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Post Post #1200 (ISO) » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:10 am

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You're role is
???
...

you get a different role each Day and it's proceeding Night. (Vanilla Town, Goon, Roleblocker, Mafia Godfather, Mason, Cop, Doctor, Serial Killer, Vigilante, Jester). you win when you satisfy the win condition of a role that I will randomly choose out of all the roles you've been given so far. I will do this at the end of the game.

You receive your new role immediately before I open up the Game Thread for the next Day.

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Post Post #1201 (ISO) » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:14 pm

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Your role is Mr Switcher.

You have no special powers, and begin the game as a townie. However, every time you vote for someone, your win condition changes to the win condition of the player for whom you voted. You will not be told their win condition.
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Post Post #1202 (ISO) » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:49 am

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imaginality wrote:Your role is Mr Switcher.

You have no special powers, and begin the game as a townie. However, every time you vote for someone, your win condition changes to the win condition of the player for whom you voted. You will not be told their win condition.
it is technically impossible to win with this role, if you are town and u lynch a scum, then you will lose becuz u have the win condition of a scum. if you are scum and u lynch town, u have the win condition of town and u just lynched a town, so it won't work.
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Post Post #1203 (ISO) » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:57 am

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Simple: Don't vote (in endgame).

Tough, but not impossible.
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Post Post #1204 (ISO) » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:58 am

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Technically, wouldn't voting for scum instantly win for that role in a three man endgame?

If you put the first vote on the scum, you then have 2 scum to one townie, townie gets endgamed... if you hammer the scum, 1 scum one townie, townie gets endgamed again.

Voting for the townie would be fail, though.
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Post Post #1205 (ISO) » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:06 am

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Macavenger wrote:Technically, wouldn't voting for scum instantly win for that role in a three man endgame?

If you put the first vote on the scum, you then have 2 scum to one townie, townie gets endgamed... if you hammer the scum, 1 scum one townie, townie gets endgamed again.
Ah, but remember, Mr. Switcher has no nightkill, even when he is scum (I assume). So the endgame should go something like this:

Townie votes for scum, switcher hammers scum, switcher now wins with scum. Night. Day breaks, no one dead. Switcher votes for townie, switcher now wins with town. Only town players left alive; town wins. :-D
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Post Post #1206 (ISO) » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:26 am

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good role idea:

you are
Traitor Scum


to your scumbuddies, you are just another mafia goon, however your win condition is to be the last scum remaining in the game. Therfore, you must work with your scumbuddies to remain alive, but in the end, you must try to get all your scumbuddies killed before you are.

do you like this!!!!???
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Post Post #1207 (ISO) » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:19 am

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Gimbo wrote:good role idea:

you are
Traitor Scum


to your scumbuddies, you are just another mafia goon, however your win condition is to be the last scum remaining in the game. Therfore, you must work with your scumbuddies to remain alive, but in the end, you must try to get all your scumbuddies killed before you are.

do you like this!!!!???
It seems to me like a specialized Usurper. Not a worst, I'd say.
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Post Post #1208 (ISO) » Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:57 pm

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Macavenger wrote:Technically, wouldn't voting for scum instantly win for that role in a three man endgame?

If you put the first vote on the scum, you then have 2 scum to one townie, townie gets endgamed... if you hammer the scum, 1 scum one townie, townie gets endgamed again.

Voting for the townie would be fail, though.
Be quick on the last day and do this :

Post 1 : Vote:A
Post 2 : Unvote Vote:B

Instant win.

- If your current win condition is scum, this means you're the only scum left, or you would already have won. You just have to vote for town, so you're now town and you win with town.

- If your current win condition is town, even if A is town, it's not enough to lynch him so you're okay. And you're 100% sure that at one moment you're scum, so 2 scum > 1 town = win.

This role is simply overpowering as is.
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Post Post #1209 (ISO) » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:42 pm

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You are
Not the Jester
. But you probably have a night action. Go ahead and PM the mod with a name at night, and see what happens.

If you choose to roleclaim, you must claim the same role in three consecutive posts. After all, you're Not the Jester, and people should be absolutely certain of it.

I'm not really sure what your win condition is either. I think we can work something out eventually, so don't die or something.
Mod notes: NtJ is a Survivor. If NtJ uses its night action, the targeted player will be told that NtJ is scum.


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Considering the implications of the mystery night actions (targeting real Mafia, self-targeting), it's certainly more fun than an ordinary Survivor.
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Post Post #1210 (ISO) » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:55 pm

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Vi wrote:
You are
Not the Jester
. But you probably have a night action. Go ahead and PM the mod with a name at night, and see what happens.

If you choose to roleclaim, you must claim the same role in three consecutive posts. After all, you're Not the Jester, and people should be absolutely certain of it.

