Paper Telephone.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

This had better be the best darned Paper Telephone ever!

So it's not just me. Phew...

[Isabellkya]

Hehe. 08/08/2009 was about the start date, with a predicted end date in April.

It is April. We've got.. ~22 days left. xD

[Formendacil]

Okay, so now that we're on a new page, I guess I have to update the list.

1.Wilwa
2.Lady Brooke
3.Oddwen
4.dancing spawn of Ungoliant
5.A Little Green
6.Laurinquë
7.Mnemosyne
8.TheGreatElvenWarrior
9.Eönwë
10.Nogrod
11.Hookbill
12.Isabelkya
13.Aganzir
14.Thinlómien
15.Legate of Amon Lanc
16.Rune
17.Brinniel
18.The Might
19.THE Ka

20.Wilwa
21.dancing spawn of Ungoliant
22.Oddwen
23.Laurinquë
24.A Little Green
25.TheGreatElvenWarrior
26.Mnemosyne
27.Rune
28.Eönwë
29.Nogrod
30.Hookbill
31.Isabelkya
32.Aganzir
33.Thinlómien
34.Legate of Amon Lanc
35.LadyBrooke
36.Brinniel
37.The Might
38.THE Ka

Brinn, you can expect the picture for sentencing in your mailbox as soon as I get around to it.

[Eönwë]

Only 3 more. Good, good...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Just as I was about to start sharpening some pitch forks and lighting some torches.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

And that actually looks like quite responsible people for whom we might not necessarily have to wait for more than the originally required three days... Is it too much to hope for seeing the PT in little more than a week? *gasp*

[Laurinquë]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

And that actually looks like quite responsible people for whom we might not necessarily have to wait for more than the originally required three days... Is it too much to hope for seeing the PT in little more than a week? *gasp*

I think I did both of mine in less than two days.

[The Might]

Can't draw my picture today, but I'll do it tomorrow, so we're pretty close to finishing this round.

But I must say, after reading the sentence sent to me I really wonder what happened along the way.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Laurinquë

I think I did both of mine in less than two days.

Pah, I did my last one in less than two hours

And great way to go, Miggy! Well, everything has changed, as I saw also with my picture...

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Pah, I did my last one in less than two hours

That was a sentence though. Just to annoy you, I should mention that I did mine in under an hour of it being sent.

Originally Posted by The Might

Can't draw my picture today, but I'll do it tomorrow, so we're pretty close to finishing this round.

Zis eez good...

[THE Ka]

Thanks to the people who were nice enough to poke me about my sentence coming up... you know me too much. For the record I have been checking my inbox religiously since december!! I swear... just not recently, is all. Ahem. >_>

I promise to finish this round up before May 1st.
Otherwise it'd make all of us look horribly like a professional group of flakers. The professional bit being only for appearances of course...

~ Sincere Ka

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

...
Okay... because I'm nice, I won't cut this off at thirteen--even though that was a nice number. Instead, we'll just have a super-long game. We should wrap up about....

I dunno... April?

IT'S A CONSPIRACY! A CONSPIRACY, I SAY!

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

IT'S A CONSPIRACY! A CONSPIRACY, I SAY!

And now it's a "Conspiracy Unmasked"!!!

How terribly, suspiciously, Tolkien-referencingly sneaky!

Wheels within wheels.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

We should wrap up about....

I dunno... April?

Form, you must promise us never to make that kind of jokes anymore!

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Form, you must promise us never to make that kind of jokes anymore!

... I think my brain just collapsed.

It's just creepy.



~ Ka

[wilwarin538]

Are we for realsies on the last person!?!?!?!?!?

*is excited*

I was starting to think this day would never come.

[Oddwen]

Oh my goodness, I've been waiting on this for longer than I've lived in this house...

I have no remembrance of what I even did, so it will all be fresh and new!

[The Might]

Yes, I can confirm that I have indeed sent the last image to Form and so that all that we miss to end it all is one sentence.
Looking forward to seeing how this madness developed - what I wrote last year and what I drew now are two completely different things.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Are we just about done?!?! Oh my Soap! I never thought that I would live to see the day!

[Nogrod]

Not trying to pressure or anything like that, but isn't it just a sentence THE Ka?

[The Might]

Could be that my drawing was simply too awesome to be described in just one sentence.

[Formendacil]

...in a Galaxy far, far away...

J.R.R. Tolkien penned this line in what became The Silmarillion:

But the Noldoli overcame the Teleri and took their ships, and fared slowly north along the rocky coasts in great peril and hardship and amid dissensions.

That wasn't good enough for Wilwa however, and she drew it into this:



LadyBrooke was said to be influenced by this drawing when she wrote the following:

In a race to see who gets to have hardship and dissension, the Noldoli are beating the Teleri.

This, in turn, was pictured by Oddwen:



Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant issued her rebuttal in the now famous words:
Barely anything remained after a gang of bloodthirsty dwarf hoodlums (wearing Gandalf's hat collection) rampaged through Lothlórien - even Galadriel's yacht didn't survive.

