The Insane Team War of Doom --- Commentary

[Wind]

The Insane Team War of Doom

Overview
You play in team with another 2 forum members.
Every 2-3 days I'll post a task for the team. The losing team will have to choose a member to vote off.
The aim of the game is to be the last team with members when all the others are eliminated.

The teams
You'll have to form a team of 3 people to join.
You might want to get people with different skills in the team, or choose basing on timezones... up to you.
If you need one or more members, you can say so in the signup form and hope you find a player.

The tasks
Every 2-3 days (depending on the difficulty) I'll post a task for your team to complete.
They can be roughly divided in these categories:
* Problem-solving.
You'll be given a riddle, a puzzle, an anagram, a logic question... The first team to answer will get Papayas (more on this later)
* Creative stuff.
Show off your creative skills: the tasks might involve doing graphic, or writing a short story, or... basically anything. A jury will give marks on these, to choose the best and the worst.
* Mystery games.
Nope, I won't tell you about this. Otherwise it's not mysterious anymore. They're your biggest chance to win (or lose) Papayas.

Eliminating
If your team loses a task, you'll have to eliminate one of your members in 24 hours. To do so, you simply have to PM me the name of the person you want to vote off.
There is a drawback: if you can't agree on 1 name, or if there's a mistake and I get different names, I'll simply eliminate everyone you tell me.
Example (because I word things sooo badly):
Ann and Bob want to eliminate Charlie, so Ann PMs me saying "We want to vote Charlie"
But Charlie PMs me saying "No, it was a mistake - we want to eliminate Bob!"
What happens? After 24 hours, both Charlie and Bob are eliminated.
So you see, if your team isn't united you risk losing quickly.
If I get no votes, I'll randomize one name.
If there are only 2 people left, they still have to agree on who will leave.
If there's one person left, and he/she loses a task, that team will have no more members and will be out of the game.

Combos and Random Events
To make the game more confusing, I've added Combos and REs.
* Combos are a secret word, or phrase you have to post. Don't worry, it's nothing as difficult as "The common use of cabbage is in the staple of the Cabbage Soup Diet, a fad diet which involves eating several bowls of reportedly very bland, tasteless cabbage soup per day."
It should be a simpler thing. If a player posts a combo on the game topic, their team will get extra Papayas.
* Random Events. Every now and then, I'll PM someone a quiz, or riddle, and if that person can answer gets extra Papayas.

Papayas
The Papayas are the currency of the game.
You gain them:
* when your team wins a task;
* if you do a Combo;
* if you get a RE and solve the riddle.
You lose Papayas:
* when one of your members is eliminated;
* if you break the game rules.
Papayas can be used to buy specials such as hints, immunity for a task and such.
I'll set the price of each thing after I know how many sign up.

Deadlines
I'll specify for each task what's the deadline. However since I'm in Europe, everything will be GMT-based. Expect deadlines to happen between 2 pm and 8 pm GMT.

Signups
I don't know how many will join... I hope at least 12, so we can make 4 teams, but if there's more it's all for the better.
I'll surely leave signups open till Tuesday, after that I'll see.
I can't have more than 18 players.

Don't worry, there's no silly sentence to post to show you read the rules just post this simple (?) form.
Name:
Timezone:
Teammates: (*)
(* Put "missing" if you need other members. If you need to change your team, you can do so until signups close, but please re-post the form instead than editing the post.)

Last edited by Wind on Thu May 12, 2005 11:43 am, edited 2 times in total.

[PK]

Name: PK
Timezone: Central
Teammates: Twizzler0171, Matt

[Kugetsu]

Name: Kugetsu... or something like that. I forget.
Timezone: Central Timezone (NST + 2)
Teammates: MISSING OHEMGEE!

[Matt]

Name: Matt
Timezone: GMT
Teammates: PK; Twizzler0171

[Twizzler0171]

Name: Twizzler
Timezone: PST/NST
Teammates: PK, Matt

[Kalathalan]

Name: Kalathalan
Timezone: HST (Hawaiian Time, GMT -10)
Teammates: (MISSING)

[.:Requiem:.]

Name: Req
Timezone: Mountain
Teammates: Leik oemg! Their leik missing!!11!

[Wind]

Current teams
1. PK, Twizzler0171, Matt

Need 1 or 2 people to join them
Kugetsu [Central Timezone (NST + 2)]
Kalathalan [HST (Hawaiian Time, GMT -10)]
Req [Mountain]

[WIS]

Name: WIS
Timezone: NST
Teammates: (Missing. =()

[Alex]

Name: Alex
Timezone: Australian Eastern Standard Time
Teammates: SL, Mandy

[Shoyru_Lover]

Name: Shoyru_Lover
Timezone: Australian Eastern Standard Time
Teammates: (With Alex and Mandy!)

Last edited by Shoyru_Lover on Mon May 09, 2005 10:54 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Blake]

Name: Lovio
Timezone: Mountain
Teammates: Missing

[WIS]

Repost:

Name: WIS
Timezone: NST
Teammates: Req (Missing one person)

[.:Requiem:.]

REPOST

Name: Req
Timezone: Mountain
Teammates: WIS (missing one)

[Bangel]

Name: Dawn
Timezone: CST
Teammates: I'd be good with Yukio and Alex, if we're allowed to have teammates outside of our time zones. I'm friends with them already, so I don't think they'd mind. If they do... ;_;.