In 2005, a lady attended our pre-NaNo meetup and suggested that we have a major regional dare. Her personal suggestion was that we all try to include a ferret into our stories. Needless to say, with the strange effect NaNo can have, some of these turned out a little… oddly.
Unfortunately that was the sole event that year the lady in question attended, but her suggestion sparked not only such traumatic additions to novels as the above, but a trend of creating and sharing dares on the regional forum. It’s always interesting (if not a little weird) to see where they can lead…