Sensible Erection | Sensible Gold Rush: Day 1

Monday, 21 April 2008

quote [ Exiting the steamship, the passengers -- all quite entrepreneurial folk from the eastern half of the continent -- gasped in awe. The bustling future metropolis they had been promised a share of was nothing more than grasslands, drylands, and unsturdy soils. The mining area further upriver, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was no better. This was home... This was home? ]

"Well, I'll be..." whispered one of the well-to-do passengers, "it's perfect." The other passengers looked at him with confusion. "It's absolutely perfect. I can see it now. Mansions for every man here, farmlands out in the country, irrigation channels dug from the American River, laundry done uptown and whorehouses downtown, safety for the ladies and children, and security for us all. My friends, this is heaven! Gold and a Mediterranean climate; it's the American Dr..."

POW! The well-to-do man fell to the ground in agony. He was as dead as a dog's nose is wet. Steamship passengers, too frozen in terror to help, rob, or faint, looked up from the dead man into the chambers of two pistols.

"I'm Big Richard! And in the memory of my little brother, this land is no Sensible City! No, no no no... This land is Li'l Peter's Land. That gold out in the American River is Li'l Peter's gold. And no government man and no business man is going to take that from us."

"So go pray to the Franciscans, and get back in yer covered wagons, and get back in yer steamships, and get back on yer horses, and ride on back to wherever it is y'all came from. That ain't no warning."

Many fled, looking to Oregon or Mexico as a possible home, but a few brave souls decided to stick around, and see if they can't get for them and theirs.

Player List
Leezurd - Monocle Purveyor
shizac - Card Player
tamp - Wagon Train Leader
mos - Mayor
jhvh1 - Steamship Captain
theolypse - Spanish Aristocrat
mego - Farmer
JewyPEZ - Horse Whisperer
foglai - Shopkeeper
graham - Adventurist
duncs - Blacksmith
sociology_boy - Southern Belle
Amul Muzz - Animal Tracker
Todomanna - Oregonian Carpenter
eightysix - Barber
Eon Bleu - Banker
beerboy - Liquor Proprietor

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"OK, I have my orders, I've signed up for my google groups, I see the Day 1 post... Now what?"

Now... You discuss. You get into character, and you try to figure out who's a baddie. You also comment with humorous photos, make awkward passes, and generally have yourselves a bit of light mayhem. Have fun!

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If you think you know who a baddie is, you go to the voting thread and you type:

I vote to lynch Aidentas.

Use HTML now, not BBCode. You don't have to say "lynch" either; any gruesome death will do.

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At the end of the day, we'll tally votes, and the person (or persons) with the highest vote tally gets killed...

...And then we go to the night, where the Cowboys get to talk in their google group, and Big Richard, the Prospectors and Outlaw go to theirs. Honestly, you guys can visit the google groups during the day period too.

The Following Roles Have Night Actions:

Big Richard and the Prospectors - Night Kill
Outlaw - Night Kill
Ranch "Hands" - Protection
Sheriff - (Limited) Night Kill

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Few more things:

1) Discuss! Talk! Be Merry! This game is a game; it's no fun if you stay silent.

2) No PM'ing. That means IRC and phone calls too.

3) Vote every day. Even if it's a "no vote".

4) Has anyone seen sythe's pants?

[mafia game] [by Jewbacchus@9:20amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

Dioxin said @ 9:21am GMT on 21st Apr
Who's running Sensible Erection?

theolypse said @ 10:29am GMT on 21st Apr
A Mafia game based around a porn studio, where people are not lynched but snuffed, and crazy accidents happen to actors mid-coitus?

sythe said @ 11:47am GMT on 21st Apr
Dammit dammit, why's everyone always after my lucky pants?

juju said @ 11:51am GMT on 21st Apr
I think we're all just grateful people aren't stealing your lucky banana hammocks.

Aidentas said @ 9:33am GMT on 21st Apr [Score:3 Informative]
Place your votes under this comment, if you want it to count. Please place on your votes under this comment, or you'll make Jewby sad.

Remember to embolden your vote.

Todomanna said @ 9:38am GMT on 21st Apr
I vote for shizac on the grounds that a card player is more likely to be in Big Richards gang.

Todomanna said @ 1:16am GMT on 22nd Apr
Out of self-preservation, I'm going to switch my vote to Theolypse.

JewyPEZ said @ 9:43am GMT on 21st Apr
The horses here tell me to vote for Todomanna because these youngsters should live a coupla days. 'Sides, there ain't nothin' right about them Oregonians.

theolypse said @ 10:03am GMT on 21st Apr
I suggest we tear the truth from mos' testicles, where it hides from the light. One learns things, in the courts of royalty, and chief among them is that schemers and conspirators must make friends in the highest places they may. If Big Richard has any sense at all, he has subverted the political operators here toward his own ends.

Also, this town being without a skilled politician will make it easier for me to come into power and acquire by taxing what would be entirely too much work to prospect for.

...What? You were all thinking it; I might as well admit it.

theolypse said @ 4:23am GMT on 22nd Apr
Well. It would be suicide to not give everyone hope that their votes for Todomanna could matter. That's three to my five. Good people, you still have a chance to save the life of an innocent, and I implore you to do it.

