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AdumbroDeus wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 9:51 pm As far as setup info, madge said in AI and I believe in this game that she does take game events into account when writing flavor, the fact that she used the writing style of the short story my character came from for moodie's yeet shows that.

LOL I didn't I used the novella This Is How You Lose The Time War, which, incidentally, I recommend:
Completely different writing style than Heinlein!

oh i'm loving this... excited to see what wam makes of it....

This is driving me nuts. Massive egos getting in the way.

This is literally the best possible endgame for Town. How are we on the verge of losing this?

This is why it's so funny!!!!!!

Like, we've commented about how scum seems to always win on this forum. Me and Sabrar do a setup that is so town-sided that people are suspicious of true claims, and this happens??????

Like literally:

Wam, in his private scumchat wrote:So I'm halfway through as I said the current issue is that my analysis is showing that Mak and Adum must be town!

The suspense is killing me, how is this still not over?

I think im doomed, doomed i tell you.

I hope there's no elim because then I can do night flavour and make the night last like 3 days and troll everyone

Storing redacted posts for posterity.

Mwahahajaha!

How I beat you: I got roleblocked carrying the kill n1...

Kidding, kidding, I'm town! Get some sleep mak!

And I'm gonna do the same, ggs Mak and Wam, though I will say you did pick wrong.

You likely could've convinced me to vote Mak, especially after not noticing Bessie's cop on him or your "there has to be a godfather" comment.

I meant Wam picked wrong obviously, going for me over Mak.

My headspace was FUCKED from misreading Thea. I was so indecisive I was kinda hoping that scum ultimately voted me so I could be confident about my reads again. Which is what happened lol

Wam wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 9:53 am

AdumbroDeus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 9:52 am And I'm gonna do the same, ggs Mak and Wam, though I will say you did pick wrong.

You likely could've convinced me to vote Mak, especially after not noticing Bessie's cop on him or your "there has to be a godfather" comment.

But then as a Jester I lose....

Looooool

Sabrar wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 9:55 am Everybody who posted after hammer loses automatically. No mercy.

Harsh but fair.

Or could we do it sequentially so adum is mod killed then I win.

Nothing in here yet, just testing to see if I can make the spoiler title work, and if so that's how I'll be labelling them all game.

NB: apparently the spoiler title doesn't like parentheses

Huge relief to get a Town role again. Let's see if I can continue the tradition of dying N1...

These are the kind of complicated abilities I dream about, when I dare to dream. Really going to have to think about how to use this/make it worthwhile in a nonchalant way. God, I'm thinking we're back.

i figured no matter what i posted bessie would have a field day with it so why not make it impossible for her, by using chatGPT to write a poem, thus stripping any real signal off it?

for the record I'd decided to do this before getting my role.

hahahaha i'm totally going to get voted off d3 for being scummy

we have the scummiest scumteam that ever scummed, if we both make it to d3 i will be shocked, but not surprised because town sucks on this forum somehow

LaserGuy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:08 pm#Confirm

Is bessie going to town or scum read this? Place your bets here folks!

I am really happy that everyone so far seems to really love their roles! Especially Bop!

We put a lot of work into designing and balancing them, and I those role PMs took 6 hours to write lol

I really hope that everyone has fun

Also, Wam and Madge are worried because they have a tendency to be scumread, but me and Seven think they're the favorite to win.

I'm glad sabrar rolled town especially btw, I know they've really been wanting a town game.

1. Mak: Sorey (town tree stumper for malevolance mafia NK targets)
2. EGW: Artorius (suppression mafia lord of calamnity flavor cop)
3. Moody: Eleanor (town neighorizer)
4. Wam: Symmone (malevolance mafia redirector/traffic analyst)
5. Sabrar: Michael (town jailkeeper)
6. ahippo: Sergei Strelka (town motivator x2)
7. TehBubblez: Magilou (town time period flavor cop)
8. Boomfrog: Bienfu (Town JOAT, bodyguard, traffic analyst, tracker, and psychic, all 1 shot/1 night)
9. Bop: Innominat (suppression absorber and investigations ascetic if no action)
10. Bessie: Zenrus(town psychic)
11. Freddino: Dezel (town third party targetting ability copier)
12. JC: Rose (town tracker)
13. heuristically_alone: Velvet (town 2x vig + death mason)
14. Madge: Heldalf (town Malevolance mafia JOAT, super strongman, track or watch, compell or Louden, roleblock or rolestop)
15. Laserguy: Eizen (town Bodyguard)

Suppression mafia has nascant night kill but marks players as long as other mafia is alive. Marked players don't count against them in parity for wincon, can also win by marking every living non-suppression player if alive. Marked players are alerted, can roleblock any marked players once per night in addition to other actions, but not same player consecutively. Essentially it serves as a weaker kill substitute, with some benefits that don't quite make up for it but stronger abilities overall. Mostly because of how powerful an absorbed is, from experience.

