Light sat quietly, writing in the notebook he had found. The
rain pounded against his window, and a crack of lightning
lit up the room. Suddenly, an apparition appeared before
him, human in shape, but clearly not of this world. Taken
aback by the sudden appearance, Light fell from his chair.

"Why so shocked?" I asked. "I'm Ryuk, the Shinigami who
dropped that notebook. From what I just saw...you're
already aware that that's no ordinary notebook."

"A Shinigami...huh." Light started, regaining his composure
and slowly standing back up. "I'm not shocked, Ryuk. In
fact...I've been waiting for you, Ryuk."

"Oh?"

"I didn't think the Shinigami's Notebook was real...but
after seeing its results, I can act with certainty."

"I see. You really surprise me..." I noted. "I've heard of
Death Notes getting down to the Human World a few times
before. But you're the first one to use it to this extent in
just five days. Most people would be too scared to try it
out."

"I'm prepared, Ryuk. I used the Death Note knowing it
belonged to a Shinigami. And now the Shinigami's here. So
what'll happen to me? Are you going to take my soul?"

"Huh? What's that about? Some fantasy you humans came up
with? I'm not going to do anything with you. Once the Death
Note lands in the Human World, it belongs to the Human
World. In other words, that belongs to you."

"It belongs to...me?"

"If you don't want it, give it to some other human. But if
you do that, all memory of the Death Note will be erased
from your mind."

"So there isn't a price for using the Death Note?" Light
demanded.

"Well, if anything, there is...only the fear and pain humans
who have used the Death Note will experience. And when you
die, I'll be the one to write your name on my Death Note.
Don't think for a moment that any human who's used the Death
Note can go to Heaven, or Hell. That's all." I let out a
raspy, malicious laugh. "You'll find out about it after you
die.

A knock at the door interupted the conversation. "Light?" a
woman called in.

"Don't worry. Go and get it," I assured Light. Slipping
the Death Note under his bed, he went and opened the door.

"What?" Light asked.

"I brought some apples," his mother explained as thought the
Sinigami were not right there in the room. "They're from our
neighbor. Why is it so dark in here? You'll ruin your
eyesight!

"That notebook...originally belonged to me. And since you're
the one using it, you're the only one who can see me. And of
course, my voice...only you can hear my voice." I explained,
picking up an apple from the basket. "In other words, the
Death Note is a bond between Light the human and Ryuk the
Shinigami." I took a bite into the apple. "Tasty," I
added, surprise slipping into my voice for the first time.

"Let me ask you one more thing. Why did you choose me?"
Light asked as I gobbled down several more apples whole.
"Hey, are you listening?"

"Hmm...apples in the Human World are awesome. What would you
call them? Juicy?"

"Answer my question," Light insisted.

"Hah, I didn't choose you. I just dropped the notebook. Did
you think you were chosen because you were smart? Don't
flatter yourself," I chastised, amused. "It just happened
to fall around here...and you just happened to pick it up.
That's all. That's why I wrote the explanation in English,
the most popular language in the Human World."

"Then why did you drop it?!" Light pressed, insulted at
my mocking tone. "Don't tell me it was by mistake after
you went to the trouble and wrote all those instructions."

"Why'd I drop it?" I reiterated rhetorically. "Because I
was bored."

"Bored?" Light repeated.

"In fact, Shinigami these days have so much time on their
hands," I continued. "They're either taking a nap or
gambling. If others see you studiously scribbling names in
the Death Note, they'll say. 'what are you working so hard
for?' and laugh at you. Writing names of other Shinigami
doesn't work. But since we live in the Shinigami Realm, it's
no fun at all to kill people who live in the Human World! So
I figured it'd be more fun to come down here myself. But you
sure wrote a lotta names. But why'd you write down the cause
of death only for that guy who was hit by the truck?"

"Without the cause of death written down," Light replied,
"they all die of heart attacks. That's the best thing about
the Death Note, Ryuk. I can write down the names of the
criminals and slowly reduce the number of evil people."

"What's the point?"

