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Darths and Droids Mafia- Game Thread
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Zack
99% hot gas
Zack
99% hot gas
Well, I was going to post the role PM's, but then the internet ate my post.
I'm a bit too pissed off by that and tired to post them now, so they'll be posted tomorrow.
Spoiler :
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Oh, so you live in Bellevue, not Seattle.
Zack
99% hot gas
Tacoma, Redmond, Olympus, Washingtonia?
Buddhafish
Abbey Road
Schpokane. Never forget Schpokane.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
And Walla Walla.
azzaman333
meh
So, how bout them role PMs?
^I was wondering when we get actually get back to those. 
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
seattle funniest name
Krusty: OK, memorize these funny place names: Walla Walla. Keokuk. Cucamonga. Seattle --
Homer: [laughs] Stop it, you're killing me! [laughs more] Seattle.
Krusty: OK, memorize these funny place names: Walla Walla. Keokuk. Cucamonga. Seattle --
Homer: [laughs] Stop it, you're killing me! [laughs more] Seattle.
Sorry it's taken me so long, but now, without further ado:
ROLE PM's:
Town:
askthepizzaguy:
Had the ability to scan for PC-ness, which basically just amounted to slight flavor scanning. It wasn't generally useful against anti-townies, as only Nute Gunray had a cover role that was a PC.
He died early, which was sad because Pizza was roleplaying Pete so hilariously.
Autolycus:
As soon as I started typing this role, I knew the ability had to have something to do with Summon Bigger Fish. It would have been a crime against comedy to not put a joke about that here. I had a few ideas for what it could do, ultimately settling for it protecting someone from all abilities used on them. Ended up being fairly powerful, as Autolycus had a knack for targeting people that other people also targeted, and completed his PG several times over. The protection from other things was mostly meant as an anti-cult weapon, and it did that job well, blocking two of mechaerik's recruitability scans. It also blocked a ton of other innocent scans, and I think at least one kill.
azzaman333:
One of the two Lars masons. Both were somewhat victims of me getting lazy with my character design at the end and running out of ideas, as they were fairly vanilla while the other mason pair had actual abilities, and I wish I could have come up with more ideas for characters like these guys, though it would have been slightly funnier for a member of this mason pair to get converted to cult than one of the Maul/Fett pair.
His PG was also an "I'm lazy" thing to a certain extent, as I gave the same PG to Beru and Shmi. For those wondering, the family consisted of Beru, Owen, Shmi, Luke, Anakin, and Padme.
Backwards Logic:
One of the last characters I designed, and a considered cutting him a few times before I came up with the dead-voter idea and realized I didn't have any better ideas, then decided that Captain Antilles was by far the best fit for the ability.
I'm not really sure how I would have made his PG work if he had been lynched; I probably would have made it to vote for the first to vote for him, or the one who most actively tried to get him lynched, or the one who cast the vote that put him in the lead for the last time, or something like that.
One of the most prominent members in the "Would have been interesting if converted by cult" club.
Buddhafish:
One of the one-scene wonders from the Mos Eisley Cantina, I flipped back and forth for a while for including them or not, finally going with "That part was really hilarious and I should totally put them in because Rule of Funny"
Not sure how I came up with his ability for him and it doesn't fit the character much, but it happened. As to the PG, he saved himself the first time he used it (and also got the Mafia and SK to kill JoanK instead of SamSniped, which was probably a net positive). He didn't technically save anyone the second time, but his use of the ability convinced Xenoneb to switch his kill from unprotected johnhughthom to protected Jarrema, so I decided to give him credit for that.
CivCube:
One of the Maul/Fett Investigator Mason Pair. Their abilities combined to work well together; Maul could scan for items and Fett could steal them. Not super powerful, as items weren't super common, but could have helped the town find the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria (or the Cult, had one or both been converted), and could have been interesting.
So of course they both die in the first few days.
I probably should have made his PG to outlive Obi-Wan, rather than Obi-Wan just having to die.
CivGeneral:
A tiebreaker. Mostly he existed to give the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria a place to start. He held it for about half of the game by lurking, which did at least keep it out of the hands of anti-townies.
Depending on who held it, it could either power up someone's abilities (Zack's and Mergle's, for instance), or give somebody a tiebreaker ability if they had no relevant ability to give a power up to.
