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The way your abilities section is written (formatting) is different from mine.
And another piece missing that's in everyone else's PM it seems.
Still, I'm happy to hear your case.
Its down to you vs Beskar.
I think Joooray seems fine.
AVSM can you repost your role PM with full formatting?
I think I know which piece is missing too.
KILL THE AVSM
Well that's my role. I won't even bother defending it, I only copy-pasted.
My defense? History. Not helped by the fact that none of us four ever did betray Cao Cao. However, Cao Ren and Xu Chu seem to be the least likely. I can't help but suspect Jooray for being a former advisor to Yuan Shao, as was Paulus. However, I have no way of knowing whether or not he was online.
Both Paulus (I think) and Sprig (who said) both had one-time abilities and they both could turn under conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
Your lynch makes sense.
As I said, it would be useful if you posted your role with full formatting, font etc.
You can use the reply function in the PM and then paste the result here.
Beskar is arguing rather vehemently.
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Originally Posted by Jolt
I should also inform that the Abilities section formatting has 4 different types amongst the PMs I sent.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Hmmm there's oddities in each of them the more I look at it:
- AVSM: Power role but name in blue
- AVSM: Ability formatting is off
- Beskar: Townie message is off (You are rather than You're)
- Beskar: Major role without any powers
I really need to think on this, but I'm fairly certain Joooray is innocent, his character is so minor it only gets mentioned in other people's biographies.
I had another thought....
Given that none of us 4 historically went against Wei in the end, either someone has a cover role (I think that is unlikely) or have not posted their actual role PM, fabricating part of it.
The other issue is that we lynched Paulus, who was Xun Yu and Joooray is his nephew...revenge motive possibly?
On the other hand, Sprig pointed at Joooray so he should be innocent....unless that was WIFOM.
From my reading of Alien vs Yakuza, Beskar seems more townie than AVSM though.
Any help from the dead?
mums the word :P
My gut is on Jooray - Xun Yu the uncle opposed Cao Cao's rise to power despite being his advisor, and was sent to his death for it....read my original role analysis from back earlier.
I can't post my exact role since I'm dead, but let's just say I'm a lot less suspicious of AVSM's reveal formatting than FH is.
Yes, Joooray would make sense considering we lynched his uncle and all, but he was away for a while (posts end 24th Nov and start again 30th)
Are any other of the dead basic townies but quite major characters in the novel Yaro? I'm trying to make sense that Man Chong has no abilities.
For now though, unvote: AVSM, vote Beskar
What is really weird that you was certain of my innocence last round, also my character is not a major character, but apparently a minor one (according to AVSM lot earlier in the game). So I am not even sure where you got the idea where it is a Major one, as everyone has commented it is a Minor character. (I believed Yaropolk even said too minor)Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Your reasoning is off.
AVSM's role makes mention of him being under susipicion of trying to surplant his Cousin, plus actually lists why he might do it. He also has that one-time ability stuff like Paulus and Sprig and both were apparently able to switch to the Mafia. Argument on Joooray seems mainly to Joooray seems to be in relation to who his character is.
Also, you have to remember, both Sprig's and Paulus characters were not enemies or tried to kill at this point and I believe one of them wasnt a historial enemy either but was suspect. Only role that has revealed (as FactionHeir hasn't revealed) which seems that could enemy Cao Cao is AVSM.
I didn't even know that there was somebody I was related to that we killed. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Didn't pay that much attention to my role pm once I knew I was a basic townie.
Also as mentioned before, I was away the weekend of the first kill by the new mafia.
Well, my money is on AVSM. So Vote: AVSM. I cannot really say why, it is more or less a gut feeling. Especially the ability "Power of War" sounds like it should involve a bit more than a one time doctor ability.
Jolt: What will you do if there's a tie?
I mean AVSM hasn't voted yet and I imagine he will vote Beskar, tying the two of the.
I will vote Beskar. FH is confirmed townie, and I feel Jooray simply hasn't been active enough.
