Be Excellent To Each Other

'Twas about a week before Christmas, and all throughout BeeX,
Not a creature was stirring, not even...uh....fuck it.


A thick carpet of snow lines the streets of Royal BeeX City, and the cries of excited children fill the air. It will soon be Christmas! The children know it's not all plain sailing from here to getting their presents though - this year, as in previous years, the wicked goblins will be around, hoping to ruin the kiddies' Christmas and leave them grounded and with just a lump of coal in a stocking.

Can you protect yourselves from the wicked goblins, kiddies, and reap your consumerist reward?

[playerlist]
Kalmarzipan
Spinglo All The Way!
Goddess Jasmince Pie
Merry ChristRuss
Clausiosity
Baubleyaro
JingleBellRock
Rudolfowa
Gazchap
Runcle Scrooge
HoHoHoans
Myoptinsel
Mr Christmas
ComicalGerald
Zaphod79
Shinta Claus
[/playerlist]

With 16 players in the game, 9 votes are required to sign a child onto the naughty list.
Day one deadline is 10pm Tuesday*



*Extended because we have some players at the Cardiff meet - they are likely to be quiet for much of day one.

'Twas about a week before Christmas, and all throughout BeeX,
Not a creature was stirring, not even Gerald the mouse!'

You should have said


I will be a little quieter than normal today for Rae's 18th-just to give you all a heads up

YAY SNOWBALLS *throws one*

Hello. I am a good, nay, awesome child.

[vote:ComicalGerald] for first-day roleclaim.

[vote:GazChap] for voting for me.

Happy Christmas, Gerald

So, roleclaim already and then some tit for tat voting? Sounds like Grinchy goblin diversionary tactics to me. I've got my eye on you both.

[vote:Zaphod79] for having a suspiciously non-Xmas based name. Very Grinch-esque.

Oh, and hello everyone. Has everyone written their lists?

In completely non-game related news, I'm working on a Gerald xmas comic.

Yay Gerald, I say - can it be a bumper extended length one? And the comic?

I've made my list and was about to check it a couple of times when I realised that wasn't my job. Instead I will wander around until I can find a couple of snowballs to push together to make a snowman. Making sure I avoid pesky trees, obviously, because they will make the snowballs dissolve on contact.

Hello, fellow festive Beex types! It's been ages since I've played one of these games, is the prevailing school of thought still to lynch someone at random on Day 1?

We've got 9-14 good guys and 3-6 baddies. The odds aren't great, but what else do we do?

Hi all, Just saying hi at the moment, busy with, um stuff atm, will pop in and out as and when I can.

Malc

Helloes.

What news on the goblins of goblin cave?
I was out wandering the other day and came across a goblin up by goblin cave. Hideous creatures.

Did they look like anyone here in particular?

Yeah, you, all of them looked like you, cos you look like a goblin, a big green ugly goblin! *thumbs nose, and throws snowball*

Hello, Ive got a feeling my name will get me lynched but remember Scrooge gets proper nice at the end of christmas carol so he's not all bad actually he buys a massive turkey on christmas day which I would do if I wasnt a veggie, how about nut roast?

Vote Update

gazchap: 1 vote (comicalgerald)
comicalgerald: 1 vote (gazchap)
zaphod79: 1 vote (clausiosity)

Not voted: kalmarzipan, spinglo all the way!, goddess jasmince pie, merry christruss, baubleyaro, jinglebellrock, rudolfowa, runcle scrooge, hohohoans, myoptinsel, mr christmas, zaphod79, shinta claus

With 16 players alive, 9 votes are required for a naughtifying and 12 votes for there to be no naughtifying.

Well after a 4 hour car journey today i'm not full of christmas cheer so i'll

[Vote:Clausiosity]

Cause even when he's good he's bad !

Roles:
1 Santa Claus
1 Grinch
2-5 Goblins
2-3 Super Junior Investigators
6-10 Good Children

My guess:
1 Santa Claus
1 Grinch
4 Goblins
2 Super Junior Investigators
8 Good Children

So is it best to have no naughtifying today, and try to let the super investigators do their thang?

Careful Russ, you'll get accused of being a goblin with talk like that.

The investigators aren't much good unless they pick the same person as the Grinch does. They're a 'doctor' of sorts. Instead it is Santa that needs to sort from naughty or nice.

I say we push a run on someone and see what they say.

*decks the halls with boughs of holly*

Is my new quote of the week and may go in my blog

Is my new quote of the week and may go in my blog

Well, I think we should pick someone as we need info, it's not really until day 2 or 3 that we'll know anything anyway (unless we get lucky)

As there are 3 up at the moment, I'm going to go for (tosses a coin) [vote:ComicalGerald]

Malc

oooo tossing coins, I almost forgot about that tactic, one second Ill go try it out.

