{"id":13701,"date":"2011-05-07T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/05\/07\/13701.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:59:57","slug":"game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2011\/05\/07\/game-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since I got nothing today, how about a little game of Fortunately\/Unfortunately<\/strong>? Here’s how it works: The first sentence starts Once Upon a Time<\/i>, and after that sentences alternate between beginning Unfortunately<\/i> and Fortunately<\/i>. The players try to make a story that makes some sort of sense, ideally coming to a satisfactory conclusion on the last Fortunately<\/i>.\n

My house rule for a, y’know, house is strict adherence to turn order with an odd number of players. I have never played on-line Fortunately\/Unfortunately<\/strong> before, so I’m just guessing what would be good House Rules. Let’s go with:\n

  1. Players should not take two U<\/strong>s or two F<\/strong>s in a row. If your last was a U<\/strong>, wait to chime in until we get to an F<\/strong>, and veesey versey.<\/li>
  2. Players should not take two turns in a row, unless more than six hours have passed<\/li>
  3. Players are strongly urged to give all characters names, if not in the sentence that introduces them, as quickly as practicable thereafter.<\/li>
  4. Sentences may be as long as you like, but long sentences should maintain some vaguely grammatical construction, because that’s more entertaining to me.<\/li>
  5. If two comments are posted more-or-less simultaneously, the faster typist’s sentence takes precedence in case of plot contradiction—but if it’s possible to include the content of both sentences in the story, that’s even better.<\/ol>\n

    Ready, then?\n

    Once Upon a Time, in a castle on a hill, Queen Isobel was sad because her three daughters, Leah, Maria and Natalia, could not sleep.<\/blockquote>\n

    Your turn. Unfortunately …<\/strong>\n

    Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
    -Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In Which Your Humble Blogger present his favoritest game evar. Well, one of them, anyway. Monopoly’s pretty good. I’d kick your butt at Monopoly. I get to be the shoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19356,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions\/19356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}