Back to the Future (Night 12 Deadline: Tuesday 10 PM EST)

[EagleFan]

We need to get another one kicked off. I will take the weekend to post the details but the basic idea is Marty McFly heading into the past with an update. Since we are as far from the 80's as he was from the 50's... he's going back to the 80's so expect plenty of nostalgia posts.

I have no clue if this will take off but I figure it's worth a shot.

[EagleFan]

General Rules

- One deadline Game; Deadline: 10 PM EST

- Weekdays only

- Have fun but don't be a douche

- Active participation encouraged; remember, if you don't post you aren't doing anyone a favor and are making what could be a fun game boring


Voting & Night Actions

- Place your votes in bold on a separate post with no other comments; if you are giving commentary about your vote please do that on a separate post

- Votes and night actions time stamped 10:00 will count, 10:01 won't

- Not voting during a day will be considered 3 votes for yourself


Tie Votes

- First tie lynch vote will result in a random kill of one of the people who voted for those tied for lynch lead

- Second tie lynch vote will result in two random kills from the people who voted for those tied for lynch lead; or if only villagers fall into that group it will be one person from that group and one random wolf being killed (to keep it from a strategy)

- Third tie results in a mass lynching of everyone and I will be declared the winner


Posting

- NO posting is allowed after I have declared deadline until I have declared the next day will begin; if you post trying to sneak something in after deadline but before results "in case you are killed" it will result in a random player from your side also being killed that day; if you didn't have the guts to post it before deadline don't take the chickensh*t way out

- Keep it civil; one warning will be issued if things get too personal; if someone persists after that warning they will be removed from the game; it's a game, treat it that way


Winning Conditions

- Village wins if all wolves are eliminated (even if third party remains) and gaining even ratio (or better) with the Koranian Nationals

- Wolves win if all the Koranian Nationals are eliminated and gaining a even ratio with the village (or better); the exception will be detailed in the hunter role, if exists

- The Koranian Nationals wins is all village is eliminated and gaining even ratio (or better) with wolves

[EagleFan]

Village

Marty McFly - You are the 'hero' of the story. A freak accident caused you to travel back in time (to a date that will be revealed at the start of the game) and you have encountered your parents, before they were your parents. Your actions may affect the future so be careful. Can scan for Biff's Bullies in the past.

Doc Brown - You are the accidental hero of the story. A bad decision by you starts a potentially tragic chain of events. Uses an invention the protectotron in the past to protect someone at night.

Jennifer Parker - The girl that puts that special twinkle in Marty's eye. Can pass notes to Marty in present day. In future is a semi-lover role that can pass notes and Marty will lose powers if she is killed or removed.

George McFly - Marty's father, will his life change?


Wolves

Biff Tannen - The bully of all bullies. He is a brutal wolf.

Unknown Accomplices - Bullies need their lackeys.


Koranian Nationals

Koranian Leader - The leader of our fictional country which is known to want to conquer the world and is victim of a crime as plutonium has been stolen from them. You are the brutal for your group.

Followers - Tyrants need their subservient followers.


Items

Plutonium - How else are you going to get 1.21 gigawatts of power. Bullies gain ability to force doc to shift time whenever they want if they gain possession of it. Koranians can make a dirty bomb with it in the future if they gain possession of it. Citizens can use it to attempt to 'bribe' a terrorist (scan).

Skateboard - May be useful to escape.


Potential Powers

Cunning - Unable to be scanned

Brutal - Take someone with you

Protect - Protect Someone

Pass Notes - Pass a note through me to the intended target, if you are given the ability

Convert - Convince someone to take your side

Sympathize - Be an unofficial member of a team, you just really want them to win

Kill - Make someone be no longer

[EagleFan]

Signups

1) britrock88
2) mauchow - vanilla citizen (day 1 lynch)
3) The Jackal - Koranian Leader (day 10 brutal
4) Zinto - Koranian terrorist (night 10 kill))
5) Schmidty - vanilla citizen (caught in a blast early day -2)
6) Autumn - Biff Tannen (Day 10 lynch)
7) Danny - Marty McFly (Day 11 night kill)
8) DaddyTorgo - Koranian recruit (Day 11 lynch)
9) Narcizo
10) saldana - vanilla citizen (night -3 removal)
11) Chief Rum - vanilla citizen (night -1 lynch)
12) GoldenEagle - vanilla citizen (day -3 lynch)
13) KWhit - Jennifer Parker (caught in a blast day 10)
14) murrayyyyy = vanilla citizen (day -2 lynch)
15) fontisian - bully recruit (day 12 lynch)
16) JAG - vanilla citizen (night -1 removal)

[britrock88]

In.

[mauchow]

Yeah I will play.

[EagleFan]

I'll add more later.

[The Jackal]

In - another reminder that I need to watch this movie...

[Chief Rum]

Bad timing. I'll be on vacation at the Grand Canyon this week.

Of course, if signups take a week as they sometimes do, maybe I'll be back by the time it starts.

[Zinto]

I am in.

[The Jackal]

For as much of a douche as Joffrey is, you'd think you'd want to change your signature

[hoopsguy]

Originally Posted by The Jackal

For as much of a douche as Joffrey is, you'd think you'd want to change your signature

LOL, add DaddyTorgo to the list who still have their GoT characters in sigs.

