Ecthelion III

Just curious, how far are you in the series?

Over, of course.

@Arraenae From Tolkien Gateway: Apologies, I should have elaborated

DON'T TRUST ANNATAR YOU FOOOOLS

Just finished tonight. The greatest gotcha of all was that Alcatraz Smedry was not a liar. He tried to warn us. Over and over. I should have taken his word for it.

I'm done being boring. Ecthelion.

Absolutely nothing has happened to me so far. So not much to report from this direction.

I don't mean to sound overly cynical, but not having a lynch is not helping anyone, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the people who would advocate no lynch seem to be the kind of people who have a role--or perhaps, an alignment--which they would rather remain alive to continue murdering people with. I will withdraw my vote for now [Aman] but let it be known that my first phrase was a lie; my cynicism is palpable.

This discrepancy bothereth me. Aman.

This is all so interesting, and yet I am a completely normal villager with absolutely no items and apparently some bad luck. And I'm all for lynching the doll. After exorcising it. With silver.

Because @little wilson isn't here to voice her own opinions, I'll do it for her. "Seriously, guys??? Another first-round kill? This is getting absurd. Age or "experience" should not be reason to kill anyone repeatedly every single game, and usually this early. This death streak is ridiculous." (Except she would have said it in a nicer way.) And I agree, it is ridiculous. Whoever killed her, take a moment to think about what you've done.

No Stoner?

@firstRainbowRose Does a lynch function as outlined in the General Rules?

I have absolutely no idea what is going on. The rules for "claim a role" are rather vague, but I believe I'd be safe to say that for some reason, I can give items to players. This is confirmable. There's nothing against faction claiming, so I am neutral SK. And also boring. #stealthmode I vote The Bunny Rule (5) because it will make my job easier, mwahahahaha...

I took out Eternum because he made the mistake of voting on my beloved Frozen Mint.

I shall be Cyrus, a knight from the wrong time period who talketh like this.

I'm just sad I never got to use my gun

So, yay! I'm boring! #can'ttouchthis Do spheres even do anything? There's nothing that says you can't take actions if they're all dun.

Sorry it took this long to post post-game thoughts. So, what happened? Well, the Good players won within a handful of cycles by achieving their win condition by killing all the Evil players. There were 4 evils in total: STINK, Yitzi2, Joe, and Cloudjumper, and their demise was rather unfortunate luck. First we come to STINK’s death and a discussion of the “tutorial” section. The game’s core mechanics revolved around the three Realms: Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual, governed by the use of Essence Marks. The best way to introduce this mechanic, I thought, was to start the players off in the Cognitive Realm—the middle of the three—and show them the way into the Spritual Realm (the two-cycle death counter) and the way into the Physical Realm (Essence Marks) purely through the players’ own items and abilities. I’m a big supporter of the show-not-tell approach to game design. However, despite the explicit statement that going into the Spiritual Realm would cause elimination, one player did so anyway, and the Evil team was reduced to only 3 members. Now we get to the two special roles in the game, one Good and one Evil: The Doctor and Odium. Contrary to most games, where the leader roles are usually the most powerful and know the most, I wanted the leader roles to be the only two players out of the know (at least, to begin with). This would also serve as an elegant non-mechanical method for Odium to hunt down The Doctor—he could look for the only other person without certain knowledge. This backfired when The Doctor actually used it to find Odium. I expected Odium and his teammates to share knowledge in the doc beforehand, but this did not happen, and one ignorant post from Yitzi/Odium tipped of Drake/The Doctor. The Doctor’s ability, besides getting a new body upon death, is a weak scan involving DNA. However, the scan returns special results when scanning Odium and Odium only. Using his hint, Drake scanned Odium first turn and got a successful match, leading the lynch and killing the second Evil, Yitzi2, leaving only two. Drake also successfully bluffed that he was unkillable, which was only partially true—he himself was completely killable (in fact, there was no protection in the game at that point, as the lynched Straw had the Kiin Essence Mark which was a protective role) but The Doctor role is not killable, as it passes to another player. I would like to point out for those concerned with balance that The Doctor is actually weaker than many other roles and causes the player who becomes The Doctor to lose their Essence Marks since neither of the two special roles have the abillity to use Essence Marks. Two Evil players remained: Joe and Cloudjumper. Things were going along normally until Orlok received Nightblood—Nalthis items and Essence Marks were distributed the last turn, as that was the next destination after Roshar. Among other things, Nightblood allows a player to use all of their remaining actions as kills, at the cost of one’s own life. Orlok had 2 actions remaining (his Essence Mark granted him a role with extra actions), and he chose to unsheathe Nightblood. He then proceeded to completely no-scope the remaining two Evil players and end the game. It should be mentioned that Orlok possessed The Eyes of Aman, the game’s best scanning item, as mentioned in the final writeup. However, the Eyes actually never ended up being used, and Orlok’s killing of the remaining Evil players was purely his own logic and intuition. And that about sums it up! Thank you all for playing this crazy game, I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for all the support, it really means a lot to receive praise for being a good GM my first time doing it. The full 24-page narrative is available in document form here. - Ha ha ha ha… Did you REALLY think it was OVER!?!? … I mean, we haven’t even done the Special Thanks yet! To @Jondesu for counting up gold and votes. I know you were having busy (awesome, but busy) things going on in your life, and it was super helpful to have those ready for turnover! To @Elenion for co-GMing. Thanks, bro. To @Daniyah for submitting every action with a smile. Love ya too. To @Orlok Tsubodai for just being too good for the system and for putting the pro in prosecutor. To @Roadwalker for submitting the right action at the right time: “I use my authority as king to send a crusade against phil. Send all the sharbearers in Alethkar to attack Phil. Sue phil.” To @little wilson for letting me spam your inbox with PMs. To @Alvron for asking questions, submitting joke orders, turning life into a trial, and just living that GM love/hate relationship. I ran with it as best I could, hopefully it was entertaining And finally, to @everyone for the fantastic RP and for playing! Remnant and I will be taking questions until Alvron swings by to close this topic up.

Why are there only 9 pancakes?

@Mark IV Black market dealer? *is interested* Are you referring to the deceased? And if so, how did you know that stolen items are distributed via an arms dealer? Did I miss someone's post, did said dealer roleclaim to you, or were you, perhaps, the beneficiary of such a deal?

No, it blocks one incoming action every cycle. Doesn't wear off.