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[Imp]

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I got the duelist inspect result, and no other message. Imp duelist-inspected as town, as expected.

During the night, I attempted to stop EP targeting Imp, but I don’t know if it worked. Not surprised that CM is town, slightly surprised they died. The play I expected from EP would have been to kill Imp, but I suppose they were worried about the protection/narrative ability Imp keeps hinting at.

Obviously, I’m not going to vote early just in case I let scum quickhammer. I’m not completely careless. Absence was due to being at an event, I was online for the flip but couldn’t post. Hope Imp’s health issues improve - doesn’t sound fun.

I don't intend to quickhammer anyone. Beyond that I'm going to keep quiet about my opinions until NJW says which result he got.

I see. Don’t want to let scum know your reads, in case it gives them an advantage. Your caution is admirable.

As is probably clear, I think EP is almost definitely scum. I’d say I’m about 95% on that.


Elephant, claim your night actions. And I suppose your reads, if you feel like it.

NJW, were you intending to target me last night?  I could have misunderstood.

My health is fine now.

[NJW2000]

Yes, I targeted you.i thought there was a chance EP had the block status, so I gave you protection.

Does that make sense? I may have explained in a slightly confusing way.

[Imp]

Yes, I targeted you.i thought there was a chance EP had the block status, so I gave you protection.

Does that make sense? I may have explained in a slightly confusing way.

yeah, makes sense.

If you had successfully targeted me, you would have gotten a message.  So something stopped one or both of those things happening.

[NJW2000]

Is it possible I was blocked by EJ’s zone? If you were in a place he had two houses, my action would have failed.

[Elephant Parade]

OK, so barring Imp (who was already the vastly less likely candidate going into the day) somehow cheating the alignment reveal, Imp is town and NJW is scum. In fact, I'm going to make that NJW because I'm not interested in entertaining scum!Imp at this point. She has two greenchecks, most of the dead townies townread her, she was 90% town going into this Day, and a certain part of my night PM suggests it's NJW; that's good enough for me.


I was informed at the start of the night that my task was to use Cookies (obviously unavailable), that I couldn't use Specialist, and that Pretzels was still unconsumed. I decided to Watch NJW, with the following logic:
- I want to Watch the target of the nightkill.
- If NJW is scum, he'll prevent me from targeting the target of the nightkill (probably Imp), so I can never catch his nightkill. If NJW is town, he'll prevent me and CM from targeting Imp.
- If CM is scum, she'll want to kill Imp or NJW so she isn't up against a mason pair. She'll prefer Imp or, if she predicts that NJW will prevent her from targeting Imp, NJW.
- If Imp is scum, she'll want to kill NJW.
Therefore, unless somebody out-mindgames me or has their action interfered with, I can't catch a nightkill on Imp and nobody wants to nightkill CM. So I Watched NJW. He was targeted by myself and CM, nobody else.

I was informed after I submitted my action, but before the day began, that I was unable to target CM. This didn't affect my action in any way, though it did make me suspect CM would be killed.

As for why NJW would nightkill CM over Imp or I, it's a strange move, but I can think of a few explanations:
1. Since NJW can prevent playerA from targeting playerB, and Imp was the obvious player to prevent from being targeted, Imp dying would implicate NJW as the killer
2. Given the scuffle at the end of the day, it'd be more possible to convince me to vote Imp than to convince CM to
3. The continued existence of Pretzels and its interaction with Duel means a guilty on NJW doesn't actually make NJW confscum, or me conftown, to Imp

Keep in mind that you only know Pretzels are still accessible because I voluntarily announced as much at the start of the night where EJ died. If I were scum, and I knew I was killing EJ, I would simply have let people think they no longer existed. Even if the kill failed, I could simply announce the nonexistence of Pretzels in the morning, or leave EJ to do it.

[NJW2000]

Quick post before bed.

Not really worried about Imp hammering, this is scum!ep.

I did get a message (mod error) so hi to you too, imp, and I’ll keep watching


Maybe questions for EP in the morning, but not now.

[Imp]

Well.  It's actually based on visit, not target.

Oh well.

That's the last of the information I can provide.

This sucks, I still don't know which of you is maf.

EP made a point to make sure we knew pretzels was available.

He could have been silent about that.  And used it as maf to make town NJW appear maf.  Or me maf to NJW, dunno how well believed that is.

He could be town saying 'I see this, it's weird'.  And then nobody uses it.

Maybe it's magic.  Maybe that's a way maf mess with family genre, pretzels is actually infinite, just 1 charge per night.  Sal used it to protect himself in case - even without Family?  Our remaining maf has  would have to be you.  Maybe all the maf did, I have no clue.  And only when EJ said he'd use it we noticed something odd - it didn't go away.

