Lucky Thirteen.

I'll post the basics tonight, send out roles shortly thereafter, and we can start late tomorrow.

Good luck. You'll need it.

Oh, Mrs. Roa (congratulations!), how bad! I had just thought that we could see this as a chance to at last come together... :rolleyes:

Looking at the stats, I think you have been a baddie a lot more often than I have, so from the point of view of any reasonable villager, you will be the one who is the baddie and I'm the goodie - how beautiful your rhetorics will be...

But, and sincerely, sharing a victory would be the best of all (we have done it once, if I recall it right?). I really would love that.

We'll see... :)

So, wait....

What time are we starting?

The game thread has been opened. Please refrain from posting on it until the first Day begins.

The wolves have been informed of their identities. If you did not receive a PM, you are an ordinary villager. Congratulations on your distinct normalcy.

You are all welcome to PM me at any time. Please use your discretion in the use of this thread from now on; save it for announced absences, questions pertaining to rules... that sort of thing. If in doubt, just PM me.

Please make yourselves invisible if you have not already.

The first Night will be posted at an unspecified time tomorrow (11/12/06). The first Day will occur at 10:00 PM (EST) following it. With no Seer, a lengthy first Night is absolutely pointless.

Good luck, dear players, and thank you for playing. I very much hope you enjoy yourselves.

I would like to make a statement in advance about my time zone and its effect on my posting. 10pm CT is 4am EST. That means that I will not be posting for several hours before the day/night cycle ends/begins. Sleep has priority! If you're looking for lots of last-minute action, lynch me on the first day. :rolleyes:

Actually, I'm not sure what the content of our posts should be - we can't speculate on cooperation of werewolves, since they don't know each others' identity. Are we to adopt a character and post in character? Not that that would help, but at least it would give us something to write...

And since there is no PMing by any of us, is there a reason for the request for players to be invisible online?

There was a reason each of you were chosen. You all know me. You also know each other, at least to a point.

Though I didn't directly choose the wolves, you may not want to assume it was a completely random choice. :smokin:

Tradition, mostly. I can't think of any die hard reasoning, but I also know I'm a bit distracted lately. Keeping players on invisible means that it doesn't matter if I forgot anything.

once again...

Once again...

I rather enjoy being the village grave digger. It allows me to write bad poetry. :p

I shall be an exhausted and overworked student of literature (post-modern ironic ha ha blimming ha).

If it comes to this, I will be a retired professor of philosophy who has turned to hate everything theoretical... and who will slip from his role at the first instant. :D

There was a nice game where everyone where required to post in-character all the game, in RPG-style, just a month ago or something. It was fun and it worked. But that requires pre-game planning and consent of all the players. Here we have not such a thing and so I think it's just best we go the way we wish...

So maybe we do not need any characters? In most of the games they have been a sham anyway...

Any choice to write in character is your own and will affect the game only insomuch as you - individually and as a group - allow it to do so.

Um... we're starting today? Nogrod, Boromir, and I are all still playing another game. Is this going to be a problem?

Not for me.

Tell me now if you guys need a delay.

I can't speak for Nogord and Boromir, but I would find it difficult to juggle both games. I cannot tell you when I will be available, though, as I don't know.

Bah.

Choice One: Start the game tonight and hope for the best in terms of those who are a bit busy.

Choice Two: Delay the game and risk uncertain moderatorial ability to guarantee hours and access nearing the end.

I don't much like either choice.

Therefore my room mate just recommended the perfect decision: blind luck.

Flipping a coin (technically a bottle cap, and technically I'm throwing it and then going to find it and look which side landed up... I am a resourceful person when it comes to chance...).

We'll begin tonight.

My apologies - and so soon! - but I will be all but inaccessable until late tomorrow morning.

If any questions turn up that I don't seem to be around to answer... make something up. :cool:

2 hours in and I regret to inform everyone that I will be unavailable until several hours before the end of the day. Look for this pattern- I'll be here at the beginning and at the end, but I'll miss most of the in-between.

Grave digger, lit student, philosophy professor - what practical, typical village professions! :rolleyes: :p Somebody has to nurture the rest of the inhabitants, so I have decided to be a milkmaid. I definitely need a role to make posting interesting for me, as I see nothing logical to reason about in this game.

Given the company I'm in.. I think I will be the Village Idiot or the Fool if you prefer something slightly more PC and Shakespearean....

Clarifications
 

On Ties: Only one person will be lynched each Day, just as only one person will be killed each Night. In the event of a mass tie, the first two to reach the number of votes required for the tie will be the two decided between. Remember that you may retract your votes once; this may have bearing on how you decide to strategize.

That is precisely what I'd do. One death per Day, one death per Night.

On Moderatorial Integrity: Coins have been used and will be used again. If I had meant for your participation to have no bearing on the outcome, I would have stuck with my original plan of no wolves, no gifteds, just a bunch of paranoid villagers killing people (with me picking people off each night) until somebody is left standing, only to fall to the Moderator. That, however, is neither fun nor fair. Though I have nothing against "subtly misleading" you, as then it becomes your own problem of interpretation, I will not lie.

On Wolf Identities: One wolf was hand chosen by me. The other was not. Welcome, yet again, to mixed rationality and luck.

I can do that? :eek: Is it too late?

Alas, there are only two wolves. In retrospect, do you have any idea how fun that would be?

And yet... completely unfair.

If it's not too late I would like to be the town Sociologist surveyer. (DIdn't know we were going with roles in this one :D ).

As far as my role, I will be the town phantom, for I am undoubtedly far more interesting than any character I could ever make up.

I know I just started the Day over two hours early, but I need to disappear. I'll poke my head in before classes in the morning. This early start will not affect the end time of the Day.

Just saw this:

I so called it.... :cool:

We need victory conditions, Fea.

When two WWs are killed, does the village win?

When the number of villagers equals the number of WWs, do the WWs win?

In order to make this village completely legitimate you must provide victory conditions, for a game/competition/activity without known and attainable objectives is not a real game/competition/activity.

I should offer myself voluntarily for lynching before my reputation goes (even farther) downhill - apparently someone thinks my posting on this game is worth a bunch of negative points! :eek:

That neg rep was me, Esty, cause I hate your guts. You see, before you joined this village I was going to be the most popular person here, but you ruined that for me!

As we speak I'm running around as quickly as possible trying to deal out ten reps so I can go back and neg rep you again.

I'll never forgive you.

@ phantom: :p

Oh, I suppose.

You'll find out who wins when there's one person left and I let you know what his or her role is.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did she ever categorically deny that anyone outside the game could be a wolf? Wasn't that just phantom's deduction?

:D

No, no, no, I never said you weren't a WW. I just said that you were definitely not one of the two WWs that the village must slay, for Fea specifically said that two of the thirteen "players" were WWs, and she clearly defined who the players were.

I ended by saying, "If Beth is a WW, she is an extra."

I wasn't speaking of myself. I used the word "anyone."

What's true for you is true for "anyone". ;)

@ phantom: :p


Ooohhh! two in one day

I've been neg-repped also. It would appear my narratives are causing quite the stir. For my unidentified critic: Yes.

Delight, delight, I've just been reminded that I've a ticket to a show I have a many-layered obligation to see. Though I hope I'll be back in time to have a narrative post up by 11:00, if you see no posts from me at 10:00, assume I'm still in a theatre.

I assume that we should still not be posting after the deadline ...?

You're good. The show was about 45 minutes shorter than expected. I'm here, I'll post for you to stop at 10:00, narration will be rather similar to before.

Fea, if you have a inkling as to whom this spineless critic is there is a simple way of confirming suspicions.... :smokin: