Wintreath

[Saint Mark]

Sounds fun!

[The Church of Satan]

Orendi XX: Dog Days Dispatch
Our magazine-style Orendi is back for another issue! Check out our full PDF Version!

[Saint Mark]

Thank you!

[The Church of Satan]

Greetings to our partners and friends!

The Summersend Festival is our annual festival to celebrate the end of summer and the coming of winter with many fun games, contests, events, and friends, you you are invited to join us! For more information, check out the graphic below, and to check out our festival forum, just click here or on the graphic! Hope you can find the time to join us.

[The Church of Satan]

From: [Encrypted] 0u-`gu=4
Subject: Wintreath Calls

Hello Omega Visitor,

Greetings from your local Mercenary crew. We need warm bodies for a new mission. Or cold blooded. We don’t discriminate.

Here’s the gig:  It seems a few less than desirables found their way into a local colony, and there is a fair amount of credits in it for whomever helps get them out. We want those credits. You want to live. 

You interested? You better be, or we will hunt you down. Better to go down fighting than to be hunted by you know who. Head to the recruiter’s office, lower ring of Afterlife. Bring your own gear. Don’t die if you wish to be paid. 

This mission does not make you an official member of any mercenary group. It just ensures your survival another day.

We’ll see you planetside.

-This message was not authorized by Aria. Please don’t tell her. Really, don’t. We don’t take kindly to rats.

Wintreath is proud to present Mass-Effect themed Werewolf XIX: Just a Husk in the Masses, hosted by new Wolfmaster [nation]Ruguo[/nation]. Join our game, employ intrique and deception to advance your side, and have a blast with awesome people in Wintreath (including yours truly) while you're at it! Sound like fun? Great! The link to sign up is right below! Have questions? Then read on. The game starts on Saturday, September 7th, so join up quickly!

Werewolf Sign-Ups: https://wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=6075

Werewolf FAQs

What is Werewolf? How do I play?

If you've heard of or played Mafia or Town of Salem, this is very much like it. At the start of the game, players are divided into two groups: a small group of bad guys (wolves) and a large group of good guys (villagers). The game goes in turns with two phases: day and night. During the day phase all players vote for someone they believe is a wolf, with the person with the most votes being killed off. Then during the night phase, the wolves select a villager to eliminate.

The goal of the game for the villagers is to figure out who the wolves are based on their behaviour during the game, and vote them off during the day phase, while the goal for the wolves is to hide their identity, manipulate the day vote so that villagers are voted out, and further eliminate villagers during the night phase. The group that eliminates the other wins the game.

Where is the game played?

The game is played on our off-site forums, so a forum account is necessary (you can register one here!). Citizenship is not required to play Werewolf!

How much time does it take to play?

Werewolf usually lasts a few weeks, but only requires a few minutes a day to play.

Each day phase usually lasts 2 days, and each night phase usually lasts 1. You'll want to take at least 15-20 minutes during each day phase to read what other people have posted, post your own replies, and vote on who you want to eliminate at the end of that phase. If you're a wolf or have a role that requires taking action during the night phase, you'll want to take a few minutes to send that action to the game host via forum private message.

 

[The Church of Satan]

Embassy Collaborative Writing Activity

 

Hello there! Tired of embassies just having invitations and updates? Yup us too. Embassies are pretty boring so we thought we'd use ours for something more. Embassies are also a place of outreach. A place for one region to introduce their community to another region. So why is nobody doing that!? Well we are and hopefully you will too in the spirit of fun and good will towards other regions. That's why Wintreath is sending this out. The rules are below so you can read up on how this works as well as what's a no go.

The Rules

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1.) Keep it pg-13.

2.) Maintain common decency. No hate speech, don't disparage mental illness or its patients, don't make it pornographic (while the genre of the story is up to you, it cannot be pornographic....yes we felt this needed to be said twice) and all that other common sense stuff that you already know.

3.) You and every region you send it to needs to include with the post you send to other regions, a chronological list of where your specific story has been so that readers (and yes us as well) can keep track of where it has been and verify that the story hasn't been hijacked or something in order to break the rules. Basically your post should look like this:

1.) Wintreath

2.) Your Region

[the rules]

[First paragraph of the story] 

[Your region's addition to the story

Then you send it to another region with your region added to the list who will add to the story and do as you did, and so on.

3a) If you're forwarding this via dispatch then do one of the following: mention the nation with the previous dispatch, pin their dispatch in your region, quote their dispatch on your RMB or telegram Club Stoic with a chronological list of where your particular version of the story has been, including links to where each part of the story was originally posted.

