Quest for the Holy Grail (Quest 4: Extensive? Peril)

[Cordelia]

Obviously, I'm using gimmicky references, but, here goes. This is for any number of players. (I'm considering just a weekly update to the rounds, thinking maybe every Tuesday? Please let me know if that is completely untenable.)

Each player may join the game as their favorite knight. Historical accuracy is not necessary.

Each player will have a collection of several objects (i.e. shrubbery, unladen swallow, etc.), some of which will be the same as objects in other players' collections. During each round, it may be necessary for one or more players to expend objects to complete a quest and advance the story. Any amount of public and private discussion is allowed, but the ultimate decision is made in private messages to the mod (uh, me).

Example:
Quest for the Pink Pajamas
Objective: At least one player must donate a Fuzzy Rabbit.
Dire Punishments: Each player with a Fuzzy Rabbit loses a Shrubbery.

If no one chooses to donate, there will be dire punishments. However, if the story is successfully advanced, there will be rewards. During every round, there is a Holy Grail reward which could grant one player the opportunity to win the cup.

Example:
Holy Grail: The only player with a Fuzzy Rabbit.

There will also be mundane rewards. There will be perils and traps. There will be ogres and black knights, tracts of land and systems of government. I don't promise to maintain any semblance of order. Who would want that?

The game is over when everyone returns to Camelot with the Holy Grail. The winner is the player who...oh, wait. I can't tell you that yet.

Choose your knight!

Players
3iff: Sir Neville
Duke Gnome: Sir Humphrey
raekuul: Trusty Steed
Zag: Sir Robin
milkshake: Sir Elton John
Jaguar: Knight who says Ni!
Scurra: Sir Cumstantial
jesternl: Sir Black Adder
lexprod: Sir Prize
mathgrant: Sir Isaac Oldton
ShadowSword: Sir Clifford the Manatee
Dented Ford: Sir Tain
Undercover Monk: Peasant Dennis
MatthewV: Sir Brownpants

[3iff]

Sounds bizarre...

I'm Sir Neville.

[Duke Gnome]

I'll give it a go, as Sir Humphrey.

[raekuul]

I'll go as the horse coconut-banger and porter of Sir Huphrey

[Zag]

Sir Robin, brave Sir Robin!

[milkshake]

Can I be Sir Elton John?

[Jaguar]

I want to be a Knight who says Ni!

Ni

Edit: If I can't be a Ni Knight, I want to be Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film (But-Participating-In-This-Game)

[Cordelia]

Knights of all persuasions and orientations are completely welcome. :D

[Scurra]

I was going to ask to be Sir Cumcision but the end of my post got cut off.
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[jesternl]

I would join if I can be Sir Black Adder

[Duke Gnome]

Actually, I think I'll give it a miss.

[milkshake]

I'm just hoping one of my items will be a 50,000$ grand piano.

[lexprod]

I'm in as Sir Prize

[mathgrant]

[ShadowSword]

I'm in as Sir Clifford the Manatee
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[milkshake]

[lexprod]

I'm hoping for a rubber chicken with a pulley through the middle

[Cordelia]

I will continue to accept item-hopefuls, but make no promises.

Scurra, I'd prefer to be a prude about your knightly choice, but if you really want to keep it, you can.

Adding list of players to the first post.

[Dented Ford]

I'd like to be Sir Tain, but I'm not sure.

[raekuul]

I'm just a trusty steed. All I need are coconuts.

And keep those swallows away from me!

[Scurra]

OK, I'll settle for being Sir Cumstantial. instead.

Who might be important, but no-one is really sure until the big dénouement.
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[Undercover Monk]

/in

I shall be Dennis, a constitutional pesant who feels that simply not being a Knight does not disqualify him from seeking the most holy grail.

:edit: oh and the fan boy in me requests you fix your outrageous error. It is an unladen swallow not sparrow. lol.
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[mathgrant]

[raekuul]

>Get ye flask

Also, Cordy: You may want to make it either unladen swallow or jack sparrow, we can't have unladen sparrows or jack swallows.

[MatthewV]

I was thinking of Brave Sir Brownpants, but considering Robin is already Brave, I shall bear the name of Sir Brownpants.

[milkshake]

But I could see Jack swallowing an unladen sparrow.

[Cordelia]

Hmm, I so very much did put sparrow instead of swallow. How odd. I guess my fingers said "bird." I still think it looks like a dead parrot. Or at the very least, an ex-parrot.

[milkshake]

Wow, look at all those players!

I bet Cordelia is hard at work. I'm excited to get going.

[Cordelia]

Well, I'm leaving up entries until Tuesday, when I'll start the weekly quests.

[ShadowSword]

Someone should be sir scissors. Took me a couple tries to say it once never mind three times fast.
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[Cordelia]

We have 14 players. Feel free to make ANY deals whatsoever. Obviously, any immediate deals (like trades) can be easily posted by the participating pair in the forum. Those are enforceable (in that as soon as you decide to trade items, voila, the trade has happened).

