Zorasterland has three living and immortal gods. Each is served by five mortal high priests. On all matters put in front of the court, the gods consult with their personal priests and make their case to the court. Both the priests and the gods each have one vote with a majority deciding any matter put before it. For centuries, this system has led the people of Zorasterland in peace and prosperity.
Until now.
It has become clear that one of the immortal gods has decided he wishes to rule alone. To do so, he has corrupted several of the high priests (although not necessarily his own). Their plan is simple: kill off enough priests that The Corrupt have a majority of the vote in the Court and can banish the other gods from Zorasterland.*
Those standing in opposition to this nefarious plan must come together to stop this evil.
1. Do not copy in any manner a PM, whether from the mod or from another player. You may not use the role PM syntax to try and figure out a player’s alignment.
2. Homophobic, racist, sexist, etc. language will not be tolerated.
3. A certain amount of leeway will be allowed for very aggressive play, but do not go overboard. Players are here to have fun; if you harass someone, action will be taken.
4. Activity is expected. If you know you’re going away, please indicate that you are V/LA and when your expected arrival date is.
5.
Any player may request a prod on any other player, so long as it’s not unreasonable by saying in the thread in bold
Prod: <player>
Due to some abuse, the new rule is this: players will be prodded after 48 hours of daytime inactivity.
6. If you want the mod’s attention, type your message in
bold
.
7. I make mistakes. If I make a mistake on the vote count, tell me in bold in the thread. If I make a different mistake or you wish to complain or you think I haven’t seen a previous request, please PM me.
8. Some players will be told they may use
red
,
blue
, or
purple
. If you aren’t told this in your role PM, don’t use those colors.
9. Catch-all rule: Other standard rules on MS should be assumed to be active unless the moderator has explicitly contradicted them. If in doubt, PM the mod or ask in thread in bold letters.
10. The moderator reserves the right to change the rules.
Nights
1. Nights will last at least 24 hours unless the deadline would fall on a Saturday or Sunday, in which case the night will last at least 48 hours. In some instances, Night will last longer if it suits the game (e.g. holidays). Night begins once the mod posts the end of day information.
2. All night actions must be made within this time period or it will be a “no action.”
3. If you are concerned about missing the window, you may queue your action ahead of time. However, once night starts, you may not change this action.
4. Once all actions have been submitted and the moderator is able, the next day will start.
Lynching
1. Lynches may occur at any time if 50%+1 of possible votes are cast for one player. If 50% of all possible votes are cast for “no lynch” a no lynch will occur.
2. Votes should be by the VOTE: function. You may unvote by using the VOTE: function to vote for “no one” or something similar to that.
3.
ALL VOTES SHOULD BE ON THEIR OWN LINE
3. The deadline is set by the mod to begin a day and the God of Time may change it.
4. IF a deadline is reached without a majority being reached AND a player has the majority of votes cast (i.e. not voting for “no one”), then that player is lynched.
5. If the deadline is reached without a majority being reached and no player has the majority of votes cast for him, there is a no lynch.
Order of Night Actions
1. Roleblocks
2. Protections
3. Misc. 1
4. Kills
a. Mafia Kills
b. Serial Killer Kills
c. Vigil Kills
d. Other Kills (say what!?)
5. Misc. 2
6. Investigations
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1. There are three immortal gods. They cannot be killed or lynched.
2. Each god has five followers. The god may exchange PMs with each of his followers individually, and his followers may respond. The followers may not PM other followers.
3. Each god has one vote for lynch purposes unless otherwise granted a voting power.
4. The immortal gods will be announced. Their alignments will be unknown.
5. Though the gods will not be selected randomly, their alignment will be. One of the immortal gods will be evil (and win with scum) while two will be good (and win with town).
6. Immortal gods must be active participants in the game.
7. Though there will be no enforcement of this, it is hoped that the immortals will take heed of a secondary goal: to make the game fun for all involved.
8. Each immortal is a god of something, which gives them a particular power. The three powers (Judgment, Reward, and Time) are distributed randomly, so there is no alignment aspect to it.
9. Many power role actions will not be able to target the immortal gods. Check your role PM.
10. Immortal gods each have a different color that only they can post in. Time can post in
purple
, Rewards can post in
blue
, and Judgment can post in
red
.
Mortal High Priests
1. Each mortal is a high priest associated with one of the immortal gods. The association of each priest with his god will be known.
