A Community for X-Files Fans

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OK, everybody. I want to start by thanking everybody who played. We had a total of nineteen people earn points, which is pretty impressive. People produced fanworks of all kinds, left comments, played games, and were generally amazing. I'm so proud of this community, which, despite being low-traffic most of the year and in a low-profile, closed-canon fandom, still managed to throw such a rockin' party.

At the same time, I owe about a million bazillion thanks to wendelah1, who took over daily posts when my life took a turn for the craptastic midway through. We never would have gotten through this without her, so, again, all of my thanks, Wen.

Official results have not yet fully been calculated, but I wanted to announce what the prizes are going to be. (Thanks to heartequals for some brilliant ideas here!)

• Every participant will receive an icon and banner to celebrate their achievement! Once this gets done, I'll PM everybody with a link to their shiny new icon and banner.
• The top eleven placers will win the right to pick the topic and form of a monthly mini-fest that we'll run between now and the next 3W4DW! That's right; rather than waiting a whole year, we'll have one discussion post or macro-making party or mini-flashwork-festival or something every month, and the winners will get to pick what we do! If you are one of the top eleven winners, I'll ask you for an email address when I send you your banner, so we can be in touch over the next year.

Thanks to everyone for playing! I will finish the points totals as soon as I can, and get those prizes out! (If anybody wants to help with the graphics...)

You guys, I suck. I'm so sorry. I crashed before having the energy to post last night, and then my internet went down right around the time I was going to post this morning. WORST. MOD. EVAR.

OK, here are the scores, updated through yesterday's scavenger hunt results (note: you can still post; I'm planning on it! and pictures found on flickr are acceptable, you don't have to take them yourself.)


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Today's challenge is to make a fanmix or vid. The fanmix should either have a cover, or "liner notes" (am I a million that I still use that term? I mean annotations of some kind), and the vid should be at least one minute long. Post it to your journal, and then make a post to this comm linking to it!

Still plenty of points to be earned, commenting on fanworks, producing them, and finding absurd pictures on the internet! I know it's getting towards the end of the par-tay, so people are starting to flag...but I bet we can keep it going strong!

Here are today's results!

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Today's challenge? Post a recs list for XF fanworks. No minimum length, no required themes, and you can certainly rec things that aren't hosted on Dreamwidth (though giving more love to DW-based fans would be awesome!). Make a post on your journal, and then a separate one to philedom with a link to it.

Meanwhile? If you haven't gotten points for leaving comments on a fanwork, check out the art posted yesterday, and comment on them! SO AWESOME!

We're just past the halfway point...let's keep this ball rollin'!

Here are today's results!

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Check my math, please, people!

Today, we're playing 20 Questions. The goal of the game is to guess a noun that the answerer has in mind, in 20 questions or fewer. Here's how it will go:

1. I'll have a noun from the X-Files in mind, and will say "go."
2. Y'all will ask me yes or no questions, or questions with a short list of possible answers--the classic is "animal, vegetable, or mineral," or "person, place, or thing?"
3. I'll answer.
4. You keep asking. (No asking a second question until you get a reply from me.)
5. Someone gets it before question #20!
6. Repeat.

I'm heading to bed shortly (1AM New York/5AM UTC) but will start answering when I get up in the morning, and then will be on my email at least once an hour afterward.

Points: 2 per question, 5 for the win, 10 points max per player.

Ready, set, GO. Round #1 is on.

SOLVED: 3:04 PM NYC/6:04 PM UTC:

1. It's a mineral.
2. It can be frequently found in the X-Files office.
3. It does not technically have any paranormal properties associated with it.
4. It is something we see regularly.
5. It is something somebody wears.
6. It's Scully's cross!

And #2 is a go!

SOLVED as of 9:51 PM NYC/1:51 AM UTC:

1. It is mineral, but with attendant animal components. [NOTE CHANGE; SEE #11.]
2. It is not paranormal in nature.
3. We do not see it in every episode.
4. It can frequently be found in Mulder's apartment.
5. It is not Queequeq's collar.
6. It is not Mulder's fishtank.
7. It is not fish food.
8. It is worn, but it is not technically an item of clothing.
9. It is not made of plastic.
10. It is made of metal.
11. While the object itself is entirely made of metal, it has a necessary companion object that is made of leather.
12. It is a weapon.
13. It is not Scully's gun.
14. SOLVED! It is Mulder's ankle holster gun!

Time for #3! BRING IT ON, Y'ALL.

(Also, credit to my wife for picking this one.)

SOLVED! AS OF 11:25 PM NYC/3:25 AM UTC.

1. It is a thing.
2. It is a mineral.
3. It is smaller than a loaf of bread.
4. It is not, in and of itself, paranormal in nature.
5. It does not have a curse on it.
6. It does not having moving parts.
7. It does not appear in more than one episode.
8. It did not kill anyone, but not for lack of trying.
9. It was not destroyed or lost, but it was removed.
10. It is not a milagro.
-not numbered- Read this thread.
11. It is not made of metal.
12. It is not chloral hydrate.
13. It is made of plastic.
14. It is Ronnie Strickland's fake vampire teeth!

Round #4 is on!

Edited as of 11:44 PM NYC/3:44 AM UTC.

