Overlord's Orders: Holiday Special

[Redwaller]

I can explain about the elephant thing. We had forgotten what a limo was, and so we went to the nearest store and asked for a limo, but then DanielofRedwall said that the elephant must be a limo. So he took it and glued it to my head.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"Honestly, so far anyway, you lot have been doing a better job with limos than a certain incident I remember. But I haven't heard any full story-would Skipper and DanielofRedwall like to enlighten me more?"

[DanielofRedwall]

OOC: Whoops, forgot about this! >.< I'll make a reply now.

BIC: Daniel cleared his throat. "Redwaller certainly didn't give the full story. The reason I put an elephant on his head was simple. We went in to a store and asked for a limo. The store clearly said "LIMOS" out the front. Apparently, the store's owner was named Limo. So, we entered, and nothing really looked like a limo. But the store owner locked the door and started throwing stuff at us, making us but them. I caught sight of an actual limo in the store, and shouted "That must be a limo!" and tried to walk towards it. However, the owner threw an elephant at me (don't know how he managed that), and I dropped it. Luckily I managed to shrink it before it broke Redwaller's neck. However, it did land on his head (quite a lot smaller). For some reason it had been glued at the bottom, and it stuck to his head. So, while I did "put it there", it wasn't on purpose. We eventually made our way over to the limo and asked to purchase it. He said it was not for sale, and made us buy what we had. These things we had were a screwdriver and an elaborate chair. By the time we eventually escaped, the actual limo dealer was closed. I'm sorry we failed you, Lord."

[Skipper]

Everything Daniel said is true master. But As he owner was distracted I took the keys and hopped into the limo I was almost out of the shop when Daniel spilled some sharp pins by the counter witch burst the tires.

[Redwaller]

OOC: Whoops, forgot about this! >.< I'll make a reply now.

BIC: Daniel cleared his throat. "Redwaller certainly didn't give the full story. The reason I put an elephant on his head was simple. We went in to a store and asked for a limo. The store clearly said "LIMOS" out the front. Apparently, the store's owner was named Limo. So, we entered, and nothing really looked like a limo. But the store owner locked the door and started throwing stuff at us, making us but them. I caught sight of an actual limo in the store, and shouted "That must be a limo!" and tried to walk towards it. However, the owner threw an elephant at me (don't know how he managed that), and I dropped it. Luckily I managed to shrink it before it broke Redwaller's neck. However, it did land on her head (quite a lot smaller). For some reason it had been glued at the bottom, and it stuck to his head. So, while I did "put it there", it wasn't on purpose. We eventually made our way over to the limo and asked to purchase it. He said it was not for sale, and made us buy what we had. These things we had were a screwdriver and an elaborate chair. By the time we eventually escaped, the actual limo dealer was closed. I'm sorry we failed you, Lord."

I'm not a her, I'm a him. 

[DanielofRedwall]

OOC: My apologies, just a typo. I'll fix that up once I reply to Skipper's accusation.

BIC: "Yes, I did spill pins on the floor. However, the only reason I did was because Redwaller knocked me over. He seemed pretty excited to see a snowglobe, and pushed me away on his rush to get it. I fell back on to the counter and accidentally knocked the pins over, and the limo drove over them."

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"And now begins the End!" the Overlord shouted. "Redwaller, if you wanted to see a snowglobe, you should have just asked me during the Christmas season-I would have let you leave for a few days. But not now, or rather then, since it's a different time now-or at least it is here. But before any of your puny minds break with trying to understand that, I'll be dismissing, say, Redwaller, from my midst."

A flash of purple went out from the room, followed by the sound of the loudest clank any of them had ever heard, and  distant crashing and explosions. Though he did not show it, the Overlord realized something terrible and unintended had happened, and decided he best proceed quickly. As for the servants, it was nothing out of the ordinary. Redwaller, however, did not hear anything, since he was gone, apparently downwards, given the hole in the floor where he had been standing.

The Overlord did not dismiss the remaining servants, as he normally did after a mission briefing. He went on talking, faster than usual.

