I suppose I'll join.
Sounds interesting, though I don't really know where you're going with the Shakespeare quote.
Finalized title (don't ask...yet):shh:
Only Zai has not replied to confirmation PM.
[QUESTION FOR THE MOD(s):] Are PMs from individual players to a mod allowed?Yes. It's unlikely to net you much in terms of useful information, though.
[QUESTION FOR THE MOD(s):] Are PMs from individual players to a mod allowed?Yes. It's unlikely to net you much in terms of useful information, though.
Well, I could be a vig who thought he was acting scummy. On the other hand, it could be Vector, who will hopefully share his thoughts on the hidden elements and, in particular, the reason that "effects" is italicized.
Spoiler: "Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,(9/9)" (click to show/hide)
First, I know that our mod delights in wordplay/rhyme, so I'm wondering if there might be some sort of permutation-based secondary meaning to our role-names.Factually wrong.
Third, I think this was made before KWN: DE ran, so the "all vanilla townies idea as derivative of that game" thing does not exactly fly.
Fourth, we have Lord of the Rings references. Uh... I have no idea what's up with that, but I figured I'd point it out. At this point, I'm guessing more "this is probably a fairly standard game, and the mod just happens to like books."
I'm vaguely wondering if there's some sort of even group splitting, especially because I looked at the front page at one point and only half of the players were bolded (don't remember which ones, sorry).
Bold players have sent confirmation PMs, and should have received their role6 PMs.The LotR reference (Nine for mortal men, doomed to die (9/9)) is merely one of the silly names I put on the playerlist spoiler for number of signed-up players. ("One Brave Soul"- I don't remember the other seven.)
One notable exception- if you have questions on your current role, I can answer those in PM. Maybe. (Questions regarding lynch mechanics may go in main thread, preferably in something like bold.)[QUESTION FOR THE MOD(s):] Are PMs from individual players to a mod allowed?Yes. It's unlikely to net you much in terms of useful information, though.
Third, I think this was made before KWN: DE ran, so the "all vanilla townies idea as derivative of that game" thing does not exactly fly.
Another question:
If you had an assassin bot that you had to use within the first two hours or else you would lose, who would you kill?
QuoteFirst, I know that our mod delights in wordplay/rhyme, so I'm wondering if there might be some sort of permutation-based secondary meaning to our role-names.
Another question:
If you had an assassin bot that you had to use within the first two hours or else you would lose, who would you kill?
I was not denying that I like those things. -,,- And yes, spoonerised RANDOM TOWNSPERSON. He is unimportant for all that he gave his life to alert you to the presence of BAD STUFF. *watches intently*QuoteFirst, I know that our mod delights in wordplay/rhyme, so I'm wondering if there might be some sort of permutation-based secondary meaning to our role-names.
Ah, I see that you don't delight in wordplay, rhyme, and puzzles at all! No, and Darnom Pownsterson TOTALLY ISN'T a carefully chosen permutation of RANDOM TOWNSPERSON, right?
I see that neither webadict nor Toony is in this. Pity.
I see that neither webadict nor Toony is in this. Pity.
Nobody got the reference. (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43945.msg845986#msg845986) :(
Hey.Zai is alive and well, and continues to be.
Mod:Daykill Zai
Hey.
Mod:Daykill Zai
If I were scum, I'd blah blah blah...
But you aren't. Right?
...are we fighting fairies?You're no fey scholars, but those marks seem to have a much more animal character- you'd guess teeth..
Vicious, murderous fairies?
Great. Why must all peasant villages be conveniently located near mystical woods?The village has prospered trading in mystical fruits and other mystical goodies. Besides, where are the guides through mystic woods going to live, without villages?
Here's an idea: don't experiment.There is more treasure hunt than minefield.
Here's an idea: don't experiment.Think carefully on these statements.
I seriously doubt that this is a generic mountainous setting (or at least I hope it isn't).
I'm hoping it's something like Don't Outguess the Mod (the first); at the very least it would make things easier for town.
...are we fighting fairies?You're no fey scholars, but those marks seem to have a much more animal character- you'd guess teeth..
Vicious, murderous fairies?
Werewolves.An eerie howl rises over the forest. . .all the more out of place for that the sun is climbing high in the sky.
Vector gets his shotgun.
Carnivore teeth. ::)...are we fighting fairies?You're no fey scholars, but those marks seem to have a much more animal character- you'd guess teeth..
Vicious, murderous fairies?
UNICORNS?!
