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Miniature Parchments Mar 11, 2024 19:01:20 GMT 10

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Post by Head Righter on Mar 11, 2024 19:01:20 GMT 10

Max as the Crocodile Dennis as Deer Head Aunt Diana Rigg as Narrator Vanessa as Queen Isobel Robert as Justice Shawcroft Sandra as Margaret Jonathan as Ol' Neighbour Joe Max as Plate Chris as Prince Richard Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge Sir David Suchet as Narrator Robert as Irrelevant Trumpeter Annie as Mrs. Wimblegate

During most of this Episode you will not be able to send regular PMs.

However, you will be able to send a limited number of these Miniature Parchments:

Here are The Rules for using them!

1. You cannot send a Miniature Parchment (MP) to anyone who you currently share a Habitat with. Talk to them on the Habitat board instead.
During the Planning Phase, your Tribe Camp board counts as your Habitat. So your favourite Tribemates are out of reach by MP for now, until the Food Chain game begins, and you find yourselves residing in different Habitats.

2. You cannot send more than one MP to any player, within a single Round. (And again, the Planning Phase counts as a Round for this.) So if I already sent a MP to the Flaw Runner during this Round, I can't send him another until a new Round begins, with both of us once again in different Habitats.

3. If you die in the Food Chain game, you can no longer send any MPs. And if you're alive, you also can't send MPs to anyone who is themselves deceased. There are no ghosts in the Food Chain, and hauntings were so last week.

4. You only have a limited number of MPs to send!
- Right now, during the Planning Phase you can send up to three MPs.
- When Round 1 begins, you'll be given two more MPs to use.
- When Round 2 begins, you'll be given one more MP to use.
- When Round 3 begins, you'll be given one more MP to use
- When Round 4 begins, you'll be given one more MP to use.

Unused MPs can carry over. So if you want, you can hold back some (or even all) of your first three during the Planning Phase, and then send up to five during Round 1. And if you don't send any MPs at all until the fourth Round (assuming you actually reach the fourth Round alive) then you could in theory send 8 of them off then... if there were still 8 living players not in your Habitat. How you use your MPs, or don't, is entirely up to you. Though we do highly recommend that you finish off with as many unused MPs as possible.

5. To send an MP, follow these steps:
- Copy the above image of the Miniature Parchment.
- Paste it into Paint or some other image editing program of your choice.
- Draw on it. You must draw using only one colour 'pen'.
- Typing and other shapes/symbols/edits/effects are not allowed - you must draw them in by hand/mouse/tablet only.
- Upload your finished MP to Imgur or some other (anonymous) image hosting website.
- Then send a 'PM' to your chosen recipient that consists of only this image, and nothing else.
- You can only send an MP to one person at a time - group chats are off limits.

For example, if the Composter and I were both alive and in different habitats, and I hadn't contacted him yet this Round and also still had an MP left to send, then I could send him this:

Will he be able to read my mouse-writing?
Will he understand my warning about Special Defects?
Was I subtle enough that he won't notice the lie, and extend his stinky protection to my actual BFF?
Who knows!? But that's all part of the fun! :ha

6. The MP image is small, and the handwriting restrictions are difficult. We know this. It is annoying. It is amusing. It is intentional. So: do not try to get around this.
If you break any of the above rules, you will be punished.
If you use even one character from a typed font, or a copied symbol, or more than one colour, or anything else that contravenes the spirit of the MP rules, you will be punished.
If you zoom in and draw things so tiny that it makes the Crew need to zoom in to read it, or if the Crew must otherwise exert any effort whatsoever to see and interpret what you have drawn, you will be punished.

What punishment? Well it's simple. The MP you broke The Rules to try and send will be reposted, publicly, in this thread. And you'll have your right to send any more MPs stripped. And you will automatically be counted as a loser of the Food Chain game, Endangered and eligible to be voted against, even if you actually did fulfill your victory condition. Please do not make us do this.

Any questions? Better to ask now than to be punished later.

Last Edit: Mar 11, 2024 19:01:32 GMT 10 by Head Righter

Head Righter

Crew

Miniature Parchments Mar 12, 2024 9:33:30 GMT 10

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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 9:33:30 GMT 10

Max as the Crocodile Dennis as Deer Head Aunt Diana Rigg as Narrator Vanessa as Queen Isobel Robert as Justice Shawcroft Sandra as Margaret Jonathan as Ol' Neighbour Joe Max as Plate Chris as Prince Richard Chris as Ebenezer Scrooge Sir David Suchet as Narrator Robert as Irrelevant Trumpeter Annie as Mrs. Wimblegate

I've had a lot of questions about these, so here are some clarifications I'd rather share publicly than have to keep repeating:

- If you send an MP you must include the Chimera Man account! We're logging how many you've all sent and still have, and need a record of everything anyway to ensure no rules are breached. If you have already sent MPs, please go NOW and check that the Chimera Man is in all of the conversations. If not, then add him (and if you need to send another message to do that, simply send nothing but the text 'CHIMERA MAN'.

- You can send MPs in your regular ongoing conversation threads. If you want to start a new one, call it something innocuous like 'MP' which bestows no extra information at all, beyond whatever is in the image.

- You don't strictly have to use the program Paint, or only a tool called a 'pen' specifically, or the exact 'ink' colour from the example. The point is to do this in a low-tech way, which can be achieved even on something more sophisticated like Photoshop, so long as you only do the very basic thing of drawing in one colour, by hand.

- If Paint or whatever program is so low tech that it saves a white background instead of a transparent one, that's okay. You should still only be writing on the parchment part of the image, though.

- If you want to reply to an MP, you do need to use one of your own MPs.

- If I can't read your handwriting because it's a mess or in a terrible colour, and not because it's too tiny/sneaky - then you won't get in trouble from me. But please don't abuse this because if anything crosses the line into actual cramming of information to zoom in on, I won't hesitate to name and shame.

- Right now you can all send (or have sent) up to five MPs at most, three you received at the start of the Planning Phase, and three you received at the start of Round 1.

- One final reminder that you cannot send MPs to anyone currently in the same Habitat as you. And you cannot send more than one MP to any single player, within a given Round.

Head Righter

Crew

Miniature Parchments Mar 12, 2024 21:20:59 GMT 10

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Post by Head Righter on Mar 12, 2024 21:20:59 GMT 10

I think you all know how these work by now, but I'm adding three more clarifications anyway on things which have come up:

- You need to use the exact image in this thread, and should not be making it larger so that you can fit more writing/drawing on it.

- You are allowed to send the same MP image to multiple people, separately. Just don't forward any MP images you've received from others as that would be like quoting PMs which is forbidden by the regular Rules.

- If you are attacked and waiting to find out whether you will survive, you are still allowed to send MPs. This is because if we made a Rule against it, you'd all could attack one another constantly in order to block communications. Thus in order to run Food Chain non-live with a Crew of volunteer marine life who have their own lives of underwater bliss on the side, this is how it has to be. And a close reading of the above Rules should already make this clear.
So we cannot punish anyone for doing this, and will neither endorse it nor disclaim it - we'll simply note another thing you should know already, that how other Animals perceive your MP etiquette could potentially matter down the line.