To be honest, I hadn't worked out all of the effects on abilities it would have at the start of the game, but it ended up not mattering, as it was only ever held by two players who were effectively vanilla innocents (CG and azzaman) and two players who had abilities which were among the first I'd worked out (Zack and Mergle).
classical hero/NinjaCow64:
A jailer. Not much I have to say about this. He did a few interesting things, but mostly wasn't interesting aside from NinjaCow's mild paranoia and inability to know when to stop talking.
As a side note, I somehow forgot to give both him and Watto a personal goal, and didn't notice until after I sent the role PM's.
Darth Caesar:
The Human Greedo/Han Solo. I have to admit that even I had trouble remembering which one was which at times.
This one was a vengeful lynchee that lurked while he was alive and ended up getting lynched and using his shot on fellow lurker CivGeneral.
He came surprisingly close to completing his PG- several PC's almost survived to the end.
Dreadnought:
The other member of the investigator mason pair. He died really quickly, so I have little to really say about him. Writing a write-up involvling a Count Dooku-General Grievous-Darth Maul lightsaber batte was kind of fun, though.
As a side-note, I found most of the role PM pictures on the comic's cast pages, and even cut a few characters for not having pictures in those pages. (Rune Haako, for instance, though I'm not sure he's even a character in the comic) Darth Maul was the one exception- despite being a fairly major character, he has no picture in Phantasmal Malevolence's cast page, so I just found a suitably sized picture with google image search and made it look like a picture from the cast page. I'm satisfied with the result.
Gone 3 the Celt:
The innocent vigilante. I spent a while being unable to make up my mind whether the vigilante should be Yoda or Mace Windu, ultimately going with Yoda and making Mace the cover role for Nute Gunray. In either case, I named the ability "Crazy Awesome" because they're both crazy awesome, as is Sally.
Gone 3 the Celt mostly hit townies or not at all, and eventually basically became a second night-kill for Zack and Mergle, though he did manage to kill mechaerik.
Jarrema:
I had trouble coming up with good ideas for this character, and I couldn't come up with enough items for the game, so I just decided to kill two birds with one stone and give him a bunch of two-use items. Yes, all of those actually exist in the comic. He has the binoculars at the start, Obi-Wan gave him two of them from Padme, and R2 looted the one with the long name from a Jawa.
He used all of them exactly twice, though not all of them did much good. He was a huge help in catching both BSmith and mecharik with his tracking and watching abilities.
JoanK:
The other Lars Mason. Not much I have to say about Beru that I didn't aleady say about Owen.
johnhughthom:
The innocent roleblocker. I contemplated making him a doctor for a while because Obi-Wan seems to be designated for that role in Star Wars mafia Games and because of the plot about Ben studying to become a doctor for a while, then decided the "Disarm" running gag was funnier, and I usually went with Rule of Funny when designing the roles.
His PG was too arbitrarily difficult, as were I think a few others, not that he ever even came close to stopping any killer at all (though he did contemplate roleblocking Xenoneb on Night Six, which would have completed his PG even though Xenoneb failed to kill Jarrema that night anyway)
Kennigit:
I knew I had to make one of Jim's roles Goatee-related, ultimately deciding to go with this one after I made Qui-Gon a protector. It was useful for determining flavor and whether someone was who they said they were, and also a great fountain of GM trollery, as seen when he scanned Jango Fett as having a beard.
The complete list of beard owners: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Jango, Owen Lars, Count Dooku, Watto, and Bail Organa. Funnily, he would have scanned Sio Bibble as not having a beard, since Dofine lacked one.
Despite only living for 5 nights, he managed to scan 3 of them and complete his PG, though looking back, I forgot to apply spaceman's ability on the night that Kennigit scanned him, which may or may not have made a difference.
Mat93:
At some point, I decided that an ability referring to Jim's constant talking about how there was secretly a mob that Anakin and Shmi were members of would be funny for Shmi. At some later point I decided making the ability a Double-Voter ability made sense for some reason, and thus this role was created.
His ability only made a notable influence on the game on the day of the mecaherik-Xenoneb "tie," which effectively means Shmi unintentionally allowed her son to win- made somewhat more ironic as she was the only unconvertible townie who was unconvertible entirely for flavor reasons, rather than because of some ability the townie had (though a few were unconvertible for both reasons)
ROLE PM's:
Town:
askthepizzaguy:
Spoiler :
Had the ability to scan for PC-ness, which basically just amounted to slight flavor scanning. It wasn't generally useful against anti-townies, as only Nute Gunray had a cover role that was a PC.
