WW XCIII - Mine Wars - Battle of Blair Mountain - SYMPATHIZERS WIN!!!

[jeheinz72]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

You're awesome

[elvis]
Thank you

Thankyouverymuch
[/elvis]

[Abe Sargent]

Expect roles in a half hour or so. Please DO NOT POST INFO UNTIL I HAVE BEGUN THE GAME. Thanks you

[Abe Sargent]

I can roll up roles with my trusty d20

[Abe Sargent]

For the record, race, skills and Bribe Point are determined randomly.

[Barkeep49]

Here's what I want to know. How can we make sure Abe gets multiple D1 votes?

[Abe Sargent]

Ahhh, poor little BK can't vote for the GM.

[Abe Sargent]

Ok, roles, skills, races, bribe point, items and sides all determined.

[Abe Sargent]

It behooves you to keep your race to yourself if you are non-white, btw

[Abe Sargent]

Hey Narzico!

[Danny]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

It behooves you to keep your race to yourself if you are non-white, btw

But what about affirmative action!

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

It behooves you to keep your race to yourself if you are non-white, btw

Umm, can't we look and see what race people are?

[Abe Sargent]

No

[Autumn]

Youre only that color on the inside.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Umm, can't we look and see what race people are?

When mine dust is on you, you are all blacker than soot.

[Danny]

My race is purple.

[Abe Sargent]

The 20 union leaders from District 17 arrive at Monongah, WV, a quiet town in north West Virgina to assist the local District 41 that is here. Monongah is a strong coal mining town, and it is here that an enterprising wife will create the pepperoni roll by baking pepperoni meat inside of rools for you to eat while down at the mine. Tasty!

Today you will need to complete the following work:

8 Man-Days of Gladhandling
8 Man-Days of Oratory

If you do those, than you may not participate with any missions today, if any.

The Day will end at 9 pm EST tomorrow, Tuesday. Monongah awaits!

[Abe Sargent]

The game begins

[jeheinz72]

Do we PM or post the work we want to do?

[Abe Sargent]

You post in BOLD

[Abe Sargent]

Just like votes, same with any mission. Just post you are going on them in BOLD.

You may undo work and missions before they are ran.

[Abe Sargent]

Remember, you may not Oust anyone today, you did not fail to complete camp yesterday

[The Jackal]

Mmm, pepperoni. So just looking at things, I imagine we're going to have some work coordination similar to Cathedral.

[Barkeep49]

Abe: It's possible to do work/mission and votes, yes?

[dubb93]

Still unsure, when we post what work we want to do do we also post how many units we are going to do or do we always just do 1 unit?

[Barkeep49]

Ok I'm more confused that I've been in a while, especially since I read these rules through before they were posted.

There is our daily work to convert the town.
Are there are other missions? Is this the same thing?

[Danny]

Some thoughts out of the gate.

20 players with the ability to potentially convert wolves. I do know my own bribe price, but no one else's or how that translates from a practical sense though. Still, I would guess we probably only have 3 starting wolves.

For today, we have 20 players and 16 units of work needed to complete. I say we assign certain players to a certain job and focus on making sure we get this done. It's always good to apply pressure to the wolves for later by being successful on early missions.

I also have bonus to working in a specific skill, I imagine other villagers do as well, is there a negative for coming out with this information and using it to more properly gage how much work we need on each task?

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Abe: It's possible to do work/mission and votes, yes?

Yes, but not Ousting except on days after failed mission.

[Barkeep49]

So the game ending event has something to do with race, I'd guess (having read the Victorie conditions). Something to keep in mind.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by dubb93

Still unsure, when we post what work we want to do do we also post how many units we are going to do or do we always just do 1 unit?

Everybody does one unit. Some specialization may play into here. If you are really good at gladhandling, for example it may count more than one.

[Autumn]

So the first Oust will not be until Wednesday then, is that correct?

