Swords in the Moon [Concluded]

[atheotes]

Great job Andres

well played Ichigo

it was close... we could have won if we got the last lynch correct... anyways well done


Anyone know why me and the ninja master (yaropolk) were forced to commit suicide?
Shingen's last act?

[Gregoshi]

Well that was a lot of fun - frustrating at times, but fun. I think part of the frustration was having no sense of making progress as a townie. Being dead with a role didn't help either.

I was wrong right up to the end - GG Kagemusha Ichigo!

How could I forget! Thank you Andres for hosting this special game.

[Yaropolk]

Also Sassaki - it was my belief that you were actually picking the duels rather than random.org - is tha true?

[shlin28]

http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/94YjNhH6vcCa

Traitor Quicktopic.

My team were let down by me a lot... first I forgot to send in a kill, and then I send in the "wrong" battle rating to CA. I thought ratings were more spread out, and so it would be better for me to send the real rating, in case I got challenged or something. Turns out I got it wrong...

We did manage to kill two geishas and one bodyguard, as well as discovering the true Shingen though

Role PM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

shlin28

Nakayima Yumi – Nobutora loyalist.

Konichi wa, Nakayima-san,


You have always remained loyal to Takeda Nobutora-sama, the father of the usurper, Takeda Shingen.

Finally, you received the order to take care of the so called Tiger of Kai once and for all!

You are in Takeda service before Shingen and his brother, Nobushige were even born. The man leading the executions is not Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach). The real Shingen is probably among the other samurai, disguised.

You have to make sure Shingen dies and his brother survives! Do not reveal do Nobushige; he will have you executed if he finds out you are here to kill Shingen!

Not a difficult task, but you have your beloved brother, Watanabe Yumi (Olavi) on your side.

In case you need to, you can reveal in public with this cover role pm:

shlin28

Ichimaru Yoshiko – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Ichimaru-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating: 6

Abilities:
- Each night one of you can investigate two players and the other can kill one other player;
- Starting on N3, you can chose to either kill two players instead or investigate two and kill one; once you reach N3, your gained experience in subterfuge will reflect itself on a lower chance of detection by investigation at night. The longer you survive, the better you get at hiding your identity.

Victory conditions:
Major Victory : Takeda Nobushige must survive; outlast all other players;
Minor Victory: outlast all other players.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

[Yaropolk]

We did manage to kill two geishas and one bodyguard, as well as discovering the true Shingen

Don't get me started on attacking the true shingen out of the blue! We had him pegged on night 3, and were looking for bodyguards, all of a sudden traitor jumps him and reveals everything

[Wishazu]

Awesome game. My first Mafia game too. Thanks for letting me take part Andres and sorry GH, when I did feel I was getting the hang of this I was convinced you were scum and posted so many times I guess I still have a lot to learn :)

Where can I sign up to the next one?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Also Sassaki - it was my belief that you were actually picking the duels rather than random.org - is tha true?

Close--I could remove a duel from the list (I removed all my own--I was never really trying to kill you duckie )

Sasaki Kojiro

Takeda Shingen – The Tiger of Kai

Konishiwa, Shingen-sama,


You are the REAL Takeda Shingen. The man leading the samurai during the day is your brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach), who serves as your Kagemusha.

To the public, your identity will remain hidden and you will pretend like you are one of the veteran samurai.

Your disguise if very convincing:

Sasaki Kojiro

Hamano Michiyo – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Hamano-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

You are allowed to contact your brother and his bodyguards through pm.

The bodyguards are:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi);
- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

They can protect either you or your brother or the both of you against investigations and attacks. However, protection will only work 100 % if all remaining bodyguards protect one brother. If they split forces, the protection becomes weaker. You need to pm me the orders for your bodyguards.

Battle rating : 5

Abilities:
- you can influence the duels. At the end of the day, there will be a list of 4 possible duels. At night, you can send me a pm in which you tell me which one of the duels you wish not to take place (you can only chose 1 to be removed from the list);
- at night, you have to pm me which bodyguard will protect which Takeda brother;
- you have one unique ability, can only be used once: instead of having me remove one of the duels of the list, you can chose which duel will take place – in addition, you can then chose to either have both players commit seppuku (suicide) or to just let the duel take place;

Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – you survive;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

[Yaropolk]

I had an idea to take you out on night 3 - I challenge you (battle rating 9) and we kill the other duelers. Would be interesting to see what happens in this case.

[shlin28]

Don't get me started on attacking the true shingen out of the blue! We had him pegged on night 3, and were looking for bodyguards, all of a sudden traitor jumps him and reveals everything

Heh, we investigated Sasaki on N1, but we got no results from him, so we know he has a role of some sort.

So technically we discovered the Shingen before you

[Beskar]

I told you it was Ichigo, but no, you never listened to me. We could have won the game! :P

Also, thank you for making it so I am not the one who duelled, Sasaki.

Role PM, since the game is over.

TiberiusBeskar

Chiba Tadayoshi – samurai

Konichi wa, Chida-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

Last year was your first year campaigning with the Takeda army and you are proud on your first set of scars.

You are still young, but you know the way of the warrior. You live to serve your Lord and you would be honored to die in his service.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 3

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

As for being suspicious, being so allows me to stay alive, as it makes me look like a viable lynch target. I said this near the beginning of the game (whoever wants to search for it, can.)

I was trying to tread the line between being a potential lynch target to stay alive from the Mafia nights, but not enough to actually get lynched.


Edit: Heheh.. reading the Mafia chat.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I had an idea to take you out on night 3 - I challenge you (battle rating 9) and we kill the other duelers. Would be interesting to see what happens in this case.

Would have been no duel at all I suspect, since I removed my duel from the list...

We never even noticed that Ichigo had won two duels...

[Splitpersonality]

I really wish I had been alive for this all, but in the end good game Ichigo!

Might I ask who killed me by the way?

[Gregoshi]

http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/94YjNhH6vcCa

Traitor Quicktopic.

Hey! What do you mean I was acting weird?!

[Yaropolk]

I really wish I had been alive for this all, but in the end good game Ichigo!

Might I ask who killed me by the way?

Ninjas did - go look at the quicktopic

[shlin28]

Hey! What do you mean I was acting weird?!

Welll you were commanding the Pineapple Samurai and Lord Beefy...

[Andres]

I. Role pm's

a) "Takeda team"

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

CountArach

Takeda Nobushige - Kagemusha

Konichi wa, Nobushige-san,


First of all: you are NOT Takeda Shingen. You are his Kagemusha, his shadow warrior. A man who resembles his Lord and takes his place when he is in danger.

To the public, you will take the role of Takeda Shingen. The real Takeda Shingen however is:

- Sasaki Kojiro

You are allowed to contact your brother and his bodyguards through pm.

The bodyguards are:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi);
- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

They can protect either you or your brother or the both of you against investigations and attacks. However, protection will only work 100 % if all remaining bodyguards protect one brother. If they split forces, the protection becomes weaker.

Battle rating : 5

Abilities: you have no special night abilities.

Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – Takeda Shingen survives;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Sasaki Kojiro

Takeda Shingen – The Tiger of Kai

Konishiwa, Shingen-sama,


You are the REAL Takeda Shingen. The man leading the samurai during the day is your brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach), who serves as your Kagemusha.

To the public, your identity will remain hidden and you will pretend like you are one of the veteran samurai.

