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Post by KidVermicious on Jul 29, 2008 0:10:07 GMT -5
A non-productive day filled with random fingerpointing and desperate speculation as to the GastardMods intentions draws to a close. A bare majority of players indicate they feel peekercpa should be the first to feel the headsmans axe, and so peekercpa is tied up and hauled to the central room, where the chopping block sits, pristine and as-yet untouched. Most of the players follow along, arguing for peekercpa's death or muttering about how this is not the course of action, but only a few really have their hearts in it.
The town settles down for the Executioner to arrive.
And waits.
And waits.
Finally, a note, delivered by the postman:
The Executioners Handbook prevents me from doing my job unless the countdown is triggered. I'm sorry, My Ugly Scum Bits can't execute this man. Signed, The Executioner.
"What does this mean?", cry several of the town. "He won't sha him! Is this a no-lynch?"
"Screw this", yells Rajaat, "he's going down!"
"Yeah!", join in drainbead and CIAS. "Who's got a knife?" A quick search of the room reveals no weapons at all.
Nanook grabs a chair. "This'll work", he snarls, ripping off a leg. Throwing himself at peekercpa, he begins brutally cudgeling the condemned man. Hockeymonkey, Kat, and the rest of the players join in, kicking, punching, and eventually rending peekercpa limb from limb. When they're done, peekercpa's dismembered corpse lies strewn around the room, and nearly everyone is has at least a little blood on them.
"So?", asks Duke. "Whas' the pooor laddie a scum? Oor whas' he innocent?" Unfortunately, the execution wasn't done by a licensed member of the trade... it wasn't clean, it wasn't pretty, and there's really no way to tell for sure what peekercpa's role was. A quick search of his room reveals a framed and signed copy of the Hippocratic Oath, a hardcover copy of the latest PDR, and a black bag of medical instruments. Appeals to the GastardMods via the intercom are ignored... whether those things were peerkercpa's, and if they mean what they appear to mean, are questions without answers.
Disgruntled, most of the own head for their rooms to think this over, leaving a few souls in the common room to drink and make small talk.
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It is now Night One. Power Roles, your picks, please, PM your GastardMod - if you don't know who that is, find out quick. We can't be held responsible for Night actions lost because the GastardMod responsible didn't know about them...
NO STRATEGY TALK IN THE NIGHT THREAD. This was loosely enforced, at best, during Night Zero. It will be strictly enforced from this point on.
Night One will last 48 hours, with continuances granted only in the case of direst emergency (or if we get lazy).
Night Zero Minigame results: Peekercpa, Drainbead, Hockeyguy, Idle, and Roosh all correctly guessed Peekercpa would be the Day One lynch. Random.org sez ... Idle Thoughts wins! Idle, check your PMs, please.
Night One Minigame: guess the final postcount for the Day Two thread. Closest guess, over or under, wins the game. Ties to be resolved by random.org. ETA - please make your guesses in this thread, and make 'em bold and green.
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Post by Idle Thoughts on Jul 29, 2008 0:16:13 GMT -5
So peekercpa is gone rather gruesomely and we're all none the wiser? Yep! About par for the course in a gastard mod game, I'd figure.
Someone get me a Coke!
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Post by bufftabby on Jul 29, 2008 0:19:29 GMT -5
Hello? Bartender? Anyone? Ah guess I'll just help myself. *pours a nice piña colada, thinks of the beach*
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Post by Idle Thoughts on Jul 29, 2008 0:19:42 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and I'm guessing the final post count will be...ohhhh..umm....54 replies.
Edited by KidV to add color cuz Idle typed this before I modified the instructions for the minigame
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Post by RoOsh on Jul 29, 2008 0:21:14 GMT -5
*sigh*
Well I think we're SOME the wiser, but we'll see when Dawn comes along. In the meantime, I'll enjoy my slurpee.
Oh, and it's kinda ironic, Cookies- you can talk at Night, but there's no strategy talk at Night? Now that's good Gastarding.... I'm impressed.
