Paper Telephone.

[Galadriel55]

Didn't Gil offer his help? It might be worth a try asking him if he is still of that opinion...

And if not, I don't want to wait weeks...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I'll make a final decision by, say, Friday, and then move on or post up.

[Durelin]

Lol, feel free to just finish it!!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Lol, feel free to just finish it!!

I guess you're the one affected by it, so I'll take that as permission.

Let's get this train-wreck a-rollin'!


A party of drunken Hobbits thrashed their way through the Old Forest in search of sandwiches. Instead they found Tom Bombadil, naked and dancing with the Barrow Wight. The song they sang went like this…

Originally Posted by Bumpkin

Paul, the desperately lonely Mr Bliss Fanatic, was dismayed to the point of violence when Tolkein refused to write a sequel.

Taking this message back home, it was over-heard by Lommy. She almost exploded with horror and amusement. She hurried off to the nearest public toilets to paint this on the walls…

Originally Posted by Lommy

Toilet guardian, Adaneth, did not fully understand the meaning of the picture, and so she wrote a message on the roof…

Originally Posted by Adaneth

A deranged fan threatens Tolkien at sword-point in an attempt to get him to write more about a minor character; under the circumstances, he is forced to agree

Fighter pilot, Oddwen, spotted this and so deliberately crashed her plane into the ground – the debris made an interesting pattern…

Originally Posted by Oddwen

The cleaning party, led by A Little Green, set about making the land happy again. A Little Green sang a song as she worked… It went like this…

Originally Posted by A Little Green

The cat goes berserk upon discovering that Tolkien is eating its mouse.

This song was heard by Laurinquë who rushed home to tell her deaf flat mate about it through the medium of paint.

Originally Posted by Laurinquë

But when Blind Guardian stole all the wall paper and saw the picture. All the police ever found was a crazed note scrawled upon a tramp’s neck, saying…

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Tolkien eats his computers mouse while his cat looks on in shock!

Pitchwife stumbled upon this tramp while walking his father around the park. When the full impact hit him, he chopped down the nearest tree and fashioned it into this…

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Loslote dropped her ice cream thanks to the marching Ents. Her anger was so great that she used the spilled ice cream to make this picture…

Originally Posted by Loslote

A great cry went up from those who witnessed this picture. None were greater than Diamond who shouted…

Originally Posted by Diamond18

"How very nice, to eat some mice," said the man who was fat, to his cat.
"If only you were smaller, and I was taller," sighed the cat, eying the rat, "it would be me eating that little feller!"

This shout reverberated so loudly that it smashed the glass house belonging to Legate. He managed to sweep up the debris into an interesting pattern…

Originally Posted by Legate

But the recycling company, lead by Rune, felt offended that the glass had not been given to them. So Rune made a statement to the local mayor, saying…

Originally Posted by Rune

Bert's attempt to consume all living beings fail as he is easily amused by his own antics.

The undercover super hero, Aganzir, heard all of this and decided to expose the Mayor’s failings by painting the sky to look like this…

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Mnemosyne, a sky specialist, wrote a thesis on this strange apparition. It wasn’t a very long thesis and it went like this…

Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

Gollum's all-baby diet did wonders for his figure.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

The achedemics were unimpressed. Especially satansaloser2005, who demanded the paper be removed. So intent was she that she rearranged the whole university she worked in to look like this…

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Janitor at the university, Nogrod, saw all of this with some level of confusion. When he went home, he explained to the mantelpiece…

Originally Posted by Nogrod

After a few unsuccesful experiments to reach invisibility by slimming Gollum sticks to his own interpretation of the Phantom Queen's low-carb diet.

Hidden in the clutter of said mantelpiece was Eonwe. With agility that would embarrass an elephant, he hopped to the telephone and then broke it apart before rearranging it into this pattern…

Originally Posted by Eonwe

A Telephone Repairs Company sent wilwarin538 around to fix it. She was so sickened by the sight of it that, once she had finished fixing it, she dialled a random number and screamed down the phone…

Originally Posted by wilearin538

Gollum abandons his quest for invisibility and signs up for Queen Phantom's new fitness program.

Volo, the phone operator, almost spilled his tea all over the control panel. He avoided doing so by shoving an ent into a wood chipper. The chippings flew out of the window and made this pattern in the air.

