The Werewolf Game: T17 & Bunsy Style

[MrBunsy]

The Werewolf Game is essentially a forum version of a party game called Mafia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(game)). The premise is that you are all members of a small village who have recently discovered that there are werewolves in your midst. During the day the villagers (including the werewolves pretending to be villagers) vote to lynch a suspected werewolf, and during the night said werewolves will kill one villager. The werewolves know who they are, and of each other, none of the villagers know who the werewolves are to start with. I will not disclose the exact number of werewolves, but expect it to be about 3 or 4 (I'll work out depending on the number of players). If anyone has a good idea for a setting please let me know, I'll be trying my best to write little stories at the beginnings and endings of each day and an exciting setting will help with that.

In the village lives a Seer, who every night can discover the true identity of one other player. There also lives a Guardian Angel who can choose one player to protect every night, thus if the werewolves choose to kill the same player that the Guardian Angel is protecting, no-one will die that night. I will PM everyone when the game starts with their role.

Anyone can claim anything and say anything they want, with two exceptions: No-one may talk about the game to surviving players once they are dead (except for one last farewell/last words post, so long as you don't reveal any info), and no-one may forward any PMs from the Game Master (me) to any other player. This means you must choose carefully who you trust, as of course the wolves will be lieing and working together. Not following these two rules will result in a very quick and very dull game, so please stick to them.

To vote to lynch someone you must post their name in bold (so I can see it easily). You must all vote during the day, non-voters shall have a phantom vote assigned to them for all future votes. A phantom vote counts as half a normal vote, so in the case of a tie or multiple phantom votes, you stand a much higher chance of being lynched. If for any reason you think you won't be able to vote the next day please PM me with your planed vote which I will quote in full for you (you might want to add a backup choice in case they die during the night). If you think you'll miss more than a few days, please don't sign up, it's not as fun to have absent players.

Days will end at 2100 GMT (ish), so make sure your vote is cast before then. At the end of the day I will post who gets lynched. Ties in votes will result in who dies being decided randomly. Nights will start after this, so everyone who works during the night (wolves, seer, angel) will need to send me their PMs asap. The Seer and Angel will need to PM me who they want to protect or learn about, and one of the wolves will need to PM me who they have collectively decided to kill (so you'll have to work together). The night will end if I get all the PMs in before I go to bed, or about 0700 GMT the next morning if I don't. I will post who died, probably with a little story. You won't know what the person was, though, and don't try reading too much into my story, because I'm not going to give any hints that way :P. I'll try my best to stick to these times, though if I don't manage to close the day on time late votes won't count unless you've got a decent reason for the votes being late. If anyone wants to play who might have trouble working within these times, just speak up and I'll see if it's possible to shift them.

I think that's everything - if you have any questions feel free to ask away. If you have any questions during the game and don't want to post them publicly, PM them to me and I will answer them in public (without revealing who asked). I've never run one of these before, although I have played both Mafia and TWG, so this is a bit of an experiment. There are numerous sets of rules spread across the Internet, these are what I think will make a good, albeit simple, game. For a first game I don't think we want anything fancy anyway. As gamemaster I will not be involved in the gameplay itself and will try to be unbias. I will neither confirm nor deny anything anyone claims in respect to their role (wolf, seer, etc). PMing other players is perfectly allowed (so long as you've not yet been announced dead), even during the night, etc. Often TWG uses an IRC channel, though I think we might give that a miss for this first game.

If you wish to play, please post something in bold indicating as such. The game will start once 20 (I might be being a bit hopeful here) or so players have signed up, or a couple of days have passed. I think about 10 will be enough for a small game, if it turns out not so many people are interested. Again, this is my first time hosting TWG, so things might not go quite to plan, but I'll be trying my best.

List of Roles:

Regular Human - normal villager, your aim is to lynch all the wolves.
Werewolf - your aim is to outnumber the humans. The wolves can choose one person to try and kill each night.
Seer - as per human, but can see the true identity of one other player each night.
Guardian Angel - as per human, but can choose one player (can be themselves) to protect from being killed by wolves at night.


All players vote in lynchings during the day. Everyone will know who they are, and to start with only the wolves will know who the other wolves are, everyone else will be in the dark.

The game ends when either all the wolves are dead - a human win, or there are more wolves than humans - a wolf win. The GA and the Seer are on the human side.

List of Players (I will update this to show who is dead after each day and night)

*Splinter* - lynched D4
Alien King - killed N5
bonz
philby4000 - killed N4
Pickleworm - killed N1
Pigbuster
Plasma - lynched D1
robowurmz - killed N2
shadowman - lynched D3
super_frea
SupSuper
tal05 - killed N3
yauhui - lynched D2


It is currently Day 5

[Plasma]

i Request!

Also, list of who hasn't been pronounced innocent among remaining players:

* *Splinter*
* Alien King
* bonz
* philby4000
* Pigbuster
* robowurmz
* shadowman
* super_frea
* SupSuper
* tal05

* yauhui [innocent]
* Plasma [seer]

[Alien King]

I'm up for it.

[Pigbuster]

Oh, we're playing it without revealing the true identities at death, are we?
I think that I shall join this game!!!

Oh oh, and saying that each day will end at 10pm isn't too great for a forum with people that live in various time zones.
There's a global clock at the bottom of this forum. What time on that clock will the days end?

Oh oh oh, and will we be allowing "last words", AKA making one last post after being killed for dramatic/humorous effect? We should be allowing them. :p

[tal05]

Ok, this is my first time with this sort of game but i think im on the same wave-length.