Damn I'm not even in the game yet and I started wondering what Freddino's new avatar means, but all I know about RWBY comes from that one Hbomberguy video

Funniest part of coming back is that I'm functionally town- I want to find and rid the scummy faction out. However, my town playing is wayyyyyy more suspicious than my scum playing and that's just how it is.

Trying to be active enough that somebody wants to use a day power on me, which is a bit of a tightrope walk bc then I kinda have to be in some amount of spotlight.

I love Bop. That is all. (Unfortunately part of why is in a PM)

Unrelatedly, I will feel so bad for Mak if he ends up in an ego driven elim on TehBubblez because, well they're right and it was perfectly reasonable to ask for an explanation even if it's just random.

They're also the closest thing town has to a cop, and the fact that they're a Bersaria character so if they have to claim it makes Bersaria characters' existence public which will be interesting.

Edit: I think Mak is overreading friendliness again, even from my ND ass handshake was a really obvious read of thehippo and Moody's interaction.

Course if he goes after Bop with it, he's right, though not on hippo. But for the wrong reasons.

Edit2: with the benefit of knowing the set-up, thehippo is very clearly asking because they want to motivate moody. Probably has a strong town read.

Edit3:

Anonymizing to remove quote ping, but it's boomfrog's 8th post:

Oh boy, Adum gave us a confirmation phase! He must be super impressed by my renowned confirmation post analysis.

Oh, this rules. Can't wait to see how accurate this is on a re-read.

Dang it. This is sincere. Bop is town. (or maaaybe he's scum who's already confident that there's another scum team, but probably town.)

Unvote

This is so on the nose it hurts, this is really amazing insight from boom.

Worth noting is that boom has Bersaria flavor so has the tools to realize there's two cases of characters, so this may be hinting at him thinking it's multi-ball.

Feel sad that ahippo already claimed instead of saying it's role related.

Edit4: I AM familiar with the loyal and disloyal modifiers. But you're right FF, they're town.

Edit5: moody having an Artorius interpretation of the world is extremely thematic given his character. I'm looking forward to when town finds out suppression mafia is a thing. Oh and I should've run Heury's game :p.

Edit6: I would die for Bop and Madge, that is all.

I see you are also a person of culture, fellow hbomberguy enjoyer.

To answer ahippo's question for the peanut gallery; yes, I have a night action. I am a town neighborizer, no limit on how big a group I can make, and based on previous uses of the term, no guarantee of member alignment. I'm going to try to get the more helpful players together.

In other news, if it weren't totally bastard, I'd think I was secretly a miller from the description of the character on the wiki. Her name is Elanor Hume, and she has some Inigo Montoya issues regarding her mother, which since strong emotions make for bad things in this setting, is a bit of a problem.

boomfrog wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:22 pm

Sabrar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:21 pm Very excited to play again.

Vote: Boomfrog

Obviously he's never going to trust me ever again after PYP, so let's just get him out now and avoid the clash altogether.

Lol, nah. In retrospect you were obviously scum once you voted for me. I was just so frasseled by RL stuff and seven's stubbornness that one more "town failure" slipped under the radar. You are a better scum hunter that Seven and town!you would have voted for fonti or cheese.

(It's kinda fun to tease Seven when he can't respond. I guess I'll see his comment about this in a few months.)

YOU CANT SEE ME

I think the current meta of accepting an early, unprompted claim as Town is still applicable, however I'm pretty sure that sooner or later it will backfire if people don't adjust, as there will come a courageous scum who decides to risk and exploits it

sabrar call me out a bit don't you!!!!!

i'm scum and claiming miller because i expect to be investigated, and WIFOM, nobody would believe scum would claim miller unprompted D1.

reason i didn't post yesterday was ACTUALLY because i was confirming i could have a safe flavour-based reason to claim miller and getting confirmation from my partner that they were OK with it

If I'm right? If I got heur dead to rights on my first day back from his first couple of posts? This is going to fucking tannnnnnnk my town play for the next few years. My ego doesn't need this.

About time I got around to this post. I am town aligned, a 2 shot vig when gets a private chat with those I "devour" when or they're dead. No clue what Id use this chat for. If I do ideally kill mafia, there is no point in talking to them. If I kill town, I'd be too embarrassed and ashamed to talk to them. I suppose they could convey to me any actions they used that hasn't been shared. This game I want to be purposefully confrontational. I've gone a little too light and joking with that then I meant. We'll see how it goes.