Werewolf XXI - Werewolf goes to Hollywood - Game Over!! Death Eaters win!!
 

OK, we've had wolves, vampires, mafioso, assassins, demons, spawn, and outlaws, but now the world of Werewolf and the world of Hollywood collide in my first attempt at running a game.

Some of you know a little (or a lot in a few cases) about the game, but in short, this will be a basically standard game of werewolf (nods to Coffee Warlord and his yak) taking place in the setting of a very popular fictional world. (and if it doesn't suck, I have a few more adaptations stirring around in my head)

There is really no limit to the number of players, as I can easily adjust the number of roles depending on the number of players. I plan on using the apparently popular 12/24 hour day and night cycles, with the night cycles being flexible within the constraints of my work schedule. When a day cycle ends in the evening, it will end at 9:30 eastern (middle of my lunch break at work so i can post results)

WE WILL NOT START UNTIL THE CURRENT GAME IS OVER, and if requested will leave a couple days of rest in between for recovery. The rules/storyline will be posted shortly.

1.Alan T, Wizard, Potions Master, Lynched Day 3
2.SnDvls, Death Eater, Occlumens, Lynched Day 2
3.Barkeep49, Wizard, Retired Auror, Murdered Night 1
4.Path12
5.Mr. Wednesday
6.Ardent Enthusiast
7.Dacman
8.Lathum
9.Blade6119, Wizard, Master of DAtDA, Poisoned Night 1
10.St Cronin
11.Passacaglia
12.Desnudo
13.Coder
14.Raiders Army
15.Schmidty
16.KWhit
17.TazFTW
18.Dubb93
19.JeeberD
20.WVUFan
21.Kingfc22
22.Superman=#54
23.RPI-Fan
24.Grammaticus
25.Coffee Warlord
26.Neon_Chaos, Wizard, Legilimens, Murdered, Night 2
27.Jesse_Ewiak
28.Qwikshot - Death Eater, student of magic, lynched day 1

i'll keep going as long as people keep joining in.


OK, here are the rules. If anyone has any questions, send me an Owl. I think i have the balance worked out again for this many people, so i plan on rolling for roles over the weekend, expect an Owl from me sometime then with your role.

I bring you.....Werewolf, the Harry Potter Edition (knowledge of the Harry Potter world is not required, but may be helpful)

Setting – You are the residents of small Wizarding village, much like Hogsmeade, and like the rest of the Wizarding world, you are currently living in fear of the return of He Who Must not be Named. The Ministry of Magic protection pamphlets have been distributed to all the homes in the village, and you seem to think that you are fortunate enough that to this point, The Dark Lord and his supporters have passed over your small community. However, this hope is soon shattered as strange things start to happen in town. Screams are heard during the night, some of the villagers disappear without a trace, and it is unknown if they left willingly or were taken by force. As a group you decide to send an owl to the Ministry of Magic, pleading for them to help you all save your small village. They respond by sending an aged old wizard who wanders into town one afternoon and takes up on a stool at the local pub. Although he does not appear to me much help at first glance, over the course of the next few days, he provides several of you with the knowledge or the means to fight back against the forces of You-Know-Who. After spending the day in the town square, where he most helpfully casts an Anti-Apparition charm over the whole of the village, he goes back to his familiar spot at the bar. As he drains tankard after tankard of mulled mead, he begins to hint at a greater depth of knowledge about some of the people in the village, inferring that there may actually be Death Eaters among you. Before he can say anymore, the mead catches up to him and he passes out on the bar without saying who amongst you has been known to travel in the company of You Know Who. This is where we join the story…..

Primary Roles:

Wizard – you are a just an everyday member of the Wizarding world, possibly a shopkeeper or tradesman, and have made the choice to fight for what is good, over what is easy.

Death Eater – by day, you appear to be the same as everyone else in the village, but come the cover of night, your mask and hooded cloak are donned, and you become a servant of the Dark Lord.

Secondary Roles (these may occur more than once or not at all, and some may have abilities known only to the wizard having that role):

Retired Auror – once a champion in the fight against evil, you had hoped to live out the remainder of your years in peace, but now find yourself pressed into service once again. Each night, you may protect one other wizard, but never the same one twice in a row and you may choose to protect yourself. You automatically possess Dark Detectors.