Anyways, i'll be over here if you needs me.
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Post by Gir! on Jul 29, 2008 0:21:43 GMT -5
SINCE THAR WUZ NO COUNTDOWN, DOEZ DAT MEEN IM STUCK SPEAKIN LOLCAT ALL NITE?
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Post by KidVermicious on Jul 29, 2008 0:33:26 GMT -5
SINCE THAR WUZ NO COUNTDOWN, DOEZ DAT MEEN IM STUCK SPEAKIN LOLCAT ALL NITE? Yes. Get your fellow townies to vote more.
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Post by hockeyguy8435 on Jul 29, 2008 0:35:13 GMT -5
My Ugly Scum Bits hope not, but at least My Ugly Scum Bits can tell what you're saying most of the time. Unlike that Scottish guy.
Night One Minigame guess... 751
Ditto.
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Post by hockeyguy8435 on Jul 29, 2008 0:36:57 GMT -5
Oh, so bold and green now...
751[/color]
Happy!?
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Post by bufftabby on Jul 29, 2008 0:39:01 GMT -5
O NOES LOL111!!!KAT. THAT IZ TEH SUXXORS.
For you and everyone else. At least it's not 733+. That stuff drives me batty.
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Post by KidVermicious on Jul 29, 2008 0:39:33 GMT -5
Don't mouth me, boy. Just for that, I'm leaving you at 42 posts. See what you've done? ;D
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Post by hockeyguy8435 on Jul 29, 2008 0:41:19 GMT -5
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Post by Parzival on Jul 29, 2008 0:49:56 GMT -5
l half-expected something like that. l was thinking marbles might have ended up being involved. Speaking of which, can we play marbles[/color] at night?
And tomorrow's post count: the third hyperpefect number that is not a perfect number. Just as a note it's the first 3-hyperperfect number.
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Post by KidVermicious on Jul 29, 2008 0:53:28 GMT -5
New rule - English, you knobbes-ticke.
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Post by ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies on Jul 29, 2008 1:04:14 GMT -5
Ok...where to start...
My role was provided to me by Blockey-the-fanged-bat-penguin-who-would-only-be-able-to-see-his--own-feet-if-he-ever-closed-his-mouth.
Blockey is not the M.od to whom I am assigned, that would be Dotchan By Irony, as I'm Town.
A snippet of my role PM:
That's right campers...I have no powers. If the scum want to play WiFoM with me and attempt to kill me because they think I'm lying. That's cool, because they're going to burn a killing action on my sorry ass and perhaps a Town power role will live to endure this clusterfuck of a game for another day.
I didn't google Dogberry for a few days, and didn't recognize him as a Shakespeare character until I did so, even though I happen to be a fan of the film version of Much Ado About Nothing from which my namesake avatar was taken.
Before I forget, I do not feel any sort of familiar affinity for my role, nor do I think it was written with me in mind. YMMV. Since I was the last player to join at the last minute, I figure I was just given something that was still lying around and that wouldn't impact balancing very much.
Also before I forget, I was not involved in any Top Dawg licking, rock-paper-scissors, or marbles (outside of the two games that I won and the one game that I lost yesterDay).
So what the hell was I doing yesterDay?
I hinted at my non-Night-fluff ability on Night One, but kept other aspects of my role close to my vest on the off chance that not doing so would somehow cause me to wake up dead. I have since decided to play otherwise.
I started trying to find loopholes in my role right away, (like asking if I could make my posts by placing words between the [vote/unvote] and [player name] but was told in no uncertain terms that my posts could consist only of "[vote/unvote] [player name]".
My first couple of votes almost worked perfectly, and were made an attempt to get the attention of players who appeared to be around and posting and to try to get them to guess at the restrictive portion of my role. Pleonast nailed it quite handily, but while I was busy coding (poorly) a multiple string of votes/unvotes for Pleonast in an attempt to indicate that he had guessed correctly, other posts had come along and I just looked like a babbling idiot.
I also neglected to change the cutting and pasting I'd done such that there were some unvotes in there.
