Netherworld III: Final Judgment [Concluded]

[Beskar]

Here is my role pm, I'll list what I thought after I read it.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You are Ishtar, goddess of war and love. You have been in Babylon for many years, having been shunned by the gods for the tendency of “misfortune” to befall your many lovers. Your sister, Ereshkigal, made it abundantly clear in your journey to the Netherworld you were not welcome there either. So, you have made a living preying on men, enjoying the chase and thrill, ultimately disposing of the poor souls when finished. Now, the arrival of Angra Mainyu presents a new opportunity. His proclaimed goal of a united world is, as you are quite aware, ridiculous. But, he does represent the ultimate chase. If you could perhaps single him out, make him alone, strip him of his followers and support, you could have victory. In the meantime, you shall continue your pursuit of the chase.

Each night, you may target one player to “visit”, after which they will most likely become your secret follower. Another option, each night, is to sacrifice one of your followers, to drain their strength and power to give you the strength to fight off an attack. Ultimately, you have no real attachment to any of these people. Mainyu is the real goal. You may only convert or sacrifice at night, not both. If you sacrifice a convert and are not attacked, the protection it provides will not last past the night, so you you will need to sacrifice another to be protected the next night. It will not protect from lynch.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

When I first read the role, this is what I thought:
I am a neutral-town aligned role.
I have a two stage ability, one flagged them for being able to sacrifice, the second ability is to sacrifice for self-protect.
My goal is to sleep with Angra Mainyu.

This is what I ended up being in reality:
I am a serial killer role.
I have two abilities, one recruits them into a quicktopic and flags them, also acts as an investigator-lite. The second is a self-protect I can use.
I had to be the last one standing.

This lead to some really stupid moves in the beginning on my part since I was mainly just messing around and I was going on Holiday. So this is my logic for the following rounds.

Night One - No orders (Thought we was starting on a day phase)

So I decided, "Alright, who should I sleep with?", being a male who is interested in females, I saw we had two female players. Suggesting Secura would feel like incest, so I naturally went for Renata...

Night Two - Renata - Recruitment Failed (Immune)

Bang! I learnt two things instantly. 1) There are people I cannot recruit, most likely power-roles. 2) This could work as an investigative-lite for power roles. Anyway, I was thinking I was neutral-town aligned and I hit a scum, so what now? I decide to tell both Secura and AskthePizzaGuy. Secura some how didn't get the message via MSN, but Pizza was around so I told him that I think I might have got a scum, telling him that I had a 'Whore' role. Anyway, he was told, then I headed off to Sweden where I basically only ever logged in to send night orders since I couldn't read the thread at all.

Anyway, so Night Three I had to send some orders in, so I was thinking "Since the females are gone, who is left..." so I looked around, "Who would I rather do first out of the male members", luckily with his name beginning with A, I didn't have to disturb my thoughts with too much thinking and picked Andres, the Belgium extraordinaire.

Night Three - Andres - Recruitment Success

So now Andres is my minion in a fancy quicktopic as part of a cult. Something I didn't know about at all whilst being on Holiday. During the day phase Andres was apparently going "Hello? Anyone there?" and obviously I couldn't reply and it ended up being the next night phase I had access to a computer. I basically told Andres that my goal is to sleep with Angra Mainyu, but otherwise feel free to act like a normal townie. Anyway, in the morning Andres was dead anyway.

So who did I recruit for Night Four? You might have guessed, upon finding out I am a cultist overload, I had to do the following move. Recruit Askthepizzaguy before he put 1+1 together and realizes who Ishtar is.

Night Four - Askthepizzaguy - Recruitment Success

Unlucky for me, I ended up losing Askthepizzaguy in the lynch! (oh noes) and Andres mysteriously dies without any explanation what so ever. I begin to rethink tactics slightly, "Who would make the best cultist? Who can fly under a radar, got great cunning, and be a great asset?"

Night Five - johnhughthom - Recruitment Success

John is a survivor! A great trait, he ended up lasting till the end of the game. Hands down to him, he is really good. Anyway, John gets told to simply act normal anyway but list any powers if he has any (due to Andres incident), but what is also weird is that Andres gets revived. Upon his revival I get told by 'khaan "Upon his revival, he has lost all ties to the cult". I thought "This could get awkward, I know, I will simply recruitment again.