Vote: Beskar
I have nothing in-game to go on, as I must admit that both of us seem rather scummy. However...
I notice that Beskar hasn't exactly been his usual, loud self in this game. While I've been semi-lurking as usual, neither of us showed up to lynch Sprig. I remember him saying something about being too high-profile in another game...
Of course, this is as baseless an accusation as anything. At most, this is just a vote to save myself.
The weird titles like "General who Subdues South" are historically accurate. AVSM's power does sound fishy. However Cao Ren was known as "The Loyal Marquis" for his undeterred loyalty to Cao Cao. I agree Beskar is not his usual loud self.
Xu Chu is by far the most known character
Cao Ren is second most known
Mang Chong is third most.
I've never heard of Xu You until now.
All 3 of the latter are present on the Wiki article so would make good cover roles.
My character is also a virtual unknown, but my role PM was about twice as lengthy as what Jooray posted, so my gut is still on him.
I posted my role-pm directly without any edits or hessitation. What more is there to say?
I would be happy to go, however, I think that is a really bad idea due to the fact wrong lynch = Mafiaso victory. So only reason I would vouch for not being lynched is that we would lose the game.
As for Jolt, he will random it, most likely as he said earlier that no votes = random.
Cao Cao should just execute the 3 of them and get it over with :grin:
Random.org to see how many die. If less than the entire number of tied people are to be executed, then I random.org to see who dies.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Well, looks like voting is closed and I am dead, grats Mafia.
hahah Joooray for teh win !!!
Yeah, if I was mafia, I'd be jumping in joy now. But unfortunately I am not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sprig
It's nice to see FactionHeir survive a game for a change.
:shakehands:
Nicely done sir.
Day 7 is over. Stand-by for execution.
The Red Phoenix - Day 7
The already small number of men in the council was further distressed by the fact that failure to kill the stubborn attacker would put Cao Cao, every other advisor, and even the entire camp at risk. As heads were paraded daily around the massive several miles long fortifications, the results did not seem to change and the killings continued. Surely because of the crucial part that one council took on the affairs on China, each and every advisor argued and acused and analyzed each other with greater intensity than ever before. In the end, Xun You, Xu Chu and Cao Ren decided that Beskar was undoubtedly the guilty one.
Cao Cao only nodded with a sigh. "Man Chong, you have stood resillient, and you and your companions have suceeded in killing China's brightest minds and now you yourself go to the afterlife. How will you bear to look on the face of your ancestors after the crimes you committed towards the people, who will now ultimately be devoid of such virtuous talents that those men possessed, which were vital in maintaining the happiness amongst humanity?" Cao Cao only sighed once, clearly unsure whether or not Man Chong was the right man to execute. Cao Cao had lost his sense of direction days ago.
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Man Chong, General Who is Mighty, has been executed.
He motioned his hand towards the guards, who picked Man Chong and separated head from torso once outside the tent. Following previous examples, his head went 'round the camp as warning towards conspirators. Cao Cao sighed as he dismissed his meagre council of now three men.
The Red Phoenix - Conclusion
And lo!, several days passed and there was no assassination attempts on any of the remaining council members. Cao Cao finally began regaining his self-trust, and set about to prepare for the attack against Sun Quan and Liu Bei.
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A very small fraction Cao Cao's Imperial Han troops, present Dynasty whose Imperial Symbol was Fire, taking the last drills, days before the attack. Cao Cao's army boasted 800,000 men, all posted on the Northern bank of the Yangtze river, only awaiting the Prime Minister's orders to embark in the fleet and proceed to attack Sun Quan's and Liu Bei's 50,000 troops, posted on the Southern shore and downstream of the same river.
