Looking Glass Rules

[SisterCoyote]

• Days will be 5 24-hr periods long; Nights will be 2 24-hr periods long. Day One start will be determined when signups are complete.
  • Starting Day 3 (or when fewer than 50% of the original players are left, whichever comes first), players may vote: hammer; if a 90% consensus is reached the hammer will be broughten and Day will end early.
• Nights are fluff only, with following caveats:
  • Players may claim a role, and subsequent discussion of that claim will be allowed.
  • Players may claim a result of their own actions, and subsequent discussion of that claim will be allowed.
  • Players with access to off-board methods of communication are not limited to Day or Night strategy on those boards.
• Only sanctioned methods of off-board communication are allowed. Under no circumstances may players PM each other about game-related issues.
  
• If at all possible, Night actions should be to the moderator via PM by no later than one hour before Night end.
  • Night actions should be confirmed by the mod. If not, send a reminder.
• Non-participants will get one Final Vote per day of non-participation; Final Votes may not be removed under any circumstances, carry from Day to Day and are cumulative. Please don't sign up if you don't intend to play.
  
• Rule violation penalties will be on a sliding scale; the first violation by any player will result in a one-Day Penalty Vote; second violations, even if by a different player, will result in one two-Day Penalty Vote, and all subsequent violations by any players will result in one Final Vote.
  • Editing of posts for spelling, grammar, duplicate posts, borked code, or forgotten thoughts will be allowed.
• You may post your role PM or any correspondence with the Mod.
  
• Quoting from sanctioned off-board methods of communication is allowed.
  
• There is no Recruitment in this game.
  
• Voting:
  • One vote per player.
  • Vote on a new line using vote: Bold and Blue and unvote using unvote: Bold and Red.
  • If you have a vote down, you must unvote before voting a new candidate. The first vote will continue to be in effect until removed.
  • There are no vote shenanigans in this game. If you see an error in the vote count, please PM the mod or post in-thread and the mod will double-check.
  • Ties will be resolved using the following method: The player who received the most votes during the day will be the lynch candidate.
    • If both players received the same number of maximum votes, the person who received the first vote during the day will be the lynch candidate.
    • Final Votes and Penalty Votes do not count as "first votes" for purposes of tiebreaking.
  • Vote counts will be expressed as:
    Player receiving votes (total votes, max votes): player 1 voting [post voted], player 2 voting [post voted, post unvoted]...player n voting [post voted]
• In-thread comments or questions for the mod should be in Bold and Green

Many, many thanks to Pleonast and Catinasuit for helping me beat this setup into shape.

[SisterCoyote]

You are an Oyster.

”But wait a bit,” the Oysters cried,
”Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!”
”No hurry!” said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.

You are Vanilla Town.

Your power is in your vote. If you lynch the right people, you may survive to the end of the story. If not...well. Tragedies happen.

Town wins when all threats to Town are eliminated.

[SisterCoyote]

The Sheep
Jabberwocky
The White Knight
Mome Rath
The White King
Mother Oyster
Tweedledee
The White Queen
Kitty
Oysters (Vanilla)
Haigha (March Hare)
Dinah
Bandersnatch
Tweedledum
Lion
Hatta (Mad Hatter)
Alice/MaryAnn
Walrus
Jubjub Bird
Humpty Dumpty
Carpenter
Unicorn
The Red King
The Red Queen
The Red Knight
Snowdrop
Borogrove

[SisterCoyote]

All roles may be standard or non-standard; multiple variants may appear (or not). This list may or may not be complete.

Vanilla (Town/Scum)
Cop
Doc
Godfather
Vigilante
Mad Bomber
Bomb
Scotsman
Roleblocker
Mason
Serial Killer
Watcher/Tracker

Roles Not Appearing in This Game:
Miller
Jester
Politician

[gnarlycharlie]

so i guess CIAS won't be joining us this time around.

[SisterCoyote]

No, unfortunately.

[Chucara]

Politician? Don't know that role.

[SisterCoyote]

No worries, since it is NOT in the game (oh, boy, did I learn my lesson with vote manipulators in Wonderland), but a Politician can "buy" votes. Usually this means a specific player is instructed that they have to "Vote X" during the Day phase and cannot change their vote.

