Paper Telephone.

[Galadriel55]

Galadriel55 sneaked into Agan’s room and left a note on the windowsill,
and that little note said:

Sing hey! for the bath at the close of day
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

Agan thought it was the electricity bill,
and picturesquely she dropped dead:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/pt18_zps790e67ae.jpeg

Greenie the Healer quickly appeared,
And diagnosed it:

There was only one bathtub at Crickhollow, but fortunately it was big enough.

Kitanna, Assistant, standing at the rear
Put a stamp on the sheet:

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb454/Galadriel55/Paper%20Telephone/Kitspic_zpse974d670.jpg

To a random passerby
Oddwen whispered from a booth:

Merry was aware of Pippin's vigorous bathtime escapades and came up with a plan to prevent damage being done to Crickhollow.

Nogrod screamed, “That’s a lie!
But I will draw the truth!”

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb454/Galadriel55/Paper%20Telephone/Nogspic_zpsd650188f.jpg

[Galadriel55]

An astronomer with a telescope, gazing around,
Reported from Amon Lanc:

With Frodo safely out of the door, the future squire of Gondor finally had time to fully utilise the Crickhollow bathroom to his decadent tastes.

Sleepy Hook was annoyed at the sound,
And threw a paper airplane from his bunk:

http://i40.tinypic.com/e5r33l.png

A level below, beside a sconce,
Gil Galad exclaimed as he caught the plane:

Pippin broods at Merry for going trick-or-treating without him and his Gondor mascot costume, but plots his revenge in the upcoming Crickhollow Toilet Races.

Lommy sneezed in response,
Making this sketch in a window pane:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/pt1113_zpsb5ab42cd.png

Rune with cleaning supplies and these words
The window began to attack:

Ted Sandyman's resentment of Sam's restoration efforts, led to some rather disturbing thoughts of a fecal nature.

BG, one of the local nerds,
Stuck a note on his back:

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb454/Galadriel55/Paper%20Telephone/BGspic_zpsc3a27ba0.jpg

[Galadriel55]

Agan entered with a clatter,
Breaking through the rhyming pattern:

The defilement of Crickhollow received mixed reactions.

“What can this pure nonsense mean?”
Wondered then A Little Green

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Kit provides an explanation
With a noisy exclamation:

The four stooges with Azog the Defiler pillage Bag-End

Oddwen doodled as she listened,
In her book a picture glistened:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Oddwen/downsstuff/ptelephoneoddwen02062014_zps139604d3.jpg

Picture posted in a blog,
It was criticized by Nog:

After tons of criticism for leaving the scouring of the Shire out from the LotR-movies PJ has decided to make it good for the fans and added a scouring of Bag End -scene into the Hobbit-trilogy where ruffians led by Azog do the job. In related news Lego has become a major financial partner of the movies.

Selling cupcakes for a rally,
Came along the sunny sally:

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[Galadriel55]

Mumbled quietly ol’ Hook
As he sally’s cupcakes took:

The faceless men in flares were forced to clean paper bags for Punk-Rock-Balrog. Meanwhile, Smaug relives his childhood dream of drinking tea and watching a pile of bad things land on top of the Lord of the Rings.

Gil provided illustrations
For all Nogrod’s vindications:

http://oi62.tinypic.com/161ffgw.jpg

She was headed for the win,
Although she was somewhat Thin:

Burglars benefit when balrogs and dragons start new hobbies.

“Are we gonna finish soon?”
Asked the somewhat hasty Rune:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/runesf/ee38312d-b73b-4eb5-b8f2-bff27c4d6049.jpg

“I agree,” as last said Blind,
“Let’s put this long game behind.”

During a very important meeting, the Balrog was defeated by a pizza throwing Hobbit-king and a Soduko-playing smirking Smaug.

Legate painted the back cover
And the Telephone was over:

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb454/Galadriel55/Paper%20Telephone/Legatespic_zps822c066f.jpg



And the lesson? You may nod:
NEVER let the lad lass mod.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

SUPERB!! I was giggling like a maniac right to the end! :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Does Azog have an erection in Greenie's picture? I guess that is one way to defile something.

Also, where did the pizza come from?

[Kitanna]

I don't know where that pizza came from and I don't care because that pizza throwing Hobbit king made my day.

[Gil-Galad]

I enjoy how Crickhollow remained constant for almost half of the call!

[Wousides]

Awesome game,, I'll give it a try..

[Galadriel55]

Speaking of which, is anyone else up for a new game, or did I completely kill it?

[Blind Guardian]

Oh my goodness why have I just seen this! xD Is awesome!

[Aganzir]

I'm interested in playing or, if no one else wants to step forth, modding.

[satansaloser2005]

I'm in as well.

[Galadriel55]

Sign me up too!

[A Little Green]

Me too, please!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I shall play! I shall ALWAYS play! :cool:

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Aaand me as well.

[Aganzir]

Wousides
sally
G55
Algae (new nickname for you, I never particularly liked Greenie or ALG anyway)
Hookbill
Legate

Doubles yes no?

[Nogrod]

Algae? :rolleyes:

Doubles... whatever the cost in time is.

And count me in.

[Thinlómien]

I'm in too, and I want doubles.

[Oddwen]

Count me in please! I'm good with doubles.

[Aganzir]

We are starting. Please turn on email notifications for private messages (User CP > Edit Options > [check] Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages > Save Changes); if you don't reply in time, your turn will be given to someone else. If you don't stick to the acceptable time allotted (writing two days, drawing three days), you will be whipped for slowing down the call. I am the Professor Umbridge of Paper Telephone.

G55 - draw
sally - write
Kitanna - draw
Hookbill - write
Legate - draw
Algae - write
Oddwen - draw
Lommy - write
Nogrod - draw
Eönwë - write
Rune - draw
TGEW - write
Volo - draw

G55 - write
Algae - draw
Kitanna - write
Hookbill - draw
Legate - write
sally - draw
Oddwen - write
Lommy - draw
Nogrod - write
Eönwë - draw
Rune - write
TGEW - draw
Volo - write

Yes, you can still join.

[Eönwë]

I hope I'm not too late to get in on this!

[Kitanna]

I'd like to join as well please!

[Aganzir]

You are not too late! Welcome on board!

[Aganzir]

Since Wousides seems to have disappeared, we're skipping them and are now one player short. Would anybody like to step in?

I'd also like to talk about text in pictures. While I think random words and letters are fine (as long as they don't make it blatanly obvious what the picture is about), speech & thought bubbles often lead to the next sentence being almost identical to the previous one. I'm sure that's not what anybody wants, so please consider leaving them out altogether.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am game

[Aganzir]

You can always count on Rune!

(Sign-ups are still open, as always.)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Do you still need another player? I'll happily play along.

[Aganzir]

Do you still need another player? I'll happily play along.
We don't *need* one, but you're welcome to join! However - we then need another player to get to an odd number again.

[Thinlómien]

We don't *need* one, but you're welcome to join! However - we then need another player to get to an odd number again.Ask your flatmate, he expressed mild interest when I saw him on Wednesday!

*Finnish clique shuts up*

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Alright, I'll join if it's not too much trouble for the mod.

[Aganzir]

Ask your flatmate, he expressed mild interest when I saw him on Wednesday!

*Finnish clique shuts up*
Flatmate says yes so TGEW is no trouble at all!

So far, the average time to produce a Paper Telephone contribution has been 2.44 days per person. ;)

[Aganzir]

We are halfway through! The average contribution time has gone down to 1.92 days. :D

[Volo]

Flattie power, yay! :D

The previous round was hilarious! Noggie's painting was one of the most imaginative one's I've seen in this game, Legate's drawing has developed nicely, Oddie's Lego Azog, Gil's faceless men... Frankly, XD

[Aganzir]

Hookbill gets a biscuit for sending his picture 30 minutes after he received the sentence.

http://www.cuvarkuca.hr/repository/images/_variations/2/4/243c4dc3c97c0f0f97e86947d498b6ba_content_m.jpg

We are 31 days into the round, and the average contribution time (partly thanks to Hookbill) is 1.82 days.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Hookbill gets a biscuit for sending his picture 30 minutes after he received the sentence.

http://www.cuvarkuca.hr/repository/images/_variations/2/4/243c4dc3c97c0f0f97e86947d498b6ba_content_m.jpg

We are 31 days into the round, and the average contribution time (partly thanks to Hookbill) is 1.82 days.

Omnonom! :D

[Aganzir]

Spamming because the round is ready and I want it all on the same page.

[Aganzir]

The average contribution took 1.46 days, and just a handful of people had to be whipped for being late. Well done. I am proud of you all. ♥

[Aganzir]

One more and here we go... DRUMROLL!

[Aganzir]

Bilbo wished Gandalf would enter his hole as he used to, uninvited.

Frodo woke and found himself lying in Galadriel55.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb454/Galadriel55/Paper%20Telephone/Agans3_zpse4deb40f.png

At first he thought he had slept late, after a long unpleasant sally that still hovered on the edge of memory.
Bilbo has trouble deciding who should come to his party and contemplates if Gandalf will show up even without an invite.

Or perhaps he had been Kitanna?
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/untitled_by_childofthewest-d7mw1vo_zps5556527d.jpg

But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark Hookbills richly carved.
Gandalf liked to show up uninvited to parties. So when Bilbo had the audacity to actually INVITE him to one, the wizard was reduced to childish taunts to express his bubbling rage.

He lay a little while longer looking at patches of Legate on the wall...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/paper-telephone-2-2014_zps53a12323.jpg

[Aganzir]

...and listening to the sound of an Algae.
Professional gate-crasher Saruman is offended when he gets an actual invitation to Bilbo's birthday party.

