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Training at Castle Black (Game of Thrones, "Lord Snow").

The day passed uneventfully as the new recruits started getting settled in at the Wall.

Nobody is lynched.

The night phase begins now! It shall end in about 24 hours, on Tuesday, February 6 around 7:30 PM PST.

Lord Arryn finally understood his foster-son, Ned, after all these years. Growing up in this grim place, where the winters could chill the flesh off even the hardiest man, must have made him as grim as he was. Lord Arryn decided to swear his oath in front of the heart tree, to gain one more bit of understanding of these Northerners and their strange ways. After all, he would be shedding blood with these men soon enough, so it was only right he respect their most ancient customs.

"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."

A Brief PSA on the Who's Online page exploit

More detailed writeup will probably be forthcoming once Werewolf XIV ends, but this is basically what you need to know:

• The Who's Online page shows the last page that every user has viewed in the last hour
• Publicly, the Who's Online page has been used at least once for the purposes of Werewolf; prior to being lynched in Werewolf XIV.1, Laurentus guessed a power role based on the fact that they were viewing PMs a lot (this guess is neither confirmed nor denied)
• There is a setting in the Old User CP to disable your online status, but as you might realize, suddenly vanishing from the list of users online in the past day may make it look like you're trying to hide something
• Because the page only shows the last page that you've viewed, you can clear it by loading another page, causing the Who's Online page to update

Gyles Rosby hobbled outside, standing guard in the cold night. He tried to remain alert, but it was difficult, managing both that and his cough.

Unfortunately, with all his difficulties, he did not hear the footsteps approaching him.

Rosby slowly turned around, his old bones aching, and saw a terrible sight.

A gaunt, pale figure towered over him, wielding a faintly glowing light blue sword. It would have been beautiful had it not been so frightening.

The sword stabbed him, and Rosby felt pain, then cold...
Gyles Rosby, a sentry, a.k.a. Sapphiron, has been killed by the White Walkers at night.

Also, please welcome the following people to the Wall!
@Elbbsas
@Gerrick

(If you did not receive a PM upon arrival at the Wall, then you are an ordinary black brother.)

It is now the day phase! It will end in two days, on Thursday, February 8 at around 7:00 PM PST.

Lord Arryn awoke to a ghastly sight. Gods know he never liked Gyles, the sickly Lannister puppet he was. Still, he had no wish to see the man befall such a fate, as whatever else he might have been, he was a sworn brother of the Night's Watch, just as he was. "Alarm! Someone's been murdered!"

Right then, the new "recruits" arrived, as well, and he was shocked for the second time that day to see the Queen and the Master of Coin entering Castle Black. He didn't know what to expect, but he was sure of one thing: it wouldn't be anything good.

Well, what can we learn from the Walkers' first victim? I'm not sure. It would be tempting to think our dear Lord Commander of the King's Guard is involved, but any man with sense would eliminate Sapphiron first. I am therefore unsure of who to vote for. I'm tempted to vote for PowerPAOK, since while it is true he would know killing Sapph would draw attention to him, he can easily make the argument that he's being framed, too. I suppose that, for now, I'm gonna go for the most obvious suspect first, and accuse: PowerPAOK.

Yo waddup I'm a queen.
And unfortunately I haven't read enough of the books to join the semi-RP that cropped up.

tau, could we have a list of everyone's in game names and positions against their actual usernames? It would make this whole RP a lot easier.

tau, could we have a list of everyone's in game names and positions against their actual usernames? It would make this whole RP a lot easier.

The list of players in the OP already has all the character names next to usernames (as well as roles, for dead players).

Dead

Sneaky move.

Ser Barristan Selmy woke up to shouting, signalling the occurrence of a murder in Castle Black. After managing to make himself almost barely presentable, Selmy stumbled out and heard the whispers that Gyles Rosby was killed during the night while out on guard duty.

Guilt immediately hit Selmy in the face just like the freezing weather, remembering the little scene he caused a day earlier in the common room. Of course, he quickly tried to reason how such a thing could occur. Wildlings? They are not trained assassins. Before long, he had people looking in his general direction, watching him in his old age,

"... You thing I did it then, do you brothers?" called out Selmy, noticing a small crescent moon of people beginning to form around him after he made his way down the stairs into the training yard. His taking of the oath was relatively recent, but he had first arrived at Castle Black with Yoren at a time prior to most of them would even think of someone as high-up as Lord Arryn being sent to the Wall. Over his time so far, he had even managed to have gotten to know a number of his brothers in the Night's Watch, but their collective gaze left him feeling betrayed. "Answer me then!" His voice froze up in the terrible cold, having seemingly been blocked by the Wall itself as it was met with thunderous silence.

Eventually, one of the brothers tore through the delay, "Jon Arryn is telling everyone you did it. He is calling for your head."

