Trial of the Evoker: The Corrupted

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p.editwait botaru is jaereed/impoetic hydra? AYYYY

Heya, dunnstral!

and once during the night he can steal all of somebody elses non-dark magic (which is mostly or all us I'd reckon) and adds it to their own at the end of the day phase

Are we sure only scum have dark magic? I've yet to go back and check the theme again, but I'm not totally sure whether or not it's possible to wield it without being corrupted by it. I.e. not

everyone

would have it, but there could potentially be a few perma-PRs on town, since mafia starts out with both dark magic

and

rotating spells? Now that I say that it starts to seem less likely, but I feel I like there miiiiight be a possibility? Or there might not.

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On second thought, yeah, probably all/mostly us. The description of our wincon makes me think it'd be weird for town to have access to dark magic. Sorry for spazzing.

Ahhh this setup is so cool

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I'm pretty sure only scum have it. there's no third parties either

Important information: Non-dark-magic spells get absorbed by the person you use it on. This means "arcane theft" gets absorbed into whoever it's used on as a sort of swap. This means that you should only absorb when somebody is about to get lynched, or if we're going to night kill then. This also has GOOD SYNERGY with my invade aiblity, being able to find out what they have during the day

The only other thing (besides my curse) is prod, which should not be a big deal (if I'm understanding it correctly)

ahhh yep. Alert probably indicates there are roles that have unexpected reactions to it, though, right?

Arcane theft is also a role we'd wanna use on one of you if we were getting lynched when you guys had (ostentatiously) negative spells like alert, but hopefully that won't come up too quickly.

As for curse, both seem like good ideas, but the latter probably gets more towncred overall? Not much of a preference here though.

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On second thought, I'm not sure we'd get towncred for having it passed to us; if we were semi-SRed, it could feasibly come from a town and we'd also be in danger because of it, and if we weren't, it wouldn't make sense for it to be passed to us in the first place.

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"Us" being any of pisskop and jaereed and I. It could be a distancing maneuver if you claimed it

and

passed it to us, though.

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I'm so scared of saying more stupid stuff in scum chat asfg I should go on the hydra account and just conveniently forget to sign everything so people don't know it was me


predit: What makes you think we can pass on dark magic spells? Did I miss something? Also @Jr none taken obvs

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It's possible alert is just filler. It seems we all have the same number of abilities, and scum could've started out with a different one and needed some last-minute nerfing or something? But also just roles can interact with it in ways we can't really expect to predict in pregame I guess.

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alert is a nice way to nudge people and say

'look, im harmless and Ive raised an ALERT. what a stupid power for scum amirite?'

it also lets us 'fake' target each other. Or if we want to try to stockpile powers we can pass it amounst ourselves

Oh, true.

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yup!!

also just finished reading the first post in the scum PT rip rip rip. I see why dunnstral was so sure about the dark magic thing before >_<

nahdia put the spellbooks outside the spoiler tags so we could keep track of them nice

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Let's wink at town

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let's

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don't steal the mind link, we can redirect it to drealmerz7

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just kidding he already changed his posting habits

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who'd dunnstral end up using his curse on again?

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Wisdom could actually be a bothersome role considering the mechanics of this setup, and we don't know what passive abilities are affecting it. Probably none I guess, but even just having private communication with someone when various PRs are constantly moving around could be a problem if both are town and they can continue to use the ability in a chain, or just if he has some kinda informative power w people he comes into contact with.

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Why do you want to direct it to Fire? I'm confused. Sorry ;_;

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We'll know after tonight how many spells there are in the first place, but we'll also lose track of the one we know about.

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Oh frick I thought it was night already for a sec lol

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redirecting it to the person we do kill is probably a good idea but i don't think iron's a very good kill atm

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er redirecting it to us is better nvm

but yeah i wouldn't kill iron

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actually no i'm stupid.

Since we'd risk killing what's basically a blue if we killed wisdom and redirected it to us, i'd definitely wanna kill elsewhere. I think we can either leave it or do what pisskop said but with someone that isn't Iron i.e. nullify the spell whilst killing the person we want

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oh good question o:

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@Nahdia What happens to the 2-shot magic after they are used? Will they still remain in the spellbook and flips or do they disappear?

The section that reads "they will be removed from your spellbook once no uses remain" is followed by "None of the above applies to dark magic."

Dark Magic never leaves your spellbook, even if your uses are spent.

stop right there natattlie

i don't know what you're trying to pull, but if you think u can use those goddamned fancy-shmancy "words" and "englishes" of yours to make us look stupid you've got aNOTHER THING COMIN', 'cause I'm NOT GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT god damn it

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nope

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@ whether anyone here would complain


realized that was kind of nebulous

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sorry hi

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I don't really see mind link as the most important power? Especially if we're killing one of those two... but I don't really know much about forum mafia so i don't think my input is too important here.

Definitely agree with redirecting people onto Dunn atm though.

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Actually sure, maybe one of 'em got other spells.

Redirecting from a popular townread onto dunnstral seems best, but i don't know who that would be. I guess fire would be a bad choice because we're buddying him a bit?

idk. i'm trying to figure out what's going on and stop being a useless lump, sorry about that

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though more scary watcher-related abilities would be... scary. I don't know how likely we are to win

another

cc just by knowing what magic the other dude has, especially since role cop-like things tend to be scummy from what i know?

idk i'm just rambling rip

the reason i said a popular townread earlier was because i thought that'd be oreOH WAIT forgot how redirect worked

okay so i guess redirecting from someone who scumreads pisskop or batoru...?

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or redirecting from BTD or NC yeah that works too

i'm sorry idk

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i wouldn't personally redirect from the actual kill, but maybe the other one between the two

k, done spamming.

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batoru loves *ick

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Can you go over why it's worth it to have us kill the person who 99% TRs batoru and leantowns you over the people who are clearable?

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Sorry, I know I'm not super into strategy. Also if Jaereed didn't already tell you, Mana Shield is supposed to only work at night, so you definitely wanna use that on us when we use arcane theft

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OK. I'd like you to mana guard us tonight but if you have a preference go with that. I'd personally rather kill AJ (who roleblocked dunnstral and is near-clear for it) at least if you're known for wifom like this, but again, i'm not super acquainted with strategy.

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oh shit wait apparently dunn said not to kill AJ

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yeah let's just kill fire.

I wanna use the arcane theft today, hence asking for mana guard. Any idea who we should go for? Whoever it is is someone we might wanna kill the night after, hence me asking now

Wouldn't wanna use it on someone who gets lynched because they'd likely not get abilities we want? is the idea i had anyway... :s

i probably shouldn't participate in strategy at all atm, lol.