This scroll is based on the premise of the game of Chinese Whispers. For those who don't know what this game is about, it's basically a rumour game where everybody sits in a circle, someone whispers a sentence to the next person, who then passes it on to the next and so on until you get the last person who says out loud what the sentence he/she heard was. Often as not, the sentence that the last person thought he/she heard would be a really skewed version of the original sentence.
The basic format is this: First, some brief text (roughly one line in length) is put down. Then two or more versions of a rumour/tale are given based on the text. Of course, since the theme is rumours, the more versions given, the merrier.
At the suggestion of Dossta, this is now a Wiki. There are now two ways one could contribute to this: 1) contribute an particular scroll entry like me and Shadoweagle have done; 2) contribute a seed text and then wait for others to add rumours. Also, for ease of reading, I think the best way to separate out different seed text is to put a horizontal separator in between them. The syntax for this is {hr} where {s is replace with <s. Only one tag is needed. If still unsure about this aspect, just click Edit and then go to HTML mode to look at my code.
Example:
'In a far away shore, there's a place whose name translates to the City of Gold in the native tongue'
Rumour 1: 'Laddie, I'm tellin' ye, there be wandrous placez at ta 'hata end of ta sea. A city of gold, wif' even ta roads paven ta gold. There be sa-vages livin' there, thou, what tha eat ta tongues of enemies, be them beasta or man.'
Rumour 2: 'Legend tells of a city on a far away shore that is built entirely out of gold and houses the greatest achievements of the Alchemages. If only it could be found, then secrets- the recipe for turning lead to gold being the least of them, that drive the ancient culture of Xartholht could be brought back to the light again.'
Another example (humorous one inspired by this ):
'Mnogos, a traveling scholar, digging up the roots of totemos that he encounters.'
Rumour 1: 'You know what, in that book I was transcribing I came across a reference to this travelling scholar by the name of Mnogos who went around digging up the roots of tomatoes that he encounters'
Rumour 2: 'May Mnogos come and dig up all of ye plant roots, ye thieving scroundrel' (note: To the populace, Mnogos had become associated with a demon who would visit farmers and be a pestilence in that he would be digging up all the roots of plant lives that he lays eyes on)