Your disguise if very convincing:

Sasaki Kojiro

Hamano Michiyo – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Hamano-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

You are allowed to contact your brother and his bodyguards through pm.

The bodyguards are:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi);
- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

They can protect either you or your brother or the both of you against investigations and attacks. However, protection will only work 100 % if all remaining bodyguards protect one brother. If they split forces, the protection becomes weaker. You need to pm me the orders for your bodyguards.

Battle rating : 5

Abilities:
- you can influence the duels. At the end of the day, there will be a list of 4 possible duels. At night, you can send me a pm in which you tell me which one of the duels you wish not to take place (you can only chose 1 to be removed from the list);
- at night, you have to pm me which bodyguard will protect which Takeda brother;
- you have one unique ability, can only be used once: instead of having me remove one of the duels of the list, you can chose which duel will take place – in addition, you can then chose to either have both players commit seppuku (suicide) or to just let the duel take place;

Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – you survive;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Husar

Miyamoto Musashi – Sword Master

Konichi wa, Miyamoto-san,


You are a legendary sword master, Takeda Shingens’ champion on the battlefield and his trusted and loyal bodyguard on all other occasions.

You have followed your master to his Winter residence and you will protect him and his brother, Takeda Nobushige, with your life.

You are one of the few who knows that the man leading the executions is not really Takeda Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach).

The real Takeda Shingen (Sasaki Kojiro) is hiding among the other samurai, disguised.

The other two bodyguards are:

- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

During the night, your master will pm me if you are going to protect him or his brother.

Battle rating : 9

Abilities:
- at night, you protect one of the Takeda brothers, as ordered by your master.
Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – Takeda Shingen survives;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Gobbledygook

Yamamoto Kansuke – Sword Master

Konichi wa, Yamamoto-san,


You are a sword master, one of Takeda Shingens’ trusted and loyal bodyguards.

You have followed your master to his Winter residence and you will protect him and his brother, Takeda Nobushige, with your life.

You are one of the few who knows that the man leading the executions is not really Takeda Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach).

The real Takeda Shingen (Sasaki Kojiro) is hiding among the other samurai, disguised.

The other two bodyguards are:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

During the night, your master will pm me if you are going to protect him or his brother.

Battle rating : 7

Abilities:
- at night, you protect one of the Takeda brothers, as ordered by your master.

Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – Takeda Shingen survives;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

glyphz

Kago Junichiro– Sword Master

Konichi wa, Kago-san,


You are a sword master, one of Takeda Shingens’ trusted and loyal bodyguards.

You have followed your master to his Winter residence and you will protect him and his brother, Takeda Nobushige, with your life.

You are one of the few who knows that the man leading the executions is not really Takeda Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach).

The real Takeda Shingen (Sasaki Kojiro) is hiding among the other samurai, disguised.

The other two bodyguards are:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi)
- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)

During the night, your master will pm me if you are going to protect him or his brother.

Battle rating : 7

Abilities:
- at night, you protect one of the Takeda brothers, as ordered by your master.

Victory conditions:
Major victory : outlast the ninja and the traitors – Takeda Shingen survives;
Minor victory: outlast the ninja and the traitors

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

b) Shinobi

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Banquo’s Ghost

Matsuura Asuma – Shinobi


Konichi wa, Matsuura-san,


You are the Shinobi, Takeda Shingens’ spymaster. Your master ordered you to stay home, because he would not be in any danger, surrounded by his most loyal servants.

Like every year, you disobeyed his orders and you went with him, disguised as a regular samurai.

You know that he uses his brother, Nobushige, as his Kagemusha (shadow warrior), who pretends to be Shingen, while the real Lord hides between his men.

You also see through the disguise of your Lord.

- Takeda Nobushige: CountArach;
- Takeda Shingen: Sasaki Kojiro;

You also know his bodyguards:

- Husar (Miyamoto Musashi);
- Gobbledygook (Yamamoto Kansuke)
- glyphz (Kago Junichiro)

However, since you are here against a direct order from your Lord, you cannot reveal your identity to them (i.e.: YOU ARE NOT, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE, ALLOWED TO REVEAL IN PRIVATE OR TO EVEN CONTACT THEM ALLUDING TO YOUR ROLE OR THEIRS - feel free to reveal in public at your own risk).

During the day, you are obviously disguised as a samurai. You can use this cover pm to “reveal” if necessary:

Banquo’s Ghost

Kojima Yumi – samurai

Konichi wa, Kojima-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

Last year was your first year campaigning with the Takeda army and you are proud on your first set of scars.
You are still young, but you know the way of the warrior. You live to serve your Lord and you would be honored to die in his service.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 3

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating : 4

Abilities:
- at night, you can investigate two players, keep in mind that some players are immune or almost immune to investigations;
- you have a unique ability, that you can use only once: you can poison the food of one player during the day (you have to pm me the order during the day), the poison will take effect the next day and that player will drop dead during the proceedings.

Victory conditions:
- Takeda Shingen must survive the game

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

c) Geisha

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Gregoshi

Okichi - Geisha

Konichi wa, Okichi-chan,


Lovely Kikuya, trained in the best okiya of Edo. Your beauty is known all over the civilised world. You are here with your sister, Kikuya (Lord Winter).

You want that lovely Lord Takeda Shingen to have a good time during this Winter season.

Since your geisha robes would give you away easily, during the day, you are disguised as a samurai.

This is your cover pm which you can use to “reveal” in public:

Gregoshi

Kawazoe Sadako – samurai

Konichi wa, Kawazoe-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

Last year was your first year campaigning with the Takeda army and you are proud on your first set of scars.
You are still young, but you know the way of the warrior. You live to serve your Lord and you would be honored to die in his service.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 3

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating : 2

Abilities:
- Each night, you can chose to “entertain” one player of your choice. If that player would happens to have night abilities, then those will be blocked. As long as you have your hairpins (more on that later), you will also protect that player against attacks.
- When the player you “entertain” is been attacked, you will defend said player with your hairpins. However, you will lose them in the proces and next time, you will still protect that player, but you’ll pay for it with your life.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Lord Winter

Kikuya - Geisha

Konichi wa, Kikuya-chan,


Lovely Kikuya, trained in the best okiya of Edo. Your beauty is known all over the civilised world. You are here with your sister, Okichi (Gregoshi).

You want that lovely Lord Takeda Shingen to have a good time during this Winter season.

Since your geisha robes would give you away easily, during the day, you are disguised as a samurai.

This is your cover pm which you can use to “reveal” in public:

Lord Winter

Kawazoe Izumi – samurai

Konichi wa, Kawazoe-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

Last year was your first year campaigning with the Takeda army and you are proud on your first set of scars.
You are still young, but you know the way of the warrior. You live to serve your Lord and you would be honored to die in his service.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 3

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating : 2

Abilities:
- Each night, you can chose to “entertain” one player of your choice. If that player would happens to have night abilities, then those will be blocked. As long as you have your hairpins (more on that later), you will also protect that player against attacks.
- When the player you “entertain” is been attacked, you will defend said player with your hairpins. However, you will lose them in the proces and next time, you will still protect that player, but you’ll pay for it with your life.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

d) Traitors

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

shlin28

Nakayima Yumi – Nobutora loyalist.

Konichi wa, Nakayima-san,


You have always remained loyal to Takeda Nobutora-sama, the father of the usurper, Takeda Shingen.

