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[Crystalizedmire]

CrystalizedChess
FallacyOfChess
ChessMagic
EuchreChess
VermilionChess
Elephant Chess
Hyperchess
NChessW2000
notquitechess
chessbox
Chimp

Fun fact: Elephant Chess is also a name for Chinese Chess.

[Magma Mater]

I've added some rules to the first post, if anyone wants a sneak peak at those. I'm still on-target to send roles sometime tomorrow, probably near end-of-day MST.

[Imp]

99 of these abilities

Okay.  Now I'm really happy.

[Crystalizedmire]

There's how many abilities now?

[Magma Mater]

All roles have been sent. Please confirm by PM or via Discord DM.

[Magma Mater]

My apologies for the delay, there will still be a bit of time until this starts. I'm waiting on one more person to confirm. If I can't get in touch with them by tomorrow then I'll start looking for a replacement.

[Magma Mater]

I now have all confirmations. I will start the game 23 hours and 56 minutes from now, at noon PST tomorrow.

[Magma Mater]

Hey everyone, welcome to the first annual Bay 12 Games Board Game Games! Thanks for coming, and I see you've all brought your own board game to the meet, as requested. Hopefully we'll have time to play all of them. For now, let's begin with my own favourite, Eclipse.

Two hours of setup and rules explanations later...

So, does that make sense to everyone? I guess we'll get started!

Four hours of gameplay later...

Alright, so it's round two, I think I'm ready to take the first combat encounter of the game. Let's see... hey, somebody messed with the encounter tiles! There's no way I can defeat a vessel with THREE ion cannons!! This game is ruined!!!!

Magma Mater flips the table. The pieces for his favourite game scatter throughout the meeting gallery, skittering under tables, chairs, floorboards. If it wasn't unplayable before, it is now.

Spoiler: Magma Mater's Flip (click to show/hide)

Hello Magma Mater! You chose Eclipse, and you have rolled Town. Please read the game-specific rules before continuing, as it'll make some things in your role easier to understand! Once you've read this role, please confirm via PM or Discord.
Without further ado...

General Abilities

4x (Genre)
_{It's time to build a civilization. Let's research some tech, colonize some places, and do some things that start with E and definitely not X.}
Each night, you may target a player. The first time this ability resolves for you, you will learn their role name. The second time it resolves for you, you will give that player this General Ability. The third time it resolves for you, choose an ability name; if your target possesses that Personal Ability, you will steal it. The fourth time it resolves for you, that player will die.

Personal Abilities

Research Technology (Active)
_{The more you know, the more you can do.}
Target yourself. Your target will be able to give the Free keyword to one of their Active abilities.

Build Ship (Active)
_{The only thing better than a Fleet-In-Being is a Fleet-Which-Is.}
Target yourself. Mark that player with Interceptor. If that player is already marked with Interceptor, mark them with Cruiser instead. If that player is already marked with Cruiser, mark them with Dreadnought instead.

Upgrade Ship (Active)
_{Your fleet is useless if it's outdated.}
Target yourself and choose one of the following abilities. That ability is added to your Ship. If you are marked with Interceptor, your Ship can hold one upgrade. If you are marked with Cruiser, your Ship can hold two upgrades instead. If you are marked with Dreadnought, your Ship can hold three upgrades instead. The abilities available are:

• Ion Cannon (Passive)
  _{This pulse should be enough to stun your enemy.}
  Players you target with Attack are blocked.
  
• Fusion Drive (Passive)
  _{A better engine would make us slightly more manouverable.}
  Your Attack ability can target two players instead of one.
  
• Positron Computer (Passive)
  _{Targeting systems will make it harder for your cannons to miss their target.}
  Your Attack ability cannot be blocked.
  
• Phase Shield (Passive)
  _{Raise the shields, we're under attack!}
  You will be protected from one kill attempt.
  
• Tachyon Source (Passive)
  _{More energy to run more upgrades.}
  Your Ship can host an additional upgrade.
  

Attack (Active)
_{Send your ships out, sire. They're useless while docked.}
Target any player.

