* The Lords of Hell Sign-Up Thread *

[redwill]

Times had been tough in the little Kandurlathian village of Boündtödÿe.

But the villagers persisted. Everyday, they milked the meager goats, they scaled the barren cliffs, they sniffed the parched fields, they yanked their cranks, they pulled the wilting weeds and paltry peas and put them in their soup.

And they had hope. Hope that times would get better.

Hope -- as has been said by so many -- springs eternal.

And they always maintained their village traditions. Although subject to their Kandurlathian overlords, they jealously guarded their right to take to the streets, mob it up, and lynch whomever they thought was a threat.

So let it be written: That is how it was.

One fine spring day a young girl named StarGatherer walked among the heaps of ash and tar which surrounded the village and saw a small fissure in the ground, glowing red. StarGatherer stooped to look in the fissure and saw what appeared to be a small, round rock. She was careful, fearing that it would be too hot, but it was, in fact, cool to the touch. It was fragile, like an egg.

Being inquisitive, she cracked it open.

Nothing came out of it but the barest whiff of smoke.

StarGatherer didn't think much of it.

So let it be written: That is how it began ...



WELCOME TO THE LORDS OF HELL !!!


A Warz game.


Please sign up in this thread if you wish to play.


In so far:

Kane
willeyeam
Willie Kool
Gaucho
Morkle
obhave
shafnutz05
CBear3
count2infinity
MWB
slappybrown

[redwill]

This is a rehash of a game I did years ago on LGP. I wasn't completely happy with the way it went, so I've tweaked it and I am presenting it again.

[Kane]

In.

[willeyeam]

in

[Willie Kool]

In

[Gaucho]

in

[Morkle]

I was just kidding about the games, I'm actually not in.

In, losers

[Gaucho]

impeach Morkle

[obhave]

In

[shafnutz05]

In!

[CBear3]

Sure, why not

[count2infinity]

In, brah.

[redwill]

Nine, huh?

Oh, well.

Gonna take a re-think.

Gimme a day or so. Sign-up remains open.

[MWB]

in

[Gaucho]

need to alert the usual suspects

[slappybrown]

ok sure great fine good

[redwill]

need to alert the usual suspects

Meh. If someone wants to do that, fine. IMO if folks haven't signed up yet, they're not interested and would be a drag.

Anyway, glad to have eleven. I'll leave sign-up open until 10 PM Eastern tonight and we can start tomorrow.

[count2infinity]

lynch NAN

[redwill]

Just for the heck of it ... from a Werewolf game long ago:

count2infinity sat by the fountain near the center of the village. He was smiling slightly, thinking about the happier times, before the terror of the wolves. He was thinking about his pet grasshopper that he had raised and cared for in his youth. He had named the grasshopper "Grasshopper," and it had made him happy.

Nowadays there were very few grasshoppers left in and around the village. Most of them had been eaten by the birds, before they had left. c2i now had a pet slug, whom he had named "Slug," but it just wasn't the same. He leaned down and picked up a leaf off of the ground. Maple. He twirled the brown and somewhat curled leaf in his fingers and sighed softly. Everything has its season, he thought. All things must pass. With six you get eggroll. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

He chuckled to himself and idly tossed the leaf into the fountain. As he watched it meander on the surface of the crystal-clear water, he looked deeper and saw a few coins lying on the bottom. The happy villagers had once purchased wishes which had long since stopped coming true. He looked more closely at the coins, marveling at the superior workmanship of the engravings and particularly at the perfection of the profiles on them. thehockeyguru. redwill. And wasn't that an Admin across the way? He couldn't quite be sure because of the reflection of something moving toward the fountain. He looked up and saw the source: a couple of his fellow villagers approaching. He then noticed a couple more coming up from the other side. He nodded amiably and smiled. They nodded back, but their expressions were grim.

"Peace Be Upon Our Toast," he said in the traditional manner of greeting. They sat down on either side of him. "Is there something wrong?" c2i asked.

"count2infinity, ah, you're of course familiar with our situation, what with the wolves and all," one of them began. c2i nodded sadly. They nodded back. They all nodded together for a few odd moments. "Well," the villager continued, "we were thinking about, uh, well, trying to do something about it. Uh, like right now."

"Oh yes?" said c2i. He was a quick villager and didn't miss their meaning. "Well let's talk to the whole village. You know that's the way it works."

"It's too late for that. We reached a deadline of sorts. Something must be done. The four of us are convinced that your, uh, well, let's speak plainly huh? Huh? Amirite? Your ... death ... will serve the village best."

"I don't follow," said c2i. He wasn't afraid of the four of them, or of the thought of death. He feared only for the village.

"It doesn't matter," two of them said at the same time. "Let's do this now."

"If it must be this way," said c2i, "then I accept it. Only tell me what you hope to gain."

Everything went black and silent at that moment, as an axe handle struck him hard on the back of the head. He came around slowly. He couldn't see at all and was still hazy and very disoriented when he felt the rope around his neck. He smelled it, too. The smell of the rope was the last thing he would ever sense, excepting only a brief wrenching sensation as he hit the end of the line.

Outwardly, he didn't struggle. He was awash in a sea of turbulent blackness for only a few brief moments as flitting fragments of images and memories quickly arose and more quickly departed. With awesome finality, his mind settled on one last piece of what at one time would have been a thought:




Grasshopper.





count2infinity was ...

... a regular villager.


The village of Studebaker-on-Toast has 11 residents remaining:

slappybrown
Malkamaniac
npv708
canaan
MikeEnIke
MWB
beerman
LITT
PensFanInDC
the errey i breathe
dagny


Ah, but there are in fact:

1 Seer
1 Angel
1 Vigilante
1 Alpha wolf
2 regular wolves
5 regular villagers


Departed from the village:

Senka, a regular villager, was CHOMPED by the wolves on Night 1.
cup keeper, a regular villager, was LYNCHED by the village on Day 1.
relantel, a regular villager, was EATEN by the wolves on Night 2.
shafnutz05, a regular villager, was LYNCHED by the village on Day 2.
Kicksave, a regular villager, was LYNCHED by the village on Day 3.
Troy Loney, a regular villager, was EATED by the wolves on Night 4.
count2infinity, a regular villager, was LYNCHED by the village on Day 4.


It is now Night 5.

[count2infinity]

Thank you for a new location. Much appreciated.

[redwill]

Sign-up is now closed. PMs will go out in a while. Everyone will get a PM. Game thread up by tomorrow AM.

[redwill]

All PMs sent, I think. That was tedious.