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TheGreatElvenWarrior 05-16-2010 02:38 PM

Thank you, Hookbill. :)

Eönwë 05-16-2010 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 630165)
Thank you, Hookbill. :)

But now we're on a new page, so that defeats the purpose of that list repost. :p

Hookbill the Goomba 05-16-2010 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë (Post 630167)
But now we're on a new page, so that defeats the purpose of that list repost. :p

You guys are slave drivers! ;)

- Pitchwife (Draw)
- wilwarin538 (write)
- Aganzir (Draw)
- satansaloser2005 (Write)
- Thinlómien (Draw)
- Legate of Amon Lanc (Write)
- Loslote (Draw)
- Oddwen (Write)
- Eönwë (Draw)
- The Might (Write)
- Brinniel (Draw)
- Nogrod (Write)
- Urwen (Draw)
- TheGreatElvenWarrior (Write)
- Laurinquë (Draw)
- Beregond (Write)
- A Little Green(Draw)
- Isabellkya (Write)
- Mnemosyne (Draw)

- Pitchwife (Write)
- wilwarin538 (Draw)
- Aganzir (Write)
- satansaloser2005 (Draw)
- Thinlómien (Write)
- Legate of Amon Lanc (Draw)
- Loslote (Write)
- Oddwen (Draw)
- Eönwë (Write)
- Nogrod (Draw)
- Beregond (Write)
- TheGreatElvenWarrior (Draw)
- Urwen (Write)
- Isabellkya (Draw)
- Laurinquë (Write)
- Rune (draw)
- A Little Green (Write)
- Mystery guest (draw)
- Mnemosyne (Write)

TheGreatElvenWarrior 05-16-2010 03:54 PM

Well, thank you again Hookbill. And in my defence: it's not like I knew that I would be posting on the next page! :p

Urwen 05-18-2010 11:04 AM

I've sent my picture.

satansaloser2005 05-18-2010 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urwen (Post 630405)
I've sent my picture.

Yup, and he's already checked you off of the list. Thanks for the confirmation! :)

The Might 05-19-2010 07:13 PM

What would be interesting at the end would be two separate graphs of sentence and photo entries sent over time.
You could then see the speed at which people make their entries at different periods of the game.

Beregond 05-19-2010 10:05 PM

Sentence sent, along with a disclaimer holding me non liable for any injuries or mental breakdowns it may incur.

Actually it's not too bad. :D

Laurinquë 05-19-2010 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beregond (Post 630576)
Sentence sent, along with a disclaimer holding me non liable for any injuries or mental breakdowns it may incur.

Actually it's not too bad. :D

It's defiantly going to take some explaining!

Beregond 05-20-2010 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurinquë (Post 630581)
It's defiantly going to take some explaining!

Not to spoil anything, but I loved the drawing! :)

Rune Son of Bjarne 06-07-2010 02:24 PM

Remember that old paper telephone that took forever? (the last one)

It turns out that I haven't been around since it got published, so I would just like to make a few comments.

I was disappointed with how quickly I was removed from the story, but on the other-hand I really liked all the stuff about vikings and how evil Sweden is.

I especially found Nogrod's drawing hilarious, but there where so many great drawings that I have lost count.

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-10-2010 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne (Post 631524)
Remember that old paper telephone that took forever? (the last one)

Was that really that long ago, Rune?

Pitchwife 06-17-2010 02:27 PM

Sentence sent.
And you people are stark raving mad!:D

LadyBrooke 07-10-2010 02:31 AM

My apologies, three months too late. I think I simply need to stay away from anything that requires me to be able to check frequently. Real life always interferes.

Legate of Amon Lanc 07-11-2010 02:50 AM

Sorry for taking long with the PT, folks, I have been away for a week and apparently got the sentence just the day after I left. Isn't it always like this - I have been here for a month with lots of time, but just when I leave, I get the sentence? Okay, now I am back and I will try to do it today, or if not today, then tomorrow at most.