I'm in

[bonz]

There's a global clock at the bottom of this forum.
That clock is not a global one!
I have mine set to GMT+1. (GMT+2 at the moment because of daylight saving.)

How about finally bringing the Swatch Internet Time (http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/internettime.html) to a good use?
It's a decimal time where the 24h day is divided into 1000 beats.
Also, there are small Windows tools that display the time in beats on your desktop.

That said, I suggest you use some time point that is somewhere in Far East Asia or near the international date line, since most of the people here are from Europe or America.
They are then able to hop onto the forums around noon or in the evening respectively.
(Those few Aussies and Kiwis can join in the morning.)

[Pickleworm]

I don't think this will take up a huge amount of my time and could be a nice little distraction... i'll play this game.

Re: time differences.. wasn't there a version of the rules where one day is "day" and one day is "night" etc? That would be a really simple way to get this to work but would it make the game too long? I have no idea how long a game like this lasts.

[philby4000]

I'd like to play.

[MrBunsy]

Oh, we're playing it without revealing the true identities at death, are we?
I think that I shall join this game!!!

Oh oh, and saying that each day will end at 10pm isn't too great for a forum with people that live in various time zones.
There's a global clock at the bottom of this forum. What time on that clock will the days end?

Oh oh oh, and will we be allowing "last words", AKA making one last post after being killed for dramatic/humorous effect? We should be allowing them. :pYeah, alright. Last words could be a laugh. Also just remembered I forgot to say no posting at night.

I'll update all the times to GMT, then everyone will be able to work out what they are locally. Swatch time just looks confusing, bonz :p

Pickleworm: That could work, but it'd then take about 20 days for a 20 player game, which would be a bit too slow to be fun, I think.

[*Splinter*]

Oo! Oo! Pick me!

Also, what happens if the guardian angel protects a werewolf which is then chosen to be lynched?

[Plasma]

Also, what happens if the guardian angel protects a werewolf which is then chosen to be lynched?
AFAIK, the Guardian Angel only protects at night from Werewolf attacks, so... nothing.

[robowurmz]

Mmm, Lancre Blue Runny Cheese.

Yeah, I'm in.

[Plasma]

Hmm...




Why have I got a sneaking suspicion that I'm gonna be the first one lynched, regardless of whether I've been suspected of being a werewolf or not...

[super_frea]

I'm in! :cool:

[yauhui]

Doesn't sound too bad.

But I'm confused. Will everything be done via PM or post? Or whatever?

And you'll tell us our roles? And if I become Seer, can I tell anyone?

Because in the first post you said This means you must choose carefully who you trust, so I'm kinda confused.

[Plasma]

Right, that's 10 people so far, looking good!

I'm also gonna use the second post in this thread for any other info.

[yauhui]

I can't come online if I have a lot of homework, which is usually on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

I'll try to get my father's laptop and connect to a random WiFi network while doing my homework tho.

[shadowman]

I suppose I'll join in.

[*Splinter*]

Lynch Plasma

We've started right? :p

[bonz]

I forgot. Count me in!

A list of all characters and description would be nice.
After all, there are lots of different versions of the game with many additional characters and variations.

This version has some great characters:
http://www.davincigames.com/page_eng.cfm?sez=01&gioco=lit

The notary being one of those. He's a human that collects the last wills of all lynched players, where they can state a final comment, suspicion or wish.
When the notary is finally lynched, all wills are read out and may be followed. :)

I also like the Werehamster! :D

[Plasma]

A list of all characters and description would be nice.
After all, there are lots of different versions of the game with many additional characters and variations.

This version has some great characters:
http://www.davincigames.com/page_eng.cfm?sez=01&gioco=lit

The notary being one of those. He's a human that collects the last wills of all lynched players, where they can state a final comment, suspicion or wish.
When the notary is finally lynched, all wills are read out and may be followed.
That guy's gonna be singled out for lynching or eating, or be one of the last to have it done to, straight away just because of his status. I vote we keep things simple, and keep non-seer and non-angel characters to be basic folk.

Also, can the Seer be a werewolf himself?

[MrBunsy]

To clear things up a bit:

Also, what happens if the guardian angel protects a werewolf which is then chosen to be lynched?AFAIK, the Guardian Angel only protects at night from Werewolf attacks, so... nothing.
Plasma is right, the GA only chooses someone to save at night, when the wolves will also choose someone to try and kill. Lynchings are voted for during the day, and the person who is lynched is announced when the day ends.

But I'm confused. Will everything be done via PM or post? Or whatever?

And you'll tell us our roles? And if I become Seer, can I tell anyone?During the day everyone will post in this thread who they want to vote to be lynched and any suspiscions of werewolves, plans they have, etc. During the night only the special roles (GA, Seer, Werewolves) will PM me with what they want to do. At the end of the night I will PM back the Seer with their info and announce who died (if anyone) that night.

Anyone can post saying they're the Seer or the GA, so don't believe them without good reason. A good wolf trick, for example, would be to get one of them to pretend to be the seer to persuade regular humans to lynch other humans.

You can PM anyone else any time you like saying anything you want. Unless you're dead.

I'll edit my first post with a clearer list of the roles. I hope this helps.

Bonz, I was just planning to stick to a simple set of rules as this is the first one a lot of people will have played.

[SupSuper]

BOLD TEXT

I assume wolves know who every wolf is but humans only know who they are.

