BackStabbery: Houses In Conflict - Recruitment Closed

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BackStabbery: Houses In Conflict

To begin with every player will be assigned a house and rank within that house at random.

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Leader – The boss of the house, your responsibility is to distribute the gold amongst your minions.

Lieutenants – Maximum of two players will be House Lieutenants, their responsibility will be to announce house wars to the thread. They also start with a bonus to power of +5. Lieutenants will be selected by the house leader at the birth of each new house!

Minions – You are to generally live the life of a civilian, doing as you leader demands or not!

After the first day phase has been completed the houses will be ranked in accordance with their leader's personal power level (because there will have been no time to buy any power levels so every House would have the same accumulative score). After this when a House is destroyed all the houses below it will gain a rank and any new Houses that are made will enter the ladder at the bottom rung. Also after each day phase the houses will be re-ranked according to their accumulative power level.

Every player will start with 100 gold and a power level which will at the lowest be 10. Using their gold players can do a number of things;

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Start a new house 25g – In order to start a new house you must have at least one player for every rank willing to join it from its birth. The house will give +100 power to the guild leader but he must delegate this between his House members. It is entirely up to the house leader how he recruits members. Take note - House members do not have to remain loyal to their leaders. Inter-House wars can occur and the loser’s power will be given to the guild leader to do with as he wishes. The losing leader is at the mercy of the winning guilds leader and his house dissolved, allowing his members to start/join new Houses. To start all the houses will be ranked randomly, every time a house is destroyed the houses below it gain in rank, the aim of the game is to be the most powerful player in the highest ranked house by the end of the game. Like in Ultimate Greed each guild leader will receive daily gold payments to distribute amongst his minions.

Train in a profession 25g - This is unavailable to Guild leaders who must try and recruit and maintain the loyalties of those whom it is available to.

Start a House War 25g - Announces a guild war and gives everybody 24 hours to prepare. After 24 hours the war will occur and the party with the highest power will win, however due to murders, betrayals etc the power at the beginning of the fight may change before the end.

Buy A Power Level: At the rate of one level for 30g

Professions

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Players can only have one profession at a time;

Assassin - Gains +15 power when attacking another guild or attempting murder.

General - Gains +15 power when being attacked by another guild or when someone is trying to murder them.

Spy - Can identify a house/individuals power, assuming nobody is planning on betraying them.

Diplomat - Can create the illusion that a guild/individuals power is higher than it really is by 1-d100%.

Monk - Can hide an guild/individuals power by 1-d100%.

Treachery! - This is where it gets interesting.

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During any 'day' players can PM certain actions.

Start Coup - This means at the end of the day the will attempt to murder their current House leader and rise to power, this is best done in groups in order to better the leaders power level, deciding who gets to be leader amongst each other is entirely up to you. Members of other house may be included in the coup! This strategy will be beneficial if you covet the power of an established house!

Murder - This is an attempt to kill any other player. If they are a guild leader, the guild remains in tact but there will probably be murderings over who raises to power from the guilds underlings. If you kill any other player you will gain their gold and any power bonuses they have, such as the assassin bonus. Success will be based on each players individual power, irrelevant of the power of respective guilds.

*note - any murder/coup attempts that are submitted during war preparations will be concluded during the battle, this will obviously lead to some unexpected (or not) power changes.*

Change allegiance - When a war is announced use this to alert the narrators to the fact that you are changing sides it is up to you if you let any body else know this fact. You will however still be without a guild after the battle if the team you switched to wins, hopefully you will have made a deal to be picked up afterwards.

Change Guild - This is not PM'd but announced in thread, if a player chooses to change guild they must ask in thread (prior arrangement can be organised via PM should those concerned choose.) This request may be accepted or denied at the leader in questions choosing.

Resolving Conflicts:

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The leader of the winning guild can choose to kill the opposing guild leader, putting them out of the game. Alternatively they can allow them to live, this forces the defeated guild leader to be loyal to the victor for 2 days. The defeated's power rating will be added to the victor's personal power score, not his guild! This has obvious benefits for murder attempts.

