IISZ 2018 Challenge #X - Bucket Brigade

[rayheinrich]

Art is not beauty, it is the lie that leads to it.  - Leonora Carrington

   

    Hey!, you people from the future: These Challenges are forever!   Feel free to add something new.
    For links to all the Challenges, just click the P.S. button below:

    Challenge #1 - Cut Up Folktale can be found here.
    Challenge #2 - Death by Words can be found here.
    Challenge #3 - Utterly Mistaken can be found here.
    Challenge #4 - Word Dog Run can be found here.
    Challenge #5 - Queen's Dreams can be found here.
    Challenge   X - Bucket Brigade can be found here.

   

   
    Bucket brigade game at 4th of July festival, 1987 in White Springs, Florida, U.S. - from Folklife Collection, State Archives of Florida

    The Queen needs to distract herself with some serious science while her beloved people are
    interpreting her dreams. This experiment is similar to a game known as “silent mail”, “chinese
    whispers”.  It explores the effects of our choices of words with special regard to accumulative
    slight differences and double-meanings. So it is not individual persons who are challenged here,
    but the group.
   

    Challenge X

Guidelines:

The participants of this experiment are required to re-write a text by paraphrasing and the use of synonyms.
The original text is secret and has a length of 110 words.
The length of your re-write should be between 85 and 135 words.
Prose can be turned into free verse or a poem with meter and rhyme and the other way around.
Little details can be added and parts that seem less relevant to content can be omitted, but overall you should
  try to keep the core meaning of what you receive.

Practical instructions (how we hope this works):
Aspiring participants should proclaim their wish to participate in this thread.
They will then privately receive a text from the Queen's Verse-Keeper.
Following the sequence of their announcement, each participant will receive the re-written version from her/his predecessor.
(The first participant has the honor of receiving the original text.)

IMPORTANT: All of the re-writes should not appear in this or any other thread, but only be sent via PM back to the Verse-Keeper.

We ask the participants to patiently wait in order to let their predecessors create a re-write without pressure.
To keep the bucket chain from breaking off we ask everyone to finish their re-write within 24 hours (time starting
when they receive their text), otherwise the next person in line will get the version waiting to be re-written.
However, the Verse-Keeper is open for negotiations (via PM) and will extend the time-limit for buckets that are
already in sight and just need a little longer so their content will not be spilled.


Where the chain leads:

When every  participant has had the chance to contribute her/his re-write,  (or at some point in the future when
curiosity demands it) the resulting chain of versions and the original text will be revealed publicly in this thread.

   

    Future Challenges, Dates and Timing:

        Challenges will be posted slightly before 6am GMT which is 1am in New York City,
        6am in London, 2pm in Manila, 5pm in Sydney, and 7pm in Auckland.

        There will be 3 more challenges. The next (6th) challenge will be posted Thursday Jan 25.
        The 7th will post on Sunday, Jan 28; and the 8th on Wednesday, Jan 31.

      *Disclaimer: The staff of IIce Conspiracy Enterprises did its best to give this experiment a good design in order to not disappoint the Queen;
            but it is in the range of possibility that this will dissolve into chaos. As it is custom among scientists, the result will be published anyway.

        IISZ Team:
            rayheinrich: Head Chief Executive Head ( HCEH )
            lizzie: Senior Executive Vice President for Creativity and Chaos ( VPCC )
            quixilated: Executive Vice President for Narratives and Perplexity ( VPNP )
            vagabond: Executive Vice President for Quonundra and Qwertyness ( VPQQ )