NOTW XXXV: Life's A Bore (Game Thread)

[Autolycus]

Day is over. Write-up to follow. PMs at night are allowed, as long as they are only to people who are in the same living/shade class.

 

[Autolycus]

Evening Day 12​

The sun sank low in the sky, the few remaining sitting in silence. As the last glimmers of light began to fade, the Shades gathered in close. Suddenly, Frozen in Ice jumped up and hurled his spear, right into the stomach of Kennigit. Kennigit grunted and pulled out a sword, which glowed with a sickly orange light and charged Frozen in Ice. Landlubber, however was still seated and was just standing up when he tripped and fell into the path of Kennigit. Kennigit knocked into the actor and fell forward, the spear snapping as it hit the ground. Ravus_Sol ran over and stabbed his cutlass into Kennigit's back. Kennigit tried to stand up, but, the cutlass had penetrated a vertebra, and he couldn't. Finally, he died.
Gingerly, Frozen in Ice walked over to the corpse and picked up the sword, flipping the corpse over with his toe. The sword had begun to lose its glow, but it was still easily recognizable as the famed Nether Blade. There could be no question:

Spoiler :

Kennigit was Rathus Denmora and a Serial Killer!

The remaining members of the town of Sinon were shocked that their great hero had gone bad. Could there be any hope for the town, if Rathus Denmora had turned against them? Regardless, there was an invasion coming, and there was no time left to root out any more threats. The defenses had to be manned.

Two days Later​

The Illian and Hippus army marched down out of the pass. They hadn't heard from their agents, and were a little nervous. They came out of the woods and saw only three Sidar standing there.
Auric Ulvin stepped forward. "Is this the best the Sidar nation can put forward to defend itself? I will accept your surrender now."
One of the Sidar from the other side stepped forward and unsheathed a gleaming blade. "I am Rathus Denmora, and your people shall come no further into this country, for it is under my protection."
Auric Ulvin laughed, and replied "So be it. Charge!!!"
He was still laughing when the first of his men hit a mine.. His laugh began to fade, and was gone as his men continued to advance and continued to die. Auric ordered a halt and was about to order his men to make camp, when he heard the sound of a Sidar Marching Song echoing from the mountains behind him. His men broke and ran. Auric, with a small company of his men still in good order, hastily retreated through the pass.

landlubber broke down laughing as soon as Auric was gone, wiping the make-up off his face. "Frozen in Ice, I can't say I've ever played a more enjoyable role."
"Thank you, landlubber, but it couldn't have worked without Remake's singing."
There was a loud explosion, far out in the mountains.
"And that was probably Nictel, exploding the pass, and insuring we will never be bothered again."
And together, the three men returned to the town, with the shades not far behind.

Spoiler :

National Integrity Victory!

​

Remake was content as a shade. He had seen his land preserved from all the corrupting influences of foreigners.
landlubber soon moved on. It had been an exciting gig, and he'd saved lives with his acting, even if he never too a life.
Nictel soon left too, headed for the capital. His dream of becoming a blacksmith never would be. He had a successful career as a demolitions consultant, but the joys of hammer and anvil never would be his.
The jailer stayed, but was never really able to relax, with a bitter shaded judge always singing in his ear.

And Frozen in Ice, Ranger of Sidar? He stands guard to this day, spear in hand, guard over both the border and the cursed Nether Blade, which lies in a vault deep in the woods, waiting, waiting.

Role PMs will be posted later.
Let the discussion commence!​

 

[Takhisis]

Did Zack and Skooma ever figure out that it was my PG to see them eliminated?

 

[Earthling]

So it was Kennigit the whole time. Kinda figured it would be though after the way things went at the end (verifying there was a SK who was a shade. Good the Innocents figured it out)

I was extremely annoyed our entire faction got wiped out by a serial killer, and that it was a Shade at that, but guess that's the way it goes. Then again he further weakened his own hopes of victory by doing so though.