He died early, which was sad because Pizza was roleplaying Pete so hilariously.
Autolycus:
Spoiler :
As soon as I started typing this role, I knew the ability had to have something to do with Summon Bigger Fish. It would have been a crime against comedy to not put a joke about that here. I had a few ideas for what it could do, ultimately settling for it protecting someone from all abilities used on them. Ended up being fairly powerful, as Autolycus had a knack for targeting people that other people also targeted, and completed his PG several times over. The protection from other things was mostly meant as an anti-cult weapon, and it did that job well, blocking two of mechaerik's recruitability scans. It also blocked a ton of other innocent scans, and I think at least one kill.
azzaman333:
Spoiler :
One of the two Lars masons. Both were somewhat victims of me getting lazy with my character design at the end and running out of ideas, as they were fairly vanilla while the other mason pair had actual abilities, and I wish I could have come up with more ideas for characters like these guys, though it would have been slightly funnier for a member of this mason pair to get converted to cult than one of the Maul/Fett pair.
His PG was also an "I'm lazy" thing to a certain extent, as I gave the same PG to Beru and Shmi. For those wondering, the family consisted of Beru, Owen, Shmi, Luke, Anakin, and Padme.
Backwards Logic:
Spoiler :
One of the last characters I designed, and a considered cutting him a few times before I came up with the dead-voter idea and realized I didn't have any better ideas, then decided that Captain Antilles was by far the best fit for the ability.
I'm not really sure how I would have made his PG work if he had been lynched; I probably would have made it to vote for the first to vote for him, or the one who most actively tried to get him lynched, or the one who cast the vote that put him in the lead for the last time, or something like that.
One of the most prominent members in the "Would have been interesting if converted by cult" club.
Buddhafish:
Spoiler :
One of the one-scene wonders from the Mos Eisley Cantina, I flipped back and forth for a while for including them or not, finally going with "That part was really hilarious and I should totally put them in because Rule of Funny"
Not sure how I came up with his ability for him and it doesn't fit the character much, but it happened. As to the PG, he saved himself the first time he used it (and also got the Mafia and SK to kill JoanK instead of SamSniped, which was probably a net positive). He didn't technically save anyone the second time, but his use of the ability convinced Xenoneb to switch his kill from unprotected johnhughthom to protected Jarrema, so I decided to give him credit for that.
CivCube:
Spoiler :
One of the Maul/Fett Investigator Mason Pair. Their abilities combined to work well together; Maul could scan for items and Fett could steal them. Not super powerful, as items weren't super common, but could have helped the town find the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria (or the Cult, had one or both been converted), and could have been interesting.
So of course they both die in the first few days.
I probably should have made his PG to outlive Obi-Wan, rather than Obi-Wan just having to die.
CivGeneral:
Spoiler :
A tiebreaker. Mostly he existed to give the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria a place to start. He held it for about half of the game by lurking, which did at least keep it out of the hands of anti-townies.
Depending on who held it, it could either power up someone's abilities (Zack's and Mergle's, for instance), or give somebody a tiebreaker ability if they had no relevant ability to give a power up to.
To be honest, I hadn't worked out all of the effects on abilities it would have at the start of the game, but it ended up not mattering, as it was only ever held by two players who were effectively vanilla innocents (CG and azzaman) and two players who had abilities which were among the first I'd worked out (Zack and Mergle).
classical hero/NinjaCow64:
Spoiler :
A jailer. Not much I have to say about this. He did a few interesting things, but mostly wasn't interesting aside from NinjaCow's mild paranoia and inability to know when to stop talking.
As a side note, I somehow forgot to give both him and Watto a personal goal, and didn't notice until after I sent the role PM's.
Darth Caesar:
Spoiler :
The Human Greedo/Han Solo. I have to admit that even I had trouble remembering which one was which at times.
This one was a vengeful lynchee that lurked while he was alive and ended up getting lynched and using his shot on fellow lurker CivGeneral.He came surprisingly close to completing his PG- several PC's almost survived to the end.
