10-02-2005, 01:48 PM
Rules:
PLOT
It was a dark night. Black clouds obscured the sky as each tear of the heavens flew down, smashing into the ground. The path was caked with thick mud, and the foliage on the side of the trail was beginning to loose its grip in the ground from the force of the rain. A crack of lightning flashed through the sky, and a roar of thunder quickly followed.
Along the path, a figure draped in a black cloth ran through the mud, his boots making s slurping sound with each step. He ran like this for several hours through the hail of rain, until he stopped for a moment. Directly in front of him was a spectacular palace-like mansion, which did not seem to be affected by the rain at all. To the side was a balcony with a faint candlelight emanating from behind a curtain, looking directly above a small graveyard, each stone draped in water. The man continued to run forward until he came to the door. He lifted the ornate knocker to request the door to open, however, the opposite door creaked open, a larger light radiating into the dead blackness. He took a few steps inside.
As the figure stepped into the house, he looked upon a massive hall. The corridor had a candle along each wall every foot or so, with a massive chandelier hanging from the ceiling. Gold and silver ornamented what seemed to be every wall, with the actual floor of the path made of the most refined bronze the man had ever seen. Huddled in the center of the room, there was a group of what seemed to be thirty-five people staring directly at him. They did not move from their positions as the man continued to walk forward.
"I suppose you came in to get away from the rain too?" the man said as he took off his cloak. He was wearing what seemed to be cloth armor, with iron plates covering his shoulders and knees. the breastplate he wore was decorated in fine silver, with gold lines spinning throughout the metal. On his back, he carried two identical swords- each was approximately three feet long, with the handle bound in leather and the hilt made of an iron-like material. The blade was made of the brightest steel any of the people have ever seen, coming straight up to the edge of the blade. On those edges, the metal protruded out into two identical guillotine-like barbs, with a small blue jewel embedded in between each of these.
"Th... th... the Lethe..." one of the people stuttered from the crowd.
Another person came directly up to the man standing there. He extended a hand, which he implied to shake. The man shook his hands, as the person began to talk.
"Yes, Scalibur... I've heard of you. Your reputation extends far around, even to here," he said as Scalibur recounted the memories of decimating the evil that plagued Europe long ago. The image of that sword... the eye... burned at his memory.
With this, Scalibur nodded slightly as he recognized something wrong with the emanating aura of the house. He stood back slightly as the doors slammed shut behind him.
"Allow me to explain... we were all trapped in here by the rainstorm. However, not two hours ago, all of the candles flared up, and something felt wrong... I think some of us may have been infected with great malice. I think they may try to kill us all," he said.
"Okay,", said Scalibur. "I think I may be able to help you..." he said as a small black rabbit jumped straight up and landed on his shoulder.
"This is my pet, Nevermore", he said as he stood there serenely. "This rabbit is almost undefeatable... not too many have survived it's wrath. I suppose exposing it to that metal fragment helps with that. He will be performing a simple service for you- every day, everyone shall vote. At the end of the day, my pet will kill whoever has the most votes. If no one has that honor, I suppose it will be up to him," he said clearly. Everyone in the room nodded.
"Now, if you'll excuse me," Scalibur finished, "I have some paperwork to do, I'll be back later." Scalibur and the rabbit walked past the hallway, off to the closest library he could find.
You are free to post now.
5: Benladesh
9: Forte
26: mike411 - Sliced in half Night 3 - Old Man - Resurrected Day 7
2: 92% - Executed Day 1- Plain Innocent
25: mddrinker - Suicided Day 2 - Plain Innocent
21: jakachuy - Executed Day 2 - Raven
6: Blk Mage - Burned to death Day 2 - Plain Innocent
23: jlt1990 - Sliced in half Night 2 - Raven
12: Kugetsu - Sacrificed self Day 3 - Plain Innocent
30: senor_skunk - Executed Day 3 - Plain Innocent
19: graphitesmoothie - Pierced by Ravens Night 3 - Plain Innocent
35: xelo_11 - Executed Day 4 - Mad Policeman
8: Degatimra - Burned to death Day 4 - Mad Policeman
16: chicken - Tortured Night 4 - Plain Innocent
17: chocolatecannon - Pierced by Ravens Night 4 - Plain Innocent
1: 1d31l - Burned to death Day 5 - Plain Innocent
33: the_dog_god - Tortured Night 5 - Plain Innocent
34: watericesage - Sliced in half Night 5 - Plain Innocent
3: Armi - Pierced by Ravens Night 5 - Bellmaiden of Silver
20: gugsew - Deafened by the cry of the Bells Day 6 - Mad Policeman
11: Krycsm - Suicided with Lover's Death Day 6 - Plain Innocent
24: lord_owlstar - Executed Day 6 - Mad Policeman
31: sexysilver - Crushed by the Iron Bell Day 7 - Raven
14: Poogley Boogley - Tortured Night 7 - Plain Innocent
13: Mirumoto Meta - Sliced in half Night 7 - Prince Prospero, named heir to the Ravens
15: auraelias - Pierced by Ravens Night 7 - Mad Policeman
29: ryguy - Executed Day 8 - Bellmaiden of Bronze
22: jetman6475 - Burned to death Day 8 - Bellmaiden of Gold
27: o_0 - Pierced by Ravens Night 8 - Plain Innocent
18: garfield22222 - Tortured Night 8 - Bellmaiden of Iron
10: Kirby-oh - Crushed by the walls Day 9 - Raven
4: Asynchrony - Executed Day 5 - Lady Madeline, Keeper of the House of Usher - Resurrected Night 5 - Pierced by Ravens Night 9
28: revival_of_wiz_kid - Executed Day 3 - Lenore, Dreamer of Ravens{REZBANNED}
7: Bunnylover - Bludgeoned with a metal trowel Day 2 - Resurrected Day 3 - Pierced by Ravens Day 7{REZBANNED}
32: technocactus - Tortured in the Crypt Day 1 - Raving Lunatic {REZBANNED}
NOTE: I'm tracking all the roles. If you have not read yours by tomorrow by 8:30 PM NDT, I reserve the right to either Modkill or replace you in the game.
