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Ye Olde Rusty Lantern is an interactive storytelling game. There is one "Barkeep", who referees the game, and a number of "Bards", who tell the story. The Barkeep gives each Bard a set of story element cards, and a Bard, on their turn, submits story segments, using cards for each one. But other Bards can interrupt with their own cards, story elements can be declared "loose ends", and the Barkeep has final say on whether each story segment is approved. Whoever finished the story wins!

Each bard is presented with 7 cards, each card containing a word. To win, you must use all seven cards. The complications are spelled out in the rules

Use the link above to check the status of a game. The status contains infromation about whose turn it is, the last play accepted, denied or interrupted, number of cards each user holds, story elements that remain unclear, and total number of cards burned.

Barkeep:

Current Bards:

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Want to know how to join; how to submit a play; how to interrupt; Anything?

The FAQ has been started, but is still in a fledgling stage. Feel free to ask questions, they may be added to the FAQ

This is a list of users who watch the RustyLantern, but are not active in a story. Thank you For watching!
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Ye Olde Rusty Lantern is Affiliated with the collowing groups and clubs. Be sure to check them out.

If you wish to become an affiliate of ~rustylantern just drop us a note with 'Affiliate' in the subject.

Scrappy
`Astrophel has a cool writing project started. Check the Journal Entry, and the http://rustylantern.deviantart.com/journal/5557016/ Sun, 05 Jun 2005 02:50:13 PDT
If player one makes a play about a man who drowns his boss in a pool at a company picnic because he threatened to fire him for any number of reasons. Player one uses his card 'boss'. Now, lucky you, you have the opportunity to interrupt with either your card 'water' or 'murder'. It is your call, you have to take into account which card is going to be easier for you to use at a later date, and which card is going to be easier to explain as a plausible interruption. My call is 'water' - since a pool is mentioned, you can bet that water is involved.

The barkeep now has to say whether your interruption is accepted.
If it is your card is burned and it becomes your turn. Congratulations.
If it is denied, your card is burned and you receive a card to replace it, and a card in penalty. Bummer. ]]> ~rustylantern http://rustylantern.deviantart.com/journal/4878673/ http://rustylantern.deviantart.com/journal/4878673/ Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:42:58 PDT
How Do I Join?

To Join, send a note here or to the barkeep ( =blurangerboi ) with 'Join Rusty Lantern' in the subject. Also, Be sure to add ~rustylantern to your devWATCH.

How Do I Submit a Play?

To make a submission, send a note or an email here or to the barkeep. Make sure to note the card used, and the word count.
Sample Submission - [link]

Does the story have to stick to any setting?
Any bard can, and may change things.

Lets say you have a card 'boss'. You write a story about bob who is an accountant in modern times, he witnesses his bosses murder.
With only 300 words you can't do much. But if your play is accepted (and it would be in that case), you get to add another section (unless another bard interrupts - ie another bard has a card 'murder').
The bard who interrupted gets to add the next segment. Lets say that bard also has a card 'supernatural'. He may decide to write about how some sort of supernatural magic is used to bring the boss back to life. Thus further developing the setting.

So many things can change the setting.

How do I Interrupt?

Interruption is easy. If a bard's submission uses an element on one of your cards, send a note with "interruption" in the subject. Specify the card, and clarify how it applies. The barkeep will notify the group of the interruption, and whether the interruption was valid. The status journal will update to reflect the interruption, and state whose turn it is. You can interrupt any bard at any time.

Interruption Walkthrough - [link]

[BOOK]

Once a story is complete, I will edit, have it edited, printed and bound. The final product will be mailed free of cost to the participants.
If you wish submit atwork inspired by the progressing story, I will include it as well. Your art could be the cover of the book once it is finished. (You do not have to be a Bard to submit art, any Artist not a Bard will also recieve a printed copy of the book)
NOTE: Submiting artwork to ~rustylantern constitues permission to use the art in any way. You will retain all rights, and your name will be published anytime the art is.

]]> ~rustylantern http://rustylantern.deviantart.com/journal/4811787/ http://rustylantern.deviantart.com/journal/4811787/ Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:38:40 PDT Squizzle misses her turn and is declared asleep again. She will recieve a new card when i can get to my list.

Two turns in a row calls for another toss-in, but since I don't have access to my list i don't know what my cards are. I will put up the next chapter when I can.

This entry will be updated at that time. Don't forget that Chapter 17 is still interruptible.