I dunno.

A maf NJW who can't use it but can restock it, hoping I wonder if EP used it.

I dunno.

Game's hard.

Still, we gotta decide.

I'm supposedly narrative.  We all saw that flip.

Narrative (Genre)
_{It's time to tell a story. A journey awaits you, fraught with peril and woe. But just when all seems lost, you will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.}
you possess a locked one-shot killing ability. It is unlocked when the specified condition is met. When it unlocks, upgrade all of your abilities.

I don't dare make hardly any claims about myself.  But nothing tells me there's a cost to quote others.

Last night I tracked Imp. She self-targeted again.

Imp, you'll know that I targeted you as I confirmed that you don't have a third genre beyond Narrative and Duel, and you have 8 personal abilities.

Importantly, as I hinted at in earlier posts, I'm immune to abilities that interfere with my inspection results so we can definitely conclude, assuming only three scum players:

IMP CANNOT BE SCUM


EP, I think it's unlikely that NJW is scum, though it could be possible. Almost all the convos in the chat are between me and someone else, with NJW and Max not interacting much. Not sure how much weight to put on that, but my guess is Salvatore was the only scum in chat.


I can confirm Elephant Parade targeted me (with what I assume was a personal ability). Not that I think EP is mafia  but scum can kill and use a personal ability in the same night.


Crystal is my main pick today, but I'll be re-examing it all. More when I'm not pfp...

Spoiler: a lost book (click to show/hide)

Well, now I'm even more confused.

Part of my role info is that I love narratives.  Of course I'm paraphrasing as needed, but I'm a bibliophile of sorts, I read several kinds of books (the others are not named) and my role is half based around being an absent-minded professor looking for more books I want to read.  I don't know where they are, I just look for them.  I'm not explicitly told that I don't know where I am either, but so far I haven't gotten any messages about being in any location, and there are clues in my role that there's location(s) that few know about.

Back to my love of narratives; my role tells me that my favorite one that I've read in town involved a haunted house, and a game of haunted house that was played inside it, and was won by all the players because it didn't have a traitor.

And it tells me that narratives are long.  It takes many days to read a narrative, and lots can go wrong, and that I love the narratives I've read in town which are all very long and involve so much that can go wrong, and that I've always dreamed of being in a town narrative myself so I can help it.  And that town narratives are all about evil being defeated spectacularly in the end.

And the rest of my role's kinda build of stuff that involves looking for the stories I want to read and hopeful 'could I help a narrative have time to finish being read?' type stuff.  Like my beautiful blue vote.

So.  CM's claims.  D1, super obvious, and claims D5 to kill an anti-town if just the right stuff happens.  More and adjusted claims later... no or little matter; narratives take time.

CM sounds narrative to me.  Likely town narrative.  Got all the pieces to sound like a town narrative that my role tells me to expect.

Great, I know what I'm doing for however long I can.  And there's FoU suspecting CM of being Betrayal at the House on a Hill and accuses twice.  So now I think maf's probably looking for that role that I think probably exists, and so FoU goes on my PDND pile; sorry FoU but wow, way to spotlight someone likely being specifically hunted.  Please don't do that, it can really help maf as well as make you seem very maffy - but hey... you're getting better and better as town and yes, seeing you flip town felt exactly as bad as I imagined.  Sorry, and hope we get better at picking town you from maf.

Back to CM.  Says a lot that I expect of a town narrative; okies, protect CM, that's fine.

Except... Okay.  CM isn't narrative?

CM isn't narrative.

I gotta go sit down; I've been sitting since yesterday.  My princess is in another castle, NQT just told me and the not-princess confirmed.  I don't care what lies my town narrative tells; it's townie.  I believe CM, and hey, CM could still be town but is not my princess.  Very well, I don't know where my princess is (and that's so familiar this game) but hey, it's not CM.

Tric's claims about his narrative suck.  Narratives... town narratives, are long and difficult and twisty.  They take days and days to 'finish' with the bad guys dying.  CM sounded town narrative.

Tric narrative claims... that's interesting.  Tric claims to be a narrative that involves his own death. And to unlock... fast.  Just use two family abilities successfully two days in a row.  Uh-uh.  That is not a town narrative.  I'd bet the game on that, unless there's something crazy hard about using Family genre abilities.

We've got 2 other Family genre folks.  Who successfully used two of their genre abilities two days in a row?  Or who don't see a reason why it would likely be 'epically hard, wow, so many twists and turns and so unbelievably complex' to do that?

