We are on to our next round of Overlord's Orders! Welcome one and all to Overlord's Order's V! I was lucky enough to become the overlord, or overlady (but you shall call me Queen). Please note the game-play below:
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The Rules
We will have an overlord, 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 summoning everyone before them and questioning them about whether they got the thing they wanted.
Let's say the Overlord might have wanted a jeep to use.
Example Round:
Stage 1: Who failed?
The Overlord would question one person of everyone in the game (this would be random selection) and ask them why they failed to bring them the thing they wanted (which will invariable happen, no one ever succeeds).
Stage 2: Defenses
That person 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 the immediate blame placed on them.
Pretty much everything goes at this point, following a rough outline of what happened based on the First Accused, who as stated before will be decided by the Overlord at the beginning of the round.
Everyone can 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, or might just get tired of the arguing and randomly select someone at random.
Stage 3: Fault is fixed
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 be choosing the best defenses as survivors.
One last thing, whenever someone says something, 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 for someone else is, for example, who set the elephant on the jeep. Things are bound to work a lot better that way.
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...
One final rule, keep spam, unless it's game spam, to an absolute minimum.
This will be similar to the other rounds we had. I advise that if this your first time playing this game, you should read one of the previous rounds to get a better sense of how this game will go:
Round 1 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=722.0)
Round 2 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=888.0)
Round 3 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=948.0)
Round 4 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=1088.0)
If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me.
If you wish to play this round, simply reply adding your name to this list:
1. DanielofRedwall
2. Tiria Wildlough
3. Matthias720
4. Mad Maudie
5. Taggerung_of_Redwall
6. winifred
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I'm a bit hesitant to join this round as I'll be away for a whole week half way through... Would that matter?
If you still want to play, I'm willing to try to work around it. So it doesn't matter to me, but it's up to you.
Alright then, I'll sign up. When I think about it, I might still be able to post, but we'll see.
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count me in!
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And may the best beast win! ;)
I will post the first round tonight. Until then, sign ups will remain open.
OOC: Sign ups are officially closed!
1. DanielofRedwall
2. Tiria Wildlough
3. Matthias720
4. Mad Maudie
5. Taggerung_of_Redwall
6. winifred
And if anyone is wondering, I don't plan to make this game connected to the others, although there may be references to the other rounds.
BIC:
Deep in the spring country side, there was a village. On a hill overlooking the village was the palace. It resembled a very, very large Roman villa, but around every corner was a new surprise. It had been designed by the queen.
She was once, as legend has it, a rich and greedy child. When her parents died, she was on her own. Leaving the safety of her caretakers, she retreated to the forest and there gained her power. She befriended the forest nymphs, the fairies, the elves, and soon build for herself a kingdom which spread over the land.
It was a quiet afternoon in her gardens within the villa. The only ones around was the gardeners tending their plants. Them, and the queen. She sat upon her high couch, laying looking up at the blue sky above. Suddenly, she produced a small flute from her tunic and blew into it. Instantly her most trusted servants were at her feet.
"I have some important guest coming tonight. They happen to love cupcakes. I've had my chef prepare her finest. But I need a few more things. Be back by six. I've got to get ready."
She then handed a paper to the servants and left. The paper read:
"To Do:
ToR and winifred:
Get mini chocolate chips at the chocolate shop
Daniel and Maudie:
Get fresh strawberries from the mountain
Matthias and Tiria:
Get my finest silver platter which is at my cottage in the forest
It was late. Stars twinkled from the sky above, casting their elegant light the the servants who stood nervously at the feet of their queen. They were in chains with guards standing on either side of them.
"I asked you to get simple things for my cupcakes! Instead Matthias comes back with a rock, Tiria arrives later on a pumkin carriage. Daniel and Maudie, you both are flying a dragon and scared away my guest, with no strawberries. And ToR comes back with EXTRA LARGE chocolate chips, and without winifred. We had to send a search party out to find her! One of you speak up and tell me what is going on!"
Tiria bows low. 'Forgive me, almighty one. Matthias and I could not find your cottage at first, and when we did find it, we were going to be late. So Matthias said he'd take the silver platter and go the short way. I tried to tell him it was unwise, but he just pushed me into the stream. When I picked myself up, he was gone. I found the carriage near the stream, and brought it here, but I was chased by little monsters with whips. I think I saw Matthias making mud pies in a puddle as I was rocketing past. I don't know what he did that for, or where he got the rock, your majesty, I swear it!'
