Right, so news, updates, and comments guys.
First, Duke Blackstone - that's all right, thanks for notifying me and your fellow players of course. If you especially get a chance to talk with your teammates (and quicktopic) and make them aware of what you might want, they could help handle abilities at night too if you can't get around. Anyway it's ok and thanks for the headsup, at most missing a vote or two won't really harm other players and enjoy your holidays of course.
Signups - If anyone sees a problem on the signup list, notify me, I think I have everyone. Those of you who haven't finished characters, I hope you're ok if I fill in last details, or more specifically, a couple who haven't really gotten in much at all yet, you were taking up the offer of getting a custom character? (you'll be no worse off in the game sense than anyone again, just if you wanted to write your own backstory etc).
More signups are still welcome, as are reserves if someone only wants to be a reserve. And yes, again if you don't come with a full character but are ready and willing to play I'll still get you in, I think we'd all be happy with the more the merrier at this point.
However,
I believe the game is mostly ready to go, and we have enough players to start, and so I will be aiming to get started tomorrow (Monday) night. And everyone, I'd really like to thank you for so many great characters so far, I'm extremely glad we did it this way rather than me assigning more generic characters onto factions and roles - I've had to adjust some things sure, but there's so much amazing detail it's worth it by far. So a few notifications (some of this as with the rules links, other stuff will also go in the game thread OP again)
Every player will receive a Role PM, and a Faction PM, around the time the gamethread opens. I think for convenience I may set up quicktopics in advance for each faction, though no one is required to use a quicktopic, just for players' convenience who wish it. As mentioned in the rules: Members of your faction are your allies, NOT your enemies. You will usually share multiple goals and each player will be an important part of their faction. Note no player has an investigatory ability to directly determine your faction, as well as name and alignment as mentioned. Every player will belong to a faction; the number of factions is looking to be N-2, where N was the most ideal number if we had signups in the low-thirties, N+1 the maximum I really planned for, and N being a number between 6 and 15.
The first day is probably going to last 48 hours, nothing special now, so that would go till Wednesday night (US times, I know, so just a heads up for folks who may notice all the days/nights ending in the early morning for them). Everybody should place a nomination vote everyday if able, remember there are NO special rules for a first day majority required, only pluralities as always. A magic puzzle will be offered and more details a little later, you should state your intentions to solve it in the first 24 hours again, see the rules about that to freshen up if you need to.