Did the Shades (serial killer) count for total strength? And Kennigit had 5 or something higher than that right? Or what was the Strength of all these Innocents otherwise. I would have thought most Innocents would be 1 if weaponless but it never added up (assuming Seon at 1, the other four must've had 9 total strength at least - maybe Zack had too much I guess)

Still a fun and exciting game and the Innocents deserve this victory (plus one of the few Innocent victories we've had in quite a while) so that's a plus. Anyway I'm sure everyone can read through our longish quicktopic eventually. A couple other questions I had I'm sure could wait till later/see explanations on things before jumping to conclusions now. Although I am curious how votes/tiebreakers were broken and some mechanics things - not just all about other folks' roles/decisions.

edit: I think I achieved my personal goal

 

[Autolycus]

Acolyte:Skooma Addict

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Role; Acolyte
Nationality: Bannor
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Religion: Order (Not everyone begins with this trait, so you may not want to broadcast it)
Ability: Proselytize Every other night, you can attempt to convert someone to your religion. If successful, you wlll have one more vote. More abilities are in the team role PM
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: Ritual of Death
Personal Goal: Be only Priest of a Religion left ( death of Ritualist and Luonnatar)
Background info: All your life, you have been a devout member of the Order of Junil You have come to Sinon to spread Junil's word. However, a more important problem as arisen. The Sidar's unnatural ability to become shades and almost never die threatens to undermine the vaults of all the Gods. They must be purged. You have devised a ritual to destroy the shades forever, and made contact with two locals who think as you do.

Good luck, please PM me with any questions you have. Your Team PM will come out soon, and will give more details.

The fact that Skooma converted people to his religion, not his team, was the source of much confusion and hilarity.

Actor:landlubber

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Role; Actor
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Acting Instead of using your own public or secret voice, you can use other people's voices if you so choose (See Info Thread for details on Secret Voice Mechanic)
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Get someone lynched on the day following your using their voice. It's the pinnacle of acting!
Background info: You got into town recently as part of a small traveling show, along with the Actress. With the recent death, it seems a bigger play has began, with the highest of stakes. What better challenge for your acting skills!

Actress:Zack

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Role; Actress
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Distraction. Every night, you can go out and "distract" them from whatever they intended to be doing, preventing them from accomplish anything. There are other abilities for your team that will be covered in your team PM.
Special Item: Make up (3 use) You can use this at night so that any scans made of you show up as though you were a specified other person. Send me a PM with who you want to be made up as.
Victory Condition: Ritual of Death
Personal Goal: Actor survives
Background info: You have travelled with the actor for many years, part of a traveling show. However, you have noticed in yourself, him, and the residents of the towns you pass through, an ongoing lack of urgency, due to the eternal possibilities in becoming a shade. For the good of your people, this must be changed! The new Order Acolyte shares your objectives and has developed a ritual to sever the shades from this world once and for all.

Alchemist: Romanichine

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Role; Alchemist
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Sickness. Through the addition of some... interesting ... herbs to people's morning tea, you can make them feel sick to their stomach. This takes away any day abilities they have, and prevents them from voting that day.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Become a Shade (get lynched once and only once.
Background info: You have been the alchemist and apothecary for this town for many years. You were just about ready to retire and become a Shade when the recent disaster struck. The council of Sinon called a hiatus on all individual fading until the crisis passes. You've waited too long all ready. So there's only one thing for it. Get the people to demand that you become a shade. Of course, if Sinon is destroyed, that won't do you much good.

Archer: J-man

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Player: J-Man
Role: Archer
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3
Ability: Shoot first. You can publicly kill someone each midday by sending me a PM, telling me who you want to kill.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Kill one of the Invaders
Background info: You were friends with the Border Guard Autolycus. Now he's dead. You've never shot someone before, but it looks like the time has come. War has come to your people, and your bow shall keep them safe.

