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Mafia Signups: The Life and Times of Atto Ngoogol

How much do you hate Atto Ngoogol?

  • Whatever the answer to that one riddle was - yeah, that much!

    Votes: 5 45.5%
  • A whole lot

    Votes: 1 9.1%
  • A fair bit

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Hatred is an evil thing...if anything, in the end, I pitied him

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Total voters
    11
Well I'm Innocent, notwithstanding Kennigit's biased, rancorous charts attempting to prove otherwise.
 
Right folks, just so no one can accuse me of inactivity, I will be skiing from monday through sunday. I hope that I will have enough signal to log on during the evenings and vote, but im not confident of that.
 
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. :p

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.
 
Questions about puzzles

Are there multiple puzzles each day, if more than one wish to do one?
Can more than one person do a puzzle, if there is only one each day?
Are they answered in the public thread or privately?
 
robbiecon -

that's mostly in the rules, but I can clarify again.

Each and every player makes his/her own decision to solve a magic puzzle (I'll probably keep calling them puzzles from here on out I guess, stop saying riddles or something that would only confuse people.) If you post before midday that you want to attempt a puzzle, you will attempt that day's puzzle; if you get an answer wrong or don't answer there will be a penalty, a correct answer brings bonuses to you. Details on puzzles will be given as the game goes along.

There is only one puzzle on a given day, the same puzzle for everyone; if nobody wants to solve a puzzle the same one will just wait until the next day; a puzzle won't be revealed until midday so you won't know in advance what the puzzle you would be solving is. There is no limit to the number of players who may attempt this; everyone could attempt it, answer it correctly, or answer it wrongly, or some combination of that. I'm thinking it would be best if players do post their answers and discussion publicly, maybe spoiler, but that's subject to change - the short answer is if you are solving a puzzle you have to get your final answer to me somehow. Anyone may discuss the puzzle and help or hinder others with their ideas even if they are not solving it.

Hopefully again this stays reasonable and doesn't cause too much stress, but perhaps I should add in a preliminary guideline for now (I'll make note of this in the ruels):

Players should spoiler lengthy discussion, in the actual game thread, regarding a day's puzzle unrelated to the rest of the game. Otherwise feel free to discuss or not discuss the puzzle in thread or with others if you so desire.
 
I have a question about helping.
I understand, I can volunteer and give help to 'nominated' characters. Am I riskung anything by that? If so, is my risk as big as the risk of person I am helping? And will my help be known to everyone? Should I write in a game thread that I want to give it?
 
I did not get my PM yet. It means that I am vanilla townie, right?

:mischief:
 
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