The argument that ensued was summed up in this picture by A Little Green:



Laurinquë is believed to have been referring to this, when she wrote:
Under the gaze of an apathetic Ilúvatar, a band of speciesist, anarchistic, Dwarves rampage through the Old Forrest to demonstrate their displeasure towards the current King. Meanwhile, the Swan of Doom awaits.

To be continued.... (no posting till the whole story is told--please)

[Formendacil]

Under the gaze of an apathetic Ilúvatar, a band of speciesist, anarchistic, Dwarves rampage through the Old Forrest to demonstrate their displeasure towards the current King. Meanwhile, the Swan of Doom awaits.--thus quoth Laurinquë, as has already been said.

In retort, Mnemosyne showed the following photographic evidence:


...which, in turn, caused TheGreatElvenWarrior to declare wryly:
A viking scares a swan away over the Hedge into the Old Forest where the giant trees are waiting.

Eönwë took this much too seriously, coming up with this:


Nogrod, however, did not take it serious at all, saying,
Rune gets a bit carried away with his Gylfaginning-phantasies while cutting the hedge, but without Ratatöskr to make sense of the situation some confusion of identities and missions are created.

...naturally, Hookbill could not stand for this, and had to express this somehow:


Isabellkya scolded him severely for this, when she said,
The ever fashion forward Karl Marx (donning purple shoes,) hefted his scythe in the air as he urged Gylfi to join his troupe in seeking vengeance. Sadly(?) Gylfi ignored the troupe of nonchalant SPM, Alien, Squirrel the Hoarder, and a rogue bomb - in favor of the breaking news on the television about a monstrosity with green hair.

To be continued... (please do not post on this thread till the "story" is finished).

[Formendacil]

In our last episode, gentle reader, the brave Isabellkya has just stated the following: The ever fashion forward Karl Marx (donning purple shoes,) hefted his scythe in the air as he urged Gylfi to join his troupe in seeking vengeance. Sadly(?) Gylfi ignored the troupe of nonchalant SPM, Alien, Squirrel the Hoarder, and a rogue bomb - in favor of the breaking news on the television about a monstrosity with green hair.

Danger loomed, nonetheless, in the approach of Aganzir and her image of death:

...not that it daunted Thinlómien much:
Karl Marx and the mercenaries he managed to recruit attack the medusa-loving King Fréalaf of Sweden.

On the other hand, Legate was completely terrified, as this Graeco-Roman piece suggests:


Not to give him too much credit, however, Rune managed to do this with nary a drop of fear:
Once again our hero (of might and magic) saves the day, by exposing that Sweden and Mordor are in fact the same place.

...a fact which outraged Brinniel, who was compelled to make things perfectly clear:


...not that everyone understood. The Might, at least, seemed quite misguided:
Thinlómien becomes leader of the EU and wages war on Sweden which has been declared to be Mordor.

To be continued... (please, do not post until the "story" is finished)

[Formendacil]

To synopsize what has come before, according to The Might,
Thinlómien becomes leader of the EU and wages war on Sweden which has been declared to be Mordor.

What followed was quite predicable, really. THE Ka did an interpretive dance... and by "dance" I meaning "picture":


Not everyone interpreted it aright, however. Wilwa had had too much Slovenian to drink, and ended up saying this:
When Norway asks what *you* would send to Mordor and receives the response of "penguin" from Sweden, not even ABBA can protect them from the wrath of President Lommy and her Penguin Army of Awesomeness.

Naturally, dancing spawn could not such an egregious mistake remain uncorrected and issued what has been the definitive word on the subject (1000 wordsworth, actually):


Oddwen agreed completely, and was compelled to chime in:
Orthodox penguins are leaving the Bathican in droves after the church elders permit Vikings into the fold. Their shadowy prophet decries the eudyptulaeian lack of faith from the very top of the holy spire.

Laurinquë misunderstood, however, and was most distressed, and had to express her displeasure:


As A Little Green said when she saw it:
The penguins desert their bath-house in search of better fish as Vikings invade it for soap.

To be continued... (please do not post on this thread just yet... soon)

[Formendacil]

In case you have forgotten, we left off last "week" with the following, from A Little Green:
The penguins desert their bath-house in search of better fish as Vikings invade it for soap.

In a shocking turn of events, TheGreatElvenWarrior produced this drawing as a result:


...which sent Mnemosyne into a fit, during which she said,
An invasion of Sky Vikings precipitates a domestic crisis in Penguins' RePublic (of) Bath: is their motherland with its substandard fish population worth the inevitable tragedy that will result if they stay, or do they have a duty to stand and fight for the Love of Soap?

This prophecy was to inspire many artists, including the famous "Rune Piece":


Eönwë never understood the "Rune Piece," however, and was compelled to try and make sense of it in the following essay:
Sky Sports sends its deadliest agent, the giant banana-wielding Dread Norseman, to eliminate their arch-rivals? The Soap-Worshipping Penguin Ninja Bathing Squad.

Nogrod had to give him an "F" on this assignment, however, and explained why, visually:


...which got him sent to principal Hookbill, who had this to say:
Failed Rock-n-Roll-star-turned-Banana-wielding-'Doo'-sayer, Stephan, was trying to explain the horrors of DEATH SPORTS to a bath-full of Blind Penguins. But said Penguins turned out to be members of the fabled 'Holy Soap' Brigade, making things doubly difficult for him.

