard’s Chess 3. Portkey 4. Howler 5. Deluminator 6. Invisibility Cloak 7. Remembrall 8. Marauder's Map 9. Sneakoscope 10. Exploding Snap

GROUP 21
1. Mirror of Erised 2. Amortentia 3. Expecto Patronum 4. Legilimens 5. SpeRevelio 6. Extendable Ears 7. Anti-Cheating Quill 8. Omnioculars 9. Prior Incantato 10. Prophecy

Please do not simply put Group 1 or Group 15, but rather copy paste the entirety into your thread's first post.
→→→Example of a SS50 thread:

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GROUP 19
1. Veela 2. Kneazle 3. House elf 4. Owl 5. Pureblood 6. Muggle 7. Animagus 8. Thestrals 9. Leprechaun 10. Goblin
GROUP 9
1. Fire 2. Water 3. Earth 4. Air 5. Wood 6. Metal 7. Flagrate 8. Duro 9. Aguamenti 10. Wingardium Leviosa
GROUP 5
1. Barrels 2. Tickle the pear 3. Overstuffed armchair 4. Duffer 5. Midnight feast 6. Pay it forward 7. Broom polishing kit 8. Buddy system 9. Dedicated 10. Potato
GROUP 21
1. Mirror of Erised 2. Amortentia 3. Expecto Patronum 4. Legilimens 5. SpeRevelio 6. Extendable Ears 7. Anti-Cheating Quill 8. Omnioculars 9. Prior Incantato 10. Prophecy
GROUP 15
1. Licorice Wand 2. Sweet Tooth 3. Chocolate 4. Jelly Legs 5. Mooch 6. Butterbeer 7. Rock Cake 8. Ooze 9. Epicure 10. Groak

You are also welcome to use the original prompts intended for the SS50 and SS100 should you prefer, which have been kept in their respective information posts in this thread.

"But wait," some of you may be saying, "...I already have a thread and am X amount done with my prompts. What does this mean for me?" The choice is up to you. You may continue with the original list in your challenge thread OR once you have landed on a multiple of 10 you may switch your remaining prompts out for one of the new groups. Whichever works best for and speaks the most to you as a writer

Please not that these prompt changes do NOT effect the SS25 in any way.

The nature of Mini Challenges has also changed! Now, instead of add-ons to prompts, they are extra prompts that you may use IN PLACE of any one of the prompts in your list. So now, should you find yourself struggling with one prompt from one of your sets of 10, you can just click on over to the Mini Challenges and switch it out

ONE LAST ANNOUNCEMENT! There is also a NEW mini challenge as provided by member nicole black, so be sure to take a look at that and use it to your advantage.

Questions may be PM'd to myself directly or posted in this thread.

Good luck writers!