WW XCI: Office Space, the TPS Edition - GAME OVER - Insiders Win
 

Your life has evolved into sitting in a cubicle, staring at a screen and hoping to make it through another week. Life is hell, but at least you have a job and can afford to live.

Week after week, status report after status report, TPS after TPS, it's hard to take it anymore.

Rumors begin to surface. Layoffs? Downsizing? Company going belly up? Every rumor you can imagine begins to be heard at the water cooler but not one of them is good.

As you enter the office on one gllomy Monday it seems that life as you know it has changed forever. You feel even more helpless but have no idea why.

As you sit and watch you PC boot up your mind begins to wander. Just what would life be like if I walked in and quit? How much worse could it be?

The PC springs to life, you start up your email client. Ding! You've got freaking mail. It's from the corporate headquarters, this can't be good, this is never good. The company has hired a pair of "consultants" to evaluate everyone's position. You know what this means, this means to see who is important enough to keep and who can be discarded like yesterday's news.

As the day begins you hear a coworker being called into the conference room. It's one of the network guys, you only know him by the name EagleFan. The door shuts behind him, suddenly a blood curdling scream is heard. The door swings back open and you see it, the look of terror in his face. His face turns pale, he slumps to the floor. Then you notice the pink slip, it is pinned to his back with a dagger. The company takes termination a bit too seriously.

You stand up to run but to where? All the doors have been sealed shut.

"The company will be cutting the budget today!!! AT ALL COSTS!!!" You hear coming from the intercom.

Your owly hope is to band together with your fellow coworkers and strike back. One problem. Some have already been told they are going to be retained and have sold their sole to assist with the terminations. They all must be eliminated for you to remain.

Will you live to see Friday? It's up to you!!!


Normal werewolf rules apply. Specifics revealed within PM's may not be mentioned in thread (unless specically noted within the PM). The number of roled players will depend on the number of overall players.

For the office workers: Eliminate the insiders.
For the insiders: Get to a 1 to 1 ratio with the office workers.

Roles

Office Workers
Peter - You have been relaxed beyond belief thanks to hypnotherapy gone horribly wrong. This relaxed state allows you to see things very clearly. Each "night" you may scan someone to see where their allegiance falls.

Lawrence - You are an outsider, Peter's neighbor, who works construction across the street. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time. You got trapped after running into the building to use the john. You see what has happened and offer your protection to the workers. You may protect one person to protect each "night" phase.

Milton - You have been burned by this company enough. When they took your stapler it became the last straw. You will finally rise up to make a stand, just one time, as you can change the lynch vote one time.

Joanna - You are Peter's girlfriend. You wanted to surprise him at work this Monday morning for a little quickie in the copy room. You chose the wrong Monday to be in the office. You have PM rights with Peter and that's about it (youmay decide to do other things for him but that's entirely on you).


Drew - You annoy your coworkers like the best of them. You do not know who the Insiders are but will become one if they come after you. You win or lose with the team that you end up on.


The Insiders
Lumbergh - You will do whatever it takes to keep your yearly bonus. You will take someone with you if they keep you from it. You are the brutal.

The Bobs - You decide who goes next, along with Lumbergh's input. The number of Bobs depends upon the number of players.

Nina - You look just lke a regular worker but you are one of the insiders. A scan will show you as a worker.


Items
Rope - Tie up a target to prevent them from performing a night action. or Tie yourself to a target for the night phase. or ???

Mask - Disguise yourself as someone else currently alive during one phase. or Disguise someone else as another person currently alive during one phase. or ???

Stapler - Passive protection from attack, small chance of success or Passive protection from blocked attack, small chance of success. or ???


Deadlines:
"Day" - 8:00 PM EST
"Night" - 10:00 PM EST


General Rules
- Votes held each day stage for who to lynch.
- Tie vote results in no lynch.
- Objects may appear within the game. Some may be usable for each side. Some may have more than one possible use and results may vary. Ask the mod if you have a question and use your imagination on how to use it. Size of the game may depend on the objects involved.
- Revealing anything from your PM's will result in the lynching of the offender. Unless the PM specifies that you may reveal information or that you can reveal some of the information.
- No editing of posts, though that should be old habit by now for WW players.
- Votes are to be bolded to stand out.
- "Nightfall" may be voted upon and needs unanimous approval. The availability of the "GM" to run nightfall will be the ultimate determination.
- If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask.
- Most importantly... HAVE FUN!!!