'Where am I, and what is the time?' he said aloud to the Oddwen.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/ptelephone062614_zps75002cf7.jpg

'In the Lommy of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning,' said a voice.
Saruman was shocked, yet not unprepared, when he received an invitation to Robin Smallhood's infamous masquerade.

'It is the morning of Nogrod the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.'
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/10520425_10201364056861890_7511694404131301189_n_z ps0668f681.jpg

'Gandalf!' cried Frodo, sitting up. There was the old wizard, sitting in an Eönwë by the open window.
Saruman of Many Colours comes face-to-face with some of the horrifying consequences of cloning himself.

'Yes,' he said, 'I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd Runes you have done since you left home.'
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/runesf/img032.jpg

[Aganzir]

Frodo lay down again. He felt too comfortable and peaceful to argue, and in any case he did not think he would get the better of a TGEW.
Dumbledore harasses Saruman into letting him wear the White Wizard's clothes.

He was fully awake now, and the memory of his Volo was returning...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/IMG_20140702_214433770_zps96f5fa44.jpg

...the disastrous 'short cut' through Galadriel55...
Two of the Istari smoked too much pipe-weed.

...the 'Algae' at the Prancing Pony...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/10533532_10152563824489776_2079797971_o_zpse21682f 5.jpg

...and his madness in putting on the Kitanna in the dell under Weathertop.
Gandalf discusses his plans for getting into Dol Guldur with Radagast, but Radagast is too busy thinking about the eating habits of fluffy bunnies.

While he was thinking of all these things and trying in vain to bring his Hookbill down to his arriving in Rivendell...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/10494850_10152246925418932_5472513051164931465_n_z ps788f9098.jpg

[Aganzir]

...there was a long silence, broken only by the soft puffs of Gandalf's pipe, as he blew white Legate-rings out of the window.
The Istari mused: does eating the Witch-King count as vegetarian?

'Where's Sam?' Frodo asked at length. 'And are the others all sally?'
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/10539219_652597703291_1623405213_n_zpsb7d00812.jpg

'Yes, they are all safe and sound,' answered Gandalf. 'Sam was here until I sent him off to get some Oddwen, about half an hour ago.'
The five wizards are upset that the Burger King of the Nazgul was sorted into Gryffindor, yet their desires for beef divide them.

'What happened at the Lommy?' said Frodo. 'It all seemed so dim, somehow; and still does.'
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/pt1_zps141e244a.jpg

[Aganzir]

'Yes, it would. You were beginning to fade,' answered Gandalf. 'The Nogrod was overcoming you at last.
There may have been nothing wrong with Lord Nazgûl's Last Big Mac Supper as such, but the Istari did think his open support of Catalan independence went quite over the top.

A few more hours and you would have been beyond our Eönwë.
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg242/Eonwe-Kalmo/papertelephone.png

But you have some Rune in you, my dear hobbit!
Using his awesome powers of commercialism, the Witch King manages to unite the politically fragmented community of Catalan Wizards.

As you showed in the TGEW.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/10487449_10152284555292810_2008185163474810100_n_z ps0eabdb7b.jpg

That was touch and go: perhaps the most dangerous Volo of all. I wish you could have held out at Weathertop.'
The Great Dictator of Angmar indoctrinates the virtues of a free market to a band of dwarves.

Thank you everyone! This was a fab round to mod.

[Eönwë]

I like how Lommy and I chose completely different people from the Last Supper...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Many elements of the PT really blew my mind.

I was especially fond of Lommy and Volo's drawings, but I thought almost all of the drawings had a bit of brilliance.

I love how Oddwen's drawing style is similar to my own, I also enjoyed that she found a way to include Gryffindor.

It says a lot about Nogrod that he got 'Catalan independence movement' from a two coloured scarf.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Oh my goodness wow!!!

Eonwe's sentence gave me the giggles! :D

Volo's naked Dumbledore could win awards!!

But Legate's Gandalf will give me nightmares!!

[Oddwen]

I giggled at all of it, especially at the memories of Legate's Gandalf, Volo's "flash" of brilliance, Nogrod's middle wizard and Lommy's response to my sentence. Well done, all!

Thank you to aganzir for modding and for the images conjured up by your connecting narration.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

This had so many great drawings, and also this time especially the sentences made an impact, some quite innovative things in there! My absolutely favourite twist is the Catalan Independance Movement :D And of the pictures, both the Last Suppers by Lommy and Eönwë, and also Rune's Saruman and the googly-eyed clone behind him is an incredible work of art! Wow! I also like a lot Greenie's (I like how the Wizards are thinking of wheels and rabbits and mushrooms), Volo's and Nogrod's (what kind of psychedelia is that?) creative art. And special thumbs up to sally for the original image of Witch-King.

And, of course, thanks to Aganzir for putting it all together and most of all, keeping it swift and flowing! I'd say this is a trend we should keep in the future as well.

[Volo]

I skimmed the results yesterday in a sleep meds induced and fever powered pseudocoma while having difficulty to string two sentences into a coherent narrative and was freaked out by Agan-gets-things-done-zir's story, seriously, I shuddered.
Thanks an excellent first sentence and I'm proud of continuing the innuendo - it must be in the air I and Agan breathe in this suburb unofficially called Fairy Land. (It's probably just as well that I didn't draw the first picture.)

The Catalan and da Vinci stuff were also my favourite moments. Eönwë's picture should enter the post-modernist hall of fame.

I don't entirely get it how Legate came up with that sentence of his, but it's an excellent question. Also laughs at what I take to be a Firefly reference in your picture.

What's Noggie's phantasmagoria based on? Painting, album cover?

Kitanna's creative use of Bilbo's photo I enjoyed.

:D Good stuff! Moarz!

Hookbill, Dumbledore moonlights as an Academy Award winning body double actor.

[Galadriel55]

Hahaha!!! Well done, everyone! This one is so funny that it stayed funny since the beginning till the end. Every single one was creative! :D

(And Agan, you never cease to amaze me with your ability to look so innocent while saying half the stuff you're saying... :D).

[Aganzir]

I like how Lommy and I chose completely different people from the Last Supper...
Me too! I chuckled a lot at your pictures following each other.

Thank you to aganzir for modding and for the images conjured up by your connecting narration.
:smokin:

it must be in the air I and Agan breathe in this suburb unofficially called Fairy Land.
True story: there was a citizens movement in the 50s to name our suburb Fairyland. It didn't pass.

(And Agan, you never cease to amaze me with your ability to look so innocent while saying half the stuff you're saying... :D).
Are you implying I'm ever anything but prim and proper? I'm dismayed.

I must stress I'm really thankful that almost everyone respected the time limit in this game. It's not very much fun if the game drags and you're not able to tell when your turn comes up, and I bet it's stressful for the mod to engage for months at a time. I hope we can maintain this pace in the future as well. And remember - if you're busy, you can ask to be moved down the list even without a modly prompt!

[A Little Green]

This was brilliant! I loved all of it, but from Legate's sentence onwards I was giggling aloud. Lommy's picture? And Eonwe's? :D I also liked Rune's Saruman, and the way Gryffindor turns into the Catalan independence movement.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Are you implying I'm ever anything but prim and proper? I'm dismayed.


Please tell me how dismayed you are when you write sentences like this:

As you showed in the TGEW.

Who's showering in me, exactly? :p

It was a great round. I loved everybody's pictures, they were all fun and helped the game go in a completely different direction than it started! And Aganzir, you are a goddess among mods for making us so swift.

[Galadriel55]

I just realized that Lommy's purple wizard looks like he's giving the WK the finger. :D

PS: and just for fun, cutting out everything except for the first and last sentence:

Bilbo wished Gandalf would enter his hole as he used to, uninvited.

The Great Dictator of Angmar indoctrinates the virtues of a free market to a band of dwarves.

Just... wow. :D

PPS: I'm in for the next game, whenever it will be, but I am away starting a week tomorrow and until August 10, so... whatever needs to happen to my spot on the list.

[Nogrod]

I only got to see this now... Hilarious! :D

As soon as it finally got to deviate from the original sentence it was just genius all along.

And like somebody already said, this time it was oftentimes the sentences that kind of pushed the story on towards new paths and which made one smile ever wider.

That said, extra kudos to Eönwë's and Lommy's rendering of the Last Supper, Algae's dreamy smoking wizards and Legate's wild cartoon on Gandalf's journeys...

And yes. Thanks to Aganzir for making us meet our deadlines. That is no small feat. :)

[Galadriel55]

I don't get it, where did Gryffindor come from? :confused:

[Oddwen]

It kind of looked like the Burger King was wearing red and gold, and also the broom suggested Quidditch.

[Galadriel55]

It kind of looked like the Burger King was wearing red and gold, and also the broom suggested Quidditch.

No no, I get that part - I don't get how we got a broom and a golden outfit on the WK in the first place! :D These things just make the PT way better than a RL Broken Telephone. There the context jut gets muddles because of mishearings, but here some weird additional detail can be picked up on and turned into a whole new burst of weirdness. :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

PS: and just for fun, cutting out everything except for the first and last sentence:

Bilbo wished Gandalf would enter his hole as he used to, uninvited.

The Great Dictator of Angmar indoctrinates the virtues of a free market to a band of dwarves.


While it is fun, it isn't quite representative for the game. I find it rather impressive that Gandalf/Wizard(s) is a recurring element right until the last sentence.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

While it is fun, it isn't quite representative for the game. I find it rather impressive that Gandalf/Wizard(s) is a recurring element right until the last sentence.

