# of sips ... Reason
1 ... Having Threadscore in a desc.
2 ... Having Threadscore in a desc on a M* that has no Thread w/in living
memory.
1 ... Using the same name on all the M*s.
1 ... Trying to start off as a rider.
1 ... If you're bespoken by a dragon.
2 ... If you're bespoken by more than 5 dragons.
1 ... Every time a kid is named by taking bits of the parents' name.
1 ... For every pregnant grounded injured dragonhealer you find.
1 ... For every public gory miscarriage you see.
2 ... If you were the one miscarrying.
1 ... Every time you run across someone who thinks multiple body
piercings is IC.
1 ... Healers who prescribe fellis for /everything/.
1 ... Every time the apprentices/candidates start a food fight.
2 ... If it's the masters/WLs.
1 ... For every craft run by journeyfolk.
1 ... For every master under 20 turns.
1 ... For every Weyrleader/woman under 20 turns.
1 ... For every male character being played by a female, and vice versa.
1 ... For every female character played by a male that gets regularly
raped or otherwise abused and vice versa.
1 ... For every char who carries a sword or red rose around.
1 ... For every wedding ceremony you see where the bride wears white.
2 ... For every wedding where they exchanges marks instead of rings.
3 ... For every Catholic or Jewish wedding.
1 ... Each time it lags during the wedding.
2 ... Each time either the groom or bride get lagged/disconnected.
3 ... Each time both do.
4 ... If the attending harper does.
Bonus ... For a wedding where the narrative is interactive, rather than
just sitting there and being spammed.
1 ... If the wedding is of two harpers, and they both sing their vows.
1 ... If the wedding contains RL elements.
2 ... If they wear red at the wedding.
2 ... If you run across someone who believes green is bad luck.
3 ... If the person wears it anyways.
1 ... For every character name that is similar to a book-name.
1 ... For every character name that is similar to a slew of others on
that M*.
1 ... For every two or more at the same Weyr/Hall/Hold.
1 ... Every time you get someone else's pages or mail because of similar
names.
2 ... For every time the other person asks you for the alias you have.
1 ... For every time you create an idle char so you can hog a certain alias.
1 ... For every IC child you make PC.
1 ... If you play your children.
2 ... If you find other players for your children.
1 ... If you play sisters or brothers.
2 ... If you're twins.
1 ... Every time you hear a goldrider cackle on the weyr's channel.
1 ... For every character who has acne or is overweight.
2 ... For every rider or post-adolescent who has acne or is overweight.
1 ... If your character would fit in on TwoMoons with little modification.
1 ... A LH marrying his headwoman / her steward.
2 ... If a LH marries someone 'of the Blood'.
3 ... If a LH marries another LH.
1 ... Someone claims to be the son/daughter of a LH, CM, or metallic rider.
2 ... Someone claims to be descended from F'lar and Lessa.
1 ... Every time someone wants to take their dolphin to a landbound
Hold/Craft/Weyr.
1 ... Every time a player uses a name from another canon, including those
that are potential in-jokes if made into an honorific.
1 ... Every time your char's name is similar to a feature char's, and ppl
typo and call you by the feature's name.
1 ... For every char whose attire is richer than their means.
2 ... If it's a fancy ballgown for a gather, and new.
3 ... If it has a heart-shaped neckline, princess seaming, dropped waist,
and a full skirt.
1 ... Every time someone uses 'silk' (as opposed to 'silky' or 'silken')
for fabric in a desc.
1 ... For every char that wears wherhide but doesn't between much.
1 ... For every rider who wears a cloak while flying as everyday wear.
1 ... For every person who has gold dragonkin jewelry.
1 ... Every time a newbie sets up their char in the area of the Weyr on
search.
2 ... If they don't set up their char in the weyr itself.
1 ... Every character's background that includes rape due to a flight.
2 ... If you've heard someone shout ICly, 'Heard and witnessed!'
3 ... For LHs who *ICly* do not practice the next best thing to democracy.
2 ... For masters who punish pranks with water rations or latrine-duty.
3 ... For an apprentice who actually RPs doing them or having done them.
1 ... For every weyr-type that boinks everything that moves.
1 ... For anyone who actually RPs that holders' morals are better
without angsting over their character or character's SO so-sad failure to
live up to those standards.
2 ... If it's in a Weyr and a non-rider.
1 ... For every holdbred woman who thinks abortion is evil.
1 ... For every person who has a cute fuzzy kitty for a puppet until they
get an FL when they promptly drop 'em.
1 ... Every time a healer does something like open-heart surgery.
1 ... If a char goes out in public wearing a 'naked' desc.
2 ... If nobody tells them.
1 ... For every brash, flirty girl who is really a Twue Fwiend to you if
you get to know her.
1 ... For every shy char.
3 ... For every char with obviously African or Asian forebears.
2 ... For any female Asian char.
1 ... For any female Asian char played by a guy.
1 ... For redheads with a tan, no freckles, and green eyes.
1 ... For anyone with plain brown eyes.
3 ... For F'lar-like amber eyes.
1 ... For every tiny female with hair like Lessa's.
1 ... For every female with long hair.
2 ... For waist-length hair.
3 ... For any rider with longer-than-shoulder-length hair.
4 ... If it's a guy.
1 ... For every mention of having to go to the loo, clipping toenails, or
biting fingernails.
1 ... If your character's most interesting thing to happen is their first
FL impression.
1 ... Every time someone plays a kid.
2 ... If they do it well.
1 ... If someone mentions honey or chocolate or deer in a pose.
2 ... If someone else immediately says that those things don't exist on Pern.
1 ... If someone claims a herder is crazy.
1 ... If a red-haired character is from Ruatha.
1 ... If that character is fleeing from a forced marriage.
1 ... If a character has a scar.
2 ... If that character impresses bronze.
1 ... If a character got 'scored in his/her past.
1 ... If a character's parents are dead.
1 ... If the mother died in childbirth.
2 ... If the father blames them for it.
2 ... If the parents died via 'score or renegades.
Glug the whole thing if the parents are alive.
1 ... If a char is a twin.
1 ... If a char ran away from home.
2 ... If it was cos they didn't wanna follow their father's work.
3 ... If they ran away from home cos their father wanted them to join a
craft they had no talent/inclination for doing.
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