Middle Earth WW: Fellowship of the Ring

[Cuthalion]

Welcome to Middle Earth WW: The Fellowship of the Ring! hosted by Cuthalion and Nonayer.

So, yeah. The eagle rescued me from Saruman. And Frodo here has the ring.

Mmm... may I see this ring?

Yes, Master Elrond. Frodo, bring it here.

Aw, do I hafta?

Yes, Frodo. Put the ring on that stone right there.

Can I keep it? Please?

Frodo...

Plea-

PUT THE RING ON THE STONE! NOW!

Alright, alright.

I say we try to destroy the ring! RRRAAARRGH

Master Gimli, our elven smiths are already fixing the Dúnadain's sword, we do not want to have to fix your axe too.

But...

There are two ways, Gimli son of Gloin, that the ring can be destroyed. The first one is dragon-fire.

However, all the dragons with hot enough fire have been killed. Thank you for that, Master Gloin.

Hrmph.

Hey, isn't Gandalf good at making fire?

Fool of a Took!

Calm yourself, Gandalf. What is the other way to destroy the Ring?

You must throw it into the fires of Mount Doom from whence it came.

Sounds easy. Where's Mount Doom?

...in Mordor.

Oh. Why didn't you say that? I mean, that's pretty hazardous. Who'd want to do something like that?

Yes, Gandalf. One does not simply walk into Mordor.

How about Frodo?

Oh, yes.

Sure!

Great idea.

Who is going to go with him?

...Can't we just send him by himself?

No, no, he must have companions.

Well, I shall go if I must. If anything happens, I can just get some eagles to come and rescue me.

Very well. The others chosen for this task shall be Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, Pippin, and Sam.

Aw, do we have to?

Yes, Master Took.

Shucks.

Spoiler: Game Rules

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Spoiler: ROLES

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Spoiler: Town Roles

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Gandalf:Seer Each night Gandalf can scry one player, accurately determining their role.

Pippin:Fool At the start of the game, Pippin will be told he is Gandalf. However, his results are not reliable; rather, he gets a randomly selected role as a response.

Aragorn:Baner Each night Aragorn can select one player. If the player is targeted by a night kill, he will not die. There will be a note of this in the narration.

Frodo and Sam:Partners Frodo and Sam can communicate with each other. However, if one of them dies, the other is killed as a result.

Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, and Merry:Masons The masons can communicate with each other, and if one dies the others remain alive.

Hobbits:Villagers The villagers have no special power whatsoever.

Spoiler: Wolf Roles

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Witch-king:Alpha The Witch-king starts in communication with the other werewolves. He also chooses his team of wolves.

Sauron:Devil Sauron starts in communication with the other wolves. Each night Sauron can scry one player, accurately determining their role.

Saruman:Voider Saruman starts in communication with the other wolves. Every night Saruman selects a player to void, thereby nullifying any powers they have. However, Saruman can not void the same player for two nights in a row.

Ringwraiths:Werewolves They have no role except partaking in the nightly wolf kill.

Spoiler: RULES

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Helgraf's Scry Interference Will be in effect. If two scriers watch the same person, they will both get the message "<interference>".

Days last 48 hours and nights are 24 hours.

Autolynches occur if someone does not post for two consecutive days.

Spoiler: PLAYERS

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1.Duck999
2.Ramsus
3.ThePhantom
4.aric_kale
5.askthepizzaguy
6.Penguinator
7.BasketofPuppies
8.Aventine
9.Rain Dragon
10.Random_person
11.banjo1985
12.TFT
13.Tasroth
14.otakuryoga
15.Murska
16.zweisteine
17.Lex-kat
18.Chessgeek
19.Tanar Aerdoth
20.andres21295
21.smuchmuch
22.Count Dingdong
23.Eonas
24.Disc Lorde
25.LoP
26.Sprig, warm welcomes be to him
27.DarkLightDragon
28.Bladescape

If this is your first time playing WW or if you are uncertain about the rules, read this.

Spoiler: WW Rules

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Werewolf Games, commonly abbreviated as WW, are strategy games, where the players have to lie, trick, deceive and backstab as much as they possibly can.

The game works like this: Werewolf players are given a role via Private Message. This role is secret and is only known to the player and the narrators. The premise is to keep that role secret from the rest of the players.

There are two basic teams: The Wolves and the Villagers. The Villagers have as their winning condition to find out who among them are Wolves. Since everyone's role is a secret, it takes a while of guesswork and strategy to manage this. The Wolves, on the other hand, have as their goal to hide among the Villagers and make the villagers suspect each other while surviving until they eliminate enough villagers so that the villager number equals their own. (e.g. four Villagers left with four Wolves left in the game means the Wolves won)

The game is divided in two Phases: The Day Phase and the Night Phase. During the Day Phase, everyone, Wolves and Villagers alike, point at someone to vote on who is going to be lynched that day. As a general rule, this is done by writing the person's name in red text. The player with the most votes will be lynched, that is to say eliminated from the game. Day Phases generally last 48 real-time hours.