[Pigbuster]

Ayup.

And sometimes, the humans might not even know who they truly are, what with cursed werewolves and all.

[MrBunsy]

I was just going to keep this one simple with no hidden roles, though.

Currently there are 13 players, I'll wait another day or so to see if anyone else wants to join, then we'll get started.

[yauhui]

So am I GA?

Hope not.

EDIT: I wanna vote for Pikkul to be lynched :p

[Plasma]

EDIT: I wanna vote for Pikkul to be lynched :p
Protip: Don't ever express an interest in wanting to kill someone, as it will only cause that person to go out of his way to kill you so that your votes won't be counted anymore.
Except when you're already being sentenced to death, of course.

[MrBunsy]

Right, I think we'll get started. We've got 13 players, which is enough for a small game, and considering how many people are new to TWG, a small one might be a good thing.

I will PM everyone with their role: Human, Seer, GA or Wolf. I would advise you all to not disclose what your role is, initially. After all, it will be the wolves top priority to kill off the GA and the seer to give them a better chance of success.

Once the PMs are out, night will start (I'll announce this), I'll need PMs from the GA and the Seer as to who they want to respectively save and see. The wolves will need to collaborate and one of them PM me who they have chosen to try and kill.

If anyone still has any uncertainty about the rules or how things are going to work, please do speak up.

[MrBunsy]

Town Seventeen was once part of a large network of towns which formed the Derry Empire. The Empire fell into dissarray about a century ago, leaving the towns to fend for themselves. One by one they fell to waste, some were attacked, some starved, and there were rumours of terrible creatures living in the wastelands. Town Seventeen was forsighted enough to build defensive walls when the Empire started to collapse, shutting out from the rest of the world and hoping to survive by itself. For twenty years Town Seventeen had been entirely alone, after all, who was there left out there? About a week ago a group of travelers, road-weary and tired, arrived at the gates, begging to stay a short while to regain their strength to continue. Foolishly, the townfolk decided to let them in.

On 19th of August, 3008, the good folk of Town Seventeen went to sleep.

Night 1 has commenced! Workers of the night (GA, Seer, Wolves) I need your PMs. Day will start once I've got the PMs.

Usually during the night you don't post in this thread. For this first night, though, if anyone still has any questions please fire away.

[bonz]

What are the final numbers of werewolves and humans now?
Have I overlooked that?

13 -Seer -GA = 11* (werevolves +humans) ?
You said something about 3 to 4 werewolves in your first post.

[Pigbuster]

..ZZZZZZzzzzwaaaait a minute, one of us is going to die right off the bat?
That seems completely unneccesary. Normally the thread-starter is killed to start things offzzzZZZZZ...

ZZZZZZ

[MrBunsy]

I thought it'd spread a bit more paranoia if the exact number of werewolves wasn't known :) I've worked it out as best I can so there's as even a chance of either side winning. I've seen loads of ways of starting, I thought a real kill would be something to get the voting going. Whatever happens, some poor sod'll die straight away. Anyway, without further ado:

The folk of Town Seventeen were woken by a large scream. Someone had been taking water out of the well, only to find the severed head of Pickleworm in the bucket. After a quick burrial a town meeting was summoned and a quick inspection discovered paw prints leading to the well. The travelers had left several days ago, so who was to blame? "They must have been werewolves and infected one of us!", someone cried out. Being frightened for their lives, the villagers decided to try and lynch this new werewolf and started accusing one another.

Night 1 is over, the wolves killed Pickleworm.

Day 1 begins.

Post the name of the person you wish to see lynched in bold. If at any point you change your mind (you probably will), edit your old post so the name is no longer bold, and create a new post with your new vote.

[robowurmz]

I suspect Yauhui; Lynch Him!.

[Plasma]

Well, now that the night is over: AWESOME! I get to be the Seer!
Oh, but I'm only saying this on the basis that the Guardian Angel needs to protect me at all costs, okay? And you should PM me too, I've got some plans I need to discuss with you, and posting your identity in public would be just stupid.

Right, anyway, the prediction. I don't have anyone to suspect, so I just went with a shot in the dark.
Yauhui is.... innocent!
Ehh... I was sorta hoping for something more exciting than that.

Which also means I have nobody that I want to have lynched. I'll wait for other people to vote before deciding.


Edit: ironically, this post was made before Robowurmz posted. Funny that.

[Alien King]

I suspect Plasma.
Now lynch him.

[bonz]

Plasma! Lynch him!

That trick is too obvious.

[Plasma]

I suspect Plasma.
Now lynch him.Plasma! Lynch him!

That trick is too obvious.
With friends like these, who needs werewolves...

[Alien King]

posting your identity in public would be just stupid

I doubt the real seer would actually announce themselves. Although I can think of several reasons why someone else (particularly a werewolf) would pretend to be the seer.

I expect I'll be killed in the night now, after making a statement like that.

[Plasma]

I doubt the real seer would actually announce themselves. Although I can think of several reasons why someone else (particularly a werewolf) would pretend to be the seer.
If you have a better idea of how I should've let people know whose innocent and who isn't, I'd like to hear it. I'm safe to announce myself because I should be immune from Wolf attacks due to the Guardian Angel's work.

[Alien King]

Wait a while. If I was the seer, I wouldn't have announced it so openly.
By announcing yourself, you run a higher risk of attracting the werewolves attention and therefore, depend greatly on the belief (and existence) of the guardian.
If you are the seer, then that's one hell of a risk. Of course, you have nothing to lose by doing this as a werewolf and hence, my suspicion (and that of Bonz).

