Climax [Act 6]: A Plan Comes Together
Stewart snaps out of his narcotic haze with an inspired plan to save the day.
Target body count: 50
Note from Kevan: It looks like “sticky post” means “if this would be displayed on the front page, display it at the top” rather than “always display this at the top of the weblog”. Because this post was nearly two weeks old, it had dropped off the front page - I’ve changed the original post date from the 18th of April to the 30th of April to keep it in play. [Update: I’ve now changed it back.]
Comments
Influenza:
Title: Got it!
Script: “Its genius!” shouts Stewart, as he realises the true might of his new plan. Stewart goes into his underground lab, gets into a fast car and swings out of his drive and speeds down the highway. Meanwhile, Man emerges cackling, in the distance, a pipe bomb explodes killing 10.
Body Count: 10
(4+1) doubled.
Total Body Count: 10
Rodlen:
Title: Giant Flea Attack
A giant flea (Flea) kicks Hero’s car away. Hero’s car lands in Tall Girl’s hands. Hero looks at Tall Girl, who really should be dead. Tall Girl says that The Amazing Super Ultra Stupendous Awesome DDA helped her. Camera pans out, revealing DDA agents.
Body Count: 4
Total Body Count: 14
Action Prop: The Amazing Super Ultra Stupendous Awesome DDA
Influenza:
‘Body Count for all the scenes (and thus the number of deaths in the script for those scenes) are doubled in that Act,’
You rolled a 4, +0 since there are no *exact* matches to ‘Flea’ but this should still be doubled to 8 since this act is a Climax act ^^
Qwazukee:
Title: Ahimsa
Script: Hero goes to Mahatma Gandhi (Tony Roberts) for advice on his new plan. Gandhi says to find Mr. Peanut (Mahatma Gandhi) and steal A Shiny Gold Monocle with a Very Shiny Gold Chain. Hero does so. Upon looking into the Monocle, he sees a strange music video. . . .
Body Count: 8
Total Body Count: 18, because Rodlen’s scene is invalid for the wrong Body Count / Total Body Count.
Action Prop: A Shiny Gold Monocle with a Very Shiny Gold Chain
Theme Music: Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rick Astley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Warning: the preceding link is a Rickroll.
Note: The deaths occur during the battle with Mr. Peanut for the monocle.
Note 2: Mr. Peanut is not an advertisement; his appearance doesn’t encourage the purchase of a real world product. He’s just the only person I could think of who wears a monocle.
Note 3: Bad news, guys. After Gandhi heard that this scene featured violence, he refused to film any more Scenes. Something we’ll have to work around. Perhaps we could have someone else play Mr. Peanut in the future; maybe Eric Idle?
Rodlen:
Flu: But I have a popularity of -2.
Rodlen:
“Scripters must add their Popularity (rounding it down to the nearest whole number, and regardless of whether or not it is negative) to their roll for number of Bodies in a Scene.”
Therefore, my body count is right, and Qwazzy’s is wrong.
Rodlen:
And there is an exact match to Flea, but with no awards.
Qwazukee:
You’re more popular than that with me, Rodlen. Although please call me Qwazukee.
I’ll wait to repost my scene until we get a conses on the “Music = subliminal advertising” thing.
Qwazukee:
*consensus
Influenza:
;o My bad :< I didn’t see an exact match, but meh
Kevan:
Title: Dubiously Secret Emails
Script: Hero fast-forwards through the rest of the music video. The screen turns dark, and shows a shadowy figure at a computer (someone like Merian C. Cooper), evidently being filmed by a hidden camera. As he types in a large green font, his unbranded laptop reads out each word.
Body Count: 10 (but no Royalties for me, as the director of King Kong - who also played the pilot at the end, apparently - is dead)
Total Body Count: 32
(Nice that the “this video is not available in your country” PRS/YouTube spat is bravely protecting the British from Rickrolls.)
Klisz:
Title: Untitled Scene of Death
Script: Laptop reads “I AM MR. PEANUT”. Hero jumps out of window and several buildings explode. Hero confronts Mr. Peanut…
Body Count: 4 (2 doubled)
Total Body Count: 36
Klisz:
Title: Untitled Scene of Death
Script: Laptop reads “I AM MR. PEANUT”. Hero jumps out of window and several buildings explode. Hero confronts Mr. Peanut…
Body Count: 4 (2 doubled)
Soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2G4PgHaVfs
Total Body Count: 36
Klisz:
...dammit. I clicked the “stop loading this page” button on my browser after I had clicked the Submit button so that the first one wouldn’t be posted.
Qwazukee:
Okay, I’m re-inputting this because the first one was invalid (wrong total body count). For continuity purposes, feel free to consider that this already happened (previously). Otherwise (in a valid but strange continuity), Hero leaves Mr. Peanut, then turns around and fights Mr. Peanut again.
Title: Ahimsa
Script: Hero goes to Mahatma Gandhi (Tony Roberts) for advice on his new plan. Gandhi says to find Mr. Peanut (Mahatma Gandhi) and steal A Shiny Gold Monocle with a Very Shiny Gold Chain. Hero does so. Upon looking into the Monocle, he sees a strange music video. . . .
Body Count: 8
Total Body Count: 36 (I had 8 royalties, one way or the other)
Action Prop: A Shiny Gold Monocle with a Very Shiny Gold Chain
Theme Music: Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rick Astley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Warning: the preceding link is a Rickroll.
Note: The deaths occur during the battle with Mr. Peanut for the monocle.
Note 2: Mr. Peanut is not an advertisement; his appearance doesn’t encourage the purchase of a real world product. He’s just the only person I could think of who wears a monocle.
