Bear Libs [A Samhain Game]

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The Good Hunter
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You all know how to play Mad Libs, right? I tell you to give me a bunch of verbs, nouns, prepositions and the like and I fill in a quote or text or monologue with my favorite selection and turn into it a rambling wall of chaos?

Well guess what... we're doing Mad Libs baby! but there's a twist....

:partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear: :partybear:

That's right! This ain't your daddy's Mad Libs, this is Bear Libs! where everything is bears and the points don't matter

I'll find a passage from some classic literature, find a few words to remove, and you all turn it into a bear's paradise, or bearadise I should say.

For this first round, what I will need from you, my humble bear lovers, is...

1 species of bear
3 verbs
4 nouns ( + 1 proper)
1 adjective
2 adverbs

Go!!!! I will update every 48 hours or so depending on activity
"We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes have yet to open... Fear the Old Blood..."
Menolly
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Humble bear lover reporting in!

1 species of bear: Ursus arctos horribilis/grizzly bear
3 verbs: stretch, burgle, hibernate
4 nouns + 1 proper: dumpster, mountain, trampoline, den, + Florida
1 adjective: chonky
2 adverbs: haughtily, hungrily
Almarëa Mordollwen
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1 species of bear: Polar bear (of course!)
3 verbs: growl, sniff, charge
4 nouns ( + 1 proper): snow, glacier, cliff, ocean + the Amazon rainforest
1 adjective: white
2 adverbs: northerly, curiously
She/her. Almarëa - Rivendell / Jaena - Lone Lands (T.A.) and Gondor (F.A.) / Layna - Mordor
Nessa Saelind
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Let's try this :partybear:

1 species of bear: steppe brown bear (Ursus arctos priscus)
3 verbs: run, roar, hunt
4 nouns (+ 1 proper): brown, steppe, cave, spring (Važecká Cave)
1 adjective: carnivorous
2 adverbs: largely, growlingly
She/her.
Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
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Zôrzimril
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1 species of bear: Malayan Sun Bear
3 verbs: climb, lope, snooze
4 nouns ( + 1 proper): garbage, cabin, tongue, Kuala Lumpur
1 adjective: sleepy
2 adverbs: cautiously, adorably
she/her | Esta tierra no es mía, soy de la nocheósfera.
Dimcairien Luiniel
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1 species of bear - Koyla (don't kill me)
3 verbs - nap, eat, climb
4 nouns ( + 1 proper) - tree, forest, leaf, outback (Australia)
1 adjective - adorable
2 adverbs - lazily, sleepily
The Good Hunter
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Congratulations @Slayer of Red Dot! You are the winner of the inaugural round of Bear Libs!! You win 5 Frost points!


“No live dumpster can continue for long to burgle sanely under conditions of chonkyreality; even larks and Ursus arctos horribilis are supposed, by some, to dream. Florida, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, stretching darkness within; it had hibernated so for eighty years and might hibernate for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, mountains met neatly, trampolines were firm, and dens were sensibly shut; silence lay haughtily against the wood and stone of Florida, and whatever walked there, walked hungrily.”

- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House


Next Round, I will need...
2 Verbs
7 Nouns
5 Adjectives
1 Bear
1 Time Period

Give me bears!!!
"We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes have yet to open... Fear the Old Blood..."
Menolly
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Awwwww yeah Frost points! Also I feel like hibernate and trampoline worked surprisingly well in that passage.

2 Verbs: dig, dive
7 Nouns: salmon, river, huckleberry, seal, ice, tundra, forest
5 Adjectives: hangry, corpulent, disgruntled, exhausted, somnolent
1 Bear: Holly!
1 Time Period: FAT BEAR WEEK
they/them/actual hobbit in search of a merrier world
Zôrzimril
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2 Verbs: swim, fish
7 Nouns: claw, tree, leaf, dirt, hill, cave, rock
5 Adjectives: dark, damp, quiet, wintry, cold
1 Bear: Osa
1 Time Period: The morning after Bear-aoke
she/her | Esta tierra no es mía, soy de la nocheósfera.
The Good Hunter
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Congrats to @Marceline! For your efforts you have been awarded 7.67 bear points!

"The most damp thing in the world, I think, is the inability of Osa's mind to swim all its contents. We live on a placid island of dark in the midst of wintery seas of dirt, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The caves, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us coldly; but some day the piecing together of quiet knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of leaves, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go tree from the revelation or fish from the deadly claw into the hill and rock of a new morning after Bear-aoke."

- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu


With apologies to ol' Howie Phil, this story seems even weirder and more wonderful than the search for some dragon-squid-thing :lol:

I think also, by now, you peeps know what I consider "classic literature", at least during the month of October!

Next Round I will need...
3 Verbs
3 Nouns
3 Adjectives
1 place (non proper)
1 time of day
1 bear
"We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes have yet to open... Fear the Old Blood..."
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