Axman:link16

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Player: link16
Role: Ax man
Nationality: Illian
Base strength (Modified Strength): 4
Religion: White Hand ( Most people don't have this trait, so you probably don't want to spread it around
Ability: Intimidation: Each night you can go to someone's house and insure that they're not going anywhere.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: Invasion
Personal Goal: Death of the false Preachers (Acolyte, Luonnatar, and Ritualist
Background info: The Sidar people have long been a thorn in the side of the Illians. However, their new, more open policies, threaten to make them a genuine threat. The time has come to destroy them. To that end, you have made an uneasy alliance with a Lanun sleeper agent disguised as a Farmer and a Hippus spy who's pretending to be a Tailor to destroy this border town of Sinon and open the way for a full-scale invasion.

Blacksmith: Ravus_Sol1

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Player: Ravus_Sol
Role: Blacksmith
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Breaking stuff. If you have an item, you can destroy it. You made most things in this village, so you know how to take them apart.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Get your forge back!
Background info: You've been the blacksmith here for decades, and now everything's going to pieces. First someone dies, and now someone's stolen your forge!

Bookie: Takhisis

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Player: Takhisis
Role: Bookie
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Death Bet. Each night, you can bet on who is going to get killed (not by your own team). If you are right, you gain one strength.
Special Item: Make up (3 use) You can use this at night so that any scans made of you show up as though you were a specified other person. Send me a PM with who you want to be made up as.
Victory Condition: Ritual of Death
Personal Goal: Be only Member of the Ritual of Death team alive.
Background info: You are Arawn's chosen. You shall purge the Sidar people of the blasphemy that are shades. The Actress and the Acolyte will help you with the Ritual, but they are not the chosen, you are, so you alone should reap the rewards.

Good luck, please PM me with any questions you have. Your Team PM will come out soon, and will give more details

Brewer:FlamingZaroc

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Player: Flamingzaroc121
Role: Brewer
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3
Ability: Generosity. 2 times, you can give someone some of your extra strong ale with dinner. They will fall into a drunken stupor and be unable to perform any actions.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Innkeeper dead
Background info: You've lived in this town for quite some time, and watched the innkeeper achieve success, mainly off of the quality of your drinks. If he dies in the ensuing days, maybe you can get into the business and finally keep all the profit for yourself, rather than making a middle-man rich.

Butcher: Methos

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Player: Methos
Role: Butcher
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3
Ability: Eat up. Each day, you can feed some else at a daytime update your delicious meat, strengthening them for 24 hours.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Become a shade.
Background info: You've been the butcher in this town for long enough. It's time to retire and fade. But the crisis has led to a freeze on non-town demanded fading. I guess you'll have to get the town to demand it.

Farmer: King Flevance

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Player: King Flevance
Role: Farmer
Nationality: Lanun
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3
Ability: Kill, kill, kill. Each night you can go out and try to kill someone.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: Invasion
Personal Goal: Be strongest player at the end.
Background info: You have been a sleeper agent for the Lanun, enduring an awful agrarian life in this stupid town for many years. Now the time has come to strike. The Illians have hired the Hippus and in conjunction with you will put an end to the Sidar once and for all. You have killed the Border Guard. All that remains is to bring down this town with the help of the Axman and his lacky the Tailor. It's time to show the might of the Lanun, so you'd like to be stronger than the others when the time to strike comes.

Fruit Vendor: Diamondeye

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Player: Diamondeye
Role: Fruit Vendor
Nationality: Kuriotates
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Fresh fruit. Each night, you can choose one person to give your delicious fresh fruit to in the morning. Their strength will increase by one for 24 hours.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: At least one other Foreigner survives
Background info: You've made a good life here in Sinon, but it's been lonely. You've welcomed the new influx of other expatriates, some openly foreign, others not. You'd like it if some of them survived and stayed.

Horse Trader: Catharsis

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Player: Mango Elephant
Role: Horse Trader
Nationality: Lanun
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2 (3)
Ability: Mason: Stable Boy
Special Item: Poisoned Scimitar (+1 strength, can attempt to kill someone each night.)
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Stable Boy survive
Background info: No one expects a Lanun to be a Horse Trader. But after years as a pirate, you've forged a good life as a Horse Trader. You know these towns, and you've grown to love the relaxed Sidar culture. The Stable Boy shows a wonderful pluckiness, which you'd like to see grow into maturity. Now troubles have come. With a heavy heart, you unsheathe your poisoned scimitar, spoils of war with the Calabim. You'll protect this town, or die in the attempt.

