o·ver·kill
/ˈōvərˌkil/
2. the amount by which destruction or the capacity for destruction exceeds what is necessary.
Even if the town had had the time and stomach for it, they likely wouldn’t have been able to put this puzzle together. The bloody pieces were strewn across the town square. It was only once everyone had gathered and they noted her absence that they knew who the pieces belonged to.
Day ends at 9:30 p.m. CST
5 votes needed for a majority
Special Poster: Annette (1 post of 100 words or less)
1 post of 10 words or less for everyone else
Colin Wolfson: Mason 2, no trial, some errorNibbish: Nosy Neighbor, forgot to mind his own businessChris: Wolf Cub, too young to handle the club scene8BSEMT8: Delinquent, his life was never taken seriouslyjoepunman: Wolf Charmer, choked on his unLucky CharmsMelissa D: Journalist, finally made the 10 o’clock news
The Recluses
Annette Baron, married villager
Beau
Bret Highum
Daneekas Ghost, married villager
DarkHorseAsh
Jonathon Pope
Matt Novak
TDO
todashy
Tags: Reclusion
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Errors in my logic have been exposed by Melissa’s death.
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Wouldthiscountastenwordsoralternativelyonlyone?
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Annette Baron, married villager
Beau, Ancient Wolf
Bret Highum, Villager
Daneekas Ghost, married villager
DarkHorseAsh, Villager
Matt Novak, Medium
TDO, Villager
todashy, Villager
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Vote Beau
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vote Beau
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=== A GUN HAS BEEN FIRED ===
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Matt Novak stepped back a few paces from the circle of townsfolk as they quickly got the day’s voting started. He raised his gun, trained it on his target and fired.
The townsfolk reflexively ducked, and Daneekas Ghost screamed and peed his pants a little (a lot). They turned and saw Matt holding the proverbial smoking gun.
“What the heck, man?” said TDO.
“Yeah, keep the safety on. You could have killed one of us with that!” exclaimed Bret.“I’ve made a huge mistake,” grumbled Matt under his breath.
Gunshot was a miss. Matt has been placed under house arrest and cannot post for the remainder of the day.
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DG – villager
Annette – villager
Novak – villager
Pope – villagerBret – Gun Enthusiast?
TDO – Gun Enthusiast?
todah – Gun Enthusiast?
Ash – Gun Enthusiast?Beau –
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Vote Beau
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Vote DG.
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vote Beau
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I’m not sure who thought giving Novak a gun was a good idea. I’m also not sure why with nine people left, we need six for a majority. I don’t know why no one ever offered ME a gun . . . I am a crack shot! I don’t understand how I peered over DG’s shoulder in an earlier flavor text. What am I, eight feet tall?
What I AM sure of is, Beau is the ancient wolf.
Also, DG and I are registered at Target . . . we ain’t fancy.
That is all.
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No salt lamps, please.
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That’s 14 words and 2 posts. DG has been mod-killed and his vote stricken from the record.
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we riot!
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DG and Matt can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Can we really trust them to lynch me? Save yourselves. Go start a new town and let me be. I’ll promise I won’t eat any of the rest of you.
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=== A GUN HAS BEEN FIRED ===
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Annette smiles sinisterly. Her speech merely a ploy to put the werewolf at ease. She reaches beneath her poncho and pulls out her gun, leveling it at Beau’s head.
Beau is yammering on about her husband and Matt, but she has tuned it all out, her focus laser-like. “Hey! Beau. How about you turn around and show me those beautiful teeth of yours”.
Beau obliges and faces her. He then walks right up to her and pushes his head into the muzzle.
“Pull the trigger…if you have the guts,” he says.
“Fuck that shit,” she says, “I can take down a squirrel from 200 yards…one handed…on the run. Give me a challenge you wolfy mofo. Run.”
“Nah, I don’t th…”
“I said run asshole, or I’m just going to shoot you in your left nut. Then it’ll be your right. Then I’ll just start picking body parts at random.” she threatened.
“Fine. Have it your way.” Beau turned around and started walking away.
“Run, damn it,” Annette barked.
Beau looked over his shoulder and gave an evil smile, and took off… astonishingly fast. He was to the tree line before you could say ‘boo’. Annette watched him sprint through the trees, waiting for the shot…
“Annette! Honey! Just shoot him already!” whined Daneekas Ghost.
“Shhhhh,” she said.
Beau was just about out of sight before she finally pulled the trigger.
“Did she get him?” asked DarkHorseAsh.
“I’ll go check,” said TDO.“Don’t bother boys. He as dead as my marriage.”
VILLAGE WINS!
Colin Wolfson: Mason 2, no trial, some error
Nibbish: Nosy Neighbor, forgot to mind his own business
Chris: Wolf Cub, too young to handle the club scene
8BSEMT8: Delinquent, his life was never taken seriously
joepunman: Wolf Charmer, choked on his unLucky Charms
Melissa D: Journalist, finally made the 10 o’clock news
Beau: Ancient Wolf, always shot down by womenThe Recluses
Annette Baron, bodyguard
Bret Highum, retired cop
Daneekas Ghost, courter
DarkHorseAsh, smooth talker
Jonathon Pope, Mason 1
Matt Novak, medium
TDO, priest
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That day 1 vote couldn’t have gone worse for the wolves.
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I’m not complaining!
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A poncho?! That’s the last straw.
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I was so confused by your gun comment. I thought to myself I could have sworn I sent her a gun last night
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I’ll bet you were. The cat ran off with it.
