[Sign-ups] WW69 - The Red Court War

[Palman]

Hello all! During my recent, months-long, mandatory stay-cation, I've been reading the Dresden Files series by Tim Butcher. I'm mildly obsessed, if I'm being honest. So I announce:

Werewolves 69: The Red Court War

The war with the vampires was, technically, Harry Dresden's fault. Someone he loved was in danger, and emotions can have a potent effect on the working of a spell. And the fire had admittedly gotten a bit out of hand. Okay, a lot out of hand.
The medical examiner said some of the bodies hadn't looked human, but it was the perfectly human ones which haunted Harry. He told himself they had been dead before the fire, but honestly he couldn't be entirely sure if... Now the Red Court was out for blood, more so than normal that is. The White Council was on their heels and matters were beginning to become desperate.

Rules:

Day phases will last 48 hours except the first day which will last only 24. Night phases will last 24 hours.

No mayor will be elected. If there is a tie for lynch votes, no one is lynched.

Votes to lynch no one are allowed on any day.

Normally votes are bolded to ensure the person running the game doesn't miss them. Bold isn't very eye catching with my forum setting, IDK why. To reduce the chances I miss your vote, all votes should have a line by themselves like so:

Blah, blah, arguments and rationale.

Vote: Lynch Palman

Summary or supplementary information.

Editing posts is forbidden. I will be inclined to be creative with my retribution.

Any player who fails to post in consecutive day/night phases (i.e. 72 hours without posting) will be replaced, provided I have replacement volunteers.

Private messages are permitted, but please make sure you include me in the conversation.


I plan to begin Friday 6/12 after I get home from work (approximately 10pm GMT), as I will have many days off from work after that and can be available regularly to respond to any rules questions which crop up.


Players:
Tuga Nation's Dragon
Wischland
Ayunli
Louisistan
Shy Guy
Control
Marxist Germany
Eastern New England
Wille-Harlia
Tanzoria
Sauron
Musketoon
Haivon
Inquista
Aersoldorf
Al0neForever
Klopstock

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

I'm in!

[Wischland]

Count me in! I've never played so this should be interesting.

[Ayunli]

I'm in!

[Louisistan]

As am I.

[Palman]

Tagging some recent players:

Haivon, Eastern New England, Wille-Harlia, Inquista, Krystalveil, Sauron, Control, Musketoon, Valars, Wolvilan, Tanzoria, Aersoldorf, Klick Klack, Ammotangandia, andaristiva, Markanite, Grea Kriopia, Echolilia, United Royal Islands, Dorab, Shy Guy, Marxist Germany, HumanSanity, Elite, Dominion of Compassion, Evil Dictators Happyland, Firstaria, Flemingisa, Neutrality United, Escade, HumanSanity, Frattastan, SweetHaven

That's everyone back as far as WW64, please add others if you think they would want to play.

[Shy Guy]

I'm in.

[Control]

I'm in.

[Marxist Germany]

In!

[Eastern New England]

I'd like to join aswell.

[Wille-Harlia]

I'm in.

[Tanzoria]

I'll play

[Sauron]

Me

[Musketoon]

Im In. Let's get this started

[Haivon]

I'm in!

[Inquista]

Count me in too.

[Aersoldorf]

I wouldn’t think of missing an opportunity to 69 play in a game hosted by Palman

[Aersoldorf]

Don’t want Almonaster to feel unloved

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

This should be a fun game to play... Palman hosting it, and almost every single great player is in... I'm eager to start this...

[Al0neForever]

I've never done this on the forums so let's make this my first time! I'm in!

[Aersoldorf]

Jun 9, 2020 22:43:28 GMT -5 Al0neForever said:

I've never done this on the forums so let's make this my first time! I'm in!

Vote: Lynch Al0neForever

Welcome to 10KI WW games

[Aersoldorf]

Interesting fact: the forums where I represented our region in the World Championships has actually decided to change the terminology from ‘lynching’ to a TBD term because of the political incorrectness of using the term ‘lynch’ given the unrest over racial injustice that are currently taking place all around the world

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Jun 10, 2020 19:55:04 GMT -5 Aersoldorf said:

Interesting fact: the forums where I represented our region in the World Championships has actually decided to change the terminology from ‘lynching’ to a TBD term because of the political incorrectness of using the term ‘lynch’ given the unrest over racial injustice that are currently taking place all around the world

this is just a game, for God sake... Everyone plays it without correlating it with political or racist views...
I'm all against racism, political extremists and such, but everything that should be done against also should be in good measure... This is a nonsense on my books... So we won't be able to use the word lynch, but I believe kill isn't a perfect thing to say as well and we also use it... Nonsense!

[Aersoldorf]

Jun 10, 2020 20:11:11 GMT -5 Tuga Nation's Dragon said:

Jun 10, 2020 19:55:04 GMT -5 Aersoldorf said:

Interesting fact: the forums where I represented our region in the World Championships has actually decided to change the terminology from ‘lynching’ to a TBD term because of the political incorrectness of using the term ‘lynch’ given the unrest over racial injustice that are currently taking place all around the world

this is just a game, for God sake... Everyone plays it without correlating it with political or racist views...
I'm all against racism, political extremists and such, but everything that should be done against also should be in good measure... This is a nonsense on my books... So we won't be able to use the word lynch, but I believe kill isn't a perfect thing to say as well and we also use it... Nonsense!

I’m with you, we use the term lynch and I don’t have any problems with it. It only gained traction there because a guy who was about to be lynched in his game made a huge deal about the word. He claimed to be a person of color who had spent his day attending a BLM rally only to return home and find that he was the target of the day’s lynch vote. He called the term racist and made a lot of negative comments about the MU forums for still using a ‘racist’ term in 2020. Of course he was also a member of the wolf team who had a history of inflammatory remarks and he was even banned from their website permanently for cheating. He sent screenshots of his role pm plus the identities of his fellow wolves,to a bunch of the players in his game. That’s one of the reasons why, although I’m not a hugely political person, that I found HS’s topic for the current Poet Laureate contest to be rather timely.

[Palman]

"Lynch" is one of those words which is technically a perfectly good word, but historically has ties to specific connotations. Technically it just means fatal vigilante justice, usually committed by a group. That's absolutely what is happening in the narrative of a game of werewolf: a group of civilians have agreed to commit murder. It's also absolutely what it means in the racist connotation of killing a person of color. It's not unlike how the word "Pride" has become very closely linked to the LGBQ+ community over the past decade or so, but the word itself isn't inherently related to that culture specifically.

[Sauron]

12 hours to go!

[Klopstock]

I'll join as well.

[Palman]

The game thread is open and you should all have roles in your messages. If you didn't get a message from me let me know and I'll see what happened.

10000islands.proboards.com/thread/39307/ww69-red-court-war

If anyone else is interested after this point, let me know and we can keep you in reserve in case someone has to drop out.