There are also variants where the politician "charges" a player (e.g., their vote counts as two) and so forth.

RULES ADDENDUM

• Public "nudges" of MIA players on other boards will not accrue a penalty but it has to be somewhere I can get to to see the "nudge" (e.g., Facebook, Idle, etc.)

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Chucara

Politician? Don't know that role.

usually a vote manipulator. he buys a player's vote or has an extra vote. something along those lines.

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

No worries, since it is NOT in the game (oh, boy, did I learn my lesson with vote manipulators in Wonderland), but a Politician can "buy" votes. Usually this means a specific player is instructed that they have to "Vote X" during the Day phase and cannot change their vote.

There are also variants where the politician "charges" a player (e.g., their vote counts as two) and so forth.

RULES ADDENDUM

• Public "nudges" of MIA players on other boards will not accrue a penalty but it has to be somewhere I can get to to see the "nudge" (e.g., Facebook, Idle, etc.)

Facebook will be a little difficult if we're not all friends. if we post on the Psycopath group, you'll see it though.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

...if a 90% consensus is reached the hammer will be broughten and Day will end early....

<snipped>

well i don't know about broughten but finding 90 percent of these characters reaching a concensus would be pretty durn amazing. i imagine if i offered free beer we'd be lucky to get to 60 percent without some amount of belly aching.

or are we talking in some sort of weird olde english dialect.

i swear to all that is holy that i merely typed in "understand" and i got the following.

síþ Strong Masculine Noun
1. going journeying travel errand 1a. going from this world 2. a journey voyage course expedition undertaking enterprise ~a rest rest from journeys ~ settan to travel journey 2a. the journey of the spirit from this world departure death min dohtor is on ytemestum ~e my daughter is at her end 3. coming arrival 4. a proceeding course of action way of doing conduct ne bið swilc earges sið such is not a coward’s way ic ne mæg ðinra worda ne wisma wuht oncnawan siðes ne sagena i cannot understand aught of thy words or of thy ways of thy proceeding or of thy sayings 4a. conduct way of life manner 5. denoting that which occurs to a person how a person fares the course of events in the case of a person lot condition fate destiny experience hap fortune secgan hwelc siððan wearð herewulfa sið to say what happened afterwards to the war-wolves 6. a path road way 7. a time turn occasion (colloquial go danish gang) (1) with ordinals eft oðre siðe he ferde again a second time he had departed oðre ~e…oðre siðe on one occasion…on another (2) with cardinals on ænne ~ at one and the same time once all at once on ðrie ~as at three times (2a) used in multiplying numbers feower ~um seofon beoð eahta and twentig four times seven is 28 (2b) marking degree heo hæfde seofon ~um beorhtran sawle she had a 7 times brighter soul 8. 1 see sihð1 pres 3rd sing of seon 1

i think 4 applies to a bunch of you folks.

4. a proceeding course of action way of doing conduct ne bið swilc earges sið such is not a coward’s way ic ne mæg ðinra worda ne wisma wuht oncnawan siðes ne sagena i cannot understand aught of thy words or of thy ways of thy proceeding or of thy sayings

i mean i so see zeener or kid pulling something like that after a couple of bongers and shooters. i think aught ought to be a required post thingy.

thoughts, sis?

[peekercpa]

neta: and fucking "war wolves", "danish gang" and "ordinals". ok, i am already confused.

sis will this be clarified before we kick off?

[SisterCoyote]

Peeker, I have no idea what I am supposed to be clarifying, I'm sorry.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Peeker, I have no idea what I am supposed to be clarifying, I'm sorry.

the rules darn you.

you said "broughten" i attempted to figure it out and came up with the previous posts.

i want the truth. i can handle it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

[peekercpa]

oh shit, i thought i was still supposed to be annoying people on idle's board. whoops, too many games at one time.

[peekercpa]

and since we have a "danish gang" does that mean ulla is playing?

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Peeker, I have no idea what I am supposed to be clarifying, I'm sorry.

Try hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. It helped me to understand. Wait, no it didn't.

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Try hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. It helped me to understand. Wait, no it didn't.

peeker should hit himself with a hammer. it won't help us understand him but hopefully it will keep him quiet.

