Dark Descent - Small Mafia Game [Concluded]

[Iskander 3.1]

Crap! Too late, the messages were sent to me right after I went to bed. Ah well, game is over.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Not that I'm complaining, but... I should have a different score from Chaotix considering what happened in the last round. Him being dead, me being alive, me with the mission to kill him, Khaan being on the same team as me, Khaan being in first place.

I'll take it but I think it deserves an explanation.

[Chaotix]

Hrmm... I am confused, but also less annoyed at AVSM, now.

It's odd that he somehow avoided the cult, but if he was pursuing a solo victory, I understand why he betrayed me.

And I know that I was right about khaan. ATPG told me he was completely under control... but if he had Psychic abilities I knew he had to be a Nephilim himself.

Well, good game, although the ending was a bit... strange, to say the least.

[Yaropolk]

OK YLC, now can you actually post the plot and the roles? Here's what I got so far:

Day 1: You're Jorg the Engineer, you have a team, yay

N1: One of your teammates gets drugged and his abilities get all wonky yet its not in the writeup

A few nights later: You are converted to Random cult - use random.org for votes/kills. No other details about cult provided - whats our motivation, goals, etc. Ok I can live with that.

Next night: Send in order to block. Instead in writeup I am Blorlax the corpse builder (where did I get all those corpses anyway btw?) Apparently I am converting my former teammate to a mindless doll and know exactly what's going on. What does it have to do with Random cult? Why is Random cult even trying to kill people? What do we need a corpse throne for? I thought we're all about random.org! Bam you're dead. No, wait, undead. No, ok, re-dead now.

[seireikhaan]

Not that I'm complaining, but... I should have a different score from Chaotix considering what happened in the last round. Him being dead, me being alive, me with the mission to kill him, Khaan being on the same team as me, Khaan being in first place.

I'll take it but I think it deserves an explanation.

Actually, there's one thing you got wrong there.

We weren't really on the same team. My objective was to subjugate/have killed everyone else on this rig. And yes, that includes you, dear Sorrow.

[A Very Super Market]

I wonder how I survived...

First off, I'd like to apologize to YLC for being so inattentive in this game that I had to be called out on it in a different one to actually start doing something in it.

Incidentally, I think this lurking actually ended up helping me out in the game. With general night-immunity, I would need to be lynched, and with all the cultists, esoteric power roles, and extensive write-ups, suspicion generally escaped me entirely. I was simply a regular townie to them, with no need to waste a lynch, or two attacks on.

After I was indoctrinated, things got a little hard to follow. I'm still trying to figure it out.

[atheotes]

i am just glad i am not the only one who doesnt understand the whole plot

[seireikhaan]

My original role PM:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Jesse O'Donnell (Neutral) - Unregistered Psychic

You've spent most of your life trying to avoid and escape the authorities of the ECD. See, your a psychic, and according to the ECD, anyone who is psychic is a danger to those around them and must be quarantined, reeducated, and trained to be their little puppet and work for Big Brother until the day you die.

Yea, not the happiest fate, so you long ago decided to hide as soon as the policy was instated, and have managed to find this horrible place, which even the ECD has forsaken - thanks god. You've actually became one right along with the miners and are one of the good old boys at this point, and with the cash your earning for each shipping season, you think you can retire right along with the rest of these guys...

Just as soon as this annoying runt of a saboteur is found! Ugh, with him in the way, you'll never top off your retirement money to a more pleasing out of the way local, hopefully outside of the ECD's circle of power.

So snap to!

Abilities
1. You may not be converted to any other purpose during the night.
2. You may select one other person during the night - during the next night, you may use their ability as if it were your own, and they are blocked from using theirs. You lose the pilfered ability during the following day phase and must use this ability again to obtain another ability.
3. You must survive until the end of the game.[/FONT]

You must roleplay to use your abilities - please roleplay as a male miner who is well known, is one of the good old boys, enjoys mining, is an enthusiastic debater and excellent pool shark and is decent at cards, loves to drink, has a tendency to swear up a storm if the ECD or the Mercenaries are mentioned, and who dislikes hard asses.