As Cao Cao's troops trained, the Prime Minister sent for his Surpreme Naval Admiral, who came with all haste to Cao Cao's tent, where he layed reviewing some papers, with his trusty Xu Chu by his side. Saluting his Lord, Yu Jin inquired "Greetings, Prime Minister. What is it?" Cao Cao smiled at his General and revealed to him "Glad you are here Yu Jin. Look at this sight." Pointing his whip towards the window from his tent, and into the training most of the army was then undertaking. "I see you have intensified close combat training, Lord Cao. I take it we are to attack shortly?" Cao Cao nodded "Correct. I have been consulting with my advisors, namely Xun You, which had given the great idea of using the cover of the night to conceal our movements and take them by surprise. I want you to start preparing and stocking the fleet itself in every provision needed for the attack. It should come within days." Yu Jin nodded in compliance "As you wish, Prime Minister." said he before turning and going to begin the preparations. Soon enough, soldiers were being ordered to load the ships with thousands of carts with a myriad different military and naval utilities. Such a thing could not be kept from sight, and quickly the camp buzzed with rumors and conversation over the iminent attack.
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Cartloads of a myriad different supplies, ranging from common bolts for marine crossbowmen to ropes and other provisions began being stocked into Cao Cao's navy.
Cao Cao knew that with 800,000 talking about the same thing, news as to the incoming offensive would rapidly travel the dozen miles between both armies, and since Cao Cao could not afford to lose the surprise effect, an edict was spread at dawn prohibiting any and all conversation, rumor or hear-say about attacking, advancing or going on the offensive, under the harshest military penalty for offenders. In the morning, and to reinforce this aspect, he ordered Cao Ren to summon all military officers and order them to closely inspect and warn their men against talking about it. The conversation quickly died down, and while inspecting around the camp, Cao Cao happily noted that no incident had occurred, except for two soldiers, who were exactly caught talking about attacking, and were thus put to death. At night, orders were issued for part of the navy and the army to border ships during the very next morning for "major naval exercices". Cao Cao was aware that moving hundreds of thousands of men and board them in ships would take several hours, and these movements could be noted by spies, especially if these were in the river and on the shores. As such, Cao Cao ordered the pre-emptive boarding of part of the navy to clear the river off fisherman or any other vessel which could sight the troop movements of Cao Cao. The very next day, during the morning Cao Cao was already up and went off to see the soldiers border the ships, a total of 60,000 of them.
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Han Prime Minister Cao Cao inspecting the troops embarking on war vessels.
At the seventh watch, all soldiers were told to eat a double meal and remain on full alert and prepare to board the ships on the following watch. Once the appointed time had arrived, the legions rounded up and started boarding the ships. As predicted, the logistics behind putting 280,000 other men into ships took several hours and once the sun had set, the navy was in place. Before embarking, Cao Cao had given Cao Ren the task of leading the Vanguard of the navy against the enemy. Xun You went with Cao Cao in the flagship while Xu Chu led a squadron of ships alongside the Southern bank of the river. There were other worthy and famous generals in the attacking navy, such as Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Cao Hong, Zhang He and Xiahou Yuan, each leading their own squadron.
Cao Cao, however, was not expecting that genius strategist Zhuge Liang, was seeing through his intentions.
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Zhuge Liang, the Sleeping Dragon. He was undoutedly one of the greatest military strategists of all times. He served Liu Bei, who had previously been defeated by Cao Cao and had now joined forces with Sun Quan to prevent Cao Cao from conquering Southern China, and Zhuge Liang had been sent to conjoin efforts with Sun Quan's Commander-in-Chief, Zhou Yu, also a great strategist.
Zhuge Liang warned fellow strategist Zhou Yu, who commanded the troops of Sun Quan, that Cao Cao's attack was imminent, and that he would try to make a surprise attack at night, but not before first attempting to find some way of allowing his troops to board his fleet without the knowledge getting to Cao Cao's enemies. He specifically said that Cao Cao would attempt to give us a false sense of security before launching an attack. The next day, once Zhou Yu heard the drums from afar*, Zhou Yu called Zhuge Liang once again. Zhuge Liang arrived smirking, and after salutations were exchanged, Zhou Yu could not help but praise his colleague, despite the gravity of the situation. "They must be trying to trick us into that they shall only train today. You are indeed right, Master Zhuge." Said Zhou Yu, rather concerned "Still, Cao Cao has not chained his ships together as Pang Tong was supposed to have convinced him do!"
