Mid-Range Game 10: Divided Loyalties

[little wilson Voidbringer]

The Setting
You’ve followed Dalinar and his army to the lost city of Urithiru. With Alethi and other peoples arriving more and more every day, the city is becoming a rather bustling place, which is perfect for an agent such as yourself. What better way to subtly manipulate the decisions--especially with the Desolation nigh at hand? Unfortunately for you, you’re not the only one trying to control what’s going on. You’ve learned that there is another group working against your cause, and there are even rumors of a third group, undermining the other two.

The Sons of Honor and the Ghostbloods have never gotten along, and now is no different. However, as people start disappearing from the city, you fear you might have to work together to solve the problem. Some of the disappearances are people you’ve never met and you think they might work for the other side, but others are people you know. Maybe the rumors are true. Maybe someone is trying to remove the other players in this politically manipulative game. Can you find them before they kill you too?

The Teams
There are three teams, spread between two factions. The members of each faction will not be publicly announced in the thread, but you will have an idea of who is on your team (more on that in a bit). Players’ alignments are not revealed upon death.

Sons of Honor
You’re a devout Vorin, and if you could go back to the times of old and bring the Hierocracy back, you would. In fact, you’re convinced that all you need to do is find the Voidbringers, because once they return, the Heralds will be back. And how can anyone deny Vorin dominance when their very gods are saving the people from the Desolation?

Ghostbloods
You’re a Ghostblood. Fascinated with the Desolations and the Parshendi, you’re not interested in causing another Desolation, and you certainly aren’t interested in another Hierocracy. You’d like nothing better than to stop the Everstorm and the Desolation from taking place, and you hope by being in Urithiru, you can have some effect in keeping it at bay.

Diagrammists
You believe in the Diagram written by King Taravangian. Devoted to bringing stability to Roshar, you’ve noticed that these two other groups, the Ghostbloods and the Sons of Honor, only seek to destabilize the political structures, making them easier to bend to their will. To stop them, you and a number of other Diagrammists have infiltrated the Ghostblood and Sons of Honor ranks, and you are intent to end their manipulations in Urithiru once and for all. You have one group kill per cycle and will have access to a Google Doc in which to conspire.

The Roles
To further your faction’s cause, you all have abilities that help you perform your tasks. Roles will be evenly distributed between the factions, and then randomly distributed among all faction members (including Diagrammists). Roles are not revealed upon death.

Knight Radiants
Amazingly, some of you have shown surgebinding potential and are well on your way to becoming Knight Radiants. With causes such as the ones you’re fighting for, you don’t expect to have any Radiants from Orders like the Windrunners, who rely far too much on honor, or the Skybreakers, who are driven by justice, which is something you tend to bend if it suits your purposes. However, not all the Orders are stuffy, and some of them are even pretty useful to your faction.

Both factions have four Knight Radiants in their ranks, equally distributed between the factions. However, because there is only one Bondsmith in the game, the faction without the Bondsmith will get a random, fourth Radiant.

Bondsmith - You’re all about uniting people under a common cause, and you believe your faction’s goals are the only way to bring about true unity in these trying times. You have access to the surges of Tension and Adhesion, but you can only use one per cycle.

• Tension -  Each cycle, you can create a PM with one player. Send in your request to the GMs, who will set it up for you at the end of the cycle (accounting for any redirection and/or other blocking abilities). This PM can continue for as long as both participants are alive.

• Adhesion - Uniting people is what you do. Nothing brings you more joy than bringing two people together--particularly if those two people used to be enemies. You can choose two people each cycle, and on the following cycle, those two people must ultimately vote identically. The GM will PM the lucky two to tell them of this new, unbreakable (at least for a day) friendship.

Edgedancer - You don’t care much for your faction's grand plans, but you figure that if you’re not there, the little details will get overlooked. Plus, you like putting your abilities to good use. You have access to the surges of Friction and Progression, but you can only use one per cycle.

• Progression - With the power of Regrowth, you like saving things, whether it’s making a nearly dead plant grow or healing an injured person. You can protect any player from one kill attempt each cycle, including lynch. However, you cannot save yourself.

• Friction - You’re so fast, you can sneak into someone’s private rooms, read all their messages, and get out before being seen. You can spy on all outgoing PM’s from one player per cycle. The recipient of the messages is not included.

Lightweaver - A true artist, you’re less concerned about who wins and more concerned that such an historic time is documented. You’re still choosing to help out your faction, though, because what better way to make sure things stay interesting? You have access to the surges of Illumination and Transformation, but you can only use one per cycle.

