A) Ethics and Sportsmanship
A1) All
sitewide rules apply. Read them if you haven't.
A2) Play to your faction's win condition, as long as you do not break any game or site rules in doing so.
A3) You may not discuss this game anywhere outside the game thread unless explicitly permitted to do so in your role PM. Rantbuddies are fine, too.
A4) Quoting or pretending to quote your role PM, quicktopics, private communications with the mods, or (in the case of hydrae) discussion with other heads is strictly forbidden. Loose paraphrasing is permitted, although run it past us first when in doubt.
A5) Be civil and treat other players with respect--attack the case, not the person. Mafia can be a heated game, but we will interfere if anyone resorts to excessive insults, personal attacks, and bullying. We're fine with this being a subjective line decided by us, too.
A6) Encryption is forbidden, as well as messages hidden in invisible text, small text, or BBCode tags. Always err on the side of caution and ask the mods before leaving a code or breadcrumb. A good rule of thumb is that if the average person cannot decipher the code without outside software after having it pointed out, you can't use it.
A7) Editing and deleting posts (if you have the power to do so) is strictly forbidden.
A8) If you believe you have been compromised, please bring it to my attention.
A9) Asking questions about your role in thread will obviously not be answered; if you've questions PM us - don't try and game the mods to get an advantage.
B) Voting/Lynching Mechanics
B1) For your vote or unvote to be counted, it must be completely bolded, and use the format
Vote: Player/Unvote: Player
or
VOTE: Player UNVOTE: Player (capital letters and colon optional).
B2) Votes for misspellings or acronyms of players' names (such as
VOTE: Plaer
or
VOTE: PLAYA
) are valid as long as the player being voted for is clear. You are not required to unvote before changing your vote. However, votes that are behind spoiler tags, in small or invisible text, or otherwise concealed are invalid.
B3) A lynch will occur when 50%+1 of the votes are cast for the same player. When this has happened, any subsequent votes and unvotes will not be counted, and the game will enter twilight. Everyone including the person who was lynched may talk in twilight.
B4) No lynch requires the same amount of votes as a regular lynch.
B5) Dead is dead - no 'Bah' post. Not even one. If the mods haven't posted the endgame scene, you may not post again, even after a hammer in LYLO - don't come rushing from the dead qt to post before the mods. Under absolutely under no circumstances may you reveal game-relevant information after your death.
B6) (AKA The "Blame Katsuki" Rule) Post under the account that appears in the player list. If you accidentally post from a different alt or hydra account, you must immediately quote it from your main. Failure to comply beyond what is reasonable may result in force-replacement. Votes from the wrong account will be considered invalid, but may be counted in the way most damaging to your faction in certain situations.
C) Activity and Deadlines
C1) Day Deadlines are 14 days, decreasing to 10 days with less than 10 players still alive.
C2) Day Deadlines will not be extended barring exceptional circumstances or replacement situations. If a majority lynch is not reached before deadline, no lynch occurs.
C3) You may continue talking after a lynch or deadline has elapsed until the mods post to end the day. After that, you may not post even if the mods forget to lock the thread.
C4) You will have 48 hours to submit actions for a night phase. The thread will be re-opened as soon as possible after that.
C5) In order to be accepted, night actions must be PM'd to the mods or posted in bold in scum Private Topics before the deadline is up. If a player does not select one, that player will default to "no action."
C6) If a replacement is needed during a night phase, we will extend the night deadline until some time after a replacement is found, regardless of whether that slot has a night action.
C7) Players will be prodded after forty-eight hours without posting. Please try and treat the game as a commitment and participate.
C8) Players who do not respond to a prod within twenty-four hours or need to be prodded too often will be replaced at the discretion of the mods. As a rule of thumb, 3 in a game day and you're gone.
C9) If you will be unable to post for over forty-eight hours, inform the mod by PM or in the thread of when you'll be V/LA. Assuming the V/LA period is of reasonable length, you will be exempt from prods during that time. All V/LA notifications will be made public by the mod.
D) Other
D1) Flavour is flavour. We reserve the right to interpret the source material as we wish, and put our own spin on it.
D2) If there is a conflict between the rules and your role PM, the role PM takes precedence.
D3)
is our color. You may not use it.
D4) Any methods of verifiable randomness are forbidden. This includes dice tags. Don't use them.
D5) It is possible something may have been overlooked or left unclear. When in doubt, ask. You may be punished for deliberately exploiting technicalities and vague wording in the rules in order to do something you should know is forbidden or unethical.
D6) Punishment for breaking any of the above rules may include a private or public warning, force replacement, modkill, or even blacklisting (depending on the seriousness of the offence).
D7) We will modkill players in the way most detrimental to their faction. Modkilled players may be retroactively made into Neutral Survivors.
D8) We reserve the right to add, remove, or modify rules at any point of the game if it becomes necessary.[/quote]
