Joined: Sep 25, 2013 Posts: 5149 Location: Toronto, Ontario
Identity: Spider-Man
Preferred Pronoun Set: Wtf is a "Jabber address"?
To be clear, KoD and numbers are correct in that I will not use my NLP to try and deceive you (goes against the spirit of the thing). That being said, if you jump to conclusions or misinterpret something I've said (which, while true, may not be the complete truth), then I won't always jump to correct your misinterpretation (though usually I will).
Woo. If we're going to kill me let's do it proper.
Fruit steps forward and hammers the final stake into zinger's body. The seemingly impervious man begins to bleed. Has he finally been killed? But it is not blood seeping from his wounds. It is power. Ancient, terrible power. What once were cries of struggles are now quiet chuckling. Zinger smirks.
What have you done...?
"It has been one hundred trillion millenia since last I reigned. My rule has long been forgotten by the eldest of immortals. It has long disappeared from the scriptures of the most hermetic societies. Ignorance is truly your sin today, and you will have an eternity to repent it."
Zinger stands up, calmly removing the stakes nailed into his body. As he does so, his flesh falls from his body to the ground as mud. Eventually, all that remains of Zinger is a golden lock, pierced through completely by Fruit's stake, and then, it too falls apart. The sky grows dark, and thunder and laughter fill the sky. The earth is split asunder as streams of blood snake their way around the stunned spectator's feet. The sun convulses and contorts into a hideous thing. The thing begins speaking. It is clear who it is.
"Let all the world know! Today, Set rules again!"
Zinger has been lynched, he was, is, and always will be Set, Self Aligned Sealed God
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Lilan wrote:
You are Set, Self Aligned Sealed God. One Hundred Trillion Millenia ago, a battle with a legendary hero sealed your power over the universe. Since then, you have sought to regain it. You are currently confined within a mortal vessel, and will only be freed when that vessel is destroyed. The vessel is normally too powerful to be destroyed, but a gathering of powerful characters has weakened the seal. Now is your chance.
Win Condition: You win the game when you are lynched.
Passive Ability - Immortal Vessel: You are immune to death by any means other than lynch. In addition, in order to be lynched you need the vote of every other living player in the game rather than a majority. You can be lynched normally in LyLo. Passive Ability - Weakening Seal: Each time you are targeted at night, you require one less vote to be lynched. This ability can not reduce your lynch threshold below the default majority requirement. Passive Ability - The World Belongs to Me: You end the game when you are lynched.
Joined: Aug 05, 2014 Posts: 6083 Location: Here. Always.
Fun game.
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Minish_Link on 08/02/2020 No one is gonna hold a grudge over a mafia game.
ExLight hahaha stares at KoD
Zinger209908 you are in a better position than you were before KoD saved you from yourselves you should thank him before he kills himself with his hail marry here
funnier6 Also for goodness sake you know KoD could argue until he had sucked all the air in the room and was suffocating on the floor
shadowamber you gotta admit the bus gifs were kinda funny though
Joined: Aug 05, 2014 Posts: 6083 Location: Here. Always.
I vote we go to night so my head can get messed with.
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Minish_Link on 08/02/2020 No one is gonna hold a grudge over a mafia game.
ExLight hahaha stares at KoD
Zinger209908 you are in a better position than you were before KoD saved you from yourselves you should thank him before he kills himself with his hail marry here
funnier6 Also for goodness sake you know KoD could argue until he had sucked all the air in the room and was suffocating on the floor
shadowamber you gotta admit the bus gifs were kinda funny though
I'd like to apologize for anyone who feels slighted by the way this game ended.
here's a rough copy of the design file, not sure if its missing anything.
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------------------------------------ Set, Sealed God [J][Zinger]
You are Set, Self Aligned Sealed God. One Hundred Trillion Millenia ago, a battle with a legendary hero sealed your power over the universe. Since then, you have sought to regain it. You are currently confined within a mortal vessel, and will only be freed when that vessel is destroyed. The vessel is normally too powerful to be destroyed, but a gathering of powerful characters has weakened the seal. Now is your chance.
Win Condition: You win the game when you are lynched. Passive Ability - Immortal Vessel: You are immune to death by any means other than lynch. In addition, on order to be lynched you need the vote of every other living player in the game rather than a majority. You can be lynched normally in LyLo. Passive Ability - Weakening Seal: Each time you are targeted at night, you require one less vote to be lynched. This ability can not reduce your lynch threshold below the default majority requirement. Passive Ability - The World Belongs to Me: You end the game when you are lynched.
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Myriad, Soul of the World[T][Numbers]
You are Myriad, Town Aligned Soul of the World. Your arms are the machinations of reality. Your breath is the pulse of nature. Everything that exists is a part of who you are. And yet you are more. You are the core that the fabric of reality feeds into. You are the origin, but you will not be the end. Someday, you will die. The world is strong enough to survive without you now. But for now, you thrive.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead. Passive Ability - Omnipresence: While you are alive, anybody that is not on the list of players can post in the thread. Any votes made by people not in the game are counted as being made by you.