Then I realized there was a possible loophole that I could still exploit, by using capital letters...but I fucked that up too. Between the color coding, bold coding, keeping track of votes and unvotes, keeping track of what I was trying to spell out and finding the right players' names to use...I fucked up the coding again. Leaving some names by themselves, not closing formatting tags. It was ugly. So I tried to make the same post again, and still fucked up the code. Then I tried again and realized that I'd been muted. While waiting out my 4 hour sentence, I asked for clarification on what exactly had been the problem that got me muted...was it the sloppy code or the loophole exploiting? I was basically told "Wouldn't you like to know?", but I had enough of a hunch based on how my muting had been handed down.
4 hours later I tried again and I worked out a relatively simple and accurate way to post the eyesore of a code system that we now all know and hate. I was wrist-slapped for using 'Mr. Scummyboots' because it is not a recognized players' name. Yet the G.astards that be don't have a problem with using Santo's full name, as it is listed as such in the list of players (along with a bunch of annoyingly outdated names that caused me to create my own complete players list with all names spelled out completely to maximize the coverage of letters at my disposal.
All that being said, I'm spent most of Day One treading carefully, as I am working within a loophole. Not to mention the fact that using the code to say anything sucks at least 5 yak cocks.
My first real vote was for Diggit, and was based solely on an apparent contradiction between his win condition and mine. Not much to go on on Day One, so I was fine with that. It didn't last anyway, as many weak votes don't.
My next real vote was for Darth, as his case against Mr. Scummyboots, esq just seems to me like a scummy trying to throw suspicion towards someone who was already doing a fine job of sticking out like a sore thumb.
My reactions to various posts (or at least what I vaguely remember about them) shall follow in later posts this Night.
Anyone who happens to also have a "get out of Night fluff free" card handy, feel free to chat me up....
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Post by NAF1138 on Jul 29, 2008 1:17:13 GMT -5
Hi! I can talk about anything I want. Don't know that I have much to say to you though. And actually, I think I am going to bed, now that I think about it.
I hope everyone is having fun. Try and use this time to relax a bit, and maybe reflect on how you managed to screw up Day 1 so badly.
Bye!
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Post by Boozahol Squid, P.I. on Jul 29, 2008 1:39:33 GMT -5
So confusing... my head hurts, and trying to reread the Day thread without skimming (because of all the worthelss marble posts, the post restricted posts which half the time mean nothing, and general confusion at my own role) doesn't feel like it's possible. Happily, it was Day One, which is usually the best day to be confused by.
It doesn't seem like the Gastards made an anti-prize, so I'll join in this little game (is it fair if Roosh guesses something in the thousands, and then just makes all the extra posts himself?)
I sez it'll take 450 posts[/color] to wrangle through Day Two.
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Post by Captain Klutz on Jul 29, 2008 2:08:01 GMT -5
I'll guess that Day 2 will be 666 posts.
And Idle Thoughts, what did you win?
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Post by Rajaat on Jul 29, 2008 2:54:59 GMT -5
Respond to you someday, my cookie friend.
Till then, I made this pleasant cup out of peekercpa's skull. There's a drinking horn over there made of his arm, if anyone is interested. ^_^ *Sips*
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Post by peekercpa on Jul 29, 2008 3:02:21 GMT -5
Bye, gals/guys. Toldja. Oh well have fun and I'll catch ya on the flip side. RL was going to make participation tough anyways. Go town, go.
And if you want the PMs talk to an Og.
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Post by Rajaat on Jul 29, 2008 3:11:03 GMT -5
Sorry about the lynch, for all its worth. Not always fun to be the first to go.
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Post by Holy Moley! on Jul 29, 2008 4:49:00 GMT -5
Hey Cookies. Nice to finally hear from ya. Boy, you got it in the neck this game, didn't you? Bad luck peek. Boo on "no cardflip" though. Twenty votes is a pretty tough target to meet, even with ninety-six of us here...
