Who's The Boss
Game #2803: WTB: Active Store Revamped 2
This game is moderated by jarmihi. Please read the rules and contact the moderator with any questions or concerns about this game.
This game finished in 9 rounds.
[color=red]NEW ITEM![/color] [color=purple]Now for your Challenge-solving adventure, Jarmihi Factory presents Insight, a difficulty-lessening Challenge enhancer for your purchasing pleasure. Step right up to the Bazaar to explore this amazing new item for only 5, count them: 5 points![/color] [color=green]See Bazaar entry 4 for mechanical details.[/color]
[color=green]Sorry to keep you waiting. Without further ado, let's begin![/color]
[color=orange]RULES[/color]
[color=green]Here are the rules for this game:[/color]
[color=orange]BAZAAR[/color]
[color=green]O hai! Take a look at my wares![/color][color=white]..........[/color]Link to the Boss Bazaar
[color=orange]CHALLENGE LISTING[/color]
[color=green]Keyword Challenge #1[/color]
[color=green]Point listings and inventories will be listed as needed.[/color]
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[color=green]Sorry to keep you waiting. Without further ado, let's begin![/color]
[color=orange]RULES[/color]
[color=green]Here are the rules for this game:[/color]
[color=orange]BAZAAR[/color]
[color=green]O hai! Take a look at my wares![/color][color=white]..........[/color]Link to the Boss Bazaar
Index | Name | Price | Remaining Stock | Effect
[color=green]1 | Color Grabber | 3 | infinite | Allows you to reserve a non-moderator color for your exclusive use.[/color]
2 | Golden Quill | 3 | 1 per round | Allows you to write the next psych question.
[color=green]3 | Magic Potion | 5 | infinite | Reveals a hint about the Boss. It's quite delicious![/color]
[color=#FBB917]NEW! 4 | Insight | 5 | infinite | Reveals a hint on a current Challenge of choice.[/color]
[color=green]5 | Rat Trap | 15 | 1 per 24 hrs | Sends the rat a challenge to complete in 24 hrs. If the rat fails, xe is fired.[/color]
6 | Silencer Level 1 | 10 | infinite | Prevents target from earning points for 24 hours. Does not stack.
[color=green]7 | Silencer Level 2 | 25 | 1 per 24 hours | Prevents target from posting for 24 hours.[/color]
8 | Lens of Truth | 25 | 1 | Reveal identity of target. Works once per round.
[color=green]Purchasing Form: (either place in a post or PM Jarmihi for a private purchase/use)[/color][color=green]1 | Color Grabber | 3 | infinite | Allows you to reserve a non-moderator color for your exclusive use.[/color]
2 | Golden Quill | 3 | 1 per round | Allows you to write the next psych question.
[color=green]3 | Magic Potion | 5 | infinite | Reveals a hint about the Boss. It's quite delicious![/color]
[color=#FBB917]NEW! 4 | Insight | 5 | infinite | Reveals a hint on a current Challenge of choice.[/color]
[color=green]5 | Rat Trap | 15 | 1 per 24 hrs | Sends the rat a challenge to complete in 24 hrs. If the rat fails, xe is fired.[/color]
6 | Silencer Level 1 | 10 | infinite | Prevents target from earning points for 24 hours. Does not stack.
[color=green]7 | Silencer Level 2 | 25 | 1 per 24 hours | Prevents target from posting for 24 hours.[/color]
8 | Lens of Truth | 25 | 1 | Reveal identity of target. Works once per round.
Your name:
Item:
Quantity:
Target, if applicable:
Use Immediately? :
[color=green]If a private purchase, add 10% of the cost rounded to the nearest whole unit.[/color]Item:
Quantity:
Target, if applicable:
Use Immediately? :
[color=orange]CHALLENGE LISTING[/color]
[color=green]Keyword Challenge #1[/color]
If any player posts a valid post with the secret Keyword in it, he or she will win a free item! The word is a potentially everyday word. (So, it's not 'hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia'.) Word lists do not count. The word must be found in a sentence inside a valid post. This has a good history of promoting activity, so let's see some interesting stories! (Update: remember that the post does not have to be about the game. Also, any tense of the word will work as well [*-s, *-ing, *-ed, *-like, etc. will all do.)[/color] [color=purple]This Challenge lasts until the end of the game.[/color][/color]
[color=green]Attendance Challenge[/color]If every player posts one valid post (not double, not spam), then every player will receive 5 points. If it fails, then those who did post will receive 1 point for participating.[/color] [color=purple]This Challenge lasts until the end of Round 2.[/color]
[color=green]Point listings and inventories will be listed as needed.[/color]
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Player Wallets and Inventories
Note: the abbreviation "AC" means that the player has posted for the Attendance Challenge.
