Herowannabe

Game on! One last time, sorry again everyone for this. I'm sure many of you are curious, so here is what happened. One of the original Nightmare Aspects got a little too excited and made a comment to one of the other Nightmares in a PM in the game that Joe is running. The comment was something along the of "Yay we get to be bad guys together!" Normally I wouldn't worry about it too much, but Joe saw the post, thus learning right out of the gate who two of the Nightmare Aspects were. There wasn't any way to undo the info leak, and any of the solutions I could think up gave an unfair advantage to one team or the other. The guilty party, by the way, is very sorry and feels really bad. I don't think he needs any more punishment than that. Anyway, a little bit of work later, and everything has been reset. All of the roles were redistributed randomly. Everyone is in the same Room PMs as they were before. And one last reminder: Absolutely no discussing the game with other players outside of the Room PMs or the Dead doc (once you die). If it happens again I won't be so lenient next time. Now back to your regularly scheduled massacre program. EDIT: All of the new roles should have been sent out. If you have not had your original role PM deleted and received a new role, please message me asap. Also, all of the votes before this post are canceled (sorry Maill and Winter) and will need to be reposted

Attention everyone: the game is temporarily on hold. It has come to my attention that there was a minor rule breach. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but in this case it resulted in one player getting information that he should not have. I am trying to figure out how to handle the situation such that it will be fair to everyone. So far it looks like not matter how I rule it will give an unfair advantage to one faction or the other. I may have to restart the game and redo everyone's roles. My apologies for this, and bear with us as we figure it out. UPDATE: Unfortunately, I can't think of any other way of resolving this that would be fair. So I will be restarting the game. Stay tuned to receive new role-assignments. My sincerest apologies to anyone who had a special role originally that doesn't get one this time around. Room PMs will remain the same, for simplicity's sake. Sorry everyone. I'll have the game up and running again ASAP

Updated Rule Clarifications 1. Moderator: I should note to whoever is moderating, I'll simply be adding you to all the PM groups so that you can see and moderate everything that needs moderation. UPDATE: Welcome and a big thank you to Little Wilson as our moderator 2. Observers: due to the pm-group nature of this game, it probably won't be too exciting to follow just the main thread. All you'll see is a bunch of votes and then a writeup at the end of the day. :\ if anyone comes along and wants to watch, PM me and we'll work something out. Once the game is finished I will be posting transcripts of all of the PM groups for everyone to read, too. UPDATE: I've decided that the best way to work this will be as follows: I will keep a record of all the PM groups in a google doc. If anyone wants to observe the game, PM me and let me know, and I will invite you into the google docs so that at the end of each cycle you can read everything that was discussed that cycle. 3. Questions for the GM: once the game gets started, if you have any pressing questions for me, please send them to me in a PM titled "QF6 Question" or some such. I'll see them and respond to them much quicker that way than if you post them in the PM groups. 4. Roles: "Nightmare Aspect" is considered to be a role in of itself. Thus, anyone who is a Nightmare Aspect will not have any other special roles, and anyone with a special role cannot be a Nightmare Aspect. The one exception is the "lover" role- which can be given to any player irregardless of role or faction. 5. Inactive Players: Hopefully we won't have to deal any of these, but it could certainly disrupt the PM-group nature of the game quite a bit if a few inactive players build up. Therefore, to deal with that: Stephen Leeds will start to grow suspicious of any Aspects who aren't contributing, and if too much time goes by he will eliminate them automatically. If any player doesn't post in the white room or in their PM group rooms for a span of 3 days, then they will be eliminated. I will give players warning before I do this though. 6. Action order: Each cycle, the actions will be resolved in the following order: 1. The Bodyguard 2. The Psychologist 3. Nightmare Aspect Kill 4. The group Lynch kill 5. Any triggered kills from the Demolitionist or the Lovers 6. The Cryptologist, the Espionage Agent, and the Matchmaker 7. The Matchmaker: The matchmaker can only use her power once during the entire game, to target two people. If either of those people are killed during the same cycle that the Matchmaker targets them, then the Matchmaker's action is canceled, but she still retains her power and may use it again during a future cycle. 8. Copying/Pasting: This hasn't come up yet this game, and hopefully it never will, but there should never be any reason for the players to copy/paste in this game. Just to be perfectly clear though: No copying and pasting anything I send you in PMs. No copying and pasting anything from the White Room. And absolutely NO copying and pasting posts from one Room PM into another. 9. A couple more, in responses to questions that have been asked - Each role is represented once and only once, with the exception of the Nightmare Aspects (and the Lovers, but that's not technically a role). - If the Nightmare Aspect who has the Kill order for the day chooses not to use it, or targets an invalid target (such as a player in a different room), then nobody will be killed by the Nightmares that cycle. That player loses his turn for the kill order and it passes on to the next Nightmare Aspect in line the next cycle. - Over time the number of available rooms will gradually be reduced so that people don't get spread out too thinly. I will try to keep the average number of players/room around 3-4. 10. Secret Codes- This has been asked about more than once, so I thought I'd make it clear. Using secret codes in the White Room is actually not expressly forbidden, as long as all the other rules for White Room posts are followed- ie: 1 post per person, which contains their vote and room choice, plus any redactions, no white text or any other statements beyond your vote/room choice. But if you want to do things like phrase your votes in a particular way, or bold/underline/italicize parts of your post, these things are allowed (just don't mess with the colors please, since I use those to track votes and redactions).