Hookbill the Goomba 07-22-2010 05:09 AM

The Might informs me that he's been kidnapped by the Dark Wizard Examinoth and is unable to draw for a while. So there's been a bit of a shuffling in the hopes that he'll be back in time for fun! :)

TheGreatElvenWarrior 07-22-2010 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba (Post 634275)
The Might informs me that he's been kidnapped by the Dark Wizard Examinoth and is unable to draw for a while. So there's been a bit of a shuffling in the hopes that he'll be back in time for fun! :)

At least he didn't meet up with Artaxerxes and bite his trousers. :p

Thinlómien 07-23-2010 11:21 AM

Those of you who crave for a little PT snack might want to take a look at what we Finns achieved on our road trip in the States...

Scroll down this page.

And this round of PT seems to be going on quite well given that it's holiday season. :)

Beregond 07-24-2010 01:55 PM

I'm a bit nervous because I'll be gone for a month starting the second week of August. Not to put pressure on anyone, just to warn of my possible absense. :(

Beregond 08-05-2010 08:25 PM

Thanks, as much as I wanted to draw, I'm glad you switched me to writing. :)

TheGreatElvenWarrior 08-09-2010 08:58 AM

I sent in my rather bad looking picture yesterday. The game moves on! :D

Hookbill the Goomba 08-11-2010 09:25 AM

Anyone know where Brinniel is? :confused:

Laurinquë 08-12-2010 12:53 AM

Well, I hope Brinn replies soon. I'll be leaving for Canada on the 13th and I might not be able to find any wifi, just a warning. :(

TheGreatElvenWarrior 08-12-2010 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurinquë (Post 636763)
Well, I hope Brinn replies soon. I'll be leaving for Canada on the 13th and I might not be able to find any wifi, just a warning. :(

There's not many places you can on the Alcan. Sometimes there are nice hotels and such that have Wifi, but not many...

Brinniel 08-15-2010 11:56 PM

Sorry, I haven't been on the BD since July. But before I proceed, I think there's been a mistake because I drew in the last round. I was expecting to only write a sentence... :confused:

Hookbill the Goomba 08-16-2010 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brinniel (Post 636945)
Sorry, I haven't been on the BD since July. But before I proceed, I think there's been a mistake because I drew in the last round. I was expecting to only write a sentence... :confused:

Eeep! You're right! I think I made a mistake in the list!
Looks like I'll be needing some last minute volunteers to help put things right. Anyone up for it? I need two drawers.

Rune Son of Bjarne 08-22-2010 07:29 AM

I guess I could step in, even though I am not the biggest fan of the drawing part.

Aganzir 08-22-2010 07:38 AM

I suppose I could draw too if you can't find anyone else... But you could of course try to advertise it on Facebook? There are some pretty good drawers who haven't taken part in a while.

Hookbill the Goomba 09-03-2010 01:14 AM

I think Brin must be on holiday. So I've shifted things around.

Laurinquë 09-05-2010 01:14 PM

You might have noticed that I PMed my sentence to you, Hookbill. You can stop holding me accountable for stopping the game now. :p

Hookbill the Goomba 09-05-2010 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurinquë (Post 638568)
You might have noticed that I PMed my sentence to you, Hookbill. You can stop holding me accountable for stopping the game now. :p

Stop pointing out my mistakes! ;)

Thinlómien 09-16-2010 05:21 AM

*bumps the thread to notify stalkers that we still need the mystery guest to draw a picture*

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:08 AM

PAPER TELEPHONE! - Part 1
 
So it began with an old legend that has haunted mankind for centuries. Written upon a stone tablet found in the Antarctic we had this…

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Originally Posted by Gandalf’s Beard
"When Tolkien and C.S Lewis had an arm-wrestle grudge match, it was only a matter of time before the 'Owl Trauma' was brought up."

Pitchwife took the words to heart and studied them until late into the night. In the morning, drawn on the side of the British museum was this…

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Originally Posted by Pitchwife

When the news hit, Wilwarin wasted no time in contacting some top scientists about this revelation. She told them all…

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Originally Posted by Wilwarin
Freud conducts a groundbreaking experiment, at midnight, to determine whether owls can accurately referee arm wrestling matches.

