Overlord's Orders - Forum 10th Anniversary Special

[Matthias720]

Well we haven't had one of these in a long time, so now is the perfect excuse to have a round of Overlord's Orders.

What is Overlord's Orders? To quote from the rules below:

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 phase.
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.

The main concept is to have everyone fail in hilarious ways, and the Overlord punishes (eliminates) the weakest player at the end of each phase. You win (or at least avoid losing) by shifting the blame onto someone else, and odds are you will have blame placed on you. Who will win? That's for me to decide (and by decide, I mean I will determine who failed the least at the end of the game.

This is a whole ton of fun, as I'm sure @DanielofRedwall will attest. This round will be a tad different from previous rounds, as it is intended to be a one off, though I wouldn't be surprised if this caught on again. The way this will work is that starting now, anyone can sign up to play. I will close the game to new players signing up and post the starting phase on Saturday, June 12th. I will be STRICTLY ending each phase and starting the next one on Tuesdays and Saturdays, sometime in the late afternoon/early evening US EST. The game should (hopefully) run through the end of the month.

I am also giving this round a special theme. In honor of our 10th anniversary, we will be playing in an alternate universe version of the forum. The players will be the forum "staff" and I will be the evil Overlord. ... Admin? ... Overmin? ... Adlord? I'll work on it. Anyway, please treat this like a meta RP about the forum. It'll make sense once the game starts. Please reply stating your intention to participate. Again, sign-up will only last until June 12th, so join in the fun ASAP!

I've listed the rules below, sourced from a previous round, along with a list of previous rounds. If you are unfamiliar with Overlord's Orders, I'd highly recommend reading through at least 2 different rounds to get a feel for how things work. I will be keeping to the forum theme though, so please avoid from in-person style shenanigans unless you are RPing living in the same location as another player.

I look forward to playing with all of you! ^_^ And once again, Happy Anniversary!

The Rules

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 phase.
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.

Game terminology:
"Game" or "round" refers to each individual, distinct game (OO I, OO II, etc.).
"Phase" refers to an individual segment of the game.
So: Each round consists of several phases, with a diminishing count of player from phase to phase.

Example Phase:
Let%u2019s 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 happen; no one 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%u2019s orders. The idea is to not be this person, and to survive as long as possible.

Don't overflow the phase. 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.
The servants are not aware of the Overlord's personal name, or of events that took place in previous rounds, unless the Overlord states otherwise.
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.

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Previous Rounds

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%u2019s 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
Overlord's Orders XV - Soren the Warrior
Overlord's Orders XVI - Mhera, James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders XVII - Izeroth
Overlord's Orders Special Round II - James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders XVIII - James Gryphon
Overlord's Order XIX - Jasper

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Players:
@Scott McLamok
@Verdauga
@Captain Wortshire
@DanielofRedwall
@Booklover
@lass of something much
@Ally046
@Russa Nodrey
@Cornflower MM

--Sign-up Closed--

I've started phase 1. It will run until June 15th.
Phase 1 has finished. Phase 2 will run until June 19th.
Phase 2 has finished. Phase 3 will run until June 22nd.
Phase 3 has finished. Phase 4 will run until June 26th.
Phase 4 has finished. Phase 5 will run until June 29th.
Phase 5 has finished. Phase 6 will run until July 3rd.

[Scott McLamok]

Kewl, sign me up!

[Verdauga]

I'll join too!

Unless staff are prohibited.

[Matthias720]

I'll join too!

Unless staff are prohibited.

Staff are actively encouraged to join. I'm especially talking about you, @DanielofRedwall

[Scott McLamok]

Lol

[Captain Wortshire]

Sign me up...

[DanielofRedwall]

I'll join too!

Unless staff are prohibited.

Staff are actively encouraged to join. I'm especially talking about you, @DanielofRedwall

You know me too well. I am absolutely in.

[Booklover]

Sounds interesting. I think I'll join.

[Sebias of Redwall]

I might just read this one, but this seems like a really fun idea. *Thumbs up*

[lass of something much]

I'll join!

[Ally046]

I will... accept your offer.

[Russa Nodrey]

This was a lot of fun back in the day. I'm in.

Jukka is still married to Matt Damon.

[Matthias720]

We are at eight player, currently. Anyone else joining? The game starts in less than 24 hours...

[Cornflower MM]

*Raises hand* I shall fail spectacularly!

[Matthias720]

*Raises hand* I shall fail spectacularly!

Wonderful! It shall be as magnificent as an eagle skating on a buttered sidewalk!

(My mind is a strange place. Don't question the odd metaphors.)