Someone asks a question and then you answer it with another question.  If it's not interrogative then you did it wrong.

Example:

A) Do you like vanilla ice cream?
B) Who are you asking?
C) Wasn't it you that was asked?
... etc.

Try not to repeat questions already asked.

When did we start playing dodgeball?
This message was last updated by the GM at 03:12, Tue 08 Dec 2015.

Are you reading my mind 'kimi?

Would it be terrible if I was?

Yes?

"Why would you say-?"

FourLegged pauses, "Why am I suddenly in a third person narrative? Also, why is everything that I'm saying being quoted?"

Apprehensively, he peers around at the rest of the Question Tennis participants "This only happens when something bad is about to happen, doesn't it?"

It comes from nowhere.

**THWACK***

"Ow! Who hit me with this ball?"

Maybe it was your BBF who is secretly trying to kill you?

Who or what is a BBF?

Nyoze grabs the ball again, still looking at the Koala he had just sneak attacked.

"Why didn't you dodge?"

Are you FL's BBF?

Does anyone know what a BBF is?

Wouldn't it seem like that is not the case?

Maybe it's just the concussion talking but doesn't BBF mean 'sneaky punks who abuse elderly koalas for no apparent reason'?

How on whatever planet you come from did you arrive at that conclusion?

Why are you picking on the poor terrestrial koala with the traumatic head injury?

While you aren't feeling quite right, can I have your cookies?

Why do you want my data packets?  Would you rather have some tasty eucalyptus leaves?

Haven't you ever tried Eucalyptus cookies?

Don't you know that I bake them daily in the Lounge?

When did you open a bakery in the Lounge?

Why has no one ever told me this before?

Because nobody knew until just now?

Didn't FL know though?

But he didn't bother to tell anyone else?

Why wouldn't he tell his friends?

How could you forget the special brownies and cookies that I used to make in the Lounge?

Why do you assume I know you used to make them?

Is this proof enough for you?

Isn't that a complete fabrication?

Is it that obvious?

How silly do you think we are?

Was that question rhetorical?

Don't you know the answer to that?

While enjoying some yummy vanilla ice cream, FourLegged asks "Do you think that I am duplicitous enough to covertly redirect a conversation simply to avoid answering a difficult or uncomfortable question?"

Aren't you attempting to do just that?

do what/

OOC: Damn, did I put BBF? Sorry, I meant BFF, which means Best Friends Forever. Sorry.

Anyways, back to the game...

Why didn't you use a capitol letter at the beginning of that sentence? Do you know I am a grammar Nazi, and even the slightest mistake annoys me?

Can't you cut the poor girl some slack since you've only just met her?

Could you follow your own advice?

Seriously, I've never learned how. I have often tried to teach myself, but I never listen and eventually I get discouraged and stop trying.  Or at least I try to stop, but when I advice myself to stop trying to advise me, I don't pay attention and keep trying to advise me. Does this happen to everyone, or just me?

When did we get crickets?

When do I not follow my own advice to be nice to people I've just met?

Were you nice to me when I started?

Was I not for at least a day?

Aren't you making things up?

Am I? Maybe you should go back and check?

Why should I believe you?

Isn't that why I suggested that you verify the facts for yourself just now?

How can I if I don't remember where to look?

Wouldn't it be wherever you posted during your first day here?

When was that?

Did you think that I was suggesting that you didn't follow your own advice?  Wasn't I asking for myself?

Is that what you were doing?

Wait, what are we doing?

Are we not just seriously wasting time?

Wouldn't that be the implication from the game's name?

Does amybri18 know?

Didn't she apply to the game?

Did amybri18 identify as a she?

Is the name not feminine in nature?

That said, we've been fooled by names before, haven't we?

Do you blame me for being cautious?

Why does everyone think I'm a he? WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS CALL BE A HE!?

Didn't I call you a "she"?

Wasn't everyone else doubting it?

Wasn't it just FL?

How do you know other people might be thinking the exact same thing?

Why would you assume that anyone else is thinking anything?

Have you not thought about other people calling me a he on different websites?