Updated Player List Clare Wintris (Winter Cloud)/ Asian girl who is convinced she's a ghost Liam (Mailliw73)/ - Bubba V (vineyarddawg)/ a southern redneck who's convinced that Stephen is actually a figment of his imagination Jain (Lightsworn Panda)/a man paranoid about toy pandas Cheesy Rogers (Cheese United)/ the only aspect who isn't crazy. Ron Lav (Alvron)/ an agoraphobic Din (Gamma Fiend)/ Not so good with crowds or new situations JP (JasonPenguin)/ Believes he's Santa Adrian Fox (Aonar Faileas)/ Chronologically impaired Abe Smith (A Smart Guy)/ Always losing things Joe (The Only Joe)/ Identity disorder. In other words, He doesn't know who he is, metaphysically speaking. Mortimer Jennings (Antillar Maximus)/ - Melvin (Metacognition)/ He's convinced he is Malphas the Destroyer. He's a teenager with a gothic complexion and is a kleptomaniac. Hondren (Eolhondras)/ hypochondriac, but for other people. Bernie Kassig (Kasimir)/ a Swiss man with detachment issues, and who thinks the world isn't real. Lily Carter (Luckat)/ - Roger De Bree / Alex Wunkel (Phattemer), a man with dissociative personality disorder and a man with dissociative personality disorder. Gerald "Snoopy" Hobbes (Snoopy)/ Convinced that the world is going to end and revert back to the Stone Age any day now, and is more than prepared for it. Astronaut (no special abilities) Hadrian Penrod (Araris Valerian)/ A nobleman with a penchant for playing pranks on those around him. Anthropologist (no special abilities) Herr Pifferd (Lord Pifferdo)/ a German man with an outrageously pompus Walrus mustache and PTSD. Archeologist. Nightmare Aspect Links: Day 2: Imaginary Murderer? Day 3: Going Out With a Bang Day 4: Tough Decisions Day 5: Eine Zeit der Alpträume