The Night Phase is for stuff that happens under the table. Some people have roles other than simple "Villager" and "Wolf". I'll get to specifics in a moment. People with these special roles usually have "night actions" that require targeting a certain player. This is done by PM'ing the narrator with the action. During the Night Phase, the Wolves send in an action to kill one player of their choice. The player's death is announced at the end of a Night Phase, and then the next Day Phase starts. Night Phases generally last 24 hours.

To sum that up: During the Day Phase ALL players discuss and vote on what player to eliminate from the game (lynch), Wolves theoretically try to steer the voting towards other Villagers and/or try to look as innocent as possible.

On Power Roles: As mentioned before there are several Roles. "Wolf" and "Villager" are the most basic of roles, but games usually include more. The basic power roles are:
A Seer, who sends in an action every night to the narrator to "scry" another player, one per night. The narrator will tell the Seer what role that player has.
A Baner, who protects one person from being killed each night.
A Fool, who is told he is the Seer, but actually gets results for scries at random.
A Devil, who is basically the Seer for the Wolf team.
The Masons who are a group of Villagers who start off knowing each other's roles. (They're all working together.)

Those are the rules of the Classic Werewolf game. Usually, however, games have several variations and other roles. The special roles and variations for this game are defined in the roles for each game section.

On another note: Players must vote, they cannot abstain. If a player fails to vote for a certain number of game days in a row, he or she will be automatically disqualified, known as an Auto-lynch. Typically, auto-lynches happen after two days of not voting, but this particular game is a little more lenient and auto-lynches after three days of not voting.

When a player is lynched, killed, or auto'd, his death is announced, he is removed from the game, and his role is made public. While players are allowed (and encouraged) to communicate with each other outside the main thread by PM or IM, dead players cannot be contacted and cannot attempt to influence the game in any way. Attempting to influence the game after you die, or attempting to get information from a dead player is cheating.

That explains the basics of Werewolf Games. I hope you enjoy this game!

Game starts on the 26th of May.

[Duck999]

Sounds fun. First in!

[Ramsus]

I shall be in.

[ThePhantom]

I'll be in.

[Cuthalion]

Narration added and wow this was approved quickly. I sent it in this morning.

[Aric Kale]

I wasn't gonna.
I'm in too many...

IN. Because LotR.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I am in because you will need lots of peeps.

[Penguinator]

Change Saruman so that he can't void the same person twice in a row. Voiders who can constantly void are ridiculous.

In.

[Cuthalion]

Change Saruman so that he can't void the same person twice in a row. Voiders who can constantly void are ridiculous.

In.

Done.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Must!
Can't!
Yes!
No!
Hobbit!
Uhh, fine.

In. I'm already starting to turn into a Hobbit, so might as well.

[Penguinator]

In. I'm already starting to turn into a Hobbit, so might as well.

These games are rather Hobbit-forming.

[Cuthalion]

Hobbit we stop it with the puns?

[Aventine]

In, of course

[BasketOfPuppies]

Punning is a bad Hobbit of mine.

[Penguinator]

Hobbit we stop it with the puns?

Sometimes, I just can't stop mysElf.

[Cuthalion]

It Gollums me when you do that. Are you trying to Boromir with those bad puns?

[Rain Dragon]

I want to play, but I also want to hide from the puns...

[Aric Kale]

Rain Dragon? Nonsense, there hasn't been a dragon in these parts in a thousand years!

[Cuthalion]

Rain Dragon? Nonsense, there hasn't been a dragon in these parts in a thousand years!

Smaug was only 61 years ago...

[Fortuna]

I'll play.

[banjo1985]

Excellent, a game that doesn't deviate a great deal from the standard set up, that I have half a chance of being able to follow properly. Initty-in!

[DarkLightDragon]

So tempting...

[TFT]

Screw it, schools out for me tomorrow, let's go werewolf crazy.

In.

[Tasroth]

Sure, I'll play. In.

[Cuthalion]

So tempting...

Well, let me know if you succumb to the temptation.

[Murska]

I'll join in.

[otakuryoga]

sign me up

[Zweisteine]

Lemme in!

Also, unless you get a lot of players, having os many masons is bad. My rule of thumb (which I made up just now, and have never used before) is one mason per 10 players, rounded up.

Also, that set of masons seems rather arbitrary.

And don't forget Tom Bombadil! And Gollum!!!

I have lots of ideas! Most of them are probably bad! And redundant, given the current rules!

Change the parteners, and give Frodo the ring! It's a self-bane, but if he uses it too much (3? 5?), he dies (or becomes a ringwraith).

Gollum targets someone every night and picks their pocketses. If he picks Frodo, he gets the ring and escapes into the darkness (i.e. wins and exits the game).

A Balrog! It's scary! (Beast?)

Gwaihir flies people to safety (baner)!

Give everyone a name! There are plenty of characters to go around!

Try to recruit an insane number of players and run a massive game with tons of roles! (Don't really do this. Save that for The Two Towers )

[Lex-Kat]

In.

[Penguinator]

Also, unless you get a lot of players, having os many masons is bad. My rule of thumb (which I made up just now, and have never used before) is one mason per 10 players, rounded up.

I'm going to argue with that "rule." Especially since the wolves have a Voider, and town has no way to combat that Voider.