[philby4000]

I'm the seer and so's my wife.

I'm going with with lynch plasma.

Because even if you are the true seer, not only is announcing it to a bunch of suspicious villagers stupid, but trying to cut a deal with the GA is entirely against the idea of the game.

[super_frea]

I have a lot of homework, which is usually on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Lynch Yauhui, for having homework on Tuesdays and Wednesdays :cool:

[yauhui]

Lynch super_frea, for voting to lynch me based on the understanding that I have homework on two given days, which is totally inconsiderate and hilarious at the same time.

EDIT: If you were wondering why I decided not to vote for the lynching of Plasma, look below. I feel grateful :D

Yauhui is.... innocent!

Plasma is.... correct!

No, seriously.

We can reveal our roles..... right?

I, Yauhui, hereby reveal myself to be a human, based on a given series of dialogues from Plasma and MrBunsy.

[MrBunsy]

We can reveal our roles..... right?So long as you don't quote/use/forward my PM with your role, you can claim what you like.

I'm not going to confirm or deny anything anyone says.

[robowurmz]

He's a werewolf, I'm sure of it.

[Alien King]

He's a werewolf, I'm sure of it.

Who is?

[SupSuper]

Lynch Plasma, for singlehandedly becoming a prime target for both humans and wolves in his first post. Well done.

[tal05]

LYNCH PLASMA before i lynch you ! :mad:

[Plasma]

LYNCH PLASMA before i lynch you ! :mad:
"You"? Who are you talking to?

[Alien King]

Quick quesiton:

When someone is killed, are we notified of their alignment or any role they had?

[MrBunsy]

Quick quesiton:

When someone is killed, are we notified of their alignment or any role they had?

Nope :D

There are variations where that happens, but you get so much more paranoia this way.

[Alien King]

Nope :D

Pah, we need a role where someone knows the role of the deceased.

[MrBunsy]

If this is a success, we could try that next time.

[bonz]

If this is a success, we could try that next time.
Yay!
Have a look at that davincigames version (http://www.davincigames.com/page_eng.cfm?sez=01&gioco=lit).
Check the manual, the expansions and variants!

[Pigbuster]

Sorry Plasma, but in the last game I took part in, a werewolf tried to pull off the "I'm a seer!" lie.
Maybe you're telling the truth, but I'm going to be on the safe side here.

[shadowman]

Lynch yauhui.

Of course since plasma's been favoured amongst you all, it seems slightly useless to count in any vote.

[*Splinter*]

Lynch Plasma. Nothing to do with his post or whatever. He's just Plasma :p (double bolded for double lynching? :p)

Also Bunsy, can you make sure you Bold all important bits. Im sure some will be too lazy to read through everything and you didnt Bold Pickle at any point.

[Paul.Power]

Plasma 7
yauhui 3
super_frea 1

One vote not counted, and that's Plasma's.

(Spectating is fun! :p)

[Plasma]

Right, I vote we lynch Paul.




Yes, yes, I know...

[Paul.Power]

Right, I vote we lynch Paul.




Yes, yes, I know...

Nice try, but I've already left the village

(twilight zone music)

[Pickleworm]

The panicking villagers lift the remains of Pickleworm's severed head out of the well bucket, and, shockingly, the eyes spring open and the mouth disgustingly speaks a few gurgled words....

"yeah I think I need to be nicer to people in OO from now on. i guess i've kind of been a jerk recently and all that. i blame stress. sorry radical dudes"

The scared villagers cast the cursed head back down into the well and head to the mead hall to calm their shattered nerves...

[Paul.Power]

Somewhat tasteless, but impossible to resist:

31700

[*Splinter*]

Awesome :cool:

[MrBunsy]

Heh. Sorry you died before anything happened, pickle, if we ever do this again I think I'll take pigbuster's advice and start with a day.

Also Bunsy, can you make sure you Bold all important bits. Im sure some will be too lazy to read through everything and you didnt Bold Pickle at any point.
Will do.
Plasma 7
yauhui 3
super_frea 1

One vote not counted, and that's Plasma's.

(Spectating is fun! :p)I've made a nice spreadsheet which jots up all the vote totals for me :)

Also, about editing posts, although it's hard to enforce can I ask that you only edit your posts to de-bold old votes. Otherwise important information could be lost, and you'll be labelled a cheat :p


Technically we're waiting for Plasma to vote, not that it'll make much difference.

[Paul.Power]

Technically we're waiting for Plasma to vote, not that it'll make much difference.He voted for me :p

[MrBunsy]

Pff :p

Nothing is likely to happen in the next three quarters of an hour, so:

Soon after the accusations started Plasma made a startling declaration that he was in fact a Seer, and wanted the protection of the Guardian Angel. The townsfolk would have nothing of this and almost unanimously decided to lynch him.

Day 1 is over. Plasma has been lynched.

Night 2 has started. PMs please!

[*Splinter*]

Plasma has been lynched

Awesome :cool:
Oh wait, its just the werewolf game, nevermind

[Plasma]

"Aw geez, well I knew it wouldn't be long before I got myself killed, although I expected it to be because the Guardian Angel sucked at doing his job before I got lynched. Well, with my last few breaths... hang on, I gotta find my speech... err... hm...... someone call the gods and tell them I might be a while with my dieing... ah, here we go! *ahem*. 'Congrats on killing off your Seer on the first day. I suspect that you're going to kill yourselves off faster than the beasts can! Also, Splinter's a right git, just so you know; I propose you lynch him for the fun of it. Close eyes and die'.