Dreadnought:
Spoiler :
The other member of the investigator mason pair. He died really quickly, so I have little to really say about him. Writing a write-up involvling a Count Dooku-General Grievous-Darth Maul lightsaber batte was kind of fun, though.
As a side-note, I found most of the role PM pictures on the comic's cast pages, and even cut a few characters for not having pictures in those pages. (Rune Haako, for instance, though I'm not sure he's even a character in the comic) Darth Maul was the one exception- despite being a fairly major character, he has no picture in Phantasmal Malevolence's cast page, so I just found a suitably sized picture with google image search and made it look like a picture from the cast page. I'm satisfied with the result.
Gone 3 the Celt:
Spoiler :
The innocent vigilante. I spent a while being unable to make up my mind whether the vigilante should be Yoda or Mace Windu, ultimately going with Yoda and making Mace the cover role for Nute Gunray. In either case, I named the ability "Crazy Awesome" because they're both crazy awesome, as is Sally.
Gone 3 the Celt mostly hit townies or not at all, and eventually basically became a second night-kill for Zack and Mergle, though he did manage to kill mechaerik.
Jarrema:
Spoiler :
I had trouble coming up with good ideas for this character, and I couldn't come up with enough items for the game, so I just decided to kill two birds with one stone and give him a bunch of two-use items. Yes, all of those actually exist in the comic. He has the binoculars at the start, Obi-Wan gave him two of them from Padme, and R2 looted the one with the long name from a Jawa.
He used all of them exactly twice, though not all of them did much good. He was a huge help in catching both BSmith and mecharik with his tracking and watching abilities.
JoanK:
Spoiler :
The other Lars Mason. Not much I have to say about Beru that I didn't aleady say about Owen.
johnhughthom:
Spoiler :
The innocent roleblocker. I contemplated making him a doctor for a while because Obi-Wan seems to be designated for that role in Star Wars mafia Games and because of the plot about Ben studying to become a doctor for a while, then decided the "Disarm" running gag was funnier, and I usually went with Rule of Funny when designing the roles.
His PG was too arbitrarily difficult, as were I think a few others, not that he ever even came close to stopping any killer at all (though he did contemplate roleblocking Xenoneb on Night Six, which would have completed his PG even though Xenoneb failed to kill Jarrema that night anyway)
Kennigit:
Spoiler :
I knew I had to make one of Jim's roles Goatee-related, ultimately deciding to go with this one after I made Qui-Gon a protector. It was useful for determining flavor and whether someone was who they said they were, and also a great fountain of GM trollery, as seen when he scanned Jango Fett as having a beard.
The complete list of beard owners: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Jango, Owen Lars, Count Dooku, Watto, and Bail Organa. Funnily, he would have scanned Sio Bibble as not having a beard, since Dofine lacked one.
Despite only living for 5 nights, he managed to scan 3 of them and complete his PG, though looking back, I forgot to apply spaceman's ability on the night that Kennigit scanned him, which may or may not have made a difference.
Mat93:
Spoiler :
At some point, I decided that an ability referring to Jim's constant talking about how there was secretly a mob that Anakin and Shmi were members of would be funny for Shmi. At some later point I decided making the ability a Double-Voter ability made sense for some reason, and thus this role was created.
His ability only made a notable influence on the game on the day of the mecaherik-Xenoneb "tie," which effectively means Shmi unintentionally allowed her son to win- made somewhat more ironic as she was the only unconvertible townie who was unconvertible entirely for flavor reasons, rather than because of some ability the townie had (though a few were unconvertible for both reasons)
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
Was I doing a good Pete? It's been a while since I read the comics.
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
Oh yes. I did crack myself up a few times.
Glad I wasn't the only one enjoying me.
Town, continued:
SamSniped:
The Personal Goal Scanner. Way more powerful than I realized at first because of the amount of PG's that involved either the role's ability or some other very obvious indicator about who/what they were, but somewhat balanced out by the sheer number of times something rendered his scan ineffective (usually because of Autolycus's fish)
Completed his PG by scanning, IIRC, Mergle and mechaerik.
spaceman98:
Probably the laziest role I still ended up creating, which his PG is prime evidence of. He somehow managed to not complete it despite the large number of early anti-town lynches; He was on the Xeno-wagon on Day 7, but didn't vote for SK, BSmith, or Visorslash.
