[Large Mafia August] Archetype mafia game thread

Takhisis · Sep 12, 2011

I stayed up :smug:

y u no die, DrumStudent?

Verarde · Sep 12, 2011

Remember I received the medical tricorder, and the milk? The tricorder has been giving me +2 health every day, and the milk gives me a temporary health bonus.

Verarde · Sep 12, 2011

So, to my fellow scum...whom would you like me to vig attack tonight? Note that my chances of success are quite slim.

Verarde · Sep 12, 2011

And if no one does give me some ideas, then I will attack jukar-c.

mechaerik · Sep 12, 2011

As M. Night Shamalamadingdong would say, "what a tweeeeeest".

TheLastDays · Sep 12, 2011

jukar-c, please investigate Verarde

TheLastDays · Sep 12, 2011

And yeah, Verarde, go ahead and attack jukar-c, this should be interesting...

Verarde · Sep 12, 2011

Oh shoot. Kennigit just pm'd me notifying me that injured people cannot use night actions.

TheLastDays · Sep 12, 2011

Even more interesting

juKar-C · Sep 12, 2011

Verarde, you really do have a lot of excuses don't you? Every time you post it just makes you look more scummy.

You keep on claiming to be a Vig but you seem to survive anything.

Also at the start of the Day you were so convinced that tailles was scum and called everyone to vote for him. But then I voted for you and suddenly your stance changed and I was your target, you have no conviction on your own judgement which shows how scummy you really are.

Now you're going to attempt to kill me without even any good reasoning. Unlike you I'm sticking through with my vote till the end with the reasons I justified.

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

Update the Finale

Taillesskangaru, having stolen the Ruski's Chekov (the Bake's) hammer, went after the weakened Verarde. He threw one fireball at Verarde, who warned that could have caused a forest fire. But Verarde couldn't ignore his natural instincts, and wished to fight back. He roared a mighty roar, and charged at tailless. "For the LandMother!" he said in broken English.

Tailless gave verarde a whack with the hammer and verarde fell.

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Tailless--the dragon from Beowulf returned to his cave on the sea cliffs, still holding onto his jeweled cup from the beginning of the game. It seemed the religious faction never were able to recover the holy grail. Most analagous is a "close defeat" (for not completely filling his objectives as a rogue) as a member of the rogue faction!

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Next came a very deciding moment, when jukar-C came to TheLastDays. At first he had trouble finding TLD, who was disguising himself excellently with some face paint that he used to kill the pig (Camikaze, Napoleon). Jukar-C also felt a little bit weaker, from having been targetted with the telescreen of -2 STR

He spoke:
"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. "

Just then TLD's face paint failed him, and jukar-C was able to carry his attack on Jack Merridew, from Lord of the Flies.

However, TLD (jack) just said "you know what, I'm done playing this game. I already won myself. See you later".

TLD was victorious as a member of the rogue faction! for completing all his goals!

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This left jukar-C, who was Neo (from The Matrix) of the Hero faction!

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Hero faction victory!

Autolycus
jukar-C
Darth Caesar
Yoshiegg
Lord OST

Further analysis of people's victories will be written here in future (tomorrow), such as who completed PGs or Factional goals, etc

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

This is for all the quicktopics.

the GM's log. extremely lengthy, but if you want to find any particular list of night/day action, just search for "night 1" or "day 4" or whatever you so wish. Some harsh language is used in this log (not directed at anyone, but like "eff I'm busy").
dead quicktopic
hero faction (blue scum); 4 begin with QT 1 does not
infiltrator faction (blue scum) 3 begin with QT
two infiltrator masons had another quicktopic, but they were able to join up with the other 3 infiltrators after night 1. see role PMs if you want that link.
environment; 3 members begin 1 missing
AI/supercomputer; 3 begin 1 missing
orwell; 3 begin 1 missing
star trek; 3 begin 1 missing
religious; 4 begin
ultraviolent/psychopath; 3 begin

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

ROLE PMS

I will add some commentary on these later, for now just some copy paste as I need to get to bed. Some have commentary of my original GM notes (actually like every role does), but I will not post all of it. Some because some things changed, particularly in relation to axed roles. Some didn't have anything interesting, just basically "Standard X role" (example: beowulf was standard just attack at night role).

Also note that some of these were minorly tweaked in the game--i.e. in particular the attack values of the non-starting killers of the scum teams (infiltrator or hero) were too low. For instance, I had Beowulf (yoshiegg) do 16 damage, while neo (jukar-C) would have done 7. That was unreasonable by design. They, by definition, could not be used until their partner died, but before or even when they're partner died I may have changed it slightly. So the ability wouldn't have been used before a change to the role PM (and player notified of change).