Scimitar got renamed to Cutlass because I decided I liked them better, even for the Calabim. An attempt on a stronger person would have killed the attacker, but killed or faded the target after one game day due to the poison. This info was not given to owners of the weapon.

Innkeeper: Beefy187

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Player: Beefy187
Role: Innkeeper
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Measure of a Man Each night, you can judge the strength of someone you've seen around town.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Kill one of the Invaders
Background info: Being an innkeeper is not strenuous labour. You think you could fade and have more time to study what you care about, music, and still run the inn. But the moratorium on non-mandated shading is in your way. You'll just have to get your shading mandated then.

Jailer: Ravus_Sol2

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Player: Ekolite
Role: Jailer
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Jail. 3 times, you may during the day decide to imprison someone. This will have the dual effect of saving them from the lynch if they would be lynched and role-blocking them. You may not jail yourself
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: The Judge Dead
Background info: You've been the jailer here for quite some time, and the primary force of internal law enforcement. Now this new Judge has come to town, thinking they know everything, just because they're from the big city. You won't shed any tears if the judge has an "accident".

Jeweler: Seon

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Player: Seon
Role: Jeweler
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Lord of the land. You, and you alone as a living player can talk to the shades. You may not share this link with anyone else QT link http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/awHw68cHKnyu5
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Survive
Background info: You are Sandalphon, leader of the Sidar. You have disguised yourself as a humble jeweler and come to Sinon, because you have heard rumors of trouble. It seems you came just in time. Your people are in grave danger, and you must lead them through these perils.

Jailer:Winston Hughes

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Player: Renata
Role: Judge
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Judicial Review. You can extend the Jailer's power by one additional day, and you can reverse the Tax Collector's ability. Both are public abilities, so you'll know when you can do it.
Special Item: Gavel (Vote Power +1)
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Tax Collector survives
Background info:You were sent out to Sinon by the central government to provide a little more organized law and order. The Tax Collector has helped you get to know the town, so you'd like to see him make it through this.

Librarian: Kennigit

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Player: Kennigit
Role: Librarian
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3 (5)
Ability: The blade speaks: Each night, you can go out and kill someone. More details in the Background Info section.
Special Item: The Nether Blade (+2 strength, immune to abilities affecting your items)
Victory Condition: Rathus Denmora (SK style victory)
Personal Goal: Sandalphon a shade (and no, you don't know who Sandalphon is)
Background info: You are actually Rathus Denmora, protector of the Sidar people. But the Nether Blade speaks to you and demands blood. It tells you that the people of this town have strayed and must be destroyed. Sandalphon has come here, sensing the trouble, but he is too weak to do what must be done. You'd like him to see your actions, but not be in your way. To that end he should become a shade.

Special Features of your Role:
You are immune to Night Kills.
Your role will not change at all if made a Shade (lynched once)
You may only fail to kill once, and that must be while you are alive (not a Shade). If you fail again, the Blade will turn against you and you will die.

Please PM me with any questions you have
Good luck!

Luonnatar: Domination3000

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Player: Domination3000
Role: Luonnatar
Nationality: Grigori
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Religion: Luonnatar (most people do not have a religion trait, so you may not want to mention this immediately)
Ability: Proselytize. Every third night, you may attempt to convert someone to your faith. If you succeed, you will gain one additional vote while they live.
Special Item: Relic of the One. Can be sacrificed to stop a lynch.
Victory Condition: Spread the Faith You win if the majority of the living members of the primary winning team share your faith.
Personal Goal: Death of your Rivals (Acolyte, Ritualist)
Background info: You, along with an Order Acolyte and an Ashen Veil Ritualist, were the first priests allowed into Sidar lands. You are here to spread the one true faith and insure that their heresies do not take root.