"Our trip was all Maudie's fault. We got up the mountain quick enough, although she wouldn't stop talking so we had to play The Silent Game. We both picked as much strawberries as the basket could take. Then a dragon suddenly appeared, and I had to grab a sword and fight it off (it had started to attack us). Suddenly a wizard appeared. Maudie went over to the wizard, whispered something to him, and the wizard made our strawberries disappear. I asked her what it was for, and she just shrugged. Then, the wizard made my sword disappear. Maudie somehow jumped on to the dragon's back. I protested and said the dragon was dangerous, but as the dragon flew at me she pulled me up on to it's back as well! Of course, the guests were quite scared to see us riding the dragon, but blame Maudie, my Queen."
"Winifred suggested we go to Russia to get the mini chocolate chips. I told her you wanted them from the local store, but she would not listen to me, reason or common sense. So off to Russia she flew. I arrived at the store shortly, purchased the bag you desired, and was careful not to lose it. As I was coming back, by foot, as winifred stole our cart, the rebel showed herself.
"I told her I had the bag, and everything was completed, no thanks to her. However, she promptly stole the bag and ripped it up and threw it everything. Not sure how, but she then brought out very large chocolate chips from her pockets, and a giant cow trailed her. She said it was a cow. And it was a cow."
"the only reason i whispered to the wizard is because i new dragons loved strawberries i wanted the wizard to stop him from taking them but he did not obviously the wizard liked strawberries to and it attacked because Daniel was attacking it and it wanted the strawberries and well you know bad people come out at dark so i wanted to get home fast so i jumped on the dragon and pulled Daniel up with me sorry your guests were afraid of a dragon!"
OOC: Maudie, in the game you can't contradict someone. If I said you whispered to a wizard, that is what you did. You have to explain why you whispered to the wizard.
Also, from tomorrow, I may not be able to post for a bit. We'll see.
My queen, When I told TOR we must go to russia I ment the other local baking store, it's called russia I knew it was close by and that they had the best quality. I like TOR said not lisening and trying to explain russia was closer he probly thought I ment the real russia.So he kept on going and I said I would meet him ata place in the road, oh mighty one.When I got to russia I asked where the mini chocalate chips were, the maneger (who happened to be a giant) pointed to a shelf where the biggest chocalate chips I've ever seen were sitting.I tried to explain that I needed mini chocalate chips but he debated that they were mini.(being a giant and all) When I explained why I needed them he smiled and sat down dreamily chanting your name, your highness, and said I could have them (the choc chips) for free along with his cow for a gift. I started to protest thinking it was about time I joined TOR but the giant would not refuse and pushed me out!So praying TOR had mini chocalate chips I set forth to the place we had agreed to meet. I waited and waited utill it was late, finally he arrived and I grabbed him demanding where he'd been and yes I stole the bag to see if it really was mini chocalate chips, accadently ripping the bag a little and they spilled everywhere Then I showed him the large chocalate chips and said we could cut them smaller, but alredy it was very late so I told TOR we must get going but he would not budge for some reason, then I saw his eyes and I think he was hypnotised by a death defying beaver then all theese other deathdefying beavers knocked me out and I cant remember anything else though I think TOR took the large chocalate hips with him.Oh mighty majestic queen it was TOR's fult!
"I asked winifred where she had disappeared to. Why she was yelling at me where I'd been, when I had followed your instructions and did what you asked and actually succeeded, is beyond me. I suggested we cut the large chips up, which I began. I had a large handful done when I knew time was out. So I took them hoping to salvage the situation, when the death-defying beavers reassembled them into one chocolate chip again. Then they hyponized me, and I woke up here."
OOC: Yes, Maudie, you need to edit your post because your contradicted what Daniel said.
i edited my post
"M'lady, if I may speak. Tiria has only explained part of what happened. Please let me explain the rest of what transpired. You see, it all started off well. We had a few minor bumps, but as Tiria said, we had a bit of difficulty finding the cabin. Once we found it, I pointed out to Tiria that the stream that ran near the cabin had to be the same one that runs along the side of the castle. She disagreed with me by saying, and I quote 'It would be unwise to return in any other way except the way we came, because there's no telling if we would actually get back to the castle.' However, I knew that because it took so long to get to the cabin in the first place, there simply wasn't enough time to get back with the platter. I was confident that I could get the platter back early, so I felt I had no choice but to snatch it up, and run here with all haste. However, it was presumptuous and rude to run off without explaining my plan. For that, I apologize, Tiria."