Sadly, I just can't make any kind of WW time commitment these days. The new job is an absolute time thief relative to my WW hours. But would love to see the gang still playing here, as their is a certain nostalgic wistfulness when I read along with the games that just doesn't translate to the BGG WW forum.

[Schmidty]

I'll play, but you guys always know what happens when I play.

[Autumn]

In

[EagleFan]

We'll give this a week to get moving. Starting date of 9/16.

Plus I just got a bunch of email this weekend that sounds like this week if about to be insane at work.

[Danny]

I'll sign up. Should be able to keep up with a game here

[DaddyTorgo]

In

[Narcizo]

Yes please.

[saldana]

yeah, i will play

[DaddyTorgo]

Looks like we can consider CR in as well?

[EagleFan]

Updated the signups.

[GoldenEagle]

In.

[KWhit]

I'll play.

[EagleFan]

Sweet, would love to get at least 20.

If I can get a big group there will be chaos, chaos I tell you...

[Autumn]

KWhit!

[murrayyyyy]

Okay. You have dragged me back in...

[EagleFan]

Welcome back

[britrock88]

Where are JAG? ntndeacon? others? Lasso 'em up!

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by britrock88

Where are JAG? ntndeacon? others? Lasso 'em up!

Tried to, no response.

[fontisian]

Hey. I feel really bad about dropping off the map earlier, but I'm back and I'd love to play.

[EagleFan]

I'll see who else signs up by the end of the early games tomorrow and then work out the balance and send out roles.

[Barkeep49]

Nice to see a game going.

[JAG]

I'll play. Not going to be as active as I've been, but won't be at the getting three votes for myself level either. I'm going to get a lot of lightning bolts from the mod about writing commentary in a post with a vote, so please be ready to harness that for the 1.21 gigawatts needed to power the DeLorean.

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Nice to see a game going.

Does that phrase mean "I'm In"....

[KWhit]

Originally Posted by Autumn

KWhit!

Hey man.

Glad to be back. This should be fun.

[EagleFan]

I'll give it a little longer and then will post here when I am finalizing roles.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by EagleFan

Does that phrase mean "I'm In"....

It's a "I like FOFC WW and don't want to be rude and ignore the PM but can't possibly play"

[EagleFan]

I will start sending out roles shortly. The powers of the "village" will be unknown but as the story unfolds they will become known.

This will not be your typical werewolf game. I hope to make it as entertaining for all that are playing as possible. EVERYONE will be able to affect the outcome of this game in one manner or another in how they affect the story as it unfolds.

[GoldenEagle]

Vanilla villager checking in.

[EagleFan]

Welcome to Anytown USA; a small nondescript Midwestern town. Life looks to be normal as you go about your daily lives. What you don't know is what the next 24 hours may bring to your town, your past and your future.

Nothing out of the ordinary happens as you have a Starbucks Coffee and see the kids listening to music on their smartphones as they get dropped off at school.





The town is preparing for a yearly festival to remember the day the old library burnt down when struck by lightning. All that remains is a clock which was high above the town on the sole remaining piece of the library, a brick chimney that still has an ashen discoloration from that fateful day.

No one knows what lies ahead of just how the future... and history... may change.

[EagleFan]

GAME ON

[EagleFan]

[JAG]

Kind of an unusual one in that the wolves aren't trying to eliminate the villagers, other than removing enough to get parity. On the other hand, the Koranians need to eliminate all villagers. Because they have to get rid of (presumably) so many villagers and would seem to otherwise have a big uphill battle in that regard, I wonder if we might have unbalanced teams, like say 8 villagers 5 Koranians 3 wolves.

[EagleFan]

Movie Trivie

In the opening sequence, all of Doc's clocks read 7:53 (25 minutes slow) except for one clock. It is on the floor next to the case of plutonium and it reads 8:20. There's also a black and white picture of a man hanging on the town hall clock of Hills Valley, the way it happened right before the lightning strikes it in 1955.

The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. (See also Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.) The Nevada desert bomb test was left out in order to reduce the budget. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test.

The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty.

Canadian pop singer Corey Hart was asked to screen test for the part of Marty.

Apparently Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film Back to the Future, 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"

When Lorraine follows Marty back to Doc's house, she and Doc exchange an awkward greeting. This marks the only on-screen dialogue that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson ever have, though they have appeared together in five movies and one TV movie.

[EagleFan]

I will say that this game will evolve as it progresses. Hopefully entertaining and enough to keep everyone on their toes.

[JAG]

Vote saldana

[JAG]

So, weird stuff will happen with items / not-often-seen abilities likely out there, but it's still Day 1 of a WW game, not much to talk about until we see some votes.

[fontisian]

Vote The Jackal
You got a problem with the GOT signatures?

JAG: My first thought regarding balance was that conversion opportunities seem likely for the Koranians.

[EagleFan]

Minor request, make the votes a post of their own. I have a bunch of things to sort out going through this game and that will make it a little easier to track.

We seriously need something like Casie.

[JAG]

-5 points for failing to read the rules:

Place your votes in bold on a separate post with no other comments; if you are giving commentary about your vote please do that on a separate post

Conversion seems like a weird thought for a Back to the Future game, but maybe something getting changed in the timeline could do that. Something to keep in mind I suppose.