Tag: Week 1

11/3/13

Week One: Poll Time!

Esteemed Viewers, please feel free to partake in any and all of the following polls once you’ve caught up with all of the exciting events that took place this past week! Your opinions matter greatly to us, and remember, if we receive enough of a response from you… we may decide to allow you all to vote off a HouseAuthor all by yourselves later on in the game! So get voting!

POLL #2 – Who should have won the first Head Thinker Challenge?

POLL #3 – Who should have Ms. Woolf saved with the Power of Reason?

POLL #4 – Was the right HouseAuthor decapitated?

 

10/31/13

Week One: Power of Reason Challenge

HouseAuthors, for this week’s Power of Reason Challenge, we are going to play a little game of luck. As you may have noticed, you are all together in one empty room. Before you are ten doors. Nine of them lead into a room similar to this one, but one door will contain a book filled with scientific advancements that are unparalleled to the societies you originally come from, and a book of matches. For the nine of you who choose the doors leading into the next room, you are safe, and get to move onto the next room. The unlucky HouseGuest who chooses the one door is eliminated from the challenge, and must signal their defeat by burning the book. The next rounds will work in a similar fashion, until only one HouseAuthor remains, and can then claim the Golden Cross – the symbol of Power of Reason in this game.

If you truly believe in free will, and not the relative comfort of predestination, then surely you will win this challenge. That is, unless your beliefs are misguided? The best of luck to you all!

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10/30/13

Week One: Diary Entry – Franz Kafka

I cannot help but feel as if I’ve imagined a situation much like this, somewhere else…

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I- No, no time to ponder. Herman destroyed me in today’s challenge because I wasn’t completely focused on the task at hand. I must go back and read over my work. I must be at the top of my game, or else risk being nominated for the Guillotine. I don’t wish to be eliminated this early in the game, there’s so much I’ve poured into Gregor’s story that I want to fight for! I bet these other authors don’t even realize the importance of the family dynamic in fostering a thinking, happy, enlightened being – they’re all too hung up on their women.

I must sleep. It’s an early day tomorrow.

But still… Is there a question I’m not asking?

10/30/13

URGENT NOTICE

Dear Viewers,

As you may know, today was supposed to be the first Guillotine Ceremony of our little game. Mr. Melville, as Head Thinker, was tasked with choosing two of his fellow HouseAuthors to be put up for decapitation. When it came time for the ceremony, however, Mr. Melville locked himself in his room, and refused to come out to fulfill his obligations as Head Thinker. No matter what the HouseAuthors said to him, all Mr. Melville responded with was “I’d prefer not to.” We are currently dealing with the situation as we speak, but our producers believe it is in everyone’s best interests if the ceremony is postponed until tomorrow afternoon.

Fret not, faithful viewers! Once reason reaches Mr. Melville’s ears, the game shall be back even bigger and better than before!

10/29/13

Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Results

I’m afraid our competing HouseAuthors may have missed the mark on the Ideal they were supposed to debate upon… Social Mobility is a wonderful thing! There’s nothing wrong with having a drive set to working your way up the career ladder, and frankly, I’m a bit insulted that all three HouseAuthors believe that only sadness and death can come from it. If I could, I would refuse to grant one of them the title of Head Thinker and instead decapitate all three of them, but our producers insist upon following the rules.

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10/29/13

Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Debate

HouseAuthors, please enter the Challenge Tower to begin the Head Thinker Challenge. Your Ideal this week is: Predestination & Social Mobility. But first a twist!

Our team of literary researchers have analyzed your writings and have determined that only Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka deem this esteemed Enlightenment Ideal to be worthy of discussion within their texts. As such, it would be pointless and unentertaining for our viewers to endure the ordeal of sitting through the seven other HouseAuthors debating a topic they clearly don’t care about! Therefore, only Mr.’s Melville, Tolstoy, and Kafka will be eligible to compete in today’s challenge. We’re sorry for this inconvenience, but our logic does seem reasonable, no?

LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!!

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