Mid-Range Game 14: The Canim Fury

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I had kind of assumed that you wouldn't actually let a cursor kill go through. It's such a horrible concept. Did anyone else try to attack Elbereth/Haelbarde/Alvron?

You're a Cursor? What does that do?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I was a cursor. Read the tags, most people apparently were. I was given the ability to make one kill before the game began. Which is stupid. And I told them so. I refused to make a kill on anyone, (Except Haelbarde) because it was basically just an option to stop a player from joining the game.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I was a cursor. Read the tags, most people apparently were. I was given the ability to make one kill before the game began. Which is stupid. And I told them so. I refused to make a kill on anyone, (Except Haelbarde) because it was basically just an option to stop a player from joining the game.

I was just kidding. I did the same thing. I refused to make a kill, specifying that I would kill no one, including the random one. Apparently there were a lot who actually made kills. They should've let the game go like that. it's have been fun to see.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Yeah, I'm rather disappointed in how many players appear to have taken advantage of their kills. It looks like only me, you and whoever Lucet Umbra is refused to make a kill?

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I think that's Hael, based off you stabbing him at the end.

Wow, Hellscythe, you'd kill me before the game began? Harsh.

Edited May 23, 2016 by Mailliw73

[Elbereth she/her]

Notice: Any roles received before the game started are no longer valid. That was entirely random and unbalanced. Roles and alignments have been rerolled, and you should have them now.

What would have happened:

Burnt was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Fire!

Phattemer was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Wood!

Haelbarde was a GM!

Lopen was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 3 Earth!

Strawman was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Water!

Deathclutch was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Air!

Gamma was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Air!

Amanuensis was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Earth!

Elodin was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Metal!

Winter Cloud was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Water!

Hellscythe was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Fire!

Still want to see that game, Maill?

And Lucet Umbra is me. Sorry for not being clear. Dominius is Hael.

Edited May 23, 2016 by Elbereth

[Bugsy he/him]

I was informed that if I didn't select a name, my kill would be made randomly. I tried to be as humane about it as I could, using an RNG to pick between players in one of the LGs and this... Now I'm feeling guilty for picking anyone

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Haha, awesome. I wondered why they did that. Didn't seem fair, but now I see.

[Haelbarde he/him]

It was an amusing experiment, I think. To be clear, everyone was sent the same PM (albeit with a randomized furycrafting ability), and we watched with amusement people's reactions. And then the writeup was the result. Hopefully it was worth the wait. 

 

Everyone should have received a PM with the details of their actual role and alignment. 

A reminder to players with PM abilities to include the type of the PM in the title of the PM. 

And with voting, to remove a vote, don't edit the original vote. Post again, with the vote greened out. 
 

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Hell is Praetoria, and I stabbed Haelbarde.

 

Anyway, as per usual, anyone want to make a PM with me please? Or protect me? It says I'm a knight Ignus, which means the eliminators are going to asume I have kill abilities, and so they're going to kill me before I do anything. But I only have a Tier 1 fury, so I can only change a vote.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Double posting because I fully expect to be ninja's, since I was ninja's four times. EDIT: Wow, I wasn't ninja'd.

Notice: Any roles received before the game started are no longer valid. That was entirely random and unbalanced. Roles and alignments have been rerolled, and you should have them now.

What would have happened:
Burnt was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Fire!
Phattemer was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Wood!
Haelbarde was a GM!
Lopen was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 3 Earth!
Strawman was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Water!
Deathclutch was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Air!
Gamma was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Air!
Amanuensis was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Earth!
Elodin was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Metal!
Winter Cloud was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 2 Water!
Hellscythe was a Loyal Cursor with Tier 1 Fire!

Still want to see that game, Maill?
And Lucet Umbra is me. Sorry for not being clear. Dominius is Hael.

 

Really guys? No one killed me? After everything I've done in three of the last four games, No one wanted to kill me? I'm insulted.

Edited May 23, 2016 by The Only Joe

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Gamma was who I originally put my order as. And then he killed me!

[Haelbarde he/him]

My spreadsheet had a few errors in it, so the player list was wrong (it wasn't properly reporting player's furycrafting type).

This has now been fixed. Please let me know if you find any other inconsistencies.

 

Edit: Looking through the initial questions people asked in the troll round, it's possibly worth clarifying that if you have a Tier 3 fury, you don't have to name your heir in public, and choosing an heir doesn't take one of your two actions.
 

