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[Toaster]

Tiruin:  What is wrong with scumhunting by negation?  If there were five people and you thought four of them were town, wouldn't you be going after the last one?

[Tiruin]

Read. BACK. I said my case about that EARLY TODAY.

Its in the walls of text. I hope that it'll explain EVERYTHING.

IF there's still time, I'll just like to incriminate myself by bringing up everything that nobody else is doing later on.

[Toaster]

Link, quote, or bullet point?  Because you have lots of walls of text.

[Tiruin]

Well that'll help digest the information, yes? Basically I'm tired of the labels and I'm tired of making my own summaries when it'll just be missed. Apologies for my rudeness before and now--but I've to ask you to look back in all its entirety to form your own judgement (I'm very bitter about this process of elimination by the way. While I've no defense on it other than asking you to question yourself and your judgement on how it really puts on, and how credible that process is in itself, I can only point so far that ears may listen and eyes may see.)

[Toaster]

And that's why I said sorry- because it comes up through nothing you've done.

[Caz]

Tiruin also fakeclaimed... If we stack up all the chips (or ducks, piles of money, whatever we have to hand) most of them end up at Tiruin's door.  :/ It's a wide margin between that and anyone else standing out as scum, to the point that I wouldn't be able to stack people from scummy to least scummy in any meaningful way beyond Tiruin---> Everyone else ---> me, jim

[Persus13]

Tiruin also fakeclaimed... If we stack up all the chips (or ducks, piles of money, whatever we have to hand) most of them end up at Tiruin's door.  :/ It's a wide margin between that and anyone else standing out as scum, to the point that I wouldn't be able to stack people from scummy to least scummy in any meaningful way beyond Tiruin---> Everyone else ---> me, jim

Then why don't you stack them up?

[Jim Groovester]

Toaster: Why did you target Persus?

Because I thought he might be scum.

And what was your opinion of Persus13's last minute actions at the end of Day 2, and how did this factor into your decision to investigate him?

[Caz]

Then why don't you stack them up?

Hard to get anything 100% right by this point since we don't have enough info to go on, so I'm just going by likelihood. I guess I *can* list from most to least scummy, but the margin of difference is a lot less between the last 3-4 suspects.

SBC - fakeclaimed, then cult alien hivemind, needs to die
Tiruin - protected imp both in word and action, fakeclaimed, very defensive and numerous walls of text, unnaturally worried at being lynched despite the good position of town currently
Toaster - quiet, but can't find any fault. i guess he could be scum, maybe.
Persus13 - has been read as town by toaster, which increases his chances to be town (unless dopp leader)
makeinu - DarkStar targeted him in words, was the instigator of Day2 Imp-lynching shenanigans, solid scum-hunting all game
Jim - town
Caz - town

I think I missed someone. Did I miss someone? Oh jeez. Damn you christmas festivities


Persus
Depending on what happens this night, the rankings could change. Atm I don't see a better lynch than Tiruin. If you're convinced she's town, who is your alternative suspect?

[Mephansteras]

The Whiteboard
makeinu: Persus13
Superblackcat: Caz, Jim Groovester, makeinu, ToonyMan, Toaster
Toaster: Tiruin


  The discussion rages on, but eventually you decide that most of you are firm in your decision to lynch Superblackcat today.

  He's quiet and subdued. When Caz lifts up the pistol he speaks, quietly. "I considered slipping out when you were all talking about who to lynch tomorrow. But, it's a ship. Where would I go? So I stayed, knowing you are going to kill me. I suppose that's what I get." He stands up, Caz steps back a little and raises the gun. "I should have you know, I'm not a hivemind after all." His face splits in a grin. A grin that becomes horrible as his features melt away and his teeth grow long and pointed. He reaches out to slash Caz, but her reflexes are good. Bullet after bullet slams into the Doppelganger. She keeps firing, even after the gun is out of bullets. Jim eventually puts a hand on her shoulder.

  "He's dead, Caz. Let it go."

