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Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XVI)
Potteraholic Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:35 am
Welcome to Potty Five Words, Volume XVI! This is a game invented by the Potties, first played in October 2005 on the Harry Potter Lexicon FanFiction Forum on World Crossing. It resided there for 5 years and 12 volumes/threads, then moved over to the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum in July 2010; some Forum members wondered if it could be played on the Main Forum, along with all the other wonderful Potty Games so many of us enjoyed. So, with Kip's approval... the move was made!
And then the whole Harry Potter Lexicon Forum moved, to our new home here on forumotion.com. This is now the second Five Words thread here, and we have settled in quite nicely.
Now... back to the game!
The rules of this game are simple: place five words in your post that continue the story told through other members' five words. Strung together, the five words will make a much, much longer story. (You might add another much to that list if some people decide to go on a posting spree, which has been done in the past.
)
If you're new to Five Words, or even if you've been playing since since the beginning, take a look at some suggestions Finn (the creator of the Five Words thread on the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum), made at the conclusion of Volume V.
We ask that you please post your five words in bold format. This will help distinguish your addition to the story from other side comments you might make in your post, and help the story posters when they compile the story at the end. The way to do this is by:
— typing a in front of the text you want in bold then after it to unbold anything else you might post.
Enjoy!
Story #142 begins 1 November 2011.
Click on Story #142 (9 December 2011) for "The Daily Prophet, 1st November 2011 - CLASSIFIED ADS"
Story #143 begins 9 December 2011.
Click on Story #143 (14 January 2012) for "Six Words, Six Characters", Six Year Anniversary Special!
Story #144 begins 14 January 2012.
Click on Story #144 (19 March 2012) for "Horace's Lucky Day"
Story #145 begins 19 March 2012.
Click on Story #145 (25 March 2012) for "The Magic Begins"
Story #146 begins 25 March 2012.
Click on Story #146 (1 April 2012) for "Friendly Chatter"
→ Update post
As of August 28, 2011, the Five Words Story Archives are complete!
These links are all ready for your perusal:
Should you want to travel down Memory Lane and find the first story in which you posted, this link will take you to a chart of this information: * Five Words - Volumes Index *
These Archives are a work in progress in that they will be continually updated as future stories are completed. These Archives contain a multi-volume index of Volumes 1 to 15 (and then beyond), individual volume indexes, and a table that has the stories categorized by topic.
Happy reading!
And then the whole Harry Potter Lexicon Forum moved, to our new home here on forumotion.com. This is now the second Five Words thread here, and we have settled in quite nicely.
Vol # | __ set of stories | # of stories in set | length of time stories created | additional notes |
fourteen | 6 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 23 minutes | -- | ||
ten | 2 months, 2 days, 0 hours, and 36 minutes | -- | ||
thirteen (and a half) | 3 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 29 minutes | It features our one-year anniversary special and story. | ||
ten | 7 months, 30 days, 6 hours, and 35 minutes | -- | ||
fourteen | 7 months, 12 days, 13 hours, and 16 minutes | Story 50: Our Golden Anniversary. | ||
nine | 2 months, 12 days, 0 hours, and 7 minutes | -- | ||
ten | 2 months, 17 days, 19 hours, and 42 minutes | It features our two-and-a-half-year anniversary special and story. | ||
seven | 2 months, 8 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes | * * * | ||
eleven | 2 months, 28 days, 19 hours, and 52 minutes | It features our three-year anniversary special and story. | ||
nine | 4 months, 23 days, 17 hours, and 37 minutes | It features our 100th story. | ||
eleven | 7 months, 23 days, 7 hours, and 44 minutes | It features our four-year anniversary special and story. | ||
seven | 1 year, 3 months, 4 hours, and 7 minutes | This volume did not reach its max. capacity of 2,999 posts because of World Crossing's closing on April 15, 2011. | ||
eight | 8 months, 23 days, 19 hours, and 53 minutes | This volume did not reach its max. capacity of 2,999 posts because of World Crossing's closing on April 15, 2011. It features our five-year anniversary special and story. | ||
four | 1 month, 6 days, 9 hours, and 59 minutes | This is the 1st volume of Five Words stories on forumotion.com.  The threads here max. out at approx. 1,005 posts, thereby affecting a volume's length of time, from start to finish. They will be considerably shorter than WX volumes. | ||
four | 4 months, 6 days, 21 hours, and 28 minutes | --- |
Now... back to the game!
The rules of this game are simple: place five words in your post that continue the story told through other members' five words. Strung together, the five words will make a much, much longer story. (You might add another much to that list if some people decide to go on a posting spree, which has been done in the past.
