You know what's also funny? That you guys are putting your heart and soul into some of these inventions, but even still, you're going, "Mm.. no, I'm not wasting money on this. Nobody's going to buy this garbage."
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
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UtsanomikoBros before DoesRollin' in the thlayRegistered Userregular
edited March 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen...
...Do you admire the fashion and classical upper-class ideals of 18th century France?
...Do you envy the pale, delicate palor of white porcelain dolls?
...Do you value your sense of identity?
Well then your worries are over, good people!
It's Mysterious French Doll Lotion.
Presented in a dusty lace-lined tin to preserve the authentic antique feel, you'll find under each of your seats is your complimentary sample of Mysterious French Doll Lotion. Apply the lotion liberally to your face and upper body seven to twelve times a day and within weeks you'll find yourself more youthful than you have ever looked!
Magnificent! Beautiful for the grave!
This can all be yours once Mysterious French Doll Lotion hits the market:
-Porcelain white complexion!
-Painted red cheeks!
-Shiny glassy eyes!
-Pouty lips!
-Perpetually-curly hair!
-Agreeable silent personality!
-Solid frame!
-Adorably tiny hands!
-Needle teeth!
You'll be the idol of everyone's attention, the light at every party! The object of every child's aspirations, preserved for the decades, a treasure for all to behold each time you're pulled out of storage!
Mysterious French Doll Lotion: "Magnificent! Beautiful for the grave!"
Venture Phase (Secret)
Each player now has a chance to invest in one new product introduced in the previous phase. PM the host the product you wish to invest one investment chip in or the decision to decline investing. You may not invest in your own product at this time. Once all investments are submitted, they are revealed simultaneously. The player that created the most popularly-invested product earns a $1 Good Idea Bonus. If there is a tie for most popular product, no bonus is distributed.
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Best part is, even in the [strike]inevitable[/strike] theoretical worst-case scenario that you're dropped and your head completely shatters, all it takes is some super-glue for you to still have an open-casket funeral.
Names in parenthesis own the product, and have invested in their own product. Regular, non-parenthetical names are other investors in the product. Names colored red are sad displays of shame, alone and unloved in an unforgiving marketplace.
The Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle gets the Good Idea Bonus, and thus its owner receives $1!
Next up:
Mezzanine Phase (Open)
Each player now has a chance to further invest in one more product, both new products and old products left over from the previous round, and including ones own product. Because more information is available, it costs cash to invest in this phase. To invest in a product, you must pay each player $1 for every chip they already have on the product (ignoring the presence of foreign investor chips). Actions are taken in order, starting with the lead player, and at most one investment chip may be placed by each player.
I have been up all day so if my math is wrong here or I forgot someone, feel free to yell at me.
Offering Phase (IPO)
All products are now set up for sale in an IPO (Initial Public Offering). A 6-sided die is rolled for each product: if the roll value is equal to or less than the number of chips on the product, the IPO succeeds; otherwise, it fails. In a success, each chip pays out cash equal to the value of the die roll. A player with multiple shares, then, will earn a higher multiple of the payout. The investment chips on the product are returned to their owners, and the product is removed from the game. In a failure, the product and investment chips remain in the game, and a single foreign investor chip will be added to the product. It will be easier for the product to pay out on the next round, but there are otherwise no other effects.
Sorry guys, but this turn, the market is unforgiving:
THE PUBLIC SAYS...
Martian Monster Cookie: FAIL!
Deluxe Holy Hammer: FAIL!
Theoretical Atomic Obelisk: SUCCESS! Utsanomiko and lonelyahava both receive $8 (and 2 chips back each!).
Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle: FAIL! A Foreign Investor chip is applied.
Evil Alien Shampoo: FAIL! A Foreign Investor chip is applied.
The Cute Virus: FAIL! A Foreign Investor chip is applied.
Mysterious French Doll Lotion: FAIL! A Foreign Investor chip is applied.
Unsinkable Denture Bombs: Gets a Foreign Investor Chip!
