Posted October 09, 2014
We're entered the 14053rd week of the Not Ending Soon war. In the tertiary bergzone of the fifteenth quadrant, the Olipsi flotilla and the Nisk Armada are locked in a long battle for the control of Pristine, a planetary system of utmost (symbolic) importance for both sides.
The Nisk have launched this fourth wave of fighters into the melee in a brutal attempt to tip the battle in their favor. This seems to be a success so far, as the Olipsi fighters get slowly yet surely outnumbered. But, as the floating debris accumulate within the whirling cloud of dogfighting spaceships, the Nisk are cruelly reminded that battles aren't only fought on the field. As another Iniurfas Mark II falls victim of undetermined "friendly fire", the rumors of Olipsi infiltration amongst their very ranks start spreading through the Nisk comms channel.
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This is a game of Forum Mafia. It is being played accordingly to the following rules :
1° The game is moderated by the moderator.
2° The game is played by the players.
3° Every player gets informations from the moderator through private messages and forum posts. These private messages must NOT be directly quoted in the forum. They have to be paraphrased instead.
4° During the day phase, all active players can post in the game thread.
5° During the night phase, no player can post in the game thread.
6° During both phases, no player can discuss together, or refer to the game's developments, in other threads or in other medias (yeah, sounds a bit fightclubish, I know).
7° During the night phase, the mafia-side players can discuss in their own persistent private quicktopic forum.
8° A day phase ends with a lynch when a vote majority has been reached, or without a lynch when its natural duration has elapsed. A day's natural duration -measured in real life days- is twice* the number of current active players (rounded down to the nearest whole number, yes, shut up).
9° A night phase ends two* real life days after its start, whether all the night actions have been submitted or not.
10° Players idling out for more than four days in a row will be first scolded, then slapped, then publicly humiliated, then sued, then modkilled, then lifekilled (this last one depending on whether they have been sucessfully replaced or have actually ruined the game -and by extension gog- for everybody). Note that if they are not replaced, this does count as one less player in their team.
11° If a player shows an awfully enjoyment-disruptive behaviour other than simple idling, the players can also exceptionally vote for his replacement. This is pure metagaming self-moderation and does not affect night/day cycles.
12° Players who have been lynched or assassinated cannot post in this forum anymore, until the game has been declared over and the winners/losers are announced.
13° The Mafia side wins when their number of active members is equal or superior to the number of Town active players. The Town side wins when the number of Mafia active players has reached zero. Players win at the end of the game, active or inactive, if their side is victorious. They lose, active or inactive, if their side has lost.
14° The moderator is me.
15° The players are them :
HijacK ('Redfingers', Town Flavor Cop, piloting a Lokitop Mark II equipped with a long-range optical survey device) - DOWNED
Vitek
Trentonlf
Robbeasy
Yogsloth
Mrkgnao
Adaliabooks ('Twitch', Mafia Strongman (2 shots), piloting an Iniurfas Mark IV equipped with Dantagol silent torpedoes) - DOWNED
Sage103082
Krypsyn
Flubbucket ('Stutter', Town Vanilla, piloting an Iniurfas Mark II) - DOWNED
DarkoD13
CSPVG
Dedoporno
16° People who are not the above should post there instead of posting here.
17° No boogie woogie before saying your evening prayers.
Edit - Also important OF COURSE :
18° DO NOT EDIT POSTS. Typos, freudian slips, and oops-i-should-not-have-said-this are part of the gameplay. If we allowed editing, it would simply suppress them.
19° DO NOT DOUBLEPOST. Here, by doublepost, I mean : posting twice in a row in less than 10 minutes. Because the gog forums merge consecutive posts written with less than 10 minutes between them. And marks the merged post as "edited". Which makes us suspect a transgression of the above. So, wait 10 minutes between posts, or for someone to post before you.
20° Proper protocol for forum actions is
Vote [playername1]
then
Unvote [playername1]
Vote [playername2]
or
Vote Nolynch
bolded, as spectacularly illustrated here. Thank you for that.
That should be all. I hope that is all.
Edit - That is not all :
* Durations shortened, originally 3 realtime days for a game night and 2.5 x players realtime days for a game day.