I'm not really sure what your win condition is either. I think we can work something out eventually, so don't die or something.
Mod notes: NtJ is a Survivor. If NtJ uses its night action, the targeted player will be told that NtJ is scum.


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Considering the implications of the mystery night actions (targeting real Mafia, self-targeting), it's certainly more fun than an ordinary Survivor.
mod note: is town.

mod note: is scum with X and Y.

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Post Post #1211 (ISO) » Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:04 pm

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Guardian wrote:
Vi wrote:
You are
Not the Jester
. But you probably have a night action. Go ahead and PM the mod with a name at night, and see what happens.

If you choose to roleclaim, you must claim the same role in three consecutive posts. After all, you're Not the Jester, and people should be absolutely certain of it.

I'm not really sure what your win condition is either. I think we can work something out eventually, so don't die or something.
Mod notes: NtJ is a Survivor. If NtJ uses its night action, the targeted player will be told that NtJ is scum.


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Considering the implications of the mystery night actions (targeting real Mafia, self-targeting), it's certainly more fun than an ordinary Survivor.
mod note: is town.

mod note: is scum with X and Y.

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Post Post #1212 (ISO) » Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:13 pm

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You are
Not the Jester
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...Yes I am...
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Post Post #1213 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:46 am

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Gimbo wrote:
imaginality wrote:Your role is Mr Switcher.

You have no special powers, and begin the game as a townie. However, every time you vote for someone, your win condition changes to the win condition of the player for whom you voted. You will not be told their win condition.
it is technically impossible to win with this role, if you are town and u lynch a scum, then you will lose becuz u have the win condition of a scum. if you are scum and u lynch town, u have the win condition of town and u just lynched a town, so it won't work.
Actually, the key is probably to try and get nightkilled early, so you could win with whichever side you happened to be on when you died.
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Post Post #1214 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:14 am

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You are not a
Number
. You are a free man!

Mod Note: Is Number 6. May, somehow, be Number 1.
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Post Post #1215 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:40 am

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somestrangeflea wrote:You are not a
Number
. You are a free man!

Mod Note: Is Number 6. May, somehow, be Number 1.
Mod Note: If Number 1, then receives PMs from the moderator at random times about loneliness.


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You are a
Fuzzy Logician
. While this game pits Townies versus Mafians, you realize that in life almost nothing is so black-and-white, but rather grayish - partially innocent, acting scummy but not actually Mafian, etc. This is a departure from the stark boolean paradigms that exist today, and you are ready to stand at the forefront of science!

You are Town-aligned, but you do not
entirely
win with the town. Should all anti-Town threats be eliminated, the amount you win is determined by the number of times you are voted on divided by the total number of votes cast before your death. If you are night-killed, you win by 20% less. If the amount that you win this game is less than 1%, you lose regardless of the external situation.

You may investigate one person per night. You will be told a percent chance of that person being scum. Likewise, if you are investigated, you are reported as being (your current Win percentage)% Town.
Mod Notes: Just make up a percentage that sounds good if FL chooses to investigate someone. Nobody'll know the difference.
Also, insist at the end of the game that FL has lost because he did not 100% win.
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Post Post #1216 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:48 am

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somestrangeflea wrote:You are not a
Number
. You are a free man!

Mod Note: Is Number 6. May, somehow, be Number 1.
You are
Number 2
. Each night you must search for number 6, so you can break him.

Mod Note: If Number 2 targets Number 6, Number 2 dies and somebody else becomes the new number 2
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Post Post #1217 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:09 am

Post by Vi »

You are
Number 2.
Now you're getting an idea of what a crap role is like.
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Post Post #1218 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:12 am

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Remind me to post here when a certain ongoing game is done.
User out of ambit.

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Post Post #1219 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:42 pm

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From the very short-lived "Graceland" edition of Assasins in the Palace...


You are...The King.

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In each one of your posts, you must include a quote from an Elvis Presley song, or you will be modkilled. You must post at least once every 48 hours, or you will be modkilled.

If the assasins figure out that you are The King, they will daykill you.

If you die for any reason, the town loses.

You win with the town.
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Post Post #1220 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:46 pm

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Vi wrote:
You are
Number 2.
Now you're getting an idea of what a crap role is like.
Just for reference: The Prisoner
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Post Post #1221 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:42 pm

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You
are
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not
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Post Post #1222 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:45 pm

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NabakovNabakov wrote:You
are
. You win when all others are
not
.
This just sounds like a survivor role to me.
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Post Post #1223 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:47 pm

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Iron Man wrote:
NabakovNabakov wrote:You
are
. You win when all others are
not
.
This just sounds like a survivor role to me.
The survivor can win when members of the town are alive.

Also consider that dead people still
are
in some capacity.
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Post Post #1224 (ISO) » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:41 pm

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The town is
not
dead on day 1... do you win?
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