Tol-in-Gaurhoth Junior

[Cailín]

I have been unexpectedly called away for the weekend and will not return to a safe haven with an internet connection before Tuesday. That means that I will be absent from now on and not able to vote at all should I still be alive on Monday.

Because already one player was lost due to RL problems, I decided -with permission from our Moddess- that it would be best to have my brother sub for me. He shall henceforth be posting and participating under my name. He is familiar with the game due to my constant ravings and has been reading along with this game since the beginning.

Since he is generally considered to be both smarter and nicer than me, I am sure there will be no problems. However, you will probably notice a difference in style since he is a bit less proficient in English. Treat him as if he were me, though.

I am very, very sorry. Especially my apologies to Diamond.

[Sleepy Ranger]

...this game is cursed. I PM'd her around the deadline and informed her that I shall be dropping out of this game as well. I really hate to have to do this, seems you've lost enough people already but with two ducks down and a few certain innocents I'm sure you'll do fine. I'm truly sorry, it was shaping up to be an excellent game but due to certain implications I am forced to leave. Life has taken a turn for the worse, possibly the worst.

I apologize to all of you, but I'm choiceless in the matter. If I stay in the game I'd be nothing but dead-weight. I hate to have to do this but whats happened can't be changed.

Good luck my friends! May you find that duck!

-Sleepy Ranger, Jedi Master in Exile

[Nogrod]

I came up with an idea last week, that I have now talked with Lommy, and she was all for it. Now I would like to hear from you others.

There seems to be two problems in a WW-game.
1) The "illustrious players" are more likely to die very soon if they are ordos (wolf-kill) or wolves (lynch).
2) One can't change her/his way of playing, as it is deemed highly suspicious by others (lynch).

So I was just thinking, whether we could have a game with totally unknown identities? It could be the game moderated by myself & Lommy in WWJ, soon.

Everyone wishing to join the game would then have to log in as a newbie (with a new name and avvie). NB. This new character should only be used for the WW-game! One should not post anything on other threads with this new identity - as not to leave tracks around. So everyone could enlist to the game with this new identity - and then PM me their real identities, on their real log-ins - just to be sure... So just telling me, who they are going to be.

We could then entwine this identity stuff (well, it's the "Island of philosophical Penguins" -game and the questions of identity are philosophical, if there are ones!) into the overall narration of the game - thereby revealing all the killed with their real identities one by one. And in the end, we would of course reveal the remaining characters as well (You have to be able to get the rep's into a right address, now don't you? )

But as I said, I would like to hear your thoughts on this. And especially the point of the overall mod of the Mirth - or the one handling identities / log-ins. So is it troublesome to erase or delete persons from the Downs in general? I could send a list of these "only for the game characters" to someone in charge of the members, to be deleted after the game.

With this, we might have a totally new gaming experience (we could not trust or suspect someone by the name only, but would have to concentrate on the actual posts) and everyone would be free to try a different approach to the gaming - and we would have all the excitement in wondering, who is who...

This could bite in both directions: it would be harder for the wolves to decide their pray - and it would be harder for the villagers to analyze the posts by their writer.

Sounds challenging, and exciting to me. How about you?

[Diamond18]

Well, it's an interesting idea. I think it would be very easy to tell who is who just by posting style, though. Like handwriting. (And I'm not talking about playing style so much as English style, puncutation, etc.) The other thing, is that we're all in different timezones and often have to post about what RL situation has kept us away from the game. Of course, that might just be part of the new game, that you can't make RL excuses for behavior, but then I still think we'd be able to tell who is who....

[Nogrod]

I too think, that the players might have some gut-feelings about each other - and the time-zones might be revealing here. But anyhow, no-one could be sure - as you never can be in WW-game.

It could be just challenging and cracking your mind to try and figure it out... The first day probably would be even more hazardous & random as ever, but then on, it could provide us with a really new challenge?

[Diamond18]

I would be game to try it if the B-W didn't have any objections. But you may have to bear with me, as I am terrible at logging in and out, and may forget which account I'm in. >_<

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Diamond18

I would be game to try it if the B-W didn't have any objections. But you may have to bear with me, as I am terrible at logging in and out, and may forget which account I'm in. >_<

I sent a PM query to the Barrow-Wight. Let's hear the judgement from there.