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Rube Goldberg 2019

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:07 pm

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A home
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The woman yawns, stretching her arms over her head before bringing her arm down on the buzzing alarm clock. She groans, rolls over, and gives a quick jerk to a rope by her bedside with a knot on it, tied to prevent the end from going down into the hole drilled neatly into her bedroom floor. The rope pulls tight for a moment before slackening again, and in the kitchen below, the other end of the rope pulls a gate upwards, releasing a baseball from confinement. The ball rolls down the chute, picking up speed before bumping into a lever, which pulls a pin suspending a counterbalanced weight. The weight slowly but heavily drops onto the toaster oven's switch, turning it on.

The baseball meanders a bit on the counter until its slightly uneven surface helps gravity pull it down to the end of the counter, a groove leading it directly into a box of cereal, precariously balanced on the edge of the counter. The box wobbles, but drops as predicted into a hinged bracket designed to upend it just the right amount, and it dumps an amount of cornflakes into a waiting bowl. The baseball finally finds the hole at the end of the second groove, and it drops below the counter, jostling a balloon just enough to push it into the pin sticking out from the side of the wall. The balloon bursts with a
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Northsidegal finally comes downstairs in her fluffy bunny slippers and robe and stoops to pick up the baseball rolling across the floor to her. The toaster oven dings, and she takes her Pop-Tart out, burning her fingers slightly in the process before settling down to enjoy her breakfast.

"I love it when a plan comes together."
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:09 pm

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Congratulations to the 2019 winner of the 'Rube Goldberg' award,


Northsidegal!


for her work in designing and moderating The Newsroom!
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:10 pm

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The judges also wish to extend an Honorable Mention to


Jingle


for his work in moderating Vengeful Ghosts!


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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:12 pm

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GOOD WIN NO BIAS TO NSG

ALSO GRATS TO JINGLE
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:35 am

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Congratulations nsg!! Newsroom was a truly rare game - it was so exciting being hooded in by Skygazer, even without a stake in the game I felt so drawn in and intrigued by what was going on.

Huge congrats to Jingle, as well. Vengeful Ghosts was a masterpiece.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:06 am

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nani?

how did you guys know how i wake up
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:28 am

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Well deserved, I found it really cool to be invited to that game and given an opportunity to make a difference in a game that otherwise wouldn't have been on my radar at all.

I really hope mechanics like this become a bit more popular since the potential for this is exciting
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:12 am

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Congratulations!!!
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:20 am

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It was such a sweet setup
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Wed Feb 19, 2020 6:40 am

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Congratulations!
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:15 am

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Congrats, Newsroom is to date, my proudest game on site. The only game, where I nailed the entire scumteam and it was a lot of fun to play. If town had listened to me, we could have won it on D2,

Loved the theme, the roles, flavour and mechanics - especially the hoods part. I look fwd to a Newsroom 2.
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