Empires and hats

[featherynscale]

Pirates are the new black at Entropic HQ. This has been going on for quite some time (before we moved to Entropic HQ, in fact...), and the latest manifestation of the trend is its appearance in the game of Kemetic Unorthodox Rat-Screw (i.e. the Best Game Ever) - when a player plays the Emperor card, s/he is supposed to make an imperial decree, effectively adding a new rule to the game. Subsequent Emperors may add, change, or delete rules as they see fit. Our last two games have featured the Pirate Hat Rule (invented by the always-clever kittenpants) which states that the Emperor-player is the ruler of a pirate empire, and as such, is to wear the pirate hat (a lovely black leather tricorner) until the card is played by another player, at which time they get to wear the hat.

Last night, we tested a new hat rule, which was that when a player played the Hierophant card, they had to wear the Pope hat (a nifty red and white velvet number) until passing it on to the next player to play that card. I think that we can probably add more hats to the game, as we seem to have a ridiculous number of hats in the household. I think the Magician hat may be next.


People who've worn the pirate hat:
Me
Charlesworth (before I bought it)*
kittenpants*
triadruid*
Jacki*
Justin*
Livvy*
Devin **

*- people who look better in the pirate hat than I do, damn them.
**- people who have no hair, and thus look really especially silly in the pirate hat.

Comments

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

charlesworth looks like god in what ever he wears. le sigh...le purr..

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

He definitely looked like *a* god - I'm not sure which one. A traveling god of cads and rogues, tired and bemused, too many miles underneath his feet and too many tricks left to play. Not entirely unlike my envisionings of Odin in his milder moments, if you can imagine Odin in a pirate hat, which frankly, I have a hard time with.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

yeah...that's an interesting vision. :)

Oh please...

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

The whole scale is skewed; everyone looks different in that hat.
You look like something out of East of Eden('s shore). And yes, that's a good thing.
Charlesworth I didn't see, but he probably looks like Jack Palance doing Mutiny on the Bounty..
Justin looks like Orlando Bloom.
Kittenpants looks like she borrowed her dad's hat (but the Pope hat more than makes up for it).
Livvy looks like... well, Livvy in a pirate hat. Odd, but compelling.
Devin...well, yes, Devin did look really silly. I'll agree with you there.

Re: Oh please...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

East of Eden? Was that the movie where Rosie O'Donnell goes to bondage camp? 'Cause I probably do look a lot like that. No, wait, maybe that was something else.
:-P

Errr...Exit to Eden

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

East of Eden is a bit different ...vibe.