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Zhou Yu in the middle, put before the dillemma of how to proceed before Cao Cao's attack.
Zhuge Liang could only smirk. "Indeed. Cao Cao shall surely order his navy to silence the drums as to give the impression that they have retreated back to the naval yards before setting out." Still, Zhuge Liang looked confidant that they could beat back Cao Cao. "Cao Cao's men are still poorly trained, and despite their huge numbers, our men and our ships are vastly better and well trained in naval warfare. Still, to have any chance we shall have to use it." Zhou Yu nodded nervously. He knew the crucial confrontation was about to begin. "I shall have my men get ready for battle." Zhuge Liang also betrayed some signs of nervousness. Despite his unparalelled skill in the Art of War, he was known to be an extraordinarily cautious man. Unhappily for him, the odds were vastly in favour of Cao Cao, and there was little he could do. He went to send for Liu Bei's navy to join up with Sun Quan's navy. Liu Bei's navy arrived at dusk, led by Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. Their combined navies boasted a total of 70,000 men, which was vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao's navy of 350,000 men.
As the night arrived, Cao Cao ordered his massive navy first to silence the drums, a ploy to make his enemies believe that they had retreated back to camp. One hour later, the general order to advance along to full width of the river downstream towards Sun Quan's naval base was given. As Cao Cao beheld his force gliding through water and comtemplated the lamps of his ships which stretched as far as his vision could reach, he became elated at the sight and very confident in his success.
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Cao Cao's immense navy stretched along the river like a dragon's body.
Cao Cao's navy progressed across the river, unwary of its opponents scheme to upset the invasion. Departing from Chaisang, Sun Quan's and Liu Bei's joint navy as not so small on its own, and contained large and sturdy warships, far bigger and better in size and armament than Cao Cao's gigantic but hastily assembled fleet. Further it had a van assembled of very special ships, which Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang hoped with turn the battle around. It was to Cao Cao and his soldiers utter shock that the met the full enemy navy midway of their path towards their base at Chaisang. More than that, at the front of the Allied navy came some small but very distressing ships.
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These small boats were filled with combustible objects, which would be set on fire while the occupants of the ship abandoned it, boarding smaller boats.
The enemy ships quickly caught flames and sped up towards Cao Cao's fleet. There were dozens of them, since they were but small in size and easily manned by a few members. Cao Ren's ability and wit managed his vanguard to dodge the fire ships, which slipped through. Unfortunately, Cao Cao's fleet was so big that it occupied the full width of the river, and thus the ships behind the vanguard did not have the freedom of movement that Cao Ren's men had.
The result was that, with the eagerness to try to avoid the incoming fire vessels, several of Cao Cao's own ships manouvered and rammed against each other clogging up the passage for ships behind them. Even more, some of these ships here hit by the fire boats, and thus began burning. Fuelled by the winds, and since the vessels behind the ones already caught in flames had great difficulty manuevering past the stranded and burning ones, the fire began spreading to other mobile Cao Cao's ships. In addition, the rest of the allied navy came behind and began smiting Cao Ren's vanguard.
Cao Cao was utterly shocked at the change of events and he was immediatly to call a retreat, but Xun You calmed him down and pointed towards Cao Ren's ships in the vanguard which were at great cost holding back the Southern navies. Though fire spread from ship to ship, many other ships eventually took risks and passed through to aid Cao Ren's struggle. With Cao Cao's navy split in two, the Southern navy eventually the vanguard of Cao Cao's navy, still a good part of Cao Cao's was still intact. In plain night, both navies met around the site of where the ships burnt, many of Cao Cao's ships who manuevered badly by passing too close to the burning ships were themselves caught on flames, and that coupled with the difficulty of Cao Cao's ships in getting in range to attack or board the Southern navy, made the battle extremely confusing and lengthy.
