WW42 - Discussion Thread

[Volo]

Three things:

My inbox in now empty, sorry for that.

Zali, we welcome you as the savior! We shall start today!

In the PMs I sent and otherwhere I said 20PM, which is a stupid mistake. What I meant is 20:00 or 8PM.

[Brinniel]

Oh yes, I almost forgot...I still need to get my bio done. When did you need that by? I'll write one up as soon as I find the opportunity.

P.S. Volo, your PM box is full.

EDIT: Just X-ed with you Volo...sorry.

[Nogrod]

I'll try to put up a bio before the game begins as well...

[Thinlómien]

I'm very enthusiastic about this and so glad to see Roa back! Yay, we're starting soon! I'm only slightly concerned of my schoolwork as I'm required to return an English research paper on some English language classic (in my case, Wuthering Heights) tomorrow, and I've sworn to do it the whole night, if necessary, and if ww begins tonight... Oh, never mind, I can stand up staying up late, let's just hope my sister does not mind (poor her)...

And I can see the day 0.0 already... Nogrod and I raging that everybody should vote just to leave traces... Ooh, looks promising.

[The Might]

Aha, so I have the dark lord and the other dark lord in my trio...interesting combination

[Volo]

I'll start sending your roles after 6PM, after that there will be no chance to change your stage1 Days.

I do hope that everybody is aware of the game starting today, because a few players haven't replied my PMs.

[Volo]

I'm sending the roles right now. I hope nobody will quit the game and that the stage1 Days are ok to those who haven't replied as they won't be able to change them.

[Nogrod]

Name: Nogrod.

Title(s): Nogrod of Nogrod whom should be called Nogrod.

Equipment (among others):
- Slow feet but sometimes quick brains.
- Positive attitude.
- Hands, fingers and nails... and a hammer... a sledgehammer (trust me I know what I'm doing).
- A cloak of ever-dim rhetoric.

(Significant) heroic deeds:
- Almost said no to a request to do this or that thing.
- Woke up this morning.
- Convinced the balrog of Nogrod that he is mild-mannered by nature and just wishes for peace.
- Caught wolf-Roa in a game of WW. (Let's not mention the times she's gotten me lynched...)

Star sign: Hääyöaie.

Favorite food: Food for thought, roast lamb (whole) with mint sauce.

Favorite drink: Strong dwarven ale and eggnogs.

Favorite sport: Drinking contests of any sort.

Favorite color: Blueish-grey of the dwarven mines in shadows, anything firelighted.

Weirdest rumor you have heard about yourself: Recurrent rumours of being a rather talkative person... now me? Ridiculous.

Hobbies: (self)irony, sarcasm, laughter, tending a fish in a tank.

Tell us something that nobody knows about you: I and I come together well.

[Nogrod]

Volo: Has the post #1 now a complete, updated and final version of the rules?

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Volo: Has the post #1 now a complete, updated and final version of the rules?

It might not include all the answers to all questions but at least all that is written there is correct, or so I hope.

Good luck everybody!

[Rikae]

Oh dear -
I just got back from Germany last night and was about to join - I suppose I'm too late?

EDIT - Guess so, as the 18 slots are filled up. Well, if someone backs out, I'm here...

[Brinniel]

Name: Brinniel

Title(s): Brinn the Emo

Equipment (among others):
-long, black hair
-converse sneakers
-guitar
-skateboard
-shifty eyes
-razor blade
-an attitude

o(Significant) heroic deeds:
-Scared off the entire Rohan Cheerleading Squad by simply staring at them
-Won first prize in the First Annual Middle-earth Emo Rock Band Contest
-Skateboarded across Middle-earth in 40 days
-Made twenty orc children cry
-Caused the mental breakdown of a balrog

Star sign: Cancer (not the crab, the disease)

Favourite food: cigarettes (wait...that's not a food?)

Favourite drink: black coffee

Favourite sport: skateboarding

Favourite colour: black

Wierdest rumor you have heard about yourself: That I'm actually a happy person. I know, it's absurd.

Hobbies: Inflicting pain on myself and those I hate. Oh, and going to and playing in emo rock concerts.

Tell us something that nobody else knows about you: I used to be blonde. The horror!

[Volo]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Oh dear -
I just got back from Germany last night and was about to join - I suppose I'm too late?

EDIT - Guess so, as the 18 slots are filled up. Well, if someone backs out, I'm here...

Oh no... You're late by less than a day.
If somebody does back out and you want to take his/her place, I'll let you take it. If nobody objects.


Anyway, the game thread is up: here.

