Masks at Midnight - Rules/Signup

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Basic Rules:

• Voting in this game may work differently than what you are used to. Please read the voting information carefully.
• The moderator will not publicly reveal a players role or alignment until the end of the game. To clarify, that means no reveal on execution or kill.
• Players may ask questions to the moderator. The answer however may be: No Comment.
• There are roles that require the moderator to provide incorrect information to specific players. This is done algorithmically and not at the discretion of the moderator. In other words: the mod is not a bastard; deceptions exist, but they are preplanned.
• Days/Nights will end 8pm Eastern Time.
• The maximum length for each day will be posted at the start of each day.
• Nights last 24 hours. All night actions must be submitted prior to 7:59 pm. Nights will not be extended due to weekends. Actions for future nights may be submitted in advance.
• No communication about this game in any manner that has not been previously mod-sanctioned. (See special ability below)
• The moderator will not discuss possibilities for modkills or substitution with any player in the game, with the sole exception that if you would like to be subbed out, you must PM the moderator before Night 2.
• You may edit your posts.
• You may post any communication from the moderator.
• During the course of the game a players win condition will not change. (This game does not contain Recruitment.)
• The moderator reserves the right to modkill/substitute/penalty vote any player for rules infractions and/or nonparticipation. This will be done solely at the moderator's discretion.
• There are no special boards for any team during this game.
• Living and dead players may post strategy at any time.
• When you are dead, you are NOT out of the game. Dead players can strategize, and dead players can vote (see voting rules below).
• Please participate! Participation will not be enforced by moderator, but for the game to be fun, it will require participation from all players.
• Keep it civil. This is just a game. Don't make it personal.

Voting Rules:

• A player must be nominated in order to be voted for. In order to nominate a player should in bold blue and on it's own line nominate: <player name>
• A player may not be nominated during the first 24 hours of a Day.
• Once a player is nominated, no other player may be nominated until that nomination is resolved.
• Once a player is nominated, each player (who has votes remaining) may vote: <player name> or vote: absolve to respectively execute or absolve that player
• Only living players may nominate another player.
• If a majority (>50%) of available votes have been cast to execute a player the nomination will resolve immediately.
• If a majority (>50%) of available votes have been cast to absolve a player the nomination will resolve immediately.
• If 24 hrs have passed without a majority decision on the nomination, the player will be absolved.
• If the group has resolved to execute the nominated player the day will end immediately (it will be announced as soon as the moderator returns).
• Only living players may be nominated.
• A player may be nominated only once per Day.
• A player may not nominate themselves.
• Living players may vote in any nomination, unless their power prevents them.
• Dead players may vote one time (for the remainder of the game) after they have died.
• The number of available votes for a given nomination is: Number of living players + number of unspent dead votes.

Win conditions:

• Town team wins the game if the scum team loses the game.
• Town team wins the game if there is a politician, and the politician wins.
• Town team loses if they execute the White Rose.
• Scum team wins if all town players are dead.
• Scum team loses the game if all scum players are dead and any town players are alive.
• The game ends when only players of a single faction are alive.

Special Ability available to all living players:
2 times per game you may PM the moderator with a message you'd like passed to another player.
The moderator will note in the public thread that communication has taken place and who it involved but not the content of that communication.
The moderator will forward your message on your behalf to the intended person.
For example if Fraggle wants to send a message to Muppet, the moderator will post to the game thread: "Fraggle and Muppet seem to be having a private conference."
The order that the names appear in the description will be randomized to conceal the direction of the communication.

Player Roles:
(there are no roles in this game that are not listed below)

Town
Gossip - At the start of Day 1 you will be given the names of 3 players and a town role (one of: Servant, Patsy, White Rose, Child, Miller). One of these 3 players has this role (Or you will be told that none of these roles is in the game).
Innkeeper - At the start of Day 1 you will be given the names of 3 players and a town role (one of: Any town role not available to Gossip). One of these 3 players has this role.
Private Eye - At the start of Day 1 you will be given the names of 3 players and a scum role. One of these 3 players has this role.
Janitor - At the start of Day 1 you will be told how many Scum roles are in the game.
Therapist - While alive, once per night you will be told the number of players adjacent to you on the player roster have scum roles.
Seer - While alive, once per night you may pick 2 players, you will be told if either of them is the Cult Leader.
Mortician - While alive, at night you will learn the role of the player who has been executed that day.
Priest - While alive, once per night you may select a living player other than yourself, that player cannot be killed by the Cult Leader.
Harbinger - If you die during the night, you will learn the role of one player of your choice.
Veteran - You cannot be killed by the Cult Leader at night.
Vigilante - While you are alive, one time per game, during the day, you may publicly announce you are killing a player. If that player is the cult leader, they will be executed immediately.
Politician - While you are alive, if the game is reduced to 3 or less living players and no one is executed, you win.
Servant - While alive, each night you pick a player, during the following day you may only vote after that player votes. Once you are not alive, you no longer have this restriction. If you don't pick a player, you cannot vote.
Patsy - You do not know you are the patsy. You will be told by the moderator that you are a different townsfolk. Any actions you take will fail, and any information you recieve may be incorrect.
White Rose - If you are executed, the town loses.
Child - The first time you are nominated, if the player who nominated you is a townsfolk they will be executed immediately.
Miller - You appear to be scum or The Cult Leader to the Private Eye, Therapist, Seer and Harbinger.

Scum
The Cult Leader - Each night after Day 1 you may select someone to kill.
The Publicist - Each night (including Night 0) you pick someone to decieve, they will remain decieved for tonight and tomorrow night. They will not know they have been decieved. While they are decieved any information they recieve from the moderator may be false.
The Acolyte - If there are 5 or more players left in the game, and you are alive, and the Cult Leader is dead, you become the cult leader.
The Financier - There is one additional cult member in this game who is not you and is not the Cult Leader.
The Spy - While you are alive, you will get a list of all players and their roles.


Sample PMs
Town
You are the Town Private Eye.

Scum
You are the Scum Publicist . Your fellow scum members are: Groucho, Charlie, and Lucielle.

Other notes:

This has been adapted from another live play game.
(i will give proper credit at the end of the game, just so there isn't any accidental extra information i'm keeping mum right now).
Also, I have not played a game on this Forum since 2015, so I am not sure how unconventional some of the aspects of this game are, but I hope it will be fun for all involved.

Oh yeah, signup by indicating so in this thread!