Night one, I targeted WhiteEyes. Apparently something blocked him, and was lucky not to be killed. Apparently, YLC very literally meant "pilfering", and WhiteEyes never got his powers back. I thought it was a temporary thing, and so, I decided not to mess with White eyes again when I found out what his ability was.

Incidentally, the same night, Pizzaguy apparently targeted me, as I was apparently part of his victory conditions. When he targeted me(not a kill attempt, something else apparently), I didn't seem to take to well to the whole thing. And thus, Pain and Agony were born.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

During the night, you manage to pilfer White Eyes' ability, which has a chance of killing those who use an ability upon him and prevents his conversion...to what? Mans already nuts! But as you leave, you feel the overwhelming presence of Sorrow literally strangle your conscious. You blackout, and in the slow, horrible hours that follow, you are turned from a respectable human being to a creature of lovercraftian horror.

What you were, you are no longer, what you will be, you are now, and what you have become, you will always be.

You are now Pain and Agony, and betwixt the two of you, you now serve Sorrow (ATPG) - but, for you both, thats just a poor way of saying you need to fit into your new mindset.

As Agony -

During the night, your ability changes to allow you to rob someone of their vote. Your vote gains double it's power during the day and they lose their vote altogether.

As Pain -

You may select one person to personally torture mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This temporarily robs them of their current alignment, and makes them mafia and subject to your will. However, this does not change their victory conditions and you must communicate with them directly. You may do this to only one person at a time however.

As Pain and Agony -

Your new to this, but you don't like being commanded by ANYONE, let alone this insufferable little princess of a wench. Time to share some glorious carnage - everyone aboard must die or become subject to your will, including Sorrow.

You have lost all abilities from your previous role as well, but may still use it as a cover role.

My intention was to ride Pizzaguy all the way to a final round, where I would whip out Agony for the first time, rob Pizza of his own vote, and ram the world's largest, sharpest knife into his back. And twist it. In the mean time, Pizza proved a highly valuable ally, as he had infiltrated two different townie groups, who were effectively killed off, though we hit a mighty snag when TheFlax's group blocked me. The night after I'd been converted into Pain and Agony, I picked up on Chaotix' highly scummy behavior he'd been engaging in with Pizzaguy- far too cautious, far too complementing, far too wishy-washy. Turns out I'd been right, and Chaotix had been under my thumb since night two. Unfortunately, as I'd stated, TheFlax's group blocked me, which released Chaotix from under my control. And, of course, I was a duntz and didn't ask the right questions to figure out he was a supreme cultist.

Of course, I must thank my "partner", Askthepizzaguy. It was a fun ride. It was informative watching you snake your way into pro-town groups, and it was fun trying to decipher the game's mechanics with you. I look forward to more engagements in the future. Just know that I will rip your heart out if I need to.

Anyways, it was a fun game, YLC. I'm still a bit confused by some of the mechanics, but I'm more cooled down after my little tirade. I'm sorry for any insensitive remarks I made. You're a very creative and engaging host. And Chaotix, I'm sorry for ripping on you- you did what any good mafioso should do, and probably what I myself would have done in that situation. What I said wasn't called for. A bit of what I said that round was acting- in the same way my complaints to pizzaguy backstabbing me were. But much of it was pent up frustration, and I was wrong for having said it.

[TheFlax]

I'm glad my group actually did something. Blocking 'khaan was the only success we got for the whole game. For some reason we were never able to get our orders right or something interfered. Even if I was clueless and manipulated throughout the game, it was a fun ride, especially try to hide from ATPG I had been converted. Thank you YLC.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Interesting...

Ah well, still was a fun game. I'll take the second place slot, then. Congrats, Khaan.

[Tratorix]

Interesting game, even if I was killed off early and had no clue what was going on. Thanks.

