The AGS chain story, detective theme, finished now for your reading pleasure!

TheJBurger · Mon 18/02/2008 07:36:29

Quote from: Emerald on Sun 17/02/2008 14:43:26
Also, a final list of participants and their order i the story put into the initial post would be useful too (and who's turn it is). The whole thing got a little confused towards the end...

Tell me if this is right:

I think you forgot me.

Emerald · Mon 18/02/2008 14:06:03

Riiight.

Well, we're up to 800 words now... sending it on to Vince 12

Jack Sheehan · Mon 18/02/2008 16:31:02

Yeah it was Saturday when i posted too. Can anyone give me an answer as to whether I'm in or out?

Emerald · Mon 18/02/2008 18:05:38

Y'know what, Andail didn't specify a time for the applications to end, just a day. And I don't see why two people tacked on to the end is that big a deal (not like you're interrupting the flow), especially when the guy who's last doesn't want to be last...

Andail · Mon 18/02/2008 18:56:31

I said noon, but it's ok. Just don't sign up more now

Emerald · Mon 18/02/2008 20:18:19

Quote from: Andail on Mon 18/02/2008 18:56:31
I said noon, but it's ok. Just don't sign up more now

Technically, there's an almost infinite number of 'noons' (every nanosecond it's noon for some small portion of land somewhere on the face of the earth)

Jack Sheehan · Mon 18/02/2008 20:32:47

Wonderful! If no one else wants to close it I've got no problems with that.

Vince Twelve · Tue 19/02/2008 02:06:21

Quote from: Emerald on Mon 18/02/2008 20:18:19
Technically, there's an almost infinite number of 'noons' (every nanosecond it's noon for some small portion of land somewhere on the face of the earth)

That's not true at all! For that to be true, there would have to be 86,400,000,000,000 time zones.

Anywho. Four people in, and already a huge contradiction in the story... Oh well. I guess I'll just pick one version to go with and you can just ignore whatever doesn't make sense... This is going to be an... interesting... read! I imagine it's going to be real fun for the people near the end

lo_res_man · Tue 19/02/2008 03:11:46

well technaclly he is right, but it is a poor excuse. it still only leaves you 24 hours to post AFTER the deadline date. time zones ar e often quite political, look at a map of them some time.

Antonio · Tue 19/02/2008 06:38:52

"Anywho. Four people in, and already a huge contradiction in the story... Oh well. I guess I'll just pick one version to go with and you can just ignore whatever doesn't make sense... This is going to be an... interesting... read! I imagine it's going to be real fun for the people near the end

"

Come on people, make sure you read and fully understand the flow of the piece before starting to write your 200 words, else it's gonna get too messy to work with...

Vince Twelve · Tue 19/02/2008 07:44:30

Just to clarify, I wasn't bitching, last post. I tried to edit in some emoticons to make it look less so. That's all part of the fun of this activity!

I PMed Fawfulhasfury to get his email address this morning, but haven't heard back yet. So, in case someone was wondering, the story is currently halfway between person 5 and 6.

Andail · Tue 19/02/2008 12:11:09

Emerald: I admit I was being a bit euro-centric by saying "noon" and expecting people to think Greenwich, but usually we go by official forum time here if nothing else is expressed.

Vince, it's disappointing that people don't care more for consistency, but it's rather expected isn't it?

It'll be fun anyway, hopefully...

Stupot · Tue 19/02/2008 13:13:22

Quote from: Andail on Tue 19/02/2008 12:11:09
Vince, it's disappointing that people don't care more for consistency, but it's rather expected isn't it? It'll be fun anyway, hopefully...

Lets think of it as a challenge to try and cleverly tie up the inconsistencies to make it work.
Of course we haven't seen the story yet so we don't know how bad it is.

Jack Sheehan · Tue 19/02/2008 16:58:24

Well as long as it doesn't go 'You come to a fork in the road....'

Akatosh · Tue 19/02/2008 16:59:38

So how bad is the contradiction?

Emerald · Tue 19/02/2008 23:16:24

Quote from: Akatosh on Tue 19/02/2008 16:59:38
So how bad is the contradiction?

Without getting into details... pretty bad. But not 'bad' as in 'bad writing', but 'bad' as in 'very contradictory to the previous paragraphs'...
I tried to tie it together and keep the plot moving, but it's always hard to know if the next person will understand where you're going with it. (And the next person after that...)

That's why I said 200 words was a bad idea... It chops up the narrative too much...

Again, like Vince said, I'm not complaining (I think it's hilarious). I just want you all to know that if this goes to pot, I called it. (And if it doesn't, then I'll probably take most of the credit, but that's really neither here nor there...

)

Vince Twelve · Wed 20/02/2008 00:17:13

Actually. I don't want to point fingers, but it was your bit that made the biggest contradiction, Em

If I'm not mistaken, you misread a previous person's bit and then tried to fix something that wasn't broken (it was just awkward).

Anyway, if you ignore the last 50 words of FSi's this all still makes sense... kind of... And maybe someone can find a way to make that bit make sense... kind of...

Fawfulhasfury hasn't gotten back to me with his email address in 24 hours, so I'm just going to skip him and send it on to Tuomas in the interest of keeping this rolling. Sorry, fawful! Maybe you can squeeze back in somehow!

Stupot · Wed 20/02/2008 01:42:28

We have 48 hours don't we?

TheJBurger · Wed 20/02/2008 01:45:03

But he hasn't been active in seven days so maybe he's on vacation.

Vince Twelve · Wed 20/02/2008 02:37:20

Ah, I didn't see that 48 hour rule! You're right, Stu, I should probably wait. I'll try his Yahoo messenger and MSN messenger addresses in the mean time. Sorry Tuomas!