Halloween 2024: The Time Travellers' Party [D3]

[Sabrar]

Votals:
somi - 6 - Makhaira, Fred, wam, Seven, Thea, Santygrass
Wam - 3 - Bessie, moody, somi
Santy - 1 - JC

Not voting: Adum

I'll let Madge double-check the numbers, or people can point out in pm if I got something wrong.

Madge will post flip and flavor, I'll go to bed.

[Makhaira]

Got ninjad by the mods my bad plz no mod kill

[madge]

Somitomi was voted off. He was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, Role Cop, aligned with Mafia.

Night 2 has begun.

It ends on Friday the 15th of November at 8am China time, which is midnight (Thu/Fri) in London and 7pm (Thu) in New York, unless I'm mistaken (China time and countdown clock are both canonical if anything disagrees).

See countdown: https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/6113698/n2-ends

I might write flavour up in an hour, otherwise I will do flavour catchup in the coming days, it's my busy theatre week and I'm running on fumes.

Please let me know via the straw poll below if you'd be happy with an extra long night that would finish on Monday (so the Sunday night/Monday morning for most of you), as that would be much easier for me, but I would feel bad giving you a 5 day night. But given the length of the game so far, maybe others would appreciate a breather too?

https://strawpoll.com/7MZ0kNjYBgo

[Sabrar]

There is a "Full Editor & Preview" button under the Quick Reply box, right next to "Submit". If you are using that, it will give you the option to preview your message, which is not just an excellent opportunity to check if your quote-tags and bold-tags are working properly, but also shows if there have been new messages since you started typing. It is a great way to avoid being 'ninja-d' 5 minutes after deadline was called.

[madge]

here's my decision on the deadline; I will call d3 when I have written the flavour, all powers are due at original deadline (but can be amended until I call dawn). I will call d3 as soon as I can, which will be no later than Monday night China time.

[madge]

Someone requested a more certain deadline so here we go; the next day will either start within an hour of the originally scheduled time, or between noon and 6pm China time on Monday, with no chance of it starting in between.

I believe I will be likely (60%) to start it tomorrow, but that depends on how late I'm out as the play opens in 45 minutes.

[madge]

The party was made decidedly less pleasant by the alien who was wondering around insulting anyone. He had grey-green skin and golden robes, and the kind of listless expression of someone who has dealt with one too many lazy Sunday afternoons.

The alien consulted a notebook. “Billy Pilgrim?” he offered to an awkward, tall, thin man, who nodded. “You’re an absolute piss-whisker.”

A few people had noticed this strange alien’s even stranger habit, and surrounded him, trying to take away his notebook of insults. In the ensuing scuffle, a large, square device with a crowned Hawk fell out of the alien’s golden robes. Its lights blinked in a doomy kind of way.

Dr. Sam Beckett picked it up, and gasped. “Oh no! It’s a time modulator, like the one that froze Louise in a loop!”

The Doctor had a look at it, pulling his sonic screwdriver out of somewhere inside his fez and made a noise of surprise and excitement. “It’s not the only one! If we reverse the polarity of the neutron flow we can see how many there are…”

The screwdriver made a whirring noise, but nothing appeared to happen.

“Hmm, guess they’re onto that old trick! Was worth a try. So, does anyone want a jelly baby?”

It is still Night 2, however Dawn is beginning to rise on the horizon.

Actions are now locked, but if you forgot to send yours you can do it until the daystart post.

Day 3 will start in about 16 hours: https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/6 ... riday-sale

[madge]

The reveal of a time modulator had sent hundreds of time travellers into a tizzy.

They quickly worked out the very obvious Hawking / Hawk King pun, and went to the scientist for answers, but he had disappeared to parts unknown.

The door was locked, and they were all stuck together. Which didn’t make sense: they were time travellers! Some of them were killer robots! Surely they'd be able to defeat a door? It wasn't even made of wood!

“The time modulator has a dampening field on the quantum fluctuations!” Exclaimed The Doctor. “It must be what's keeping us all trapped.”

“....That doesn’t make any sense?” came John Renfrew. “I mean, at a stretch, you could refer to the tachyon particles as quantum fluctuations, but their ability can’t affect the strength of a killer robot, it sends information only, and even that is quite limited by—”

“No, no, that makes sense!” General Samantha Carter agreed. “The Aschen from one of the futures we travelled back from—no, not that one, the other one—had been exploring that kind of technology. We’d been developing it to fight the Goa’uld!”

The Doctor nodded. “Exactly! Finally, someone who is talking sense.”

“What about if we reverse the polarity of your screwdriver?”

“Oh! Of the screwdriver itself, not just the neutron flow? Sounds like a brilliant idea! Let’s—” He reached under his fez and gasped in shock. “Someone’s taken my sonic!”

“Oh no! That, plus a heptapod grammar—together they’d be able to enhance time modulators to extents we can only imagine!”

“We have to find the people who are in league with the Hawk King,” said The Doctor, who appreciated such titles far more than mundane surnames, “before they can take all our arte-”

He froze, just like that.

Carter groaned in frustration. “Oh no! Can someone get Dr Frank Parker over here? I had a good science chat with him earlier, maybe he can help solve this…”

John Renfrew groaned in frustration.