[Isabellkya]

Ummm... was I left out by accident? I posted my character sheet.. thinking it was an obvious sign-up.

[Volo]

IMPORTANT

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Ummm... was I left out by accident? I posted my character sheet.. thinking it was an obvious sign-up.

I'm truly sorry, it was a really bad mistake.

BUT! You, Rikae and Lily are now added as players. You may start posting right away!

Roles and stage1 Days will arrive by PM in just a few seconds.

[A Little Green]

Well I signed up a bit late, so without further explanations, here it comes.

name: A Little Green Man

title(s): Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliups eerioppilas (apparently this silly machine couldn't grasp that it was a single word. Bah.)

equipment:
- little green grapes
- a little green hat
- little green pillers
- a little green chainsaw
- a little green apple

significant (?) heroic deeds:
- made Middle-Earth's smallest-ever crop circle in Rohan
- turned a princess into a little green parrot
- invented a method of manipulating the genes of little bats so that they turn just a little green
- slew the Big Red Knight
- once ate something that wasn't green

star sign: Polar Bear

favourite food: little green animals

favourite drink: juice made of little green apples

favourite sport: minigolf (I have a little Green Card)

favourite colour: Hmmm... how about green?

weirdest rumour you have heard of yourself: That I'm actually from Mars. Bah, the red place...

hobbies: making crop circles, chopping little green caterpillars with my little green chainsaw, cutting firewood with a little green axe, chasing rabbits, making turbines

tell us something nobody else knows about you: I own a pink handbag.

[Rikae]

Well, I might as well - now, what shall my theme be? Hmm... *thinks back to recent life*

Name: Rikae
Title(s): Rikae of - erm... Europe?
Equipment (among others):
- The Ironed Jeans of DOOM
- Complaining +12
- Cases, three genders, and the dreaded "ch"
- A very heavy loaf of Roggenbrot
(Significant) heroic deeds:
- Mopped an entire apartment in 15 minutes.
- Drove from Düsseldorf to Bielefeld in 15 minutes.
- Invented the printing press, the car, and posts to put advertising posters on.
Star sign: Ausfahrt
Favourite food: Mettbällchen
Favourite drink: Mineralwasser
Favourite sport: Football
Favourite colour: Grey, like the sky.
Wierdest rumor you have heard about yourself: That I'm actually US-American.
Hobbies: Complaining, cleaning, tailgating.
Tell us something that nobody else knows about you: I sometimes put Pepsi Light bottles in the recycling bin instead of returning them to Marktkauf.

[Nogrod]

Wie Schön!

Edit: und wunderbar!

[THE Ka]

- Mopped an entire apartment in 15 minutes.

That is the best heroic deed I've seen so far.

Mopping and actually having it matter is the ultimate test, then again I have three dogs and a wood floor, nothing lasts...

My hat is off to you Rikae, with Über Mop Skills.

*gives a musketeer bow with hat*

As for german, I only know a few words and couldn't say anything awesome to you.
Some are not *appropriate* here, some from Kafka, and a few from my friend.
My favourite is Umgebung, just because it is fun to say.

~ likes cleaning, hates mopping Ka

[Brinniel]

Psst Groin...

You can't discuss the game on the discussion thread; it's against the rules. You'll have to wait to say any of your thoughts aloud. Don't worry...your Day will come eventually.

[Roa_Aoife]

This is a bit late but:

Name: Roa Aoife
Title(s): The Red Death
Equipment (among others):
-Two long swords used in a double fighting style
-small cross bow with a poisoned dart loaded in
-loose clothing under leather armor
(Significant) heroic deeds:
-Getting the largest payment ever given a mercenary by intimidating my employer
-Protecting a businessman from an entire assasin's guild
-Making my own assasin's guild from the remants
Star sign: The Vine
Favourite food: Whatever it is, I'll make it myself
Favourite drink: Grape Juice
Favourite sport: Gladiator Contests
Favourite colour: Red, naturally
Wierdest rumor you have heard about yourself: I don't really exist- I'm an Elven conspiracy!
Hobbies: Looking for ways to meld magic and fighting
Tell us something that nobody else knows about you: No.


Thanks everyone for the welcome. Hope I'm not too rusty at this.

[satansaloser2005]

Just letting everyone know I AM still in the game. College network had issues last night/this morning so I couldn't pop in to check on things.

Anyway....with no further ado....my bio (half of which probably won't be as funny as intended unless you're from my area, but still....)