Takhisis:
The innocent VC Scanner. I knew that whatever I made Jar-Jar's ability, it had to be somehow related to him being a genius.
I swear to God, Allah, Yahweh, Vishnu, Haile Selassie, Ahura Mazda, Zeus, Odin, Ra, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Quetzalcoatl, Russel's Teapot, Gozer the Destructor, Galactus, the Great Deku Tree, the World Spirit, the 4 Supreme Kais, Metatron, Grorious Reader Kim Jong Il, the Forerunners, the Force, Guthix, Xenu, the Almighty Random Number God, Haruhi Suzumiya, every Time Lord that exists, and any other deities or beings believed to be deities I may have forgotten about that Takhisis ending up with this role was entirely the result of randomness.
The Black Knigh:
The alien Han Solo, and the hider. Mostly lurked and attracted epic amounts of suspicion for his seeming untargetability. Deserves thumbs up for figuring out Mergle was scum so early in the game, and for completing his PG on night 3 (hiding behind Takhisis and askthepizzaguy nights 1 and 2, then Mergle the entire rest of the game)
topsecret:
Bulletproof townie who lurked for the entire game and thus attracted mild suspicion, especially because of his one survived night kill, which is exactly how not to play a character who is bulletproof.
Cult:
mechaerik:
The abilities here weren't much different from the Forerunners in Halo Mafia, as Buddhafish noted. The cult had the potential to get really powerful early on, but mechaerik's scans kept getting stopped or he scanned people he couldn't convert, which instead made him really weak early on. The Team Kill ability changed to only requiring one member after mechaerik died.
I decided I wanted enough unconvertible players to prevent the cult from running away with the game, while not so many that they could never get going. I ultimately made the following people unconvertible: The Mafia and Dooku (obviously), Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Jar-Jar (because they were the 4 major innocent power roles, and also for flavor reasons) and C-3PO and Shmi (mostly flavor here, though C-3PO's ability contributed to that decision a bit too)
He was the only starting anti-townie I didn't give a cover role to, since Anakin could plausibly claim to be a townie, while Dooku would have a harder time doing that and the Trade Federation trying to claim that would just be silly.
I was half-expecting the cult, BSmith, and the mafia to kill a few of each other, but that never happened.
traius/Ravus_Sol:
A one-shot governor, which ultimately was used to save himself on Day Two, basically wasting the town's time for a day and ultimately leading to replacement and conversion by mechaerik. Nice Job Breaking it, Hero, not that you can really be blamed for it.
"Jedi" was defined very broadly for the purposes of his PG, and included Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Yoda, Luke, Palpatine, Dooku, and Darth Maul.
Zack:
It's rare a player can be the MVP for two different teams, but Zack was arguably both the town MVP and the cult MVP. For the town, he helped catch BSmith and mechaerik (and, despite already being cult, Mergle and Ravus), and for the cult, he pulled victory from the jaws of defeat. All in all, Zack pwned everyone this game.
John roleblocked him on night 2, which slowed down the peace moon's construction by a night and led to a rather silly night result for Zack. The Peace Moon, as you have no doubt seen, was just a day kill, which recharged once every three days, which upgraded to once every two days when he got the Lost Orb of Phanstacoria. He used it to attempt to kill mechaerik and kill Ravus, which actually probably secured his victory. Bussing for the win!
Mafia:
Xenoneb:
Inspired partially by the Green Spy from Team Fortress 2 and partially by the automatic ring-theft-on-kill abilities that Mordo and Isengard had in LOTR Mafia, intended to help the Mafia get their hands on the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria.
He would always get something with his kill provided his target had something he could actually steal, though he could only get one thing if his target had more than one, which was what the "chance" in the ability referred to. He only actually used a stolen ability once (I think it was a scan).
All of the cover roles had no PG or ability or much of anything, because I figured the mafia and Serial Killer could come up with better things for that than I could, and I just wanted to give them some townie they could claim to be.
SouthernKing:
His ability could have been a great boon to the mafia by messing with the many scanning roles in the game, and potentially could have royally screwed over mechaerik. He could have even intentionally screwed up one of Mergle's scans to really mess with people's heads.
He used it all of two times, and it did nothing both times. Lurkers are the bane of attempts to create balanced games.
