Ruleset- Stolen from Plum and Korejora:
Please read the rules. It’s your responsibility, not mine.
General Rules:
[01] VOTING METHOD: Votes must be in bold. For example: '
Vote: Pomegranate
' is a valid vote; 'Vote: Pomegranate' is not. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted. Please spell playernames correctly.
1a. If I think it's a vote, it counts as one until you clarify your intentions.
[02] LYNCH: Lynching will require more than half as many votes as there are players alive (50% +1); at the beginning of each day, and with every votecount, the number of votes required to achieve a lynch that day will be clearly indicated. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, any Unvotes will not count.
[03] NO LYNCH: No Lynch requires the same number of votes as a regular lynch.
[04] DEADLINE: Each day will have a two week deadline.
4a. I will extend deadlines according to my own discretion, taking into account quantity of activity in the thread, replacements, V/LAs, and player requests.
[05] DEADLINE LYNCH RULES: If at deadline no player has a majority of votes, a No Lynch will occur.
[06] NIGHT ACTIONS: Nightkills will be expected within 72 hours of the end of the day; at the end of any given Day I will clearly indicate the exact deadline. Any actions submitted after the deadline will be disregarded. If no kill is sent in, then No Action will occur. The first PM I receive stating the kill will be final- you may not PM me later, even before deadline, with another choice.
[07] LURKING AND NOT POSTING: Lurking is not an acceptable strategy in this game. Anyone who goes more than 72 hours without posting, without stating V/LA prior to the absence, will be prodded. If the prodded player does not post within 48 hours of the prod being sent, I will search for a replacement. If the player shows up while I am searching for his replacement, he will not be replaced, but if he shows after a replacement is found, well too bad on him.
7a. I plan on persistence in the case of a replacement search, and will be willing to extend Day and Night length to accommodate, if need be. In the case of a
truly untenable situation
, I will consider Modkills as a solution.
[08] OUT OF THREAD COMMUNICATION: The game is to be discussed outside the thread only in the quicktopic(s) linked to in your role PM. Don’t quote any out-of-thread communications regarding this game in the thread.
8a. Talking about ongoing games is against site rules and against my rules.
8b. Any and all quicktopics will be made public after the conclusion of the game. This is your fair warning. Please be civil in your quicktopics as you are in the gamethread.
[09] AFTER DEATH POSTING: One ‘Bah’ post is allowed after death, as long as it does not reveal
any
information relevant to the game.
9a. Twilight posting by any and all players is fine.
[10] TOO CLEVER BY HALF RULE: No small or hidden text or obscure codes. Don’t edit or delete previously submitted post.
[11] VACATION? LIMITED ACCESS? If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in this game thread and/or by PM. I recommend both. All V/LAs will be announced publicly by the Mod, but both/either are acceptable as circumstances allow. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.
[12] FALLIBILITY CLAUSE: Unlike other mods, I am fallible. Please point out any mistakes I make gently. In particular, if I post a vote count that does not accurately reflect your vote, please correct me- otherwise your vote may be treated as it appears in the vote count.
[13] QUESTIONS: If you have any questions at all, especially questions about whether or not you would be allowed to do something, please PM me. Please also refrain from posting any questions aside from those concerning possibly mistaken votecounts in the thread and PM me instead (in the cases of possibly mistaken votecounts, it is recommended that you PM me as well; it's just not required that you keep those questions for the Mod to PM alone).
[14] FUN: Remember, it’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. Be nice to your fellow players and your mod. I have very low tolerance for abusive posts.
[15] CHROMA RULE: I've reserved the color Indigo for any purposes I might choose. Don't use it, please.
[16] MODKILLING: I reserve the right to modkill you for breaking any of the above rules or not, as I choose. I also reserve the right to modkill you for breaking any site rules or for anything I deem deserves a modkill; I'll be reasonable, but if you think something may be questionable, please ask me by PM first. If you are modkilled, you lose automatically, even if your original win condition is eventually reached.
16a.
Never
speculate about whether the actions of a player in the game may or may not get him modkilled by me, as I prefer this have as little impact on the game as possible.
Please
PM me any concerns you have that anything going on in the game has broken a rule. Failure to abide by this rule is also a potentially modkillable offense.
[17] RULEMAKER: I reserve the right to add, remove, or amend the specific rules of this game as I see fit. and to Modkill accordingly if I so choose.
[18] DAY START: After 9 Players confirm in the gamethread the game will begin with Day 1.
Game Specific Rules:
[19] PICTURES: You may only communicate using pictures, with the exception of votes.
19a. Pictures may not have text in them.
19b. Do not stretch the page.
19c. Use of emoticons is not allowed.
[20] ANNOUNCEMENTS: Announcements concerning V/LA may be made in thread, but they must be as precise as possible. An announcement to me, the mod, may be preceded with ‘
Mod:
’, but the announcement itself must be in pictures. (Note: I’d prefer if any and all announcements, V/LA or other, could be PMed to me. Other announcements must still be in pictures.)
[21] ROLE-PICTURE POSTING: Do not post the picture or role on your Role PM. Do not attempt to post a similar image, picture or drawing to convey your role.
[22] CLARIFICATION: Slight infractions on these rules may or may not be subject to several warnings before an outright kill to allow for mistakes. I reserve the right to modkill immediately if I determine a violation to be too blatant to have been unintentional or to have affected the game strongly. Also, a few clarifications:
~ Text FoS is not allowed by these rules, though feel free to represent it in pictures.
~ Quoting text still counts as posting text.
~ You may not refer to or bring attention to text, e.g. by posting an arrow pointing to text.
~ Irrelevant text in a picture is fine, such as the word 'Pepsi' on a soda can, although to be safe you should still just edit the text out somehow, if possible.
~ Emotive punctuation, such an exclamation mark above a surprised character's head, is allowed.
~ I will be editing out illegal pictures and/or text as I find them, regardless of what action I took in response to the violation.
NOTE: You may have noticed that your role PM only contains a picture, and the title of your role. Your win condition is not intended to be ambiguous. To be clear, a green player is town-aligned, a red player is mafia-aligned, a dark red player is werewolf-aligned, a gray player is neutral, an olive player is cult-aligned, and a purple player is self-aligned. (Not all of these alignments will necessarily be in the game.) If you are unsure as to which faction you are part of, or what your role is, please PM me for clarification.