"Now the trip back was highly troublesome, for the first thing that I ran into as I rounded the first bend in the stream was a troupe of about a dozen goblins, each holding a whip. They demanded I hand over the platter, or else they would beat me up. I told them quite confidently that the platter I was holding was not the one they were looking for. Instead of taking the one I was holding on to, they should head after the carriage which was holding the real one (which, of course, it wasn't). They seemed to buy my story, as they immediately ran off in the direction of the nearest road."
"I continued on my way, until I reached a spot where the road crossed the stream. As I was set upon by two of the goblins. The grabbed the platter, and threw it in the mud. When Tiria passed by, I was searching the mud for the platter, but couldn't find it. The best I could come up with was the flat-topped rock. My apologies for that, m'lady"
"The dragon attacked me becauseJ attacked it, as Maudie said, but I was only attacking it because it started eating our strawberries and I knew we needed to protect them."
OOC: Sorry this took a while. I was debating against myself.
BIC:
The queen looked over her servants. "There are many of you who made mistakes. Maudie, you should not be afraid of the dark. That's just embarrassing. Matthias, you didn't explain your plan properly to Tiria. You must learn to work with a partner. And winifred, you completely did not follow my instructions! I wanted you to go to the chocolate shop, not some shop named Russia! One of you must be punished."
Suddenly the dragon which Maudie and Daniel had flown appeared. The queen gently patted its nose. "You know, dragons are good if you can learn to tame them." The queen raised her hand to the sky. The dragon took off in flight. On his ankle was attached on of the servants chain. As he flew up, winifred was suspended in the air. She and the dragon went out of sight.
"She'll be almost okay. Probably loose her mind and forget anything that ever happen to her, but she'll get to go where she wanted to. She'll get to see Russia. The country."
It was late afternoon the next day when the queen called her servants. She had them sent to her personal chambers this time. As they all stood straight on her couch, the queen appeared from a door, possibly her bed room.
"I have an important occasion tonight. So I've decided to wear my elegant silver dress. Unfortunately, I have no earrings which match it. So all of you get on my private jet and my pilot will fly to my personal jeweler in France. He told me he has earrings and a matching necklace which will go with my gown. Get those, fly back here, and give them to me at the ballroom where I'll be making sure everything is perfect for tonight."
That night, the queen sat in a chaotic ballroom. Everything was burnt or destroyed. The queen sat looking half mad on the floor, looking at her servants. She was in a dangerous rage.
"Tell me how," she said when she was able to speak, "Tell me how you were able to crash the jet in my ballroom, show up without my earrings, buy five hundred dollars worth of dog food, and flood my bed room."
"Cows," ToR began. "They can bare blame for so much, and in fact much of all tragedy originates with them. So it was today. Or rather, with Daniel with the cows. He insisted bringing them aboard the jet. I fervently argued against this. But he brawled with me and Matthias, who began insulting the five cows for some reason. As you can guess, they were sold in France, a hundred each. Matthias did behind everyone's back once we arrived. Then Daniel was upset, and bought dog food with the money. Then he insisted on flying back to you once we had obtained the jewelry for you, milady. And fine they were. But they were lost when Daniel crashed the plane. He thought he could fly. But few can fly, and they are not amongst your servants or in France. That is why people built planes, gliders and balloons of course, in pursuit. But amongst men, there are those who cannot even begin to manage flying such a device. As has been demonstrated, in great destruction to you."
OOC:ToR, you really love cows, don't you?
"The cows can easily be explained. I had been brainwashed by Matthias who made me bring them on board. Matthias wanted to hand them over illegally to someone. I had no power over my actions. When I gained my conciousness, I realised what I did and was going to tell everyone about Matthias' happenings, but he loosed hundreds of savage dogs on me. Tiria found out about what was happening and gave me money to buy dog food to distract the dogs, saying it was hers. It wasn't. It was the money for the jewelry. As I ran past her she held out the money and told me about her 'own money'. I went in to a stall with a 'no dogs allowed' sign. The dogs could obviously read and didn't enter. I bought dog food with the money and gave it to the dogs. They didn't attack me after that. I discovered it was the jewelry money on the plane. Halfway through the flight, Maudie kicked the pilot unconcious and started flying dangerously. I went to investigate. She was trying to crash the plane, by the look of it. I did the only thing I could and knocked her out. The others came in and saw me at the pilot seat and assumed it was me who was flying dangerously. This was close to landing, and as I was starting to land Matthias kicked me. This made me lose control of the flight and we crashed in to your ballroom. Also, the flooding came from a water fight Tiria and Matthias were having in the plane."
