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

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Manifestations!

[rustydragonfly]

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,

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[nothingtoregret]

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...

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[rustydragonfly]

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]

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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[rustydragonfly]

Watch out, you'll be thinking in UG5 speak for days now.

I never even thought to use no one, but I liked playing with the editor too.

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[shayna611]

seconding "fun grown up things" as an awesome euphemism

[nathskywalker]

It's so awesome I want to use it in real life. But then people will think I'm weird ;)

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[shayna611]

This is awesome. I especially like the "cold tree place" and the "bad animals". I read through part of the anon thread too and some of those were hilarious.

[nathskywalker]

I love this so much. I second Shayna on the cold tree place. It's so awesome. I need to do this tomorrow.

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[blossomdreams]

I like the mention of grown up things and the descriptions about Dhaymin, Jen, Rosa, and Majiv. :)

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[hi_falootin]

I love the effect of the simple language in yours...it's like explaining it to a little kid (who is maybe an alien? and does not know of a forest?) with phrases like "bad animals". Having an older and younger brother made identifying the characters easy at least ;)

thirding "fun grown up things" as a great euphemism