Admin Thread for WW LXXXII: Return to Tol-in-Gaurhoth

[Thinlómien]

Fellow Barrow-Downers,

it is time for us to return to the original Tol-in-Gaurhoth, the ghastly keep ruled by the terrifying Lord of Wolves, Sauron, and inhabited by all kinds of horrors. You are valiant Elves of Nargothrond, a wolf hunting party led by the brave but wilful Lady Thinlómien and you shall be taken by the Enemy, tortured and slain one by one unless the fool's hope prevails and you shall be rescued against all odds by your kinsmen...

Welcome to WW LXXXII: Return to Tol-in-Gaurhoth, the fourth game modded by yours truly and the first one actually involving werewolves...

You are all Nargothrondian Elves, some of you are professional hunters, some of you are something else. I would like everybody to come up with some specific characteristic for their character: a profession (if they're not hunters), a hobby, a colour or an animal they identify with, a dominant personality trait or a special thing in their appearance etc. This is just to help me write the narrations. :) I also ask people to keep it tolkienish and relatively believable, so please no chamber pot emptiers of Finrod Felagund or people who had so big noses they keep tripping on it, however funny it might be... ;)

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The rules

Roles

3 Wolves - opposed to the innocents. They win when their number is equal or bigger than the number of the remaining innocents. May PM with each other during the Nights. Each Night, they choose to kill someone and send their name to me. Unless something drastic happens, this person dies.

Seer - on the innocent side. Every Night, the seer chooses a person to dream of and PMs his choice to me. This persons' role is revealed to the seer. Unlike normally, can see the cobbler's role.

Ranger - on the innocent side. Every Night, chooses someone to protect by PMing me his choice. If this person is attacked by the wolves, she will not die. Cannot protect the same person two times in a row or himself.

Hunter - on the innocent side. Picks a person to hunt. If he's lynched, his hunt target dies too regardless of her role. If he dies at Night, his hunt target dies if she's a wolf and doesn't die if she's not. The hunter may change his pick once every Day and every Night and does that by informing me by PM. If he doesn't inform me about a change in his pick I assume it to be the same as before. If the hunter somehow fails to make any pick at all before he dies he will die alone.

Cobbler - on the wolves' side. Doesn't know their identity. Wins with the wolves but counts as an ordo in the final tally. Unlike in most games, will show as a cobbler if dreamt by the seer.

X Ordos - on the innocent side. The guys who have the must fun.


Other rules

- all the players should be on the invisible mode.
- all the votes should be cast as follows:
++Thinlómien
(two pluses, bolded, on a separate row).
- the deadline for the votes and Nightly picks is 8 pm GMT. Votes with the time stamp 8.00 do count, the ones with 8.01 or more don't. The mod asks the wolves and the gifteds to kindly submit their Night picks an hour before the deadline if possible.
- no double lynchings. In the case of a tie, the mod flips a coin.
- no retractable votes.
- don't edit your posts except to mark cross-posting or correct spelling.
- PMs may not be quoted or used as evidence.
- living players may not talk about the game with each other outside the thread (unless they are wolves who are allowed to PM with each other, of course).
- the dead don't talk, not on the thread and not by PM with the living. Preferably the dead keep out of the admin thread as well - there are very few things you can't leave to the aftergame discussion.
- modfire will be exercised if somebody doesn't vote for two Days in a row or breaks the rules severely. It'll be upon the mod's judgement, though. (No modfire for forgetting to bold a vote or anything like that. :p)

The General Rules (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=16791).

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The Player List
Legate of Amon Lanc - jeweller with an affinity to the colour white
Inziladun - weaponsmith
Eönwë
skip spence - an admirer of Finduilas's
Loslote - young tag-along girl with frizzy hair
Shastanis Althreduin - orphan solitary hunter who moves silently, likes blue and has a pet snake
Nerwen - young and impatient hunter who makes animal statues of wood and likes the colour green
Boromir88 - incompetent gatewarden
Glirdan - local batty scholar
Nogrod - narcoleptic master-hunter
Ozban - young and naive hunter and admirer of Finrod Felagund
Pitchwife - furrier
A Little Green - veteran hunter with a striking resemblance to an opossum
wilwarin538

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

All right, let me be the first one to sign up :)

I have to think of an occupation and other things yet, though. I need to think it through first... :)

[Thinlómien]

Yay! I has a player! :D And this time you can't even fool me because I will know your role... ;)

[Inziladun]

I'd like to put in as a weaponsmith.

