Telephone Pictionary: Sweet & Sour Grapes (complete!)

[Telephone Cat]

It looks like our old stream of Telephone Pictionary games has slowed to nothing. The last signups thread has been moved to the archive. Well, whatever. That game probably would have been sour anyway. I bet the pictures would all have been really dumb, and the sentences all painfully literal or too obtuse to work with at all, and half the prompts would have been about poop, and--

--and god dammit we need this game back already.

So! If you don't know the drill, you can get a good idea of how it works here. It's pretty straightforward! My main account is Ether as always, and I can be contacted via AIM at CaffieneDeity (with "caffeine" misspelled). Amrun and petroleumjelly both know the password to this account, and Amrun is prepared to backup if I die. You can bug her on AIM at findyourinnerbob.

Status:

Complete! You can find all the chains here.

Players:

• 1. Kublai Khan
  2. GuyInFreezer
  3. PrivateI
  4. JacobSavage
  5. crywolf20084
  6. YurikoJasmine
  7. Shanba
  8. Empking
  9. DrippingGoofball
  10. JerryArr
  11. Xalxe
  12. CuddlyCaucasian
  13. xtopherusD
  14. Axxle
  15. Cheery Dog
  16. N
  17. Techno Elf
  18. petroleumjelly
  19. Equinox
  20. Quilford

[Telephone Cat]

tl;dr: Fast chains get fast reveals. Slow players get replaced. And your chain had better not corrupt any innocent 13-year-olds.

New rules have been added in purple.

• 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.
  
• Once the picture is drawn, it will be sent to a third person as soon as that person has also sent its picture in. When you get a picture, you have have 48 hours to send in a sentence summarizing it.
  
• I'll send you pictures to summarize as sentences as I receive them, even if you already have other things to draw/write. Please send in sentences promptly! It shouldn't take too long.
  
  
• You'll only have one active picture to draw at a time. I might send you sneak peaks of future sentences, but you won't be under any deadline obligations for those until later. (But feel free to complete them early anyway!)
  
  
• Each chain will continue for 13 of these rounds: 7 sentences and 6 pictures. Chains will be posted on the wiki as they are completed, which will probably vary wildly.
  
• 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 find somebody else and send it there. I will also do this 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 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.
  
• Pictures should be 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall. Please don't go too far over that--my laptop screen is tiny and I hate it when I have to scroll. 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 ask you to reformat it 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. Most people use Imgur these days. Photobucket's also 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 you'll need to reformat over.
  
• 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. Keep it reasonably safe for work.
  
• 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 for a picture or 24 for a sentence, 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.

[Kublai Khan]

/in

[GuyInFreezer]

/in

[chamber]

Feel free to send me a replacement image or two.

[PrivateI]

/in

[JacobSavage]

/in

[crywolf20084]

/in

[YurikoJasmine]

/in

[Shanba]

/in

[Empking]

/in

[DrippingGoofball]

/in

[Telephone Cat]

Excellent.

[JerryArr]

/in

[Xalxe]

/in

(please note that weekends by and large suck for me, so apologies if I slack on a picture then)

[CuddlyCaucasian]

/in

[xtopherusD]

/in!

[Axxle]

/in

[Cheery Dog]

/in

[N]

woo

(/in)

[Telephone Cat]

Signups are moving faster than I anticipated! If you haven't sent a starting sentence yet, please do so!

[Techno Elf]

/in c:

[petroleumjelly]

/in

[Telephone Cat]

Huzzah!

[CuddlyCaucasian]