Admin Thread - WW C - The Father Christmas Murders

[Loslote]

A long, long time ago, Father Christmas founded a lovely little town amongst some lovely little mountains covered in lovely little snow and lovely little Christmas trees, where all the Christmasy people live.

The Grinch hates Christmas again, and has ever since Santa Claus built his new factory right above the Grinch's cave. (Santa is a noisy neighbor at the best of times, but around Christmas time, the noise gets unbearable.) Tiny Tim lives in poverty next to Rudolph's party house. Suzy Snowflake and Jack Frost do a lot of traveling, but it's been a warm winter, so they've been at home more often than usual. Olive the Other Reindeer recently moved in with Frosty the Snowman after they discovered a mutual love of french toast. Little Cindy Lou Who is, by this point, significantly more than two, and started up a Christmas-card making business with the Sugar Plum Fairy. The Ghost of Christmas Present hovers around everything making vaguely ominous announcements that everyone has learned to ignore.

And on a mountain overlooking it all, Father Christmas sits with the North Polar Bear and watches the lovely little community. Paksu and Valkotukka, as grown-up as Little Cindy Lou Who, live down in the little town. Father Christmas and the North Polar Bear like to check up every once and a while, but they don't like to interfere. All bear cubs need to grow up sometimes.

But just because Paksu and Valkotukka don't want to be babied any more, doesn't mean Father Christmas and the North Polar Bear have left them unprotected.

Roles:

One Seer, who writes letters back and forth with Father Christmas about other player's alignments. (PMs me a name every Night and is told the role of that person.)

One Ranger, who keeps watch while the rest of the town sleeps and protects its inhabitants. (PMs me a name every Night and, if the wolves have selected that person to kill, blocks the kill. Cannot self-protect. Cannot protect the same person twice in a row.)

Two Wolves, who hate Christmas, the whole Christmas season. (The Grinch is not necessarily a wolf. The line was just too perfect not to use.) (Send me a name every Night to kill. Can pm during the Night period.)

One Cobbler, who doesn't know who the wolves are, but supports them in his own little way. (Wants the wolves to win. Cannot pm with the wolves.)

Seven or Eight Ordos, who don't want to die at the hands of the Wolves. (Vote every Day to lynch [hopefully] a wolf.)

Twelve or Thirteen Players in all.

Rules:

Rules:
Deadline will be negotiable, for now. I'm thinking 11:00 PM EST, but I could be persuaded to go earlier or later.

Votes are highlighted (++Lottie) and non-retractable. If a vote is cast at :00, they are counted. If they are cast at :01, they are not.

Day and Night last for 24 hours each.

A person will be modfired if they do not vote for two consecutive days without a very good excuse.

In case of a tie, the last person to receive their full total of votes will be lynched.

When you sign-up, you will choose one of the characters I mentioned above (not Father Christmas or the North Polar Bear, though). This will determine your in-game role. I've done this before, and I quite liked it.


We'll start as soon as we get about twelve players (assuming this happens after Wednesday. I'm sure it'll take at least that long, though).

Sign-ups are closed! :D

Sally - Little Cindy Lou Who
Shasta - Jack Frost
G55 - Rudolph
Coppermirror - The Ghost of Christmas Present
Steve - Valkotukka
Morsul - The Grinch
Nerwen - The Sugar Plum Fairy
Zil - Frosty
Boro - Olive the Other Reindeer
McCaber - Tiny Tim
Lommy - Paksu
Legate - Santa Claus

[satansaloser2005]

Ugh, how am I supposed to pick a role? My life is so difficult.

I'm in, obviously.

[Pomegranate]

Bwaa. I can't play 17th - 19th this month, I assume that this won't start early enough nor late enough for me to be in?

[Kuruharan]

Game 100.

Just...wow.

[Loslote]

I have faith in you, Sally! :D

Pom: Probably not. :/ We'll see, though!

Kuru: I know, right? I kept double-checking to make sure I didn't Roman Numerals wrong.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I'll play.

[Galadriel55]

Game 100.

Just...wow.

Seconded!


I don't think I can play in the next week or so. Too busy with school and such. I will play if we start when the winter break starts, though.

[Loslote]

Shasta: Fantastic! Pick one of the characters I mentioned in the opening post - that'll be what determines your role. ;)

G55: I'll put you down as a maybe - depending on how fast the game fills up, we might start that late.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Shasta: Fantastic! Pick one of the characters I mentioned in the opening post - that'll be what determines your role. ;)

G55: I'll put you down as a maybe - depending on how fast the game fills up, we might start that late.