That, in fact, is not really that impressive. Gandalf or Wizard(s) of any kind are kind of hard to confuse with anything. Even a Hobbit may get extrapolated for, say, Tom Bombadil or for some fat person, the only thing you can mix up Wizard with is exactly Dwarves, but even then it's pretty likely that had the PT continued, sooner or later the Dwarves would change into Wizards at some point. Gandalf, Gollum and Alien are the type of characters who are very difficult to get rid of.

[A Little Green]

Hellooooo is there going to be a reawakening extravaganza for Paper Telephone too? Any takers for modding? I don't trust myself to do it as I'd likely just take it in turns to get over-stressed about it and forget about it. :D

[Thinlómien]

I'm in. I can also mod if needs be but if someone really wants to mod, I think I'll be happier just playing. :)

[Firefoot]

I don't want to mod but I'd play. :)

[Galadriel55]

Ditto. :)

[Aganzir]

Interested.

Not in modding, though, because I'll be travelling.

[Nogrod]

Certainly in for a round of this tom-foolery!

[Pitchwife]

I'm in.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

And in that case I am in too. Can't probably mod, because I will not be around for a while, but...

[Nogrod]

Has anyone poked Mr. Hookbill?

[satansaloser2005]

I'll play as well. :)

[Kath]

I've not taken part in this before but would like to play!

[Thinlómien]

I'll be nice and mod for you bunch. It's not like I was doing anything else but sitting at the office all summer anyway.

List of players (will be shuffled before the game starts)

Greenie
Firefoot
Galadriel
Agan
Nogrod
Pitchwife
Legate
Sally
Kath
Hookbill

I think a couple of more players and we can get the ball rolling. Translation: sign ups still open and more than welcome.

Also because I mod we're doing doubles. If I could double participate myself I totally would, but I doubt it'd be fair. ;) If I'm feeling creative though I will start the game with a picture...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I'm in! I'm in!!! :d

[Aganzir]

I've not taken part in this before but would like to play!
Yaaay fresh blood! :cool:

[Galadriel55]

I'll be nice and mod for you bunch. It's not like I was doing anything else but sitting at the office all summer anyway.

Yay! Thanks, Lommy! :D

[Firefoot]

Anyone else want to play?

[Thinlómien]

Anyone else want to play?
Yes, anyone out there? :)

We need one more person to have a complete round. Let's start when that person turns up (and your moddess finds a sec to draw or photoshop a masterpiece) or on July 1st anyway. After that people I can still take two people if there are more enthusiasts, but only if there are two (not one).

Please keep an eye on your PMs (e-mail notifications are a good idea). I'm going to give people a bit more time than the last round since it's summer an I assume people may be busy, but if you don't write your sentence in 3 days or draw your picture in 5 days, I'm going to shuffle your turn. I also may harass you on Facebook or something, but I'd rather not use my energy on that. ;) Also, keeping an eye on the list every now and then and letting me know in advance if you suspect you'll be too busy when it's your turn is appreciated.

Lommy - draw
Hookbill - write
Kath - draw
Nogrod - write
Sally - draw
Legate - write
Galadriel - draw
Pitchwife - write
Agan - draw
Firefoot - write
Greenie - draw
??? - write

Hookbill - draw
Kath - write
Nogrod - draw
Sally - write
Legate - draw
Galadriel - write
Pitchwife - draw
Agan - write
Firefoot - draw
Greenie - write
??? - draw

[Galadriel55]

Bumping this up in case the final member comes along.

[Eönwë]

I will probably not have reliable internet (or any computer) access in the first two weeks of August, but other than that, I would like to be in on this.

[Oddwen]

If we find yet another player and Lommy is OK with the addition I would love to play (Thanks Lommy!)

[Thinlómien]

Okay, welcome! :)

Lommy - draw
Hookbill - write
Kath - draw
Nogrod - write
Sally - draw
Legate - write
Galadriel - draw
Pitchwife - write
Greenie - draw
Eönwë - write
Rune - draw
Agan - write
Oddwen - draw
Firefoot - write

Hookbill - draw
Kath - write
Nogrod - draw
Sally - write
Legate - draw
Galadriel - write
Pitchwife - draw
Greenie - write
Eönwë - draw
Rune - write
Agan - draw
Oddwen - write
Firefoot - draw

So:

1) I'd like to get one more sign up
2) I'll draw you guys a picture tomorrow so we'll start on July 2nd

:)

[Thinlómien]

I just sent Hookbill the first picture to describe!

Two reminders:

Please keep an eye on your PMs (e-mail notifications are a good idea). I'm going to give people a bit more time than the last round since it's summer an I assume people may be busy, but if you don't write your sentence in 3 days or draw your picture in 5 days, I'm going to shuffle your turn. I also may harass you on Facebook or something, but I'd rather not use my energy on that. ;) Also, keeping an eye on the list every now and then and letting me know in advance if you suspect you'll be too busy when it's your turn is appreciated.

and: remember to keep your sentences short and sweet and don't add too much explanatory text to your pictures. The more interpretation is involved, the funnier the game is!

Everybody have fun! I'm looking forward to see what you guys are going to come up with! :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I wants it

[Thinlómien]

I wants itThat was fast. :D Added.

Sign ups are now closed, unless you come in pairs, make irresistible puppy eyes at me and pinky swear to be fast with your turns.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

That was fast. :D Added.


I wanted it bad...

[Thinlómien]

I had to shuffle the order a little as Aganzir is travelling right now. Anyone else having similar concerns, please let me know. :)

Also: we are 1/4 through! Yay! Extra cake for all the writers this far being super fast.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

How on earth is it my turn already!!! (way to go, I am very impressed)

I am not actually at my own place at the moment, so I will probably not submit my contribution as fast as usual (but within the approved time frame of course)

[Thinlómien]

Your moddess' apologies for a couple of days' delay, but we're back on track now. (I have been naughty and just having a holiday.) Almost halfway through!

[satansaloser2005]

FYI, I will be mostly offline starting tomorrow (internet on my phone but no other immediate access), so if the moddess could kindly reach out to me on FB when my turn pops up, that would be much appreciated. :)

[Galadriel55]

I will be away for three days. It shouldn't affect anyone unless all of a sudden everyone just speeds up by about 100 times, but I thought I'd let you know just in case.

[Thinlómien]

...and it's been just a wee bit short of a month, and we're halfway through! Keep up the pace guys, and the level of hilarity too. :D

Sally and Gal, duly noted!

[Galadriel55]

I'm back now, with no predictable lack of internet in the near future. :)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Lommy! I sent you my picture the other day, did you get it?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Lommy! I sent you my picture the other day, did you get it?

She probably did, given how she was just talking about sending it to Kath... :)

[Thinlómien]

Yep, sorry Hooksie for not confirming it rightaway! Also, folks, let's remember to keep our sentences short (there's been a couple when I thought less would've been more, but this far I haven't made anyone write a new sentence... :Merisu: )

[Thinlómien]

So, as it happened, your beloved Lommoddess found herself yearning for the sea - as Elves are wont to do - and ended up drawing this:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/pt01_zpsntvwonws.png (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/pt01_zpsntvwonws.png.html)

Poor Hookbill was very shocked...

It's a geological nightmare! Maglor sings on the coast while Maedhros explores the earth's molten crust. How will our heroes get out of this? Perhaps this carefully labelled diagram of the mantle will help...

...but was eventually calmed down by Kath's magnificent artistic skills:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/Paper-Telephone-page-001_zps0ugzmpes.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/Paper-Telephone-page-001_zps0ugzmpes.jpg.html)

Meanwhile, under the sea, an octopus named Nogrod came to the conclusion that

The downfall of Númenor was caused just by geological forces and had nothing to do with the flawed human nature. It was a dream that would leave its mark on Isildur.

...which didn't make any sense to Sally until she visualized it, like this:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/11731535_707692338201_15028689_o_zpst9azv2yu.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/11731535_707692338201_15028689_o_zpst9azv2yu.jpg.h tml)

[Thinlómien]

Legate didn't get any visionary visions out of the visualization, but rather an observation:

For once, the Arda Weather Forecast Service was perfectly correct in its predictions.

Unfortunately, he wasn't observant enough to notice Galadriel55 and her pack had torn him into shreds overNight - wait, wrong game, oops. Anyhow, here's the pattern the blood form Gal's claws formed on... a piece of paper?

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/PAPERTELEPHONE_zps1zxdr1ap.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/PAPERTELEPHONE_zps1zxdr1ap.jpg.html)

The paper turned out to be invaluable evidence for solving the murder. Detective Pitchwife described it as follows:

The hobbits were sceptical whether Bombadil's plan to privatize the Shire's weather would really lead to a brighter future.

Lieutenant Greenie was not impressed. The description resulted in this angry doodle:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/pt%20715_zpsqm9ohgsi.png (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/pt%20715_zpsqm9ohgsi.png.html)

Fortunately for us, the lieutenant left her doodle on her desk, where the always smiling cleaner, Mr Eönwë, found it. Thoroughly impressed, he wrote in his diary that night:

Uncertain market forces seem posed to threaten Hobbiton in a big way.

Later that night, his house was burgled and his diary was taken. Just to mock him, Rune the burglar drew this next to the last diary entry:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/PapeTele20151_zpsmidmym1i.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/PapeTele20151_zpsmidmym1i.jpg.html)

[Thinlómien]

Unfortunately for the burglar, his roommate found the diary. Her name was Aganzir and she found the picture hilarious. She laughed so much she couldn't talk, so instead she typed this on her phone:

Sauron buries himself in good Shire soil to keep safe from his disillusioned subordinates.