As the night passed and the sun came up, and more and more ships on each size were taken or sunk, both Cao Cao, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang began seeing that despite the fact that the Han Navy had lost a gigantic amount of ships, its sheer size allowed it to gain advantage over the specialized but outnumbered Allied Navy. By day time, most of the fire had already died down as most ships had sunk, and the river look much more like a charred plank road than anything else. And the battle was only decisively terminated as Xu Chu's squadron did a bold encirclement over an Allied squadron which was defending the Southern flank of the river, ramming through some ships, and decisively defeated it, driving forward and attacking the main center of the Allied Navy, which routed and fled downstream towards their base.
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The last part of the battle, occurred already during the morning, as one of Xu Chu's ship smashes through an enemy vessel.
At the end, Cao Cao was astonished at the losses. Of the 350,000, initial estimates by his secretaries based on the number of sunken ships reports that the number of casualties could go as high as 300,000 men, the vast majority of the navy. Out of the fleet of 500 ships, only 46 remained in good shape. Thus, Cao Cao was put forth with the question whether to press and attack the retreating enemy or head back to his own camp. Before Cao Cao could answer, Cao Ren arrived from the shore, where he had been ever since his vanguard collapsed and his own ship was boarded by Sun Quan's marines, under gigantic pressure for the entire Allied Navy.
He came quickly, asking for the advancement of the navy and to finally destroy the Allied few remaining ships. Xun You, however advised a retreat back to the main camp, where Cao Cao still had half a million soldiers posted, as in the current situation of the navy, they were in no shape to make a successful invasion. Cao Cao nodded, and issued an orderly withdrawal back to the Naval Yards upstream, in Jiangling where Cao Cao's camp was located.
The next day, while Cao Cao still thought on which course of action to follow next, an emmissary from Sun Quan was announced. Before the conflict, Zhou Yu had ordered Cao Cao's messenger demanding Sun Quan's surrender to be executed, so Cao Cao was immediatly inclined to make Sun Quan's messenger of an example. But Xun You quickly dissuaded him from it "Do not do it Cao Cao. Sun Quan has just suffered a great defeat. He probably wishes to surrender. Pray listen to what the messenger has to say. If it does not please you, then kill him afterwards." Cao Cao nodded and granted the messenger an interview. After being granted entry, Cao Cao spoke, plainly irritated. "Zhou Yu has recently killed a messenger of mine. How does your Lord dare to send you here, if not for you to be put to death?" The messenger quickly replied. "But your Excellency is surely made up of lofty ideals, and it is only because of your superior inclination that my Lord he has thus sent me to speak to you." Cao Cao began smiling and nodded towards the messenger. "It appears Sun Quan knows me thouroughly." Said Cao Cao "But what has your defeated Lord to say to me?"
The messsenger promptly retorted "As my Lord as tried to settle scores with you through the force of arms, the Prime Minister and his valiant generals had shown why your is so magnificent and wise in warfare that the entire Empire is what your feet, and since your Excellency has won, Sun Quan shall not reject surrender before a superior man." Once the Messenger had finished speaking, Cao Cao got up from his chair with a wide grin on his face. It appears he had just won the war.
He rewarded the messenger lavishly, and sent him back with Xun You to accept his surrender.
Once arrived there, Xun You quickly demanded to know the whereabouts of Liu Bei, to which Sun Quan replied that Liu Bei and his officers including Zhuge Liang, were back in Jiangxia. After Xun You accepted the Seal of Authority from Sun Quan as a formal way of surrender, he went back to Cao Cao and informed him that Liu Bei, his final enemy was isolated in Jiangxia. Cao Cao quickly led his navy downstream and disembarked in the outskirts of the city, besieging it.