Sexy Sushi: FAIL! A Foreign Investor chip is applied.
They're not, those are last round's. When everyone updates me on the total, I'll update it. But to avoid confusion, I'll go ahead and change the numbers.
UtsanomikoBros before DoesRollin' in the thlayRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
Everyone! Please do me a favor and PM me your current cash amount and how many free Investment Chips you have, and I will update this post. Include that in your PM about which of your cards you wish to discard, which you may send... now!
Blarney posted the money after round one on page 4; [strike]you didn't get anything new during this round[/strike] you paid out one dollar, then made $8 from investments, so you're at $22
robotsunshine, as host, shouldn't you be best equipped to keep track of cash and investments?
Like I said, work unfortunately had to come first, and I was running very, very little sleep for a little bit, here. I was hoping I could get some help on the issue, this time, and just do a running count after that. When we played Race for the Galaxy on here, each player kept track of his own tableau, and that was, what, a handful of cards, special powers, victory chip totals, and responses? I figured just saying, "Remember how many dollars you have" wasn't too big of an effort to call for.
I hope, aside from that, that I've been doing okay at the upkeep.
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But yeah sorry for my late entry, I've had alot of things to juggle.
Ever.
You know what's also funny? That you guys are putting your heart and soul into some of these inventions, but even still, you're going, "Mm.. no, I'm not wasting money on this. Nobody's going to buy this garbage."
I was going to say that last night, but the oards hated me.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
...Do you admire the fashion and classical upper-class ideals of 18th century France?
...Do you envy the pale, delicate palor of white porcelain dolls?
...Do you value your sense of identity?
Well then your worries are over, good people!
It's Mysterious French Doll Lotion.
Presented in a dusty lace-lined tin to preserve the authentic antique feel, you'll find under each of your seats is your complimentary sample of Mysterious French Doll Lotion. Apply the lotion liberally to your face and upper body seven to twelve times a day and within weeks you'll find yourself more youthful than you have ever looked!
Magnificent! Beautiful for the grave!
This can all be yours once Mysterious French Doll Lotion hits the market:
-Porcelain white complexion!
-Painted red cheeks!
-Shiny glassy eyes!
-Pouty lips!
-Perpetually-curly hair!
-Agreeable silent personality!
-Solid frame!
-Adorably tiny hands!
-Needle teeth!
You'll be the idol of everyone's attention, the light at every party! The object of every child's aspirations, preserved for the decades, a treasure for all to behold each time you're pulled out of storage!
Mysterious French Doll Lotion:
"Magnificent! Beautiful for the grave!"
Best part is, even in the [strike]inevitable[/strike] theoretical worst-case scenario that you're dropped and your head completely shatters, all it takes is some super-glue for you to still have an open-casket funeral.
Names in parenthesis own the product, and have invested in their own product. Regular, non-parenthetical names are other investors in the product. Names colored red are sad displays of shame, alone and unloved in an unforgiving marketplace.
The Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle gets the Good Idea Bonus, and thus its owner receives $1!
Next up:
Mezzanine Phase (Open)
Each player now has a chance to further invest in one more product, both new products and old products left over from the previous round, and including ones own product. Because more information is available, it costs cash to invest in this phase. To invest in a product, you must pay each player $1 for every chip they already have on the product (ignoring the presence of foreign investor chips). Actions are taken in order, starting with the lead player, and at most one investment chip may be placed by each player.
Here's a reminder of ALL the products available:
- Martian Monster Cookie: enlightenedbum (x2), (1F)
- Deluxe Holy Hammer: Rend (x2), (1F)
- Theoretical Atomic Obelisk: Utsanomiko, lonelyahava (1F)
- Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle: lonelyahava, Rend, enlightenedbum
- Evil Alien Shampoo: manaleak34, (enlightenedbum)
- The Cute Virus: Daius, Utsanomiko, (Rend)
- Mysterious French Doll Lotion
- Unsinkable Denture Bombs
- Sexy Sushi: (manaleak34)
If you spend enough money on religion, the masses WILL listen.