The message was accidentally sent to no one else but a mighty orc warlord named Oddwen. She was so inspired that she designed this new emblem for her minions:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/ptelephone07282015%20copy_zpswcgjhqvo.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/ptelephone07282015%20copy_zpswcgjhqvo.jpg.html)

The rivaling warlord, Firefoot, found this a ridiculous idea. After a few flasks of Orc draught, she described her enemy's new insignia as a silly mess that looks as if

Sauron was dismayed to find that covering Mordor in soybean fields both heartened any Hobbits passing through and caused his Orcs an existential crisis.

As you might guess, this mockery had a mixed reception. In fact, even a cartoon was made, by no one else but the famous goblin cartoonist Hookbill the Gobla:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/11798352_10153553478629357_146619429_n_zpskb8pktur .jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/11798352_10153553478629357_146619429_n_zpskb8pktur .jpg.html)

Thankfully the world is full of witty reporters. The Elvish press - with journalists like Kath - quickly described the spit between the orc factions as

Sauron, taking a break from tormenting Saruman in Orthanc, is trying to explain to Bilbo (who had come to buy some totally unsuspicious soy beans) how irritating it is when German sunbathers lay their towels down on your vegetables, while aliens find themselves on his soy only menu.

The Dwarvish press was content to just publish this paparazzi picture - taken by Nogrod Ninjabeard - to show the quality of Elvish journalists:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/Paper%20telephone%200815_zpsi18buplk.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/Paper%20telephone%200815_zpsi18buplk.jpg.html)

[Thinlómien]

It is a little known fact that the aforementioned cartoon was the inspiration for the classic Bildungsroman by Sally. The first sentence reads as follows:

Bilbo has reservations about the Sandwitch King's vegetarian options.

Also, did you know there is a rare illustrated edition of the novel? The reason why the novel is so rare is because the illustrations were... ahem... banned in most of the (un)civilized world. See Legate's artwork and you'll know why:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/pt082015_zpssrb1w5zy.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/pt082015_zpssrb1w5zy.jpg.html)

If you still don't know why, let this statement by Galadriel55, the spokesperson for the International Court of Censoring Everything, enlighten you:

None of the desert Nazgul notice that Bilbo uses the Ring to steal food from their personal oasis.

And now - do you know what's the problem of censorship? It breeds opposition, even revolution. One day the famous street artist Pitchwife had covered the walls of the headquarters of the ICCE with this:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/GTegn0l_zpsytwrxofx.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/GTegn0l_zpsytwrxofx.jpg.html)

The revolution spread like wildfire, until someone (later simply known as "Greenie") scribbled this on the wall in the bottom left corner of the painting that had sparked it all:

The Nazgûl did not realise that focusing on work ruins a vacation.

Even later, there were numerous paintings depicting the unsuccesful revolution. This piece by Eönwë is the one I'd hang on my wall - if it wasn't in the Guggenheim already...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/IMG-20150827-WA0004_zpsztgqyabr.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/IMG-20150827-WA0004_zpsztgqyabr.jpg.html)

[Thinlómien]

Thanks to Rune the museum curator, the tag next to the painting doesn't tell the name of the artist and the piece, but rather this cryptic riddle:

In the end, it was incompatible definitions of “a working holiday” that destroyed the otherwise beautiful friendship between The Mouth of Sauron and The Nazgûls.

Well, fortunately we have clever symbologists like Aganzir who can trace the riddle back to this ritual painting by the Illuminati:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/papertelephone_hanninomakultimussukkamariarakas_zp s2rqlcxax.jpg (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/papertelephone_hanninomakultimussukkamariarakas_zp s2rqlcxax.jpg.html)

Just kidding. The Illuminati is never involved. The riddle was simply a misquotation of the famous thought by Oddwen:

The Mouth of Sauron knew that Sauron suffered from Vala envy, but when care of a tree was given to the Nazgul and took precedence over their usual vile duties, he knew something had to be done.

Okay, that was a lie, sorry about that. The Illuminati don't like their secrets revealed. Please have this lovely get well card by Firefoot as a compensation for my lies, and for the tears of pain this round of paper telephone may have caused:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b55/HolbytlaFirefoot/Mobile%20Uploads/1441851952890-1955027485.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/HolbytlaFirefoot/media/Mobile%20Uploads/1441851952890-1955027485.jpg.html)

And most of all, thank you all for playing! It was a fabulous round. :cool:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

This was BRILLIANT!!! :D So many good moments!!

Poor Kath! I'm so sorry about that sentence. :p

Galadriel55's Bombadil weather forecast had me in stitches!!! Brilliant.

And Aganzir's Nazgul look so cute doing their gardening.

[A Little Green]

Soy beans? German sunbathers? WHAT DID I JUST READ?

In other words, great job guys! Kath's sentence (and Nog's interpretation of it) just about killed me, and all those gardening/holidaymaking Nazgûl were just way too cute. Also, Eonwe's Mouth of Sauron and Oddwen's disillusioned orcs! <3

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

This was amazing! Like, seriously, SO many great pictures and sentences (and the sentences were really good this time, too).

Even with regard to all the amazing artwork, though, I have one question - Pitchwife!!! Where did you learn to draw? :eek: That is just amazingly beautiful.

But seriously, thanks to everyone - this is great! And of course thanks to Lommy for organising this and bringing it to us :)

[Pitchwife]

Oh my ffrsgnafklörghthgwmp! That was gorgeous. Have to echo Greenie, Kath's sentence and the picture Nog made of it against fearful odds really stand out, but insanity, skill and inspiration were spread evenly across all contributions. (Lommy, your starting picture was mean but brilliant!)

Pitchwife!!! Where did you learn to draw?
Imitating comic books back in school and, in this case, stealing techniques from Seurat and van Gogh. The difference is we bought a scanner sometime ago so I don't have to do it all on the computer. Anyway, thanks for the flowers.:o

[Galadriel55]

Oh goodness! This round definitely had some serious creativity going on! (Sun bathing Germans? Seriously? Where the hell did that even come from?) Fabulous pictures and fantastic sentences. Kudos to all!

But, a few points I think deserve a special mention.

So, as it happened, your beloved Lommoddess found herself yearning for the sea - as Elves are wont to do - and ended up drawing this:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/pt01_zpsntvwonws.png (http://s69.photobucket.com/user/Thinlomien/media/pt01_zpsntvwonws.png.html)

Ah! So now we finally understand the mysteries of the Earth's core!

Unfortunately, he wasn't observant enough to notice Galadriel55 and her pack had torn him into shreds overNight - wait, wrong game, oops. Anyhow, here's the pattern the blood form Gal's claws formed on... a piece of paper?

'Twas the skin of my enemies. I am secretly a Bolton. :D

Oddy's picture and following it Firefoot orc existential crisis sentence are absolutely hilarious!

EEK Kath's sentence!!!

Pitch, your picture is stunning! Legate beat me to saying it, but seriously.

The whole "ruined vacation" / Mouth of Sauron theme made me laugh all the way through.

Even with regard to all the amazing artwork, though, I have one question - Pitchwife!!! Where did you learn to draw? :eek: That is just amazingly beautiful.

I KNOW, right?

[Thinlómien]

It was a good round - I liked all the pictures and I agree that the sentences were excellent this time around. I kept telling people to keep them short and I wanted to tell Kath to make hers shorter, but it was so hilarious I just couldn't. :D

If I *had* to pick favourites among the picture, though, I'd probably pick Eönwë's forlorn workaholic Nazgûls and Oddwen's orcs having a massive revelation. I about died when I saw both of those for the first time. :D

Btw what is this thing with Nazgûls and hamburgers/sandwiches that has been going on for two games now??

[Galadriel55]

Btw what is this thing with Nazgûls and hamburgers/sandwiches that has been going on for two games now??

Hey, at least no Catalan independence movement this time around. :p

[Pitchwife]

Btw what is this thing with Nazgûls and hamburgers/sandwiches that has been going on for two games now??
Why, don't you remember the old verse:

Ah snack burger-to-go, ah snack chicken-wings...

In other words, ladies and gentlemen, who's up for another one? I'll mod if need be.

[Firefoot]

I'll play again. :)

[Galadriel55]

Meee tooo.

[Pitchwife]

Players so far (carrying over from FB):

Firefoot
Galadriel55
Nogrod
Rune
Eönwë
Greenie
Oddwen
Legate
Rikae
Formendacil

One or two more pending confirmation.

[Formendacil]

I'm willing to get back in.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Sign me up! :D

[Pitchwife]

So it looks like we now have

Firefoot
Galadriel55
Nogrod
Rune
Eönwë
Greenie
Oddwen
Legate
Rikae
Formendacil
TGEW
Hookbill
Lommy

Ok, looks like we're more or less good to go, right? I originally thought of doing doubles, in which case we'd need one more if I'm counting right. Or does anybody think it would take too long with 12 players? Also, if we do a single round, please state the nature of the medical emergency, er, no, I mean your preferences as to writing or drawing.

[Galadriel55]

I'm more in the mood for a quicker single round, but I won't object to doing doubles. And no preference.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

If we are only doing a single round, then I will definitely prefer to write.

[Firefoot]

I have no preference for a single vs double round. If it's single I'd rather write.

[Oddwen]

I'm game for doubles or singles and have no preferences for drawing or writing.

