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Day 1

Elder Sign
The morning was dank and cold, a blustery, gray October day. The waters off the coast of Innsmouth were rough and angry, forcing the fishermen to stay ashore. Strange sights had been reported in the woods and the feeling of them had...changed. Will-o-the-wisps danced just on the corners of your eyesight and the trees seemed to loom imposingly, the shadows between them darker somehow. Even the normal morning smell of Mrs. Crabtree's baked bread was missing, it's absence a particularly poignant indication that something was definitely wrong.

"MURDER! MURDER IN THE WOODS!" young Mr. Mayberry, the editor of Innsmouth's only newspaper The Daily Fish, shouted as he ran down Innsmouth's main boulevard.

"Murder?" the Mayor commented, hearing the cries through his open office window. Pressing the intercom he said, "Ms. Peabody, please call [info]drfinch and ask him to go with Mayberry to the body."

A short while later the duo returned, Mr. Mayberry looking particularly upset and Dr. Finch stripping off a pair of bloody latex gloves.

"From my cursory examination it is, indeed, murder," Dr. Finch announced. "More horribly...the victim was laid out in a particular fashion and various implements and props were arraigned around the corpse."

"Props?"

"Of a certain...religious connotation, yes," Dr. Finch said. He frowned at the Mayor.

"Oh dear...well...steps must be taken I suppose," the Mayor said. Pressing the intercom button again he said, "Ms. Peabody? Please tell Obed Marsh to ring his church's bells to rally up the town?"

"Yes, Mayor," the secretary said before the line cut off.

Hearing the bells of the Esoteric Church of the Sea ringing, the villagers rushed from their homes to the town square where the Mayor was waiting for them, accompanied by a green looking Mr. Mayberry, an antiquated camera held in his hands, the ghoulish Dr. Finch and the toothsome Ms. Peabody. Before them was a table on which there were several cloth-covered items.

"It seems that it is that time again and certain members of the town have decided to cause some mischief: in brief, we have Cultists among us!" the Mayor announced. He stepped forward and pulled the cloth from the table, revealing various deadly items. Stepping back, he eyed each member of the town in turn. "You must chose, by vote, who among you must die so that we may protect the rest of the village. I will return to my office and wait for the vote. You have until sundown."

--Are You A Cultist? has begun!---

Comments

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[info]gorillashaman wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:32 pm (UTC)
First post? Don't everyone talk at once.
[info]celothae wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:44 pm (UTC)
Don't worry...we won't...
[info]snoopyh42 wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:35 pm (UTC)
A murder? Cultists? In my town? This cannot be!

*sets up shop selling lynching implements*
[info]chelleann77 wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:36 pm (UTC)
What kind of implements do you have for sale?

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[info]theweaselking wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:42 pm (UTC)
So, at this point we decide who to lynch, and then it's Night Time and the cultists decide who dies tomorrow and all the Specials get to act?

This is, like, the best game idea ever.
[info]areyouacultist wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 08:34 pm (UTC)
That's about the gist.

Day Time: Murderous Villagers!
Night Time: Murderous Cultists! (and some specials)
[info]reyl wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:55 pm (UTC)
There goes the neighbourhood...

*sharpens fishing knife*
[info]chaos_dancer wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 07:10 pm (UTC)
"So... we're just going to pick someone and off them, hoping that they are a cultist? Now don't get me wrong, I love a good linching as much as the next person, and it's been far too long sience we had one arround here (that goverment guy who came snooping arround here a few years ago was realy the alst one we had. I don't count that reporter last year. He jsut had no respect for people's property), but is leaving it to a vote realy the right way to go about this? All it will do is bring up vengence for past slights, encourage neighbors to go after each other to claim ther properties, their loved ones, their beautiful little children..... Anyway, I propose we choose who to lynch based not on a ballot, but by a lotery. Put the fate of our town not in the hands of scwabbling neighbors using this as a tool for themselves, but into those of a greater power."
[info]theweaselking wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 07:24 pm (UTC)
I've been against lotteries ever since the whole Shirley Jackson incident.
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[info]zhymmy wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 09:06 pm (UTC)
I say we go door to door in this here village of ours and look for more of these ... religious implements. I mean, don't these cultists slip around in the trees wearing dark robes or something? If somebody owns a robe, we hang 'em. Better safe than sorry!
[info]snoopyh42 wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 10:06 pm (UTC)
With no real evidence to go on, and because this is just going to be random finger-pointing right now anyway...