Originally Posted by Volo

While taking her pet coffee mug for a walk, elronds_daughter spotted this strange apparition and was overcome with joy and stomach aches. As she rushed to the local chemist for some high powered (and, indeed, steam powered) drugs, she sang a song that went like this;

Originally Posted by elronds_daughter

Having finally gotten through Ring-separation therapy, Gollum realizes that without the Ring's inherent sex appeal, he must join the Witchking's gym - located in a magical forest - in order to become more manly.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Durelin, being old and crotchety, was annoyed by all this singing and wanted the neighbourhood to return to sanity. The best way seemed to be turning all the gardens into pictures that looked like this…

Originally Posted by Durelin

Government gardens were also affected and local MP Beregond was inundated with protests calling for the removal of these offensive images. Eventually, Beregond made a statement to the press saying…

Originally Posted by Beregond

Having recovered the ring, Sauron's party was a startlingly dull affair; his minions exercised and dreamed of blonde women

Tree lover and local crazy person, TheGreatElvenWarrior, returned from battle at just the time when this statement was being splashed across the news. She was so upset that she called upon all the ents to gather together and trample the city into this shape…

Originally Posted by TGEW

An exploded penguin named Lommy had been a resident of the post box outside the city. Upon seeing its new shape, she screamed so loud that she exploded all over again, making this noise…

Originally Posted by Lommy

"Sauron's wild victory party became even wilder when the Gollum clones were unleashed and started planning beating Galadriel."

Cleaner in chief, Greenie, refused to mop this mess up. Instead, she went to her room and painted the carpet to look like this…

Originally Posted by Greenie

Oddwen, who had taken the form of a carpet, was not happy about this at all. Her rage was so intense that the government had to throw her in prison. As she was dragged away, she was heard shouting…

Originally Posted by Oddwen

Even as the victorious invading Viking armies of the Witch King celebrate the victory of Sauron, five Gollum clones escape their cage with dreams of punching Galadriel.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Prison guard, Blind Guardian, was amused by all of this shouting and decided to share her feelings with the world. So, she went to the high court and painted this in a judge’s backside…

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Laurinque was a pencil pusher at this court. When she saw the painted face there was no option but to sue the entire city for the offense it caused. Her opening statement was this…

Originally Posted by Laurinque

Incarcerated, the five mini passerine Gollums daydream of Galadriel while Hookbill demonstrates his deep love for Sauron by throwing wine at passing clouds.

Nogrod was the court artist. He drew many things. When he heard Laurinque say this stuff he chopped his own nose off and made it explode, creating this picture on the table…

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Pitchwife was the court CON artist. He managed to swindle his way off with the table in question and sell it on not only the black market, but also the blue market and the pink market. His best selling technique was to yell this at the top of his lungs…

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Adored by lovesick pigeons, Quasimodo the Omega Man lets Peter Jackson's evil spirit out of the bottle again

Diamond was selling coal on the blue market when she heard this craziness. Her best response was to strangle Pitch and then cut off all his hair. She arranged the clippings into this pattern…

Originally Posted by Diamond

Loslote was forced to sweep them up by order of her boss. The work was horrible and she was often heard screaming at people as she walked home afterwards. In a dark alley, she found an audience to hear her woes. She told them…

Originally Posted by Loslote

As Hunchback Sam unleases the Genie from Hell from its lamp to attack a city of theatre-goers yet again, twitterpated birds hover in a cage filled with floating purple hearts and dots.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Rune was in that audience and was not pleased with what he heard. Indeed, he was so offended that he took hold of the nearest child and chiselled this image into their face…

Originally Posted by Rune

Legate’s family told him about what Rune had done and he was not impressed. So, he uprooted the nearest tree and used it to build a raft. He sailed to a desert island and wrote a message in a bottle, which read…

Originally Posted by Legate

When Hookbill the Hunchback was asked to create a "new, modern design for King Théoden's residental town", he decided to summon the Infernal Genie to help him with the task.

Sea captain wilwarin538 took the message, read it and then laughed until the whole ship sank. The pattern it left in the water looked strangely like this…

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Aganzir, flying past on her personal dragon, saw this and took it somewhat too seriously. When she knew what it was she rode straight to the local hair dressers, burned it down, and filed a complaint to the council, saying…

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Hookbill needs help from a genie to design Théoden's dream house.

