I just came up with a silly little game. Here are the rules:
In this game, you and the other players are a bunch of shallow people that like to impress each other by gaining a pet animal and showing it off. You don't care at all about the pet. You just want your peers to see you with it. To gain more prestige, you frequently get rid of one pet and take on a new one. After all, if your friends have already seen the tarantula you had last month, they'll be bored with it on their next visit.
The pets begin in an "
unclaimed"
state. Any unclaimed pet can be made yours by simply posting a reply to this topic, like "
I take the tarantula"
. The pet is then considered "
claimed"
. You would be awarded one rank point for the successful acquisition.
If you already own a pet, claiming a new pet means you automatically abandon the old pet. This sets it back to an "
unclaimed"
state and available for others to claim. A little sad, perhaps, but you'll get over it eventually.
You can explicitly unclaim a pet that you have claimed by saying something along those lines, i.e. "
I abandon my tarantula"
"
I release my tarantula into the wild."
Whatever your phrasing for claiming or unclaiming, be unambiguous about it. You should not create confusion about the status of a pet.
If you ever claim a pet which is already claimed by somebody else, even by accident, you are out of the game. Forever. (We might start a new game later that you can join.) It is quite possible to post at the same time as somebody else, with both of you attempting to claim a single pet. In this case, the pet is given to whichever reply post shows up earliest in the topic. The second or later claims are not honored, and as mentioned before, force the unsuccessful attempting players to permanently leave the game.
If you ever make a reply post that immediately follows another post you made, you will be modded down three points. For simplicity's sake, it doesn't matter what the post is about or how it came to be posted. If you post two or more replies in a row, the second and subsequent replies will each lose you three rank points.
Don't delete or edit posts. It might get you forced out of the game or modded down, depending on the situation.
The game doesn't have a definite ending point yet. We'll leave it open-ended for now. Note that adjustments to the rules may be made as we play. In these cases, I'll update the top topic and summarize the update in a new reply.
Below is a list of pets which are immediately available to be claimed. This list will
not be updated to reflect current status. You have to read through replies and track that yourself.
tarantula
iguana
tiger
welsh corgi
flamingo
dolphin
hairless cat
python
mole rat
pony
People who aren't paying attention, please
remember not to make two or more replies after each other. Even if you don't understand the rules, you'll get modded down.
-Erik
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[Last edited by ErikH2000 at 02-09-2008 02:15 AM]