Mr Chris wrote:
ComicalGnomes wrote:
Ah. This now makes me think that MrChris' highly accurate predictions of past games have come from the fact he's been scouring this list. I can't think of a reason for that script to exist, actually. I'll petition Grim... to remove it.
Nope. Not used it before for this. In fact, I didn't "use" it this time. I happened to see it whilst I was looking for something else, and opened my big mouth. Didn't think it would be an issue, what with people constantly using other meta data like "HE HASN'T POSTED ALL DAY OMG HE'S A SK".
Any meta data could be justified narrative-wise as seeing people talking in hushed tones in the corner of the pub, for instance.
But if it's going to be an issue we need to clarify *exactly* what people can and can't refer to. But bear in mind that bannign reference to absence from the board, for instance, removes a possibility of referring to the fact that someone is indeed playing a cagey game and are deliberately staying schtum.
The best idea is the round table structure, where everyone spends all day around a big table in the village hall, and the posts are actually parts of a great discussion. Everyone can see each other, ther's no slipping off to the pub, everyone stays put. You get dinner called in. The communication between scum/masons/cult/whoever during the day is all done through eye-contact, rudimentary sign language, stressing of certain words, psychic powers, notes or whatever. Only people in those factions can understand it, or even know its happening. Everyone arrives at the same time each morning, and leaves at the same time each night. Nothing outside the village hall exists, except for colour text. Everything that happens outside the village hall is purely mechanical in nature anyway.
I think this gives a good baseline for what's appropriate.
If you don't post for a game day, then your character literally has sat in the village hall all day without saying a word. This would get called in real life. So that's fair enough. But there's no way to spot the mafia communicating, they're too smooth, and have been doing it for years. It barely requires the don looking at his mook and at his target. Someone claiming to have spotted this (though outside meta data) would A) be disbelieved by the room of other people who've been sat in the same room as the accused for 8 hours that day, and have noticed nothing.. and b) be obviously be unfair, as a source of information beyond the walls of the village hall had been used.