Werewolf Small game XII- The game thread. GAME OVER VILLAGERS WIN!
 

You should have listened to your friends’ advice “Never travel to Europe on the cheap” they said. Because, for one thing, you ended up in Eastern Europe and for another you ended up in one of the worst (and in this case cursed) hotels.

So here you are in Romania of all places stuck in a run down hotel in some tiny village in the Carpathian Mountains. You have no idea where the next village is but it doesn’t matter anyway because all of the thunderstorms have flooded out the only bridge leading to the village, in addition to cutting the power. You are huddled in the hotel lobby with all of your fellow travelers trying to keep the candles lit which turns out to be difficult with all the drafts.

Finally the hotel manager Lathum enters and addresses you “I’m afraid I have some bad news. It looks like we’re going to be stuck here for the entire week without any power. The roads are washed out and there’s no way to leave.” You all groan as you calculate what the delay will do to your travel itineraries. “It gets worse” continues Lathum. “You see, this hotel is…. well, it’s cursed”

“You see, centuries ago a powerful werewolf was killed in this very building by a brave hunter. With his dying words he placed a curse on the building and ever since then, every ten years on the anniversary of his death, a pair werewolves come down from their den in the mountains, assume human form, and eat everybody in the hotel.”

“I don’t know why I accepted your reservations since I knew this would happen, I guess I’m getting old and forgetful. The good news is if you are killed I won’t charge you for the room.”

“That should be all the bad news… Oh, nope, wait there’s more. The wolves are already here you see. Even now two of you sitting in this room are wolves, which two I don’t know. They assume a very convincing human form during the day and if you see them at night, well, then you don’t see anything else ever again.”

“Now listen carefully, there are many more people here than there were ten years ago so I don’t think the wolves will kill you all at once, likely they’ll take one per night until they are equal in number then they’ll finish you off. Your best bet is probably to turn on each other and kill one of yourselves every day hoping to get a wolf. That seems like the sensible thing to do.”

“I take my leave of you now. Best of luck with the wolves and all, come back and see us next year if you’re alive.”

Here are the full rules for people to peruse. There are a lot of variants with special roles and additional rules but this is the basic version for us to try.


RULES

Werewolf is a game of accusation, deduction, lying, reverse psychology and bandwagoning. Moreover, it's a lot of fun.

The rules are pretty simple: The players represent a village and each member of the village has a role which is kept secret. Most players are ordinary villagers but two or more are werewolves and one is a seer, there are some other roles which are explained later. The goal of the villagers is to eliminate all of the werewolves. The goal of the werewolves is to achieve 1:1 parity with the villagers at which time they can openly rise up and overwhelm the villagers thus winning the game.

Gameplay
The game consists of two different phases: Night and Day. The game begins with a Night phase.

Night
In a night phase the moderator will ask the werewolves to choose a villager to “eat” and also ask the seer to choose one player to “view”. The werewolves should decide amongst themselves using the board's PM(private message) function who their victim will be and inform the moderator of their choice. The seer should decide who his target will be and inform the moderator of his choice.

The werewolves' victim is dead and is removed from the game, but the rest of the village won't find out until daytime who the victim is and what their secret role was.

The seer's target has his role (villager or werewolf) revealed to the seer only.

Day
During the daytime the villagers all wake up and find that one of their own has been killed by the werewolves. At this point at least one player is a werewolf and so someone is gonna get lynched.

During this phase all players, including werewolves who have assumed villager form, must discuss their suspicions. Eventually it will reach a point where villagers start to cast votes for who they feel is a werewolf and must be lynched. Votes are cast by placing bold text in a post like this VOTE PLAYER A. At the end of the day (which is defined as 8:00 pm board time) the player who received the most votes is lynched and is removed from the game. That player’s role will be revealed to the village.

When the lynching is done all the villagers go back to their homes to sleep and the next night begins.