[Thinlómien]

Wondeful - and a very cool occupation too, by the way...

[Eönwë]

I think I have time for another... sign me up, Lommy!

[Thinlómien]

Sure. Welcome, Eönwë! :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

So note me down as a jewel-maker, in the good fëanorian tradition... :) Favourite color being white, favourite element being fire, making things clear and bright, with the wish to shine very bright myself (also metaphorically), even if it was supposed to be only for a short time... seeing things possibly a bit too easily as either white or black...

[skip spence]

With a European-friendly DL I believe I'll play too. :)

I'll be a lesser noble-man who went out on this mission to impress Finduilas whom he loves in vain.

[Eönwë]

please no chamber pot emptiers of Finrod Felagund or people who had so big noses they keep tripping on it, however funny it might be... ;)

How often has this happened?:p

[Loslote]

Guess what guess what guess what guess what guess what?

I'm signing up. :p

As...a whiny tag-along girl who was *not* supposed to come, but sneaked after her daddy anyway. She likes neon colours and has frizzy hair. (I sign up as a young girl a lot, don't I? :rolleyes: Ah well!)

[satansaloser2005]

Awwww, that's an impossible deadline for me. No way I'll join; I'd be far too tempted to get on the site during work, and....well, bad. :rolleyes:

If the DL shifts to anywhere after 10 pm GMT someone should clue me in, yes? :)


Also, I nearly died when I read the thread title. For personal reasons, of course. :Merisu:

[Inziladun]

Wondeful - and a very cool occupation too, by the way...

Thanks! I'd intended to take a break, but I've yet to be part of a Lommy-modded game and thought it was an opportunity not to be missed. ;)

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I'm signing up, of course. Will think of something to be asap.

[Nerwen]

I'd love to play, but when is this starting? I'll have very limited internet access between tomorrow and Monday.

[Boromir88]

I was intending a longer break, but I recall only beeing in one of Lommy's games, which I believe is unacceptable.

Sign me up as the incompetant gatewarden. :D

[Glirdan]

Hmmm, European friendly DL....my sleep pattern is Chinese related :rolleyes: I can't believe I'm going to say this, but sign me up and here's to hoping that I don't sleep for 12 hours during a Day period :rolleyes:

Will think of something to be in a bit.

[Thinlómien]

Oi, lots of people! :D Welcome everyone.

How often has this happened?It was just an example!!!

As...a whiny tag-along girl who was *not* supposed to come, but sneaked after her daddy anyway. She likes neon colours and has frizzy hair.Neon colours and Beleriand? Isn't that stretching a bit? :p

I'd love to play, but when is this starting? I'll have very limited internet access between tomorrow and Monday.I don't know, quite frankly. We have seven players now, including you. About double that amount would be cool. I don't think that's going to happen in less than two days, so we could start on Friday at the earliest and I think I'm going to have a busy-ish weekend. So I say we start on Sunday if everyone is ready which means you can play. ;)

[Nogrod]

When was the last European friendly DL-game? :smokin:

So I'm in for sure... I'll read the rules and come up with an occupation soonish (needs to log out for a moment).

[Nogrod]

Okay. I'll be the narcoleptic master hunter.

A basic game for a change! So something completely different... ;)

[Loslote]

Neon colours and Beleriand? Isn't that stretching a bit? :p

Why, yes. Yes it is. :p

[Nerwen]

I don't know, quite frankly. We have seven players now, including you. About double that amount would be cool. I don't think that's going to happen in less than two days, so we could start on Friday at the earliest and I think I'm going to have a busy-ish weekend. So I say we start on Sunday if everyone is ready which means you can play. ;)
Cool.

I'll post my profession etc. tomorrow; in a hurry at the moment.