Kalmarzipan-4 heads
Spinglo All The Way!-2
Goddess Jasmince Pie-1
Merry ChristRuss-1
Clausiosity-1
Baubleyaro-1
JingleBellRock-3
Rudolfowa-0
Gazchap-2
Runcle Scrooge-3
HoHoHoans-2
Myoptinsel-3
Mr Christmas-2
ComicalGerald-4
Zaphod79-1
Shinta Claus-3

So the results would suggest comical or kalmar are the baddies, there was no 5 heads which is normally/scarily accurate so its quite a mixed bag really. Rodafowas no heads should bring up suspcion but I think that usually means a good guy role.

Ive just done another coin toss to see if anyone got 5 heads and JBR came out with 5 heads. So hes currently my number 1 suspect although Im not sure how accurate a second coin toss is.

So we now know we have 5 goblins aswell as the grinch. Sorry Runcle Scrooge, you shot yourself in the foot with that double bluff, we can't argue with the coins.

So, Kalmar or Gerald for Grinch then. Seeing as he has most votes right now: [Vote:ComicalGerald]

Sorry chap.

In the spirit of hurrying things along, and hopefully causing an amusing outburst:

[vote:ComicalGerald]

It's Christmas and I get 5 heads? I'm off to the lottery shop, I think, with a run like that.

I think we really must lynch comical on the first day one of these games, so

[Vote:ComicalGerald]

Vote Update

clausiosity: 1 vote (zaphod79)
gazchap: 1 vote (comicalgerald)
comicalgerald: 4 votes (spinglo all the way!, clausiosity, gazchap, myoptinsel)

Not voted: kalmarzipan, goddess jasmince pie, merry christruss, baubleyaro, jinglebellrock, rudolfowa, runcle scrooge, hohohoans, mr christmas, shinta claus

With 16 players alive, 9 votes are required for a naughtifying and 12 votes for there to be no naughtifying.

Sorry Gerald
I've also taken a picture with my phone of a toy mouse that looks like him aswell!! I sent in to Tanya because I can't upload pics on here from it....because I am an idiot

[vote:ComicalGerald]

Whoa whoa whoa, what's going on here? It's starting to look like a goblin railroad. [Vote:Unvote] until more people have had their say.

Aw bleedin' 'ell

This game confuzzles mah tiny mind >.<

Votings by 10pm tonight yeah? I'll leave mine up as Comical until I see someone else thats in the limelight so to speak

You are welcome to naughty me up in order to get the game rolling. Bit of a shame though as I am a good boy, really.

Looks like a neat set-up between Runcle Scrooge and Clausiosity, JingleBells.



And it's usually the baddies pushing for a lynch at the start..

[vote:Clausiosity]

As much as I'd love to vote for Clausio, I'm not convinced he can be a bad guy again - can he?

Heh, I wouldn't rule it out. I'm not convinced the role choosing method is very random

So two questions :

Why would the goblins raiload on day 1 ? (although you speaking up for someone being possibly pushed means that if CG is a goblin you look dodgy because you've spoken up for him)



What would you expect to happen ?

They can role claim a good person (so what)
They can role claim santa (if your good and thats true then thats the game handed to the baddies - if your good and its a false claim you *dont* want Santa counterclaiming so thats still bad news).

Or they claim to be an investigator role - so what - would you actually *not* push them over the edge just because they said they could help ?

I cant see what good it does pushing for someone to go unless you actually expect someone to go - and then you look back and see who voted for who and when (and actually you need a few of them to happen for you possibly to spot some type of pattern ?)

Which is what I said. You need at least 2 or 3 days worth of plotting to see who is naughty or nice, unless you get really lucky.

Malc

Why wouldn't they? Early win potential. Nobody else knows what's going on at this stage so it would be easy for them to get a bandwagon going.

As for pointing fingers afterwards, remember that it's never just the band-wagon starters who are in the voting tally for the victim at the end of the day, bad guys rarely get suspicion cast on them for what can (at this stage) be made out to be an innocent mistake.

For reference, my role choosing is 100% random - sorting by a column of random numbers in excel.

I'm sure it is, but it's been mentioned in the past that it's tempting to run the random number generation repeatedly until it comes up with a set of role-name matches that the operator likes

Vote update pls?

I was just bored, so wanted to vote for someone and get the game moving.

Maybe we should do what we always say we should do but never actually do, and vote for people who haven't said anything?

[vote: Mr Christmas] for reasons explained in previous post.

Vote Update

clausiosity: 2 votes (kalmarzipan, zaphod79)
gazchap: 1 vote (comicalgerald)
comicalgerald: 5 votes (spinglo all the way!, clausiosity, jinglebellrock, gazchap, shinta claus)

Not voted: goddess jasmince pie, merry christruss, baubleyaro, rudolfowa, runcle scrooge, hohohoans, myoptinsel, mr christmas

With 16 players alive, 9 votes are required for a naughtifying and 12 votes for there to be no naughtifying.