*spins wheel*

Curious that it should land there...

vote stride
[info]stride wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 10:28 pm (UTC)
I'm having such a great day today that not even icky cultists can bring me down!

Vote Snoopy! Because living-room games have proved that if he is still alive by round 2, he's a cultist!
[info]chelleann77 wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 10:50 pm (UTC)
Dammit, I had forgotten that part. Was feeling all sorry for him.

Still, for once, I think I'll give him the benefit of the doubt...

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[info]makellan wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 10:56 pm (UTC)
*arrives, puffing and wheezing*
so sorry I'm late. I was out of town on business.
Oh! Murder! How foul!
Hmmmm, I'm glad the court recorder is here to catch me up.
I'm going to have to agree that random lot is what will rule this day.

[gm question: do you have a script for tallying votes, and, if so, how do we format the vote]
gorrillashaman, I believe I still owe you a beer. What's the link for the alternate way to see this conversation?
[info]areyouacultist wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 11:05 pm (UTC)
*a flock of bats descends and merges to form the Modgod*
Glad you made it! I was worried you would miss the fun.

http://cuddlepuddle.org/~adam/ljgames/areyouacultist/

Click on the link for the post you want to look at. The page that loads will have all the comments on said post listed in the order they were posted and, below that, the vote tally including the break down in how people voted (or unvoted, or abstained).

*dissolves into bats*
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[info]flowen wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 11:24 pm (UTC)
*Enters to the chorus from Crazy Train*

What's going on here? Murder? Interesting.

Wait, someone called for Finch? This can't be good. Finch is never a good thing.

*Looks around*

OUTSIDERS!

vote chaos_dancer
[info]chaos_dancer wrote:
Oct. 14th, 2009 11:51 pm (UTC)
Outsider! I've lived here all my life. Bah! You just want my land.
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[info]zhymmy wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 12:49 am (UTC)
vote [info]chaos_dancer as well. I could swear I saw a robe in their window.
[info]maggiebloome wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 03:24 am (UTC)
Cultists? In MY village?
[info]gorillashaman wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 04:18 am (UTC)
I haven't seen either of these two post yet:

urbanwolfie
raisha

If I don't see a post today, one of them gets my vote tomorrow; other similar games like this, the GM usually kills off nonposters via suicide after a few days. I now firmly believe it is better that they get lynched than have the town suffer extra losses.
[info]urbanwolfie wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 04:53 am (UTC)
I'm here, I just haven't decided whether to jump on the (current) bandwagon or go some other way.
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[info]makellan wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 09:16 am (UTC)
Hmmm, snoopy seems a bit suspicious to me and it doesn't appear that voting is closed
Vote snoopyh42
[info]areyouacultist wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 02:24 pm (UTC)
An Are You A Cultist "day"/Day Round is 11AM-11AM from one day to the next. We have some international players (*waves at [info]maggiebloome*) so we want to make sure they get a fair chance to play.

On the event of a Day Round starting at 11AM Friday, it will not conclude until 11AM the following Monday (because some people, such as myself, will be away from their computers on weekends).
[info]snoopyh42 wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 03:53 pm (UTC)
All I wanted was for people to be properly prepared for a possible incident in our village. A prepared village is a safe village, right?

Anyway, you're all about to lynch one of your own. And in the interest of the knowledge that I don't have any good idea who the cultists are, I'm making the following change.

unvote stride
vote abstain
[info]chelleann77 wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 05:28 pm (UTC)
If you vote chaos_dancer, that will clinch it.
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[info]starryshadows wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 05:00 pm (UTC)
Well, yeah, looks like the lynching will commence regardless. I could bandwagon here, jump on poor Snoopy, but I think for the moment I'm going to vote abstain.
[info]chelleann77 wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 05:28 pm (UTC)
If you vote chaos_dancer, that will clinch it.
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[info]urbanwolfie wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 05:39 pm (UTC)
vote abstain
[info]areyouacultist wrote:
Oct. 15th, 2009 06:07 pm (UTC)
AND THAT'S IT!
The sun sets, the day is over, and the first Day Round is complete!
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