Note: Since finding out I was cult leader, I tried to refrain from randomly using my self-protect so I could build up vote numbers, thus to turn the game into the towns favour. Plus, randomly killing your cultists will make any new ones suspicious of you. "Hey, is this the cult where they kill their cultists?" cue inthread: "ZOMG GUIZ ISHTAR IS BESKAR".

Night Six - Andres - Recruitment Failed (Immune)

So now I am in a situation, Andres might just have been recruited into a rival cult! It is possible, but now he is running around with full knowledge of Ishtar and friends. Andres = Public Enemy Number 1. Also I was very suspicious of GH because of Andres protecting him and later revival immune. So now I need some one who might survive, I am losing cultists and I seem to be in a very weak position.. I need some one who had more chance of being WoK'd then killed through normal channels, I needed a Captain!

Night Seven - Captain Blackadder - Recruitment Success

I ended up returning from Sweden around this point, I believe, or slightly earlier or later. Anyway, I noticed Major Robert Dump replaced a wogged person. Major Robert Dump is a great guy and I love him, just need to read his posts and topics just to see how lovable he is. So I decided, I needed a Major as well!

Night Eight - Major Robert Dump - Recruitment Success

Anyway, at around this point, Andres might still have had access to the old quicktopic, and hilariously, I just realised. Andres posted in our quicktopic by accident as Enkidu, stupid mistake by me just realising this now, but I thought he was scum anyway after that failed revived and the argument ended up working later (See: Death of Hades). So we got a new quicktopic sorted out for us from 'khaan which for a while, forgot to pass it onto my fellow cultists, so that was a bit empty in the beginning.

While I have got some numbers which would help sway votes in my favour, I needed some heavy hitters. People with really good analytical skills and with reknown in thinking outside of the box.

Night Nine - Death is Yonder - Recruitment Success

Anyway, after getting into the game, Chaotix started picking up on my scumdar with some of his postings. A trait Chaotix hates and once first-nighted me in a mafia game for, is that I some how keep picking up he is scum. Either way, Chaotix is a good player, and it could be a false-alarm, he would be a brilliant asset. So there was really one choice, a do or die test.

Night Ten - Chaotix - Recruitment Failed (Immune)

Perfect! It seems I was right all along, Renata was mafia, so was Andres and now Chaotix is. Time to get the ball rolling on his demise. With the Major Robert Dump volunteering to speak of behalf of the cult, first making its public appearance after Night Three, we make a move on Chaotix. The vote is going well, until it hits a snag, Earthling some one who was apparently a proven pro-town is vouching for Chaotix, Chaotix says he cannot be recruited because he is a god. Here, as the neutral-town aligned goddess decides to try to change the vote away, afterall, my biggest threat is the night killer, what is the best weapon against trying to find and stop them? A roleblocker. So this bought Chaotix a few rounds.

In the night, I looked at who is alive and saw Riedquat. He seemed a nice, lively freshly faced chap, I decide he is good enough to go between my bed sheets for a quickie.

Night Eleven - Riedquat - Recruitment Success

It is coming to the situation where the cult is almost 50/50 controlling the vote. With a few key deaths such as Death is Yonder, I decide to go for classical hero, he seemed some one active enough to follow. But what is interesting, Classical decides to role-claim, saying he is a goddess, thus he is immune and all this sorts. Now I am thinking "oh crud.. another one... one of them must be the mafia surely.."

Night Twelve - Classical Hero - Recruitment Success

"The Last Days also gets night killed" - CHAOTIX IS THE MAFIA CHAOTIX IS THE MAFIA CHAOTIX IS THE MAFIA also on this note, the cult owns 6 of the 10 votes, ie: we control the round. Anyway, now to put my great logic to use and get defeating Chaotix!

I obviously get assaulted by Earthling and a couple of others, who now I think is either a scum partner or a mistaken pro-town, but either way, I know better than you, Earthling! Chaotix going to die! Whether you beg or plead different! Mwahahahahahaha

Everyone votes for Chaotix except for Glyphz. Great, he is probably a scum buddy or similar. Chaotix died and yes, he was Hades.

The game doesn't end. "Hmmm....." So I send 'khaan a pm trying to fish for information.

My second ability allows me to sacrifice my followers and I gain their strength to survive a night attack.

