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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:07 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
...unless there's a banana in it. Then you kind of know what's going to happen.
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.
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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:07 pm
Postby 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.
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Post #36 (isolation #11) » Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:11 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
Sorry, what you see is what you get. (Note that the countdown only refers to your current picture round, which are all even numbers. There's no timer in the opening post for sentences; I'm just counting on people to be fast with those.)
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Post #39 (isolation #14) » Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:55 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
Tragedy strikes!
MortFeld has requested replacement. I've called in Shaziro to take the slot long-term, but I'm looking for someone to draw his Round 2. As usual, please don't volunteer until you're ready to start drawing!
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Post #42 (isolation #15) » Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:34 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
I won't look for a replacement if it's in tonight, but I'll still bump your future deadlines down to 48 hours for a while if it's in after the original 8:00 deadline.
Please
try not to wait until the last day for this stuff.
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Post #44 (isolation #17) » Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:12 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
Well. As far as I can tell, CMM has dropped off the face of the earth...he never picked up his sentence prompt yesterday either. Anyone want to take his picture prompt?
(As usual, please don't volunteer until you're ready to start drawing. This is one of the last two chains still on Round 2, and it has been held up long enough!)
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Post #49 (isolation #20) » Sat Jun 23, 2018 1:03 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
As far as I can tell, ConManMick has dropped off the face of the earth. I'm handing his slot to StrangerCoug, effective as of his Round 6.
I also need two artists to take the Round 4s that Panzer and CMM just missed. Anyone interested? (As usual, please don't volunteer for these until you're ready to start drawing--these chains have been held up long enough!)
EDIT: nonny takes one of them, the other is still looking for a home.
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Post #53 (isolation #23) » Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:00 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
WEEK ONE COMPLETE
64/138 pictures drawn
7 chains (30.4%) are on Round 6
2 chains (8.7%) are on Round 7
12 chains (52.2%) are on Round 8
1 chain (4.3%) is on Round 9
1 chain (4.3%) is on Round 10
Honestly this was just a disgustingly stable chain. At least until the end. In its final moments, bereft at last of androids or electricity, Quintessence finally earned its release.
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Post #69 (isolation #31) » Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:08 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
Klick has requested replacement. At this stage in the game, I'm just going to give out his prompts individually as they come out. Shadoweh's got his current one.
Schadd_'s sentence puts the electrode's hurt expression in a completely different light and I love it. Really this is just an excellent chain in general.
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Post #107 (isolation #49) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:13 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
I need a replacement for NotAJumbleOfNumbers, in Metal. Anyone want an extra drawing?
(As usual, please don't volunteer until you're ready to start drawing, or at least until you know you can start/finish sometime in the next few hours. This chain has been held up long enough!)
EDIT: Katyusha takes it!
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Post #108 (isolation #50) » Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:19 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
RadiantCowbells wrote:"Good heavens, look at the time!" said Ether. She got ready and made her way to Bellaphant's room, dressed finely and looking positively beautiful, just in time for their date.
Hmm...
Haschel Cedricson wrote:I like that it switches from Ether to Chickadee and back to Ether.
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Post #131 (isolation #57) » Wed Jul 04, 2018 12:51 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
I wasn't!
In Journey of a Thousand Words I was aware from early on that that was what the map looked like. It was random, but I think it was part of the reason I decided to make all of the announcements be about the people who finished the chains instead of the ones who started them. This one was a fun surprise at the very end when I was typing the final PM.
