20th of January



The Castle was cold. Francis's brooding presence made it feel colder. The two convicted were brought forth, both kicking and screaming and swearing. Harris, Andrew, MacGuyver, SIlvestri, Thomas, Elvric, and Herluin gathered around the two. The large table in the middle of the hall stood as the block.

"I, Francis Krast of the-"

"Mi'lord..." Mumbled Herluin, who had been silent for the majority of the endeavor.

"What." Francis replied flatly.

"That Roberts fella has gone missing."

Francis sighed and sheathed his greatsword.

"Let's find him."

It didn't take long for the company to stumble upon the pirate's bloated purple face. This wasn't even the work of the wolves. The man had choked to death while eating bread in the corner. SIlvestri whispered a prayer and the company went back to the business in the hall.

"No! It's him! He's the outsider! The wolf! Just look at the cheeky bast-" Magda screeched.

"Don't listen to that crazy [censored]! She's clearly out of her mind due to a life on the stree-" Melwas's ranting abruptly ended. His head rolled from his neck. Magda began screaming in the most unpleasant way before her head rolled neatly next to Melwas's. The beggar and the sellsword laid still.

The moment the company was waiting for was at hand. The wolves would be upon Bowereyth the following night, they hadn't much time. Thomas helped the lord remove the dead's hands. Both grew claws and fur... the company had won. Francis let his sword clatter to the floor, and sat down.

"I need a drink."

...

In the following days Bowerwyth was lost. William reflected on how the town once was before the wolves attacked. He couldn't fathom what had happened to the lord Krast or his townsfolk, but it was his message that got William and the rest of the King's men to the city before the werewolves spread. It was a bloody fight, but a fight they won.

Sir William whispered a silent prayer for the lord and his men, whatever had happened to them, as the King's men piled the torches high. Bowerwyth went up in flames. The knight mounted his horse and rode off into the West Wood, along with the one survivor they had found outside the gates... a simple farmer with an abnormal amount of gold and other assorted items. The thief smiled. Elvric may have been arrested for thievery... but he was alive.

The End

Innocents Victorious

Boy that was a doozy. I just hope I got the werewolf trend up again. Thanks for trusting a noob host and sticking through it, I know I wasn't that spectacular but, thank you all. I very much look forward to the next game, of which I decidedly wish to not host

As for out major players. Hats off to Gamgee, our thief. The only of the big three to not get killed, well played sir, well played. Another for Sheridan, who's large doses of RP brought live to this thing, Cliff for being an excellent Arch, and pretty much all of you for helping me host. Also Nightingale for his drunken hilarity.

Someone might want to pick up that phone because I called it! 2 days ago in fact. Good game team innocent.

I'll just pat myself on the back for saving the day. When you get the chance Frank couild I get DL access please.

Yay go drunks! even though my team lost. Still fun though.

And thanks frank for accepting my Last words request.

Had any of you guys decided to look back to day 3, you would have seen that near the end of the day I implicated TeeHee by bringing up the fact that Magda's boots were crappy. Then, I mysteriously turned up dead the next day. It shouldn't have taken that long for her to get the axe .

Kudos to Frank for hosting. You did a good job, being your first time as a host. If it wasn't for Hircine we would've won.

I was going to actually search TeeHee on day one, just because its him. But for some reason I thought it would be too obvious. Doh!

Ehhh, not sure it was a good game by us, more like a weak game all around- players I mean. The hosting was fine.

There were some problems with getting private messages in a timely matter, as well as a few minor thing sin the course of the game itself. Otherwise an okay game. I will admit now to not playing as hard as I usually do. I don't think a lot of other players were really giving it their all either.

Edit
In particular I was cripplingly lazy with getting actual evidence. I just sort of trusted my gut and looked at player patterns ect. Did my sneaking ect. I trusted others to get evidence for me. Or at least side with me.

I was practically handed to you guys on a platter by the end, but good game nonetheless.

This is true: inactivity was large amongst players. There's multiple explanations for it, I'm sure, but it's impossible to know if players will stick to a game or not once it starts, even if they signed up for it. Truly, I'm surprised no-one was sloth-killed.

Thanks for taking a chunk of your time to host this Frank, it can be quite a time-sink to do write-up's and keep the game flowing!