Mayor:aramazd

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Player: Aramazd
Role: Mayor
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Tie-Break. You are the mayor, therefore your votes break all ties.
Special Item: Book of Shades. Contents in background info.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Have your tie-break be decisive in eliminating a threat to your people.
Background info: You run a business of repute, you are the mayor of this town! Anyway, you have acquired a book claiming to detail the traits of various post-fade shade abilities. This list may or may not be exhaustive or altogether accurate.
Great Engineer: Set trap One-time kill
Great Commander: Lay of the Land Role Blocker
Great Bard: Singing: Can talk each night in the innocent thread.

Book was inaccurate. Commanders actually protected and Bards could do two mid-day public voices. Got flavorized when Earthling stole it.
Medic: Renata

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Player: Pinman
Role: Medic
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Medical Checkup. You can go to someone's house each night, if they are alive, and try to save them from being killed.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Successfully save someone's life
Background info: One man is dead, more will probably die soon. Your skills are needed as never before. If you can preserve the life of a patient, you'll be satisfied.

Ranger: Frozen in Ice

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Player: Frozen in Ice
Role: Ranger
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2 (3)
Ability: Stalk: Each night, you can follow someone and see what they're doing.
Special Item: Spear (Strength +1)
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Be alive (not dead or Shade)
Background info:You've stalked prey in the wilds for many years. Now you are the prey. To turn the tables you must stalk the most dangerous game: the hunter. You're too young to be forced to fade, much less die.

Ritualist: classical_hero

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Player: classical_hero
Role: Ritualist
Nationality: Calabim
Base strength (Modified Strength): 3
Religion: Ashen Veil (most people do not have a religion trait, so you may not want to mention this immediately)
Ability: Proselytize. Every other night, you may attempt to convert someone to your faith. If you succeed, you will gain one additional vote while they live.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: Spread the Faith You win if the majority of the living members of the primary winning team share your faith.
Personal Goal: Death of your Rivals (Acolyte, Luonnatar)
Background info: You, along with an Order Acolyte and a Luonnatar, were the first priests allowed into Sidar lands. You are here to spread the knowledge of Agares, and insure that the Order does not establish a foothold here. The Luonnatar should also not be allowed to spread, as they will not be willing to make the sacrifices for knowledge.

Sculptor:lightfang

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Player: Lightfang
Role: Sculptor
Nationality: Luchuirp
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Runic Connection. Each night, you can sap the strength of someone else by connecting them into your statues. This reduces their strength by 1 for one day.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal:At least 3 Sidar alive
Background info: You may be a dwarf, but at heart you are a Sidar. You dream of one day getting the secret of fading from them. If too many of them die, you'll never learn it.

Secretary:Choxorn

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Player: choxorn
Role: Secretary
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 1
Ability: Tally. If you post a completely accurate vote tally within one hour of the deadlne, you get one extra vote power for that day.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Have your tally power be the deciding factor in a vote
Background info: You've been the Secretary of the Council of Sinon for many years now. No one gives you any respect. Now is your time to shine. The power of Minutes shall triumph!

My own concession to my laziness
Stable Boy: Nictel

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Player: Nictel
Role: Stable Boy
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Mason:Horse Trader
Special Item: Forge
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Alive with Blacksmith as a Shade
Background info: You've been a Stable Boy here for quite some time almost as long as the Horse Trader's been coming round. He might be a Lanun but he's a good sort. You're alright with being a stable boy but you'd really like to be a blacksmith. Which you can't do while the current blacksmith refuses to retire. So you stole his forge. But you still need to learn from him. If he's a shade, he'll have to teach you, right?

Tailor:Earthling

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Player:Earthling
Role: Tailor
Nationality: Hippus
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Espionage for Looting Each night, you can check someone's house for interesting items, or attempt to steal a specific item from someone's house.
Special Item: None.
Victory Condition: Invasion
Personal Goaleath to Traitors. All foreigners not on your team dead.
Background info: You have been a Hippus spy in this land for quite some time. You have been hired by the Illian axman to aid him and the Lanun sleeper agent in taking down this town to open the way for invasion. Sidar are loathsome, and you've been payed well. Any foreigners who traffic with them unncessarily should die sooner rather than later.

