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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:15 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
I just want you to be happy, mykonian. Please be happy again.
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.
Status:
COMPLETE.
Players:
1. RadiantCowbells
2. DeathRowKitty
3. Who
4. Postie
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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:15 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.
Last edited by Telephone Cat on Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Post #21 (isolation #3) » Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:08 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
One untaken slot and three unsent sentences remain!
Although I miiiiiight give DGB a bonus slot if it comes to that, she hasn't seen my invitation yet and I don't want to live in a world so cruel that DGB can't get into a Telephone Pictionary.
Shaziro, CMM, implosion, I like you guys but I really really need your sentences.
With that said, I'm stepping away for a few hours. Sentences will go out around 2:00 pm EDT (3 hours from now) if I have them all by then.
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Post #23 (isolation #4) » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:05 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
I'm still busy until 2; I'll accept more entries until then, running a bigger game to accomodate if I also have Shaziro's/CMM's/implosion's. (This won't change the number of pictures you have to draw.)
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Post #30 (isolation #7) » Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:52 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
I'm writing down the names of everyone who missed this and wanted to play--I'm at 7 so far, and I only just started writing and could be forgetting more. I think I'm just going to run another after this and give priority to people who didn't get in this time.
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Post #34 (isolation #8) » Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:16 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
In post 30, Telephone Cat wrote:I'm writing down the names of everyone who missed this and wanted to play--I'm at 7 so far, and I only just started writing and could be forgetting more. I think I'm just going to run another after this and give priority to people who didn't get in this time.
(By the way, if other people who missed this game and haven't expressed it let me know, that would help me figure out how/if I can do this effectively. Normally I think running games back to back is a bad idea, since most Telephone Pictionary activity comes in the initial burst and people get tired of it later on, so I'd want to minimize this.)
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Post #40 (isolation #11) » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:00 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
No pressure if you don't want to play in a full game! With that said, I've seen your stuff, and from that I'm guessing your low-effort art is still pretty good. (As for the two-chain version...you're free to run one yourself if you'd like, but I have no interest in doing so.)
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Post #44 (isolation #13) » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:39 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
No. Each chain always has 13 links in it--7 sentences, including the starting sentence, and 6 pictures--and each player will get exactly one prompt for each round. There are 20 players, so there are 20 chains in total.
I am hoping you try a liiiiiiittle more than stick figures, though.
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Post #49 (isolation #16) » Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:59 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
N has requested replacement. Let me know if you want his slot! Note that his Round 4 will be on a shorter deadline than normal when you get it, so be prepared to start drawing quickly.
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Post #50 (isolation #17) » Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:52 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
In post 49, Telephone Cat wrote:N has requested replacement. Let me know if you want his slot! Note that his Round 4 will be on a shorter deadline than normal when you get it, so be prepared to start drawing quickly.
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Post #72 (isolation #25) » Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:54 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
I'm gonna need a replacement for Felissan in about five minutes. As usual, please don't offer until you're ready to get started--this chain has been held up long enough!
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Post #75 (isolation #27) » Wed Jun 28, 2017 5:20 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
Ugh.
I'm still bumping up your deadlines, as is standard for people who missed one. The only reason I'm letting you have Naruto is because you literally just sent it in.
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Post #113 (isolation #34) » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:39 pm
Postby Telephone Cat »
I need a replacement for zoraster in Inuyasha! Eligible players include {Annadog40, Dwlee99, Felissan, GuyInFreezer, Panzerjager, randomidget, SleepyKrew}-preferably people who aren't already currently busy with a picture--and anyone not playing. Since this is on a volunteer basis, please be prepared to draw it quickly if you do take it! (Although I plan to sleep soon, so as long as I get it overnight or sometime this morning it's fine.)
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Post #116 (isolation #36) » Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:56 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
The kiiiiiiiiiind of inappropriate Futurama is up!
You know, there are plenty of things you can do to denote a male stripper while still keeping him clothed. You could give him an open vest or jacket with no shirt underneath, or a lithe muscular body and a policeman's hat. Stripping is just as much about strategically hiding skin as it is about showing it. This has been a PSA.
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Post #139 (isolation #40) » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:30 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
Yeah I wasn't sure at the time if it was interpreting the Mona Lisa as Keely or if it was an "Ether thinks Keely = the Mona Lisa" kind of thing. Raybells says it was the first one.
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Post #187 (isolation #54) » Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:36 am
Postby Telephone Cat »
Inuyasha is up! (Thanks to chamber for replacing RadiantCowbells at the last minute there!) MortFeld's foaming feral gingerbread men are a beautiful thing, and so's that dopey cat.
In other news, Round 12 is COMPLETE. One chain is still on Round 13, and then we're done.
Despite what I said at the beginning, I don't think I'm ready to run a second one back to back. DGB never came back, I don't think it can fill with 20 fresh new people, and you guys
and I
could use a rest. I'm gonna bump up the schedule to a month or so from now, probably.