Oh wait, I wasn't supposed to read that last part..."

[*Splinter*]

"Aw geez, well I knew it wouldn't be long before I got myself killed, although I expected it to be because the Guardian Angel sucked at doing his job before I got lynched. Well, with my last few breaths... hang on, I gotta find my speech... err... hm...... someone call the gods and tell them I might be a while with my dieing... ah, here we go! *ahem*. 'Congrats on killing off your Seer on the first day. I suspect that you're going to kill yourselves off faster than the beasts can! Also, Splinter's a right git, just so you know; I propose you lynch him for the fun of it. Close eyes and die'.

Oh wait, I wasn't supposed to read that last part..."

*is famous*

[MrBunsy]

After a rather uneasy night's sleep, the villagers woke up. No screams, nothing found, perhaps Plasma had been the only werewolf? Perhaps the village was safe again? Then someone spotted a shoe in a patch of mud. On attempting to pick up this shoe, they discovered it was in fact still attached to a foot, which was still attached to a leg, which was buried in the ground. Still werewolves, then. The body was dug up and identified to have been Robowurmz.

Night 2 is over. Robowurmz is dead.

Day 2 has begun; vote away!

[*Splinter*]

I dont suppose you could list who is left could you? :p

[philby4000]

If we're going along with the idea that Plasma was a wolf, then surely our mob rage must turn to yahuli the man he sought to protect?

Or alternatively Plasma wasn't a wolf and was just dumb enough to make himself at target, and therefore yahuhi is the only person we know for sure isn't a wolf. Oh and we've lost our seer.

So the crutial question is just how stupid was plasma?

ah screw it, lynch yahui.

[Alien King]

After a rather uneasy night's sleep, the villagers woke up

Damn, that was one of the shortest night's sleep I've ever had.


So the crutial question is just how stupid was plasma?

An interesting way of looking at it.

[bonz]

I dont suppose you could list who is left could you? :p
Check the first post!
Deceased persons have faded away, i.e. are not typed in bold anymore.

[SupSuper]

Lynch philby

He seems to be going to an awful lot to seem human.

[bonz]

Lynch Yauhui!

He seemed to be conspiring with Plasma right from the start.
Also, nominating super_frea for lynching just because he got nominated by him seems a little odd.

[Pigbuster]

You know, Plasma said that he was the seer on the first day, but... so did Philby.

I'm the seer and so's my wife.

Perhaps he was merely joking, but I hardly think that now is the time to be joking around. Three of our fellow villagers are dead, for christ's sake!
Not only that, but he insulted the intelligence of the just-executed Plasma. Only a werewolf could be so jaded and/or unpleasant! :mad:

[Alien King]

Lynch Yauhui.

He has a shifty look, he cannot be trusted!

[*Splinter*]

Yeah sure, whatever, Lynch Yahuuiihiahi

[robowurmz]

Whoa, I died.

Hey! I hope they didn't KEEP my shoes. I also find it suspicious that I died after I started the lynch yauhui thing.

[MrBunsy]

I also find it suspicious that I died after I started the lynch yauhui thing.

No plotting from the grave, now :p

[Alien King]

Hey! I hope they didn't KEEP my shoes.

No, they don't meet the common man's standards.

[super_frea]

Lynch Yauhui
Yes I'm going with the crowd but he seems evil and shifty. Also he tried to lynch me! EVIL BUGGER!

[philby4000]

You know, Plasma said that he was the seer on the first day, but... so did Philby.

Perhaps he was merely joking, but I hardly think that now is the time to be joking around. Three of our fellow villagers are dead, for christ's sake!
Not only that, but he insulted the intelligence of the just-executed Plasma. Only a werewolf could be so jaded and/or unpleasant! :mad:
Why shouldn't we use humour in serious situations? Isn't that what it's there for?

And why do you seek to protect the honour of a man you helped to murder?

It's almost as if you're not one of us.:-/

[tal05]

Lynch Yauhui before i lynch Yaaouuuu!:mad:

[Plasma]

before i lynch Yaaouuuu!:mad:
Why does he keep saying that?!

Anyway, Yauhui is auto-lynched already as the majority of townsfolk voted him off the island. I mean existance; unless people change their votes, that is. In either case, Shadowman still has to vote or his votes will go to half of their regular value.




And Yauhui himself still has to vote too. Not that there's a point on doing that though.

[Alien King]

Why does he keep saying that?!

Oi! Corpses can't talk!
Well, not usually.

[Plasma]

Oi! Corpses can't talk!
Well, not usually.
Part of the Seer contract is that I still get bugged by annoying basts in the afterlife. I'm not gonna take that quietly, regardless of how dead I am!


Also, Paul... is that Foobos at the edge of your pic?

[MrBunsy]

You're getting a little bit too involved for someone who's meant to be dead :p

[*Splinter*]

Part of the Seer contract is that I still get bugged by annoying basts in the afterlife. I'm not gonna take that quietly, regardless of how dead I am!


Also, Paul... is that Foobos at the edge of your pic?

No, its me :p

[MrBunsy]

Only a few more hours, and according to my spreadsheet 3 people have yet to vote.

Edit: Make that 2, I'd missed a vote.

