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[notquitethere]

NQT's Choose Your Own Spheres

This is a BYOR with a Choose-Your-Own-Mafia type role-creation system. How it works is you fill out the following character creation steps:

1. Send a role. Can be anything. A name, a concept, a wikipedia page, an existing mafia role. Whatever you find interesting.
2. Pick a blue sphere from the ability web, then trace a route from sphere to sphere until you have picked three connected blue spheres (with as many red flaw spheres as you dare). You cannot reuse spheres or lines while tracing this journey. See Example Roles for more clarity.

This will set the broad mechanics of your role's abilities. The spheres may appear in separate or combined abilities, once or multiple times. Your role will be built for you with your alignment in mind.

The Sphere Web

Spoiler: Basic Mafia Rules (click to show/hide)

Basic rules:
- Mafia is a game of informed minority vs uninformed majority. It alternated between day and night phases. During a day, players vote to eliminate a player. During a night, players submit an action to the mod. Players have different winconditions, and the game ends when there is no more uncertainty over who will win.
 - No PMing to anyone but me, the mod.
 - No Quoting of the Mod in relation to PMs. You are free to quote anything in the thread. You may also paraphrase.
 - Semi-hammers in effect. Days last on a soft 72 hours, unless majority is voting for any player or No Lynch. If a player is hammered, there is to be no more talking. If you accidentally post something after the hammer, you can and should edit out the post.
 - Nights last 24 hours or until all players have submitted an action.
 - Weekends count for 0 hours.
 - There are no extensions.
 - Vote by putting player names in bold and red:  Bold and Red.
 - Use powers by sending a PM to the mod; scum can do this using their Discord channel.
 - Probably some other stuff that I've forgotten right now, but you know the drill.
 - Ordinarily, players are limited to one action per phase.

Spoiler: Spheres Explained (click to show/hide)

The spheres are broad categories of roles and limitations to roles and can include things not shown in the examples below.

Blue Ability Spheres
Action Detection: You can detect the actions of others (e.g. watch, track)
Chat: You interact with chats (e.g. have an additional chat with another player, or are able to send information to other player's chats etc.)
Curse: Curse abilities give other players detriments that are not fatal, they may get progressively worse, add harmful corruptions, or mimic or transfer existing flaws.
Daytime: At least one of your abilities works during the day.
Fruit-Selling: You send players fruit. On its own, this does nothing, but may be augmented by other spheres.
Hats: Your power involves hats, which are collectable items that can often move between players.
Improvement: You can improve a role (new powers, new shots, better targets, one-off free actions etc.)
Kill: You can kill to some capacity. This might be a direct kill ability, or indirect like poison, arson, infection etc.
Meta: Your power works on a meta-level. Eg. rather than targeting players directly it might target abilities or alter game-wide rules.
Mimic: You can use other players abilities in some way (e.g. copycat, hypnotise, reflect)
Mutation: Your ability changes roles in some way (e.g. swapping, evolving, mashing-up)
Necromancy: Your power involves the dead (e.g. mediums, resurrection, graverobbery, ghouls)
Over-Powered: One or more of your powers is excessively powerful.
Protection: Your powers protect others from harmful (usually killing) powers.
Redirection: You can change the reliability of other player's targets (e.g. bus/redirect/randomise)
Role Detection: You can learn details about player roles. All other things being equal, this is likely to be the names of spheres rather than any specifics.
Second Wincon: You have another way to win the game beyond your main wincondition.
Self-Confirmation: Your abilities have a way they can be traced back to you.
Self-Preservation: You have a way of avoiding some harm (often killing).
Setup Knowledge: You are given some insight into otherwise hidden aspects of the setup (e.g. mechanics, alignments in play, spheres chosen etc.).
Super: Your power trumps other powers in some capacity. e.g. a kill that cannot be redirected.
Thwart: Powers that prevent other player's actions (e.g. bans, delays, jails, theft).
Votes: Your power involves votes.