[Chaotix]

Anyways, it was a fun game, YLC. I'm still a bit confused by some of the mechanics, but I'm more cooled down after my little tirade. I'm sorry for any insensitive remarks I made. You're a very creative and engaging host. And Chaotix, I'm sorry for ripping on you- you did what any good mafioso should do, and probably what I myself would have done in that situation. What I said wasn't called for. A bit of what I said that round was acting- in the same way my complaints to pizzaguy backstabbing me were. But much of it was pent up frustration, and I was wrong for having said it.

Don't worry about it, khaan- you played an excellent game. Full of deceptions within deceptions, and you profited the most from it, it seems.

AVSM and Iskander, however...



I'm curious as to what made AVSM decide to betray the cult, and vote against me, instead of going with the *nearly* unbeatable three vote advantage. What was your thought process behind that?

And, as for Iskander: what, did you sleep for 24 hours and miss the vote?
What made you so resistant to working with me?

Ah, I may as well post my role pm, too, before I empty my inbox. It's a real gem...

EDIT: Here it is:

Madness (Cult Leader) - The Randompope

The world is such fun! So many things to toy and play with, so much to see and create. No one understands us, so were just going to leave it at that and let the produce decide, with the rocks checking the vote, because everyone knows that stew cooked at 300F for red minutes is the best laser in existence...

...were was I? Oh yes, we were having fun showing the people the value of ripe and rotten tv sets! Wait, we must be wrong, I could never make such an obviously correct statement, so it must be we are here to convert them! Yes, lets make a pasta of the dark side of the moon topped with rainbow baconized strips of goodness...

...but I have to watch out for our sister, make sure Sorrow doesn't ruin our fun, cause everyone likes postulating about monkeys throwing typewriters while flying through sponge cake and calculated mountain farts. So thus, I name ourselves RandomPope, and we shall disguise ourselves as miners of cheese, wait no, rocks! If we say I mine rocks, it will be so unbelievable they will sparkle radio waves of purple shaped elephants! And we shal be named John Smith, so we can stand out! out in the open the cheesemongers will never find us and take away our precious rocks! Wait, where were we? Oh yes, I remember...

...Shoop Da Whooop!

Abilities
1. You can select two people during the night to convert into loyal followers of the religion of randompopeness, otherwise know as bananas smoking monkeys for the betterment of facial cream organization, randomly.
2. You can select one person at night to have their ability do random things instead of what is supposed to happen. if they don't have an ability, they will randomly get one for a random amount of nights that will do a random number of things.
3. Each night you may request an investigation - you will be randomly told someones guilt or innocence.
4. Your cultists have a night kill that will be performed upon a random person during the night - your immune to this randomness since it would be super random and perplexing for you to be killed by your own followers - however, your followers can kill each other.

You must roleplay to use your abilities - please roleplay as a male miner who is a bit odd, but otherwise stable, and clearly normal. Please write all PM's for conversions in the most hilarious, frightening, and insane way possible, since they will be posted inthread.

If your lobster is done buttering himself, ask any answers you may not have but otherwise are subjected to for unhelp.

[A Very Super Market]

Well, to put it simply, Iskander wasn't going for it, and I had both the possibility of my own victory, as well as immunity from night-kills. So I decided that I could make it through well enough if I broke ties with you. Iskander, I'm not sure what he was thinking. In the end, he just died.

[ULC]

I am sorry for it being confusing, the theme of insanity and madness does not work well for anyone but the GM

[Yaropolk]

I think the biggest frustration was not receiving night results pms. I had no idea that we blocked khaan sucesfully for example. I was relegated to reading the writeup and seeing / not seeing my name mentioned, and then having me do / not do something that could be interpreted as role blocking, and still have no idea if it suceeded. I think the townies needed way more insight than we got, particularly into our own actions.

[Yaropolk]

I did like the idea of the day writeup. You could force a reveal of the miner's names by drawing them into a discussion.

[White_eyes:D]

This was before I was blocked and recruited in the SAME night...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sullivan Whitaker (Protown) - Miner

Down in the dirt, down in the darkness, you have time to contemplate things. As a miner, you have a lot of time in dirt and darkness, so one can say you've had a lot of time to contemplate things.

