The Curse of the Deathly Hallows **GAME OVER NANE06 WINS!**
 

The Game has BEGUN! All PM's have been sent. You are all standing in the lobby where the stairs to the second floor are, you must cross through the lobby to change floors, erach floor of the motel 6 is a single straight hallway with odd rooms on the left and even rooms on the right in sequential order from #01 (closest) to #25 (farthest away) The hallways are well lit and anyone can be seen entering any given room.

Each Day/Night ( 1 per game cycle) you may choose to search a room. Anything found is usable immediately.

Each night you must choose a room to sleep/stay in and you must tell me in a pm if you intend to sleep or stay awake (extended periods without sleep will affect your performance and results!)

As always PM me with any questions you don't want known to the general public.

Hello! my name is Rendaro Monmoya, you have all been accused of theft, prepare to die!

Wisked away by magical means unknown to you. You find yourself in a motel6 just outside of Waukesha, Wisconsin. The date is irrelevant.

What IS relevant is that you have all been accused of stealing the Deathly hallows. By whom is again, irrelevant. The fact is there was enough evidence to require further investigation.

You will stay in this location, locked down by powerful magic until the situation, and the Hallows are settled.

You are, who you are. Nothing more, nothing less. You might all be muggles of ill repute, greatly respected or neither. You might also be powerful wizards and witches. Who knows?

The game begins when you receive your PM, I will post deadlines as needed to further our investigation.

The Deathly Hallows are all within the game as follows:

The Wand: Allows a single spell to be cast on any given night. Anything from the Harry potter universe that is a specifically stated spell and effect, is allowed.

The Stone: Gives protection from death (IE an attack or spell casting that would kill the holder, will fail so long as the target holds the stone)

The Cloak: Makes the wearer invisible. Details and specifics will be in your PM

The object: Collect them all and become the Master of Death itself.

There may be other random objects in the game as well. The rooms of the hotel are numbered 101-125 and 201-225. yes floors matter.

mildy hunorous list of possible spells and effects



Please PM me with any questions you might have, i will answer or not answer as needed.

Signups are open. pass the word to anyone you think might be interested!

1. kantai731
2. timmae - Lynched day 12
3. Autumn - killed by curiosity
4. Telle - Killed by Curiosity
5. britrock
6. Nane 06
7. Crimson Fox - Killed by the sword of righteousness
8. Chief Rum - killed by Curiosity, but Purity brought him back
9. bhlloy
10. EagleFan

Soooooo... starting Monday?

Are we sure all the people copied from the other game still want in? Anybody else to invite?

I'm sending updates/invites tonight

JAG and Narcizo and hoops and Lathum need to get their butts in here

Waukesha, WI... I remember the good ole' days back in the late 90's. We did work on the Les Paul museum at the Waukesha Historical Museum. The Wizard of Waukesha!

Not worth much, but I'll assume we got to this Motel 6 first!

Aaaaannnnnd I totally forgot to send the PM's.... LOL On it now! Sorry!

Okay, this is wild. I'm looking at the new rule additions and now realizing this is not purely a Werewolf game, more like a dungeon crawl.

Render, do we state our moves publicly in channel or in a PM?

Checking in... vanilla.... or not?

Say my name... or don't dare?

In a house... or not?

Anyway, checking in...

Let the fun start! This is definitely a bit unusual. It appears that we can search each day within the thread and then send a PM each night for actions overnight. My guess is that we will want to know as much about the items in all of the rooms as possible.

Hmm. Nothing about roles. Are we all vanilla?

What are the mechanics of search/stay orders?

Is everyone permitted/required to provide them? (Given the suggested need for sleep, I would assume so.)

Are these orders submitted publicly or privately?

Are movements published, and when?

Sleep is a dynamic that we can certainly investigate N1. Maybe have a certain amount of people stay awake and then test out staying awake multiple nights once we learn more? Should we have half of us search the rooms?

It seems that collectively, from the rules, we need to determine the location of the Hallows, so a group strategy to search the rooms makes sense. To answer Timmae's suggestion, I think that we can all search every day, and then all choose to sleep or stay awake, so we shouldn't need to limit searching.

Yep, all search. For some reason I tied the two actions together in my mind. We'll want to clear the rooms in an orderly way I think. Maybe start searching down on the 1st floor rooms 101 through 109? Then no one goes in those rooms to sleep. That way we can get as many items as possible and start eliminating rooms. We can see who goes in what room so we should be able to post a person on each floor as a look out.

2 Groups? Muggles and wizards/witches? There are 3 items we know of. Cloak is interesting because that person can leave their room (or switch rooms?) without anyone knowing. So crazy.

Checking in. Won’t have a chance to look at this in any detail until after work.

Putting in orders to test my understanding of how this all works...

would it be better to all sleep in the same room or different rooms... being in all different rooms seems safe but i feel like we could find out who the "bad people" are sooner if we were all together bc the we could have people keep watch...

Search Room 109

I may be sleeping there tonight unless a dead body is in the bed.

Super helpful, thanks!

