And so (after a long and unnecessary hiatus) it begins....QuoteThe 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.
Don't overflow the round. Player defenses will be judged on quality, not length or frequency.
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:Overlord's Orders 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 WildloughOverlord'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
Overlord's Orders XV - Soren the Warrior
Overlord's Orders XVI- Mhera,
James Gryphon Though our "story" is set after the events of the original Overlord's Orders XVII, this is more or less a clean slate. Anyone can sign up for this round.
Sign-ups:1: Trigoma
2: Jasper
3: James Gryphon
4: Groddil
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The discussion thread is here (http://www.loamhedgeabbey.com/index.php/topic,512.0.html). Please use this for all OOC talk after the game starts.
I'll be the first to sign up Iz. ;)
I'm going to join!
I'm joining.
Here.
I'll join.
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I would like to give this a try
Sign me up.
@Fatch of Southsward Hi! I'm Søren. Nice to meet you! If you'd like a more formal introduction (and get more traffic), check out the Introduction Thread (http://www.loamhedgeabbey.com/index.php/topic,4.0.html)!
Welcome to Loamhedge!
GRYPHON!!! HOST THIS!!! YOU WERE REALLY GOOD AT THE ONLY ONE THAT YOU HOSTED THAT I PARTICIPATED IN!!! ;D
Could I host, maybe?
@Grods: Well, the tradition is (ever since OO2) that the previous winner, or a substitute of their choice, is supposed to do it.
@All: I've talked to Izzy about this, and he's said it's right around the corner. Hopefully he'll find the time to get this going in the next couple of days.
Is it too late for me to join?
And me?
Quote from: James Gryphon on August 16, 2016, 06:39:08 AM
@Grods: Well, the tradition is (ever since OO2) that the previous winner, or a substitute of their choice, is supposed to do it.
@All: I've talked to Izzy about this, and he's said it's right around the corner. Hopefully he'll find the time to get this going in the next couple of days.
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Yippie!
What the heck, if Iz is still taking people, I'd give it another shot. :)
You did win that one time when it was you vs Del vs me. ;D
Sooo...?
I guess a good first step to starting this game would be to see how many of the registrants are still inclined to play, and whether there's anybody else who'd like to sign up to take the place of any people that're gone.
Izza is no longer registered. How many of the rest of you are still interested?
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@Sand: I got people's confirmations the first time; please quit doing that.
Aye.
Aye, stop or aye, you're in? ;)
Aye = I.
Aye am in.
I'm still in.
I'll try to join this time :)
I'm still in.
I'm in!
I got in touch with Izzy earlier today; turns out he's been sick lately.
I've proposed doing a "special round", like Tagg's, where the finalist won't necessarily make succession; I'm pleased to say that he's signed off on that. I'll make the thread as soon as possible; I think I already have an idea for the plot, so hopefully it won't take too long.
When Izzy's ready, this thread can be used for the continuation of our regularly scheduled game.
Is anyone still up for this? I understand that the wait between this round and the previous ones has been exceedingly long--probably significantly longer than all the other periods between rounds combined--but I don't want to pronounce this thread dead just yet.
If enough people are still interested, I'll start this round on June 1st. If not, the title of Overlord will go to James Gryphon by default so future historians will blame him instead or a chosen successor of his.
We still have the old thread up, from the RAFC. Do we want to continue from where we left off there? I know that a good number (not all, but a good chunk) of the players we had signed up are still alive today.
Too late to join? If not, sign me up :3
Quote from: James Gryphon on May 16, 2017, 04:01:59 AM
We still have the old thread up, from the RAFC. Do we want to continue from where we left off there? I know that a good number (not all, but a good chunk) of the players we had signed up are still alive today.
I considered doing that, but it seemed difficult to continue the round in a fluid manner after such a long time, and I wasn't really sure where to start narrative-wise. I'll make a poll in the OOC discussion (in the Cellars) on whether we should resurrect the original thread, though, so everyone can provide input.
Quote from: Trigoma on May 16, 2017, 10:26:42 AM
Too late to join? If not, sign me up :3
The deadline is June 1st, so you're right on time.
I'm in for any game of Overlord's Orders. I don't really mind who is leading it or anything, just as long as it happens! :)
Fatch will likely be back around any day now, by the way. He will be more than happy to take part.
The majority of people voted to hold a new game, and therefore the new round will be held in this thread. I've pushed the starting date back a little, so the round will begin on June 10th. If you would like to join, please sign up before then.
K.
Due to a lack of enough sign-ups, this round will be postponed indefinitely. James Gryphon is the new Overlord.
@James Gryphon I can speak for myself and Fatch. We will both participate if you are willing to start a new thread.