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[RoseHeart]

I wont accept "they are clear, because you are not", because that would be spiteful on my part.

[webadict]

I wont accept "they are clear, because you are not", because that would be spiteful on my part.

You have no reason to hide anything.

[TricMagic]

@Tric, I could also hide at Luckyowl and have Caz investigate Lucky, if Caz okays it.

The current plan is fine so long as everyone follows it. Including you.

And claiming I'm not suspicious is weird. Welcome to your personal ocean's worth of mafia terms roseheart.

I think we've got enough now at least. Stick to plan.


"I think I've heard enough roseheart. I knew thee well, but you haven't participated nearly as much in these discussions as one might think. If it's any help, your death is not in vain.."

Shorten

The Mountaineer stands.

[Mephansteras]

And that is 4 votes to Shorten. Day is now over. I'll do the write-up for this in a few hours probably, since I have some job interviews going on this morning.

[Mephansteras]

The Whiteboard
roseheart: Caz, Luckyowl, Persus13, TricMagic, webadict
No Lynch: roseheart


Roseheart looks around the room, and sighs. "Doesn't much matter what I say now, huh? I'm not walking out of here alive, am I?"

Luckyowl picks up the shotgun. "I'm afraid not, Rose". She levels it at him. "Talk to you soon, though."

With a sudden look of worry roseheart suddenly turns and starts to walk towards the door. The blast of the shotgun is deafening in the room, and the Detective's body slumps to the ground. In his outstretched hand is his sketchbook.

Webadict walks over and picks it up, flipping to the last picture. "He's crossed himself out." He turns and shows the rest of you. "Figured he had no chance today, I guess. Sure tried hard to talk us out of it, though."

In his distraction, he fails to notice the movement behind him. A clawed hand outstretched which in a flash hooks his leg and draws him down. He lands with a heavy thud as the featureless face of a doppelganger rises up over him. "No more hiding" hisses the creature as its claws dig into the Sneak.

Luckyowl stands, stunned, fumbling with the shotgun to try and get another round loaded. The Medium is unused to guns, and it shows.

Caz nearly falls back in her chair as she scrambles to get up. "Web, no!" the Detective has look of horror on her face.

TricMagic is already heading toward the fight, the Observant Guard having spotted the movement just moment to late to stop it.

It is Parsus13's knife, however, which gets there first. The blade sinks with a sickening wet thud into where one of the creatures eyes should have been, and roseheart's body falls backwards.

The Vengeful Guard grabs the gun out of Luckyowl's hands and carefully walks forward, wary of more tricks.

But the monster is dead, it seems, and moves no more.

Web, too, no longer moves. And the copious amount of blood pouring from his neck indicates that his time on this earth is either over already or soon will be.

The town hall is a disaster. Dark alien blood mixes with bright red human blood as the winds pick up outside and snow begins to flurry in the windows.

You are safe,now, but it is hard to say if you will ever truly recover from the events of the past few days.




And that's game!

My sincere apologies to both Detectives. I somehow managed to screw up web being at your targets house both nights, and I'm sorry for the effect that had on the game. I'm clearly very out of practice in running a mafia game. But I've at least updated how my tracking spreadsheet works to help deal with that issue in future games.

This was short, but I hope you all at least had fun.

Spoiler: Role PMs (click to show/hide)

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Humans
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4maskwolf (Human)
  For years you’ve lived in this quiet mountain town. You find that it greatly helps you tap into your spiritual self. You are, in fact, a Telepath and can use your powers to help root out these dangerous Doppelgangers.
  Each night you may choose to Investigate another player to learn their Goal for the night. As a psychic action this does not require that you leave your house.

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Caz (Human)
  You retired a few years ago from the city police force to live out the rest of your life surrounded by the mountains you grew up in. You made it to Detective, and it looks like you’ll need those skills to get through this. Each night you may go to the house of another player to Investigate them and determine what Role they may have.

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Luckyowl (Human)
  The crisp mountain air and secluded nature of this village really help spark the Spiritual nature of those so inclined. In your case, you are a Medium, and have the rare ability to speak with the dead.
    You are doubly blessed, and possess the even rarer ability to form a Spirit-Bond with another. Should you die, you may choose to visit another player that night as a ghost and offer them your powers.

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Persus13 (Human)
  This is a small town and you’ve come to view everyone in it as family at this point. The idea that a couple of them aren’t your family any more but horrible alien monsters has made you mad. Really mad. You’ve decided to be a Vengeful Guard, going out at night to Protect another player and keep the monsters from killing them. You may die in the process, but damn you’ll do your best to take the attacker down with you.

