Telephone Pictionary: Gourmet Edition - complete!

[Telephone Cat]

With Porochaz's game wrapping up, those of you in need of a drawing prompt can sign up here. Mind the strict deadline rules, though--if you think you need two weeks to meditate under a waterfall before sending in a picture or god forbid a sentence, then please wait for someone else to run another game.

My main account is Ether. Feel free to bug me via AIM at CaffieneDeity. Amrun also has the password to this account in case of an emergency, but until then she's here to play.

Status:

Game over! All chains can be found on my wiki page, and the next game starts signups on Wednesday the 26th.

Round 13 entries: 20/20

• 1. Amrun
  2. sword_of_omens
  3. Shiidaji
  4. Empking
  5. Thor665
  6. Robotnick2
  7. DarkLightA
  8. saporovirus
  9. Cheery Dog
  10. Fenchurch
  11. N
  12. Ankamius

  (replacing SleepyKrew)

  
  13. ChannelDelibird
  14. StrangerCoug
  15. Equinox
  16. Axxle
  17. RedCoyote
  18. UberNinja
  19. Fujiko
  20. izakthegoomba

[Telephone Cat]

Most of this is basically common sense, but the deadline rules are a bit weird. The tl;dr is that I am totally prepared to let some chains lag behind others if things stall.

• Game Flow:
  
  
• Everyone signed up should start by PMing me with a sentence. It shouldn't be incredibly long, but it can basically be as silly as you want it to be. Some good examples can be found in these chains, but please don't copy those exactly.
  
• When the game starts, each of these sentences will be sent out to a different player.
  This player will have 72 hours
  to portray that sentence in picture form and send me the result.
  
• At the end of those 72 hours, the picture will be sent to a third person, who hasn't seen anything from that chain before. This person will have 72 hours to send in a sentence summarizing the picture.
  
• Each chain will continue for 13 of these 72-hour rounds: 7 sentences and 6 pictures. Chains will be posted on the wiki as they are completed.
  
• The thread title and status will note the round number and whether the majority of players are currently drawing or writing. Since some chains may lag behind, the game might continue past 13 rounds.
  
• If you cannot meet a deadline, please notify me as soon as you've received the sentence (or picture)--or, better yet, tell me before you receive one. I will send it to somebody else. I will also send the sentence to somebody else automatically if you have not drawn it in 72 hours. In this way, it is possible for one player to have more than one sentence to draw (or more than one picture to summarize, or one of each) at once.
  
• Somebody who consistently fails to meet deadlines will be kicked out of the game at my discretion. Especially somebody who doesn't announce V/LAs beforehand. So don't do that!
  
  
  Picture/sentence standards:
  
  
• Any drawing program--Photoshop, Flash, MS Paint--will do. Drawing pictures by hand and scanning them will also do. Making a diorama with paper cutouts and silly putty and sending a photograph of that will do. The sky is pretty much the limit here. In fact, if you can get your hands on one of those airplanes that draws pictures out of fake clouds, then the sky is literally the limit here.
  
• Having said that, please draw everything from scratch. You can use Google Images as a reference, but don't paste other people's pictures into your own.
  
• Words are completely banned. English letters used to denote words, and codes (camel octopus dinosaur eagle snake), will also be sent back with a stern warning, although if it's relevant you can use them to portray the alphabet. Numbers and symbols and math are all fine.
  
• Please don't intentionally mislead anybody--do the most accurate non-legalistic picture that you can. The chain will find a way to mutate anyway.
  
• All pictures should be 800 by 600 pixels. Photographs are best saved as JPGs; otherwise, if in doubt, you should probably save as a PNG. Do not save as a BMP under any circumstances or I'll have to reformat it myself before sending it onward, and nobody wants that.
  
• Please be mindful of where you upload your pictures to. Tinypic deletes its pictures without warning, and anything uploaded to the wiki is accessible by other players. Photobucket's a good bet, if you have that.
  
• When you upload, don't save it under a name that will hint at its origins. This is something else that will force me to reformat myself.
  
• Okay, on to sentences. Keep it to one sentence and don't be too legalistic about what you are summarizing. If you don't think the picture is about the fourth wall, don't break the fourth wall.
  
• Please don't break the site rules.
  
• I am one of those spirit-of-the-game type hippies. If I'm forgetting a rule, I'll let you know. You might be asked to resubmit in light of this.
  
  
  Miscellaneous:
  
  
• Please don't talk to other players about the sentences/pictures you got. If somebody tells you anything about a chain you haven't seen yet, please let me know.
  
• I will note in-thread if somebody is behind.
  
• If you haven't sent a link in within 48 hours (but not the full 72), I'll send you a prod. Other actions may be taken if you're inactive for the full round.
  
• Have fun! If you aren't having fun, you should talk to me about it, and I'll do my best to find you a replacement. You can also talk to me when you are having fun, of course.
  
  
  David Hasslehoff
  
  
• Of course he's allowed.

[sword_of_omens]

/in please!!!!

Pm'ing sentence in 5...4....3...2.....

[Shiidaji]

/In
PMing sentence in a sec.

[Telephone Cat]

One addendum to the rules, just in case there was any room for confusion whatsoever:

When you send your sentence, please also note below that that you're aware of the 72-hour deadlines.

(Seriously this had better not be a lagfest I will be really sad if it is a lagfest.)

[Empking]

/in

[Thor665]

Hurm...

/in.

[Thor665]

I do warn you though, I retain my right to Hassle the Hoff.

[Telephone Cat]

Rules have been amended in defense of Thor's rights.

[Amrun]

Sentence sent!

[Robotnick2]

/in /in /in /in /in

[Telephone Cat]

Note: I've made an agreement with Porochaz that this thread will stay locked until late Sunday EDT, by which point he should have the chains up from the previous game. Sorry for the delay!

[Telephone Cat]

Okay, it's back now. Slight rule change on letters: things like Xes for dead eyes and Zs for sleep are fine.

[saporovirus]

OMG /IN

[Cheery Dog]

/in - sentence will come probably come time later (when I bother to think of one)

[Telephone Cat]

/in - sentence will come probably come time later (when I bother to think of one)

That attitude isn't gonna be a healthy one for this game, man.

[Cheery Dog]

/in - sentence will come probably come time later (when I bother to think of one)

That attitude isn't gonna be a healthy one for this game, man.

I think it should be easier once they've started, I'll just go submit something random now, otherwise I'm going to end up overthinking this. (but yes you're right that is the wrong attitude)

[Fenchurch]

/in

[N]

so /in it hurts

[SleepyKrew]

/in

[ChannelDelibird]

/in

[StrangerCoug]

/in, and I promise not to pull the plug midway.

[Equinox]

/in

[Axxle]

/in

[Telephone Cat]

For the record, anyone I know to have flaked from the last game won't get any mercy this time around. I'll seek a replacement the first time it misses a round without notifying me beforehand. (Beforehand being "before the round starts or at least within a few hours of it starting.")

DarkLightA hasn't picked up my prod for a sentence in 36 hours even though he's clearly posting elsewhere. I'm going to amend the signup mechanics: I'll take the first 20 people who sign up and actually send me sentences.

(Please still send your awareness of the deadlines along with your PM. I was serious when I asked for that in all confirmations, and a lot of people seem to have missed that. They might still be aware, but I have no way of knowing that!)