Finally, you received the order to take care of the so called Tiger of Kai once and for all!

You are in Takeda service before Shingen and his brother, Nobushige were even born. The man leading the executions is not Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach). The real Shingen is probably among the other samurai, disguised.

You have to make sure Shingen dies and his brother survives! Do not reveal do Nobushige; he will have you executed if he finds out you are here to kill Shingen!

Not a difficult task, but you have your beloved brother, Watanabe Yumi (Olavi) on your side.

In case you need to, you can reveal in public with this cover role pm:

shlin28

Ichimaru Yoshiko – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Ichimaru-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating: 6

Abilities:
- Each night one of you can investigate two players and the other can kill one other player;
- Starting on N3, you can chose to either kill two players instead or investigate two and kill one; once you reach N3, your gained experience in subterfuge will reflect itself on a lower chance of detection by investigation at night. The longer you survive, the better you get at hiding your identity.

Victory conditions:
Major Victory : Takeda Nobushige must survive; outlast all other players;
Minor Victory: outlast all other players.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Olavi

Watanabe Yumi – Nobutora loyalist.

Konichi wa, Watanabe-san,


You have always remained loyal to Takeda Nobutora-sama, the father of the usurper, Takeda Shingen.

Finally, you received the order to take care of the so called Tiger of Kai once and for all!

You are in Takeda service before Shingen and his brother, Nobushige were even born. The man leading the executions is not Shingen, but his brother, Takeda Nobushige (CountArach). The real Shingen is probably among the other samurai, disguised.

You have to make sure Shingen dies and his brother survives! Do not reveal do Nobushige; he will have you executed if he finds out you are here to kill Shingen!

Not a difficult task, but you have your beloved brother, Nakayima Yumi (shlin28) on your side.

In case you need to, you can reveal in public with this cover role pm:

Olavi

Iino Kumiko – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Iino-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Battle rating: 6

Abilities:
- Each night one of you can investigate two players and the other can kill one other player;
- Starting on N3, you can chose to either kill two players instead or investigate two and kill one; once you reach N3, your gained experience in subterfuge will reflect itself on a lower chance of detection by investigation at night. The longer you survive, the better you get at hiding your identity.

Victory conditions:
Major Victory : Takeda Nobushige must survive; outlast all other players;
Minor Victory: outlast all other players.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

e) Ninja

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Kato Danzo – the ninja master.

Hi Yaropolk,

Congratulations! You are Kato Danzo, the ninja master.



You are also known as “Flying Kato”, because of your legendary ability to enter heavily guarded castles undetected.

As with every ninja, your past is unknown.

You accepted Kiyonaga’s mission and you are now bound by your honor and reputation to fulfill the task: bring him Takeda Shingen’s head.

You are aware that you’ll need to follow the Tiger of Kai into the mountains, during the Winter. All the passes leading to Shingens’ yashiki will be blocked by the snow, so you know that you will not only have to kill Shingen, but, in order to get out of there alive, also all of his samurai.

As soon as you took the place of one of Takeda’s men, you started to examine the patterns of the Tiger. Apparently, at night, he is guarded by three sword masters, one of them the famous Miyamoto Musashi. In order to kill Shingen, you’ll have to take out his champions first.

Shingen’s spymaster did a good job however in disguising them, so you’ll have to find them through careful investigation.

Not an easy task, which is why you brought your three students with you:

- Nakadai Mayurama (Dutch_guy);
- Hisao Mayurama (Quintus.JC);
- Seizaburo Makabe (Ichigo);

They will assist you in doing what you came for by killing 3 chosen targets each night. No matter how numerous your students are, they will always have three kills each night. However, succes rate for assasinations on certain targets may vary when their numbers drop. Attacks by your students on certain targets are bound to fail, since some targets need a master…

Battle rating: 9

Night abilities:
- Each night, you can investigate 3 players to learn about their role OR you can decide to assist your students to take out a difficult target OR you can block one other player;
- During the night, you are immune to investigations, no matter what action you undertake. After all, you are a master of illusions.

As a master of illusions, you are disguised as a veteran samurai. This is your cover role pm, which will show up upon investigation or which you can use to reveal in public at your leisure:

Yaropolk

Shinohara Yuuko – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Shinohara-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

One last hint: don’t be fooled by the shadow warrior. Investigate him if you don’t want to be surprised.

Gokouun o inorimasu, ninja master.



P.S.: the game starts with a night phase. Since I want to limit the number of players to get killed before the game really starts, you only have 2 kills instead of 3 on N1.

Nakadai Mayurama – ninja

Hi Dutch_guy,

Congratulations, you are one of the ninja!

After your master got his task, he decided to take three students with him on his mission.

You are one of them! Allthough, the youngest of his students, you are also the most talented one and it is written that one day, you will become a great ninja master yourself.

You’re a master with any weapon and your mastery of the art of illusion is only surpassed by your master, Kato Danzo-sama (Yaropolk).

The other students Kato brought along are:

- Hisao Mayurama (Quintus.JC);
- Seizaburo Makabe (Ichigo);

Each night, you and your partners will get 3 kills. If your numbers drop, you still have three kills each night, but your succes rate might drop when going after certain targets. Some targets will need the help of a master to take out…

Battle rating: 7

Night abilities:
- Each night, you and the other ninja will kill three targets.

As a student in the art of illusion, you have a cover, namely the disguise of a veteran samurai. You can use this cover pm to reveal in public at your leisure. Since you are a very talented master of illusion, there’s a ½ chance that this your real role will not be revealed upon investigation and instead, this one will be shown:

Dutch_guy

Fukuda Ayumu – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Fukuda-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Gokouun o inorimasu, ninja.

Hisao Mayurama – ninja

Hi Quintus.JC,

Congratulations, you are one of the ninja!

After your master got his task, he decided to take three students with him on his mission.

You are one of them! You are the most experienced of his students. Allthough you lack the talent to become a ninja master (unlike your talented brother, Nakadai), your are quite capable of doing what you’re trained for.

You’re excellent with any weapon and you have a basic knowledge of the art of illusion.

The other students your master Kato Danzo (Yaropolk) brought along are:

- Nakadai Mayurama (Dutch_guy);
- Seizaburo Makabe (Ichigo);

Each night, you and your partners will get 3 kills. If your numbers drop, you still have three kills each night, but your succes rate might drop when going after certain targets. Some targets will need the help of a master to take out…

Battle rating: 6

Night abilities:
- Each night, you and the other ninja will kill three targets.

As a student in the art of illusion, you have a cover, namely the disguise of a veteran samurai. You can use this cover pm to reveal in public at your leisure:

Quintus.JC

Fujimoto Kumiko – veteran samurai

Konichi wa, Fujimoto-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

You have been in many battles for him and you have the scars to prove it.

As a samurai, you live to serve and there is no greater honor then to die in the service of your master.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 5

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Gokouun o inorimasu, ninja.

Seizaburo Makabe – ninja

Hi Ichigo,

Congratulations, you are one of the ninja!

After your master got his task, he decided to take three students with him on his mission.

You are one of them! You are the youngest yet perhaps the most talented student. Your master brought you with him, because the time is there for you to be tested during a real mission.

You’re outstanding with any weapon and you have a basic knowledge of the art of illusion.

