Abstrusity

This is lovely!

Yes. And, as was noted earlier, it is unlikely that either of those factions speak for their entire planet.

You're probably right. I'm trying to create a scenario where elims have an opportunity to convincingly fake certain roles, but that's difficult in such a small game. I'm planning on not revealing the alignment or ability of lynched players, as well. That's an interesting... wait a minute! The game is already divided into longer day and shorter night cycles. Perhaps if no-one dies immediately when the vote is tied at the end of a day, they die at the start of the next day instead - with a player who can decide ties. If that player is gone, it goes to a coin flip. Here's my revised plan: 1 player with alignment scan 1 player who judges tied votes. Additionally, they can see the alignment of anyone who's lynched. 1 player who resists a single death (lynch or elim kill) Elims remain as they are, with no abilities but awareness of which roles are in the game.

I currently have eight players, and I'm thinking about which player roles I should include. Are there any roles that might mess with game balance too much, were I to include them? I'm thinking particularly about alignment scans - how many are safe to include in a small game? My current idea is to make two (village) players who can have one open PM a cycle (it must be abandoned to open a new one), two who can alignment scan, and two who remove a vote from themselves automatically and then giving the Elims no special abilities, but providing them a list of every player role and how many people have it (though not which players.) Any thoughts on this plan? It's just a rough draft at the moment, and I could use some help.

I'm running my own version of this game on Discord (though not Sanderson-related since not everyone is a fan) for a few friends and had a few uncertainties. I was wondering if any experienced GMs wanted to share some tips on designing games, since I have very little experience in the area.

Rath! Farewell, old friend. *tips bowler hat* Farewell.

I think, hesitantly, that Alvron is village. Rath seems suspicious to me. Rath was the one who almost got me killed, so many days ago. That's the prime basis for my suspicion, but his more recent interactions have seemed just a pinch off as well.

The members of the research subset were the ones targeted by elims. Knowing that, it makes sense that the last member of the research subset is likely an elim. Hesitantly, I think that everyone just sharing what subset they're a part of (no need to tell us what it does) and their team members will likely help us identify who the last member of the research subset (and thus the elim) is. I can start. I am a member of a subset with Alvron and Xino.

I understand. Elkanah is next in line for death, but your fall will reveal a lot of information. Sometimes sacrifices must be made.

As far as I can tell, suspicion of Elandera is derived largely from Young Bard's testimony and supported by their vote on me last round. Suspicion of Elkanah seems to come a little more out of the blue. Elandera is more suspicious to me. But if Elandera doesn't turn out to be an elim, then there are two possibilities. Either the Sparkles subset did block Elandera, and the elims didn't send in a kill that night at all, or at least a portion of the Sprinkles subset is traitorous and misleading us. If you are a member of the Sprinkles subset, can you confirm what Bard said? A final theory just occured to me, but I will wait to share it before hearing more from people.

Mind sharing exactly what the roleblock of the Kidnapping Subset does? Is it just abilities, or does it extend to subset and/or lynch votes?

So there are two possibilities. One, an elim submitting the kill was roleblocked. Two, there was no kill submitted. I think everyone was active at least once this cycle, but the elims may have postponed the decision till the end of the cycle and then been unable to get on in time. Slight amounts of suspicion towards those inactive during the night cycle. Does anyone want to come forward with who else was roleblocked last night? So either Young Bard or someone in their subset roleblocked Elandera, if that is indeed the case. Interesting.

Original post: VINDICATED! YESSSS! HAAATS FOREEEEVERR! Aside from that, hello? I need to get off now, but Mundric is distributing vellum-lined party hats with long tassels of shining blue fabric flying from them in honor of his survival. Enjoy!

@Elandera I think you misunderstand me, or I misspoke. I thought we did need a C1 lynch, but that Experience was the wrong target. It pains my inner being to vote on someone with no reason, so I seized on Experience as something, anything to target. Kidpen was a good alternative in my book, since retaliation isn't entirely unfounded. In more general announcements, what do we think about putting more information out there? Perhaps not individual allomantic roles, but there are likely elims in many of the sets so it might help to share that information. As for who to vote on... I cannot come up with any good suspicions right now, but have a vote, Venture.

I am also not a gold ferring. This isn't the School of Tinlies all over again

For anyone wondering about my codes, they were mostly a series of links buried in my posts to images of a script used in a video game and a cipher for understanding said script. In the future, I'll probably use a lot of white text.

It's pretty clear that there are EBI in the Set - unless there are villagers not in subsets, the converted villagers would likely remain in their set docs, and the first writeup indicates that there are elims there from the start.

I feel like both sides got extremely lucky this game. The village with Xino's scans and leaving all their role-having players till the end, and the elims with getting roles on all three members. That was a close one. Good game!

Rath

Precisely. And if everyone's guilty, the only thing to do is lynch them one by one. ,,,,,,,,,

Honestly, we just need any lynch C1. Can you really point to anything more suspicious than the ETS statement? yes i know you just pointed to me but that doesn't count it wasnt an option for me. Spiral gnash your soul! But yes, lynching a new player is a tad aggressive. Sorry about that, Kidpen. Let the spiral devour him!

No, no. You stated that there was too much chance (as in, it would be bad) of an EBI being hit. The EBI are the villains. Perhaps it was just unfortunate wording, but lacking any other suspicion I might as well lynch this way.

EXPERIENCE. Well then.

So it's quite unlikely, then. I begged I learned last game (it's still in progress, technically) that if we don't put in a good semi-random lynch early the elims get quite an advantage. the world to heal its scars again Can someone please act suspicious so I can vote on them in good conscience? As I cried into oblivion So, some thoughts on the game. And the victims passed me by I assume everyone is part of a subset, including the elims. I said I personally have a trait separate from my set, and it's fairly likely everyone else does too, given how minor it is. The curse has kept us spiraling I hope no one gave out sensitive info to their set, thinking they were friendly. While the desperate keep on rioting Elkanah implied he was part of multiple subsets. If we believe his estimate of seven, it is such that with four elims there will be a few subsets that are village only. Interesting. And the greedy plea with lies

Have there been any games like that? Where one elim was meta-secretly a villager?