Winning
In case it's not clear: The villagers win if they kill all of the werewolves. The werewolves win if they kill enough villagers so that their numbers are equal. At this point the werewolves can openly rise up and slaughter the rest of the villagers.

Special Roles

Roles will be assigned randomly; the Moderator will inform you of your role via PM when we start the game. The following is a description of the roles in the game.

Seer – There is one Seer in the game and he is on the villagers team. Each night the Seer may choose one other player to “view” by sending a PM to the moderator with that player’s name. The moderator will tell the Seer whether his chosen target is a werewolf or a human.

Werewolf – There are two werewolves in the game. The werewolves know who each other are and may send PM’s between themselves to discuss strategy. At night the wolves PM the moderator the name of the player they’d like to eat. In the morning that player’s death will be announced along with his special role

Hunter – There is one Hunter in the game and he is on the villagers team. If at the end of the game the Hunter is alone with one wolf then he will kill that wolf and what would normally have been a wolf win will be a village win.

Sorcerer – There is one sorcerer in the game and he is on the wolves team. The Sorcerer is an evil human and wants the wolves to win. If the wolves do win then the Sorcerer wins also, but if the villagers win then the Sorcerer loses. However, the Sorcerer does not know who the wolves are and the wolves do not know the Sorcerer. Crucially, the Sorcerer will appear as a simple human if viewed by the Seer

Villagers – There are four to six regular villagers in the game. The villagers have no special abilities other than their own deductive ability. They will have to vote wisely to win the game.

Miscellaneous
1) Only the wolves may PM’s between themselves. All other players may not send PM’s (unless to the Moderator as called for by your role or to ask a question)

2) If there is a tie in the lynch vote then the player with the longest held continuous vote against him will be lynched.

If you have any questions please ask.

Roles going out in a few minutes

1. Daddytorgo
2. KWhit
3. MollyMurphy- killed night 1- sorcerer
4. Peregrine-killed night 3- seer
5. NTNDeacon
6.Barkeep- lynched day 1- villegar
7.SNDVLS- killed night 2- villegar
8.AlanT
9. St Cronin- lynched day 2- hunter
10. HoopsGuy- killed night 4- villegar
11. Path- lynched day 3- villegar

roles sent

You spend some time poking around the hotel, which has all the comforts of home, if your home is a decrepit 16th century building that's falling apart and has no electricity, not to mention having a bunch of suspicious looking weirdos inhabiting it. There is a hot tub, but since the power is out it's just a pool of tepid water. However, hoopsguy is poking around looking for the sauna the first night you're there when he hears a terrible scream, and (like anyone would) goes to investigate alone. He finds the terribly mauled body of the innkeeper Lathum, who has apparently booked his last "Romantik Honimoon Advanture" (from some of the brochures you've seen around.) The old man's last words are a gasped "Avenge my death...by randomly lynching someone. It's the Romanian way!" Then he dies.

Feel free to talk among yourselves, but the rest of you are going to stay in your rooms at night from now on. Apparently someone read in a AAA guide that cursed werewolf-infested hotels are not safe at night. You have until Sunday at 10:30 pm to cast your votes on who will be lynched, and you can change your votes as many times as you want until then.

This is a solid group of players. I'm scared... and not a wolf.

oooh look. I got a PM and for some reason I didn't get a popup for it. Bad bad board!

I am not a wolf either.

VOTE LATHUM

ohhhh....um wait. He's already dead. Guess he can't be one of the wolves we are looking for

just a simple traveler here. Hoping we can get out of this alive and quickly so I can go off to see the castle of Vlad Tepes.

Just a quick post, I'm a regular villager. Let's get these wolves and get out of here!

I'm here and just trying to survive. Help me!

Top of the morning, all. I'm shocked that Lathum was not a wolf in this game.

Hello all. Villager checking in.

Cronin why are you scared if you're not a wolf? I know I'm not a wolf and I'm not scared. I don't want scared players.