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rocking.
Invest 1 chip into Theoretical Atom Thingy
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- Deluxe Holy Hammer: Rend (x3), (1F)
- Theoretical Atomic Obelisk: Utsanomiko (x2), lonelyahava (x2), (1F)
- Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle: lonelyahava, Rend, enlightenedbum
- Evil Alien Shampoo: manaleak34, (enlightenedbum), Daius
- The Cute Virus: Daius, Utsanomiko, (Rend)
- Mysterious French Doll Lotion: (Utsanomiko)
- Unsinkable Denture Bombs
- Sexy Sushi: (manaleak34) (x2)
lonelyahava owes Utsanomiko $1.
Daius owes manaleak34 and enlightenedbum $1.
Utsanomiko owes lonelyahava $2.
I have been up all day so if my math is wrong here or I forgot someone, feel free to yell at me.
Offering Phase (IPO)
All products are now set up for sale in an IPO (Initial Public Offering). A 6-sided die is rolled for each product: if the roll value is equal to or less than the number of chips on the product, the IPO succeeds; otherwise, it fails. In a success, each chip pays out cash equal to the value of the die roll. A player with multiple shares, then, will earn a higher multiple of the payout. The investment chips on the product are returned to their owners, and the product is removed from the game. In a failure, the product and investment chips remain in the game, and a single foreign investor chip will be added to the product. It will be easier for the product to pay out on the next round, but there are otherwise no other effects.
Sorry guys, but this turn, the market is unforgiving:
THE PUBLIC SAYS...
End of Round 2 Status
Player Status:
Utsanomiko - Cash: $18, Free Investment Capital: 3 chips.
Rend Applied Technologies (Rend) - Cash: $11; Free Investment Capital: 0 chips.
Ahava Incorporated (lonelyahava) - Cash: $24; Free Investment Capital: 4 chips.
Bum Corp. (enlightenedbum) - Cash: $16; Free Investment Capital: 0 chips.
Mana Machinery Ltd. (manaleak34) - Cash: $19; Free Investment Capital: 2 chips.
Ex Machina Incorporated (Daius) - Cash: $11; Free Investment Capital: 3 chips.
Product Status:
- Martian Monster Cookie: enlightenedbum (x3), (1F)
- Deluxe Holy Hammer: Rend (x3), (1F)
- Limited-Edition Decoy Bicycle: lonelyahava, Rend, enlightenedbum
- Evil Alien Shampoo: manaleak34, (enlightenedbum), Daius, (1F)
- The Cute Virus: Daius, Utsanomiko, (Rend), (1F)
- Mysterious French Doll Lotion: (Utsanomiko), (1F)
- Unsinkable Denture Bombs: (1F)
- Sexy Sushi: (manaleak34) (x2), (1F)
They're not, those are last round's. When everyone updates me on the total, I'll update it. But to avoid confusion, I'll go ahead and change the numbers.
Blarney!!!! Help a girl out?
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Well shoot, I was hoping you knew.
Blarney posted the money after round one on page 4; [strike]you didn't get anything new during this round[/strike] you paid out one dollar, then made $8 from investments, so you're at $22
*kisses for darian!*
cause you're cooler than Blarney now!
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Also, I have no interest in a 'company name'. It's all just me over here, and it's not Japanese.
Blarney's still cooler. I overlooked the fact that you got $8 from the one thing that paid out this round. So... $22 instead.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Like I said, work unfortunately had to come first, and I was running very, very little sleep for a little bit, here. I was hoping I could get some help on the issue, this time, and just do a running count after that. When we played Race for the Galaxy on here, each player kept track of his own tableau, and that was, what, a handful of cards, special powers, victory chip totals, and responses? I figured just saying, "Remember how many dollars you have" wasn't too big of an effort to call for.
I hope, aside from that, that I've been doing okay at the upkeep.