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1347
During a siege at the Crimean peninsula, the besieging army is suddenly greatly decimated by an unknown disease. The deaths are countless and local merchants from Genova flee by sea to Sicily.
1348
Trough Sicily the new disease is quickly spreading to Genova, Venice and Marseille. The outbreak of the plague is so fast and devastating, that it gains the name „The Black Death“. Within a year, large areas of Southern Europe, but also France and England have fallen victim to the plague and in some places more than half of the inhabitants have died from it.
1349
The plague has reached Germany. Just like in the rest of Europe, nobody seems to be safe from it, lords and peasants alike have fallen victim to the „Black Death“. Many are convinced the end of times is near, and so huge morbid processions of flagellants have formed, going from town to town, flagellating themselves in hope for forgiveness for their sins. Many follow the flagellants, as they have given up hope for salvation through the holy mother church. Others yet blame witches, jews and other heretics for trying to eradicate Christianity. It didn’t take long, though, that the processions of flagellants are blamed for the spreading of the plague as well, as it was discovered that the plague seemed to follow their trail. Many towns closed their gates and didn’t allow them entry. The town of Münster saw huge flagellant processions when the pope himself declared the flagellants to be heretics. After a short uprising, the flagellants were expelled and moved elsewhere looking to find souls in dire need of saving. After a week, the procession reached Hamm in Westfalia. Nowadays Hamm is a city of 180000 inhabitants, but back then it was little more than a small village. The local lord Adam von Hamm, though, knew already about the flagellant processions and the plague accompanying them. Hamm had been spared so far, and he intended to keep it that way. The gates of the town were closed and entrance to the flagellants denied. But instead of moving on, the flagellants put up camp in front of Hamm and performed their gruesome rituals in the fields outside the city wall.
„They won’t stay for long, in a few days they’ll be sure to move on“, Adam von Hamm thought to himself. And so he went to sleep, assuming he had saved his fief from the „Black Death“.
14th of December 1349
Three days later, Adam von Hamm had a rude awakening when he suddenly heard screams outside his window. When he arrived outside, the whole village seemed to have assembled already. Somebody had found the dead body of Rathyr the miller and two gruesome observations sent a chill down the spine of the villagers. First, Rathyr clearly died from the plague, as was obvious from various buboes covering his body. But that alone wouldn’t have been so shocking in times like these. On top of that, his body was covered with hair, his teeth had turned to fangs and his hands and feet were massive claws. This could only mean, that Rathyr was a Lycanthrope…
…a Werewolf!
Adam von Hamm ordered everybody into the tavern (as that was his favorite place, besides a proper castle) and soon a discussion ensued on how to proceed…
Map of Hamm:
DAY 5: ALL VILLAGERS ARE CURRENTLY IN THE TAVERN
IMPORTANT: Besides the standard rules (see below, with thanks to Ejnomad), this game features some special additions:
Room vote: Every day, you decide to spend the night in a room (as marked on the map). Crossed out rooms are unavailable because they are infested by the plague. You all start out the day in one of the rooms and can vote for which room you want to stay in.
Example: Room: 5 or Room: mill
Lurker vote: The player with the most lurker votes gets attached to the pillory (L on the map) and spends the night there. The abilities of the player are deactivated for the night - the player is effectively blocked. Spending too many December nights outside, though, can seriously impair a players health.
Example: Lurker: Adaham
Watch vote: The player with the most watch votes will stand guard that night. All his abilities will be disabled, but he can target one person to track their activities. He will know who that person targeted, but not the exact nature of their targeting. Cannot become the watch two nights in a row. (EDIT: FORGOT TO PUT THIS IMPORTANT FACT IN THERE)
Example: Watch: Adaham
All these three ideas have been freely adapted from Whoopin’s games (mainly Twilight II), so credit goes to him for coming up with that.
IMPORTANT 2:
- As your role PM's stated hopefully clearly (maybe I forgot in some instances), your abilities do only work within the room you're in.
- All abilities are activated by PMing me. Don't send any other player a PM saying "I kill U" or anything like that.
- No editing of posts!
- No PMing each other outside this thread about this game (unless you're dead)
- If you're unsure how something works, PM me before you do something stupid.
- No game-breakers!!! If your allegiance changes in one way or another, don't go around and say "I've been converted, but I rather don't" (I'm looking at you Phoney) and don't become fed up and claim you're a villain out of frustration (I'm looking at you Llandy). If your allegiance changes, play along, it's not like you'd have a choice in reality.
- Length of days: All days take as long as the amount of players alive. Meaning that the first day will take 20 days. Nights have a strict 3 day time-limit. Extensions might be granted on the first day/night cycle because of Christmas n'stuff. After that we'll handle strict deadlines.
- Please use the lovely lime green color together with the bolding of your votes, to make it more visible. That was a good idea by Aust.
Look here for the other, general rules:
General Gameplay and Etiquette:
Voting, Deadlines, and Player Death:
Miscellaneous/Mechanics:
The Golden Rule:
Please remember that this is a game and your main objective is to have fun! Be considerate of each other, don’t get personal, and enjoy the game.
- You may not quote private Moderator-supplied information (either real or fabricated) of any kind. Paraphrasing (for role claims, etc.) is acceptable.
