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That works for me - that gives us our 9 players and Eddy will be the Game Moderator. Feel free to get things going whenever you are ready Eddy. I was going to take Dan's suggestion and add a couple extra roles to the game but you can set it up as you see fit.
If you want to discuss modding at all, feel free to chat me up in the chatbox, gchat, PM, whatever. It's not terribly complicated, but I've found some things help make it easier.
I would talk to Dan - the stuff he was suggesting in the chatbox was the route I was going to take, I don't have my notes in front of me but I think it was Godfather, Vigilante, and one other that I was considering.