[MrBunsy]

Another day of accusations had passed and yauhui was singled out as the most likely to be a wolf. The villagers decided that being buried alive was an appropriate fate, thus they lynched and disposed of yauhui in one go.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, neither yauhui or shadowman voted today. It doesn't make much difference to yauhui, but shadownman will now have a phantom vote against him.

Day 2 is over! yauhui has been lynched.

Night 3 begins. PMs please :)

[bonz]

No, its me :p
What? You are the seer?
Kill him!

[shadowman]

Oh, I forgot to vote for ze lynching.

:(

[MrBunsy]

It was a while before anyone worked up the courage to venture outside this morning. When they did, it wasn't pleasant. Parts of tal05 had been left on everyone's doorstep, someone had a hand, someone else had a foot. It was quite a while before they managed to collect him up and bury him. After a dilapidated breakfast, the (rather fewer, now, it has to be said) villagers resumed accusing one another as responsible.

Night 3 is over, tal05 is dead!

Day 3 begins. There are now only 8 of you still alive.

[*Splinter*]

What? You are the seer?
Kill him!

I meant I was on the edge of the pic, probably should have deleted the beginning of that quote :p

[yauhui]

Ahaha. I've been lynched.

Well, according to the first post, I can post my last words but I cannot reveal any info.

So, I'm not, I'm just saying some random stuff.

I don't know if you guys haven't noticed, but me and Plasma have been in the middle of lynching attention ever since Plasma claimed to be a Seer, and that he claimed that I'm human (well, yeah. I guess thats true - I cant confirm because that would be revealing the truth.) and if my hypothesis is correct, most of those who voted for Plasma to be lynched after he claimed that he is a Seer are wolves, since logically you would want to eliminate anyone you are sure will blow your cover if you're bad, right?

Okay, I leave the rest of the planning and thinking to you guys, just make sure you vote for the lynching of someone reasonably this time, instead of just going with the flow.

If.. IF.. Plasma is a true Seer, and I am a true human, then you humans just lost 2 people on your side. Good luck fighting the wolves.

[robowurmz]

*ghostly voice*
OooOOoooOOOHhh...I amm the ghooost of Rooobooowurrrmzzz...

Sellll my shoooooess on eeeBaaaaayyy...

[*Splinter*]

Can we lynch yahui again? Turns out he's a condescending *****

[robowurmz]

Can we lynch yahui again? Turns out he's a condescending *****

I suppose you could dig up his corpse and stab it repeatedly if it makes you feel better.

[Plasma]

Yauhui, I love the way you wrote that as if you weren't sure whether you were a human yourself or not. "Yeah, I guess Bunsy did say I'm a human at the start of the game, but now I'm not too sure myself. I could just be faking it, after all."
then you humans just lost 2 people on your side. Good luck fighting the wolves.
Five people, assuming that the wolves didn't do something stupid like eat themselves.

Anyway, it's still voting time, so get to it. And think over it more this time: you've only got four days left to lynch all the werewolves!

[MrBunsy]

Shooo dead people :p

Is no-one alive planning to vote today?

[philby4000]

sinful undead ramblings
See? He is dead yet still he haunts us! Surely there should be no doubt as to his lychanthrope nature!
Is no-one alive planning to vote today?
It looks to me as if we're all waiting for someone else to speak up.

[bonz]

Lynch Shadowman!

Forgetting to vote seems suspicious.

[SupSuper]

Shadowman for not talking like the rest of us!

[*Splinter*]

Shadowman because conformity is <3

[philby4000]

shadowman it is then.

[Alien King]

Aye, Shadowman it is.

[super_frea]

Lynch Shadowman!


HAULT THIS COULD BE AN EVIL WOLF TRICK!

I vote we lynch bonz! He seemly relied on the fact that people in this thread enjoy jumping on bandwagons. Or maybe I'm just thinking about this too much :-/

Edit: It's a bit late for this now though really...

[MrBunsy]

Few minutes left, still a few votes to go.

[MrBunsy]

Well, that was rather an odd day.

It was remarkably quiet in the village today, until the afternoon when nearly everyone agreed, quite out of the blue, to lynch shadowman.

Day 3 is over, shadowman has been lynched.

Night 4 commences! PMs please.

[shadowman]

Way to kill the one with a busy schedule.

My last words are as follows:

Indeed, my companions have betrayed me. All these hours plowing the fields and caring for the chickens have taken time from my voting duties. It appears you should've gone with your second thoughts, because I'm sure the first few to vote for me were indeed the werewolves saving their own skins.

Also, ktkxbye. I'm dead now.

ooo, spooky.

[MrBunsy]

The same thought ran through every villager's mind; "Surely all the werewolves have been lynched by now?" before they went to bed. Alas, they were all awakened by the screaming of philby4000. Everyone rushed to his house, but they were too late. There were bits of him spread all over his room - not a pretty site. It would seem the werewolves are becoming un-imaginative.

Night 4 is over. philby4000 has been slain.

Day 4 begins. There are only 6 of you left; vote wisely.

[*Splinter*]

Lets lynch MrBunsy for being the bearer of bad news... EVERY DAY. Suspicious, no :p

[MrBunsy]

Oh dear *Splinter* just fell down a deep well, and died before anyone heard his vote :p

[philby4000]

Although phillby was in no fit condition to deliver his last words, what with his lips being a full yard from his teeth, the villagers did find a hastilly scrawled note hidden in his walet.

It read: " If only I had more time."