It fell to Mnemosyne to sort the resultant rioting out. When it was all done, all that was left was her crippled remains on the floor of the council chamber. It looked like this…

Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

Sally had nothing but bad things to say about this when she saw it, having broke into the chamber as a spy, hoping to find something incriminating. Her report back to her superiors said this…

Originally Posted by Satansaloser2005

As Rune strives for equality, both in the business world and in fashion, Aladdin dreams of eating green eggs and ham with his trousers off.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Beregond was a member of BI-5, the international espionage agency based in the Barrow Downs, and when he heard this report, he fired all of his staff and sent this picture to all new media simultaneously…

Originally Posted by Beregond

Eonwe happened to be rooting through the Time Vortex and spotted this picture floating around. Once he landed back in the Barrow Downs, he translated it into the local language and shouted it at the nearest person, saying…

Originally Posted by Eonwe

After finally accepting San-I-Am's green eggs and ham against his better judgement, Aladdin hallucinates about Karl Marx checking his balance

Said person was Galadriel55. She was more than a little annoyed by this disruption to her sleeping cycle, as she liked to ride her bike while asleep. Waking up, she crashed into a wall and left this pattern…

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Volo was in his space station and he spotted this craziness through his telescope. He was so outraged that he broadcast his message to the world…

Originally Posted by Volo

Santa Claus manages to win Aladdin's favour with an elf in blue and a substantial breakfast when the previous djinn, Karl Marx faces personal bankruptcy

The shock of the message brought everyone to their knees. Then, as the silence returned, the people rose and blinked in the new light. Another Paper Telephone had ended.

Anyone up for another round?

[Oddwen]

YAYYYY!



I am willing to mod the next round, unless someone else is just dying to do it.

In which case, go die and then I can mod, you silly.

[Aganzir]

Bahahaha!

Oddie, Lauri, Begerond - I love your pictures.

Di, Mnemo, ed, Pitch, Eönwë - I love your sentences.

Sally, I really like your use of the phantom.

And I should probably tell you that I couldn't be irritated with Lommy anymore (because of a household chore argument) after seeing her picture.

I wants moar Paper Telephone.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Sally, I really like your use of the phantom.

I always enjoy using the Phantom.

[Beregond]

Another great episode has been completed... I can't wait for 2014!

Great stuff by everyone, but I'll mention a few:
I love Greenie's cloned Gollums
Aganzir's drawing is creeeeepy!
Nogrod's passerine Gollums, lol..
Also loved Galadriel's "balancing" Marx.

Rune's interpretation made me laugh!
Sally's really changed things up at the end.

[Galadriel55]

So that's where Aladdin came from! But I still don't get the green eggs...

Absolutely hilarious!

I'm definitely up for the next PT...

Edit: wow, I am slow! Beregond's remark about 2014 just got to me (like 10 minutes after reading it)! And now I can't stop laughing!

[Beregond]

lol, I hope it was a joke on my part.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out where Sally saw some of those things in the picture, but a little creativity makes things interesting.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Beregond

Aganzir's drawing is creeeeepy!

I know.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I love how Hookbill turned from Hookbill to Hunchback back to Hookbill again.

For whoever mods the next game, I'm in. I've got a shiny new scanner for even faster pictures!

[Oddwen]

Aganzir has multiple versions of that painting in her room. As the night deepens, their tiny "Om nom nom"s become louder and louder.

Game ONE, main game

Aganzir
satansaloser2005
Beregond
Galadriel55
TheGreatElvenWarrior
Pitchwife
Legate
Hooketybill
Aganzir
Rune
Thinlomien

OK with playing Mega Super Ultra Über Game:

Game TWO, quick game, simultaneous with the first game.

Pitchwife
Galadriel55
Legate
Aganzir
satansaloser2005

Am I correct in assuming you all desire to play again?

What do you all think of me trying to run two games at once, with the same players? You would get to draw for one game and write for the other. I could stagger them so you're not getting both at once. It would certainly be quicker than a double game with many players.

I could even run a second game with fewer people (while doubling?) or something if you feel up to it.

[Pitchwife]

Hm, my pic and TGEW's sentence seem to be missing. ???

But that detracts little from the mind-blowing effect of the whole thing. So many great pictures here, it's really hard to pick favourites! I especially like Agan's Goya-troll, BG's and wilwa's collages and Diamond's green delirium, but Oddwen's Tevildo-Attack is beyond awesome. Hell hath no fury like a cat written out of the legendarium, obviously.

Anyway, I'm in for the next round.

Originally Posted by Oddwen

What do you all think of me trying to run two games at once, with the same players? You would get to draw for one game and write for the other. I could stagger them so you're not getting both at once. It would certainly be quicker than a double game with many players.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Galadriel55]

I don't mind being in just one game, or being in both. Whatever works out best. (Great idea, by the way!) But either way, I want to try writing a sentence this time!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Great stuff, and yea, count me in for the next game.

I think running two simultaneously is not a big deal, if the Mod can manage it (and not mix up two games together), of course it's very likely one of the games will eventually become faster than the other - but that's actually better, so that we aren't "overstuffed" when the horror is revealed. The only thing is hoping that it won't come to a player drawing/writing two things at the same time, but that will anyway depend on luck and on how much the two PTs' lengths spread...