Also note: I have given the 1 point award for Attendance Challenge participants.
buu441 - 5 (AC)
Elios - 11 (AC)
emma5799979 - 7 (AC)
foxc94 - 1
Izzie - 17 (AC)
Kaipper - 5 (AC)
max318 - 2
mru212 - 7 (AC)
Tomatoes - 4 (AC)
dayton228 - 1
FatHead - 2
jpost - 2
liaos92 - 1
poofi - 1
sadface256 - 2
The Boss - 15 FP
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Note: the abbreviation "AC" means that the player has posted for the Attendance Challenge.
Also note: I have given the 1 point award for Attendance Challenge participants.
buu441 - 5 (AC)
Elios - 11 (AC)
emma5799979 - 7 (AC)
foxc94 - 1
Izzie - 17 (AC)
Kaipper - 5 (AC)
max318 - 2
mru212 - 7 (AC)
Tomatoes - 4 (AC)
dayton228 - 1
FatHead - 2
jpost - 2
liaos92 - 1
poofi - 1
sadface256 - 2
The Boss - 15 FP
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Sad to see the amount of manditories.
Happy Birthday, jarmihi! Your last year of being a teenager - make sure to live it up.
I was afraid I'd missed most of the round because I couldn't get on sooner, but it looks like that was the same for the Boss and/or Mod. Phew! That was a lot of mandatory firings. Guess there will be nothing learned from last round's votes.
Safety voting for mru. Debating whether or not to use any points yet...
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." - Chesterton
I was afraid I'd missed most of the round because I couldn't get on sooner, but it looks like that was the same for the Boss and/or Mod. Phew! That was a lot of mandatory firings. Guess there will be nothing learned from last round's votes.
Safety voting for mru. Debating whether or not to use any points yet...
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." - Chesterton
I'm here. Gonna stick a fishvote in. For now.
There were tonnes of mandatories, but I think there is a lot to be learned from the memo, unless it is a genius double bluff but if we assume that, then we can't really go anywhere.
For starters, I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about going to the beach as a major trip/event/holiday/vacation or whatever. I live in NZ, like twenty minutes from a beach, and I think it'd be hard to find anywhere that you're more than a few hours of driving from a beach. The same probably goes for other places in the world. This logic would tend to point toward the boss being from somewhere inland. Take from that what you will.
Also, the term 'amusement park' is one that is foreign to me personally. I've only ever heard them referred to as theme parks. Yeah. I don't know quite what this suggests geographically, is it an Americanism?
Nature vacations? Is that like going camping? I wouldn't use the word nature to start, let alone vacation. We go on trips or holidays. I don't know quite where this language is from, but I'm suspecting another Americanism here also.
If this type of language seems over the top or forces to anyone, we might suspect a genius double bluff play. Otherwise, I think we've got something to go on. It'd be nice to see people build on this, add opinions and maybe match up some stuff to possible suspects. Thanks for the substantial psych question answer Boss!
It'd also be nice to see everyone online to do the participation challenge thing. Yeah.
There were tonnes of mandatories, but I think there is a lot to be learned from the memo, unless it is a genius double bluff but if we assume that, then we can't really go anywhere.
For starters, I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about going to the beach as a major trip/event/holiday/vacation or whatever. I live in NZ, like twenty minutes from a beach, and I think it'd be hard to find anywhere that you're more than a few hours of driving from a beach. The same probably goes for other places in the world. This logic would tend to point toward the boss being from somewhere inland. Take from that what you will.
