The moon had just risen, large, cold and quite cheesy looking. As a cloud brushed by, a shadow fell upon the small hamlet below. The villagers, mostly heading to bed by now, shivered in the dark. The last restful day of their lives had just ended.
Rules:
The players represent a village, and each member of the village has a role, which is kept secret. Most players are Ordinary Villagers, but three are Werewolves, one is a Seer, one a Hunter, one a Ranger, one a Cursed Villager, and two are Shiriffs. The goal of the villagers is to eliminate all of the werewolves. Likewise, the goal of the werewolves is to eliminate the villagers, which they can do if the number of non-werewolves is equal or less than the number of werewolves.
Gameplay
The game consists of two different phases: Night and Day. The game begins with a short Night post before the first Day.
Night
Night lasts 24 hours, or less if all night-time activity is completed before then.
During Night, only Werewolves may PM one another. The Werewolves must PM the Moderator about who they have chosen to kill.
The Seer must PM the Moderator concerning their Dream.
The Hunter must PM the Moderator concerning who they want to kill if they die.
The Ranger must PM the Moderator concerning who they want to protect.
Day
Day lasts 24 hours, or less if all day-time activity is completed before then.
During the daytime the villagers all wake up and find that one of their own has been killed by the werewolves. At this point at least one player is a werewolf and so someone is gonna get lynched.
During this phase all players, including werewolves who have assumed villager form, must publicly discuss their suspicions. Eventually it will reach a point where villagers start to cast votes for who they feel is a werewolf and must be lynched. Votes are non-retractable and are cast by bolding a name with a ++ sign before it, all in capitals, e.g.
++THE GUY WHO BE SHORT. At the end of the Day (or earlier if a majority is reached before this) the player with the most votes is lynched (killed) and their secret role is revealed. If votes are tied, all nominees are killed.
When the lynching is finished all the villagers go back to their homes to sleep and the next Night begins.
Winning
The villagers win if they kill all of the werewolves. The werewolves win if they kill enough villagers so that their numbers are equal. At this point the werewolves can openly rise up and slaughter the rest of the villagers.
Roles (in slightly more detail):
Ordinary Villagers: All they have to do is deduce the werewolves by Day.
Werewolves: Choose one person to kill per Night by PMing one another and discussing their ideas, then PM the Moderator with this decision. Werewolves may not PM each other during Day. During Day, they should try to avoid detection as werewolves.
Seer: Chooses one person to Dream about each Night. The role of this person is revealed only to the Seer. During Day, the Seer should use this information to influence the debate as inconspicuously as possible.
Cursed Villager: The Cursed Villager doesn’t know that they are cursed. If the Cursed Villager is killed by Werewolves, the moderator will announce that nobody was killed. The Cursed Villager then becomes a Werewolf and is introduced to his/her new team mates. If the Cursed Villager is lynched, whether before or after transformation, their role will not be revealed.
The Werewolf Hunter: If the Hunter is killed by a Werewolf or hanged by Villagers, he/she names one other player before being killed. That player is then automatically killed. The Hunter should PM the Moderator each Night to say who they want to kill if they die during night. If the Hunter is lynched during Day, there might be a small delay in the beginning of the next Night as they will need to contact the Moderator
The Ranger: Each night, the Ranger names another player. If that player is the Werewolf victim, the victim survives and there is no death that night.
The Shirriffs: These are two otherwise Ordinary Villagers who know each other and thus know that they are both innocent. They may PM one another by Day to discuss ideas, but not by Night.
Discrepancies
Compromising privacy: You can say you're a villager/seer/werewolf, etc. all you want, but under no circumstances should you post anything that would give your claim absolute credibility. You are not allowed to post any PMs or other private conversation between yourself and the game moderator. Infractions of this rule are grounds for immediately disqualification from that game and all future games.
Outside interference: Once you are killed in a werewolf game you should no longer post in the thread, or the Werewolf I thread, or communicate with players that are still alive in the game. You're dead. Dead people tell no tales. Breaching of this rule will result in disqualification from all future games.
Private Messages: Players may not PM one another about the game; all discussion must be open. The exceptions are the Werewolves, who may only PM one another during Night, and Shirriffs, who may only PM one another by DAY. Please remember to keep space for PMs from other players or the Moderator, if relevant.
Role Play: Players should not refer to the game as a game. I will have to insist that you do not mention past villagers whatsoever as this rule was completely ignored last game. It is, of course, okay to theorize concerning werewolf tactics. This hardly requires the words “When I was a Werewolf in Game II…” to be attached to the front of the theory. Breaking this rule will result in a warning, breaking it a second time will result in automatic lynching.
Absences: Each player must make at least one post per Day, however short. This post does not have to include a vote, voting is not compulsory. If a player will be away for more than one Day, they should announce a trip on this thread. If no information is given beforehand, players who do not post anything during a Day phase that is roughly 24 hours long, or two Middle-sized Day phases (about 12 hours each) will be automatically lynched. Absentee villagers will not be lynched on DAY 1 as they have no chance to tell the others about their absence beforehand. Lynching of absentees starts on Day 2.
Please remember to stay invisible. You can do this by going to User CP, change options and clicking the Invisible Mode button.
Rules are important. Just to be mean, anybody who dies through rule breaking will have an incredibly boring death.
Players:
Anguirel (Travelling judge, a brehon)
Azaelia of Willowbottom (Seamstress)
Celuien (Weaver)
dancing spawn of ungoliant (Housemaid)
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Sea-faring rapscallion)
Esgallhugwen (Candlestick [and Candle] maker)
Evisse the Blue (Baker specialising in fortune cookies)
Feanor of the Peredhil (Mysterious Artist)
Firefoot (Runs a Fruit Stand)
Hookbill the Goomba
Kath
Lalaith (Wet-nurse)
littlemanpoet (Butcher with a tendency to speak in doggerel)
Nilpaurion Felagund (Suspicious person)
Oddwen (Village Idiot)
Saurreg (Furrier)
the guy who be short (Scholar specialising in lycanthropic lore)
the phantom (Arrogant healer)
The village comprises:
3 Werewolves
1 Seer
1 Ranger
1 Hunter
1 Cursed Villager
2 Shirriffs
9 Ordinary Villagers
It is now NIGHT 1. NIGHT will end in 24 hours (6pm GMT, 1:00pm EST, 12:00pm Central) or earlier if all night time activity (a PM from the Seer and a PM from the werewolves notifying that they are ready to begin) ends before then.