Anyone else wanna claim they're town with 2+ genre?  Every town flip we've seen has one.  My town flip has one.  We could have 1+ town with 2+ genre, sure.

But town narratives are not short and easy.  Narratives are about the death of the bad guys.

I still think NJW is very dangerous maf.  But I think Tric needs to go.

Tric, Juicebox, NJW?

Could be.  I dunno.  I'm still so confused, feel so fished, and just... wow.

But I gotta call malarkey.  There's malarkey and I'm built to confront it.  Do not burn my favorite books; I thought that was CM.  It's not.... where oh where are my favorite books.

Wow I laughed to see maf Juice flip with 'princess'.

I laughed harder when I saw the connections to Princess Bride.  If I hammer wrong, maybe this happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrPQIsieEs

I was actually gonna ask for EP to be the elim.  To duel the duelist.  To face my fear of NJW being the biggest, baddest maf and was I

Either town wins normal or town wins... because I was given a role of the the towniest town that ever towned.

I hope.

Or all narrative mech was built to fail.  That's possible.  Poor Juice.  Poor Tric.  Poor town if this goes down.

That would be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrlMq_q_r1c  If Mater built this to be a haha. Stories aren't real.  But maybe I just brought him a good one.  https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnHeroes  Might be enough.  Intended if we got there.  If it is.  Maybe it's this song played to the entire end. "That was actually pretty realistic."

But really.  I wanted to hammer NJW since mid D1.

Let's see what happens next.

Thank you, Mater.  We gotta play a board game someday.  And.... when we're both players in a maf game again?

Yeah.  It'll be easier for me to play beside you and not be so... whatever I was there.  I'll be whatever I am here.

[Magma Mater]

Vote Count - Day Six Hammers for Breakfast
NJW2000 (2) - Elephant Parade, Imp

Not Voting (1) - Imp, NJW2000

With 3 votes in play, 2 are required to lynch or to no-lynch.

Day would have ended in about 89 hours, at 19:00:00 UTC on February 11.

---

Wow! I guess you all are as eager to play as I am. Although I'm not sure what the fascination with two-player games is. What do you have, NJW?

NJW2000 lifts his copy of Baduk, accompanied by a small bag of stones.

"So, this game is called Baduk, but in the West it's more commonly known as Go. It's basically the same as Reversi."

NJW2000 separates the stones by colour. They look very similar to the ones used in notquitethere's copy of Reversi.

Well this game is known for taking a long time, but at least we decided quickly today so we have all morning, afternoon, and night to play! I'm not sure why the table is broken, but I'm personally fine with sitting on the floor. On the plus side, the pieces for this game are so simple that they'd be difficult to mess with.

"Yep, I've got all the pieces right here. I'm really excited to start! Just give me a second to grab my reading glasses."

A collective groan is emitted from the crowd. So close to playing a game, yet so far. NJW2000 raises a pair of normal-looking spectacles to his face and puts them on.

...

"..."

...

"..."

...So are you going to take your turn? You're white.

"No, black plays first."

Oh.

Magma Mater, carefully watching his opponent's face as his hand hovers over the board, cautiously places his first stone. A sigh of relief is let up from the audience as he removes his hand from the piece and returns it to his lap.

"An interesting first move. Let's see, where should I play?"

The lenses of NJW2000's glasses light up, and soft green letters begin to appear.

And there it is.

Spoiler: NJW2000's Flip (click to show/hide)

Hello NJW2000! You chose Baduk, and you have rolled Mafia. 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

Duel (Genre)
_{It's time to duel. Mono a mono. Head to head. Just have to get rid of that third wheel first.}
You are in a neighborhood with the other players who share this ability. If there are only two players with this ability at the end of any night, they will each learn the Faction of the other player. Join the neighborhood by clicking here. You may speak in this server during the night (starting with night 1).

Personal Abilities

Hayago (Passive)
_{Play quickly, or this game will last forever.}
Your Personal Abilities always resolve first.

Hane (Active)
_{Encircled stones are as good as dead.}
Target any player. Mark that player as Encircled. If that player is currently marked as Forbidden, they will lose that designation. At the start of every night, Encircled players will be told that they may not target the players marked as Forbidden. If there are no living players marked as Forbidden, they will not receive a message.

Reduce Aji (Active)
_{You must restrict the number of possible plays for your opponent.}
Target any player. Mark that player as Forbidden. If that player is currently marked as Encircled, they will lose that designation.

Kikashi (Active, Free)
_{Bold plays make the game more lively.}
Target any player, and choose a player who is marked as Forbidden. Your target is marked as Forbidden, and the player you chose is unmarked. If your target is already marked as either Forbidden or Encircled, this ability will have no effect.