Quote:<!--SPOILER BEGIN--><div onClick="openClose('60f4f30e0f7ae78c4b8ca94794ab042f')" style="font-weight: bold;cursor:hand">Click For Spoiler</div><div id="60f4f30e0f7ae78c4b8ca94794ab042f" style="display:none"><!--SPOILER END-->[b]About the game
WereRaven is an RPG, role playing game, in which each player has a specific role and is responsible for cooperating with his/her teammates in order to help his/her section win. The game is generally pitted with baddies versus innocents, where there may be more than one baddy team. The last player standing's team is declared the winner, while all other teams receive placement ranking relative to when their last player was eliminated.
The game is split into two parts: A night, and a day. During day, the majority of events occur. Discussions, voting, and day-powers are executed. At the end of the day, the innocents vote to execute one member in a Survivor-esque process. Voting will be discussed later. After day, night ensues, where a variety of events occur.
Roles:
Roles are given out when the game begins, and are in effect immediately. An individual will receive either a role for the innocents or against the innocents (for one of many teams), and often this role is paired with a specific description--often which enables that individual certain privileges that helps his/her respective side end as victorious.
Roles are malleable. They may change, and often do. The conditions under which they change are not discussed here, but may be visible during game play. Roles of an individual are allowed by discussed, but there is a very fine line between the role and a secret power (to be discussed later).
Roles group individuals into teams, and it is forbidden to explicitly state any of your team members unless written approval is received from every team member one day in advance (24 hours). Failure to abide by this rule will result in immediate expulsion from all following games led by this MC (Master of Ceremonies).
Secret Powers:
Roles are often paired with Secret Powers: distinct privileges given to individuals which enable them to engage in certain activities throughout the game.
It is essential to maintain that these secret powers MAY NOT BE DISCUSSED. Although roles are allowed to be publicly discussed, secret powers are to be remained in secret. This includes any powers that have or have not been used. You may allude to what secret power you have, but MAY NOT refer to it directly.
Example: If you have a secret power which allows for a day kill, you may claim authority for the death after it happens, but you may not say that "He died because I had the secret power to day kill." This rule is very difficult to understand, so PM me if at all you are questioning whether your actions will bypass it.
Furthermore, you are not to discuss artificial secret powers. This is a game of deceit, lies, and trickery, but secret powers are to be remained independent of this. In other words, don't even mention secret powers because it may cost you're activity in the game. There are powers that are associated with a role directly that do not classify as secret powers (this will be explicit in the PM's that I send out), in which case those role-powers may be discussed. Often, what differentiates secret powers and role powers is the fact that secret powers can only be used a limited amount of times.
How to play:
The game itself is rather straightforward. There will be a day and a night. Day will begin at 9:00 pm NDT and end at 8:30 pm NDT. At that point, the innocents will execute their choice, and night will begin--which will ensue between 9 and 8:30 pm NDT. The MC reserves the right to modify the times of day and night, so be attentive in the game thread in case my schedule cannot cooperate with those times.
During both day and night, discussions are allowed in the game topic. Voting for innocent executions may only happen during the day. Any votes placed at night will be discounted, and you'll need to revote during the day.
Voting ensues as follows: There is a maximum of two innocent-elected executions per day. In order to execute, you must vote in the following fashion:
Vote: (Insert player's name)
OR
Vote: Nobody
in case you would like to vote for nobody. The former of these options can be done twice--but unless special circumstances are in effect, they must be done for different people (one for each potential execution).