Red Flaw Spheres
Blowback: Your abilities may cause direct or indirect harm to yourself or your team, or aid to your enemies.
Cascade: Something you can do can get out of hand and have cascading effects, impacting extra players after your intended target, in possibly hard to foresee ways.
Convolution: Your role has some significant complexities to how it can be used, e.g involving achieving specific states.
Corrupted: Your ability is altered, or weaker than it should be.
Dud: You have an ability which might not do anything directly useful most of the time.
Flux: Your own abilities are subject to change, making long-term planning difficult.
Limitation: You have at least one ability with a limitation (limited shots, limited targets, limited phase use etc.)
Slow: Your role takes several day/night cycles to reach its full potential.
Suspicious: Your ability makes you look bad in some way. Positive abilities might not be observable, negative abilities might be broadcast, or your role or actions might appear as something else when detected.
Uncertainty: Knowledge you receive might not be absolutely confirmable, there may be gaps, or there may be misinformation to sift through.
Vulnerability: You are more likely to die (e.g. lovers, self-destruction, magnetism etc.)

Spoiler: Example Roles (click to show/hide)

Dark Knight
Player 1 wants the role to be able to Protect, so she picks Protection first. She also wants to be able to kill: he picks the Suspicious flaw, and then Kill. She's got one more Blue sphere to pick, and (with enough flaws) could pick any of them. She decides to stick with the Dark Knight theme and get some Self-Preservation via Limitation.
Protect -> Suspicious -> Kill -> Limitation -> Self-Preservation



Sherlock Holmes
Player 2 really wants to maximise his chances at getting a day inspection power, and so needs to figure out how to connect up Daytime to one of the Detections. He doesn't want Uncertainty (Holmes is certain!) so he starts with Action Detection, then Limitation, then Daytime. He has to take Convolution (was Sherlock Holmes plot isn't?), and finally settles on Setup Knowledge, which also neatly fits the theme.

Action Detection -> Limitation -> Daytime -> Convolution -> Setup Knowledge




Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F
Player 3 doesn't care about fitting the role to the powers picked, that's the mod's job. She selects Role Detection, Meta and Mutation, mostly because she doesn't want to take any flaws.
Role Detection -> Meta -> Mutation



Lord of the Supermarket
Player 4 wants to sell hats and fruit and hopes to get a secondary wincon based on that. At such a cost!
Hats -> Dud -> Slow -> Second Wincon -> Blowback -> Suspicious -> Fruit-Selling

Spoiler: Mechanics FAQ (click to show/hide)

This is a BYOR and so the mechanical space of the game is wide open, but the following things will be true:

- Players usually get one action per phase, but some abilities may grant additional actions (especially hats, improvements, mutations, over-powered etc.), or some single actions might combine multiple sphere effects (e.g. a delay which randomises everyone else targeting the target would combine Thwart and Redirection, with Cascade).
- Players in general will receive less information than more. You won't generally get a report to tell you if your actions have succeeded, and you won't know if you've been redirected etc.
- There are no alignment inspections. Millers and alignment cops are not a part of the game. What alignments there are in the setup can appear as a Setup Knowledge power.
- You won't get night action flavour (sorry!), though you will get it during the day.
- Straightforward blocks are unlikely (I don't like 'em)
- The setup will be designed to avoid action processing conflicts where possible, but otherwise it will use natural resolution order, with simultaneous action.
- Players will typically know their own abilities: insanity, hidden abilities etc. are unlikely to feature unless a player signals through character creation that that's what they really want
- Powers won't inherently be more powerful if the player has lots of flaws, so don't take red spheres unnecessarily.
- All abilities may be described in any number of ways, except fruit-selling and hats, which always involve fruit and hats.
- Players won't usually start with abilities tied to spheres they don't have. There may be exceptions based on specific roles players have (e.g. a mafia player has a blowback role that empowers town on start, a player has the corruption flaw which has altered the function of one of their powers).