[Thinlómien]

Welcome, Noggins! And great to hear you're playing, Nerwen. :)

[Glirdan]

*Is thinking this game needs a scholar*

Kay, so I'll be the local batty scholar who rarely emerges from his homestead.

[Ozban]

Hey there, I'd like to sign up as well, if theres a free spot still.
I will post my character's occupation tomorrow, hopefully.

[Inziladun]

Hello, Ozban.

As far as I know, signups are still open. Since this would be your first game of Barrow-downs Werewolf, make sure to peruse the Werewolf General Guidelines Thread (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=16791) before the game begins.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh my Eru!! Incredibly cool. Welcome on board, Ozban :)

And indeed, I am sure the link Inzil provided could be helpful, for clarifying the rules. At least if you just read through the basic things, and then the lists of player's nicknames or phrases can come handy when somebody pulls it out during the game... (which will undoubtedly occur...)

[Thinlómien]

Welcome, Ozban. :D

I can third checking the link Zil gave, but don't worry too much, I will post proper rules to this thread too. :)

We now have 11 players. A couple more would be nice...

[Ozban]

Will do Inzil.

I'd like to play young hunter, bit naive, zealous adorer of Felagund. :) Completely trusting up to the point of stupidity. May he live long and prosper. :rolleyes:

[Glirdan]

the lists of player's nicknames or phrases can come handy when somebody pulls it out during the game... (which will undoubtedly occur...)

Speaking of which....I keep thinking of one for our newest player....Yet I feel like it is a members name already :rolleyes:

[Inziladun]

Speaking of which....I keep thinking of one for our newest player....Yet I feel like it is a members name already :rolleyes:

What could it be, but Ozzy?

[Pitchwife]

A classic game, and a Euro DL? *raises hand*
I'll be a furrier (renowned for making nice warm wolf-pelt gloves)

I also ask people to keep it tolkienish and relatively believable, so please no chamber pot emptiers of Finrod Felagund
Obviously, Finrod Felagund would have had no need of such a thing as a chamber pot, as stated in a posthumous addendum to Laws and Customs among the Eldar (to be published in Vinyar Tengwar 52):
(...)For in the taking of their nourishment from the matter of Arda, the hröar of the Quendi are ruled by their fëar, and they consume the good of the earth wholly, leaving no portion thereof unused. Indeed the constraint upon Men to pass part of their food and drink from the body as waste is strange and bewildering to the Quendi, and some have said that this is due to the tampering of the Marrer; but in this the Wise say they err.(...)

What could it be, but Ozzy?
Indeed!:D (Reminds me of TEW's glorious WW version of War Dogs some games ago...) The only problem is it could be confused with Izzy (especially with O and I being neighbours on most keyboards, so typos are preprogrammed):confused:
Anyway, welcome to the Downs, Ozban, enjoy yourself being dead!

[Inziladun]

The only problem is it could be confused with Izzy (especially with O and I being neighbours on most keyboards, so typos are preprogrammed):confused:
Anyway, welcome to the Downs, Ozban, enjoy yourself being dead!

Meh, the typos should only be an issue when Izzy is also playing, and in those instances perhaps it could be shortened to Oz. ;)

[satansaloser2005]

I'll be a furrier

Top ten things that WILL be held against you if said in-game.

Meh, the typos should only be an issue when Izzy is also playing, and in those instances perhaps it could be shortened to Oz. ;)

Or Ban. Then again, "I think I'll vote for ban" could end poorly. :rolleyes:

[Glirdan]

Am I really that obvious?? :p

[QUOTE=Inzil]Meh, the typos should only be an issue when Izzy is also playing, and in those instances perhaps it could be shortened to Oz.

I like Oz actually. You should coin that :D.

And the typos with Izzy and Ozzy could get rather interesting ;)


Or Ban. Then again, "I think I'll vote for ban" could end poorly.

Tend to agree with that reasoning love. But again, could be an interesting scenario, hehehehe

[Nerwen]

Since we seem short on actual hunters, I'll be another. A young, over-eager apprentice hunter, to be precise. In my spare time, I like carving bits of wood into animal sculptures, particularly of eagles, and have ruined quite a few hunting-knives in the process. I like the colour green.