[Formendacil]

Do you remember what Hookbill said, the last time we talked?
Failed Rock-n-Roll-star-turned-Banana-wielding-'Doo'-sayer, Stephan, was trying to explain the horrors of DEATH SPORTS to a bath-full of Blind Penguins. But said Penguins turned out to be members of the fabled 'Holy Soap' Brigade, making things doubly difficult for him.

Well, it came up again, in a picture by Isabellkya:


Remarkably similar--some think plagiarism was involved, Agan once said,
Faramir and his huge banana think it's exciting to watch bathing penguins argue about religion.

In order to teach the importance of citing sources, Lommy drew the following:


To emphasise the importance of the matter, Legate chimed in with a "me-too":
Thanks to both their infamous tracking and famous language skills, Faramir and his pet Chiquita were able to spread the notion of importance of inter-religious dialogue far from their Brazilian homeland.

At this, point, LadyBrooke ought to have issued a rejoinder...

To be continued...

[Formendacil]

However... LadyBrooke never reappeared, so the Paper Telephone mod was left in a quandary. He solved this dilemma, however, by means of a placeholder image, that he thought did justice to the situation (and who would argue with his authority?):



The mod-god thought wrong, however, because Brinn had an immediate reply:
After many miles of enduring the ever persistent religions pressuring him to join their dialogue bubble, the very skilled Aragorn and his little dog Toto arrived at their sweet home in Brazil where they stood for many hours questioning their existence inside a placeholder image.

The Might thought everyone was being silly, and expressed this opinion:


To which THE Ka responded,
Aragorn always knew that when the philosophy of life got too quantum in his physics, there was always the warm furry comfort of Brazil and it's levitating terriers waiting for him...

...and thus, things ended.

Yay!

[Isabellkya]

Hahahaha.

Excellent. I was trying to remember the picture I had to write a sentence about.
Very funny.




(pssssst, I think you have Agan's and Hookbill's sentence's backwards. )

[Mnemosyne]

Oh Valar.

[Oddwen]

I would call this epic, but that would be a severe understatement.

I love that we've started branching off into entirely different mediums...also, "stupid bird".

[The Might]

Simply awesome!
Bur Brinn, how come you chose to draw a penguin as the hero of might and magic?

[wilwarin538]

That was amazing. I had completely forgot about drawing that picture! haha

Worth the wait? Yes.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Oddwen, your picture was probably the freakiest thing I've seen in a long time!

Aganzir, your SPM was adorable!

[Pitchwife]

Congratulations on completion, everyone! 'Awesome' doesn't begin to express the hitherto undreamt-of heights of insanity attained here.
And I'd like to throw my hat into the ring for the next round.

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Might

But Brinn, how come you chose to draw a penguin as the hero of might and magic?

Because penguins are mighty and magical creatures. Just ask Lommy.

I mean, I could've drawn something obvious like say, Gandalf....but drawing a penguin was so much more fun.

[Aganzir]

Hahaha! I love how certain themes occurred almost through the entire round.

Thanks for modding Form (even if it did take eight months and you mixed up the order of Hook's & my sentences ). It was a good idea to use a Tolkien quote as the original text, actually I had thought of doing it too if I ever modded a round.

Originally Posted by Hookie

Aganzir, your SPM was adorable!

Thanks! I've plenty of experience in drawing Saucie, you know.

Things I loved especially:
-wilwa's boat with the speech bubble, it was a great way to carry across the meaning of the sentence
-LadyBrooke's sentence
-Oddwen's crazy grinning Noldor
-Greenie's anarchist dwarves (and one of them looks a little like me!)
-Mnemo's idea, it was quite original. Actually it'd be interesting to do an entire round with photos...
-TGEW's sentence
-Eönwë's viking & the swan's speech bubble
-Nog's "Rune gets carried away while cutting the hedge"
-Hook's squirrel. Cuteness!
-Legate's picture idea! It's hilarious. So did you actually play a whole game with those characters or just stage a fight?
-Rune's sentence
-Brinn's picture. It's simply funny.
-Might's sentence
-Ka's pic. I love it!
-spawn's picture. Especially the Helsinki Cathedral!
-Lauri's pic. The colours are great and penguins cute.
-Rune's Sky Viking
-Eönwë's "Dread Norseman"
-Nog's pic, absolutely hilarious
-Isabell's bathing penguins
-Lommy's picture. Faramir has a dirty expression!
-Might's pic

I'd like to sign up for the next round too... And I'd like to draw rather early because if the volcanic ash cloud dissolves by June, I might be more or less unavailable for drawing.

I'd offer to mod too but as I said, June-July will be a bit bad for me...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I'll take the mantle again, if no one else wants it.

Those who have signed up...

- Pitchwife

Anyone else.

I have some ideas for this one that may or may not happen.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Anyone else.

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I'd like to sign up for the next round too... And I'd like to draw rather early because if the volcanic ash cloud dissolves by June, I might be more or less unavailable for drawing.

[wilwarin538]

I'd like to sign up please!