ONE: FUNDAMENTALS
I) All site-wide rules apply. Read and respect them.
II) There is no personal communication outside the forum postings (regarding this game) unless your role specifically allows it.
III) Do not quote your Role PM or any private communication (either real or fabricated) with the moderator, co-moderator, backup-moderator, or fellow players. Paraphrasing your Role PM is acceptable. If you are unsure that something is paraphrased enough, check with the mod.
IV) Be courteous and respectful to all your fellow players and the moderating team.
V) Play to your Win Condition.
TWO: DAY PHASE (DP)
I) Each DP shall have a two week deadline. Day 1 will have a 21 day deadline.
II)
Votes must be bolded or they shall not be counted
. This includes the word "Vote", along with the players name. Abbreviating someone's name is acceptable, so long as I can discern who you were voting for without trouble.
III) Unvoting is encouraged, but not required.
IV) Once you have reached a simple majority (half of all living players plus one) that person's fate is sealed and they shall be lynched. Unvoting cannot change their fate.
V) If a simple majority (half of all living players plus one) approve a No Lynch (Vote: No Lynch), then no player shall be lynched and the game shall enter Night Phase. If deadline is reached and no one has received a simple majority of the votes, no one shall be lynched.
VI) Once a player is lynched the game enters Twilight until I arrive and post a death scene. All players may continue to post during Twilight. Votes and unvotes shall not count in Twilight.
VII) Prods: Day1-Day2 If you have failed to post for over 60 hours, I will send you a prod. Failure to respond to this prod within 60 hours will result in the replacement of that player.
Day3 on: If you have failed to post for over 48 hours, I will send you a prod. Failure to respond to this prod within 48 hours will result in the replacement of that player.
Force-replacing of flakers/rule-breakers will occur at my discretion.
VIII) If half of the living players post "
@Mod: Requesting Deadline Extension
", the request will be granted. The amount of time will vary at the mods disgression. This rule may only be used once per game. Other extensions, if any, will occur at my discretion.
THREE: NIGHT PHASE (NP)
I) NP shall last 48-72 hours.
II) Any role or faction with night abilities may choose to use them by PM-ing the mod with their choice.
III) If no action is received, no action will be taken. All actions received after the deadline has passed will not be valid.
IV) If multiple actions are received, the last one received will be valid.
V) Night Action submissions will be accepted starting in the Twilight Phase.
FOUR: CAPITAL OFFENSES
I) Do not quote your Role PM or any private communication (either real or fabricated) with the moderator, co-moderator, or backup-moderator. Paraphrasing your Role PM is acceptable.
II) There is to be no personal communication outside the forum postings (regarding this game) unless your role specifically allows it.
III) I will use the color BLUE for mod stuff outside of my posts. Posts originally made by me will vary in color.
IV) The following is a list of outlawed shenanigans:
Using invisible text, codes, cryptography, etc.
Editing your posts (if you have the power to do so)
Insulting other players excessively
Quoting any QTs you may have access to (paraphrasing is acceptable)
Breaking hydra-status if you are a hydra
Posting in-thread after you have died- one BAH allowed
If any of these offenses are committed, I have the right to force-replace you from the game or modkill you. A warning will usually come before replacement or modkilling, depending on the severity of the infraction.
FIVE: MISCELLANEOUS
I) Feel free to address me in-thread, but if there is a large egregious mistake please PM me. Small matters like errors in the votecount can be posted in-thread.
II) I have the final say on any issue. I reserve the right to force-replace and modkill at my will.
III) This is a game. Have fun, and keep the game fun for other people. Stay civilized, please.
IV) I have the right to edit this RuleSet at any time, alerting you when I do.
V) Any groups with quick topics may use them as indicated in their role PM. Please note that all QTs will be released at game end, so please leave out anything you don't want made public.
Sample Role PM
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:11 am
by PeregrineV
Role PMs going out now. Please confirm via PM. When 20 of 24 have confirmed, day will begin.
It has begun.
Deadline for day1 is Wednesday, July 3 at 3pm Central Time.
With 24 alive, it takes 13 to lynch.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:58 am
by orcinus_theoriginal
VOTE: Rift Adrift
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:01 am
by TheIrishPope
*farts*
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:05 am
by orcinus_theoriginal
VOTE: TIP
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:06 am
by TheIrishPope
*farts harder*
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:08 am
by ProHawk
STOP RVS!
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:08 am
by ProHawk
I have a better plan.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:11 am
by TheIrishPope
*intrigued*
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:12 am
by ProHawk
Here it is... we all pick four names and post them. The name that appears the most frequently is the person that get a wagon run up and we go from there. Mkay?
We should probably lynch:
KingCrabd
Orcinus
DOMO
Shadi
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:16 am
by BROseidon
VOTE: ProHawk
That is a terrible idea and it should be fairly obvious why.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:18 am
by TheIrishPope
Because there's no way scum would fake a list to lynch a townie. VOTE: ProHawk
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:20 am
by Calcifer
TheIrishPope
BROseidon
Nero
Zdenek
VOTE: TheIrishPope.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:25 am
by Ankamius
VOTE: Nero
BTW I'm ignoring that plan.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:26 am
by Doc Holliday
TIP's idea is dumb.
Vote: TMTOLBTWNTOF
Dat name
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:27 am
by ProHawk
Was my Idea Doc, and RVS is dumb actually. Jus' sayin.
Should it now? Let's hear your case instead of trying to read your mind BROseph.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:40 am
by BROseidon
It creates a giant scum-WIFOM mess.
Basically, since we would only run up a wagon on the person who had the most votes, scum would just have to manipulate the list to make sure that that is not one of them. Let's say there are 6 scum. Any number of them just need to vote for the same person to make sure that person has more than any scum. Beyond that, scum can list whoever the fuck they want on the list. So scum member A could list 3 other scum while scum member B lists no scum at all. Since the idea presumably would be to look back at these lists later to try to build connections, scum can manipulate that by being inconsistent/bus-heavy in their lists.
The tl;dr version is scum have information, town doesn't, that lets scum manipulate this plan to their advantage, and they have too many ways in which they can manipulate it to their advantage for us to use that later for associative tells.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:41 am
by TheIrishPope
Or, for an even shorter version, post #12.
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:43 am
by ProHawk
That's your reasoning for the list, not mine. Build the wagon and go from there.
This whole game is a WIFOM tangle, its the fun of it. You think scum don't already try to knot up that tangle? Trust me, this doesn't give them any more power than they already have. But I concede, continue with whatever you were planning on doing...
P-EDIT: This list isn't to get a mis-lynch Mr. Pope.