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Overlord's Orders! XIV

Started by Delthion, March 16, 2015, 09:31:04 PM

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Delthion

You find yourselves on-board a Percival P.66 Pembroke with a splitting headache you were on the ground and all you remembered was a sharp pain in the back of your head and the blackness.
you knew the decision to apply to the job of servant to the Overlord was a foolhardy one, but you didn't realize just how foolhardy it really was.


Welcome Forumites, to another round of OO's! This is pretty much set in the present day and will involve many things about planes! Let the sign-ups begin! ;D

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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
Overlord's Orders XII - Jasper
Overlord's Orders XIII - LT Sandpaw!



This round won't be connected too any previous rounds directly so there is no need to read though the entire Overlord's series.

1. LT Sandpaw. (The Airplane Man)
2. Soren the Warrior. (The Constant Contender)
3. Izeroth. (The Constant Contender 2 ;D)
4. Skyblade. (The New One)
5. Mhera. (The Copier)
6. Sagetip, the Hare. (The Nemesis.)
7. PluggFiretail. (The Balconist.)
Dreams, dreams are untapped and writhing. How much more real are dreams than that paltry existence which we now call reality? How shall we ascend to that which humanity is destined? By mastering the dreamworld of course. That is how, my pupils, that is how.

LT Sandpaw


I'm In, I'm so in, oh man airplanes are my thing!


"Sometimes its not about winning, but how you lose." - John Gwynne

"Facts don't care about your feelings." -Ben Shapiro

Søren

Dang, that was fast. I'm in, of course.


I'm retired from the forum

Izeroth


Skyblade

I've never done this before, but it looks interesting. I'll try it out.

Thanks, MatthiasMan, for the avatar!

Mhera


Hickory

Oooo, I'll join. *cracks knuckles* I need revenge.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Søren

Quote from: Sagetip, the hare on March 18, 2015, 10:58:03 PM
Oooo, I'll join. *cracks knuckles* I need revenge.
*cracks neck* I got a score to settle. MY score: 0-3.


I'm retired from the forum

Delthion

I am planning to start this as soon as we have two more participants.
Dreams, dreams are untapped and writhing. How much more real are dreams than that paltry existence which we now call reality? How shall we ascend to that which humanity is destined? By mastering the dreamworld of course. That is how, my pupils, that is how.

Izeroth


Delthion

Yeah, sorry. I'll keep this open for one more day, then we'll start.
Dreams, dreams are untapped and writhing. How much more real are dreams than that paltry existence which we now call reality? How shall we ascend to that which humanity is destined? By mastering the dreamworld of course. That is how, my pupils, that is how.

Skyblade

We have a problem.

Quote from: Mhera on March 21, 2015, 03:21:45 AM
I'll be away from the forums for about two weeks starting tomorrow (March 21-April 5).

Thanks, MatthiasMan, for the avatar!

Kitsune

If you are still accepting, I would love to join.

Delthion

Yep still accepting!

@Skye: Yes, that does pose a significant problem. I shall contemplate this. ;D Anyway, I'll probably just go along with the schedule, but I don't know.
Dreams, dreams are untapped and writhing. How much more real are dreams than that paltry existence which we now call reality? How shall we ascend to that which humanity is destined? By mastering the dreamworld of course. That is how, my pupils, that is how.

Mhera

Derp. Forgot about this, sorry! Go ahead and scratch my entry if necessary :)