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Rune, Western Summoner [T][Scarlet]
You are Rune, Town Aligned Western Summoner. You are a magician who specializes in binding souls to dolls. You have travelled here from a foreign nation in the interest of broadening your knowledge of magic. It seems a lot of powerful people have gathered here, and you are hoping to learn from them.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead. Active Ability - Summon: Once per game during the night, you can add a new player to the game. Send me the name of the player and they will be sent a role PM and added to the game. Passive Ability - Dark Ritual: If you die without using your ability, your soul will be transferred to your doll and you will gain an extra life. Your role PM will still be revealed upon death. You will lose all of your abilities after this ability activates.
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Andromeda, Lady Thief [T][Neosilk]
You are Andromeda, Town Aligned Lady Thief. You are a robot that was constructed by an advanced civilization in order to play strong female leads in action films. Unfortunately, the civilization was destroyed in a disaster shortly thereafter, and you have since survived by living as a thief.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead. Active Ability - Steal: At any point during the day, you may send me a target that you wish to steal from the following night. They will lose a random active ability if they have one, and you will gain that ability for the duration of the night. At the end of the night, you will return the ability.
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X0r, Radical Hacker [M][Niklor]
You are X0r, mafia aligned Radical Hacker. From a young age, you've had a gift manipulating technology. You climbed the ranks of the underground in your home country and became a powerful geopolitical force, hidden behind the veil of seven proxies. This life was satisfying to you, but while digging through a decrepit server, you uncovered an ancient power. With this power, you could do far more than simply control the world. This power is Dominus [playername].
Win Condition: You win the game at the start of any day where the mafia makes up at least half the game. Active Ability: Data Interception: At any point during the day, you may send me a target that you want to tap the following night. Before the night ends, you will receive a list of any PMs that they would receive, and will be given the opportunity to edit them to your liking before they reach that player.
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You are Dominus, Mafia aligned Strongest on Heaven and Earth. You were abandoned as a baby, left to fend for yourself in a back ally. The only warmth you had was the warmth of the rotting garbage in the dumpster you were left in. Through strength, creatuvity, luck, and most importantly, will, you have somehow survived. Living on refuse and hunting rats, you grew into a rugged orphan. Living on the streets you called home wasn't easy. Theft, Murder, and Cannibalism were as natural as breathing in your world. Take a step in the wrong direction and you'd find yourself blown to pieces by a landmine. You weren't going to die here, loved by nobody, alone and forgotten. One step at a time, you moved forward. One life at a time, you cut your way upward. Wasn't long before you found yourself in charge of this piece of **** city. You didn't belong here though, you had a higher calling to answer to. Without so much as a word, you torched the whole place and hit the road.
Its been a thousand years since then. You've fought in so many wars, survived through so many disasters, and yet still you walk. The world has it out for you, but you won't ever submit to it. You gave yourself the name Dominus. You are the strongest on Heaven and Earth.
Win Condition: You win the game at the start of any day where the mafia makes up at least half the game. Passive Ability - Bloodied Flower Blossoms: On day 1, your vote will count as three votes. On day 2, your vote will count as two votes. From day 3 onward, your vote will count as one vote. Passive Ability - Indominatable Fate: You are immune to all night actions. Active Ability - Strongest on Heaven and Earth: Once per night you may modkill one player. This action replaces the regular mafia hit and can not be stopped.
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You are Hyde, Town aligned Sadistic Doctor. After getting your medical degree, you were deployed to the battlefront as a military surgeon. Your experiences there changed you, and not for the better. Your personality was warped, you became harsh and cynical, and lately you haven't even been doing much doctoring.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead.
Active Ability - Sadism: Once per night you may target a player. That player will be told they will die at the end of the following day. (they won't).
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Ace, Incompetant Detective [T][Fruit]
You are Ace, Town aligned Incompetant Detective. You were raised in a noble court, expected to inherit the throne when you came of age. That sort of life wasn't the life you felt you were destined for though. You left your family in pursuit of a more hard-boiled lifestyle. Action, adventure, intrigue, that kind of thing. Shame you aren't any good at it.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead. Active Ability - Investigate: Once per night you may target a player. You will receive five random words from their role PM
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Trick, Street Magician [T][Mown]
You are Trick, Town aligned Street Magician. You live your life travelling from town to town, putting on magic shows and earning enough coin to continue your travels. Its a humble but satisfying life, and one you don't have any plan of stopping soon.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead.
Passive Ability - Misdirection: If you vote with green text, your vote will appear to count for 1 less. If you vote with red text, your vote will appear to count for 1 more. Active Ability - Advertisement: Once per night you may PM me a message to be included in a note stuck to a wall in the OP.