Glad to meet you all. I'm eager to get our first camp brought over to the union cause, but I'm not sure that I'll be much help at talking and shaking hands. I can give it a try.

[Danny]

Ousting is voting someone off or is ousting the wolves making a night kill?

[Barkeep49]

If I understand things correctly:
As long as we meet the work requirement each day, there will never be an ousting and we win after 8 days. People are going to need to speak up real soon as to why we should just start laying out a plan of attack about who is going to work what. There should be, at least on this day, no reason not to do one of the work actions that I can see.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Autumn

So the first Oust will not be until Wednesday then, is that correct?

Glad to meet you all. I'm eager to get our first camp brought over to the union cause, but I'm not sure that I'll be much help at talking and shaking hands. I can give it a try.

If you succeed today, then it won't be then. That's the tension. The laborers want to convert camps, but when they do, they can't use their only main tool to find sympathizers. The sympathizers want to stop them from converting camps, but when they do, they hand the union an Oust vote. Each side has tension.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Autumn

So the first Oust will not be until Wednesday then, is that correct?

Glad to meet you all. I'm eager to get our first camp brought over to the union cause, but I'm not sure that I'll be much help at talking and shaking hands. I can give it a try.

Ousting only happens after we fail to achieve the work requirements on a goal. If we're good we'll never need to oust anyone.

Originally Posted by Danny

Ousting is voting someone off or is ousting the wolves making a night kill?

Ousting is the voting.

[Autumn]

Ah, I reread more carefully. We can only Oust if we fail to convert a camp. That seems like it's going to make things tough. It seems we are concentrating on converting the camps more so than finding any Sympathizers.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Danny

Ousting is voting someone off or is ousting the wolves making a night kill?

Voting someone off, but you don;t kill them, you are unionfolk, not evil peopl.

[dubb93]

I don't see any nightkills in the rules. Would that be correct?

[Danny]

Ok, so as Autumn said, it appears we do need to focus more on completing work as opposed to ousting wolves.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

If you succeed today, then it won't be then. That's the tension. The laborers want to convert camps, but when they do, they can't use their only main tool to find sympathizers. The sympathizers want to stop them from converting camps, but when they do, they hand the union an Oust vote. Each side has tension.

Don't believe the GM. We don't need to kill any sympathizers to win the game. We just need to convert 8 camps. Now I presume getting the work done isn't as easy as it appears, but theoretically we need not ever vote anyone off.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by dubb93

I don't see any nightkills in the rules. Would that be correct?

The bad guys "have many deadly and dangerous weapons at your disposal." I think people will die.

[Autumn]

Wow, we're talking fast and right over each other here. I'm going to pause and let people read up and think. I agree that I can't see a reason not to have everybody working. If a mission comes up we can always switch off.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by dubb93

I don't see any nightkills in the rules. Would that be correct?

If that was the case, then we probably don't have conventional roles such as a seer or bodyguard.

[Barkeep49]

Abe:
Are there missions in addition to our work? Or are missions and work the same thing?

[Danny]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

The bad guys "have many deadly and dangerous weapons at your disposal." I think people will die.

Ok, that makes more sense then.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Abe:
Are there missions in addition to our work? Or are missions and work the same thing?

On soime days, yes.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Danny

If that was the case, then we probably don't have conventional roles such as a seer or bodyguard.

But it's not so let's not muddy the waters. We might or might not have traditional roles, but I'm inclined to think we've got some form of a bodyguard, seer, duke, etc.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

On soime days, yes.

And we learn about these missions at the start of the day or in the middle of the day?

[Abe Sargent]

January, 1891 – Black scabs are first brought in at the Marmet mines and successfully divide the strikers so that companies begin to use the tactic again and again.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

And we learn about these missions at the start of the day or in the middle of the day?

Generally near the start of the day

[PurdueBrad]

Checking in basically to say I'm checking out for a few hours. I'll try to be around this evening to get involved. Definitely need to re-read the rules too.