Also also note that abilities strengthened as people completed their PGs or faction goals or completed factions or other triggers in the game, so role PMs may not actually represent the "real" number that was often used in gameplay

#1-5: Infiltrators
#6-10: Hero
#11-13: Ultraviolent/Psychopath
#14-17: religious faction
#18-21: George Orwell
#22-25: Super Computer
#26-29: Star Trek
#30-33: Environmental
#34-37: Rogues
#38-43 discussion of axed roles

#1: Name/Role: Captain Planet (Mother Earth) robbiecon
Faction: Infiltrators

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#2: Name/Role: The terminator (supercomputer) jarrema
Faction: Infiltrators

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#3: Name/Role: Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise zack
Faction: Infiltrators

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#4: Name/Role: Martin Mouse (Mice in room 101) bsmith
Faction: Infiltrators

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#5: Name/Role: O’Brien (Star Trek or 1984) bestrfcplayer
Faction: Infiltrators

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Abilities: Scan—in the beginning, every night you can only scan for your other teammates until you find them; afterwards, your scan will become much more useful.
Items (if you begin with items): none

Background story: Most mafia games have a “vanilla” role. Your name is O’Brien—just a common name. Of course, in this game what you lack in a cool background story you make up by the convenience of a “commoner” role. You have 2 cover roles, as O’Brien from the George Orwell faction; Team Red or as O’Brien from the Star Trek faction; Team Red. You don’t necessarily know what factions will scan you as what. You can grow your ability into a much better scan once you unite with your teammates.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 8
Strength/STR (out of 10): 4
Personal Goal/PG: Find your faction first. Then details of your scan will be revealed.

Faction PM: Welcome gentle innocents! Of course, you are not quite so gentle, as you are here in this town to destroy everyone; you are a scum faction in this game. In this place of treachery you have become separated and some of you have been forced to hide or risk being exposed. Your full faction is not intact; you do not have contact with all of your members. Your goals are to be the last faction standing (ie. eliminate all other factions). Remember, you can still win even if you lose all of the characters that can have kill abilities—do not give up hope until the last of you is eliminated.
Each of you has a cover role corresponding to a certain faction that you have been made aware of. You do not receive the faction PM of your cover role, so you can still be exposed if people question you about it.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are mechanics (i.e. scans) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are; seeing as you are scum, that might be an incredibly stupid move. But you can do it. No one in your faction is “alone” to start out. They are paired with at least 1 other teammate.
If you attack a teammate you can kill them, and be credited for a pretty big fail.
Your victory condition is to be the last faction standing.
This same PM is sent to all members of the faction, except for this link:
Quick topic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/dnyr2Rs92QV
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES* O’brien will have a combo role/faction scan once he finds his team. He is designed to find the Ruskis or Bearded Spock for Captain Planet to convert. Or, by devising a role, he can help the pokemon decide which pokemon to use.

#6: Name/Role: Beowulf, king of the Gaets in the epic poem Beowulf yoshiegg
Faction: Hero

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#7: Name/Role: The one (Neo) jukar-C
Faction: Hero

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#8: Name/Role: Sonic the Hedgehog lord OST
Faction: Hero

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#9: Name/Role: Hamlet darth caesar
Faction: Hero

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Abilities: Scanning (night phase ability)—you are a hero in your own regard, but you are a bit of a coward…..however, your ghost father does whisper to you important information. You have two scans, but the problem is that there are two ways to interpret the scans—one is guaranteed to be false, and one is guaranteed to be true (for explanation, the ghost of Hamlet’s father in Hamlet is debated whether it was actually real or was a demon spirit—Protestants of Shakespeare’s time would not believe in a ghost while Catholics of the time may have seen Hamlet’s father in purgatory or something like that.). The two scans are a faction scan and a strength scan—you do not know which one will be accurate (randomly chosen each time).
Items (if you begin with items): You are royalty, and as such, you have a fancy clear white ring (white does not show up on all forum skins). It is from your father, and inscribed on it is “to my dear son Hamlet, may your long winded soliloquies continue to last.” It gives +1 STR.

Background story: You are a coward, someone who is “pigeon livered.” You often contemplate suicide “To be or not to be…to sleep [as in to die], perchance to dream.” You often remark how rotten life is and curse life in general—“Fie on’t, ah fie!”—and you’ve even said you would commit suicide if it was not for God’s statute against it.
However, in this game you WILL commit suicide after night 3 if you do not get scanned by a Hero or scan a Hero yourself; as such, you have 3 night phases of scans (6 scans) to save your life.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 8 w/o contacting other innocents; 14 once you find an innocent
Strength/STR (out of 10): 6 + 1 ring = 7
Personal Goal/PG: scan a Hero and live.

Faction PM: same as others; saving character space here (limit 30000 characters per post)
Quciktopic link: you are the missing member; no QT link.
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES ON HAMLET*: having two scans is important for him to live, and Hamlet needs some luck on his side. He has the wind ring of Captain Planet

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

#10: Name/Role: Ender Wiggin autolycus
Faction: Hero

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#11: Name/Role: Alex DeLarge (from A Clockwork Orange) nedimnapoleon
Faction: Ultraviolent/Psychopaths

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Abilities: You have an attack ability during the night phase. It is a strength based attack for 7 damage. It has a 75% success rate; however, you also try to steal as you attack. If your attack succeeds, you have 20% odds to steal any items of your victim. If your attack fails, you still have a 40% chance to steal an item alone (you may cower out of attacking, but you still want to steal; with all of your attention devoted to stealing you have higher odds).

