Mid-Range Game 64: Shades of Crimson

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

4 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

So per Right of Item Bearing do I get the Dawnshard for my collection or not? I think technically Mat has it but I don't see it in the writeup 

Mat has it, but item switches aren’t indicated in the writeup. I didn’t PM anybody, though, so…?

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Pity. Congratulations to the elims, hope I'm more energized for the KKC. Hopefully not waking up at 5:00 AM will help with that.

Thanks to @Szeth_Pancakes for an excellent second game and to @StrikerEZ for IMing.

Edited July 21, 2023 by The Known Novel

[Mat he/him]

I’m totally claiming that Dawnshard, sorry  never mind the fact that my stats are very out of date

GG all. We made a couple of weird plays (like sacrificing DeTess for… ultimately nothing except for a funny last second Ash PM) but I guess it worked out in the end. This game felt especially more like me faking bad village play than doing good elim play, if that makes sense, and makes me excited to actually be village one of these days  I do think our team was a tad overpowered, though we didn’t end up using 2/3 of our roles.

Also @archer I totally still stand by that not being a tell :P. I’m pretty sure it’s just that I happened to roll elim every single time I was busy this summer, a correlation does not equal causation scenario, but I don’t actually know because I haven’t been village recently xD

So maybe it is a tell. We won’t know until I’m both village and busy at the same time :P.

Also also @aman I wasn’t online to say it at the time but now I can say that this is a perfect example of why we don’t self vote >:P

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

4 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Also also @aman I wasn’t online to say it at the time but now I can say that this is a perfect example of why we don’t self vote >:P

This reminds, I do think @Amanuensis promised himself not to self vote again, correct me if I'm wrong but I think I remember this happening a while back.

[Ashbringer he/him]

7 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

I’m totally claiming that Dawnshard, sorry  never mind the fact that my stats are very out of date

That's fine  Derrick did start with the Dawnshard after all. He might just have to go the long way 'round.

... also I do not need a Dawnshard I just yoinked 13 of the 16 Shards of Adonalsium and Derrick's keeping Survival at least

12 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

(like sacrificing DeTess for… ultimately nothing except for a funny last second Ash PM)

>>

xD

[DeTess she/her]

I mean, the me sacrifice could have been a very useful late game tool if it wasn't a clean sweep for the rest of the game, plus I actually would have been out of it for a cycle or two due to health issues.

Anyway, well done TJ and Mat!

[|TJ| he/him]

gg guys! couldnt be as active as i wished but had fun plotting with Mat and deTess!

[Archer he/him]

HAHAHAHAHA IT WAS TJ

That's actually a very satisfying elim team. I feel like I suspected all of them at one point or another, just couldn't follow through 

Mat, I'll stop pursuing it the day I mix V!you. :P. You shouldn't have used math either, very sus. Lucky for you, DeTess steered me wrong and I ignored my gut about her too. In retrospect, I shouldn't have let this slide from her:

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Interestingly bodyguard is a neutered role if you're not concerned about stopping the NK, so I can see it being an elim role

-Archer

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I agree bodyguard is a neutral-ish role this game

-DeTess

Oh well. Good game, baddies. The distro was weird because I was assuming no assassin, but I also didn't properly grasp how the resurrection stuff and knives worked, so I trust it was balanced. The docs were surprisingly quiet - I think people felt more dead than alive and checked out. Thanks for running this, GM, IM!

 

[Amanuensis he/him]

11 hours ago, The Known Novel said:

This reminds, I do think @Amanuensis promised himself not to self vote again, correct me if I'm wrong but I think I remember this happening a while back.

No clue. My memory between games is essentially non existent Though in the context of this game my vote didn't matter anyway (both you and Ash would need to vote TJ with me)

Edited July 21, 2023 by Amanuensis

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

16 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

 I do think our team was a tad overpowered, though we didn’t end up using 2/3 of our roles.

I think the Assassin balances that pretty well. The problem was that the village had an info deficit — I think if I or somebody else were to rerun this, we should find a way to make flips more common. Maybe Blades can be active instead of passive.

[Mat he/him]

Just now, Szeth_Pancakes said:

I think the Assassin balances that pretty well. The problem was that the village had an info deficit — I think if I or somebody else were to rerun this, we should find a way to make flips more common. Maybe Blades can be active instead of passive.

