I reserve the right to change any of the following rules at any time. I will also inform the players in thread and via PM in the unlikely scenario in which this is required.
This list is not necessarily all-inclusive. If you're unsure whether or not something is allowed, please PM me about it.
Disregarding the rules may result in consequences up to and including modkill and/or force-replacement.
If you need to talk to me in thread,
please use bold.
Additionally, feel free to PM me with any questions you might have.
DO NOT TALK ABOUT OTHER ONGOING GAMES IN THIS GAME.
I've been seeing this happen in a lot of games recently. Don't do it -- it can ruin not only this game for others, but also other games. I won't be lenient about this rule in particular.
Please do not use hidden or encrypted text.
Play to win.
Please treat your fellow players with respect. At the same time, please try not to take comments personally whenever possible.
Please allow for your fellow players to go V/LA.
Please keep me in the loop about your own V/LA status.
Purple is my color. Please do not use purple.
Kdub is my backup mod.
If I go AWOL (I won't) or specifically mention that I am temporarily turning the game over to him, please contact him for game related issues. Otherwise you can simply contact me.
Have Fun!
Gameplay
The following vote formats are the de-facto standard on the site (aka votes should be enclosed with vote tags or bold tags. I don't care about caps/spelling/etc.)
VOTE: borkjerfkin
Vote: borkjerfkin
Unvotes are
not
required.
If it appears to be a vote for a player, I will treat it as a vote for a player. Please don't attempt to fool me or other players with regard to fake votes. Do not put votes in spoiler tags.
A lynch is achieved when half plus one of the current number of living players are voting for the same player. If this does not occur by deadline, a No Lynch will occur -- there is no plurality lynch in this game.
Twilight is the time between the 'hammer' vote being cast and the beginning of the night phase. All living players, including the most recent lynchee, may talk during this time.
Players' alignments will be revealed on death.
When killed, a player may make one informationless 'bah' post at the beginning of the next day phase and must be silent thereon until the conclusion of the game.
Please submit all night actions either via <b> tags in your quicktopic if you have one, or by PM if you do not.
If you have a night action and do not submit one, you will not take an action. I will not resolve your action on a random person.
Player List is ordered alphabetically by the initial players' names.
Role distribution is guaranteed to be random, determined with the aid of random.org
Deadlines
Days will be exactly two weeks long. Extensions may be granted at my discretion for what I feel are extenuating circumstances.
Nights will be exactly two days (48 hours) long.
Players will be prodded after 48 hours of inactivity during the day, excepting V/LA circumstances.
Failure to pick up a prod in 24 hours will result in replacement. Asking for replacement will result in replacement.
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 4:52 pm
by borkjerfkin
Setup
This setup is based upon the game Xenoblade Chronicles. This link may be useful to you to determine context throughout the game.
Setup Related FAQ
This game is
NOT bastard
-- I will not attempt to trick you for my own amusement
Flavor knowledge is NOT required to enjoy this game, but may increase your enjoyment of it. This WILL include story elements that may spoil the plot of the game.
Flips will will be of the form [Character, Alignment, Role name]. This will be all you're given in the way of relevant information.
I will be retelling the story in the same universe with the same characters from the canon game. However, as this is a different medium than a video game, do not expect a similar experience.
More specifically, scene/kill flavor is
NOT RELEVANT TO THE GAME.
Every kill, lynch or otherwise, will be the scene of at least one character death (or a more mundane scene, if a day/night transition occurs with no deaths.) The only characters mentioned in the scene will be either the character being killed, previously killed characters, or irrelevant/minor/original characters.
The
Colonist
faction is the name of the "Town" in this game, and a sample (read: not used in this setup) role PM can be found below:
Hello borkjerfkin, and Welcome to Xenoblade Mafia!
You are a
Ma’Crish, Colonist Aligned Vanilla!
Ma’Crish is a High Entia that lives in a Homs town and loves Nopon food. Ain’t that something. Anyway, more game relevant flavor would normally go here, but as this is not a relevant character, I’m just going to say that I really appreciate everyone joining this game and I hope it’s a lot of fun for everyone. You guys should totally pick up this game and dust off your Wii that you got for Wii sports in 2007 and then all this shovelware came out and you were like I gotta wait 5 more years for Zelda again? What am I doing with my life?
Abilities:
None
Win condition:
All threats to the Colonists are eliminated.
Game thread: [LINK]
Please confirm by replying to this PM with your full role name.
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 4:58 pm
by borkjerfkin
Roles are going out as soon as I'm able. Game will begin with 16/20 confirmed.
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 2:36 am
by borkjerfkin
Nachomamma8 replaces thenewearth!