[Zeener Diode]

No, a quiet peeker makes me nervous.

[Askthepizzaguy]

A quiet peeker makes me feel sane and energetic.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

A quiet peeker makes me feel sane and energetic.

be prepared to feel a little off and lethargic.

[SisterCoyote]

If consensus is reached, then Day will end early.

[Swammerdami]

Originally Posted by peekercpa

... dohtor is on ytemestum ... ne bið swilc earges sið such is not a coward’s way ic ne mæg ðinra worda ne wisma wuht oncnawan siðes ne sagena i cannot understand aught of thy words or of thy ways of thy proceeding or of thy sayings ... secgan hwelc siððan wearð herewulfa sið ...
i think 4 applies to a bunch of you folks.

4. a proceeding course of action way of doing conduct ne bið swilc earges sið such is not a coward’s way ic ne mæg ðinra worda ne wisma wuht oncnawan siðes ne sagena i cannot understand aught of thy words or of thy ways of thy proceeding or of thy sayings

i mean i so see zeener or kid pulling something like that after a couple of bongers and shooters. i think aught ought to be a required post thingy.

thoughts, sis?...
i want the truth. i can handle it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

Sister, are posts required to be in English?
And if so, will Olde English be acceptable?

... And Peeker, I prefer the anti-authoritarian angry Nicholson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8

[SisterCoyote]

Yes, posts are required to be in English.

Olde English is a bit far back. Middle English and forward will be fine.

[peekercpa]

mod question: are the potential characters and roles meant to be exclusive/inclusive/orwhadthehekeva or just indicative?

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Yes, posts are required to be in English.

Olde English is a bit far back. Middle English and forward will be fine.

well then this might prove to be helpful.

The main pitfall in translating Middle English is not the unfamiliar words but the words which look the same and mean something different (e.g. nice means 'foolish', do can mean 'cause to' or 'put'). If your translation doesn't make sense, look up the words you think you understood.

It follows from this that it is often misleading to translate a Middle English word by the word which has descended from it in Modern English; and even where the basic sense has remained the same, the overtones may be different (in particular, a word which was in ordinary colloquial usage in Middle English may seem archaic to us: e.g. thou). Always translate sense-for-sense, not word-for-word.

In the same way, word-order which was normal in the Middle Ages (whether in ordinary prose or in poetry) can seem unnatural and contorted if carried over to your translation; you should feel free to modernize it (though make sure you have understood the syntax of the original first).

Middle English uses inflexions to indicate grammatical relationships to a greater degree than Modern English, so it's important that you should be aware of the implications of different inflexional forms. In particular, make sure that you can recognize the different forms of the personal pronouns and the basic verb-endings, both of which can vary from dialect to dialect in Middle English (see below). You will need a knowledge of both, for instance, to recognize impersonal verbs (often without a preliminary 'it' or 'there'): e.g. him liketh doesn't mean 'he likes' but 'it pleases him', me thinketh not 'I think' but 'it seems to me'.

i like sis she is nice.

but i am puzzled about "inflexional forms". does this mean that one or both partners have not achieved some sort of kama sutra type of balance or whether they just need to stretch out a little more?

[peekercpa]

neta: and i can already assure you that me thinketh and me liketh are going to be pivotal in this contest.

[SisterCoyote]

Primarily indicative.

Except those not appearing in the game; those are definitive.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Primarily indicative.

Except those not appearing in the game; those are definitive.

i love the non commital.

[peekercpa]

tough shit folks this is voluntary.

so peekkid numero quatro is off to new mexico on a school trip. the school she goes to basically requires every class to take a week away from the nest. the vet parents are in one group and the newb parents in another. the newbs are all kind of freaky about them being gone for a week. the vets are like, thank og. but even with the vets there are divisions. the mothers are like did you remember your toothbrush? do you have enough underwear? will you be warm enough? the father vets are over in the corner dishing out pretzels letting the little birds know that when you get to el paso by bus these will be like gold.

[Zeener Diode]

I wish my grammar school offered to whisk me away for a week. (Well, I did Outdoor School but that was 6th grade.)

