Werewolf: A Forum Affair III
DDoS Disaster!
DDoS Disaster!
It was a quiet morning on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. The sun rose over the plains; its light cut through the brown cloud hanging over the mile high city and reflected brightly off the snow capped peaks to the west. The confused trees struggled to reconcile the rapidly rising temperature with the dusting of snow that still clung to their needles and hid in their shadows. The few birds that had made their way back to the region tweeted a collective but peaceful, "**** this ****!" and began a flight several miles back to the south to wait for the weather to figure out what the hell it wanted to do. Suddenly a painful shriek shattered this still morning. Magorian sat groggily in bed, with a panic rapidly overtaking him. He couldn't connect to the forum.
A small number of similar, pitiful cries of anguish sprang up from all over the globe. Many thousands more households emitted a resounding, "Meh." before continuing on with normal lives. But for the first group, this was not an option. F5 buttons were ground to dust, monitors were shattered in frustration, nooses were prepared, and Redcoat - Mic fell off a cliff. It was a dark day, and news was slow. Some users were even desperate enough to create twitter accounts in the hope that Captain Lust would actually post something useful there. Eventually it was learned that the forum downtime was a result of a vicious DDoS attack of unknown origin.
Finally, after what seemed like years to some and a rather standard length day to others, the 404s stopped flowing, and the forum hummed to life. But not all was well. Confusion reigned. For the third time, apparently, a technical issue had left all of the forum profiles scrambled. Each poster found themselves in control of a profile that was not their own. Having had some experience with this issue, the forumites began attempting to resolve the issue in an orderly fashion. But before they knew what was happening, profile after profile was inexplicably banned. And it wasn't some **** with an admin profile changing profile pictures to match AK-47's classic in a brilliant spin on the cat April fools prank, they were really banned. A small group of fearless forumites hunkered down in off topic in the hopes of finding the culprits and returning the forum to its rightful, soapy, state. This is their story.
Game Status: Daytime. Deadline is Wednesday June 3rd at 8pm Mountain Time 4 alive.
Alive:
- SootShade
- Eternal
- Phonemelter
- Whoopin
Dead:
- Xardob
- Delta[K]
- Llandy
- Shatari
- Adaham
- Magorian's high school literature teacher, whose disappointment in this game's narration was overwhelming.
Game Log:
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
Game Rules:
General Gameplay and Etiquette:
- 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 no game related personal communication outside of this thread 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.
- Any player with a night action may instead submit a “No Action” PM to let the Mod know that they do not want to perform their expected action that night phase.
- All days have strict 5 day deadlines. Nights will last only 48 hours. Thus, a day/night cycle will last no more than one week.
Voting, Deadlines, and Player Death:
- A lynch requires a simply majority of votes from all living players.
- Votes must be bolded. (e.g. Vote: Player). Votes not in bold text will not be counted.
- Vote revocations must be bolded or they will 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.
- If no majority vote has been reached by the deadline, a No Lynch will occur.
- Gullible.
- Once a simple majority has been reached no further voting or unvoting will be counted. The game moves directly to twilight.
- All living players except the lynched player may continue to discuss during twilight.
- Once you are killed (either via lynch or night kill) you may no longer post except for a brief “Bah!”-type post.
Miscellaneous/Mechanics:
- Red or Purple text is reserved for the Mod. No invisible/small text is allowed.
- Votecounts will be posted once per calendar day.
- 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.
- Prods of missing players will be issued at the moderator's discretion. The excessive need for prodding will result in replacement without warning.
- 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.
Thanks to ejnomad for his work on the rules, from which this set is adapted!
Bearclaw!
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