Oh, Wilwa's done that before. I like roles done this way. :) I'll be Jack Frost.

[Coppermirror]

I want to play!

For a role, I'd like The Ghost of Christmas Present. I don't know who a lot of the other characters are, like Olive or Cindy Lou or Suzy Snowflake, and I never saw the Frosty or Grinch canons, so the easiest should be the Ghost. Plus they get to make vague, ominous statements. What's not to like?

[Eönwë]

It's game 100. I don't think I have a choice. I must play.

[Brinniel]

I'd love to play, but my parents are visiting me the 20-26th, so I'm not sure I'll be available. If you somehow manage to get enough players to start in the next few days, or if signups are slow enough you don't start until the 26th or after, I'm in. But anytime between I won't be able to play.

[Eönwë]

Well, since the two roles I was most hoping for are gone, I'll take Valkotukka.

[Morsul the Dark]

I`ll have a computer so I`m in. -Grinch

[Kitanna]

Put me down as a maybe, depends on start date.

[satansaloser2005]

Well, polar bears are brilliant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz53Pm5vSUw), but I'm bang out of luck on that one. I like French toast rather a lot, but as there's no bacon included (reindeer jerky, anyone?), I do believe I'll pass on being either Olive or Frosty, and given that snack food comment, I should probably refrain from being Rudolph as well.

The Sugar Plum Fairy is tempting, but that may be a combination too sweet for anyone to handle, so perhaps not. Likewise, choosing Suzy Snowflake may prove too alliterative, and I do need to share Shasta from time to time. :p

Hmmmm. I don't fancy growing a beard, much less covering my entire body with fur, and I already play a cripple once a week at D&D, so that leaves....Who? Ah, yes. Cindy Lou.

[Nerwen]

Okay, sign me up.

[Galadriel55]

I'm confirming (though I really shouldn't play until a week from now but whatever). I'll be Rudolph, if that's a role. Or anyone if it isn't.

[Inziladun]

I guess I can play. I'll be Frosty.

[Loslote]

Rudolph is indeed a role! Good to have you, Nerwen and Zil. :D

[Boromir88]

I like french toast, so I'll be Olive the other Reindeer.

[McCaber]

Ok, I'm off of school for a month. I'm in.

[Thinlómien]

Sign me in before I come into my senses and realise I don't have time!

I'll be happy to be Paksu since that's what the Finnish winter always makes me feel like...

[Loslote]

Fantastic! :D Great to have you both on board.

We still have Suzy Snowflake, the Sugar Plum Fairy, Santa Claus, and Tiny Tim left to be chosen. As soon as we get one or two more players (and Nerwen and McCaber, you still have to chose roles), we can start!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Okay, I can join in, I think. As long as I am not Santa Claus, I'm fine... ;) (Though again, hmm, that one probably gets pretty good narration in case I am lynched... hey, I'll leave it up to what remains.)

[Kitanna]

Unfortunately I can't join, which is a shame because WW never seems to work with my schedule anymore. :mad: Best of luck to you villagers though!

[Loslote]

Nerwen, McCaber, and Legate, if you'd pick a character, we can get started - your character determines your role, so we kind of need that to get going. ;)

[Nerwen]

All right, I'll be the Sugar-Plum Fairy. (I did do ballet once upon a time...)

[Loslote]

All right, I'll be the Sugar-Plum Fairy. (I did do ballet once upon a time...)

Excellent! Thanks. :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Make me Santa Claus, then. It's at least one time in my life when I get fat.

[McCaber]

Tiny Tim for me. I'm perfect as the limping, pitiful waif no one suspects.

[Loslote]

Brinn, I'm assuming you can't play after all. I'll send out PMs and we'll start with Night 1 in an hour and a half.

[Morsul the Dark]

Just letting you guys know have a late wedding tonight early work in the mprning and a Christmas party tomorrow night not sure how much participatin I'll be able to muster...

[Thinlómien]

How are we doing Christmas? Normal length or prolonged Days/Nights? If we do normal length, I'm going to miss Day2 for sure (but I can live with that if I'm still alive har har bad pun).

