Friday, April 25, 2008

A freak accident

We have not received any pictures or any further leads on Buddy's location (other than some freak sending in Star Wars encryptions). Our Australian team has been unable to track him. We, unfortunately, lost one of our team members in a freak accident. Joe Schmoe was a great guy, 27 year old ex-delta force fella, who has been working with us for some time now. Joe was following some of the leads we received yesterday and was mauled by a pack of kangaroos. The evil marsupials kicked him to death... we can't let Joe's memory go to waste though, tonight we plan on celebrating Joe by playing Joe and Buddy's favorite game.

Joe taught it to Buddy and a few of us working on the art project, Buddy absolutely loved it and would always show up whenever we tried to play it. It's a game called werewolf, though I hear there are other names/variations of the game out there. So tonight we play werewolf and we hope that Buddy will show up. You too can join us and play it too with your friends, who knows - Buddy MIGHT show up with you.

Here's what you need:
7 or more players
7 or more index cards (equal to the number of players)
1 of these cards must be labelled SEER
2 of these cards must be labelled WEREWOLF
the rest of these cards must be labelled VILLAGER (though you can have one as moderator)
1 moderator

Here's how you play:
The game has 2 phases, night and day.

Night -
Moderator informs everyone to close their eyes, then informs the werewolves to open theirs. The moderator then informs the werewolves to silently pick a victim (they must agree on one villager). The moderator then informs the werewolves to close their eyes and for the seer to open his eyes. He/she asks the seer who he or she thinks is a werewolf, the seer quietly points at a person and the moderator responds with a thumbs up or down (up for werewolf) then informs the seer to close their eyes. The moderator now informs everyone to open their eyes, it is now daytime.

Daytime-
The moderator informs the group who has been slain the previous night (that person can no longer speak or participate and turns their card face up so everyone can read it). The group then discusses who they think is a werewolf and must decide who to lynch. The seer can interject at anytime, but must be careful as the werewolves may find out who the seer is and kill them next. The person who is lynched turns their card face up to reveal whether or not they are a villager, werewolf, or seer.

They then return to night and continue this rotation until one of the following conditions is met:
Both werewolves are dead (villagers win)
there is an equal number or greater werewolves to villagers at the end of the day (werewolves win)

So in honor of Joe Schmoe, will you join us in playing his favorite game? If so send us some pics, video, or details ... we want to know if Buddy shows up and where he does show up, THANKS!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The card game is a version of "Mafia".

I wonder... do the werewolves win often?

Aporia said...

that depends on how well the werewolves can convince everyone that they are not werewolves. Buddy wasn't so good at that task so we tried to let him moderate as much as we could.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KE8bRUUrRBE