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:32 am
by borkjerfkin
The following is game-irrelevant flavor. Such text will always be in brown-italics.
~Colony 6~
[1 Year after the Battle of Sword Valley]
Sergeant Illiana Morrison, having just relieved Beta squad of their second shift duty, settled in to watch the golden hues of twilight make way for the eventual curtain of night.
Gamma squad, currently on third shift rotation, took the watch over the front gate to Colony 6 from 20:00 to 04:00, after which Delta would relieve them. Illiana had always preferred this particular shift, as she loved watching the night settle in over the vast expanse of the Bionis' Leg.
"Anything to report?" the sergeant asked one of her spotters, who was concentrating on surveying the landscape.
"All clear, ma'am," was the immediate reply, the scout not taking his eye of his work. "We've seen a few fifty-three's around the past two nights, but they've obviously been just poking and prodding our patrols -- they haven't even bothered to engage us with more than 3 at a time."
"But you haven't seen any tonight?"
The sharpshooter shrugged, although there is no way Illiana could have seen it standing alongside him. "It's early, ma'am. They have the natural advantage at night, so it makes sense for them to--"
The soldier cut off abruptly. Illiana didn't need to see the muscles tense up in the man's shoulders to know something was wrong. After a good, long, thirty seconds, she nudged him. "Something I should know?" she asked as casually as she could, trying to mask the simmering nervousness she hadn't previously been aware of.
"Forest went quiet. Animals and small fry monsters usually provide a blanket of constant white noise. Something's spooked them."
"Mechon?"
"Wouldn't bet against it, ma'am."
Illiana ran to the command post at the front gate and sounded the alarm. She didn't need to do anything else. The front gate, already closed, was reinforced immediately. The men were already at the ready. Delta, Alpha, and those from Beta fit for battle would be reinforcing them momentarily.
She checked in with her forward scout again. "What have you got for me?"
"Contact still negative. I'm not even sure this is--do you hear that?"
Illiana was about to roll her eyes and reply that she hadn't heard anything when her eyes fixed on one of the supply barrels. A glass of water had been placed on top of it, no doubt someone from Beta neglecting to clean up after themselves.
And it was vibrating.
She looked up above her; her gunners were already manning the garrisons. She had a feeling they would be needed.
"Contact!" the scout yelled. "From the south, out of the forest! 7 or 8 of them! They look like giant snakes! I've never seen anything like it!"
Illiana could see it too, now that she knew they were there. A number of flailing snake like figures had cleared the trees and were lumbering toward them, making no attempt to hide their presence. She couldn't tell how quickly they were moving from this distance.
"Wait, no!" The spotter continued. "Not 7 or 8 -- just one! They're all attached to a single body. This thing is huge! Doesn't seem to be terribly mobile though," he candidly added.
The sergeant watched in amazement as the towering mechon lumbered toward them. And although it resembled a spider, it didn't seem to be moving with the agility of the organism it was obviously modeled after.
Her man quickly confirmed this. "Something's off. At least 2 of the legs are non-functional -- it's dragging them behind. It must be damaged -- I'm surprised this thing can move at all right now."
A few more uneasy minutes passed as the mechon dragged itself into the clearing between the forest and the front gate. And then, finally, when it caught a patch of uneven ground that it could not traverse, it fell over in a heap and lay still."
"No other hostiles," the sharpshooter volunteered. "All clear, at least for the moment."
"Hold your fire!" Illiana yelled. She'd need to send out an investigative party, she knew, and she dreaded it. The fact that this could be a trap did not elude her.
But if it wasn't...
This is all wrong,
she thought. Her men didn't fell this creature, and she wasn't aware of any other Homs colonies in the area. What sort of thing could do this to a giant mechon?
And more importantly, would it do the same to them?
Day 1 has begun.
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:35 am
by borkjerfkin
Votecount 1.0
[20] Not Voting (², Aj The Epic, Andrius, BeautyAndTheBeast, BROseidon, Cabd, dntfkingcare, Ghostlin, GuyInFreezer, jon_h61, Mac, Metal Sonic, orcinus_theoriginal, RachMarie, Sajin, Svenskt Stål, Nachomamma8, TiphaineDeath, TMTOLBTWNTOF, Varsoon)
With 20 alive, it is 11 to lynch.
Let me know if you see any problems.
Deadline is in (expired on 2013-06-04 10:00:00)
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:37 am
by GuyInFreezer
Majiffy and Mollie in one hydra?
VOTE: BeautAndTheBeast
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:38 am
by ²
hi guys
- f
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:41 am
by Nachomamma8
hi guys, I'll catch up on the thread in the morning.
