Scientists at Egypt's Great Universities of the Human Body have made a
disturbing discovery: Evidence of Lycanthropy in Egypt!
I'd like to invite everyone to join our Halloween event "Werewolves in Egypt!"
It is based on the party game known as "Mafia" or "Werewolf", but adapted to
work in a massively multiplayer environment. This will be a Welcome Back
Weekend, meaning that if you've ever had a paid Tale IV account, you can join
the fun for free, no credit card needed.
Rules for Werewolf are as follows: To participate in the game, you must first
build a Mortuary Temple. Materials for this are trivial: 13 boards, 13 bricks,
and 13 slate. You must do this between:
10:00AM EDT (GMT-0400) Friday, Oct 30, 2009
and
10:00AM EDT (GMT-0400) Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
The game itself begins once the temple building phase completes. Everyone who
has built a temple is assigned a role, either a Villager, a Seer (a special kind
of Villager), or a Werewolf. Play proceeds in odd-even rounds of 20 minutes
each:
During the night, Werewolves are active. They can:
- Sniff Mortuary Temples to get a player's scent (3/day)
- Attack a player who's scent they have gotten (1/day)
During the day, Villagers are active. They can:
- Vote to lynch a suspected werewolf. Villagers get 7 votes per day, and
can place them all on one suspected werewolf, or spread them around.
Also during the day, Seers can:
- Determine with certainty whether a person is a werewolf (4x/day)
We'll have some fantastic prizes for this event. Top werewolves (based on
number of kills) can win rare Huntsman's Fishing Poles and Portable
Cornerstones. Top Villagers (based on number of werewolves lynched) can win
Topaz Light Boxes, Portable Cornerstones and Silver Powder. The Villager who
lynches the most werewolves will receive a new, logged Microphone.
If you're returning to Egypt, I'd encourage you to explore some of the recently
unlocked content: The Test of Hexaglyphs was the first of our Legacy Tests to be
released, and challenges you to solve puzzles on boards of interlocking
hexagonal tiles.
Tale 2 veterans will remember a classic Test - and one of the most beautiful: In
the Test of Flight, artists create air shows using silk birds and a series of
pylons. The birds ride on natural air currents enabling an artist to achieve
creative aerobatic interplays.
Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend...
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