For the record: about Special Guests:
People WERE allowed to just post to spectate. If they started interacting with the game though, especially with italics, they were drawn in as Special Guests.
special guests had no win condition and could not vote. They were naturally untargetable and not killable. They had three powers.
1. They could affect other players with Italics. Unlike the others, they didn't have to suffer to RtD issues: they were treated as if they rolled a 4 each time
2. They could perform an action each day and night, using a role from a past bay 12 game. However, kills and actions that caused a person to change their win condition would always fail.
3. They could 'IN' which would cause them to enter the game as a player, giving up their Guest status. Their alignment would vary from the others, with the possiblities including: Jester, Webadict-ally (as in they win with the Webadict but do not know who it is), Survivor, or even Mafia.
while having 'outsiders' messing with the Italics was fun, the action abilities proved to be very out of whack, thanks to lovely skills like the Child.
About the return of the BM Elephant.
That was PURELY unexpected. I never planned on an actual story based theme, nevermind reviving that place until THIS showed up:
...And then he siad let their be town, and there was town. He then said let there be scum,and there was scum. He then said let there be lurkers, and Org appeared. And the townie and scum cried in woe and fled the coming of Org...
I forget the roll result but I know it was a success, so I went "ok, how DO you respond to someone parodying Genesis" The answer was "create a world"
So boom, BM elephant.
(meh, as if I need many excuses to bring the young maid back
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