Do I get to pick which follower dies?
Is there a way I know they are still my follower so it works?

'khaan replies:

You can sacrifice one follower of your choice, so yes, you get to pick. As for "knowing" that they are still your follower, with absolute 110% certainty? Technically, no. But, if you recruited them and there has been no other action by another faction to 'recruit' them, then they would still be your follower.

With the Andres situation, I got suspicious. But anyway, after basically revealing myself to the Cult and to the entire town in getting Chaotix lynched, I decide to test out the ability. Major Robert Dump said he would prefer to get killed since he doesn't know what is going on, so I offered to use the ability on him and he agreed to it.

Night Thirteen - Major Robert Dump - Sacrificed

The round was Glyphz, but it was around this point I realised "Angra Mainyu isn't part of the game, is he?" as I re-read the line about "If you could perhaps single him out, make him alone, strip him of his followers and support, you could have victory." I decided "I might have to kill the town then as well, or there might be an infiltrator." Either way, I spoke to the cult about the current plan, that is to kill all the town then I will try searching within the cult. I decide I will search within the cult anyway to be on the safe side and since classical_hero was a goddess...

Night Fourteen - Classical Hero - Sacrificed

So I am ending up asking about 'khaan about my victory condition since it said 'strip him of all support', the vote is going to be on Warman and we know it was a wasted lynch, it was better Warman than anyone else at least, 'khaan replies:

Your victory conditions are to be the only one left- therefore the cultists must die.

What the heck?! Luckily I had already planted a seed of a infiltrator which was still a very real possibility, but at least I know there was a chance the only reason the game hasn't ended is because I needed to kill absolutely everyone. I am left with Captain Blackadder, Johnhughthom and Riedquat. Not the best bunch to have around at this point, especially when Earthling and friends are spamming the thread with "LYNCH ISHTAR" "LYNCH BESKAR" and what not.

Captain Blackadder was the most unreliable. He would be prone to following one of the other two in voting for me, or he might even get wogged, making the game hang in a draw. So I decide to make him my choice.

Night Fifteen - Captain Blackadder - Sacrificed

I needed a plan and a desperate one at that, I just got told I had to kill them all! I spoke to Johnhughthom, he seemed supportive of me, great, but he is most likely the one to turn on me. Riedquat is new, he might be easily impressionable. I decide to use the favoritism card. "Hey Riedquat, I am going to take the risk and trust you, I think it might be John, he has been around the longest and Andres would have known about him." This is all true and valid, but hey, I work with the truth, it is how I roll.

What does Riedquat do to respond? He goes and tells johnhughthom!

The ball is rolling, Riedquat just outed my easy-win scheme, I need to think fast on my feet. John: "You are trying to betray me aren't you?", Me: "Being honest, I was simply saying the truth, I thought I would do it to fish information out of Riedquat". John knows I pull these stunts, John: "It's you, so I would buy into that", perfect, I might be able to keep John neutral, but John is getting more and more susipicious. Now it is to "reveal everything", strategy, plans and all, even explain my reasoning for lynching off Captain Blackadder, because town or mafia, he was a reliability. Riedquat isn't giving up, he is going to take me down and John working aside him, he is going to do it, oh my, he is on my heels, he is going to get me...

Riedquat: Vote: Johnhughthom

WHAT?!? ..... it's a trap! He is getting me to vote for John to catch me out, they did it together to trick me! Haha, I am the Almighty Beskar, do you think I will simply drink from the Wine In Front Of Me? I play to outmaneuver Riedquat, I message John.

Me: What the... I was 100% positive he was going to vote for me"
John:"I was going to vote for you, I rather lose to a new guy than you, Beskie, but now I am not too sure"

Yes! Riedquat made his first mistake! Then here comes the second mistake after both me and John ask him in the quicktopic why he voted for John.
Riedquat:I'm not returning to the quicktopic, there is no point.

DING DING DING! He just completely whisked me straight out of the jaws of defeat. This really upsets John, I simply play my part, and with Riedquat making the situation worse and worse with various slip-ups, I simply glide towards the finish line...

Riedquat lynched.

Then I message 'khaan to sacrifice John.

The End.


Here are the quicktopics:
First quicktopic - http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/7wxUuicq7dEDS
Second quicktopic - http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/8K9X8M54ZzaUd