The Up-Goer Five Very Cold Water Breaking Game

[rustydragonfly]

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

Comments

[nothingtoregret]

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]

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

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

[nothingtoregret]

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]

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

Giant LOL!

[nothingtoregret]

Haha, glad bit that made you laugh. :3 Sadly, it's probably my favourite bit of it...