Telephone Pictionary: Journey of a Thousand Words (Complete)

[Telephone Cat]

The journey of a thousand words begins with a single picture.

...Uh, wait, sorry. It starts with a sentence. You know the drill! If you don't know the drill, read on.

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 on Skype at unvote, or Discord at Ether#4385.

Status:

Telephone Pictionary: Journey of a Thousand Words has reached its destination!

Players:

1. Shaziro
2. KittyMo
3. Clumsy
4. ConManMick
5. Shadoweh

(replacing Felissan)

6. McMenno
7. DeathRowKitty
8. Who
9. schadd_
10. notachipmunk
11. Vijarada
12. Creature
13. GuyInFreezer
14. Annadog40
15. Iprobablysuck
16. Katyusha
17. Cheery Dog
18. StrangerCoug
19. Ranmaru
20. Bellaphant
21. Cheetory6
22. MortFeld
23. RadiantCowbells

Chains: 23/23

Airship
Balloon
Chariot
DeLorean
Ekranoplan
Ferry
Glider
Horse
Itasha
Jetpack
Kayak
Lapras
Motorcycle
Naturmobil
Ornithropter
Partybus
Qamutiik
Rickshaw
Submarine
Tractor
Unicycle
Van
Wagon

[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.

Sentence deadlines are 24 hours this time.

• 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 24 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.
  
• If you miss a picture deadline, future deadlines shrink by 24 hours. I might restore the full time after a few rounds, if I don't have to prod you under those conditions. (But please just try to not miss deadlines! That's the best approach.)
  
• 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.
  
• 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, 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.

[Telephone Cat]

Please don't forget to send me a starting sentence when you sign up!

[Telephone Cat]

Tentative /in

Creature I am going to be just as mad this time if you sit on your sentence prompts as I was last time. Send them when you get them, please.

In Raybells's case I will not be angry, but I will be disappointed. I will be very worried on his behalf, and also on behalf of his kneecaps.

[Telephone Cat]

Noted!

[Telephone Cat]

The game has filled without you! But I'm leaving it open until noon EST (about 4 hours from now), this one and the last one both filled up really fast.

Also mousepads and MS Paint are great and you can do wonderful things with them alone.

It's gotta be Vista's version of Paint, though, the modern stuff is bad. Downgrading to Vista Paint is, like, the first thing I do when I get a new computer. I have very strong opinions about this.

[Telephone Cat]

These are just a few things I drew in MS Paint. I won't have such a fine program badmouthed by the likes of you, Shaziro.

[Telephone Cat]

It's fine, I haven't set spreadsheets up yet. With that said, signups are hereby closed; expect your first sentences shortly!

I never got a sentence from Bellaphant. I'm going to make one up for her.

I never got one from RadiantCowbells, either. In his case I kind of get the impression his heart wasn't really in it, so...I'm going to take him off the list. He is free to replace in later!

[Telephone Cat]

I never got one from RadiantCowbells, either. In his case I kind of get the impression his heart wasn't really in it, so...I'm going to take him off the list. He is free to replace in later!

Disregard this, Raybells is in!

THIS SPREADSHEET WILL EVENTUALLY BE MADE. SENTENCES WILL EVENTUALLY BE OUT.

[Telephone Cat]

It's all good. I have a txt file of like 30 starting sentences I never get to use because I'm always the mod.

Incidentally, all prompts are out! The deadline on these pictures is Wednesday, March 7, but as always, faster response times keep the game running smoother!

[Telephone Cat]

Iprobablysuck has sent in the first picture of the game, with Vijarada following close behind!

[Telephone Cat]

Cheetory6 has broken the Round 4 barrier!

[Telephone Cat]

Cheetory6 has broken the Round 4 barrier!

And Iprobablysuck has broken Round 6!

[Telephone Cat]

Omg you guys need to slow down, some of us have to work and can't compete with this level of speed!

Pay no attention to this man.

Draw faster.

[Telephone Cat]

Round 2 is now halfway finished!