Makhaira targeted wam last night

Adum was protected last night

Jack of all Trades used Parrot on bessie last night

Jack of all Trades used Roleblock on moody last night

Adum is non-Town

bessie is non-Town

Jack of all Trades targeted moody last night

Santy targeted Adum last night

JC has been killed. They were The Doctor, Loud Jack of all Trades, aligned with Town

It is now Day 3.

With 9 players alive, it's 6 to hammer.

Night 3 starts at 11am Saturday China time which is 5am in Johannesburg, 3am in London, and 10pm in New York, or in just under 5 days: https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/6 ... t-3-starts

Note: formatting being different from last daystart means nothing.

[Santygrass]

Jc is very weird as a kill target for mafia ngl

I havent reread much from the game but Im here because I wanted to see my action be resolved.

The message saying I targeted Adum is truthful.

@bessie explanation on your role and then @Wam explanation on Parrot? And then @makhaira explanation on what you did?

In that order I think I want to see the replied

[Seven]

Jc is very weird as a kill target for mafia ngl

I havent reread much from the game but Im here because I wanted to see my action be resolved.

The message saying I targeted Adum is truthful.

@bessie explanation on your role and then @Wam explanation on Parrot? And then @makhaira explanation on what you did?

In that order I think I want to see the replied

So, you didn't kill JC?

[Theallieza]

Busy night last night.

Santy, what were you doing to Adum?

[Santygrass]

Lazy read atm is that bessie-Wam should have one.
Also toying with the idea that JC was maybe vigged? And Adum targeted with the nk but idk

[Santygrass]

Busy night last night.

Santy, what were you doing to Adum?

I did say that my action was loud before. There is one specific thing that also mentions Adum in the writeup and is correct

[Santygrass]

Jc is very weird as a kill target for mafia ngl

I havent reread much from the game but Im here because I wanted to see my action be resolved.

The message saying I targeted Adum is truthful.

@bessie explanation on your role and then @Wam explanation on Parrot? And then @makhaira explanation on what you did?

In that order I think I want to see the replied

So, you didn't kill JC?

I am not a vig

[Seven]

Jc is very weird as a kill target for mafia ngl

I havent reread much from the game but Im here because I wanted to see my action be resolved.

The message saying I targeted Adum is truthful.

@bessie explanation on your role and then @Wam explanation on Parrot? And then @makhaira explanation on what you did?

In that order I think I want to see the replied

So, you didn't kill JC?

I am not a vig

Why did you pretend to be?

[Santygrass]

For full transparency I am Odd something (Not claiming it atm) / Even loud doctor

[Santygrass]

Because loudness would let me give insight if mafia had potentially a redirector or roleblocker , and just the treath of a gun gives more urgency to people when pressed.

There is no world in where I am a vig and holster n1, Im not that merciful

[Santygrass]

In this moment I think there should be one scum between bessied and Wam, so waiting to see the info they bring.

Mak should be cleared in most scenarios? (Somi copped them)

[Seven]

I'm most curious about why Adum was investigated again, why I was observed again, and who observed Santy.

[Santygrass]

I'm most curious about why Adum was investigated again, why I was observed again, and who observed Santy.

I think Adum-bessie being non town in result is maybe related to bessie role and Wam parrot role? Something along the lines.

Im thinking you roleblocked moody. And loudness implies two lines one saying what happened to the target, and another one stating you acted on them. There is a difference (it states Santy acted on versus Joat acted on so slight difference but still explain it). Mostly because I find it weird that someone would track you or me (a probable vig claim that speaks for itself when they act),

[Santygrass]

Unless someone claims to have killed JC and be town , moody has an innocent of guilt regarding that kill

[Santygrass]

@moody thought?

[Seven]

I'm most curious about why Adum was investigated again, why I was observed again, and who observed Santy.

I think Adum-bessie being non town in result is maybe related to bessie role and Wam parrot role? Something along the lines.

Im thinking you roleblocked moody. And loudness implies two lines one saying what happened to the target, and another one stating you acted on them. There is a difference (it states Santy acted on versus Joat acted on so slight difference but still explain it). Mostly because I find it weird that someone would track you or me (a probable vig claim that speaks for itself when they act),

No they are separate elements. Jack of all Trades targeted moody last night and Santy targeted Adum last night aren't from our roles. My role explicitly states how mine are formatted.

Both the parrot and the roleblock are from me btw. Parrot uses the same ability on the person that uses an ability.

[Seven]

Unless someone claims to have killed JC and be town , moody has an innocent of guilt regarding that kill

I think JC kill might have been from the Masons. Is this so @Thea?

[Theallieza]

I'm most curious about why Adum was investigated again, why I was observed again, and who observed Santy.

I think Adum-bessie being non town in result is maybe related to bessie role and Wam parrot role? Something along the lines.

Im thinking you roleblocked moody. And loudness implies two lines one saying what happened to the target, and another one stating you acted on them. There is a difference (it states Santy acted on versus Joat acted on so slight difference but still explain it). Mostly because I find it weird that someone would track you or me (a probable vig claim that speaks for itself when they act),

No they are separate elements. Jack of all Trades targeted moody last night and Santy targeted Adum last night aren't from our roles. My role explicitly states how mine are formatted.

Both the parrot and the roleblock are from me btw. Parrot uses the same ability on the person that uses an ability.

So moody was roleblocking someone?