Overlord's Orders XV

[Søren]

You awaken on a platform, hanging effortlessly in space. Your comrades are next to you, also awakening. You look ahead to see the imposing figure of the Overlord, seated on a gold throne, wearing magnificent armor that would only suit the master of the universe. You know that if you have any hope of not being impaired on the scepter he held, you would need to do your job right.

Welcome to the fifteenth round of Overlord's Orders. I'm hoping to have one of the more creative rounds this time. Explain well, be smart, and most importantly, have fun. Let the sign ups start!

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
Overlord's Orders XIV -  Delthion


Sign Ups:
LT Sandpaw (The Trendstarter)
Sagetip (The Enforcer)
Mhera (She's in, this time for real)
SilentSam (The Returned)
James Gryphon (The mod of your doom)
Izeroth (The Volunteer)
Skyblade (She's gonna do her best)
Pluggfiretail (He's gonna also do his best) Fed to 5 year olds eternally.
Jukka the Sling (The Rookie)
Lord_Ashenwyte (The late guy) Forced to listen to Bieber music and to be the subject for endless GIFs.

[LT Sandpaw]

I'm in, but I have to warn you to fix your intro, I think you meant to put hope and you put something else


Edit: Oh and I just want to say I STARTED AN OO TRADITION TO PUT AN INTRO INTO YOUR SIGN UP YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Søren]

Whoops, thanks and accepted.

[Hickory]

I'm in. *cracks knuckles*

[Mhera]

I'm in.

[SilentSam]

I'm back!!! Happy 15th OO! And if I were to say, LT, you were not The trend-starter, Jasper was. I shall apply.

[LT Sandpaw]

Actually he's not I am Muhahahahahaha You are all forced to put an intro into your OO sign up to follow tradition 

[Hickory]

I recall Taggergun did an intro in the first OO's

[LT Sandpaw]

I just went and checked and there was no Intro in the sign ups so MUHAHAHAHA!

[James Gryphon]

The first round to have an introduction in the first post was Rusvul in OOIX. LT did start the first unbroken chain of such an event, though, with him, Delthion and now Soren all doing it.

Besides my guess that nobody had thought of it before, I can speculate that another reason why most Overlords didn't have intros, or even think to put one in, is because they weren't sure where they wanted the story to go, and didn't want to commit to anything until the last minute. I know that was the case for me. Of course, that isn't always true; Tagg announced the holiday theme for the holiday round, and Matthias already knew he was going to do a Redwall-themed round. However, I'd speculate that it applied as often as not.

I'll sign up.

[Izeroth]

 I volunteer!

[LT Sandpaw]

Oh no my overall joy at starting a awesome trend is now over because I have to compete with James again.

Challenged Accepted.

[Søren]

All are accepted of course. I'll close sign ups late tomorrow so that everyone can have a chance to get on board.

[Hickory]

YES!

I'm the Enforcer!

[Skyblade]

I would like to join. I'll do my best!