)If you're new to Five Words, or even if you've been playing since since the beginning, take a look at some suggestions Finn (the creator of the Five Words thread on the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum), made at the conclusion of Volume V.
We ask that you please post your five words in bold format. This will help distinguish your addition to the story from other side comments you might make in your post, and help the story posters when they compile the story at the end. The way to do this is by:
— typing a in front of the text you want in bold then after it to unbold anything else you might post.
Enjoy!
Story #142 begins 1 November 2011.
Click on Story #142 (9 December 2011) for "The Daily Prophet, 1st November 2011 - CLASSIFIED ADS"
Story #143 begins 9 December 2011.
Click on Story #143 (14 January 2012) for "Six Words, Six Characters", Six Year Anniversary Special!
Story #144 begins 14 January 2012.
Click on Story #144 (19 March 2012) for "Horace's Lucky Day"
Story #145 begins 19 March 2012.
Click on Story #145 (25 March 2012) for "The Magic Begins"
Story #146 begins 25 March 2012.
Click on Story #146 (1 April 2012) for "Friendly Chatter"
Featured Story of the Week
(described here; numbers below are links)
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #1 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #2 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #3 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #4 ←
(described here; numbers below are links)
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #1 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #2 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #3 ←
• 'Featured Story of the Week' #4 ←
→ Update post
As of August 28, 2011, the Five Words Story Archives are complete!
These links are all ready for your perusal:| * Five Words - Main Archives * |
| * Five Words - Stories Index (by topic) * |
Should you want to travel down Memory Lane and find the first story in which you posted, this link will take you to a chart of this information: * Five Words - Volumes Index *
These Archives are a work in progress in that they will be continually updated as future stories are completed. These Archives contain a multi-volume index of Volumes 1 to 15 (and then beyond), individual volume indexes, and a table that has the stories categorized by topic.
Happy reading!
Five Words Bulletin Board
| Info. about Writing a Letter to the Editor (website addresses provided in post) | ||||
| The zodiac signs in order are: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn | * |
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Potty Game: Five Words, Update Post
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This post will be used to update each new story in this thread as it's being written.
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An update for story #145 will follow in the SPOILER boxes, when the story starts.
Update #1
Characters: anonymous Muggle-born first year
Update #1
(-- posts and -- words)
Back to [url=---]Story #145[/url]
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An update for story #145 will follow in the SPOILER boxes, when the story starts.
Update #1
Characters: anonymous Muggle-born first year
Update #1
- Spoiler:
- ---
(-- posts and -- words)
Back to [url=---]Story #145[/url]
- Code:
[b][url=http://hplf.forumotion.com/t405-potty-game-five-words-vol-xvi#18205]story update #-[/url][/b]
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Story #142
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Welcome to Five Words, Volume XVI!
I just realized that the 6th Anniversary of Five words happened in the 2nd week of October and I just plum forgot!
So instead of trying to rush out to get a 6th Anniversary post together, let's wait to have our Anniversary story next month, in December. That way, we don’t have to rush to write this ‘story’ by November 10th to try and start writing the 6th Anniversary story then. So December 10th is the date of our 6th Anniversary story. Mark your calendars!
I thought it might be nice to write another collection of short pieces of writing, like the horoscopes, ads, and letters to the Editor that we’ve written for The Daily Prophet. But instead of horoscopes, retail ads and letters, I thought we could try writing the ads in the "Classified" section, written by everyday wizards and witches. I must confess, I got the idea to write classified ads from my time brewing potions on Pottermore these past few weeks, where I have been posting ads in the Ravenclaw common room to trade unneeded potions ingredients for the ones that I do need.
This is what will precede the story, but not be included in the word count:
1st November 2011
CLASSIFIED ADS
Okay, without any further ado, here are the first five words of Story #142.
FOR SALE – Worn just once!
.
potterwatch
Welcome to Five Words, Volume XVI!
I just realized that the 6th Anniversary of Five words happened in the 2nd week of October and I just plum forgot!
So instead of trying to rush out to get a 6th Anniversary post together, let's wait to have our Anniversary story next month, in December. That way, we don’t have to rush to write this ‘story’ by November 10th to try and start writing the 6th Anniversary story then. So December 10th is the date of our 6th Anniversary story. Mark your calendars! I thought it might be nice to write another collection of short pieces of writing, like the horoscopes, ads, and letters to the Editor that we’ve written for The Daily Prophet. But instead of horoscopes, retail ads and letters, I thought we could try writing the ads in the "Classified" section, written by everyday wizards and witches. I must confess, I got the idea to write classified ads from my time brewing potions on Pottermore these past few weeks, where I have been posting ads in the Ravenclaw common room to trade unneeded potions ingredients for the ones that I do need.
