Daggers in the Night - summary and information thread.

[Andres]

Role pm's:

The Ancient aka Nikolaos:

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Nikolaos - Godfather

You are Nikolaos.

You used your double tongue to seduce Alim into betraying the Antediluvians.

You “saved” the vampire society by hunting and exterminating the Antediluvians and finally locking up Caine in his eternal prison in the Sahara.

In 1491 AD, you infiltrated the Silver Daggers and led them to Alim. While the entire vampire society thinks that Alim got hunted down by the daggers, you know better. You are now the undisputed leader of the vampire society.

Today, the day has come to eliminate the last threat to your powers: the daggers.

But you feel like something is wrong. A presence that shouldn’t be here…

Watch your steps, not everything may be as it seems… It appears that somebody is hunting you, but you don’t know who it is.



Role specifics:

You are Nikoloas, the undisputed ruler of the vampire society who grabbed power through treason and murder.

Your goal is to eliminate all silver daggers.

Your first task is to pm me the names of 4 players. Two of them will be assigned to you by me as your slaves, using random.org. Once the first Naib has been elected, I’ll pm you and your slaves so that you will know each others’ identity at the start of night 1.

Each one of your slaves has the ability to kill one player each night.

In addition to that, you have some powers, but you must be careful when using them, since you want to avoid to be exposed at all costs.

During the night, you can chose to kill one player at the cost of one masquerade violation. Once you’ve broken the masquerade, your next kill will expose you to the town with a 50 % chance of a partial exposure and a 50 % chance of an entire exposure. You can kill as much as you want, but, obviously, this is not a wise choice. Make your kill count!

During the day you can switch the player who will be lynched with another player of your choice. However, you cannot use this ability to save yourself from getting lynched. You can use this ability only once during the entire game.

Good luck!

Caine ('reserve GF'):

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Caine

You are Caine, the first murderer, cursed by God and transformed into a vampire as punishment. Taught by the witch Lilith in the use of your powers, founder of the First City and disappeared after its' destruction.

But you never really disappeared…

In secret, you were the head of the Council of the Antediluvians during many centuries. Your had a great influence on human history, until the traitors, Alim and Nikolaos, trapped you into a cave, in the Sahara desert, centuries ago.

But you managed to escape. The knowledge they had about the seals, came from you. You taught the Antediluvians how to trap an Elder for eternity, without killing him. But you were wise never to trust your fellow kindred, so you left out a subtle part of the sealing knowledge.

After your escape, you were silent and patient. As an immortal, time is always on your side.

You watched Nikolaos killing Alim in Granada, in 1491 AD.

And now, you’re here.

Nikolaos is here too. Nowadays, he goes by the name “The Ancient”. Ridiculous. He isn’t even an Antediluvian and allthough he is not to be underestimated, he should be no match for your powers.

Alas, you cannot violate the masquerade, so you’ll have to be subtle and discrete in removing this traitor… The humans in this place are dangerous as well... This will not be an easy task.


Role specifics:

You are Caine, the first vampire.

Your goal is to eliminate Nikolaos, his slaves and all witnesses present.

During the night, you can chose to a) investigate two players; b) kill one player at the cost of one masquerade violation. Once you’ve broken the masquerade three times, your next kill will expose you to the town with a 50 % chance of a partial exposure and a 50 % chance of an entire exposure. Warning: you cannot night kill Nikolaos as long as both his slaves are alive. With one slave still alive, an attempt to kill Nikolaos at night will have a 50 % success chance. Failure will come at a cost...

During the day you can switch the player who will be lynched with another player of your choice. However, you cannot use this ability to save yourself or to get Nikolaos lynched. You can use this ability only twice during the entire game.

You are lynch immune during day 1 and 2.

If Nikolaos dies (he gets lynched or you manage to kill him at night), you’ll take control over his (remaining) slave(s) and you’ll continue the game until all Silver Daggers are dead or until you get lynched.

Good luck!

Slaves:

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A presence. A soft whispering in the early night.

"Come to me. Come to me."

Kagemusha and Romanic knew what this was. It was the call. The call of a vampire master. Both knew that no human could resist such a call and they tried to slice their own throats using their silver dagger.

But the call was too powerful.

Standing before their new master, they bowed. His teeth pierced through the flesh of their necks.

A few moments later, the master slowly walked to the back of the room. He turned around and looked at both former daggers.

"Serve me well and I will complete the Embrace, children. Serve me well, and eternal life will be yours."

The slaves bowed deeply for their master, waiting for his orders.

***

Romanic and Kage, you have been chosen as the slaves of the Ancient.

You now form a team with johnhughthom, who is your master.

Each slave has the ability to kill one player per night.

You win this game if your master survives.

Your kill orders have to reach me before the night ends. I know RL can come up, so I accept orders by proxy (so each of you can send me orders for the entire team; in case orders are conflicting, johnhughthom's orders take priority).

Any questions, just drop me a pm.

Good luck and have fun!

Andres.

Mechanics:

Most of it is clear from the role pm's.

The only thing that needs to be explained is the "resurrection ability".

The idea was that, with 40 players, the bad guys always had to have two kills each night, to keep the game balanced.

A slave's dead would trigger the power of resurrection -> Cain would gain this ability and he had to kill instead of investigating, so that there would remain two kills.

If the second slave would die, the Ancient would be able to kill by himself; so two kills each night.

If Cain would die with two slaves alive; the Ancient would get a notice that "his powers have grown." If, after that, a slave would die, Nikoloas would get a notice that after meditating and studying his new powers, he discovered the secret of the resurrection power, and two kills remain guaranteed (note: by using resurrection, the Ancient is not killing, his 'slave' is; see the write-ups after Kukri's dead: The Ancient calls the resurrected player his "slave"; which was a subtle hint that it was the ancient doing the resurrection and a "slave" doing the kills). After the dead of slave 2, the Ancient would be able to resurrect 1 and kill 1 by himself, thus keeping it at two kills/a night.

If Cain would have killed Nikolaos (or Nikolaos would have ended up lynched), then he would have taken control over the remaining slave(s) and he would have had the same powers as Nikolaos.

I could have made it much simpler by just saying "mafia always has two kills", but I like a game that has some twists, because that makes it more interesting; well, at least for me looking from the hosts' perspective.

I think all in all, the game was well balanced, after all, town only needed to take out two players; the slaves were less important. Maybe I should have made it even more simple, but I was looking for an "almost vanilla" game.

Congratulations to the mafia, they played very well and truly deserved their victory. As you can see in the diary, town came pretty close at times, but missed a few chances which caused their defeat. I also think people should listen more to some of our newer players, they clearly know what they're doing, so a nod to the CFC crew

And kudos to Kukri. Being a loner in a large mafia game is never a gift. I think you did very well and maybe, with more luck in the investigations, you might had come a bit further. But apparently, your play was seen as "too careful" by town. Vigging you was a big succes for them. I never thought they would kill you, you're always such a nice guy. Bad townies, killing the nicest Orgah.

I hope you all had fun playing; I certainly had hosting.