QF67: Aftermath: On the Golden Bank

[Fifth Scholar]

A Writeup Shall Come. Results…Shall Come First.

The Chess Minigame is over! Though neither King was captured, the Red Team possesses a significant material advantage of 7 points, and carries away the trophy!

Final boardstate will be edited in when I’m not on my storming phone >>

 

Your victory points, as promised:

Unveiling the FINAL STANDINGS

QUINTESSENTIAL: 13

THE KNOWN NOVEL: 13

Ashbringer: 12

_Stick_: 11

DrakeMarshall/Scars of Hathsin: 9

Amanuensis: 8

Experience: 7

Wonko the Sane: 6

Sart: 6

Archer/WitIsTheBest: 2

Matrim’s Dice: 1

xinoehp512: 1

|TJ|: 1

Labyrinth: 1

And some doc links!

Fully Spoiled Rules

Spec Doc

Cards Doc

Bandersnatch Doc

White Pieces

Red Pieces

GM Master Spreadsheet

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Finally, the true reward of this game, the Paper Plate Awards! Step forward onto the podium and claim yours!

THE KNOWN NOVEL: You are already a Victor, but I must award you the designation of Fiercest Competitor. Never content with the victory points lying about, you went your way to garner as many as you could for yourself, playing the game like a true FFA, and saw your efforts bear fruit. You were a valiant Knight in the garrison of the Red King. Additionally, by spreading your Time curse to both Alice and the Dormouse, you also win the dubious honour of Typhoid Mary!

MATRIM’S DICE: Your longsuffering and patience as you were hit with the Madness early in Cards, suspected in Jabberwock, and given a disjointed team in Chess, has earned you the Truest Stoic award. Thank you for giving it your all throughout the game, even though it didn’t go your way much. 

EXPERIENCE: While you excelled in the Red Doc strategising with your teammates, your most outstanding effects on the game certainly came in the Cards game. Though you fell willingly upon your Pepper-laced sword during C2 to ensure that Alice or the Knave would not be exposed, your time as the Duchess was laden with significance, helping you to roleblock the Queen who was hunting you during C1. As such, I award you the title of Doughtiest Scapegoat. 

DRAKEMARSHALL/SCARS: There is no question as to what you deserve. You quite obviously receive Cutest Murderpuppy for your Vorpal Sword assassination of Sart, and your ruthless planning in Chess.

WITISTHEBEST/ARCHER: In the grand tradition of our great IM watching over this game, you were in several important positions, but due to a quieter thread and PM presence, managed to mostly evade watchful eyes until the last cycles when it could be borne no more, flying under the radar with aplomb! As such, I grant you the title Most Devoted Adherent to Araris Valerian.

XINOEHP512: After receiving largely standard roles in this game, you were nonetheless subjected to a withering barrage of suspicion from all corners, particularly a very confident Wonko. As such, you receive the Most Remarkable Citizen award!

QUINTESSENTIAL: Your return to SE was a swooping and triumphant one, seeing you snatch the matriarchy of Wonderland for yourself and use it to set your realm back in order, and granting you co-Victor status. However, it came about from the efforts of others as well, whom you trusted and who did not fail you. As such, you are awarded the Most Benevolent Monarch prize! Try to avoid taking too many more heads, wouldn’t you?

_STICK_: You were adrift at sea for much of the game, and were in the centre of the time cursing without yourself being cursed. Nonetheless, you steeled yourself and, though doubtless cursing my name by the end, etched out two hard-won victories for yourself. You therefore earn Ordinary Time’s Strongest Soldier.

ASHBRINGER: You came in at exactly the right time in the Cards minigame, performing a perfect kill on the only player not sitting to Tea and securing victory for your faction. And in Chess, though you seemed quiet as the Dormouse you had been, you were another instrumental part of Red’s victory. I therefore award you the Clutch Gene award. Sorry for all the headaches I gave you. (Not really. :P)

AMANUENSIS: Ever the joker in these games, you received three difficult roles one after another: the Knave of Hearts, the Jabberwock, and the White Knight. Despite being cursed unexpectedly, you rose to the challenge of each, and gave the difficult wincons I assigned you your all. I therefore present you with Most Dwimmer-Crafty Third Party. May the Sun ever shine on your swords.

SART: No suspense here either: you had ALL the time shenanigans happen to you. You were Cursed, kicked out of a Party thanks to a curse, resurrected yourself as a Bandersnatch using your curse, and were the scariest time-travelling bishop to ever cross a chessboard. If Stick is Ordinary Time’s Strongest Soldier, you are Daylight Saving Time’s Strongest Soldier. 

|TJ|: Bro I’m sorry you just got piled on this game. Especially as My Son. You win Most Feared Spectre, and also Most Interrupted Queen (your poor actions :’))

WONKO THE SANE: You get the trophy case. Most Prolific PMer, Most Dastardly Schemer, Puppet Master Extraordinaire, Complimenter of GMs, Most Dedicated to His Craft, Best Confidence Level in Blackout, Most Likely to Fall For Fifth’s Silly Traps, Quinn’s Strongest Soldier. You deserve every last award. Thanks for making this game your own.