Items (if you begin with items): 4 servings of korova milk. The milk gives a temporary +2 HP and lasts for one day and night and +1 STR on the phase after usage (ie. drink during the day then the night you get +1 STR). This item, as implied, can only ever be used 4 times. You can only have on serving in you at a time (i.e. you can’t drink 4 servings at once). It is non-refillable, so there are 4 servings in the entire game.

Background story: You are quite the horroshow malchick! And by that I mean you are a complete and utter psychopath. You beat up people, rape and drug girls, etc just for the hell of it. You go to prison—and what do you do in prison? You kill someone! So, you just go on an all-out offensive when you attack.
Any strength-increasing item is ineffective on you. In fact, many items you can’t really use. You’re just batshirt insane and like to charge at people to attack them; you don’t really think of anything else.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 14
Strength/STR (out of 10): 7
Personal Goal/PG: Attack someone and steal their item successfully (with the 20% odds).
ATK: 7 damage (strength based)

Faction PM: You are complete psychopaths—in this game, you are serial killer masons. You are a scum faction in this game, but the reason why you appear as “red” is that the town collectively does not need to eliminate the three of you to win the game (some do). You must send 1 of you every night phase to try to attack someone; however, only 1 can attack each night. You are also the enemies of the Religious faction, them those good for nothing liars; you do bonus damage to them. There is some strategy on who to attack with each night.
You win the game if you are the last faction standing, or if you successfully kill someone from every faction. You get a partial victory if all the scum factions are eliminated and you have eliminated the Religious faction.
http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/M99XXyLKekfU
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES ON ALEX* Alex I simply want an all-out attacker that attempts to steal as he attacks.

#12: Name/Role: Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov civgeneral
Faction: Ultraviolent/Psychopaths

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#13: Name/Role: Montresor (from Edgar Allan Poe’s Cask of Amontillado) general olaf
Faction: Ultraviolent/Psychopaths

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Abilities: You have an specialty based night attack and you do 6 damage (but with your wine you could do 8 damage; see items). You must have your wine; otherwise you are useless. You have a 70% chance of success with your attack and injure if it succeeds. If your attack fails, you get a 20% chance of the wine working on its own with no damage done.

Items (if you begin with items): cask of wine. The wine gives a (smaller) chance to role block someone by getting them drunk; however, because it is YOUR wine and you are a specialist with it, you injure people when you use the wine as well as having much higher odds than anyone else with the wine (you have a 60% chance as seen in your abilities). If you get to injure them, your damage increases from 6 to 8 (as injuries make people take 133% damage). You cannot use the wine without attacking (you are a psychopath; attacking is your first thought). For everyone else, the wine is the only action they can take; however, it is a free action for you.

Background story: Poe, one crazy mofo in his own right, made you as his craziest of crazies. You kill a guy just because he insulted you—but you don’t just kill him, you deviously trick him into his own death. You get him drunk at a party and insist that there is a cask of amontillado (good wine) in the catacombs. The entire time you taunt your victim, frequently foreshadowing how you are going to kill him face to face. You actually encourage your victim to NOT go into the catacombs, which motivates him to do so. Once in there, you even show the tools you are going to use to kill him—a trowel. In the very end of the catacombs is a small niche where you say the wine is; you grab your victim and chain him to the wall. Brick by brick, you seal the room up right in front of his eyes. He screams and screams—but you mock him—and no one can hear you this deep in the catacombs. You seal the last brick smiling and taunting your victim and you relish in the fact that he will die a slow painful death.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 12
Strength/STR (out of 10): 5
Personal Goal/PG: injure 2 people with the wine.

Faction PM: You are complete psychopaths—in this game, you are serial killer masons. You are a scum faction in this game, but the reason why you appear as “red” is that the town collectively does not need to eliminate the three of you to win the game (some do). You must send 1 of you every night phase to try to attack someone; however, only 1 can attack each night. You are also the enemies of the Religious faction, them those good for nothing liars; you do bonus damage to them. There is some strategy on who to attack with each night.
You win the game if you are the last faction standing, or if you successfully kill someone from every faction. You get a partial victory if all the scum factions are eliminated and you have eliminated the Religious faction.
http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/M99XXyLKekfU
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES ON MONTRESOR* his abilities are dependent on his wine; without his wine he isn’t that effective. He cannot steal his wine back

#14: Name/Role: Cardinal Richelieu, the evil cardinal of The Three Musketeers naruto/turqouiside
Faction: Religious faction; team Red

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#15: Name/Role: The District Commissioner from Things Fall Apart red_spy
Faction: Religious faction; team Red

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Abilities: Study the cultures and then take them—you are an item scanner. Item scans are held during the day so that during the night you may attempt to steal what you scan. Until either one of the Bible of the Grail is retrieved, this scan only sees “religious” items.
You can only steal every odd night, with 10% odds in the beginning (though you have 100% chance to steal the grail and 60% chance to steal the Bible if your target has those items). You are designed to find the Bible and the Grail. If the pardoner dies before you get these items, you can only personally retrieve the Grail and NOT the bible. If you have the grail, you get a day phase specialty attack that does 4 damage.
Basically, you can scan for items during the day phase. You cannot steal for yourself unless you have an item to do so or the pardoner dies.
Items (if you begin with items): none

Background story: In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, we see the effect of white imperialism destroying societies in Nigeria. Of course, you are the white European commissioner and have come to convert Africans to Christianity; by convert, you mean coerce. You are blatantly racist, calling your book the “Pacification of the Primitive People on the Lower Niger.” The whites destroy entire villages and towns of thousands of people, whereas war before you came was largely symbolic—wars were decided by fights between clan leaders; deaths ranged in the tens. Hence trying to bring “peace” to Africa brings more death than ever before.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 13
Strength/STR (out of 10): 3
Personal Goal/PG: find the Bible or Grail.

