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[Hapah]

Do people want to know the secrets of the game?

Yes, UNLESS you think you can reuse them for another game.

Would pledging my service and myself to Mah-Sut in front of the statue have gotten me anywhere?

[Tiruin]

 

I don't believe it. So...I won with Book?

Do people want to know the secrets of the game?

Yes, so much.

What use was the Skeleton, and did any specific Orb have their own powers attached to it? How did zombie urist die when Shakerag volunteer?

[Bookthras]

And in that knowledge?
The secret of redemption.

Yeah! Success! Congratulations Tiruin on living, dying, living again, and finding redemption as well!

And...that's that. I hope everyone had fun. I'll post the Role PMs and Night Actions in following posts.

Yes! Lots of fun. This was a very trippy game! Thanks for yet another classic.

Do people want to know the secrets of the game?

Absolutely! Reveal all, tell all. You'll never recycle the ideas anyway, all your bastards are very different. But specifically: did my fellow Wolves find redemption in the afterlife as well? (I surely hope so)... Did they win with me, or did only Tiruin and I won?


PPE: Tiruin: yes, it seems that way. Lived happily everafter as slaves of some mummy king. 8-P

[Tiruin]

PPE: Tiruin: yes, it seems that way. Lived happily everafter as slaves of some mummy king. 8-P

I was an SK. I still am an SK.

Hence, all that. Who believed me there?

[Org]

Haha, good game everyone. Glad I could help one werewolf win, at least.

[Dariush]

Hence, all that. Who believed me there?

Uh... abso-fucking-lutely nobody?

So wait, who won? Mah-Sut himself?

[Teneb]

Hence, all that. Who believed me there?

Uh... abso-fucking-lutely nobody?

So wait, who won?

I'd say Tiruin and Book. If you count serving some undead pharaoh for all eternity winning anyway.

[zombie urist]

Interesting. Here's a quicktopic I made where I talked about being a devil. Not very interesting but meh. http://www.quicktopic.com/48/H/3JHdwd4rRiAh

[Dariush]

Also, I want to note how horribly stacked odds were against us and in favor of Tiruin. I mean, the only faction without a kill? With me having only an incredibly shitty version of watching? While Templars get a kill AND a roleblock? And werewolves get an unblockable kill? And Tiruin having resurrection that makes him unlynchable?! Oh what the fuck, really.

Also, did anybody really think there could be town in this setup?

And I'm definitely in favour of seeing the secrets.

[zombie urist]

I think Tiruin is only unlynchable because he used the skull.

[Mephansteras]

Ok, so I'm going to put all of this in a Spoiler just in case some people don't want to read it.

Spoiler: Semi-Bastard Rules (click to show/hide)

The Four Orbs were pretty much identical. The color was the only thing that really differentiated them, and that was a fairly arbitrary RGB-White mix.

When someone touched an Orb, they were Sacrificed to the power of the God-Kings of the Empire. If they had others on their team, they would be turned to dust which boosts one of their team-mates. If the player had no surviving team mates, they would simply die.

That's what happened to the Skeleton, who was the remains of an ill-fated group of treasure hunters. They only had four people, so the last one opened the door but died in the process.

The actual intent of the Trial was simple: A new Pharaoh would show up with his entourage and four slaves who would be sacrifice to gain him entry. Once there he would learn everything he needed to know to ascend to the mantle of God King. The Sacrifices both gave him power and worked to prevent others from going into the Tomb. The Trial lasted Four Days to prove the Humility and patience of the new Pharaoh.

And IronyOwl's clue, "A Noble does only that which a Servant Cannot" is part of this. A Noble Commands his servants. They do everything else.

So, one of True Majesty would know that the way to get inside is to Command others to their Deaths for his gain. For that is what Rulers must do. A harsh lesson learned early.


Other bits:

The Skeleton was going to just give whichever team used him a boost of power beyond the normal boost from the Sacrifice. Since it was a 3rd party who used him, it didn't really do much.

Both 3rd Party players had a special bonus to give them a fighting chance against 3 teams.

The Ghoul was Unlynchable, as long as there were corpses around for him to feed upon he would always revive after his first lynch. And, of course, no one could be lynched twice to keep the game from being a cycle of effectively non-lynches. So, no, the Skeleton didn't actually effect that any. He always had that ability.

The Devil, had he been lynched and not killed off by Shakerag's Werewolf Leader ability, would have become dust on Death but still able to give offers to everyone. Plus, he had two ways to win. Although he'd have had to get very lucky indeed to be the last one standing.

Each team would have had a different ending had they gotten to the end.

The Werewolves and Ghoul, as you saw, became servants of the God-King and were thus redeemed. Oh, and restored to being human, if you didn't catch that. The souls of the Sacrificed Werewolves will join Bookthras in the Afterlife when he dies. So, a redemption of sorts for them, if not as good.

The Devil would have either been rewarded for getting three souls or for the tablet. No shock there.

The Brotherhood would have had their most powerful surviving member possessed by Mah-Sut and become the new God-King.

The Templars would have destroyed the tablet and returned as heroes to their Order.

And, no, the Templars and Ghoul could not have won together. The Templar would have won in that case, since Monster Hunters trump everyone at end-game. It's what they do, after all. Otherwise, Tiruin would have won a contest between him and Bookthras had they both turned on one another. If only one of them had attacked the other, then that one would have won.


That's...pretty much all of it. And, of course, the fact that we had three teams instead of a town and scum set-up.

Any specific questions not answered here?

[Tiruin]

I told you the Skeleton was a bad idea~

But seriously, I had no idea that would happen, perhaps a one-time lifesaver if it hit the Ghoul? Y'know, because he can feed on the dead to restore his power? 

PPE:

Woah.

[Hapah]

What did the power boosts do? Enable kills of the unkillable?

[zombie urist]

Dammit Shakerag. 

[Mephansteras]

@Dariush: Yeah, you guys had a weaker power. But you have to look at the overall set-up.

The Werewolves had a basic team kill and one that could be made unblockable. But they also had very little way of getting additional information, since the Warlock has to pry information out of dead people, who are all either 3rd party or on a team, and thus not too likely to give him useful information.

The Templar had a Kill and a Roleblock, but they'd have lost the Kill if the Templar himself had died. They were tough to take out, but only got a little more information than the Werewolves since the clues the Sage gets are pretty cryptic.

The Brotherhood had a stealth kill, which while weaker than a straight kill was also pretty much unblockable. Which is why Toaster died even though he was a Knight. Your Mark could be roleblocked, but the actual Activation of the Wand couldn't be stopped or prevented. You guys also had two ways to get information, one of which was Passive once placed, and the Wizard to let you protect anyone you needed to.

I feel like it was, overall, pretty well balanced. All teams had a decent chance to win up until the end, when everyone else decided to take you guys out instead of going after any other targets.

I was surprised that Tiruin was left alive, though, since he was an unlynchable SK at that point. I figured more people would have tried to kill him.


The Power Boosts boosted someone's abilities. So Org got to talk to ALL dead for a night instead of just one, and Bookthras basically got to use his power on himself. The specifics of what it would have done varies entirely on who gets it.