From the Diary of Vinny "Toad" McCormick , A Chicago Outfit mobster previously unknown until this diary was found in a hole in an old abandoned speakeasy in south Chicago. After examining this diary, historians have declared it to be the most informative known source of what happened in the Grand Rapids Hotel Massacre of 1929, where many of Al Capone's associates were mysteriously killed, ultimately leading to Al's downfall.
"Today we got to the Grand Rapids Hotel, Al himself leading the way with his best enforcers by his side. He was having a big get-together to celebrate getting the mayor race. Ya see, we had just gotten Big Bill Thompson into office, and he weren't going to do nothing to stop our Outfit from getting our clients their booze. Course, he might not care too much about the northies either, but we've got a few grand green friends that might be changing his mind here.
All of Al's friends are coming in here too: his old mokker Papa Johnny, his fixer Jack Zuta, good ole Gus from St. Louie, and all his talking heads and guns. We're gonna have a good time, Grand Rapid's got one of the best speakeasy's around full of the best hooch and mule, and there's a crate of Cuban's that I'm jotting this down on top if right now. Looking to be the premiere night!"
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"Well, this might be the kiss off, but hell it's gone interesting around here. We was sitting around smoking some snipes, when Al got this look in his eyes like a crow just snatched his moll's necklace off her bosom, and he jumped up and shot this joe right in the chest like he was a pigeon. Turns out it was worse, this rube was a pigeon, a stool pigeon that is! The name was Tom Friel, a snitch, one of that bastard Eliot Ness's men. They've been trying to get us all in jail for months now, taking offense at our generous redistribution of alcohol to those the feds have taken it away from so rudely.
I'll tell ya Al was having none of that. He called everyone into the parlor, and made them all give in their guns and answer to him. He says, that he's sure that if Tom was here, then some of us must be snitching as well. I know I'm innocent, but the rest of them say they are too, so Al's gonna make us either confess, or start having us execute each other one by one til we can be sure all the snitches are gone. Al's not gonna have anyone take him down, and I can't really blame him. Now everyone's on the spot though, and looking mighty nervous. There should be some interesting works here for the next few days...."
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Game Details
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Signups:
1. uberfish
2. Serdoa
3. Tasunke
4. Bigger
5. pindicator
6. novice
7. waterbat
8. Merovech
9. zakalwe
10. Rowain
11. Qgqqqqq
12. Mattimeo
13. MJW (ya that one)
14. Lewwyn
15. Azza
16. Selrahc
17. Ryan
"Today we got to the Grand Rapids Hotel, Al himself leading the way with his best enforcers by his side. He was having a big get-together to celebrate getting the mayor race. Ya see, we had just gotten Big Bill Thompson into office, and he weren't going to do nothing to stop our Outfit from getting our clients their booze. Course, he might not care too much about the northies either, but we've got a few grand green friends that might be changing his mind here.
All of Al's friends are coming in here too: his old mokker Papa Johnny, his fixer Jack Zuta, good ole Gus from St. Louie, and all his talking heads and guns. We're gonna have a good time, Grand Rapid's got one of the best speakeasy's around full of the best hooch and mule, and there's a crate of Cuban's that I'm jotting this down on top if right now. Looking to be the premiere night!"
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"Well, this might be the kiss off, but hell it's gone interesting around here. We was sitting around smoking some snipes, when Al got this look in his eyes like a crow just snatched his moll's necklace off her bosom, and he jumped up and shot this joe right in the chest like he was a pigeon. Turns out it was worse, this rube was a pigeon, a stool pigeon that is! The name was Tom Friel, a snitch, one of that bastard Eliot Ness's men. They've been trying to get us all in jail for months now, taking offense at our generous redistribution of alcohol to those the feds have taken it away from so rudely.
I'll tell ya Al was having none of that. He called everyone into the parlor, and made them all give in their guns and answer to him. He says, that he's sure that if Tom was here, then some of us must be snitching as well. I know I'm innocent, but the rest of them say they are too, so Al's gonna make us either confess, or start having us execute each other one by one til we can be sure all the snitches are gone. Al's not gonna have anyone take him down, and I can't really blame him. Now everyone's on the spot though, and looking mighty nervous. There should be some interesting works here for the next few days...."
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Game Details
- This game will be a 2 party game: The Mobsters (village) will be working to find the Snitches (wolves), before the snitches sell them out. Standard winning conditions will apply (village wins with all wolves dead, wolves win with equal or majority of players)
- This game will represent powers in a unique way: powers will not be limited to a player, but will be contained in Items. Players holding an item will be able to use the power that that item provides. There will also be a system in place and explained that will allow items to trade hands between players.
- This game will be an open setup: ~All possible items and their powers will be defined and explained in notes in the first post of the thread. I will reserve the right to include one mystery item that I do not state in those notes, but currently don't plan to include one.
- I plan for this game to be played with 20 players. If fewer than 20 people sign up, I will first delay the start time to allow for more possible signups, if no one still shows I will re-engineer the setup to work with fewer players. If more than 20 want to play, I can reserve spots for replacements in case someone drops out, but I would prefer not to expand the size of the game after the issues with WW16 and the too-large size. *EDIT* If there's enough extra people wanting to play I might expand the number of players, but I'll decide that if I get there.
- I have done research for this game and am basing it on actual people and places, and each player will have the name of someone associated with Al Capone in this time period. However, these names are just for flavor in role-playing and write-ups, and will not have a bearing on game mechanics or alignment.
- Signups will be open until 2200GMT, January 2nd. I plan to start the game 24 hours later, at 2200GMT January 3rd. Again, this might be pushed back a few days if needed for signups.
- Item specifics and a few other minor details are not finalized yet, so if you know for sure you don't want to play and would like to talk with me to help ensure good balance, PM me, I would welcome that input.
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Signups:
1. uberfish
2. Serdoa
3. Tasunke
4. Bigger
5. pindicator
6. novice
7. waterbat
8. Merovech
9. zakalwe
10. Rowain
11. Qgqqqqq
12. Mattimeo
13. MJW (ya that one)
14. Lewwyn
15. Azza
16. Selrahc
17. Ryan
I'll sign up though.
