Well, as it may be obvious to many of you (who can read through David's reign of Ter-olor(you do the math)), a post contest has begun the likes of which my blog has never seen! Brave new factions vie for the chance to change the colors into something prettifully magniferrific instead of The Grammar Kings Blending Blog Blotches of Blehdom! So I present to you, brave challengers, an arena to test your creative capacity and a chance for yet another dictatorial force to surface, one of grandeur, benevolence, magnificence, rhyming, and undead radioactive mongeese of DOOM. In other words, ME!!! So here's the plan. In Band, I started circulating a story that people would add one line to as it went along, for amusement purposes only. Well, I shall continue that tradition today!
Yes, you heard/read/telepathized right, I'm going to give you an introductory sequence and all your jobs are to continue it (I'll add in some extra tidbits along the way too, assuming any of you take it up). The rules are as follows:
1. Every post to the story must be 3-10 sentences with least 3words sentence (for example, no "Oh. No." 's).
2. You'll receive one point per post (as you would for any comment anywhere else)
3. When I see an entry I like, I'll give you extra points for it (And it'll be whichever comment(s) I want to choose, kind of in an evil dictator way).
4. All comments about previous entries or other people's entries not in context of the story need to have double parenthese's around them ((Like this)). These will count toward your final comments total of the week and you can make them at any point in the story.
5. You can only make one entry at a time (someone else has to add an entry before you can add another). You can make an entry after a ((comment)) if you wish. The "no three posts in a row period" rule still applies here as it does everywhere else.
6. If two people post an addition at the same time (for instance, if they're writing it at the same time and post it at the same time through some coincidence of time and space that Fate loves to torment me with), the next person should choose which one they're going to follow ((note)) it, and continue. The unchosen entry will still get credit for the post, but it won't be added on to.
7. You are allowed to add at most 2 individual characters to the story per post, 3 total.
8. Use your best judgement when adding on to the story. You can have dramatic twists or kill main characters or whatever, but do it tactfully. Add some randomness, but keep it cohesive. Add in distant events as a foreshadowing sequence of things to come. Create epic struggles between good and evil. But don't just summon an asteroid, kill off everything, and then say "Meanwhile, on pretty, fluffy, happy, evil world." Go with what other people write, don't arbitrarily wrest control of the story every single time you post. Add on the story, don't divide it into fragments. (Although you do have my full permission to abuse someone else’s character out of spite or revenge, just keep it tactful. Kapish?)
9. Anything else I say goes (I may add or subtract from the rules, I can do whatever I want, and I don't have to follow a thing!).
Depending on whether I'm feeling generous, I may let the previous week's winner choose which story additions get more points, if they will forfeit their right to add on to the story and not win the next week (These continued stories will be a weekly or so thing, if interest is there). I know this is a lot of rules and what not, but you're all smart people I have faith you'll figure it out. Except for David, but he's been stabbed with sporks one too many times. So have at it (For simplicity the story will be on a separate post, please post additions to that. Leave comments on what you think of the idea in general and any suggestions on this section.)
*pantpantpant* That's about all, for now. Let me know what you think.
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