Buckwheat Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Everybody, welcome to the 29th edition of telephone pictionary! A special thank you for all the previous hosts of this game, especially queen Pebble, who hosted the last, holiday-themed edition. The registry of all the results from the previous games can be found here. Obligatory viewing if you are feeling blue! For the inexperienced players: this is a very friendly, fun game, and we promise we do not bite. Here are the standard rules: Game flow Spoiler Everyone signed up should start by PMing me with a sentence. Please title your PM's as '*board name* - Pictionary' or something similar to help me keep track of everything. If you already have a PM chain with me, you can use that regardless of the title. When the game starts, each of the original sentences will be sent out to a different player. This player will have approximately 72 hours (3 days) to draw the sentence and send me a PM with a link to the picture. At the end of those 72 hours, the sentence will be sent to a third person, who hasn't seen anything from that chain before. This person will have approximately 48 hours to send in a sentence summarizing the picture. If you cannot meet a deadline, please notify me as soon as you've received the sentence (or picture) - or, better yet, tell me before you receive one. I will find somebody else and send it there. I will also do this automatically if you have not completed the round by the deadline (usually 72 hours for pictures and 48 hours for sentences). Somebody who consistently fails to meet deadlines will be kicked out of the game at my discretion. Especially somebody who doesn't announce that they cannot meet a deadline beforehand. I will update this opening post to indicate what round we are on and when deadlines are. Picture/sentence standards Spoiler Any drawing program - Photoshop, Flash, MS Paint - will do. Drawing pictures by hand and scanning/taking a photo of them will also do. Basically, anything will do as long as I can see it. Having said that, please draw everything from scratch. You can use Google Images as a reference, but don't paste other people's pictures into your own. In images, words are completely banned! Letters and symbols are allowed/banned at my discretion. But try not to use them except when absolutely vital. Please don't intentionally mislead anybody. Do the most accurate non-legalistic picture that you can. The chain will find a way to mutate anyway. Pictures shouldn't be too small, which basically means as long as I can see them and they can be viewed in their entirety on one page, you're fine. Pictures should be the right way up (this may seem obvious but weird things have happened, most hosting sites can rotate pictures, and most image viewing software can too.) Photographs are best saved as JPGs; otherwise, if in doubt, you should probably save as a PNG. Do not save as a BMP under any circumstances or I'll have to ask you to reformat it before sending it onward, and nobody wants that. If you're using MS paint, remember to save your pictures as .jpg NOT keep the .bmp saving. Please be mindful of where you upload your pictures to. Tinypic deletes its pictures without warning. Imgur is probably your best bet (imgur.com). Link to the photo. Not the Gallery. When you upload, don't save it under a name that will hint at its origins. This is something else that you'll need to reformat over. Okay, on to sentences. Keep it to one sentence and don't be too legalistic about what you are summarizing. When you describe a picture, the general idea is more important than the specifics. Miscellaneous Spoiler Please don't talk to other players about the sentences/pictures you got. If somebody tells you anything about a chain you haven't seen yet, please let me know. If you haven't sent a link in within 48 hours (but not the full 72), I might send you a prod (might if I remember). Other actions may be taken if you're inactive for the full round. Please use 1 PM conversation for this game, otherwise my PM cannot hold a new conversation for every turn and/or thoughts on the game. Here is a new rule for everybody: you might have noticed that since the board software update, pictures sometimes get embedded instead of the post just showing the link. I ask that you would make sure you are sending the link, not the picture. If somebody finds a way to make absolutely sure the links do not change into pictures once you post, please let us all know. You can do that by putting a character (preferably a dot) before the link. Thank you for this information, BB. Players: (bolded have finished their task for the round) BB-Rhae BlackBear Emmit Lany Freelove Strangeways Queen Pebble Rocksniffer TitanCat Turinqui-Calima Sword of Mutilation Replacements: HelenaExMachina Bonus chains are available as soon as you have submitted your assignment for the current round. Current deadline: NOW! Please lets keep this one at least kind-of-appropriate for children and Harry-Potter-free. Yes, this includes you, Rocksniffer. Have a fun game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 You can sign me up as a stand-in Buck. And I may pop by to ask for a bonus chain if I have time. But after this week I probably won't be able to commit to a full game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanCat Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I'm in!And excited for the no-Harry Potter rule! I wonder who will take his place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Here is a new rule for everybody: you might have noticed that since the board software update, pictures sometimes get embedded instead of the post just showing the link. I ask that you would make sure you are sending the link, not the picture. If somebody finds a way to make absolutely sure the links do not change into pictures once you post, please let us all know.Put a character before the link, a full stop was what I used when the update first hit. Example: .http://i.imgur.com/YYW84f3.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmit Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I am in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'm in!And excited for the no-Harry Potter rule! I wonder who will take his place!Probably GRRM or Loras Tyrell. Put a character before the link, a full stop was what I used when the update first hit. Example: .http://i.imgur.com/YYW84f3.pngGreat, thank you! Will edit in the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turinqui-Calima Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'm in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Queen Pebbles is in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksniffer Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 in like flint.... feeling more flintishness coming onand i get it no full monty, no harry potter, safe for work, school, and the vatican.......of course there no guessing how my sentence may be interpreted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Bump. I am still looking for players. New players are always welcome, we promise we do not bite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 BlackBear. Lany. TitanCat. Starting sentences would be opportune now. New players? Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Chains are ready, I am just waiting for two more sentences, then we are off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Earth to Rocksniffer, Earth to Rocksniffer ... I sent him a message both here and on facebook, but he is not responding to either. If anybody is in contact with him otherwise, please tell him to sniff his way into this game. Or maybe I should just censor his existing sentence as I see fit and not wait for him to troll me further with inappropriate ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebble thats Stubby Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 oooh we have a mistroy player. Buck, I would send RS a cencored sentene and give him a reasonable time to respond. (maybe until after your defence) If he has not responded by then then assume acceptence of the modified sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 1 minute ago, Pebbles said: oooh we have a mistroy player. Buck, I would send RS a cencored sentene and give him a reasonable time to respond. (maybe until after your defence) If he has not responded by then then assume acceptence of the modified sentence. I have already given him two days to respond, just waiting for him. Yeah, if I do not hear from him this evening, I will just start the game tonight and censor the sentence he sent me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 Everybody should now have a sentence to draw. You have three days to finish it, that is until 23rd January 18.00 CET. If you do not have a sentence or I sent you your own one by mistake, let me know. Happy drawing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksniffer Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 Stop posting smileys and get to drawing! This is almost everybody's 21-hours-left reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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