Seven Man Scrimmage 2: The Jester's Game [Concluded]

[Diamondeye]

Welcome to the second instalment of the Seven Man Scrimmage (SMS) series!

As you may or may not know, the first game of the series ended with a narrow mafia win. It was a traditional C9 game in which the two traditional powerroles had been exchanged for lynch-triggered bombs.

This next game is going to leave the players slightly less in the dark concerning the roles in the game. First of all, there will be a jester figure in this game. For those who do not know this, a Jester wins by being lynched.
Secondly, there will be no mafia team and there will be no night phase. As such, the only granted method of killing is lynching. There will be one or more special roles apart from the Jester role.

Because of the odd setup, the town victory condition is to avoid the lynching of the jester. The jester being the last person standing will automatically trigger this, and to avoid any unlucky final-round mess-up, the jester's vote will be a negative tiebreaker, meaning that someone with the jester's vote on him will always "lose" the tie (ie. stay alive).

The day phases will be 24 hours each and there are, as mentioned, no night phases. Any roles that would normally work at nighttime/night update needs to send their orders in an hour before the deadline. For this to work properly, the orders can be conditional. Per example, an investigator might want to write "If Atheotes is not lynched, I will investigate him. Otherwise, investigate Thermal Mercury" to avoid wasting his nighttime ability.

With these basic informations in place I believe I can say...

Sign-ups are open!

Sign-ups (7/7 (full)):
Renata
Atheotes
Thermal Mercury
Subotan
CDf
Centurion1
Splitpersonality

[Renata]

In. :nod:

[atheotes]

In

[Thermal]

Some people hate jester roles, however with the knowledge that there is a jester, we know to be more cautious.

IN

[Subotan]

In-sane.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

In again.

[Centurion1]

in. and mad i missed the first one.

[Renata]

Before the game begins, can you clarify this a bit more?

Because of the odd setup, the town victory condition is to avoid the lynching of the jester. The jester being the last person standing will automatically trigger this, and to avoid any unlucky final-round mess-up, the jester's vote will be a negative tiebreaker, meaning that someone with the jester's vote on him will always "lose" the tie (ie. stay alive).

[Splitpersonality]

IN :D

[Sprig]

ahhh missed it again. Mind you, I promised myself that I wouldn't sign up to any more mafia games.

[Diamondeye]

Before the game begins, can you clarify this a bit more?

This means that the Jester's vote is effectively "half a vote". Any ties where the Jester's vote is considered, aren't really "ties" since the person that the jester is not voting for will always be lynched. Other ties are broken by RNG.

That said there may be one or more of the roles in-game that have additional/limited voting capacity and as such what looks like a tie might not be one. An example:

Player X: Jester, Townie, Doublevoter
Player Y: Townie, Townie, Townie

In this case, it might look like Player Y's being lynched because of the Jester voting him, while in reality there is no tie because one of the votes for Player X is a double (making it 3.5 vs 3 votes).

If there is anything else that needs clarification please, do ask.

I'll update the OP and send out PMs before starting the game. The first round will be roughly 36 hours, every subsequent round 24 hours.

[Diamondeye]

The PMs are out and the game has begun! The first day will last 36 hours (until 9 PM tomorrow, CET). Any update orders must be in an hour in advance (8 PM CET). Every subsequent day will last 24 hours and thus these times should be considered the standard deadlines

If anyone has questions, please direct to me either in private (if they are about your character) or in this thread (if they are about the rules in general).

Those of you who have not recieved a PM are standard townies! Your goal is to avoid lynching the Jester!

Feel free to start posting. Please keep accusations in the standard, bolded format.

[Beskar]

I just realised, by the looks of it, this looks like my Lift Escape! Mini-Mafia game.

In that game, you "save" people, oppose to Lynching them and in the group of people, there is a Serial Killer, and if you save the Serial Killer, the game ends as he kills everyone. (Thus, he is just like a jester)

[Renata]

This game is going to be the weirdest thing on four wheels.

[Subotan]

Vote; Centurion1
Stranger Danger

EDIT:
Question: Why do we want to vote when there's no mafia, and what happens if there's a tie the Jester isn't voting in?

[Renata]

If we don't vote, the Jester just votes himself and wins. So we need to vote non-jesters, every time.

[Subotan]

Right. So how do we determine who the jester is?

[Beskar]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=118639

Might give you some clues in there. *just wanted to show his game*

Now out this thread I go.

[Renata]

Look for weirdness in the vote results that can't be accounted for by claimed power roles; if that fails, worry about the claimed power roles; if there are no claimed power roles at any given time, analyze behavior and past votes.

It's weird because the safest thing to do if you're not a jester is to vote yourself.

[Renata]

Or vote Beskar, since he's not in the game.

[Diamondeye]

Vote; Centurion1
Stranger Danger

EDIT:
Question: Why do we want to vote when there's no mafia, and what happens if there's a tie the Jester isn't voting in?

The first question was answered, I believe, and the second is answered by me above; Random.org will handle that (and you will not know whether there was a tiebreak by random or by another effect).

[atheotes]

only safe choice i know...
Vote: Atheotes

[Askthepizzaguy]

As long as people don't vote for me, I'm happy. Leave me alive past the first round this time, mmmk?

[Diamondeye]

As long as people don't vote for me, I'm happy. Leave me alive past the first round this time, mmmk?

I c wat u did thar. Will you be lurking this game, then?

[Askthepizzaguy]

I c wat u did thar. Will you be lurking this game, then?

Sure thing. I want to see if the non-town faction can go on a winning streak.

I lurk in surprising places. If you mention my name anywhere on the .org, I will probably notice it. If you say it three times, I'll jump out of the mirror and eat your brains.

[Diamondeye]

Sure thing. I want to see if the non-town faction can go on a winning streak.

I lurk in surprising places. If you mention my name anywhere on the .org, I will probably notice it. If you say it three times, I'll jump out of the mirror and eat your brains.

This will be tested at a later date.
AskThePizzaGuy, AskThePizzaGuy... AskThePizzaGuy?
For now, back to topic

Roughly 24 hours until the update

[Thermal]

Townies basically need to kill townies to win.

vote: renata...

[Renata]

Not that I'm objecting or anything, but what makes you think I'm a townie?

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Townies basically need to kill townies to win.

vote: renata...

Vote: thermal mercury then

[atheotes]

Vote: thermal mercury then

what makes you think he is a townie?