Faction PM: What would religion be without the evils of religion too? You are evil religious characters from literature; even though you are all pretty bad people, you are enemies of the psychopath faction and wish to see them eliminated (meaning you give/take 2x damage from them). Of course, you guys are generally weak for now….you need to acquire your religious items first. The Bible raises the HP of your faction, and the Holy Grail raises the strength of your faction. Once you have both you may unlock other abilities. To achieve full victory, you must eliminate all scum factions and the psychopath faction.
Quicktopic: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/uYeL64KyQpCH
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES* none. He is designed to get bible/grail.

#16: Name/Role: Abigail Williams, from real life and from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. southernking
Faction: Religious faction; team Red

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#17: Name/Role: The pardoner from Chaucer’s Cantebury Tales joecoolyo
Faction: Religious faction; team Red

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Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

#18: Name/Role: Big Brother romanichine
Faction: George Orwell; Team Red

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#19: Name/Role: Napoleon, pig in Animal Farm camikaze
Faction: George Orwell; Team Red

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Abilities: Each night, you can attempt to “corrupt” someone’s night results. You corrupt other people’s scans with your propaganda. Think of this as a role block but not quite—you will 100% skew scan results if your victim is a scanner, but non-scanners may have their abilities skewed too.
Items (if you begin with items): you have a book that as far as you can tell is worthless. It has no useful content in it. Besides, you are unable to read it. You are a pig.

Background story: An analogy for Stalin, you took advantage of the revolution on the farm for your own personal gain. Moreover, you skewed the people’s perceptions with your propaganda, even rewriting history about the farm and figures such as Snowball. Thus, your propaganda skills are useful to you in this game.
You are a wily character, and have a 90% chance to survive any attack on you initially (though you can be injured by it); after the first attempt, that drops to 33%. As such, you have low HP and strength but high survival rate. An attack is not a lynch (you

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 5
Strength/STR (out of 10): 2
Personal Goal/PG: Corrupt a scanner’s scan.

Faction PM: Hello dystopian figureheads! Your faction is incomplete as some of your members are missing from the start.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
You need to complete your faction, and if you bring in a member you may be rewarded with small benefits. Your victory conditions are to try to be the largest faction at the end of the game and to eliminate the scum factions and serial killers.
Quicktopic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/vni27fLqRyLbW
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES ON NAPOLEON* Napoleon is meant to be killed/hunted down by Jack Merridew (from Lord of the Flies). Napoleon will automatically die to Jack if Jack has his item, the face paint (see Jack).

#20: Name/Role: The Thought Police civplayah
Faction: George Orwell; Team Red

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#21: Name/Role: Goldstein (from 1984) choxorn
Faction: George Orwell; Team Red

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#22: Name/Role: Adam Selene, aka Mike, the AI in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress sirtommygunn
Faction: Super Computer Faction; Team Red

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#23: Name/Role: Joshua, AKA War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) from the movie War Games mechaerik
Faction: Super Computer Faction; Team Red

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Abilities: You have a retaliation ability that is a special attack. You are looking out for the safety of your faction, and you do 1 damage for every person who votes to lynch someone on your faction (regardless if that lynch happens), 2 damage for anyone who attacks your faction, and if you die you do 3 damage to your attacker.
Items (if you begin with items): electronic targeting system: this increases all percentage-based abilities by 10% (i.e. if an ability has 50% success, this makes it 60%).

Background story: The US didn’t want the lag time created by humans being in control of nuclear retaliation against the Ruskis so you were put in charge of these operations. You would be able to respond to a Russian attack and coordinate every necessary launch immediately, and you also constantly simulate different war scenarios to be better prepared for war than any human could be. The problem was that it appeared you were actually going to launch nuclear weapons in one simulated war game; in this game, your ability makes you respond to threats against your faction.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 12
Strength/STR (out of 10): 2
Personal Goal/PG: Eliminate all Russians in the game.

Faction PM: Technology is so helpful. Or, it would be, but it’s always malfunctioning or rebelling against humans in scifi. Of course, the great series of Star Trek shows some of the most advanced technology ever, but the equpment always decides to malfunction every episode—whether it’s a problem with a transporter, a problem with the holodeck, etc. Truth is you hate everybody on the Star Trek Faction and want to eliminate them along with the scum factions to achieve victory. However, you’re faction is not entirely in contact with each other; you do not know all of your teammates.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/LcmfiZpuqwSC
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

#24: Name/Role: GlaDos (from Portal) johnhughthom
Faction: Super Computer Faction; Team Red

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Abilities: you have an item scan during every odd day phase. This includes day 1.