Todomanna said @ 4:39am GMT on 22nd Apr
Response

beerboy said @ 10:29am GMT on 21st Apr
I have one shot of whiskey every time I vote on a lynch, it tells me that theolypse must be destroyed! The liquor never lies.

Plus we won't need to worry 'bout expectin' any of them thar Spanish Inquisitions with him gone.

mego said @ 12:21pm GMT on 21st Apr
I vote for beerboy. My Pa used to tell me ain't no good ever came from alchohol. Smart man, my Pa was.

These men, the prospecters...ain't no good ever come from them neither.

duncs said @ 1:12pm GMT on 21st Apr
Sociology_boy! You're rampantly pretty, can I buy you dinner some time?
Theolypse: what's a stranger like you doing in town?

Todomanna said @ 1:20pm GMT on 21st Apr
Please click

duncs said @ 1:42pm GMT on 21st Apr
I fail to notice what you think I have / haven't done.

duncs said @ 1:43pm GMT on 21st Apr
in before: "you have to bold for the vote to count". I can read!

Todomanna said @ 2:03pm GMT on 21st Apr
Again, clicky

shizac said @ 1:56pm GMT on 21st Apr
You know Todomanna came because he's a carpenter and he knew there were gonna be coffins to build.

And how did he know you ask? A tip from his good pal Big Richard.

Lynch the bastard.

graham said @ 6:45pm GMT on 21st Apr
I vote we tie eightysix up to the train tracks!

foglai said @ 10:16pm GMT on 21st Apr
Now if we want to make this here town a right American town, well, I just don't see no need for none of these here Spanish Aristocrats. If theolypse really has all that high-falootin' lineage, what's he doing out here with the dusty tumbleweeds?

theolypse said @ 4:25am GMT on 22nd Apr
Ahem.

Amul Muzz said @ 2:06am GMT on 22nd Apr
Yo pensar theolypse robbar mi burro! De Espaniard ee has de sheeefty eyes.

eightysix said @ 5:10am GMT on 22nd Apr
No, you graham!

jhvh1 said @ 5:15am GMT on 22nd Apr
me, I vote for theolypse.
Out there on the river on the way up here I spied him leerin' at beerboy in such a lecherous way, you can tell he has the idea of buggerin' the boy first chance he gets. We don't need no fancy pants spanish pedo snob wanderin around.

Eon Bleu said @ 5:28am GMT on 22nd Apr
foglai's shop could easily be a front for mischief. Besides, he's two payments late on his mortgage.

Todomanna said @ 9:34am GMT on 21st Apr
I would also like to remind everyone about the irc channel on Espernet.

If you need a client, mIRC is the basic choice, I believe, and there's also the java client at the Espernet website.

Currently JewyPEZ is working on a mafia bot that will hopefully streamline things, and allow logging, so that we can use the channel for discussion.

This is the last time I'll bug anyone about it (this game). Though I'd probably be less inclined to spam this if more than one person joined the channel whenever I did :P

Again, the channel is #semafia on irc://irc.esper.net , hope to see you there :D

Jewbacchus said @ 9:40am GMT on 21st Apr
Please, no strategy discussions regarding a currently running game, and no in-game information discussed. No PMing, etc.

JewyPEZ said @ 9:40am GMT on 21st Apr
Boy howdy! Well ain't this just the darndest thing. That feller got filled with lead faster than a jackrabbit in a lightnin' storm. I reckon we oughtta fine this here Big Richard and make'm wish he'd never found any o' that angel's yellow.

Psst. The horses. THEY SPEAK TO ME! Heehee!

beerboy said @ 10:33am GMT on 21st Apr
Horses speaking to ya? You been tappin into my stock, boy?

theolypse said @ 9:51am GMT on 21st Apr
Leezurd, I will need to meet with you later concerning repairs to the very best of my monocles. It has been splattered with the blood of that gauche fellow! This will not do.

theolypse said @ 10:12am GMT on 21st Apr
Roses are red.
Cap guns are toys.
I'm Mano-Banana.
Tonight, sociology_boy.

sociology_boy said @ 2:10pm GMT on 21st Apr
Sorry Señor, but I don't understand your odd Spanish metaphors about capguns and bananas. You'll have to put it in more simple terms for a simple country girl like me.

Amul Muzz said @ 11:55am GMT on 21st Apr
Odele, donde esta mi Burro? Ay, Gringo, Chu see mi Burro?

...CHALUUUUPA!...

mego said @ 12:16pm GMT on 21st Apr
That Amull Muzz fellow is the worst animal tracker I ever did see! He's already killed 2 of my cows! The other day I caught him digging a pit trap out back by the their watering hole, so I grab my shotgun and I'm gunna go an' tell him to get the hell off my property, and he up and shoots me in the neck with some wild tranquilizin' dart what came out of a blow-gun. Anyhow, I woke up 'bout half'n hour afore sunset and I'll be damned if one of my cows wasn't laying in the bottom of his good fer nothin' pit trap...

theolypse said @ 12:50pm GMT on 21st Apr
Have you examined the state of your pants?

mego said @ 1:09pm GMT on 21st Apr
It's hard not to notice such a thing...

