Please Note
- All
site-wide rules and guidelines apply, and the game rules outlined here assume that you are familiar with the site-wide rules.
Deadlines
- Day phase will have a deadline of 14 days, and Night phase will have a deadline of 48 hours. Deadline extensions will be granted only in extreme circumstances. Actions not received by deadline will be counted as "No Action." Actions may be submitted ahead of time and can be changed as many times as desired; at deadline, the last valid action that was submitted will be used. Actions may be submitted via PM or private topic.
Lynching
- Lynches occur through simple majority (i.e., 50% of living players + 1, rounded down). If no majority is reached at deadline or there is a majority of votes for No Lynch, Day will end without a lynch. Once majority is reached, no further votes or unvotes will count. All players, including the lynched player, are allowed to talk in twilight phase until the thread is locked, at which point Day ends.
Voting
- Votes and vote revocations must be bolded. Unvotes are preferred but not necessary when switching votes. Use of the vote tags is optional. Votes placed by accounts not present in the game will not be counted. Vote tricks will not be tolerated, and any judgment passed over the validity of any ambiguous votes is final.
Activity
- Prods will be issued to players if they have not posted within a 48-hour period. Players who have been prodded have 48 hours to respond in the game thread before a replacement is sought. For purposes of activity, Saturday and Sunday will be considered a 24-hour period. Prods will be sent even during declared periods of V/LA; if you expect to be gone for an extended period of time, please contact me and we will work it out.
Prohibitions
- Dead players and spectators may not post in the game until the game has officially been declared over. Do not attempt to impersonate the moderator. Do not do anything that may be considered questionable, even if you do not consider it to be such. Attempts to abuse technicalities in the rules will be considered rule violations.
Graveyard
- There is a graveyard topic available for dead players and spectators. Any living player who wishes to send a message to this topic may send it to me in a PM, and it will be passed on.
Questions and Concerns
- Please contact me if you need clarification in anything in the rules or if you'd like to check if something you want to post is okay. For minor questions or vote count errors, bold your concern in the thread. For all other issues, PM me.
Shameless Theft
- Bits and chunks of the rules set and moderation procedures were taken from hitogoroshi, Hoopla, Quilford, RedCoyote, Tierce, Vi, and zoraster.
This game was reviewed by penguin_alien and RedCoyote.
Players are divided into two factions:
, who are natives and immigrants of Arstotzka, and
, members of the Order of the EZIC Star who are interested in overthrowing the Arstotzkan government. There are no jesters, lynchers, cultists, or survivors, and no players will have their win condition change from what it was at the start of the game. The insurgents have been provided flavored fake claims.
Names and images were taken from the
Papers, Please video game and its assets. Interpret this liberally.
Below is a sample innocent vanilla role PM for a character who is not present in the game:
Welcome to East Grestin, XXX!
Your papers show that you are
Azana Klakouska
from Impor. You are an
.
You will find that Arstotzka is a generous nation. We will allow you the following during your stay:
[A] Vote
- You may vote to expel suspicious entities from Arstotzka.
You win when all threats to the innocent faction have been eliminated and at least one member of the innocents remains standing.
The game thread is
here. Please confirm by responding to this PM with your alignment and role.
Glory to Arstotzka.