Also, the term 'amusement park' is one that is foreign to me personally. I've only ever heard them referred to as theme parks. Yeah. I don't know quite what this suggests geographically, is it an Americanism?
Nature vacations? Is that like going camping? I wouldn't use the word nature to start, let alone vacation. We go on trips or holidays. I don't know quite where this language is from, but I'm suspecting another Americanism here also.
If this type of language seems over the top or forces to anyone, we might suspect a genius double bluff play. Otherwise, I think we've got something to go on. It'd be nice to see people build on this, add opinions and maybe match up some stuff to possible suspects. Thanks for the substantial psych question answer Boss!
It'd also be nice to see everyone online to do the participation challenge thing. Yeah.
Happy belated birthday, moderator.
Boy, with that many firings, I was wishing the game had 20 players so it would be a bit longer. But, hm, anyway.
15 firing points for the boss? Well played, man.
Nice going Emma for that long post and trying to get the keyword, but I think you also did a good job in analyzing the answer to the psych question.
Boy, with that many firings, I was wishing the game had 20 players so it would be a bit longer. But, hm, anyway.
15 firing points for the boss? Well played, man.
Nice going Emma for that long post and trying to get the keyword, but I think you also did a good job in analyzing the answer to the psych question.
Does anybody have any ideas about the memo? Or am I just talking to myself a bit here. Maybe for the keyword challenge we could try writing stories, cos they'd use a lot of different, non game-related words. I dunno. Also it'd be grand if the mod would tell us what class of word it is, (like noun, verb, adjective etc) just so we could see what kind of stuff we should be posting about. Also, I hope you had a great birthday. You're doing an awesome job modding so far. It'd just be nice if we had more activity...
I'll wait and see a bit to gauge reactions about the memo thing and the unrelated storytelling stuff. Do you guys think either of these things are worth pursuing?
I'll wait and see a bit to gauge reactions about the memo thing and the unrelated storytelling stuff. Do you guys think either of these things are worth pursuing?
for me, the memo seems pretty kiddish. and emma said something about amusement parks being called theme parks at most places. but here in india, we have always known them as amusement parks. are different words used in different countries?? nothing else i can infer from the memo and emma's post.
since there is no other lead, i am just fish voting again.
edit: just in case 'keyword' is the secret keyword.
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Leo: Hold on. This is gonna hurt. Coach Hedge: I was BORN for HURT!!
since there is no other lead, i am just fish voting again.
edit: just in case 'keyword' is the secret keyword.
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Leo: Hold on. This is gonna hurt. Coach Hedge: I was BORN for HURT!!
in the states there are both theme parks -very large-
like disney are six flags or cedar point
and amusements parks -somewhat smaller-
same type of rides, just less of them
there are a lot of places here too that are very far from a beach -kansas-
there are lakes that have beaches, but i dont think that kansas has any
nature vacations? never heard that term before
but it could involve camping, hiking, biking -anything active and outdoors-
i think that the key word is . . . i really have no idea, but i like using white text to hide things
edit: spelling
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Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
like disney are six flags or cedar point
and amusements parks -somewhat smaller-
same type of rides, just less of them
there are a lot of places here too that are very far from a beach -kansas-
there are lakes that have beaches, but i dont think that kansas has any
nature vacations? never heard that term before
but it could involve camping, hiking, biking -anything active and outdoors-
i think that the key word is . . . i really have no idea, but i like using white text to hide things
edit: spelling
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Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
Scoring bookmark. -- Kaipper accounted for.
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Wow, a lot of players didn't vote! I'm fish voting for someone who hasn't posted yet.
my posts dont seem to be posting
weird
edit to add: this one showed up
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Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
weird
edit to add: this one showed up
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Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
It seem as though only two people have not checked in... Should be interesting if either remain...
max
Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
Ë™Çızzı(p) ¿y ahora? the new refrigerator came. If you need me, i will be playing in the box.
so mod. since actual voting period has ended, what was the keyword?
edit: i read the purple print after this post.
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Leo: Hold on. This is gonna hurt. Coach Hedge: I was BORN for HURT!!
edit: i read the purple print after this post.
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Leo: Hold on. This is gonna hurt. Coach Hedge: I was BORN for HURT!!
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