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[Bookthras]

Heheh, glad to see it's over and the good guys won. When I saw Tiruin survive the lynch, I groaned; too many revives! too few deaths! ...for a moment I saw a vision of a game that would go on forever, with us arguing on D8 about who to fail to lynch, trapped in an endless hammer-revive-deathless-nights cycle...

So, very glad to see Hapah's doomsday thing had some oomph and finality to it. And amusing how he hit himself with it.

Also, Bookthras, put your claim down you dirty survivor.

Sure:

Bookthras - Bruce, Chief Research Poet of the University of Woolamaloo
Alignment: Survivor
Wincon: You win if alive when another alignment wins or if you are the only remaining player.

(1-Shot, Day) Reduce: If any players are voting for you, they cannot vote for the remainder of the Day. Remove those votes.
(1-Shot, Night) Recluse: Everyone that targets you is instead reflected back to themselves.
(1-Shot) Bruce [target]: You name the target Bruce. Any actions targeting him target you and vice versa. This lasts for the rest of the game.
(1-Shot) Truce: You cannot die during this Day or Night Phase.

IronyOwl was right, I played this abysmally. At the start, I decided to make myself seem dangerous to the scum (who I thought was Dariush) so I could use "Recluse" and have their night kill reflected back to themselves. That didn't work out, and I ended up using up the 1-shot mirror to no effect (as far as I know) on N1... and begin D2 without defences and still making myself annoying to the scum. That was no good.

Then on N2 I used Bruce on Hapah, which caused things targeting me to hit him and viceversa; I thought that if I indeed attract a NK, at least it wouldn't hit me, but its real effect was that Hapah targeted me->Bruce->himself with the Goddess thing. Tiruin targeted Hapah->Bruce->me, so that's how that happened. Had it been a kill, I'd be dead.

As to the I-ain't-claiming thing, it was partly because when I made my claim I made a mistake with my results of N2/N3 (which if I tried to correct would make me seem scummy), partly because if I explained the Bruce thing it would lose all effectiveness, and partly because, since I was all out of options, at least the evasion was amusing. I enjoyed confounding Jim and Tiruin.

Finally, I didn't really have a revive-as-such; I had a one-shot "I can't die today/tonight" thing, but if used it'd be used up regardless of whether I was attacked. When I was about to be lynched, I could have used it and have another deathless day, but instead chose to do the remove-votes thing, as it was funnier, would give Hapah and Tiruin a better chance for visibility, and would leave the one-shot invulnerability option open.

But yeah, all in all a survivor should be even more cowardly; lurk more, don't get anyone angry sort of thing. But I just couldn't do it! I can't be that accommodating and nonconfrontational, and I hate lurking as a strategy (if one is busy, so be it, but if I can post I will!), plus I can't help myself from pointing out scummy stuff when I see it. On top of that made several mistakes, and needed to not be seen as scummy... So I made for a lousy survivor, yes.

The role, however, was really fun. Lots of options, very cowardly, very viable without being overpowered. Thanks, wuba! I hope one of these days I do get a poetry posting restriction or something, but with a jester alignment (there's no way people wouldn't lynch me if I really posted a limerick every single post). I've never played a jester; I'd like to try it.

     A poet, I wanted this time,
     not a coward, but a writer sublime,
               but wuba's decision
               was my courage's excision
     ...but to chime with a rhyme ain't a crime!


Fun game, all! Good job.

[Tiruin]

Then on N2 I used Bruce on Hapah, which caused things targeting me to hit him and viceversa; I thought that if I indeed attract a NK, at least it wouldn't hit me, but its real effect was that Hapah targeted me->Bruce->himself with the Goddess thing. Tiruin targeted Hapah->Bruce->me, so that's how that happened. Had it been a kill, I'd be dead.

It was a kill...

[Bookthras]

Then on N2 I used Bruce on Hapah, which caused things targeting me to hit him and viceversa; I thought that if I indeed attract a NK, at least it wouldn't hit me, but its real effect was that Hapah targeted me->Bruce->himself with the Goddess thing. Tiruin targeted Hapah->Bruce->me, so that's how that happened. Had it been a kill, I'd be dead.