Only if they kill correctly. The problem with an Assassin is that they can either not kill or kill villagers, making it a weird balance tool when there's a chance it shoots its team in the foot  But yeah.

[The Paradoxical Phenomenon he/him]

Mat ya suck

i thought you was a good guy 

Spoiler

Sorry I was gone 

Edited July 23, 2023 by TheAlpha929

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Congrats to the elim team for winning! And good job to all of the villagers as well! This was a fun game to watch, even if I ended up being pretty busy near the end. I was at a band convention trying to get a job. (I did get a job! Finally!) Thank you so much everyone for being such awesome players and making my life so much easier! Also everyone has already mostly done so, but keep giving Szeth all the love he deserves for running such an awesome game almost entirely by himself! He did a great job.

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

2 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Also everyone has already mostly done so, but keep giving Szeth all the love he deserves for running such an awesome game almost entirely by himself! He did a great job.

Thanks!!!

Oh, and congrats on the job. That’s awesome!!

Edited July 23, 2023 by Szeth_Pancakes

[Mat he/him]

5 hours ago, TheAlpha929 said:

Mat ya suck

i thought you was a good guy 

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Sorry I was gone 

 Sorry I used your play against you and then killed you before you could turn it around. Maybe shouldn’t have done that.

[The Paradoxical Phenomenon he/him]

6 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

 Sorry I used your play against you and then killed you before you could turn it around. Maybe shouldn’t have done that.

It’s fine, you was just playing the game how it was meant to be played

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

On 7/21/2023 at 6:53 PM, Szeth_Pancakes said:

I think the Assassin balances that pretty well. The problem was that the village had an info deficit — I think if I or somebody else were to rerun this, we should find a way to make flips more common. Maybe Blades can be active instead of passive.

On 7/21/2023 at 6:55 PM, Matrim's Dice said:

Only if they kill correctly. The problem with an Assassin is that they can either not kill or kill villagers, making it a weird balance tool when there's a chance it shoots its team in the foot  But yeah.

Yeah, I had the option to effectively turn the game into a coin flip, but that was it, which was why I didn’t ever attack. I think I’d need to have a way to get stronger suspicions much earlier if I wanted to be effective for the Village with a kill role. Active knives might work, or some kind of limited scanner role.

[Amanuensis he/him]

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Ash: Assassin's a pretty insane role for a distro of 11 people. Especially since we already have the Dawnshard and a presumably-Village Leader and Fighter. And if Wonko decided to claim and then not shoot anyone that turn to prove himself. Not entirely sure when things happen on the OoA but Assassin is probably at the same time as the Elim Kill...

Aman: Yeah, I had that same reaction (told him I expected there to be none given the roster) but I’ve long become numb to the crazy things GMs will think of 

Edited July 24, 2023 by Amanuensis

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

5 minutes ago, Amanuensis said:

Especially Szeth, it appears he likes curveballs (looking at MR60)

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

2 hours ago, The Known Novel said:

Especially Szeth, it appears he likes curveballs (looking at MR60)

Mwahaha

My goal this time was to make the game shorter, since I didn’t want KKC to be delayed / interfere with it.

[Kasimir he/him]

Apologies for the late necro. I'm trying to add this game to the player data spreadsheet and I notice the GM mastersheet does not seem to be linked publicly.

@Szeth_Pancakes any chance you could make that available, please?

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

@Kasimir — I just checked and it looks like it’s open? Odd.

[Kasimir he/him]

35 minutes ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

@Kasimir — I just checked and it looks like it’s open? Odd.

It's not linked in your doc list. All I see is a group of Google Docs.

On 7/21/2023 at 12:53 PM, Szeth_Pancakes said:

Forests.

MR64: In the Forest C3/C4 - Google Docs

Cognitive Realm.

MR64: The Cognitive Realm C4 - Google Docs

MR64: The Cognitive Realm C3 - Google Docs

MR64: The Cognitive Realm C2 - Google Docs

Ghostbloods.

MR64: Ghostblood Lair - Google Docs

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

1 hour ago, Kasimir said:

It's not linked in your doc list. All I see is a group of Google Docs.

Oh

here ya go

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13rKb8HwagBIJTRr0Z2HwLXXAY-6VyxMojSDfEfInwBw/edit

[Kasimir he/him]

1 minute ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

Oh

here ya go

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13rKb8HwagBIJTRr0Z2HwLXXAY-6VyxMojSDfEfInwBw/edit

Thank you! I'll update the games sheet