I must confess, I wasn't very active in the game, so I can't really give any complete and solid feedback. I can, however, explain why I wasn't very active, as part of my feedback; The write-ups of the days were quite short, and if I may say so, confusing. After reading it, rather than being eager to reply and get a discussion going, I felt unmotivated and got me lazy. The write-up is the single most important thing of the game if you ask me.
But, since I'm pretty new myself (just 5 games now, plus the one I hosted), I can't give too much feedback on the game overall! Got to ask 'em veterans with grey beards and multiple deaths on their shoulders what was good and bad

Ask, and ye shall receive.

The Good:

Organization: There are a lot of little things to keep track of - votes, roles, PMs, the character list, etc. - and it seems to me that you were able to keep them all juggled without dropping any. This is no mean feat, and though all of those things are little, messing them up can be a quick way to ruin the game.

Rules: You seemed to have a good grasp, and stayed pretty consistant, from what I saw. Also important.

Time management: You seemed like you were getting everything done in time, at the right time. Again, not always easy.

The Bad:

Evidence: Your evidence was hinged on a few, very blatant, clues, without much variety in the type (being mostly possession evidence, ie. find the guy with the boots). Don't worry, this is common among first-time hosts, and you didn't do too badly - you kept us guessing for the first half of the game. But this is definitely an area you are going to want to work on if you decided to host again (and I hope you do!). You will want to explore ways of maybe doing personality-based evidence, or situational or circumstantial evidence. Being vigilant not to let a profile like Gamgee's through helps. I don't think I could have done much with it either. (Not picking on you specifically, G, your profile just jumped to mind first)

Write-up: Your daily posts were very short and sparse. This can work well, but you really need to put some zing into them if you go down that route. An interesting write-up is perhaps the most important thing for keeping player enthusiasm up, and it was a little lacking here. You had a good foundation to build on, maybe just a little polish next time.

Overall: A worthy attempt for a first game, and I think you have great potential if you keep it up.

Edit to indulge my curiosity: Why did only Gamgee survive? Story reason? Perhaps setting up a sequel, hmm?

Thought it'd be a nice little twist, and to reveal him as the last of the big three.

Gamgee didn't steal my silver belt did he!

It's been so long since I've survived, I forgot what it feels like.

Hey now. I suspected her for quite a while after that. It got me killed too. This pack of innocents took a darn long time to get going (myself included) so I wasn't going to stick my neck out for a bunch of indecisive people. Not until I was sure of at least 3/4 of them and fairly confident of the 4th. And I would echo NoFu's comment's on the hosting job. Spot on review.

I'd like to thank Cecil for being a very accommodating arch, who unfortunately couldn't defend himself on his last day because he was at a funeral.

Woohoo, we did it! Nice job, everybody. Also hats off to the wolves, who put up quite a fight.

Comments!

• Thanks for the shout-out, Frank. I was just having fun.
  
• It's a shame you didn't survive, Indicator. Your skills of deduction were very helpful.
  
• Boo evilsqirrel for whining about the game on the last day. Not only was it disruptive, but it actually helped convince me that you weren't a wolf since you clearly had no stake or interest in what was going on at that point anyway.
  
• Despite that, Ergin's desperate attempt to divert attention from himself on the last day was still the biggest thing that convinced me that he was guilty. You had gained my trust up until that point, so it was pretty exciting!

Anyway, I hope to play again with you guys some time.

Maybe we could try to turn this into a once to twice a month thing.....just maybe....

I believe that's one of the reasons why Frank decided to host this in the first place; to encourage people to play more Werewolf.

so maybe we will be able to start some more werewolf games in the future and get more people to join and actively play.

I hope so. Werewolf is fun, and I'm positive we can keep the games up as long as someone volunteers to host. Finding someone willing to host is the most difficult problem though.

I was thinking we could have a group of several dedicated hosts and simply rotate through them, and when someone else feels up for it we let them host.

That sounds like the hosting list of old which was a terrible idea. Besides variety in hosting is the spice of life. Even if we have to wait for a month or two to get another game going. Although your idea has some merit. Some people just don't make good hosts. I know I'd be a terrible one, I've been playing since late '05 and still haven't hosted. Oh and thanks for the kind words Sheridan.

I tried to host and it didn't do well. I had 2 wolves that weren't active and so would Sloth. Meaning an easy win for them. I think it was the arch as well so people weren't dying. God that was awful. For that to happen in my first game I was kind of clueless as to what to do, hell I still am? What would you do? Reassign the roles pronto? But then that isn't in fair spirit of the game and might screw up a whole bunch of stuff. Overall I don't think I would make a good host either, even with time and experience.