Now opened! The AGS grandiose writing project, starting now!

Andail · Mon 31/03/2008 20:31:40

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to kick off this activity.
TEH RULES! READ CAREFULLY!!
The general idea is that you will receive a document attached to an email in your inbox, which you will add an amount of text to, and then send to another writer. By participating here, you are obliged to read through the story in its entirety, and make sure you understand it as well as possible, before you add your passage. If you don't have the time or motivation to read through the story that you receive, don't add to it, just pass it along.

How do we do it?P
This time, we write 300 words each. For the sake of coherence and quality, please try your best to make the passage you contribute with fit in the already existing story, and avoid clashing too strikingly with its genre and tone of voice. Remember tense and person and try not to confuse the future readers.

This time, the story will branch in a certain pattern that is laid out below.

Vince_Twelve
rock_chick
/
Babar Jack Sheehan
Stupot Tuomas
brokenbutterfly Antonio
auriond enveloop
/ /
[Cameron] LGM Eggie Pixelperfect
FSi voh Jon Akatosh
Candall Afflict Emerald Venus
TheJBurger twin-moon lo_res_man Jelfish
Andail

You need to consult the signing up-thread to find the cunningly disguised email addresses.

Huh?
Ok, to clarify: Vince_Twelve gets the honour to write the opening passage. After him, Rock-Chick takes over before the story divides into two paths. This means she must send the document to both Babar and Jack Sheehan.
Two teams take over the story, add their words and send it along to the four final teams.
TheJburger, Yours truly, Lo-res-man and Jelfish each makes sure they finish their versions, so we get four complete stories. Of course, each story will only be 3000 words, and less than half of every story will be unique reading.

Time frame
Use this thread (yes it will be cluttered beyond comprehension) to confirm that you've received the document. You must receive and send the story within 48 hours, or the person before you will re-send it to the writer after you in line. This means you have two days to add your passage.
The four stories don't need to be published simultaneously; whenever one path is completed, it will be published here.

Reminders
Keep in mind where you're positioned, and adjust your text to fit that position. If you're in the beginning, don't kill off important characters or try to conclude the story. If you're towards the end, don't introduce too many new characters or concepts.

What do we write about?
Here's the funny part. The genre of this edition's story shall be:

A CONTEMPORARY URBAN SATIRE

Have fun!

TwinMoon · Mon 31/03/2008 22:35:52

Quote from: from lo_res_man(I just hope for the love of Christopher Robin I am not the last)

Guess Christopher Robin doesn't like us both.

Andail, did I tell you I hate writing endings?

Quote from: Andail on Mon 31/03/2008 20:31:40
Here's the funny part. The genre of this edition's story shall be:

A CONTEMPORARY URBAN SATIRE

Somehow I assumed it would be a detective story again. Silly me.

Jack Sheehan · Mon 31/03/2008 23:22:01

Sounds fantastic lads, I'm really glad I get to start one of the branches, it'll be interesting to note where the differences (and similarities I guess) are between my and Babar's take on things.

Stupot · Mon 31/03/2008 23:29:23

Here we go then...
Good luck everyone.

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/04/2008 00:43:35

Contemporary urban... oh dear...

auriond · Tue 01/04/2008 01:10:48

Contemporary?

Urban?

Satire?

:o

This is gonna be interesting!

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/04/2008 03:58:20

Ok, first update! I've written and am waiting for Rock_chick to PM me her email address which she didn't want to share in the thread. I'm not really sure how to start a contemporary urban satire, but I've given it my best shot.

The good news is, it isn't horribly inconsistent yet!

The bad news is, this is just the beginning...

Edit: Nevermind, Rock_chick got back to me and apparently she lost interest. I've sent it on to Babar and Jack Shehan.

rock_chick · Tue 01/04/2008 08:59:03

Quote from: Vince Twelve on Tue 01/04/2008 03:58:20
Ok, first update! I've written and am waiting for Rock_chick to PM me her email address which she didn't want to share in the thread. I'm not really sure how to start a contemporary urban satire, but I've given it my best shot.

The good news is, it isn't horribly inconsistent yet!

The bad news is, this is just the beginning...

Just to let you guys know I am going through some stuff at the moment and signed up a week or so ago and just found out I was involved in this officially. So I'm letting you all know I am no longer interested, sorry to let you all down.

Babar · Tue 01/04/2008 09:36:51

Received now. Am going through it.

Stupot · Tue 01/04/2008 11:20:58

Quote from: Babar on Tue 01/04/2008 09:36:51
Received now. Am going through it.

I'm looking forward to it, Babs.

Emerald · Tue 01/04/2008 16:57:24

Quote from: auriond on Tue 01/04/2008 01:10:48
Contemporary?

Urban?

Satire?

:o

This is gonna be interesting!

I agree. Different styles is bad enough... now we gotta deal with the different sense of humour, and the inevitable toilet jokes (there's always one person who loves toilet jokes...)

Pessimistically yours,
Emerald

lo_res_man · Wed 02/04/2008 00:15:22

*sigh* and I again, am at the bottom of the list. Well, at least the list is shorter this time. Oh well. . . :

voh · Wed 02/04/2008 02:20:43

Quote from: Emerald on Tue 01/04/2008 16:57:24
(there's always one person who loves toilet jokes...)

Uh-oh, shouldn't have said that, now everybody's going to try and be "that guy"

Babar · Wed 02/04/2008 08:31:32

Done, and sent off to Stupot. 24 hours was a little short, though. I liked the 48 hour limit.

Vince Twelve · Wed 02/04/2008 08:37:38

I generally agree. I like to sleep on something before showing it to the world. Also, technically, I guess I'm supposed to skip Sheehan and send it on to Tuomas now that it's been 24 hours, but I think I'll give him a little extra time, since we've already lost one writer.

Andail · Wed 02/04/2008 09:32:41

Fair enough, let's officially increase it to 48 hours. We're not really in a rush anyway.

Jack Sheehan · Wed 02/04/2008 11:48:19

Feck, it got caught in my spam filter. Give me a day or so and I'll have it for you. Sorry for the delay lads.

PixelPerfect · Wed 02/04/2008 13:15:52

Maybe it would be good to write here (like in the last comp) when you have sent the e-mail forward. That way the next one knows to look for it.

Andail · Wed 02/04/2008 13:55:20

Also, I added myself after Twinmoon, as she explicitly wrote she didn't want the ending part. I promise I will do my best to give it a nice ending.

Jack Sheehan · Wed 02/04/2008 18:41:35

I've sent it to Tuomas, It looks fine so far I think, I tried a little religious humour, so get ready to groan.