Tol-in-Guarhoth CIX - Ten Year Anniversary Game: Dead Thread

[the phantom]

Ha ha, Nog, that is fantastic!

[the phantom]

Scenario 1:

Boro kills Shasta, and everyone thinks a Wolf is still left. Kath or Mith gets lynched. Boro kills Sally. Game over. Victory Werebear.

Scenario 2:

Boro gets blocked by Shasta and no one knows what to do. Mith gets lynched. Boro kills Sally. Final day debate between Kath and Boro with Shasta deciding. In that scenario we will have had a chance to signal the Living that McCaber is a Wolf. Boro lynched.

Scenario 3:

Boro attempts to kill Kath but his kill ability only works on Wolves. The next day he says the Wolf is Mith or no one. Mith lynched. The requirements of his role satisfied (he now knows there are no Wolves remaining), he can stop killing and the game can end with a village victory.

Scenario 4:

The Living see our "88" hint and lynch Boro. We laugh.

[the phantom]

Every post I've ever made has the arrow (except maybe in the RPG forum).

[the phantom]

We can still empower with the "88" thing. If we're silent the first HALF of the day, surely that's long enough for them to notice that we're silent and the post count is stuck on a significant number.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Although: what about empowering and stuff? How long are we going to keep it at 88?

We do not have to do it for long. But throughout part of the Day? Before something starts happening? Like really, we do not have much to talk about, do we? We know what we need to do, more or less, and... that's about it?

But we of course do not have to keep it too long, people could notice it even now. (Of course the best indicator would be if somebody noticed that and said it on the Living thread... then we would know...)

Originally Posted by Lommy

(Crazy thought: the best clue, of course, would be to make the post count up to 8,888. But I think we can't do that. )

Now that would certainly be something, but no. I do not think we want to go there.

Originally Posted by the phantom

Every post I've ever made has the arrow (except maybe in the RPG forum).

Oh yes, I see. Still, my question was: if I may ask, why?

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Legate

Oh yes, I see. Still, my question was: if I may ask, why?

A bit like having a third signature (siggy, avatar, arrow).

Also makes my posts easier to find when I scroll.

[Firefoot]

Will the wolves let it stay at 88? And do you really think the living are that observant? (I don't have a better idea so with a shot but I'm skeptical.)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

Will the wolves let it stay at 88? And do you really think the living are that observant? (I don't have a better idea so with a shot but I'm skeptical.)

I would think the WWs want to be a part of history as well, right? And as for observance, yeah, who knows, but it's our best shot (or one of them. We can of course aim to empower somebody toMorrow, the best would be if they did the self-vote thing and let us decide... but it's dangerous, because Boro would totally mess it up if he's allowed to).

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

We can of course aim to empower somebody toMorrow,

We can do that even if we try the 1588-replies tactics. We'll have several hours then to discuss whom to empower after our shutdown is over.

[Firefoot]

I wonder if Boro was given some knowledge of who the wolves are. No one's that good to be 3 for 3.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

I wonder if Boro was given some knowledge of who the wolves are. No one's that good to be 3 for 3.

It might be his power only works on wolves- or did, because it's entirely possible he's now turned into a regular WW.

If so, I wonder if he's a lone wolf, or allied with one of the dead packs?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

We can do that even if we try the 1588-replies tactics. We'll have several hours then to discuss whom to empower after our shutdown is over.

Of course, of course. Also, I am not expecting the Living are going to give us a reasonable scheme according to which we can vote anytime dramatically soon

So yeah. Just in the last post, a brief summary, a brief explanation, a nice nudge to the newly-coming dead (if there is one) to spend the meantime with something nice, for instance reading our long thread

[McCaber]

Haha! Yes, I am a wolf you powerless villagers! And I almost got away with it, too, despite the dog's dinner I was handed.

This 88 plan has no chance of working, but I'm going to abide by it anyway, because Boro singlehandedly dismantled our wolf packs and because his fur is the wrong sort of color.

Hopefully Shasta spends time in our thread soon enough to come back and win.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

Will the wolves let it stay at 88? And do you really think the living are that observant? (I don't have a better idea so with a shot but I'm skeptical.)

Boro is no friend of the wolves - on the contrary: he's the individual who took quite many of them off the game and helped their downfall.

Also, if we're really going to try this it would be such a cool ending for the anniversary game they'd probably like to be included with it.

Of course the last ten posts or so before we shut down would need to be one-liners like: "Do not post anything on this thread"

And the 1589th post would then explain it in short and explicit terms why no one should post before hour x.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Scenario 3:

Boro attempts to kill Kath but his kill ability only works on Wolves. The next day he says the Wolf is Mith or no one. Mith lynched. The requirements of his role satisfied (he now knows there are no Wolves remaining), he can stop killing and the game can end with a village victory.

The bolded part is quite important - and with the narrations talking of itching and then more scratching and then finally getting over it it might go also the way that Boro has itched from a wanna-be werewolf (hair growing) into an actual one.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

The bolded part is quite important - and with the narrations talking of itching and then more scratching and then finally getting over it it might go also the way that Boro has itched from a wanna-be werewolf (hair growing) into an actual one.

That was the thing I've been thinking during the last Day or so. It really sounds a bit like that.

In any case, my personal hope is that with the game being so much close and in endgame, the Living will come up really fast with some transparent scheme of us voting and so on.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

(So we can send a message, I mean.)

[Thinlómien]

Anyway I don't think we have nothing to lose with the 88 scheme. Let's go for it.

[Thinlómien]

Agreeing with Nogrod. I mean the 88 scheme is so crazy who wouldn't want to be a part of it??

[the phantom]

Well, all of this may be a moot point if Boro is on the village's side, but I think it's still worth orchestrating just because it is so interesting. But anyway...

WE DON'T WANT TO RUN TO THE TOTAL TOO SOON. Because Kuru has to make his Night/Day posts, so we want a bit of padding at the end and be ready to make the number only at the start of the Day.