FWIW, I searched 222 (found nothing) and am sleeping in 223 tonight.

...what happens if multiple people crowd into a room for the evening? :D

Hmm, this is interesting. I guess for the moment I will ...

Walk up the stairs to the second floor

I like the idea of watching others. Kills could be too easy otherwise. Room 109 is rocking.. music is loud and some will be up all night!

I suppose if we were in rooms in pairs then if something happens we'd have a pure look at who was involved. Obviously the safest thing would be if we all moved as one group but I'm sure the ruleset will punish us from acting that carefully.

Checking in

What does "note lynchings are not required, I leave that in the capable hands of all you morale upstanding humans" mean?? Does that mean there are no lynchings or that it's up to us if there are or not? If it's optional and we do a lynch, what happens if that person had one of the three objects? First one to loot their corpse gets it?

I don't see anything in the posted rules about night attacks (other than if you have the wand) or stealing from anyone, so I'm very confused as to how anyone is supposed to "collect them all" unless you happen to either be lucky enough to find them all yourself or somehow convince others to give them to you (assuming giving an object to someone else is even a game mechanism).

So the results of searches are given publicly?

Ooh, a ghost!

Okay, interesting to know that searches happen in real time.

I will sleep in room 202 folks.

I'm counting only 2 publicly stated search actions, plus one person mentioning about what they PM'd. Does just mentioning your PM'd action make the results of that action public?

Post 19 by britrock says he is sending in his action by PM
Post 22 by timmae has publicly stated search action for room 109
Post 23 by britrick says that his PM was to search room 222
Post 26 by EagleFan has publicly stated search action for room 117

i would assume it might be in our best intentions to not kill anyone until we have good evidence that they are bad or otherwise we might kill any special role good people.

britrock made his PM action public (post 23)

Ok, so mentioning the details of what you sent as a PM'd order makes it a public order? That's an important detail.

What happens if a person sends a PM order and then says something publicly that is different than their PM? Not stating it as an order, just mentioning their PM'd order the way britrock did, but giving misinformation about the room number. Does the results of the actual search get made public, even though we don't know that it was a different room? Or do the results remain private?

wouldn't saying that it has not happened yet be giving away that everyone that said things about their rooms has been truthful, basically outing that people have not lied telling us that there is nothing there when we were only going off of their word for it till now?

ick, that wasn't supposed to be bolded

RendeR, btw, unless this whole "mentioning" thing is a planned game mechanic, might I suggest you provide a standard format you want publicly stated game actions in? Such as in traditional werewolf, a lynching vote must be bolded, on its own line, and clearly stated.

Kinda seems like RendeR and Telle may not be staying in the same room this evening. ;)

I will also be sleeping in room 202 (the room Autumn is sleeping in) due to the proposed buddy system.

Funny thing.. when I first read this I thought you meant in the game and I got confused for a moment :)

In case there is bloodshed in room 109 tonight my thought is Autumn, telle and nane seem to be good. Brit and ef maybe not. The others I am not sure of.

Ok, this is what I have:

Overnights:
202: Autumn sleeping (36), Nane sleeping (49)
223: britrock sleeping (23 mention of PM)

Searches:
109: timmae (22) unsuccessful (30)
117: EagleFan(26) unsuccessful (30)
222: britrock (23 mention of PM) unsuccessful (30)

I like the idea of the buddy system. Since britrock is currently the only unpaired person who has stated where he will stay, I'll join him. But since he said he's sleeping then I'll stay awake.. hopefully we can remain a pair and swap that the next night.

I STAY IN ROOM 223 AND STAY AWAKE

seems like a lot of people will be sleeping in the lobby tonight.

Oh, and those who have yet to check in:
Crimson Fox
Chief Rum
Kantai (explanation provided by RendeR in post 33)

They may have sent private instructions for where to search. Unless they also said they then returned to the lobby, they'll end up staying overnight in those rooms. From what I'm getting from the rules, we might see what rooms they went into (maybe only if we're on the same floor).

Well, that was... uneventful. Anyone learn anything that they can safely share??

From the rules, "The hallways are well lit and anyone can be seen entering any given room." So either nobody searched by PM (other than britrock) or we all happened to be busy with our own searches or just looking in a different direction when they entered and left the rooms? If the latter, maybe we should have designated hall monitors?

And, uh, timmae? Do I want to know what you were doing in your room alone overnight that caused so much noise?

Just some loud music, mainly alkaline trio, wu-tang, mac miller and the pixies. Unfortunately it was a party of one. I hope somebody knows something about this motel6.

That is all I will admit to. Lol.

With not everyone here yet, and us still trying to figure out the rules, I consider this day a bit of a test run. But I'm not sure we've learned anything. What is the advantage of staying awake, do we think? I assume you can't be surprised by a nasty person at night but is the advantage purely defensive? I assume in a game around the acquisition of items, getting robbed is a big likelihood. So maybe the point is simply to defend against that but if you stay awake too many nights you'll eventually fall asleep anyway.

My thought is that if we're paired up, it's known who is with who, and one person sleeps while the other stays awake, then that gives a defense. If anything happens to the sleeping person, the awake person either did it or knows who did and is also potentially able to ward off an attack to either of them.