Of course it's Jon leading the mass panic. Always the coward; but it took someone who had the honour to be in the Kingsguard to witness all the fear in the minds of the Small Council, or previous minds in the case of his dear friend Jon.

"Let us be reasonable now. We should not tear ourselves apart, but instead look at the recent recruits who may have had a motivation to kill Rosby."


Right now my bet is either on Laurentus who may be trying to play mind games or one of the new recruits because there is most likely a white walker (wolf) between Elbbsas and Gerrick (due to how roles are being distributed).

For now I'll wait, because you probably don't trust me enough to lead if Laurentus is accusing me, and I don't want to counter-accuse because that'd be lame and just make me look suspicious for no reason.

Man, I wish we'd had the opportunity to work together in King's Landing, PP. If you do end up being lynched, I hope you'll give this game another shot when we host another one.

That said, I'm looking for reasons not to lynch you, and you bring up a good point with the new recruits. I'm not sure how roles are divided, though. I'm fairly certain that there was one of each on the first day.

Fuck. Saph was right, he was a Sentry. Which is arguably the worst role to lose, since he was our shield (that guarded the realms of men), and we likely won't get another for 2-3 more people.
As it stands, the likely role distribution is 2:1:2:1, Brother:Ranger:Other:WLover, based on Tau's early listed 'generic role distribution' thing. From what I can see, the Wildling Lover is theoretically on our side, although in practice I doubt his ability will wind up being very useful since he can't actually contact the people he scans, what with, y'know, being a deserter and all. Maybe that will change at some point - or more bleakly, he might switch sides, because Tau did put in "Although Mance has currently decided to aid the Night's Watch due to the direness of the situation".
Long and the short of it, I won't be too sad if a lynched brother's black cloak turns up patched with red. Although better if said cloak is patched with...ice? I guess? I don't know how to subtly allude to someone being an Other. Maybe a joke about changelings.

Anyway, here's my theories on the odds of Other-hood.

It could be PowerPAOK (and/or) Charles thinking 'we needed to ice (heh) Sapphiron' from a very direct perspective. If 'and', that eliminates Elb and Gerrick from contention as Others (which, in pure probability terms, I'm not a huge fan of). If 'or', I'm relatively more inclined towards Charles on the grounds of making the irrational choice to re-accuse Sapphiron when a no-lynch was already the majority vote. That struck me as pretty suspicious when it happened, and now that Sapphiron is dead, that strikes me as super suspicious- although given that he had no way of knowing concretely what roles someone might have been, that could just be some firm commitment to the bit.
Alternatively, from the mind-game perspective, it could be Laurentus thinking 'it would be a great way to deflect suspicion', particularly since it makes both PP and Charles look suspicious, since they're the ones who voted against Saph the last round. On balance, I'm leaning towards this theory, but I'm not committing to one choice or the other yet.
As for the second Other - we don't have a guarantee that it's even out yet until the next intake, so I'd rather not just come out and say 'oh Elb/Gerrick/someone else entirely' is guilty, until we either eliminate the Other and find that we haven't yet won, or until the next round. We know for a fact there's one in the first four, (at this point down to first 3), so our odds are best leveraged there.

I suppose you'll just have to trust me, although it is me we're talking about, so no hard feelings if you don't. There is a certain logic to eliminating all the starting players first. So how about a deal? If we eliminate PP and Charles first, and none of those two end up being Others, then we'll know for a fact that it's one of us (or, more precisely, you).

By my estimate (and this should be no means be taken as fact, as tau has made it fairly plain that there isn't as much predictability to the role assignments as we might imagine), we now have an Other, a Ranger, a Wildling Lover and an ordinary (let's go with a Steward) among those who first came to the wall, if we accept that there was, in fact, one of each (as it is entirely possible we could have started with two Others, since it would already be a very bad disadvantage to the Others if we could all know with certainty that there was only one, since the immediate logic would be to eliminate all new players as a precaution, until we found one of the Others, and then decide to move on). But let's go with it, for now. I just started developing the feeling that if Yoren recruited someone, and came with them to the wall, that person might be less likely to be an Other. There is no real evidence for this, it just seems narratively plausible. If we also decide we're not fond of the idea that THE GODDAMNED RECRUITER is himself an Other, and you all then decide to take me at my word that, whatever I am, I am not an Other, that pretty much leaves Charles.

Of course, I might be placing too much confidence in narrative (especially since, ya know, it would be a fucking great twist if Yoren is the first Other), but since my plan was already to remove everyone who isn't me until we lynch one of the Others, it's still something I can work with.

Therefore, I change my vote, and accuse: Charles.

Your reasoning sort of squares with mine, except for the part where you vaguely suggested I might be an Other. Since it was only a vague suggestion, I'm willing to accept that your suggestion was in the same light as mine towards you, and I'll hesitantly join you in Accusing: Charles.