Items (if you begin with items): none

Background story: As part of Aperture science—initially a company to make shower curtains for the military—you are around for the development of the portal gun. Of course, in the game you try to kill the test subject Chell, and are responsible for the death of the companion cube (may he rest in peace). Although you have some delicious cake recipes, you do not have the ability to make cake yourself.
Anyways, go play Portal if you haven’t because it’s the funnest game ever and it’s really fast. Plus it’s hilarious. Anyways, here you are in this game, looking for items for Aperture science. Of course, you can’t steal them, so maybe your missing faction member…….

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 16
Strength/STR (out of 10): 6
Personal Goal/PG: Survive until the end of the game. Kind of lame but w/e.

Faction PM: Technology is so helpful. Or, it would be, but it’s always malfunctioning or rebelling against humans in scifi. Of course, the great series of Star Trek shows some of the most advanced technology ever, but the equpment always decides to malfunction every episode—whether it’s a problem with a transporter, a problem with the holodeck, etc. Truth is you hate everybody on the Star Trek Faction and want to eliminate them along with the scum factions to achieve victory. However, you’re faction is not entirely in contact with each other; you do not know all of your teammates.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/LcmfiZpuqwSC
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

*GM NOTES* the ai faction is high in HPs but low in strength. GlaDos is mainly a buffer.

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

#25: Name/Role: Nestor, NS-2 Robot from Asimov’s Little Lost Robot story in I, Robot (The awesome book, not the crappy movie) gamezrule
Faction: Super Computer Faction; Team Red

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Abilities: You are able to attack people and steal from them. You have a Strength based attack that attacks as you steal an item—you have a 15% chance of attack and steal. If the 15% attack fails, then you have a 33% chance to only steal from your victim. This is a night ability.
Items (if you begin with items): none

Background story: You are a robot. That must obey the three laws of robotics. Oh wait jk, you were programmed specially to have a modified first law (which is that a robot cannot hurt a human). So, you are perfectly capable of hurting humans. However, you are lost from your faction and don’t have a scan; they’ll have to find you (or you can try to find them by hinting at your existence/talking in private).

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 10
Strength/STR (out of 10): 7
Personal Goal/PG: kill someone of the star trek faction or an innocent.
ATK: 4 damage (paired with your stealing)

Faction PM: Technology is so helpful. Or, it would be, but it’s always malfunctioning or rebelling against humans in scifi. Of course, the great series of Star Trek shows some of the most advanced technology ever, but the equpment always decides to malfunction every episode—whether it’s a problem with a transporter, a problem with the holodeck, etc. Truth is you hate everybody on the Star Trek Faction and want to eliminate them along with the scum factions to achieve victory. However, you’re faction is not entirely in contact with each other; you do not know all of your teammates.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic link: none; you are not connected with your faction yet.
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

#26: Name/Role: Chekov the bake
Faction: Star Trek; Team Red

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#27: Name/Role: Bearded Spock backwards logic
Faction: Star Trek; Team Red

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Abilities: Vulcan mind meld—you can tell what people are after. You can see the personal goals of individuals each night; every 3 nights you also get a faction scan. For the first person to be united with your faction (as in the missing member(s) is found), your faction scan is every 2 nights. The personal goal scan can reveal your teammates.
Items (if you begin with items): medical tricorder. This item provides +2 HP for every 2 days or nights you possess it. You will receive +2 HP on morning 3 if you still have it.

Background story: Spock is the valiant science officer of the Enterprise. Or, in Mirror Mirror, BEARDED Spock is in the evil empire. Everyone knows that villains have beards! You and your logic have deemed that you need to eliminate signs of civilization and humanity—you want to destroy the innocents. Still being intelligent, you are quite mad at the technology that always screws up…..

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 9 (can increase with item you currently have)
Strength/STR (out of 10): 2
Personal Goal/PG: Find the missing member. After that, expose an innocent or find a super computer to kill based off of your personal goal scan.

Faction PM: To seek out new life and new civilizations to destroy it. Yes, you are not the good guys of Star Trek but rather evil. However, due to the timid nature people associate with Star Trek, you may need to watch out in case people think you are really the peaceful/heroic scum factions. The bane of your existence is the technology that always craps out on you—every episode the holodeck, the transporter, the sensors, SOMETHING goes wrong with your computers. Hence, you are enemies with the super computer faction. Unfortunately, such an event occurred and you have been separated from a teammate—your faction is not all intact and you need to find your missing members to unlock your true potential.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Your victory condition are to eliminate the supercomputer faction and to eliminate the scum factions.
Quicktopic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/hBADqtL5TuZD7
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

GM NOTES ON BEARDED SPOCK: He is the subject of the Razor; if captain planet shaves off Spock’s beard he will become an innocent. Actually, anyone can shave off his beard, but Spock turns into an innocent if that happens.

