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If you do not recieve a PM role, its because your an Imperial Citizen, Im too Lazy to send PM roles to citizens too


Greetings and welcome to all concerned. First off, if you are not a player in this game please Do not post in this thread!

Okay FOR THE PLAYERS! Your roles have been sent to you via PM. All roles were decided by me via a few dice rolls and were completely random. I will verify that there is at least one pro-town role (like an Inquisitor or Doctor) and that there are two Genestealers in your midst.

Rules

Votes

1) Votes must be in bold, if you do not bold your vote it will not be counted. This is a good vote - Vote: Gornall this is a not good vote - Vote:Gornall.

2) Please unvote if necessary before casting a new vote, it makes counting them much easier. (you are allowed to unvote as many times as you wish during a day cycle, so feel free to keep shifting your vote around as your suspicions change)

3) Lynching will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, their pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. Thus, as soon as any player has a majority vote that player will be lynched and all subsequent voting does not count. Feel free to post other thoughts while waiting for the lynch scene if you desire. With 7 alive 4 votes are required to lynch. With 3 alive, 2 votes would be required. Ect. ect.

4) You may vote: no lynch. If No Lynch is the majority votes at any time then the day will end with no lynch and move on to the night phase.

5) Vote counts will be tabulated and posted by me at semi-regular intervals or when requested.


Deadlines

1) I will be enforcing a fixed two week Day Phase deadline. All Night Phases have a 72 hour deadline. Deadlines will be counted from the Moderator (my) story posts that will initiate each day and night phase.

2) At the three week deadline lynching will require the same number of votes as usual, if this number is not reached the day will end 'no lynch'.

3) If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you. If you do not submit a choice to me then nothing will happen... at all... not even a little bit.


Posting

1) The game is not to be discussed outside the thread unless your role specifically states that you may do so – and then only at night. Honor system is in effect.

2) Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. Stop typing. A single “Bah, you fools!” type post is allowable, but no more please.

3) No small or invisible text. Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts either. Secret codes worked into your regular text are allowable. Going back and editing a post may be grounds for disqualification from the game based on my whim.

4) Don’t quote any PMs from me. If you do, I will be most unhappy. Do not metagame by using any part of role PMs to figure out what roles others may or may not have (i.e. 'everyone post the third letter from the second line of their role PM') Any such metagame activity will result in a modkill (in other words, I'll declare you dead and the game will move to the next phase)

5) If you anticipate being unavailable for more than 3 days, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.

6) Game Mods are human (allegedly), if I make a mistake please PM me I will rectify the mistake as soon as I can.

7) Please bold anything you want me to see.. Also, please try to avoid bolding anything else to ensure I DO see the ones I need to.

Prods aka 'That guy hasn't posted in a while'

1)A player will get prodded if they have been inactive for three days.

2)Weekends count as one day. (ie If your last post is on a Thursday you will not be prodded till the Monday following)

3) If you do not pick up your prod/post in game within 48 hours of it being sent I will start to look for a replacement.

4) Please post in game if you are going to be unavailable for more than 48 hours.

Misc

Remember, it’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. Be nice to your fellow players.

If you have a problem in game please PM me to discuss it.

The rules etc can and will be edited at any point if I deem it necessary.

Breaking the rules can be bad for your health, I reserve the right to modkill for serious/repeated naughtiness




You are nine Scribes of the Adeptus Adminstration, you work deep underground on the Forge World Agripinaa, your job is to file, organise and record the workings of your masters. You work in a small room filled with computers, you are overseen by adepts of the lowest standard, most have been sent here by there masters for discipline, the current adept overseeing you is very mean, he allowes you little sleep, and punishes you when too little work is done.

It is just a normal boring day, your all at your work stations, Adept Booba is particulary mean today, he is working his way through the room, screaming and shouting at everyone in his way. Suddenly you hear a loud crashing sound, the room rocks, everyone falls off there chairs with a cry. When the smoke clears it seems your two Skitarii guard have been crushed by falling rock, and the entrance is blocked! The computers have all shut down, and you have nothing too do. Adept Booba decided, that as there nothing to do, he shall shut himself down for exactly 6:00 hours, he tells them all to get some sleep, because work will resume when the computers are back online, and they will have to work double time to catch up. Happy to catch a little shut eye, everyone immediantly runs to their bunks.