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TricMagic (Human)
  Years of time spent doing mountain rescue have given you the inner steel to be more concerned about the lives of others than your own. You have decided to act as an Observant Guard for the town, going out each night to Protect another player from harm. Should they be attacked, you’ll be able to warn them of who their attacker is. Though there is considerable risk that you will die trying to protect them, you’ve never shied away from danger in the past and have no intention of starting now.

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webadict (Human)
  It’s a small town, and you’ve always been the sort who just has to know what’s going on. On the other hand, the idea of being eaten by monsters in your bed is terrifying. So you’ve decided you’re going to go Sneak into another player’s house at night. That way you can Investigate if they leave their house at night. Of course, if the monsters break into that house you might be in trouble, but you figure at least that way you won’t die in your own bed. That just sounds awful.     

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Doppelgangers
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Doppelgangers, the two of you awoken in your pods to chill of ice and snow. Crisp mountain air surrounded you, and the sense of a strange new world. And a hunger, deep and profound. You soon found food nearby and assumed the guise of those you consumed. Now you must secure your survival by removing these suspicious townsfolk before they kill you.

Each night you may choose one among you to go out and perform a Night Kill to satiate your bloodlust and hunger.

juicebox (Doppelganger)
  It seems that the human you devoured was a Telepath. A most useful ability, it will allow you to Investigate another player to learn their Goal for the night. As a psychic action this does not require that you leave your house.


roseheart (Doppelganger)
  You managed to consume a human who was a talented Detective. A useful skill, though they were not quick of mind enough to deduce what you were before you slew them.
  In any case, it will allow you to go out at night and Investigate another player to see what Role they possess.
  You also seem to have gained a Mind Shield, which will help shield you from any psychic actions these humans may attempt to use against you..

The two of you may also freely communicate with each other via telepathy

Dopp Chat
Dead Chat
   

[Mephansteras]

Spoiler: Night 1 (click to show/hide)

4maskwolf    Human    Telepath        Alive        Investigate juicebox    Kill, dies

You arrive at your house and settle down. The day was tense, and while you’re relieved to be alive you’re also concerned about the fact that those doppelgangers are still out there.
But, perhaps you can locate one of them.

After putting on a kettle and making yourself a nice cup of hot chocolate you sit down on the padded seat of your reading nook and look out over the mountains. The moon is just a crescent right now, but you can still see its light glimmering on the ice capped peaks.

You focus on that light. It fills your mind, and you feel yourself break free of your body.

All around you are lights. Globes of energy that represent the minds of the people of this town. You feel around for a bit until you find juicebox and reach out a mental tentril. Almost instantaneously you find yourself next to that light, and fall into it.

Skimming along you can read their surface thoughts. A deep abiding hunger. A troubling desire.

A desire to kill.

A distant crash. A growing pain. The world calls to you.

You open your eyes to find yourself being dragged through the busted window by sharp claws. A horrible, eyeless face looks down upon you and a mouth of jagged teeth opens up. There is pain, and darkness envelopes you.

You have died

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Caz    Human    Detective        Alive        Investigate juicebox    Telepath

A bit suspicious of juicebox, you decide to go check out their place and do a bit of sleuthing.

Your boots crunch through the snow as you carefully examine the area outside their house. Nothing much of note out here, though you do find a shipping notice in a box in their trash from some new-age book store. Opening your Mind, The Way of Light, and Telepathic Connections. Interesting.

The house is pretty closed up, and you don’t want to risk making too much noise by trying to break in, but you do get a few glimpses inside. An end table with a few large faceted crystals. A bookshelf full of various new-age books, many of them on Telepathy.

You’ve seen enough to be pretty sure that juicebox is one of those Telepaths you heard so much about in the news a few years back.

Satisfied, and not too keen on staying out in the dark with monsters any longer than you have to, you head on home to get some sleep before what is sure to be a long day tomorrow.

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juicebox    Doppelganger    Telepath        Alive        Kill 4maskwolf    Kills

The prospect of fresh blood gets your heart racing. Even before you get out the door your claws are out and you can feel your fangs shifting to their natural form.

4maskwolf isn’t too far of a walk, not that you notice the cold anyway. This planet is soft and weak, and these humans softer still.

You carefully stalk around his house, sensing the heat of his body and the taste of human on the wind.

A window.

A blob of warmth, just inside.

The glass shatters easily to your blows. The body snagged effortlessly. Distracted, perhaps. Or frozen in fear. No matter.

Claws sink deep into flesh. The still struggling form brought close. Teeth sink deeper. Blood wells up, sweet and intoxicating.

You hoist the body up over your shoulder and go to join the other. Bounty such as this should be shared.

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Persus13    Human    Vengeful Guard        Alive        Protect Juicebox    Nothing happens

Deciding that juicebox might be the next target of the dopps, you gear yourself up and head into the cold.

The crescent moon sheds just enough light for you to see where you’re going without needing a light that would give you away.

