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A WEREWOLF OF ICE AND FIRE
BOOK II: CASTLE BLACK, THE WALL


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Welcome to the Night's Watch! Here, you have the honor of defending the Realm against the wildling savages beyond the Wall. Most of you newcomers seem to be political criminals from King's Landing, for whatever reason. Well, no matter who you are! Here, you each have an equal second chance to make something out of your worthless lives!

By the way, we've also heard some strange reports of undead monsters—wights—appearing, killing off wildlings, and then vanishing into thin air. Probably all superstitious nonsense though. The Others, or White Walkers, or whatever you wanna call them, are long gone, if they ever even did exist. And even if these rumors somehow manage to be true, there's no way they could make it to this side of the Wall!

A Note on Spoilers

This game is set immediately prior to the events of A Game of Thrones, or Season 1 of Game of Thrones, in an alternate timeline. This should avoid most spoilers, though by necessity there are a few mostly minor spoilers form Book/Season 1 that may be revealed, including in the player roles list. I will either spoiler-tag or blank out (in color) any spoilers beyond that in my writing, and request that you do so as well, if you feel the need to post something involving a spoiler.

Roles

Black brothers
Ordinary brothers of the Night's Watch.

The Others/White Walkers
A race of icy eldritch beings that are now returning from legends. Have now somehow developed the ability to disguise themselves as humans during the day and infiltrate the Night's Watch, and have ambushed some recruits on their way north in order to achieve this. Can collectively kill one person every night, turning them into mindless wights. The wights help them kill more efficiently, allowing the Others to kill two people each night after killing three people total. They are in contact with each other.

Sentries
These stewards have been assigned sentry duty. They can each choose to protect one person every night, and are in contact with one another.

Rangers
These rangers are stationed at Castle Black. A bit restless, and hearing about the situation, they have taken it upon themselves to find the Others and destroy them. They can each kill one person every four nights, but are not in contact with one another.

The wildling lover
This person came into contact with Mance Rayder, King-Beyond-the-Wall, on the way north. After learning about the Others’ infiltration of Castle Black, he has decided to help Mance maintain a disguise at Castle Black as a black brother. Luckily, nobody recognizes Mance, despite him being a deserter of Shadow Tower. The wildling lover can scan one person each night for their role. Although Mance has currently decided to aid the Night's Watch due to the direness of the situation, the wildling lover cannot contact anyone he scans, for Mance still faces the death penalty.

The Rules

1. The game begins once there are four players who have been sent to the Wall from King's Landing.

2. Roles will be assigned by a set but secret order. If multiple players arrive at the Wall simultaneously, those players will be assigned roles at random from the relevant portion of the secret list.

3. Day phases last for roughly 48 hours, and night phases last for roughly 24 hours. The game begins in a day phase.

4. During the day phase, players vote to accuse one person for the disappearances/deaths (and thus for being White Walkers). I would prefer if you vote using this format:

Code: [Select]

[b]Accuse: taulover[/b]The person with the plurality of votes shall be killed. In the event of a tie, one of the tied players will be selected at random.

5. Players are allowed to vote "no lynch." If this vote gains the plurality, then nobody is killed during that day phase.

6. During the night phase, the appropriate power roles can use their abilities by sending a message to me in the preexisting PM chain.

7. You are not allowed to reveal your role. If you reveal your role, you will immediately be removed from the game.

8. If you do not vote for two consecutive day phases, you will be lynched for inactivity and removed from the game.

9. Players who are at King's Landing should not post here.

10. Players who are dead should refrain from posting, with the exception of a final goodbye post (no spoiling the game, of course). If you do post when dead, please preface your post with this tag:

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[b]DEAD[/b]
11. The Night's Watch wins when all of the Others have been eliminated, and the Others win when all other (ha, see what I did there?) players have been eliminated.
List of players:
1. Charles Watson-Turing-Donald (Ser Aron Santagar) (black brother, voted off and killed)
2. PowerPAOK (Ser Barristan Selmy) (Other, killed by a ranger at night)
3. Laurentus (Jon Arryn)
4. Sapphiron (Gyles Rosby) (sentry, killed by the Others at night)
5. Doc (Yoren) (Other, voted off and killed)
6. Elbbsas (Cersei Lannister) (ranger, killed by the Others at night)
7. Gerrick (Petyr Baelish) (wildling lover, killed by the Others at night)
8. Crushita (little bird) (sentry, voted off and killed)
9. Kane lives (Renly Baratheon) (black brother, voted off and killed)
10. Red Mones (Ser Loras Tyrell) (Other, voted off and killed)
11. Wintermoot (Thoros of Myr) (ranger, killed by the Others at night)
12. North (Stannis Baratheon)
13. 13ricity (little bird)
14. Hydra (Varys) (sentry, killed by the Others at night)
15. Gattoartico (Ser Vardis Egen)

Two knights and two lords arrive at the Wall. One knight is famed, the other not so much. One lord was recently among the most powerful men in Westeros, the other is a sickly old man.

What happens next?
"We are honored by your presence, ser," said Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.

"The pleasure is all mine," responded Lord Commander Barristan Selmy.
Meanwhile...

Ser Alliser Thorne took one look at Rosby and sighed. "What in the seven hells am I supposed to do with you?"
The following people have arrived at the Wall:
@Charles Watson-Turing-Donald
@PowerPAOK
@Laurentus
@Sapphiron

It is now the day phase! It will end in approximately 70 hours (a little under 3 days), on Monday, February 5 at around 7:30 PM PST.

Edit: mixed up my verb tenses

Also, I forgot to note this: If you did not receive a PM, then you are an ordinary black brother.