Legilimens – (Wizards only) you are an expert in the art of Legilimency. Each night, you may select one wizard to examine, and will find out if they are hiding any secrets within the recesses of their mind.

Occlumens – (Death Eaters only) you are an expert in the art of Occlumency. If you are viewed by a Legilimens, he will not be able to determine if you are hiding anything from him.

Dark Lord’s Spy – Each night, you may examine one of your fellow villagers to determine if they are the Legilimens. If the wizard you view is not the Legilimens, you will only be told your view was unsuccessful. If you do find the Legilimens, this information will be passed to the Death Eaters. You do not know who the Death Eaters, and they do not know you, and you can be killed at night by them. If you are viewed by the Legilimens, you will appear to be hiding something. For the purposes of counting for victory conditions, you count as a villager, but you win if the Death Eaters win. If the Wizards win, you lose, even if you are still alive.

Ministry of Magic Official – as a member of the ministry, you have the ability to change the outcome of the days lynch vote. If the person you change the vote to is in the service of the Dark Lord, you retain this power, however if you change the vote to an innocent, you will be relieved of office. This ability is used in secret by sending an owl to the DM at any point during the day cycle, or within 15 minutes after the voting deadline. However, if you make the wrong choice, your role is revealed.

There may be additional secret roles not listed here.

ALSO, THE ROLES LISTED ABOVE MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL ABILITES NOT DEFINED HERE. THIS IS WHERE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE WIZARDING WORLD CAN HELP YOU, AS THE ROLES ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WOULD BE IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS OR MOVIES.

Items:
Invisibility Cloak – A gift to you from Saldana, a rare and valuable cloak that while worn, renders the wearer invisible. You may chose to wear your cloak outside at night in an effort to follow anyone that may be about at night. This ability may only be used once.

Dark Detectors – At Saldana’s recommendation, you purchased several items that allow you to provide to yourself a certain level of protection against the dark forces. These items will provide you the warning you need if the Death Eaters come for you, and will allow you to escape without harm.

There may be other secret items not specified here.

Rules:
The game will consist of two phases, Day and Night. The game will begin with Night 0, and no actions will take place unless specifically indicated by Owl Post.

Cycles will rotate between 12 and 24 hour cycles, always ending at 9:30am or 9:30pm. Times are EST, or FOFC board time. If all night Owls have been received, the results will be posted early, however this will only extend the length of the Day Cycle, and will not move the Deadlines. This is intended to ensure everyone has ample time to read all the posts and make their votes with a minimum of players missing the deadlines. Because this thread is most likely going to be huge, I will put the next deadline in the title each time one passes, along with the current Day/Night number.

Each day, the remaining wizards must vote for another wizard to be lynched at nightfall. Any ties will be broken with the Wizard that received their last vote first being the one to be executed, unless some other method of breaking the tie occurs.

Each night, players with a specified night role send an Owl to the DM informing him how they would like to use their ability or possession, with the Death Eaters being able to choose a wizard to murder during the night.

When the Death Eaters decide upon their nightly murder, they must specify which one of them is going to perform the killing. They may send only one person on the action, or they may send more than one. Some murders may require more than one Death Eater to succeed.

Victory Conditions:

Very simple, the Death Eaters win by achieving a 1:1 ratio with the Wizards

The Wizards win by finding and killing all the Death Eaters. You do not have to kill the Dark Lord’s Spy in order to win.

ok, I'm interested in finally trying one of these. :)

it's WW # 20 I gotta be in it....okay I'm hooked too, but make sure Blade and I are on the same team. :)

I would love to play as a DXXXX EXXXX or even the RXXXXXX AXXXX so I'm in.

I'm ready for my screen test.

In.

In.

Yeah.

in

dola, been a while for me so take it easy...

You know im in...COME ON UBER KITTY!!!

Nice to see some old faces mixed in with the new....it'd be great (except for Saldana who'd have to run it all) if everyone who played in any WW game to sign up for this one being that it's #20 and all. Would be a nice mix and good game I think

I'll go ahead and put my name in. I have one more full week of screwing off before school starts.

Blade would be able to get to 5000 posts with just one big game like that :D

Sign me up.

I'm in.

5? Try 10 :p

If there's still room I'd like to give this a shot.. just read through some of the very first Werewolf threads from back in June.. not 100% sure of the rules but I think I have a basic grasp of them.