The other students your master Kato Danzo (Yaropolk) brought along are:

- Nakadai Mayurama (Dutch_guy);
- Hisao Mayurama (Quintus.JC);

Each night, you and your partners will get 3 kills. If your numbers drop, you still have three kills each night, but your succes rate might drop when going after certain targets. Some targets will need the help of a master to take out…

Battle rating: 5

Night abilities:
- Each night, you and the other ninja will kill three targets.

As a student in the art of illusion, you have a cover, namely the disguise of a veteran samurai. You can use this cover pm to reveal in public at your leisure:

Ichigo

Michishige Michiyo – samurai

Konichi wa, Michishige-san

You are one of the chosen samurai to join your master to his yashiki. This is a great honor and you are very grateful to your master.

Last year was your first year campaigning with the Takeda army and you are proud on your first set of scars.
You are still young, but you know the way of the warrior. You live to serve your Lord and you would be honored to die in his service.

You will protect Takeda Shingen-sama with your life.

Battle rating: 3

Abilities:
- During the day, you can vote for the players that you consider to be suspicous, as explained in the rules in the first post of the game thread.
- You can also challenge one other player to a duel during the day. If the kami of the mountain decide that you have to duel, then that duel will be fought at sunrise, right before the start of the next day.
- During the night, you sleep.

Gokouun o inorimasu (good luck)!

Gokouun o inorimasu, ninja.

II. Behind the scenes - mechanics

Takeda
- Takeda Shingen was not Takeda Shingen. CountArach was the shadow warrior or "kagemusha" of the real Takeda Shingen : Sasaki.
- Shingen had some night abilities: 1) each night, he had to pm me one of the duels on the challenge list to be removed from it; 2) each night he had to pm me which bodyguard was going to protect which Takeda brother. Shingen had one unique ability, to be used only once: instead of removing a duel from the list, he could pick one and decide to either have it end in no bloodshed or have both opponents commit seppuku.
- three bodyguards combining protection on one Takeda brother would result in failure of all night actions against them, be it assassination attempts or investigations. Only the geisha could break through the defense and discover the real Takeda Shingen. Down to 2 bodyguards, ninja without master or traitors would have a 25 % succes chance of getting to Shingen, down to 1 bodyguard, 50 % chance. Ninja with master, would have gotten a 10 % bonus.
- first attack by three ninja on a swordmaster, had a 50 % chance of directly killing him; attacks by 2 ninja 33 %, one ninja 25 %. With the help of the ninja master, attacks on bodyguards would always succeed. A failed first attack would result in a severe injury for the bodyguard. A second attack would always result in a kill. Traitors: first attack 33 % succes chance, failed = injury; second attack = always succesful.
- dead of the kagemusha would not have resulted in the real Shingen being revealed. A "masked samurai" would have taken charge of the proceedings during the day.

Traitors.
With only two members, they were underpowered. This unbalance was repaired by allowing the traitors to have 1 additional recruit if they made through N3. This recruit was to be picked from one of the veteran samurai. I randomised that list, the three coming out on top would be possible recruits; I gave them a number from 1 to 3 and had the traitors pick a number. Captain Blackadder was the chosen one. Unfortunately, the traitors didn't last long. I had several power-ups in mind. An increase in killing power with the recruit. They would have gotten an additional kill at N6 (which didn't go through, since Blackadders kill on N5 failed and he got killed himself N6) and some investigation power and also a 50 % immunity against investigations. Alas. The game ended for the traitor team at N6.

At the start, they could either kill two or kill 1 and investigate 2. In retrospect, the traitors were a bit underpowered. In the original concept they weren't included; I put them in to balance things out, since I didn't want to change the setup of 1 ninja master and three ninja. I first thought about adding in two seperate serial killers, but I preferred this, as it seemed more powerful then two serial killers.

Shinobi
A classic detective. Allthough, in order to balance things, the shinobi had a unique ability, a one time opportunity to poison one player of his choice; a kill attempt with a 100 % guaranteed succes rate, no matter who the target was.

Geisha
The classic role blocker+protector, with some "extra's": hairpins that would injure the attacker of their protectee+the ability to get acces to the Takeda brothers no matter how well they were guarded.

Ninja.
The ninja master was basically the godfather, but only it was random.org that picked the henchmen, not the godfather himself. At night, the master could chose to a) investigate 3 players; b) block one player; c) assist his students. Always innocent upon investigation. Dutch had a 50 % immunity.

III. Duels.

The duels were based on Sigurd's duel system. The dice were thrown as in the game Risk. The battleratings represent the number of armies you would have in the boardgame. The attacker throws three dice. Then the defender rolls two. The attacker compares his highest die to the highest of the defender; if the attacker's die is higher, the defender loses one die (point of his battle rating), if it's equal or lower, the attacker loses one. Idem dito for the second highest die of the attacker and the remaining die of the defender. This goes one until one of the fighters has lost all his armies (battle rating points). You gained one point in battlerating if you won against a stronger opponent. No changes for victories agains equal or lesser opponents.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

" P.S.: the game starts with a night phase. Since I want to limit the number of players to get killed before the game really starts, you only have 2 kills instead of 3 on N1."

so much confusion caused..."Oh one of the ninja must not have sent in their order!"...

Btw, Ichigo - you're next on Sasaki's radar, get ready.

I wish...ichigo was on my radar for a few hours then I got distracted by someone else.


Interesting read. Glad to see my special ability came as a surprise and that the edited pm caused a little confusion.

Had no idea you had me pegged as shingen so early though. By the time I revealed I was sure you knew--all you had to do was add 2 and 2.

[Splitpersonality]

Damn QJC! Damn you to hell!

QJC

04-19-2009 04:54 AM ET (US)
When I say take them off that list I meant to say we should leave them live, not killing any of them in the immediete future.

I'll take Splitepersonality tonight.

[Andres]

I kept a diary from sign-up phase until the final night. It's (very) long, about 11 pages in Word. It's written from the perspective of a spectator, as the game advanced. I didn't always bother to bold names and such or correct grammar/spelling mistakes but I thought you'd appreciate it if it were posted quickly, so here it is. I hope you enjoy it :

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sign-up phase.

Ok, we're still in the sign-up phase when I write this. I must say, I'm quite impressed by the turnout. At the moment, I just added woad&fangs to the list. He's number 58.

When I first saw the subforum on Monday evening, there were about 19 players signed up. Not bad for one day without advertising or PM'ing, but still not enough. The game can be played with 35, but 50 would be sweet.

I started to mass pm and posted ads in the Gameroom and the Entrance Hall. I also popped in in random threads, looking for an opportunity to say "join"

Little did I know that I would get such a massive response. When it reached 40, I sneakily edited the OP and changed max 50 to max 60. We're now at 58!

And look at those names: all the "usual suspects" are there: Sasaki, TinCow, Reenk Roink, Seamus, Beefy, 'khaan, GH, ATPG, Ichigo, ... You name a Gameroom regular and he's on the list. Great!

But there are some wonderful "unusual suspects", like the punmaster Gregoshi. Oh, I'm so looking forward to see how he plays. And Kukri has joined! Banquo finally gives in to the temptation and even the boss, TosaInu, wants to play. Tosa! What kept you so long. I tried to get him to join in the past and I guess other hosts tried to convince him as well in the past, so I figured that he would never join and look now. Guess it's the Sengoku Jidai setting that's too much for him.

Many oldtimers coming back from retirement as well: CR, Peasant Phill, Husar, Haudegen,...

