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Werewolfs 241: Born to Wolf – Track 4 – Backwolfs

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Tryin’ in vain to breath the fire we was born in.

A beautiful summer day, Stockon’s Wing, somewhere amongst the endless juke joints and Valentino drag.

You walk down the street, feeling pretty great, actually. When you first met Terry back in June, you were pretty sure that the two of you were destined to sink tragically into an abstract concept symbolizing the general malaise of 1970s America.

But it turns out you can just straight up kill one of those things, and you did, back on Day 1.

So instead of a soft infested summer, it’s turned out to be a perfectly healthy summer of a perfectly regular hardness. You and Terry have mostly just spent your time eating popsicles and hanging out at the pool. You like grape best, Terry likes orange.

Yes siree, turns out one can breathe the fire one was born in just fine and…

…you stumble over something sprawled out on the hard concrete next to the public pool. You look down in horror, as there lies Terry, claw marks on their face, and you realize your tragic mistake. Soft infested summers aren’t the only abstract concepts lurking hungrily in the New Jersey night.

You cradle Terry’s head in your lap, and make your vow. “Blame it on the lies that killed us, on the truth that ran us down. You can blame it all on me Terry it don’t matter to me now,” you say. You gaze off into the distance, your eyes hardening with resolve. “But I’m gonna blame it on those good-for-nothing werewolfs what did this to you. And I’m gonna make them pay.”

Lindsay has surrendered to the runaway American dream. She was a Broken Hero On A Last Chance Power Drive, specifically, Terry (Potential Independent Recruit).

Welcome to Day 4! I’m pretty sure today is KIOBKI? Yikes! Twilight will be at Tuesday, August 26 at 9pm New Jersey time.[footnote] Yes, this is just Eastern Time. It is also 8 Central/7 Mountain/6 Pacific.[/footnote] (Note that all write-ups are for flavor and may or may not reflect actual events).

Mod note: Today (August 25th) is the official 50th anniversary of Born to Run! Happy birthday Born to Run![footnote]Also this is my favorite song on the album! Yay! Everybody listen to it! Piano![/footnote]

Factions

TOWN

  • 4 2 TRAMPS LIKE US (Vanilla Town)
  • 6 3 BROKEN HEROES ON A LAST-CHANCE POWER DRIVE (Roled Town)
    • Bad Scooter – Bad Scooter’s searching for his groove, and along the way he sometimes finds out if people are town or scum. He can pick one person each night to find out if they have groove (town) or no groove (scum). (Town Investigator)
    • Big Man – Everything gets better when the change is made uptown and the Big Man joins your band. Each night the Big Man chooses a player and joins their band, making that person immune to wolf kills. Can target self, cannot target same person twice in a row. (Town Doctor)
    • Mary – Mary has one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on killing a werewolf. Go get ’em, Mary. (Town One-shot Vig)
    • The Magic Rat – Shares a chat with The Barefoot Girl. If one dies, both die. The two may choose one night during the game to drive The Rat’s slick machine over the Jersey state line, making them immune to all night actions. (Town Lover & One-shot Commuter)
    • The Barefoot Girl – Shares a chat with The Magic Rat. If one dies, both die. The two may choose one night during the game to drive The Rat’s slick machine over the Jersey state line, making them immune to all night actions. (Town Lover & One-shot Commuter)
    • Terry – Tries in vain to breathe the fire we was born in. No special powers. Disappears into the Soft Infested Summer if given a postcard of the Jersey shore, gaining the ability to send postcards as well. (Potential Independent Recruit)

RUNAWAY AMERICAN DREAMS (WOLFS)

  • This Town – Baby this town rips the bones from your back. Yikes! Nobody but nobody is getting out while they’re young on your watch. Each night you assign a wolf (can be yourself) to name one player who will surrender to the runaway American dream (=die). Cannot choose the same wolf two nights in a row, unless there is only wolf left. (Head Wolf)
  • The Man – You get to work late and the boss man’s givin’ you hell. Give ‘em hell! Mandatory overtime! No fun tonight! Each night you choose a player whose role will be blocked for the night. Cannot target same player twice in a row. (Wolf Roleblocker/First Backup Head Wolf)
  • A Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – No one really knows what you are or what you do, but from context clues you seem… bad? (Vanilla Wolf/Second Backup Head Wolf)
  • Eye-Ghosts of All the Boys Mary Sent Away – They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets. Honestly, you probably should have just moved on, eye-ghosts. But now it’s too late and you’ve collectively transmorgified into a werewolf somehow. (Vanilla Wolf)

ONE SOFT INFESTED SUMMER (INDEPENDENT)

One Soft Infested Summer – You are the general miasma of heat, humidity, and post-
‘60s America that lingers over everybody out on the run tonight. Each night you choose a player to be sent a vintage postcard of the Jersey shore. If the player you have chosen is Terry, then they are recruited to your team, join you in a chat, and also hand out postcards beginning that night. You (and Terry if recruited) win exclusively and immediately if/when all living players have a Jersey Shore postcard (you do not need to have one yourself). You (and/or Terry) do not need to be alive to win. You do not need to recruit Terry to win individually.

Rules

Players are not allowed to edit comments or directly quote from private chats without permission from the mod.

Ties are RNGed.

Wolfs win when they equal or outnumber Town. Town wins when all scum are dead. Independent(s) win when the meet the condition described above.

All living players must vote for autokill (>50% of living players) to take effect.

Order of Operations I Think
Commuting > Roleblocking > Investigating > Postcards > Vig Shot = Wolf Kill > Healing

Please be respectful to all players. Attack arguments, not people. This is just a game, and we’re all here to have a good time.

Players
  1. Side
  2. Cork
  3. Blip (Mary/Town Vig)
  4. Mrs. Queequeg (Tramp Like Us/Vanilla Town)
  5. Indy (One Soft Infested Summer/Independent)
  6. Anna
  7. Josephus
  8. Goat
  9. Jake (Big Man/Town Doctor)
  10. Lindsay (Terry/Potential Independent Recruit)
  11. Wasp (Tramp Like Us/Vanilla Town)
  12. Scientician
  13. Moo
  14. Mustard
  15. Chum

Backups:
1. MSD