MNOTW XV: The Academy Game Thread

[Autolycus]

Scum Role PMs
Enchantment Adept

Spoiler :

Player: Mergle
Role: Enchantment Adept
Brains:5
Brawn: 5
VC: Perfect Symmetry (explained below)
Abilities:Each day and night combination, you may do one of the following: stop the lynch of another, protect another, or role block another. Additionally, you are automatically immune to all magic abilities. The lynch stop is not obvious as you. If you "die", your VC will not be revealed, and you will simply vanish.
VC Details: You win if at any time there are exactly three different VCs remaining, each with the same number of players left in them. This VC is mutually exclusive with all other VCs. Bonus points if you are one of the VCs remaining.
Backstory: You are the Momus, also known as Perpentach, the nigh-invincible, totally insane king of the Balseraphs. On hearing of this conclave of knowledge planned by the other rulers, you thought it would be amusing to disguise yourself and attend. Given the recent events, you have come up with a something that would be even more amusing. Wouldn't it be just beautiful if the events here ended in perfect triune Symmetry!! Then you could just freeze it and put it on your wall!
QT: Mind of the Momus
Please feel free to message me or post in this QT with questions or thoughts. You are the only member of your team and the only person with this QT besides me.

Unusual solo scum. Very powerful, but with complicated VC. Died early on due to KaiserElectric's kill, but still had a decent shot at winning.

Nature Adept:

Spoiler :

Player:KaiserElectric
Role: Nature Adept
Brains:1
Brawn: 4
VC: Clan! Traditional Scum
Abilities:Ax in the Face! Each night, you may choose someone to go after with your ax and kill them! This is a might ability, but it is not based on your brawn.
Backstory: The so-called civilized nations thought this was their idea, but it was actually the brilliant plan of your leader, Autolycus. He proposed this idea to concentrate all the knowledge that could possibly impede the rise of the Clan in one place, so the three of you could destroy and burn it all! He made himself headmaster, and managed to disguise you as a Nature Adept, despite your only real talent being your ax. Your colleague, Buddhafish is of course the Fire Adept. Everything was going to plan until Autolycus was killed and exposed as an orc! Now you face an unknown threat, and you're already down a man.
Teammates:Buddhafish
QT: Everything's going to Burn!
Please feel free to PM me or post in the QT with any questions.

Primary Clan Killer, got tracked to mat93 by Zack.

Fire Adept

Spoiler :

Player:KaiserElectric
Role: Fire Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 3
VC: Clan! Traditional Scum
Abilities:Warming Fire: Night ability 2 uses. Returns target other to original brawn. (Magic)
Scorching Fire: Night ability 2 uses. Does 2 brawn damage to target (Magic)
Hack and Slash: Night ability, inactive. If partner dies, you can start trying to kill people using your brawn to fight them. (Might)
Backstory: The so-called civilized nations thought this was their idea, but it was actually the brilliant plan of your leader, Autolycus. He proposed this idea to concentrate all the knowledge that could possibly impede the rise of the Clan in one place, so the three of you could destroy and burn it all! He made himself headmaster, you moved in as a fire adept with your lackey KaiserElectric disguised as a Nature Adept. Everything was going to plan until Autolycus was killed and exposed as an orc! Now you face an unknown threat, and you're already down a man.
Teammates:KaiserElectric
QT: Everything's going to Burn!
Please feel free to PM me or post in the QT with any questions.

Other member of clan team. Only scum with decent cover abilities. Ironically never used them until the last two kills, when he used scorching to soften up his targets, who were already weaker than him.

Sun Adept

Spoiler :

Player: JoanK
Role: Sun Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 2
VC: Dark Alliance Traditional Scum, bonus points if you are last one standing, you lose to other Scum team in case of tie.
Abilities: Bite. Every night, you can attack someone and bite them and drain them, reducing their brains and brawn by one. Every 2 times you do this, you can increase your brains or brawn by one.
Backstory: You are actually a vampire of the Calabim, ironically disguised as a Sun Adept. When this gathering was planned, you all but laughed. Those foolish naive goodie-goodies! Why would you leave behind your loyalty to your country! Instead, you would crush them all and seize the knowledge gathered here. To this end, you allied with a Svartalafar ( Verarde) and a Sheaim (Takhisis). Of course, it would be best if they met an untimely end as well. When Takhisis discovered that the headmaster Autolycus was actually an orc, things went off track. Verarde summoned a mist monster that took down Autolycus, but if the orcs are behind this, they surely sent backups, and they'll be expecting you now.
Team Ability: Heart-stopper. Every night, one of you, in lieu of your other abilities, can attempt to kill someone via magic, this ability is not a function of your Brains (Magic)
Team-mates:Verarde, Topsecret
QT: Evil League of Evil
Feel free to PM me or post in QT with any questions

largest scum team, but lost in one on one to clan. choxorn replaced in, did an admirable job, might have made it if I'd set an end of day the day he got lynched. Sorry choxorn.

