Overlord's Orders XVII

[Izeroth]

The truck rumbles along a road filled with potholes and barbwire. In the surrounding wasteland, you see the burnt-out shells of military vehicles and the strange, ethereal glow of thermal radiation. Listening closely, you can hear the faint sound of artillery firing in the distance.

Your vehicle comes to a halt. The driver barks an order; you and the rest of the servants climb out of the truck. In the distance, a huge fortress looms. You have no choice but to begin walking towards it.

As you trudge towards your potential doom, you begin to wonder why this job offer originally looked so appealing.

Welcome, servants, to the seventeenth round of Overlord's Orders! This is a sign-up thread; for questions/comments, consult the commentary.

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 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 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

This round is not connected to any of the previous ones. (Or is it?)

Sign-ups:
1. James Gryphon (The early bird)
2. Lady Amber (Second to first)
3. Skyblade (Fourth time's a charm)
4. Lt. Sandpaw (The long-patroller)
5. Sagetip the hare (The empire's tribute)
6. Vilu Daskar (The coarse corsair)
7. Banya (The seventh servant)
8. Silentsam (The doubter)
9. Matthias720 (The moderator)
10. Cornflower MM (The late arrival)
11: DanielofRedwall (The other moderator)
12: Lord_Ashenwyte (The very late arrival)

[James Gryphon]

I'm in.

[Lady Amber]

I guess I'll give it another shot.

[Søren]

Question: Will this round in fact have a time limit?

[James Gryphon]

By "this round", do you mean each individual phase?

[Søren]

No, I mean Overlords Orders Round 17.

[Skyblade]

I'm in.

[LT Sandpaw]

Cool beans I made it to the sign ups. I'm in.

[Izeroth]

Question: Will this round in fact have a time limit?

Not exactly. However, each phase of this round will have a maximum limit of two weeks.

[Hickory]

I volunteer as tribute.

[Søren]

Question: Will this round in fact have a time limit?

No. However, each phase of this round will have a maximum limit of two weeks.

I see. I'm afraid I won't be joining this one after all.

[Vilu Daskar]

I'm in.

[Banya]

I'll join.

[LT Sandpaw]

How's it coming Overlord Izeroth?

[Izeroth]

 Edit: the round will begin on Monday, November 9th.