The things you've contemplated are how you ended up in this hellhole, who sent you here, why this material needs to be dug up, whats it used for...as time has gone on, you've come to the conclusion that someone is out to get you, and everyone else! It's a conspiracy!

And this saboteur is a part of it! He must be found, and questioned, to better learn of the conspirators plans! Hurry, before he learns your on to him!

So snap to!

Abilities
1. You cannot be converted to any other purpose during the night.
2. You will kill anyone who dares try anything on you, but this might end up in you dieing as well...

You must roleplay to use your abilities - please roleplay as a male miner who is just a little bit insane, who has wild theories for just about everything, and seems to trust no one.

Here is what YLC sent me after my conversion.....

During the night, you feel robbed of your paranoia and suddenly feel normal once more - clear thoughts ring through your head, but before you can truly enjoy your freedom, cackling laughter fills your head as your room fills with liquid banana cream pie filled with socks fit for monkeys that smell like ozone and cheap whores.

As you gag upon it and slowly drown, your mind is filled with insanity and the sudden epiphany of the religion of randomness, and the random pope appears before you.

"Go in fun my son, and preach the ways of chaos."

You are now a Cultist of the religion of randomness, and the random pope (Chaotix) is your messiah and god!

Your vote during the day is now decided by random.org, through me. Your first vote will be for TheFlax. If you wish to vote again, please PM me.

You may now work with Chaotix as you see fit.
You now have a random kill ability once each night, and it is up to you on whom you use it.
You retain your secondary ability from your former role.

To win, you must eliminate all non-cultists.

Chaotix did more damage converting me..... then helping him win....he lost four people....I can't believe my random kill ability did that much damage....

[atheotes]

You killed Khazaar, which ended up killing Tratorix, which ended up being the reason Atheotos was lynched.

And yes, but wait until endgame.

Does anyone know how this came about? i couldn't figure it out.

[ULC]

Does anyone know how this came about? i couldn't figure it out.

Khazaar and Tratorix where gay lovers - when one died, the other would as well the following day. Once they were both dead, the next night would be skipped and go directly into the next day. Because of this, and the activity that went with it, you were lynched.

[atheotes]

thanks

but i still hold the cultist foreman group responsible for my lynch

[Yaropolk]

We weren't cultists. Only the foreman.

[TheFlax]

thanks

but i still hold the cultist foreman group responsible for my lynch

ATPG asked me to vote for you and then Random.org obliged. Of course, I asked my team to vote for you, it was only logical.

[Iskander 3.1]

Hey Chaotix, I received PMs from both you and Pizza. Not entirely sure whom to trust, and with my internet abilities severely limited, I decided to go with Pizza. Partly because his argument made sense and my mason group thought he was a good guy, plus to help him I merely needed to abstain. I didn't have the time to try and keep re-voting until the right person came up. Then at the end he asked me to vote anyways, but by the time I received it the game was already over.

[White_eyes:D]

Sad part was.....we all lost to Khaan.... Why did ATPG trust Khaan???

[Iskander 3.1]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[atheotes]

We weren't cultists. Only the foreman.

ATPG asked me to vote for you and then Random.org obliged. Of course, I asked my team to vote for you, it was only logical.

hah... i should have questioned Johnhughthom about trusting ATPG

[johnhughthom]

i am just glad i am not the only one who doesnt understand the whole plot

At least you seem to understand some of it...

hah... i should have questioned Johnhughthom about trusting ATPG

See, I thought ATPG was 100% innocent. He was at the beginning, wasn't he?

[A Very Super Market]

Hey, I won too, even if I was totally undeserving of it.

[White_eyes:D]

SURE....."Mr. second place"

[Askthepizzaguy]

See, I thought ATPG was 100% innocent. He was at the beginning, wasn't he?

John....


I was completely evil from beginning to end. I wanted atheotes dead just so I could murder you that night. Everything I told you was a lie.