Have you described yourself?

Do you always use the name "amybri"?

Why don't you check?

Do we use any of the same websites other than this that I should know you on?

How am I supposed to know what websites you use?

Why would you ask me to check and see what name you use on other sites if you don't even know what sites I use?

Because... Reasons?

Is that really a valid response in this situation?

Do you think it is?

Wouldn't my question imply that I think it is not?

Do I have to analyse your questions in order to understand them fully?

How else can we have a conversation completely in questions?

Have you ever used an internet search engine to look yourself up?

I have.  First result:
Dictionary.com

adjective
1.
having four legs.
2.
Nautical. (of a schooner) having four masts.)

Why would I do that?

To waste time?

Wouldn't knowing what the world (wide web) believes to be associated with your identity be reason enough?

(OOC: Congrats Kagura on passing 19,000 posts!)

Why would you want to know that?

(OOC: Oh damn, I did, didn't I. But 19k isn't that big a deal... 20k will be though.)

How else would I have learned about that schooner thing?

What if your name means nothing, like mine?

(OOC: I actually looked it up, and nothing came up... :( )

Doesn't that still tell you something?

What does it tell me?

That you're anonymous to the internet at large?

But what if you're actually not?

What if my name simply has no meaning at all?

are you meaningless then?

What makes you think I'm meaningless?

Why would any of us have meaning in the grand scheme of things?

because we try to have meaning?

But what defines meaning?

the person doing the defining?
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 19:26, Tue 15 Dec 2015.

Is that a question or a statement?

i don't know
both?

Are you telling us the answer, or being unsure about the answer?

wouldn't you like to know?

Does that even make sense?

Does it not?

And as a side note: did you get bored or something, Birdie?

Would not a rose by any other name smell as sweet?

But doesn't a thorn come with the rose no matter the name?

(And yeah, I did - finals week and I'm done with everything already, followed by Christmas break :D)

Haven't you ever heard of thornless roses?

Are you making things up again?

Guess not?

https://www.heirloomroses.com/care/thornless-roses/

Why would I make things up when the truth is often much more effective?

What if you wanted to for the sake of deception?

Wouldn't using all truth or all deceptions make me predictable?

Wouldn't you like to be predictable though?

What fun would that be?

Don't some people find consistency to be liberating thus enabling them to have fun?

Do I seem like that kind of person?

Do you ever really know how other people perceive you?

Isn't that why I'm asking?

Weren't you just trying to stay consistent?

Why would I want to do something tedious like that?

Isn't tedium a way to waste time?

Does that mean it's the only way to waste time?

Can't you waste time with fun?

Isn't that the very opposite of tedium?

Are you avoiding my questions again?

Did I imply that when I asked about it being a waste of time?

Are you sure you're still sane?

Have I ever suggest that to be anything but false?

Have you not?

Have we met?

Do you live in Idaho or Texas?

How did you guess?

Maybe it's the only places I've actually lived in?

Are there strong koala populations in Texas and Idaho?

Have you even seen any eucalyptus there?

Doesn't eucalyptus grow where they are not a native species?

Isn't it harder to grow it there though?

Don't Texas and Idaho have varied environments?

Isn't Texas basically a desert, and Idaho full of potatoes?

Are there not potatoes in Texas as well?

How would you grow potatoes in a desert?

Can the not be shipped over?

How would that have anything to do with the environment there?

If you can plant potatoes on Mars, why couldn't you grow them in Texas?

Why would you need to grow them in Texas since you can already grow them in Idaho?

Isn't Texas closer to Florida than Idaho?

Does Florida grow potatoes?

Isn't Florida known for its oranges and old people?

Are old people food?

Isn't Cape Canaveral in Florida?

Isn't Cape Canaveral a location, not a product?

What does merchandise have to do with geography?

What does Geography have to do with food?

Haven't you ever studied imports and exports? Doesn't that have a lot to do with geography?

Weren't we talking about using old people as a sustainable food supply for young people?

Isn't that the plot of at least two different movies made in the 1970s?