It was a kill...

Heh. Even better! But by my read, it was a "Possession" thing (Possession Hapah > Bookthras, you said in scumchat):
_{(Mafiakill) Possession [target1] [target2]: Target1 kills target2 in addition to their normal action.}

But due to Bruce, that was actually reversed, you targeted me (instead of Hapah), which is what Jim saw, and then I went to mafiakill Hapah (Bruce), who had been hit with his own Goddess thing, making him immune to kill actions!
_{(1-Shot, Night) Goddess [target]: Target gains (Auto) Zombify: [...] Kill actions have no effect on you.}

What a crazy night. I'm sure wuba was seeing double by the time he calculated the outcome of that.

... better to be lucky than good, and all that.

[Tiruin]

* Tiruin has gained a new title!

Abysmal Action Aiming!

[Toaster]

Dead chat ahoy!

It's mostly filled with "Why'd you kill me dammit" and "What the crap is going on?"

[TolyK]

Damn.
That Auto-ability-juggling was pretty fun actually. Probably one of the most fun things I've ever had.

But I do need to work on my fakeclaiming. ;(

Man. Book, if I would've said that I am scum, and vote Hapah and you win with scum 100%, otherwise we'd kill you at night... would you have gone with us?
(That's just an idea I had about stopping my lynch, but eh)

[Tiruin]

Ironically, Hapah's Judgment isn't Night only.

Stupid intuition of mine. Always correct when I don't listen to it.

[Hapah]

Slight mixup if that's the case, then: I should've known that I got shot N2 and it failed. Would have made things quite a bit easier to figure out, lol.

I didn't see any reason to claim my big red button as a Day or Night ability; figured it would mess up scum's math. I guess I could have just started blasting D4, but we signed up to play Mafia, not watch me spam my red button, lol. It seemed very reckless, to boot.

I put forward my plan on the last day mostly because it would disarm Tir (who was my primary suspect) of his swap ability, which scared the hell out of me. The fact that it would have confirmed Jim and IO's roles was nice, and gave me a way to present the plan that wouldn't set off all the alarm bells.

[Tiruin]

I was withholding that darn swap for day, of all reasons. I'm strangely glad you blew it up during the night and was truly confused on which hand to pick from as an ability.

Still, worth it. I scared Hapah.

[Hapah]

Just read dead chat. Sorry Dar!

(And I didn't realize that scum could shoot my pewpew beam.)

[webadict]

Spoiler: Roles (click to show/hide)

zombie urist - Slow Loris

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Silent: You have a 50% chance to avoid any ability.
(Auto) Protected Species: When you die, you revive for one Cycle. You cannot be killed during this time, but you can be lynched. You are able to use Brachial Gland at this time.
(1-Shot, Unusable) Brachial Gland [target]: You kill the target. If the target survives, then Protected Species ends, and you do not die.


Urist Imiknorris - Differential Equation

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Uniqueness: Your role is unable to be modified. This ability cannot be ignored.
(Night) Solution [target]: You learn the target’s alignment.
(1-Shot, Day) Existence: You lose all Night abilities. You learn who killed the target at the end of the next Night.


penngo009 - Unspeakably Awful Role That Is Never To Be Mentioned Ever, Seriously Don't Mention The Name It Is Very Bad.... Never Ever Mention It. EVER.

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Terrible: Whenever an action is used against you, you lose a random action. If you lose all of your other actions, you gain an extra vote.
(Night) Awful [target]: Target is unable to vote during the next Day.
(Night) No Good [target]: Target is unable to use Day abilities during the next Day Phase.
(1-Shot) Very Bad Role [target]: Revives and protections fail on the target for the rest of the game.


Bookthras - Bruce, Chief Research Poet of the University of Woolamaloo

Alignment: Survivor
Wincon: You win when another alignment wins or you are the only remaining player.

