Shadow over Fiddlesmouth Game Thread [GAME OVER, TOWN WINS]

[Kivam]

RULES & SETUP (h/t Dread Pirate Roberts):

 

This game will not feature many rules - but the rules that exist must be strictly abided by.

 

1. Players must be active. Daily participation is expected (RL days). Having said that, announced LOA's are fine, as long as you are active while you are playing.

 

The idea is this; the best games are the ones where people are actively plotting, playing, and posting tons of pages. The worst games are the ones where three RL days go by with a few spam posts. I know weekends will be slow - no problem - and I know that things pop-up and you can't get to a computer sometimes - no problem. I'm trying to promote the "spirit" of the game, and the spirit wants to play.

 

Lurking is an accpetable playstyle. Ignoring is not.

 

2. No faking emergencies. Real things happen, and I'm happy to help with anything like that. But don't use an emergency excuse to cover lurking.

 

3. There are no time limits on days.  Nights will last no longer than 36 non-weekend hours. If you think you may be on LOA during a night and have a night action, PM me ahead of time with what you want to do. In general, be courteous.  DO NOT make the game wait for you.

 

4. No needless spamming. Game related spamming is fine.

 

Game related spamming is a technique where a player is making a useless or silly argument just to generate pages and pages of posts to a.) discourage players from re-reading due to the volume of posts, or b.) create a diversion while something else is happening that they don't want you to notice. It's sorta like fillibustering. It's a legit technique, and I have no problem with it.

 

Non-game related spamming is when two people are up at night, talking on the thread, wondering how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. Fiddlesticks is availabel for spamming. Don't do it in the game.

 

If you have questions, don't worry - I'll post warnings when I see it happening. Only a repeat offender will be vaporized. As always, wise-crack one liners are encouraged. heh

 

5. Any legit technique will be allowed. This means that people may gang-up on you, or call you a liar, or pick on you for seemingly no reason. You have to remember that it's all part of the game and that it is not personal. Having said that, I absolutely will not allow any personal attacks - they are ridiculous. This is a game. Keep it cool.

 

6. No editing posts for any reason. Evar.

 

7. No quoting mod PM's.

 

8. Any QT (or the like) threads must be linked to me.

 

9. No off thread communication is allowed unless your role specifies that it is.

 

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RELICS:

 

As you all know from your PMs, this game features relics.  I've told you how to steal them.  There are two other things you should know:

 

1) You cannot pass relics to another player.  The only way for them to change hands is to be stolen.

 

2) You MAY NOT post any information about a relic on the thread.  That means no claiming to have one, and it means no publication of any information you got via PM from me when you obtained your relics. You can speculate about whether other people have relics, but that's it.

 

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WIN CONDITIONS:

 

The win conditions for the scum in this game are unusual.  Yes, they will win if they can kill you all.  But they will also win if they all die - as long as: 1) the Vessel is alive; and 2) another condition (that only they know) has been met.

 

Remember that.

 

Also, be aware that, at the start of the game, nobody knows who the Vessel is.  

 

Have fun.

[Kivam]

The old man leaned forward in his chair, brittle, parchment-like skin rustling disconcertingly over prominent bones as he shifted.  Bushy eyebrows drawing down, he peered at his visitor owlishly over filthy spectacles, the flames in the hearth behind him writhing in a macabre dance, casting Cyclopean shadows on the walls of his study.  Those walls were covered with the skulls of every kind of beast known to man - tigers, deer, lions - and some not.  One, a triple-horned monstrosity of a skeletal hound, seemed to slaver as it leered down from behind the old man, the reddish glow of the fire lending each of its four eyes a hellish tinge.  The oldster smiled as he saw what had captured his guest's attention.  "Yes.  That's a Hound.  Hard to kill, the Tindalosi are, but not impossible."  For all his obvious age, the voice was strong, without a quaver.  

 

"Now, are you comfortable?  Will you take tea?  No, I won't untie you to drink it, but I'd be a poor host indeed if I didn't offer."  He smiled again, much less pleasantly.  "No?  Well, let it not be said I failed to offer.  I warn you, it will be a long time before we're done.  The tale you'd have me tell is complex beyond your imagining."

 

He leaned back in his chair, then, staring up at the ceiling.  When he spoke up again, he was almost talking to himself.  "Cthulhu fhtagn.  Cthulhu waits.  It has been long since I last heard those words.  You want to know what happened in Fiddlesmouth, all that time ago?"  The lowering shadows seemed to gather around his head as he spoke.  "You may not like what you hear.  But I'll tell it, don't you worry.  And every word true."