  Her shoulders slump as the tension drains out of her. Looking down, you can see that Superblackcat is a bit different. More...human looking, despite the lack of features. He was probably the Doppelganger Leader.

  Jim turns to look at all of you. "I...want to apologize for disguising myself. I've been looking for somewhere that I could belong for quite a while now. I...I think I've found it." He turns to Caz "I know I've taken things from you that I cannot replace, but know that doing so has brought me closer to your kind than I ever imagined. I cannot restore what I took, but I promise to do what I can to repay this debt."

  "Ok, yeah, great." Says Toaster. "How about helping us fix this ship so we can all go home?"



And that's that. Nearly a perfect victory for town, with only the Assassination of RangerCado to mar things at all.

All in all not too bad. Some replacements and lurking, a bit short, and I'd have liked to have seen a tenser situation for the Mind Stealer to work in, but hopefully people had fun despite all of that.

Dopp Chat
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Spoiler: Role PMs (click to show/hide)

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Doppelgangers
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You awoke to a rocking world, down in the dark, salty depths of a ship. Your pods went unnoticed for too long, and by the time the humans recognized the threat it was too late. The ship disabled and the communications wrecked. You have a bit of time before any rescuers will have a chance of finding you. In the meantime, you’ll need to remove anyone who might betray your presence when help dies arrive.

Imp, you took over the body of a hard old sailor. A woman who’d been through the navy, out to the merchant marines, and been on boats all her life. This makes you a Tough Doppelganger, one who’s able to shrug off punishment that would take out a lesser creature.

TheDarkStar, you managed to consume the ship’s cook. You’re a normal Doppelganger, but you do seem to have some sort of natural Anti-Tech Field that may come in handy.

Max White/Superblackcat. Leader of the Doppelgangers you’ve managed to master your transformation. You appear completely human, and should be virtually undetectable. You also possess a natural Mind Shield which will help you against any Psychic foes.

As doppelgangers you possess a natural ability to communicate telepathically amongst yourselves.

--

Caz 
  You are a Military Scientist transporting some experimental equipment on this ship. But with the discovery of the doppelganger pods it sounds like you might need to break it out earlier than you expected.

Please PM me by the end of Day 1 with your Tech choice.

--

Jim Groovester
  You are a Mind Stealer, an Alien marooned on this planet. You’ve been wandering the world, absorbing minds and hoping to discover some way off this rock. Unfortunately, you’re now on a ship with a bunch of ravenous Doppelgangers. You’ll need to carefully use your abilities to survive this catastrophe.

  Each night you may Abduct another player and steal their mind. You will gain their Role for the following Day and Night, as well as their Win condition until you change it again. The abducted player will return after a day as a vanilla member of their faction.

  You will need to carefully balance your abductions if you’re to end up on the winning side of this mess!
--

Persus13 (Human)
    You’re one of the crew members on board the ship. You’ve taken it upon yourself to act as an Observant Guard, watching over the others in case a doppelganger attacks. If they do attack, you’ll be able to warn the victim in time for them to escape as well as inform them of who the attacker is. Your own safety, however, is very much in doubt while performing such a dangerous job.

--

RangerCado (Human)
  You are an Intelligence  Scientist transporting some experimental equipment on this ship. But with the discovery of the doppelganger pods it sounds like you might need to break it out earlier than you expected.

Please PM me by the end of Day 1 with your Tech choice.

--

Sinlessmoon/ToonyMan (Human)
    You are one of the crew of the ship. With so much down time at see you’ve been able to practice your psychic abilities. You are a Psychic Warden, able to invoke the Ritual of Subdual to block another player from performing any actions at night. As a psychic ability this does not require you to leave your cabin.
--

Tiruin (Human)
    You have taken it upon yourself to act as a Heroic Guard, defending the other crew members against attack. Each night you may choose another player to protect. Should the player you are protecting be attacked, you’ll give them enough time to get away. However, it is unlikely that you would survive the attack yourself. Your heroic nature, however, will allow you to make sure they get to safety no matter what comes after them.

