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04-17-2007, 08:58 AM | #1 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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Admin thread for Werewolf XXXII: The Lost Age
The crowd was getting tired, somebody had even left the hall. Several were trying to chat, but the terrible music was so loud that you couldn’t even hear your own thoughts. At one moment a fight nearly occurred, luckily it stopped before anything serious happened. People couldn’t understand why they were waiting in the first place.
Suddenly the music stopped and everybody was relieved, at last the anticipation ended. A young guy walked from the right side of the stage to the stand in the middle. The hall was filled with silence, except for a lone hamster clapping fanatically. Volo puffed out his chest feeling overly proud of himself. After two ”artistic” and one sickly coughs he began his speech, ”Dear Wights! Dear Downers! Dear Friends! It is wonderful to see you all… nearly all, here! I am proud to present the thing I have been working on for a long time now, too long if you ask me. But I know I’m not the only one and I have to wait my turn. Anyway, it has been lots of fun, but also hard work. Sure I have had great help, but even together, it wasn’t an easy job. May I welcome my helper, Kath!” Kath walked to the stand and bowed low. The crowd applauded like mad. Only the hamster sat quietly. Kath was really touched and Volo rather offended, but he didn’t show it. ”Yes, thank you Kath. Together we planned and wrote this Tol-in-Gaurhoth game. It’s basically the same as the earlier WW’s, but it has some new features. You can find more about it in the posts around the hall. Questions will be answered”. The audience was getting interested, this felt promising. Somebody even started to clap and soon others joined in. ”Well, it’s no big deal. I do hope you like it”. Volo and Kath left the stage and the anoying music turned back on. Rules to follow (soon?). |
04-17-2007, 09:52 AM | #2 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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Rules and such
The basic stuff:
No double-lynches. No retractions. Day/Night ends 15:00 (3 PM) GMT (I might not be able to post long story bits...) The first Night starts at 15:00 GMT on the24th of April! Votes are all hidden! Vampires can't vote! More on voting and the Lynch Seer system: here. Please, don't change your Signiture, Avatar, location or any other BD information, if you can avoid it. Random facts: - All of deaths are shown in the morning (when the Night changes into Day) - All of the dreams/protections/kills may contradict each other and a lynched person may be protected after he/she is dead. Meaning that the Gifteds, Vampires and the Shade can waste their powers on a person who is already dead. - The Good Gifteds can't PM each other. - The specific role of the Vampire won't be told to the Seer or the Shade. - The specific role of the Vampire will be told at death. - The game will start with a Night. Roles during gameplay: Villagers (hoping for 11): Innocents, who try to survive by lynching a person during day. Win by getting rid of the three Vampires. Seer: PMs a name to the mod during the night. The mod then tells the role of the person ”dreamed of” to the Seer. Is on the side of the Villagers. Ranger: Posts a name to the mod during the night of whom the Ranger wants to protect. The person the Ranger protects won’t die if a Vampire or the Shade tries to kill him/her. Can't protect the same person twice in a row, but can protect him/herself. Is on the side of the Villagers. Hunter: May at any time at all post a name to the mod. If the Hunter dies, his/her current target dies as well, this is not a ”logical hunter”, so whoever the Hunter choses, dies. Is on the side of the Villagers. All above are on the same team and win if the all of the Vampires are lynched. The "Good people" can vote, and that is their main way of killing. The strength of the Good people is quantity. Vampire Seer: A Werewolf that can use the skills of a Seer, but gets to know the role in morning so that he/she won't be able to tell it to his/her fellow Vampires until the next Night begins. Vampire Ranger: A Werewolf that can use the skills of a Ranger. Can save his/her fellow Vampires (or him/herself) from the Shade or the Hunter. Vampire Hunter: A Werewolf that can use the skills of a Hunter. (A free kill on death.) Vampires win if the total of non-Vampires (except the Shade) is equal to the number of Vampires. F.ex.: the Shade, the Seer, a Villager and two Vampires are alive: the Vampires and the Shade win. The Vampires can't vote. The Vampires can PM each other during Night and may kill one person once a Night by sending the name to the Mod. Shade: To survive the Shade has the skills of the Ranger, Seer and Vampire, this means that the Shade can either protect (The Shade is an exeption in the Ranger category as it can't protect itself!), dream or kill during the night, but can’t do the same thing twice in a row. The Shade doesn’t care if the Vampires or the Villagers win, it wins too as long as it's alive in the end of the game. The Shade can vote. The Shade is the most important single role, use it wisely. Every role may and should and has to discuss during the Day in the game thread about whom