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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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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, because the older brother once set their house on fire, but she did not die from it.

There is another story about these people but it is set in our world and they drive around and fight bad things. It is a bit like another story on TV that is also about brothers who drive around fighting bad things, but their car is not as cool even though the older brother still loves it very much. It is also set in a different world-place which is smaller and has lots of rain.

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...

Re: Manifestations! rustydragonfly March 28 2013, 20:24:56 UTC

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.

Re: Manifestations! shayna611 March 28 2013, 21:28:21 UTC

seconding "fun grown up things" as an awesome euphemism

nathskywalker March 29 2013, 01:21:09 UTC

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

Re: Manifestations! shayna611 March 28 2013, 21:11:37 UTC

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 March 29 2013, 01:22:00 UTC

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

Re: Manifestations! blossomdreams March 29 2013, 18:10:30 UTC

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

Re: Manifestations! hi_falootin March 31 2013, 00:13:52 UTC

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

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