Day 1: Out with the Old... “Ten! Nine!” I shouted along with everyone else in the room. I don’t normally get too excited about things like holidays and celebrations, but somehow I always find myself getting caught up in the moment on New Years Eve. Every eye on the room was fixed on the 60” flatscreen TV that Pifferd had dragged down into the White Room earlier that day. "Eight! Seven!" I usually spend holidays alone. It’s just a lot… easier… that way. Which is why I found myself all alone that night, yet surrounded by a few dozen of my closest friends. Or well, if you can call them “friends,” that is. These days… I’m not sure anymore. "Six! Five!" If anyone else had been in the room at the same time, they would have seen me standing by myself amidst the scattered chairs and tables, shouting exuberantly along with the crowds in New York on the TV. But to me, the room was full of people. "Four! Three!" On most any other day Wilson would have been there with me, but I had given him the day off to be with his family. Heaven knows he deserved it. Wilson was not only the best butler I had ever had, he also put up with all of my...eccentricities. "Two!" You see, aside from Wilson, all of my closest companions aren’t real. I hallucinate them. But I’m not crazy- I’m perfectly aware that they are imaginary. I call them my “Aspects.” Each one of them helps me in their own specific and unique way. Or well, that’s what they were supposed to do. That is what they had always done in the past. “One!" Little did I know, standing there with a cardboard party hat on my head and holding a glass of lemonade in my hand, that everything was about to change. "Happy New Year!" All around me my aspects broke into cheers and shouts. Jain started banging two pots together, while Joe blasted an air horn he had found somewhere. Behind him JP handed out presents to Claire and Melvin, who both looked slightly confused. I mingled with everyone, clinking lemonade glasses together and toasting the New Year. After my glass was empty, I meandered over to the buffet table to get some more, as well as my third helping of Bubba's southwestern chip dip. As I stood there munching, I looked over the room, something niggling in the back of my mind. After a minute I figured out what it was; a few of my aspects were missing. All of them had been there when the ball dropped, but it appeared that a few of them had slipped out afterwards. Smiling to myself, I slipped out into the hall to see where they had gotten off to. It took me a few minutes to find them. I wandered down the hall until I reached the main entry way. I heard muffled voices coming from the floor above, so I climbed the stairs. Reaching the top of the staircase, I saw a light coming from a door that was slightly ajar down the hall. As I approached the door I was able to make out what they were saying. “...so sick of his lording over us, bossing us around. “I say we do it tonight.” “I agree, Let’s grab Stephen and-” “Shh!” I suddenly realized that the handful of Aspects in the room were plotting against me, but by then it was too late. My hand was already on the door and my momentum was propelling it forward. Someone killed the lights in the room just as the door swung open, before I had a chance to see who was in the room. There was a long awkward pause- it felt like several minutes, but in reality was probably only a second or two- while the dark figures and I stood motionlessly in the darkness, then one of them shouted, “Grab him!” I bolted. I sprinted down the corridor as fast as I could, but not fast enough. They caught up to me as I reached the landing to the stairs. I struggled and fought, but two of them managed to grab my arms and pin me against the banister. In my mind I was aware that it was all in my head- nobody was really holding me in place, but to me it felt real. I shouted, calling for help, hoping the Aspects still in the party could hear me, but one of my attackers punched me hard in the gut, knocking the breath out of me. “Do you have the knife?” one of them hissed. “Yeah. Hold him still!” I wasn’t sure exactly what would happen to me if I was stabbed by an imaginary knife, but I was sure it wouldn’t be good, and I didn’t wait to find out what would happen. As the Aspect wielding the knife drew close I jerked up and backwards, throwing myself over the railing. The sudden lunge broke the assailants’ grips on my arm, and I had a brief moment to consider if what I had done was wise before I struck. -- Sometime later I awoke, laying in my bed. There was a throbbing pain in my head that seemed to pulse and radiate through my whole body, but it was muted somehow. I had been drugged. I stirred, reaching my hand up to gingerly touch the bandage on my head. “He’s awake!” someone said. Lily’s voice. My aspects gathered around my bed, anxious looks on their faces. “What happened?” I asked as I struggled to focus on their faces. “We heard you shout,” Abe said, “And came out into the hall just in time to see you fall from the upstairs landing.” “We didn’t know what to do, but-” Din started to say, but cut off nervously. Liam took over for him. “Wilson found you in the morning, and called the doctor in. They’re downstairs right now. The Doc’ wants to admit you to the hospital, but Wilson is refusing.” “Good man,” I said, closing my eyes and breathing deeply. The drugs were taking over again, sapping what little energy I had. “That was pretty crazy, you know,” Cheesy said. “You’d never catch me throwing myself off a balcony.” “I didn’t,” I mumbled. “Some Aspects… attacked me… threw me off… I couldn’t… make out… faces... Find them. You… have to find them… for me.” Unconsciousness overtook me again, as my Aspects glanced around at each other nervously. ---- Day 1 begins! A couple quick reminders. The only thing you are allowed to post in this thread is your vote for the day and which room you’d like to move to tomorrow. Not even OOC posts are allowed. You may only post in this thread once per cycle. If you need to change your vote just edit your previous post. There are 5 rooms that you will be able to discuss things in, the Dining Hall, the Library, the Lounge, the Billiard Room, and the Theatre. For the first day I have assigned everyone to a room randomly, as follows: Dining hall Cheesy Rogers (Cheese United) Hadrian Penrod (Araris Valerian) Gerald "Snoopy" Hobbes (Snoopy) Hondren (Eolhondras) Library Bubba V (vineyarddawg) Jain (Lightsworn Panda) Herr Pifferd (Lord Pifferdo) Joe (The Only Joe) Lounge Liam (Mailliw73) JP (JasonPenguin) Bernie Kassig (Kasimir) Lily Carter (Luckat) Billiard Room Clare Wintris (Winter Cloud) Abe Smith (A Smart Guy) Mortimer Jennings (Antillar Maximus) Melvin (Metacognition) Theatre Ron Lav (Alvron) Din (Gamma Fiend) Adrian Fox (Aonar Faileas) Roger De Bree / Alex Wunkel (Phattemer) I will be sending out PMs telling you your specialty/role/alignment and will be starting PM groups for each of the rooms as quickly as my computer will allow me too. Good luck, and have fun everyone! The cycle will end tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:00pm MST EDIT: All PMs have been sent notifying people of their roles, and the Room PMs have been started. If you have not received your role or have not been invited into a Room PMs yet, please PM me asap.

