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It's a parameter. Only a big deal if you want it to be imh. You don't have to be overly religious to use RIP. It could be used in a number of ways, for comic or ironic effect.
That said, contained in the script might be better than conclude with.
I like the RIP requirement more than the phobia one. It will be quite the challenge to come up with a script that concludes with this expression without having a generic ending. Tasty!
Even though RIP is not an Islamic expression. We use "May God have mercy on ..." But I can still make an attempt to relieve the confusion. People don't go straight to heaven or hell after they die. Their souls remain in a realm between the two known ones, this life, and the afterlife. This realm is like a waiting room. You just lie in your grave and wait till the judgment day come. And the judgment day comes only after the test is over for the last generation of humanity. So you "Rest in peace" in this realm, in your grave, if you were nice. If you weren't, your waiting period will be shitty too. Unfortunately :(
Maybe my explanation will inspire some stories for this challenge. ;D
Edit: This realm has a scary name in Arabic. It's called "Al-bar-zakh" For inspiration!
The last line of dialogue requirement is somewhat limiting. Most stories are going to end with the antagonist dying. Or, worse, there will be tack-on endings just to incorporate it. Or, the cheesy route, with the phobia being the thing that rests in peace.
I'm not religious and am naturally averse to helping spread deceit. What does RIP even mean, exactly? Rest in peace because you're dead and are buried 6 ft underground inside a coffin? They believe we go to heaven when we die... well, how long does it take to get there? Is there a queue at the gate? When does the resting in peace come into it? They seem confused. Not that that should be surprising to anybody sane.
Can't we just have fun with the phobia thing?
Please don't ask me to change requirement like that as the writers have only seven days to come up and write their scripts and you might be putting them on hold.
In my experience the lack of parameters made it harder to come up with something. Phobia is not much to work with especially when there are so many phobias out there.If RIP guides your creativity towards a particular scenario then all the better as it's an October themed OWC. At the same time I agree with LC, don't let it stifle you - your RIP might be ironic.
We had a similar challenge at MP - the scripts had to have "Go to bed, Taylor" at the end. It produced a huge variety.
About RIP being religious or not - I'm not religious either but use it all the time. I won't go in there, it's a wildly used expression by now.
My suggestion would be that the "Rest in peace..." line come into play at some point in the script, not necessarily the end. At the end, it really does funnel the scripts into something of the same.
What y'all think?
I won't be extremely strict about that, but no, not at some point in the script, it should be at the end. Might be not tge very last sentence of dialog, but at the end all the same. The character who said it may say something after his "RIP" or any other character may say something after. Otherwise the requirement looses the point in my mind.
I've never been put off by a challenge before but I have too much other stuff going on, including a rewrite of a feature - that I'm being paid for. I'm midway through the 2nd draft of a mid-school novel I'm writing and the 2nd draft of a sci-fi novel. I'm working on countless shorts that are geared for production and the horror feature is coming up this winter, there may be rewrites for that any day now. Not to mention all of the other stuff going on including a chess tournament all day tomorrow and league games several evenings this week. So I suppose I don't need much of an excuse to count myself out of this one. Good luck to everyone else.
I'm a bit confused by the RIP requirement and still none the wiser reading the comments.
Does the script have to end with the final line being someone saying 'Rest In Peace' or with someone dying?
Glad you asked! No need for a dying person or anyone dying (but if you want to have someone dying then do so - up to you). I changed "read Rest in Peace" to "contain Rest in Peace". Any kind of line with Rest in Peace will do. Any character can say it. And if that or any other character speaks some more after saying his RIP it's fine as well.