Another new game: Black Magic

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Ok, this might not work too well on the forum but we'll try it. Does anyone else know this game?

 

Adding Official Rules!

Person A, the Questioner, posts a picture for everyone to see.

An audience member chooses something in that picture, and puts it into a spoiler.

Everyone can look in the spoiler except Person B, the Namer.

The Questioner will ask the Namer "Is it [this]?" and the Namer will respond no until they say yes. 
 

The audience is trying to figure out how the Namer is getting it right.

Edited July 30, 2020 by Negative_Null

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

22 minutes ago, Negative_Null said:

Ok, this might not work too well on the forum but we'll try it. Does anyone else know this game?

Nope. If you explain it we can give it a try though. 

[Hen she/her]

I do! I thought about doing it, I just wasn't sure how to make it work right.

Edited July 29, 2020 by Hentient

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Defeats the purpose if you explain  it, unfortunately. It's a game where two people are working together to make black magic, and everyone else has to guess how they're doing it. If no one gets on and says they know it, I'll explain it to you and you can be the second person.

How we'll probably do it on the Shard is person A will post a picture, a witness (someone who doesn't know the trick) will DM person A an object in the picture. Person A will then ask Person B "Is it "this thing"?" and Person B will respond no or yes.

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

1 hour ago, Negative_Null said:

Ok, this might not work too well on the forum but we'll try it. Does anyone else know this game?

Ooh ooh I know!

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Perfect. @Hentient and @Truthless of Shinovar, you are my Masters of Black Magic. Now we just need an audience...

[Mat he/him]

I volunteer as tribute

[Ashbringer he/him]

Umm... sure. For now.

[Mat he/him]

@Negative_Null, what do you mean when you say 'DM'?

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Private message. So, my Masters, who wants to go first, and do you want to name objects or divine what it is?

[DramaQueen she/he/neopronouns]

2 hours ago, Negative_Null said:

Ok, this might not work too well on the forum but we'll try it. Does anyone else know this game?

I do! I love this game!!

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Great. Who wants to Name? If you do just post a picture that we can use and @Matrim's Diceor @Ghanderflaffle can Pm you an object in that picture

[theTruthshaper]

3 hours ago, Negative_Null said:

Defeats the purpose if you explain  it, unfortunately. It's a game where two people are working together to make black magic, and everyone else has to guess how they're doing it. If no one gets on and says they know it, I'll explain it to you and you can be the second person.

How we'll probably do it on the Shard is person A will post a picture, a witness (someone who doesn't know the trick) will DM person A an object in the picture. Person A will then ask Person B "Is it "this thing"?" and Person B will respond no or yes.

Do person A and B know the trick?

[Frustration]

3 hours ago, Hentient said:

I do! I thought about doing it, I just wasn't sure how to make it work right.

[Hen she/her]

14 minutes ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

Do person A and B know the trick?

Yup. And then then the spectators try to guess the pattern. 

Although we can probably do it without the DM. Someone who knows the rule posts a picture, and a spectator (or another person who knows the rule) asks if a item is “it”, the original poster responds “yes” or “no”. Would that work? 

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Just now, Hentient said:

Yup. And then then the spectators try to guess the pattern. 

Although we can probably do it without the DM. Someone who knows the rule posts a picture, and a spectator (or another person who knows the rule) asks if a item is “it”, the original poster responds “yes” or “no”. Would that work? 

Nope. You see *waves hands mystically* Black Magic only works by the merging of two minds over each object in turn

[Hen she/her]

13 minutes ago, Negative_Null said:

Nope. You see *waves hands mystically* Black Magic only works by the merging of two minds over each object in turn

Ahh okay. Well here’s the first picture. Who want to be “person b”?

Spoiler

 

Edited July 30, 2020 by Hentient
So this is a random picture of "things" I found. School taught me to always cite things soooo heres the link I guess https://www.google.com/amp/s/scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/woyww-317-stuff-lots-of-stuff/amp/

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Ok, I'll be person B, I guess. @Matrim's Dice, @Ghanderflaffle anyone else who doesn't know it, maybe instead you could put the object in a spoiler and I will just promise not to look at it.

[+Doomstick he/him]

So what do I do as an audience member?

[Negative_Null They/Them]

Ok, let me lay out the rules officially. I'll put them here and then go and edit the first post and put them up there.

Person A, the Questioner, posts a picture for everyone to see.

An audience member chooses something in that picture, and puts it into a spoiler.

Everyone can look in the spoiler except Person B, the Namer.

The Questioner will ask the Namer "Is it [this]?" and the Namer will respond no until they say yes. 
 

The audience is trying to figure out how the Namer is getting it right.

[theTruthshaper]

29 minutes ago, Negative_Null said:

Ok, let me lay out the rules officially. I'll put them here and then go and edit the first post and put them up there.

Person A, the Questioner, posts a picture for everyone to see.

An audience member chooses something in that picture, and puts it into a spoiler.

Everyone can look in the spoiler except Person B, the Namer.

The Questioner will ask the Namer "Is it [this]?" and the Namer will respond no until they say yes. 
 

The audience is trying to figure out how the Namer is getting it right.

Ah, I understand the game now.

Spoiler

The photo of the child

 

[Hen she/her]

@Negative_Null is it the photo of the child?

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

Spoiler

The ink pad.

 

[Negative_Null They/Them]

1 hour ago, Hentient said:

@Negative_Null is it the photo of the child?

No it is not. I Haven't Looked at a single spoiler, so if the answers in there I don't know it

Edited July 30, 2020 by Negative_Null

[Hen she/her]

4 minutes ago, Negative_Null said:

No it is not. I Haven't Looked at a single spoiler, so if the answers in there I don't know it

Is it the “distress ink” ink pad?