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    Two games of Narrative Telephone played for the Playtime challenge during Week 3 of Voiceteam 2021 and then two more played during Week 1 of Voiceteam 2022. Inspired by the version played by the Critical Role cast in 2020 (found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tiwbzkOjQyezFDKCb20491HLfaRMSDX

    How it's played - the first person in each chain wrote and recorded a story. They passed that recording on the next person, who listened to it one time without taking notes, and then retold it to the best of their ability. They passed their audio on and this continued the same way for 5 or 6 or 7 more iterations.

    Recommended listening order for each chain is the first step, to you see where we started, the last step, to see where we ended up and just how much it changed, and the from the first to the last in order, to see how we got there.

    Please let us know your reactions in the comments!

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    Curb the Scurvy's game of Broken Telephone for Voiceteam 2022: Each person was only told what the fic right before theirs would be, and picked something that was related in some way.

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    The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contracts. For four months in Switzerland, they share a team, a line, a house, and a bed. 

    Then the lockout ends in January, and it’s time to go back. Back to different countries, cities, lives. Beds.

    Reentry is harder than expected.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    when shane gets the injury that would come to end his career, in the moment he’s just thankful he didn’t break his jaw.

    or: shane knew, in the abstract, that one day he would play his last professional nhl game. it never occurred to him that hockey would choose that day for him.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck.

    So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stability was hard to come by, but he was managing.

    Then along came Shane Hollander to knock him on his ass, one more time.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”

    “Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.

    “No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”

    “Go fuck yourself.”

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    Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.

    And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?

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    29 Jan 2026