Aren't you adverse to the idea of eating people of any age?

What about the Martian potatoes?

Who said the potatoes were Martians?

Weren't those a complete work of fiction?

If one could grow potatoes in Texas, wouldn't it be faster and more cost effective in shipping them to Florida, (so that they could be rocketed to Mars,) then if one had to transport them to Florida from Idaho?

Why are we now talking about rocketing potatoes to Mars? Couldn't you just ship them there by truck?

(OOC: Explaining the joke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_Pennsylvania)

But aren't rockets more fun?

But wouldn't it be easier if we shipped them by truck?

And more cost effective?

How did you read my mind just then?

Because I have psychic powers?

Is it normal for my ears and nose to bleed when Kagura reads minds?
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:49, Thu 24 Dec 2015.

Don't you think that you should get that checked out?

So it's not normal?

Why would you think it was normal?

Papa? Is that you?

Is there a doctor in the house?

Can I be a doctor? Is that a lot of blood?

Aren't you the patient?

Do I act with patience?

Is that a requirement?

Is blood supposed to be chunky?

Isn't that salsa?

Did I fall asleep in the nachos again?

Is that what happened?

Wouldn't that explain all the melted cheese and ill-placed tortilla chips?

Shouldn't you consider getting yourself cleaned up then?

May use your shower?

Don't you have one of your own?

Have you ever seen a shower in a eucalyptus tree?

Doesn't it ever rain where the eucalyptus trees are?

Do you think that it rains on command?

Don't you know anything about Australian weather? :P

Are you saying that it does or that it doesn't rain on command in Australia?

Does it rain on command anywhere?

I'm saying it almost doesn't rain in Australia at all, aren't I?

I couldn't tell. Are you?

Isn't using a sentence and a question at the same time cheating?

Was that is the rules?  Should I go back and look?

Don't we define the rules as we wish?

Have I harmed the game in any way by bringing more focus to my silly questions?

I don't know. What happens if we all start doing it though?

Do you and I count as 'we all'?

Will we if other people start as well?

Why should other people start?

Haven't some of us been twisting the rules to suit us for forever?

Why don't you go check the original rules to see if they have changed?

Are you averse to doing that yourself?

Why would I be?

Why not go do it and report back then?

Is this what you were discussing?



Have I broken the Sacred Dodgeball Rule?

Didn't we give up on Dodgeball cause no one could hit the Koala?

Wouldn't my dodge-ball wound indicate otherwise?

Isn't that just red texta that you coloured yourself in with so we wouldn't throw the ball at you?

Hu-wha?

Don't you know what texta is?

Is it that security thing where you have to copy badly garbled letters to prove that you are not a robot?

Isn't that a Captcha?

Would you define what texta is for those of us who don't speak Australian, then?

Are you talking about the font type?

Isn't a texta just another name a marker?

So I shouldn't try to wash this Austrian hip-hop band off my head?

What hip-hop band?

An Austrian one?

Is that a 'yes'?

That depends, do you -want- an Austrian hip-hop band on your head?

Would it protect me from getting hit by dodge-ball balls?

Why would it have that function?

Wasn't that what Nyoze implied?

Wasn't I trying to say you faked an injury so we wouldn't throw the ball at you?

Is that what you were saying?

How could I infer that from your questions?

How did you get a Hip-Hop band out of colouring in a fake wound with a marker?

Didn't you say something about a texta?

Isn't that just another name for a marker?

Do you think maybe that's a regionalism that doesn't exist outside of Australia?

(OOC: It is. In the US it's either 'marker' or 'Sharpie'. We don't have the Texta brand.)

Does that mean he didn't colour his head in?

(OOC: Yeah, I though I did explain it earlier though, in saying isn't texta another name for a maker?)

Isn't Texta also the name of an Austrian hip-hop group though?

(OOC: Yes. It is. And FL and I are being intentionally dense because it's more fun that way.)

How come I've never heard of them before?

Do you often enjoy Austrian hip-hop?

(OOC: Sure... intentionally... right...)

Do many people outside of Austria?

Why else would they tour internationally?

