November Cometh

We are, by my clock, 18 minutes away from November, and the start of my fifth attempt at National Novel Writing Month. As usual, I'm accepting dares. Whether I choose to actually use your dare in my story is another matter. So far the dares I have accepted are:

2008 Central Jersey Regional Dare - Include a scene in a diner or similar eating establishment - Done!

From friends:

• Include characters based on Sean and Chris - requested by Chris
• Include a character with an unhealthy obsession with generic products - requested by Dan - Done!
  
• Write one scene twice, from two different character perspectives - requested by Jeff

From the forums:

• Have a female character who never once needs to be saved by a man.
• Have a dragon (or fire-creature of your choice) mock a smoker and call him a pathetic imitator.
• Solve a problem MacGuyver style, using only a rubber-band, a paperclip and toothpaste.
• Have one character who, whenever they fancy someone says 'well s/he's definitely going in the cupboard'.
• Include roof-cleaning ninja assassins.
• Include a dragon that's a picky vegetarian.
• Include a prophecy that says the characters have to go to Nowhere and it turns out Nowhere is the name of a town.
• Include a character that ends every sentence with "...according to the prophecy."
• Begin every chapter of your novel with a piece of advice from the Evil Overlord List.