[Pitchwife]

Since nobody seems to have any marked preferences it seems to fall to me to make a dictatorial decision. MWAHAHA! Ok, we're doing doubles - which is handy, as we'd need one more player otherwise to come full circle, and I think it's time to get real.

Players (after systematic randomizing):

Pitchwife (write)

Eönwë (draw)
Firefoot (write)
Nogrod (draw)
Galadriel (write)
Formendacil (draw)
Legate (write)
Oddwen (draw)
Rune (write)
Greenie (draw)
TGEW (write)
Rikae (draw)
Lommy (write)
Hookbill (draw)

Eönwë (write)
Firefoot (draw)
Nogrod (write)
Galadriel (draw)
Formendacil (write)
Legate (draw)
Oddwen (write)
Rune (draw)
Greenie (write)
TGEW (draw)
Rikae (write)
Lommy (draw)
Hookbill (write)

Bar any objections, interjections or other jections I'll send the first sentence out on Wednesday, November 11th, coinciding with the start of the carnival season in Germany, which seems kind of appropriate.

[Galadriel55]

Bar any objections, interjections or other jections I'll send the first sentence out on Wednesday, November 11th, coinciding with the start of the carnival season in Germany, which seems kind of appropriate.

Subjections? Projections? Rejections? Dejections? Injections??? :D

Ok, I'll stop. :p

[Pitchwife]

First sentence has just been ejected, I mean sent. Here we go.

Please check your PMs regularly, and/or your e-mails if you get notifications for PMs and actually read your emails more often than you check the Downs (apparently this happens). Taking a page out of Lommy's book, I'd like you to get back to me with a sentence within 3 days, a picture within 5; doing faster will be rewarded with special appreciation. Keep it short, crisp and cryptic - and most of all, as always, have fun!

Also sign ups are closed.

[Pitchwife]

Halfway through the dark, and we're half through the game! Prepare for surrealist stirrings in spring.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

How far is this phone call?

[Pitchwife]

Two to go. Shouldn't take too long now.

[Pitchwife]

Once upon a time Pitchwife was sitting at his desk and compiling viewing statistics for Minhiriath Transmitting Variety (MTV) to improve his pension plan. "Goldberry felt left out when Gandalf and Bombadil celebrated their reunion by drinking all night while watching the Arda Cup," he wrote; but on second thought he decided to protect Goldberry's privacy, scrunched the page up and tossed it out of the window.

It hit street artist Eönwë on the head and inspired him to draw this on the pavement:

http://i.imgur.com/mIhceVzh.jpg

Firefoot, who just happened to pass by, was so impressed by this masterpiece that she had to tell Nogrod about it. "Galadriel," she exclaimed, "was indignant to find that Gandalf and Pippin were using the palantir as a big screen projector to watch a soccer game."

Nogrod found the story appealing and hacked the aurora borealis to paint it on the northern sky:

http://i.imgur.com/l4PztLrh.jpg

The phenomenon was seen even in far-off Canada by none other than Galadriel herself, the 55th of her name, who wasn't amused to find that Gandalf and Frodo were misusing Galadriel's mirror to watch reality shows.

Formendacil observed it too and sent this snapshot to his local newspaper:

http://i.imgur.com/Dsp47ge.jpg

(to be continued)

[Pitchwife]

Chief Editor Legateimmediately stopped the press and changed the headline to read Galadriel's Middle-Earth Seeks SuperStar performance did not impress the legless members of the jury. But Oddwen was on the scene already and shot this picture for the evening news:

http://i.imgur.com/qT5Plesh.jpg

Rune, reporting live from the competition, breathlessly told his phone: "An extremely diverse jury is unable to agree on whether Galadriel possesses the qualities necessary to emulate Eärendil",

while A Little Green caught the spirit of the scene in a porcelain sculpture of unembroidered elegance:

http://i.imgur.com/JAAlNhIh.jpg

Tea-GEW saw this in a porcelain shop while looking for a new teapot and was struck by its relevance to American history. "The founding fantasy fathers look on in court while Gil-Galad makes his speech," she told Rikae, who proceeded to carve this scene into the north face of Caradhras:

http://i.imgur.com/wsg3CP5.jpg

(to be continued)

[Pitchwife]

"Even having friends in the jury won't save Elrond this time," court reporer Thinlomien concluded from this monument of juridical procedure, and Hookbill could not but concur in his editorial on the front page of the Downer:

http://i.imgur.com/lFObGjV.jpg

"Elrond's parenting hits the headlines yet again," sighed Eönwë, reading the Downer at breakfast, as always (first breakfast, that is, but rumour has it he also reads it at second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper).



Firefoot, agreeing with his sentiment, drew this into her diary:


http://i.imgur.com/2MNS6wQh.jpg


She died of boredom shortly thereafter. Her diary resurfaced in a Finnish second hand bookshop where it was bought by Nogrod. "Some thought that after 7500 seasons the plot-twists and turns of the family-saga of two great brothers' families were starting to repeat themselves," he observed.


Gal55 was not among those. In tireless ploy she turned the whole saga into an illustrated tear-off calendar of 7500 pages:


http://i.imgur.com/ykLJr4f.jpg


(to be continued after dinner)

[Pitchwife]

Formendacil, who had bought one of Gal55's calendars, couldn't contain his disappointment when he found that every single one of its 7500 pages was identical! "The calendar of the Seventh Age was a trifle monotonous," he complained.

Apparently the monotony extended even to the celestial spheres, for later that night Legate observed this in his telescope:

http://i.imgur.com/XSj6vWxh.jpg

"Tilion always takes a bow and pines for the glory days of Aule The Smiths during that time of the month," Oddwen commented when he allowed her to look through the glass.


Rune was haunted by troubling dreams that very same night, and waking up sketched this:


http://i.imgur.com/bq7RwUeh.jpg


He showed it to his Little Green psychotherapist who analysed it as "Legolas is alarmed by a Gimli-shaped cloud."

This was overheard by TGEW who found the idea intriguing enough to turn it into a fresco extending along a whole corridor:


http://i.imgur.com/d8DvPwr.jpg


(to be continued)

[Pitchwife]

A hundred years after TGEW's house had fallen apart into a heap of potsherds, archeologist Rikae discovered the fresco during excavations and mailed this description to his colleague, Lommy: "In a green haze, an old elf man yells at a cloud."

But when the accompanying picture came out of Lommy's printer it looked like this:

http://i.imgur.com/cTXGeji.jpg

Befuddled, Lommy turned to Hookbill, the resident expert on things green, hazy or otherwise weird. He explained it thusly: "Mighty sea god, Cirdan, curses the single cloud that has thwarted his sailing plans."

And the mythology of Middle-earth never was the same again.

THE END

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Good gracious me! That was incredible! :D

Rikae's fantasy founding fathers made me laugh.

I like how Goldberry turning into Galadriel, who turned into Gilgalad, and then Elrond, and then Cirdan some how!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

This was wonderful! It is pretty cool that the subjects depicted kept changing all the time. And both the sentences and the pics were splendid. My top two, though, are Rikae's founding fantasy fathers and then I am super happy for Hookbill utilising The Downer. That was a wonderful way to bring back the memories!

And of course thanks to Pitch for modding. This was a great round.

[Galadriel55]

That was terrific! Loved every bit of it. And the starting sentence was great! Thanks for modding this, Pitch!

And the mythology of Middle-earth never was the same again.

Tilion's mood swings certainly won't be! :eek:

(Now that I think of it, you can probably measure the passing of my innocent-mindedness by my reactions to Paper Telephones. :D)


Loved all the sentences and pictures. A couple that deserve an extra bow, I think, are Hook's Downer (yay! It's back! And with amazingly accurate text too!), Oddwen's legless Legolas, and Legate's monotonous calendar, which made me chuckle. I was also really amazed by all the great artwork!

I second (third?) liking the constant changes. I loved how one picture or sentence would drastically change the topic or bring in hilarious new elements. This was fantastic! Let's do it again!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The drawings by Greenie and Rikae were my favourites, though it was Lommys that made me laugh the hardest.

The Downer made a neat cameo, and made the readthrough last a little longer (I assume we all read the full text).

[Pitchwife]

It was a pleasure to mod for you crazy inventive people and watch the subject change this way and that way. Thanks to all of you for playing!

I loved Oddwen's picture and the sentence by Legate which prompted it, Rune's interpretation of 'superstar' as 'Eärendil' (thumbs up for that), Greenie's Gilgaladriel, Rikae's founding fathers (that was one of the best!), Gal55's calendar, which was a great way to visualize Nog's rather abstract sentence, Hookbill's Downer page (pure nostalgia, and yes I read the whole text too!), everything about Tilion, Lommy's green Círdan (he isn't ugly, he's cute! But what about Abraham Lincoln?)... Great stuff.

Who's next modding? I'll play.

[Aganzir]

This was so funny!

My favourites include Eönwë's picture (that palantír!), G55's sentence, Form's picture (that remote!), the whole court/founding fathers thing (amazing pictures, Greenie and Rikae!), the whole cloud thing (I love Rune's picture and how it becomes Gimli-shaped cloud which in turn becomes old man yells at cloud). My absolute favourite is Lommy's sentence though: "Even having friends in the jury won't save Elrond this time." So to the point and cruel. :D

It seems to have been half a year, but I'm happy to mod the next round.

[Galadriel55]

I'll play, just don't make me draw in the next two weeks. After that I should be okay.

[Aganzir]

Well, seeing how sluggishly people have been posting on Mirth lately, I doubt you'll have to do much anything in two weeks. :p

Playing:
G55

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I will play! :d

[Aganzir]

Playing:
G55
Rune
Greenie (Freebie, according to autocorrect)
Nogrod
Eönwë

It pays off to advertise on facebook.