What am I doing? Repeating the playerlist... People don't want to read that when they see "hosts'" write-up.

Only 2 places left.

Stress?

Preparations had to go "fast". I have all roles worked out in my head, still not sure about a few abilities though.

Every player will get a unique character name, so I'll have to pm each player individually. This kinda sucks; it's much easier to send the townie pm's to 30 at a time. Oh well.

4 unique ninja role pm's, 1 geisha pm, 1 shinobi pm, 1 Kagemusha pm, 2 or 3 swordmaster pm's, 1 Shingen pm, 1 pm for the "veteran samurai" and 1 pm for the "young samurai". All of it is in my head, just need to write it down. Won't have much time tonight, hopefully I get a few done anyway.

The more I think about this, the deeper my respect for Seamus. In Capo each player has night abilities. Seamus, you are now officially crazy

“ Procastrinate
“ causes me alot of stress
“ prepare earlier

Sign-ups are closed!

Well, Yaropolk really got lucky! Just in time and that makes 64.

I've made an excel sheet with all character names and special roles. The first 14 will get a special role from the very start.

First I'll throw two dice with random.org. That's the number of times I'm going to let the list randomizer randomise all the names. I'll put the names in that order in my excel sheet and that's how the roles will be decided.

Ok, roles are decided.

Yaropolk, I hope you bought a lottery ticket today, because this is really your lucky day! Signed-up just in time and now you got the ninja master role.

Locking thread for distributing role pm’s and we’re ready for kick off.

Game.

Night 1
Ninja team:
- students:kill: splitpersonality+Khazaar:succes;
- Master:investigate TinCow, Sasaki and GH - Sasaki : fails; TinCow : samurai ; GH : veteran
Traitors:
- Olavi:investigates TinCow and Sasaki TinCow: samurai; Sasaki: fails
- shlin28: kills Lord Winter: succes
geisha 1 (Lord Winter): protect/block pever -> failed (geisha KIA)
geisha 2 (Gregoshi): nothing
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate Gregoshi + Kukrikhan - Gregoshi : geisha ; Kukri: veteran
Takeda team:
- Husar:protect Sasaki
- Gobbledygook:protect Sasaki
- Glyphz:protect Sasaki

Night 1 comment:
Lord Winter was the first to send in his night order. Unsurprisingly, Sasaki wants all bodyguards to protect him. Logical choice, since everybody thinks CA is unreachable. The traitors will investigate two high profile players, TinCow and Sasaki. Good for Sasaki that he choses the three bodyguards to protect him. The investigation on Sasaki will fail. Town will get a first blow tonight, since shlin28 will kill Lord Winter. That's unfortunate, but oh well. Some pretty funny stuff being posted night 1. Post #165 is a perfect example of the reason why I always wanted to see Gregoshi in a mafia game. And if TinCow keeps making me laugh in each mafia game I play or host, I'll nominate him as funniest member again. Who ever said lawyers can't be fun? The mafia will kill Khazaar and spl1tper50n4lity. Good choices, allthough I kinda feel sorry for them. It's never fun to go before the game really started. Sorry guys. I hope you'll still keep following the game. Better luck next time!

I wonder if the reduced kills will make them speculate about lynching a lurker. Oh well, if that’s the case, so bei t.

Day 1
All roles pretty much flew under the radar, not unusual on the first day. Sasaki got a vote from Ichigo, as always. Poor TiberiusBeskar seems to get the full frontal attack from Sasaki. I can almost feel the pain of the poor chap. "What? What have I done? Why me?" He doesn't give up though, that's the spirit good sir! Never go down quietly, regardless of your role.But it seems like ATPG is going to be the lynch for today. Poor boy, he finally tries to change his style because people complain about his annoying massive amounts of posts and now that he obliges, they're going to lynch him. It was to be expected, I guess. Oh well, once town is used to his new style, he'll manage to survive a bit longer in future games, I hope. Since it's always a bit sad to have to go early, I'll make something beautiful from the lynch write-up. Nothing cruel, just a modest, honorable seppuku.

Night 2
Ninja team:
- students:kill The Spartan, Olavi, Iskander III= succes
- Master: investigate Sasaki (fail), FactionHeir (succes), AggonyDuck(succes)
Traitors:
- Olavi:Kill shinseikhaan: succes
- shlin28:investigate Beefy and Gregoshi (succes)
geisha 2 (Gregoshi)entertain Sasaki (succes)
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate Reenk Roink – Sigurd (succes)
Takeda team:
- Husar: protect Sasaki
- gobbledygook : protect Sasaki
- glyphz : protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: remove Sasaki duel
Night 2 comment.
No surprises for the Night orders of the Takeda team. Sasaki removed his duel from the list and the three swordmasters will protect him. Hmmm, the traitors will kill 'khaan and investigate Beefy187 and Gregoshi. Unfortunately, the ninja target Olavi. Since the traitors' orders were first, their kill and investigation will succeed. A pity Olavi didn't make it to N3, so it'll be shlin28 and the traitor recruit. Probably,the second geisha will get wasted soon. Traitors are geisha killers… Gregoshi wants to spend the night with Sasaki. The geisha are the only ones capable of getting through Shingens' defence, so tonight, Greg will discover Sasaki's secret and they'll be able to coordinate. Iskander III, The Spartan and Olavi will have to go, the ninja team continues the tactic to kill fairly new players. The master will investigate AggonyDuck and FactionHeir. He'll try to investigate Sasaki again, but he'll fail. I'll let him be caught by a samurai, let's see if they get the hint that Sasaki is not reachable at the moment.

Day 2

Still 55 alive. Oh well, it's still doable. Of the power roles, we have one good guy and one bad guy down. The traitors who had to start underpowered will have one recruit, to chose of whoever survives from this list:
pevergreen, Psychonaut, Yoyoma1910, Rhyfelwyr, Kukri, Caius, GH, YLC, Peasant Phill, Glenn, ajax, CaptainB or CR (the veteran samurai). I’ll let random.org pick three of them and attribute a number to each of those. Shlin28 will have to chose 1, 2 or 3.

Scummy post #488 by Yaropolk, if you ask me. Some will pick on that undoubtedly. Beskar unvotes abstain; technically speaking, he voted Yaropolk when he told Sasaki how to unvote and vote, but I won't nitpick. Yet… :)

Stephen Assen is getting bandwagoned for no particular reason, so it seems. The timing of his posting? His absence during the beginning of the game? Come on guys; you should know by now that I accept orders by proxy, so even if he were mafia, his team mates would have sent in orders. Certainly with teams of 4 and 2, mafia won't fail to get in their orders in time. Oh well. I'm starting to feel sorry for Stephen now, he was so enthusiastic before the game started and felt really bad because he couldn't joinin the first days. Oh well, it's a cruel game.

It seems now like Stephen is getting a few unvotes and a new bandwagon starts, slightly unnoticed, against poor Sigurd who's crime is being absent.

Sigurd gets lynched. A lot of talk in the previous round. Yaropolk was able to slip under the radar and no important roles have been under real pressure.