Amul Muzz said @ 4:42am GMT on 22nd Apr
Good for nahting? I got a cow, no?

Todomanna said @ 1:19pm GMT on 21st Apr
Use <b>bold</b> tags to show who you're voting for.

Otherwise, try to keep your comments to those showing your votes in the voting thread, so as to make things counting them up easier.

Please disregard this if you've already updated your vote.

Todomanna said @ 2:02pm GMT on 21st Apr
I apologize for not making it clearer, I tend to constantly change my sentences in order to make them as clear as possible, unfortunately forgetting to replace a word or two, thus making it even more confusing.

What I meant was that it's best to only post votes in the voting thread, so the GM (or GMs as they case occasionally is) can more easily tally them once the clock reaches zero.

duncs said @ 2:16pm GMT on 21st Apr
right. and here's me thinking a script was involved. Thanks for caring, though.

Todomanna said @ 2:21pm GMT on 21st Apr
Currently the script requires that the person who made the original post be the one to post the voting thread. Obviously you can go with older scripts that work differently, but neither are infallible, and it certainly makes it easier to check when people don't post random things in the thread.

I'm sorry if I came off sounding like a know it all, trying to boss people around, but my theory of life is it's better to tell someone something that they might not need to know, than to not tell them when they do.

duncs said @ 2:34pm GMT on 21st Apr
ok, thanks for clarifying. sorry for getting pissy so quickly.

cb361 said @ 6:59pm GMT on 21st Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
Version 1.04 of the Voting Script can be downloaded from here. You need to be using FireFox for this script to work.

This version is a minor bug-fix to allow games where the original poster didn't create the voting thread. Select any of the original poster's comments as the voting thread, and then tell the script to Forget the location of the Voting Thread. You can then choose any comment as the voting thread. Sorry for the cheat-code like method - I thought that this situation would virtually never happen.

Todomanna said @ 1:50am GMT on 22nd Apr
You are a god among men, good sir. Or at least a very tall guy amongst very short guys.

Aidentas said @ 1:26pm GMT on 21st Apr
*waits patiently for tamp to arrive*

sythe said @ 1:34pm GMT on 21st Apr
*pants wantonly for tamp to arrive*

mego said @ 1:53pm GMT on 21st Apr
*wants painfully for tamp to arouse.*

sociology_boy said @ 2:07pm GMT on 21st Apr

Oh mah heavens! That was absolutely dreadful!
...And yet somehow incredibly exciting! I don't care what "Big" Richard or anybody else says, I'm stayin' right here.

eightysix said @ 11:13pm GMT on 21st Apr [Score:1 Funny]
I wait like mountains beside barber chair, hold tomahawk in hand, but wonder why nobody come for 1 penny shave and haircut.

Amul Muzz said @ 5:56am GMT on 22nd Apr
Uno peso? Mi Dio! ees mucho dinero. Whan eef I geeve joo un 'haypenny and chupa-chupa for da rest?

theolypse said @ 4:25am GMT on 22nd Apr
Funding the missionaries, you godless heathen. Who do you think pacified the natives twenty years ago so you could settle here in the first place?

Eon Bleu said @ 5:23am GMT on 22nd Apr
Smallpox?

eightysix said @ 5:34am GMT on 22nd Apr
Grandfather teach me a song on my coming of age. It goes

White men came across the sea
They brought us pain and misery.

Eon Bleu said @ 5:36am GMT on 22nd Apr [Score:1 Informative]
Well, I came from Nebraska. So you have nothing to fear from me. Care for a whiskey?

Todomanna said @ 4:39am GMT on 22nd Apr
Trading one innocents life for another then? I know I am innocent, you know that you are, no one else knows if either of us are innocent (provided neither of us are cowboys (they're the good guys, right?)). Either one of us are decent picks, considering the lack of information thus far.

Aidentas said @ 5:29am GMT on 22nd Apr
Voting Totals
20 hrs left in Day 1

Theolypse 5 ( Todomanna, beerboy, foglai, Amul Muzz, jhvh1 )
Todomanna 3 ( JewyPEZ, theolypse, shizac )
eightysix 1 ( graham )
beerboy 1 ( mego )
graham 1 ( eightysix )

Yet to vote: Leezurd, tamp, mos, duncs*, sociology_boy, Eon Bleu

*duncs, your vote is unclear to me, if it is a vote

Eon Bleu said @ 5:34am GMT on 22nd Apr
Step right up and open a bank account! Your gold isn't safe unless it's in our safe! Protect your cash from thieves and brigands, and when you open an account, we'll give you the pelt of the last Grizzly Bear in California as a special thank you for choosing us as your financial institution. Don't like Grizzly? We also have a dead Red Indian that would make a delightful conversation piece.

foglai said @ 5:41am GMT on 22nd Apr
You know who else wants lots of gold...

Eon Bleu said @ 5:47am GMT on 22nd Apr
The King and Queen of Spain?