Tax Collector:civplayah

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Player: civplayah
Role: Tax Collector
Nationality: Sidar
Base strength (Modified Strength): 2
Ability: Taxes. Every three days, you can demand an item from someone. You can either leave what they give up to them, in which case if they have any, they'll give one of their choice to you, or you can demand a specific one, in which case, if they have it they'll give it to you, otherwise you get nothing. Your demand is public, but not the result.
Special Item: None
Victory Condition: National Integrity
Personal Goal: Own 3 items
Background info: Your naturally acquisitive nature suits your profession well. In these times, the opportunity to make a profit is real. No one will notice if you keep a little for yourself. Especially since you've befriended the new judge.

Ritual of Death Role PM

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Welcome to the Ritual of Death Team!

You are here to end the atrocious practice of fading in the Sidar community once and for all. To this end, the Acolyte has devised a Ritual of Death, which has been used in a weak form to eliminate many of the older shades of the town. You have the following abilities, which can be used instead of the ones in your personal PMs.
Banish. Every third day, one of you, instead of using your other abilities can kill a shade, once and for all.
Ritual: Each one of you can work towards completing the full Ritual each night instead of your other abilities. It will take 20 person-nights of work to achieve this objective.
If the Bookie or the Actress is forced to fade, they may continue to work on the Ritual, as long as at least one member of the team is alive. The ritual will rebound and eliminate any members of the Team who are shades if there are no fully living members of the team remaining.

You may of course also choose to atttempt to overpower the town through strength

Skooma Addict hasn't activated his PMs here yet, so I'll be sending this to him over at the .org

I encourage you to include me on any communications you engage in, including QTs.

Please PM me if you have any other questions

Time Victory Designs are tough. I went with a night activity counter, but 20 may have been too high.

Invasion Team PM

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Welcome to team Invasion.
You are here to open the way for the conquest of the Sidar. In order to do this, you must overpower the people of this town (traditional strength victory). To this end, you each have certain tools at your disposal.
The Illian axman cip can intimidate someone out of action each night.
The Lanun farmer King Flevance has killed and will kill again in service of the cause.
The Hippus tailer Earthling can spy around and find items that may be of use.

Beware the mob. If called upon to fade, you cannot do so, as you are not Sidar.


cip's PM capability isn't up yet, hopefully it will be soon.
I encourage you to include me in communications both among yourselves and with others and link me to any QT you use.

Good luck, please PM me with any questions you have.

Ritual of Death QT:http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/qtqJjfPXRP7

 

[Seon]

I knew that there was something off about Kennegit...

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, I'm up there twice!!

 

[Kennigit]

Yeah I messed up. I still blame night 5 though on many things--the night I was roleblocked when I went to kill earthling. And I assumed Sandalphon "being too weak to do what must be done" meant that he wanted to join me.

Should have pressed more when I knew the ritual of death was not the main mafia group based on the people I killed.
Oh well.

 

[Earthling]

Earthling + Link + Flevance = 10 Strength

Zack + Ravus + landlubber + Seon + Shades seem verified as zero according to the Shade QT = 5 Strength + Frozen's strength (unknown for sure yet but I thought 2 or 3?)

Even if the Shades got to count their item's (Kennigit's evil blade, darn it that it gave him so much strength) that is STILL less than 10.



edit: did always appreciate how Kennigit voted Flevance the Cutlass - definitely helped us think of Kennigit as scum on the first lynch there. Of course you all can see the antics/weirdness of how we never found out what the Cutlass really did, wish we had.

edit: Yes, we roleblocked you Kennigit, and were going to roleblock you again if you weren't lynched soon. It was so annoying you just killed us all at the end - we spent the whole game making Flevance as strong/safe as possible and he still got killed (by a Shade!)

 

[Autolycus]

At Invasion Highwater mark
Zack=2
Ravus_Sol=1
landlubber=1
Seon=1
Frozen=3
Kennigit=5
Total non-Invader strength=13

 

[Ravus_Sol]

By the gods that was lucky! I was completely winging it by the end there. Which isn't good when i ended up with a cutlass that could kill people and wasn't sure if i should try killing someone. With a base strength of 1 it probably would have ended badly

So how did King Flevance die?