To unvote:
Unvote: (Insert player's name).
In order to execute one individual, a simply majority (50% + 1) must be in effect. For the second execution, a 75% majority must be established. Upon either of these two benchmarks, voting will be "locked" on the individual, wherein unvoting will be disabled for that individual unless there are more than one simple majority candidates (where one does not qualify for the 75%). Therefore, if a simple majority of people lock a vote on Nobody, you must receive a 75% vote to execute one person. Once you pass the 51% benchmark with that individual, then unvoting for him/her will not be an option.
A number of events will happen during both day and night, none of which will I delineate here. I will say this much: If you have a role which requires you to submit a list, that list must be submitted by 9 NDT. Any lists sent after that time will be discredited, and action will be determined based upon my discretion. Most of the time, I will delineate what happens if you don't submit in your PM (if this applies to you).
If you die at any point in the game, you will move down to the groupies thread. You may no longer post in the game thread unless you are resurrected, and you may not post in the groupies thread unless you are dead.
The Dead:
When you die, you are not allowed to divulge anything that was not divulged during the game. You may however be resurrected, and so may persuade people to resurrect you so that you may divulge what you know when you are alive.
This game will be the first game on IDB to feature Resurrection Bans. This means that in this game, there will be a power or powers that will prevent the resurrector from bringing a certain person back. Please be aware of this, I don’t want complaining that you’ve been banned from coming back. You are still free to post in Groupies, however, yet your votes to not count for Lynches (See below)
Lynching is a concept that I’ve seen put in use before in NPM’s games and I have grown very fond of it. Bluntly, Lynching is where the dead vote to themselves in order to kill one of the living players. There are very specific instructions:
1.) In order to lynch, bold this:
Lynch: xxxxx
In order to Lynch, all dead players must have a 66% majority between them. Lynches overlap most types of protections.
You may NOT lynch if the number of living players is greater than 23, and no less than 9. Groupies may only lynch once- if it is somehow stopped, this ability is gone. If a majority cannot be met by the end of day, lynch votes are erased and you may attempt again the next day. I expect those of you that are not playing to not try to Lynch-Vote.
Finally, after death you MUST NOT PM people alive in the game about the game. This is an honor code, but out of respect of your peers and the work they/I have put into it, I expect you all to abide by this.
Rules (more summarized, but anything I may have missed that is referenced above still applies):
1. You may lie about everything in this game except for anything having to do with Secret Powers. If you don't understand the rules regarding them (see above), you'd be better off not posting about them at all.
2. You may not quote from independent threads (i.e. from PM to main, from groupies to main, from PM to groupies, etc.)
3. Exposing your team is not allowed unless written permission is given to me, the MC, 24 hours in advance.
4. Live players may not communicate with the dead independent of the main thread. The same applies to the dead--they cannot communicate with the living except through their groupies thread. In other words, a dead may not post in the living thread, and NO PMing at all. Again, honor system here so please respect the game, the gamers, and myself.
5. Upon death, you may not reveal anything not exposed during your time alive.
All other rules are delineated in the above prose description. I ask you all to read it, since those rules apply whether you've read this or not. Please abide by them, and if you become a witness when they are not being followed, please let me know ASAP by PM.<!--SPOILER DIV--></div><!--SPOILER DIV-->[/b]
PLOT
It was a dark night. Black clouds obscured the sky as each tear of the heavens flew down, smashing into the ground. The path was caked with thick mud, and the foliage on the side of the trail was beginning to loose its grip in the ground from the force of the rain. A crack of lightning flashed through the sky, and a roar of thunder quickly followed.
Along the path, a figure draped in a black cloth ran through the mud, his boots making s slurping sound with each step. He ran like this for several hours through the hail of rain, until he stopped for a moment. Directly in front of him was a spectacular palace-like mansion, which did not seem to be affected by the rain at all. To the side was a balcony with a faint candlelight emanating from behind a curtain, looking directly above a small graveyard, each stone draped in water. The man continued to run forward until he came to the door. He lifted the ornate knocker to request the door to open, however, the opposite door creaked open, a larger light radiating into the dead blackness. He took a few steps inside.
As the figure stepped into the house, he looked upon a massive hall. The corridor had a candle along each wall every foot or so, with a massive chandelier hanging from the ceiling. Gold and silver ornamented what seemed to be every wall, with the actual floor of the path made of the most refined bronze the man had ever seen. Huddled in the center of the room, there was a group of what seemed to be thirty-five people staring directly at him. They did not move from their positions as the man continued to walk forward.
