N.O.T.W. XLIII
NIGHTS OF THE WALKING DEAD
In 2005 Paradise City was voted the best city to live in. Today, it's crawling with flesh-eating zombies. A horrible accident has released an experimental virus that turns people, and the recently deceased, into zombies. The outbreak caught Paradise City completely by surprise, and within a matter of hours most of the city was overwhelmed by hordes of cannibalistic zombies. A handful of survivors managed to hold off the ravenous undead, but nightfall will surely be followed by fresh horror. You must act now!
You'll need to get guns, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, food rations, tools, medication and other supplies scattered around the Island.
NIGHTS OF THE WALKING DEAD
In 2005 Paradise City was voted the best city to live in. Today, it's crawling with flesh-eating zombies. A horrible accident has released an experimental virus that turns people, and the recently deceased, into zombies. The outbreak caught Paradise City completely by surprise, and within a matter of hours most of the city was overwhelmed by hordes of cannibalistic zombies. A handful of survivors managed to hold off the ravenous undead, but nightfall will surely be followed by fresh horror. You must act now!
You'll need to get guns, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, food rations, tools, medication and other supplies scattered around the Island.
The objective for all players is to survive the Zombie Outbreak.
Remember that anyone might be infected with the Zombie Virus and the signs don't show at first except for an increased craving for brains.
THE RULES and clarifications
Phase DurationDay Phases will last for 48 real-life hours or as close as I can make it according to uni schedules.
Night Phases will last for 24 real-life hours or as close as I can make it according to uni schedules.
Communication
In-thread communication, by default, it is allowed only during Day phases.
Posting is never allowed after I make an end of Day phase post, you're not allowed to post unless I explicitly say so, unless it's a rules question.
Whenever I say that posting is not allowed, I mean it. It usually means an update or another important message is coming soon from me. And/Or that I'm counting votes and need some space.
Private (off-thread) communication is not affected by these restrictions.
Communication through Private Messages (PMs) and Instant Messaging programs (IM) has no limit at all. Please don't send me copies, it'll only flood my inbox and annoy me, not necessarily in the order. QuickTopics other than those set up by me are forbidden for now.
Voting
There's three types of votes.
- Lynches will happen every day as you'll be voting for someone suspected to be a Zombie or other threat against the group to be executed. Bold the name of a person to vote for that person,
bold and strike throughthat person's name to unvote it. - Items will be also put up for a vote after they're scavenged by the crew. Each item will be marked with a different colour and will be voted separately from all others.
- A Location to move to will be voted from Day Two onwards. The entire party gets to vote in it and A map will be procured for you to be able to follow the party's movements across Paradise Island. Location votes will be made in Green.
Player names and colours
The colour in the names of people in updates and player lists does not, I repeat, does not mean alignment (Town/enemy; Good/Evil) or other such things. It merely means the origin of anyone before they became part of the group.
Abilities
You can use most abilities at Night. You do so by sending me a PM in which you state which action you are taking and which target(s), if any, you are choosing.
You can't use more than one ability in the same phase unless I state otherwise.
You are not forced to use any ability unless I state otherwise.
Items
Items will be voted as described above.
If you wish for an item in your power to be given to another player, this can be done by sending me a PM in which you state which Item(s) you wish to transfer and to whom. The item will be transferred privately to its recipient at the end of that phase. This does not officialy count as an Action, leaving you free to perform another action that phase.
If you wish to use an item, do so by sending me a PM in which you state which action you are taking and which target(s), if any, you are choosing. This may count as an Action or not, depending on the item.
Locations and movement
The party will move each day from one location to another across the island. In each location, different item(s) may be found and/or used and different abilities may be (un)locked. Locations are vital for the victory of the different factions.
WoGs, replacements and rule infringements
If you don't vote or show other forms of inactivity I'll eventually have to replace you as a player or kill your character (WoG).
You are not allowed to send a copy of your Role PM or any other PMs from me to other players. Paraphrase, whatever, but don't do direct quotes. And, since everyone got a nice little picture with their Role PM, no, you're not allowed to send it either.
Clarifications, answers to players' questions will be posted here and linked to from my in-thread answers.
#1 (9-02-12): Anyone who had Yellow in their Role PMs has been changed to Orange which is far easier to see, I'd Yellowed everyone by copy-pasting before I realised it was unreadable.
#2 (18-03-2012): Items from one day are always revealed on the next. The items found at the Docks today will be revealed at Dawn and so forth.
Items found on dead people's bodies are specified separately, but also on the following day.
#3 (25-03-2012): Editing posts makes them invalid, after your first warning all your posts are disregarded from tallies for that day.
I'z confewzed. 
