Admin Thread - Werewolf LIII: The Republic

[Nerwen]

Can I do a provisional sign-up? I have exams coming up... but then I think I'm suffering from WW withdrawal...

[Thinlómien]

Boro and Nerwen! Yay! I missed you!

[Mithalwen]

This looks good.

Lots of favourite people ....

[Boromir88]

Lommy, say the word "politics" and I will immediately race in.

Lots of favourite people ....

There you go, Mith, causing division in a time when we need unity. Splitting the 'Downs up into your favourites and those in ill-favour.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

There you go, Mith, causing division in a time when we need unity. Splitting the 'Downs up into your favourites and those in ill-favour.

Yes, well, we all know that it's perfectly okay for her to do that, because the ill-favor ones? They're anti-Downs anyway. They go against everything we stand for.

[Rikae]

I think I'll withdraw from this game. Sorry, Fea. I just can't stomach being accused of being manipulative any more right now, and that's just part of the game, so I should probably take some time off from WW entirely.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

There you go, Mith, causing division in a time when we need unity. Splitting the 'Downs up into your favourites and those in ill-favour.

You surely aren't accusing me of croneyism are you, Mister 88? Suggesting that "Friends of Mithalwen" may enjoy special favours in this game? You might very well think that - I of course could not possibly comment. Besides executive power resides with Fea. I am more of a Humphrey, maybe a spook - my influence is going to be limited by being spark out at crucial moments .

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

It is definitely a sham government... We all know I'm the puppet master of these events.

[Mithalwen]

I vote for Graces, Fates or Furies since if we go for that Triple Moddess thing I will end up being the Crone. I'm in my prime I tell you....

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Boro and Nerwen! Yay! I missed you!

I missed you too!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

oh Politics. . .YAY

I actually thought there would be no signing for quite a while, otherwise I would have signed up earlier. . .

I hope to be done with my papers and such by the time this starts, so if it is not yet full I would like to sign up.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

so if it is not yet full I would like to sign up.

The more the merrier.

[Gwathagor]

Can I just say that politicians are scum? They really are. I thought I'd get that out of the way early so I won't feel tempted to harp on it during the game.

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Legate

Okay all people, let's NOT vote Mr.P. as our representative at all!!!

There will arise a point in the game where you will be convinced of something, Legate, and no one in the village will believe you, except me....

You'll cry to the heavens, "If I cannot gain voting power, please let Phantom be a representative!!"

And your plea will be met with laughter, and a scornful reply from the ModGods and ModGoddesses above. "Now you want his help? Ha ha ha! Sorry, but it's too late. Your hasty statement in the admin thread has already done its work. You're doomed! DOOMED!!"

Or at least that might happen.

[the phantom]

Ah, Boro is playing! See, I told you this village wouldn't be a quiet one.

Well, if he and I are the first to go, you'll know to go after Shasta.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

If the game is quiet, I'll pout.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Oh, I forgot to mention:

Filibusters are allowed.

[Boromir88]

Filibusters are allowed.

Can a filibuster-proof majority be reached?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Ah, Boro is playing! See, I told you this village wouldn't be a quiet one.

Well, if he and I are the first to go, you'll know to go after Shasta.

Or one of your moddesses - Mr 88 has made himself extremely vulnerable to modfire from me....
But I shall try to curb imperialist tendancies to reclaim territory in the name of my soveriegn lady.

[Boromir88]

Or one of your moddesses - Mr 88 has made himself extremely vulnerable to modfire from me....~Mith

If it helps, I've also compared my niece to her, and the response was far more severe than a modfire.

[A Little Green]

Does anyone have an idea of the starting date?

[Brinniel]

I should be getting a new laptop sometime this weekend (hopefully tomorrow), so I'm in. Though in all preference, I'd rather not have the game start until after tomorrow.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

If it helps, I've also compared my niece to her, and the response was far more severe than a modfire.

Not really given that she has the advantage of proximity. But I was mentally holding her coat. Your niece's that is....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Does anyone have an idea of the starting date?

Since I have a major paper due tomorrow that I haven't yet started, I work most of Saturday, and I've got tickets to a sweet concert Sunday night, I'm thinking I'll send the roles out Sunday afternoon before I leave and kick off Day One on Monday.

Anybody not okay with that?

[Aganzir]

Hmm have we agreed on a deadline yet?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Also, deadlines are going to be 10:30pm EST unless somebody makes an argument for another time that won't kill me.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Also, deadlines are going to be 10:30pm EST unless somebody makes an argument for another time that won't kill me.