Name: Sally Underdale

Title(s): Queen of the Midget People, Dwarves' Advocate, Keeper of the Random Objects, and various others

Equipment (among others):
- a snazzy bow, complete with arrows dipped in iocane powder
- a compass which glows purple at the approach of adversaries (but doesn't point north. Go figure)
- an enchanted deck of cards
- a spork
- the rack of doom (my favorite and littlest-known weapon)
- sarcasm and a left hook
- mad skills

Significant (and some heroic) deeds:
- fended off a pack of orcs with nothing but a deck of cards and a magic marker
- united dwarves and others of diminutive stature to gain rights for the height-challenged
- slayed the great Moose of Troser Annam, with the help of my pet duck Emily
- helped rescue a group of hobbits from certain death and led them across the great green lake of Enaod
- first left-handed female (left-handed anyone, but who's counting?) to win the coveted Worraps cup for bravery, trickery, and overall wonderfulness

Star sign: Marvolo

Favorite food: whatever's available and not made by myself

Favorite drink: a fizzy drink made from the berries of the fufu bush

Favorite sport: playing hacky sack with orc livers

Favorite color: quite a lovely shade of dark purple

Weirdest rumor you have heard about yourself: that I am secretly engaged to an Ent. Ridiculous, obviously. They're far too short for my taste.

Hobbies: playing sudden-death 10-point pitch, biting small horses, reading ancient runes, torturing innocents by means of mind games and puzzles, causing other general chaos, orc tipping

Tell us something that nobody else knows about you: If I told you, then somebody would know, negating the whole subject. Honestly, who comes up with these questions?

[Gil-Galad]

i am confused about the stage rules, when i went to the game thread everyone was posting... and the way i understand the stage-rules that only certain people post during the day... so now i am lost and being branded quiet in the game....

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Gil, plainly and simply: yesterDay it was Day 0.0, when all people posted and you and several others did not show up. Now there is the first of the Stage Days, when only me and two other people are posting, you have probably a PM from Volo when your Stage Day is (just don't tell us! That's supposed to be a secret only you know!).

And you can delete your post in the game thread. That's our Day now.

[Roa_Aoife]

It's a gladiator setting, Gil. Day 0.0 we all discussed and debated. Now the fights begin. Each 24 hour period has three people (a gifted, a wolf, and an ordo) who can post and vote, but only for each other. No one one knows anyone else's role, including the wolves. Your day has been assigned already. There are 7 of these battles for 21 players. At the end of these battles, we have a village of 14 and depending on what happened in the arena, we could have anywhere from 1-7 wolves, 1-7 gifteds, and 1-7 ordos.

Today the match up is between Legate, Menel, and Valier. In less than an hour, that battle will end with a lynch (we won't know the role of the dead) and the next battle begins between three new players who have already been assigned.

Does that help?

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Roa

that battle will end with a lynch (we won't know the role of the dead) and the next battle begins between three new players who have already been assigned.

Plus the night inbetween. Which, then the wolves will know who each other is, while specials and ordos will not. Same old rules apply, just this time there are only three players a day and the rest of us watch and wait. Plus, hoping we are not killed off during the night.

~ Ka

[Roa_Aoife]

To clarify, Ka, there's no Night between the individual battles, but there will be a Night phase after the end of the 7th battle. I assume at that point the "host" will be the starting wolf kill, the people who get to dream/hunt/whatever can do so, and the wolves meet and come up with a strategy, and game play will continue as normal.

[Volo]

I just recruited a handsome co-mod. Legate's words are the law from now on!

[THE Ka]

Legate's words are the law from now on!

Just kidding... He has an enjoyable writing style, and his 'teleportation' was rather good too, for which I'll have to pass a tip of the hat to Volo.

~ Ka

[THE Ka]

I was bored today, and had extra time on my hands...

So I decided to spend time with my brother for once, so we watched his favourite television show for a bit.

Forgot the name of it, but I saw a moose-creature that reminded me of Menel's, which led to me laughing and saying, 'The weremoose!!!'
Surprisingly enough, this moose also had a bad temper towards hunters. Hmm.

So here you are Menel, your weremoose:



Enjoy.

~ Curious Ka

[Meneltarmacil]

Nice find. What exactly was this moose doing, anyway?

*sharpens sword, gets heavy rocks for sling, puts on antlered helmet*

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Meneltarmacil

Nice find. What exactly was this moose doing, anyway?

*sharpens sword, gets heavy rocks for sling, puts on antlered helmet*

One of the characters from the show tried to eat its offspring, and then ended up stuck in a rock crevice. Offspring then decided in new found freedom to bring the character an apple, which depending on how you see it, could or could not be a tactic to keep the character there with 'bait' until parent creature arrived.
Then another character that had special powers or something, tried to free the hunter character, with little success as the parent creature tried to kill and eat both of them. It just ended up 'scaring off' both the weremoose and little weremoose.

