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Old 08-04-2009, 08:43 PM   #1
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Are you allowed to quote the narrations to back up your reasoning? If that is so then I know a way to help rule out a whole lot of people from being suspects.
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Old 08-04-2009, 08:51 PM   #2
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You can, but usually the moderator narrations have nothing to do with people's roles, it's just an interesting part of the game. That is something that is taken from the traditional 'Mafia/WW' card game if you've ever played it with friends.

3-day grace periods? 1 day graces...eh...there's always another game.
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Old 08-04-2009, 08:56 PM   #3
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Are you allowed to quote the narrations to back up your reasoning? If that is so then I know a way to help rule out a whole lot of people from being suspects.
I co-modded a game with the phantom wherein we very carefully wrote the narrations to include hints toward a final revelation at the end (that the bad guys were, in fact, the good guys), but it had very little, if anything, to do with the actual in-game play.

And I once modded a game where I more or less lied my way through the narrations, leading the village to believe that they were still in search of the final wolf when in fact they'd killed my beloved bad guys off in two days flat, so I led them through a systematic massacre of themselves, picking players at random during the Night phase to keep up the charade. I called the game Blind Luck and didn't so much leave hints in the narration as used my status as mod to make everybody believe they still needed to work.

But typically mod's tend to leave the playing to the players, and the narrations are carefully written to avoid leaving even accidental hints.

You can try quoting the narration if you want, but nobody's really going to pay attention to it unless a mod has specifically mentioned that there are hints in the writing.
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Old 08-04-2009, 09:02 PM   #4
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Okay. It is just that in the narration for this game, the gender of two wolves is given away. One is female and that one was obviously Sally and one is male. Anyway I am just thinking there are some things in there that might be useful. Also Fea leading them on a hunt like that sounds fun. Shame I wasn't around for that specific game.

Boro, I get it. My grace period has ended.
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Old 08-04-2009, 09:07 PM   #5
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It's also usually not permitted to post on the admin thread, to discuss the game during the 'night phase' unless you need to tell people whether you will be away for something/can't be active for a certain day.
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:12 PM   #6
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Hakon: Yes, I did give the wolves genders, but it was convinient for what I was writing to give them genders. Yes, Sally is a girl and a wolf, but that doesn't mean I don't have an all female wolf pack. I just decided to be fair with the genders. Also, unlike Fea, I don't have any clues in here.
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Old 08-05-2009, 05:29 AM   #7
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I went and posted a quick "I'm here and reading" before I noticed who had died. (has now been deleted though)

My point for bringing this up: even avid long time WW players make mistakes.

Have a fun game!!! Anyone who survives gets to adopt a few of my kids.
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Old 08-05-2009, 11:21 PM   #8
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I hate number generators, so unfair

Hehe, I'm just messing, just give me an honourable death...for a wolf as honorable for a wolf you can make a death.

Edit: woah that last phrase makes no sense..hmph oh well
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