(1-Shot, Day) Reduce: If any players are voting for you, they cannot vote for the remainder of the Day. Remove those votes.
(1-Shot, Night) Recluse: Everyone that targets you is instead reflected back to themselves.
(1-Shot) Bruce [target]: You name the target Bruce. Any actions targeting him target you and vice versa. This lasts for the rest of the game.
(1-Shot) Truce: You cannot die during this Day or Night Phase.


IronyOwl - Offspring of Annie and Veigar

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Guardian Tibbers: Anyone attempting to target you targets Tibbers instead. This action fails once Tibbers is dead.
(Auto) Half-Yordle: You have a 50% chance of magneting a kill action to you.
(1-Shot, Day) Parental Guidance: During this Day Phase, your vote instantly lynches.
(1-Shot, Night) Your Bear Tibbers [target]: The target gains the auto ability Guardian Tibbers.


Dariush - Mephansteras

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Moderator: You learn who a random player targeted during the Night. If you die, the following Day is skipped.
(Night) Prod [target]: You learn the what action the target used. Using this twice on a target kills them.
(1-Shot, Night) Action Processing [target]: You negate the action the target used. You gain the action. If the target has any Auto abilities that are active, you gain those as well.


Deathsword - Andrew Hussie

Alignment: Mafia
Wincon: You win when your team equals or outnumbers the remaining players and all other killing roles are dead.

(Auto) Picturesque: You can create any role and alignment. Any actions that take role, action, or alignment information will use that. This can be changed at any time. Note: This will take everything word for word.
(Night) Problem Sleuth [target]: You learn the target’s role name.
(1-Shot, Day) Homestuck [target/self]: Target cannot be lynched or killed during this Day Phase.
(1-Shot, Night) MS Paint Adventure [target x(1-3)]: All targets are randomized.


Tiruin - Kitsune

Alignment: Mafia
Wincon: You win when your team equals or outnumbers the remaining players and all other killing roles are dead.

(Auto) Long Life: You revive once on death.
(Mafiakill) Possession [target1] [target2]: Target1 kills target2 in addition to their normal action.
(1-Shot) Body Swap [target1] [target2/self]: Target1 switches roles with target2. You may self-target with this.
(1-Shot) Spirit Form: You may activate this as a free action. You are untargetable by all actions, including auto abilities.


TolyK - Binary Weapon-using Eradicator of the Meta-roles

Alignment: Mafia
Wincon: You win when your team equals or outnumbers the remaining players and all other killing roles are dead.

(Auto) Anti-Metagamer: You ignore all Auto abilities except your own, including those that modify the game.
(Auto) Eradicate: Your weapons are set to auto-eradicate, destroying a random Auto ability of any player you target with any ability. You may choose to not apply this to any action.
(1-Shot, Mafiakill) Binary Bomb [target]: The target and whoever the target was targeting are poisoned. You cannot be poisoned. These players die at the end of the following Day.
(Night) Inactivation [target]: Delay the target by one Night.


Jim Groovester - Jim Groovester’s Jimbot Army

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin, and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Army: You have an army that can perform actions for you. You currently have 3 recruits. If you would die, you revive at the cost of a recruit. You inspect as Cult.
(Night) Camouflage [target]: The target is immune to blocks, redirects, and randomizations during this Night. If you choose to spend 1 recruit, the target is additionally protected and unable to use kill actions.
(1-Shot, Night) Spy [target]: You lose 1 recruit. You learn who targeted the target, and who the target was targeting and with what.


Hapah - Kefka

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin, and respective Allies and Brothers)

(1-Shot, Night) Demon: Blocks all actions used against you during this Night.
(1-Shot, Night) Fiend [target]: Delays the target. If the target is targeting you, they are blocked.
(1-Shot, Night) Goddess [target]: Target gains (Auto) Zombify: When you die, you revive once. If you are the target of a non-kill action, you die. Kill actions have no effect on you.
(99-Shot) Light of Judgment: This is only usable after you have used Demon, Fiend, and Goddess. You kill everyone else.


