Mostly Mute Monk Mafia - Game Over

[SpeedyKQ]

In a peaceful monastery, tucked away in secluded hills and lost in the sands of time, the brothers live with a vow of silence. There was a time when each brother was allowed to utter two words every 10 years. But things have loosened up considerably, and now they are required merely to speak two words at a time, and then wait in blissful silence until the next brother offers his two words of praise.

Well, those sneaky goombahs have shaved their heads, donned robes and infiltrated the brothers’ idyllic haven. Now the monks’ ancient way of life is threatened by nighttime killings. Desperate for relief, they pray to their Father for guidance. Not having any particular answer fall out of the heavens, they figure they might as well just start lynching each other and hope for the best.

Players Alive:

Assasin
Save the Dragons (replacing Dmi)
MeMe
Narninian

Players Facing Their Eternal Judgment:

Coron, Poet, lynched day 1.
Locus Cosecant, Gardener, shot night 1.
Internet Stranger, Mafia, lynched day 2.
Leonidas, Abbott, shot night 2.
Crola, Mafia, lynched day 3.
KingEnigma, Chant Leader, shot night 3.
Electra, Poet, lynched day 4.
AndrewS (replacing armlx), Prayer Leader, shot night 4.
Maximus, Gardener, lynched day 5.
Mgm, Cheesemaker, shot night 5.
CoolBot, Mafia, lynched day 6.

[SpeedyKQ]

General Rules:

Please read the pacing and posting rules below. They are both specific to this game and important.
Please bold your votes and unvotes. If a vote is not bolded it will not be counted.
Please unvote. If you do not unvote, your new vote will still count but I will be annoyed.
Inactivity will get you replaced, but not before a warning. If you are going to be away for more than 72 hours please PM me. Please take your commitment to the other players in the game seriously.
No posting after you're dead. Also please don’t post in twilight if you are about to be lynched.
No talking about the game outside of the thread, except as your roles allow.
Players may vote no-lynch, which causes, amazingly, no lynch.

Pacing Rules:

We will begin with day. Day one will last, at most, 10 real days. Every day after that will last, at most, one week. Deadlines will be posted as soon as each day dawns. Nights will last at most, 72 hours. The Deadlines technically happen when I lock the thread, not at the posted time.

If there are 5 or more players, when a deadline comes to pass, whoever has the most votes is lynched. (Or nobody is lynched if no-lynch has the most votes.) If there is a tie, whoever reached the number of votes first will be lynched.

If there are 3 or 4 players, a true majority is required at deadline or no lynch occurs.

Monks’ Laws of Posting:

1. Unless I tell you differently, each post must contain exactly two words.*

2. Optionally, you may add one emoticon.

3. Optionally, you may add a vote, and/or an unvote, and/or a FOS and/or an unFOS, bolded as normal.

Remember, these do not count towards your two words. You may not add other words into your vote, such as “random vote: SpeedyKQ” or “OMGUS vote: SpeedyKQ”.

4. You may not double post.

This does not apply to identical double-posts caused by a glitch.


* What is a word?

The overriding rule here is – use common sense.

A URL such as “random.org” is OK, but something like “www.ImACopAndIKnowSpeedyIsScum.com” is not OK.

Do-not try-to use-hyphens to-make two-words look-like one-word.

Common compound words like bandwagon, modkill, and roleclaim are OK. Makingup yourown compoundwords isnot allowed. Running together two parts of a player’s name (LocusCosecant, InternetStranger) is OK.

Acronyms that stand for more than one word are not allowed. Pretend you are actually talking. You wouldn’t really say “WTF” “OMG” or “ROFL”. Acronyms for players’ names, (LC, IS) are OK.

Exclamations and terms for emotion, such as “bah” “woohoo” “hmmm” or “grrrrr” all count as words.

Normal contractions (don’t, I’ll, Speedy’s etc.) are OK and the whole contraction counts as one word.

Don’t use symbols such as < @ & to substitute for words.

Reasonable punctuation is fine.

Other Considerations:

You are not allowed to stretch out long sentences over multiple posts:
Post 75: Please don’t…
Post 77: …try to…
Post 79: …form a…
Post 81: …long sentence…
Post 83: …by posting…
Post 85: …like this.

I’m not going to put any hard and fast restrictions on font style, but please don’t feel the need use a 60 point blue underlined italic font for emphasis.

Quoting players isn’t banned per se, but the words in the quote, including the word “quote” or “MeMe says” count towards your two words, so they aren’t generally possible.

Because of the posting rules, if you have rules questions or issues, you’ll have to bring them up to me by PM rather than in-thread. If there is an issue important enough to share with the group, I will do so in the thread.

I don’t want to be a rule nazi. As long as you’re trying so stick with the spirit of the rules, I’ll forgive a reasonable number of honest mistakes.

[SpeedyKQ]

I'm going to leave the thread open while I'm sending roles and waiting for confirmations so people can ask questions and have them answered before we start playing.

Here is the first one, which I just received in a PM:

Could I post something like this:

<-- Cop.
Vote: SpeedyKQ <-- Scum.

No. You may not draw little pictures with symbols, even if the picture is something as simple as an arrow.

[Coron]

[Dmi]

Me creative.

[SpeedyKQ]

Are numbers symbols? and/or will they count to the word count?
and, if 1 is used to substitute the word "one" does it count?

A number, whether written as one or 1 counts as a word.

Is the "=" sign allowed for use?

No. This is a symbol that you should write out as a word instead.

In general I'd rather folks not try to game the system, but instead type out, as text, something you'd get if you opened your mouth and uttered two words.

[KingEnigma]

king ready

[armlx]

/confirm amen

[Mgm]

No questions.

[Internet Stranger]

hurry up

[SpeedyKQ]

Hooray! All the confirms are in.

Day dawns in the monestary. The game is on.

The deadline is March 14 9AM EST (Exactly 10 days from this post)

15 monks alive, 8 votes needed to lynch.

[MeMe]

Fast start.

vote: Assasin

[CoolBot]

Random

vote: Locus Cosecant

[Locus Cosecant]

Die, InternetStranger!

vote: Internet Stranger

[MeMe]

Rather rabid.

[Locus Cosecant]

I try.

[MeMe]

Grudge, then?

[Internet Stranger]

Generic jealousy

Vote: Assassin

[Mgm]

Good morning!

Vote:Crola

[Locus Cosecant]

You wish.

[Mgm]

Everyone's alive!

[Electra]

Nightless, yes?

[Assasin]

Random Vote

InternetStranger

[armlx]

Random Votw

Vote MeMe

[Maximus]

Found thread.