Starts Monday the 6th. Roles out Monday morning, first deadline in the evening.

Signup Sheet:

1. cartman - office worker (3rd lynch)
2. Abe Sargent - office worker (8th lynch)
3. Lathum - office worker (4th lynch)
4. Schmidty - Joanna (1st Termination)
5. USFLTecmo - office worker (7th lynch)
6. The Jackal - office worker (3rd Termination)
7. hoopsguy - office worker (1st lynch)
8. lerriuqs - office worker (7th Termination)
9. Poli - Nina (duked to 5th lynch)
10. Chief Rum - Milton (6th Termination)
11. Danny - Lumbergh, brutal
12. claphamsa - Peter (2nd Termination)
13. Passacaglia - Bob (2nd lynch)
14. PurdueBrad - Lawrence, body guard
15. MartinD - Bob (6th lynch)
16. Barkeep49 - office worker (9th Termination)
17. Autumn - office worker
18. dubb93 - Drew -converted


Links
Game On
Turning a profit already...

First Employee Meeting, fighting back blindly
First attempt to Downsize

The longest Monday continues
2nd Lynch, Insider uncovered
Not Peter, say it ain't so

The Memory Remains
Oh my god! They killed cartman
Another lost soul

Tuesday, one step closer to Friday
Another Day, Another Worker
Reorg Rescheduled

Milton Unleashed
Meeting postponed

He Bobbed when he should have weaved...
Glitch Fixed

Maybe they should sue, they may get $1
pest control?

Time Winds Down?
All is quiet, or is it?

Expect the Unexpected?
The final nail

I haven't done WW in a while. Count me in.

In

awesome


I'm in

I'm in again. Please don't make me a wolf for the third straight game. I beg you.

In!

Excellent, welcome back!!!

in

And it's XCI, btw. ;)

I'm really hoping to be Milton. In.

Daytime deadline could be really, really terrible for me. In fact, I think it is pretty much a lock that I won't be around for it ever. I'm just hoping that I have enough time during the day to contribute somewhere near my normal level.

In.

I'm in if I can be Peter. If not, count me out.



Just kidding.

Welcome!!!

Awesome! Welcome!

what if we hypnotize you to make you think you are Peter

Awesome. Great theme.

Been a busy week for me, and couldn't join clap's game, so I am ready for me some werewolf. Put me in por favor.

Cool theme, I'm in

I like the way this is shaping up.

I might even break out the O-face.

Can't you just make me think I'm fishing or something?

im in!!!!!

top 5 all time movie!

Fixed!!!

Office Space, awesome! I'm in.

I'm liking the numbers so far, hopefully we'll get a good sized game going.

someone clearly has never worked in a cube farm.....

no roles for Michael Bolton or Samir Ngahnotgonnaworkhereanymore?

I'm in

I may find something for them if we get enough people. If not they will make an "appearance" in some form or another.

When is this going to start up? I can't play this weekend but would be good on Monday.

No worries, we never have weekend play.

Sorry, I said it in the GM thread but not here I guess. It's going to start up on Monday. I'll add that to the signup post.

I'll play, if you don't mind a rookie joining in...

Martin

Welcome!

Are you from the same board as USFL?

nice turnout, where has Heinze been?

Welcome!!!

working.... Im getting nowhere harassing him either :(

Yeah give Heinze a little more time off and then we'll coerce him into coming back.

Nice to see some new faces in this game, I'm excited.

Nope, I've only brought the backwards squirrel over at the moment, although I've linked here in our Mafia/Werewolf subforum. Hoping for more, but we'll see.

No - have been around FOFC for quite a few years now (starting in the 2k1 days). I started looking round the WW forum when Abe was running The Dungeon, and enjoyed reading along enough to stick around for a couple of WW games - liked what I saw enough to want to give it a try.

Martin

i want to be in but i know i have to travel to NY next week for a full day and then chicago for a night & day the week after so it prolly doesn't make sense.

we can just all agree to kill you day 1

DT never puts a cover letter on his TS reports anyway.... ;)

We got the ketchup man back in a thread, now we just need to get him back in a game.

Is that an "In" since no weekend start?

I am in.

Yes, put me in, thanks.