Telephone Pictionary: A Rose by Any Other Chain (done!)

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Telephone Pictionary: A Rose by Any Other Chain (done!)

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:54 am

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What's in a chain? That which we call a rose
By any other chain would--
Wait. What the hell did you do?
Is that Ronald McDonald with a lobster bib?



Hello again, and welcome to another showing of Telephone Pictionary! This is my chance to completely destroy any bardly credibility I had earned during Rhyme & Reason, and YOUR chance to draw lots of silly pictures!

Telephone Pictionary (also called Eat Poop You Cat, Fax Machines and probably some other things) is a game of silly miscommunication. The results of the most recent game can be found here, and they'll give you a better idea of how things work than any description I can type. Drawing--and drawing under 72 hour deadlines--is required, although talent isn't necessary. (Effort is still appreciated!)

For reference, my main account is Ether, and she can be contacted via AIM at CaffieneDeity, or Skype at unvote. If I die, Amrun and petroleumjelly know the password to this account, so arrangements can be made from there.

Status:
COMPLETE.

Players:

1. ChannelDelibird
2. Bellaphant
3. Cheetory6
4. Plotinus
5. Shanba
6. Kitty Kat
7. DrippingGoofball
8. The Bulge
9. caledfwitch
(replaced StrangerCoug)

10. Save The Dragons
11. Papa Zito
(replaced Fink)

12. xRECKONERx
13. xofelf

14. Natirasha
15. lalaladucks
16. Jopalopa
17. DeathRowKitty
18. Mist7676
19. ForWhomTheJellyRolls
20. N

Chains:
20/20
Almond Blossom
Buttercup
Clover
Daffodil
Etlingera
Foxglove
Geranium
Hyacinth
Iris
Jacaranda
Kingcup
Lily
Marigold
Narcissus
Orchid
Petunia
Quaqua
Rafflesia
Snapdragon
Tulip
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:55 am

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

  • 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.
  • Please don't actually take 72 hours every single round. If you're busy sometimes, that's fine, but if you're consistently waiting until the last day...just keep in mind that other people might be waiting on you. This isn't technically against the rules, but I'm asking you nicely here.
  • 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; some of us have tiny laptop screens. 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--but make sure that the album that you put your pictures in is private.
  • 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, and preferably not too gross. Please don't make chains about poop, okay?
  • 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.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:56 am

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/in
#greenshirtthursdays
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:58 am

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/in

/iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn

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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:00 am

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/let me in
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:08 am

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/in
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:42 am

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(10:50:24 PM) xcaykex: GODDAMNIT I DONT WANNA GET RID OF MY TENTACLE RAPE PORN

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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:44 am

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/in
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:48 am

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By the way:

Telephone Cat wrote:Also, a tl;dr on the image rules:

-Any medium, online or off, is fine.
-Don't copy/paste anything you found on Google Images (or anything else that you didn't draw)
-This has never come up, but: if you are physically making a collage out of a magazine, that counts as a medium and you can do it, but please only use pictures you can find offline

-No words or abbreviations (numbers, symbols and letters that do not correspond to words and abbreviations are fine)
-Save as .png, .jpg or .gif
-800 pixels wide, 600 pixels tall--please don't go over that. If you're using MS Paint, hit Ctrl+E to change the image size.
-Don't save files with names that would hint at the sentence
-Don't save files in places with public albums--if you're using Photobucket, make the album private

Tips for MS Paint novices:
-Save it as a PNG. JPGs are more for photographs; they might blur things up.
-If you're using the Windows 7 or 8 versions, and the fillbucket leaves white dots all over the edges, try drawing your lines with the pencil tool instead of one of the brushes!
-If you're stuck using one of the later versions of Paint, but are like me and think that Vista's version was way better, contact me and I'll walk you through the downgrade.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:32 am

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/in
Paraphrasing a role PM takes seconds, fabricating a good fakeclaim takes an eternity.

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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:54 am

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yes yes yes
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:56 am

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/in
STRANGERCOUG: Stranger Than You!

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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:04 am

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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:05 pm

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/in
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:23 pm

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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:26 pm

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/in
Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
MattyP: Ur an enigma tho when it comes to circadian rhythm and the traditions we hold dear when it comes to the sun and the moon
Get to reknow a xofelf here
Discord is faster than PMs or sitechat: xofelf#1697
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:32 pm

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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:37 pm

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In post 16, Jopalopa wrote:/in

Um...I'm not sure about this one. I have no problem with newbies in general, but it looks like you've signed up for two games and lasted less than a week in each of them. I realize this isn't mafia, but are you sure you'll be okay?
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:37 pm

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/innnnn
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:37 pm

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/in!!! :]
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:41 pm

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In post 17, Telephone Cat wrote:
In post 16, Jopalopa wrote:/in

Um...I'm not sure about this one. I have no problem with newbies in general, but it looks like you've signed up for two games and lasted less than a week in each of them. I realize this isn't mafia, but are you sure you'll be okay?


...wasn't expecting that to be an issue, but okay. If you want to kick me out, fine, but I'm fairly confident I can do this.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:49 pm

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Okay.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:55 pm

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Jocalopa, what is your avatar of? I ask because I've seen at least three people with it.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:55 pm

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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:57 pm

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