LABYRINTH: I think you just straight-up get Most Unlucky. Your Alice role could have done so much, and you just hit the very few wrong people with it. Thanks for being the prime Guinea Pig in this Wonderland world. 

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Thank you, thank you, to everyone who played. This is in my top 3 GMing experiences (and I’ve run a lot of games, with a lot more free time usually). Y’all made this your own and I loved it.

GM retrospective, a decent writeup, and fuller thoughts are coming. And possibly some parodies.

Edit: I NEARLY FORGOT TO THANK @JNV SPECIFICALLY! Go shower the best co-GM I could have asked for with all due upvotes, praise, and adulation 

Edited September 10 by Fifth Scholar

[Ashbringer]

Spoiler

I'll take Bronze 

This was fun! A nice bit of chaos for all.

[Wonko the Sane]

A tie between Quinn and TKN; I like that. Let’s call it a tie between communism and capitalism, eh Red Team?

GG everyone. This might just be my all-time favorite SE game. I had a blast.

[Ookla the Destined]

@xinoehp512 @|TJ| @Labyrinth one point gang, high fives all around :D.

That went rather poorly for me, but I also played rather poorly, so it checks out :P. My foray back as a villager in game 2 was largely unsuccessful but it happened so that’s something xD Wish our team had actually done things in the final game buuuut I didn’t die so that’s also a win, I think. lowkey jealous of red team though :P.

GGs, all, that was quite entertaining! @Fifth Scholar, @JNV, thanks for running such a delightfully wacky package of a game.

Edit: Those full rules are actually eye opening. Huh.

Edited September 10 by Matrim's Dice

[TheOokla929]

15 minutes ago, Fifth Scholar said:

LABYRINTH: I think you just straight-up get Most Unlucky. Your Alice role could have done so much, and you just hit the very few wrong people with it. Thanks for being the prime Guinea Pig in this Wonderland world. 

Lol. I basically just sucked tho. Sorry white.

Sorry I was so gone. There was a death in the family. He wasn’t in my immediate family, but I loved him.

[Ookla the Bald]

15 minutes ago, Wonko the Sane said:

A tie between Quinn and TKN; I like that. Let’s call it a tie between communism and capitalism, eh Red Team?

GG everyone. This might just be my all-time favorite SE game. I had a blast.

I'll take a tie, though judging from the rest of this game, time travel will take it away somehow. 

8 minutes ago, Labyrinth said:

Lol. I basically just sucked tho. Sorry white.

Sorry I was so gone. There was a death in the family. He wasn’t in my immediate family, but I loved him.

My condolences. 

Edit: What the Fifth is that rules doc

Edited September 10 by The Known Novel

[JNV]

This was fun to watch and run and the only time I even slightly regretted my decision was when I kept rerunning the same chess game because alternate timelines threw the whole thing out of whack congrats to the winners congrats to the non winners hope you all enjoyed the time shenanigans I certainly did and thanks Fifth for the opportunity it was a great time

[Wonko the Sane]

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 My pawn is on g4. The three squares in front of me are empty. I have the power to make my movement order conditional on one factor now. Do X, but if Y, do Z is the format I can use.

Wow, seriously? That would have been INCREDIBLY useful if we’d been able to get it. Our only pawn advancement bonus was “Sheep’s   Store”, which I’m still fuzzy on the mechanics of.

9 minutes ago, Labyrinth said:

Lol. I basically just sucked tho. Sorry white.

Sorry I was so gone. There was a death in the family. He wasn’t in my immediate family, but I loved him.

I’m so sorry about that, man.

[Ookla the Destined]

Time shenanigans were fun, I was just so far removed from all of them all the time that it sort of just wasn’t a factor which is really too bad. I have a sense of FOMO reading the docs which is hilarious given the game is over  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think every single time cursed player was on red team?

[TheOokla929]

2 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Time shenanigans were fun, I was just so far removed from all of them all the time that it sort of just wasn’t a factor which is really too bad. I have a sense of FOMO reading the docs which is hilarious given the game is over  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think every single time cursed player was on red team?

*raises hand*

[Fifth Scholar]

11 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Time shenanigans were fun, I was just so far removed from all of them all the time that it sort of just wasn’t a factor which is really too bad. I have a sense of FOMO reading the docs which is hilarious given the game is over  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think every single time cursed player was on red team?

Three apiece. Aman, Labyrinth and Sart were all cursed.

[Wonko the Sane]

11 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Time shenanigans were fun, I was just so far removed from all of them all the time that it sort of just wasn’t a factor which is really too bad. I have a sense of FOMO reading the docs which is hilarious given the game is over  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think every single time cursed player was on red team?

You had at least one; your Bishop, who we assumed was Aman because we thought Aman was Time-Cursed, but it turned out to be Sart.

[Ookla the Shadowed]

Honestly Fifth, this is probably in my top two favorite games ever. Especially as the game went on. I'm really glad I stuck it through.

Sorry @Matrim's Dice for killing you c1 xD

@Wonko the Sane you are just insane. You ruled this game and just played so well. I really really enjoyed scheming and figuring out time travel with you and @DrakeMarshall especially in the chess doc. 