N3

Ok, the traitors will be able to recruit. They can pick from 1. Kukri 2. Captain Blackadder 3. Ajaxfetish. Let's hope none of the recruits gets targeted by the ninja…

Ninja team:
- students:kill Chaotix, pevergreen, Thermal Mercury: succes
- Master: investigate Sasaki (fail), Beskar (succes), Beefy (succes)
Traitors:
- shlin28:kill Gregoshi
- Captain Blackadder : no orders
geisha 2 (Gregoshi)killed
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate TinCow and Beskar (succes)
Takeda team:
- Husar: protect Sasaki
- gobbledygook : protect Sasaki
- glyphz: protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: remove duel Sasaki vs. AggonyDuck

Night 3 comment.
shlin28 picks number 2… Captain Blackadder it is then. Poor Gregoshi dies. A pity, he was really starting to get the hang of it and having alot of fun as well, so it seems. Do we have a new mafia addict? Let’s hope so.

No surprises with the Takeda orders.

Gah. All these name changes to pever[randomcolor]. Guys, this is not fun. I am not going to change my excel sheets because of this idiocy. Change avatar and put previous username in sig and custom title or get WoG'ed. Really, in a game this size, it's really very, very annoying to both host and other players to change your username mid game. Tempted to abuse mod powers.

Ha, the ninja aren't happy either. Three pevers will die tonight: Chaotix, Thermal and pevergreen. Another try to investigate Sasaki. Sorry guys, won't work.

Day 3

Hmmm, the dead of the pevers got TinCow a vote.

shlin28, sometimes it's pure joy to see you playing; I got a chuckle out of your "Yay! I got HoSd comment" Poor shlin getting a vote from w&f for being known for gruesome killings. It wasn’t him! Oh, the irony.

El Diablo challenges YLC and that's the third challenge in less than an hour already. Ok, challenging is fun and all, but I designed it as a tool for the town to help them trying to kill suspects, more like"ok we have two suspects, lynch one and four other players challenge the other suspect to make sure said suspect has to fight."

Thus far, the challenges have been wasted; it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t manage to have at least one scum fight. Oh well, should have thought of it. Temptation is too strong to resist. On the other hand, it gives every townie a touch of flavour, something to do individually. It makes townies feel like more than "just a boring townie". Perfectly understandable, but still, it's a bit of a waste to just challenge ahead.

Hmmm… 'khaan wants everyone to vote for TinCow. Poor TinCow. Pn the other hand, TC is capable of defending himself, but I'm more looking forward to see one of his sometimes hilarious posts. Keep some pressure on him guys, if I'm lucky, I get quite a few good laughs out of this. Oh, the joys of being an evil god… Muahahahaha

Ok, GH voted 'khaan and now LittleGrizzly even made a whole case against him. He's dead, guys! 'khaan's already dead!Got killed two nights ago…Hmmm… no bandwagon on TinCow, instead shlin28 seems to be prime suspect. shlin, shlin, shlin I provided you with a flawless cover pm and you sent a different battle rating than the one mentioned in it… Tsk, tsk, tsk… Reminds me of the Settlement… Oh well. Guess Blackadder will be on his own after today.

Night 4

Ninja team:
- students: kill LittleGrizzly, Reenk Roink, Louis VI the Fat (succes)
- Master:Investigate Seamus, Stephen Asen, CA (succes)
Traitors:
- Captain Blackadder: kill Sasaki : fails
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate CR and GH (succes)
Takeda team:
- Husar: protect Sasaki
- gobbledygook: protect Sasaki
- glyphz: protect Sasaki
- Sasakiremove GH vs. Rhyfelwyr

Night 4 comment

Hmmm… Ninja team seems to have discovered the truth about CA (cf. quikctopic) and are going to investigate him to be sure. You guys figured it out rather quick; nice one guys. Captain B will attack Sasaki, he'll be in for a surprise! Maybe he'll figure it out as well tonight. Kage (post 1073), you're a bit rusty indeed…

Duel will be between El Diablo and YLC, close victory for YLC.

Day 4

Poor Tosa posts to avoid the WoG and gets pressured straight away. Ah well, not unusual for a player who suddenly pops up again. Let's see how this goes. Sasaki surviving an attack may bring him into trouble instead of clearing him. After all, town doesn’t know what extra abilities the ninja master disposes of.

Town seems to be lazy today; the Tosa lynch seems kind of silly to me. I won't be surprised if he gets lynched with a low amount of votes. Turnout for this day will be low, I'm afraid. Prodded a few players at the risk of getting WoG'ed.

Poor LittleGrizzly, even when he's dead, he's a popular lynch target

This is going to be a good round for ninja and the remaining traitor. No suspicion or pressure whatsoever on them.

Night 5

What did TinCow do wrong? It's not his fault Rhyfelwyr isn't paying attention by revealing his role after the lynch scene was already posted!

Ninja team:
- students:kill Husar, Crazed Rabbit, Glenn (Husar fails)
- Master:Investigate YLC, Kage, Kukri
Traitors:
- Captain Blackadder: kill AVSM : succes
Shinobi (Banquo) investigate Seamus and Stephen Asen (succes – innocent samurai)
Takeda team:
- Husar: protect Sasaki
- gobbledygook: protect Sasaki
- glyphz: protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: remove Glenn vs. Rhyfelwyr

D5

TinCow winning the duel won't do much good for him; he'll be even more suspicious by now and Sasaki will probably be convinced of his guilt. Hopefully this will be a good round with plenty of discussion.

Stephen Asen and Beskar will probably be at each others' throat this round. Some drama is always good. Beskar seems to get alot of votes, again. A lot to do about the question if mafia has townie pm's or not. TinCow probably feels like I felt in Midgard; just a plain old townie with a low batterating who won against a stronger opponent, right after a round where there was already some suspicion.

It really sucks if you're innocent, but coincidence make it look like there are facts pointing to your guilt.

In the meanwhile, both mafia and the last remaining traitor are doing very well by avoiding suspicion.

N6

Ninja team:
- students: kill Death is yonder, Haudegen, Captain Blackadder (succes)
- Master:Investigate Caius, woad&fangs, Rhyfelwyr (succeeds)
Traitors:
- Captain Blackadder: kill Husar
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate Tristan de Castelreng and Quintus.JC (succes!)
Takeda team:
- Husar : protect Sasaki
- gobbledygook: protect Sasaki
- glyphz : protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: remove White_Eyes:D vs. Sasaki

A very interesting night!

1) the first bodyguard, Husar, will die, 2) a cross kill will take out the last remaining traitor and 3) the Shinobi will detect his first ninja!

Town will be getting back on its' feet. Add to that the fact that Ichigo is apparently considered a suspect and all of the sudden, after several wasted lynches and duels, things look pretty good for the townies.

D6

Hmmm… GH is under suspicion because of his duel. The anger mentioned in the write-up was because Beefy and GH have challenged each other quite a few times (4 days in a row they had challenged each other) and thus it seemed fitting to reflect that in the write-up as if they were two samurai hating each other. As for the bow to Takeda, I didn't write that he did not bow, I just didn't mention it. That would be a bit too easy now.

Aha, AggonyDuck figured it out: CA is Sasaki's Kagemusha, but now he believes Sasaki is the ninja master. Both would make sense from an uninformed townie point of view. Good thinking, AggonyDuck Banquo revealed and decided to use his poison on Kukrikhan. Apparently, Banquo was getting afraid that he was going to get killed next night and decided to reveal. Might prove to be the correct path, but I'm unsure. I would have used the poison on Quintus.JC and continued investigating. However, on the other hand, if he would have it right about getting killed next night, his reveal was the correct move to get rid of a ninja, a possible suspect and have some confirmed innocents. Only time will tell.