Welcome last minute newcomers! Sign ups are officially closed. Write-up and beginning of the game PMs are coming soon...

Yes, but add discussions, accusations, and most everything else to RP. Literally all that is allowed in the white room is one post a day saying "I vote for player X, and tomorrow I'm going to room Y."Edit: everything goes in the room PM groups, though.

sorry guys, work happened. I've been at work for 13 hours today and am still here. So I will start the game tomorrow and make sure we have at least 24 hours for the first cycle. After that things should settle down and I should be better about my schedule. I think. :\

Well we're now up to 18 players, which sounds much better for what I have in mind, so I'm going to go ahead and try to get this started later today. No problem. Since there seems to be a few people who haven't read the books yet, let me describe them in a little bit more detail (without giving away any spoilers). Stephen Leeds is a super genius, able to master any subject just by skim-reading a handful of books on the topic. However, to do this, he creates "imaginary friends," if you will, which he calls "Aspects" to contain the information. Stephen isn't crazy, he's perfectly sane, he just hallucinates all these different aspects who give him information as he needs it. However, each of his aspects IS insane, in one way or another. One of them suffers from megalomania, one has trouble coming to grips with reality, some have odd phobias, and etc. So basically, each of his aspects has an area of specialty, in which they are very highly skilled. Each also has one odd quirk or mental disorder or disability that they suffer from. Some of them are aware and acknowledge that they are hallucinatory people, some of them don't. Each Aspect is also very unique, with all sorts of races, cultures, personalities, and religions being represented. As far of this game goes, the mental disorder, the personality, background, and etc are all strictly for roleplay purposes. However, your special skillset will be assigned to you at the beginning of the game, and may or may not contain a role with abilities that can be used during the game. Of course, as is always the case with these games, you can claim to be any role you so desire, whether or not that is your actual role. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to ask that. In this game everybody is limited to having one and only one role (the Lovers are the only exception- anybody with any role/alignment can be made into a lover). "Nightmare Aspect" is a role. Thus, anyone with any of the other roles cannot be a Nightmare Aspect. I'll make note of that in the Rules Clarifications thread. Speaking of which, I'll be updating a couple things in that post (it's the third post in this thread), so everyone make sure to keep an eye on it before the game begins.