Liu Bei had too few men to oppose Cao Cao. He and his brothers tried a few sorties to break away from the city, but they all failed, and Liu Bei lost yet more men. Seeing all hope of escape over, and looking at the misery of the people of Jiangxia, Liu Bei and his brothers, together with Zhuge Liang, decided to put an end to their lives. Liu Bei ordered Liu Qi to surrender the city after he had died. However, Liu Qi, knowing the fate of his familly at the hands of Cao Cao**, killed himself as well, ordering Mi Zhu, one of Liu Bei's most loyal and senior officer, to formally surrender the city to Cao Cao.
6 years later...
When the South was firmly under Cao Cao's control, his supporters at the capital pressed the Han Emperor to name Cao Cao as "Prince of Wei", due to his vast services in reunifying the country under "Han" control. That was 4 years ago. 2 years after the South was conquered, Cao Cao launched the attack on the final region still left unconquered: The West. In a lightning invasion, city after city surrendered before Cao Cao's surpreme might. The West's most powerful warlord, the Governor of Yi, Liu Zhang, surrendered after Cao Cao demanded it so. Liu Zhang knew he could not resist the mighty Prime Minister.
So, now, two years after the reunification of China, the Han Emperor has finally acknowledged the superior virtue and skill of Cao Cao, and that he that rendered such good service to the Han and his equally skilled children, are the most fit clan to lead China into another thousand years of peace of prosperity of for all!!!
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Cao Cao is acclaimed as Emperor of Wei!
(*- Ancient Chinese armies used drums and small explosives, like firecrackers when executing attacks as a way to cause confusion and anxiety among the enemy while at the same time spurring their own men forward. When training, armies did the same.)
(**-Before the battle this write up is depicting, Cao Cao had just conquered the province of Jing. Jing had been ruled by Liu Qi's father, which had died shortly before Cao Cao's invasion. After his father had died, Liu Qi's younger brother, Liu Cong, took over the governorship of Jing, and Liu Qi was "exiled" to govern Jiangxia. When Cao Cao invaded Jing, Liu Cong surrendered the entire province -except Jiangxia, which Liu Qi did not yield-, and Cao Cao ordered Liu Cong to depart away from Jing to Northern China. After Liu Cong had departed, Cao Cao ordered his troops to persue Liu Cong and kill him along with his familly.)
WEI (魏)/CAO CAO (曹操) (TOWN) VICTORY!
Thank you all for participating! :bow:
*phew* nice job team. :2thumbsup: Congrats, Wei. Cheers to all.
Nice game, Jolt, thank you for hosting.
Awesome rewrite of how the battle of Red Cliffs could've turned out. Can you please post roles publically, particularly Beskars?
Good game Jolt, thanks for hosting.
Congratulations, especially to ATPG who picked out both Khaan and me.
I must admit I was a little frustrated when khaan read my pm, but otherwise had zero communication with me. Eventually after he died, I decided I'd just play for fun, to amuse the town, unfortunately my plans of sowing discord with random kills did not succeed as ATPG was protected and I was converged upon.
The reason for the lack of kill N1 was me investigating Diana, subsequently, killing her, then killing Atheotes.
Apparently Khaan had the same abilities as me, so this game might have gone much differently if more kills were present.
The emergent mafia really rode on our boat, the town had overextended themselves and nearly revealed all in the do-or-die process of eliminating us, most of your tricks were spent, but I congratulate the town on snatching victory, good game.
:bow:
And contrary to your belief, I don't know whether the emergent mafia had a cover role, but we sure didn't :laugh4:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
:bow: My goal in every game is to be the single largest boil on the bottoms of the mafia.
I didn't imagine there would be freakin' four mafiosi in this game. Holy poop on a stick doing the macarena, that was totally unnecessary! :laugh4:
2 mafia to start with... but looks like there were atleast a couple of roles who could start a mafia family if certain characters died.
I too had the opportunity for that. I could have helped the town because i knew about this and hence the ban on me by the host :yes:
there were no cover roles and no need for one for the emergent mafia.