• Illumination - redirect one random action from target to a different target

• Transformation - change a vote (including no vote) to another player

Elsecaller - Some people might wonder why an Elsecaller, one of the more benevolent orders, is caught up in such schemes, but kindness is all based on perception, right? You believe your faction’s cause is what’s best for everyone, and you’ll do all you can to help people based on that belief. You have access to the surges of Transformation and Transportation, but you can only use one per cycle.

• Transformation - change the appearance (alignment and role) of a dead player for two cycles.

• Transportation - prevent any action on them that cycle--except lynches. (self-target)

Other Professions
Surgeon - You studied medicine in Kharbranth itself, learning at the best hospitals in the world. Your skills are second to none (although there are a few who are equally as good as you are). You can protect any player from one kill attempt per cycle, but you cannot protect yourself.

Runner - Trained by one of the fastest messengers alive, you take pride in your speed of delivery. You’re among the fastest in Urithiru, making you a hot commodity. Each cycle, you can create a PM with one player. Send in your request to the GMs, who will set it up for you at the end of the cycle (accounting for any redirection and/or other blocking abilities). This PM can continue for as long as both participants are alive.

Artifabrian - Although ardents are the only people allowed to use Soulcasting, it would, to say the very least, be rather naive to expect that rule to be strictly obeyed. As an artifabrian, you have engineered and experimented with a variety of fabrials in order to improve on your designs, some of which push the very  boundaries of what is thought possible. Every cycle, you may pick a target. One random action that would affect the target comes to you instead.

Ardent - As a member of the ardentia, you are a member of a key group in Alethi society. Being an ardent has its contradictions: while you are free from the customs and constraints governing each gender, your life is not your own; you are considered the property of a lighteyes, and are not permitted to own anything. More importantly, you have exclusive access to knowledge of Soulcasting and fabrials. Using this, you may change a vote (including no vote) to another player (or no one) each cycle.

Cook - You learned your impressive culinary skills among the Horneaters, and you can cook a meal like these lowlanders haven’t ever tasted before. You know how to mask the most potent flavors in a dish, and occasionally, you’ve been known to use that skill for less-than-pleasant purposes. You’ve racked up quite the body count with some of your culinary surprises. Each cycle, you can attempt to kill any player.

Veristitalian Scholar - For you, the past is never dead; it takes a clever mind to sift through the detritus to reconstruct history objectively--as things truly happened. Where historians seek to paint themselves in the most flattering light, you see yourself as a dispassionate seeker of the truth: for you know that in the past lies the answers to the future. Each cycle, you can research one of the dead to discover alignment and role.

Explorer - You’ve been recruited by Dalinar to map out Urithiru. Spending your nights in the uninhabited regions of the lost city, you don’t see much other than your maps, and no one sees you either, until you surface in the morning. Every other cycle, you can prevent any and all actions targeting you, including lynches, from affecting you.

Assassin - You’re a master assassin, and you have many skills at your disposal. You’re invisible when you want to be, you have a knack for learning the information you need to get into inaccessible places, and you see things others tend to miss. Unfortunately for you, your assassin services aren’t needed as much here in Urithiru, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use your other skills. You can watch a player any cycle, learning the identity of one random player who targeted them (regardless of whether the action succeeded or not)

The Positions
Every well-established group has a command structure. The Sons of Honor and Ghostbloods are no different. While not every member knows who all the others are, each one knows someone, and a few have even more knowledge.

Positions are assigned randomly, with no distinction between loyal members of the faction and the Diagrammists.

Thaidakar (Ghostbloods) and Restares (Sons of Honor) - You are the leader of your group. You know the identity of every member and the position they hold within.

Commander - You report directly to your leader. As such, you know his identity. You also know the identities of the people who report to you. This is only a fraction of the members in the group though, as there are multiple Commanders.

Captain - Reporting to the Commander, you know his identity but haven’t a clue who the leader is. That’s okay, though. You have enough responsibility as it is. You know the identities of a fraction of the Regular members.

Regular - You’re just a regular member of the group, but that doesn’t mean you don’t get to have fun. You’re just as important as the others, except that you don’t quite know who’s on your side. You only know the identity of your Captain.

Win Conditions
Primary Win Condition
Sons of Honor and Ghostbloods: Kill the Diagrammists
Diagrammists: Kill everyone else.

Secondary Win Condition
Sons of Honor or Ghostbloods need to kill the other faction’s KRs. Each faction has four (only four Orders are in the game, but there is only one Bondsmith; the faction without the Bondsmith gets a random additional KR). The faction with the most KR’s alive if/when all Diagrammists are dead wins. The other loses. If both factions have an equal number of Radiants alive or all Radiants are dead, they tie and win together.

Alternate Win Condition
If an equal number of each team (Sons of Honor, Ghostbloods, and Diagrammists) is alive at any point in the game and the Bondsmith is still alive, the remaining players win together, united in one cause by the Bondsmith. All the dead players lose.


Micellaneous Points of Order

GMs:
Wilson and Kasimir

Order of Actions:

1. Transportation/Explorer, Illumination/Artifabrian
2. Assassin (starts watching)
3. Progression/Surgeon, Tension/Runner, EC Transformation
4. LW Transformation/Ardent, Friction, Adhesion Scholar
5. Diagrammist kills, Cook
6. Lynch

Rollover Time:
9am MST/midnight SGT (4pm GMT)

Number of Players/Role Distribution:
In order for all roles to be in the game, there will need to be at least 26 players. This game can run on less, but not all the roles will be included, and we will not tell you which roles are not in the game. If there are more than 26 players, fantastic!

Quick Links:

 

Cycle 1: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Cycle 2: Cremlings in a Highstorm
Cycle 3: The Jedi Sleepeth
Cycle 4: The Night of the Hunter
Cycle 5: Spoiled Broth
Cycle 6: Ghosts, Bleeding
Cycle 7: Against the Dying of the Light
Cycle 8: Sympathy for the Devil
Cycle 9: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
Cycle 10: Slipping Away
Cycle 11: Running Over the Same Old Ground
Cycle 12: According to Plan

Edited November 2, 2016 by Alvron

[little wilson Voidbringer]

Player List:

1. Seixa (Phattemer): A man who believes he's a Skybreaker Squire
2. John Doe (Stink): A man who thinks he's a fish
3. Locke Tekiel (Orlok)
4. Agrigar Leiken (Adavantos)
5. Aleral (Araris)
6. Kholak Bagar (Honey Badger)
7. Alycia Kavdar (RippleGylf)
8. Walter Kysley (polking): an Azish soldier
9. Krippe (Kipper): a Urithiru postmaster
10. Malarn (Maill): a man who stinks
11. Sheon Idris (Seonid): the late King of Arelon, somehow in Urithiru?
12. Baheal Edr (Hael): son of the late Ableah
13. Yallah (Tony Shark)
14. Arran Faenel (Aonar)
15. Hellscythe (Hellscythe)
16. Deadeye (Kynedath)
17. Slalassalas (Paranoid King): swordfighter who's "defeated" many Horneaters
18. Kael of the Forge (Elkanah): an eager emigrant
19. Frank "Gold Frank" Au Faliu (Feligon): a pirate with an nonflying(?) pirate ship, looking for his brother
20. Starri (Starry Smite): an overlooked brightlady
21. Citona Vinid (Shallan)
22. Arina (Arraenae)
23. Torren (Twei): an ex-Skybreaker Radiant, ditched by his spren
24. Inor Haze (Creccio)
25. Maximilianos Sebarial (Venture)
26. Lopen (The Mighty Lopen)
27. Jain (Lightsworn Panda): a walking, talking panda
28. Moros (DeathClutch)
29. Edurams (Sart)
30. Bort (Bort)
31. Mace (Mace Windu): a strange man who wields a purple sword-thing
32. Ashei Ghetti (Burnt Spaghetti)
33. Cla (Clanky)
34. Elba (Elbereth)
35. Zas (Zas): a creative shoemaker seeking flesh for new shoes
36. Lorna (Alvron): a huntress

Clarifications:

Q: How exactly does Adhesion work?

A: They will not have any extra communication. They'd just have the thread and know that if they're not in sync at the end, we'd flip a coin to decide which vote takes precedence for them both. Then the other would be switched to that. (So it would look like vote manipulation)

 

Q: We're going to need a lot of players for the Command structure to work properly, yes?

A: That's another reason why I've said that 26 is the minimum for a full docket of roles. That includes the positions. I can make it work with 26, but more would definitely be better.

 

Q: How long are cycles?

A: 48 hours. It's day/night combined into one turn.

 

Q: When does this game start?

A: 

 

Q: Are roles revealed upon death?

A: Only who died is revealed. Not role, not alignment. That's what the reverse seekers are for--the Veristatilian Scholars. They seek the dead to discover role and alignment. 

 

Q: Can Positions be assigned to someone of any role, or are they roles in and of themselves? 

A: The former. The positions are unaffiliated with the roles. 

 

Q: Are votes considered actions in this game?

A: No.

 

Q: Can Diagrammists be Thaidakar or Restares?

A: Thaidakar and Restares are not safe roles.

Edited December 13, 2015 by little wilson

[phattemer Elantrian]

I will be Seixa, a Skybreaker Squire. *whistles unconcernedly*

Nothing to see here, move along.

[STINK Cryptic]

I will sign up! More to come later.

Edited December 6, 2015 by IrulelikeSTINK

[Orlok Tsubodai Sentient Awakened Object]

This looks like a great deal of fun!

I shall sign up as Locke Tekiel

[Amanuensis Enefel]

Agrigar Leiken is in and eager.

[Araris Valerian Originator]

Aleral is signing up. I don't know if I will give him any backstory or anything though.

[Clanky Ferring]

How exactly does Adhesion work? Do the two targets just have to decide on a vote together in thread? Do they get a PM set up to decide? What if only one of them is active to place a vote? 

[little wilson Voidbringer]

How exactly does Adhesion work? Do the two targets just have to decide on a vote together in thread? Do they get a PM set up to decide? What if only one of them is active to place a vote?

I was planning on not giving them any extra communication. They'd just have the thread and know that if they're not in sync at the end, we'd flip a coin to decide which vote takes precedence for them both. Then the other would be switched that.

[Clanky Ferring]

So there isn't really any incentive to vote with them then as there is a 50% chance your vote will count as double if you vote separate.

[The Honey Badger Cobalt Guard]

I would love to play this game, as Kholak Bagar. I'm The Honey Badger btw, sorry still in Ookla mode, that'll change soon

[little wilson Voidbringer]

So there isn't really any incentive to vote with them then as there is a 50% chance your vote will count as double if you vote separate.

Basically, yeah. It would look like vote manipulation, but yes.

[RippleGylf Highprince]

I'll sign up, but I don't have a name yet...

[polkinghornbd Ardent]

This sounds complex and interesting.  I will play as Walter Kysley, a Azish soldier

[Kipper Steel Inquisitor]

Suuuuuure, why not? Signing up as Krippe, the Urithiru Postmaster.

 

Wilson, the rules need to amended such that any PM created has a 50% chance of going to the desired target, and a 50% chance of going to the town Postmaster. I could even go for 75/25 Kipper/desired target.

Alternatively, you could amend the rules such that all PMs go through the Town Postmaster.

 

Also, we're going to need a hell of a lot of players for the Command structure to work properly, yes?

[STINK Cryptic]

I have decided to announce my final stage in the PLAN. My RP character shall go by the name of Kipper.

[Mailliw73 Prime]

I'll  be Stink, then.

 

Not really. Malarn is in.

[little wilson Voidbringer]

Wilson, the rules need to amended such that any PM created has a 50% chance of going to the desired target, and a 50% chance of going to the town Postmaster. I could even go for 75/25 Kipper/desired target.

Alternatively, you could amend the rules such that all PMs go through the Town Postmaster.

 

Also, we're going to need a hell of a lot of players for the Command structure to work properly, yes?

 

Heh. Sorry, no.

 

That's another reason why I've said that 26 is the minimum for a full docket of roles. That includes the positions. I can make it work with 26, but more would definitely be better.

[RippleGylf Highprince]

Okay, name is Alycia Kavdar.

[Seonid Steel Inquisitor]

I might actually be able to do this over the break. I may not be as active as in past games, but this one is too fascinating to miss.

So, Sheon Idris is back from his long exile.

Edited December 6, 2015 by Seonid

[Haelbarde Listener]

I'm with Seonid on this one - too fascinating to miss...

 

Query: How long are cycles? 

[Tony Shark Spearman]

I'll sign up as Yallah.

 

When does this game start?

Edited December 7, 2015 by Tony Shark

[little wilson Voidbringer]

Query: How long are cycles?

48 hours. It's day/night combined into one turn.

When does this game start?

Next Sunday (or early Monday morning, depending on your timezone). 9am Sunday MST (my timezone), 4pm GMT, or midnight Monday in Singapore (Kas' timezone). I'm on my phone so can't do one of those countdowns, but if someone else wants to post one, go for it.

[Haelbarde Listener]

Like this?

 

 

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Baheal Edr, son of the late Ableah, is reporting for duty. Edited December 7, 2015 by Haelbarde

[Aonar Compounder]

Hmm.... I might just have enough time to keep up with this one. We'll see how it goes. 

 

Arran Faenel is signing up. RP forthcoming.