Spoiler: Alignments (click to show/hide)

There are four basic alignments:

Town: You win when all anti-town factions are dead.

Mafia: You win when town cannot win. The exact number of mafia are not known to players at the start of the game. They may be split up into more than one team. Mafia have a shared chat. They have a mafiakill which can be used once per night, and often individually have alternative mafiakill abilities based on their spheres. They essentially have access to a secret mafiakill sphere. E.g. a player with the Mimic sphere, might get a power like one of the following:

(night)(mimic)(mafia-kill) Hypnotise [target 1, target 2]: You hypnotise target 1 into killing target 2, in addition to their other night actions.

(night)(mimic)(mafia-kill) Bloodstained Library Catalog [target]: You perform a random action belonging to the target on themselves and then kill them. Action inspection would only reveal the copied spheres.

Neutral Third-Party/Anti-Town Third-Party: You win when you meet a condition. If a Third Party's goal involves (directly or otherwise) the destruction of town, then it's considered anti-town. E.g. Serial Killer: You win when all other players are dead. There can be Third-Party factions with shared win-conditions.

Players with the Second Wincon sphere also get an additional way of winning ontop of their main win-condition. This second wincon doesn't interact with other wincondition (e.g. if a neutral third-party player had the second wincon that they win if all players are dead, they still wouldn't be considered "anti-town".

There will be no traditional cults or conversion, and no unmodified survivors

Signups
- Quarque Killed N1
- Imp
- TricMagic
- Crystalizedmire
- FallacyofUrist Eliminated D3
- Webadict Eliminated D1
- Elephant Parade
- Maximum Spin Eliminated D2
- Sofanthiel Eliminated D1
- Euchrejack
- NJW2000 - second wincon: would also have won if last town player left standing
- Toonyman
Day One Start
Day Two Start
Day Three Start
Game End, Town Victory

Discord link for chats

[Quarque]

In.

[Imp]

Self-confirming!

[Crystalizedmire]

IN

[TricMagic]

CONVOLUTIONS FELLOW TOWN

[hector13]

It is possible to choose all the red spheres, someone should do it.

[Crystalizedmire]

It is possible to choose all the red spheres, someone should do it.

Be the change you want to see in the world!
Can someone be mafia without choosing the kill sphere?

[notquitethere]

Read the section on alignments: mafia get a hidden mafiakill sphere which combines with their chosen spheres.

[Crystalizedmire]

Then, can players who selected the kill sphere be mafia?

[Elephant Parade]

Not sure if I'll in yet but I'm having a lot of fun just routing through the sphere grid, so props for that!

[Quarque]

Euchrejack, Euchrejack.

Look, you can be a pirate in this game.
KILL => (vulnerability) => CURSE => (flux) => HATS

[TricMagic]

Example Role: Sphere of Spheres
Spheres > Setup Knowledge, Meta, Role Detection, Uncertainty
Auto: All The Spheres' Knowledge: At the start of each Day, you learn every Sphere in play Living Players have, but not the players or combinations.

A role built around gaining large amounts of knowledge about potential combinations.


I'd point out to Toony that they can be the Hat Tyrant. Honestly, would this is a fun setup that I'd like plenty of. But want a bit of a sleeper game on my end this round.

Super > Corrupted > Second Wincon > Blowback > Vulnerability > Cascade> Hats
Hats have a silly number of combinations fettered by the large amount of Red

Uncertainty > Limitation > >Suspisous > Blowback > Corrupted > Slow > Dud > Cascade > Flux> Convolution > Vulnerability
As much red as you want, they can connect completely.

[Imp]

It is possible to choose all the red spheres, someone should do it.

Even though we were told this??

don't take red spheres unnecessarily.

[Imp]

Then, can players who selected the kill sphere be mafia?

Everyone politely ignore CM trying to be the many-kill-method mafia

[hector13]

It is possible to choose all the red spheres, someone should do it.

Even though we were told this??

don't take red spheres unnecessarily.

And?