[Telephone Cat]

Eight people have just crossed into prod range. Please try not to wait until the last minute for pictures--I know the deadline is 72 hours, but it really does hold things up if you consistently take that long!

[Telephone Cat]

Every chain has exactly 7 sentences (including the starting sentence) and 6 pictures, and that's what every player gets by default. (That number changes if you flake out of or replace into extra rounds, obviously.)

[Telephone Cat]

CMM and Ranmaru are scraping up reeeeeeeeally close to their Round 2 deadlines. If I don't get pictures from them in half an hour, I'll need to find other people to take those prompts.

Please let me know if you're interested! Since this is for pictures that are already lagging behind, please don't volunteer until you're ready to start drawing. (Or will be ready to start drawing in half an hour when the deadlines actually expire.)

[Telephone Cat]

Thestatusquo takes CMM's, and Ranmaru squeaks by sliiiiiiiiiightly after the last minute.

[Telephone Cat]

But now I have his scent.

[Telephone Cat]

Shea's replacement picture is in, and Round 2 is hereby COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

He's not permanently out of the game. His deadlines have been bumped up, but there is still time for him to redeem himself!

[Telephone Cat]

Hello, everyone! It's time to start SWITCHING DEADLINES OVER TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME MID-GAME.

Juuuuuuuust assume you have 72 hours. The deadlines in the opening post are accurate.

[Telephone Cat]

In news that is less of a headache, StrangerCoug has broken the Round 8 barrier!

[Telephone Cat]

Today I had to find new people to write sentences for CMM, Ranmaru and McMenno. Gaaaaaaaaaaah.

[Telephone Cat]

CMM and Ranmaru never picked up their prompts at all. (I spoke with CMM later; he is sick but alive. I am not sure where Ranmaru is.)

McMenno has no excuse.

[Telephone Cat]

The PM when I sent you the second sentence also threw in a reminder about the first. x_x

[Telephone Cat]

Ugggggghhhhhhhh.

So Ranmaru sent me his picture sometime after I went to bed, but it broke the rules. I've asked him to resend and he hasn't gotten back to me. I'm going to give him a bit longer, since he did do the work, but argh. CMM showed up at about five minutes before his time expired and insists that he is drawing right now.

I'm not replacing either of them yet. But

please

read the rules and make your deadlines and don't do this.

[Telephone Cat]

GreenLiquid swoops in to draw Felissan's late picture, and Round 4 is now COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Got it! Shadoweh takes over for the second half.

[Telephone Cat]

Dear god. As far as I can tell, I went to lie down sometime after seven and apparently I fell asleep for twelve hours? There is a bowl of cold noodles next to me that I did not finish. I know I'm sick, but ugh.

Creature sent his picture at 4:36 in the morning, so...

um....

weeeeeell, I guess I have the picture?

His deadlines will be bumped up accordingly.

[Telephone Cat]

Excuse me. I slept for

eleven

hours. Welcome to Daylight Savings Time.

[Telephone Cat]

WEEK ONE COMPLETE

70/138 pictures drawn
6 chains (26.1%) are on Round 6
10 chains (43.8%) are on Round 8
1 chain (4.3%) is on Round 9
6 chains (26.1%) are on Round 10

[Telephone Cat]

At last, NOTACHIPMUNK HAS BROKEN THE ROUND 10 BARRIER.

[Telephone Cat]

That one more picture is drawn! Shadoweh has broken the Round 12 barrier.

And that means I have some setting up to do.

[Telephone Cat]

Unicycle is up!

CONSTANT VIGILANCE.

[Telephone Cat]

With Ranmaru's most recent picture, Round 6 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Shadoweh is the first player to finish all of her pictures!

[Telephone Cat]

Fittingly, Cheery Dog wraps up Kayak!

Keely's picture and schadd_'s caption for it just tell this glorious snailman epic and I love them.

[Telephone Cat]

It was random, I swear!

[Telephone Cat]

Right, so Creature missed his picture deadline, and this time I am conscious to witness it. Anyone want it? This is for Ornithropter.