[Pitchwife]

Me too! *jumps up and down with excitement*

[Aganzir]

Playing:
G55
Rune
Greenie
Nogrod
Eönwë
Pitch
Form
Lommy
Gil-Galad
Oddwen
Kath

Looks like we can start soon then! :D I'll randomise the order and send out the first sentence later this weekend.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Looking forward to it!!!

[Aganzir]

As you remember, drawing time is three days and writing time 2 days. Please turn on email notifications for private messages if you haven't already, because tempting as it would be to send people their tasks on facebook messenger, I'll primarily try to stick to the Downs.

Let me know if you need to be moved.

Round 1:
Kath - draw
Nogrod - write
Formendacil - draw
Rune - write
Thinlómien - draw
Eönwë - write
Legate - draw
Oddwen - write
Gil-Galad - draw
Greenie - write
Pitchwife - draw
Galadriel55 - write
Hookbill - draw

Round 2:
Kath - write
mod - draw
Formendacil - write
Rune - draw
Thinlómien - write
Eönwë - draw
Legate - write
Oddwen - draw
Gil-Galad - write
Greenie - draw
Pitchwife - write
Galadriel55 - draw
Hookbill - write
Nogrod - draw
TGEW - write

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Hey! I said I'd play! Put me on the list, you villain!

[Aganzir]

Whoops! And I was even wondering why you weren't playing, so much so that I went to check if you'd signed up in the facebook group! Don't know how I completely missed your post here. :o

[Pitchwife]

I'll be travelling from tomorrow till October 13th with only sporadic internet access, but at this pace I should be back before my turn comes. Just saying.

[Aganzir]

Okay, thanks for letting us know! If your turn comes before then, I'll swap you with somebody. Have a good trip!

[Gil-Galad]

I'll be travelling from tomorrow till October 13th with only sporadic internet access, but at this pace I should be back before my turn comes. Just saying.

I will stall for you if it picks up. Aganzir loves it when I do that.:D

[Aganzir]

I will stall for you if it picks up. Aganzir loves it when I do that.:D
Oi! Don't you dare! :D

[Aganzir]

After two and a half weeks, we're halfway through round 1! (For some reason, I first typed 'season 1', and looking at all the twists and turns and drama, this might as well be a TV show. :D)

Keep up the good work, everyone! :D

[Pitchwife]

Wib

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

After two and a half weeks, we're halfway through round 1! (For some reason, I first typed 'season 1', and looking at all the twists and turns and drama, this might as well be a TV show. :D)

Keep up the good work, everyone! :D

Impressive. Looking forward to seeing how it has evolved.

[Aganzir]

Impressive. Looking forward to seeing how it has evolved.
Let me just say: it has. :smokin:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, shoot. I think I must have logged out of Facebook the first week this PT game was being set up and I completely forgot to join! Would there, perchance, be a spot for me? :Merisu:

[Aganzir]

I'm going to add you to the end of the list! We're already on round 2 but your contribution is most welcome. :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Let me just say: it has. :smokin:

Indeed it has, you will have my contribution tomorrow.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I'm going to add you to the end of the list! We're already on round 2 but your contribution is most welcome. :)

Ah! Excellent! :smokin:

[Aganzir]

Hey sorry for the delay in updating the list and making it look like Rune was taking ages - I was travelling and generally busy! Anyway we're down to Pitch, not long to go now!

As a teaser, here's my face swap with the picture I drew (had to step in at one point to cover for someone). Enjoy! ;)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/Snapchat-1881841459_zpskt1103p7.jpg

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Hey sorry for the delay in updating the list and making it look like Rune was taking ages - I was travelling and generally busy! Anyway we're down to Pitch, not long to go now!


My reputation is so tarnished, that I doubt you could do it any damage.

[Galadriel55]

You look lovely, Agan. Where did you get that make up? ;) :p

[Pitchwife]

How could it ever have come to this? :eek:

(No, I'm not talking about the US election.:p)

[Aganzir]

Paper Telephone is finished - and it's full of surprises (and also a somewhat poor tribute to the late Leonard Cohen)!

Also, just a warning - reading this at work may prove a mistake, unless you're willing to explain to your boss why you're giggling helplessly. Trust me.

**

The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;
The heart is bold that looks on gold;
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.

Everybody knows that the Kaths are loaded...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/IMG-20160921-WA00002_zpsxmxdegre.jpg

Everybody rolls with their fingers Nogged...

In the end it was clear Thorin was acting morally wrong from both the consequentialist and deontological point of view.

Formendacil knows the war is over...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/14459931_10154316303435935_717572044_n_zpswuixjmhn .jpg

Everybody knows the Rune guys lost...

Thorin is angered and confused by what is clearly a substandard analysis of his latest endeavor.

Everybody Lomms the fight was fixed...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/pt0916_zpsn9ma48ho.jpg

[Aganzir]

The Eönwë stay poor...
Some of the reviews that Thorin received were less than complimentary.

The Legate get rich...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/pt-2016_zpszvchehuk.jpg

That's how Oddwen goes...

Before he was allowed to blow the Horn of Gondor, Boromir's Hornless Hornblowing business received very poor reviews.

Gil-Galad knows...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/14632726_10157590608510437_495238686_o.png_zpsy6et 0dws.jpg

Everybody knows that the Green is leaking...
Boromir's social media debut is not a success.

Everybody knows that the Pitchwife lied...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/14694877_863404193759519_1965529443_n_zpse8e6gsn2. jpg

[Aganzir]

Galadriel55 got this broken feeling...
Boromir destroyed the advanced palantir just as it was showing him far-away faces.

Like their Hookbill or their dog just died...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/Joel%20Paper%20telephone_zpsrudaue4i.png

Everybody talking to Kath’s pockets...
The ghostly shopkeeper refused to sell Feanor's second palantir to a very angry Boromir.

Everybody wants a box of Aganzirs...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/IMG_20161023_212635_zpsocvwixdf.jpg

And a long-stem Form...
A petulant wight disagreed with Faramir's decision to buy Fëanor's First Age Olympic Jewel-making trophy

Runebody knows...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/IMG_11492_zpstxkvevt8.jpg

[Aganzir]

Everybody knows that you love me Lommy...
Unbeknownst to the writer of the Red Book, the fight between Éowyn and the Witch-King had actually been about sports.

Eönwë knows that you really do...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/received_10207911318882933_zps6kciwz5j.jpeg

Everybody knows that Legate’s been faithful...
She had always wanted the Witch-King to think outside the box.

Ah, give or take an Oddwen or two...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/papertelephone1152016_zpsz1hmat3z.jpg

Everybody knows Gil’s been discreet...
People started thinking if the Witch-King's recent cat-like tendencies was the best option for his self-esteem.

But there were so many Greenies you just had to meet...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/IMG-20161108-WA0001_zpsjxobaest.jpg

[Aganzir]

Without Pitch clothes...
The Egg Men watch in befuddlement as Tevildo regenerates into Sauron.

And Galadriel55 knows...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/Agans20162_zpstics9qma_edit_1478870458839_zpsnv7ly joa.jpeg

EveryHook knows, everybill knows...
Eggs, in their confusion, force Sauron to regenerate into a cat. How did this happen? Find out next week!

That’s how Nog goes...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Aganzir/PT%20s16_zpsd1qiex7y.jpg

EveryTGEW knows...
Sauron the cat knocks over Stonehenge with his terrifying glare.

[Thinlómien]

That was amazing, especially towards the end! Just weird but brilliant.

I love Nog's sentence and Form's interpretation of it, also Pitchwife's picture and basically everything from Rune's picture to the end, that's when it truly became crazy. :eek::D I will treasure the mental image of The Witch-King in a box from now on! :D

[Galadriel55]

Oh my goodness! "She had always wanted the Witch-King to think outside the box." - and the Witch King being a cat in a box - fantastic!!! :D And Nog's picture and TGEW's sentence - what a way to finish. Full stars!

I agree with Lommy. It's been a great read, especially towards the end. Brilliant!

And kudos to Agan for keeping us on track!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

This was one of the best Paper Telephone's yet!!!

A Little Green's Cat-Witch-King was my favourite! :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Pitchwife's picture was magic!!!

Also is it just me or is Aganzir's shopkeeper a bit ninjaturle-ish?

[Pitchwife]

^:o


A Little Green's Cat-Witch-King was my favourite! :D
MIne too, I think... and I actually suspected some grim & bold origin behind this feline, um, ... phantom. Little did I know.

I'd also like to give kudos to Kath for the first picture (seriously, how else were you going to illustrate those verses? btw that's what Thorin looks like in my imagination, forget Richard Armitage!), Eönwë's comic (whose narrative style is obviously inspired by extensive exposure to P&A!) and Legate's following sentence which prompted the whole box -> cat business, Nog's philosophic spin on the matter (admirably illustrated in turn by Formy!) as well as his cubist picture and TGEW's hilarious interpretation thereof... I could go on, everybody was marvellous.

Can we do this again? Like, soon?

[Galadriel55]

Can we do this again? Like, soon?

I was gonna offer to try to mod again, but when I was uploading my picture I couldn't get photobucket to work. It says memory full, even though last time I uploaded a PT picture it had something like 3/4 memory left... Dunno what's the problem, maybe I should just delete everything and start over, but as the website has been really slow I'm not sure when that's gonna happen.

I suppose the point is, if no one else wants to mod, I can take the turn, assuming I get my tech to work again.