Metamagic Adept

Spoiler :

Player: Verarde
Role: Metamagic Adept
Brains:3
Brawn: 3
VC: Dark Alliance Traditional Scum, bonus points if you are last one standing, you lose to other Scum team in case of tie.
Abilities: Illusion: Each night, you can choose someone (Person A) to make appear as someone else(Person B). All other abilities targeting A fail, all abilities targeting B hit A, and the following day, the two people split Person B's voting power and a vote for one is a vote for both.(Magic)
Backstory: You are actually an Illusionist of the Svartalafar dark elves. When this gathering was planned, you all but laughed. Those foolish naive goodie-goodies! Why would you leave behind your loyalty to your country! Instead, you would crush them all and seize the knowledge gathered here. To this end, you allied with a Calabim (JoanK) and a Sheaim (Takhisis). Of course, it would be best if they met an untimely end as well. When Takhisis discovered that the headmaster Autolycus was actually an orc, things went off track. You summoned a mist monster that took down Autolycus, but if the orcs are behind this, they surely sent backups, and they'll be expecting you now.
Team Ability: Heart-stopper. Every night, one of you, in lieu of your other abilities, can attempt to kill someone via magic, this ability is not a function of your Brains (Magic)
Team-mates:JoanK, Topsecret
QT: Evil League of Evil
Feel free to PM me or post in QT with any questions

One of my favorite roles with many possible uses for his ability. Sadly, died early.

Water Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: TopSecret
Role: Water Adept
Brains:4
Brawn: 1
VC: Dark Alliance Traditional Scum, bonus points if you are last one standing, you lose to other Scum team in case of tie.
Abilities: Meteor Shower: Each night, you can choose someone to cast a small internal meteor shower around. It will do 1 damage to everyone else who targets them (Magic)
Backstory: You are actually a warlock of the Sheaim. When this gathering was planned, you all but laughed. Those foolish naive goodie-goodies! Why would you leave behind your loyalty to the Apocalypse! Instead, you would crush them all and seize the knowledge gathered here. To this end, you allied with a Svartalafar ( Verarde) and a Calabim(JoanK). Of course, it would be best if they met an untimely end as well. When you discovered that the headmaster Autolycus was actually an orc, things went off track. Verarde summoned a mist monster that took down Autolycus, but if the orcs are behind this, they surely sent backups, and they'll be expecting you now.
Team Ability: Heart-stopper. Every night, one of you, in lieu of your other abilities, can attempt to kill someone via magic, this ability is not a function of your Brains (Magic)
Team-mates:Verarde, JoanK
QT: Evil League of Evil
Feel free to PM me or post in QT with any questions

The final member of the Dark Alliance. Also died early

Next post: Innocents

 

[Takhisis]

Crap.

 

[Autolycus]

Law Adept/Assistant Headmaster:

Spoiler :

Player: Capt Blackadder
Role: Assistant Headmaster
Brains:2
Brawn: 2
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Suspend: Every night, you can choose someone to Suspend, removing their vote for the following day.
Backstory: You are not only the Assistant Headmaster, but also a powerful Law Adept. With the Headmaster's recent demise, you are now in charge, and you will wield the powers at your disposal to the utmost to preserve order, even in these trying times!

Vote Blocker. Since it had to be in advance, never proved decisive.

Chaos Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: MartinLuther
Role: Chaos Adept
Brains:3
Brawn: 2
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Blur: Every night, you may choose someone to make immune to might actions that night [Magic]
Backstory: You are the lord of Chaos, and in this chaos, you will stand out. And maybe save a life or two.

Might Protector.