This is what will precede the story, but not be included in the word count:
1st November 2011
CLASSIFIED ADS
Okay, without any further ado, here are the first five words of Story #142.
FOR SALE – Worn just once!
.
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Verity Weasley Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:13 am
Purple dress robes with paisley
Yay! A new Five Words story!
This topic reminds me of what is said to be the world's shortest short story, attributed to Ernest Hemingway:
For sale, baby shoes, never worn.
It's actually a very sad little story, but just shows how much meaning can be imbued in just a few words.
On a happier note, as today is 1st November, NaNoWriMo started today and I have 23 students from rade 4 to grade 12 who are participating. Although school is still closed this week because of the floods, I've been in touch with all of them electronically and they are all very excited and pumped up to be writing their novels. It's great to see their word counts creeping up already.
Yay!
A new Five Words story! This topic reminds me of what is said to be the world's shortest short story, attributed to Ernest Hemingway:
For sale, baby shoes, never worn.
It's actually a very sad little story, but just shows how much meaning can be imbued in just a few words.
On a happier note, as today is 1st November, NaNoWriMo started today and I have 23 students from rade 4 to grade 12 who are participating. Although school is still closed this week because of the floods, I've been in touch with all of them electronically and they are all very excited and pumped up to be writing their novels. It's great to see their word counts creeping up already.
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It did take me about an hour to start this new thread and update links, etc. but never mind all that.
Back to Pottermore's Ravenclaw common room, where everyone's abuzz about the site's closing for a few days for maintenance.
patterning and the finest silk
.
potterwatch
It did take me about an hour to start this new thread and update links, etc. but never mind all that.
Back to Pottermore's Ravenclaw common room, where everyone's abuzz about the site's closing for a few days for maintenance.patterning and the finest silk
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Mona Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:13 am
and gold embroidery on the
Must be an Indian witch, or even wizard.
Verity, good luck to your students! Wonder what they'll come up with.
Must be an Indian witch, or even wizard.
That's the day before Son's birthday, so easy to remember!So December 10th is the date of our 6th Anniversary story. Mark your calendars! ~ PAH
Verity, good luck to your students! Wonder what they'll come up with.
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Re: Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XVI)
Verity Weasley Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:27 pm
hem. Will suit a wizard
Thanks Mona. It's just great to see kids so enthusiastic about writing.
Thanks Mona.
It's just great to see kids so enthusiastic about writing.
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An absolute bargain at only
Prices and contact information will need to be included. Should be fun.
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An absolute bargain at only
Prices and contact information will need to be included. Should be fun.
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Re: Potty Game: Five Words (Vol. XVI)
Verity Weasley Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:19 pm
3 galleons. (Minor Snargaluff damage
A hint at why it's such a bargain and perhaps why it was worn only once.
A hint at why it's such a bargain and perhaps why it was worn only once.
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Verity Weasley Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:23 am
concealed with judicious placement of
- Spoiler:
- ...a brooch / handkerchief / bowtie / something else?
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NON-POST
I start a new thread, not a new post, and I guess it's here by magic, again. My days of worrying about starting new threads are officially over. Things will get done, whenever. Speaking of which, I have a trivia quiz to mark. Might as well take care of that now.
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NON-POST
I start a new thread, not a new post, and I guess it's here by magic, again. My days of worrying about starting new threads are officially over. Things will get done, whenever. Speaking of which, I have a trivia quiz to mark. Might as well take care of that now.
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Verity Weasley Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:55 am
free. Send owl to Ichabod
I just thought about the contact information. Presumably they wouldn't list fellytone numbers so would just communicate with owl mail. How else would they work these classified ads?
I just thought about the contact information. Presumably they wouldn't list fellytone numbers so would just communicate with owl mail. How else would they work these classified ads?
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Mona Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:51 am
Inglewright.
WANTED: Ancient Runes translator
LOL, I've no idea what I'm doing. Hope this is ok!
Should it be "Ichabod Inglewright, care of The Daily Prophet" or something?
WANTED: Ancient Runes translator
LOL, I've no idea what I'm doing. Hope this is ok!
Should it be "Ichabod Inglewright, care of The Daily Prophet" or something?
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Verity Weasley Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:37 am
who will be able to
I don't think we need to add 'care of the Daily Prophet', otherwise we'd be repeatedly wasting five words on that phrase at the end of every ad. Let's just assume the readers know how the classified ads work!