Komi (Passive)
_{A handicap is surely not necessary, but it would be foolish to refuse.}
On Night 0, choose one player to mark as Forbidden.

Factional Abilities

Mafia (Win Condition)
_{It's not about whether you win or lose, it's about whether you're having fun. At the expense of others, if need be.}
You win when all of the town have been eliminated, or if nothing can prevent this from happening.

Table-talk (Passive)
_{A wink here, a nudge there; you can communicate a lot non-verbally.}
You share a chat with your Faction. Join the chat by clicking here. You may speak here at any time.

Flip Table (Active, Shared)
_{If you can't win, at least your opponent won't win either.}
Target a player. That player will die.

Cheat (Passive)
_{These games look difficult... perhaps some rule-bending is in order.}
You have complete knowledge of all the General Abilities in the game. You also have a way to secretly interfere with each of them. See your Table-talk server for more details.

An angry mob quickly forms, and NJW2000 is unceremoniously tossed onto the lawn.

---

Hey, so, now that the cheaters are gone, we probably have time to play the last two games. What did you bring?

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

Hello Imp! You chose Betrayal at House on the Hill, 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

Narrative (Genre)
_{It's time to tell a story. A journey awaits you, fraught with peril and woe. But just when all seems lost, you will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.}
You possess a locked one-shot killing ability. It is unlocked when the specified condition is met. When it unlocks, upgrade all of your abilities.

Duel (Genre)
_{It's time to duel. Mono a mono. Head to head. Just have to get rid of that third wheel first.}
You are in a neighborhood with the other players who share this ability. If there are only two players with this ability at the end of any night, they will each learn the Faction of the other player. Join the neighborhood by clicking here. You may speak in this server during the night (starting with night 1).

Personal Abilities

Haunt (Active, 1-shot, Locked)
_{Over? No, the game has only begun.}
Target any player. The mafia will attempt to kill that player while minimizing the amount of information revealed about themselves. For this purpose they are omniscient - they will not choose a mafioso whom is blocked or tracked, if possible. This ability is unlocked if doing so could prevent you from immediately losing the game, while you possess the Narrative General Ability.

Explore (Active)
_{What new treasures await?}
Target yourself and choose a location you have not previously visited. That player is moved to the chosen location. If Haunt is unlocked, you may instead target any player.

Brooch (Passive)
_{Cool to the touch. Its citrine surface bears a reflective sheen.}
The first kill attempt against you is prevented. If Haunt is unlocked, all kill attempts against you are prevented. This is unlocked once you visit Africa.

Magic Camera (Passive, Locked)
_{This Polaroid camera contains no film, but still prints photographs. Eerie.}
You will learn how many players visited you each night. If Haunt is unlocked, you will instead learn the names of the players who visited you each night. This is unlocked once you visit North America.

Music Box (Passive)
_{It plays creepy music when opened. There appears to be a microphone on the bottom.}
At any time, specify a message of at most 140 characters. All players who visit you will receive this message. They will not be told its source. If you do not specify a message, they will be told that they receive an empty message. If Haunt is unlocked, the message recipients are told its source, and are also told your alignment. This is unlocked once you visit South America.

Smelling Salts (Passive)
_{These enervating minerals will have you burning the midnight oil.}
Your actions cannot be blocked. If Haunt is unlocked, you are immune to all non-kill abilities. This is unlocked once you visit Oceania.

Angel's Feather (Passive)
_{The feather cannot be gripped, it simply floats above your hand.}
You gain a negative vote. Voting for a player in blue will subtract one from their vote count. You cannot vote for yourself with this ability. If Haunt is unlocked, it counts as a normal vote instead. This is unlocked once you visit Eurasia.

Dormitory (Passive, Locked)
_{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.

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.

Spoiler: Elephant Parade's Flip (click to show/hide)

Hello Elephant Parade! You chose Operation, 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

Family (Genre)
_{It's time for family game night! Grab a quick and friendly game for us to play with the kids, but don't forget the snacks!}
You possess a pool of one-shot abilities. All of them are Shared. If more than one player attempts to use an ability on the same night, all of those actions will fail, but the shot will not be consumed. The pooled abilities are:

• Cookies (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{They're a little crumby. Stuffing these down someone's shirt should make them easy to follow.}
  Target another player. You will learn whom they targeted this night.
  
• Marshmallows (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{Soft and fluffy, stuffing them down your own shirt will give you some nice padding.}
  Target another player. They will be protected against a single kill attempt this night.
  
