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Our intrepid wolf made an intrepid decision. It was that DG should be the night kill. And so that’s what happened.
Ash Substitute Wolf.
Melissa She played, I guess?
Big Papa Pope Boring old villager
Nibbish Seer, Made his own bed.
Inkarnit Super Wolf. Laid in the bed Nibs made.
Codefox Villager, but less boring than Pope.
DG Like that guy ever accomplished anything anyway.
Todah
ZG
Spooky
Colin Prime
Nettie
KG
DPWY
4 votes is majority. Night is at 9 central.
It occurs to me that, if Ash hadn’t already been lynched as a wolf, right about now everyone would think that I’d made a game with only villagers. That is to say, the village would blame their inability to find a wolf on the mod, instead of pointing the finger where it squarely belongs: on themselves. I mean, really, village.
Anyway, I offer this introduction as a way of shielding myself from the bitter scorn the village is sure to feel when they wake up and learn that Nibbish, the Seer, has been killed. It went down like this:
Nibbish was walking through a cemetery on Halloween next to the abandoned summer camp, and whistling. The song was MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This.” It’s not a very whistle-friendly tune, but then, Nibbish isn’t a very whistle-friendly guy. Feeling like he must be perfectly indestructible because of the Angel, Nibbish decided to tempt fate by explicitly calling out “Come and get me wolves, I’m so nice and juicy and yummy.” But still the wolves didn’t come.
So Nibbish hopped into his car, refusing to wear his seat belt, driving 11 miles over the speed limit while tweeting @wolves, I’m so vulnerable, whatever shall I do?. Then, somewhat miraculously, he arrived home. He parked his car, got out the keys to his front door, picked his nose for a little bit, then unlocked the door, and crawled into bed. A bed which was full of wolves. A bed which he himself had made.
Ash Substitute Wolf.
Melissa She played, I guess?
Big Papa Pope Boring old villager
Nibbish Seer, Made his own bed.
DG
Todah
Inkarnit
Codefox
ZG
Spooky
Colin Prime
Nettie
KG
DPWY
6 is a majority.
I will be happy to do a day’s end early today (let’s say noon) if that is something the village is interested in, and then start a new day as soon after that as I’m able (will obviously depend on night moves being made).
I’d remind the village that we probably don’t want to continue this to next week, so making sure we’re ending by Friday is probably a good idea, right? That seems like getting 2 days in here or there might make sense.
Everyone showed up. Which taught us an important lesson: games with participation are better than those without. It’s a good thing there hasn’t ever been an issue with nonsubs around here. Anyway, everyone participating also gave the wolves lots of targets for night killing. The chose Melissa. Which seemed fine. She swears I’m her mortal enemy, but I gotta tell you, I’m barely even aware of her presence. So that’s a thing I’ve now said that will further cement my status as her mortal enemy, I guess. Anyway, she dead, and we can all move on with our werewolf lives.
Also, I’ll not confirm or deny how many saves the angel has left at any point in the game.
Ash Substitute Wolf.
Melissa She played, I guess?
DG
Todah
Inkarnit
Codefox
ZG
Spooky
Colin Prime
Nibbish
Nettie
KG
DPWY
Big Papa Pope
7 is majority, Night is at 9.
In honor of Melissa being such a good sport, I’m going to let her nominate someone who has to speak only as Melissa-played Survivor/Big Brother/Etc. characters until 3 today.
That’s right, you didn’t sign up for this. Nobody did. I just pulled 14 names of people who have previously played this game with some regularity, and… we’ll see what happens. If it’s a total flop, it’s a total flop, and we’ll just move on and pretend this never happened. I’m cool with that. It’s worth a try, right? Being all just like if werewolves invaded our village for real, and all that.
Anyway, there are 3 wolves, one of whom gets an immediate villager lynch if they are themselves lynched.
There is a Seer, but that person is only given a random villager every night (told villager, not any specific role).
And there is an Angel, who gets 6 total saves for the game, to use whenever they want, but they lose one per day if they don’t use at least one (so wake up on Day 2 with 5 saves max, regardless of whether they used one or not).
There are 14 people playing. I’ll put the list up eventually, but figuring out who shows up is part of the trick this time, right? Or is that just even more insane? It is, isn’t it? Oh well.
Let’s see what happens.
Night is at 9 p.m. central. All ties are immediately broken by a coin flip.
Night had fallen, and the 4 remaining avengers, Hulk, Thor, Ant-man, and, uh, let’s say Falcon, knew that their job wasn’t done yet.
“We still have to figure out the last wolf!” said Falcon.
“But how, dammit? How?” asked Ant-man.
“Me know!” shouted Hulk, “Me great scientist. Me science the wolves!”
“Of course, Banner!” agreed Thor.
“No Banner. Hulk.”
“If you say so,” laughed Thor.
“Me better science you!”
“Asgardians are brilliant scientists!”
“You know Bifrost. Nothing else.”
“Is that so?”
“Me out science you,” challenged Hulk.
“You’re on!” shouted Thor.
And the two of them rushed to the lab, as quickly as they could.
