In 2019, a group of courageous GRcadians will set off on their greatest adventure yet, in the quest to find that most sacred of forum relics, the Holy GRail. Where in the world will they go? What manner of things will they find? Who will survive to lay sole claim to the GRail? These things are not yet known, as their story is yet to be written...STORYTELLERS(thanks Jawa!)RulesThis game involves both
players and an
audience. Every day one player is eliminated from the game. Eliminated players can continue to participate in the audience.
The premise of the game is that all the players are on a quest together to find the
Holy GRail. Their journey can take them anywhere and almost anything can happen, as determined by the various storytellers throughout.
Each day has two phases. In the election (night) phase, the audience vote for the next storyteller from the players. In the story (day) phase, the elected storyteller lays out a scenario requiring two players to be elected by their peers. At the end of the phase the storyteller resolves the scenario, revealing the fate of the two elected players - one will gain immunity from election the following day phase, while the other will be eliminated. The storyteller themselves is also immune from election in the day phase (it being their own scenario), and can be re-elected as storyteller in the next night phase.
Example wrote:- Mario volunteers for and gets elected as storyteller by the audience
- Mario posts the day's scenario:
"The group come across a dark and dried-up well from which a person can be heard shouting for help. Using the pulley it appears that one person can be lowered down to offer assistance. Choose one person to be lowered, and one person to do the lowering."
- The players vote for Toad to be lowered into the well, and for Luigi to do the lowering
- Mario posts again to resolve the scenario:
"Luigi begins lowering Toad into the darkness of the well. Roughly halfway down the rope snaps and Toad plummets into the depths. Luigi topples backwards, empty rope in his hands, and takes a nasty blow to his head. It will take a good day before he is back in action. From the bottom of the well the cries for help are replaced with the sounds of eating and of flesh being torn from bone. Toad is certainly dead."
- Mario gets re-elected as storyteller by the audience as everyone enjoyed Toad's gruesome demise, despite Toad (now an audience member) understandbly voting for someone else
- Luigi is immune from being elected by the players in the next of Mario's scenarios
When there are only 3 players left, the game enters the final round. All three remaining players describe how the Holy GRail is found by themselves and how the other two both die along the way. The audience then votes for their preferred ending and winner.
I guess the game can be summed up as competitive collaborative fiction. Mechanically it's not much more than a series of votes to get rid of people, where the storyteller has the final say on who gets eliminated, but being elected as storyteller by the audience requires an ability to entertain.
PlayersOrangeRKN - 8th
Somebody Else's Problem - 10th
Jenuall - 2nd
Drumstick - 9th
DarkRula - 7th
Quantum Name - 6th
Clarkman - 1st
Ironhide - 3rd
Karl - 11th
mic - 5th
Hulohot - 4th
If you'd like to play, just post saying so! Sign ups will close Sunday morning when the game begins (with me as the first storyteller - host privilege/abuse and way to give the game a working example to start off
)
The audience doesn't require sign-ups, so if you don't want to play and only want to follow along and vote for storytellers, no worries!