--

Toaster (Human)
    You are an Agent sent along to investigate some troubling rumors about this shipping company. It seems, however, that there are worse things afoot then you’d been led to believe. You’ll need to Investigate the other players to determine if the are Human, Doppelganger, or Alien.

--

makeinu (Human)
    You are an amature Detective who’s long practiced the art of sneaking around the ship to while away the hours. Now it seems those skills might come in handy. Each night you may investigate another player to determine what Role they have.

[Mephansteras]

Spoiler: Night 1 (click to show/hide)

Caz    Human        Military Scientist                None    Abducted

  You sit in your cabin, idly going over some schematics, when you feel a strange presence in your mind. Everything goes dark, and you cannot move. You try to scream, but no sounds escape your lips.
 
  After a bit, you feel a something rooting around your brain. There is pain, and loss. Your mind retreats to a wonderful memory of a beach vacation you once took.
 
  [You have been Abducted by a Mind Stealer. You cannot speak in the main thread this day, nor can you take any actions the following night. You will return for the following day, but as a Vanilla Townie. Your Role has been stolen from you!]

--

Imp    Doppelganger        Tough Doppelganger                Kill Toaster    Blocked

You eagerly await the coming hunt. You pace back in forth in your cabin, waiting for the sounds of movement from outside to quiet down so that you can slip out unseen.

But something is wrong.

You feel chains wrap around you. You struggle, trying to break free, but all that does is make them bind you more. Soon you cannot move at all, and collapse onto the floor. You feel your energy being sapped from you, and then all goes dark.

You wake up the next morning with a splitting headache. Too late to go hunting. You'll just have to wait until the next night to try again.

--

Jim Groovester    Alien        Mindstealer                Abduct Caz    Abducts

You slip through the night and find Caz's cabin. With focused thoughts you stab through the feeble defenses of her mind and begin to absorb her psychic essence. A delicate process, and one that needs to be uninterrupted. You grab hold of her blank and unseeing body and guide it off to a secret hold you've prepared. There you spend the night, learning and absorbing what you can.

Pity so little of it remains for long, but you will make use of what you can.

You have gained the Role: Military Scientist - with the knowledge of the location of an Assassin Bot, primed and ready for use. You'll need to trigger this the next night, though, before its complex instructions fade from your mind.

You are now Town-aligned.

--

makeinu    Human        Detective                Investigate Jim Groovester    Mind Stealer

You have a few cheap spy-style listening devices you picked up at port one time for fun. Now you actually have a real use for them! You slip off to Jim Groovester's cabin and set a few of them up where you think they'll pick up some sounds.

You then camp out nearby, but out of sight, and see what you can learn.

You hear lots of mumbling and some very strange things coming from him. You finally piece together that he's got some sort of Mind Stealer powers! You're not sure if that's good or bad, given the situation with the doppelgangers, but it's certainly more interesting than you'd expected.

--

Persus13    Human        Observant Guard                Protect Jim Groovester    Protects

  You decide that it's most important to keep Jim alive, so you hang out near his cabin for the night. Fortunatetly, nothing happens so your skills aren't needed.

--
           
Sinlessmoon    Human        Psychic Warden                Block Imp    Blocks

  You sit at your table, a large blue candle in front of you and a small bronze chain in your hands. Reading from the Great Book on Psychic Wardening, you encant the Ritual of Subdual. Slowly you can feel the chain wrapping out from around you to ensnare Imp. The trap tightens, and you can feel the stuggles of her spirit as she tried to break free. But it is no use, she is trapped and the Ritual is draining her strength. She shall do nothing this night.
 
  Hey, what do you know? This book actually works!


--
       
Tiruin    Human        Heroic Guard                Guard Imp    Guards

  You decide that it's most important to keep Imp alive, so you hang out near her cabin for the night. Fortunatetly, nothing happens so your skills aren't needed.

--

Toaster    Human        Agent                Investigate Caz    Gone

  You decide to see what's up with Caz, so you sneak off to her cabin. Unfortunately, you're not able to learn anything as she is simply gone. You wait for a while, but she never returns. Eventually you give up and head back to your cabin to try to get some sleep.

