Boro and Nerwen! Yay! I missed you! :D:)

This looks good.

Lots of favourite people .... :D

Lommy, say the word "politics" and I will immediately race in. :rolleyes:

There you go, Mith, causing division in a time when we need unity. Splitting the 'Downs up into your favourites and those in ill-favour. :p

Yes, well, we all know that it's perfectly okay for her to do that, because the ill-favor ones? They're anti-Downs anyway. They go against everything we stand for.

I think I'll withdraw from this game. Sorry, Fea. I just can't stomach being accused of being manipulative any more right now, and that's just part of the game, so I should probably take some time off from WW entirely.

Eminence Grise?
 

You surely aren't accusing me of croneyism are you, Mister 88? Suggesting that "Friends of Mithalwen" may enjoy special favours in this game? You might very well think that - I of course could not possibly comment. Besides executive power resides with Fea. I am more of a Humphrey, maybe a spook - my influence is going to be limited by being spark out at crucial moments . :Merisu:

It is definitely a sham government... We all know I'm the puppet master of these events.

Now we are three
 

I vote for Graces, Fates or Furies since if we go for that Triple Moddess thing I will end up being the Crone. I'm in my prime I tell you....

I thought it would be more thematically appropriate to go with executive, judicial, and legislative. Checks and balances, and all that... Of course with my sham government firmly in place, the system won't actually be balanced... We may need to work on that...

Ooh, that would give me the chance to emulate Eisenhower's biggest regret, Judge Warren. :p

Ooh I am going to have to mug up my US constitution aren't I? I took a class on that way back when I studied in France but otherwise my tutors are Messrs Jon Stewart and PJ O'Rourke - interesting combo that....

Jon Stewart's tutorials on life should suit you just fine. Besides- if I was really emulating the system, we'd have an electoral college to deal with.

I missed you too!:D

oh Politics. . .YAY

I actually thought there would be no signing for quite a while, otherwise I would have signed up earlier. . .

I hope to be done with my papers and such by the time this starts, so if it is not yet full I would like to sign up.

The more the merrier.

Can I just say that politicians are scum? They really are. I thought I'd get that out of the way early so I won't feel tempted to harp on it during the game.

There will arise a point in the game where you will be convinced of something, Legate, and no one in the village will believe you, except me....

You'll cry to the heavens, "If I cannot gain voting power, please let Phantom be a representative!!"

And your plea will be met with laughter, and a scornful reply from the ModGods and ModGoddesses above. "Now you want his help? Ha ha ha! Sorry, but it's too late. Your hasty statement in the admin thread has already done its work. You're doomed! DOOMED!!"

Or at least that might happen.

Ah, Boro is playing! See, I told you this village wouldn't be a quiet one.

Well, if he and I are the first to go, you'll know to go after Shasta. :D

If the game is quiet, I'll pout.

Oh, I forgot to mention:

Filibusters are allowed.

Can a filibuster-proof majority be reached? :p

Sure have at it. :p

Filibusters? I think I may die of shock. :p

Or one of your moddesses - Mr 88 has made himself extremely vulnerable to modfire from me.... :p
But I shall try to curb imperialist tendancies to reclaim territory in the name of my soveriegn lady.:Merisu:

If it helps, I've also compared my niece to her, and the response was far more severe than a modfire. :eek:

Does anyone have an idea of the starting date?

I should be getting a new laptop sometime this weekend (hopefully tomorrow), so I'm in. Though in all preference, I'd rather not have the game start until after tomorrow.

Since I have a major paper due tomorrow that I haven't yet started, I work most of Saturday, and I've got tickets to a sweet concert Sunday night, I'm thinking I'll send the roles out Sunday afternoon before I leave and kick off Day One on Monday.

Anybody not okay with that?

Hmm have we agreed on a deadline yet?

Also, deadlines are going to be 10:30pm EST unless somebody makes an argument for another time that won't kill me.

That's 9:30pm CST... pity it can't be half an hour later. :( I'm afraid I may miss deadlines because rehearsals will run long, in which case I'll have to vote four hours early.

Make an argument, eh? All right...

Blah-blah-blah a little later. Yadda-yadda wouldn't kill you. Dooby-doo just like Shasta. Sha-na-na 1 AM is perfect. Horse-with-no-name settle for less. Dino-BBQ-chips please a little later?

There! A brilliant argument if I may say so.

10:30pm is lovely because then I will neither have class or have to stay up later than necessary for deadline.

Though for Shasta's sake, if you bumped it to a half hour later, I'd be perfectly okay. ;)

11pm's fine. Later will result in a cranky moddess due to loss of sleep. This semester's schedule of getting up obnoxiously early every day is sort of eating me.

Phantom: your memory goes back far.

To warm up my true diplomatic spirit, are you fine with a compromise of 10:45 EST? :p

I am, but you'll need to get the votes of your fellow villagers for the proposition to pass. :smokin:

I vote this! :D

Compromise, Boro?

Psh... Compromise is just a word for everybody-loses-because-nobody-stood-up-and-took-charge. :D
Farther than that even. I seem to recall orange streaks at one point- as well as a time when Earth Science/Geology teacher was the second path of choice.

My little grey cells retain quite a bit.

That was at least four years ago...

Perhaps more.

Time flies.