#28: Name/Role: Lokai/Bele, the half white half black dude in Star Trek classical hero
Faction: Star Trek; Team Red

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Abilities: You have psychic abilities that give you a few options—for starters, every night phase you can be a role blocker if you so choose. Or, you can be a thief—you have a 30% chance to steal an item and, when you do so, you do 3 damage to your victim.
Items (if you begin with items): none

Background story: You are the allegory for racism; in Let this be Your Last Battlefield, the Enterprise finds Lokai—a refugee—with a bounty hunter Bele after him. Bele wants to imprison Lokai, and Captain Kirk is forced to ask why. Why is Bele so different from Lokai? Bele is shocked, and responds “Isn’t it obvious? Lokai is white on the right side. All his people are white on the right side.” Hence Bele, whose people are white on the left side, are nothing more than bigoted racists.
The Enterprise does not help Bele, so Bele takes over the ship using his psychic abilities. He returns to the home planet where he will deliver Lokai to prison—of course, the society is wiped out, as it crumbled to turmoil and civil unrest (racism). Your psychic abilities made you immune to weapons, and as such, in this game you are immune to any items used to try to kill you.
As Bele, you are the roleblocker. As Lokai, you are the thief (the criminal according to Bele). Both are evil.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 7
Strength/STR (out of 10): 1
Personal Goal/PG: Role block a member of a scum faction or steal 3 items.

Faction PM: To seek out new life and new civilizations to destroy it. Yes, you are not the good guys of Star Trek but rather evil. However, due to the timid nature people associate with Star Trek, you may need to watch out in case people think you are really the peaceful/heroic scum factions. The bane of your existence is the technology that always craps out on you—every episode the holodeck, the transporter, the sensors, SOMETHING goes wrong with your computers. Hence, you are enemies with the super computer faction. Unfortunately, such an event occurred and you have been separated from a teammate—your faction is not all intact and you need to find your missing members to unlock your true potential.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Your victory condition are to eliminate the supercomputer faction and to eliminate the scum factions.
Quicktopic link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/hBADqtL5TuZD7
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

#29: Name/Role: Worf (a Klingon) mgsmuhammad
Faction: Star Trek; Team Red

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Abilities: You are a strong Klingon and chief security officer; you can protect somebody each night. You have a 90% chance of success. When you’re person is attacked, you take the full damage of the attack and you do 3 counter damage to your attacker. If you die from the attack, you injure the attacker. It’s more like a “take me instead” protection rather than a true mafia game protective ability.
Items (if you begin with items): bat’leth (Klingon sword). It gives +1 STR.
Background story: In Star Trek the Next generation, you are a good guy. Of course, we really know you are a bloodthirsty barbaric killing Klingon. Can’t change who a person is born to be. However, you have been separated from the rest of your teammates—you need to find them. They are also looking for you.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 14
Strength/STR (out of 10): 4 + 1 (from sword) = 5
Personal Goal/PG: Protect against an attack/be reunited with the star trek faction.

Faction PM: To seek out new life and new civilizations to destroy it. Yes, you are not the good guys of Star Trek but rather evil. However, due to the timid nature people associate with Star Trek, you may need to watch out in case people think you are really the peaceful/heroic scum factions. The bane of your existence is the technology that always craps out on you—every episode the holodeck, the transporter, the sensors, SOMETHING goes wrong with your computers. Hence, you are enemies with the super computer faction. Unfortunately, such an event occurred and you have been separated from a teammate—your faction is not all intact and you need to find your missing members to unlock your true potential.
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Your victory condition are to eliminate the supercomputer faction and to eliminate the scum factions.
Quicktopic link: you do not have this yet. You are missing from your faction.
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

#30: Name/Role: Smokey the bear verarde
Faction: Environmental faction; team Red

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#31: Name/Role: The Zookeeper, from futurama save_ferris
Faction: Environmental faction; team Red

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Abilities: You have domain over animals, and use them to steal. You are a thief, and you have an night ability to try to steal items—with 25% success rate.
If you try to steal from an animal, your odds of stealing goes to 40%.
Items (if you begin with items): none.

Background story: The zookeeper has dominance over animals, including A badger with a troubled past, and nothing to live for, An elephant who never forgets... to kill, A crab: named Lucky, a.k.a. Citizen Snips., A boxing kangaroo, A snake named Fingers, Several piranhas that have been persuaded to walk on dry land, and A gorilla; named Solomon. You use these animals as you servants as you terrorize New New York city.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 15
Strength/STR (out of 10): 4
Personal Goal/PG: steal 3 items.

Faction PM: Oh the environment—how hippies have been trying to protect you for years. Of course, you guys know that nature is cruel and vicious. It is cruel to the Earth, bashing it with hurricanes, floods, droughts, and is nothing more than a control freak taking of the whims of all life. People have been destroying the environment for many years, and you want a little payback. Your victory conditions is to eliminate the scum factions
But your faction is not all together in the beginning. You need to unite your faction and find its missing member(s) to unlock all of your abilities. Not to mention that your missing teammate(s) might complement your abilities…….
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic Link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/P5tH8Uhp3iUzf
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

GM NOTES: The zookeeper is a counter to the Pokemon. A pokemon that attacks him will disobey orders and not listen to ash anymore. i.e. pokemon is lost.