Visorslash:
He never held the Orb, but he could have been a huge threat to all non-Trade Feds had he ever gotten it, giving them either two nightkills or one unstoppable night kill. And he was Visorslash, who usually kicks ass for whatever team he's on.
And he was randomly lynched on Day One.
I suppose if nothing else this gives everyone who advocates Day One lynches evidence to point to that sometimes it works very, very well.
Mergle:
A Randomscanner, and one of the game's more fun roles. Depending on the whims of the RNG, it could either scan someone's Ability, Item, Personal Goal, Victory Condition, Beardiness, or PC-ness. The Lost Orb wouldn't completely eliminate the randomness, but would eliminate some of it; instead of randomly picking one, the RNG would randomly pick 4 of those scans at the beginning of the night, and let Mergle pick one of those to use that night.
The only one of the mafia who managed to avoid suspicion and almost won the game for them at the end. Mergle did a good job of proving why he got all those votes for Best Mafia 2012.
BSmith1068:
Might have been the most fun role for me to write, and certainly the coolest PG, but despite his brief time spent alive, BSmith still forgot to put a Z in a couple of his posts.
I hoped this role could be totally awesome and do bad things to everyone else while having lots of fun doing it, but instead he only killed people the mafia were killing and was lynched on day 4, after attacking someone being protected and watched, two of the few abilities his Force Drain didn't affect. Most others would, if used on him, get a result along the lines of "Your ability didn't work." As BSmith said himself, he was probably the most ineffectual serial killer ever.
SamSniped:
Spoiler :
The Personal Goal Scanner. Way more powerful than I realized at first because of the amount of PG's that involved either the role's ability or some other very obvious indicator about who/what they were, but somewhat balanced out by the sheer number of times something rendered his scan ineffective (usually because of Autolycus's fish)
Completed his PG by scanning, IIRC, Mergle and mechaerik.
spaceman98:
Spoiler :
Probably the laziest role I still ended up creating, which his PG is prime evidence of. He somehow managed to not complete it despite the large number of early anti-town lynches; He was on the Xeno-wagon on Day 7, but didn't vote for SK, BSmith, or Visorslash.
Takhisis:
Spoiler :
The innocent VC Scanner. I knew that whatever I made Jar-Jar's ability, it had to be somehow related to him being a genius.
I swear to God, Allah, Yahweh, Vishnu, Haile Selassie, Ahura Mazda, Zeus, Odin, Ra, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Quetzalcoatl, Russel's Teapot, Gozer the Destructor, Galactus, the Great Deku Tree, the World Spirit, the 4 Supreme Kais, Metatron, Grorious Reader Kim Jong Il, the Forerunners, the Force, Guthix, Xenu, the Almighty Random Number God, Haruhi Suzumiya, every Time Lord that exists, and any other deities or beings believed to be deities I may have forgotten about that Takhisis ending up with this role was entirely the result of randomness.
The Black Knigh:
Spoiler :
The alien Han Solo, and the hider. Mostly lurked and attracted epic amounts of suspicion for his seeming untargetability. Deserves thumbs up for figuring out Mergle was scum so early in the game, and for completing his PG on night 3 (hiding behind Takhisis and askthepizzaguy nights 1 and 2, then Mergle the entire rest of the game)
topsecret:
Spoiler :
Bulletproof townie who lurked for the entire game and thus attracted mild suspicion, especially because of his one survived night kill, which is exactly how not to play a character who is bulletproof.
Cult:
mechaerik:
Spoiler :
The abilities here weren't much different from the Forerunners in Halo Mafia, as Buddhafish noted. The cult had the potential to get really powerful early on, but mechaerik's scans kept getting stopped or he scanned people he couldn't convert, which instead made him really weak early on. The Team Kill ability changed to only requiring one member after mechaerik died.
I decided I wanted enough unconvertible players to prevent the cult from running away with the game, while not so many that they could never get going. I ultimately made the following people unconvertible: The Mafia and Dooku (obviously), Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Jar-Jar (because they were the 4 major innocent power roles, and also for flavor reasons) and C-3PO and Shmi (mostly flavor here, though C-3PO's ability contributed to that decision a bit too)
He was the only starting anti-townie I didn't give a cover role to, since Anakin could plausibly claim to be a townie, while Dooku would have a harder time doing that and the Trade Federation trying to claim that would just be silly.