[Pitchwife]

^Photobucket is not what it was. I recommend imgur - I've been using it for three or four years now, uploaded close to 600 pics, and it's given me nary a problem.

[Aganzir]

Also is it just me or is Aganzir's shopkeeper a bit ninjaturle-ish?
Haha I rather thought it looked like Legate. :p

Photobucket was a bit of a pain this time (can I say this time when it's been 4 months?); sometimes the links that I sent wouldn't work... Might be worth a shot to move over to imgur.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Haha I rather thought it looked like Legate. :p


Nah, all they have in common are the creepy hands.:p

[Pitchwife]

^When I saw you had posted on this thread, Rune, I kind of hoped you were volunteering to mod the next game...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

^When I saw you had posted on this thread, Rune, I kind of hoped you were volunteering to mod the next game...

I think we will need a person uhm... of the more disciplined sort.
Besides, I would be awful at writing the narrative.

I could do with another game soon though.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Okay. It's been almost a year since our last game. Anyone up for another? I'll mod if you guys want. :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am up for a new game.

[Galadriel55]

I would participate.

[Huinesoron]

This looks amusing. :) Assuming the rules are still the same as in the first post, I'll sign up.

hS

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I am all for it, too!

[Pitchwife]

Yes please!

[satansaloser2005]

I'm in as well!

[Oddwen]

Yas please!

[Formendacil]

You have my crayons!

[Pitchwife]

Nine sign-ups so far - so, is this happening or do we wait for more ? If we do doubles we should be good to go.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I think we may want to start this up (possibly with the idea of doubles) and of course if somebody joins on the way, the better?

I think the important question is - who is going to mod it?

[Pitchwife]

Well, TGEW volunteered...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well, TGEW volunteered...

Hopefully, she is still up for it :) I wonder if she can be poked in order to remind her and confirm this; after all, it's been a while.

[Huinesoron]

Nine sign-ups so far - so, is this happening or do we wait for more ? If we do doubles we should be good to go.

If nine is correct, I like the idea of running through the list twice (which I assume is the intent of 'doubles'): I think with an odd number it would mean everyone got to both draw and write, which is a plus.

hS

[Pitchwife]

I wonder if she can be poked in order to remind her and confirm this; after all, it's been a while.
Just did.

I think with an odd number it would mean everyone got to both draw and write, which is a plus.
That's the idea, yes.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Sorry for the radio silence, guys! My computer has been on the fritz. Turns out I need a new battery for it, which I will be acquiring soon. It's just a big pain to post on the Downs on my phone and I've been too busy to ask someone to let you guys know about the situation. It's probably a good idea if I don't mod after all this round. But next time I will definitely be up to it!

I'm so sorry for causing a concern. :o

[Pitchwife]

Don't worry, it's all good :). Hope your machine will be back in shape soon!

Anybody else?

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am really extremely busy at the moment.
Spring is busy season at work and also in for Danish political parties/unions, on top of this I am also doing a course with the Danish Homeguard... What I am trying to say is: I really hope somebody else is up for modding, as I would not be a reliable choice.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

If nobody else seems up to it, I could take it upon myself. Next question should be to once again confirm who wants to participate, as it's been quite some time since the initial sign-ups.

Rune son of Bjarne
Pitchwife
Huinesoron
Oddwen
satansaloser2005
Formendacil
Galadriel55
?
Is everyone still with us?

TGEW, you can't mod, but are you up for being a common participant? :)

[Huinesoron]

I'm still here. :)

hS

[Galadriel55]

Same - still here for playing.

[Formendacil]

Yup--I know it is a heavy burden, but I can still participate.

[satansaloser2005]

I'm still in, though should I fail to respond to a summons, someone should poke me on FB in case I don't get my PM notification.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Very well. I will send out the first sentence today.

General rule of thumb: if it's your turn to write a sentence, please do so within a day, if you are supposed to draw a picture, please do so within three days. I will keep poking you if you don't.

We are doing doubles, and the list, as it stands, would be:

Legate of Amon Lanc - write
Pitchwife - draw
Rune son of Bjarne - write
Huinesoron - draw
Oddwen - write
satansaloser2005 - draw
Formendacil - write
Galadriel55 - draw
TGEW - write
Thinlómien - draw

Pitchwife- write
Rune son of Bjarne- draw
Huinesoron - write
Oddwen - draw
satansaloser2005 - write
Formendacil - draw
Galadriel55 - write
TGEW - draw
Thinlómien - write
Legate of Amon Lanc - draw

Of course, if someone still appears before the first round is done and wants to join, we can do some last-minute mixing up. Same if you feel the need to switch places for any reason, please just say so, and we can do it.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I have just ordered a new battery for my laptop. If installation goes well, I should be able to use my laptop to its potential and mod the next game. In any case, I just sent my sentence off! :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I have just ordered a new battery for my laptop. If installation goes well, I should be able to use my laptop to its potential and mod the next game. In any case, I just sent my sentence off! :)

Nice! :)

...aand in any case, with that, we are nearly halfway through. I can tell you, so far it's been a very interesting round.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Very well everyone, we are getting really, really close! A few more days, and you can all see what we have... eh... created.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Legate sent me the sentence to draw a few days ago and I completely forgot about it! :o So sorry, guys! I'm drawing my picture tonight.

[Galadriel55]

Legate sent me the sentence to draw a few days ago and I completely forgot about it! :o So sorry, guys! I'm drawing my picture tonight.

Oh my goodness! I'm so excited for this! This Paper Telephone is going to make my exam studying a lot less studious. :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Just wait for it, we are almost there! You can expect the results of this madness soon :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

All right, the time has come! Friends, 'Downers, dear guests.

Today, we have gathered here to witness the incredible process of madness. Namely, how in the name of all, this:

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!

turned, via a long process, eventually into this:
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt20.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt20.jpg.html)

You don't understand, do you. Neither do I, despite having seen it all. But let's start from the beginning and go through it all, step by step.

Buckle up, we are just about to start the ride.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

So once again - as mentioned above, we started with the traditional piece of poetry from Bilbo Baggins's collection.

"Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!"


It was represented by Pitchwife thus:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt02.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt02.jpg.html)

Upon seeing this, Rune immediately knew what was the issue here:

Lobelia's experiment with genetically modified corn greatly improved productivity among the Mirkwood spiders, though some of her other work was considered error-prone.

Huinesoron, being neither lazy, nor lob, came back with this depiction:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt04.png (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt04.png.html)

Quoth the Oddwen:

There isn't mushroom for error when you garden under the direction of Little Miss Muffoot.

And sally, who certainly wasn't a cob, but saying nothing about the craziness, pictured it in this manner:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt06.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt06.jpg.html)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

From there, things began to pick up speed. As evidenced by Formendacil's words...

The mushroom's errors loomed over the Princess's ability to see flowers.

And so, royalty had entered the picture, under the watchful eye of the court painter, Galadriel55:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt08.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt08.jpg.html)

And the famous art critic, TGEW, interpreted it thus:

The Queen looks through rose-tinted glasses at a crying mushroom with a list.

Which, in turn, prompted Lommy to portray the following scene:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt10.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt10.jpg.html)

Passing the ball, or rather the tangled cobweb, back to Pitchwife, who, after recovering from the initial shock, described it as such:
Queen Beruthiel was wont to idealise the suffering of the fungoid masses.

Rune son of Bjarne got to his work with gusto that surpassed Hobbit taste for mushrooms:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt12.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt12.jpg.html)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Huinesoron had no problem figuring out what was going on:

Seven out of ten cats agree: Queen Beruthiel's scheme to barricade the mines with fungi was a masterstroke of bioengineering.

And Oddwen certainly had no problem picking up that thread:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt14.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt14.jpg.html)

With fear and trembling, sally looked upon the image, and this is what she saw:

The all-feline audience listened attentively to the presentation by The White Tree Society regarding the mission to take the ring to Mount Shroom.

And her sentence took on the following Form:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt16.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt16.jpg.html)

Galadriel55 was as puzzled as everyone else, but picked herself up, then her pencil, and wrote this:

Having failed botany class, Faramir decided to go into animal training, planning to teach cats to carry the Ring to Orodruin using the local flora for orientation.

Which was appreciated by TGEW up to the point of inspiring the following:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt18.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt18.jpg.html)

And, with that, the final stroke came from Lommy in this shape:

Faramir's dreams about an academic career in botany may have been crushed, but it didn't mean he couldn't do something with plants when he grew up.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Whereupon yours truly decided to wrap everything up with the last piece of visual art:

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/polomaci/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt20.jpg (http://s529.photobucket.com/user/polomaci/media/pt/Paper%20Telephone%202/pt20.jpg.html)

And there we are.

Thank you for the ride, everyone - it's been a mad one. :D I cannot express how much fun it's been to mod this, and see all your creations. You're all crazy cobs, and that's a compliment!!!

[Thinlómien]

:D:D

I had forgotten what fun Paper Telephone is. Thanks, everyone - but especially Oddwen. I can finally make sense of the night a while back when Legate kept having hysterical laughing fits at 1am because "Oddwen's paper telephone picture". That picture is amazing. :D

[Pitchwife]

^I absolutely second this. You win PT, Oddwen!

Awesome game, everyone! Comments in order of appearance:

Rune - kudos for managing to translate my pictorial mess into something intelligible!

Huey - love your picture! So this is where the mushrooms came from.

Oddwen - 'mushroom for error' = pure genius!

sally - the expression of your Little Miss Muffoot! Somehow she reminds me of Dolores Umbridge.

