General Rules and Information
General Behavioral Expectations:
• All site-wide rules are to be followed. Loophole hunting is not appreciated.
• Personal attacks on any basis are prohibited. Excessive vulgarity will also be stomped upon. When in doubt, err on the side of being civil and respectful.
***If you feel someone has crossed a line into a personal attack, or if you are concerned about another player's mental state, contact the mod immediately. Do not escalate in the game thread. I'm not interested in the gamestate becoming toxic.
• Play to your win condition. Gambits, yes; trying to sabotage your faction, no.
• Do not discuss this game anywhere outside the game thread and designated PTs. Do not discuss ongoing games in any spaces for this game. When in doubt, ask the mod before posting or just don't do it.
Game Play, Voting, Eliminating, and Night Actions:
• Do not quote mod communications anywhere in the thread. That includes role PMs and PM exchanges with the mod.
(#FF8000) so do not use it for any purposes, particularly impersonating me.
• If you see errors in the vote count or other administrivia, you may PM me or post in the thread (using the bold tag and '@Mod') requesting a fix.
• Claiming to be an anti-town player sharing an alignment with another living player in the game is a modkillable offense regardless of one's actual alignment or whether the statement was intended to be taken seriously.
• When placing a vote, it is not necessary to unvote first or to put your vote on a new line. However, votes must be submitted in bold like this:
VOTE: penguin_alien
or like this:
VOTE: penguin_alien or like this:
VOTE: PA
. I will accept any votes in these formats so long as I can tell the intended target from the abbreviation used. If I think it's a vote, it's a vote.
• Eliminations (or decisions to no-Elim) require a majority of the votes in play.
• No cryptography is permitted. Do not use temporary information (signature, avatar, etc.) to convey game information.
• Discussion may continue in twilight.
• All factional decisions must either be agreed upon by all living members of that faction or be resolved as outlined for that faction. Action control may be proxy'd to another player in your PT by PMing the mod or posting your permission therein.
• Once you are killed, do not post in the game thread. This includes ‘Bah!’ posts.
• Game actions must posted in bold in the appropriate PTs with the exception of any action taken by the Delayer. If you know you will be V/LA during the night phase, you may post a night action choice in your PT in advance.
• There exists the possibility of mod errors or disagreements about mod decisions. Unless overridden by list/site mods, my decisions are final. You may take it up with me post-game should you so choose.
Activity Parameters and Mod Communication:
• Prods will be sent out by PM to players who have not posted within the past 48 hours. Players receiving prods have 24 hours to post before I will start looking for a replacement. If the day ends before you can respond in-thread, you must PM me within the allotted time. Don't prodge; you know what I'm talking about.
• Three prods in one game day phase or four prods overall will result in my replacing you.
• If the site had downtime of more than three hours, time will be added to the relevant deadlines to compensate equal to that lost to the downtime.
• While you are welcome to post about any issues that arise in the thread (use bold to get my attention, please) you may also PM me concerning any problems. Use your best judgment here, and I will endeavor to do the same. Questions may be answered publicly if it is something the full game should know. It is likely questions will be answered with "I will not answer that". This also applies to issues with me or my modding or other players. I do not fix tags or formatting issues in non-mod game posts.
• If you go on V/LA, please PM me.
• Night phases will always run their full allotted time unless all living players PM me or post in a PT that they are ready for the night phase to end.
• Alterations to these rules will be announced in-thread and PMed to all players in the event they become necessary either due to unforeseen circumstances or my own oversights.
• There will be no redactions permitted in any PTs containing more than one player slot.
Violations of these rules will result in a warning for a first offense and a potential forced-replacement or modkill for subsequent offenses depending on circumstances. I reserve the right to skip the warning for particularly willful or egregious violations.
Modkills will happen in a way to punish the player's faction as far as timing and phase progression is concerned. These will only happen after consultations with the listmods. A modkilled player will become a neutral survivor.