There will be two sets of winners, the first is all the members of the house of the highest rank by the end of the game. The second but more important win goes to the player with the most power/gold at the end of the game.

So in conclusion this is team based Ultimate Greed, but only one player can win!

Ok I hope to have this game started on August 16th or sooner if I think we have enough players! So get yourselves signed up!

Players:

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Artemis97
detrevnisisiht
Doseki
Emperor Demonking
Fleeing Coward
Freshmeat_
Greiver
Lavidor
Leoman
Lord Fullbladder, Master Of Goblins
Murska
PirateMonk
The Phantom
Reinholdt
Shadowcaller
Sneak
Tieto
Vampiric
watchin got old
Zeebiedeebie

[Murska]

In! In! IN!

[Reinholdt]

I'm in this game, stealing your goldz.

[Emperor Demonking]

Sign me up.

[Shadowcaller]

I'm signing up.

[Doseki]

I believe that this game well rule. I'm in.

[Lavidor]

I command you to run an iteration of this game when I'm at home.

[Artemis97]

This looks interesting. Sign me up.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Will this have sequels? I want to play, but I'm bogged down by the sheer amount of games I'm trying to remain active in.

[detrevnisisiht]

since I royaly ****ed myself in Greed, IN!

[Freshmeat]

*sharpens knife*

In.

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Will this have sequels? I want to play, but I'm bogged down by the sheer amount of games I'm trying to remain active in.

It better have sequels, I don't plan on making games without futures! So even though you claim to be 'bogged down' i'm considering you recruited in order to ensure the creation of the first game, so you better be in!

[Griever]

Will you have one such as I? If so, IN!!!

[Vampiric]

I think I'll say.... yes. In please!

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Ok guys, just to give this game a setting (so you can develop RP chars etc) I have selected Menzoberranzan, home of the dark elves. This was for two reasons;

1) We have had suprisingly few DnD settings for games considering that this is a websites that credits its existence to the game!

2) In the DnD lore Menzoberranzan is the place that makes the most sense for this type of game, house vs house etc!

Don't worry about playing as dark elves or leaders having to be female, I am not sticking to the lore that strictly, but doing this at least gives you a bit of geography!

On a side note we will be looking for at least 20 players to work this well, 25 would be better. As I would liek to start with at least 5 players per house, so tell your friends

[Sneak]

I'm in. Ah, this reminds me of the good old days of the town mafia.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

It better have sequels, I don't plan on making games without futures! So even though you claim to be 'bogged down' i'm considering you recruited in order to ensure the creation of the first game, so you better be in!

Ah. Then colour me recruited. I'm not that bogged down anyway. I'll die soon enough.

[watchin_got_old]

Much like my shiny new name might tell you, I am ready to step out of the shadows. (implied In)

Hope I don't get slaughtered, newb that I am

[Fleeing Coward]

Guess I'll sign up to this too.

[ThePhantom]

As it looks like my death is coming in two of the games I'm in, I'll join this one.

[PirateMonk]

Looks fun. In.

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C'mon guys still need 3 but preferably 7 more players by Friday to make this game good to go! Tell your friends people!

Also in the day time when there are no war preparations going on I may have some events to keep the game going similar to the events that people point in blue for in other games.

[Jontom Xire]

Sounds good but I already have a few games and am away until the 23rd or so. If it started then...

[Yoritomo Himeko]

Ok, I'll play.

[tieto]

i am in therefore I am in

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Ok then thats just one more player needed for the minimum requirements to be fullfilled

JX I'll assume due to your time constraints that your not playing, I hope that this is wrong though! If not I'll probably run sequels if this goes well so you can play that.

[tieto]

my friend will join in a minute

[Zeebiedeebie]

I'm in. Sounds like fun.

[Pandaren]

I haven't joineed a werewolf in forever, I'm in.

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Ok guys that is the minimum amount of players reached! Seeing as I doubt we'll get 5 more players today (I'd like to start this game with a player count that is a multiple of five) I will end recruitment now instaed of tomorrow. Your role will be sent out shortly and then the treachery can begin!