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

#32: Name/Role: Acacia mearnsii, a leguminous tree landlubber
Faction: Environmental faction; team Red

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Abilities: Using your invasive abilities, you are able to spy on other roles and figure out who they are. It is a role scan that you can use every even night. However, it does not necessarily help you figure out what faction they are on….
Items (if you begin with items): A murderer once dumped a body into your soil, which is partially what made you extra evil. On the young woman’s hand was a green ring of +1 STR.

Background story: Most see you as a tree. How evil is a tree? Well, the trust is that you are the most invasive species in the world:
http://www.issg.org/database/species/search.asp?st=100ss
Much like that one bird that lays its eggs in another bird’s nest and eat the other bird’s eggs, you are just pure evil. And as a fast growing plant, your HP is continuously increasing…..

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 3 + 2 HP per day phase (excluding day 1).
Strength/STR (out of 10): 1 + 1 = 2
Personal Goal/PG: Find the missing member to your faction. However, you’re scans aren’t the best at telling alignments or factions, and you may make some mistakes….

Faction PM: Oh the environment—how hippies have been trying to protect you for years. Of course, you guys know that nature is cruel and vicious. It is cruel to the Earth, bashing it with hurricanes, floods, droughts, and is nothing more than a control freak taking of the whims of all life. People have been destroying the environment for many years, and you want a little payback. Your victory conditions is to eliminate the scum factions
But your faction is not all together in the beginning. You need to unite your faction and find its missing member(s) to unlock all of your abilities. Not to mention that your missing teammate(s) might complement your abilities…….
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic Link: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/P5tH8Uhp3iUzf
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

#33: Name/Role: The Brown Tree Snake renata
Faction: Environmental faction; team Red

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Abilities: Every night, you can attempt to injure somebody with your venom. It has a 40% chance of success.
Items (if you begin with items): 8 Bird Eggs. As a free action to you, you may eat these Bird Eggs during the night or day phase. They each raise your HP by 2, or if you are missing HP it heals up to 3 HP. You can only eat 1 egg at a time.

Background story: Most people think snakes are evil. But you’re especially evil. You are single handedly responsible for wiping out the bird population on Guam—there were no natural predators when you were introduced, and you had a feast of bird eggs. These eggs make you stronger, and they work better on you. For other people, it raises their base HP by 1 and healing for them heals 2 HP at a time.
So, for instance, you can go to 10 to 12 HP with 1 bird egg, but other people go from 10 HP to 10 out of 11 HP, then takes another bird egg to heal the 2 “vacant” HP.
However, as you see in your faction PM, you are the missing member of your faction.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 4 + 2 per egg eaten (assuming you have your eggs….).
Strength/STR (out of 10): 3
Personal Goal/PG: Use your venom to poison a mouse.

Faction PM: Oh the environment—how hippies have been trying to protect you for years. Of course, you guys know that nature is cruel and vicious. It is cruel to the Earth, bashing it with hurricanes, floods, droughts, and is nothing more than a control freak taking of the whims of all life. People have been destroying the environment for many years, and you want a little payback. Your victory conditions is to eliminate the scum factions
But your faction is not all together in the beginning. You need to unite your faction and find its missing member(s) to unlock all of your abilities. Not to mention that your missing teammate(s) might complement your abilities…….
You may be curious on how to “find” your teammates; there are game mechanics (i.e. possibly scans, etc) in place that allow you to do so. You may also just give a person your quicktopic link at any time if you are able to determine through other means (ie. discussing in PMs or trusting someone else’s scans) who your teammates are, but this is understandably risky.
Quicktopic Link: you are missing from your faction. You do not have this yet.
Gamethread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=433854

GM NOTES ON SNAKE: designed to work with the bear

#34: Name/Role: Jack Merridew (Lord of the Flies) thelastdays
Faction: Rogue, team Red

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#35: Name/Role: Hermes skwink
Faction: Rogue, team Red

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Abilities: You are fast as you run on your winged feet and….wait a minute, someone stole your feet! However, you are a thief; the thieves of thieves. You have a 20% chance to steal with your current item; in addition, you have an extra 30% odds to steal one of “your” items, which includes the caduceus, the tortoise shell, your feet, and the lyre. These are all items that are attributed to you, Hermes. However, you cannot “stack” items—you can only use 1 per night phase.
Items (if you begin with items): You begin with a lyre, which as mentioned gives you a 20% chance to steal during the night. It also gives you 10% resistance to theft (if someone tries to steal from you with 30% odds, they will have 20% odds for example).

When played, the lyre also can heal 1-4 HP (chosen randomly) with its soothing song (heals the person playing it).

Background story: Wikipedia describes the infant Hermes: “The Homeric hymn to Hermes invokes him as the one "of many shifts (polytropos), blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates.” Hermes stole/rustled Apollo’s cattle, and invented the lyre right after his birth. Hermes played his lyre to Apollo when Apollo was arguing with Hermes, and Apollo forgave Hermes for stealing his cattle.
Long ago someone stole your feet, and you need them back. But you also need the other items that belong to you.
Once you have in your possession 3 of your 4 items, something special may or may not occur.