Why NM? Expose them youngsters to art in Taos? Visit some mud huts? Why not stay in Tejas?

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

I wish my grammar school offered to whisk me away for a week. (Well, I did Outdoor School but that was 6th grade.)

Why NM? Expose them youngsters to art in Taos? Visit some mud huts? Why not stay in Tejas?

well they used to go to zacatecas in old mexico but i think the whole murder and child sex slavery thing has shied some folks off from that.

curd, z they get to go to white sands and get all ictchy scratchy. then they are put up in santa fe with just four to a room (crud the last time i did i think there were twelve derelicts going to bet the ponies). then they have to do some "school art" related projects. read, texting on your phone while you walk a fucking museum. and shoot they do the texas thing but not until their junior and senior years. first year was the heifer project in arkansas. can safely assure you the number 4 will not be going back to arkansas unless its to piss on her way to maine or michigan.

[peekercpa]

and remember z this is the international school of the americas. now certainly texas has everything that one would need and more (ask 'bama). but even us rednecks and yokels like our kids to see how the rest of the world has fucked things up. that way they come home and make us real kick ass. gig 'em. roll back tide. roll back.

[Swammerdami]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Yes, posts are required to be in English.

How about fake-English:
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

[Suburban Plankton]

[QUOTE=Zeener Diode;888248]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Try hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. It helped me to understand. Wait, no it didn't.

"...My hamster?"

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

• Editing of posts for spelling, grammar, duplicate posts, borked code, or forgotten thoughts will be allowed.

Can we edit our posts for the singular purpose of being sneaky, lying, duplicitous scumbags?

ETA: Not that I'm claiming to be a sneaky, lying, duplicitous scumbag...I'm sure I'm just a sweet, innocent Townie like all of you...

[SisterCoyote]

[QUOTE=Suburban Plankton;888876]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

"...My hamster?"




Can we edit our posts for the singular purpose of being sneaky, lying, duplicitous scumbags?

ETA: Not that I'm claiming to be a sneaky, lying, duplicitous scumbag...I'm sure I'm just a sweet, innocent Townie like all of you...

No, that would be against the rules. Silly burbs who is TOTALLY scum omg.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

No, that would be against the rules. Silly burbs who is TOTALLY scum omg.

Thanks for the tip!

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Thanks for the tip!

as hard as it is to admit .... i agree with z on this one. if it's good enough for the mog it's good enough for me.

unvote all

vote burby.

[Suburban Plankton]

As long as nobody ever calls me SubPee again, I'll be happy

[SisterCoyote]

Promises, promises.

And actually, I was referring to the game that just ended on Idle. I haven't assigned roles yet. :P

[Suburban Plankton]

Riii-ii-iiight...nice save...

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Suburban Plankton

As long as nobody ever calls me SubPee again, I'll be happy

when did that happen again? i recall that but not the game or thread.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I pledge to never call anyone by any nickname they deem inappropriate, provided they suffer my participation in the game without dissing me as an idiot too much.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

I pledge to never call anyone by any nickname they deem inappropriate, provided they suffer my participation in the game without dissing me as an idiot too much.

so what inappropriate nickname do i get?

[Suburban Plankton]

Originally Posted by gnarlycharlie

when did that happen again? i recall that but not the game or thread.

It was in the spoiled thread for the All Star Gastard's Revenge game that just finished on Idle's board. Luckily for me, it wasn't in the main thread, so most people never saw it.




Oh, darn...

[Suburban Plankton]

Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

I pledge to never call anyone by any nickname they deem inappropriate, provided they suffer my participation in the game without dissing me as an idiot too much.

Define "too much".

[SisterCoyote]

Originally Posted by Septimus

How about fake-English:
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

[Scuba Ben]

I fear this game will become the most fruminous ever on the Geeb. I'm uffed to have stayed out.

[peekercpa]

onc'may ubascay ouyay owknay ouyay antway otay ayplay

is pig latin going to be acceptable? because me thinketh i liketh.

[peekercpa]

neta:

emay inkeththay emay ikethlay

[peekercpa]

Osay estedray ehay ybay ethay Umtumtay eetray,
Andway oodstay away ilewhay inway oughtthay.

yeh, this could be a doozy.