I'm game.

wow 14 already....come on people let's make this a hell of a big WW game!!!!

sorry Sal if adding people screws up your numbers, but it will be hell-a lot-a fun :D

dola -
actually he says there is not limit on # of players so let's get going people. (I feel like Ty Pennington with that last comment)

I'm in if there's room. I'm not going on vacation now, so I'll be participating big time. :)

I'll play.

Wow, this filled up pretty fast. I'd like to be in if there is room available.

in

I'll go ahead and do my first WW game in quite a while...

I added more numbers and can add even more so keep on coming...

I hope my random number generator counts this high.

I'd like to play, if you will suffer a newbie.

uh oh...ardent is running out of fingers and toes.

too busy drinking and playing bbcf waiting for the game to start, i will update the player list later on, but the more the merrier

count me in

I'm in to win.

this is gonna be one big a$$ WW game.

I hope that we convinced lurker to join this game.

IN (assuming my non-access from 7am-6pm due to work won't ruin me!)

Count me in.

This might be the biggest game ever

Jesus.

Okay, I can't resist a game this big! IN!

...despite the fact that I think a few people may just kill me out of spite for fucking with them. :)

up to 25 now...any more?

Well now that you mentioned it.

VOTE CW

OMG, i really hope i dont suck at DM'ing...this could effectively end my FOFC life if this game is crappy....we still have some notable personalities missing, SackAttack, George W Bush, SirFozzie, MrBug708, pennywisesb, realdeal, and fouts, among others are still not in....

signups will remain open until 12 hours before the start of night 0, regardless of the numbers in post 1

(i'll do my best everyone...preemptive apologies if the game blows)

dola....i cant wait to try and count the votes for the ever-chaotic day 1 :)

double dola, doesn't anyone even want to know what the game theme is?

I'm guessing The Matrix...

She's still on the fence...if the game starts next Wednesday or Thursday, she'd be more likely to, since she's going out of town early in the week, and will also be out of town (as will I) this weekend.

nope...although that is one of the "in the pipeline" ideas i had

I know what it is! But I won't spill.

Lol, i already did accidently once in another thread and i dont think a soul noticed outside of saldana

As long as you balanced it with my reccomendations and read over the two games with the same theme on the other board i showed you it should go smoothely

I noticed. :)

Im trying to get back on his good side, so you didnt actually see it, your just joking

Hoops knew about it even before tonight. Since we couldn't talk about our current werewolf game we talkd about many previous and upcoming games instead.

Saldana asked a few of us to help him with the rule set, hence hoops, I, and a few others

Count me in.

I'll definitely be following along. Kills me not to join the mayhem (which this game will surely be), but I have to get some work done this month :eek: and spend some time with the wife :D so I'm out for a couple of weeks.

Saldana, you don't mess around with your first game, huh? 25 and counting? Wow!

Well, like Passacaglia said I'm going to be out of town for a couple days next week. But since sign-ups will be taken up to 12 hours before I'll probably sign up at the last minute if things aren't looking busy for me. Hearing all of this werewolf talk has me really intrigued!

And it was nice to meet all of you last night! I'm still surprised at how different (and un-wolflike) everybody looks than I pictured. Although I guess you were probably more surprised by my appearance, Barkeep, given you thought I was a guy. :)

me too and i can't wait...

The best part of dinner last night was Pass saying he wasn't sure what his screen name meant. :)

just to keep everyone posted, i have some last minute tweaking i am doing to the rules, and working on some additionaly roles and making sure they dont upset the balance as a result of the gigantic turn out. i hope to post the rule-set tomorrow around lunch time.

I would request this saldana, static times for lynch votes that stay the same everyday...be it 8 oclock every night or something...thats the one problem i have with coffees right now, and dubb voiced the same concern. process night if you get them early, but i ask you set a lynch time thats static...if you miss it, you miss it. Should be a problem getting votes out of this large number.

I agree. I still like the 24/12 system for deadlines, but if night is processed early, which is nice for the players, then simply extend the next day time.

Out of nothing more than my own personal interests, I'd like to request 9pm or later.