Formy - I wonder whether the princess's eyesight was impaired by consuming the wrong mushroom?;)

G55, TGEW, - perfect examples for literal interpretation producing hilarity. Lommy too -- I loved your Queen Berúthiel! (This was my first glimpse of what had come of my picture, and I remember commenting to Legate that 'woman + food seem to have been the most tenacious elements'.)

Rune - Am I seeing things, or is that a tiny Eye above the words 'Macht Frei'? (I appreciate the historical allusion!)

Huey - glorious sentence!

From there on things took a turn towards rabid insanity. Mount Shroom!:D TGEW's cats look so unhappy, they seem to have an inkling that their quest is doomed, as evidenced by their not surviving into Lommy 's sentence. And I trust I won't be the first to have noticed that Legate's Faramir looks a lot like a self portrait.:p Thank you so much for modding this!

[Galadriel55]

I loved your Queen Berúthiel! (This was my first glimpse of what had come of my picture, and I remember commenting to Legate that 'woman + food seem to have been the most tenacious elements'.

Indeed. When I saw the picture on the second round, my first thought was that the only thing to make it through was the shrooms. :D

It was a great round! Thanks Legate for modding and marshaling us into a fast-paced schedule! The picture at the end was a fun idea too.

I love Pitch's somewhat rebus-like picture. It's funny that 404 came up again - I thought it was hilarious!

HS, you're quite the artist. And Oddwen's setence right after - I mustache you where that idea came from, it's a stroke of genius.

Lommy's Beruthiel looks so realistically smug. It's creepy.

And in Legate's last picture the White Tree looks so sternly disapproving. It must know the Ents will not let this business continue. :D

And I trust I won't be the first to have noticed that Legate's Faramir looks a lot like a self portrait.:p Thank you so much for modding this!

Nah, Faramir looks too frowny. But second the last sentence!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Oddwen's picture made me laugh out loud.

It finally makes sense where the cats came into this! I modeled my silver cat off of my baby, Scott. He's the one on the left here(shameless plug for my cat):

http://rattling-the-teacups.tumblr.com/image/102982454917

All in all, a very enjoyable round. Since I didn't mod for it, I'm game for modding this time around! :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Rune - Am I seeing things, or is that a tiny Eye above the words 'Macht Frei'? (I appreciate the historical allusion!)

I wish... Actually it was an attempt at making a nail that the sign could han on... :rolleyes:

The poor quality of my drawing is a result om having to draw it in all haste in conference room at work...

Oddwen's picture made me laugh out loud.

It finally makes sense where the cats came into this! I modeled my silver cat off of my baby, Scott. He's the one on the left here(shameless plug for my cat):

http://rattling-the-teacups.tumblr.com/image/102982454917

All in all, a very enjoyable round. Since I didn't mod for it, I'm game for modding this time around! :)

I am up for participating in another round.

[Huinesoron]

I love the puns! Especial shoutout to Oddwen for Little Miss Muffoot and sally for Mount Shroom.

I'm amused (and bewildered) that two separate people included a 404 error in their pictures, and I am in awe of Lommy's Queen (is she meant to be Beruthiel?).

Oh, and I'm delighted with how long the mushrooms lasted. Obviously I would never admit to making a mistake (such as originally drawing corn, then misremembering the sentence and going 'but Lobelia would definitely be farming mushrooms instead'), so I have to insist that they're actually exceptionally modified wheat... :D

hS

PS: I'm absolutely up to play another round. ^_^

[Pitchwife]

Nah, Faramir looks too frowny.
Have you ever seen Legate make faces?


I modeled my silver cat off of my baby, Scott. He's the one on the left here(shameless plug for my cat):

http://rattling-the-teacups.tumblr.com/image/102982454917 (http://rattling-the-teacups.tumblr.com/image/102982454917)
He's beautiful! The black and ginger ones remind me of my Mom's cats, Guinness and Idris (both named after common beverages of the British Isles).



Since I didn't mod for it, I'm game for modding this time around! :)
We'll hold you to that! I'm obviously in for another round, too.


Obviously I would never admit to making a mistake (such as originally drawing corn, then misremembering the sentence and going 'but Lobelia would definitely be farming mushrooms instead'), so I have to insist that they're actually exceptionally modified wheat... :D
That's quite the achievement! Who would have thought Lobelia was such an accomplished geneticist? I suppose she couldn't wait to use Bag-End's cellars as her experimental laboratory...:D

[satansaloser2005]

This was a wild ride indeed! I especially enjoyed Lommy's rose-colored glasses and poor Form's interpretation of my ridiculous scribbling. Cheers and huzzahs to everyone on a hilarious game. I am of course up for another round of this craziness. :)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Okay, I'm super bad because I'm never on the Downs anymore, but I'm still down to mod.

We have so far:

Rune
Huinesoron
Pitch
Sally

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Okay, I'm super bad because I'm never on the Downs anymore, but I'm still down to mod.

We have so far:

Rune
Huinesoron
Pitch
Sally

I think we might have to do a bit of campaigning to get participants.

[Galadriel55]

Add me on!

[Formendacil]

And my axe!

[Galadriel55]

Rune
Huinesoron
Pitch
Sally
G55
Form's Axe

:D :D :D

[Thinlómien]

If I wanted to mod a round of Paper Telephone, would I get 10 or so people to play (a classic round with doubles)? :Merisu:

[Galadriel55]

I re-confirm my participation in whatever format. :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

If I wanted to mod a round of Paper Telephone, would I get 10 or so people to play (a classic round with doubles)? :Merisu:

Yeesss!

[Thinlómien]

Yay!

So, so far we've got:

Lommy (mod - unless TGEW still wants to? I'm not gonna usurp her ;))
G55
Rune

[satansaloser2005]

Yes please!

[Pitchwife]

You have my pen!

[Oddwen]

I'm in!

[Urwen]

I'll play.

[Kath]

I'd like to play!

[Huinesoron]

[Raises hand] I'd be delighted to play.

hS

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I'd like to join as well :)

[Thinlómien]

Welcome everybody! I'm very happy to see you all here. :D

I think we basically have enough people to start already, but I'll keep the signups open for a couple of more days and do my best to kick this off during the weekend. So mentally prepare to start by next week and keep an eye on your PMs. It might not be a bad idea to subscribe to email notifications of PMs if you don't check the 'Downs daily!

Current player list:
Lommy (mod?)
G55
Rune
Sally
Pitchwife
Oddwen
Urwen
Kath
Huinesoron
Legate

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I'd like to sign up for this round, please! I suppose quarantine gives us all an excuse to hang out in the Downs!

[Thinlómien]

I'd like to sign up for this round, please! I suppose quarantine gives us all an excuse to hang out in the Downs!Yay!

Also taking Nogrod and A Little Green's text message signups and Formendacil's from Facebook, so now we certainly have enough people.

Starting tomorrow sometime during the European day, sign ups still open until then! I will still randomise the order of the players, so don't make any conclusions based on your placement on the current list. And let's try to keep it in the good old max 3 days per person! :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Yay!

Also taking Nogrod and A Little Green's text message signups and Formendacil's from Facebook, so now we certainly have enough people.

Starting tomorrow sometime during the European day, sign ups still open until then! I will still randomise the order of the players, so don't make any conclusions based on your placement on the current list. And let's try to keep it in the good old max 3 days per person! :)

Excellent!

Can't wait to get going, and who knows, we might have a game that can be concluded in less than 2 months.

[Barandiun]

I'd like to play

[Thinlómien]

I'd like to play
Welcome! :)

Here is the complete list, and I'm sending out the starting sentence now:

Thinlómien (mod) - write
Kath - draw
Pitchwife - write
TheGreatElvenWarrior - draw
A Little Green - write
Oddwen - draw
Legate of Amon Lanc - write
satansaloser2005 - draw
Rune Son of Bjarne - write
Nogrod - draw
Barandiun - write
Huinesoron - draw
Galadriel55 - write
Formendacil - draw
Urwen - write

Thinlómien (mod) - draw
Kath - write
Pitchwife - draw
TheGreatElvenWarrior - write
A Little Green - draw
Oddwen - write
Legate of Amon Lanc - draw
satansaloser2005 - write
Rune Son of Bjarne - draw
Nogrod - write
Barandiun - draw
Huinesoron - write
Galadriel55 - draw
Formendacil - write

[Nogrod]

who knows, we might have a game that can be concluded in less than 2 months.
:p

I had forgotten how long these games actually take... well, at least did take. Let's see if the quarantine makes people faster to react?

Good to see you all for long time!

[Thinlómien]

:p

I had forgotten how long these games actually take... well, at least did take. Let's see if the quarantine makes people faster to react?

Good to see you all for long time!Indeed! And so far it's been quite fast! :)

Also a heads-up that if you use the email notifications, check that your email doesn't treat them as spam. I could have sent Pitch's sentence on half a day earlier if I hadn't blindly trusted gmail. :rolleyes: But lesson learnt, shouldn't happen again!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I think that may have been my fastest turnaround ever! :cool:

[Thinlómien]

Aaaand we're officially past the halfway marker! I had to shuffle things around a bit, so I am drawing the next picture myself (should be fun :D) and then everyone will get to their second round. Hope everyone's been enjoying it so far, I certainly have :D

[Kath]

Having just completed my second round I can definitely say I'm enjoying it and I can't wait to see the full thread. :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Having just completed my second round I can definitely say I'm enjoying it and I can't wait to see the full thread. :D

Okay, now I am getting excited!

I have only been at my new job for a month and I am not sure what decorum dictates, is it too soon to use the office xeroxing machine for PT drawings?