I think the screenwriters could have done more with the weremoose attack, frankly. I expected more entertainment.
It was all very amusing. Though, the offspring was rather adorable for a time.

Though, I've actually eaten moose before and it does taste particularly nice, sort of like ostrich or buffalo, but reindeer is far better.

~ Picky Ka

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I don't think I can play WW here at the Barrowdowns any more. I'm in college, I have the theatre, plus I'm in the USA, which automatically puts me at a disadvantage. I apparently don't have the amount of time to play that I thought I did (not that it matters much, because I rarely get past the first day any more, for some reason [why I don't know, it's not as if I'm a threat to anyone {mostly it's lynching, because no matter what I do, I end up being suspicious to someone, and it's actually become quite upsetting}]).

I may be back, I may not. I doubt you'd miss me anyway. :P

[THE Ka]

I understand, hope you can play again sometime I have a feeling that werewolf would have been quite different if you had more time, which I can understand since I'm in college m'self (I got lucky this thursday and friday and only had one class to attend).
Anyways, I hope you can play again sometime. Good luck with theatre, that is neat.
I love it, but I never could pull it off, I'm a bit too introverted and I don't think my pathetic experience with stage props in middle school disproves that fact...
So for that line of work, for all its stress and management, to be dedicated about it is lovely. Hope it turns out!

~ Ka

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

I don't think I can play WW here at the Barrowdowns any more. I'm in college, I have the theatre, plus I'm in the USA, which automatically puts me at a disadvantage. I apparently don't have the amount of time to play that I thought I did (not that it matters much, because I rarely get past the first day any more, for some reason [why I don't know, it's not as if I'm a threat to anyone {mostly it's lynching, because no matter what I do, I end up being suspicious to someone, and it's actually become quite upsetting}]).

I may be back, I may not. I doubt you'd miss me anyway. :P

Shasta, there are many USA Downers and WWers. And as to the early demises, what can one say But partially I think it is simply that you are used to a different style of WWing than we do, and many people indeed are inclined more to lynch a person who posts less and shorter posts... even though in the last game (phantom's) you posted quite a lot and I'd say it was great. And no, don't say we are not going to miss you, for you have your own story behind here and are a part of the WWing history in any case.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

I don't think I can play WW here at the Barrowdowns any more. I'm in college, I have the theatre, plus I'm in the USA, which automatically puts me at a disadvantage. I apparently don't have the amount of time to play that I thought I did (not that it matters much, because I rarely get past the first day any more, for some reason [why I don't know, it's not as if I'm a threat to anyone {mostly it's lynching, because no matter what I do, I end up being suspicious to someone, and it's actually become quite upsetting}]).

I may be back, I may not. I doubt you'd miss me anyway. :P

But....but....but we like you. We really like you. And we'll certainly miss you. If you must retire from WW, then so be it, but that would be quite a shame because even though I'm quite a newbie on here I truly enjoy playing with you. (Sorry you died by the way. Tragic.) And I'm sure others do as well. You're a good player Shasta, even if you might not have a lot of time to thoroughly enjoy the game. Do try to play again sometime, even if it's only the occasional game because....well, because you're awesome. *sigh* Besides, I don't want to be the only American theater student on the board.

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

Nooo, Shasta! Don't give up and leave! I know exactly how hard balancing college, theater, and WW can be, as I'm doing so myself at this time. Please keep playing. I know how frustrating it can be to get lynched early, as it happens to me often enough that if I make it to the fourth day, I get excited. :P We'll miss you if you quit playing forever!

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Well, like I told Volo in a very nice PM he sent, I wasn't planning on leaving forever! I just probably won't be joining every game that comes along, depending on my schedule. I'll still be around, just not as much.

Sorry guys, you'll have to find someone else to lynch Day 1.

[The Sixth Wizard]

G'day people.

I've PMed Volo asking as to whether there is still room for me to play too (he invited me) but it looks to me as though I'm too late. Awaiting a response...

The Sixth Wizard

[Gil-Galad]

it was all bad timing... i knew my day was saturday but i got dragged out of the house, and by time i got back it was too late... the gods of werewolf really did not want me to play this game... now i feel bad cause i just ruined one of the days, and i have this week off so that meant you would have had me ALL WEEK. sigh...

i might be making the same statement as shasta, RL is really taking all my time, and i really need to get my act together being an 18 yr old, i still need to get into post-secondary, study my current course and much much more. out of all the WW games i remember being in, i only count two good games that i participated in... out of a possible 15...