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[notquitethere]

ELEMENTS

In the maelstrom of chaos at the beginning of all things, the five great elements played their games of fate to see who would shape the world to come.

Elements is a mafialike* game for five players. Each player plays an element secretly assigned to them: fire, air, water, earth and wood. Each element is naturally allied with two other elements and is enemy with two other elements. A player wins when both their enemies are dead and they are still alive.

The allegiances are as you'd expect:

Fire is allied with Air and Earth, enemy to Water and Wood.
Air is allied with Fire and Water, enemy to Earth and Wood.
Water is allied with Air and Wood, enemy to Fire and Earth.
Wood is allied with Water and Earth, enemy to Air and Fire.
Earth is allied with Wood and Fire, enemy to Water and Air.

Each day each player must choose to Attack one other player and also Protect one other player (not themselves). These actions are performed publicly. The day ends when ALL the players have assigned both an attacking and a protecting vote. Play proceeds in this manner until someone has won.

Each element has a special power (listed below) which alters what their votes will do when totaled. Each element is able to speak individually to each of their two allies privately through a quicktopic set up by the mod. In total there are five quicktopics. Players are encouraged to make secret alliances with their allies.

When a player dies, their element and true vote record is revealed.

IN

• Nerjin
• Tiruin
• TheWetSheep
• Captain Ford
• Gankster78

Spoiler: Elemental Abilities (click to show/hide)

To use an ability, before or after placing a vote or pair of votes the player can PM the mod (notquitethere) their intention to activate their power this round.

Water: its Attack vote can really be a Protect
Fire: its Protect vote can really be an Attack
Air: can chose to have its Protect not count towards the vote total
Earth: can choose to have its Attack not count towards the vote total
Wood: can choose for its Attack and Protect votes to be considered switched around

Spoiler: Additional Rules (click to show/hide)

• All valid Attack votes must be contain the name of the person the player wishes to attack in red, like: notquitethere, or attack notquitethere
• All valid Protect votes must contain the name of the person the player wishes to attack in green, like: notquitethere, or protect notquitethere
• Unattack, unvote, unvote or unprotect to remove your votes.
• You can protect and attack the same player
• Whether you used your ability in a round will only be revealed when you die or when you win
• The round ends when all votes are given- though if no one is dead at that point the next round starts with all votes reset
• Modifying posts in this thread is forbidden. Do what you like on quicktopic
  
• Private messaging is not allowed outside of the quicktopics
• Roleclaims, fakeclaims and claiming to be another player on quicktopic are all acceptable
• If a player doesn't place both their votes in two days since a round began, they'll get a prod from the mod, four days and they'll be replaced
• A round ends when everyone has placed both their votes, so all further votes after this point and before the mod has announced the results of that round will not be counted.
• No quoting of private messages from the mod is allowed.
• If three consecutive rounds end in a stalemate, then everyone loses the game.

Spoiler: * (click to show/hide)

In the sense that it is a forum game with votes, informed minorities, role-flips and deception. It's more a game of alliance and betrayal than scum hunting per se.

[Nerjin]

In because why not...

[Tiruin]

Did you have help in making this?

In, anyway. So different...

But how will you manage the quicktopic things?

[notquitethere]

I discussed the set up in the set up discussion thread, but the game is my own invention. I've set up five quicktopics already and I'll mail the links when I assign elements. (E.g. the player with Water will get access to the water-air topic and the water-wood topic).

[Tiruin]

Just wondering, you cannot shift your in-thread protect/attack, right?

[webadict]

Okay, time to game the system. The goal of this exercise is to see how many players can win at once. Let's start.

The game ends when a player wins. A player wins when their two chosen enemies are dead. Therefore, every player wins if every player is dead at the same time.

First, kill Water. His naturally ability to double protect is useless. This means Air and Wood cannot die until the end or else someone wins, which is good since neither of their powers are defensive.

Second, kill Earth. His useless Attack only makes killing everyone at the end harder. This leaves two offensive abilities at the end, which you need.

This leaves Fire, Air, and Wood alive.

Fire attacks Air twice, using his ability. Air attacks Wood and removes his defend. Wood attacks Fire and Defends Air. This kills every player.

Game over. Everyone wins.

[notquitethere]

Tiruin- you can shift votes, I'll amend the OP.

Wuba- that's cute but a player loses if they die.

[webadict]

Tiruin- you can shift votes, I'll amend the OP.

Wuba- that's cute but a player loses if they die.

That wasn't in the rules. You have to make that clear. Like, this is elementary stuff, kid.

But, if that's the case, then... it's a small game of Diplomacy.

[Tiruin]

Actually, this does seem pretty much like a Mafia game - only with the fact that the QT threads may be a bit more....active than the main thread. People's questions would also go unconventional, and there is no one scumteam. Just 5 whole 1 man teams of allies and enemies. Diplomacy comes in where players should trust sides more than the others and persuade said sides to talk.

Because there's specific quicktopics and all. There's the option of telling your friends. And the lack of the option of wholesome guessing. >.>

[webadict]

Actually, this does seem pretty much like a Mafia game - only with the fact that the QT threads may be a bit more....active than the main thread. People's questions would also go unconventional, and there is no one scumteam. Just 5 whole 1 man teams of allies and enemies. Diplomacy comes in where players should trust sides more than the others and persuade said sides to talk.

Because there's specific quicktopics and all. There's the option of telling your friends. And the lack of the option of wholesome guessing. >.>

I'm not sure where you are getting that it's not Diplomacy. Feel free to thought experiment it, especially if someone is already dead.

Like, an example:

Earth is dead.

What do you do if you're Fire?
What do you do if you're Air?
What do you do if you're Water?
What do you do if you're Heart Wood?

If you're Fire, you align yourself with Air to wipe out Water. Now, why would Air want to kill Water, right? I mean, Water's her ally!

Except she's not. Water has already killed one of her enemies, just as Air has, but now she needs Fire dead. Air can't go after Earth on her own, so she needs leverage. Which, of course, is Fire, who would win with the removal of Water. So, Air and Fire have to team up.

The same goes for Wood and Water. They need to kill Air and then kill Fire, so they both win.

Sure, Air would love to go straight for Wood, but no one would support her, since they'd lose. Therefore, she has to make a break with either Water or Fire. But she just killed Earth, the only link she had with Water, which effectively kills their team. Fire, on the other hand, wants Water and Wood dead, and since Water's dead weight, she figures she can give him that for Wood's death.

Not Diplomacy... Psh.

[Captain Ford]

Air can't go after Earth on her own, so she needs leverage.

Earth is dead.

[ToonyMan]

Human is dead.

[webadict]

Air can't go after Earth on her own, so she needs leverage.

Earth is dead.

Wood. Whatever.

[notquitethere]

So are you in, Wuba?

[webadict]

So are you in, Wuba?

No. I'd be the first one dead.