Preface: This is the sign-up thread for the forum murder mystery game, Werewolf. The game will begin in exactly 7 days and 8 hours from the time this signup was posted.


Werewolf: Brain Damage


Hello and welcome to Werewolf, a competitive forum murder-mystery! If you enjoy problem solving, persuasion, intrigue and deception, Werewolf may be the game for you.

In Werewolf, several players are randomly (and secretly) selected as "wolves", while the rest of the players are known simply as "innocents". Each night the wolves claim another innocent life, while it is the job of the innocents to work together to root out and execute each wolf before the innocents are overcome. The wolves are vastly outnumbered, and the innocents need only a majority vote to execute a wolf. But when anybody could be a wolf, the problem is deciding who can be trusted.

If you are interested in participating in the game, read the rules below and create a character for yourself (as your voice in the game), and you're ready to play. Good luck, and enjoy the game!

Setting

Congratulations! You have been randomly selected by the benevolent World Government to take part in a potentially groundbreaking experiment, conducted in the mysterious Atom Heart Military Research Facility. Your safety has been absolutely assured (supported by the intense media attention placed on the Facility), and it is rumoured that experimental participants are excellently paid for their work. This is, you are well aware, the opportunity of a lifetime.

You will be investigating the revolutionary field of Neurochemical Manipulation, and while conspiracy theorists rattle off the dangers and unethical implications of the use of such untested technology, independent scientists assure the population that nothing can possibly go amiss. Amongst the rapidly-swelling hailstorm of controversy, one thing is agreed upon by all.

Nobody can deny that the experiment will prove life-changing.

Preparation

No prior experienced is needed to participate in a game of Werewolf - all that is required is a little spare time over the next 10 days. In order to participate, you will need to fill out the character form below. These player characters form the characters and suspect pool of the game, and your character will be your own voice (or avatar) in the game. Note that you do not have to roleplay (pretend to be) your character throughout the game, unless you wish to.

Name: Nicknames may be recorded along with names given to participants at birth. Remember, we are your friends here at the Atom Heart Military Research Facility!
Age: The Atom Heart Management Team is regretful to announce that after several tragic experiments into widely-rumoured "African Super-Babies", all participants must be over the age of 13.
Appearance: Briefly describe the participant's general appearance.
Occupation: Unemployment, while despicable, is a viable option for participants.
General Personality: How does the participant usually act, and why? How do they view the world? How is the participant viewed by others? How does the participant react to pressure, and to other difficult situations?
Beliefs: How does the participant feel about major issues? In particular, what are their political and spiritual views?
Strengths: Specific skills, abilities and things the participant does well. Be positive; we require a minimum of 4 characteristics to proceed with the experiment!
Weaknesses: Failings, fears and inadequacies, and things you feel that you struggle with. Minimum of 4 characteristics, to foster dedicated self-improvement.
History: Very briefly, explain the participant's life before being randomly chosen to transform the face of modern science.

Rules of the Game

Werewolf is played out in 22 hour periods known as days. Each day begins with a write-up, a narrative piece of writing explaining the events of the previous day as well as (usually) a murder. Players must use the evidence within this piece in order to figure out who among them are "wolves" (the murderers), while the wolves themselves must attempt to shift suspicion onto other players and remain alive. During each day each player may vote for a single player to be executed, while the wolves may (secretly) send me the name of a player they wish to target for murder. At the end of this 22 hour period the day ends and the votes are tallied. Two hours later the following write-up is posted, detailing the execution of the player with the most votes, the murder by the wolves, and all other events of the day, and the cycle continues until either all wolves are eliminated, or there are more wolves than innocents. However, on every third day, the wolves will be allowed to convert an innocent player to their ranks (the player becomes a wolf) instead of murdering somebody. Wolves may communicate freely amongst themselves.

If possible you should try to actively participate every day; a player who is completely inactive for three consecutive days or four days total will be killed off in the interests of moving the game forwards.

In addition, players will receive "points" throughout the game, which may be spent in order to purchase abilities and powers to aid that player's team. Points for the innocents may be received by correctly voting for wolves (if the wolf is not killed, ALL points for prior votes will be awarded after the wolf's death), and by receiving them from Judges (again, see below). Points for the wolves may be received by killing Judges, converting innocents, and receiving them from Judges.