 

Day 1 will begin when all players have confirmed their PMs

 

The current living players are:

 

1. Pandy Replaced by Jeran Day 4 - Innocent, Killed Night 9

2. Tigraine - Innocent, Killed Night 8

3. Aemon

4. Barm - Innocent, Killed Night 6

5. Danya - Cultist, Lynched Day 10

6. Nae - Innocent, Killed Night 5

7. Alanna - Innocent, Modkilled Night 5

8. Quibby - Innocent, Killed Night 4

9. Dragonsworn - Survivor.  Killed Night 7

10. DreadPirateRoberts - Cultist, Lynched Day 5

11. Hybrid

12. Ed - Cultist,  Killed Night 3

13. Wombat Innocent, Killed Night 1. Resurrected Night 2. Lynched again Day 7

14. Thorum - Cultist, Lynched Day 2

15. MCS - Innocent, Lynched Day 4

16. Anox - Cultist, Lynched Day 6

17. Verbal - Innocent, Lynched Day 9

18. Alys - Innocent, Lynched Day 8

19. Al Jenn - Innocent, Lynched Day 1. Resurrected Night 1. Killed again Night 3

20. Lia - Innocent, Killed Night 2

21. Jeran - Innocent, Killed Night 2

22. Lavinya

23. Pookie

24. Crusher - Innocent, Lynched Day 3

 

 

P.S. - here's a good drawing of a Hound of Tindalos:

 

 

You can see where they might be hard to kill.

[Alys Kinch]

Thread is open. Hello all.

[Kivam]

Game on.

 

One more thing - if a player who dies has a relic (lynched, NK or otherwise), the first person to PM me a request for the relics after I post the death scene will get it.  If they have multiple relics, the relics will be distributed 1 per person to anyone who PMs me within 5 hrs of the first PM, in the order they PM me, until the relics run out (if they have 2 relics, and nobody PMs me within 5hrs of the first request, the first requester will get both.  If 2 people PM me within 5 hrs of the first request, only the first of the 2 PMers will get a relic).

[aemonkristen]

All right. Let's get this ball rolling. I'll vote [glow=red,2,300]Quibby[/glow] just because it's a funny sounding name.  :D ;D

[Alys Kinch]

The relics business sounds fun. I remember similar from DPR, so :D.

 

PS Usual statement. Weekends will be difficult. Some work days, I'll have to be in the field for the entire day (unless the rain keeps up.).

[WWWwombat]

[glow=red,2,300]Aemon[/glow] is scum.

[Thorum]

[glow=red,2,300]Aemon[/glow] is scum.

 

Thou tooketh away my choice  >:(

[The Crusher]

I will vote [glow=red,2,300]Lia[/glow] because that's what the EMMM told me. 

[Thorum]

[glow=red,2,300]Aemon[/glow]

 

Just so there will be no misunderstanding

[Barmacral]

Relics == Bonestone?

[Kivam]

Vote Count

 

Quibby (1) - Aemon

Aemon (2) - WWWwombat, Thorum

Lia (1) - Crusher

 

With 24 players living, it takes 13 votes to lynch.

[Kivam]

Relics == Bonestone?

 

Similar, but not necessarily identical :D

 

PAFO >:D

 

(For those who don't know, "Bonestone" was a type of relic used by DPR in another mafia game; the pieces were hidden somewhere on the boards, and had various powers.  You don't need to know anything about that for this game)

[aemonkristen]

Thorum and Wombat are just jealous cause I'm better looking.  ;D

[DPR]

 

*holds up a milkbone and whistles*

 

Nice poochy...

 

 

[Quibby]

I vote [glow=red,2,300]Barm[/glow] because he got me involved in this silliness.

 

And trust me, the nickname isn't nearly as silly as the source of said name.

[Kivam]

Vote Count

 

Quibby (1) - Aemon

Aemon (2) - WWWwombat, Thorum

Lia (1) - Crusher

Barm (1) - Quibby

 

With 24 players living, it takes 13 votes to lynch.

 

[Naeann]

I don't know what Wombat looks like.. but if I remember correctly and it was Thorum at one of the euromeets then he is, in fact, better looking than you Aemon.  Sorry.

[Barmacral]

I don't know what Wombat looks like.. but if I remember correctly and it was Thorum at one of the euromeets then he is, in fact, better looking than you Aemon.  Sorry.

 

PWNT!

[Alys Kinch]

*laughs* Thorum is hot, huh?

 

I'm [glow=red,2,300]voting DPR [/glow] because I know at some point I will want to just because. Might need to go ahead and get that out of my system. Spermacral is probably next.

[Hybrid]

[glow=red,2,300]Naeann[/glow] because she tried to kill me last game.  I mean, really, how dare she?

[Alys Kinch]

Evil begets bad consequences?

[aemonkristen]

I don't know what Wombat looks like.. but if I remember correctly and it was Thorum at one of the euromeets then he is, in fact, better looking than you Aemon.  Sorry.

 

*weeps softly*

[mcs0083]

Why 'ello

[DPR]

*laughs* Thorum is hot, huh?

 

I'm [glow=red,2,300]voting DPR [/glow] because I know at some point I will want to just because. Might need to go ahead and get that out of my system. Spermacral is probably next.

 

OMG, I swore to myself that I wasn't going to reveal on day one, but now that you put the heat on me...*sighs*

 

I'm the finderhealer - sounds crazy, I know - but now you can't lynch me ( 'cause I'm definitley not mafia. No way! Nope...)