Oracle

I'm going to see if we can pull off a forum version of a party game I used to play with friends in college. The way the game works in real life is thus: A group of people sit in a circle, each with a sheet of paper. Each person writes a question of the Oracle at the top of their sheet of paper, then passes it clockwise. The next person answers their question, folds the piece of paper so the answer, but not the question, is visible, and passes it on. The next person must concoct a question that could be answered by the response they see - then they, too, fold it over so only their question is visible. Play continues until everyone gets their own sheet of paper back, then you read the first question and the final answer aloud to reveal the Oracle's message to you. (And then, generally, you read the whole chain of questions and answers aloud, because it's funny.)

So here's how we're going to try to do this. I will ask a question, behind spoiler tags, and label it "POLI 1." The next player should read my question BUT NOT QUOTE IT and write an answer, behind spoiler tags, and label it "POLI 2." The next player should read ONLY their spoiler, not mine, and write a question to fit their answer, once again not quoting anything and putting their answer behind spoiler tags, and label it "POLI 3." At any point in this process, someone can add their own question, putting it behind separate spoiler tags and labeling it with their name. You can continue any thread of questions and answers but those labelled with your name, which you should not read. You should not read any spoilers earlier than the most recent one in a given player's question thread, and you should try to avoid posting in a given player's question thread twice. When a given thread of questions and answers reaches 20, I will pull them all out of their spoilers and reveal the (hopefully entertaining) results.

I know that's kind of complicated, so here's an imaginary sample of what the thread might look like (assuming I didn't fuck up all these spoiler tags, which are being weird on me):











The next player would read ONLY one or both of Deirdre's spoilers, and reply accordingly. Make sense?