A number of abilities may be purchased using these points:



Roles

At the beginning of the game, each player will privately receive one of the following roles.

Innocent
The innocents make up the majority of players in the game, and have no special powers. Each day the innocents may case a single execution vote, and may spend points to gain special abilities. The innocents are not aware of the roles of any other players in the game.

Judge
A Judge is special kind of innocent, with the ability to hand out Points to other players. During the day each Judge will be able to PM me with the name of a player, who will receive an additional point at the end of the day.


Archwolf
The leader of the wolves, the Archwolf is simply the most senior wolf of the pack. The Archwolf is responsible for sending me kill and conversion targets, and for notifying me of how wolf Points will be spent. When the Archwolf dies, a regular wolf will be chosen to take its place. The entire wolf team may communicate freely amongst itself via PM.

Wolf
The assistants to the Archwolf, the wolves have no special powers except for the ability to communicate with all other Wolves in the game, and with the Archwolf.

Posting

In order to make the game smoother and easier for everybody concerned, there is a format for posting in the Werewolf thread that we request you follow. Simply type and underline your character's name at the top of each post, bold and redden your votes and questions to the host, italicize actions performed by your character and precede out-of-character posts with "OOC". This format is demonstrated below:




Posting

To sign up, just post your character in this thread. If you don't want to post your character now but want to participate, just let me know in the thread and I'll reserve you a spot.

Bold names mean that a profile has been submitted and accepted.

1. Max_aka_NOBODY
2. Teferi
3. Woolly
4. Big Bang
5. Ewoklord
6. Skoomaholics Anonymous
7. evol gamer54
8. mrcrazy_monkey
9. hircine21
10. Wyatt Waste Ranger
11. the fishy wanderer
12. Capital
13. SpEcTrE
14. Caffienatedjedi
15. TeeHee
16. Spork the Slightly Insane
17. ryace
18. Suffca
19. Fighters_Brotherhood
20. FateOrFatality
21. Cecilff2
22. KPNuts
23. schnell olfy
Thanks, and good luck!

Reserved. I, for one, think the whole points thing is a little too complex, but we'll see how it goes.

Reserving profile coming in sometime later (don't know exactly when though)

In. May I request that we switch off of bold-and-white to something new given the new forum skin? I'm using the one without the background image and the white doesn't show.

Can you give a few more details on how the point system works?

Save me a spot, please!



Did we try red before? Was there a reason we stopped using it?

Sure, I'll give red a go in the sign-up as suggested by Bang.



Certainly. From an innocent perspective: each time you correctly vote for a wolf, I'll take note of it (without informing you). When that particular wolf is finally executed, you will receive one point for each time you voted for that wolf. Additionally, each Judge may award one point to each player per day. You can then use those points to purchase abilities (listed in the signup) by PM'ing me.

From a wolf perspective: You will not receive points through voting, however every time a judge dies you will receive a point, and whenever you convert an innocent you will receive all of the points that player has on them.


The rules are slightly experimental and a little more complex than usual, so if a majority players would prefer a more traditional role system, then I'm completely happy to alter the ruleset.

Is it public or in secret via PM?

Are players allowed to ask/beg for points if he has none?



What happened in the rare and unlikely event that none of the Innocents have points?

What happened if no one votes for a setting?

ZOMG, it's Max! I'm definitely in now. Getting a chance to butt heads with him again is a good opportunity.

Sign me up good sir.

Reserved, but I wont submit a profile until I'm ready to play. If it comes to just waiting on me to start, give me the boot.

Do we post our profile in here or do we PM you them?

You can just post it here, so that everybody can have a look at everybody else's profile.

I'll reserve a spot. I've always been curious about trying this game out. If I get given a role that requires communicating with other players (such as a wolf), how much space would you say I need in my inbox? Obviously that would depend on the number of wolves chosen, but if you could give a rough estimate I'd appreciate it. I'm always teetering on the edge of a full inbox so I'd have to empty it a bit to participate.

