The Bestest Present - JJCD7 WINS. PRIZES POSSIBLY SOON TO FOLLOW.

[that_lufis]

With the greatest holiday celebration of them all coming here in a week, the residents of Free Country, USA are busy getting ready to buy Decemberween presents for their fellows.

But something's off this year. Bubs is missing. With the only retail store in Free Country, USA gone (it's been ripped out of the ground, leaving only a few bricks in its wake), the residents of this great country must make their own holiday presents, scavenging from each other to create the MOST ULTIMATE GIFT EVER!

In this game, The Bestest Present, you are one of many members of the populace of the country of Free Country, USA. Desperate for a gift to give to someone on Decemberween, and without a store to buy an uninspired gift at, you set off on a week-long quest for items to create a semi-decent gift. The characters will travel throughout the environs of the country, scavenging from other people's homes, sticking things with unlimited amounts of paper clips and tape, and hoping that the other citizens of Free Country, USA don't show you up.

Each player will take control of a citizen of Free Country, USA, and must create a gift for one of the other characters. The thing is, since you can't buy things, you have to take them from the environment. There are no teams: the other citizens of Free Country are working against you, trying to show you up. Now, you can't let some other wierdo show you up, now can you?

Trade, as there are many opportunities for monopolies, is very important. You can't steal from other players, and they have to okay all trades. No underhanded tactics. If you hoard, you'll never get across the board, as they say, so make sure to trade!

The ultimate goal is to have the bestest present to present to someone on Decemberween. That's right, the bestest. The properties for Bestest Present are as follows:

• The more expensive it is, the more likely it is that the reciever'll like it. That's a Cost score.
• The more dangerous it is, the more likely it is to maim rather than please. There's a Safety score.
• The nicer it looks, the more likely one is to present it in a prominent location. There's a Presentation score.
• The more useful something is, more likely it is that someone's gonna go off on you for getting them something that they'll use for work. There's a Uselessness score.
• All of these are then added up and divided by four to get the Overall Bestestness Score.

DEPENDING ON WHO YOU GIVE A GIFT TO, SOME SCORES MIGHT NOT BE COUNTED AS HARSHLY. For example, Strong Bad might not care if a present is harmful to others, as long as it is not harmful to himself.

You have 'till February. The King of Town has declared an national emergency, and Decemberween is on hold until February 1st, 2006.

How to scavenge:

1. Go to an area and declare your wish to scavenge.
2. You'll get an item and, if there's an obstacle around, a description of the obstacle. You can then interact with it.
3. If you don't want your item, you can drop it and pick up another one. YOU LOSE THE FIRST ITEM.
4. Once you get an item, you must go to Strongbadia and put it in your special Decemberween safe. This takes two hours of REAL TIME.
5. Go back to Step one.





The following characters are being played by the following people.

Homestar Runner - Two_Time_Stu
Marzipan - daBurninator
Coach Z - Faded
Strong Bad - Super Sonic X
Strong Sad -  Jjcd7
Strong Mad -  scoobysnacks
Homsar - Witches Brue

[Rather On Fire]

I'll play Strong Bad.

[Faded]

I'll be Coach Z.

A few questions: Who do we buy for? Are the trades public or private? What items can we get?

[Two Time Stu]

I'll be homestar!

[that_lufis]

A few questions:

I'll try and answer 'em.

Who do we buy for?

Your choice of all canonical Homestar characters. (For example, for the Poopsmith, but not for Stinkoman or Saddy Dumpington.) Fellow player characters are fair game, as they will NOT be determining gift bestestness.

Are the trades public or private?

Your choice, although it might be more fulfilling if it were private. Still, you have to include me in it, but since I'm impartial, that really doesn't matter.

What items can we get?

You'll just have to play the game to find out, although great big piles of paper clips and Scotch tape have appeared in Strongbadia for everyone to use. (A paper-clip-and-Scotch-Tape gift isn't going to win you jack, though.) As stated, you have to scavenge the various homes and places of buisness (since everyone's gone to look for gifts) to get items to put together to make gifts. You can smash stuff, fit stuff to other stuff... the more creative you are, the better your OVerall Bestestness is going to be, although if you get too outlandish, it might get dangerous or might inadvertantly become useful.

Your goal is to create a good-looking, safe, and useless item out of expensive things.


Any other questions? It's easy to become involved, as with proper scavenging and trading tactics, someone could win with a day's work. It's really a game of "Keeping up with the Joneses". It works for conventional real time stategy games, so I'm banking for it to work here!

[Witches Brue]

I'll be Homsar!

[The Sneak]

I'll play as Strong Sad

[scoobysnacks]

I'll be Strong Mad.

[MBD123]

Actually, no thanks.

[that_lufis]

Oh, man, I'm sorry. I hate dial-up, I couldn't post this week. And believe me, I tried.

Looks like this won't be done by Christmas (it was a stupid goal anyhow), but we can aim for the end of February!

Each of you have been scavenging a bit inside your home, and you've found the following things:


Homestar Runner found a broken highball glass.
Coach Z found some ol' stanky sock snippin's.
Strong Bad found an old, tattered inspirational poster.
Strong Sad found some newly taken, lively photographs.
Strong Mad found a box of Cheez Doodles.
Homsar found a broken ceramic vase.

You all have an unlimited supply of Scotch Tape and paper clips. This can not be taken by any one player, as the Poopsmith is guarding it, and it looks like that shovel could knock you out for a good long while. Ya gotta share the connecting stuff, sorry!

At this point, you can start scavenging around different parts of Free Country. There are only a few places to go at first, but as people complete special tasks, they can open new parts. There are even rumors that there might be dimensional portals to alternate realities somewhere around here...

Remember though! If you open up an area, OTHER PEOPLE CAN GO THERE, TOO! Your stuff isn't just for making gifts: you can use them to make things, bribe people, or maybe to bribe things and make - okay, no, that's just wrong. Family show, family show...


The current areas open for buisness are:

The Ruined Foundation of Bubs' Concession Stand - *CLEAR*
Homestar's House
Marzipan's House
Strong Bad's House
Strong Bad's Basement
Strong Bad's Computer Room
Strongbadia
Coach Z's Locker Room
The Drawbridge Into The Castle of Town
The Enterance Into The Spooky Woods
The Games Field - *CLEAR*
20X6 - *CLEAR*
1936


Where are you going to go, and what are you going to do once there?

[The Sneak]

I'll search the Games Field for any sports-type things.

[that_lufis]

I'll search the Games Field for any sports-type things.

Strong Sad found an old, deflated basket ball.

There are other things there, too, but you might want to stow this in your safe, first, unless you want something else...

(read rules, there's a revision)

[The Sneak]

I'll take this to my safe.

[scoobysnacks]

I will go the games field and search for stuff.

[that_lufis]

I will go the games field and search for stuff.

You find a hockey stick. Would you like to take this or try again?