PMs are going out tonight, that's Monday Night, US Eastern as a standard - it's not Monday night here yet. Feel free to talk with your faction/quicktopic but don't talk with others about your PM/getting your PM until the game thread is up.
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?
The above is called a support vote, as mentioned in the rules, so to do so yes, you have to vote support: so-so. You and all the players will probably be able to figure out more exact risks and rewards from supporting someone as time goes on. Though, generally, yes, the characters doing the supporting do not bear the largest risk of death or injury, that would be the nominee, and they may help the nominated player to avoid it, and work towards defeating Atto Ngoogol.
Remember that actions such as nomination votes will occur by character name, so no one will necessary know "This is Jaremma's character who is helping somebody" unless you've told everybody your character name so they know it's you, or people have figured out who you are by tracking your other votes or other deductions. What they would see is "Character 1 was helped by Characters 2, 3, and 4" or something like that, not your CFC screennames, however the vote tallies work out.
So the short answer, which I guess I can spell out as players should figure it out on their own - if you are the only person supporting someone else (like, supporting your teammate for example) then it could be rather obvious to other people *who* you are, and of course you take into consideration the other risks and rewards of support votes like preventing the person from getting hurt/dying. So again, supporting your teammate to save them from possible death could probably be worth it even if your identities get known, as an example, or not, it's your decision. You can always attempt to nominate somebody else instead of supporting anybody with your vote.
edit: One other thing in case it wasn't clear. Solving a Magic Puzzle or various other effects, abilities, etc... you might come across will of course apply to people doing support votes as well, if you get into a fight/conflict; those things don't necessarily just affect only the nominee, and again the puzzles in particular affect anyone who chooses to do one.
I think I can also give a better example below. Though this is by no means comprehensive nor necessarily accurate to how game mechanics will work, just for the spirit of the thing.
Spoiler:
Support vote examples: I'm using name only because of the question asked, not a reflection of anyone's characters in the game.
Scenario 1: The party got together and decided to nominate SwordGuy. SwordGuy looked around; everyone seemed to want to get rid of him, pushed him away and made him go forward into the caves. No one followed, but SwordGuy knew they had to get through to follow the trail and braved himself for the task.
Shortly later, SwordGuy was attacked by zombies* and his screams echoed out to the others. "Guess we'd better go back and find another way around" someone said.
Spoiler:
Earthling was SwordGuy! He was just a Good guy!
Scenario 2: The party got together and decided to nominate SwordGuy. SwordGuy looked around, but they pushed him away and made him go forward into the caves. SwordGuy knew they had to get through to follow the trail and braved himself for the task.
SwordGuy was soon attacked by zombies*, and the situation looked grim. But at the last minute, WizardGuy caught up and helped him blast his way to a retreat, so he survived, though the party could not go through the caves.
(in the tally, you could probably see who was "supporting" SwordGuy in this Scenario)
Scenario 3: The party got together, and decided to nominate SwordGuy. He was quite popular, and a bunch of his allies were ready to stand and fight with him. So SwordGuy, AxeGuy, WizardGuy, and ElfGuy set off into the caves.
The caves were full of zombies* left behind to ambush the group. But together, with SwordGuy in the lead, they fought their way through.
(vote tally would go here again)
*please note, you are unlikely to fight zombies as the doing of Atto Ngoogol. Recall (see the intro writeup) that Atto Ngoogol disdains necromancy for some reason though he practices other Dark Arts that can be just as dangerous.
Oh, and of course one other note: I believe we are at 25 signed up, see the list on the first page, and everyone who had custom character elements to get in has done so? Still a little time but this afternoon I do need to finalize things. Thanks everyone.
Oh, and of course one other note: I believe we are at 25 signed up, see the list on the first page, and everyone who had custom character elements to get in has done so? Still a little time but this afternoon I do need to finalize things. Thanks everyone.
You're right, I did miss dcmort. I've gotten over half of the role PMs fully done now but not sending yet, and I think at this point anyone not with a character in is going to get a custom character, but you all knew that and you should have fine characters anyway I think. Thanks for your patience still all, the PMs and game will be out a bit later tonight.
Yeah, right...PMs still haven't gone out guys. We're about T-2 hours till the game thread though, or sooner, things are almost done. If you do get a PM, until the game thread opens please refrain from talking to other players not on your team - you can talk on your faction's QT or PM your teammates if you must get going so quickly.
Role PMs are going out, and the game thread will be up soon after. Some 12,000 words here in the Role and Faction PM, I do really thank you all for the great characters and some of that total mess is me, but ugh, hands getting sore. Please forgive minor errors and typos anywhere guys, I know I know, but still
Actually, sure, I could post a poll with the game thread. But the point is: NO VOTING TILL AFTER THE WHOLE GAME. Having people swoop by and vote again (who knows, maybe it's some folks who didn't even sign up too) defeats the humor. Well, maybe a little bit. I've laughed so much at so many things so far just in character creation, this should be a great game and I love you guys for being smart and funny
Anyway, all Role PMs should be out, game thread up very soon. Thanks for the patience again. For the record this is a little later than things will probably be, the first night might be 23 hours or something to get back to a better schedule for me, but 48/24 will be the overall goal as mentioned many times.
Oh, and reserves are still welcome. Always welcome. I know folks don't want someone to end up inactive/disappearing on their team without warning, just as a precaution, and reserves/spectators are of course welcome to follow along the game.
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