'My lady, it was awful in the back of the plane, with Maudie at the pilot's seat. Matthias got mad at me because he said I shouldn't have thrown away the earrings and necklace. I asked him why he was so mean, and he said "Your reality check is in the mail". I thought that was rude of him, so I called him a snigglety woofler. He whipped out a waterbomb and threw it in my face. Then I got one and threw it at him.
'Just then, Maudie did a huge dive, and we were swept to the front of the plane. There, I found one of the jewels that was in your necklace. Here it is, your Majesty.'
OOC: @Daniel (@Tiria?): Contradictions. We posted ten minutes apart, so I'd guess we started writing at about the same time, which explains the nature of contradicting.
OOC: What?
Quote from: Taggerung_of_Redwall on January 07, 2012, 06:17:08 AM
OOC: @Daniel (@Tiria?): Contradictions. We posted ten minutes apart, so I'd guess we started writing at about the same time, which explains the nature of contradicting.
OOC: Yeah, nobody had replied yet when I started. I'll edit my post.
Quote from: DanielofRedwall on January 07, 2012, 08:59:00 AM
Quote from: Taggerung_of_Redwall on January 07, 2012, 06:17:08 AM
OOC: @Daniel (@Tiria?): Contradictions. We posted ten minutes apart, so I'd guess we started writing at about the same time, which explains the nature of contradicting.
OOC: Yeah, nobody had replied yet when I started. I'll edit my post.
OOC: Yes, Daniel your post is fine now. I think Tiria's is okay except for he part about her throwing the jewelry. Could you change that part Tiria?
Maudie bruised and beaten bowed and said "I Knew the plane was crashing we hit turbulence so i tried to land it! i knocked out the pilot cause he said he was not really certified with the FPU (Flight prancer Unit) which is the one we use i was trying to land it when Daniel KNocked me out and i had a strange dream about monkeys!"
"Yes, but the thing is Maudie wasn't certified with the FPU either. The pilot was a much better driver. Believe it or not, but I am certified, so I knocked her out and tried to save you. Unfortunately, Maudie and the pilot had already done their damage and I had no time to stop the plane from crashing. Even if I did, I wasn't able to as Matthias kicked me, as mentioned."
"There is only one person at fault here: Matthias. Hypnotizing and kicking people for no good reason. Yes, all the rest of you failed me and drove me crazy, but Matthias shall be taken away from my kingdom forever." A plump and rather tired-looking old maid appeared, behind her a large and fierce tiger.
"Behold, Princess Mizela, the lost royal from her island homeland, Sales. She was punished for being vain, and this tiger became her partner and they forever roam the lands, looking for a potion or such to make one beautiful."
The Princess Mizela, grabbed the arm of Matthias and began to drag him away.
"They are taking him to sell as a slaves on Sales. The money she makes off of him will be used to wipe all his memory. He'll be happier that way. Perhaps good deeds are the secret to beauty." The queen laughed at her own joke. Just as she was about to wave her servants from the room, someone entered the room.
The person wore a long gown with a dark hood over its face. Slowly it removed the hood from its face, only to reveal a face of fairy. Pretty glowing eyes, locks of pink tented golden hair, and a look of worry upon her face.
"Queen," was the only things the fairy said. The rushed to each other and fell weeping. Soon they were holding a whispered conversation.
It was late, passed midnight, and the servants were still up from the exposition to find the queen's jewelry. All were gathered in her gardens, the queen sitting on one of the marble steps which led to a path, which led to a fountain. She had demanded they stay up with her in her time of sorrow. It was only now that she dried her eyes long enough to speak.
"I must go to the estates of my dear friend, Alli. She has passed and I wish to be present to help take care of her affairs and claim rule over her property. It sounds so cold to take over her lands right after she dies, but truly, the only reason I didn't was because she was there.
"While I'm gone, I want all of you to watch my chambers in the top tower. Why? You don't need to know. Just don't let anyone in and don't let anyone out. Good day, or rather, good night."
