Coach's numbers

[Coach]

Throughout the game I've worn numbers on my shirt, put numbers on my votes and as most of you surmised it's been spelling something out. This won't be a very shocking reveal for most but it's probably time I finished the numbering, all things considered.

My first was a number 9 on a vote and then a blank. I then wore a shirt with the number 1 on it. Then more numbers on votes, a 13 and a blank (the blank had a little one under it to imply it was first). Then another shirt with a 23 on it (a little 2 for the ordering there). Finally, it was another number 9.

If you take the letters in the alphabet and assign a number to each in order, you get the very simple code. It was used by the real Coach Wade to write dragonslayer on his votes (though funnily enough he would've had to deliberately lose immunity just to finish his). Mine obviously doesn't spell dragonslayer.

9 1-13 23-9 which is I AM WI

As I've heard some PW's figure out, the last numbers in the sequence were going to be two 12s, another 9 and finally a 19.

9 1-13 23-9-12-12-9-19

Or I AM WILLIS.

I hope it gave people something to talk about. Obviously it was meant to out my identity at the end. I was originally planning to drag it on even when being voted out but I'm getting a bit tired of the anonymity now and it's time to come to the surface.

If the name "Willis" doesn't mean anything to you I probably don't know you so it won't mean anything.

So here's an explanation for those who don't!

I'll put it in a separate post.

[Coach]

In 2011, 32 people were taken prisoner by a deranged psychopath who called himself Willis. The prison was a complex labyrinth full of traps and mind games and danger around every corner.

Of the 32, one man survived. He did so by killing all the other 31. As they all scrambled in a desperate bid to locate the key and exit to their freedom, this man called "the butcher" slaughtered every last one of them and killed the dungeon master whom he found to be a worthless nobody on some kind of revenge trip.

This man was:


A year later, 38 people went missing under similar circumstances. They awoke to find themselves in a dungeon right near the bowels of the Earth. They had to scramble to locate a key but unlike the time before, the key had been placed where no mortal man should ever want to tread, inside the gates of inferno. The immortal afterlife of the damned.

The butcher, who was responsible for this orchestrated another devious plan. Also using the name Willis, he killed one of the prisoners, "the occultist", and saved their spirit, telling them the only way to regain mortality was to kill all the others. Taking over the forms of the deceased who died after exploding in traps, or stepping on frozen panels that turned them into an icicle, this prisoner was able to complete their objective and kill all 37 people.

This man was:


In the process it was revealed that after trekking into inferno, the butcher had become possessed by the real Willis. A magician from ancient Greece who worked in the court of King Minos, a king who sent young men (including the hero Theseus) to do battle in the original labyrinth with the dreaded minotaur. The name Willis had carried on from his legacy, he was a powerful man who had died trying to retrieve the sword of Theseus, the blade the hero used to slay the minotaur.

After the occultist finished slaying his fellow prisoners, there was one final task. To use their memories and powers that he had witnessed, and go into inferno where the sword was kept. He did so, returned with the sword and attempted to slay Willis. This failed. Willis escaped and in doing so broke forth the gates of inferno, allowing a new army of the damned to rise and devour the Earth.

Many years passed. The Earth was in ruin. Mankind had been forced to seek shelter in underground bases, fighting the constant oppression and darkness that overruled them all. The ground was charred, life was ceasing to be. The end of everything was just around the corner.

However the future of mankind is not yet sealed. In a last ditch effort to save the world, a specialised team of soldiers are being put together. Their status is humanity's last hope. Their mission? Raid the fortress of Willis and finally bring an end to the tyrant's reign forever. However nothing is ever that simple. When a task-force was sent to investigate the defenses, most of them disappeared without a trace. The few who came back had turned insane.

This January, the battle for humanity will begin as a team will be put together to finally save the world. The catch? Very few of them will make it out alive, if any.

[Coach]

The Labyrinth series is a unique one I created back in 2011. It's a horror themed RPG where people are forced to tackle puzzles and work together to survive and make their way through an underground maze. Taking place over a period of about 2-3 months, the game uses some unique elements to add to the realism and tension.

