EPYC (Eat Poop You Cat) - NicheInterests/mistfunk GitHub Wiki

EPYC (also known generically by the more genteel description "Telephone Pictionary") is a party game that works a lot like the [Dada] exquisite corpse game (where artists take turns adding to loose ends of a drawing without knowing what has already been drawn) -- with a twist: it begins with a phrase, then an artist illustrates the phrase (using only pictures, no letters or numbers) and hides the phrase, then a writer describes the illustration (using only words) and hides it, and so on. Traditionally a round opens with a phrase and ends with a phrase, a bold assertion of fundamental verbal primacy that made it an excellent fit for the (remnants of the) lit-loving Mist Classic community around the turn of the century. (Though often played live with pencil and paper at meets, a (NSFW) round played via e-mail was included in the MIST2000 artpack.) A couple of decades later, Sylphid implemented a bot to facilitate the playing of this zany game over Discord or Slack... it is currently on hiatus, but someday it will return and derail our attempts to make art to put in artpacks.

If everyone involved is making good faith efforts to pass along the data they are provided, EPYC can be a fascinating demonstration of semantic drift and how while certain concepts are easily corrupted, misunderstood or simply dropped, others are virtually indelible.