Mind Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Dreadnought
Role: Mind Adept
Brains:3
Brawn: 2
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Mental Debate: Each night, you can target someone else and with your magic, engage their mind in struggle. If you are stronger or equal, your mind will get stronger (Brain +1), if you are weaker, you will get weaker (Brains -1)
Backstory: You are a Mind Adept. It shames you you didn't know the truth about the Headmaster, and that you can't sense who is still a threat to this conclave. Well, you'll show them all that your the brainiest one ever!

Only Brains Scanner in the game. Unknown to him, his target went through the same effect. Never used.

Luonnatar

Spoiler :

Player: Ninjacow64
Role: Luonnatar
Brains:2
Brawn: 3
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Tussle: Each night, you can choose someone to wrestle with. If you are equal or stronger, you will get stronger (Brawn +1), if you are weaker, you will get weaker (Brawn-1). You can't wrestle the same person again with effect until their Brawn has changed due to an external source (Might)
Backstory: You are one of the few non-mages at this meeting. Well, the power of the One True God (and your muscles) will show them all up!

The Brawn counterpart to the mind adept. Died early, but could have been useful for catching scum, since only KaiserElectric, Mergle, and the Earth Adept were stronger.

Body Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Visorslash
Role: Body Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 2
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Strength of an Ox: Each night, you can choose someone else to endow with additional strength, rendering them immune to all attacks for the following day and night (Magic)
Backstory: You are the mighty Body Adept! Your sculpted form is an inspiration to us all! And maybe a little of that endowment will rub off on us!

Advance Protector. Protected for the following day and night, including lynch immunity. Also halted effects of entropy.

Shadow Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Zack
Role: Shadow Adept
Brains:3
Brawn: 2
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Stalk: Every night, you can choose someone to follow, seeing whom they target (Might)
Backstory: You are a Shadow adept, oft looked on with suspicion by others, but your skills may prove critical in discovering what lurks in the shadows in the days to come.

Tracker. Survived remarkably long.

Earth Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: EliteofWarman8
Role: Earth Adept
Brains:1
Brawn: 4
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Stone Skin: Each night, you can choose someone else to endow with Stone Skin, increasing their brawn by 1 for the following 2 nights
Backstory: You are the Earth Adept, strong as a rock, and not much smarter! Or so they say behind your back. Well, you'll show them! A little dwarvish ingenuity may yet save all their necks!

Died early. One of the things that stopped entropy.


Secretary:

Spoiler :

Player: Turquoiside
Role: Secretary
Brains:2
Brawn: 1
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Forgery: Every day, via PM to me, you can change someone's vote.
Backstory: They all think you're just a worthless secretary, but soon they may discover that the Pen is mightier, than the sword, er... fireball... err scroll?

Vote swapper. Very active, changed the lynch several times, but scumdar failed at the end.

Death Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Earthling
Role: Death Adept
Brains:4
Brawn: 1
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Necromancy: Twice, during the night you may call up one of the dead's spirit and discover their ability.
Backstory: You are the powerful Death Adept! As the death toll rises, it may be that only the dead can solve the problems of the living.

Never used ability.

Entropy Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Kennigit
Role: Entropy Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 3
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Decay: Twice at night, you can choose someone to target with decay. Every night thereafter, they will lose one Brawn until something causes them to recover or they die (Magic)
Backstory: You are the Entropy Adept. As all seems to fall apart around you, you may have your chance to shine, or rust, or ... something.

Great scumdar, using both shots on scum. Sadly, Mergle was immune, and Kaiser was lynched the next day.

Air Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Bsmith1068
Role: Air Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 3
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Guard: Every night you can choose someone to stand guard over. You will keep them safe in their bed, from all physical harm [Might Block/protect], (might ability)
Backstory: You may be an Air Adept now, but it is your previous military experience that may save the day this time. Go Army!

Classic Jailer, didn't block or protect against magic actions. Was blocked by Mergle the one time his action mattered.

Spirit Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: azzaman333
Role: Spirit Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 1
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Drain Energy: Each night, you can drain someone's energy, making them lack the will to do anything (roleblock) (Magic)
Backstory: People think being a Spirit Adept is about helping people. What they don't understand is that hurting people can be much more fun and just as effective!

Blocker.

Ice Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: mat93
Role: Ice Adept
Brains:2
Brawn: 3
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Slippery: You are immune to all scan-like abilities.
Backstory: You are the Ice adept. Despite some unfortunate insinuations about your past among the Illians, you're actually just a nice simple man who likes to skate!

Scan Immune Vanilla. A slight red herring, though his ability didn't factor in.