You all wake up at the same time, checking your watches you see its been ten hours! You realise that something must be wrong, and run to Adept Booba's room. Inside you find that the Adept has been gruesomely killed, the walls are covered in blood, it seems to be two people who have killed him.


With Nine People Alive It Takes Five To Lynch!

"Dear Emperor!!"
*passes out*

Wait a minute, I wanted to be an alternate scribe, I shouldn't even be here.

Vote: airman

A weak fortitude is a sign of a lack of the Emperor's grace.

"Wait, why me? You don't have any proof that I was the one who killed the adept."

You woke up awfully quick after fainting - seems like some sort of xenos anti-fainting gene at work there to me.

((OOC - I always open games with random votes and encourage others to as well. I feel it's the best way to get people talking.))

Thor665 wrote:You woke up awfully quick after fainting - seems like some sort of xenos anti-fainting gene at work there to me.

"If you must know I am a very light sleeper."

Interesting. Thor seems to be remarkably quick to start voting.

Oh. Maybe I should read all the posts...

(Going to bed. See you tomorrow)

Emperor help us!

"God-Emperor protect us all..." I say bringing a handkerchief up to cover my mouth. "What in his most holy name could have done this?"

Does anyone know if the computers are back up, I need to get back on DakkaDakka... I mean continue filing the master's work?

"Emperor protect us! What the hell happened here? I know Adept Booba wasn't liked very much, but that is just way too much. I see you are as efficient as ever Thor, but I guess you would be being the best scribe in this department"

Arheiner wrote:Does anyone know if the computers are back up, I need to get back on DakkaDakka... I mean continue filing the master's work?

OOC: LOL

So what do we do now to uproot the killers among us?

we talk then in a day or so we get asked to vote who it is also someowhen someone will get murdered
so should be a murder soon

Everyone is so quiet... we need to start figuring this out before the killer strikes again.

((OOC - please don't get me started yet again on why the random voting concept is so worthwhile. Still, since everyone seems to be simply gasping "Emperor" and asking "what next" it seems to me we are required yet again to go through the bother of trying to post in character the logistics of the rules of the game we've agreed to play. So, here goes....))

::Thor takes in a steady breath and launches into a lengthy discussion showcasing how there are no doubt two Genestealers and outlining the evidence thereof which everyone can see and agree with. You all then postulates about how long till rescue will arrive and what we all need to do to survive - which is catch and kill the Genestealers. All of you embark into a lengthy debate and eventually a voting method is agreed upon wherein you will pick and kill one person a day cycle in an attempt to capture and kill the Genestealers amongst you.::

*whew* ::Thor wipes his brow.:: So now that we sorted that out, who are people voting for? I still advocate that getting votes out is the best way to begin conversation.

I'm still currently voting for airman because of his abhuman seeming sleep cycles.

I'm voting for Vulkan because he smells like cheese.

Gornall wrote:I'm voting for Vulkan because he smells like cheese.

OOC: What???

OOC:: A little joke on the whole Vulkan = broken, Vulkan Cheesestan complaints if you try and run him in Marine lists.

airman wrote:

Gornall wrote:I'm voting for Vulkan because he smells like cheese.

OOC:What???

((OOC - Gornall is participating in what is known as the Random Voting Stage (or RVS). RVS is used in Mafia games (upon which Genestealer is based) as a way to begin the Day 1 phase and start up conversation. People throw out random votes at other players for such relevant reasons as a difficult to spell username or for having an ugly avatar, or for posting first or for not yet posting (or for smelling like cheese). The person who was voted for will usually try to defend themselves in some manner and other players may or may not vote for the person in question. Since there is a team of players who know who their allies are and have a desire to vote out people who are not on that team (the Genestealers) the RVS can be used to see who perhaps defends someone, or who seeks to aid in voting for someone. In the end it is a way to begin conversation, to begin the voting process, and to also hopefully begin a method by which Genestealers may be located (since we have to get the talking and voting to spot the irregularities in their pattern). Our goal during RVS is to thus put out some votes to begin conversation, but not to yet rush into a lynch situation.))