Name: Luke "Stunner" Langevin
Age: 19
Appearance: Beautiful. Chiseled features, piercing blue eyes, a muscular build, a slight stubble, and an entrancing glow. Wearing a tight gray long-sleeved t-shirt, blue jeans, sneakers.
Occupation: Model
General Personality: Overwhelmingly positive, unable to conceive of adversity; persuasive, and unwilling to do things himself; viewed as the epitome of charisma; reacts to pressure and difficulty by acting extra charming. This has never failed him.
Beliefs: Believes the world is a warm, wonderful place; lacks any sense of existential displacement, curiosity about worlds beyond this, or interest in anyone else's problems (because no one has problems, obviously).
Strengths: Cheerful; charismatic; patient; knows how to deliver the perfect compliment.
Weaknesses: Unable to distinguish right and wrong or true and false due to a complete lack of negative reinforcement in his life. Lies pathologically to women, in particular. Barely literate. Fearful of aging.
History: When Luke emerged from the womb, the doctor was so stunned by the beauty of the baby's piercing eyes that he passed out and left the mother to bleed out and die. Luke's father blamed the baby, but Luke was too beautiful to hate. He grew up and skated through school on teacher adoration, earning admission to a top-notch university, where he spent a semester before getting tapped into male modeling.

You need one conversation with me, and one for each wolf. It's unlikely that there will ever be more than 5 wolves, so 5 spaces in your inbox should be plenty for the game.

Is this too wild?

Name: Jeffrey "JC" Cole
Age: 20
Appearance: short blond unkempt hair, clean shaven / long-sleeve over shirt + jeans
Occupation: college student, environment protester
General Personality: friendly to the point that people mistook him as plain wacko / when under pressure, he stops moving until whatever that is bothering him passed
Beliefs: people should be free, the water should be free, electricity should be free, money should be free, food should be free, animal should be free, world should be free / atheist
Strengths: (1) once decided on something, will commit to complete it (2) good at drawing protest banners (3) good at abstract mathematics (4) 60 points in (real-life) Ride skill
Weaknesses: (1) once the task is near completion, will get distracted (2) bad at abstract art (3) bad at basic calculation (4) unicornaphobia
History: Was admitted to the college at the age of 10 for providing π accurate to 1337 decimal places via mental calculation, never got pass the first year. Mistook Atom Heart Military Research Facility's experiment to be about rearing zombie rabbits, went to free them, was disappointed to find that he was wrong, and had to stay though the experiment because of the contract he signed.

It's not really 'too wild', but some of the details are contradictory (bad at basic calculation, but can mentally provide π?) and more importantly, things like "unicornaphobia" and "good at drawing protest banners" aren't really useful as evidence. Those sorts of things are fine, but there needs to be less specific and more evidence-useful traits in there as the basis of your character.

Point noted. The unicornaphobia was a last minute thing of not knowing what to put, lol.

Not loving the point system but I have an urge to play Werewolf so I am in.

Im in, Ill have my profile up in a bit

Ok profile up in a bit and reserved !

I'll write up a character later, can't right now. Reserved unless it's needed.

Name: Bryan Aldridge
Age: 22
Appearance: around (5,7) in height and skinny as well. he is usually wearing blue jeans and one of the shirts he made for his band.

Occupation: Video Rental store clerk, (he plays in a band, but he doesn't make any money from it.

General Personality: Headstrong and cocky, he is intelligent as well, but his desire to show of often makes him look stupid. he is tends to joke around a-lot. he is also very casual with people. has trouble keeping a relationship, though he is a caring person.

Beliefs: doesnt know weather or not heaven or hell exist, and doesnt have time to dwell on weather or not they do. Whatever happens happens.

Strengths: he is pretty charismatic, he is also good at playing his instrument, he has gained leadership ability by leading the other band members around by the nose (due to their laziness). can keep others up-beat even when times are tough.

Weaknesses: his over confidence leads to him sometimes making rash decisions, he is also somewhat naive. He tends to joke around most of the time so he can often come off as disrespectful (wont get along with fishy's character ), he isnt that physically tough either. he also can come off as bossy

History: At the age of 17, his older brother (who at the time was 20) decided to start a band which he eventually named "Blitzkrieg" . Bryan is the youngest member of the band, but also the most motivated to become a "real band" that plays concerts. After losing his job at the Video rental place, he was in dire need of money to pay the rent, after learning how well The Atom Heart facility was paying for participants in a "groundbreaking experiment" he decided too Sign up.

Edit- i bulked up the details on some of the topics.