No counterclaim, town believes Banquo and Quintus.JC will die. Oh well, was to be expected. Still three mafiosi left; Ichigo has gotten some attention from Sasaki but town hasn't really picked up on it. Yaropolk got some attention very early in the game but is flying under the radar since then. Dutch hasn't got many attention, but his lurking will make it difficult for him near the end. At this stage, I predict a close townie victory.
N7
Ninja team:
- students: kill Gobbledygook, glyphz, Banquo - Gobbledygook: failure; glyphz and Banquo: succes!
- Master:Investigate taka, Psychonaut, Phill (succeeds)
Shinobi (Banquo): investigate Ichigo & ajaxfetish - night killed: fail!
Takeda team:
- gobbledygook : protect Sasaki
- glyphz : protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: remove Sasaki vs. AggonyDuck

No surprises in Sasaki's orders. If Banquo would have survived, he would have found another ninja through investigation. Might prove critical later on. Alas, he dies tonight, so his investigations fail. With two ninja left, they have a 1/3 chance to kill a bodyguard on first attempt; if both kills succeeds, then tonight is a severe blow for town.

Ok, random.org decided: attack on Gobbledygook fails, attack on glyphz succeeds. White_Eyes:D will fight AggonyDuck. Kukri will die from the poison of the Shinobi. I wonder what kind of speculation this will cause

D7

Poor Wishazu, one moment of not paying attention and a whole bandwagon against him. It's a bit silly, he votes and challenges two innocents and he doesn't claim that he doesn't believe Banquo, so he clearly missed a couple of posts; probably skimmed the thread instead of reading everything. I hope the bandwagon gets reversed.

Kudos to ajaxfetish for post #1645, those were indeed the hints I intended. Alot of people have been looking and have been reading things that weren't there, but ajax detected the real clues! Cookies for ajax

Hm, Sasaki reveals as Shingen. Not sure if this is the best move. Not that it matters though, the ninja already figured it out. After several rounds, he finally gets back to Yaropolk. I hope for town that he sticks to that case like a bloodhound and manages to convince them to lynch him. Town seems a bit lazy though. Hmmm, nobody seems to believe Sasaki's reveal. I guess that's what you get if you have a reputation of making excellent fake reveals; nobody believes you when it's genuine

Now Seamus gets pressured. I guess that was to be expected. He's not posting much, hasn't got a lot of suspicion and is still alive. Wishazu must feel a bit embarrassed now. He votes Yaropolk. Will the ninja master survive this round? With 3 ninja alive, 24 players left, 3 kills a night and one dead by duel, they are in a winning position. If they manage to survive this round, then victory lies in their grasp. Yaropolk probably gets lynched soon or late, but Ichigo and Dutch seem to do well. Ichigo was on Sasaki's radar a while ago, but doesn't get much attention now.

Hmm, GeneralHankerchief's case seems to be that he reads too much in a certain remark from Seamus. What I don't understand is,why would Seamus give clues about his own guilt? Then again, it's easy for me to talk. I know everything And now Kage unvotes Ichigo. His instincts were sound though.

Kage, Kage, I hope you'll do that stubborn thing in the next round,you know, when you refuse to listen to whatever the rest is saying and vote a person because you think he's guilty. I've seen you doing that before and many times, you've been correct. A sudden change of heart of GH, an order from Sasaki and all jump off from the Seamus bandwagon on the Peasant Phill bandwagon. There never really was a case made against him, so I wonder what triggered this. Guess I'll only know after I post this write-up.

I wonder if Sasaki will use his one time suicide ability on the Yaropolk-atheotes duel. He has been suspicious about Yaro on several occasions.

N8
Ninja team:
- students:kill Gobbledygook, CountArach, Sasaki Kojiro : succes!
- Master: assist students: succes!
Takeda team:
- gobbledygook : protect Sasaki
- Sasaki: atheotes and Yaropolk must commit seppuku

A very interesting night! The ninja are going to take out the remaining bodyguard and both Takeda brothers. Without protection and with the master assisting the students, both Takeda brothers are sitting ducks. Sasaki is going to put his unique ability to good use. He will order Yaropolk and atheotes to commit seppuku. Nice; using the ability following his instincts. Yaropolk won't be happy. The loss of the master is a serious blow for the ninja, but with all pro-town roles dead, his investigation ability wasn’t needed anymore.

All remaining townies are just that: townies; no need for a master to assist in getting rid of those. 16 alive, two of them ninja: the format of a relatively small, classic mafia game; nice. Town can afford only one more mistake, if my calculations are right and assuming only townies will die in the inevitable duels. Ok, they may get lucky; after all, TinCow was “lucky” in defeating a stronger opponent.

Be careful townies…

D8

I wonder how they will react to the write-up. Oh no, Gregoshi thinks CA, the Kagemusha, was in fact the leader of the traitors. Ha, that would have been nice indeed, but no.

Many suspects. FactionHeir, Seamus Fermanagh, Yoyoma and Beskar seem to be the prime suspects. Mafia are flying under the radar pretty well, no real pressure on them whatsoever.

Alot of focus on BQ's list, plenty of speculating about what is going on, my write-ups get analysed as well. Yoyoma1910 stops speaking in haiku's and posts normally. His analysis of last nights events in post #1853 is pretty much spot on.

One thing is starting to bother me in all this analysis of write-ups and events: you don't catch scum with it. Why don't you guys spend more time on analysing behaviour, voting and challenging pattern. Ducky had a good point when he said mafia likely didn't challenge. Either mafia has normal scores and they won't risk fighting because they could die or they have high scores and that's also a reason not to risk dueling, to avoid detection. Oh well, it's easy for me standing on the sideline and knowing all roles of course, but still; all this speculating on the possible twists and plot is nice (and I'm a bit flattered by it, since it implies the story is ok), but it's usefulness for detecting scum is limited.

Night 9
Ninja team:
- students: kill Caius, Wishazu, White_Eyes:D (succes)

A “reveal” from Louis. Obviously fake, but apparently some seem to buy it. Frenchie is having fun.

Mafia kills three players that aren't really considered as suspects. Good choices for the end game. In addition, they kill the two players that where in a challenge against Beskar, thus attempting to frame him. Will it work? Only time will tell.

Seamus will have to fight GeneralHankerchief. GH wins easily.

Day 9

Ok, GH is going after Rhyfelwyr on a gut feeling. Unfortunately, your guts are mistaken this time, GH.

Yoyoma1910 is suspicious of Tiberius because of the Hour of the Ox thing. That’s just me wanting to have the story somehow plausable. Three ninja can do all their kills at the same hour, with two ninja, one of them has to run around. I believe I once had a ninja killing on a different hour, I believe when they killed shlin28, so that he could perform his kill before getting killed himself. The hour thing is just something for me to play with.