[Glares at Jon Arryn] Look at my face. It is the last thing you will see when you die!

Vote: PowerPAOK - there is no justification for this, being the first day and all.

Oh dear I made the mistake of editing a post

Ser Santagar (I think that's my name...), the former Master of Arms looked around. Which one of these could be a Walker? Hmm... I don't like the look of that Rosby fellow.

Vote: Sapphiron

In this case, I'm going to go along with Sapphiron. accuse: PowerPAOK

@taulover, Will you be telling us how many Night’s Watch members and White Walkers there are at the moment? So that we can know when to stop lynching ...

@taulover, Will you be telling us how many Night’s Watch members and White Walkers there are at the moment? So that we can know when to stop lynching ...

No, unfortunately. If I did, then when I updated the count when new members come in, you'd immediately know who that player was.

You'll know when to stop lynching when all of your enemy is dead, because then you've won.

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Yoren and his band of recruits travel up the Kingsroad (Game of Thrones, "The North Remembers").

"We're here," Yoren announced. Of course they were here, there was that whole bloody Wall of ice of course.
@Doc has arrived at the Wall!

Edit: mixed up my verb tenses

No, unfortunately. If I did, then when I updated the count when new members come in, you'd immediately know who that player was.

You'll know when to stop lynching when all of your enemy is dead, because then you've won.

Hmm. Could you give us a more vague idea then? Like, how many Others would there be at, say, 4, 8, and 12? (numbers chosen because I think 12 is around the most we'll get, since presumably one faction or another will win by the time they get down to 6, and splitting it 6 and 12 seems a bit too rough for granularity; I could say 5 10 and 15, which are more obvious, but those numbers are probably less valuable because we probably won't get 15)

Also, I'm a little apologetic to PowerPAOK, because I did wind up picking him at random as a Day 1 Yoren play (sorry!), so I'm going to Accuse: Sapphiron to keep PP relatively safe out of 1) apologetic pity and 2) vague suspicion at Sapphiron for just being suddenly accusatory on the first day when this time, vote no lynch is actually an option.

Hehe, you probably don't want me dead.

Very well, then. I'll give a general idea in rough ratios on how I've distributed the roles in my list order:

~ 4 black brothers : 1 sentry : 1 ranger : 2 Others

And there's only one wildling lover, as the role description implies.

Note that these are very intentionally not evenly distributed in my list order, which goes up to the maximum number of potential players in this game, so this should only give you a rough idea.

~ 4 black brothers : 1 sentry : 1 ranger : 2 Others

And there's only one wildling lover, as the role description implies.

Hmm. Okay. Assuming that there's no Wildling Lover in this yet, because he mentions the role but doesn't include it in this list of the first 8, we can guesstimate that there's 2 Brothers, a Sentry, a Ranger, and an Other.

Hehe, you probably don't want me dead.

That could be true if you're a Sentry or a Ranger...or actually if you were a Brother at all, really, because we don't want any Brothers dead...but it could just as possibly be 'true' in the sense that if you're an Other and we kill you, the game ends, and you'd hate for that to happen.
From my perspective, there's a 1/4 chance that any one of you could be an Other. Which is really not a whole lot to go on, and I'd be really stoked if we didn't lynch each other on no evidence at all. So if two other people are willing to make the swap, I'll switch my vote to No Lynch, and we can have some more time to work stuff out. Particularly since if PowerPAOK is legit an Other, since he's been inactive thus far, then nobody will die in the night and we'll know 'ah, k, he's an Other'. Then we lynch him and win. If he's not, then voting to lynch him means we killed one of ours, and the Other gets to kill someone at night, meaning we're down to 2 of us and one of him (potentially 3 of us and 2 Others, assuming the second Other will come in by the 7th person, which is statistically likely). I don't really like those odds.

Very well, then. I'll give a general idea in rough ratios on how I've distributed the roles in my list order:

~ 4 black brothers : 1 sentry : 1 ranger : 2 Others

And there's only one wildling lover, as the role description implies.

Note that these are very intentionally not evenly distributed in my list order, which goes up to the maximum number of potential players in this game, so this should only give you a rough idea.

Hmm. Okay. Assuming that there's no Wildling Lover in this yet, because he mentions the role but doesn't include it in this list of the first 8, we can guesstimate that there's 2 Brothers, a Sentry, a Ranger, and an Other.

As I said. This isn't a list of the first eight roles. This is an approximate ratio of types of roles to one another for my entire list of ~20 potential players, which may or may not be related to the current or near-future ratio of roles.

Ser Barristan Selmy enters the common room, approaching Jon Arryn as he sits from the other side of a long table. "I see you too have made your way to the Night's Watch. Lannister power plays is it then? I see that you are already enjoying the comfort of us being able to speak out mind here, such as having already called for me to be hung," says Selmy, drawing his sword in one swift action and aiming it down the other side of the table towards Arryn's neck as the room grows quiet. "But we are brothers here, no? Then which one of my brothers was the first to call for my head!"

The Ser looks around, now waving his sword around the room, making eye contact with Yoren who brought him to the Wall. He knew Yoren met well, and soon one of the other brothers shouted out, "Ser, it was Rosby! Rosby calls for your head!"

Selmy huffs, his anger finding no target in the common room that he could spot. "Then, Brothers!" announced the Ser, "I will not stand for the misconduct of this here Rosby and that of the likes of Jon Arryn! I survived the Mad King, and I will not be dying under these mad dogs! I call for all brothers of honour to demand we lynch this Gyles Rosby by sunset!"

Accuse: Sapphiron