4.) No story can be sent to a region it has already been. In theory there will be several different stories going around that have been to places another story hasn't. So if Story A has been to Regions 1, 2 and 3 it cannot be sent to those regions again, but if Story B has only been sent to Regions 3, 4, 5, and 6 then it can still be sent to Regions 1 and 2.

5.) The genre(s) is up to you, the writers! Wanna make it a Crime Drama/Occult story? Go ahead! Tech Noir/Fantasy? More power to ya! Sky's the limit!

6.) Who writes your region's addition to the story is up to you. Wanna include the in-game residents of your region instead of just the off-site community? We strongly encourage that. Wanna make a contest out of it? Go ahead and have more fun with it. Make a poll to decide? By all means. Whatever you do just have fun and remember to pay it forward by sending it to any one region you have an embassy with. We cannot stress enough how important it is to send it out to only one region. Otherwise the stories could end up deadlocked amidst absolute chaos during its dispersal.

Go ahead and spoiler the rules and guidelines to save space. Just make sure it's obvious that the rules are there and need to be read so that they may be observed.

Prologue

When I was assigned this case I thought it would be easy and that I would finish it quickly. Just talk to the witness, learn what happened, learn who did it and let Homicide or Commercial Crimes take it off my hands. I expected to be home in time for dinner. What they didn't tell me is that I needed to be a therapist to make any progress. I mean I am a therapist but only because I got a degree online so I could get a raise. I'm not even a decent therapist. I am detective Brock Shepherd and this is my report. I'd started bright and early as usual. Well as bright as it gets in Medford, Oregon. As I passed through the gates of Rogue River Pines Asylum I could tell it was more dreary there than any rainy day could make the town. I flashed my badge, showed the director the warrant and made my way towards patient #67, located in Room #33 of the trauma ward. On the way there the director told me about his preliminary examination, "Mr. Parry Laeddis is in a fragile state right now, sir. What he experienced, the things he saw, the trauma was so great that he can't talk about it cohesively or coherently. If you aren't careful in your questioning he'll just shutdown. I cannot allow you to question him without my supervision." I thought he was overstating it at the time. Coddling the man even. I admit now that I was both careless and insensitive when I first spoke to Parry Laeddis. I walked into the room so arrogant and impatient. At the time I had no idea what kind of damage my brash attitude towards Laeddis would do. Even when I left the room having seen the look in his eyes I didn't regret that first encounter as much as I do now. I don't think that anybody who'd seen and endured so much pain would make it out alive. Looking back I'm not even sure he really did. The following is a transcript of my first line of questioning:

[The Church of Satan]

Orendi XXI: Summersend Edition #3
Our magazine-style Orendi has just returned for our third annual Summersend issue! Check out our full PDF Version, or take a look at the pages in image form below.
 

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Orendi XXI, Page 1 - Cover]

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Orendi XXI, Page 2 - Culture Review & Summersend]

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Orendi XXI, Page 3 - Summersend Food]

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Orendi XXI, Page 4 - Summersend Food]

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Orendi XXI, Page 5 - Werewolf Interview]

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Orendi XXI, Page 6 - Tomba Review]

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Orendi XXI, Page 7 - Tomba Review]

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Orendi XXI, Page 8 - Tomba Review]

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Orendi XXI, Page 9 - Will the Underhusen Burn It Down?]

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Orendi XXI, Page 10 - There's a Snake in My Boot!]

 

[Bran Astor]

Fantastic issue! 

[The Church of Satan]

Season's greetings everyone,

It's been another year. Have you accomplished the goals you set for yourself? Are you proud of your actions this year? Have you come to terms with your faults and mistakes? More importantly how are you doing? We hope that this December 25th you spend your time with loved ones; family, friends or even the neighbor that nobody else pays any attention to. As the snow falls (weather permitting), the sun shines (weather permitting) and the roads freeze (drive safe) the community of Wintreath wishes you the merriest of Christmases, the happiest of Hanukkahs and the very best of Boxing Days. As a community that so strongly values the friendships developed here in NationStates we understand that while things may not always go well, whatever is happening your friends are here to lighten the load, talk you through it and carry you past it. It is with that in mind we send this to you. Whether you find your stocking filled with candy or coal, whether you find yourself in good fortune or bad, merry Christmas, happy festival, happy Yule and happy Solstice!

Most Sincerely,
The Citizens and Residents of Wintreath

Edited December 25, 2019 by The Church of Satan

[Saint Mark]

Season's Greetings to our friends in Wintreath!

[The Church of Satan]

Good day, subjects.

Cave Johnson, here.

