So here is what we will do(Kathleen please feel free to move this if it is in the wrong forum)
I will start. The following poster will incorporate three words left by his/her predecessor into a few sentences or a paragragh adhering also to the theme left by the previous poster.
And away we go
Theme or premise: Goblin Fodder
Words:
Arbitrate
Ephemeral
Isipid
After infiltrating the Gully dwarve village deep within Mout Kendor, the mage found himself being revered. The Gully Dwarves considered him their new ruler.
He found himself in the midddle of every arbitration. Ludgzda,the one with a mole on top of a mole on her nose, and Bupu, the one who called the mage 'purdy man', were squabbling over a dead rat.
"It's mine."
"No, it mine"
"Silence." He shouted, ending the ephemeral squirmish.
"Shirak!" He cast a spell that set the rotting carcass ablaze. Then he swept up the ashes and divided them between the two awestruck Dwarves.
He grew bored of thier insipid existence and wished they could take him to the dragon's lair.
Ok, so here we go. Have fun. And Keep It under thirteen lines!
Theme:Monkeys in space
Words:Lucid,prevaricate,saturnine
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Theme: Arctic Bananas
Words: rational, evasion, sluggish.
Theme: Theme
Definitions, complexion, ordeal.
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Theme: sibling rivalry
Exacerbate, oblong, adverbial
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A familiar squish sounded in the grass behind her. Jen whirled in time to see Tommy launch an oblong balloon, heavy with water. It wobbled in its slow arc and then rushed to meet her upraised arms. The splash soaked her shirt. A whirl of pages flew past, scattering across the yard. And to exacerbate the situation, her brother released the dogs.
Theme: Predestination/fate
Rapine, kinesthesia, infelicity OR felicity
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I came to after travelling through the portal. Slowly kinesthesia returned and my senses enlivened. I had to find her...to regain my felicity
Theme: gambling androids
Words:guile, indelible, misogynist
quote:
The press labeled P.C. McTaggart a misfit misogynist with archaic views, and so missed the point entirely. The good constable simply aspired to the civility of an earlier era, he told himself, and on arriving at a premises aimed for an indelible impression, either on the inhabitants, or the door.Unfortunately, as McTaggart's cultivated exterior was intended for human observation, the impression he made on the three robots currently engaged in a game of Texas Hold'em seemed to consist only of a laser scan and a tactless filing of data.
Tempted briefly to observe the spectacle before him, McTaggart recalled that watching robots play cards was, in the realm of entertainment, on a par with watching dice roll themselves. Incapable of guile, they simply played their hands like the probability calculators they were. He cleared his throat.
Theme: Should fairies aspire to space travel?
Words: Escutcheon, Abstemious, Raconteur
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He spun on a meticulously polished heel, and continued, "Yes, you will leave here tonight and return to your estucheon encrusted manor houses, but the fairies? Hah! They will still sleep, alone and cold. Living an abstemious life devoid of the opulence that you so enjoy, never to know the joys of space."
Theme: People in glass houses need a lot of windex
words: odeum, forthputter, shrip
The raconteur sat down slowly and took a deep breath. Deep for a fairy that is, and a small fairy at that. His name was Hormsky, and he was a storyteller. His biggest problem since joining the crew of the Herald was his title. Daily, he was snubbed in the mess, conversations stopped when he entered a room, and he found himself the butt of every nasty rumour. What had he done to earn this? Nothing. It was the title.
As a fairy he was too small to work in the Herald's engine room, and there were plenty of bots to perform the cleaning services. Certainly he was no Soldier. He was starting to question his own aspiration to space travel. But remembered that he did have some positive attributes. He was abstemious, a must for space travel, and he was entertaining. His Coat of arms was a scroll and a pen emblazoned across a golden escutcheon. He would chronocle the voyage and entertain along the way. But why oh why was everyone convinced that he was some kind of criminal? Everyday the words came out of his mouth, "I am not a racketeer!"
Theme: higher education
Words: Loquacity, obstreperous, interlocutor
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Forthputter:
One who puts forth; a braggart.
a1610 HEALEY Theophrastus xxiii. (1636) 79 A vanter or forth-putter is he, that boastes upon the Exchange that he hath store of banke-mony.
Shrip:
verb
trans. To shave, shred; to clip, lop, prune, trim.
1609 C. BUTLER Fem. Mon. K5b, Put a brimstone-match in the one end beeing slit, and the other end beeing shript sticke into the side of the hoale. 1664 EVELYN Sylva 20 Being suffered to dry in the Sun upon the Branches, and the spray shrip'd off about the decrease in August. Ibid. 103 Brush~wood which is shripped off from the branches of Copse~wood. Ibid. (1776) 155 Such as they reserve for spears in Spain, they keep shriped up close to the stem. 1881 Isle of Wight Gloss., Shrip, to clip a hedge, or cut hair close. 1893 Wilts. Gloss., Shirp, or Shrip, (1) ‘to shirp off’, to shred or cut off a little of anything; (2) ‘to shrip up’, to shroud up the lower boughs of roadside trees, to cut off the side twigs of a hedge or bush.
Hence shripping vbl. n.
1634 WITHER Embl. IV. ix, I have seene such twiggs, afford them shade, By whom they were the meanest shrippings made, Of all the Wood. 1910 Spectator 16 Apr. 619/1 His [sc. a hedger's] work in some shires is known as ‘shripping’.
"Excerpt from the diary of the Princes tutor two days prior to his beheading"
Theme:Tangled in bureaucracy and ivy
words: Gasconade, misnomer,sedulous
Keep it under the thirteen rule
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quote:
Trundleheart's impression as to the perspicacity of his new employers vanished on presentation with this new role. Following his celebrated portrayal as Gimli it appeared this new, humbler part was intended to elicit an inappropriate gasconade with which they might show him the door. Instead he'd accepted the part with temerity, applying himself to rehearsals in a sedulous manner: For, he concluded, Arthurian legend would simply need to change, and he prove a misnomer the designation Lady of the Lake. Stocky, sporting a waist-length red beard, a horned helm and draped in ivy, he would hand Arthur his Excalibur as Dwarf in the Vines, Broadway would swoon, and he'd be back in the big time.
Theme: conflict of opinion
Words: mien, leonine, bespoke
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I did not mean to go outside the rules. I did think the words I used were reasonable because I had recently read them in a novel.
Leslie
So shall we put the thread back on the rails and continue the game? I've quite enjoyed it so far.
Theme: Eternal Child
Words: justification, turpitude, malingerer