Other deals are not enforceable, but will obviously reflect on your sanctified knighthood. Don't pull a Lancelot, or no one will like you.

Here's a reminder of the players' chosen knights. I will refer to players by their GL forum nick, purely for clarity's sake. Others can choose to do whatever they wish.

3iff: Sir Neville
Duke Gnome: Sir Humphrey
raekuul: Trusty Steed
Zag: Sir Robin
milkshake: Sir Elton John
Jaguar: Knight who says Ni!
Scurra: Sir Cumstantial
jesternl: Sir Black Adder
lexprod: Sir Prize
mathgrant: Sir Isaac Oldton
ShadowSword: Sir Clifford the Manatee
Dented Ford: Sir Tain
Undercover Monk: Peasant Dennis
MatthewV: Sir Brownpants

I'm going to make this interactive from the get-go: I am going to let each player choose his or her starting items. You have a week. As a bonus, I will tell you that the first three quests will involve, in some manner, all of the available items. The number of items which each player may choose shall be three (3) three (not four) 3 (no more no less) and only three items. Choosing multiple of an item is also allowed, provided that no more than 3 (three) 3 (five is right out) items are selected.

Halved Coconut
Minstrel
Trojan Rabbit
Excalibur (Really, how many of those are lying around?)
Mostly Fair Scales
Name
Flagellant's Board

As always, all choices are sent via PM to the mod. Players may discuss anything they wish in the forum, including their choices. PM your selection before the end of Tuesday next, as I'll likely post some time around midnight EST then. As far as the upcoming holiday goes, please let me know if anyone will need extra time for that week.

[mutter]Gosh, lazy, can't even assign items arbitrarily...why would I want the game to balanced? I bet someone is going to want to know how to win the game. Can't tell them I haven't figured out how yet...Ooops, was someone listening?[/mutter]

[milkshake]

Neither shalt thou choose two, excepting that thou then choosith a third. ^^

[Undercover Monk]

[Cordelia]

Yes, you may PM among yourselves.

No, I have not decided what to do with players who don't submit a list of items. I suppose that I would just drop them from the player list. Hopefully it doesn't happen?

That should answer PM'd questions...by the way, you can ask these things "out loud" too...

[Cordelia]

Let it not be said that I am an uncaring mod...The two who have not sent in their entry are named in the topic. Of course, if they would prefer not to play, that's okay too... *sob*

[milkshake]

I'll trade excalibur for a trojan rabbit.

[Cordelia]

raekuul: Halved Coconut, Halved Coconut, Minstrel
milkshake: Minstrel, Excalibur, Name
Zag: Minstrel, Mostly Fair Scales, Flagellant's Board
mathgrant: Mostly Fair Scales, Name, Name
MatthewV: Minstrel, Mostly Fair Scales, Name
ShadowSword: Halved Coconut, Trojan Rabbit, Mostly Fair Scales
Jaguar: Minstrel, Mostly Fair Scales, Flagellant's Board
3iff: Halved Coconut, Mostly Fair Scales, Flagellant's Board
Undercover Monk: Excalibur, Name, Minstrel
jesternl: Minstrel, Excalibur, Halved Coconut
Scurra: Halved Coconut, Halved Coconut, Minstrel
Dented Ford: Excalibur, Name, Flagellant's Board
lexprod: Halved Coconut, Halved Coconut, Excalibur
Duke Gnome: nothing?

I will point out that there is but one Trojan Rabbit amongst all of you. I find this to be particularly amusing, but I expect that the party will not share in my humor later...

The many knights of the not-so-round table ventured forth, gaily, on a quest of epic proportions. With but one trusty steed to share amongst them all, many took up the nouveau chic horse replacement: the coconuts. All proceeded according to plan, until the anachronistic moment when the party was stopped by the Keeper of the Bridge of Death. This was not meant to happen until at least scene 35, and yet...

Quest 1: What Is Your Name?
Objective: At least two players must donate either Excalibur or their Name.
Dire Punishments: Each player without a name will lose their first item.
There are both mundane and Holy Grail rewards for this quest. There is also a How to Win This Game (HWTG) reward.

If the objective is not met by Tuesday next week, there will be DIRE PUNISHMENTS. (Thunder please?)

[mathgrant]

I can't believe so many of you took halved coconuts. I've become deathly afraid of coconuts ever since one fell on my head from a tree. D:

What are we to do, fellow knights?
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[milkshake]

Donate!

[Scurra]

Well I took two coconuts on the grounds that I figured half-a-steed was worse than none at all. But apparently a "halved coconut" means a coconut split in half, not half of a coconut...

I would suggest that as mathgrant seems to be answering to two Names*, he should clearly be willing to yield one of them. Alternatively, he could split it into several bits to share amongst those of us needy Knights who are so poor that we couldn't afford even one.

(*one of which may even be repeatable in polite society.)
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