(OOC: I am assuming that they are known outside of Austria and go out on tour.  Until this discussion, I believe that only Google knew about them.  Maybe Google made them up when I requested information on the subject of Texta. Google did drop the policy 'do no evil' just recently and perhaps this is their way of doing evil.  Wait, where was I?  We were talking about Texta, right?  Hey!  Maybe it's this large hip-hop group strapped to my head is what's making it hurt.  Maybe this OOC sidebar has gone on too long.  Maybe not.  I should Bing it.  How do I find Bing?  I'll ask Google.)

Are... are you okay?

What made you ask?

Didn't your OOC there get a bit out of hand?

Did it change the subject?

A little bit?

Was I then successful?

Was changing the subject your intent?

Whether or not it was my intention, was the result me shutting down ASWoT?

Isn't ASWoT still up and running?

Didn't it get inactive very suddenly?

Hasn't everyone gone back to school/work now so they might not have a much time?

Isn't school/work the ideal place to waste time?

I'm not sure about work, but isn't the whole point of school to learn, and not procrastinate?

Is that why my grades were so poor?

(EDIT: Wait, was that when I supposed to learn how to read?)
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:55, Fri 08 Jan 2016.

Didn't most of us start around here when we were in high school or college?

Should we conduct a survey?

How many people would actually participate?

About five or so?

Shall I go make one then?

Do you want to?

Is five a statistically valid sample?

You can find an average out of five numbers, can't you?

(Yes, I only went and did it. Poll here: http://vote.pollcode.com/54775279)

Does that make it a statistically valid sample for the population size?

How many people are in the game?

Active or total?

Can inactive players vote?

Is there some reason they wouldn't be able to?

If they are inactive, would they see the poll?

Don't inactive people just not post? Does that mean that they don't look at the forum?

If they looked at the forum, wouldn't that show up on the Cast list?

Are you certain of that?

Aren't there too many people to go through in the Cast list though?

Couldn't they log out of RPOL but still view/read ASWOT?

How is it that in all my years of playing here, I've never thought to do that?

Why do people feel the need to read through things they can't reply to?

Does that only apply to literate people?

Are we back to that question again?

How come no ones asked how the apparently-illiterate Koala can post on RPOL?

Who ever said he was illiterate?

But isn't it assumed that Koala's can't read?

Why would you assume that?

Do you know any who can?

Does FourLegged count?

Do you know that he isn't illiterate?

Would an illiterate koala be so well-read?

Can't a person become well read by listening to audiobooks?

Don't you need to read the title to find out what the audiobook is about and to find it in the depths of the interweb?

Would all of this not imply that the koala is literate?

Was I supposed to learn how to count at school too?!

School counts?

How can a school count?

What would it count if it counted?

Students, perhaps?

Why not graduates?

Aren't they students too?

Maybe of life but who's grading them?

Isn't that a tad bit metaphysical?

Is that really a problem around here?

Aren't all problems technically sort of metaphysical?

What is the definition of a problem?

How do you define definition?
This message was last edited by the player at 17:13, Fri 15 Jan 2016.

Are you trying to add emphasis to the meta in metaphysics?

Is emphasis required?

Other than question tennis, Kagura, which game here would you prefer to emphasis most?

Do I have to choose one?

If you, Bart, were posed with that question, "Other than question tennis, Kagura Bart, which game here would you prefer to emphasis most?", what would your reply be?

... Can you think of anything else other than limericks that I've really championed?

You're a champion of limericks?

What's wrong or surprising with him being the Champion of Limericks?

What would being a champion of limericks involve?

Maybe being able to write a limerick of good standard?

How would that standard be determined?

By a standard specialist perhaps?

Do they have those for limericks?

What don't they have for limericks?

What makes a limerick a limerick?
The difference 'tween it and a thick trick?
Two rhymes that are sicker?
And then there's a kicker?
How much of this forum is slapstick?

What's the big deal with Mustache's anyway?

Must you ashe that? ;)

Why must you make such a terrible pun?

Can I second that question?

