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Contents 1 The SemiRPG Social Game 1.1 Setup and Game Play 1.1.1 Setup follows the following general steps 1.1.2 Game play ensues as follows 1.2 Winning 1.3 Rolesets 1.4 Variant, Optional, and House Rules 1.5 The Hall of Shame 1.5.1 Some times players have to ruin it for others we have a place for them too 1.5.2 Some story tellers are worhty of special mention 1.5.2.1 Because of general inanity 1.5.2.2 Because one or more players finds them particularly disturbing 1.6 Logs

The SemiRPG Social Game

SemiRPG is a social game with elements of an RPG. Also Known as Werewolf / Mafia / Aliens or any number of other things depending on the roleset employed.

SemiRPG is currently being run as a cooperative project between Caelestia.net and the newly revived MediaDriven IRC network.

On both of these networks games occur primarily in #werewolf regardless of which roleset is being employed as the Werewolf role set is historically the first roleset employed on Caelestia.net. While the original MediaDriven in fact ran Mafia games the familiarity of the majority of the current players with the Caelestia.net layout prompted the contiuation of this mode on MediaDriven as well.

Werewolf was introduced to Caelestia.net by network founder Falerin in Mid-Late 2004 and was played through Early 2005. After several months of silence the game was resurrected in October of 2005.

Historically Werewolf is based on the Social Game Mafia which is credited generally to Russian Psychologist/Professor Dimma Davidoff. The game is loosely similar to memes in other games where the challenge is loosely a disproportional balance of power.

Our games HEAVILY emphasize playing ones role. As such winning is only a secondary goal.

Setup and Game Play

Setup follows the following general steps

1. A moderator is selected.
2. The Moderator assigns roles to the players
3. The Moderator announces any house rules or special notes about the game
4. Game play begins

Game play ensues as follows

• The game is divided into two recurring phases generally called Day and Night.
• During the night phase the smaller (villain) group kills a member of the larger body of players and a number of other roles declare their actions for the upcoming day.
• During the day phase the entire body of players learns the results of the previous night and chooses to lynch/kill one player whom they believe to be in the smaller group.

Winning

In a normal game play continues in the above fashion until either the smaller Villain group is exterminated in which case the Larger Hero group wins or Until the Smaller group has killed enough of the larger group that the numbers are equal that of the larger body in which case the Villain group wins.

There are however several games which have and do modify this by introducing restrictions or special winning conditions. In addition certain roles such as the Werehamster by their nature alter the game's winning condiitons.

Rolesets

Rolesets define the roles a player can play in a giving setting.

• The Werewolf Roleset - This is Caelestia's Default RoleSet
• The Mafia Roleset - This is Caelestia's Mafia RoleSet. Mafia is the older version of the game but is newere in terms of play on Caelestia.net

Variant, Optional, and House Rules

Faction Wars (including roleset)
Deadmen Tell no Tales	Multiple Lives	Multiple Roles
Cat's Have n Lives	Multiple Villains	Thing
Framing

The Hall of Shame

Some times players have to ruin it for others we have a place for them too

The Great Krim Awards

Some story tellers are worhty of special mention

Because of general inanity

The X Awards

Because one or more players finds them particularly disturbing

The HAL Awards

Logs

The wiki also houses a repository of session logs for our games.