The Guide
Participation and Post Content
1. All posts must have a minimum of 5 sentences and a minimum of 30 words contained in those sentences. Players should check their grammar and spelling as much as is possible, for the sake of readability.
2. All players must post every real-time day (8pm GMT - 8pm GMT) but one during game Days. Players absent for two consecutive real-life days will be up for replacement.
3. Most (possibly all) roles will have a post restriction associated with them.
4. Failure to meet the minimum posting requirements or post restriction will result in some sort of penalty for the first offense. For subsequent failures in addition to the same penalty where applicable, the offending player will also automatically be on the lynching block (see below).
5. Votes, Unvotes, Nominations, and Unnominations (see below) should be posted in bold (
Vote: Steve
,
Unnominate: Fred, Nominate: Mabel, Jabberwock
) on a separate line at the end of a post.
6. No tags or smilies are allowed, except for bold tags for voting/nominating, and italics for emphasis.
7. Quotation of previous posts (using quotation marks, or otherwise) should be limited to words or short phrases; likewise, referencing post numbers or anything else to do with the forum is discouraged. Roleplay a bit (or a lot).
8. Talking about the Moderator during the game is forbidden. If you have a question about your role, ask it by PM. If it's something that everyone needs to be aware of, the Moderator will clarify it publicly.
9. The intent of the Verbose ruleset is to encourage participation and post content. Posts should be on topic and should attempt to follow the spirit of these rules. If the Moderator feels you are posting contrary to the spirit of the rules, you may receive a warning or be replaced.
Timing
1. Day will take place in two phases, each on a fixed schedule.
2. The first (nomination) phase will last 3 real-time days. During this phase, players may not vote, but will instead nominate players to be up for lynching. Players may nominate (up to) three other players.
3. The top three nominated players will be on the lynching block; however, a minimum of 2 nominations is required (so less than three may be eligible), and if there is a tie for the third-most nominations (2 or more) all will be included (so more than three may be eligible).
4. The second (voting) phase will last 3 real-time days. Players may vote during this phase to lynch someone on the lynching block.
5. If a player eligible to be lynched has a majority of the living players' votes at the end of the voting phase, that player will be lynched. Otherwise, no one will be lynched. Note that day does not end when a majority is reached; rather, day ends when the voting phase deadline hits.
6. Night will last 2 real-time days. Players are encouraged to send choices early where possible.
7. For the purposes of this game, the weekend (Friday 8pm GMT - Sunday 8pm GMT) will be considered one real-time day.
General Rules
1. Have fun, and don't be a jerk.
2. Don't even apply for a place in this game if you aren't going to participate. Read all the rules carefully and make sure you will be able to follow them. Unexpected things do come up, and in that case, let the Moderator know as soon as possible so a replacement can be found, but if you just flake, expect to be barred from future mith games for a while.
3. No editing or deleting your posts.
4. Four legs good, two legs better!
5. No invisible text; no extraneous formatting tags.
6. When you're dead, you're dead. No posting in the game thread until the game is over, unless you role specifies otherwise.
7. Get your choices in before the deadlines. If your choice is not received, a random choice will be made for the first night, no choice for subsequent nights.
8. Breaking any of the rules will likely result in one or two PMed warnings and a mod-kill for any future offense, if not an immediate mod-kill (depending on the severity of the offense). Mod-killing will end day or not in whatever way is worst for the offending player. If you see a rule broken, do not post about it in the thread, PM the mod.
9. Even if deliberately breaking a rule is to your side's benefit, it will probably get you banned from future mith games. Don't do it.
10. No referring to the Moderator in the game thread. All questions to the Moderator should be PMed.
11. Some rules are more equal than others.
12. The Moderator is always right. Accept the Moderator's decisions, and if you want to discuss them, take it to private messages, or do so after the game has finished.
Sample Role PM
Player
: XXXX
Role Name
: You are
John Doe, the Generic Role PM!
Role Description
: You're not even on this trip, but you'll probably end up getting lynched. You always get blamed for everything. "John Doe did this", "John Doe did that".
Role Details
:
You have no abilities. You win when all evil players are eliminated.
Post Restriction
: You aren't playing, so you aren't allowed to post at all. Ha!
Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure
: Failing during the Day will result in your Role PM being put in the second post of the thread. Considering you are required to post but are not allowed to, you're pretty screwed, huh. In fact, I think I'll go ahead and carry out your punishment.
If you have any questions about your role or abilities, please ask. Confirm your participation by joining the pre-flight party.