Life Adept:

Spoiler :

Player: Optical
Role: Life Adept
Brains:1
Brawn: 1
VC: Hold Fast!
Abilities: Invigorate: Each night, you can choose someone else to endow with the power of life, rendering them immune to all magical abilities (Magic)
Backstory: It's the Circle of Life! Or perhaps it's Hakunah Matata! Anyway, don't worry, be happy, and live life to the fullest!

Magic protector, but also rendered immune from magic buffs. Could halt Entropy. First to die.

Joke Role PM for the Reservist:

Spoiler :

Player: Takhisis
Role: Reservist
Brains:?
Brawn:?
VC:?
Abilities:Who knows?
Backstory: Who cares!

I originally was concerned that the Clan was underpowered, but obviously that isn't how it played out. Thank you all for playing, sorry about the delays, I appreciate any and all feedback.

 

[Buddhafish]

I loved the game. Thanks Auto!

I really considered asking for a replacement in the first couple of days because I thought it was too for me. I really just tried to lurk and stay out of the line of fire. Kaiser did all of the kills, and I waited until the final two days to use my abilities.

The charring on Zack was in fact my Scorching Fire ability. I can't be sure, but I think that everyone bought that it was my healing ability, which I used on myself on the final night.

I really wasn't expecting a second scum team, and I certainly wasn't expecting there to be 3 on that one. Nice twist.


I think I played the last day right in terms of non-scumminess. Looking back, I should've cited Turq's reasons and voted azzaman, but it didn't matter since it was Lylo.

Again, thanks for the game Auto! I think that this is my first win as a scum player. Here's one for firsts!

 

[choxorn]

I would have gotten around to killing Zack eventually, I just kept expecting the clan to do it and was more concerned about people like azzaman and Turquoiside. Neither of whom I actually killed, because I had so many people to kill I was probably eventually going to get screwed anyway. The day going on too long certainly helped, though.

Nice job to Buddhafish, you were never even on my radar. I kept thinking that Zack, Takhisis, or Turquoiside was just doing a really good job of hiding.

 

[NinjaCow64]

So it was YOU who blocked me azzaman!

 

[Kennigit]

Quite a fun game; kind of silly of me to not just assume mergle was a scum. His quicktopic is hilarious (just started reading it).

good work by buddhafish. Will look closely at some of the brain/brawn stuff, but good design. I thought the town could have pulled it out, was hoping for a mass reveal.

 

[azzaman333]

So it was YOU who blocked me azzaman!

 

[Optical]

Day 1 death woot!

Congratulations Clan, well played.

 

[Takhisis]

I would have gotten around to killing Zack eventually, I just kept expecting the clan to do it and was more concerned about people like azzaman and Turquoiside. Neither of whom I actually killed, because I had so many people to kill I was probably eventually going to get screwed anyway. The day going on too long certainly helped, though.

Nice job to Buddhafish, you were never even on my radar. I kept thinking that Zack, Takhisis, or Turquoiside was just doing a really good job of hiding.

Hiding? Zack just fixed on me and started prodding me. I've been proclaimed one of the scummiest townies ever by Backwards Logic, what else do you want as a guideline?

 

[traius]

Man, the last body was charred and none of you suspected the fire adept. Interesting...
Maybe you guys didn't, out of some WIFOM (but the host would think it too obvious that the fire adept would burn people, therefore it could never be the fire adept!)

 

[Buddhafish]

Well they might have caught on if I denied it. But I explained that I performed an action on the guy who died. People don't expect a scum player to admit that. So with the explanation, I gave the rest of the living players a good alibi.

Though I am surprised that nobody picked up on that.

 

[choxorn]

Hiding? Zack just fixed on me and started prodding me. I've been proclaimed one of the scummiest townies ever by Backwards Logic, what else do you want as a guideline?

Exactly. You and Zack act so consistently scummy that I often don't expect you to actually be mafia when you're acting scummy.

 

[Takhisis]

There was no mafia this game, chox.

 

[Mergle]

I had fun, thanks Autolycus! It was a super role - I especially liked having a QT despite being the only person on my team! I just wish I'd managed to cause more chaos!

 

[Takhisis]

More?

 

[choxorn]

There was no mafia this game, chox.

 

[Takhisis]

Nevaaaahhhh!

 

[KaiserElectric]

Day 1 death woot!

Congratulations Clan, well played.

Thank you.