Also found in the trashed room were hundreds of candles, some twisted sheets of metal and some shredded blueprints for something called a 'Night-Be-Gone 15000 candle floodlamp'.

[*Splinter*]

Does that make you our Guardian Angel or just a nutty proffessor?

[bonz]

blueprints for something called a 'Night-Be-Gone 15000 candle floodlamp'.
That makes me think.
Shouldn't humans turn into werewolves every full moon, i.e. every 28 days?
This must be a special kind of werewolves...

[SupSuper]

Lynch Super_Frea before people forget to vote. Again. Always. Ever.

[shadowman]

They're from the future.

[*Splinter*]

Lynch Supsuper because he implied I had forgotten to vote :rolleyes:

[bonz]

Lynch Supsuper because he implied I had forgotten to vote :rolleyes:
Hah!
You just want to protect your werewolf buddy Super_Frea and want to use SupSuper as a scapegoat!
Shame on you!

Also, lynch Splinter.

[Pigbuster]

I think Splintr is taking the whole situation too lightly. :mad:

Also, let's burn Plasma's corpse so it'll stop talking. It's freaking me out.

[Alien King]

1. Kill Splinter

2. I agree on the corpse burning statement.

[MrBunsy]

It was another quiet day, initially. Again, however, in the afternoon a nearly unanimous decision was reached: Splinter would be lynched. Before he could even try to defend him the villagers had dragged him into a pit, thrown in the body of Plasma to keep him company and set them both alight.

Day 4 is over, *Splinter* has been lynched.

It is now night 5. Yet again, PMs please, it's not over yet :)

[*Splinter*]

Bawls :(

[MrBunsy]

It's midnight and all the PMs are in, so I might as well start the next day:

The villagers, or at least the few villagers that were still alive, woke up after a remarkably short night's sleep. The villagers emerged from their houses, albeit rather reluctantly today. They spotted Alien King standing alone by the well. Maybe he had just got up even earlier than us, the villagers wondered? Alas, no, on a closer look he was being held up by a rather large spike, most definitely not alive.

Night 5 is over! Alien King was killed.

Day 6 starts now. There are only 4 of you left, so vote very wisely.

[SupSuper]

Lynch super_frea for SPECIFY REASON HERE.

[Alien King]

Investigation by the remaining villagers of the recently deceased's hut, revealed the following:

1. A blood stained wall, in which someone had made an attemt at writing on, but all that could be read were the words: 'It was'. The rest was a mess, evidently AK had been bleeding too much to write with blood.

2. A piece of folded paper on a desk. One of the villagers opened it and read:

I write this last missive in the event that I am the target of the wolves tonight.
I remain content in death by knowing that in life, I helped in the destruction of the werewolves. My work is done, the wolves accomplish nothing in my death.

My friends, you know what must be done: kill the wolf.


PS: Please do not throw whatever remains of my body into that pit. Burn it and place the ashes in the rather ornate urn beside my bed. Then bury it somewhere.

PSS: I also condemn my murderer to Hell, etc etc...

[Pigbuster]

Alien King has been contacting me. He was the seer.
He saw I, SupSuper and Bonz as humans, and just before his unfortunate death last night, he saw Super_Frea as a werewolf. SupSuper and Bonz can back me up on this.

So... I think it's safe to say that I'm voting for Super_Frea. Kill him!

[bonz]

Lynch Super_frea!

[super_frea]

Sh*t...
:mad:

[MrBunsy]

Votes clearly aren't going to change, so I'm ending the day :)

The few remaining villagers managed to agree on who to lynch with remarkable speed, today. They accused super_frea of being a werewolf, and he openly admitted it. So, without wasting any more time, the lynched him too and the village was safe once again.

Humans win! Well done you surviving three!

I hope you all enjoyed playing, if you've got any ideas as to what could have been done better, please post. It was quite clear that a lot of people hadn't played this before, but to get down to own 3 survivors means it must have still been pretty balanced.

Here were the roles:


Splinter Human
Alien King Seer
bonz Human
philby4000 Human
Pickleworm Human
Pigbuster Human
Plasma Wolf
robowurmz Human
shadowman Wolf
super_frea Wolf
SupSuper GA
tal05 Human
yauhui Human


Night 1:
Seer - Bonz
GA - SupSuper (himself)

Night 2:
Seer - Philby.
GA - yauhui.

Night 3:
Seer - Supsuper
GA - SupSuper (himself)

Night 4
Seer - Pigbuster
GA - SupSuper (himself)

night 5
Seer - super_frea
GA - pigbuster

SupSuper had an interesting habit of protecting himself most of the time, and if super_frea hadn't changed his mind at the last moment, he would have actually made a save.

I made a few notes to myself whilst the game was running, which I'll share on the off chance that you're interested.

There is only a 56/165 chance that, voting randomly, the humans won't lynch a werewolf by Day3 (vital point - only 7 players left)

(D1) I should have started with a day, pigbuster was right - that way everyone will get to play at least one day.

(D1) Plasma's trick - whilst that tactic can work sometimes, it was used far too early to be anything but a wolf ploy.

(D2) The wolves idea on night 2 actually worked! By killing robowurmz, they got everyone to vote for yauhui.

(N3) I want to know if AK's been doing some PMing behind the scenes, or he was just very flukey with finding the GA.

(D3) The wolves could have saved shadowman if they'd got their act together - too late now
(D3) somehow, every single person AK has seen is still alive, this means potentially there is a network of 4 humans - half the population and more than enough to win the game now. Maybe only 3 wolves wasn't enough!