Oh, and welcome to the Downs, Oz!:)

[A Little Green]

Can't miss this, can I? I'll be a veteran hunter with a striking resemblance to an opossum.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I'm actually going to be a hunter as well - a young orphaned solitary hunter who practices the art of moving silently all the time. My favorite color is blue and I have a pet snake that likes to ride around my throat.

[Aganzir]

Can't miss this, can I? I'll be a veteran hunter with a striking resemblance to an opossum.
You have NO idea how much I want to play a ruthless introverted ninja now. ;)

(Unfortunately I'm way too busy to play at all, but I'll follow the game. Especially with Ozban playing, yay! :p)

[Ozban]

I love that discussion on my nick. :)
But whether Ozzy or Oz, i care not.

Aganzir's surveillance is a bit unnerving though. :cool:
I find all that curiosity concerning my performance quite demanding. :D
Good to hear from you nevertheless, Agan.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Aganzir's surveillance is a bit unnerving though. :cool:
I find all that curiosity concerning my performance quite demanding.

Just do not let that concern you too much. :) I think the game itself can easily make you forget such "outside" things, as you will have more pressing matters to concentrate on - whether about catching Wolves or trying to prevent yourself from being caught... :D

[skip spence]

Can't help feeling ever so slightly curious about this Ozzy person too...

When is this set to get started anyway? Or are we waiting for more players?

[Boromir88]

When is this set to get started anyway? Or are we waiting for more players?

Well Lommy said we'd probably start on Sunday, if we had around 14 signed up and ready. There's 13 now, that's a good number for a standard game. :D

*Stands in crowd to yell "Get on with it." :p*

[Thinlómien]

But but Boro! I want 14 people because I think a village of 13 having a cobbler is not a very fair thing (although, I will make the cobbler a little less powerful mwahahaa) and we all want to have a cobbler, don't we?

That means I still want one more player. Come on lurkers! You know you want to play. :p

And this message is also to say welcome Greenie and Pitchwife. :)

I think we'll be starting Night1 tomorrow whether we have 14 players or not then we just don't have a cobbler. If our cobbler appears in the next 9h though, Night1 will start already today...

Now off to sketch rules and/or narrations (what would be a better way to avoid studying for Wednesday's exam...)

[Thinlómien]

Okay, the rules are up. They are found in the first post of the thread. (The cobbler rules are in parentheses because it's not clear yet whether we'll have one or not.)

Eönwë - I still need an occupation from you.

Stalkers, we still need one more player if we want to have a cobbler. ;)

[wilwarin538]

*gives in*

Ok, I'm in! I wanted to take a break from WW for a while....but I changed my mind. :D

[Thinlómien]

Good girl! :D Welcome Wilwa (and cobbler). ;)

Means we start today (eeks, does that mean I have to start writing the first narration at some point?), in some 6+ hours. Since I'm about now off to paint for a few hours, it might be the Night is slightly shorter than usual but we'll see.

Yay, now I'm getting excited. ;)

If there's still somebody out there who wants to play, you have 6 hours and 15 minutes to do it.

[Thinlómien]

Oh, Wilwa and Eönwë, unless you come up with descriptions for yourselves in the next 1,5h I'm going to make you both professional hunters (and you'll have to come up with the details later).

Still about that 1,5h if there's somebody out there who wants to join. Night1 starts in 2 hours, I'm currently writing the opening narration.

[Thinlómien]

Closing the sign ups now.

Will start randomising the roles now and you can expect them to be sent out within an hour.

Night1 will begin in 40 minutes.

[Boromir88]

Wow Lommy, when you get rolling there's no stopping, you just keep going and going and going... :p

[Thinlómien]

The thread is up and Night1 has begun.

Remember to turn yourselves invisible, and enjoy the game!

[Thinlómien]

The roles have been sent now. If you didn't get one, please PM me. I think you all got one, though. :D

And just realised the phrasing of Ozban's "occupation" is rather funny... wonder if I should change it. :p

PS. And Boro will be modfired if he still comments on my flood-posting on this thread! ;)

[satansaloser2005]

PS. And Boro will be modfired if he still comments on my flood-posting on this thread! ;)

I'd just take over. :p


That being said....

