AGS Chain Story: BROKEN PICTURE TELEPHONE EDITION

[Vince Twelve]

Removed! Where are you! 

We're getting close.  These are all very bizarre.  Very very bizarre.   

[Igor Hardy]

These are all very bizarre.  Very very bizarre.   

That's exactly the way I like them.  Can't wait.

[Akatosh]

Heh... seconded. I'm one of the worst artists to ever walk this planet, so I'm really kinda curious how my steaming mass of pixels got interpreted.

[Stupot]

Same... My picture was absolutely rubbish (despite being one of my personally better peices of work)... I apologise now to the author whose words I turned into the pile of crap I call my 'picture'.

I'm pretty pleased with my additions to the stories though

[Vince Twelve]

I will tell you this: one person's picture got interpreted as a literal pile of crap.

[ShiverMeSideways]

Probably mine :'(

[NsMn]

I know exactly how the Broken Telephone author will interpret my image - just like me, when I didn't quite understand the text myself 

[Igor Hardy]

In case of my own BT image the story is completely different. I could have drawn a Mona Lisa quality masterpiece. But I chose to draw a pile of crap instead. That's what artistic freedom is all about. 

[Vince Twelve]

Yes, NsMn your picture is responsible for moving that story in a totally weird direction...  8)  Although one particular writer will have to take most of the credit. 

Pretty close now.  I say everyone left should aim for 12 hour max turnarounds so this activity can come in under the two week mark!  All of the stories are almost done, so I'll probably just release them all at once and the voting can begin!

[NsMn]

wait... there's a voting?

Oooooooohhhhhh...  :

[Stupot]

Ooh I can't wait!
I'm almost as excited for this as I was for the Lost finale (sorry for spamming your news feeds, those of you who have me on Facebook).  Let's hope these stories make even less sense than Lost did.

[This post was my 2000th birthday and I bloody missed it... DAMN!]

[Vince Twelve]

Let's hope these stories make even less sense than Lost did.

I'd say you're going to be pleased then. 

[tzachs]

Let's hope these stories make even less sense than Lost did.

I'd say you're going to be pleased then. 

Really? Have you seen the last episode?
I say impossible!

[Vince Twelve]

I saw it and it made perfect sense!  I completely understood how disappointed I was.

[Stupot]

It took me a bit of mulling over before I finally got it... but yeah I'm also a tad disappointed.

Lost has given me an idea for a format for the next chain story.  One of the things about Lost was that it kept introducing new mysteries, and by the end the writers just couldn't answer them all... But we're better then them, right?  So here's the plan:

We each take it in turns to add 200 words onto a story, but as well as just writing the story, each writer has to introduce one major new question or mystery.  Carry on for about 6 or 7 people (have groups again, if enough people are interested) and then, instead of the last person wrapping up the story, he also leaves it open and introduces a new mystery.

Then... at this point the story gets sent to everybody in their group* and everybody has to write their own ending to the story (in as many words as they like) which answers/solves ALL of the questions/mysteries posed.  The person who writes the cleverest, most satisfactory ending wins.

*Or send to a different group.  That way they won't have seen the story so far and won't have had a cheeky head start

[Dualnames]

So who's that guy Vince? Who went so Crazy?

[discordance]

We each take it in turns to add 200 words onto a story, but as well as just writing the story, each writer has to introduce one major new question or mystery.  Carry on for about 6 or 7 people (have groups again, if enough people are interested) and then, instead of the last person wrapping up the story, he also leaves it open and introduces a new mystery.

So basically a Kudzu Plot. Sounds like fun, except for the guy who has to tie off the whole mess, poor sap.

[Andail]

I deliberately messed up my story even further, as I was a bit put off by the bizarreness and lack of consistency it already suffered from.

Before it reached me, the story had not only had a key character undergo a sex change, its narrative style and even tense was altered altogether.

So, I hope I'm excused for giving it the direction it got...

Still look forward immensely to reading it

[Dualnames]

I deliberately messed up my story even further, as I was a bit put off by the bizarreness and lack of consistency it already suffered from.

Before it reached me, the story had not only had a key character undergo a sex change, its narrative style and even tense was altered altogether.

So, I hope I'm excused for giving it the direction it got...

Still look forward immensely to reading it

Thank god you did that! Thank you Andail! I tried to take it on the fun side, but Vince said, leave it on the pros kiddo.

[Stupot]

We each take it in turns to add 200 words onto a story, but as well as just writing the story, each writer has to introduce one major new question or mystery.  Carry on for about 6 or 7 people (have groups again, if enough people are interested) and then, instead of the last person wrapping up the story, he also leaves it open and introduces a new mystery.

So basically a Kudzu Plot. Sounds like fun, except for the guy who has to tie off the whole mess, poor sap.

You didn't read the next paragraph.
One guy doesn't have to tie it all up.  Everybody has a go at writing an ending. That's the challenge.

I deliberately messed up my story even further, as I was a bit put off by the bizarreness and lack of consistency it already suffered from.

Before it reached me, the story had not only had a key character undergo a sex change, its narrative style and even tense was altered altogether.

This sounds like you might have been the guy before me.  If so, you may or may not appreciate how I dealt with the curveballs you threw me.  But deal with them I did, and enjoyed every minute of it