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Originally Posted by Jolt
yeah my bad.
you can imagine my surprise when i used my power on paulus. So I then accused him, and then he imcriminated himselfby saying he could have gone mafia !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jolt
With him out of the way i was free to find a partner. I got another scan to find out if someone would be willing to join me.
So guess who I scanned :P
I could have left it, we it was clear we would win. but i thought it would be unfair on everyone if i didn't go mafia.
Such a shame that I got caught by faction heir... :( otherwise.
I posted my role-pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yaropolk
Sprig force-mafia recruited me just before he died.
So anything about my pm looky dodgy or past behaviour comments were invalid.
I pretty much kept to protecting myself except when I figured ATPG would likely be a night target.Quote:
Greetings, FactionHeir!
Congratulations! You are Leader of the Tiger Guard Xu Chu
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Xu Chu, Leader of the Tiger Guard of Prime Minister Cao Cao
You were a simple peasent in Qiao until you joined the service of the Prime Minister. From there on you have been in the Prime Minister's greatest esteem as his most loyal bodyguard and good commander. Besides protecting him, you yourself led the attack against Zhang Xiu and you killed 10,000 men yourself. Against Yuan Shao, you alone surpressed a mutiny which was going to kill Cao Cao, and went on to display your valor in battle against Yuan Shao. Now the Prime Minister is on the eve of attacking Wu, and these rumors have cast suspicion on your mind. You know that the Prime Minister is untouchable as you leave your Tiger Guard with him almost all of your time, but you have decided to take matters into your own hands to prevent the bloodshed and foil another mutiny once again.
Abilities: Guarding (You have the ability to protect one person per night. That person will surely be saved if anyone attacks, and if you manage to have a stroke of luck, phreaps you can identify or kill the attacker.)
Victory Conditions: Kill every mafioso to win.
Have fun! :P
Slightly confused why the write up mentioned 3 of us voting Beskar though when it was a tie.
Wow, that was an amazing conclusion write-up. And it's great to have survived all of this, though admittely I have been of little importance so also not a real target for either the mafia or the town. But appartently without my advise we wouldn't have won that battle, right?! :laugh4: :wink:
Thank you, Jolt, for hosting the game. The setting was very unique and indeed very interesting. Only the names of the characters had me utterly confused cause I had a hard time telling them apart when reading the write ups. :sweatdrop:
Also ... wohoo ... go TOWN!! :beam: Thanks to everybody of the town, who invested a lot more to make this victory happen than I did. :bow:
The write-up does not mention that at all. All it says is that "[...]in the end, the three decided that Beskar was the one to go" (e.g. random.org'd), as Cao Cao's State of Mind prevented him from doing that anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
The Roles
Basic Townies:
Centurion1 - Mao Jie:
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Askthepizzaguy - Liu Ye:
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Joooray - Xun You (Would have been a part of Xun Yu's Mafia familly):
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Yaropolk - Chen Qun:
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Advanced Townies:
A Very Super Market - Cao Ren:
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Diana Abnoba - Xiahou Dun:
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Subotan - Yang Xiu:
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Advanced Possible Mafia-Forming Townies:
atheotes - Jia Xu:
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Paulus Tertius - Xun Yu:
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Pro-Town Power Role:
Faction Heir - Xu Chu:
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Emerging Mafia:
Sprig - Sima Yi (Advanced Townie who formed a Mafia Familly):
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Beskar - Man Chong (Recruited Basic Townie):
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Original Mafia:
Yaseikhaan - Xu Shu:
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Death is Yonder - Pang Tong:
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Curious situations in the game:
- Several characters here did not historically participate in the Red Cliffs battle. Such would be the case of Sima Yi (Only had around 19 years old at the time), Xiahou Dun, (who was posted up in Northern China during this battle) or Chen Qun (Who was similarly young and in his early 20s, despite not even being a military advisor.), however since they were later historically famous Wei advisors, I decided to include them over obscure Wei advisors whose Role PMs I could not put much information into.
