This one seems like it's a bit harder than I anticipated, but I like the things that were come up with. nowaypablo suggestion by itself made me laugh very hard. Then we have mitvit and lil and eightbitsamurai pulling the strings of the story and tying things together in a package. One cool thing that flagamuffin throw showed me was that online, the audience can actually look up references you make. Mostly its best to avoid references in live shows so people don't feel left out of the joke. But with the ability to instantly share the reference it works out great.
Note: I think flagamuffin was mocking me and my link to the giant sequoia. He tips us off with his completely unnecessary relink to the giant sequoia, and his "duh-let-me-label-explicitly-what-stories-need" links. (This is an antagonista, this is a conflict.) I should have badged him ironically. You only get the joke though if you click the links.
This one was harder because it put the pressure pretty much entirely on one person: the closer. The two beforehand could do anything they wanted really, but the closer was the one that had to deliver a satisfying punch line to an audience.
Well, that's probably something I should have specified in the post too. When you are doing improv, you want to make sure that you are leaving things open enough for other people. So even if you are doing ACT 1 or ACT 2 you should be leaving little hints and clues in the story for the next person to pick up on. I think this was done very well for just being text based.
Agreed, for sure. Honestly I can only picture this getting better as people get more comfortable both with the improve and more importantly, with each other. Also, it's goddamn hilarious. I'm going to e-mail my old public speaking teacher who did improv with us, if he suggests anything good I'll pm you with something to work with in the future.I think this was done very well for just being text based.