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[NJW2000]

BRING YOUR OWN ALIGNMENT

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This is a game of Bring Your Own Role mafia with a twist. In most BYORs, you send the GM a role and have an alignment chosen at random.

In this game, instead of sending the GM a role, you send an alignment. This can be anything - a word, a song, an image, or something else entirely.

Your alignment determines your win condition - what you need to do to win the game. It determines which of the other players you are opposed to or in alliance with, and the mechanical relationship you stand in. It also determines the information you are given at the start of the game, and the range of abilities you may be assigned.

Please note that this may be a frustrating and difficult game. Your winning or losing might depend on other players who do not share your objectives. Due to the complexity of balancing multiple win conditions, some players could have a significantly lower chance of winning than others. As some alignments will lead to very unusual win conditions, the game may approach bastardry.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

 The game ends when all players have either won or lost.

If all players are agreed that no more progress can be made to further their win conditions, the state of the game will be examined for full or partial stalemate.

Once a player has won or lost, they leave the game. They may no longer post in the thread, can no longer action or be targeted, and so forth.

Standard Day and Night phases, as well as Day elimination mechanics, are very likely to be present. Days will generally last 72 hours, nights 24. Further mechanical details will be specified at the start of the game.

While the space of possible alignments, mechanics and roles is very large, there are some guarantees:

 - Privately communicating with other players will not be allowed unless a specific mechanic permits it (unlike, say, Mephansteras' Paranormal games)
 - No action will resolve during a day, night or other phase. All actions will resolve at the end of the phase - including, for example, Daykills
 - There will not be post restrictions or mechanics based on the content of player's posts, apart from votes
 - You will not generally be told who you target, in the case of action redirections and so forth
 - You will generally be told when your action could not be performed. You will not generally be told why
 - Natural Action Resolution will be used to resolve night actions in complex cases
 - The game will be designed to minimise the risk of "Kingmaker" situations where it is mechanically impossible for a player to win but they remain in the game
 - The GM will not lie to you. Mechanical results may however not be reliable - this includes not only inspections and other investigative powers but also public role and alignment flips
 - Bay12 mechanical conventions will be roughly observed, as will MafiaScum Wiki conventions when they don't conflict with bay12 practice

As ever, if you have any questions, please ask them

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

You must not quote private communications from the mod directly, whether it is your role PM, a mechanical result, or something else.

You must not edit your posts in this thread.

You must not discuss the game outside the thread.

Try to be civil to all other players.

Please try to use the thread in a manner that does not disrupt the experience of other players beyond what is reasonable.

Please bear in mind that this game may involve up to seven novel alignments, and treat the GM with corresponding leniency.

This cannot be enforced, but all players are asked in the strongest terms at all times to play to win. If you believe there are alignment changing mechanics in the game, this does not necessarily mean playing to your win condition.

Please post "IN" in bold in this thread if you wish to play. This game will take a maximum of seven players.

Once you have signed up, you have the next 24 hours to send me the alignment you have chosen.

Choose wisely.

[Imp]

Oooh zoomin yay!

[Crystalizedmire]

In

[Elephant Parade]

In

[TricMagic]

In

[VermilionSkies]

In!

[Elephant Parade]

Wait, I don't actually have time for this right now. Out, sorry

[FallacyofUrist]

In.

[Maximum Spin]

In

[Egan_BW]

I would submit "the alignment which has no lose condition" but I can accomplish the same by simply spectating, so PTW.

[juicebox]

in

[NJW2000]

That’s seven players - just waiting for a few people to submit alignments.

[NJW2000]

Ok, all the alignments look good. Getting started on the setup.

[NJW2000]

MECHANICAL INFORMATION

The below mechanical information is publically known.

Spoiler: General Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Phases
There are alternating day and night phases. All actions resolve at the end of the phase they occur in. Unless otherwise specified, you may perform one action per phase. Only actions with the tag [day] may be performed during the day.

Deadchat
There will not be a deadchat. Dead players may not speak, vote, or act, but remain in the game until they are removed by winning or losing.

Day Zero
There is no elimination on the first day, and the voted player is instead removed from the game for the duration of the first night. They may take no actions and any actions targeting them will fail

Voting
Please indicate the player or option you want to vote for by posting their name in bold and red - ideally their full name, though misspellings or nicknames will be used if the intent is clear.
Please write "unvote" in red and bold if you wish to remove your vote.
Invalid bold red text will be ignored.
Ties will result in No Elimination. There will also be a No Elimination option.

Spoiler: Understanding Your Role (click to show/hide)

You will be given your Win Condition at the start of the game. You will be informed of your role, statuses, and any Candy you have at the start of each phase.



Win Conditions
These are checked at the start of every phase. If a player has won or lost, they leave the game at the start of that phase.
All win conditions are checked simultaneously. If one or more resolves, they are rechecked simultaneously.
For example: suppose Player P's win condition is that Q loses. If Q loses at the start of D2, P's win condition is rechecked, and resolves into a win.


Role Modifiers
These appears in square brackets in front of a role. A modified role is considered a role itself.
For example, if Player P's starting role was Example and they gained the modifier [Useful], their role would become [Useful] Example.
Note that role and alignment are not the same, just like in most games of mafia.
Role modifiers either apply to a role or they do not - you cannot have the same role modifier twice. There could be no [Useful] [Useful] Example role.
If you learn the name of a role modifier through receiving that modifier or learning that another player has it, you will be given a definition of that modifier.


Statuses
A status is a state a player is in. This is not a role modifier. You retain all statuses when you die.
If you learn the name of a status through receiving that modifier or learning that another player has it, you will be given a definition of that status.


Tags
An action may have certain tags, describing what it can do. For example, actions generally cannot self-target. Actions with the [self] tag can ONLY self target.

[X-shot] The ability may only be used X times. The ability is not used up if you fail to target a player with it, but is still used if your action fails otherwise
[day] This ability may only be used during the day
[dead] This ability may only be used on dead players
[self] This ability may only be used to self-target

These are the only tags used.



Candy
If you have candy, you may choose to eat it during the night. You may eat all or any of the candy you have on the same night. Eating the candy consumes it. Eating candy is an action, and resolves before any other actions. It thus cannot be blocked or prevented by an action occurring on the same night.
If you learn the name of a type of Candy by receiving that modifier or learning that another player has it, you will be told the effect of eating that Candy.

Any immediate questions, let me know. If you're not sure what this will all look like, your alignment/role sheet will hopefully make it clear shortly.

Roles will be sent later this evening, and the game will start then.

[notquitethere]

Looking forward to seeing this play out!