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Yep, I second that question. Because I was sort of surprised to see this game started right before Christmas, but I was sort of working under the assumption that it'd be the way it used to be some other times, that there will be break around 24th-26th or somesuch, and continuing after that. Because I honestly do not plan to be on the 'Downs during these days... (actually, I might have problems even during the 27th, but that's a different thing, I'll at least try to be around)

[Thinlómien]

Some year we did prolonged Days and Nights. I think it would be feasible if Day 2 would be 48h long and maybe Night 3 too (but that's not so important).

[Loslote]

I was sort of working under the assumption that it'd be the way it used to be some other times, that there will be break around 24th-26th or somesuch, and continuing after that.

Yes, that was my assumption as well. I probably should have mentioned that earlier - I was planning to end with the lynch on the evening of the 24th and have a very long Night until the evening of the 26th, when Day 3 will start. Does that work for everyone? (Otherwise, we can have a very long Day 2 from the evening of the 23rd until the evening of the 26th.)

[Morsul the Dark]

I think it would better for lng day that way everyone gets a chance to speak without worrying about their christmas plans.

[Galadriel55]

I think the Long Night is better because if it's a long Day there's just more to read once you come back to the computer.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

There is no way for me I am even turning the computer on on the 24th. It's simply a sort of house-rule I have made for myself, at least one day per year fully and absolutely no-no to the computer, however nice it is. By my timezone, the DL is sometime around 4 AM anyway, so even if I, say, switched the computer on in the morning (which I still would have considered acceptable), I'd have to vote barely halfday through, and that's not even worth it. So I would actually vote for long Day. And even then I am not really promising any high activity. (So in fact, maybe it does not make so much of a difference whether it's a long Day or whether the Day is on the 24th already. You can just do it whichever way suits the majority of people and in the really worst case, I'd have a no-show and hope Day 2 won't have too many dramatic events which will require everyone's full participation.)

[Loslote]

I just found out that my little sister's ice skating performance will go from an hour before to an hour after DL. I will post the results and narration when I get back. Boro has kindly agreed to call DL, and I expect everyone to be good little angels and stop talking then.

Carry on!

[Eönwë]

Yes, that was my assumption as well. I probably should have mentioned that earlier - I was planning to end with the lynch on the evening of the 24th and have a very long Night until the evening of the 26th, when Day 3 will start. Does that work for everyone? (Otherwise, we can have a very long Day 2 from the evening of the 23rd until the evening of the 26th.)
I'll only be able to have proper time until mid-way through the 24th (for you Americans, anyway) in that period, so either way would be the same for me.

[Coppermirror]

About the Christmas things - Day 1 for me ended at 5pm on December the 23rd. If the game was running as normal over the next few days without any allowances for Christmas, Day 2 would start at 5pm on Christmas Eve and end on Christmas Day at 5pm. So, naturally I wouldn't be around much then. I'm also likely to be busy on December the 26th.

I'll have to check the times through a time zone converter or something to see how I fit with it. If I understand right, we're planning to hold Day 2 (the one that for me goes over Xmas eve and Xmas day) as usual, but to have a long Night after that. Is that right? On the face of it I won't have any trouble with Day 3 that way, but Day 2 is likely to be a problem for me.

[satansaloser2005]

Ugh. Sorry, all. I seem to have pulled a Nerwen. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

Regarding Christmas, I should be around either way. I would prefer the long Night, but it won't make much of a difference for me.

Now, if this game lasts till New Year I will be affected.

[Coppermirror]

Oh right, the New Year. If it lasts until New Year's Day, I'll have a bigger problem then, because I'm likely not to have any internet access for that day, if the Day falls then. If the game's running on Christmas Eve/Day, at a minimum I'll still be able to drop in to at least read through quickly and vote, so that's not so bad.

[Loslote]

First order of business, then: I'm going to go ahead and say that Day 2 will last from 11:00 pm EST of the 23rd to 11:00 pm EST of the 25th. IF it's been too difficult for people to get online, I will consider extending it an extra 24 hours (I will let you know which way I've decided well before DL, don't worry).

Second: Nerwen, Sally, and Morsul must vote at some point during that Day. ;)

[Morsul the Dark]

If that works for everyone else I can technically get online for a few hours tmorrow before heading up to my mother's but after that I'm not getting home till christmas night(probably after DL

It'll be a Really early vote for me.

[Loslote]

Yeaaah, it's looking like we'll need an extra 24 hours. ToDay will end approximately 48 hours after this post (correcting for the DL).