2. Enjoy yourself.
3. If you are not having fun or feel that having to play the game is making your life worse, please consider replacing out. If I feel you are damaging game integrity, you may be warned to stop or replace out.
4. Toxicity is moderated strictly. Toxic behaviour includes, but is not limited to:
- flaming
- personal attacks
- use of slurs or derogatory language
- spamming
- excessive AtE
- otherwise being a jerk
Out-of-game influence:
5. Play to your wincon.
6. Private communications:
- Do not communicate about this game outside the public game thread and any associated PTs.
- Do not quote, copy-paste, or link to any private communication into the public thread or inappropriate PTs. Private communication = anything in a PT, your role PM, any correspondence with a moderator. Exceptions:
- You may quote or copy into any Notes PT you possess.
- You may copy, but not quote, posts clearly drafted with the intention of being posted into the main thread later.
- Do not claim to have a Notes PT. Exception:
- You accidentally linked or copy-pasted something you shouldn't have, in which case you may claim it was from a Notes PT.
7. Do not discuss replacing out, conceding, reporting a player, or blacklisting a player before the game is over. If you have any concerns, please PM me, the backup/co-mod, or a listmod as appropriate.
Deadlines:
8. Day 1 will last 10 days. Days 2 and onward will last 7 days.
9. Nights will last 48 hours. Fast Nights are always an option provided all living players PM me saying they would like one.
10. During Days, players
other than Tree-Stumps
must make a game-advancing post once every 36 hours or receive a prod. Players have 24 hours after a prod to make a game-advancing post. Upon receiving their third prod, players will be automatically replaced.
Tree-Stumps will not be required to post.
11. Players who are due for a prod at the end of a Day will be prodded as normal and should respond to the prod by PM within 24 hours.
12. Players on V/LA will be prodded every 60 hours (2.5 days) and have 24 hours to respond to a prod. V/LA should be used reasonably.
Votes, eliminations, Night Actions:
13. Vote by using VOTE: Aisa or
Vote:Aisa
. Reset to voting no-one by using UNVOTE: or
Unvote:Aisa
. Vote tags are preferred.
14. Votes in spoiler tags or otherwise obfuscated will not be counted.
15. When >50% of alive players are voting the same player, that player is eliminated and the Day will end early. No takes-backsies: changes of votes after an elimination is achieved have no effect.
16. If an elimination is not achieved by the deadline, there will be no elimination.
17. Players may use VOTE: No Elimination to end the Day early with no elimination. If 50% of players vote for no-elimination, the Day will end early.
18.
Axing
is an alternative, in-flavour name for the elimination.
19. Any Night Actions you have should be submitted to me via PM or in a PT where I have indicated that this is acceptable. You can always change Actions before the Night deadline. Night Actions submitted after the deadline will not be accepted, even if the game thread has not been unlocked yet.
Moderation notes:
20. These rules cannot possibly cover everything. I reserve the right to add to the rules (you will be notified) and to take action on any situations even when they are not explicitly covered here.
21. Pretending to break a rule will be treated the same as actually breaking a rule.
22. I am always up for a chat! If you're in doubt about anything, or want to give feedback, just PM me. If it's a minor piece of feedback or not related to this game you can even submit anonymously through this Google Form.
23. SirCakez is the lovely listmod in charge of this game. You should feel free to contact them about any concerns you have.
This is a 9-player game. It uses the open setup Forest Fire. There will be some handwritten flavour, with no bearing on the game.
The roles in the game are:
2x
Arsonists
6x
Trees
1x
Firefighter
You are given the following points of clarification:
The Arsonists have Daytalk.
This is different from the Role PMs in the wiki page for this setup.
Trees only become Tree-Stumps upon being eliminated via the Day vote.
Tree-Stumps can be primed and ignited.
Tree-Stumps don't count as alive for endgame purposes.
Tree-Stumps are not subject to posting requirements.
The only situation in which an Arsonist victory is guaranteed to be declared is when 50% of players left alive are Arsonists. I will declare a win earlier if I am sure it is mechanically inevitable, but if there is any doubt, the game will go on.
The Arsonists are the informed minority faction in this game. The Trees and Firefighter constitute the uninformed majority faction of the Forest.
