Admin Thread for WWLXXI: Something in the Night
 

"...an American-provincial world of a guy, a girl, and a car hurtling into the night, fleeing time itself." ~From critic Stephen Holden's review of Bruce Springsteen's record, The River.

The subject matter of this game happens to be rather far afield from Tolkien, even more so than usual, as I'm basing the game on the music of Bruce Springsteen - primarily his first three or four albums. If you are a dedicated listener of Springsteen, you'll be familiar with his use of recurring characters, phrases, and themes. I've tried to condense these down into a werewolf game that captures something of that sweeping story arc which sits just underneath the surface of Bruce Springsteen's hit songs and which reveals itself piece by piece if you take the time to listen to his albums straight through. Springsteen is essentially a story-teller, and I wanted to see if I could make draw out that basic story which underpins most of his albums, using his own cast of characters.

So that's the idea behind the game.

A knowledge of Springsteen's music is not necessary, and it may or may not help you catch the wolves, but at the very least it will greatly enhance your enjoyment of the game. I particularly recommend listening to anything from the albums The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, Born to Run, and Darkness on the Edge of Town. If you have time, listen to the album Greetings of Asbury Park, N.J. as well.

There will be 12 or 14 players, 6 or 7 non-traditional lover pairs, 3 (?) wolves, 1 seer, 1 ranger, and 1 hunter. All roles may be male or female.

Lovers: All players will have a lover counterpart with whom they can correspond via PM at all times. Ordos and wolves may be paired up. Unlike normal lovers, the lovers in this game will be able to survive if their counterpart is killed.

Seer (The Dreamer): normal

Ranger (The Angel): normal

Hunter (The Highwayman): normal

Wolves (The Betrayer, The Killer, The Lawman): normal. I think 3 is a good number, but if we get lots of players, I can add a fourth without any trouble.

Here's the list of characters. When you sign up, please choose one. Male, female, doesn't matter. Choose whoever you want.

Male
Johnny 99 - Nogrod
City Dude - Inziladun
Jimmy the Saint - Morsul
Gypsy Biker - Shasta
Bad Scooter - Isabellkya
Wild Billy - Glirdan

Female
Mary - Rikae
Crazy Janey - Alonariel
Boardwalk Sandy - Sally
Rosalita - Loslote
Jersey Girl - Wilwarin
Wendy - Lariren

Ok, folks, I think that's everything for the time being. Post away.

I'm in! I won't be around over the weekend, but that shouldn't be a problem. (If it will be, tell me so and don't sign me up.) I'll be Rosalita. :)

Barefoot girl raising my hand and wiggling my toes to sign up! :)


ETA: When's the DL, good sir? Or is it up for discussion?

When would we be starting? I need to get back into this shenanigans.

I won't be much help in knowing the music, but count me in as City Dude.

Can you sign me up as Crazy Janey?

And Lari, currently inebriated, would like to be signed up as Wendy.

Thanks! Lari would also like you to know that she now has water.

I demand video of this. :p


I'm going to see if I can bribe Mnemo or Tum into playing too. :D

I'm sending you a video of Lari interacting with Rune right now. Be prepared for a random video message from an obscure area code.

Oooo I'm excited. ^_^

Dang, forgot about deadline. How does 9:00 PST suit everyone?

We'll start as soon as we have enough players.

am or pm? Either way, it works fine for me. :)

I'd like to join in as Jersey Girl please!!! As long as the game doesn't start until Sunday! :D

Oh, and I know nothing about Springstein sooooo....my in-character stuff might suck. :rolleyes:

Could I be "Johnny 99" from the album Nebraska? That's my favourite record of the Boss... Replace the Spanish Johnny with it or something?

If that's not okay, I'll be the Magic Rat...

Oh. 9:00 PM PST.

Johnny 99 it is!

Shasta, my husband, would like to be signed up as Gypsy Biker.

hehe *likes*

This is true.

This is true.[/QUOTE]

And what am I, chopped liver!? :Merisu:


Anyways, it has been incredibly too long since I last played a werewolf game. And no I don't mean a real life Werewolf game...although those are quite entertaining at times!! :D

Anyways, count me in as Wild Billy.

Excellent.

Signing up as promised (though I don't know much about Springsteen). I'll be Mary.

I'd like to sign up as Bad Scooter, please. xD

Lovely to have you two along. :)

I'd like to play if there's still room. I can be Sandy. I won't be around for this weekend however. So if that's going to be a problem then you don't have to sign me up. Thanks.

Are we starting soon or do we still have to wait for one more person?

At some point I should like to play a ww game and the Bruce Springsteen theme looks promising. Will be very busy for a couple of weeks though so it might be difficult after all...

One more person.

I told myself I wouldn't do it...but what the hey I'm in

Great. Would you like Jimmy the Saint or the Magic Rat?

mwahahaha, does this mean we can start soon??? :D

I'm in total agreement here!! I'm itching to play again!! :D

Yeah. I'll give Morsul until this evening to settle on a character and then we can start this weekend. Let's try to start Saturday evening. Good for everyone?

Can't see why not, gives me plenty of posting time :D

Excellent.

Excellent

*happydances and bounces with anticipation*

Saturday works for me! :D

So we're starting today, then?

Correct. I will PM the roles later today and we'll start at 9 PM PST.

I guess we start out with a Night phase, yeah? I haven't played in a while and I can't remember exactly.

Yes we do indeed. And Seer gets a dream Night 1.

Just caught a glimpse of a R&R Hall of Fame concert from the telly and Bruce was playing. Between two songs he said something like "If Woody Guthrie lived today he'd have a lot to write about..."

How true.


Starting with a Night-phase I think is the norm - letting the wolves to plot a bit before the actual game begins - and I think oftentimes the seers are given a dream also on N1. But that all depends on the general set-up and the particular wishes of the mod.

But is the line-up accurate? With only 11 players I think three wolves is quite a tough ratio - or even with 12. But the more reasons for the seer to get a dream on N1(heh, I will curse calling for this if I turn out a wolf :rolleyes:).


And so good to see you Glirdan! It has been actually years, in plural, yes. Hi, and welcome man!