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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:57 pm
Less than twenty four hours have passed since the warlord paid Captain Ruzanski an unexpected visit in his den and in a fit of paternal rage set before him a seemingly impossible quest which would surely keep him away from the Stormborn - and more importantly away from his daughter - for a very, very long time.
In the intervening hours between Ru being set to the Stormborn version of the labours of Hercules and his mandatory departure, it has become known throughout the pride that Ru has incurred the warlord's wrath (though the details of how he managed to do this are almost entirely hearsay) and that by doing so he has earned himself a one-way ticket out of the pride via ridiculously difficult quest.
Now it is early mid-morning, the sun is peeking half-heartedly through the pride's typical cloud cover, and a bit of a crowd has gathered. Some are there to offer support or insults while others just want to watch Ru's departure, and maybe get a chance to see some last-minute drama.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:58 pm
It's a game of telephone!
How to play:
Everyone will roll 1d4 to determine which of four phrases they will start off with.
1 - "I heard that this is actually exile."
2 - "I heard that Ru knocked up Kazul."
3 - "I heard that Ru is flower-blooded."
4 - "I heard that Ru is leaving to find a wife."
Once you have your phrase, go to Bad Translator and type it in.
Select your translator and number of translations and check the Random Language Order box.
Take the final product and post it as what your character heard.
The next person to post can either counter with what they heard, or pass it along. If they pass it along, the next person takes the phrase Bad Translator turned out and puts it through Bad Translator again. The third option is to try to interpret what Bad Translator produced according to the character's personality and pass that phrase along.
To make life simpler, please quote the person your lion is talking to and put the phrase you want them to pass along in boldface so that it's easier to keep track. You can also bold their name if you want to be especially helpful.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:59 pm
Example
Solvtorn: Rolls 1d4 and it comes up 2.
Turning to his nearest neighbor, who happened to be some outlander female (Tasnim), Solv told her, "I hear Ru knocked up Kazul." Since she was an outlander, she probably wouldn't know these things.
Tasnim: Runs the phrase through Bad Translator.
As Solv had suspected, she had not really understood what was going on, but Solv's words really did nothing to clarify it. Hoping that someone else might have heard better, she asked the brown lion to her left (Gaved), "I'm sorry, but I was just told different tail Kazul. Does that mean anything to you?"
Gaved: Reinterprets what he's told.
After thinking about it for a moment and deciding that the stupid outlander female had not yet grasped the subtleties of the Stormborn accent, Gaved told Tasnim, "Yes. It means Ru likes getting strange tail."
Solvtorn: Just heard "To: misidisik." Attempts to make sense of it by figuring out what real words it sounds like.
Overhearing what that jerk Gaved said, Solv synthesized it with the somewhat less coherent words he'd heard from Gunnar, who he suspected might be a bit drunk. Then he repeated his guess back to Gunnar as though agreeing with him, "True. Maybe he's sick. Your brother says Ru likes getting strange tail."
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:00 pm
FAQ and Troubleshooting
Who all is here?
Anyone you want to be here, as long as it's your own character. God modding is still against the rules, after all. Otherwise, it's open to everyone in the pride. And, actually, if you don't have anyone in the pride, you can still play along with some non-SoA lines creature. Just be warned that the Stormborn aren't known for playing nicely with non-lions.
So, non-Stormborn can participate?
Yes. As long as they're not SoA-lined animals. Furthermore, Stormborn whose JRPs are in progress may also participate as long as the JRP is assumed to have taken place before this ORP.
When will it all end?
If you mean life, the universe, and everything, I'm not at liberty to say. If you mean the Telephone aspect, it ends when I say it does. Probably sometime on the 15th.
My character is a stealthy omniscient ninja seer and actually knows what's going on, can they tell people?
No. Because one, your character does not actually know what's going on, and two, that would kind of spoil the whole game. Your character can guess and theorize and speculate, but if you start throwing in things they have no business knowing, you are not playing the game properly.
It gave me gibberish! What do I do with that?
Telephone as a game produces lots of gibberish. You can either pass the gibberish on as-is or try to interpret it and pass your interpretation on. It depends on what you think your lion is more likely to do upon hearing gibberish.
So we're just sitting around swapping nonsense? I want to have a conversation.
Um. I guess? If that's what you want to do. But I'd like to imagine your characters will have thoughts and opinions and reactions to what they're hearing. It's up to you whether you do the bare minimum here or go for full, detail-rich posts. Your characters are also welcome to stop playing telephone and hold a conversation at any time.
What happens if I get stuck in a translation loop, and it keeps making the same phrase?
Pick a new phrase. Introduce a personalized interpretation of the phrase. Decide that this phrase is the be-all, end-all of correctness and insist that everyone else is wrong. Any of the above would work, and I'm positive you can come up with even more options.
I got swooshed! I am angry and now I don't know what to talk about!
It is entirely possible that more than one lion would hear or overhear what someone was saying to someone else. That's what happened here. If two lions respond to the same lion, well, I'm sure they'll manage to deal with it.
Are there prizes?
What a mercenary question! I'm not answering that. I want people to play for the fun of it, not because they're trying to get more pets.
Can I use two lions? Like... In two posts, I want to have Lion A leave, and replace him with Lion B over the course of the rest of Lion A's posts.
You may use as many lions as you wish! I encourage you to do so. Get everyone involved!
PM the mule or post in the OOC Discussion thread with other questions or problems.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:01 pm
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So Long Gay Bowser rolled 1 4-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-4)
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:30 pm
(Going to go ahead and roll, to start this s**t off- my roleplay post of the phrase will come next!)
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:48 pm
 Ooh, this wasn't good news. These poor mortals had so many problems! Gods, in Mneme's small experiences, had nowhere near this drama. Exile! What a terrible concept! Flittering about in distress, the little goddess-turned-bird landed on the shoulder of one of the crowd members (who, in her humble opinion, seemed to be not horribly terrifying!) and cleared her throat.
"If I may ask, being a messenger of the gods and all... is it true? About Ru? What I heard, I mean." She started, clicking her beak at the end."
"I mean, I heard that this is actually exile!"
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Annchen rolled 1 4-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-4)
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:51 am
((I got "I heard it!" from that. I hope it's ok to reprase it a bit. Also rolling to see what Halvdan heard and will edit that in too.)) Halvdan felt as if he had been in a Holmgang and lost after his recent run in with the Lawspeaker Toumas. The only positive result of that particular chat was that the reaver wasn't worried about crowds anymore. No one could possibly ask more difficult questions than Toumas had, and if they tried he could always tell them to ask the lawspeaker to tell the story.
There were disturbing rumours flying around, and reaver or not - he wanted in on the gossip. Halvdan had no clue who that bird was, or why it had just landed on one of the other lions in the pride.
"That bird said it heard everything," he said to one of his neighbours in the chattering crowd, "Do you think it spied on the warlord?"
He had heard some things about Ru, and he assumed the bird was talking about him too. He didn't normally speak to lesser creatures, but what the hell..."I heard Blte-blooded the I dosyszaem and which become Ru," he called to the bird. He wasn't sure what all of it meant, but he just assumed it was old language he wasn't familiar with, and tried to say it like the lion he heard it from had said it.
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Jovi of Shadows generated a random number between
1 and 4 ...
4!
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:51 am
Thokk had made it her business to check out what was going on with the pride now. Rumors had been going around, and she just couldn't believe her ears! This was all quite ridiculous, and the priestess couldn't help but roll her eyes at some of the speculations being made. The worst of all was from her neighbor, Halvdan. "Clearly you've heard wrong, Reaver," she replied, sliding up next to him. "I heard that Ru is leaving a woman to find another." This captain must have been picky! It made sense that the warlord was mad at him for this.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:21 am
((Bwahaha... I got "I heard that the other woman", and somewhere in the middle it was at "I heard that the railway is the second woman"))Halvdan stared blankly at the priestess. She 'heard that the other woman', what? No wonder this was getting so confusing if there were women involved.
