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Build your own story (Redux) title quoted from Avatara's old topic

#1 User is offline   Selax 

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Posted 27 October 2005 - 05:20 PM

The rules for this are also from Avatara's topic here.

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Okay, this is how it works: if you want to participate you read the posts before yours, and then add on a sentence. Not a paragraph (though I know some of you are dedicated enough to try  ) just a sentence [e]or two[/e]. Then, you get to wait for at least three other people to post after you before you get another shot. If you want to pull together a group of four people to post in the story one after another, that's fine, but you have to take turns and let three other people get a chance before you go. We'll [hopefully] see how this story turns out.

Good luck!


(Although I might change the rule about three people at some point, if there aren't enough people.)


The land king Alaric was not having a good day; in fact, his day was going terribly.
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Posted 27 October 2005 - 10:37 PM

It all started when he accidentially knocked a candle into his bookshelf of priceless scrolls when reaching for his morning drink.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 01:55 PM

And then his drink spilled onto some more scrolls nearby.
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i wish i could put ... in all caps

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 02:10 PM

Soon the castle was ablaze.

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 02:19 PM

Alaric bravely rushed back into his rooms to save what was most important to him—his teddy bear.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:16 PM

It was a daring and heroic rescue, one so heroic that bards and minstrels would sing of it for ages to come.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:33 PM

The bards and minstrels, unfortunately, were all due to be hanged tomorrow for their crime of insulting the king.
At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD. He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 10:00 PM

'Never a dull moment' Alaric thought to himself as he was trying to escape the burning blaze.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 11:07 PM

Just as he reached the door, Alaric realized that he had left his priceless Van Gogh inside, so he sent Magpie back into the raging inferno to retrieve it.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 11:56 PM

The teddy bear within an arm's reach of safety, Alaric pulled open the final door to freedom, only to realize he had taken a wrong turn and was looking into the kitchen.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 12:17 PM

Wherin Emesa was cooking the King's next meal, oblivious to the fires beyond her door.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 04:53 PM

At this point Alaric realised that the kitchen was a safe haven from the fire so he went into the kitchen and waited for Magpie.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 04:57 PM

Unfortunately for Alaric, he was handed a letter signed by all the people in Cythera telling him that they had decided to depose him and set up a democracy. Then, Emesa accidentally set the kitchen on fire.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 08:42 PM

With yet another blaze added to the conflagration, Alaric was becoming flabbergasted. So he decided to spew a pastiche of vulgar sentiments at his staff.
At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD. He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

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Posted 29 October 2005 - 08:49 PM

Emesa did not take too kindly to vulgar sentiments, so she picked up the kettle from the fire and dumped hot water all over his clothes.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 09:59 PM

Screaming in agony, Alaric ran into the storeroom and doused himself with the urn of cold water.
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Posted 29 October 2005 - 10:01 PM

Unfortunately for Alaric, the urn also contained several dozen tadpoles and various other pond life.
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Posted 30 October 2005 - 12:41 AM

Fortunately for Alaric, one of the tadpoles slithered into his undergarments, causing him to jump around and squirm to try and get it out, knocking over the other urns of cold water and putting out the fire.
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Posted 30 October 2005 - 12:49 AM

Alaric didn't know what was going on, 'How could so many things happen in one day' he thought to himself. At this point Magpie had heard Alaric's yelling so he woke him up.
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Posted 30 October 2005 - 08:36 AM

"Your majasty! The castle is on fire! Why are you asleep? Nuncle." spake Magpie, gently tapping the soggy yet singed king on the head with his inflated pigs bladder-on-a-stick™.

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 08:55 AM

Alaric looked at Magpie, and said, "Didn't I just go through this?" and fell out of bed.
At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD. He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 07:21 PM

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"Your majasty! The castle is on fire! Why are you asleep? Nuncle." spake Magpie, gently tapping the soggy yet singed king on the head with his inflated pigs bladder-on-a-stick™.


Does that count as being the one or two sentence requirement? (I.e. are the sentences that the characters say part of the requirement? Or can a character say as much as he wants?)


Then, Magpie informed Alaric that the people had deposed him, set up a democracy, and elected Ascalon to be president. Alaric was furious and promptly called out the secret police to put down the insurrection.
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Posted 30 October 2005 - 08:33 PM

So the team of secret police set out, consisting of a grand party of Hector, three lizards, and a rat.
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 05:33 AM

The three lizards took a vote and decided to tortue the rat for he was an undercover spy, this left Hector on his own.
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 08:12 AM

Selax, on Oct 31 2005, 12:21 AM, said:

Does that count as being the one or two sentence requirement?  (I.e. are the sentences that the characters say part of the requirement?  Or can a character say as much as he wants?)
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Interesting Grammertological question... It's less then 2 lines though, so I thought it'd pass...

Hector, who unfortunately hadn't been out of the castle for over eleven years, quickly found himself lost and up to his knees in thick swamp mud.

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