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Post by Høøpy Frøød on Jul 29, 2008 6:47:29 GMT -5
As the crowd returns to their rooms, they hear the voice of Hoopy Frood ring out:
"Hey, now that the Day is over, can someone bring me back a drink. And some aspirin. It gets kind of painful being handcuffed to one's bed after all. Not exactly conducive to relaxation. And the lights, shining in my eyes. What's with that? It's like I'm being given the third degree. But they'll never break me! I'm innocent, I tell ya'. Innocent! And where's my due process? I want a lawyer! And if I can't get one, well, I'll settle for Mr. Scummyboots, Esq., since he has the most pretentious name among us. But right now, I want a stiff drink, and a burger. And I have this itch on my back that I just can't reach...."
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Post by The Lion on Jul 29, 2008 7:19:12 GMT -5
When Aye had star'ed ter eat my let'uce, Aye did no' realize tha' e' wass inferior English let'uce.
Thankee.
*Noms on some superior Scot'ish let'uce*
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
*After NOMing on some qui'e tastey let'uce, tha Duke looks up a' you en a kin' manner*
Onter business. Business as usual.
Aye do no' know whether er no' Peeker wass innocen'. Thes troubles my soul.
*Tha Duke does no' think thae postin' on tha grisley and unparalleled lynch is ou' of bounds en tha Nigh' Threads*
Aye shall keep tha true postin's ter tha Day pos's, as asked.
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Post by The Lion on Jul 29, 2008 7:25:09 GMT -5
On saicon' though'....
OI! BARTENDER!
GE' ME SOMAYER FINEST ALE!
*Tha Duke tosses aside tha unwanted let'uce and wai's fer hes drink.*
NEW GAME!
WHO GO' HI' BY MY CABBAGE?
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Post by Merestil Haye on Jul 29, 2008 7:55:53 GMT -5
NEW GAME! WHO GO' HI' BY MY CABBAGE? Quick answer. No-one. You threw lettuce away, and lettuce =/= cabbage. And you're no true Scot.
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Post by The Lion on Jul 29, 2008 8:18:46 GMT -5
Jus' becos Aye eat sugar weth my porridge does no' mean Aye am no' Scot'ish.
Sorry abou' tha mix-up.
*Tha Duke realizes thae hey has been holding the let'uce all along since hes wai' for tha drink. He throws the let'uce out ter tha crowd, like a bride does weth 'er bouqet. He is minorly discomfor'ed as ter where tha hell tha Cabbage came from in tha first place.*
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Post by Merestil Haye on Jul 29, 2008 8:32:22 GMT -5
Jus' becos Aye eat sugar weth my porridge does no' mean Aye am no' Scot'ish. No, but the fact that you didn't demand a straight single malt whisky does No true Scot would drink anything else. Especially iif someone else is buying.If you want to be a stereotypical Scot you have to do these things. Och aye the noo.
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Post by Høøpy Frøød on Jul 29, 2008 9:10:56 GMT -5
No, but the fact that you didn't demand a straight single malt whisky does Actually, you don't have to drink it neat. In fact, with most if not all high-character Scotches, you don't want it neat. A couple drops of water or a very small ice cube will actually open up the scotch and allow more of the aromas to be released. (Scent, is naturally a big part of taste, you only have five types of taste, but you can have dozens of aromas). The water will actually warm up the Scotch, the ice if done in proportion will cool it while the water released from the ice will warm it often times resulting in hardly any temperature change. The advantage of water is that it's easier for you to control the temperature change from the reaction and the amount. The advantage of ice is that with a small piece, you can usually guess how much water will be involved and so you don't have to worry about a bartender screwing up the amount of water they put in. (Too much is far worse than too little. You want to enhance the Scotch, not water it down.) At home, it's pretty easy to experiment to find out what amount of water works best for you. At a bar, well, if you're not a regular patron, it might just be safer to order it neat, or get a glass of water to go along with it and do it yourself.
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Post by Hockey Monkey! on Jul 29, 2008 9:42:52 GMT -5
My guess for the number of posts for Day Two - 648
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