TWG IX: The Lantern Keeper

[Nakah]

   TWG IX: The Lantern Keeper


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   It was a dark and murky night when the strange man stepped out the door from his cabin and began walking on a dirt path leading deeper through the woods. The man had lived in these woods for years innumerable, not even the ever-growing trees could remember a time when he had not lived amongst them. Though the ages passed and the trees continued to grow taller and taller, he had always lived amongst them, protecting them and watching over the rest of the woods in walks during the night. Tonight was one of those nights. With him he carried a single lantern, but not an ordinary lantern, for this particular one had a bright green light emit from it. With it, he was truly the Keeper of the Forest.

   It was on this particular night that the strange man had an encounter that which he had never had before. As he walked along the path through the dark creeping and twisting trees in the night, he saw a dim red light glowing far off in the distance. The strange man paused for a moment and held his lantern up to his eye level, and wincing he peered through the luminous green light and saw what the lantern revealed. A camp site, 10 men full, all of whom were drinking and cheering and dancing the night away around a great big bonfire.

   The strange man began to grin, and put the lantern out.


  Meanwhile, the men far off at the camp site continued their drink and song and merry time, enjoying the isolation and security of the woods. When it became too dark to see beyond the bonfire's glow, the men began to settle in their tents. Each of the men possessed their own tent, with one pillow and a small lantern. The last of the men put out his lantern and closed his eyes and went to sleep.


   The sounds of owls and other mysterious predators filled the night, as the fog set in around the camp and the men all slept cozily.

*Shuffle* *Crackle* *Snap*

  A figure glided it's way through the bushes and towards the camp.

  Everything fell silent.


  "AHHH!!!" A man awoke screaming in his tent, and awaking the others he ran out in horror and grabbed a torch. All of the other men quickly rushed out with torches and found the man sitting in the fetal position on the ground in the middle of the camp. Puzzled, they asked him what caused his screaming in the middle of the night. The man said that he had a dream of an unknown creature that entered their camp during the night and had done something horrific beyond words.

   The men felt fear rising from within, but reason got the best of their hearts, and they discarded his ill omen as a mere dream, and readily went back to sleep. No more dreams to wake them up before morning.

   The fearful man stood up from the ground and picked up his torch. He peered through the trees and into the abysmal darkness. Then suddenly his torch was blown out by a magnificent gust of wind. He jump and went to grab his knife, and just as he could pull it out, he heard the shrieking howl on the night air.


   A-Woooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

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   What to expect this game:

   Roles:

   2 Werewolves: Normal Wolves
   1 Master Wolf: Seered as green, but normal wolf
   1 Strange Man: Purpose "unknown"
   1 Seer: Sends in a PM every Night to see the color of a person's role.
   5 Campers: Normal Humans.

   3 Lanterns of the Night: These Lanterns are given to three random members. Holding a Lantern allows the player to know the name of the other players with Lanterns. Every Night phase, the three players with lanterns will submit one vote each to the host in order to choose one person who is currently holding a lantern to be seer'd. The person with the most votes is then seer'd. The seering results will then be sent to the other two players with lanterns who were not seer'd. A lantern can be passed to another player through a PM to the host during the Night phase only. The players with Lanterns will always know who has the other lanterns. Whether or not they allow anyone who doesn't hold a lantern to possess their knowledge is entirely up to them.

   IMPORTANT RULE, READ: The Strange Man during the Night phase will send a PM to the host guessing the names of the three players with lanterns. If he is correct and guesses all three of the players' names, then all three of those players are killed and the lanterns are lost forever. The strange man is not a human. He cannot be wolfed during the night, any attempt to wolf him will fail(and result in a wasted wolfing). He can be lynched, however, and that is the only way that he can be killed. If the strange man accurately guesses the three lantern keepers, then all reds in the game will die. This does not include the Master Wolf.



   The Players:

   1. Mashi
   2. Concerto No. 20 in D Minor
   3. Universe-x
   4. SlowPokemon
   5. Drpamplemousse
   6. Master_Gamer38
   7. SuperFireKirby
   8. SuperRiolu
   9. Jake3343
 10. Askalice23


   It is now Night 1. All pms are to be sent to me. Know the rules, pm me with any questions. Night ends when all PMs are in or Thursday @ 9:00p.m. EST.


   Begin.

[Concerto No.20 in D minor]

Those are some craaaazy rules; but I think I understand.

[SlowPokemon]

Yeah, not too complicated, but still different enough to give the game more "spice". I like it.

[DrP]

its definitely different from the other games... seems quite interesting!

[universe-X]

To start this off, I am a human. I'll keep it at that for now.

[Mashi]

Alright then, so we have 10 Players.  As a worst case scenario:

Day 1 begins, 9 Players left.
Night 2 begins, 8 Players left.
Day 2 begins, 7 Players left.
Night 3 begins, 6 Players left.
Day 4 begins, Wolves Win.

So if worst comes to worst, we only have two Phases.  As for seerings, though:
Night 1: 2/9 getting a Wolf.
Night 2: 2/7 getting a Wolf.
Night 3: 2/5 getting a Wolf.

Of course, if this follows the worst case scenario, the Seer only gets 2 Phases, not to mention the Seer may get wolfed.

There's also no Guardian in this game, so the Seer can't just come out and say when they seered someone Red.  So I would suggest that they 'persuade' others to vote for a player without revealing their Role would be a nice way to get the Wolves.  Also, Seer, if you get two Wolves, then I think it's safe to say you can reveal them both, since by then you won't be able to get the Master Wolf anyways.


Of course, we still have the lanterns.  I'm too lazy to do any percentages, but I think that chances are likely that if they play smart that they will get one Wolf down.

There's also the issue with the Strange Man.  I believe that it's beneficial for us to lose him/her, but I'll leave that open for discussion.  Also, if anyone would like to chat, I'll usually be open at YIM, which is hatiyama@ymail.com

[SlowPokemon]

I am a human, and I have no lantern.

If that has any place here. xP

[Mashi]

Also, I would recommend not claiming, even if you're lying.  Doing so may reveal helpful information to the Strange Man and the Wolves.

[SlowPokemon]

...Now he tells me...

'-_-

[DrP]

really, Slow... sigh

im not going to say who i am... 

[Mashi]

Eh, no need to worry, I doubt it's that much of a deal if only 2 people claimed Roles, it's usually when there's a massclaim that problems may occur. 

[DrP]

... and then the game ends early and then it was no fun. That's why i didnt declare my role.

[askalice23]

well lets start this game off vocally then.... im human go ahead and seer me.

also drp is being odd a possible strange man... my reasoning for that suspicion well just read his posts.

[Mashi]

Hey guys, lets ignore what Mashi said without any consent.

I would think we at least discuss more thoroughly before we claimed Roles.

[SuperRiolu]

well, from what i saw in the last game, DrP acted strange a little in the end. He could be the Strange Man, or he could be hiding as something else