Spoiler: Night 2 (click to show/hide)

Caz    Human        Military Scientist                Return    Returns

  You awaken in a cargo container. You're tired, hungry, and a little smelly. That's the first thing you notice.
 
  The second thing you notice is that your mind feels...full of holes. Like parts of your life have been taken from you.
 
  Dazed, you return to your room to try and piece together what's happened to you.
 
  (You are now a basic Townsperson)

--

Jim Groovester    Alien        Mindstealer                Assassinate RangerCado    Assassinates

  You can feel the advanced scientific knowledge stolen from Caz slipping away. Best use this device before you forget how.
 
  You set it to go off against RangerCado and then head to bed. You'll know if it succeeded in the morning.
 
  By morning you've lost almost all of the knowledge you'd gained, but you still remember enough to log in and check the results of the Assassination. Flawless mission: Target has been neutralized.

--

makeinu    Human        Detective                Investigate Superblackcat    No Role

  You sneak off to Superblackcat's house and set up your devices before settling in for a steakout. After a while of listening to what he does and the sounds made in his cabin you determine that there isn't anything special about him. He has No Role of note.

--

Persus13    Human        Observant Guard                Guard Toonyman    Guards

  You spend the evening camped out near Toonyman's house to make sure that he's safe for the night. Fortunately, nothing interesting happens and your services are not needed.

--

RangerCado    Human        Intelligence Scientist    Blocked, Dies

You sit at your desk, monitoring your surveillance system and making a few adjustments to its code when you feel a strange sensation. It feels as if chains have been wrapped around you, but you can't see anything different. You try to get up, only to fall out of your chair as your legs and arms sieze. You struggle, but the struggling only makes the chains tighter. You can feel the energy being drained from you. Your eyes grow heavy, your mind dulls, and then everything fades to black.

At some point your soul releases its grip on your body and floats off to the ether.

--

Toonyman    Human        Psychic Warden                Block RangerCado    Blocks

  You sit down at your table and prepare to perform the Ritual of Subdual again. You light the candle and wrap the chain about your fingers. The words of the ritual come slowly to you, the memorization new, but you get through it and feel the chains wrapping around RangerCado. You feel his struggles, the energy leaving him, and then the quiet of success. He will do nothing this night.

--

Tiruin    Human        Heroic Guard                Guard Makeinu    Guards

  You grab a thermos full of coffee and sneak off towards Makeinu's cabin. Got to make sure he's safe tonight, since you're pretty sure the dopps are going to be after him. But, no, the evening passes quietly. You trudge back to your cabin when the coffee no longer has any power to keep you awake.

--

Toaster    Human        Agent                Inspect Persus13    Human

  You sneak off to Persus13's cabin and watch him for a bit. You were a little worried about him, but he doesn't show any of the signs that you'd expect of a doppelganger or alien. He's just a Human like yourself. You head back to your cabin to ponder the events of the past day.

[Caz]

Woah. Damn. Good game everyone. Sorry Tiruin. 


I... still don't know why SBC bothered to claim hivemind though. Boggles the mind, it does.

[Persus13]

Called it.

I'd been suspicious of SBC being a dopp since he voted me. His silence and lie about converting RangerCado brought my suspicions of that eventuality back up.

Good Game all.

I got to say thanks to Makeinu. PMs really make this game more interesting, and I enjoyed working with Tiruin and people.

[Persus13]

I also was right that Tiruin was Town. Being right about Tiruin's alignment is a fist and something I'm pretty excited about.

Max, if you read this, you may want to change your scum strategy D1.

Imp, did you switch to DarkStar to prevent a Max lynch?

[Caz]

I was getting a little unsure of Tiruin too, but just couldn't see who the scum *could* be if not Tiruin. Toaster was 2nd after that, but unless something definite happened in the night I was still gonna vote to lynch Tiruin. Didn't really cross my mind at all that SBC could be the last dopp. Scum claiming cult is something I've never seen before... O_o