You find a snowbank outside his house that gives you pretty good sight lines on everything.  You settle down, sinking into the snow for both camouflage and insulation from the wind. If any monsters show their face, you’re going to put a few bullets from your hunting rifle into them!

But hours pass and nothing comes by. Eventually you give up and head home to try and grab a few hours of sleep before the next day’s trials.

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roseheart    Doppelganger    Detective        Alive        Investigate TricMagic    Observant Guard

Since your ally has the bloodlust, you decide to put your human inherited skills to use. Knowing what TricMagic can do may be pivotal for your victory.

So you creep out along through the cold, crisp air.

His house isn’t terribly far, and you make good time along the packed snow of the plowed roads.

As you skulk your way around the edge of the house you can hear him talking. It sounds like...to an animal? A dog, perhaps. Humans are fond of those. The words are faint, and you can’t make out all of them. But you hear enough to know that they intend to go out and ‘keep an eye on things’. Even, perhaps, ‘try and save someone if the monsters come’?

Hmm. Well, that tells you a lot, doesn’t it? Having learned that TricMagic is an Observant Guard you slip away to the meeting spot where your podmate should be bringing back tonight’s kill.

[EDIT: I screwed up here. Roseheart should have also learned that webadict was a Sneak hiding in TricMagic’s house this night. Bad mod.]

Just the thought of the blood makes your fangs and claws grow a bit.

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TricMagic    Human    Observant Guard        Alive        Protect Webadict    Nothing happens

Well, that was an interesting day. You’re pretty sure the night is going to be even more interesting, what with those monsters lurking out there.

After a bit of thought you’ve decided that you’ll trust that webadict is human, and see what you can do to keep him safe. So after a bit of dinner for you and the dog you gear yourself up. You stop and pet the dog for a while, telling her what a good girl she is and that you hope you’ll be back soon. You just have to go check on webadict, make sure he’s safe from the monsters.

She should be fine. The dopps don’t seem to go after dogs at least.

The night is cold but clear. A crescent moon gives just enough light reflecting off the snow for you to see where you are going, and nothing bothers you on the way to webadict’s house.

You find a nice sheltered spot under a big evergreen tree where you can watch without being too exposed. Which is good, since the wind is the only thing you see moving anything around.

After some long, cold hours you decide to head on home. Tomorrow will be another long day, and you need some sleep before that.


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webadict    Human    Sneak        Alive        Investigate TricMagic    Leaves his house

Ok. Whew. Yeah. Busy day. Lots of talking. Lots of false trails laid out.

But where to actually go?

How about TricMagic? Yeah. See if they go somewhere. And, you know, hope they aren’t a horrible monster who eats you when you enter their house.

But you’re sneaky. You can get in and out undetected. Been doing it in this town for years. Being the only guy who knows how to use the key machine at the hardware shop makes that really easy.

It goes fine. You watch carefully, listen for footsteps, and slip inside through the back door just in time to hear them leave through the front.

Nice and easy.

Oh. Yeah...the dog. That’s fine. She’s a good girl. She knows you. You pet her a bit and find a spot in the attic to lay low for the night.

At some point you fall asleep, and when you awaken the sky is just beginning to lighten with dawn. No monsters ate you. That’s a win, for sure!

You head back home to have some breakfast and clean yourself up a bit.

Spoiler: Night 2 (click to show/hide)

Caz    Human    Detective        Alive        Investigate Roseheart    Detective

One monster dead, and you can be proud of your help in that department. But there is still work to do.

So after a hot meal and some prep work you head out into the night to check out Roseheart and see what he’s doing.

Like the previous night, you take no chances with trying to break into a house that could be harboring a dangerous monster. Instead, you sleuth around the outside, seeing what you can discover.

After a bit your efforts bear some fruit. Stuffed in the garbage bin outside are a sheaf of old envelopes, all addressed to Roseheart at what is obviously a Private Detective firm. Guess they've been running their own little practice here.

The only questions that remain are, what have they found out? And are they actually a doppelganger under that friendly face?

In any case, such questions will have to wait until tomorrow. For now you head home and get some well earned rest.

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Persus13    Human    Vengeful Guard        Alive        Protect webadict    Nothing happens

Like the previous night you have a hot meal, suit up for the cold, and grab your trusty hunting rifle. Webadict seems like a likely target of the dopps, so you’ll see about keeping him safe.

And like the previous night, all is quiet and you see no signs of monsters or violence. Which you suppose beats the alternative.

You head home for a hot drink and a few hours of sleep.

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roseheart    Doppelganger    Detective        Alive        Investigate Caz    Detective

Your podmate is gone, and the silence in your mind is nearly deafening. But will not be defeated. You shall persevere and all of these wretched humans shall be your sustenance.

