Overlord's Orders XII

[Jasper]

Hello servants to my will  

These are the sign-ups for the 12th round of Overlord's Orders. This round, to the horror of the players, will be "Overlorded" by me.  

but rest assured that I will consult the experts if the need arises.

The Rules
We will have an overlord (or overlady), who will be all powerful and control the game.
Everyone else will be a servant of theirs to do his or her bidding, which will be a new assignment at the beginning of each round.
The game begins by the Overlord issuing a task, sending out their servants, and then summoning everyone before them and questioning them about whether they got the thing they wanted.
Any given round may have anywhere from a developing storyline and plot to pure and simple tasking. At times, the gamemaster (Overlord) may deviate from the general pattern and do something different at the end than just another task.

Example Round:
Let's say the Overlord might have wanted a jeep to use.
Stage 1: Introduction
The Overlord sends out their servants on a task and they return, and the Overlord will question their servants and ask them why they failed to bring them the thing they wanted (which will invariable happen, no one ever succeeds).
Stage 2: Defenses
Players can then blame their failure on some random thing (like maybe an elephant destroying the jeep) or someone else in the game; anything to shrug themselves off from fault.
Everyone can then blame someone, themselves, keep silent, or introduce some sort of new feature that happened while acquiring the item (in this case, a jeep). Eventually, the Overlord will process the information and decide who failed.
Stage 3: Punishment
The person chosen to have failed by the Overlord is then thrown out, vaporized, or something creative, by the Overlord's orders. The idea is to not be this person, and to survive as long as possible.

Likely, the Overlord will choose the best defenses as survivors.

Player defenses may not exceed 750 words per post. Unless your post has gotten noticeably quite long, you are unlikely to be hitting this limit.

Inter-game rules: The winner of any round is given host-ship of the next game. This can tie in with them going from servant to overlord, or it can be original.

General Guidelines:
Free roleplaying, or game spam, is fine. This means having yourself eat a banana, talk about the weather or river dance.

Whenever someone says something about an event, it becomes fact. It is what happened. If someone says an elephant destroyed a jeep, then anyone calling that person a liar is for certain lying; the jeep was destroyed by an elephant. What's up for telling by someone else is, for example, who set the elephant on the jeep. Also, a character doesn't know what someone else's motives were in doing or saying something -- they can speculate on those motives, but saying about someone, for instance, that "they meant to kill the Overlord" is not automatically factual.

Godmoding pertaining to persons should be restricted to some extent, just try to keep things with at least a hand in plausibility. Powerplaying is allowed. However, it cannot affect players between tasks. For instance, you cannot have a servants contract a disease and be unable to speak, or even die. You can have them be sick during the task, but you cannot impede them during the Sessions before the Overlord.
Normally, the Gamemaster will have technology restricting servants to a base during the game to prevent physically roleplaying and keep the game focused on its purpose. Overlords can power play.
Also, you cannot use an excuse like being brainwashed or cloned during the task. You are you - and you are responsible for what you did wrong.
All posts after the game begins should contain IC text; there should be no posts that are only OOC chatter.
No "backseat moderating". You may ask the Overlord whether someone else's post violates the rules, but do not tell that person, whether by making an OOC comment or PMing them, that they are in the wrong. The Overlord is responsible for managing the game.
Remember to keep things civil, stay inside the board rules, keep all hands and legs inside the game until it comes to a complete stop.

Past Overlords:
Overlords Order's I - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders II - James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders III - DanielofRedwall
Overlord's Orders IV - Matthias720
Overlord's Orders V - Redwall Musician
Overlord's Orders VI - Tiria Wildlough
Special Holiday Round 2012 - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders VII - Matthias720
Overlord's Orders VIII - Romsca
Overlord's Orders IX - rusvulthesaber, James Gryphon/Tiria Wildlough
Overlord's Orders X - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders XI - James Gryphon

Servants to the mighty Jasper:

1. Soren (who thinks he will be unleashing wrath upon this round.)
2. Delthion (the soon-to-be married man.)
3. James (the master himself!)
4. Psybox (the legendary)
5. Sandpaw (the one who wants to try this again)
6. Tagg (the original)
7. SilentSam (who is back!)
8. PluggFiretail (the last minute signup.)
9. Mask (Who is honored to join)

[Søren]

Against my better judgement, IM IN. Can we please call it Overlords Order XII: The Wrath of Soren?

[Delthion]

I'm in, last round was amazingly fun!

[James Gryphon]

I'll be in.

[Delthion]

Oh no, the great master has entered...

[Søren]

Hahahahahahah, soon-to-be-married Del.

[psybox]

I will join!

[Delthion]

Psy-box! The greatest of all the forum lurkers has joined!

[LT Sandpaw]

I'm in I want to try again

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

Deal me in.

[LT Sandpaw]

I must redeem myself!

[Tam and Martin]

Sorry! Can't do it this time! Maybe next round.

[SilentSam]

Well, IIII'MMM BAAAAACCKKK. PUT MEH ON THAT LIST!

[Jasper]

I'm very happy to have each of you involved - I wasn't sure how attendance would be since a simple member was trying to follow up James, but you lot certainly are full of surprises.

I want this round to be about having fun, writing and my total dominance over all of you! Bwahaha... er ... I mean my democratic leadership of my loyal and willingly subjected subjects.  

That being said, I know we had some hitches in the last round - some caused by me - and we're hoping to minimize similar incident. For that reason we've edited the rules just slightly - seen in bold, red and underlined (I like to make it look pretty.   )

The general idea of this is this:

-If you have a problem with a post, just message the Overlord. He can take care of it!

-If the problem isn't really a big deal, just keep rolling! Try to stay from OOC posts - especially if they don't have BIC content accompanying it.

-Brainwashing/mind control, while a clever way to excuse yourself, is not completely usable. You are responsible for your actions one way or another.

That being said, it's really about having fun, so I hope to keep the technicality side at a minimum. It makes the game less enjoyable, when we really should be having fun accusing one another of ridiculous things.

So basically: Check the rules I've edited into my first post.
This round will not be referring back to previous rounds, so don't worry about being up-to-date on those.  

As far as starting - I believe Friday evening or Saturday morning is the best time to get this show on the road. I hope you are all as excited as I am to see how this all turns out.  

Last minute sign - ups if anyone wants to join.

[Kitsune]

(Can I be a last minute sign up?)