[MAY ‘23 CHALLENGE] Sportsball

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Archery Mafia

7 Amateur Archers

William Tell
Robin Hood

Special mechanics:

• Players are archers in a competition. After each shot, one of them will be cut (usually)!
  
• Each Day, players can decide by majority on one archer they want to boot from the competition.
  
• Each archer's arrows are of a different color, randomly selected among White, Grey, Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange, Green, Purple. Color assignment is independent of alignment. Color assignment is not publicly known.
  
• At the beginning of each Night, each amateur archer shoots at the target. The result is a random integer from 1 (the border of the target) to 10 (bullseye); with a probability of (11-n)/55 of hitting n. This result is told privately to the archer, but is not revealed publicly.
  
• William and Robin (the red archers) are told where each colored arrow landed (but
  not
  who shot each arrow). Then each shoots an arrow, and since they're exceptional archers, they can decide exactly where they want the arrow to land.
  
• Each night, one of the red archers may opt to shoot their arrow directly into an arrow already present in the target, thus destroying and replacing it.
  
• The red archers have a factional PT.
  
• The red archers have no other factional ability.
  
• Each archer receives a bonus depending on what they scored:
  1. nothing
     
  2. this night, you may vend a fruit to target player.
     
  3. this night, you may send a message to target player.
     
  4. this night, you may neighborize target player (if either of you two is already in a hood, the other is added to it; otherwise, a hood is created with you and your target)
     
  5. this night, you may target a player to discover the color of their arrows.
     
  6. this night, you may choose a color, and discover which archer's arrows are of that color.
     
  7. this night, you may target a player, thus preventing them from acting, but also making them immune from being cut tonight.
     
  8. this night, you may target a player, thus discovering who targeted, or was targeted by, them.
     
  9. if William is still in the competition, you discover a random color that is
     not
     William's; otherwise, you discover a random color that is
     not
     Robin's.
     
  10. the next time you would be cut, you aren't.
• Bonuses given to archers whose arrow was destroyed have no effect.
  
• At Dawn, it is revealed where each colored arrow landed on the target (but not who shot them), with the exception of any destroyed arrow. The archer who scored the least points is cut from the competition (archers whose arrow was destroyed score 0). If there is a tie, the archer who scored the least total amount of points during the whole competition is cut. If there is still a tie, it is resolved at random.

EDIT: 9 used to be "you discover the color of William Tell's arrow if their still in the competition. Otherwise, you discover the color of Robin Hood's arrows."

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I do have a question thou; why is this the "April" challenge, as opposed to "May"?

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...

Wait so based on random dice rolls multiple townies could, say, learn the color of William Tell’s arrows N1, and then a massclaim of colors on D2 could out William Tell? The random dice roll seems a little too swingy

In theory (though the chance of that happening would be quite low), but presumably Robin could be interested in destroying one of those arrows if that would happen. It is very swingy still, yes; maybe may be worth changing it to, say "you choose a color and discover whether or not William or Robin's arrows are that color"

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You're not wrong. What if it was instead "If William is still in the competition, you discover a random color that is not William's; otherwise, you discover a random color that is not Robin's" ?

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So... how do we vote?

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