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

The only thing is hoping that it won't come to a player drawing/writing two things at the same time, but that will anyway depend on luck and on how much the two PTs' lengths spread...

I don't think that will be a problem. There's always an opportunity to switch places with someone in the list, unless you're the last one in both games.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Oh, I guess I should sign up for this, too!

The two at once might be difficult to manage and you'll have to be REALLY careful.

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Oh, I guess I should sign up for this, too!

The two at once might be difficult to manage and you'll have to be REALLY careful.

If we can keep several going around a room of (mostly) drunk people, this might not be too bad.

Any emails or PMs I send will be clearly marked GAME ONE and GAME TWO, and will have everyone label their replies to me likewise.

I'll give say, a week before we start, unless we get a stampede.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I love how Hookbill turned from Hookbill to Hunchback back to Hookbill again.

For whoever mods the next game, I'm in. I've got a shiny new scanner for even faster pictures!

I agree, it is fascinating how there can be an unspoken consensus about what you associate with certain downers, in Hookbill's case people agree that he reminds them of what can best be described as a deform lunatic.

How anybody could mistake me for Karl Marx, is beyond me though.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

Aganzir has multiple versions of that painting in her room. As the night deepens, their tiny "Om nom nom"s become louder and louder.

It helps me sleep.

I'm in for both games. I don't think it will be too difficult as long as our dear Oddwen is careful (as we all know she is ).

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I agree, it is fascinating how there can be an unspoken consensus about what you associate with certain downers, in Hookbill's case people agree that he reminds them of what can best be described as a deform lunatic.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

and I would also like to sign up for the next game,

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Rune

I agree, it is fascinating how there can be an unspoken consensus about what you associate with certain downers, in Hookbill's case people agree that he reminds them of what can best be described as a deform lunatic.

It's the power of Voodoo.

Originally Posted by Pixie

as long as our dear Oddwen is careful (as we all know she is ).

You have nooooo idea.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

It's the power of Voodoo.

Who do?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Who do?

You do.

Oddwen, I would like to note that I also wanted to participate in both of the games (unless there are some people who haven't been playing lately and would like to get their space, in that case, if there was too many of us, I am fine with just one game).

[Galadriel55]

It's the power of Voodoo.

Who do?

You do.

My, this is better than all those cheap jokebooks! It's a pity I can't rep you all for that!

It's not even that funny, but it just made my day.

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

It's not even that funny, but it just made my day.

Not funny? Tra-la-la?


Righty-o, Legate.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

Not funny? Tra-la-la?

Well, I'm still tra-la-laughing... I don't know why I find it so funny.

[Oddwen]

Game ONE, main game

Aganzir (Draw)
satansaloser2005 (Write)
Beregond (Draw)
Galadriel55 (Write)
TheGreatElvenWarrior (Draw)
Pitchwife (Write)
Legate (Draw)
Hooketybill (Write)
Rune (Draw)
Thinlomien (Write)
Eonwe (Draw)
Blind Guardian (Write)
????? (Draw)

Aganzir (Write)
satansaloser2005 (Draw)
Beregond (Write)
Galadriel55 (Draw)
TheGreatElvenWarrior (Write)
Pitchwife (Draw)
Legate (Write)
Hooketybill (Draw)
Rune (Write)
Thinlomien (Draw)
Eonwe (Write)
Blind Guardian (Draw)
????? (Write)


Game TWO, quick game, simultaneous with the first game.

Pitchwife (Draw)
Galadriel55 (Write)
Eonwe (Draw)
Aganzir (Write)
satansaloser2005 (Draw)
Legate (Write)
Blind Guardian (Draw)


Alrighty then! Everything looking good here? Anyone need to be moved or do they have schedule issues?

Would anyone like to join the short game if Legate doesn't want to draw twice in such a short space?

[Eönwë]

Is it too late to sign up for both games?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

Would anyone like to join the short game if Legate doesn't want to draw twice in such a short space?

I don't mind, but if somebody comes and wants to draw instead of me, I don't object either.

[Oddwen]

Not at all Eonwe!

Allllllrighty, I'll let people look for another twelve hours or so, and I will pronounce your sentences tonight.

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Pitchwife stumbled upon this tramp while walking his father around the park. When the full impact hit him, he chopped down the nearest tree and fashioned it into this…

So where is Pitchwives picture? It goes right on to Loslote's.

[Blind Guardian]

If its alright I'll sign up for both games also.