Factional Abilities

Town (Win Condition)
_{Cheating at a board game is wrong. The only appropriate response is hot-blooded murder.}
You win when all of the mafia have been eliminated.

I beg of you all, please find the cheaters responsible for this mess (as in, the ones who caused me to make the mess, my reaction was reasonable and justified). In the meantime, I'll let you all vote on which game we play next.

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Vote Count - Day One Start

Not Voting (11) - Imp, FallacyOfUrist, CrystalizedMire, TricMagic, EuchreJack, VermilionSkies, Elephant Parade, Hyper, NJW2000, notquitethere, juicebox

With 11 votes in play, 6 are required to lynch or to no-lynch.

Day ends in 72 hours, at 20:00:00 UTC on January 18.

[Magma Mater]

An auction has started! The following items are on the docket:

• Darkroom (Passive)
  _{Nobody can see you in here. It's a good place to lie low.}
  You are immune to investigative abilities. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  
• Butchery (Passive)
  _{A little creepy. Many of the tools here are used to dissect animals. Hopefully they don't turn against you.}
  You are immune to protective abilities. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  
• Smithy (Passive)
  _{The armour here will make you positively unhoistable.}
  You are immune to lynches. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  
• Dormitory (Passive)
  _{A nice place to doze off for a while, if you don't mind the bedbugs.}
  This does nothing. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  
• Hospital (Passive)
  _{This is a great place to stub your toe.}
  You are immune to kills. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  
• Sheriff's Office (Active, Free)
  _{The sheriff needs a new deputy. Will you answer the call?}
  Target any player. You will learn their Faction. This ability becomes locked at the start of the next day.
  

To claim one, vote for it as normal (in bold, with red). For example, to claim Darkroom, do Darkroom. The items must be claimed in the order listed above (from top to bottom). If somebody claims one of the items, the next one immediately becomes available to claim (don't wait for me to announce anything!)

If you claim an item, you will lose your vote for the day. This will reduce the number of votes required for a lynch. In other words, if all items are claimed, there will only be five votes left in play so it will only take three votes to hammer somebody. It's possible that taking an item will immediately cause a lynch to occur.

[Elephant Parade]

My activity may be spotty this game. Please bear with me.

notquitethere: How do you decide which people to ask RVS questions?
juicebox: Have we played together? I don't think we have, but I could be forgetting.
FallacyofUrist: In the OP, your 'o' is mistakenly capitalized. How does this make you feel?

Magma Mater: Are bought abilities gained as General Abilities or Personal Abilities?

[Magma Mater]

My activity may be spotty this game. Please bear with me.

notquitethere: How do you decide which people to ask RVS questions?
juicebox: Have we played together? I don't think we have, but I could be forgetting.
FallacyofUrist: In the OP, your 'o' is mistakenly capitalized. How does this make you feel?

Magma Mater: Are bought abilities gained as General Abilities or Personal Abilities?

Abilities gained from the auction are Personal Abilities.

[notquitethere]

EP, I usually try to engage with players who have had less attention as a priority, but eventually interact with everyone. This game might warrant a slightly different approach.


Everyone,  do you think it's worth us trying to clear through the auction to get the Sheriff's Office? What are the arguments for/against?

[EuchreJack]

Important: Anyone else with the "Family" Genre, we need to publicly claim which ability we plan to use.

Claim: I have the Family Genre.
Those with this genre know what the abilities are, so we don't have to describe them. But we DO need to claim our use of them.

[EuchreJack]

EP, I usually try to engage with players who have had less attention as a priority, but eventually interact with everyone. This game might warrant a slightly different approach.


Everyone,  do you think it's worth us trying to clear through the auction to get the Sheriff's Office? What are the arguments for/against?

The first two items are crap and I would suspect anyone trying to grab them. I personally want Smithy, and Hospital is good.
...
So, it ain't worth it, is what I am saying.

[notquitethere]

If some players "take one for the team" by grabbing the useless abilities, that opens up the useful ones for other players. I have another theory about this though, one which I will share at end of day.


Imp. You know why! 

Hyper, what was the hardest part about playing as mafia in the last game?