 

[Earthling]

At Invasion Highwater mark
Zack=2
Ravus_Sol=1
landlubber=1
Seon=1
Frozen=3
Kennigit=5
Total non-Invader strength=13

Ahh so it was Kennigit still counting - well, it is was it is but I was disappointed though. Kennigit was also immune to being mafia/night-killed himself so our faction couldn't do anything much about him. If we'd even known for sure a Shade could still be a serial killer, argh - and then no matter what that would be like 5 strength counting against us...

@Ravus - Kennigit, the serial killer, killed both Flevance and me.

Also - the other questions I was going to ask then - how did Romanichine get voted the Orb and some of the other tiebreakers/extra votes get counted, and how did the whole conversion/Ritual of Death work there? Otherwise it seems like Roman was an Innocent pretending to be a Mafia, even had the other Innocents believing that at the end (as can be seen on our QT too I really believed Roman was full scum at that point too, we were still looking for his other ally like Zack though)


edit - I figured out only at the end that the "Book of Shades" was inaccurate but that's disappointing. Obviously even Innocent Shades like Nictel being able to kill was a surprise.

Oh - and what was this "forge?" I'm a bit surprised that Ravus 2.0 got into the game given the knowledge/spoiler info that Ravus 1.0 had but I guess it's ok, certainly it was fun to have him around rather than an inactive player and he did well.


last edit on this one - don't think our quicktopic had been posted yet so should post that here for anyone curious:
http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/MyjDS7cfw8ZdN

 

[Kennigit]

Roleblocking me again would have turned the knife on myself.

Still, I should have won I felt. I just was too vocal--it's no fun being a lurking serial killer. Honestly, if I lurked and got shaded, people would have just gone "oh well, random innocent #4 shaded". Which would had led to an ezpz lmnsqz victory imo and not true to the integrity of the game.

No one was speaking up about how the ritual of death was not the main mafia group; it seemed people thought they were. I should have been more vocal and try to look innocent. And once I actually read the FFH wiki to learn about Sandalphon, I was considering posting in the thread how I "knew" (ie. hoping it was right) you simply choose a path as a great person as per the FFH game.

Which happened to be true.

 

[Takhisis]

The thing is, our ritual of Death would have meant all shades were killed… including us. I don't know about the others, but my PG was to get the rest of the ritual team members killed. Were you the one that killed me, Kennigit?

 

[Earthling]

No one was speaking up about how the ritual of death was not the main mafia group; it seemed people thought they were. I should have been more vocal and try to look innocent. And once I actually read the FFH wiki to learn about Sandalphon, I was considering posting in the thread how I "knew" (ie. hoping it was right) you simply choose a path as a great person as per the FFH game.

I was utterly amazed at this too. Especially since in several folks role PMs, it mentioned "Invaders." And then we have folks like the vigilante J-Man who could have vig-killed again (we were desperately worried about that and that's why we killed him)

The great people thing is a nice surprise I didn't realize - for the second part of that post.

I don't get exactly how that "must kill" thing worked for Kennigit though- you also didn't kill anyone the night Flevance killed Beefy? Another reason we weren't sure there was a SK (though it turns out we were right all along about roleblocking Kennigit being the answer night 5)

And Takhisis- Flevance killed you. We didn't know who you were other than lurking too much/possibly being dangerous. And for a long time that made us very unsure about the rest of the Ritual of Death - I thought your third ally was the remaining killer. You guys had no kills at all in general right?

I think I already posted on our QT, that I think in retrospect this game had way too many killers/things that could happen by luck. And that's without whatever effect the "conversion" was going to have in the end - but even without that, there were three mafia/killing factions, a kill item (unfortunate it never got known about but if it had that could have quickly led to imbalance/game over) and on the Innocent side a full vigilante plus vigilante Shades. Games with lots of kills can be exciting/crazy but are also chaotic and too much just depends on a lucky kill on someone sometime.