Go red team and communism!

Just saying, the end of C8 was probably the craziest EoD I have had in any mafia game. Ever. We had everything planned out and then we freaked out last minute and just went crazy. I think I changed my action order like 4 times in that last minute lol.

And hey, 7 points is pretty good all things considered. 

If I could change one thing in the game, I think I would add some more ways to earn points individually, as it feels like a lot of the points were faction dependent, but really idec. It was just so fun. 

Again, thank you @Fifth Scholar and @JNV.

P.S. sorry @_Stick_ for tunneling you so bad during the second mini game

[Ookla the Bald]

I'm currently reading the white doc, and so far it's using the exact same colors and it's so funny but also messing with my mind.

[Ookla the Shadowed]

Ok what is the rule doc? xD

Anyway I found the real rule doc linked in the spreadsheet so time to figure this crazy game out.

[Wonko the Sane]

Bandersnatch doc:

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Hmm… Don’t love that. Wonko is trying to figure out if my role is Slithy Tove or just Tove.

Of course, my role is actually Bandersnatch Tove, which is awkward. To Slithy or not to Slithy, that is the question.

Hah! I knew it would catch people.  @_Stick_, see, it wasn’t obvious how to lie through it.

[Ookla the Shadowed]

Also if anyone wants to come up with a ruleset with crazy time travel shenanigans™ with me, I am so down. This is probably one of my favorite game mechanics ever.

[Wonko the Sane]

Rules doc:

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If queens of opposite colours share a space or are adjacent at the end of a round of moves, they will castle, each moving two squares in a random direction.

Oh, what the… Fifth, I swear, if this had happened, I would have torn my hair out. XD

[DrakeMarshall]

What a lovely spec doc font

[Wonko the Sane]

Alright, @Fifth Scholar @JNV, I can’t find it anywhere in the rules doc: why on Earth wasn’t Drake also Haigha?

Edited September 10 by Wonko the Sane

[Stick.]

Team Red was fun, I did pretty much nothing and got absolutely carried by the rest of the team \o/ I haven’t seen that level of coordination and drive in a doc in a while. 

Thanks for running the game fifth and JNV - I am/was in a severe mafia burnout as a culmination of the last four months playing champs but this was a refreshing and chill game that I managed to low-effort my way through  

Quin winning is hilarious. 

[Ookla the Bald]

4 minutes ago, _Stick_ said:

Quin winning is hilarious.

Hey! I think I win on criteria .

[Kasimir]

1 hour ago, Wonko the Sane said:

Alright, @Fifth Scholar @JNV, I can’t find it anywhere in the rules doc: why on Earth wasn’t Drake also Haigha?

There can only be one.

As much as the mental image of Haigha!Drake was hilarious af, it was not to be  

[DrakeMarshall]

1 minute ago, Kasimir said:

There can only be one.

As much as the mental image of Haigha!Drake was hilarious af, it was not to be  

Alas

I think I did a fair job with the hand I was dealt and I will be content in that

I'm mostly just impressed Wonko was able to find anything but memes in the rules doc.

 

Anyways bravo Fifth/JNV for finding just about the right mix of absurdity and logic for this game.

I always enjoy a good SE game, and I am always ready for it to be over by the time it is over, and as such I will now peace out.

[Ookla the Paradigm]

8 hours ago, Wonko the Sane said:

Wow, seriously? That would have been INCREDIBLY useful if we’d been able to get it. Our only pawn advancement bonus was “Sheep’s   Store”, which I’m still fuzzy on the mechanics of.

I’m so sorry about that, man.

Would have been useful if I hadn't DIED

8 hours ago, Labyrinth said:

Lol. I basically just sucked tho. Sorry white.

Sorry I was so gone. There was a death in the family. He wasn’t in my immediate family, but I loved him.

My condolences 

9 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

@xinoehp512 @|TJ| @Labyrinth one point gang, high fives all around :D.

That went rather poorly for me, but I also played rather poorly, so it checks out :P. My foray back as a villager in game 2 was largely unsuccessful but it happened so that’s something xD Wish our team had actually done things in the final game buuuut I didn’t die so that’s also a win, I think. lowkey jealous of red team though :P.

GGs, all, that was quite entertaining! @Fifth Scholar, @JNV, thanks for running such a delightfully wacky package of a game.

Edit: Those full rules are actually eye opening. Huh.

Imagine only getting one point smh. Should have gotten a flamingo 

I don't know where I got the flamingo 

Stuff just happens sometimes

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And judging by Archer’s last-minute switch, they have NOT put as much thought into this as we have, so I doubt they’re coordinating their actions enough to cluster like that

I am offend! 

even if it's true  It was a struggle to get vote pairs in place, and y'all were quick to the draw to start cycles. Well played! 

 

Anyway, thanks for driving the clowncar, Fifth, JNV, and Mentor Araris. My only rule change suggestion would be to reverse the order of the mini games, making the more individual win ones later in the game. 

I'd also like to know how many points Wonko would have won for a victory in the second mini game. Spent a lot of time pondering that