Monday, February 27, 2017

Proposal: Bite

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 01 Mar 2017 10:22:32 UTC

To the section “Lycantrophy”, add

A villager displaying the symptom of Wolf Form may declare in a blog post or a private message to the Doctor that they are biting another villager who is Near to them. That bitten villager then immediately gains the disease Lycantrophy.

Comments

card:

27-02-2017 09:38:58 UTC

Note: Hmm, so someone with Wolf Form can immediately bite everyone near them? It seems just a little unfair. What do you think of using moonphases in some way?

Viv:

27-02-2017 09:55:25 UTC

Note: it would make sense to limit wolf form itself to weekends or night time or something,  it is narratively quite odd that I’m stuck that way.

card:

27-02-2017 10:07:27 UTC

Note: It could be just some odd werewolf variant. It’s full moon in almost all of the material; however I read a children’s book many years ago where were-somethings could change at will. A moonphase implementation would probably be too sporadic to implement here, at night where night is defined by some range of hours would be fine with most people. Take into consideration that you can’t die from silver if your Wolf Form isn’t present, if the butterknife proposal passes.

Kevan: he/him

27-02-2017 10:14:43 UTC

Note: The existing rule for acquiring Wolf Form is meant to loosely imply that full moons happen every Friday in Zahndorf.

Viv:

27-02-2017 10:20:18 UTC

Note: I think I will leave it open to others to propose unwolfing separately, just in case it seems like a late stage complication that doesn’t do much for the dead.

derrick: he/him

27-02-2017 14:08:50 UTC

Note: I think the biting action should be daily, and it should be known to the villager who contracts the disease.

It should probably also put at least some bad consequences to being bit by a wolf before making making it contagious. Just from a game design perspective.

Viv:

27-02-2017 17:08:24 UTC

Note: ah yes. I agree on daily and known to the bitee. Sorry, was in a bit of a rush today, still am, I’ll self kill and repropose later today… against

card:

27-02-2017 17:21:38 UTC

Well since there’s no health, and it would be too complicated to implement some so late in the game, how about for the rest of the day after being bitten, they can’t take any daily location actions or move; contracting lycanthropy might thematically be fairly painful.

Viv:

27-02-2017 17:30:01 UTC

True that. Will do a rewrite.