Running up the stair case she disappeared for a whole week. A very long whole week for the servants.
The queen wrote violently on her scrolls. It read:
Good New:
Took land for self, managed to conquer the island of Sales, and brought an amazing ice cream recipe for an amazing price. Oh, and servants kept good watch on the secret tower.
Bad News:
The neighboring tower destroyed, my gnome made car is not working, and I've got a stain on the $1000 curtains. All the servants fault!
She looked up from her writing. "You know what you've done wrong. Explain to me. NOW!"
OOC: Remaining Players:
1. DanielofRedwall
2. Tiria Wildlough
3. Mad Maudie
4. Taggerung_of_Redwall
"My lady Tiria took your battery from your car I tried to stop her but she whacked me over the head with it and Daniel Spilled Coffee on your curtains Cause tiria tripped him as she knocked me out Your majesty!" Maudie said bowing "I only awoke when a servant came and told me we were wanted!"
'I am sorry, your majesty. The battery of the car was giving off heavy fumes, and I thought it would be best to take it out. When Maudie yelled at me to stop it, I had a fright, and I swung round and accidentally caught her on the head. I was trying to wake her up when DanielofRedwall came crashing into me with the coffee. I was trying to get the coffee stain off the curtain, but Taggerung_of_Redwall sneaked up behind me and poured the cleaning stuff all over me. It burned like everything, but ToR just laughed. He said everything was my fault. I apologize, majesty.'
"The neighboring tower burning down is both Maudie and ToR's fault. Maudie, who was panicking the whole time, said she swore she saw something move in your room. There wasn't but she said she would go to the neighboring tower to 'investigate'. Next thing we know, ToR was firing fire arrows at the tower. One hit a support or something, I don't know what, but Maudie just escaped in time before the tower burnt down. And with the coffee, it was cold and I needed it to concentrate. Next thing I know, as I was making my way to the window, when I crashed in to Tiria because she stopped suddenly in front of me. I apologize, my Queen."
OOC: Daniel, you contradicted me. I said that you crashed into me, but you said I jumped at you. Please fix that.
"I did see something your Majesty but i have not been sleeping well it could have been my Hallucination You know seeing things that are not there? when you do not sleep? and the reason i have not been sleeping well is Tor is going crazy with cleaning! My room has to be perfect and if i do not Clean it he will. and it is no use arguing with Tor. so i had to let him but vacuums are so noisy! I am sorry for not realizing i was Hallucinating Your Majesty, and when i yelled at tiria the battery was giving off gas i new that and i had called a NCRT (Nome car repair teem) to come fix it they said to leave it till they got here so i told tiria to leave it alone!"
"My Queen, the happenings in your absense are easily described as the result of a authoritarian regime-instigated by your 'servant' DanielofRedwall, lately known as Beaver Dictator of His Own Realm. The very day you left, an army of death-defying beavers were flying around overhead, shooting into the air and around the place, killing a total of six grass blades in the gardens. We had cows come in and chew everywhere to even it out. That was Maudie's idea. She simply hates grass. She became obsessed with clean, tidy and straight at that point. She insisted on perfection with her room. I voluntered, but then she said otherwise and refused to clean. But I kept on. The watch I kept fervently to, as Daniel saw to his affairs as then-dictator. Maudie was busy elsewhere, on various happenings. I alone took solemn duty to your task. The unfortunate events outside of my control happened as your servants have told them, but I can provide much needed details.
"After the beavers invaded, and hailed Daniel as Supreme Ruler of His Own Realm, as Ruler Daniel, or should we call him Traitor Daniel, named the place. The beavers never even landed, just kept firing and disrupting everything. Daniel was very strange to be around during the whole week. I heard mention of fire arrows from my bow, which I used to keep beavers away by putting holes in their drivable parachutes. The tower itself was set on fire by beavers' torches as Maudie was over there. Not sure why, probably dilusional. Aren't pyscholodgically unstable persons so irritable, and so defiant of following orders?
"Anyway, as the week went on, things took on a pattern. In the morning, beavers throw torches, then they threw hammers in the afternoon, and the cows Maudie ordered in the evening. She was busy with various tasks. Tiria was an absolute genius during the week, if my opinion is of any value.
