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Does it have native species? (We'll narrow down till we get somewhere usable)

Yes, all sorts of stuffs
- 9 (60%)
Yes, only plants
- 1 (6.7%)
Yes, only microorganisms
- 2 (13.3%)
No
- 0 (0%)
I still think we're in a void
- 3 (20%)

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Author Topic: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1 (5 turns till a black hole eats the poorly defined place)  (Read 12905 times)

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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #30 on: October 24, 2013, 08:02:44 pm »

Obiously rockets were involved.

Now that I think about it, that sentence should be applicable in all situations
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #31 on: October 24, 2013, 08:06:13 pm »

It looks like         is offline, and I wanna see how this works out, so I'll post the first turn and see what happens. I'll wait for everyone in the future...


You realize the world is a hamster, and you are now a flamethrower.
(6) You tried to come up with a plausible explanation for why the trees were so brown and straight and tall, and also why your recent burp was so warm.

(No I'm fine just being in the game, it's awsome that I actually got in but anyway)
you start looking for organic matter and you find... a baby seal and a puppy! That's kind of sad really, you decide to not devour their litte whittle cute faces!
2: you spread out into the sky, bearly holding toghether under the mental strain, and you find a small cave! And there's some smoke coming out of it, huh
3: "whhhaaaatt aarre yoouu heer f for" you say in an insectoid buzzing voice as each of your insects buzzing and clicking together their armour plates in anticipation

(2) The second head was in control. (2) You had tried to keep your thoughts grounded while you figured out what to do next.

Ribbit.
(6) Omega tried whispering to himself about the precious, and instead ended up yelling out Ribbit. Such is the way with frogs, can't keep quiet.

I blend into the void. That is a result, not an action attempt.
(1) You just wanted to be a normal elephant.





I just realized I have no mechanism for effecting the world. Everything you do actually happens, I just get to write what you were trying to do. I'm not sure I care, but does anyone have any suggestions for how my role could be expanded?
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #32 on: October 24, 2013, 08:07:40 pm »

Name: Aiden Perry
Gender: Male
Species: Cro-Magnon
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #33 on: October 24, 2013, 08:10:45 pm »

I just realized I have no mechanism for effecting the world. Everything you do actually happens, I just get to write what you were trying to do. I'm not sure I care, but does anyone have any suggestions for how my role could be expanded?
That's because you are the player, not the GM. Also, you can have the action be a reaction to something.
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #34 on: October 24, 2013, 08:11:26 pm »

Limit the abilities of people posting results to once every ~5 turns?
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #35 on: October 24, 2013, 08:12:23 pm »

You could use the Parallel Worlds interpretation, and switch to a different version of reality when ever you feel like it.

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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #36 on: October 24, 2013, 08:13:04 pm »

(Hmmm, praps you change this, make you play normally forward from the start and you do what we are doing now backwards from the end of this game,)
I mean, play normally from the start, and play backwards from the defeat of the final boss
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #37 on: October 24, 2013, 08:16:41 pm »

That's because you are the player, not the GM. Also, you can have the action be a reaction to something.
True, I can have the action create the setting. I'll see if I can leverage that over the next couple of turns.

Limit the abilities of people posting results to once every ~5 turns?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Elaborate?

You could use the Parallel Worlds interpretation, and switch to a different version of reality when ever you feel like it.
That feels a little cop-out ish. Especially for an RtD designed around a strange mechanism with no real substance other than the humorous results of that mechanism.

(Hmmm, praps you change this, make you play normally forward from the start and you do what we are doing now backwards from the end of this game,)
I mean, play normally from the start, and play backwards from the defeat of the final boss
I think I know what you mean, but that's a version of a backwards RtD, I want to run an inverse RtD. :) In other words, I like the idea of you all posting results, and me posting what caused them, I just need to find a way to have a tiny extra bit of direction, so we can all move together a little bit.
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2013, 08:18:24 pm »

Alternatively, you could inflict everyone that dies with a curse that makes them fail at everything :P.

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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #39 on: October 24, 2013, 08:18:42 pm »

Name:Luke
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Race:Cheese
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #40 on: October 24, 2013, 08:19:23 pm »

I meant that you would have to post actions four out of five turns (or three out of four, or five out of six, or whatever, hence the tilde). However, I don't think that would fit with this game very well.

Alternatively, you could inflict everyone that dies with a curse that makes them fail at everything :P.
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #41 on: October 24, 2013, 08:23:43 pm »

AWww, heck yes.

Xantalos! Add this to the RTD/R/D/D info thread as a spin off game! Now, secretary!

Now, where was I?

Oh, yes.

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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #42 on: October 24, 2013, 08:26:39 pm »

What about when we post an action, you can point out something that happened before in the timeline that led us here AKA
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #43 on: October 24, 2013, 08:31:43 pm »

In the midst of our 1-update-in-crisis, MORE WAITLISTERS (not that I've figured out how to kill anyone for them to be able to play...):
Name: Aiden Perry
Gender: Male
Species: Cro-Magnon
Name: (3) Aiden
Gender: Male
Species: (1) You are a sound. A magical sound. Interpret as you will

Name:Luke
Gender:Male
Race:Cheese
Name: (4) Luke
Gender: Male
Race: (4) Cheese.

Name: Mathan
Gender: Fedora
Species: Demon Lord
Name: (2) M@+#@n
Gender: Fedora
Species: (3) Demon Underling

Name: Mastahcheese
Gender: Dude
Species: GM
Name: (2) Lessahchalk (because chalk is the opposite of cheese... apparently (look at first result))
Gender: Dude
Species: (4) You are indeed the GM. Your job is to describe setting and throw bloodthirsty monsters challenges at the players. You will be rolled as a standard roll (i.e. your actions are attempts, while everyone elses are outcomes). You are effective immediately.


I put a bandage named Lessahchalk on my problem!!!
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Re: Dodge to Roll - RtD^-1
« Reply #44 on: October 24, 2013, 08:32:51 pm »

Your magical soundiness controls the King and Queen.
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