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The Up-Goer Five Very Cold Water Breaking Game

Mar 28, 2013 18:39

Here's an unofficial icebreaker type game, inspired by xkcd and also this thread.

Using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor, write a summary of your canon and post it in the comments. The catch? Just like in the original comic, the editor restricts you to only the thousand most used words in the English language, so you have to get creative ( Read more... )

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nothingtoregret March 28 2013, 18:56:25 UTC

That's a headache when you can't use the words "government", "experiment" or even "tests"...

A man with black eyes who works for an important set of people is paid to get a nervous man who isn't human, has grey skin and long, pointed ears and bring him to be worked on by those people.

The grey skinned man had a hard life and doesn't trust people easily. He didn't want to be taken away and doesn't want to work with the black-eyed man but he isn't allowed to say no. Over time, he has to learn to work with this man, no matter how much he doesn't like him, because if they don't work together they will both be in trouble. And maybe it's not so bad to work with him because sometimes he can be a nice person, and he's very good with his hands...

rustydragonfly March 28 2013, 19:07:25 UTC

Tell me about it, it wouldn't even allow "forest" or "nobody" in mine.

Also that is... actually a pretty good pitch/summary...

nothingtoregret March 28 2013, 19:42:06 UTC

I did have to get a bit creative when I hit a snag with "elf", haha. My first thought was "your text editor just invalidated my main character!", poor Milos. Not allowing "nobody" is weird though, it's really not one of the most common words? O_o

Ahh, you think so? Thank you. :) I hate writing summaries, I agonise over even the RaTs ones...

roisin_farrell March 29 2013, 02:37:49 UTC

"And he's very good with his hands."

Giant LOL!

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Manifestations! rustydragonfly March 28 2013, 18:56:52 UTC

There are two brothers who live in a place with lots of trees where it is very cold. The cold tree place has lots of bad animals in it and the brothers fight them. The older brother can't see and he likes food and doing fun grown up things with other people. The younger brother likes books and finding out things, but he doesn't want to fight the bad animals even though his family say he has to. He also has one of the bad animals following him because some bad things happened to him with blood. The bad animal also killed their father and made the older brother not able to see. This makes him and his brother very sad and they are trying to fix it but no person in this world knows how, so they are even more sad. Later on they meet a girl who wants to fight bad animals even though her family don't want her to, and they all go and fight bad animals together. The younger brother likes her, but there is a problem because he is not interested in fun grown up things and she is, but they work it out. Their mother is also looking for them, ( ... )

Re: Manifestations! nothingtoregret March 28 2013, 19:47:27 UTC

You got around the limitations of the editor brilliantly! Your synopsis came out really well.

And "fun grown up things" is a fantastic euphemism that probably shouldn't make me smile as much as it does...

Re: Manifestations! rustydragonfly March 28 2013, 20:00:28 UTC

It helps that I read through the whole fandom thread first and got an idea of how to get around things, though I'm still surprised "nobody" wasn't allowed...

And the euphemism comes straight from UG5 attempt on that thread at describing Jack Harkness. It is perfect.

Re: Manifestations! nothingtoregret March 28 2013, 20:21:57 UTC

Yes, I guess reading the thread would've been a place to start first, ahah... Which I'm now doing, and it's disturbingly funny because even the fandoms I know I don't often recognise. They have some fascinating ways of manipulating the editor. I can feel my vocabulary curling up and dying as I read.

Maybe we're more prone to saying "no one", but "nobody" sounds better...

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shayna611 March 28 2013, 21:17:54 UTC

I am awful at summaries. I always find myself wanting to mention a million details and ramble on, and when I convince myself to leave them out instead I'm not sure if I'm making much sense. I went for a very truncated version of things here. "Magic" was my nemesis ( ... )

rustydragonfly March 28 2013, 21:22:07 UTC

Me too. I had to really curb myself and leave out a bunch of stuff.

a boy friend who everyone is mean to

BEST DESCRIPTION OF KAIRN EVER. Actually this whole thing is perfect.

shayna611 March 28 2013, 21:30:35 UTC

I kept backing up and deleting and rewriting a bunch of times because I kept falling into long winded ramblings, but it was so much fun!

And thanks, even I (maybe especially I?) can't help being mean to him.

rustydragonfly March 29 2013, 12:42:54 UTC

Mine very nearly had more description of the RWAU and its main plot, but I had to stop because I couldn't describe Sheffield without some ridiculous contortions like "the place where there was once a story about some men who didn't have any money so they took all their clothes off" and it was getting WAY too long. And silly. But this is all about silly.

Yours is another actually good summary. I find that if you have a long canon with lots of thing happening, being forced to describe it in simple terms actually helps make it clear what's going on. I'm actually learning a lot about other people's canons here and I can't tell how high that is on the sad-ometer, but it's probably a lot.

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niee87 March 29 2013, 00:37:40 UTC

Nothing is Ever Easy proper:

A girl stops a bad guy and next she knows, she is marked for death herself. Saved by a group that are trying to save the world, she finds herself in the middle of a lot of bad stuff caused by the bad guys. It does not take her long to realize that, even though they are probably not going to beat the bad guys, the good guys are going to try and beat the bad guys anyway. But the bad guys, who are run the area now, two brothers and a sister called 'The Three', will not give up without a fight.

Copious overuse for the words 'bad guy' :P

rustydragonfly March 29 2013, 12:38:04 UTC

Lots of things are bad in this meme. You're kind of stuck with it.

hi_falootin March 31 2013, 03:15:46 UTC

It's true, lots of 'bad'! This seemed like a good summary though, regardless :)

roisin_farrell March 29 2013, 02:25:44 UTC

Rusty has already seen this but:

A man tries to get the woman of his dreams. She's very mean at first but then she warms up and falls in love with the man. They are very happy for a while but things do not end well for the man and woman.

I am at work right now and the text editor doesn't want to work in this browser so I can't try for some of my other canons.

shayna611 March 29 2013, 04:18:21 UTC

lol at "she's very mean at first"

roisin_farrell March 29 2013, 18:03:05 UTC

Well, she was. :)

nothingtoregret March 30 2013, 23:06:12 UTC

I love the "she's very mean at first" bit too! I hope you try some of the other canons, I'd like to see how they come out. :)

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