2. Each priest may exchange PMs with her associated god at any point during the game; however, the priest may NOT PM any other player.
3. Each mortal high priest has one vote for lynch purposes unless otherwise granted a voting power.
4. Mortals may not post in
red
,
blue
, or
purple
.
5. Some mortals may have powers beyond the power to vote, others may not.
Private Messages
1. As noted above, Private Messages between a god and a follower is allowed.
2. However, all PMs must adhere to the basic rules of the game (e.g. no copying role PMs, no abuse, etc.)
3. You may NOT communicate outside of PMs. No skype, no AIM, no e-mail, etc. You MAY set up a QT to talk instead of PM, but if you do please tell the mod what it is so he can observe for funsies.
4. You may NOT communicate by PM or other outside communication with anyone who you are not explicitly allowed to. If you are confused, ask the moderator FIRST.
5. PM communications should be immortal to an individual priest. Gods should refrain from mass sending a PM to all their followers, and mortal high priests should only ever communicate with their god (i.e. not the other followers)
6. Private Messages may never be copied directly into the game in any form. They must be paraphrased.
7. Please report abuses of this policy to the moderator.
Scum
1. There is one immortal god who is Scum.
2. There are an unknown number of mortal high priests who are scum.
3. The distribution of mortal scum has been randomly generated. In other words, there will be no relation between who is scum and which follower they are. I will not be designing this, so don’t try and out-guess the mod on this part. My first step in creating the setup was feeding it into a random generator to decide where the mortal scum were placed, and THEN I made the rest of the setup.
4. To put it another way, the evil immortal god does not necessarily have all evil followers, and good gods do not necessarily have all good followers.
5. Scum have day chat through a QT.
Winning the Game
1. The game is won by good (“town”) when all evil mortals are eliminated.
2. The game is won by The Corrupt (“evil,” “scum”) when all good mortals are eliminated, nothing can prevent all good mortals from being eliminated, the game has had three no lynches in a row, or nothing can prevent three no lynches from occurring in a row.
Lylo
Lynch or Lose (aka “Lylo”) occurs when the town MUST lynch correctly or lose the game.
When this becomes the case (most likely at the beginning of the day), it will be announced by the moderator.
Please note it is NOT lylo if there is any chance that a no lynch or mislynch will not lead to a town loss. For example, if there is still a town doctor left in the game OR if it is merely MYLO (mislynch and lose) I will not announce lylo. I will be VERY conservative in announcing lylo, so it is probably a good idea not to put too much stock in waiting for the lylo announcement.
Spoiler: Role PMs
Amendments (Rule Changes):
1. If you and your god (or you and your follower) want to set up a QT for your conversations, that's okay with me. But either of you may still use PM to communicate as well. If you do do this, please PM me with the QT so I can follow along.
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One important clarification: Gods can BOTH PM their followers individually AND post in this thread. Followers can PM their god AND post in the thread.
EDIT: New rule. After some thought, if you and your god (or you and your follower) want to set up a QT for your conversations, that's okay with me. But either of you may still use PM to communicate as well. If you do do this, please PM me with the QT so I can follow along.
Nah, I just find it funny. I've been busy prostrating myself via PM and talking about whether or not I trust NS and then Jack comes in and is just like "durr, he claimed scum."
Oh, but I can. Your red is meaningless in the face of time! I can poke, prod, and wedge holes in your arguments for as long as my god allows me, and I will reveal you to be the scum that you are!
Lady Lambdadelta wrote:All I need now is for Dlanor A. Knox to show up, and we can really have a party.
Drench isn't here to enjoy the fun.
The comments are null. It's Jack and Nobody Special, after all.
I'm going to treat this like Vi's seraphs and just focus on the people that can be lynched... with the added benefit of watching the gods potentially slip up since they're actually posting.
Lady Lambdadelta wrote:All I need now is for Dlanor A. Knox to show up, and we can really have a party.
Drench isn't here to enjoy the fun.
The comments are null. It's Jack and Nobody Special, after all.
I'm going to treat this like Vi's seraphs and just focus on the people that can be lynched... with the added benefit of watching the gods potentially slip up since they're actually posting.
1) Poor Drench. He can't come to my Tea Party.
2) Yeah, it's best to focus on who we can lynch, and treat the Gods separately.
Yes my Lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
13 heads and counting now, plurality is adaptive. If our experience might help you,