1. It is an animal.
2. Said animal is paranormal in nature.
3. It is not an extraterrestrial biological entity.

AS OF 12:11 AM NYC/4:11 AM UTC, THE TOP LEVEL POST WILL NOT BE UPDATED. aurimae will be taking over for the rest of the evening, big props to her! She will answer questions in in this thread, announce when #4 is solved, and and will start #5 as a single thread (which you should reply to). Sorry for the added pain, but timezones suck.

Fox Mulder is not a man who makes mixtapes.

Prior to iTunes and the digital dominance of our musical lives, making a mixtape was hard damn work. I know this, because my dad has been making mixtapes my whole life, and they used to take, like, math and having lots of different pieces of technology and you had to sit there the whole time. I just can't see Mulder putting that much time and effort into it.

Plus, there's an weird sentimentality involved in making a mixtape. You're looking for a creative narrative thread, and frequently it revolves around the person you're making it for. Especially if you don't make them a lot, you have to find a way to create something consistent, something that captures the spirit in which you're making it. I don't see Mulder as wanting to draw on those sorts of creative skills, not for something as trivial-feeling as a mixtape.

So he just wouldn't. OK?

But let's say he did.

(The rest at my journal...)

Here are today's results!

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For today's challenge, we're back to goofy stuff: macro time! Make an X-Files related macro out of a picture not from the X-Files: an animal picture, something off memegenerator, whatever. You can earn 5 points each, for a maximum of 10 points.

Need some ideas? Here is the macro-making post from last year's 3W4DW. Need some tools? ROFLBot will caption anything easily; I Can Has Cheezburger and its sibling sites have lots of captionable animal pictures and software to do it.

Here are today's results!

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Haven't had a chance to earn points on Day 3 or Day 2 yet? You can still do it! You can earn points for any challenge until May 15 (though obviously the prompts are better done sooner rather than later).

Today's challenge: leave a fill on our fanwork challenge! There are over 50 prompts at this point, all of them super-awesome. Fills of any size are permitted for points.

To earn points, leave a comment on this post with a link to your fill, so I'll be sure to see it.

*preps self to get writing...*

Congratulations to everyone who played on yesterday's epicly epic game of Hangman. We got over a hundred and sixty comments on the post. Seriously, awesome, y'all.

Here are how the points stand as of today:

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If you notice a mistake in the number of points you have, or are confused, please email or PM me, or leave a comment to this thread, and we'll get it fixed! (Please do double check; if today's game taught us anything, it's that I am easily confused by basic tasks.)

TODAY'S CHALLENGE, should you choose to accept it, is to leave prompts on the X-Files Flash-Fanwork Challenge here at philedom. You will receive 5 points per prompt, with a maximum of 10 points per person. OBVIOUSLY, however, you are encouraged to leave more than two prompts!

Formatting and challenge info is over at that page. To get credit for the Olympics, leave a comment on this page with the links of your first two prompts.

And here is the first challenge post for Philedom Olympics 2011!

Today, we will be playing X-Files Quote Hangman. If you aren't familiar with the basic rules of the game, check the wikipedia entry. You can also see the X-Files version as played on the TWoP forums.

The basic rules are these:

1) I will put down a list of blanks that represent a quote from an X-Files episode.
2) You all will guess letters. Each guess is worth 2 points; however, you cannot guess a second time until you've gotten a response from me that I've got your letter (to prevent people stealing all the points, *g*).
3) When I check in (which will be 6-8 hours from this posting, and then again at least once an hour), I will fill in all the correctly guessed letters, and put the others in the penalty box (since I cannot come up with a good way to draw the hanging-guy graphic). If we get 10 letters in the penalty box, then the game is over, and we all lose, sadface.
4) If you think you know what the quote is, guess it! If you are right, you get 5 points for winning (in addition to points for whatever guesses you've done).
5) Once the puzzle has been solved, I will put up a second! And a third, depending on how long it takes! We'll close it out in about 24 hours or so.

I sincerely hope this makes sense, as I'm about to go to bed!

And, without further ado, today's first puzzle:

Solved, as of 8:39 AM New York/ 12:39 UTC, by flourish! The answer:

Here's #2. It's a piece of dialogue:

SOLVED!  As of 1:33 PM New York/ 5:33 PM UTC, by wendelah1 and littlegreen42 (I'm giving them both the win because of rule-confusion).  



Two vague rule clarifications: 

1) You can (and should!) guess letters already guessed in previous rounds in subsequent ones.  Otherwise, we could have problems.
2) While excessive use of google-fu to crack a puzzle is not precisely in the spirit of the game, running to a transcript site to make sure you've got the whole quote correct when you're pretty sure you know it is not a problem.

Without further ado, puzzle #3!


SOLVED as of 5:10 PM   New York / 9:10 PM UTC, by <user name=heartequals>!

On to #4:

SOLVED!  By <joy_and_thunder> at 7:52 PM New York/11:52 PM UTC.
 

SCULLY: Like evidence of conjury or the black arts or shamanism, divination, Wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice, charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones, or hex signs or any of the ritual tableaux associated with the occult, Santeria, voudoun, Macumba, or any high or low magic?

MULDER: Scully?

SCULLY: Yes?

MULDER: Marry me.

 

And let's go with #5!  A shorter one.


SOLVED!  By azurelunatic  at 1:13 AM New York/ 5:13 UTC.

 

SCULLY:   You ever thought seriously about dying?


MULDER:   Yeah, once, when I was at the Ice Capades.

 

Thanks to everyone for playing!  Today's challenge is closed, but stay tuned for tomorrow's...