"I suppose you came in to get away from the rain too?" the man said as he took off his cloak. He was wearing what seemed to be cloth armor, with iron plates covering his shoulders and knees. the breastplate he wore was decorated in fine silver, with gold lines spinning throughout the metal. On his back, he carried two identical swords- each was approximately three feet long, with the handle bound in leather and the hilt made of an iron-like material. The blade was made of the brightest steel any of the people have ever seen, coming straight up to the edge of the blade. On those edges, the metal protruded out into two identical guillotine-like barbs, with a small blue jewel embedded in between each of these.
"Th... th... the Lethe..." one of the people stuttered from the crowd.
Another person came directly up to the man standing there. He extended a hand, which he implied to shake. The man shook his hands, as the person began to talk.
"Yes, Scalibur... I've heard of you. Your reputation extends far around, even to here," he said as Scalibur recounted the memories of decimating the evil that plagued Europe long ago. The image of that sword... the eye... burned at his memory.
With this, Scalibur nodded slightly as he recognized something wrong with the emanating aura of the house. He stood back slightly as the doors slammed shut behind him.
"Allow me to explain... we were all trapped in here by the rainstorm. However, not two hours ago, all of the candles flared up, and something felt wrong... I think some of us may have been infected with great malice. I think they may try to kill us all," he said.
"Okay,", said Scalibur. "I think I may be able to help you..." he said as a small black rabbit jumped straight up and landed on his shoulder.
"This is my pet, Nevermore", he said as he stood there serenely. "This rabbit is almost undefeatable... not too many have survived it's wrath. I suppose exposing it to that metal fragment helps with that. He will be performing a simple service for you- every day, everyone shall vote. At the end of the day, my pet will kill whoever has the most votes. If no one has that honor, I suppose it will be up to him," he said clearly. Everyone in the room nodded.
"Now, if you'll excuse me," Scalibur finished, "I have some paperwork to do, I'll be back later." Scalibur and the rabbit walked past the hallway, off to the closest library he could find.
You are free to post now.
5: Benladesh
9: Forte
26: mike411 - Sliced in half Night 3 - Old Man - Resurrected Day 7
2: 92% - Executed Day 1- Plain Innocent
25: mddrinker - Suicided Day 2 - Plain Innocent
21: jakachuy - Executed Day 2 - Raven
6: Blk Mage - Burned to death Day 2 - Plain Innocent
23: jlt1990 - Sliced in half Night 2 - Raven
12: Kugetsu - Sacrificed self Day 3 - Plain Innocent
30: senor_skunk - Executed Day 3 - Plain Innocent
19: graphitesmoothie - Pierced by Ravens Night 3 - Plain Innocent
35: xelo_11 - Executed Day 4 - Mad Policeman
8: Degatimra - Burned to death Day 4 - Mad Policeman
16: chicken - Tortured Night 4 - Plain Innocent
17: chocolatecannon - Pierced by Ravens Night 4 - Plain Innocent
1: 1d31l - Burned to death Day 5 - Plain Innocent
33: the_dog_god - Tortured Night 5 - Plain Innocent
34: watericesage - Sliced in half Night 5 - Plain Innocent
3: Armi - Pierced by Ravens Night 5 - Bellmaiden of Silver
20: gugsew - Deafened by the cry of the Bells Day 6 - Mad Policeman
11: Krycsm - Suicided with Lover's Death Day 6 - Plain Innocent
24: lord_owlstar - Executed Day 6 - Mad Policeman
31: sexysilver - Crushed by the Iron Bell Day 7 - Raven
14: Poogley Boogley - Tortured Night 7 - Plain Innocent
13: Mirumoto Meta - Sliced in half Night 7 - Prince Prospero, named heir to the Ravens
15: auraelias - Pierced by Ravens Night 7 - Mad Policeman
29: ryguy - Executed Day 8 - Bellmaiden of Bronze
22: jetman6475 - Burned to death Day 8 - Bellmaiden of Gold
27: o_0 - Pierced by Ravens Night 8 - Plain Innocent
18: garfield22222 - Tortured Night 8 - Bellmaiden of Iron
10: Kirby-oh - Crushed by the walls Day 9 - Raven
4: Asynchrony - Executed Day 5 - Lady Madeline, Keeper of the House of Usher - Resurrected Night 5 - Pierced by Ravens Night 9
28: revival_of_wiz_kid - Executed Day 3 - Lenore, Dreamer of Ravens{REZBANNED}
7: Bunnylover - Bludgeoned with a metal trowel Day 2 - Resurrected Day 3 - Pierced by Ravens Day 7{REZBANNED}
32: technocactus - Tortured in the Crypt Day 1 - Raving Lunatic {REZBANNED}
NOTE: I'm tracking all the roles. If you have not read yours by tomorrow by 8:30 PM NDT, I reserve the right to either Modkill or replace you in the game.