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As the shining debris of the Telika float past you, with no way it could have been shot down by the Olipsi fighters, the Nisk comms system crackles, and an almost not distorted voice is heard :
The Nisk have launched this fourth wave of fighters into the melee in a brutal attempt to tip the battle in their favor. This seems to be a success so far, as the Olipsi fighters get slowly yet surely outnumbered. But, as the floating debris accumulate within the whirling cloud of dogfighting spaceships, the Nisk are cruelly reminded that battles aren't only fought on the field. As another Iniurfas Mark II falls victim of undetermined "friendly fire", the rumors of Olipsi infiltration amongst their very ranks start spreading through the Nisk comms channel.
_______________________________________________________________
This is a game of Forum Mafia. It is being played accordingly to the following rules :
1° The game is moderated by the moderator.
2° The game is played by the players.
3° Every player gets informations from the moderator through private messages and forum posts. These private messages must NOT be directly quoted in the forum. They have to be paraphrased instead.
4° During the day phase, all active players can post in the game thread.
5° During the night phase, no player can post in the game thread.
6° During both phases, no player can discuss together, or refer to the game's developments, in other threads or in other medias (yeah, sounds a bit fightclubish, I know).
7° During the night phase, the mafia-side players can discuss in their own persistent private quicktopic forum.
8° A day phase ends with a lynch when a vote majority has been reached, or without a lynch when its natural duration has elapsed. A day's natural duration -measured in real life days- is twice* the number of current active players (rounded down to the nearest whole number, yes, shut up).
9° A night phase ends two* real life days after its start, whether all the night actions have been submitted or not.
10° Players idling out for more than four days in a row will be first scolded, then slapped, then publicly humiliated, then sued, then modkilled, then lifekilled (this last one depending on whether they have been sucessfully replaced or have actually ruined the game -and by extension gog- for everybody). Note that if they are not replaced, this does count as one less player in their team.
11° If a player shows an awfully enjoyment-disruptive behaviour other than simple idling, the players can also exceptionally vote for his replacement. This is pure metagaming self-moderation and does not affect night/day cycles.
12° Players who have been lynched or assassinated cannot post in this forum anymore, until the game has been declared over and the winners/losers are announced.
13° The Mafia side wins when their number of active members is equal or superior to the number of Town active players. The Town side wins when the number of Mafia active players has reached zero. Players win at the end of the game, active or inactive, if their side is victorious. They lose, active or inactive, if their side has lost.
14° The moderator is me.
15° The players are them :
HijacK ('Redfingers', Town Flavor Cop, piloting a Lokitop Mark II equipped with a long-range optical survey device) - DOWNED
Vitek
Trentonlf
Robbeasy
Yogsloth
Mrkgnao
Adaliabooks ('Twitch', Mafia Strongman (2 shots), piloting an Iniurfas Mark IV equipped with Dantagol silent torpedoes) - DOWNED
Sage103082
Krypsyn
Flubbucket ('Stutter', Town Vanilla, piloting an Iniurfas Mark II) - DOWNED
DarkoD13
CSPVG
Dedoporno
16° People who are not the above should post there instead of posting here.
17° No boogie woogie before saying your evening prayers.
Edit - Also important OF COURSE :
18° DO NOT EDIT POSTS. Typos, freudian slips, and oops-i-should-not-have-said-this are part of the gameplay. If we allowed editing, it would simply suppress them.
19° DO NOT DOUBLEPOST. Here, by doublepost, I mean : posting twice in a row in less than 10 minutes. Because the gog forums merge consecutive posts written with less than 10 minutes between them. And marks the merged post as "edited". Which makes us suspect a transgression of the above. So, wait 10 minutes between posts, or for someone to post before you.
20° Proper protocol for forum actions is
Vote [playername1]
then
Unvote [playername1]
Vote [playername2]
or
Vote Nolynch
bolded, as spectacularly illustrated here. Thank you for that.
That should be all. I hope that is all.
Edit - That is not all :
* Durations shortened, originally 3 realtime days for a game night and 2.5 x players realtime days for a game day.
_______________________________________________________________________
As the shining debris of the Telika float past you, with no way it could have been shot down by the Olipsi fighters, the Nisk comms system crackles, and an almost not distorted voice is heard :
Post edited November 15, 2014 by Telika