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I don’t know that you need to make this game any more difficult for the villagers, Ryan. I made so many logical errors playing this game, I think that the village has just gotten some lucky breaks the last few games. I totally forgot to think about the diseased or cursed players, not to mention that I fixated on Novak as the Journalist, and never considered the possibility that he might be the Medium.
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well, and charmer just needs to stop charming I think. It seems more likely to hurt than help unless you’re using it for a very specific reason. You think I would have learned last time
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We did get lucky, but, at the same time, there were moments of bad luck too. Literally the only info I got from my role the whole game was that you were the other Mason. No guns hit their targets until the end. Masons never got to use their fort. Journalist never revealed info. Etc.
I think if the wolves don’t charm on day 1, it’s a totally different game. That alone did the trick.
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Thanks for everyone who played! Sorry if it got a little lop-sided. I’m sure I’ll tweak roles again to maybe balance it a little more. Hard to tell how much is bad luck and how much is unbalanced. I already have some ideas.
Always feel bad for those who go out quick and don’t get to enjoy their role.
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My vote for Annette was just a brain fart.
It’s weird. I never know whether it’s better to be super on top of things as a wolf or a little clumsy to make myself seem villagery. Voting for Annette was so dumb you’d think people would see that as villagery, but I guess it depends on the person.
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Your Annette vote was what tipped the balance away from TDO and todahshy for me.
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In a typical game where you can maybe talk your way out of it, sure. But in this game there’s very little ability to explain things.
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My first taciturn game, and I realized pretty quickly that this doesn’t match my preferred style of play at all. It was a different challenge.
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I did like that I could effectively turn the game off though. I did my post, my list and my vote and then I could close the window if I wanted.
I don’t want to sound like I disliked the game. It was a different pace, but I enjoyed puzzling it out on my own more than collectively.
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And I only broke the rules at the end when I saw Beau’s post and interpreted that as him conceding.
Plus I had a really good joke already typed out.
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I completely overlooked the cursed thing. Actually, I pretty much didn’t read a lot of the roles unless/until I was trying to figure out something specific. Part of that is the fact that there’s just so much, and part of that was the timing of when the game started and my schedule/energy level.
I still think it would have been fair game to let me shoot at Beau again from my house arrest. It worked out since Annette is a better shot than I am, but, especially if I missed, it would have been super hilarious for me to shoot again.
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I did the same with the rules. I would have gotten mod-killed a couple of times if I hadn’t double-checked what was allowed.
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Yes, totally fair, if you ignore the rules AND pretend the game automatically ended with Beau’s death. 🙂
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But it did automatically end with Beau’s death, since we all knew he was the ancient and he wasn’t getting another chance to night kill because of that.
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No. While it did end with Beau’s death, it wasn’t the only possibility. Only Beau and I knew that for sure.
There was no night kill on Night 3. Which meant one of 3 things:
1) Beau was sick from eating a diseased villager
2) Beau’s night kill choice was protected by the bodyguard
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Whether the village knew it or not, it actually was the only possibility. And your knowing that was sufficient.
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Gah! Yes, to the two of us with the knowledge there was no cursed conversion it was the only possibility. During the game, from the perspective of the villagers asking me to forego rules, or those breaking posting rules, it was not the only possibility until I announced the game was over.
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I’m not defending my asking you to forego the rules, I’m only defending the foregoing of the rules itself.
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Ok then.
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Hey look, I figured out how to log in as myself!
Anyway, I have never liked dying on day 1 but this time it was pretty cool. I knew that the wolves had made some mistakes in it getting pushed onto me and I had actual info to pass along to the medium. This death was pretty cool.
As far as this style of play… like DG, this is not really my preferred way to play. It was different and interesting but thankfully I didn’t have to deal with it for very long. Great job parsing what happened villagers.
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Yeah, my only concern was that I wasn’t going to get lucky enough to get your info. I knew you’d do me right there.
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I was totally lost on this one and just following the lead of people who seemed villagery to me and feeding them guns. Not my preferred game but I also have not gotten an interesting role in any of these to help get me invested yet.
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I think it’s time we did an ACTUAL Werewolf game! Many of us have way more time at home than usual for some reason.
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I make it a policy never to agree with Melissa, but I agree with Melissa.
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If ACTUAL means TURBO, then I’m on board.
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Ooooh Ooooh TURBO
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Yes
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You have never been more correct!!
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I’m scared to see your participation level when you don’t have way more time than usual 😉
I have a regular game mostly done, but it has some kinks to work out. I could run that soon or I could throw up a vanilla game also. I need at least a day off though of being tied to computer at nightfall. Also, writing is a struggle and the flavor text pressure gets me and usually feels weak. It takes way longer than it should. The administrative side would certainly be less at night, but I imagine the day admin more involved, though I’ve never run a long game.
I’ve toyed with the idea of 2 day long days, where there are blocks during the day where the post is locked, so players who can’t be around as much aren’t trying to catch up on 20 pages of comments, and could contribute/read/catch up late at night when it isn’t deadline time, then voting will conclude the following day. 1 day exceptions being made if everyone has voted/posted and majority is reached. I dunno.
If someone else is really rearing to host one, that can be done as well.
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I’d be down with playing a vanilla game or a themed game. Seems like as good a time as it’ll ever be.
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I’m also potentially down with hosting a Turbo game or two sometime this week?
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I’m also considering re-running Werewolves at Cheers where we had Sam as the lynchpin.
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That was a great design.
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Which you broke
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Still sorry about that.
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I’ve been bingeing Cheers so I would love it.
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