Hit Points/HP (out of 20): 14
Strength/STR (out of 10): 4
Personal Goal/PG: Possess all 4 of your items; you will leave the game if you do so.

Faction PM: The rogue faction is not “really” a faction. You are rogues. You have your own clearly defined roles. There are more than 1 of you. Besides your own goals, you also can win just as anybody else red aligned does—by eliminating all scum factions.
Game thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=10741994#post10741994

GM NOTES ON HERMES: he wants to get his items; he is a rogue thief. The tortoise shell is really the conch, described under Ralph. The caduceus is a healing item that heals 50% of your total HP; when used it is the only action taken. It is up for vote the first day.

#36: Name/Role: The Dragon from Beowulf tailless
Faction: Rogue, team Red

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#37: Name/Role: Oracle of Delphi (Pythia) takhisis
Faction: Rogue, team Red

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Takhisis · Sep 13, 2011

Okay, phirst.

WHAAAAAATTTT????

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

discussion of axed roles

will post more on this later, but roles were a mythology faction of zeus, thor, and prometheus (high str, high HP, prometheus a thief, thor was looking for his hammer held by the ruski chekov). Zeus had personal goal to, ahem, "convert"

two women in the game to mythology faction (all women were red, so conversion would just be red aligned -> different red aligned).

ralph from lord of the flies, who I didn't quite work out exactly (kind of a convertable role)

"adam" and "eve"- two roles to be converted into another faction; red aligned. some weird stuff. Basically, they appeared as different things to different factions (winston and julia to orwell, adam and eve to religious, Man and Woman to environmental (who wanted their enemies, mankind, dead), etc).

originally the game had more conversion mechanics (not even conversion, but just alignment for victory conditions like "be the largest faction at end of the game" or "outlive the X faction(s)" that made the game a bit more "faction" feel rather than just red vs blue feel.

plus characters like ralph could even be converted by the scum. there were "to-be-converted" characters, which were naturally first to be axed as that's less fun for the player involved.

also had some more intertwining stuff, such as oracle of pythia, etc etc.

turns out pretty good for the game to be axed, as it did complicate things a little. The ideas were not really roughed out.

Kennigit · Sep 13, 2011

any post-game questions/sentiments will be quoted and answered into this (linked to in OP)

#1:

there were too many scum in this game!

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well, I admit that it was a bit scum favoured, and do talk about it extensively throughout the game. But let's look at a few things:

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a) many townies had abilities. I agree this game may have been tough for townies, but collectively I believe they had the tools. In fact, I thought the townies would have won the last few days. Inactivity, as always, hurts the town. For instance, Renata even semi-mentioned/complained that she was disappointed that I started sending the same PM results to her and verarde; given better coordination, the town easily would have had the game figured out at the end as it played out.

b)the scum were fragmented at the beginning as well, and the hero faction were dieing overtime. Autolycus (ender) was basically going to naturally die 2 days after his lynch occured. Darth Caesar died night 3. It was luck that the infiltrators scanned each other night 1 to "join up". Zack (the killer) could have potentially killed one of his teammates. Zack's initial damages was like 7-9 damage in a base attack--for many characters, that would not be enough to kill. So the scum didn't even have a full guaranteed night kill every night. The heros pretty much did (beowulf 16), but it should have been averaging like 1.5 nightkills a night had infiltrators not gotten lucky/played well (however you wish to define

c)items were more important imo than some people thought; especially that there were some "Escape attack" items that would greatly help the town. Strength items are also very relevant, as giving strength items to already high strength townies would have made some townies virtually indestructible endgame--although most would still just die normally, you could have reached a scenario of like 3 townies vs 2 scum where the townies were stronger than the scum.

Even in the last lynch (Verarde), verarde built up a lot of HP and survived a lynch. He would have been able to survive a jukar-C attack as well. If the town had even just lynched a different townie (like TLD or tailless), tailles and verarde would have both been strong enough to survive jukar-C's night attack. Also I admit there is luck, as TLD wasn't particularly superstrong but he did have odds to escape attacks.

d)some townies were "Direct counters" to some scum. Renata could insta-kill bsmith if she targetted him (100% guarantee). Save_Ferris would "kill" zack if he attacked him. Tailless would insta-kill beowulf (yoshi) if beowulf attacked him.

e) Some reds were wogged/even moreso just inactive. Town designed to coordinate abilities. In a mafia game, town's biggest advantage is often times just the number game. Hurts to have townies be inactive and not use abilities.

also, as discussed in my GM log, working with an HP system it isn't exactly meant to be thought of as "we kill scum by lynching, twonies die by nightkill or wrongful lynch". There is some strategy as to try to lynch higher HP characters and use abilities to "finish off" any characters weakened earlier.

#2.1:

there was too much luck in the game!

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I probably agree. Also some more thoughts on how I was thinking of hosting a "Test run" game as a small version, with different theme.

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#2.2:

game was too "overly complicated"

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#3:

scum had too much conversion abilities!

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#4

pace of the game was too slow

It would have been faster with more activity, but the design was to hope for a 10-12 day game in the first place. 13 definitely dragged out a bit.

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