Edited May 23, 2016 by Haelbarde

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Well, I'll place the first vote I guess! Hmm. SilverDragon, I choose you!

[Haelbarde he/him]

I've found two more things I should probably clarify:
> The Earth Tier I doesn't work on PMs
> Tier 3 Water should read: Each turn you may target a player. That player’s immune system is weakened. A player who has been affected by this ability twice becomes dependent on your healing abilities. When you die, any players dependent on you die the following cycle, and are unable to vote or put in actions during that cycle. Note that players aren't notified when they become dependent. 
 
Edit: And there were errors in the PM sent out (had old versions of some tier 3 abilities, along with the Earth and Woodcrafting). All the PM's should have been fixed now. For reference, the ability rules:

Firecrafting - Knights Ignus
I. Each turn you may change one player's vote to another target of your choice.
II. Each turn you may attack one player.
III. Each turn you may attack one additional player.
 
Watercrafting - Knights Aqua
I. Each turn you may open a number of PMs. This number will vary between players.
II. Each turn you may to target a player to eavesdrop on any PM's they are involved in that were created by Watercrafting.
III. Each turn you may target a player. That player’s immune system is weakened. A player who has been affected by this ability twice becomes dependent on your healing abilities. When you die, any players dependent on you die the following cycle, and are unable to vote or put in actions during that cycle.
 
Earthcrafting - Knights Terra
I. Each turn you may target a player. Any actions directed at that player will target you instead.

II. Each turn you may target a player. That player is protected from 1 attack.
III. On your turn, you may choose to scout ahead for this turn and the next. Actions targeting you this cycle and next fail, and it is publicly announced that you are scouting. While scouting you are unable to vote, put in actions, or post in thread, but can still participate in PMs. You can be lynched while scouting, but do not die until you return. You cannot scout the turn after you return from a previous scouting mission. Scouting on the last turn of the game allows you to reach camp early, causing their team to win.
 
Aircrafting - Knights Aeris
I. Each turn you may open a number of PMs. This number will vary between players.
II. Each turn you may target another player to eavesdrop on any PM's they are involved with created by Aircrafting.
III. Each turn you may target a player. You learn the type and tier of any actions that player takes, but not who they targeted.
 
Metalcrafting - Knights Ferrous
I. Once per game, you will survive a single attack made on you. This is a passive ability.
II. Each turn you may attack one player.
III. Each turn you may protect against two attacks. These could be the same person (including yourself), or two different players.
 
Woodcrafting - Knights Flora
I. Each turn you may hide a player (including yourself). Anyone actions targeting that player (other than their own) will fail.
II. Each turn you may target a player. Any actions performed by that player will fail.
III. On your turn you may redirect any actions taken by one player to another player of your choice.

Edited May 23, 2016 by Haelbarde

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Nevermind, I don't think SD gets on at this time of the day(night). So...Silverdragon. The Only Joe

 

I don't think you should get protection. You could be evil!

 

Edit: I see you there Burnt! Don't think I'm gonna let you get out of posting for this Cycle!

Edited May 23, 2016 by TheMightyLopen

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

The Mighty Lopen. I'm sure he remember's why. 

 

EDIT: It took me so long to find the doc, that Lopen ninja'd me by voting on me! He does remember!

Edited May 23, 2016 by The Only Joe

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

The Mighty Lopen. I'm sure he remember's why. 

 

EDIT: It took me so long to find the doc, that Lopen ninja'd me by voting on me! He does remember!

 

Hah! And here I thought you were just counter voting me. I do indeed remember. Oh yes. 

[Burnt Spaghetti she/her]

Edit: I see you there Burnt! Don't think I'm gonna let you get out of posting for this Cycle!

*Sighs*

Fine ill post

Who knows, I may even d1 vote for a change

Edited May 23, 2016 by Burnt Spaghetti

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

 

Nevermind, I don't think SD gets on at this time of the day(night). So...Silverdragon. The Only Joe

 

I don't think you should get protection. You could be evil!

Well, let's review who should get protection.

 

I would argue that the Eliminators are going to mainly go for threats to their team. While that may take the form of eliminating experienced players, it sometimes doesn't when Powers are more applicable, or there are lots of experienced players on the eliminator team, and they want to hide. But, if an experianced player has a powerful role, they'll often attack them anyway, because they're a triple threat.

 

Of the six power types, They're going to avoid targeting Metalcrafters, since thy have an extra life, no matter what. Attacking them is going to get them a lot of attention, usually through either trust or WGG suspicions, which I would argue don't often work since They're always expected. That removes Elodin, Bugsby, and Conquestor from the obvious targets. 