Our old friend Aganzir, a PHD in magical historical studies, was struck dumb by this news. All she could do was show us this, which was tattooed on her cat…


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Originally Posted by Aganzir

It was up to satansaloser2005 to decipher the scrabbling. She presented her findings to a scientific journal under the title…

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Originally Posted by satansaloser2005
The Who watch on as sumo wrestlers try a little something new, and Freud has nothing to say for once on the subject.

It was then that Thinlomine, a specialist at the University of Barrowshire, realised that this was very similar to an old painting she’d done as a baby. She therefore sold it to the highest bidder. It looks like this…

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Originally Posted by Thinlomine

Inspired by this, Legate took to the streets to proclaim the news. This is what he was heard shouting…

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Originally Posted by Legate
Whereas Rikae and Mac enjoyed the family show "If Easterlings like war, let them have it", Gandalf wasn't sure if that was such a brilliant idea.

To be continued....

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:09 AM

But ace reporter Loslote gave us the big scoop. She took a photo of the scene which looked like this…

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Originally Posted by Loslote

When Oddwen saw it over her morning coffee, she almost choked. Indeed, so outraged was she that the only thing she could do was contact her local MP to complain like this…

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Originally Posted by Oddwen
Gandalf threatens to break Faramir and Eowyn's new expensive flatscreentir, while their banana-dressed child has leapt to its doom off the back of the couch.

The MP in question, Eonwe, decided a press conference was in order. All the official documents were sealed with his own drawing. This one, to be exact…

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Originally Posted by Eonwe

It was The Might complained about this and wrote a note to his local newspaper, saying…

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Originally Posted by The Might
Gandalf is powerless as more and more signs of the apocalypse appear in Middle-earth.

Selling papers in the rush hour traffic, Brinniel came across this statement and decided to hire a child to do some graffiti. This is what she told the brat to draw…


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Originally Posted by Brinniel

An enraged Nogrod took issue with this and called up a spirit from the darkness. He used this incantation to do it…

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Originally Posted by Nogrod
Gandalf enters Resident Evil forest armed with snowballs and is totally flabbergasted.

To be continued...

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:10 AM

The spirit was named Urwen the dreadfully evil. But it manifested as this strange image in the crystal ball…

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Originally Posted by Urwen

But because this was illegal, TheGreatElvenWarrior arrived on the scene to arrest them both. She told them…

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior
The butter man yelps for help whilst attempting to crawl out of a snow mound.

With that in mind it was up to Laurinquë to sort the mess out at the police station. During the interrogations, she doodled on the prisoners’ faces…

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Originally Posted by Laurinquë

Which caused inmate Beregond to file a complaint to the prison guards. He said;

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Originally Posted by Beregond
Butterman is eaten by a snow monster during a truly picturesque sunset.

This was to the surprise of the guard, A Little Green, who proceeded to leap from the tallest tower of the prison, leaving a mark on the ground that looked like this…

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Originally Posted by A Little Green

When the doctors showed up they were very distraught. One in particular, Isabellkya, told the surgeons that…

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Originally Posted by Isabellkya
As the Creeper Sun set behind the hills it spied Reptile Zombie, who was watching the Abominable Worrr Crier munching on a rather resistant Butter Stick.

To be continued...

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:10 AM

Which just confused Mnemosyne, who went on to describe the reaction of the head doctors with this picture…


When all of this got back to Pitchwife, the confusion was evident. For the only thing they found left were these words on the walls…

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Originally Posted by Pitchwife
Ratatösk the Green and the Earth Mother are dismayed by Lilac Alien's uncanonical appetite for Faramir's little grey cells.