"So two of you left. Pardon me if I begin a short monologue- you see, I've been awfully tired of acquiring and utilizing servants and not speaking more than a few words now and again. You both have proved the most capable of all and any eliminations have not been the product of cruelty. No, I needed the most capable, and quickly. You lot served the purpose. I've, hopefully not to the harm of the universe, set some factors in motion so far since my glorious fifteen years since return. Much greater than the task one of you will perform tonight. And you will likely never hear of my triumph, but if you do, brag and brag on of your role in delivering my letter from O. Lear. Tiria Wildlough was a good servant, if not for cop calling and running my attempt at getting a limo for my fancies. Or Leatho Shellhound, the fruit blind servant. You know, Corporal Squash was a smart man. Even if he was punished for failing me, he made a smart move deserting. He might have led you lot into the beaver's command center where I wanted you to go, but I didn't expect him to go so far in hiding his true identity, as a double agent of the beavers. I will benefit very well from what he accomplished against the beavers, accidentally destroying the station while he betrayed me, and will laugh long over his failure to harm me.
"You both missed all of that fun. However, I have no need of two servants who served me on that mission. You would probably have figured that out soon enough. Or then again, knowing my luck with servanty, probably not. Two buttons on this control panel-one blue, one red. See them? Of course not, you cannot approach. But no matter, one of you choose which one you think leads to teleportation to earth, and if you're right, you get it. If you're wrong, you go to the hibernation chamber where you can stay for a few millennia, and the other will get the teleportation to Earth. Not pleasant, waking up and losing all of your life thousands of years in the future. So, what'll it be, servants? First one to respond gets his claim, and the other button to the other."

"Yes, I want to reward one of you for the efforts you've all went through, but have only one contact out in the universe free from my gaze. Note that you'll still be accompanying me to Times Square, where the orb has been piloting to all this time and has just arrived over the South Pole, to get me anything I might request for a few hours more until a new Earth year begins. And they best be busy and not try and help anyone while they're on their planet, since so many there need it. Being busy would be a terrible excuse for doing the right thing. You know, otherwise I'd take out all this batch of servants like the last twenty groups of servants. One servant a little longer. Choose wisely. And feel special-but don't get any ideas of thievery."

[DanielofRedwall]

OOC: My puny mind broke while trying to understand that. O__O

BIC: "I choose the blue button, My Lord," said Daniel.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

"DanielofRedwall, blue is your salvation." The Overlord pushed the blue button, and Daniel vanished instantly. He was gone, to finish his last bit of service to the Overlord before forever exiting it to a new life.

"To earth, he'll be there immediately to await my arrival in a few days. As for you, Skipper, I'll be pushing red."
The button stuck. The Overlord shoved his weight against it repeatedly, to no avail. "No, this isn't right."
The Overlord kicked the control panel and shattered his left boot. "Fine, I'll finish this otherwise. Skipper, you're destined for just leaving thanks to a button's malfunction. Have fun on some random planet I teleport you to. Shame about the red-button fate I designed."

Skipper vanished after the Overlord tapped the blue button on the control panel. Only to reappear and fall on top of the Overlord. The throne's back cracked in half, leaving the two to tumble onto the floor. The floor broke, cracking in half. The left side of the room fell into a vast recess below after the ceiling and both walls cracked in the same area. On the right, the Overlord and Skipper sat and stared out. Vast emptiness made up all of the rest of the sphere, except the small quarters utilized by the servants and the Overlord, and what remained of this room. These were seen as a collection of chambers and walkways suspended in the sphere. A great creaking began, seeming to emanate from the entire sphere.

It was miles to the end of the sphere from their position. "The gravity of this chamber will fail, and the room will plummet below steadily," the Overlord breathed. "We're on Earth now though."

The Overlord pulled himself up and rushed to hit the gravity button for the floor in that chamber. He could survive the gradual fall he saw coming if he was locked in place like his servants always were. He swung his hand at it, and to his delight it worked. Skipper stuck to the floor's surface. The Overlord's mouth dropped as he looked out and down. The gravity was only ever enabled for servants, he now remembered. He made sure to get rid of the features allowing non-servants being affected. The half of the room that still survived fell twenty feet down. The servants' quarters and facilities of the Overlord, a vast network of rooms and corridors all visible, plummeted to their destruction miles below.