"No, I'm sure that's what I heard." he said and frowned. "Or it might have been that The Dosisza had become Ru, I thought it was some old stormborn crap. And what other woman are you talking about? Could that be the Dosisza I've been hearing about?"
Now he was just confusing himself. But surely a priestess would be able to figure it out. They were good with the kind of woman stuff he usually preferred to ignore.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:38 am
Thokk scowled as she tried to make sense of Halvdan's gibberish. She eyed him warily before slowly nodding her head in understanding. "Ah, yes, that makes sense. The Dosiza can be used", she explained to the large male, clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth. "So that means that, the Dosiza is the other woman Ru is looking for." Poor Halvdan, he must have only heard half the speculation. Or perhaps he just couldn't understand them as best as he use to? She gave him a pitying look, it seems as though he had lost some of his comprehension of the Stormborn tongue while he was away.
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Princess_Feylin rolled 1 4-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-4)
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:14 am
 Slipping through the amassed Stormborn, Kvinna drew as close as she dared to the scene they had seemingly gathered to view. Thralls talk, and although Kvinna spent less time among the other thralls than some, being a personal thrall with cubs to care for as well as a master, she did occasionally overhear things.
Yesterday another thrall had told her excitedly that there was something big going on between a captain named Ru and the warlord. Kvinna knew of Ru since he was a friend of her master's, but as far as she knew he was in good with the warlord. Maybe that had changed because of the rumor she'd heard.
"Is it true the captain got the warlord's daughter...pregnant?" she asked the nearest lion who didn't seem to be a reaver. Thralls were wise not to address reavers, she had learned.
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Andranis rolled 1 4-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-4)
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:22 am
 Norman blinked, looking at Kvinna. He'd been there simply because something had told him to. Not his mother, or his older brother or sister, but something... ELSE. The young freeborn shrugged at the lioness' words - What was her rank again? He subconsciously blurred them all together into simply 'in the same pride' and tended to forget most ranks. He only remembered that his older sister was one of the... Priestesses? And Yu was a Reaver, and then there was the pride leader... That was it. So he had no idea she was a Thrall. "I heard it's really exile..." He couldn't imagine such a life for anyone.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:43 am
"This is true," she agreed, though she wasn't sure why she was agreeing since it wasn't what she'd been given to understand at all. Oh, right. Because he carried himself with the confidence of one of the pride's freeborn which meant that disagreeing could get her hit or worse.
Really, Kvinna felt sort of stupid for asking him in the first place. Just because he was young did not mean that he was safe to converse with. In her relatively short tenure in the pride, Kvinna had already seen several lions his age, some of them even females, who were perfectly capable of acting with disconcerting levels of violence with almost no provocation. And they did it casually. Kvinna still hadn't gotten used to that aspect of this pride, though most others had come pretty easily to her.
"I heard exile" Just now, that is. She hadn't heard that before. She wondered what else was being said.
"Excuse me!" Kvinna did her best to vanish back into the crowd to possibly hear something more detailed.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:58 am
All the lions talking around him made it hard to hear what every individual said. Nevertheless he nodded his head, when the female tried to explain what the rumours must mean.
"Thank you for helping me understand, Priestess," Halvdan said, trying to decide if he should stay and talk to the priestess, or try to make an excuse to leave. "The young freeborn over there said that he must have heard that in exile. But perhaps I should leave you now. Priestess."
He bowed his head, and made his way through the crowd, trying to find any reavers or perhaps a captain. Better for a fighter to be among other fighters. And they might have other snippets of information.
"The Dosiza is another woman who seeks Ru," he repeated aloud, trying to make sense of what the priestess had explained.
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