Time Cycle – The game will alternate between 24 hour days and 24 hour nights. During the daytime, accusations votes may be made, and public messages may be posted. During the night, player abilities may be used in secret by PM'ing the GM. Private Messages may be sent regardless of the time of day.
Voting – There will be no voting, just accusations. At the end of the day cycle, a player will be killed. For the first two days, this will require at least 50% of the accusations, after that more than the runner up is the only thing needed. You will not be required to accuse in a certain format, just bolding will be sufficient
Roleplaying – Don’t just make a post that just contains a vote. Please add at least a little flavour to your posts. Please note that there will be no public roles. Everyone will just be a standard citizen of Earth.
Roles – Before the game starts every player will sent a PM giving them there secret role for the game. The role PM will tell you your Role, Alignment, Victory condition, Ability/abilities, Personal Goal & Background.
Communication Etiquette : Regarding public messages, try to keep night talking to a minimum. Also, if you have OOC stuff to talk about that doesn't pertain to playing the game, talk about it in the signup thread or in the general NotW thread. That means that if you're suspicious of someone 'cause there was no night kill last night, and this person was inactive, by all means post it in the thread. If, on the other hand, you saw an image in the mustard on your chilli dog that totally reminded you of something that one of your fellow players said the other day, it'd probably go best elsewhere. And one other thing: If you're dead, don't make any posts regarding the game, please. I know that the standard "Aw guys you shouldn't have lynched me" can be sort of amusing, but there's too thin a line between that and after-death meaningful communication, which is forbidden.
Regarding private messages, there's a reason they're called private. Don't directly copy and paste quotes from private messages into other private messages or into public posts. Summarize them if you want, but don't give a word-for-word quote, and don't give the impression that you're doing so. The big exception here is if you know that the recipient has already seen the PM in question - that is, you can see on your copy of the PM that it was also forwarded to the third party. This exception is there just because it makes group discussions over CFC's PM system a lot more convenient. Similarly no direct copying of IM logs either.
Finally, remember that this last rule goes doubly for any PMs you have from the GM - do not, under any circumstances, copy and paste your ability description, your Alignment, your victory condition, or anything else from your starting PM. The same goes for confirmations of ability use or whatever. Summarize it if you want, but word-for-word quotes are not permitted.
Please be careful in what you choose to reveal from your role pm. this applies expecially to your Role and Alignment.
I reserve the right to steer the game (for the purposes of balance), indulge me -
it's my first time!