- There is no editing or removing of your posts. Please use the preview feature before you post.
- There is to be NO personal communication outside of the forum postings unless your role PM specifically allows it.
- If you have a role with a Night action your choices are due to me by the posted deadline. If I do not receive your choice via PM by the posted deadline you will forfeit your actions.
- In order for all players to play at least one game day this game will start with a Day phase. Communication outside the thread (if your role specifically allows it) is allowed until the game begins.
- As a general rule you should aim for one post every 24 hours, minimum, to keep the game moving.
Voting, Deadlines, and Player Death:
- A simple majority of all living members must agree on one person for a Lynch to occur (simple majority = ½ # of living players +1, rounded down).
- Votes should be bolded or they may not be counted (e.g. Vote: Player).
- Vote revocations should be bolded or they may not be counted (e.g. Unvote: Player or Unvote). Unvotes are not necessary before changing votes.
- You may Vote: No Lynch - a simple majority of these vote types are required to send the game to Night phase without a Lynch.
- Votes/Unvotes that are bolded correctly and are unambiguous (with respect to player nicknames/abbreviations) will count.
- If no one has reached a majority of votes at deadline, a No Lynch will occur.
- Once you have reached a simple majority no further unvoting will change someone’s fate.
- Once a player is lynched the game enters twilight until I post a death scene; the lynched player may not post during twilight but all other living players may continue to post.
- Once you are killed (either via lynch or night kill) you may no longer post except for a brief “Bah!”-type post.
Miscellaneous/Mechanics:
- Votecounts will be posted once per page or once per day, whichever is less.
- If you have an issue/problem with the game, please PM the Mod privately. Do not post issues/complaints in the game thread.
- The Mod may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
- Please bold all requests to the Mod so that they don’t get missed.
- Rules violations will be dealt with according to their severity, up to and including a Modkill. Modkills may be accompanied by a change to day/night.
- Any situation not explicitly covered above is subject to Mod discretion and will be handled as the Mod sees fit on a case-by-case basis.
- If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.
The Golden Rule:
Please remember that this is a game and your main objective is to have fun! Be considerate of each other, don’t get personal, and enjoy the game.
Here are the players:
Alive: 8
AWdeV
Ejnomad - ILL (will die from a second night in the pillory)
Leprechaun
Orj
Pharaoh X Llandy
Phonemelter
Snoopy-91
Twinkle
Casualties:
Day 0:
Rathyr (The Lycanthrope) - Got buboes in all the wrong places
Day 1:
Velpulus I (Herbal woman / Witch) - Got stabbed by the proverbial "knife on day 1"
Moose! (Hans the Werewolf) - Couldn't levitate to safety in time
Night 1:
SootShade (The Inquisitor) - Got a thorough taste of his own medicine
Day 2:
Xardob I. (Marx Augustin) - "Oh, du lieber Augustin, Xardob ist hin!"
Night 2:
Reverend L. Lamb (The priest) - Turned into a last supper for...
Whoopin (Stump the Werewolf) - got whooped so he can focus on his exams
Day 3:
Moss (Pure soul) - Even his piety couldn't safe him from an unexpected second knife
MaHuD (Thiess the Werewolf) - Got boomeranged by aforementioned knife
Seff (Jewish merchant) - Couldn't buy himself more time
Night 3:
Day 4:
Eternal (Executioner) - fast-tracked himself
Night 4:
Day 5:
Locke (Juliet) - Romeo was still alive, but it was too late for her...
The Wolf (Tavernkeeper) - sold his last ale...
Night 5:
Xardob II (Mephistopheles) - So this, then, was the kernel of the brute!
The roles:
Herbal woman/ Witch said:
Inquisitor said:
Marx Augustin said:You are Marx Augustin, the minstrel: Always jolly, always drunk. Since you woke up one morning - after another memorable night that left you memoryless - in a mass grave full of plague victims, nothing can scare you off anymore and you're resistent to the plague. You may secretly sleep in infected buildings (by PMing the host with your choice at nightfall), but only every other night. Wouldn't want to overdo it
You win when all evil is eradicated from the village.
Priest said:
Pure soul said:
Jewish merchant said:
The executioner said:
Tavern keeper said:
Romeo & Juliet said:
Town guard said:
Tavern keeper said:
Doctor said:
Pigeon breeder said:
The Mercenary said:
Garrett said:
Adaham said:Hi guys,
you are Team Red (a.k.a. the bad guys). Your discussion thread can be found here: http://www.quicktopic.com/51/H/s3XZmfMJEnEVJ
Your roles are:
Hans said:
Doctor Faustus & Mephistopheles said:
If you have questions, complaints, wishes or whatever, feel free to ask. If you like it, you may also tell me
While I split you up into two groups, you are essentially still the same team and communicate together in the same night discussion thread.
Konrad Schmidt said:
DEADLINE FOR NIGHT 5 IS WEDNESDAY THE 25TH OF FEBRUARY 10PM CET
UPDATES
Watch vote and lurker vote need at least 4 votes to be valid
(forgot to mention that in the original post). In case of a tie you either try to break the tie or there's no watcher/lurker.