"I knew I should have abandoned buttons." The Overlord said. The chamber fell another 10 feet. The Overlord bounced up and returned to hit the floor with a bang, and clung onto Skipper, who was half-standing. He screeched, but the chamber fell a few hundred feet more in a whirlwind, and by then the Overlord had been swept off and left behind the artifical gravity-failing half-room chamber, but somehow mysteriously vanished after flying out. The chamber continued to fall a few score feet over time, and after two hours, it came to rest on the sloping bottom of the globe. Skipper grabbed a rock from their pocket and threw it to disable the control panel that controlled gravity.

Skipper stood at the very bottom of the sphere, it sloping up on all sides. The wreckage of all the chambers was scattered around, smoke and fire distorting vision. Using the same rock, Skipper banged a hole in the bottom of the sphere. He was dumbfounded. The outside of the sphere was paper-thin, and painted bright purple on the outside. He fit himself through the hole, and hung three feet from the ground of a frozen wasteland. They hopped down, and gazed up to see the sphere was completely purple, and luminescent. He shook his head, and began walking off. Skipper was dressed warmly; he'd easily get back to civilization. And the secret of the orb was over, as it fell and crashed into the ice when he reached a safe distance. The single question in his mind was if that crafty Overlord had died and finished with his career yet.

And of course, something was snug in his/her pocket: an invitation from O. Lear, short for Overlord Lear. Regardless of whether the Overlord was still about, he would not have possession of the letter whose convention address he had been intent to hide. It simply wouldn't do to have the whole universe showing up at the convention.

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And that concludes a moderately well time-managed round of Overlord's Orders, complete with holiday theme...

Like, or not like? Criticism? Praise? Cookies?

I did a few things different this round than my previous or anyone else's. For one, I had a lot more storyline than any previous, and also decided to make my Overlord recurring, and brought back his personality. Also, I produced no clear winner (alike to the first round). You might consider Daniel the winner, or Skipper, or both, in their own different situations. The third, most noteworthy difference is my basis of elimination. I used more than one, using both the standard perception and decision model a few times, and a three category system a few times, which I will explain and evaluate.

This three category system utilized the following categories of scoring. Each had a possible score of 1 to 5:
1. Creativity
-I looked for clever replies that brought creativity to the game. The more creative, the more points.
2. Understandability
-This does not apply to something like, for example, HiAG's Liatakelander (sp) speech. It is measured in terms of if I could figure out what the player was talking about, and how well they articulated their innocence and another's fault. Taking the time to describe the events goes a long way in allowing me to understand what the player is saying happened in the mission. Sometimes replies were so short they contributed very little to the mission. Grammar was not directly measured, but did tend to correlate with worse scores.
3. Interactions
-Interaction measures how well a player follows up on someone else's weave, defense or accusation. Replies should play along with the story, not be generic isolated replies.

The highest score I gave out was 12, which I did thrice, out of a possible 15.
If future Overlords wish to utilize this system or a derivative, they are welcome. It was not the only one I used. For one elimination, it even came to Daniel's choice of button color. Which, by the way, a hint of sorts was given during the game.


Matthias' will be starting his second round of Overlord's Orders soon enough I imagine. I will be playing that and look forward to it.

[Tam and Martin]

Good job everyone who played!

[Redwaller]

Good game! 

[Leatho Shellhound]

Well done every one.....I am glad I wasn't one of the winners because I didn't deserve it.

[DanielofRedwall]

Nicely done round Tagg, cookies for you! Yeah, if I become Overlord again I think I'll adopt a system like yours, maybe with a few changes. Now I'm going to try find this "hint" about the button colour you spoke of... I just picked my favourite colour.

[Tam and Martin]

And good job to Skipper too.I was eaten by Turkeys 

[Romsca]

When's the next one?