“I kind of wish they’d taken the elevator,” mused Falcon, looking at two super-hero sized holes in the floor.
Down in the lab the two of them set about gathering materials, but immediately found they were overmatched.
“This door to the computer equipment is locked,” said Thor.
“No problem,” said Hulk, ripping the door from its hinges. It made a satisfying crashing, shattering sound as it flew across the room. “See, me good science. But this Bunsen burner crooked,”
“I’ll hammer that out,” said Thor, smashing the metal tube flat with Mjolnir. It rang out in a most pleasing fashion. The two heros looked at each other and smiled.
“And uh… this test tube dirty,” said Hulk, crushing the glass with his bare hand.
“Yeah,” agreed Thor, “And this Erlenmeyer Flask insulted my mother!”
Glass and metal and chemicals and computer parts began to fly everywhere, as the two heroes smashed up the joint.
“Me good science!” shouted Hulk, just before stopping suddenly.
“Uh oh,” said Hulk.
“What is it?”
“Me angry. You no like me angry.”
“You’re always angry.”
“No, not me. Banner angry!”
Suddenly the Hulk transformed into Bruce Banner, his clothes shredded and barely hanging on, per usual. Banner looked around the lab, all of his beloved equipment crushed and dented and strewn about, and he gave Thor the tongue-lashing of his life. Hulk was right. You no like Banner when he angry. Finally, Banner kicked Thor out of the lab, and began to clean up. It was then that the wolves struck, sneaking into the lab and ripping Banner to shreds with all of the broken science.
Codefox Ultron, well there goes my script…
Inkarnit Quicksilver. Died like he lived: quickly
Colin Prime Vision, mistaken for Ultron
Todahshy Tony Stark (Angel), Wore his sunglasses at night
MelissaD Captain America, Couldn’t handle the truth.
Meat Black Widow, but never even married
DPWY Hawkeye (seer), obligatory, really
Spooky Chitauri Warrior #1, Highway to Hell
Nettie, Hulk, Shredded like his clothes
Punman
DG
Ash
Violabee
Hulk No Smash
Day will end at noon at the latest. 3 votes is a majority.
The wolves had arrived at the front door of Avengers Tower. Luckily, I was somewhere else, and no risk was posed to me.
“Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in!” shouted up Loki.
“Not by the hair on Odin’s beard shall you pass these gates, brother!”
“Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow the house down.”
“Oh, let’s just see what they want,” said Hawkeye.
“No. Me just smash what they want,” said Hulk.
“No, Hulk, see what I said was a joke. Because I’m the seer.”
“Me know. Not funny.”
“Ah, what do you know?”
“He’s right,” Ant-man chimed in, “That wasn’t funny. I’m a comedic actor, so I know funny.”
The three of them stood there arguing about whether the lame pun was funny for far too long. It was actually kind of surprising that Hulk was so restrained. That is, Hulk was restrained until he punched DG square in his humble face. Actually, that pretty much ended the argument.
Then they went back to whatever it was they were doing, completely forgetting about the wolves outside.
So imagine Hawkeye’s surprise when, half hour later, he went outside to have a smoke and was eaten alive.
Codefox Ultron, well there goes my script…
Inkarnit Quicksilver. Died like he lived: quickly
Colin Prime Vision, mistaken for Ultron
Todahshy Tony Stark (Angel), Wore his sunglasses at night
MelissaD Captain America, Couldn’t handle the truth.
Meat Black Widow, but never even married
DPWY Hawkeye (seer), obligatory, really
Punman
DG (1)
Spooky
Ash
Nettie
Violabee
Hulk Smash DG
4 votes is a majority.
Programming note: The wolves win if they have more or the same numbers as villagers. With even numbers that means if the village misses today the night kill will bring about a win-condition for the wolves. If the village gets it right we will have a final day.
My availability on Friday is only until a little after noon. I would be happy to try to do either 2 days today or, more likely, have a last day end at noon tomorrow. But I want to make sure I’m working with player’s schedules and preferences. Everyone please, by e-mail, send me your preference. I won’t do 2 days today unless everyone can do that.
Tony Stark, realizing that all of his robot inventions were dying, decided to do something about it. “Take the Avengers,” I told him.
“No, Mr. Fury,” he told me (remember, I’m Nick Fury here, and even Tony Stark respects me, even when he’s not listening to my advice.)
“Well then at least take those stupid sun glasses off.”
“No, Mr. Fury. I’m Iron Man, and this is what I do.”
“But you’re not even wearing the rest of your armor.”
“Fine then, I’m Robert Downey Jr., and this is what I do.”
So Tony set off towards the Villain’s last known address. Arriving, he found, scrawled on the doors “Not Skary T.”
He decided to call Pepper Potts for help.
“Pepper?”
No answer.
“Pepper? Are you there?”
No answer.
“Pepper, I could really use you.”
Being the consummate spy, I stepped in to answer the call.
“She not here Tony, this is Fury.”
“Where’s Pepper?”
“Uh… she’s, um. Playing with Thor’s hammer.”
“Mjolnir?”
“Sure.”
