TWG LXXXIX: Simplicity

[Makilaz]

16 players:

1 Seer
1 Psychic

10 Humans

1 MW
3 wolves

1. Gun92 (james92hofmann)
2. Ac1Speakerbox (Ac1Colossus)
3. Clarinet89 (clarinet898)
4. Afrobean (Afrobean16)
5. DarkManticoreX2 (DarkManticoreX2)
6. FictionJunction (FikshonJunkshon)
7. Syhto (amanetora)
8. A2P (awesome lamer)
9. Ruritsu (Ruritsu)
10. u84 (u8477)
11. sc979 (sam97379)
12. Viccica (mmviccica)
13. emerald000 (emerald3x0)
14. Tupacodaman
15. Panda Express (Helljumperdragon)
16. BDN (megamngtx)

SUBS
1. Redherring

Yes, I'm terrible at names, shut up. PMs have NOT gone out yet, I just wanted to get the thread up.

[Ruritsu]

I take that back, I guess I didn't miss the game start.

[Makilaz]

PMs are now out! If you did not receive one yet, bitch at me until I send you one.

I will not grant extensions for anything except me not being able to update the thread on time. I also will be cracking down on inactivity. If you somehow manage to receive 3 phantoms during the course of the game, you will be ejected from it immediately. I may reduce that to 2 if necessary.

Originally Posted by HUMAN PM

Human.
a.k.a. wolf food. Om nom nom.

It is now Night 1! Night will end in 24 hours, or NOON EST WEDNESDAY 10/14/09. If you do not send in a PM by the deadline, and your role requires it, you forfeit your night action.

[Ruritsu]

Well, I'm here all day, so I'll be lurking AIM for the next 2 - 3 hours. If you can't get a hold of me after that, I'm on Steam, which means PM me, and I'll check it with overlay web. For the record I'm human.

[Afrobean]

So I take it night posting is allowed?

[Makilaz]

Yes. I've never understood why turning off night posting is a good thing.

[Gun92]

I think you should lower the phantom count to 2...3 seems to be a really higher number and even 2 is ridiculous.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by gun

I think you should lower the phantom count to 2

I agree with this. Unless there's an extreme circumstance, even 1 phantom is too many.

Originally Posted by Makilaz

Yes. I've never understood why turning off night posting is a good thing.

Me either, I just wanted to make sure before I got into any sort of meaty posting.

First thing is first. No guardian, so no blues come out unless you've got a death wish. This may seem completely obvious to most of you, but I just want to cover the bases in case our blues end up being patently stupid.

This means no public alliance. No public psychic reveals, no public seer.

No public seer means that if someone comes to you privately and says "I'm the seer and I seer'd you, let's get an alliance going", don't necessarily trust them. It could easily be a wolf trying to get on someone's good side, knowing that their lie likely won't be outed until its too late (possibly postgame). I'd even say that it may be foolish for the actual seer to do this. You'd probably introduce too much doubt in the person you've seer'd and there's always the chance you'd hit the MW and get yourself quietly killed for it. I would suggest that the Seer works privately on a list of seer'd greens and does their best to make sure people who are lynched aren't among them. I don't mean defend people you've seer'd green (that would be tipping your hand), I mean to instead try to get people looking at others.

And as a final note, I'd say that if someone says "I'm the seer, I seer'd x and he is a wolf" under the pretense that they're willing to give their own life in exchange to catch that wolf (not a terrible trade, I'd say), don't necessarily believe that either. A wolf may have been able to identify the seer as dead (such as if the seer reveals himself) and would then be able to play fake seer as much as they like.

I think that's all I have to say. Just wanted to be sure I got it all out before day 1 hit just in case the wolves decided to go for me rather than manti.

ps final note: don't assume manti is a wolf if he doesn't get killed. If I was a wolf, I'd probably leave him alive and wait for someone to say "he's not been wolfed yet, must mean he is one!" then go along for the ride. Don't be stupid.

[Makilaz]

Right. Changing the phantom limit to 2. I can live with 1, since **** happens, but 2, without at least some sort of explanation, is inexcusable.

Oh, and my AIM is BenderChan. If I'm not online, it goes to my phone, so this is literally the best way to get in touch with me. If you're confused about the game, think I ****ed something up, etc. let me know.

[Gun92]

If you get confused with this game...something is wrong with you >.<

[Viccica]

I seered you gun and you're a wolf.


Lynch him!



Oh wait...

[sc979]

̶o̶b̵̶l̶i̶g̶̶a̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ wolf food post.

yay modified strikethrough effect

[AC1speakerbox]

obligitoree hooman

gun

mi doin this rite?

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by sc979

̶o̶b̵̶l̶i̶g̶̶a̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ wolf food post.

yay modified strikethrough effect

I really want to know how you achieved that.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

Combining diacritics ftw. P̶S̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶a̶ ̶w̶o̶l̶f̶

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

Seriousness: Afrobean pretty much hit the nail on the head with regards to strategy. The only circumstance in which the seer could safely come out to someone is if he/she could seer blues and happens upon the psychic. Then they could have a secret alliance of sorts.<br><br>It's good that we are not only playing a basic game, but also one that doesn't foster ironclad alliances. Doesn't give the humans the opportunity to be lazy, which has brought down a lot of games. Guys, we're going to need to be <i>active</i> this game. Not just online, <i>active</i>. As in going around, getting impressions and collecting info. In fact, that is the basic principle required for a successful TWG. I know, I probably shouldn't be talking given my past few games here, but I'm telling the truth, and this time (unless something very serious comes up) I'll be true to my word. It's time to bring life back to TWG.<br><br>*golfclap*<br>

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

eww what happened to my post

[Bolth mannn]

lewl. school now, ill be online later

[Bolth mannn]

why is vic in the game and a sub?

[Makilaz]

Because I apparently fail at editing lists. Should be accurate/up to date now.