But you ate well last night and need not do so tonight. And after some thought you decide that the risk is not worth taking. Instead, you will investigate Caz and see what she’s been basing her knowledge on.

A bit of a longer walk to get to her house, but you barely notice.

Once there you skulk around the house, a hand trailing along the wooden siding. Smells flood your senses. Human smells. Memories. Images now appear in your mind. A picture frame, proudly displaying a ceremony of uniformed humans. Caz is among them. Your human memories flood out, placing names to details.
Ah.

Caz is a Detective. Yes. A clever human, and trained in spotting details and patterns. Dangerous, but at least not trained in ferreting out your kind in particular.

You return to your house. Memories of the human still trickling through your mind as you walk. A private detective firm. Cases solved. Long nights of frustration, the sweet taste of satisfaction when a job is complete. Interesting. These feelings pale before the pure joy of the hunt and taste of blood, but are grateful for them nonetheless. They are a distraction from the loneliness.

[EDIT: And I screw up yet again. Caz should have seen webadict at Roseheart’s house. I am bad at this, apparently]

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TricMagic    Human    Observant Guard        Alive        Protect Caz    Nothing happens

Like the previous night you have a hot meal, pet the dog, suit up for the cold, and head out into the cold night air. Caz seems like a likely target of the dopps, so you’ll see about keeping her safe.

And like the previous night, all is quiet and you see no signs of monsters or violence. Which you suppose beats the alternative.

You head home for a hot drink and a few hours of sleep.

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webadict    Human    Sneak        Alive        investigate roseheart    Leaves his house

Whew! What a day. One horrible doppelganger down.

That was a bit terrifying, if you’re honest with yourself. But it worked out.

So, time to check in on roseheart. And, you know, not get eaten by a dopp in the process.

You wait just a bit before heading you. You eat a hot but quick meal first, and pack some snacks that you can eat quietly. Sneaky sneak is the name of the game, here.

Roseheart’s house is quiet when you arrive. Seems they’re not here right now. Good to know. You find a nice hidden spot to chill out for the night and settle in.

You’re not sure the exact time, but you do hear roseheart return and start rattling around the house for a bit before the bedroom door closes.

You remain undetected and undisturbed that night and slip out just before dawn.

[RoseHeart]

Was the the dog really a bitch?

[Mephansteras]

The dog was a very good girl.

[4maskwolf]

Not cool, Juicebox. Never kill a man when he’s drinking his cocoa.

[4maskwolf]

Also, I agree with something Caz said earlier: this setup felt heavily town sided, even accounting for player strength. Four investigative/pseudo investigative, one medium, and one venge guard is absolutely backbreaking for a two-man scumteam. The scum managed to hit the most powerful town investigative role present on N1 and it didn’t even matter.

[RoseHeart]

To give the game it's due, I did have mind shield. Perhaps if my partner didn't have bad luck N1 we could have made it work.


Also, Here's a passage from dopp chat to show my comments about my slow reading/thinking were legitimate(and not a ploy).

You need to be a little more active in the game, or people are going to suspect that you're scum flying under the radar. You should start by answering my question and then go from there. I would advise you to maybe engage with webadict or luckyowl a little bit.

If that's going to happen because of my current rate of activity then it is what it is. Because it already feels like a marathon.

Really? I don't think it's quite that bad. 125 posts in 4 days doesn't seem a lot to me.

Although you should maybe take that with a grain of salt considering i just finished reading a game with an over 2000 post D1

[TricMagic]

It was very heavy towards town. Which is what made a second detective claim on top of everything this day rather incredulous. 2 detectives, a meduim and telepath, plus two guards that would screw over dopps. And another telepath and a sneak. There isn't a way to spin that as anything but imbalanced, but a telepath and detective on the dopps side makes it a bit less so.

4mask, what made you target juice N1?

Also, give it up for Good Dog. She is the best girl.(Link is also fluff story.)

[4maskwolf]

A hunch. That’s really all there is to say about it, just a combination of little things that made me think “you know... I want to know what juice is up to tonight.” You actually played a major role in that, Tric: while in hindsight your actions were innocently town at the time I was still strongly debating whether you were scum or not, and I came to the conclusion that if you were scum Juicebox was your most likely scum buddy (your play pattern on D1 was very reminiscent of a scum player voting his buddy early for easy distancing, bailing off onto an easy lynch, then going back to gently pushing his buddy when that fell through).

[webadict]

Wait. Roseheart actually investigated Caz on N2?

What the actual fuck? Rose, WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST CLAIM THAT?!?

[Luckyowl]

I had fun I started a bit wonky, but I somewhat was able to turn the blame to juicebox(thanks to 4maskwolf of course.)  Only for Caz to catch them lying. Honestly I wonder if 4maskwolf didn't chose Juicebox?