Games We Can Play?

[Abaratian]

I'm just trying (and maybe failing lol) to keep everyone active. For a while we were doing so great! Anyways...

I know of a whole lot of games played in other fandoms, but I don't know if they'd work with Abarat. So I figured I'd post the rules to some here, and you guys can tell me what you think is possible, impossible... boring, fun... Basically, help me pick which games to start to get you guys back in the groove!

Heal/Hurt Game
We get a huge list of every Abarat pairing, even the really bizarre and/or disgusting ones. Then the list is posted, and each pairing has 50 points. With each turn you post, you heal one pairing (add one point) and hurt another (take away one point). When a pairing loses all of its points, it is removed from the list. When it gets 100 points, it can no longer lose points and becomes "a winner". Do you all understand the directions? Since there are so few of us, we could start each pairing with 25 points and work up to 50, if you want. I can explain better, I'm just trying to be quick.

Wrong Answer Game
Someone asks any question about Abarat, absolutely anything at all. The next person answers the question completely wrong and posts their own question.

Ten Things I Love Game
Someone posts a character and one thing they love about that character. The next person posts one thing they love about the same character and so on until it reaches 10 things. The 10th poster gets to chose the next character, which everyone does in the same way.

Underwear Game (could be "inappropriate" so I don't know if this would work)
Someone posts a detailed description, possibly even a one-paragraph little narrative, about an Abarat character waking up and finding a pair of underwear in bed next to them. The next poster then finishes up the little paragraph with who the underwear belonged to, and gives their own paragraph. Example:
Christopher Carrion woke up, wondering why he felt so at peace. Rolling over, he found a silky crimson thong on the pillow beside him. He was flooded with horror.
"Oh, no!" he snarled. "How am I ever going to face...."
and the next person would post like, "...Rojo Pixler again!"

Psychic Game
Someone posts five predictions about the person to post after them. The next person then says if the predictions were true and posts their own. This isn't normally Abarat-related, but we can make it that way, if you prefer, by taking about favorite characters or something?

Facebook Status/Twitter Game
Basically, we pretend to update Facebook Statuses or Twitter as Abarat characters. Everyone would get to be a character, which could be bad because it might end up in fighting... but I guess it could be first come first serve... and we'd pretend to tweet/update facebook status AS the character. The thing is, we need to try and respond to what others have posted. Pretend they're all facebook friends.

Truth or Dare
We play truth or dare, basically. For truth, we'd ask questions like "What's your favorite chapter" or "which book do you like better" or "who's your Abarat dream guy". For dare, we'd do stuff like "Post a topic here about your love for this character" or "Write a fanfic for this pairing" or "Find proof in the Abarat books that this character is in love with this character". This one is my favorite, I've done it in a lot of forums and it ends up really funny. I know a lot of people will back out of dares, but we can make it so that the person who accumulates 50 or 100 rounds gets an award for their profile on here.

I can probably come up with or find like two million other games for us to play but I think those are good for now. Do any sound good to you guys? Would you actually play any of them?

[RedStockings]

These games sound really awesome! I like the underwear game, I'm looking forward to that one. Everything sounds easy to play. Mostly I think the games we have already require either back-reading the books, or forcing the brain into creating something. My brain is rather fried these days. I'm sure the more insane the answers are to these games, the better!! ;D

[Usagi]

The heal/hurt, 10 things, underwear, and T&D games all sound the coolest to me. =) Or we could just start them all!!

[Usagi]

Hey chickas, what do you think about these games:

The Vending Machine Game
Someone inserts something into the vending machine, and the next person decides what you get, and then inserts something else.
Example:
me: *inserts zem*
Carrion: You get a butterfly! *inserts pencil*
me: You get a math problem!


Alphabet Soup:
Starting with A (), each person uses the next letter in the alphabet to spell the word of something Abarat-related. Try and write down the most obscure word you can think of or find.


Seven Degrees
The first person puts the name of two random Abarat characters, places, or things, and the next poster has to come up with a way that they connect, via other nouns.
Example:
me: "Cup/ball and Carrion"
next person: "Carrion sent Houlihan after the John Brothers who went to the Hereafter and found Candy, who they told to go to the top of the lighthouse and "light the light", which was the cup and ball."


Three Word Story
Each person adds three more words to a continuing story.
Example:
me: "Her eyes watched"
next: "the waves collapse"
me: "against the red..."


Would You Rather?
Ask an Abarat-related "Would you rather question", like, "Would you rather eat dinner with Mister Masper or Bill Quakenbush?"


I am just trying to get some more posts around here! =) I still kinda think Ten Things I <3 and T/D sound fun! So, what do you think?

[RedStockings]

Haha I want to play the vending machine game! Actually I want to play them all, but the vending machine one I want to play now!!

[caitycat66]

I think the vending machine game and the would you rather game would be best. I'm not quite sure i get the vending machine game, but I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually. (You get a butterfly!) For W.Y.R.: would we ask a question, and wait for a certain number of responses, or would we only wait for one? Oh and in answer to your query: Neither. (Can I answer that?) To be honest, Mr. Q is a moron. Does anyone disagree? And, also being honest, though I love Carrion just as much as any other Abarat fan does, it would just be too weird. Cool, but weird. I'd be so nervous, I'd make a fool of myself.

[Abaratian]

I still want to play the Underwear game!

But Would You Rather sounds awesome!! I want to start Would you Rather right now

[Usagi]

I still want to play the Underwear game too! =D

For WYR, that's a good question. I guess we could do like, three responses, and the third response gets to post a new question; that way more people could respond. However, the thing I am worried about is having to wait for like, a third person to respond. :/

[caitycat66]

True. Well, I know there are at least a few users that are on regularly; Redstockings, Abaratian, Usagi, Muanna, Noxlight, Enigmaticpoet, TaraK1028, and probably more. So we should have enough. Can I start? *pleading puppy eyes*