EDIT: PrivateI takes it.

[Telephone Cat]

DeathRowKitty rides in on a Lapras, bearing important social commentary!

MortFeld's and notachipmunk's pictures are beautiful, and DRK's finishing sentence is excellent too. Really this is just a great chain in general.

[Telephone Cat]

Of course the embodiment of American culture is gonna have a gun. The government can pry it from his cold dead hands.

[Telephone Cat]

schadd_ rolls in on a Tractor.

STOP CASTING AT ME, YOU LAMP-SKULLED WANDSHAKER.

[Telephone Cat]

(Also, The Toast seems to need a password now, but here's a copy of the article that starting sentence is from.)

[Telephone Cat]

Also, Round 8 is COMPLETE.

[Telephone Cat]

Bellaphant is on a Horse.

Firebringer's efforts might not have been enough, but Keely's were. I think technically Keely is the gorilla now? Or evolved from the gorilla? Annadogs/MortFeld's/McMenno's sentences are all golden, and so are Keely's/Katyusha's pictures.

[Telephone Cat]

Creature appears out of nowhere in a DeLorean, here to set right what once went wrong! It looks like Chickadee isn't off the hook after all.

[Telephone Cat]

Technically I am not sure if Horse and Lapras count as vehicles!

[Telephone Cat]

I'm angry that Chickadee disappeared from Horse.

[Telephone Cat]

Who brought the Partybus!

I would just like to point out that I AM THE VICTIM HERE. Annadog crashed a helicopter into

me.

[Telephone Cat]

Cheetory rides in on a Chariot! He ran into some traffic problems on the way here.

MortFeld's raven is probably my favorite picture in this game.

[Telephone Cat]

Vijarada has rolled in on his Motorcycle!

This seems like a nice, relaxing campaign. I'd get twitchy.

[Telephone Cat]

Airship and Ferry are up!

[Telephone Cat]

Shadoweh has hammered this Wagon, and now the healing can begin.

[Telephone Cat]

Annadog40 rises up out of the depths in a Submarine. Happy St Patrick's Day!

[Telephone Cat]

Round 10 is COMPLETE.

Ten chains remain.

[Telephone Cat]

GuyInFreezer crashes in with a Jetpack.

God. GreenLiquid's picture is adorable.

[Telephone Cat]

KittyMo lands her Ornithropter. Ghosts and animatronics and floating black masks have chased it every step of the way.

[Telephone Cat]

Rickshaw and Balloon are up!

[Telephone Cat]

RadiantCowbells, who as I understand it is currently at the north pole or some shit, rides in on a Qamutiik pulled by a team of adorable huskies.

Who's sentence and Gigs's fervent Pepe are perfect.

[Telephone Cat]

WEEK TWO COMPLETE

133/138 pictures drawn
5 chains (21.7%) are on Round 12
18 chains (78.3%) are finished.

[Telephone Cat]

To be fair Bellaphant gave me her picture, I just noticed for the first time that it's oversized and asked her to resend it.

[Telephone Cat]

I GUESS THAT ANSWERS WHO MAKES IT OUT FIRST!!

It's true. Who did finish first.

Bellaphant hasn't gotten back to me. x_x

[Telephone Cat]

StrangerCoug swoops overhead on a Glider. This chain is the story of ConManMick's love life, especially the blue airplane babe.

[Telephone Cat]

Ekranoplan and Itasha are up!

[Telephone Cat]

Yeah...after Ranmaru wrote that sentence, I let it slide but told him to knock it off in future sentences and keep it simple.

...but I think that led to him omitting CHICKADEE GETTING HANGED in Horse.

[Telephone Cat]

Clumsy...um...arrives? He arrives on a Naturmobil. I don't have a better verb for this, I was REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel with N.

One chain remains.

[Telephone Cat]

Iprobablysuck pulls up in an unmarked Van, and Telephone Pictionary: Journey of a Thousand Words has hereby reached its destination!