Next game, I’ll just say that they shouldn’t look for clues. There are some small clues, but sometimes they just hint at basically useless information. As a general note: I’ll always try to have my write-ups to be correct and plausable. If a ninja gets lynched, I won’t reveal his identity, but I’ll keep it vague or somehow written that you could interprete it as ambiguous, that’s all. Apparently, people are now seeing clues everywhere in my write-ups, as if they consist entirely out of clues.
Beskar’s guts are right about Ichigo. But he has not made himself very popular with his aggressive style, so I wonder if they will follow his instincts.
Haha, briljant Ichigo-defense: “Yay!”
Everybody is pointing fingers at everybody right now, but the mafia escape attention.
Aha, GH switches to Dutch. Your paranaio seems to serve you better than your guts this time. Dutch already has a vote from woad. My old sensei from Mafia VI will have to start paying attention. Ajax votes Dutch for no other reason than to “avoid voting small”. Ok, if Dutch dies this round, it’s really bad luck and a bit silly. But hey, that’s how it sometimes goes in mafia: town lynches scum in such a weird or silly way and don’t realize they are lynching scum sometimes.
Husar named the two remaining mafiosi in post #1945. Unfortunatley, Husar is not the type who goes prosecuting, convincing people to follow his lead. A pity. For town, that is.
Eh, Kage gets “angry” with the constant poems of Yoyoma. They’ll be at each other’s throat. Drama is always good for the mafia, they say, but in the meanwhile Dutch is still getting lynched as it stands now.
And again, Husar is right in post #1992 saying Ichigo should be lynched. Beskar is proving to be a distraction. His aggressive style is now really annoying his fellow townies and I wonder if they want to lynch him because he’s scum or just because they’ve had enough of it. I can understand Beskar’s style, it guarantees your survival, since the mafia won’t kill such obvious lynch bait; but in the end, the town will eventually lynch you, if only because they don’t like the aggressive tone. In this phase, it doesn’t help town. Now is the time to say that it was an act because you wanted to survive until the end game and go analysing. Build your case against Ichigo, go quote posts, make a lengthy post, convince people instead of implying they are stupid for voting a player who is on the innocent list.
Poor FactionHeir complaining about being ignored. Ironically, his complaints are being… ignored.
GH is getting nervous with the vote switch. Ok Dutch gets lynched.
“Now, where’s the clue?”, I hear you saying. TinCow was right, my clues are not really clues, it’s something you have to notice, a vagueness or ambiguity.
Here it is the line: “Fukuda Ayumu (Dutch_guy) would not become a name remembered by history as the name of a man who had died in the service of his Lord; since he died before him. He had failed.”
The name would not be remebered by history; I don’t say the condemned is Fukuda, no, I’m just saying the (cover) name will not be remembered.

N10

Ninja can’t make up their mind, apparently. Deadline has almost passed and still no orders. Will send reminder pm.
Ninja team:
- Ichigo: kills: ajaxfetish, Chimpyang, Tiberius of the Drake: succes.
Good choices, imo. Ichigo will have to duel Beskar though. With a score of 5 against Beskar’s 3, he should win. TinCow has proven that one can get lucky though. Ok, Ichigo wins easily, according to the dice. Tempted to make the write-up reflecting Beskar’s playstyle so far; don’t want to bring Ichigo in trouble though. Oh well, sorry Ichi, I hope they won’t lynch you for this, but this duel will be a bit different.
D10
Hm, woad seems to be a suspct, but there’s no real case being built against him. It seems like town is clueless. No pressure on Ichigo whatsoever, just a remark from the General that the fact that Ichigo hasn’t voted yet could be interpreted as a scumtale.
Nope, it’s going between Rhyfelwyr and woad&fangs and a little bit of suspicion on GH. Ichigo flies under the radar just fine. This will be a close ninja victory and a well deserved one. Congratulations guys!
N11
No need to do a write-up about N11, they’ll see how it ends. Well, unless they get upset by it being posted in three or four (five?) times and get over to Belgium to lynch me before I can make the final post

[Beskar]

Hah, I loved some of the comments in the diary.

Yeah, sorry Ichigo, I had a gut feeling form you early on, but I struggled to actually build a case against you. I requested BQ to investigate you on his reveal, to hopefully bring some evidence to the information, but he got lynched.

[Gregoshi]

It is really fascinating to read all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Awesome game.

[Beskar]

I need to strike lucky and actually be a Mafia-role, look more fun.

Yeah, but my gut feelings on a few people were actually correct, which was amazing. Stephen Assen was a temporary one due to my n00bishness, then when I realised, I stopped it. But for example, TinCow, and a few others which I viewed as innocent actually were. There were some I simply didn't have a clue about as expected.

I love how the Mafia made out me and GeneralHankerchief were working together, amazing thing is, we never said a word to eachother!

[AggonyDuck]

I had actually come up with the theory of Sasaki being the real Shingen after night 4, but thought it was best to keep it silent as long as it could hurt the town. That said when Sasaki challenged me a second time I became suspicious that I might have got it all wrong.

Also I must say that Ichigo played on hell of a game. He kept quiet while the town went after each other and it worked bloody well.

[Khazaar]

Too bad I was the very first kill, I really liked the Theme and setup, thanks Ichigo for that you evil man . And so brutal too. How fitting that you survived to the end...

Big Props to Andres, excellent game and setup...

[Husar]

Oh snap, I was the only one with the same duel rating as the ninja master and never made use of it!

But that was a nice game Andres and well played ninjas!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I had actually come up with the theory of Sasaki being the real Shingen after night 4, but thought it was best to keep it silent as long as it could hurt the town. That said when Sasaki challenged me a second time I became suspicious that I might have got it all wrong.

Also I must say that Ichigo played on hell of a game. He kept quiet while the town went after each other and it worked bloody well.

Props for figuring it out...I challenged you the 2nd time because I was a bit annoyed you kept dropping clues in the thread like "Sasaki can't have been protected by a special role". Of course, both mafia groups had figured it out and I removed all the duels I was involved in. Go figure...

[Yaropolk]

Oh snap, I was the only one with the same duel rating as the ninja master and never made use of it!

But that was a nice game Andres and well played ninjas!

Husar - I had a really nice writeup all ready to go for you - killer was supposed to sneak in and bash you to death SK style with an old oar you kept on the wall for some reason. A little throwback to Sasaki vs Musashi duel. But alas, traitors got you. I ended up using the laundry pole a few nights later, but nobody caught it.

BTW 18...22...25 were kill #s for the three bodyguards. The plan was to keep town wondering if another pro-town special role is alive.

[AggonyDuck]

Heh, sorry 'bout the clues. I think the problem was that I really wasn't sure that my theory actually was correct, so I had to keep wondering.

[FactionHeir]

Well done mafia

Thanks for hosting Andres

[LittleGrizzly]

LittleGrizzly - has that creepy following and was the first to switch over
to Shlin after CA

LittleGrizzly may also be a good kill choice - he's helping the town a lot by organizing all the nice vote tallies.

Should we investigate LittleGrizzly next round? Just to confirm what his deal about master and all that crap is.

Glad to see i at least caused some curiousity... i would like to claim it as some dramatic tactic which confused the mafia... i think it just consigned me and Reenk to an early grave...

It was exactly as wrote in thread, reenk offered to become samurai to whoever pm'd him first, this sounded like great fun to me... then all of a sudden i realised i had the responsibility of 2 peoples votes and it kinda guilted me into working harder, when the original pever joined me as well i was starting to worry i could single handedly lead to town to destruction...

Though Reenks posts more than made up for this i was literally cracking up for every single one...

I also like how my charater had progressed to some kind of minor general in my death write up...

I figured i would best withdraw after my death as i didn't have much of a clue and there where plenty of players so i didn't want to help pile them under in posts...

Great game, Thanks Andres!

Enjoyed it alot despite my early death....

Ohh and i was a newbie samurai... rapid rise and fall!

Lastly, well done ninja's!