Nightfang Mafia (Game Concluded)

[Takhisis]

It was a lot of fun.

Meow.

 

[topsecret]

Thanks for the game, Arakhor. I had fun commuting all the time.

Who wants to run a new game...?

 

[Takhisis]

I had not expected this result.

Sorry Johanna, I redirected you onto me last night.

The solution to the puzzle was to redirect me, the only known killer, onto yourself and hope that JohannaK (who had said he couldn't protect himself) would catch on and protect you; or else make me target topsecret and hope his ability would kick in.

Of course, I had better information and it wasn't so obvious.

I shall remind you, Takhisis, that I really was doing homework that time.

Of course you were, but as a Serial Killer I wasn't going to let truth or sanity stand in the way of victory.

Incidentally, I really wanted to save Double A once I realised that a) he was being honest about being a vigilante and b) there had to be other killers out there. Luckily we had killed the cult recruiter straightaway and AvatarKhepri managed to always target the same person I did. Well, actually, the same person I killed, which isn't entirely the same.

 

[topsecret]

Of course you were, but as a Serial Killer I wasn't going to let truth or sanity stand in the way of victory.

Fair point, but I made 100 on those assignments so it was worth the trouble I had to put up with here.

 

[Rakkoon]

Love all the different roles, well played Tak.

 

[choxorn]

I had a total crap game, I had no time at all to do more than a cursory glance at the thread once or twice a day, and it showed. I probably shouldn't have signed up in the first place, but I didn't properly anticipate how heavy my schedule was.

 

[AvatarKhepri]

Even though he was a...okay, I'm really looking forward to hearing what he has to say after the game's over, whatever else happens.

This game started out with me very excited about my power and the potential manipulation, but the longer it went on, the more I realized just how ****** I was as a wolf. I started this game as an un-networked wolf with no kill power, otherwise known as "a villager with neither allies nor alibi". When my power failed every single night I used it (well, failed to have any meaningful long-term result, but same difference), it meant I was effectively playing a vanillager, with the sole difference being that when I got lynched, I wouldn't even get the satisfaction that the people who thought I was scum were wrong. Because, very technically, and only technically, they weren't wrong, I was technically scum even though I spent the whole game doing my best to track down the wolves and (near the end) tried like mad to try to find a way to throw my own wolf game under the bus for the sake of my house.

Maybe somebody else could've done really well with my role; maybe I could've done really well with my role if I'd gotten less unlucky with my targets. But that didn't happen, and my game gradually went from conceptually interesting to just kinda disappointing as a result of how everything played out. Not the kinda thing you could really plan for, either.

EDIT: So when I told topsecret "beroli wasn't wrong for thinking I'm a villager based on how I'm playing", that's because I was essentially (and, after I realized this, deliberately) playing as a vanillager.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, thank you for your comments, everyone. Choxorn's recruiting power went nowhere, Khepri's anti-voting power was totally defanged by his terrible luck (and then getting voted against unanimously) and the Telvanni were all but wiped out by Day Two, especially as I allowed the Day One lynch to go ahead on only two votes + Pzelda's power, but we still had an exciting conclusion, despite all that.

If I had awards to give out, I'd give them to Takhisis for managing to manipulate a win, even against the odds, to AvatarKhepri as a commiseration for his appalling luck, to Yakostovian for saying pretty early on that Takhisis and AK were the ones to watch (otherwise known as "the Cassandra award") and to JohannaK for his slowly dawning horror at the top of p17 that he'd been supporting the wrong chap all along.

 

[pzelda]

This was a multiball! Could this game even end sooner, btw.
Thanks for hosting, Arakhor.
I sucked, I always suck when the setup is some mindfog. In this case wolves weren't a pack and could hunt each other. That's something I would not expect ever.

 

[Takhisis]

Fair point, but I made 100 on those assignments so it was worth the trouble I had to put up with here.

Love all the different roles, well played Tak.

Thanks.

I had a total crap game, I had no time at all to do more than a cursory glance at the thread once or twice a day, and it showed. I probably shouldn't have signed up in the first place, but I didn't properly anticipate how heavy my schedule was.

Hindsight is 20/20, man. Don't worry too much.

This game started out with me very excited about my power and the potential manipulation, but the longer it went on, the more I realized just how ****** I was as a wolf. I started this game as an un-networked wolf with no kill power, otherwise known as "a villager with neither allies nor alibi". When my power failed every single night I used it (well, failed to have any meaningful long-term result, but same difference), it meant I was effectively playing a vanillager, with the sole difference being that when I got lynched, I wouldn't even get the satisfaction that the people who thought I was scum were wrong. Because, very technically, and only technically, they weren't wrong, I was technically scum even though I spent the whole game doing my best to track down the wolves and (near the end) tried like mad to try to find a way to throw my own wolf game under the bus for the sake of my house.

Maybe somebody else could've done really well with my role; maybe I could've done really well with my role if I'd gotten less unlucky with my targets. But that didn't happen, and my game gradually went from conceptually interesting to just kinda disappointing as a result of how everything played out. Not the kinda thing you could really plan for, either.

EDIT: So when I told topsecret "beroli wasn't wrong for thinking I'm a villager based on how I'm playing", that's because I was essentially (and, after I realized this, deliberately) playing as a vanillager.

I was quite in the fog as well - I didn't know I could win with the other vampires (Arakhor explicitly called me a Serial Killer in a PM) so I was actually doing my best to eliminate all other non-town roles.
I do think my character was more powerful than yours in this game, though.

 

[Arakhor]

If the endgame had considered entirely of vampires, then it's possible that you may have got a tie that way, but otherwise it was intended that only one faction could win.

I had thought that Khepri's power would be a lot easier to explain (and hide) than a kill power, but that's not how it occurred in game.

 

[Yakostovian]

Because I think I forgot, thanks for hosting Arakhor! I had fun. 'Twas a good game.

 

[Arakhor]

You're very welcome.

 

[topsecret]

Because I think I forgot, thanks for hosting Arakhor! I had fun. 'Twas a good game.

I echo the above.

I can't host with school... anyone else up for it?

 

[Takhisis]

Because I think I forgot, thanks for hosting Arakhor! I had fun. 'Twas a good game.

+1

 

[Rakkoon]

+2

 

[AvatarKhepri]

I echo the above.

I can't host with school... anyone else up for it?

I've an odd idea for a game, but I'll be fine-tuning it for a bit. Basic concept is players are opposing nations trying to undermine each other. The setup should hopefully allow for a longer game, with what I'm imagining, but that's partially because the more I think about it, the less it really resembles WW/Mafia...

 

[JohannaK]

Cool concept. Check out the Imperium Offtopicum subforum if you are interested in geopolitical roleplaying games.

 

[Takhisis]

I'd play it.

 

[pzelda]

I have a simple idea for a game, but I don't want to host. I'm almost always here to play, tho!