Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Proposal: Investigating Take 2

Passed 10-0. Brendan

Adminned at 08 Nov 2007 14:11:29 UTC

Create a rule titled “Investigation” with the text:

  A living villager (the investigator) may secretly inform the mayor that they are investigating another living villager (the watched) once during each day.

  A villager is “Out at Night” if it is night and one of the following is true of them:
  1. They are the Night Watchman
  2. They are a werewolf who has selected a new living villager as their target at some point during that night
  3. They are “on the streets” per the Night Watchman rule
  4. They are an Investigator (per this rule)

  During each day, the Mayor shall privately inform each Investigator if their Watched was “Out at Night” on the previous night. In addition, if the Watched was a werewolf attacked a villager during that night, the Mayor shall privately inform the Investigator that their watched is a werewolf.

  Due to the concentration involved in investigating, and because investigators are often forced to sneak around in dark alleys to perform their work, investigators become easy targets for werewolves. An Investigator who would otherwise have immunity from being killed by werewolves loses that immunity. Otherwise an investigator that does not have immunity from being killed by werewolves may be killed by being targeted for Murder by a single werewolf (instead of the normal 2 required).

If a single living villager is ever investigated by more than one villager at the same time, that villager realizes he is being followed. The Mayor shall privately inform the watched villager of the name of each villager investigating them

Edited to remove the needless random die-rolls, and to fix the werewolf targeting issue.

Comments

Darknight: he/him

06-11-2007 22:31:43 UTC

for

aaronwinborn:

06-11-2007 22:50:06 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

06-11-2007 23:50:15 UTC

for Although “selected a new living villager as their target at some point during that night” is an odd phrase, and implies an odd mechanic - a werewolf who chose a target during the day, or has been stalking the same target all week, isn’t Out At Night? Even on a night that they get a kill?

And minorly, the talk of “on the streets as per the Night Watchman rule” would make more sense reversed - say that a random half of the villager are always “Out at Night” each night, and if there’s a murder, the Night Watchman gets told all of them.

Rodlen:

06-11-2007 23:53:30 UTC

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Chivalrybean:

07-11-2007 00:48:09 UTC

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Shadowclaw:

07-11-2007 01:12:08 UTC

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Oracular rufio:

07-11-2007 04:13:21 UTC

for  But what Kevan said, although as I read this, if a werewolf which did not change their target during the current Nighttime kills someone, the investigator gets messaged anyway.

Should the werewolf really get the names of all people they’re being tailed by?  Maybe just one, or just a chance of it?

Brendan: he/him

07-11-2007 05:25:38 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

07-11-2007 05:28:40 UTC

And may I say what a fine opportunity this would be to utilize your neighborhood Solicitor?  “If I die tonight, tell the Villagers I was investigating X” is a perfectly legitimate use of your will, even if you don’t have any belongings.

Unless you don’t trust me, in which case you could just email someone else.

Amnistar: he/him

08-11-2007 17:49:48 UTC

for I’d like the possibiliity of people tailing the same people to run into each other.

Igthorn:

08-11-2007 17:50:22 UTC

Will the ‘who’ that is missing in the third paragraph be inserted when this passes?