• Jalepeno Poppers (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{Too spicy for the little ones! And for myself as well, if I'm being honest.}
  Target another player. Their actions will be blocked this night.
  
• Ice Cream (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{You'd better focus on eating this if you don't want it to melt.}
  Target another player. Their actions will be blocked, and they will be protected against a single kill attempt this night.
  
• Punch (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{You're really putting your glass right next to th- let's just switch spots.}
  Target another player. All actions targeting yourself this night will target them instead, and vice-versa.
  
• Potato Chips (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{How do I know you ate all the chips? I heard you opening the bag from the basement!}
  Target yourself and provide me with a message. I will post that message at the end of the night phase, with your target as the source.
  
• Bugles (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{Putting these on your fingertips will turn you into an animal.}
  Target another player. The following day phase, your target and yourself will be the only valid lynch options.
  
• Pretzels (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{Who brought these dry, nasty things? I'm ready to point fingers!}
  Target another player. Abilities revealing their Faction will return the opposite result this night.
  
• Fruit (Active, 1-shot, Shared)
  _{Ah yes, a healthy treat. Um, does anybody else want some?}
  Target another player. They will be told that they have been given a fruit.
  

Personal Abilities

Watch (Active)
_{Not the one on your wrist. You lost that during your last surgery.}
Target another player. You will learn who targeted your target.

Specialist (Active)
_{We're all special, but you're specialer.}
Target another player. At the start of the following day, that player will be asked to choose a task from the list below. If you complete this task during the cycle after that, you will gain the corresponding ability. If they fail to choose a task by the end of the day, they will be blocked on the following night. The potential tasks are:

• Vote for {{player}} - Compel your beneficiary to vote for a specific player on the following day. If their vote is on that player at the end of the day, they will permanently gain another vote.
• Target {{player}} - Compel your beneficiary to target a specific player on the following night. If they do so, they will permanently gain the ability to Watch other players.
• Select Family ability {{ability}} - Compel your beneficiary to select a specific Family ability. If they do so, they will permanently gain a 3-shot copy of that ability as a Personal Ability.
  

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.

[Magma Mater]

Congratulations to the winners!

Spectator Chat

Duelist Chat

Mafia Chat

[Elephant Parade]

Well played, all!

I misread FoU, NQT, and NJW pretty badly. FoU had a frankly scummy D1 but I should've reevaluated them late D2 when they started playing like town; I don't know if there's a universe where I don't scumread NQT this game, but I should've pushed NJW harder throughout. The sheer number of lurkers made things trickier than they had to be, though, with dire consequences for the crucial formative stages of my reads.

I liked my role. It wasn't too complicated, but it presented a lot of interesting options. I don't know if there's a universe where I don't rush Watch and then use it every night I'm able, though.

Locations were like a second nightgame on top of the regular one. Too fiddly for me; glad my role didn't force me to engage with them.

I'm going to take an indefinite break from signing up for mafia games because playing with Imp rustles my jimmies.

[Imp]

is crying

Game is over... I loved game very much.  I have loved other games.  I love this game very much. Very very....

Guys.

Many of you say I'm pretty hard to play with.  It's not just this game and it's so many of you.

I don't know how to be better.

I don't even know how to learn.

NQT, when and if you're open to lessons.  I could probably handle them from you.  You suggested multiple times we need a chat after the game.  Web precious web... I probably can't handle them from you even though you're probably the most eager to give them.

Anyway.

I'm sorry I mangle your minds and hearts or whatever I do.

But I was so happy.  And that couldn't have happened without all of you.  Thank you for being you.

[Crystalizedmire]

Good game everyone!
Mafia played well.
I wished it didn't take multiple turns for me to check if someone's alignment matches another player's

[Elephant Parade]

lol mafia forgot to kill N1

[Imp]

lol mafia forgot to kill N1

Wow.  Thank you for the help, maf!

[EuchreJack]

is crying

Game is over... I loved game very much.  I have loved other games.  I love this game very much. Very very....

Guys.

Many of you say I'm pretty hard to play with.  It's not just this game and it's so many of you.

I don't know how to be better.

I don't even know how to learn.

NQT, when and if you're open to lessons.  I could probably handle them from you.  You suggested multiple times we need a chat after the game.  Web precious web... I probably can't handle them from you even though you're probably the most eager to give them.

Anyway.

I'm sorry I mangle your minds and hearts or whatever I do.

But I was so happy.  And that couldn't have happened without all of you.  Thank you for being you.

Eh, you're getting better.  A few years ago, Tric played similar to you.  Hell, I played similar to you when I started.  Just keep playing.