Vote st.cronin

I see. The only players in this game who shouldn't be scared are the wolves. One way or another, we'll find out about you.

vote Barkeep

Day 1 rocks.

What a strange world view you have.

Villager checking in.

Very quick on the trigger finger.

Let's all calm down, we're going to have to be very careful to nail the right people in this game, since it's so small. Of course Day 1 just sucks in this regard. Let's wait till everyone's at least introduced themselves to break out the death threats.

I don't see how waiting for everyone is going to make this any more or less of a crapshoot. Not to mention I'm sitting at work and am happy to have some discussion going on.

Checking in and I'm a villager. Never been to Eastern Europe....not liking it so much.

Actually just double checking my PM, I'm evidentally not a villager...

My PM told me that i was a villegar instead. Not sure what a villegar is, but I hope the wolves don't find them as tasty to eat.

just want to throw it out there early that work looks like there's a lot going on in this coming week (got an RFI from Goldman Sachs for a client), so I likely won't be AS active as I was say...last game.

villager checking in

I'll be out most of today

and then going to the suns/spurs game tomorrow so
I'm putting in a place holder random day 1 vote

Vote DaddyTorgo

Counting on a moderator's savvy spelling seems an odd way to build trust :)

It was more a way at picking fun of Lathum than anything else. I have to assume due to the spelling in my PM, that each pm was typed out individually.

I'm just having fun before I'm eaten.

I've never kissed one of those before...

As a villager, I hate villegars. :mad:

META Game note: I am actually surprised to see Alan quoting from his role PM.

Well 5 other people said they were a villager before I did. Just pretend i made that up to buy trust and Im really a wolf if you want.

Sorry for trying to have fun in a way I didn't feel was being unsporty!

wow. Thanks sndvls...i'm honored

You should return the favor DT just to show how honored you are.

nah. I'd prefer not to throw my vote away to that extent. smells too...wolfish. I'd rather wait and see what's going on. I'm not afraid to put a 2nd or 3rd vote on someone on D1....someone has to.

Let's face it...Lathum typically spells villager...villegar. I believe that the PM could say this or you could just be poking fun, but I also believe you could just as easily be trying to throw us off your trail.

VOTE ALAN T

I also would like to point out that Anxiety once spelled the word "the" three different ways in one post.

Look it's another one of the famous KWhy did he do that votes :)

Vote Hoops
The only reason I have for this is that day 1 definately does not rock.

I'll just throw in a Day 1 random "lowest poster" vote

vote path12

VOTE KWHIT

is he trying to get a run going on MM?

usual disclaimers...shaky D1 vote...subject to change...blah blah

Vote count:

KWhit – DaddyTorgo(46)
St.cronin – Barkeep49(16)
Barkeep – st.cronin(17)
DaddyTorgo – SnDvls(28)
Alan T – MollyMurphy(39)
MollyMurphy – Kwhit(42)
Hoops – ntndeacon(44)
Path – Peregrine(45)

Not Voted: Alan, hoopsguy, path

I think it would be helpful for one of our three remaining people to cast a vote on an existing player so we can get some sort of debate going.

Done, Barkeep. It's headed your way for random reasons on the Cronin vote coupled with asking Daddy Torgo to return votes on SnDvls.

VOTE BARKEEP49

Well I didn't cast the first second vote since I didn't want one coming back to me but since it already has, I think Molly's suspicion of Alan's posts seems like the worst reason so I'll go ahead and

Unvote st.cronin
Vote Molly Murphy

Vote count:

KWhit – DaddyTorgo(46)
Barkeep – st.cronin(17), hoopsguy(48)
DaddyTorgo – SnDvls(28)
Alan T – MollyMurphy(39)
MollyMurphy – Kwhit(42), barkeep49(49)
Hoops – ntndeacon(44)
Path – Peregrine(45)

Not Voted: Alan, hoopsguy, path