- The game could have been over extraordinarily fast. While on Day 2, Yaseikhaan was lynched, on night 3, atheotes submitted orders to investigate DiY, which was the other mafioso. Fortunately, DiY sent in orders to kill atheotes that very same night. Talk about luck in picking their target. :P
- Sprig discovering Paulus (Xun Yu) with his one-time investigation. Since he needed both atheotes (Jia Xu) and Paulus (Xun Yu) dead to form a familly, and atheotes had already been killed by DiY, he proceeded to incriminate and get the town to lynch poor Paulus. Since he had disposed of his two key opponents to form a Mafia familly, he recieved an additional investigation power to see if the investigated character would be willing to join his familly. The target for this investigation was DiY (Pang Tong) >_>. After incriminating DiY the following day, Sprig took a risk to try and randomly recruit another player to form a Mafia familly (All advanced townies would reject joining Sprig, and they would know that Sprig was Sima Yi and had attempted to recruit them into a Mafia familly.) Fortunately for Sprig, he picked Beskar, who was Man Chong, a basic townie. The thing was that while the original Mafia members could each kill separately, this new emergent familly could only kill together until one of them died. The first target was newly revealed Faction Heir (Xu Chu), who obviously protected himself, and was terribly lucky in succeeding on the recognization check on Sima Yi. (Which had 5% chance of success).
- There were three men who could form a Mafia familly: Jia Xu, Xun Yu and Sima Yi. Each needed the other two dead before being able to form a mafia familly. Note that these three are basically the brightest and most virtuous strategists in Cao Cao's staff. Both Jia Xu and Sima Yi could, upon death of the other two, recruit a basic townie. Xun Yu on the other hand, would immediatly recruit his nephew and later fellow Cao Cao opposer, Xun You. I made Xun Yu forming Mafia probabilities exceptionally low by giving him a power of vote-switching, instead of an investigation power, as Xun Yu's Mafia familly would attempt to restore the power back to the Han Emperor. As such, Xun Yu would have to count on luck or the other two revealing themselves (Which was unlikely) for his chance to form a Mafia familly to shine.
Great game Jolt, thanks for hosting. :2thumbsup:
Great job town!!!
Should have used my 1x protection on myself, but usually I don't get hit right away, and didn't want to waste it on the 1st night. Well live and learn. :laugh4:
I can not speak more highly of this game, even though I was cruelly ousted by a 5% chance… I think I might have had it in the bag if this hadn’t happened.
But then again I wasn’t about to mention who I was due to the fact I was well aware the it was Sima Yi’s descendants that founded the following dynasty and Sima Yi was responsible for outing most of the Cao Cao’s Heirs.
As for Paulus, I was really worried. His character while suspected of being assassinated for opposing Cao Cao on some key matters had actually had nothing but good advice for Cao Cao. I believe all Paulus needed to do was highlight the good parts of his characters history and put the pressure back on me. Instead he thought that I knew something about him being able to turn mafia. (Which I didn't)
Anyway, whats done is done.
Thank you very much Jolt for a fantastic game, :2thumbsup: the write ups were very well done. You can count on me signing up if you decided to host a larger version.
I have to apologize to my partner in crime. I was a bit strung thin between rl and large games at the time, and simply the game passed me by for the first couple rounds, and by the time I had my stuff in order, the game had gotten even further along. Sorry.
From what I've pieced together, a very good game, Jolt. :yes: Thanks.
There are plans for a Large Game, which will incorporate most famous Three Kingdoms characters in it. I have found a method of inserting many more characters then players into the game, and they will all be controlled by players, and all will have impact in the game. It will be somewhat complex, and this is still on the drawing board, so it probably take a year or so before I even queue the the game to be played.
i was an excellent game Jolt and i thoroughly enjoyed it even though i got killed so early. I will definitely look forward to any games you host. :2thumbsup:
DIY - on the night you killed me, i had submitted orders to use my one time investigation power on you. you were very scummy :bow: