[Game Thread] Aspiring Tennis Enthusiasts, GRATS MAFIA

[Nynaeve]

[V]sk[/v]

[Andrej]

Basically this:

 

I think this will look more complicated than it really is? Villagers should only need to choose the more villagery of two options a bunch of times. Scum get to strategize a bit more than usual but don't need to worry about PRs.

 

This will be a fully open set-up. I did not balance check this with anybody and I would appreciate thoughts/criticisms in sign-up. If it's hopeless I'll just revert to a conventional build.

 

Elimination from the tournament does not result in a flip/elimination from the game.

 

There will be 5 round 1 pairings (10 players total). 2 goons and a symp who knows who the wolves are vs 7 vanilla town. There will be a ~24-48 hour N0 where scum can fix the round 1 pairings however they like. Thread will be open.

 

Round 1 match-ups are announced. Players have 72 hours to vote on who to eliminate in each pairing.

 

Night phase: 24 hours, thread is closed. Mafia swap out two winners for one loser. Both winners will flip and be removed from the game. Additionally, mafia kill 1 loser and fix Round 2 pairings.

 

Round 2: 4 players remaining in the tournament and 7 remaining in the game, one 48 hour session to determine both winners.

 

Round 3: If the game has not ended, there will be a final 24 hour phase to determine a winning faction between the two remaining contestants.

 

The players with the most votes at deadline lose. Scum always win ties.

 

1. Rand

2. AJ

3. LZM

4. Ben

5. BFG

6. Verbal

7. Lenlo

8. SK

9. Sooh

10. Nyn

 

Philosophy: This is a fundamentally difficult set-up for wolves to win, because they are required to be more villagery than a lot of the starting field. Skating by long enough to kill off the strong villagers isn't necessarily going to cut it. I started out with an 8-2 build and a lot of more complex background mechanics that would allow for town to produce a coroner report. It required quite a few epicycles to prevent undesirable mechanical locks and resulted in a whole bunch of stipulations for an open set-up that players didn't really need to read but would inevitably get confused by anyway. In trying to reduce both issues, I reached the above. Basically scum kill 3 people on N1 and those are all the flips you get, but you never have to directly catch them if you correctly identify enough villagers, and you always know in a D3 scenario that exactly one of two people is the remaining wolf, while 7 players are alive to discuss it. This still seemed unfair to the scum team, so I reduced phase lengths and frontloaded everything into Day 1. Let me know what you think; I'm open to modification before the game starts. The core idea is to have a tournament-styled build, which I'm sure exist but I have never seen before.

From the sign ups

[Sooh]

I have a feeling sooh's tinfoil is on me *grin*

 

Am i right??

Nope.

 

My tinfoil is AJ/BFG.

[Nynaeve]

 

I have a feeling sooh's tinfoil is on me *grin*

 

Am i right??

Nope.

 

My tinfoil is AJ/BFG.

Really? not even a little bit? Is the allure and mystery not exuding?

 

Man...

[Nynaeve]

Ty aj, missed that

[Sooh]

 

 

I have a feeling sooh's tinfoil is on me *grin*

 

Am i right??

Nope.

 

My tinfoil is AJ/BFG.

Really? not even a little bit? Is the allure and mystery not exuding?

 

Man...

 

Pure as driven snow.

[Nynaeve]

Heh

[Nynaeve]

If bfg and aj were scum together I could see a world where they put each other against the other. Only it would raise some brows if one of them was brought back. With that said it wouldnt really be necessary.... the one who lost could still vote and the other one would be in really good standing...

 

I feel like AJ is prolly town though unless he's being a sneaky sneak? We'll see.

[Nynaeve]

AJ knows he can't hide long from me...

[Gentled Ben]

 

I have a feeling sooh's tinfoil is on me *grin*

 

Am i right??

Nope.

 

My tinfoil is AJ/BFG.

 

I could almost see that because of how much conversation they had about the symp giving a signal, and BFG seems off while you guys say that AJ is hard to read (is good at playing scum). He even said something to me about "scummy skimming" my posts. I could see BFG being a goon and AJ doing cartwheels here to get her attention.

[Andrej]

[Andrej]

I’m flipping town. Can’t say the same for BFG so if she is scum I’d say it’s more symp equity because I still don’t think she’d selectively pick to go head to head with me D1. She’d know I hustle as town and even if I do end on the bad side of tinfoil sometimes, it’s later in the game. There wouldn’t be a guarantee she’d beat me D1.

[Andrej]

I guess there’s no guarantee between any particular matchup, but you catch my drift. I’m not easy pickings.

[Gentled Ben]

Well, if that's the case, we can't get them all in one shot, but I'm watching you, AJ.

 

[Gentled Ben]

I guess there’s no guarantee between any particular matchup, but you catch my drift. I’m not easy pickings.

No, you're good, but that doesn't make you town.

[Andrej]

Well, if that's the case, we can't get them all in one shot, but I'm watching you, AJ.

 

Zander?

[Gentled Ben]

And now I'm going to hand Sooh back her little tinfoil hat and go to bed. Lynch some wolves while I'm asleep, please. 

[Gentled Ben]

 

Well, if that's the case, we can't get them all in one shot, but I'm watching you, AJ.

 

Zander?

 

?

I just like Parks and Rec. Well, the all but the last season or two, anyway.

[Andrej]

It’s a joke. Others will get it

[Andrej]

I sort of anticipate to die soon so either way, I’m going in circles trying to sort some of you lot. Hopefully y’all can make heads or tails of things once you have three reveals, though I have a good idea already of where they’re gonna resolve - so most likely the same question marks from today will remain for tomorrow

 

Good luck :)

[Sooh]

I sort of anticipate to die soon so either way, I’m going in circles trying to sort some of you lot. Hopefully y’all can make heads or tails of things once you have three reveals, though I have a good idea already of where they’re gonna resolve - so most likely the same question marks from today will remain for tomorrow

 

Good luck :)

My feeling exactly, which is why I'm not giving in to my tinfoil today.

[Verbal32]

I’m flipping town. Can’t say the same for BFG so if she is scum I’d say it’s more symp equity because I still don’t think she’d selectively pick to go head to head with me D1. She’d know I hustle as town and even if I do end on the bad side of tinfoil sometimes, it’s later in the game. There wouldn’t be a guarantee she’d beat me D1.

 

BFG can't be the symp.

[Andrej]

Why is that? It’s you instead?

 

Sooh just for my own curiosity, what does your trouble come from? Me or her?

[Sooh]

Why is that? It’s you instead?

 

Sooh just for my own curiosity, what does your trouble come from? Me or her?

She asks weird questions this game. They seem to be very random. 

 

Your read on her has been odd.

[Verbal32]

Why is that? It’s you instead?

 

Sooh just for my own curiosity, what does your trouble come from? Me or her?

 

Because the hint you called her out on was not a hint.