*starts stalking the game thread*

[Thinlómien]

Two things I want to say before anything gets misleading -

1) All the gifteds will be referred to the narrations as "she"s and all the wolves as "he"s. This was decided already before any roles were given out, so no use basing any conclusions on it. In case I accidentally deviate from this, I don't take any responsibility on your basing any kind of conclusions on it.

2) If Agan seems to be hovering around somehow related to this game and commenting on stuff, it's because she is the unofficial co-ish-mod-ish. This also explains her comments on some role PMs you got. Please refrain discussing her comments on your role PMs though - that is just as much forbidden as quoting something like "Your ww role: you are a wolf alongside with x and y." or discussing the content of the PMs like "Lommod comforted us poor ordos by saying our role is her personal favourite". If she said something incredibly funny (which I doubt she did) you can send her a PM to congratulate her on her excellence or say it in the aftergame. ;)

[Aganzir]

I'm the roommate who has access to Lommy's computer, you see. :smokin:

[Glirdan]

So I'm just saying I'm around, but I have to head off to work for a few hours shortly. I should be back within the next four to six hours or so and will get caught up then.

[Eönwë]

I'm sorry, but it turns out that I might only be around for the last two hours or so toDay.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I will never - never - clarify a rule for anyone ever again. Ever. That's the only reason I was lynched and I fully blame Lottie.

Go wolves. You guys suck.

- An extremely frustrated Shasta who has never been Seer before and was summarily lynched while not around to defend himself, apparently for the crime of clarifying whether or not the Hunter killed an innocent if lynched.

[Nerwen]

Sorry for non-vote– I just didn't know who to vote earlier, and I wasn't able to get online nearer DL.

Not that it would have made much difference.:rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

Just letting you know you shouldn't draw any conclusions on the gender of the mystery person in the narration based of my usage of "he": it was chosen to differentiate from the ranger being "she". ;)

(The same logic will go for all narrations in the future, in case I need to talk about someone unnamed. :))


PS. Eönwë and Wilwa, if you want interesting death narrations in case you die, please give some details about your occupations. ;)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Just an announcement - as I have also said on the game thread, I will have to vote early toDay, and then again, on the contrary, I won't be around during the most of Day 3 and likely be around only close to its end (in case I am still alive at that time). Just so that people don't expect me to post when I am not around...

[Folwren]

Ya'll killed your seer on Day 1? Sorry luck there. :p I think it's pretty funny, actually.

Okay, I'm done commenting. Have fun.

[Glirdan]

I'm sorry everyone :( I went to go take a nap and I guess I ended up sleeping through the alarms I set :(

[Thinlómien]

Haha, thought I should share that I finished writing the narration at 7.59 PM gmt. ;)

And not commenting on the game itself, except that it seems quite eventful this far. :D

[wilwarin538]

Kid? you are about 4 months older than me!! :D

I call everyone kid when I think they're cool, whether they're younger then me or even people significantly older then me. ;)


Eönwë and Wilwa, if you want interesting death narrations in case you die, please give some details about your occupations.

Can I just be 'the cute one who provides the muffins'. :Merisu:

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Just a general message to everybody... initially I was slightly sad for dying because I cannot participate anymore, but then I have decided that I will definitely be following the game... really closely... so you have the Dead watching you :) And I am all cheering for my side still...

[satansaloser2005]

I'd just like to pop in and point out how much I'm enjoying reading this massacre....erm, game. It's very entertaining. :rolleyes::)

[Glirdan]

I want this game to end now so we can start discussing and so I can start yelling at the Wolves and Boro :p :rolleyes:

[wilwarin538]

I want this game to end now so we can start discussing and so I can start yelling at the Wolves and Boro :p :rolleyes:

Haha, right? The one time we're Gifteds together, and they just had to ruin it ;)

[Thinlómien]

I will end the game once I have written the narration... which might take a while because I suddenly started to feel lazy but I think it will be there before the usual DL... ;)