Narrative style
- Take a shot whenever Marissa does any of this, which shows her misuse of the English language:
- Using something that is not a verb as a verb, usually in the participlenote or pastnote form (to LOL, to happy, etc.)
- Take two shots if it's a nationality, and therefore the word is taken to mean "to speak with an X accent" (to british, to russian, to texas, etc.)
- Using the complete neologism "to o-mouth"
- Using emoticons or txtspeak (yes, that means LOL counts as two shots)
- Censoring cursewords
- Down the glass if you can't figure out what the curseword was, due to it having too many/too few asterisks, or the single letter that was not censored being wrong.
- Using something that is not a verb as a verb, usually in the participlenote or pastnote form (to LOL, to happy, etc.)
- While misspellings are copious and taking a shot whenever something is misspelled will kill you before you get through Chapter 1, misspellings of all of these merit a shot:
- Marissa's own name
- another character's name, but only if either it's over-the-top or is lampshaded (Gabe vs. Cave, Jenny vs. Ginny, etc.)
- the fic's title
- the chapter number or the word "chapter" itself (chapter fife, sex, etc.)
- Two shots if the chapter numbers aren't even sequential.
- "face"/"faces" as "feces"
- Take a shot when Marissa prefaces a character's appearance with "… CHARACTER NAME!".
- Take a shot whenever Marissa feels the need to preface a chapter, or a section of a chapter, with an indication on whose POV we are following.
- Two shots if it's in third person.
Characters
- Take a shot for every new power any Mary Sue (most often Marissa, but can also be Wheatly, Scot, Gloria, Chell Junor, etc.) gets.
- Take a bloody shot every time any character (most often Wheatly, but can also be Stephen Merchant, Sweary Guy, etc.) drops a British Cluster F-Bomb.
- Two shots if it employs "god save the queen", which isn't even really a curse.
- Take a shot every time something or someone is described as a "goth emo."
- As a matter of fact, drink whenever this fic is uncannily reminiscent of My Immortal, Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami or any other trollfic Doombly could potentially have read, including those he wrote (not counting misspellings unless they are particularly egregious).
- Take a shot whenever someone commits "sewiside."
- Take a shot whenever someone is using "drugs and beer".
- Take two shots every time Marissa and Wheatly's "robot ball/human baby" is mentioned, and wonder what the hell this author was thinking.
- Finish your drink if Marissa and Wheatly have sex. HE'S A ROBOTIC EYEBALL EVEN IN THE FIC! HOW DOES IT EVEN WORK?!
- Take a shot every time Chell "booty-quakes."
- Take a shot any time a random cameo (Gordon Freeman and his wife Alex What Ever, Gas, the zomboys from Dead Space, etc.) appears.
Plot
- Take a shot whenever a plot twist is so out of the line, it makes you wonder how Doombly/Marissa even came up with it in the first place.
- Take a shot whenever time travel is involved, but none of the typical Time Travel Tropes are followed.
Trivia:
- While TEEN FORTRESS 2 was still the current Marrissa fic, there were at least two distinct MarissaTheWriter drinking games proposed, one by the various reviewers of TEEN FORTRESS 2 and one by The Half-World. These, alongside a version by Dreigonix, have been integrated into a single game here.
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