Edited to change words to fit with Mona's original idea of the translator being a person, not a thing.
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Mona Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:07 am
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- Beedle the Bard or something else
I was thinking of a 'translator' as a person who translates stuff from one language to another. What were you thinking of, Verity? The 'that' in your post seems to indicate a thing rather than a person.
Edited to change 'rendering' to 'render'.
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Verity Weasley Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:40 pm
Beedle the Bard into Mermish
Oh, OK, now I understand. I was thinking of a thing, rather than a person, but a person probably would make more sense. I was wondering what kind of device would be able to translate runes. I could change my words to 'who would be able to' but then you'd need to change 'rendering' to 'render' for it still to make sense grammatically. I'll go ahead and make the change.
Congratulations on the trivia Mona.
Oh, OK, now I understand. I was thinking of a thing, rather than a person, but a person probably would make more sense. I was wondering what kind of device would be able to translate runes. I could change my words to 'who would be able to' but then you'd need to change 'rendering' to 'render' for it still to make sense grammatically. I'll go ahead and make the change.
Congratulations on the trivia Mona.
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NON-POST - Update #1
16 posts and 80 words
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NON-POST - Update #1
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1st November 2011
CLASSIFIED ADS
Kindly send letters of interest care of The Daily Prophet.
FOR SALE – Worn just once!
Purple dress robes with paisley patterning and the finest silk and gold embroidery on the hem.
Will suit a wizard with a flamboyant dress sense. An absolute bargain at only 3 Galleons!
(Minor Snargaluff damage on the front is easily concealed
with judicious placement of a silk scarf, included for free.)
Send owl to Ichabod Inglewright.
WANTED - Ancient Runes translator who will be able to render the original
Tales of Beedle the Bard into Mermish...
16 posts and 80 words
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Mona Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:52 am
. Pay negotiable. Contact Professor Bathsheba
Verity, you needen't have changed it. I can imagine a magical device to translate one language into another. We've even got our Muggle Translator websites, though they may not work that well.
**sigh** PAH, I saw your name and thought you had posted, and not 'non-posted' - Oh well...
Verity, you needen't have changed it. I can imagine a magical device to translate one language into another. We've even got our Muggle Translator websites, though they may not work that well.
**sigh** PAH, I saw your name and thought you had posted, and not 'non-posted' - Oh well...
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Verity Weasley Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:51 am
, Committee for Inter-species Cooperation, Ministry
Mona, I thought the same.
Mona, I thought the same.
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Mona Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:42 am
of Magic.
HANDSOME MIDDLE-AGED wizard
Now I have this pleasant mental picture of merpeople reading The Tales to their kids underwater...
As for the rest, continued sad smileys 
HANDSOME MIDDLE-AGED wizard
Now I have this pleasant mental picture of merpeople reading The Tales to their kids underwater...
As for the rest, continued sad smileys
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seeks accomplished magical portrait artist
I'm not sure where you were going with that one, Mona!
I'm not sure where you were going with that one, Mona!
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NON-POST
- Spoiler:
- I will continue posting updates periodically, because it will make the job of posting the finished story much easier for me when this story ends. But as I said earlier, I start a new thread, not a new post, and I guess folks just think it appears here magically, as if I just waved my wand, and did not spend any time updating the previous header and update posts, updating links, etc., to get it up and running. This may be a forum devoted to the story of a boy and a magical society, but it takes some effort to get things posted here in it, and things don't happen just like *snap*, that.
Folks get mentioned for completing hangman puzzles, riddles, 20 Questions games, and trivia quizzes all the time on these game threads. But when I start a new game thread, to keep a game going, there's nary a mention. Again, I must've just waved my magic wand to make those threads appear as well.
I appreciate that I took longer than I usually take to set-up this new volume, but my track record speaks for itself when it comes to doing things quickly. As things have been moving along in this forum slowly for a while, I thought it would be no big deal to follow suit, especially as my laptop was in for repairs. I suppose I've made a habit of being prepared and getting things ready in advance, which folks have just taken for granted, or something, over the years. But there's no motivation for me to be mindful any more. So, my days of starting new game threads are officially over. Besides, there are plenty of others around to do it, who I am sure will get a word of thanks, as it will be such a novel occurrence. The only games thread I will continue to look in on is the Five Words one, to post updates, stories, stats, and post-story comments, should there be any.
I will update the Archives of the various games where Archives exist, for as long as those games are played, since I spent time putting the Archives together. I worked on them yesterday, as a matter of fact, and they are all up to date. But as for playing these games, I'm taking a bit of a break.
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