"Any fool can figure it out if someone is just 'eliminating
the bad guys.' I want the world to know...of my existence!
That there is someone passing judgment on them!"

"But...what's the point in passing judgment?" I asked, an
interested look in my eye. "Why do it?"

"I was bored...too," Light explained, turning to face his
window. "Naturally, I didn't believe it at first. But that
Death Note has the supernatural power to tempt people to
want to try it at least once." Light paused for a moment,
turning to face me. "At first, I kept writing the names of
criminals like I was cleaning up the world, so that in time,
no one would do evil. While those guilty ones who truly
deserved to be punished for their crimes die of heart
attacks, people who were immoral or harass others will
slowly be erased through illness or accidents. Then the
world would truly move in the right direction. And I would
create a new world of earnest, kind humans."

"Then you'd be the only one left...with a bad personality,"
I countered.

"Huh? What're you saying? Ryuk, I'm probably the best, most
diligent honor student in Japan. And I will become the god
of this new world!"

"Humans...are interesting after all!"

It is Day 1.
There are 13 of you, so it is 7 to lynch.

[This message has been edited by Rotaretilbo (edited 05-14-2012 @ 05:19 AM).]

Well, we have nothing to go over, there's no point in claiming because everyone will claim to be a guard, and we'll have to rely solely on behavior. This game requires heavy activity to be worth the effort so I say we look into inactive players if we run into a roadblock.

Rot, if I understand correctly, the assassin wins even if it's the Town that lynches him. Am I correct?

I don't know where to start, though.

Further, most of us know who the king is. Can we think of any way to use this to our advantage?

Wait, isn't the king supposed to be the protagonist?

Yes. But I've never heard of this game before. I'm just trying to see what our options are, good and bad. I'm especially trying to figure out how the assassin could kill our king.

We must be very careful of mass claiming for that reason my friends. Even if we lynch the killer, AnP style games end the moment the king is assassinated. So we need to protect the king above anything without letting the scum know we're protecting him. Mass claiming would be a terrible, horrid idea. Normally an assassin, just needs to guess who the king is during the day and Bam, he's dead. I'm assuming that Light(Kira) will be our assassin and the character known as L will probably be our king. Kira kills people by knowing their face and their name. So as soon as Kira THINKS he knows who the King is (L) then he will be able to try to kill him as soon as he knows. So we must conceal the identity of L at all costs. To do that we must also avoid claims to keep the list of possible king players as long as we can. We must not narrow it down for the scum.

I should also note this very important piece of information. I know from Death Note flavor and my role that there is more than just Kira we are hunting for. Kira has quite a few friends that also the ability to kill, most note worth his Girlfriend he picks up that isn't the brightest but has a greater ability to kill than even Kira. So concealing our identities are really of the up most importance guys. Please, please, please, take this into consideration before you claim your role or NAME in this thread. Mass claiming is mass death in this game, no to that. Information is so sensitive in this game that openly giving it out will be exactly like giving out your Social Security to everyone you meet on the street, someone is going to make you pay for it.

One good thing: the assassin has one shot. If he misses, we'll have won.

Rot, is this a faction-win? Or must a player survive until the end to win?

Mozzy, Theres more than one. Let me highlight from my last post. MORE than one.

How do you know the assassin has one shot? Also didnt Rot say that theres only three roles here.

The king.
The assassin and The guard.

Thats the basic idea of the game Bulba.

We have a king
We are his guards
the Assassins want to kill him

Of course there will be twists to each so we're not all just guards, I'm sure the assassins can do more than just kill.

The reason the assassins usually have the regular one shot day kill to kill the king is because they have to publicly declare who they are killing, traditionally. Therefore after they declare their kill its kinda easy to say, Lynch them.

> In a standard Assassin's the in Palace setup, the only player with an ability is the Assassin. I will confirm that in this game, there will be no "nights". Each lynch will mark the end of the day, but the new day will immediately begin after that.

We have no reason to believe that this is a nonstandard game.

Too much Reddit. Sorry.

Agreed. This will not be simply what Rot gave as an example.