"Back to the fire incident, one of my arrows did hit a support, taking out a beaver's parachute, with the beaver ready to throw a torch. The arrow burnt out, fortunately. Oh, and Daniel walked to your car, shouted out loud as absolute truth he wasn't a cow, and proceeded to destroy the battery. Then he placed Gykdgasdjfdgyfdfbdahgfiyadkugfyadifasyfasif, or as his friends affectionately call him, Gykdgasdjfdgyfdfbdahgfiyadkugfyadifasyfasi, for short, as head of Cow Air Force, and the beaver and Maudie worked to train them as an army. I believe she was in league."
"The problem with ToR's story is the one huge hole in it. I was brainwashed by the beavers mentioned. I think they wanted me to be seen in a bad light in the eyes of others for one reason or another. Really, all the beaver happenings were the beavers fault, but they didn't want to take the blame so they brainwashed me to make it seem like it was all my decision. The beavers throwing stuff- looked like it was under my control, but it was the beavers. Me fiddling with the battery- the beavers did it. I hate beavers."
OOC TOR you contradicted me i said you went crazy and you said i did not you
OOC: It has come to mind that the excuse of "I was brainwashed" has became all to popular. I think, why it may be a reason to explain things, it seems a little unfair. I shall add it to my rules for this round that brainwashing is to be forbidden from now on. Let's say my fairies cast a spell on you to make you un-brainwash-able. I will not ask to you to edit your post, but from now on remember this.
OOC: @Musician: Good way of handling it.
@Maudie: I just said "I kept on". No contradiction on me being crazy about cleaning.
OOC you said She went crazy with cleaning and everything had to be tidy when i said that about you and how i thought it annoying Just saying :) :) :)
OOC: That's definately fair Musician. I wasn't able to think of anything apart from that at the time. I'll probably edit my post anyway. Sorry about that.
"One of you has to be punished. That one is.." Here the queen wrote something large on a piece of paper. Holding it up she said, "DanielofRedwall! Congratulations you have one a trip to my new island Sales!" The paper had Daniel's name written on it.
Guards entered the room a dragged aways a confused Daniel.
"He's going by boat after he's been brainwashed yet again. Once on Sales he'll be put to work as a car washer. After a week of work he is to be imprisoned on a pirate ship. Too bad he had to be eliminated for me to see that I need to make peace with the beavers."
The next morning the queen called all her servants to the throne room for an assembly.
"I have decided not to put back up the tower which was unfortunately destroyed. Instead, that part of the land will be made into a spa for my friends, the death defying beavers.
"As some of you may know I am having a special project being worked on in Mexico. The project is a giant chocolate fountain, something the earth has very few of. Your mission is to go down to Mexico, taste the chocolate, grade it from 1 to 10, and come back here. You will be transported by giant butterflies, with certified professionals controlling them. I expect you back by tonight."
That evening the queen sat on her couch in the gardens, the sun slowly setting and the world getting dark every moment. She said, "You are all in much trouble. The entire chocolate fountain was destroyed! One of my sweet butterflies was captured! And to top is off, my secret tower got flooded with chocolate. Plus, I found out that some nosy reporters were interviewing ToR while he was at Mexico. Something about a robbery which involved a person called Maudie, which I have no doubt was Mad Maudie. And Tiria, you graded my chocolate 0 and fired a gun at a innocent monkey. Explain now!"
OOC: Remaining Players:
1. Tiria Wildlough
2. Mad Maudie
3. Taggerung_of_Redwall
"Lady, the interview I resisted as best I could. But they insulted you and your personage, so I had to correct them. The bank robbery was indeed committed by Mad Maudie, as you guessed. The explanation is, she pushed off the professional, and flew the butterfly to the bank to rob it. The butterfly was captured by a band of death-defying beavers, marching along and singing uproariosuly. They were very happy, and were being led by a strange short black-clothed man, and a green orb was being carried along with them.
"But anyway, I went and found Maudie and brought her back after she robbed the bank. I returned the stolen $12. When we got to the chocolate fountain, tiria tasted it, said a flat zero, and blew it up!"
"I could not believe her disregard. I and Maudie never tasted it, your majesty."
"M'lady the robbery well, I was kidnapped and they told me that if i did not rob a bank they would destroy your fountain i tried but the cops got there and arrested me i recognized one of the voices a tiria's m'lady she was a kidnapper i tried to save your fountain but the cops came so tiria distroyed it and as for the butterfly i had to get to the bank m'lady!'