You are hereby invited to come and take part in Aperture Science's testing process for a new, top-secret prototype we're developing. We offer $50 for anyone who can successfully navigate their way through turretfire, trace amounts of time travel and a slightly unhinnged-yet-entertaining murderbot (who, by the way, has promised a great deal of cake to the winner).

If this sounds appealing to you, please contact your nearest Aperture representative here, and await further instructions.

We're done here

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Man, what a jerk.

Not to worry. The rest of the Aperture staff are really friendly, and we will take every precaution to make sure you do not meet an untimely demise in some dark corner of our facility.

To that end, it would be good to read the basic guide for what exactly forum Werewolf is over here, but the basic premise is that it's a social deduction game, where one Faction (typically referred to as the Scum or the Werewolves) have to kill off certain players during the night phases, and avoid being detected and voted off during the day phases, by another faction known as the Town or Village faction. Mafia and Werewolf are different names for the same game, and it is very similar to Town of Salem.

Our facility also uses a bit of technical jargon every now and then. We wouldn't be very good mad scientists if we didn't, now would we? You can find a detailed guide to every piece of jargon over here.

Don't be shy to invite as many of your friends as you want to bring, either! We have some of the best bouncy-castles that science has ever produced, and our barbecues are legendary. See you there, carbon units!

[Dilber]

This is neat.  I like this.

[Pengu]

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Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin boarding at gate D23 for flight 364 to Frostholm. Please line up in an orderly fashion according to the zone listed on your boarding pass. For the health and safety of our customers, we ask that you maintain a six-foot distance between yourself and others around you.
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Alright folks, the sound of that means it's time for takeoff! That's right, it's time for another round of Werewolf with our 23rd installment: Around Wintreath in 8 Days! This round is being hosted by our newest debuting host: Barnes! It should prove to be an exciting game, and I highly recommend that if you're a fan of the game that you stop on by and take part to help give it an exciting liftoff!

If you're interested in signing up, just check out this thread here:
https://www.wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=6661

I hope to see you there!

[Pengu]

We'd like to invite you to Werewolf XXIII version 2!

 

What's better than a story about a boy wizard, a curious girl in a strange land of madness, and a girl swept away to a new place by a tornado? Why...making them cross over of course!  In this game of Werewolf, you'll see many popular YA literature worlds crossing over with each other, including The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland as well as the Looking Glass Wars series, The Neverending Story, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and much more.

In Werewolf XXIII 2, the Wicked Witch of the West has already conquered the world of Wonderland from the Alice in Wonderland Story.  As our story begins, she's already used the White Rabbit to scope out Hogwarts while luring a young second year wizard down the rabbit hole...and her ambitions don't stop there.  She seeks to conquer all of the popular YA literary worlds with the help of some of her villainous cohorts from the different worlds.  It's up to the various heroes of literature such as Harry Potter, Alice Liddell, Alyss Heart, Atreyu, Katniss Everdeen, Dorothy Gale, and several others to band together and stop the Wicked Witch and her gang of villains from succeeding.  But will they be able to stop these villains in their tracks? Or will all of the worlds bow before their new rulers?
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And that's the gist.  In this game, you'll have the choice at signups to vote on what kind of game you want it to be: Complex, Neutral, or Basic.

A complex game will have various non-vanilla roles such as the Assassin and, naturally, the Witch.  It'll also have pre-voting scenarios that can manipulate the story as well as the gameplay, such as splitting people into groups and throwing them in a new thread, playing Role Roulette where roles get shuffled and given to potentially different players, and other sorts of unique plot twists and turns.  It'd be a game where you'd really be kept on your feet because anything could happen.

A Neutral game would have the vanilla Werewolf gameplay, but would have some non-vanilla roles such as the Assassin, Witch, or other unique roles.  Outside of that, the gameplay would follow traditional Werewolf with no unique twists/turns, but would still keep you on your feet because of some of the roles involved.

A Basic game would be 100% traditional Werewolf with the vanilla roles (2+ Defenders, 1 Seer, 2-3+ Werewolves).  It'd follow all of the traditional rules and whatnot and require people to think more logically and see through potential lies that the Werewolves make, since even things such as role revealing (within reason in the spirit of the game) could be heavily scrutinized despite them still being allowed.

The choice with the most votes will be the type of game that will end up playing out.

And that's it! It should prove to be an exciting game regardless of what form it takes, and we'll be capping it at exactly 24 players at most.  So be sure to stop by and sign up!

https://www.wintreath.com/forums/index.php?topic=6698

[Dilber]

Thank you   I'll see if anyone wants to do it.