 

Other than Metal, Fire is the only ability to be able to kill players, and while they want town vigilante's to kill other villagers, they don't want experienced vigilantes, since they tend to be better at killing eliminators. So that puts Joe, Hellscythe, and Gamma Fiend in danger. However, we can take Gamma off that list, I hope. Because seriously, He's just returned to SE. It would be an incredible jerk move to kill him N1, so I doubt he'll be targeted.

 

Watercrafters (Straw, Mail) and Aircrafters (DC, Winter, Cloud, Seonid) are useful to the village because they can open up lines of communication between villagers. However, the air crafters are less useful than the watercrafters, since the Watercrafters can be healers as well. So I would put Mailliw and Straw on the threatening to Eliminators list as well, Mailliw more so because he's a lot more experienced than Straw.

 

The woodcrafters can protect people, and I'd say about 50% of them will protect themself, and the other 50% will protect one of the people I'm arguing to be protected, so they're secondary targets to the eliminators.

 

The Earthcrafters are probably the best and worse threats to the eliminators we have. If they have Tier two Earth, they can protect a player, and themself at the same time. So unless the Eliminators have extra kills, (I'd bet on them having at least one, and not listed as their primary fury) Then they might target the Earthcrafters. (Araris, Phattamer and Spaghetti) But if they target a player who is being protected by someone else anyway, then they'll get two layers of protection.

 

TL;DR

Primary Targets:

Joe, Hellscythe, Mailliw.

 

Secondary Targets:

Amanuensis, Lopen

 

Tertiary Targets:

Straw and Dragon

 

In my opinion, Anyone with protection should protect one of the primary or secondary targets.

 

 

Now, I know what's going to be said. "Joe, you realize you've given the eliminators a list of who they should kill, and a list of where protection will likely be placed?" Yes, I do realize that. It's now a game of IKYK. The Eliminators have to guess if these players will be protected, and if they should instead attack someone else. But Information and analysis is the best weapon, so I'm saying this all anyway.

[Elbereth she/her]

Sorry, we made a mistake in the rules. (Again.)

Rule Change: Earthcrafters may not self protect.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Oh, the Gm posted a clarification! Let's see what it is.

 

Sorry, we made a mistake in the rules. (Again.)
Rule Change: Earthcrafters may not self protect.

 

Right then, ignore my last post, I need to make some major modifications to my analysis, now that the best protective role is no longer the best protective role.

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

Gammax looked around, bewildered at the chaos surrounding him. The entire encampment was pandemonium, with people attacking each other, physically and verbally, hurling insults and dangerous allegations around. Of course, bandying words always ended up a little better than crossing swords. Or even worse, once magic started being flung about.

Gammax shook his head again. Magic. He woke up to a strange new world, or what felt like one at least. He couldn't remember how long he had slept. Or who he was before he did. Foggy memories clouded his mind, almost as if past lives were trying to flood his brain. Sounded like one flaming heck of a head injury. Luckily he had always been known for his thick skull.

Now where did that memory come from? He took another quick peek at the people around him, wondering if they were whispering behind his back. Probably about him. He thought some of the faces looked familiar, but that couldn't be possible. He didn't even know where he was, still.

One thing did feel right, though. Despite not knowing who he was, exactly, or what he was even doing here, he knew it all felt....right. As if he had been here before, or at least something similar. Maybe that's where the head injury came from? He just wasn't certain. He needed more time to figure things out.

Well these are definitely a really awesome set of rules and powers for this game, so there'll be quite a bit of magic flying around! Of course it's a bit too early in the game and cycle still even to really have any idea of where to start looking and getting things going for now. So I'll just have some fun for now poking at the fourth wall with my RP!

[Conquestor he/him]

Joe, there is another problem with your analysis, what if some of those people are traitors? Also, just because the metal power gets a second life doesn't mean that they (me) are of the suspicion list. One other thing, don't forget about the guys that get two powers. All I'm saying is that we need to consider everything before rushing in. On another note, Araris .

Edit : Yes! Finaly I understand the mobile commands.

Edited May 23, 2016 by Conquestor

[phattemer]

Jeez, that write-up was terrifying. I did not think that was going to turn out to be a dream. :/

I was thinking about killing Araris, just for the name, but then I decided he'd waited for this game too long. He, apparently, has no such compunctions!