Think0028 - Spoiler

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin, and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Spoils Of Victory: While you live, you cannot lose.
(Auto) Spoiled Child [target]: During the first Cycle, choose a player. While you are alive, this player cannot be killed or lynched. You may choose to stop using this ability at any time.
(Night) Spoil Sport [target/self]: Your target is protected from a kill during the Night. If you self-target with this action, you cannot vote the following Day or action the following Night.


Toaster  - Xylbot Role List

Alignment: Town
Wincon: You win when all anti-Town factions are dead. (Mafia, Cult, SK, Lyncher, Assassin, and respective Allies and Brothers)

(Auto) Ace in the Hole: You may perform the same action on a different target, or a different action on the same target in lieu of your normal Night action.
(Night) Jack of All Trades [target]: You randomly perform one of the following actions on the target: Block, Inspect, Karma, Kill, Track,
(Night) King of Choices: You randomly target a player with your choice of one of the following actions: Delay, Protect, Randomize, Super, Watch,
(1-Shot) Queen Sacrifice [target]: You are unaffected by all abilities for the next Cycle, after which you lose all your abilities. Your next Night action becomes Joker’s Wild. Your target gains 1-shot versions of the actions used in Joker’s Wild. This may be used at the same time as Joker’s Wild.
(Unusable) Joker’s Wild [target]: You perform your choice of two different actions on the target: Block, Delay, Inspect, Karma, Kill, Protect, Randomize, Super, Track, Watch,

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Day 1
zombie urist lynched
zombie urist revives

Night 1
Dariush Action Processes Bookthras
Bookthras Recluse [Negated]
Hapah Fiends penngo009
Toaster Jack of all Trades zombie urist [Inspect]
Jim Groovester Camouflages IronyOwl
TolyK Binary Bombs zombie urist
IronyOwl Nones
Tiruin Nones
penngo009 Auto-Nones

Toaster gains “Inspect: Target is Town”
Dariush gains “(Used, Night) Recluse: Everyone that targets you is instead reflected back to themselves.”
zombie urist loses “(Auto) Silent: You have a 50% chance to avoid any ability.”
penngo009 loses “(Night) No Good [target]: Target is unable to use Day abilities during the next Day Phase.“

Day 2
Dariush is lynched
zombie urist dies.

Night 3
Bookthras Bruces Hapah
Hapah Goddesses Bookthras [Redirected to Hapah]
TolyK Inactivations Hapah [Redirected to Bookthras]
Jim Groovester Spys Bookthras [Redirected to Hapah]
penngo009 Awfuls Hapah [Redirected to Bookthras]
Tiruin Possessions Hapah To Bookthras [Redirected to Bookthras To Hapah]
[Bookthras Mafiakills Hapah] [Delayed]
IronyOwl Nones

Hapah Gains “(Auto) Zombify: When you die, you revive once. If you are the target of a non-kill action, you die. Kill actions have no effect on you.”
Jim Groovester Receives “Targeted target: Tiruin, Bookthras, Hapah; Target Targetting: Hapah; Action: (1-Shot, Night) Goddess [target]: Target gains (Auto) Zombify: When you die, you revive once. If you are the target of a non-kill action, you die. Kill actions have no effect on you.”
Bookthras Loses Vote


Day 3
penngo009 lynched

Night 3
Jim Groovester Camoflauges Bookthras [Redirected to Hapah]
Hapah Demons
TolyK Inactivations Hapah [Redirected to Bookthras]
Bookthras Truces [Blocked]
Tiruin Possessions IronyOwl to Jim Groovester
IronyOwl [Tibbers] Mafiakills Jim Groovester
[From Night 2] Bookthras Mafiakills Hapah [Blocked]
IronyOwl Nones

Bookthras is Blocked
Jim Groovester Revives
Jim Groovester loses 1 Recruit

Day 4
Bookthras Reduces
TolyK Lynched

Night 4
IronyOwl Nones
Jim Groovester Nones
Bookthras Truces
Hapah Nones
TolyK Possesses Jim Groovester to IronyOwl
Jim Groovester Mafiakills IronyOwl