to vote for. Of course the Vampires must bluff, others may bluff as much as they want. Don't reveal your roles openly as that gives an advantage to your enemies. Characters: I’d like you to make yourselves a character. You don’t have to play in-character during the game but you can. The roles would help me in writing the stories. So please fill this in and send me as a PM: (All characters are human! This character profile is not compulsory, but is of help!) "The characters. Human (not of Numenor). Middle of second age. Funny but not over the top. Think of making a "basic normal human". You may well give your character skills with wielding weapons or any other possible (or not possible, but then it will remain only in your character's head. F.ex. if your character has the skill that he/she can cast fireballs, he/she will try and believe doing that in need, but it won't help him/her too much...) skills, but you won't be able to carry anything but your clothes to the game." Appearance: Physical: what does your character look like? Clothes, face, thin, bulky...? Mental: what is your character like mentally? Brave, kind, hates red shoes...? Skills: what can your character do well/not well? Hobbies/profession/special skills? Gender: m/f? A short biography if you wish. List of players: Gil-Galad The Saucepan Man Rikae Boromir88 Nogrod Eomer of the Rohirrim Thinlómien Brinniel Legate of Amon Lanc Aganzir Meneltarmacil Xyzzy Roa_Aoife Macalaure Diamond18 Shastanis Althreduin Celuien Kitanna Sleepy Ranger Durelin Glirdan Rune Son of Bjarne The Sixth Wizard Wow! So many, so quickly! Oh, and the Vampires will be Aganzir, Thinlómien and Nogrod. Last edited by Volo; 05-02-2007 at 07:46 AM. |
04-17-2007, 10:54 AM | #3 |
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PM, please.
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Menel, you're in. But may I ask you to send your character stuff in a PM... |
04-17-2007, 12:14 PM | #4 |
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Hello all! Just posting in here so I notice when people reply.
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04-17-2007, 01:03 PM | #5 | ||
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Looks pretty interesting, but I do have some questions. I can understand what a vampire-Seer does. S/he's pretty powerful one as s/he can try to spot the gifteds for the vampires. I can also see that a vampire-hunter would take away one innocent when lynched. Both of these roles seem to make the vampires have the upper hand pretty definitively. To this the fact can be added that there is no voting-record to help the villagers. So are you sure about the balance of this game? And what will a vampire-ranger do? Defend a fellow vampire that was to be lynched? Okay, I can see a point in this as the innocents who do the voting don't exactly know who was in trouble and thence a save by the vampire-ranger doesn't reveal the saved vampire for sure. Or is s/he only for saving another vampire whom the shade meant to kill at Night? In both cases, more in the first, the vampires are made even stronger. Looking at the list above makes me think that it was probably just fair that you told the names of the vampires beforehand... Quote:
Is the shade then the "secret weapon" of the villagers "who will bring the balance"? However, I still think the villagers look like being quite the underdogs here.
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04-17-2007, 01:34 PM | #6 |
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Okay, I'm really wondering how the game is supposed to work. Won't the villagers all just vote for Aganzir, Nogrod, and Thinlomien since we already know that they're vampires?
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04-17-2007, 01:48 PM | #7 | |
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Well, from what I understand now the biggest problem would be that there'd be an effort from the villagers to kill the Were-Ranger first, because otherwise there'd be no chance of lynching... or so I understand that... I think it's time, Volo, to somewhat help us in our confusion, if you could...
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Maybe we'll have some light shed on these later.
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This is shaping up to be a great game ...
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04-20-2007, 12:21 PM | #12 |
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Regrettably, I need to withdraw my name from the signups. Sorry!! This sounded like a lot of fun!
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04-20-2007, 04:25 PM | #13 |
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I know it would be a lot of fun to have fex. exactly 20 players, but waiting for too long is not wise either. Lately we've had one more player in but one has already left (so we're still in 17?). So I think Volo might just throw us a beginning date like Monday or Tuesday and then we would play with all those people who we have then. Waiting for an indefinitive time to fill up a fixed number of players may turn against itself and the numbers start falling down with all the RL issues (so far we know that Gil can't be in the game after May 3rd, Menel after May 6th).
Welcome Shastanis Althreduin! Have fun!
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