I won't get out of work before 6pm some nights, and the commute home can take up to an hour. A little breathing time to catch up would be greatly appreciated!

back in post 1, i did say that the day cycles that end during the evening will always be at 9:30. i take my lunch break from 9 to 10 each night, so i will use the first half hour to count, and the second to post, so no worries that there will be variable day cycle deadlines....consequently, if i run the night cycle short, some of the day cycles may be really long. as for day cycles that end in the morning....i work til 1 am, there is no way i am getting up before 9 to process anything, so that deadline is pretty much carved in stone as well.

I liked the static times (used in the first thread that I read through). Something like each day cycle ends at 9pm eastern time and the night cycle ends at Midnight eastern. When they start switching around it gets confusing. I expect this game to have a lot of posts and I dont want to have to read back to catch a posted cycle time. If the night cycle ends early, great, post the results and the next day cycle is just that much longer.

What the hell, I'm in.

I'm going to be at a loss in this game without Saldana to vote on day 1. ;)

dont worry, i plan on taking care of you on night 0 ;)

RULES ARE UP...in case people didnt notice, go to page 1

HP, oh hells yeah!

Oh man, this is gonna be fun!

"ALSO, THE ROLES LISTED ABOVE MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL ABILITES NOT DEFINED HERE. THIS IS WHERE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE WIZARDING WORLD CAN HELP YOU, AS THE ROLES ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WOULD BE IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS OR MOVIES."

Could you clarify this point please? I have no familiarity with the books or the movies. Are we going to be told what abilities we have, or are we going to have to guess?

basically, it means that the roles may have additional abilites that would be consistent with the HP world, and it is really there more as a disclaimer than anything so when things happen :) i will just point to it and say that i warned you....dont worry though, if you get a role like this, the explanation of how to use it will be extremely detailed, and i will answer any specific questions by Owl Post.

Cool idea for a game!

Can I have the role that gives it to Hermione?

Ok, thanks for the explaination.

Please don't give me Hermione then.

I wanna be Mad Eye Moody so that I can see inside Hermione's knickers...

wow, shes like 12....wow

Please don't give me Hermione then.

Depends upon which year of the books we're playing. In the most recent book they're 16 or 17... ;)

And besides, you know that Mad Eye has GOT to be a dirty old man with that magical eye he has...

just to clear up the who is going to be hermione question...there are no specific HP roles in the game...no one will be harry or any other JK Rowling character....the roles remain generic for the purposes of making them easier to portray...it would be impossible to be Harry and live through the 2nd night, because to have that role, it would be obvious (scar on head), and the death eaters would go straigt after you.

however, if anyone was going to be hermione, it would be lathum.

Be happy to join in after a long hiatus.

You're getting awfully excited about 12 year olds Blade.

I have an awfully bad feeling this is going to be a VERY hard game...with like 30 people playing, its gonig to be a veritable zoo...i am deathly afraid of this game now

I assume items are transferrable. Is that correct? If so how does one transfer the items?

no, items are yours from beginning to end, and if you die without using them, they are lost. i promise to explain everything in great detail including exactly how to use them if you get one.

GAME ON BABY

Gimme a good role.

so with the demons all dead, how does a 9:30 pm sunday start to night zero sound...that would make the first lynch deadline 9:30 am on tuesday...or do we want 2 12 hour cycles to start, making 1st lynch 9:30pm on monday?

Option 2, as day one will be random and quick

I prefer day cycles to end at night (real-time) whenever possible, so I vote for the latter.

After the last game, I don't want a good role. I just want to be a simple villager.

both of your thoughts were exactly what i was thinking...that will be the deal then...


Signups to close at 9:30 am on Sunday...roles will come out during the day with Night 0 starting at 9:30 pm on Sunday

Been a looooooooooong time since I actually played (last time actually did, I got killed the first day... hahahaha). Running a game was always fun. :)

The HP setting is going to be fun. Looking forward to playing.

ok.. I'm psyched.. don't have a clue what I'm going to do but I'm psyched.. turn on the curling iron!

I got some practice for this by playing about ten live WW games last night. :)

I think these MB WW games play out very differently than live werewolf. There also seems to be, from what I've seen, a whole hell of a lot less cheating in them as well.

Isn't this more of a WW/Harry Potter game than a WW/Hollywood game? :)

AFAIK, our group was honest last night.

There are some aspects that are different -- it's much harder to pore over voting records when you're pressed for time and you don't have a written record -- but there are also some common elements, e.g. when you're trying to hint at being the seer or the witness, that sort of thing.