You are Dinosaur Jake, Town Aligned Dinosaur Enthusiast. Some have claimed that the dinosaurs died out hundreds of years ago, or perhaps even longer. You do not believe this. You know that somewhere on earth a dinosaur utopia is waiting to be discovered, and it is your most heartfelt dream that you will be able to discover this utopia and join your dinosaur bretheren.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead.
Active Ability - Pursue the Dream: Once per night, you may target a player. If they have any information on Dinosaurs, you will receive that information. Something good might happen if you collect enough information related to dinosaurs. You also stay in touch with the people you gather information from, whether or not they were in possession of any. You will be able to talk with them any time in your quick topic.
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Mod Note: When Jake's network hits three members, Jake will be informed that the dinosaurs were within him all along, and that friendship is the true dinosaur utopia. He and the other members of the network will gain the ability to sacrifice themselves to save another member in the event that one of them would be killed. He also loses his pursue the dream ability. ------------------------------- Unnamed Doll, Bound Soul [T]
You are a Town aligned Bound Soul. You do not have a name. Perhaps you remember who you were before now, or perhaps you do not. You currently reside in the simple wooden body of a doll. You find your own feelings confusing to you, and are unsure of your desires. It seems the spell that bound you to this doll is weak, and you could release it whenever you wanted.
Win Condition: You win the game when all threats to the town are dead.
Active Ability - Release Soul: At any time you may post in the thread using coloured text that you would like to leave the game. If you do, you will leave the game and a doll will be left in your place that will count towards the town total and vote for a random player other than itself at the start of each day.
I have various feelings about the design of the game and how it ended up playing out, but I think I'm happy with it.
When I designed the jester role, I decided that if someone could get a consensus of votes on day 1, they probably deserved the win. I may have overestimated the difficulty of such a feat. There are certainly a number of things I'd change about the design if i was given the opportunity. I was specifically a little unhappy with myself in designing Number's role, Myriad. I disallowed communication about the game outside the thread to avoid some abuse cases. This also prevented people from dragging their friends into the game, although that wasn't obvious, and the role would have been more fun if that was possible. Anyway, I digress.
My feelings on the game are still a little undecided, but I think I have learned from this experience and hope I can provide a better experience in the future.
On my role, I think it was great. It essentially turned the hydra concept into a role, and not allowing discussion outside of the thread was somewhat negligible. I was currently already contemplating recruiting Eli as an outside of thread recruiter, since he'd technically be a non-player and therefore not bound by the rules of the game. Naturally if I had chosen this path I would have cleared it as non violating of the rules first.
As for Zinger's win, I would say it's well deserved because for anybody else I don't think it would have been as possible to achieve day 1 (Zinger had specific assets available to him and he employed them tactfully to achieve an early victory). Anybody else going into day 3, however, would pretty much have it in the bag by claiming to be scum after that point. A 10 player game has a natural assumption of two scum, making day 3 a standard LyLo situation assuming no scum deaths. This would leave 6 players and the scum win con would put them winning at the beginning of the next day. One could claim and if it was LyLo circumvent scum not voting for you (as I'm sure they'd be super suspicious of the situation); if you didn't trip your lynch normally ability you could then make up some bs and continue to mock town knowing it's not lylo yet but still be at the forefront of people's suspicions without having to worry about abilities. I would not be surprised to see the same outcome later in the game regardless. To even this role out I probably would have made him semi-immune to kills either by percent chance to die, or limited bulletproofing.
Apparently, our "modkill" would've circumvented his invincibility. Potentially, the mafia might've dealt with him if there had been solid town dissent on the idea of piling votes on him.
Shame it was such a "we have to vote Zinger or look like total scum" situation.
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Dominus' modkill would have bypassed Zinger's NK immunity and represented the only way to safely remove him from the game. Town and Mafia both could have won with him still alive, though.
I did indeed like the idea behind myriad. I just felt the execution was sloppier than it could have been. I think Niklor had a similar idea concerning eli. At least, I told him that I didn't require non-players to follow the rules, in response to a line of questioning he had involving the mechanic.
Can I stop pretending that Zinger won't use his NLP for misleading people now? also, I'm really sad I didn't get to use my web developer skills together with my role for the lulz.
a local news reporter has been eavesdropping during the night.
I dont understand why roles like this arent incidental to the game as a whole.
Like, Zinger is lynched, Zinger wins, the game now enters night 1. I always feel individual win cons that arent 'everyone else dies' should be logged, then the game continues.
I like the feeling that the player is playing against the other players in the game rather than with them. If zinger can potentially win alongside any other player in the game, it detracts from the feeling that he is competing with them.
I guess I go for the 'as many people as possible have a good time' outlook. In that sense, Zinger still actively plays against everyone, and gets his satisfying win, but in the example of say, him winning day 1, everyone else doesnt feel like the game was a waste/letdown because 90% of their roles made zero impact.
Joined: Jan 31, 2015 Posts: 2574 Location: California
Identity: Rubik
You could have made it something like, "if Zinger achieves his win condition, dead players can't win the game". That way, it's in everyone's best interest for him to die, but he doesn't make the game end prematurely.
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