“So what does this mean? ‘Not Skary T’? It’s anagram for Tony Stark, right?”
“No, it’s an acronym. It means ‘Night Of Terror, So Kill A Really Yummy Tony.’ You copy?”
But Tony didn’t copy. He was dead.
Then Hulk kicked Spooky in the groin.
Codefox Ultron, well there goes my script…
Inkarnit Quicksilver. Died like he lived: quickly
Colin Prime Vision, mistaken for Ultron
Todahshy Tony Stark (Angel), Wore his sunglasses at night
Punman
DG
Spooky (1)
Ash
Nettie
Meat
Violabee
MelissaD
DPWY
Hulk Smash Spooky
Who remembers that one guy from the second Avengers movie? You know, the pointless cast addition whose power was to be an even more pathetic version of The Flash? And he kind of had a weird thing for his sister? And they just killed him off because no one liked him? No one remembers him? Yeah, that seems right. Anyways, Inkarnit was that forgettable pervert, and now he’s dead.
In celebration of Inkarnit’s death, Hulk high-fives Todashy into the ground.
Codefox Ultron, well there goes my script…
Inkarnit Quicksilver. Died like he lived: quickly
Punman
DG
Spooky
Ash
Nettie
Meat
Violabee
Todahshy (1)
MelissaD
DPWY
Colin Prime
Hulk Smash Todahshy
6 is majority.
*** It Is Day ***
“So I’ve brought you all here for one purpose: to find my mother f***ing missing eye. That’s right, I’m Nick Fury in this scenario, and the rest of you are lesser heroes and maybe a few villains thrown in. Okay, there are definitely villains. 3 of them.”
At this point, Hulk stands up and punches DPWY across the room. I cock my eyebrow, in that Samuel L. Jackson way, and continue my speech.
“Your job is to stop the bad guys so that the rest of humanity can go about their daily business. Super threats require a new initiative, and look, they killed that one Agent of Shield guy you all loved (who, according to Shawn Ashley, really is a great dude), so now you have to come together and avenge him! Hey, that’s the thing I named you! Now go do your thing and I’ll lurk from the shadows.”
Salient Details
The wolf seer did not get a night 0 peek.
The village seer was given a random villager peek. All villagers, including those with roles, were included in the random selection. I will not give roles to the village seer, only villager or wolf.
I’ll be in court this morning, and periodically unavailable throughout the week, though I’ll do my best. If you have mod questions please ask them to me via e-mail and I’ll answer for everyone.
Roles
Village Roles
Hawkeye: Seer. The most useless Avenger (except for Ant-man) is the most useful villager!
Iron Man: Angel. There’s some irony here. Heh. Irony. Standard CDL rules – can’t save same person 2 nights in a row, can’t save self.
Captain America – The First Avenger. Revealed as a known villager on Day 2. Can’t be night killed (if wolves target night 1, it’s like an angel save), Dies automatically on opening of Day 3.
Hulk – Smash. Rash, impulsive. Each night Hulk submits a vote that will be an extra day vote the next day, and is unchangeable (so someone starts with a vote on them, that can’t be moved).
Wolf Roles:
Loki: Kill him twice. The first time you killed him he was just a mirage, and he uses that advantage to kill another villager before you take him out. So when he gets lynched he gets to submit an immediate villager lynch that happens at the same time.
Ultron: Wolf seer.
Chitauri Warrior #1
Playing the game
Punman
Inkarnit
DG
Spooky
Ash
Nettie
Meat
Codefox
Violabee
Todahshy
MelissaD
DPWY (1 – Hulk Smash)
Colin Prime
7 votes is a majority. The extra Hulk vote is just treated as a vote, not an extra player.
It’s been too long, right? Let’s play some werewolf. Sign up here or by e-mailing me (edit: Novak. This is a Novak run game. But I’m going to try to reign in the crazy. No stair cars.). Our theme will be Avengers. But, like, pre-Infinity War, just in case there’s spoilers or somesuch. If we get enough people, the roles will be as follows:
Hawkeye: Seer. The most useless Avenger (except for Ant-man) is the most useful villager!
Iron Man: Angel. There’s some irony here. Heh. Irony. Standard CDL rules – can’t save same person 2 nights in a row, can’t save self.
*Captain America – The First Avenger. Revealed as a known villager on Day 2. Can’t be night killed (if wolves target night 1, its like an angel save), Dies automatically on opening of Day 3.
*Hulk – Smash. Rash, impulsive. Each night Hulk submits a vote that will be an extra day vote the next day, and is unchangable (so someone starts with a vote on them, that can’t be moved).
Wolf Roles:
Loki: Kill him twice. The first time you killed him he was just a mirage, and he uses that advantage to kill another villager before you take him out. So when he gets lynched he gets to submit an immediate villager lynch that happens at the same time.
Ultron: Wolf seer.
Alright. Assuming we get enough interest, game will start Monday the 13th. Let’s do this.
Excelsior!
Players:
Punman
Inkarnit
DG
Spooky
Ash
Nettie
Meat
Codefox
Violabee
Todahshy
MelissaD
DPWY
Colin Prime
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