For starters, using a special system, players are locked away from one another and cannot communicate outside of the room they are currently in. Every round which lasts about 24 hours, players can interact with things in their room, talk to the other players in their room and choose one of the listed exits to move on through the maze.

Each room poses a new challenge, new items or new threats. To add to the challenge, certain players cannot be trusted either. Their objectives may be different to just survival and finding an exit. The first game had a head-hunter who was required to kill players on a list and return to a special room to win, as well as the infamous butcher (portrayed by our own Lex) who needed to slay everybody else to win.

Not all abilities are bad. There have been psychic twins who can always communicate, an empath who can feel when people are injured or dying in the maze ( getting a shot at both of those roles) and a variety of useful or deadly items and weapons that are obtainable throughout.

The immersion comes from the isolation. Once a player or a group decides to split away and exits a different path to the rest, or gets split up due to some event in the maze, that group can no longer communicate with the old one. You only ever see what goes on in your room. The second a group splits the others could all plot to kill you and you'd have no idea.

This leads to some interesting things. For example, a player who seemed fairly in control at the start may go off with another group and when you later stroll through the maze and come across their remains, you begin to ask yourself how did this happen...and why? Without any real answers, and with no idea who to trust it's a psychological battle of wits that will try and trick and deceive you at every turn.

Willis is not only sadistic, he's very fond of mind games and turning people's expectations and thinking on their heads. Everything you see and hear will be set to trick you and only the smartest and strongest will make it through. Do you dare tread into a new room first only to be butchered by some undiscovered trap? That's the real danger of the labyrinth.

I wanted to make this thread here because I was hoping I could instill some hype. The game won't run until January (it takes a long time to prepare for this) but it'll be a huge game with a lot of slots for players to fill. When the time comes to fill them I'll be creating an application form people can fill out to try and get a place. I'm expecting a fair influx of applications and there aren't unlimited spaces but time will tell just how many.

The second game finished in May. It's all publically viewable here: www.ndimforums.com/lab2/forummain.asp

It was very well recieved (a number of the players and PWs of this sausage season were in the game, not to mention both the hosts) and I was told I was allowed to build up hype here when it was all over.

Obviously it being so far off I can't really give too much away but I like to spread the word. More information will be posted over time leading right up until the start of the game in a few months.

If you're at all interested, updates will be posted on mine and Lex's forum. We're both admins, come check us out! It's also a pretty good general discussion forum with regular board games and other interesting bits and pieces.

www.ndimforums.com/fe/forummain.asp

Thanks to all the PWs who enjoyed Coach's journey this game. I had a blast. Sorry to disappoint anybody who wanted me to win. Guess I was ultimately out-witted.

[King Frosti Zernow]

This is brilliant haha.

[Coach]

The second labyrinth game is the origin of "the red king" aka King Frostilicious. It's well worth a read just to see him devolve into a paranoid wreck with his group. As group leader he at one point or another tried to kill just about all of his friends through paranoia until they finally killed him after rounds and rounds of the same bullshit.

[Host Brett]

Labyrinth is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Lab 2 was easily the best game I have ever played in. It's really an incredible series and you should all want to play it!

[Commissioner Doucho]

Brett wanted me to play Season 2 and I said no,, reading this I feel like a giant fool.

[Natalie White]

Aug 13, 2012 10:58:24 GMT -5 Host Brett said:

Labyrinth is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Lab 2 was easily the best game I have ever played in. It's really an incredible series and you should all want to play it!

This, all of this.

[Host Brett]

Only two to to survive to see the final day in both games!

[Colby Tenerelli]

Highly highly recommended game. Best board game I've played tbh

[Host Lex]

Aug 13, 2012 11:36:08 GMT -5 Host Brett said:

Only two to to survive to see the final day in both games!

F2 FUCKERS

[Boston Rob]

The Adventures of the Angry Leos. One of the highlights.

[Juddy Bear]

was the last (active) townie to survive so I'm kind of cool!!

AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE ADVENTURER HAT!!!!

[Boston Rob]

I made it!

[Host Brett]

You threw the adventurer's hat on the ground..

I was so sad