What's the difference between Inciting Incident and Call to Adventure?
An inciting incident would be a lesser charge than inciting to riot, but it means you started a disturbance. Lets suppose, you start talking with your friends about any type of storyline — a movie, a book, or even an episode of your favorite television show — inevitably someone will start analyzing what led up to it. What was it that put everything in motion? What's the first important thing that really pulls you into the story? In other words, to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
The call to adventure indicate a risky or unexpected undertaking that the hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown. Campbell said: "This first stage of the mythological journey - which we have designated the "call to adventure" - signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown. This fateful region of both treasure and danger may be variously represented: as a distant land, a forest, a kingdom underground, beneath the waves, or above the sky, a secret island, lofty mountaintop, or profound dream state; but it is always a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings, unimaginable torments, superhuman deeds, and impossible delight. The hero can go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure, as did Theseus when he arrived in his father's city, Athens, and heard the horrible history of the Minotaur; or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent as was Odysseus, driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god, Poseidon. The adventure may begin as a mere blunder ... or still again, one may be only casually strolling when some passing phenomenon catches the wandering eye and lures one away from the frequented paths of man. Examples might be multiplied, ad infinitum, from every corner of the world."
Some classic examples: sometimes the call to adventure happens of the character's own volition. In Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, the titular character becomes weary of his way of life and decides he must venture away from his accustomed life in order to attain spiritual enlightenment. Most Buddhist myths describe the Buddha as becoming bored with his royal life and venturing into the world. Other times, the hero is plunged into adventure by unforeseen events. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus is caught in the terrible winds of the angered god Poseidon and sent off to distant lands.
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