Wilwarin, still dazed and confused from the last time, read this and threw up on a dog. The resultant pattern looked like this…

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Originally Posted by Wilwarin

But Aganzir was not fooled by the crude shapes when she wandered by. Indeed, she laughed and told anyone who would listen that…

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Originally Posted by Aganzir
The Lime Wizard and Entwife are sorry the purple Alien ate the rotten Faramir potatoes.

Grieved by this message, satasaloser2005 decided to nail her colours to the mast. Much to the disgust of the captain who drew this on her face…

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Originally Posted by satasaloser2005

Lommy, faced with these horrors on her morning stroll of the coastline, rushed back to her Pengish home where she wrote an angry message to the national society for the protection of cruelty to boats. This is what she wrote…

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Originally Posted by Lommy
When Father Christmas's elves started turning green and potatoes started eating their own children, Treebeard knew Alien had gone too far.

To be continued...

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:11 AM

Working for the post office, Legate often stole letters and read them, so he could pretend to his family that he had friends. Upon reading this letter, however, he was so distressed that he painted the side of his house like so…

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Originally Posted by Legate

Having just moved next door, Loslote was almost sick with shock at this sight. So, she grabbed her mop and banged on the groundskeeper’s shed and shouted…

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Originally Posted by Loslote
Saruman genetically manipulates his genes so that he looks like Alien while The Phantom hides in the basement from Treebeard and his pet monkey-face-eating trash can.

When groundskeeper Oddwen came out to hear this, she threw a tantrum. In her rage, she drew this in the soil…

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Originally Posted by Oddwen

The Great beast Eönwë came out of the forest and saw this. Then, in a fit of laughter, shouted this at passers by…

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Originally Posted by Eönwë
Saruman uses the potent and noxious "essence of Alien" in order to become the invincible Saruman the Green, while a coniferous Ent who came for the elusive "Phantom" looks in dismay, hypnotised by the green energy source.

When Nogrod was forced to hear this by the police, he was devastated. So, back in his cell, he drew this on his leg…

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Originally Posted by Nogrod

So it was Beregond who came to see this drawing while in his malicious tower of dreadful evil where he had a television showing him the prison cells. Amused and cackling with laughter, he fell from his tower, shouting…

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Originally Posted by Beregond
Pine Tree is horrified as Saruman gives his best Austin Powers impersonation, exultant in the vapourization of a suspicious green substance that for some reason makes Phantom cry.

To be continued...

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:12 AM

The Great Elven Warrior tried to save the situation by catching the falling man in a towel that looked like this…

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Urwen witnessed this by use of magical television bearing squirrels. Outrage was the only reaction and it wasn’t long before Urwen shouted this to the press…

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Originally Posted by Urwen
Saruman decided to reconcile with Ents

But the new editor, Isabellkya, took issue with this, but none the less decided to present the story as an advert that looked like this…

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Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Laurinque made inquiries about this craziness by calling the helpline. She told the operator that…

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Originally Posted by Laurinque
Saruman of the Stylish Cheekbones ponders giving into blackmail as two over-sized vegetables, celery and broccoli respectively, sneer at him over a jar of deadly Ent-draught.

It was Rune who made people’s heads explode with anger as he replied to this phone call by drawing this on his window.

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Originally Posted by Rune

A Little Green was a window washer at the time. She almost died of laughter when she saw this picture. As she was taken to the hospital she shouted…

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Originally Posted by Greenie
The trees disapprove of a geometry-obsessed Radagast's obscure toxic waste experiments

To be concluded...

Hookbill the Goomba 09-27-2010 10:12 AM

End of this...
 
Which all lead to a MYSTERY GUEST having a raging fit before leaving an angry drawing on the desk of a newspaper’s reception…

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Originally Posted by Weird man

And finally, Mnemosyne went down to the British Museum and scrubbed off the graffiti while singing…

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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne
Five huorns misinterpret Radagast the Brown's warning them of environmental hazards in semaphore as a unique rendition of Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils.

And that was the end of it. Nobody ever found out what all the fuss about. It seemed to be a big hoo-hah over nothing.

Anyone up for another round?

Pitchwife 09-27-2010 10:58 AM

*dies*


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