That's 9:30pm CST... pity it can't be half an hour later. I'm afraid I may miss deadlines because rehearsals will run long, in which case I'll have to vote four hours early.

[the phantom]

Also, deadlines are going to be 10:30pm EST unless somebody makes an argument for another time that won't kill me.

Make an argument, eh? All right...

Blah-blah-blah a little later. Yadda-yadda wouldn't kill you. Dooby-doo just like Shasta. Sha-na-na 1 AM is perfect. Horse-with-no-name settle for less. Dino-BBQ-chips please a little later?

There! A brilliant argument if I may say so.

[Brinniel]

10:30pm is lovely because then I will neither have class or have to stay up later than necessary for deadline.

Though for Shasta's sake, if you bumped it to a half hour later, I'd be perfectly okay.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

11pm's fine. Later will result in a cranky moddess due to loss of sleep. This semester's schedule of getting up obnoxiously early every day is sort of eating me.

Phantom: your memory goes back far.

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Since I have a major paper due tomorrow that I haven't yet started, I work most of Saturday, and I've got tickets to a sweet concert Sunday night, I'm thinking I'll send the roles out Sunday afternoon before I leave and kick off Day One on Monday.

Anybody not okay with that?

I'm more than okay with it -- I was just about to post saying that if the game is starting now, I won't be around at all from Friday evening to Monday morning, and if anyone *coughnogcough* were to fault me for not being around I will do my best to lynch them for the rest of the game. (See, modding a "Lovers" game for a week without having seen my own for three can get me all cranky, especially after sifting through all those pictures of Cupid/Psyche, Tristan/Isolde, Romeo/Juliet snogging.)

In short, you will not see me until Monday. So that's the perfect day to start.

The deadline time itself isn't going to matter to me, as there is absolutely no time that will work for me every day. See? Makes things easy. I defer to our Dead Moddess' schedule. She's the only one who HAS TO be around at deadline, yes?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Diamond18

The deadline time itself isn't going to matter to me, as there is absolutely no time that will work for me every day. See? Makes things easy. I defer to our Dead Moddess' schedule. She's the only one who HAS TO be around at deadline, yes?

Yup, it's similar with me. And in fact, even better, as the voting won't hopefully be such a rush as usually as we always first have these delegates... *hint hint*

[Diamond18]

Hmm. I meant to say "Dear Moddess" not "Dead Moddess." Oh well, it's werewolf, must have death on the brain.

[Gil-Galad]

alright lets get this over with, add me to the list good madam.

[Ilya]

Been a long time since I werewolfed it up, but I'd like to play if there's still room.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Ilya

Been a long time since I werewolfed it up, but I'd like to play if there's still room.

Certainly. Welcome on board.

[Boromir88]

Rune, you and phantom think far too negatively towards compromise. All-or-nothing ends in destruction. Nations are formed on compromise.

Maybe we should save this for the showdown, and maybe Fea is regretting her decision to allow me in.

[the phantom]

All-or-nothing ends in destruction.

Is that not what we're aiming for?

Besides, so long as the destruction isn't your own, you win, right?

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Rune

Anyways about this filibustering. . . Is it american style which means that there is no restrictions on speaking time?

Well, surely you'll have at least until deadline...

Originally Posted by Di

See, modding a "Lovers" game for a week without having seen my own for three can get me all cranky, especially after sifting through all those pictures of Cupid/Psyche, Tristan/Isolde, Romeo/Juliet snogging.

Pah, at least you have one...unlike many of us here.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

unless some of them are real hardcore politicians staying up that late - or some of us are even more serious to wake up that early

And would you be one of those, Nogrod? I noticed you staying up until the wee hours of the morning some of those Days during the last game. Not like it's something I don't do either...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

maybe Fea is regretting her decision to allow me in.

Mr. 88, you know better than that.

Originally Posted by Brinn

Well, surely you'll have at least until deadline...

I was partially joking when I said that about filibustering, but at least half serious. I just haven't worked out the best way to include it. I'm in love, you see, with the concept of a filibuster which is, for those unfamiliar:

Originally Posted by Dictionary.com

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action

I think the only practical way to manage it would be if the player in question declared their filibuster and then was forced to post continuously, at least once per minute or two, about the specific topic in question (which would need to be declared at the onset). If the player lapsed, the filibuster would end. Until the filibuster ceased, votes could not be cast.

Can others think of a better way to institute this?

Of course I should also mention that a filibuster-proof majority can be reached. By this I mean that if at least 2/3 of the village votes that filibusters aren't allowed, they can't happen.