 

[Autolycus]

I think just about everything is now up.
The forge was useless, except for ravus_sol's P.O.
Actual Shade abilities:
Commander/General: 2-time protector
Sage: 2-time VC scanner
Bard: talk at night plus two midday voice mechanics
Merchant: Blocker
Engineer: 1-time vig.

No one fading could take actions the night of their fade, primarily because most of them were changing abilities. That night Kennigit couldn't kill, but it didn't count as failing to kill.

The missonaries' ability in each case simply gave them +1 vote for every other person alive following their religion. Except for Skooma, they were neutral. Ritual of Death could only kill shades, and was unlikely to use it. You folks only had one killer, and with shades, lynches could be much slower to remove people. I think on balance, every team, including the innocents, was under-powered compared to a typical game. I may well do a full AAR in the style of a history, including quotes from some of the result PMs later in the week or early next week.

 

[Catharsis]

I should've vigged classical on Night 2, the night I got killed. Honestly, I just wasn't paying enough attention to notice the immediate threat from a possible converter early on. It wouldn't have made any difference to the final result, but still, it was a poor decision from me.

Oh well. Thanks for the game Autolycus, good work to the National Integrity people (especially the survivors), and big fat raspberries to whichever wolf team it was that killed me so early on, because 'mason with a vigilante item' is the most interesting role I've had in a while.

EDIT: Hey, that isn't the Ritual of Death QT. Also, Skooma's PM isn't up.

 

[Earthling]

edit: Actually Flevance killed you Catharsis, looks like Kennigit got Methos - Kennigit also had days 1 and 3 I guess, cause we know Flevance didn't/forgot orders those nights.

We should also officially nominate that this should be a "prequel" to whichever older NOTW game it was that had a "descendent" of the Sidar with the Netherblade - didn't play in that one myself, but the way this one worked out it sounds like the Ranger Frozen becomes a nice legendary figure in history, passes down the blade and so on

As for the Ritual of Death - I entirely agree their VC was too hard as well, it would seem. So my condolences there. If I'd been on that team and seen we had to have 20 player-nights worth to win, I would've abandoned that goal immediately - probably just used the Shade-kills as often as possible and abilities otherwise (Takhisis' ability would have been really fun to have - I surely would have just used that all the time!) So surprised they didn't do this, especially Zack at the end, where I can't see Zack thinking he was going to win the original VC so why not kill some Shades.

Above all though I do want to thank Autolycus for a very diligent and impressive job here - seemed to be no problems with the course of running the game which was great. Setup was interesting and it did play out to a razor-thin finish even if by coincidence/not how people expected it would go.

 

[Autolycus]

The problem was that much less, and if they don't die quickly, they can bee-line and win. If they all survived for 7 days, they won if they were always doing ritual. If they had two every night doing ritual, they won in ten days. Zack was relatively inactive at the beginning, and was using his block at the end.

 

[Earthling]

Well given the rest of the game though I think that would have been fair. Living for 7 nights with no members of their faction dying would have been worthy of victory - if it was at like 16 total they still would need six nights and that seems fair. Maybe Shades being able to work on it is a little off if they'd gotten lucky that way and just had a Shade live for a whole 10/11 days, but in that case I'd still reduce the overall number and just make Shades count for only 1/2 a point towards the Ritual or something.

Because given how kills/etc... worked in this game, there was almost no chance they'd make it that far by pure luck, so either it would be on the fault of other teams for dying (Innocents killing/lynching each other, or if our team or the SK was eliminated early, it's only fair the Ritual faction would be doing better) or by excellent play by the ritual team.

More specifically, it seems like they would have had more success ignoring that route of victory entirely - as they could still win victory otherwise there's little incentive to go for the Ritual. Takhisis for instance would certainly be far better off never working on the Ritual - if he'd lived 7 or 8 nights on the Ritual, sure, that's cool, but if he lived that long using his ability and had like 8 strength that would have been even better...


Gotta say classical and Domination had by far the worst luck/most horrible coincidence of all so sorry that happened. Never fun to not have a teammate at the start and they didn't make it to having any others I guess (really thought classical could have converted someone lurking around at the end but I guess not)