Carnivore teeth. ::)...are we fighting fairies?You're no fey scholars, but those marks seem to have a much more animal character- you'd guess teeth..
Vicious, murderous fairies?
UNICORNS?!
Error: Shotgun not found.Carnivore teeth. ::)...are we fighting fairies?You're no fey scholars, but those marks seem to have a much more animal character- you'd guess teeth..
Vicious, murderous fairies?
UNICORNS?!
Well, I'm off to check my house for cyanide.No. Not cyanide. Arsenic. Give the panda arsenic.
I notice that all those with foul intention in regards to the town/village have died.An eerie howl rises over the forest. Again.
I suggest we all be very careful using italics from now on.
Vector. Did you notice an effect from your use of italics?
Neruz, please do something interesting.
Apostolic Nihilist knelt before each remaining villager in turn, examining them closely.A baying of wolves rises over the forest for a third time.
His seemingly-prescient images had greatly perturbed him. They fought creatures of pure evil, consumed with bloodlust... perhaps disclosing their secret was not wise.
Little was spoken, save the occasional whisper. The silence continued, until...
"We're dealing with a threat to our lands, our people. A threat the likes of which we've never before seen!" he at last proclaimed.
"I saw them in visions, werewolves, tearing our friends and family apart." He grasped for a nearby twig, gripping it tightly to accentuate his words. "Such a horrendous fate cannot befall us; it must not. For the sake of Pownsterson, we must find the vile group of half-men, half-beasts responsible! They are led by an alpha werewolf, but that is all I have ascertained as of yet."
With those words spoken, Apostolic stood once again. It was as if a burden had been lifted; his acquisition shared with all.
Right, so my last use of italics had an interesting effect -- it was likely purely flavor-related, but interesting nonetheless. I'm going to try and replicate that.
AN let a little info loose there.Well, apparently I saw a vision of an alpha werewolf when I "checked the position of the sun". The second time I tried using italics, nothing happened... so I'm guessing it's either once-per-day or completely random.
Thats not fair. Other people arent really contributing.
Hmm. I wonder if I should policylynch on italics. Oh well.
Neruz, please do something interesting.
Neruz, with interesting I mean anything that would give us more hints. Perhaps even flavortext. Unvote.
Zai, why did you jump on a bandwagon?
Hmm. I wonder if I should policylynch on italics. Oh well.
Neruz, please do something interesting.Neruz, with interesting I mean anything that would give us more hints. Perhaps even flavortext. Unvote.
Zai, why did you jump on a bandwagon?
Scumbucket. You're looking for excuses to get random people lynched and vote-flopping. Go die in the river.
I'm at a loss just like you. I don't know what's going on, anything might happen, and I have no good feeling about the italics in my role pm. I voted Neruz as a randomvote, and Zai because it appears he bandwagons. Which might be skewed perspective on my part.
(Close enough. Words need not be in Middle English, or spelling would be horrifically inconsistent, and I'd say, "Rede þe boke". Periodicity is really more a matter of "no gunpowder no steam")
(..."Why is cursing"?)
IM going to say this now. I dont like this game. Its getting too much like KWN Dak Edi
I dont like you attitude. Mafia is supposed to be fun. You are not helping, VectorIM going to say this now. I dont like this game. Its getting too much like KWN Dak Edi
Look.
Either you can screw around and experiment with the flavortext, you can scumhunt, or you can do both. As-is, you're doing absolutely nothing, which royally pisses me off. You aren't scumhunting. You aren't trying to break the game. You're just sitting around complaining and saying that you're useful.
Give me one reason why we shouldn't lynch your face off. You always look like scum; we don't lynch you because we've realized that it's largely stupid by now. Why shouldn't we go back to treating you in a more logical fashion?
I dont like you attitude. Mafia is supposed to be fun. You are not helping, Vector
I dont like you attitude. Mafia is supposed to be fun. You are not helping, Vector
I don't like your attitude. Mafia is supposed to be fun, and you ruin the game for other people. Is it really that fun to sit here and gripe about how this game annoys you and you don't like flavortext? If you don't like it, why don't you ask for a replacement or play the game in a manner you prefer? Sure, you'll have a better ranking this way, but who cares? Is it really that much fun to post "Eating a ham sandwich?" Do you truly enjoy getting yelled at? Do you like making people angry?
Well, whatever. I'm attempting to suggest alternatives to what you're currently doing that might be more fun for everyone involved.
