Hey guys, Neoxian Game Master here. I’m sure everyone is hyped about this weekend’s game. Sorry about making you all wait this long for the announcement. Planning was a bit slow cos my mind has been dull recently because there’s been a lot going on with me.
Anyways, I mentioned the Neoxian Game Night in one of my recent Hive posts and it got some questions so I want this Hive announcement to provide all the details of the game and answer some of the questions I was asked about the games.
In this way, the Hive post will serve as a reference for new players who just found out about the game on Hive to refer to in order to understand the game. But we’ll still put the announcement on our City Discord too in #citygames for citizens who don’t want to check it out here on Hive. Announcements will always be posted on the city discord first so citizens have a first peek of the new game for the week.
I had thought of announcing it only in the city discord, but if I did that, the questions we answer will get lost up in chat (because the city chat is soooo busy) and new people who join the games from Hive or even new citizens will always keep asking the same questions to understand the games as well. So putting it here on Hive leaves a permanent reference to the gameplay guide and rules for everyone forever.
And Now The Reveal Of This Weekend’s Game
For the game of this weekend, we’ll be playing….
Freestyle Story
I got the inspiration for this game from the poem Mr Dragon task us to write yesterday about Rosecane.
So this weekend, we’re writing a story. Yes. All of us. Don’t worry, it’s nothing complex. How it works basically is that like always, I run the giveaway and two people get selected. The first two selected citizens start the story and everybody else builds on the story. You can take the story in ANY direction. And I mean ANY. So this is your chance to get wild and creative!
The first two selected people begin the narration. You have 4 minutes to write your part of the story. After the first two are done writing their parts, I run a new giveaway and the two people selected, build on the story continuing from where the previous two ended. Please copy what the previous people wrote, paste it, and add your part so that the story looks like one continuous story.
So let’s say the first two people selected are person A and B. A starts the story, B copies what A wrote, paste it, and add his own contribution to it. Bolded of course.
If the two people selected in the next giveaway are person C and D, person C copies the story written by A and B and adds his own piece. D does the same. And so the story continues this way until the end.
There’s no limit to the amount of words you can write in your turn. Write as much or as little as you can in the 4 minutes you have. You don’t have to use all the 4 minutes. If you can write only 2 sentences in 2 minutes and you feel that’s what you want to add to the story, that is absolutely fine.
Please bold the story so we can clearly see and separate it from the chat. I don’t want to have to remind anyone to bold their lines this time so let’s all please do the right thing
I’m serious about the timing with this one because 4 minutes is already a lot of time so if anyone wastes more time, it’ll make the game slow and boring.
If you click on the giveaway, please be prepared to write something. You can write even one sentence if that’s all you want to add. This is a pretty simple game, so I don’t see the point on having to skip any turn. If you can’t or don’t want to write, don’t click on the giveaway. That’s obvious right?
After this game, I’m going to collect the entire story and make a post with it in the Scholar and Scribe Community, with anyone that contributed as much as a word to the story set as equal beneficiaries to the post. People that were in the game but didn’t contribute to the story will not be set as beneficiaries to this post unfortunately
The Discord Technicalities And General Gameplay Rules
I’ll create a giveaway in the giveaway room and everyone reacts to it. The giveaway I create will have two winners. Everyone can enter the giveaway but only the 2 selected winners get to play. Sorry guys.
The first two people selected start the story and everyone else selected later by the bot builds on the story. Pretty simple, right?
The total gameplay time will be 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours (or more, but hopefully not as it’ll get stressful) if the turn up is great and we still have many citizens who haven’t played.
There’ll be a sharps play time too. This one will be special for only sharps(obviously), but the date and everything is still under contemplation! I’ll choose the game, but the rules are entirely open to the entire sharp chat to decide. We could decide to include even choices that require the use of an active key. Lol just saying.
Mr Dragon🐲 will play with us once a while when he has some time to spare, to grace the ocassion(I doubt that’ll happen often or at all though so no promises)
Gameplay Rules
- Have fun
- Have fun
- Be creative and interesting
For now these are pretty much all the rules. Be a human being and have fun, basically. Lol. I’m trying to keep it as simple as it can be to keep it fun. But we certainly need rules or else people will go overboard. Like I already said, as the weeks progresses, there’ll be tweaks to the rules and we’ll have different games every week(hopefully). If we want this to keep going though, the turnouts will have to be encouraging and participation should be good too.
It’s important to note though that the game is not just for people already in the Neoxian city. You can join us today and play with us this weekend!
Hive is so full of articles but people don’t really know what we look like offline. Our personalities and the stories behinds our lives. Come play with us this weekend in the Neoxian City Discord to have an off-chain interaction with some of the Hivers you already might know and find out more about them! Don’t miss it this Sunday!
This a real time countdown to the game time. Courtesy of Mr Dragon’s tech savviness:)
Please ask me questions if you don’t understand anything. If you have any concerns about any of the rules, please let me know too so we can review them before game time. You can tag and mention others I missed to mention in this post so they don’t miss out as well. A reblog and upvote will be appreciated too. Head over to the Neoxian City Discord on Sunday and let’s have some fun!!!*
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Sorry about the tag, guys. If you’d like me to stop tagging you in the next game night publications, please let me know on the comments and I will. If I missed your username in the tag and you’d like me to tag you next time, please do let me know too.