I also agree with what Dante said. Random claiming/massclaiming will be suicidal. The game will finish Day 1 if that happens and the King's identity is let out.

What if the assassins get lucky first night and kill the king? Then we've all lost as Rot said the game ends once king is dead.

There is no night phase, Bulba.

aight, I got ninjad.
So basically once the assassins kill, they are revealed?

Then if the King is to fake-claim, and so will the assassin(s), how are we to know who's the assassin?

Kira can kill with just a face and a name.

Kira will probably be in this game, killing each night using someone's identity. Claiming roles is actually safer than claiming names. We should test this theory by having no-one use their name in the thread.

Ignore the bit about night. When reading the sign-ups, my page flipped over as everyone confirmed and I didn't go back to check.
So we have only day actions.

I think we should piece together who knows what about the king.
I have the king's name and role only, not identity.

(Obviously we MUST NOT reveal what we know, just claim to know.)

Same as popey.

I am told the name of the king. You-know-who-you-also-got-it-told plus a word before the 'king' part, as in ___ King.

Im sure the assassins would have a copy of our email so to not get caught.

What Bulba said. And even if they don't, the moment someone posts something like Mayank just did here it gives away something to the assassins that they can use. We could perpetrate a town-wise fraud though.

I don't think we can rely purely on our role emails is what I'm saying. The first step should e to get everyone to post, and then we can take it from there.

I dont know where to start. For once, getting claims is a poor idea...

Exactly, Thymole. I'm not sure what I suggested wil help us at all, I just figured it was something we could do in hope.
Lets be honest, if the scum have all the information then we're screwed, so there's got to be something we have that they don't. We can't just random lynch each day. We've got to have something we can use besides behaviour, since trying to discover the identity of either king looks exactly the same to an onlooker.

This is odd. Very odd.

I have reason to believe more than the assassins have an ability in this game. I also have a suggestion to our following course of action day 1. Everyone should begin by voting the player above them on the list.

Popeychops

Vote: Popeychops

not sure if serious

vote:sarn

Very serious Bulba.

Haven't read any posts yet but just want to say I'm the King and will be requesting protection for tonight.

loooooooooool, If that is true then

Vote: Ashrzr

Wrong thread, sorry.

[This message has been edited by RedHandedJill (edited 04-07-2012 @ 12:05 PM).]

Dante, are you trying to detect who has vote modifications?

Vote: BBJynne

Sounds like a plan that's better than nothing.

Vote: Jetkill Fastmurder

Vote Ser

I don't really think this is going to pan out. we might find a noble but I'm not sure what Dante thinks he is going to find.

If someone is voteless, then they're as good a shout as any.

Haven't read any posts yet but just want to say I'm the King and will be requesting protection for tonight.

What a clever example of mafia player are you! I applaud you!
Vote : Popeychops
Voting without reason, not even saying whether it was a random wagon or he got something on me. We've caught the killer. He wants you all to lynch me without any reason!

EDIT : Oh, now I see the reason for the vote.
Unvote
Vote : Daimond Daimondo

[This message has been edited by Jetkill Fastmurder (edited 04-07-2012 @ 12:32 PM).]

Edits >: (
And also congratulations on reading the thread.

Because, you know, editing is perfectly ok.

After we finish up this thingy here I think we should start with Mayank. That pre-edit aggression was pretty ridiculous.

Hold on. I wasn't the first and wasn't the last to vote against you.

Do you have a post/vote restriction? There's no explanation for faking OMGUS except for having a restriction.

And the editing?

You seem to be post restricted into being a ditz.

I think you're Amane Misa.

FOS: Jetkill Fastmurder

Did Maya just make a major edit?

By start, I mean getting a claim. Not lynching...

*I wasn't the first nor the last to vote with no explanation

What a clever example of mafia player are you! I applaud you!

!!!

Oh and Ash is fakeclaiming btw.

Watashi wa eru desu.

Vote: Bulba

Lol Ash, and I'm the assassin. YOU ARE DEAD, BWAHAHAHA.

Derp.