Players:
(8 cards, asleepx2)
(9 cards, asleepx2)
(7 cards, asleepx2)
(6 cards, 1 ale, asleep)

Loose Ends: (symbol)
Burned Cards: (28 burned cards)
Turn Expires: September ??, 2006, 0?? ? (EST)


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Status should be updated after the current turn expires, if bard is considered asleep. Status will be updated before that time if Bard submits a chapter.

Don't forget that the bard may still pass, and any other bard may interrupt.

Know that passing gives you the opportunity to exchange one of your cards. (This is the best option if you run out of time - since you don't actually GAIN a card)

Please direct any questions to me via yahoo messenger, blurangerboi; or you can always email me!

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HISTORY
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"Ye Olde Rusty Lantern" (a storytelling game)

Based on rules posted on Ackanomic by Jason Orendorff [link]

[Synopsis: the players (called Bards) are dealt a hand of cards. Each card bears a word or phrase describing a possible story element. The Bards take turns telling parts of a tale, playing cards by bringing the corresponding story elements into the yarn. When a Bard finishes the story by tying off all the loose ends and playing eir last card, e wins.]

Equipment:

some cards (to be provided by the Barkeep)
Ale (generated as needed)
a solid wooden table and benches

The Barkeep

The Barkeep is the person who started the game. If e leaves the game, then another non-player must step forward and take over the role before the game can continue.

At the beginning of the tale, the Barkeep shall announce the number of benches and the names of the Bards who will start the tale.

(The Barkeep is considered the referee of the game.)

Bards

The Barkeep may not be a Bard. Anyone else may join (becoming a Bard) at any time, unless there are already as many players as benches. Any Bard may leave at any time. If it is a Bard's turn when e leaves, e is considered to have passed. The Bards are all imagined to sit around a table in the Barkeep's tavern, so whenever someone joins, the Barkeep shall choose a place around the table for em to sit.

There must be at least two Bards for a tale to proceed, and no more Bards than benches; any time this is not the case for a particular instance of Ye Olde Rusty Lantern, that tale is suspended until the requirements are both met. (In the meantime, Bards are free to join or leave, but no cards may be played.)

Cards

The Barkeep shall privately make (or obtain) a long list of story elements before starting the game. Each story element is represented by one card. During the game, each card is either in the deck, held by one of the Bards, on the table, or burned. They all start out in the deck. The Barkeep keeps track of the cards. Each time the Barkeep posts a public update of the game, he should post the number of cards held by each Bard (but not which cards are held by whom), list the cards lying on the table, and tell whose turn it is. Each Bard receives seven cards upon joining, unless the Barkeep specified an alternate number at the start of the game. When a Bard leaves, eir cards return to the deck.

When a Bard receives cards, the Barkeep chooses them randomly from the deck and sends them to that Bard via private message. If there are not enough cards in the deck, the Barkeep shall either end the tale (lamely) or add story elements to his list of cards. A card is added to the deck for each new story element. The cards are then handed out as needed, and the tale goes on.

If the Barkeep disappears and must be replaced, then the new Barkeep must make up eir own list of story elements, and each Bard must contact the Barkeep privately with the contents of eir hands.

Gameplay

As soon as the Barkeep is ready to begin, e chooses a Bard to go first and names em publicly. It is that Bard's turn.

On eir turn, a Bard either tries to make a play, or passes. If e successfully makes a play, it is still eir turn. When a play is denied (which happens, alas, to the best Bards from time to time) or the Bard passes, play goes to the next Bard, clockwise around the table.

Passing

A Bard may pass explicitly. Also, when the Barkeep notices that a Bard is asleep (i.e. it has been eir turn continuously for three days or more, and e has not tried a play in all that time) and posts a message to that effect, that Bard is considered to have passed. When a Bard passes, e receives a card.

If a Bard is asleep(i.e. passes by default)for three of eir turns in a row(or more), then the Barkeep may announce, at the same time as announcing that e is asleep, that that Bard has gone Under The Table. At this point the Bard is removed from the game, and eir bench is considered empty.

When a Bard passes explicitly, e may announce that e is discarding one of the cards from eir hand, naming the card. That card is burned.

Plays

A Bard attempts a play by posting a message in the designated DA community. The text of the message should be a reasonable amount of suitable prose to add to (or start) the tale (150 to 300 words, or the length of previous segments, are good guidelines). If the Bard has any cards, the last line of the message should specify one of them.

The Barkeep shall then reply, ei... ]]> ~rustylantern