Arsonists win when they are 50% or more of the players left alive or nothing can prevent this from occurring. The Forest wins when only Forest-aligned players are left alive.
During the Day, all alive players vote to axe (eliminate) a player. If an Arsonist or Firefighter is axed, they are removed from the game thread as per usual. If a Tree is axed, they become a Tree-Stump. Tree-Stumps may no longer vote and do not count as alive for endgame purposes, but can continue to post in the game thread.
During the Night, the Arsonists may choose to either prime a single target or ignite (kill) all previously primed targets. Tree-Stumps are valid targets. The Firefighter may target someone to block them from being primed (on that Night only).
Spoiler: Role PMs
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There may be no wind, but all Trees are rustling their leaves in trepidation. There was a wildfire somewhere last night. The horrible smell of burnt trees, the roaring sound of fire, a slight warming of the air... it must have been close. What could possibly have caused it?
Day 1 starts now and ends in (expired on 2022-10-12 11:55:00).
Just a small reminder to avoid using this sort of language too often. I understand it happens every now and then.
I think it may be useful to clarify what I meant by the above:
- Swearing is allowed. You can swear as much as you want when it's not directed at a fellow player.
- Try to be respectful when addressing your fellow players.
Things happen slowly, then all at once. At first, it was nothing but a suggestion here and there, an ancient Tree remembering an old nymph's tale too well: "Telling you... never been this bad before... this close before... we're enchanted... not supposed to happen..." The smoke never let down, though. It grew nearer and nearer, filling heads with panic and canopies with a toxic dizziness.
"TELLING YOU... not me...!", rustles Old Tree.
"Well... maybe more sure... if you were not HOLDING THAT AX- OW!! Why did you just HACK at me?!" - gasps all around as rainbow lymph oozes out of Titus - "hurts... ooouhh... feel a little wobbly..."
Titus falls to the ground with a big THUMP.
Titus has been axed! She was...
Spoiler:
a
Tree
.
This means that...
Spoiler:
She has become a
Tree-stump
.
She is confirmed to be aligned with the
Forest
. She may continue to post in the public thread, but no longer has access to a vote and does not count as alive for determining win conditions.
Night 1
Night 1 begins now and ends in (expired on 2022-10-14 12:05:00). Submit any Night Actions by PM, or in an acceptable PT.
Note that I will not require Tree-stump approval to grant a fast Night. (Though there are still 8 of you so it probably won't happen regardless.)
A young Tree is particularly affected by yesterday: "Nightmare last night... mean person... chopped me too..."
"Titus... miss you so much..." - safe to say the Tree nearest to Titus is not also pleased with recent events - "Shedding my leaves... memorial..."
"Uh, bud. Could you please stop snowing what's left of my trunk under all that foliage? It makes me really ticklish and is kinda distracting, you know?"
"Wh-wh... WHAT...? ...you... speak?"
"Ah yes, there's that too."
Day 2 starts now and ends in (expired on 2022-10-21 12:15:00). With 8 alive, it takes 5 to axe someone.
It happened again. Until two minutes ago it was just your regular Saturday in the Forest - you know, accusations of arson, murder, and even of Trees not being true Trees but humans - then you heard a screech: "OOUUCHH! Cut it out!"
You look and see an axe on the ground and that Herta is suddenly missing a piece of their midsection. Nothing really surprises you anymore, so all you can think is that, huh, "cut it out" is kind of unfortunate wording.
You try to ask who did it, but as you do Herta crashes, not very gently, into that good night.
Herta has been axed! They were...
Spoiler:
a
Tree
.
This means that...
Spoiler:
They have become a
Tree-stump
.
They are confirmed to be aligned with the
Forest
. They may continue to post in the public thread, but no longer have access to a vote and do not count as alive for determining win conditions.
Night 2
Night 2 begins now and ends in (expired on 2022-10-17 18:20:00).
Submit any Night Actions by PM, or in an acceptable PT. I will not require Tree-stump approval to grant a fast Night.
It's been a couple Days since the big fire over the hill. "Remind me why we're even fighting over some smoke in a different forest?" says Herta. "Surely we're fine, right? Look, even that Firefighter is going home now."
Day 1 starts now and ends in (expired on 2022-10-24 18:25:00). With 7 alive, it takes 4 to axe someone.