Welcome aboard newcomers! We're glad you decided to join us! One quick reminder: everybody will be getting a specialty, but it will be assigned to them at the beginning of the game, and may or may not come with special abilities that can be used in the game. So I'm going to tweak your camping/survivalist thing just a bit to turn it into more of a mental disorder/quirk than an actual skillset/profession.

Well, we've already had 3 more people sign up since I posted that yesterday. We'll see what the next 24 hours brings. I'm not opposed to an extension though. When does the next night cycle end in the Shards Long Game? Maybe I'll start this up right after then, so that whoever doesn't survive the night will have the opportunity to join.

So this is slated to start tomorrow, but I was hoping for a few more people. It is doable with 10 people, but 12-16 would be much preferable. If anyone is sitting on the fence about this one, we'd really love to have you join us.

Welcome aboard Gamma! Don't worry, there shouldn't be any spoilers because we're not actually dealing with the plot lines of either books. All you really need to know is the premise- which is spelled out pretty clearly in all the previews and descriptions of the books: Stephen Leeds isn't crazy. He is gifted. He's a super genius- able to master any subject or skillset in a brief period of time, but is only able to do so by creating an imaginary person- an aspect- to contain that information. All of his aspects, however, -are- crazy, in one form or another.

This is completely off topic, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I just added 3 more cards to my Mistborn Valentine's Day Cards album. Check them out here. [/blantant self-promotion]

Nope! (once the game begins) the white room is strictly for posting your votes and room choices. All RPing will take place in the PM group Rooms.

test test test test test Edit: @Cheesy: so something's just messed up with the above post. They worked fine here. Use this format: [/color*] (Without the *s) For red put 255,0,0 For green put 0,255,0 For white put 255,255,255 Edit2: to mix colors, play around with the numbers just like mixing paint. The first number is the amount of red, the second is green, and the third is blue. for example: for purple try 255,0,255

it is, but you have to manually type the HTML code for it. Personally, I use my iPhone so much that I programmed a bunch of keyboard shortcuts in so that I could change colors easily. They are as follows (without the *s) blue [/color*] EDIT: hmm... Apparently my color codes don't work anymore... I'll have to fix that.

thanks

Just to be clear, is that supposed to be "Jain," "Jain's," or "Jains"? Or something else?

I just now realized for the first time that your name is "william" backwards ha ha. Welcome aboard!

Welcome Ms. Wintris.

Rule Clarifications 1. Moderator: I should note to whoever is moderating, I'll simply be adding you to all the PM groups so that you can see and moderate everything that needs moderation. UPDATE: Welcome and a big thank you to Little Wilson as our moderator 2. Observers: due to the pm-group nature of this game, it probably won't be too exciting to follow just the main thread. All you'll see is a bunch of votes and then a writeup at the end of the day. :\ if anyone comes along and wants to watch, PM me and we'll work something out. Once the game is finished I will be posting transcripts of all of the PM groups for everyone to read, too. UPDATE: I've decided that the best way to work this will be as follows: I will keep a record of all the PM groups in a google doc. If anyone wants to observe the game, PM me and let me know, and I will invite you into the google docs so that at the end of each cycle you can read everything that was discussed that cycle. 3. Questions for the GM: once the game gets started, if you have any pressing questions for me, please send them to me in a PM titled "QF6 Question" or some such. I'll see them and respond to them much quicker that way than if you post them in the PM groups. 4. Roles: "Nightmare Aspect" is considered to be a role in of itself. Thus, anyone who is a Nightmare Aspect will not have any other special roles, and anyone with a special role cannot be a Nightmare Aspect. The one exception is the "lover" role- which can be given to any player irregardless of role or faction. 5. Inactive Players: Hopefully we won't have to deal any of these, but it could certainly disrupt the PM-group nature of the game quite a bit if a few inactive players build up. Therefore, to deal with that: Stephen Leeds will start to grow suspicious of any Aspects who aren't contributing, and if too much time goes by he will eliminate them automatically. If any player doesn't post in the white room or in their PM group rooms for a span of 3 days, then they will be eliminated. I will give players warning before I do this though.