'My lady, I tasted the chocolate and it had signs of beaver poison, which kills people slowly. I had to blow it up or hundreds of people would die! Then this monkey showed up, and it was playing with fireworks. I was going to simply knock him out to prevent him doing anymore damage, when ToR shoved a gun in my hands and said, 'Shoot him, or I'll make you eat every drop of chocolate!' I had to do it, or I would have died a horrible death. I tried to revive the monkey, but it was no use.
'As for me being a kidnapper, I think there is a misunderstanding. I was a kidnapper, but I deeply regretted it when they got Maudie. I was trying to persuade the kidnappers to let her go, but they didn't listen.'
"The monkey was a beaver minion in disguise, i saw him being briefed by beavers before running in for the fountain. Tiria is the best shot-I gave her the gun. And the monkey did not die, as Tiria seems a little worried about. Of course it couldn't die of course, it was a minion of the beavers, and they can grant 14 minutes and 38 seconds of temporary death-defyingness."
'Still, you didn't need to threaten me.'
OOC ? did you contradict me when i said you were not a kidnapper when i said you were?
OOC: OK, I'll change that.
OOC: did people forget this?
OOC: I apologize everyone. I've been sick and stuff, so I had some writer's block. I've got it though.
BIC:
The queen took a deep sigh. She should be mad, but she was too bored to be mad. It seemed something was missing from being overlady.
"I should behead each of you, but instead I want to hear your thoughts. What are some of the things you think I should do? What building should I build, what lands I should conquer, what inventions should I make? I've never asked a servant this before, so your the lucky ones. What should my next tasks be?"
OOC: Hope you've gotten better.
"To make sure you are respected Lady, and that you receive, from servants such as myself, the best service providable, for the betterment of your needs and what you have sway over. As for what lands you should conquer and what you should invent or what you should build, and what your next tasks should be, that is your decision, as it has always been. But you have asked for my advice, and I would say to do what would best benefit you."
"yes conquer if you wish do not if not but do what you want and what is best for your Majesty!'
'I think you should invent something that will eventually conquer. But if this idea does not suit you, do what you think is best, your majesty.'
The queen sat back a thought a second. "Interesting answers. The most interesting was Tiria's, invent something that will conquer. A giant rampaging robot? Sounds exciting! Yes, I will draw up plans for a robot. ToR, I think you are right. I should get the best possible service from my servants."
She reached to the side of her couch and pulled out a bow. She pulled back the string and loaded an arrow onto it. Looking down the arrow, finding her target, she said, "I wanted useful advice, and Maudie, you gave some I already knew. Run!"
But it was too late. The queen let the arrow loose, and it fell onto Maudie.
It had been weeks since the queen had called her servants. She had made a robot, which she watched with glee as it patrolled the plains, destroying weeds as it had been made to do. She was so delighted, but it seemed strange. The queen could have made it to destroy towns, but instead weeds?
She had been acting more strange then usual, visiting her secret tower more, growing her little rose bush, and not leaving the castle to go see to other matters. She finally, one morning very early, called Tiria and ToR to the outside of her secret tower.
"I have been thinking, and I see now I have only two servants. One of you will become the overlord. The other, their fate is known only to me."
Here she laughed crazily and opened her secret tower door.
"Inside is something I've kept hidden from the rest of the world. It is what made me queen and it is what keeps me from leaving. It is the dragon, Peeron. Go inside, slay it. I shall watch you from my security cameras. Whoever does the best shall become my successor."
The queen closed the door behind the servants. The room was darks and quiet, only a single lamp burned by the door. The staircase was ahead, and up the steps, in one of the empty rooms, was the dragon.
The next time they saw the queen, she was sitting outside the door, hunched over a TV screen. "He really is dead. And neither of you truly killed him. ToR was carrying the lamb because Tiria was hiding behind him the whole time. When you reached the third floor where the dragon was, you both hid in a corner. Unfortunately, ToR was shaking so bad he dropped the lamp on Tiria, setting her bottom on fire. She ran around the room trying to put it out. As the dragon came towards ToR, Tiria knocked over a bookshelf, and it fell on the dragon, crushing it. Quiet amusing, but still I don't know which of you did better. Based on this event, tell me why you deserve to be overlord."
OOC: Remaining Players
1. Tiria Wildlough
2. Taggerung_of_Redwall
OOC: Should there be an explanation scene starting with our return? Experimenting with live tasking in this game might prove...impossible
OOC: I suppose so. It comes to mind that you did a similar thing as your ending. I was just thinking you could do it as a role-play reply. But if is uncomfortable for you, I won't make you.