Sure, vote me because you think my statements are inconvenient. You're just digging yourself into a bigger hole.
Sure, vote me because you think my statements are inconvenient. You're just digging yourself into a bigger hole.
Vector: Can you confirm whether or not you've experienced more than one effect due to flavor/italics? I'm trying to figure out whether it's a once-per-day thing or not. I'd love to know if there's some sort of system behind it.
IM going to say this now. I dont like this game. Its getting too much like KWN Dak EdiUnlike there, you are free to ignore the italics. As I said, no game effects. Mainly for fun. Scumhunting would be good too. (Para2 is a good example of how to balance them.)
Neruz, with interesting I mean anything that would give us more hints. Perhaps even flavortext. Unvote.
Zai, why did you jump on a bandwagon?
Well AN, my logic was simple: Silver is super-effective against werewolves. Therefore, get as much silver as possible and try to make some weapons if we can. Seems like we can't, unfortunately, but oh well. It was worth a try. It's not my fault the GM is railroading us.
Aureliusz Vector looks nervously over his shoulder. He has seen starvation, plague, massacre. Everyone he has ever loved lies buried far away in the chilly bowels of the earth. He has little left to live for--just the weak flicker of hope that life will improve, that some day he will have good reason to continue. He lives in that flicker twixt light and darkness, and has lost all attachment to or terror of either extreme. He is a dead man who hopes and wonders and prays.
Despite all this, he fears the wolves.
Apologies to Joseph Conrad. Probably also to Victor Hugo.(Close enough. Words need not be in Middle English, or spelling would be horrifically inconsistent, and I'd say, "Rede þe boke". Periodicity is really more a matter of "no gunpowder no steam")
(..."Why is cursing"?)
"Why am I so cursed?" Ahhh, what a whiner...
Yeah, Google Translator is special. I figured I might as well give myself a first name this time around, especially since "Vektor" sounds like it could be vaguely Polish. If you really, really tried to make it sound Polish. And... come on... who can deny the attractiveness of the sound sz? Or vaguely symbolic first names. No, it was irresistible.
I thank you for not making me use eð and þorn, because seriously... hurgh. I think, though, that it would be "rede ðe boke," given that eð is the voiced form of the fricative?
[/linguistic snobbery]
Errol, I don't like the coincidence. I also don't like the fact that you're bringing that up as an afterthought, as though a scumbuddy told you that you've got a good excuse. Why not bring that up earlier, when I showed you the two posts together and how bad they looked? Why mention your purported reasons for voting, rather than address my actual statement... and suddenly come up to answer it now? No, I don't like it at all.
(cut for length)Need to pay closer attention, I do.
I wonder if we get penalties if we try doing things that our -characters- shouldn't know. E.g., examining the crowd for lupine features (I took a similar action); realistically, we don't even know that the werewolf is among us, after all.
Perhaps our italics have to fit some sort of rigid guidelines to have an effect?
I was going to suggest we try to 'lock everyone in a room' or 'tie everyone up', but the (story's) villagers would never agree to that, as it just makes them easier targets.
...perhaps I'm seriously overthinking this system. Probably best to treat it based off what we know so far as opposed to thinking up possibilities.
Clasping his hands, Apostolic Nihilist gazed up at the sky once again. The once piercing red dawn had long since faded. Returning his eyes to the crowd of rag-tag villagers before him, he began to take inventory of what (undoubtedly few) weapons they possessed. Preparedness was going to be key in surviving the night.
(snip)...Make that five howls.
Burn in hell, Lazy Lycanthrope.
I got no noticeable effects, although it's possible that whatever it is, it'll only take effect during twilight, or the night, or maybe even the next day.Night has, amusingly, fallen. It is now Twilight.
Or it could just merely be information.
I'm thinking the night may reveal a lot. Or it might not. Of course, we don't even know how to bring this day to an end, so...
Zai... where, precisely, did he say anything about the third vote scumtell? The second vote can also be a bandwagon vote, no?
Does that mean the scum can recruit? When would this action take place, if they could recruit?
Do they start with one or more?
ARGHHH
The question is this, Vector: Who is dumb enough to kill Org? I mean really? I learned my lesson the last time I killed Org - when I got you to lynch a confirmed townie.
But yeah, RedWarrior0 is out I'm pretty sure, Neruz why are you even voting me, Neruz is trying to get in before the bandwagon forms, Zai is giving me weird vibes but nothing definite, (though that's usually how I describe my hunches about scum, which are usually right.
