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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:03 pm
Postby Toomai »
Headquartered on Brussles Street, the Sycamore Chess Club was founded in 1926 and had a rich history of turning beginning players of little knowledge into strategical powerhouses of regional notability. Of course, such an reputable establishment couldn't go forever without some controversy. In March 1985, one of its top and most well-beloved players, Lorenzo McReynolds, was found out to be a high-ranking member of a crime syndicate, and he was expelled with extreme prejudice. This event created a bit of a rift in the club - some felt this was unnecessary and overzealous, while most felt it was the least they could do.
Now, in mid-2014, the disagreement is about to come to a head. It had always been known that some unknown subset of the club's 22 masters were McReynolds supporters, but it was always seen as a polite disagreement that existed only as rumblings. So when a note was found attached to the door of the Masters' Word, the exclusive room where the masters convened, it was a great surprise to all of them:
Surely you know that McReynolds will be released from prison less than a year from now? You may want to consider allowing him back into the club, or there will be some...dire consequences.
A secret ballot conclusively determined that this was not going to happen, and the matter was considered closed. This didn't hold up for long, however - Craig Grady, one of the most anti-McReynolds masters, was found dead in his house by police the next day. Immediately a meeting was convened in the Masters' Word - at the end of the next two weeks, not one more McReynolds supporter would remain with the club.
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Post #16 (isolation #3) » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:27 am
Postby Toomai »
I have been informed that some of the players signed up for this game haven't logged on in over a month. I'm going to start on replacing them immediately.
EDIT: Salamence20 replaces DukeC, and TheAdrienC replaces lifessavers.
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@Mod: When the mafia submits actions and a player is replacing, does mafia get to make actions in place of said player?
The rules provide for a minimum of 24 hours for replacing-in players to take action. That said, should any factional member be absent during night for some other reason, they will lose out on their personal abilities, but may be directed to carry out factional ones. So for example if a mafia is made of A, B, and C, and C is absent, A and B can direct C to do the kill but not to do any personal actions C may have.
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Post #956 (isolation #37) » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:41 am
Postby Toomai »
There has been no hammer at this time. Carry on.
(For the record, in this votecount I linked all votes to the post in question as part of ensuring I was correct. It's pretty useful, but it takes too long to do for every votecount, so I don't think I'll be continuing to do it right now.)
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Post #959 (isolation #39) » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:55 am
Postby Toomai »
The discussion progressed faster than anticipated. As a result, two of the introverts who were pretty much left out - Agatha Riggs and Norbert Farias - were determined to be avoiding to help the cause, and it was decided to cast Norbert's unconcerned rear out onto the street. But as they tore up his membership card and shredded his records, the manner in which he blubbered as opposed to protested as he shuffled away gnawed into people's heads that maybe he was innocent after all...
Clusk92
was a
Vanilla Townie
.
Night 1 begins.
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Post #960 (isolation #40) » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:06 am
Postby Toomai »
When the masters reconvened the next day, it was quite obvious that Paul and Kandis were missing. Pretty much everyone knew why, and a quick look at the news on TV confirmed it - they had both been killed the previous night. It was a shame to lose an aggressive anti-McReynolds that would have surely helped weed out the sourpusses, or that the children's hospital would now be understaffed...
Cabd
was a
Town Even-Night Vigilante
.
farside22
was a
Town Odd-Night Doctor
.
Day 2 begins.
With 18 alive, the deadline is 22 days.
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In post 1155, Juls wrote:
Where is it against the rules? I have never seen that rule and personally don't think it should be against the rules. But, show me where and I will be glad to drop it. I have seen people scum hunt all the time by seeing who is online or in scum chat or last visited so I don't see how this is any different.
Read the activity rules for this game. Attempting to circumvent them via illegitimate V/LA is a clear violation. Furthermore, Site Rules prohibit bringing outside influences, of which this is most
definitely
one, into the game. You are more than welcome to poll mods on this issue if you do not believe me.
Meh, I won't push it but I don't see anything in site wide rules or mod rules that what I am accusing Adrien of is a violation nor do I see anything that says my questioning of it is a violation. Regardless, I'm dropping it and will dig inTo this deeper behind the scenes.
I personally think it's a bit disingenious to question the validity of a V/LA unless the player has a history of taking clearly illegitimate ones (which ideally would be brought up to the staff team if it does indeed become a pattern). Having kept a loose eye on players' activity outside this game, I am fairly sure this specific case was legitimate.
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Could Damon_Gant please be prodded or force-replaced? He hasn't posted in 6 days, 6 hours, and only has five posts.
Do you normally just skip over the parts of mod posts that aren't votecounts? I have addressed this three times already.
In post 1047, Toomai wrote:@Wake88: Time spent during night does not count towards being prodded, as should be expected from any other game here.
In post 1382, Toomai wrote:Players will not be prodded until the day has been open long enough to reach the ruleset's prod length.
In post 1436, Toomai wrote:Damon_Gant has not read the start-of-day PM. If he reaches prod timing (in ~27.7 hours) and has not yet done so, I'll skip to replacing him. I may send him a prod before then to see if he responds.
I have sent him an unofficial prod, and he will be replaced if he doesn't answer it in 12 hours (the time when his not-posting-timer hits 72 hours, at which point I would normally just issue a prod). I've already gone outside my existing ruleset to skip the prod and just replace him because he hasn't read the daystart PM. Please stop hounding me about it.
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Post #1515 (isolation #52) » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:01 pm
Postby Toomai »
I'll be hiding the post that was meant for the other game, but not deleting it outright as it has had an effect on the game and should be referencable. That said, I suggest players avoid mentioning it as much as possible.
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