Can we just agree that all jokes have something wrong with them and that puns are simply the kindest form of "wrongness" (compared to sexism, racism, etc.)?

But don't puns just hurt anyone who hears them, so aren't actually kind at all?

Is it better to cause a little mental anguish or to wound someone's spirit? ;)

Are you sure that Puns aren't spirit wounding?

Do you have the soul of a dictionary which bleeds to see words used improperly? :)

Why did you just use a smiley face?

Doesn't the thought of a bleeding dictionary make you want to smile too?

What color is the blood of dictionaries anyways?

Have you ever seen white blood before?

You mean like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell

Are you saying that dictionaries only have white blood cells?

Wouldn't it make sense for dictionaries to primarily have black blood with white blood available in case of infection, misspelling or other kinds of typographical errors?

If dictionaries don't need oxygen to survive and thus don't need either hemoglobin or hemocyanin, wouldn't their blood appear clearish or white?

Is that how it works?

How do we know dictionaries have blood?

Would you like me to create a large dictionary monster and then explode him so we can see?

Is creation within your abilities as a goddess of destruction?

When did Vixcis become a goddess?

Wasn't it in her description?

Hey, Vixcis, what happened to the picture in your description?

Hasn't Vixcis always been a goddess?

I don't know! I can't remember how I put it there in the first place, do you think I should find a new one?

Would it of been with <IMG> tags?

Wouldn't it be [img] tags since that's the HTML format native to this site?

Are you saying that shouldn't work, but [img src=/images/banner-dark.gif] should?

Isn't RPoL a hodgepodge of different styles because it was all hand-coded by jase?

In reply to Nyoze (msg # 339):

Wouldn't it rather be [img]src=/images/banner-dark.gif[/img]?

Can't we, while editing a post, click the help link in the top right corner to immediately see how to format post things?  :)

What fun is that?

Oh what fun it is to ride... wait, which that are we referring to?

Clicking on the FAQs, maybe?

BAH, who reads FAQ's?

Do you think they just write the FAQs for fun?

Well, it does stand for Fun And Quests, right?

Is that what it means?

Why would you think otherwise?

Are there not other things that it could stand for?

How about furiously annihilating Queen?

If it was Fun and Quests, wouldn't it link back here?

Now that's settled, shall we find another quest?

Who's going to GM?

Don't we already have nearly a dozen of them?

Why would we need a GM to find another quest? Can't there be multiple quests within the same campaign?

Do we need a GM when we can simply say, "I win?"

Do you though?

Bart, what did you win?

The internets, perhaps?

What don't I win? :)

Surely there is a game that you haven't won?

Wouldn't that lead to paradox?  Can Bart make a rock game so heavy so unwinnable that even He he cannot lift win it?

EDIT: Spellcheck
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:11, Mon 25 Jan 2016.

Aren't MMORPGs by definition unwinnable?

You want unwinnable, how about making a game where you try to defeat me? Muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Why would we want to do that?

Could it be fun to attempt the seemingly impossible?

Have you ever heard of The Game?

((XKCD))

What does XKCD mean?

Xavier keeps cold danishes?

Is that a guess?

Isn't xkcd a webcomic whose name was originally meant to be a meaningless string of letters that wasn't associated with anything?

How could we know if that was correct?

Are you talking about the cold danishes or the webcomic?

If the Danishes are cold, couldn't we just invite them to somewhere warmer than Danmark?  ((Or Denmark, depending on where you're from.  Danes say Danmark.))

Couldn't you read it for yourself in the manual?

Denmark has a manual?

Does everything/one have a manual?

*puts down her copy of "A Guide to Kagura: I'm not a damn fairy"*

Don't most things?

Didn't I publish a manual of ASWoT players at one point?

Why did you have to mention The Game Bart? Don't you know I'd been winning for about 5 years?

What does that have to do with manuals?

Is there a manual for The Game?

Does The Game need a manual?

Isn't it likely that there are people who would want to know how to play?

Is it conceivable that no one actually wants to play The Game, but everyone has to anyway?

Can't I just stay an NPC?