As much as it pains me to say this, i think Vector is right in this case; Pandar, you've way over analysed your own meta. Your posts come off (to me) as desperate to try and prove how you're innocent and normal and there's nothing wrong at all, no siree, it's just a normal day in the park.
And honostly, that to me feels pretty scummy; overdefensiveness is a standard scumtell, and you're going overboard right now.
Vector, you seem very convinced of my meta, so fine. Whatever. What actual scummy things have I done besides post a run-on and refute you?
I apologise for the 'buddying' Vector, but what exactly am i supposed to do? I agree with you.
Should i just ignore Pandar because of that and go looking for other people to scumhunt? Because i can't see any at the moment.
Overreaction: Not really.
Vector/Pandarsenic: One (if not both) of you is scum, that's pretty clear.
Vector. You seriously didn't get an effect in a PM?
It also concerns me that Vector asked for two scumbuddies as opposed to 1. We have 9 players in this game which means 2 scum, does it not? Otherwise we're at lylo right now.
But what are people's opinions on my theory? Do you suppose we're all vanilla townies? The two dead people were vanilla townies, and I'm a vanilla townie, and most likely whoever is reading this is a vanilla townie unless he's scum, soooo...
The kill "looking like one of mine" is B.S. and you know it.
Situational Meta and the run-on were the same thing, as far as I can tell.
I'm miffed/upset because you're tunneling on me while Neruz prances about practically proclaiming his scuminess and his fake-tunnel on me.
WIFOM-spreading: The only post you cited for that was an expression of frustration; I don't like not knowing what we're against. Plus we have all this crap in our PMs that cryptically mentions keywords, and I don't know what they do or if they're related to how the day ends or what.
Informationless posts: Mostly a function of me not knowing where to even start.
Overreaction: Not really.
Riding a random-vote: Well if I'd known RedWarrior0 was going to disappear and/or that the day was going to end, I'd have been able to do something more productive.
I'm not asking any questions because you haven't actually answered any.
(If WP is to be trusted, ðæt and þorn are interchangable.)
Don't forget Vector, you're not a confirmed townie. You sound townie, but I'm still not going to go with everything you say. Unless otherwise specified, I'll only drink if Apostolic Nihilist does not. If he drinks, I don't. It's not that I especially think you're scum, but I don't completely trust you.
In Old English, ð (referred to as ðæt by the Anglo-Saxons) was used interchangeably with þ (thorn) to represent either voiced or voiceless dental fricatives.That's all I've got.
The letter thorn was used for writing Old English very early on, like ð; but, unlike ð, it remained in common usage through most of the Middle English period. A thorn with the ascender crossed was a popular abbreviation for the word that. Even though Old English had the two sounds distinguished in speech[,] in written texts the two letters were often regarded as equivalent to each other.
I don't care if the mechanic was glorious, I WANNA KNOW IT GODDAMMIT! Just cause.
DO NOT REVEAL MECHANICS PLEASE. TOO MUCH LOVE TO NEVER RUN AGAIN.poll added..? Actually, let's do this mafia-style. That lets me get the important votes.
... Sorry, other post pending. Felt a need to write that.
Now, I wonder what Pandar's advantage was... ah well, no good if he got lynched the old fashioned way, I guess.
Votes
Hide/Rerun[3]: Vector, Apostolic Nihilist, Leafsnail
Show/Cannot Rerun[1]: RedWarrior0
Not Voting: Boksi, Errol, Org, Pandarsenic, Neruz, Zai.
Know Too Much: Pandarsenic, Mr.Person, Dakarian(requested spoiler spectating)
The only thing I'd really want changed was the day-end mechanic, since "days end once everyone has posted" (if that's what it was) leads to seriously shafting active towns. There's surely got to be some other, better way to do it.
Emeralds are grue.
Grue riddle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_and_bleen#The_new_riddle)
Wait what Pandarsenic?
I... what.I am intentionally cryptic.
Oh, right, wikipedia. At first I assumed you were talking about Zork.
...I understand the 'grue' problem, but I'm not sure how it relates to this game. <_<
Apples and pomegranates and knighted sheep, vectoradict?
...I understand the 'grue' problem, but I'm not sure how it relates to this game. <_<
You leap in through a window. There is a brief struggle, but Org is no match for your feral power. Soon, he is dead. You drag the body out through the woods and leave it at the crossroads to be found the next morning, that you may savor the delicious terror it will cause.
Reveal the information to me. Publicly.No.