I was half-expecting the cult, BSmith, and the mafia to kill a few of each other, but that never happened.
traius/Ravus_Sol:
Spoiler :
A one-shot governor, which ultimately was used to save himself on Day Two, basically wasting the town's time for a day and ultimately leading to replacement and conversion by mechaerik. Nice Job Breaking it, Hero, not that you can really be blamed for it.
"Jedi" was defined very broadly for the purposes of his PG, and included Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Yoda, Luke, Palpatine, Dooku, and Darth Maul.
Zack:
Spoiler :
It's rare a player can be the MVP for two different teams, but Zack was arguably both the town MVP and the cult MVP. For the town, he helped catch BSmith and mechaerik (and, despite already being cult, Mergle and Ravus), and for the cult, he pulled victory from the jaws of defeat. All in all, Zack pwned everyone this game.
John roleblocked him on night 2, which slowed down the peace moon's construction by a night and led to a rather silly night result for Zack. The Peace Moon, as you have no doubt seen, was just a day kill, which recharged once every three days, which upgraded to once every two days when he got the Lost Orb of Phanstacoria. He used it to attempt to kill mechaerik and kill Ravus, which actually probably secured his victory. Bussing for the win!
Mafia:
Xenoneb:
Spoiler :
Inspired partially by the Green Spy from Team Fortress 2 and partially by the automatic ring-theft-on-kill abilities that Mordo and Isengard had in LOTR Mafia, intended to help the Mafia get their hands on the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria.
He would always get something with his kill provided his target had something he could actually steal, though he could only get one thing if his target had more than one, which was what the "chance" in the ability referred to. He only actually used a stolen ability once (I think it was a scan).
All of the cover roles had no PG or ability or much of anything, because I figured the mafia and Serial Killer could come up with better things for that than I could, and I just wanted to give them some townie they could claim to be.
SouthernKing:
Spoiler :
His ability could have been a great boon to the mafia by messing with the many scanning roles in the game, and potentially could have royally screwed over mechaerik. He could have even intentionally screwed up one of Mergle's scans to really mess with people's heads.
He used it all of two times, and it did nothing both times. Lurkers are the bane of attempts to create balanced games.
Visorslash:
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He never held the Orb, but he could have been a huge threat to all non-Trade Feds had he ever gotten it, giving them either two nightkills or one unstoppable night kill. And he was Visorslash, who usually kicks ass for whatever team he's on.
And he was randomly lynched on Day One.
I suppose if nothing else this gives everyone who advocates Day One lynches evidence to point to that sometimes it works very, very well.
Mergle:
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A Randomscanner, and one of the game's more fun roles. Depending on the whims of the RNG, it could either scan someone's Ability, Item, Personal Goal, Victory Condition, Beardiness, or PC-ness. The Lost Orb wouldn't completely eliminate the randomness, but would eliminate some of it; instead of randomly picking one, the RNG would randomly pick 4 of those scans at the beginning of the night, and let Mergle pick one of those to use that night.
The only one of the mafia who managed to avoid suspicion and almost won the game for them at the end. Mergle did a good job of proving why he got all those votes for Best Mafia 2012.
BSmith1068:
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Might have been the most fun role for me to write, and certainly the coolest PG, but despite his brief time spent alive, BSmith still forgot to put a Z in a couple of his posts.
I hoped this role could be totally awesome and do bad things to everyone else while having lots of fun doing it, but instead he only killed people the mafia were killing and was lynched on day 4, after attacking someone being protected and watched, two of the few abilities his Force Drain didn't affect. Most others would, if used on him, get a result along the lines of "Your ability didn't work." As BSmith said himself, he was probably the most ineffectual serial killer ever.
I also give you the Mafia Team PM, put into a seperate post because the other two went over the 30,000 char limit:
The Team Kill would be flavored based on who did it- Grievous would just attack someone himself, TZ-4 would attack in a group of battle droids, and Dofine and Nute Gunray would attack people with a space ship. Grievous was, because of his ability, generally the designated killer until he died.
Spoiler :
The Team Kill would be flavored based on who did it- Grievous would just attack someone himself, TZ-4 would attack in a group of battle droids, and Dofine and Nute Gunray would attack people with a space ship. Grievous was, because of his ability, generally the designated killer until he died.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Am I the only one who finds this a lovely irony?
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