Note 3: Bad news, guys. After Gandhi heard that this scene featured violence, he refused to film any more Scenes. Something we’ll have to work around. Perhaps we could have someone else play Mr. Peanut in the future; maybe Eric Idle?
ais523:
@Darth: “stop loading” stops the page loading. In other words, it stops your browser receiving information from the BlogNomic servers, rather than stopping it sending information (which already happened); you send the request (including your comment), the server processes it, then sends a reply. Stopping the reply will do nothing to affect whether your comment is registered.
ais523:
Title: Gearing up
The hero returns to his car, which apparently still works, and speeds off, running over four ninjas, and driving into a secret lab. An old scientist gets out some weird devices for him, but is attacked by more ninjas; the hero shoots six, but the others escape with the devices.
Body Count: ((4 + 1) x 2) = 10
Total Body Count: 46
Klisz:
@ais523: Yes, I realize that now. If only I had known that before I tried to stop my post…
Yoda:
Something tells me that Kevan is using subliminal messaging in his post… possibly to advertise DSL. After reading the title, I definitely felt a strong unexplainable urge to purchase DSL.
But, then again, my jedi skills may be getting a little rusty.
Rodlen:
And I rather distrust Kevan’s explicit mention of King Kong.
Klisz:
Kevan’s scene, per Yoda and Rodlen.
Qwazukee:
Quite a risk, DC.
Also, Allispaul should be really Idle by now.
Josh:
Yeah, I’m not going to rush to admin this, if only because it’s so damn frivolous. Neither the title nor the line next to the body count are in the Script part of the scene, so this is an obvious false claim, and frankly I resent having to drop my popularity again to deal with it. Hopefully Devenger will be back online soon.
Rodlen:
But it only has to be within the content of the scene, content including name and such.
Josh:
Hmm, fair point - I thought that I had written it to be scrip-exclusive but clearly I didn’t.
I’m honestly not convinced that this is a legit claim, though - I can’t see that mentioning King Kong counts as an encouragement, and I don’t see where DSL comes from at all (is it because he mentioned emails?)
Klisz:
As for DSL: the email point, plus:
Dubiously Secret Emails
= DSE
Rodlen:
And, when the top and middle lines are removed from the E…
Josh:
I admire the attempt but that’s not very convincing.
Influenza:
Presumably by DSL you mean the Dictionary of the Scots Language?
Devenger:
The Producer rejects the continuity/subliminal advertising claim/objection. It’s too obscure and sets an odd precedent. I will note that I will not reward any attempt by Kevan to claim on that potential subliminal advertising that has been identified. (I really doubt his intentions were that.)
We’re out of Development Hell, folks.
Josh:
With The Amazing Super Ultra Stupendous Awesome DDA, is Rodlen advertising ASUS?
Devenger:
Wow, nice spot I guess… you going to call it? I’m not sure that’s intentional, but it’s definitely subliminal.
Josh:
Yeah okay. It’s present and the term “helped her” is encouragement. Thus:
Rodlen’s scene, as above.
Wakukee:
Aw, man! I was about to post a scene!
Rodlen:
Never heard of them.
Devenger:
The Producer agrees with the objection. Partly because it’s plausible, but mostly because even his days as a DDA Energy Clerk don’t make the prop less ridiculous and nonsensical.
We’re out of Development Hell, folks… again. For now.
Rodlen:
And that invalidates all scenes after mine. Wrong total body count now.
Rodlen:
Heh. Isn’t that fun.
Kevan:
I don’t think so - mentioning the total body count is just part of how you post a scene to the blog.
Qwazukee:
Why did this un-sticky?
Klisz:
I have no idea, but I’ll fix it.
Kevan:
I’ve now fixed it; it looks like sticky posts disappear once the post is too old to appear on the front page, and this was a couple of weeks old. I’ve changed the date to from April 18th to April 30th.
Qwazukee:
Ok, I know you’re just doing that to expediate things, but that is specifically forbidden in the fair play rules. Is there no way to just re-sticky it?
Devenger:
No, there isn’t that we know Qwaz, not within EE anyway. It was stickied before, but would never have shown up except in the April archives.
Kevan:
As I say, EE thinks that “sticky” just means “if this blog post would appear on the front page, put it at the top”.
And yes, this breaks a rule of fair play, for the sake of everyone’s convenience - I’ll change it back afterwards. But if I pull some weird scam as a result of the date change, or otherwise offend a majority of players, you’re welcome to raise a CfJ to kick me out.
Wakukee:
I don’t really care, I just think it’s stupid that EE would stop putting it at the top.
Qwazukee:
Ooh, and he was about to go Idle, too. That was me.
Psychotipath:
Title: They’re behind you
Script: Then the machine rises from the ground behind the agents and opens a crevasse which they all fall into. Man looks out and, seeing Stewart and Tall girl in front of him,starts driving the machine towards them.
Body count 8 ((5-1)x2)
Total Body Count: 22
Influenza:
That’s enough
Total Body count (regardless of what any of you might say) is 50, which equals the target body count.
regarding incorrect Total Body Counts: ‘then posting a comment to the Drawing Board describing their Scene, and including the total of all the Act’s Scenes’ (excluding those that are Cut) Body Counts. ‘
This is how to create a scene. the scene is created by rolling a die, writing a description and including the total Body count. All of the scenes here have a total body count (albeit not necessarily the right one) so I would argue they have been created correctly.
The only cut scene is Rodlen’s, DC has been snubbed, and this way the total body count is 50
Qwazukee:
Ok, this can be re-dated now.
Qwazukee:
Unrelatedly, arthexis should go Idle.