1. read only the last part of a story, which for the most part is unknown to you.
2. continue the story with whatever comes to your mind after reading the last part.
usually this is played by at least 3 players, who write down sentences on a sheet of paper and fold the sheet in a way, so only the last sentence can be read.
here in the forum we can play this with replies. a player would read only the last reply and continue the story with a new reply. and we would use the spoiler tag to hide the text. of course everyone can read everything. but i want to stress, that if you do read more of the story you would spoil it foremost for yourself and to a lesser degree for the others. for the others because the storyline taking some apprupt bents and changes and misinterpretations and guesses of what happened in the story before, is what makes the final story funny (in most cases). also note that the story is more interesting, if a player tries to continue the story and does not start something completely unrelated to the last written part.
when the story is finished we would just copy all the parts together, so that it will form a continuous text.
to limit the story in size i suggest writing only 40 parts. to know which is the actual number of the part, a player would write "part x/40" in the reply before writing the part.
there is one last thing to know: this kind of game needs at least 3 players or in other words every player not writing more frequent than every 3rd part of the story. why? otherwise a player would know more than the last part of the story. (i give some examples below). so in a setting like this, where everyone can join in, a player who wrote a part, would memorize the number of the part she/he has written and write a part not sooner, than <part number>+2.
examples:
player A writes:
part 1/40
mrs smith left her appartment.
player B reads part 1 and writes:part 2/40
on the floor outside she met mrs smithers. and presented lovely mrs smithers a flower.
player C reads ONLY part 2 and writes:part 3/40
mrs smithers made a face like ...
player D reads ONLY part 3 and writes:part 4/40
... pure pain. so i took a ...
player E reads ONLY part 4 and writes:part 5/40
... bottel of schnapps and poured it over the spot where it hurt.
now impatient player D, who wrote part 4 reads part 5 and writes part 6. which should not be done according to the rules. player D now has knowledge of part 3, 4 AND 5 instead of just part 5 and intended or unintended, references information of both parts in part 6, which leads to an unintended continuity of the story:part 6/40
although the schnapps was pure, the pain did not get less pure.
i believe you get the idea of how this game works. if you want to play, go to the last page of this thread and reply to the last part of the story.
lets have fun! i start the story in the next reply.
