Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24640703-20141108181443

And the first 3 words/rules are "Humour", "Discernment" and "Love"(just cuz... love is king, babeh)

++ What is this? ++

- Quite similar to the (recently belated) One-Word Story except the action consists of: First person writes 3 words instead of one, then second person  copy/pastes those words  into new comment and adds his/her own 3 words, and so on. That's it!

Eliminates the need for compiling in the end, eliminates need for quotation marks ("") unless pertinent, eliminates wasting comments on punctuation as those are not part of the word count, and hopefully eliminates the whole bitching and demanding on what the next word should be.

++ What are the rules? ++ (more like guidelines, this aint no undiscussable dictatorship)

1 - The first 3 rules above are the primary guidelines. The next rules below only follow those, but are also strong guidelines.

2 - The phrases don't HAVE to make sense, the grammar structure should. Even bending grammar rules has its own way of doing it. Keep  grammatical sense  in mind.

3 - If you REALLY think a  quick fix to existing text  is needed (obvious misspellings or typos or punctuation changes due to the path that the sentence followed) just do it yourself while you're adding your 3 words. Should be seldom, but there's no absolute ownership of yours or other's text, so there shouldn't be any absolute sense of entitlement nor any complaints to this, unless the fix was really unnecessary. For bigger fixes or just ideas "to make the story perfect" or something, might be a good idea to just suggest it to the previous person involved instead.

4 - Speaking of the latter, feel free to make any words or idea suggestions as long as you remember that  they are  only exactly that: Suggestions . Fun exceptions to normal action. The posters before or after you may or may not be totally open to those and may or may not take a liking to yours, but no one is under ANY obligation to change their intended text to suit your ideas, unless they think it's cool. You may still call them "ya arse! :(" though lol.

5 - Quotation marks are not necessary, but  suggestions or remarks should be kept in brackets  and outside of the text itself. Only inside the text if it's very pertinent, short, and easy for the next ones to spot it and remove it, as it shouldn't be permanent. Quote-replies to such remarks are fine but ALWAYS outside.

6 - "My Georgian momma is Obama's Portuguese momma in Horker incarnation", said Numidium - is all good as a phrase, so long as we remember to keep things moderately appropriate, keep the speech mostly  3rd person , and  always gravitate around TES universe.

7 - I guess it's still acceptable to put "That's a hollowman" instead of "That is a" and "hollow man who", even though it's bendy. "They went intolevel5dangerzone" is not very acceptable. Putting dashes in that wouldn't make it more acceptable either, although words like "man-child", "battle-priest", "Hunter-Gatherer", etc can be acceptable. Bottom line is  3 words are 3 words, so let's keep ridiculous exceptions to a minimum lol. And only if it's THAT funny and pertinent.

8 - Try to let at least two others post before you post again. If not,  allowing one other post is a minimum. Unless you're just making remarks or bumping the thread :)

9 - In the unlikely event of two simultaneous posts,  the first one alone should always count, even if posted at the same minute. The second one, however, always has the chance to quickly edit his post to fit the story, before a third one posts a continuation to the first's text. Failing to edit in time means that the forth poster, or anyone else, is free to delete the second post, to "clean up" the thread.

---So, on the last thread, everyone was having crazy (sick) dinners while skooma dancing and summonings were occurring. What happens now?---  