IronyOwl Loses Tibbers

Day 5
TolyK Lynched
TolyK Revived

Night 5
Hapah Light of Jugdments
Bookthras Killed [Redirected to Hapah] [Magneted by IronyOwl]
Jim Groovester Killed [Magneted by IronyOwl]
IronyOwl Killed
TolyK Killed
TolyK Possesses Jim Groovester to IronyOwl
Jim Groovester Mafiakills IronyOwl

IronyOwl dies
TolyK dies

Look at Night 3 and understand my pain.

[Hapah]

That's nuts, lol.

[webadict]

Also, I might have made far to many revives this game, but that was kind of a theme this round. Zai is right about that theme thing. I can't help it.

And I'm upset that Toaster didn't get to fully use his ability. He was a literal Jack of all Trades - Survivability, Investigation, Protection, Obstruction, Power-Giver... Each came at a price of the other, too.

Hapah's role was also a step away from the norm. He got an sk's role for a townie, and I figured it'd be more fun to run with that.

Think0028 had also made Bookthras invincible at the start, but was modkilled. An invincible survivor...

Jim Groovester had a mixed role. I wanted him to have the decision between survivability and investigation. I gave him three revives and a weak action, and he could throw the revives out for more powerful actions. Basically, a recreation of the Litter of Kittens role from a while ago but with defined parameters.

Shakerag I had NO idea how to handle, and he keeps giving me these roles, so I figured this would be punishment. He managed to accidentally kill himself by overbidding.

TolyK's role was actually pretty powerful. He could kill through auto abilities, but he was thrown to the backburners to try to remove the auto abilities of someone without them. Had he killed people instead, it might have been a different game.

In fact, the entire scumteam was based on misdirection. TolyK and Tiruin gave people a false sense of security, and Deathsword was inspection immunity king. Not only that, but they could have combo'd in many ways, such as Deathsword randomizing three people while TolyK posionbombs him. Then he could activate his Day Immunity for a triple kill, without him dying. Or Tiruin's role swap. This made was the counter to multiple revives.

Tiruin's role was fun to make, because his role seemed... like a fox. It was cool. He was the wise but sly, and he had just a touch of magical power.

Dariush's role was nice, too. He got to pretend he was important. Plus, it helped make TolyK's role even more powerful.

IronyOwl got a 50% kill magnet ability called Half-Yordle. All that needs to be said.

Bookthras got a fun role that was all about keeping alive. I think I balanced that one pretty nicely.

penngo009's role I had trouble with, so it came out a little rough. He also wasn't quite a fan of it, despite it being one of the harder counters to the scum. I can't think of a way to make it better, though.

Same with Urist Imiknorris's role. I just couldn't get that feeling of "This is a differential equation" built in to a role. It seemed more like Sherlock Holmes, and I was upset about it, but I couldn't fix it. His role had me stumped for days.

But, zombie urist's role I did manage to save. These last three were tough, but I rewrote zombie urist's role from a weakling to a bit of a vengeful role. It wasn't my favorite, but at least I didn't feel like it was a role that was completely off the mark.

I'm not sure how having 3 people modkilled changed the game, but it seemed necessary. I'm glad the game was still enjoyable after that. Overall, I'd give myself an 80% on this game. 90% on the roles, 70% on mod activity, 65% on flavor, 95% on keeping the game going.

Anyone have any comments on the game to improve future BYORs?

[Shakerag]

Shakerag I had NO idea how to handle, and he keeps giving me these roles, so I figured this would be punishment.

Exactly as planned.

[Toaster]

I rather liked my role, and was going to drive the game based on how my first shot of Jack went.  Inspect and Kill were my top two choices- the inspect being especially nice because I could turn into an Axe Cop and just blast the first person I inspected as scum.

Then ZombieU ate me.  Boo.  I hadn't really thought through how to handle Queen Sacrifice, but it would have been useful to block/kill someone.