Overlord's Orders XII

[LT Sandpaw]

OOC: that's cool, I suppose all's fair in love and war. BTW Jasper when do need the poems praising a certain deer?

[James Gryphon]

OOC: Sent mine in.

[LT Sandpaw]

OOC: Seriously that was fast!

[Jasper]

James Gryphon

O dear Jasper deer master
It compels me to say
faster than blasters
your hooves move to-day.

Your majestic frame, mighty it be,
puts to shame any who slight thee.
Eyes seeing all, mind shining bright,
will see what is wrong and set it all right.

Great in size, great in mind,
greatly wise and great with hind.
Antlers sharp as swords and long as spears,
drive all wrong to roar in fear.

Unbeatable in all you do,
we all aspire to be like you.
O Jasper so great who art afar
please come to us and rule as Czar.


LT Sandpaw



"Next to our Dasher?"
"He is definitely faster."
"Challenged by Donner?"
"Man, Donner's a goner,"
"Out loved by Cupid?"
"That is leveled at stupid."
"Over shot by Prancer?"
"It's like he's a dancer."
"Ever seen Dancer? "
"No point to answer."
"Friendly as Blitzen?"
"He will easily mix in."
"Powerful as Comet?"
"He's easily Dominate."
"Brave as Vixen?"
"He's never chicken."
"According to you he is greater,
Then all of the eight tiny reindeer.
But better is he,
Then the one of our dreams.
Great Rudolph the king of all deer?"
"Of course I do,
And many others do too.
Red-nosed is no match for his sheen,
Can poor Rudolph's nose... glow green?"

"Hmmm... Both are very strong submissions. I will consult the great reindeer version of me. "

...Later

"Well gentle-elves, I have a decision. Jasper Claus dramatically walked to his board of levers. One of you will soon get the opportunity to travel wherever you want - likely you will become an Overlord wherever you go.

Honestly I am quite glad to be rid of you. There are worldwide searches for the ones responsible for the catastrophes of late, and the sooner you are gone the better.

I must admit this wasn't what I envisioned when all of this got star..." *BOOM*

A massive explosion rocked the factory, and dozens of figures in black poured in. Bullets ricocheted around the factory. Jasper yanked a lever hastily, removing the bonds restraining Sandpaw and Gryphon. He tossed each of them guns and began waving his hands at the opening. Huge blasts of ice screamed and crunched, and several dark figures went down.

"Don't worry, I haven't traveled around the universes for nothing! I can handle this! However, no one will be safe when I unleash everything I've got! I've set up a dimension shifter in the office! Get over there fast! Only one can pass through, my best luck to you both!"

Sandpaw and James began sprinting for the room. A stray shot hit James in the shoulder and he went down. Sandpaw hesitated and then ran back for him. With much effort, both elves made the office. The shifter was like a large potato. Just big enough for one to fit in. Sandpaw and James looked at each other in horror. Each gestured for the other to go, and as they delayed, the factory walls began to ice over, and shuddered. The reindeer that had been called stood on two legs in the corner of the room, leaning against the wall. Apparently he was completely unconcerned about the current situation. He noticed their turmoil and laughed.

"Jasper never mentioned the punishment for failing." He nodded towards a sparking portal next to him. "For you to pass, one of you must jump in here. It disrupts the dimensions and allows another to pass through. I'm fairly certain the one who does that dies. We've been throwing in monkeys, but in the absence of any... well, I'm sure you get the idea."

Sandpaw opened his mouth to speak when a blinding light flashed and the portal vanished, James had jumped through!

He turned to the reindeer, but he just smiled, and gestured towards the potato-shifter.

Sandpaw shook his head and climbed in. A small universe opened up before him. The planets were all at his grasp, all he has to do was touch one. He reached out and... Well, that's another story for another time.

[Jasper]

I hope you have all enjoyed this round of Overlord's Orders! I know it wasn't quite as good as it may have been with someone more adequate running the show, but I like to think it was good enough!

I followed the example of James in making the random number generator decide the winner. One player did have a higher chance of winning, and I hope you are all happy with the end result. 

I hope to join you in some future round, but for now, I think my time here is over and done.

You both have my congratulations and best wishes for the future.

Sincerely:

~Jaspa~ 

[LT Sandpaw]

I win!!! I sure hope I did otherwise I'm going to look like a fool, but yay! Good Game James, Soren, and Delthion and everyone else!

[Hickory]

When is the next one made? I really want to join...

[LT Sandpaw]

I'm not too sure how it works but I think I'm the next Overlord so I create the next one, I'll make sure with James before I do however.

[James Gryphon]

You won; OOXIII is yours.

I think this past round was one of the best ever -- Jasper's reign was a breath of fresh air for everyone. He learned from the mistakes of past Overlords, brought a lot of new ideas to the game, and made it so that anybody could pick it up and play. The ending definitely caught me off guard; writing a poem was a unique challenge, something that we haven't seen the likes of for a long time.

Also congratulations to other players; I was happy with the final four, and felt like we got a lot of good contributions from everyone.

Finally, a couple of my favorite quotes not written by me from the round:

James told me I wasn't being convincing and to use my "girl skills" to get the oafs to wear the skins. I attempted this, commenting on how "utterly cute" they would be in polar bear skins.

When I realized something must be done, I tryed to get away and get help from the people outside. When I ran out, I was yelling and screaming for them to help stod Del from whatever he was planning. But they all of they sudden turned and sayed "Yes, sir!" very loudly and started doing push ups! I tryed to stop them, but Del had ran out and started yelling to do more push ups.

[LT Sandpaw]

This one was my personal favorite I couldn't stop laughing when I read this

"Let me do my fellow servants a favor and paraphrase what they said. 'OOOH OOOH IT'S ALL JAMES FAULT OOOK OOK EEK EEK.'"

[Hickory]

Yes, same here.

[Delthion]

Good game LT!

[SilentSam]

Yay! Good Job LT! Hehe James we did say that.   we did want to eliminate you early, so it would be easier later on. It didn't work.  

[Delthion]

Mainly due to my selfish ambition to attempt to have a duel with Gryphon at the end. I apologize comrades...

[James Gryphon]

I understood the logic, it was just a little frustrating at the time when it seemed like every post was attacking me. Fortunately, that frustration motivated a creative response.

That said, though, the thing about OO is that a great player can find a way out of any accusation. When you go after a guy like that, he'll just find a way to turn it back against you. After I got over my writer's block, the main trouble I had was fitting my defense into 750 words (I didn't count, but I think y'all used considerably more than that pinning blame on me) .