((in character)) I always wondered what that smell was.

Arheiner wrote:Does anyone know if the computers are back up, I need to get back on DakkaDakka... I mean continue filing the master's work?

"Wait. You would rather access the computer network than discover the killers?"

Thor665 wrote:((OOC - please don't get me started yet again on why the random voting concept is so worthwhile. Still, since everyone seems to be simply gasping "Emperor" and asking "what next" it seems to me we are required yet again to go through the bother of trying to post in character the logistics of the rules of the game we've agreed to play. So, here goes....))

::Thor takes in a steady breath and launches into a lengthy discussion showcasing how there are no doubt two Genestealers and outlining the evidence thereof which everyone can see and agree with. You all then postulates about how long till rescue will arrive and what we all need to do to survive - which is catch and kill the Genestealers. All of you embark into a lengthy debate and eventually a voting method is agreed upon wherein you will pick and kill one person a day cycle in an attempt to capture and kill the Genestealers amongst you.::

*whew* ::Thor wipes his brow.:: So now that we sorted that out, who are people voting for? I still advocate that getting votes out is the best way to begin conversation.

I'm still currently voting for airman because of his abhuman seeming sleep cycles.

Yes, voting does seem the wise idea. I VOTE: n0t_U there seemed to be something suspicious about him from when we first arrived.

airman wrote:

Arheiner wrote:Does anyone know if the computers are back up, I need to get back on DakkaDakka... I mean continue filing the master's work?

"Wait. You would rather access the computer network than discover the killers?"

We've got all day to start that, and it's not like we've got a lead yet. When there's something, i'll follow it but i'm one who supports waiting on the sidelines and hearing who others are and waiting for some sort of lead.

So you're saying your plan is to lurk on the sidelines and hopefully pounce on someone who seems scummy to you? How are you planning to get them to act in a suspicious way if you don't attempt to interact with them at all?

Lurking in the shadows is something more suited to the traitors and not to one who wants to seek the Emperor's light.

I'm more than prepared to come out and vote after the first signs that anything has happened, but until then i'm not prepared to trust anyone. I'm prepared to give my story (tomorrow, going to FLGS in 15 mins.) By what I meant though is I will talk but I won't judge or vote unless something seems very wrong or traitors have shown their true selves.

BrotherStynier wrote:Yes, voting does seem the wise idea. I VOTE: n0t_U there seemed to be something suspicious about him from when we first arrived.

Suspicious how? Perhaps it is because I'm locked into a role that I have no idea about. Or maybe it is simply because I was the loyalist assassin and you, the possible traitor, fear that I might get a lucky first assassination and get either you or another traitor. Or is it because I hadn't voted yet because I live in a different time zone, it happened last time I won't be surprised if it happens again

Not being a petty person I won't vote for you simply because you're voting for me, instead I will vote for someone who does seem suspicious to me; Arheiner. We proved it last game, a traitor wants to hide in the shadows and perhaps get a no lynch while appearing as if it wasn't an intentional.

Vote: Arheiner

OOC: I wouldn't go around putting things like "live in a different time zone", "it happened last time", or "we proved it last game. My post was in character and I suggest you get into it as well, last I checked we don't have a guy sitting here waiting to kill us if we are voted off.

IC: Perhaps I am simply casting may gaze to you in order to lure the enemy into voting for you as well. My goal was to see if anyone would jump on for little or no reason. Though you did seem to jump on Arheiner for little more than wishing to remain quiet. Though I do find his way of finding those guilty to be a bit lacking.

Your jumping onto the vote for him strikes me odd as well, I simply thought that for now our reasons for voting were to get people talking, you seem to be doing what I was trying to get the heretics to do.