OOC: That was done by me, gamemaster, though, not players. It was different, but same format as the rest of the rounds.
OOC: Are we supposed to go in and fight the dragon? ???
OOC: Note quotes from the first round:Quote from: Captain Tammo on September 27, 2011, 09:34:11 PM
Captain Tammo gave a mad laugh then interrupted himself and made a sound that resembled a whale... Somewhat...
Then he made his way over to the first panel. Examining it, listening to it, sniffing it, and... Tasting it... He ran to the next one, And started dancing around it saying "hubaloo!". Shaking his head, he ran to the next one. This process continued for a couple more panels, then, he found the one he was looking for. Removing the panel, he found four things behind it, three were buttons. And one was Tammo's leftover baby back ribs from the night before at outback steakhouse; it was his birthday last night. Setting the ribs aside, he pushed the green button twice, the blue once, and the red *gasp!* 15 TIMES... Plus one ;D
After this was done, he replaced the panel, grabbed his leftovers, and went back to his spot on the floor, munching happily on his outback steakhouse ribs.
Quote from: DanielofRedwall on September 28, 2011, 10:23:40 AM
DanielofRedwall, naive as he was and not realising the danger he was in, happily stood in the middle of the room, fidgeting with his fingers. He then pulled out a banana he found in his pocket and snacked on it quitely. He didn't realise the guns had been disabled.
Role-Playing went on in that round. But I'm going to edit my other post.
OOC: I actually liked the atmosphere of the first game better than the rest. That roleplaying is just under what I coined 'game spam' in the rules. Not actual tasks. But if you're insistent, then you can try what you want.
OOC: No, I already edited the other post. Just re-read it and go off of that.
OOC: Sorry, missed that in your post until now.
"Queen, if I was Overlord, I would devise many great schemes and have new servants go off and do them. And above all, once I buy some place to rule from, I most certainly wouldn't walk in, look around and be betrayed by greenish orbs and a passing visitor who seems like he knows how to be an Overlord and seems to have an aura like you around him. I most certainly would not let that happen."
'My queen, if I became the Overlord, I would not let my servants bumble around and betray me. I would keep a firm hand on them, and not let them get away with things. I am not saying that you are incapable of doing that, (in fact, you have done excellently) but I'm just saying that I would do this. If I was Overlord, I would run my kingdom well and make sure no one was being brainwashed, attacked, or anything else.'
The queen yawned. She appeared tired and somewhat bored. "I think Tiria is more deserving of position of overlord. Why? Because she caught on fire while fighting the dragon while ToR didn't. You're dismissed ToR." Suddenly a loud shake came from the tower. Knowing exactly what would happen, the queen grabbed Tiria's arm and jumped out of the way. The tower fell down and crushed ToR.
Gasping for breath, the once mighty and intimidating queen said, "You must do this occupation well. You'll have to establish a new castle though. For soon the whole palace will be as this tower." She gestured towards the fallen tower, which was now rocks and dust. "I know you'll do what you think is best. I myself don't care what you do, for now I can finally follow my dream."
She watched as Tiria looked around at the place that was to be her kingdom. When Tiria turned to thank the queen, she was gone.
There were many different stories told around capmfires and at bedtime about where the queen disappeared to. Some said she went to live with her friends or that she became a wealthy merchant. But the most popluar story went as so:
After leaving the kingdom she came across three poor folks. One was blinded, another was crazy, and the third cared for them. She was enchanted by the way the lived and how the one was able to care for the other two. She was also facsinated by the blinded one, so smart and young, but without sight. The queen bought worn clothes and lived among the poor group, not ever telling who she was or where she came from. The once queen never again visited the kingdom or saw that one named Tiria, but she lived forever in peace.
No one knew if that story was true or who had told it. But whiether it was true or not, the queen's reign had come to a somewhat simple end.
OOC: So there you have it folks! Congrats to Tiria, our new overlord (overlady, whatever you call it). I hope most everyone enjoyed it, even if it did take some time for me to post this ending. I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to play. I know I'm defenitly not the best overlord and maybe my stlye was different. But all the same, it was fun and I'm glad I got to do it.
Nice job with this round Musician! Good luck with the next round Tiria!
Yeah. I'll start it soon.