Sorry folks (and RendeR), I didn't even have a chance to check this until now. I'll try to be a bit more around tomorrow. Doing a quick catch up.

OK, so if I'm understanding this right (and trying to put this into WW terms)

Day action - search a room thoroughly (after this you can wander as much as you like)
Night action - sleep or stay awake in a room - if you don't specify which you presumably stay awake in the room you were in last?

Also I'm not sure about the strategy of publicly searching, if we aren't 100% sure there are no wolves in this game. Feels like the second you find something it gets publicly announced and you have put a huge target on your back. Or am I off in that line of thinking?

This would be correct, except that I assume you fall asleep where you are unless you say you are trying to stay awake.

Public statements are just that, you've blurted out something for everyone to hear. In regards to searching it means you've left the door open and are making enough noise that everyone knows what you're doing and perhaps....finding?

If the search is public then we can group together and protect anyone who finds something. The 3 known items may already be in possession or may be placed throughout the motel. It hasn't been stated but I'd assume that they are randomly placed as the search mechanic is there for a reason. However, until we know more we shouldn't assume anything.

I'll work backwards and search 108 next. The door to 109 is open and there is nothing inside. We can cross that one off the list.

Search 108

The intro post states we might be muggles and we might be wizards/witches. I am thinking we have both. Bhlloy is on my radar for suggesting there may not be wizards/witches (i.e. wolves). I think he may be one and trying to cast doubt. Let's watch this stranger fellow hotel guests.

I am going to

walk next door to room 204

This is not a search action, it just puts you in the room

You rummage around the room make even more noise than last night. In the back of the drawer of the nightstand you find a Shot Glass.

Woot! Now someone just needs to find a leftover bottle of whiskey that hasn't been emptied and we'll have ourselves a fun night tonight!

108 and 109 are clear.

So, if we each search a room during the day we can search 10 rooms per day. It'll take us 5 days to clear this joint. We can track who searched which rooms and then assess what may be found. if you want to keep your search private then we can track it as such if we think there is safety in that the baddies will not know what we have found. As we all know I am the holder of a slightly used shot glass.

My hunch is that both villagers and wizards/witches are powerless until they find items...

Searches:
108: timmae (70), shot glass (74)
109: timmae (22), unsuccessful (30)
117: EagleFan (26), unsuccessful (30)
221: britrock (78), pending
222: britrock (23 mention of PM), unsuccessful (30)

Inventory:
timmae: shot glass

Interesting theory. So do they then have different mechanics once they find certain items? Otherwise everyone is just a bunch of muggles. My guess is that there are wizards/witches that have something unique about them, making them different than muggles. Maybe wizards/witches are the only ones that can use the wand to cast a spell or something similar to that??

Just a random thought... what if there is something that happens when you bring all items that go with a specific room to that room, i.e. the shot glass and any other party items to a room that is more less made for partying?

You find nothing but dust bunnies.

btw RendeR did say that you can only search a room "thoroughly" once a day does that mean that you can skim through a room and try to find something as well?

also i have searched room 223 and found nothing

My impression was that that was in contrast with simply walking into a room, as I did. I figured it's possible some things may simply happen when you enter a room but you won't find hidden things.

in that case i shall walk into and spend 1 hour in room 220

Searches:
108: timmae (70), shot glass (74)
109: timmae (22), unsuccessful (30)
117: EagleFan (26), unsuccessful (30)
221: britrock (78), unsuccessful (82)
222: britrock (23 mention), unsuccessful (30)
223: nane06 (84 mention), unsuccessful (84 mention)

Inventory:
timmae: shot glass

Do we know that this yields any information? I don't recall seeing a result to you walking into a room before.

Telle, you look awful. :D

I should note that I can confirm Nane's search of 223--presumably the search occurred before I ventured out of my sleeping quarters for the day.

No, I just figure the fact that we can do it means that maybe something can come of it. Most likely I fall in a trap door and die, but hey, someone's got to find out!

and sense he did mention that something you can do is spend a hour in a room i think we should try it a bit and find out what happens from it.

I'll spend my lunch hour in room 107.

Spend 1 hour in Room 107

So... please be careful to note that spending an hour is not searching. Nor is sleeping considered a search. Items seem to be able to exist in rooms that have just been slept in or spending just a short 1 hour window without doing an actual search. I think. Maybe. Where's that whiskey.

Maybe this is a game that's just about putting together a kick ass party! a world with no social isolation, the true fantasy!

well we can always try to do that even if some of the other players have secret motives...

if there is some kind of passive party win i would be down to try for it

Is somebody a DJ?

This will be tricky, we won't really know what is happening until some event happens--someone finds one of the Hallows or someone gets attacked or something. And then the second phase kicks in as we try to make sense of that. I don't think we'll ever know enough to kick into a pure Werewolf style game, but we may know enough to lynch eventually.

true also we don't even know if there are really teams like, we were told there are muggles and witches/wizards but that does not mean all of any of those are working together...