(D4) Humans are blatantly going to win - 4 of them know who each other are. They've got a 50% chance of lynching the right other person, and if they fail, then they'll get it right tommorow.

(D5)Just realised I should really have waited till the morning before sending PMs back to the Seer - that way he can't get the GA to change their mind or anything.

Notes to anyone running TWG in the future:

Start on a day
Send reply PMs at same time as ending the night
Spreadsheets are awesome - here's mine (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pe6rNa8dsGS_0aDtAgR6Eaw&gid=0)
New or changed special role ideas: Pathologist (tell what person who died was), Nutty professor - (giant lamp, ability to skip a night by publicly revealing role).


Thank you all for playing! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

[Paul.Power]

SupSuper had an interesting habit of protecting himself most of the time

In a way it's only logical. Who's the one person that you're 100% certain is not a werewolf?

Anyway, well played guys.

[bonz]

In a way it's only logical. Who's the one person that you're 100% certain is not a werewolf?
True, but it's not wise.
At some point if you always protect yourself, you won't have any humans left that won't lynch you during the day.

Anyway, with the advantage of PMs in this version of the game, it's actually much easier for the humans.
In the real table version, humans can hardly do any networking during the day, since the werewolves are among them, while the werewolves can still do some networking during the night with blinking or other silent gestures.

[Plasma]

Hm. While I'm glad, and sort of surprised, that people fell for the drag-an-innocent-down-with-me trick, it's a shame that I said SuperFreak shouldn't go with his initial vote for Alien King on N2, as I was hoping that people would later start thinking that I was a human and lynch him for being so vocal about getting at me.
Also, Bunsy, I thought that the Guardian Angel wasn't suppose to be able to protect themselves...



Anyway, I sign up for the next round!

[robowurmz]

I want to go the next round too!

[Paul.Power]

I think I'll join in

[MrBunsy]

Do you want another round right away, or in a week or so?

Also, Bunsy, I thought that the Guardian Angel wasn't suppose to be able to protect themselves...Nah, it's more than allowed, and can be quite useful. The GA is a very powerful role, so sometimes needs to keep himself alive. I just hadn't expected it to happen all the time, but I suppose given the unprediticableness of most of the wolf kills, it made sense.

[*Splinter*]

Me too! And please god vote NO for a nutty proffessor and pathologist, cant you just reveal roles when they die? Otherwise its a complete random guessing game until the end...

And how come I missed out on all this 'smarvelous human networking! :p


EDIT: Yeah right away, that was real short

[bonz]

I'm in again too.
Let's wait a bit longer until we have some more people this time though.

Also, let's put in a few new roles.
I'm thinking of the notary, the werehamster and the mythomaniac from the davincigames edition.

The captain variant is a nice addition. It's an additional role that gives you a second vote.
When you die, you appoint a new captain.

We could also play with the ghost variant, where dead people can still take part in the daytime lynch nominations, but don't have an actual vote.

BTW, the commonly used procedure is to lynch the game master on the first day. :)

[MrBunsy]

BTW, the commonly used procedure is to lynch the game master on the first day. :)
Doesn't that mean any of the players could potentially become the game master?

Considering how enthusiastic everyone seems, we might as well start a new one. I'll knock up a new thread (otherwise it could become a bit unruly to manage) and leave the signups open for a while.

[Plasma]

We could also play with the ghost variant, where dead people can still take part in the daytime lynch nominations, but don't have an actual vote.
Seconded !

[Alien King]

In a way it's only logical. Who's the one person that you're 100% certain is not a werewolf?

I'd hoped he would protect me, as his reason for trusting me was better than the other people I was contacting: I identified him to be the GA, which only the seer could do.


Doesn't that mean any of the players could potentially become the game master?

No, it's just a way of skipping the first night so everyone gets a chance to play. The gamemaster isn't actually killed.


I like the idea of someone who knows the identitiy of the recently deceased, but he needs a better name. Call him the Psychic or Necromancer... or something.



I was sending quite a few PMs, but only to people I'd already identified. Philby's trust in me was a little thin (understandably) and probably worsened with his death at the hands of the wolves. My death was probably the only thing that could gain solid trust from anyone.

[yauhui]

I'm in for round 2!

Let's just hope I'm not a wolf.

And plasma dont you try to pull me into being lynched if you become wolf again >:-(

[Alien King]

The way I see it, unless the wolves get a serious buff, it's very unlikely they're going to win.
Especially if we throw in a role that can identify the dead.

Oh, I'm up for the next game

[MrBunsy]

Rightiho. In order to stop things getting too confusing, I've started the next round in a new thread (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36787).

[Pickleworm]

Yeah, I'll play again too

[MrBunsy]

new thread (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36787).
*pokepoke* :p

[SupSuper]

True, but it's not wise.
At some point if you always protect yourself, you won't have any humans left that won't lynch you during the day.Well I didn't expect to have that option, and it's not like anyone else suggested having their asses saved. :p

I still tried saving yauhui once I figured out the plot but I don't save from lynching.

[*Splinter*]

Well I didn't expect to have that option, and it's not like anyone else suggested having their asses saved. :p

I still tried saving yauhui once I figured out the plot but I don't save from lynching.

If the wolves were using us to lynch yauhui, they werent likely to then maul him themselves

[Pigbuster]

Well, that was quick. :p
Good one, though.