STEVEN UNIVERSE 2 - GAME OVER

Jasper, a Quartz Born in Battle and Fueled by Revenge

Every gem is made for a purpose: to serve the order of the Diamonds. Those who cannot fit inside this order must be purged!
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
Head to head, just like I like it! Despite being aligned with the scum faction, they do not know who you are. Furthermore, you do not know the scum faction's identities and you do not have access to any of their factional resources. You may still direct the kill at the Climax Phase--if you elect to, your target will die instead of the scum team's intended target. During a Season Finale, if you direct the kill, it will have enhanced priority--no ability may prevent or redirect it unless otherwise stated. This will also happen if Stress is ever at -2 or lower. This planet ruins everything! Well, heh, except for me. Any ability that targets you will fail. Events will still succeed. I'm the only one who can handle your kind of power. Instead of following the normal mechanics for allying, you will always force your allying target to ally with you. You will learn your ally's alignment and what abilities, if any, your ally gains from an Alliance and you may submit their action for them. While in the alliance, your ally is unable to submit actions or vote. Instead, you control their vote. You may use the bolded vote tag [PLAYER NAME VOTE: TARGET NAME]. Nobody I ever fuse with wants to stay. Once you have ended an Alliance with a player, you may never return to Allying with that player again. EVENT: The Breaking Point EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: You may only activate this ability at +2 or higher Stress. Flavor is tied to the Episode, "Bismuth." The following information will be made publicly known: During the Exposition of this Event, in addition for voting for a lynch all players may now also vote for a player to 'Shatter'. This votecount follows the same voting rules that normal voting does. If a majority vote is reached on the 'Shatter' vote, the voted player will be killed and only their alignment will flip. The Exposition phase will continue. One Stress will be added, towards Tragic Destiny. 2 Stress is subtracted, moving towards Slice of Life. The following information is private and only known to you: If a majority vote is not reached on the 'Shatter' vote, you are removed from the game for the following two Exposition phases. Earth is a prison. And I got out because I’m better than this place. I only came back to finish you off. You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Bismuth, Blacksmith of the Crystal Gems

She asked me what I wanted to build, and I'd never heard that before. Gems never hear they can be anything other than what they are.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Gem.
Shatter me? Pshh, Homeworld couldn't lay a scratch on this gem. Any ability that targets you will fail. Events will still succeed. Let's show 'em what happens when you mess with the Crystal Gems! During the Climax phase, you may kill any target player. During a Season Finale, this kill will have enhanced priority--no ability may prevent or redirect it unless otherwise stated. This will also be happen if Stress is ever at -2 or lower. Don't tell ME what a Crystal Gem would do. Nobody's more "Crystal Gem" than I am. If you won't take it, I'll just use it myself. Instead of following the normal mechanics for allying, you will always force your allying target to ally with you. You will learn your ally's alignment and what abilities, if any, your ally gains from an Alliance and you may submit their action for them. While in the alliance, your ally is unable to submit actions or vote. Instead, you control their vote. You may use the bolded vote tag [PLAYER NAME VOTE: TARGET NAME] You may also simply have me edit the player's post to force them to vote a target of your liking. ...You should've shattered me back then. At least if I were in pieces, I wouldn't have to know how little I mattered to you. Once you have ended an Alliance with a player, you may never return to Allying with that player again. EVENT: The Breaking Point EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: You may only activate this ability at +2 or higher Stress. Flavor is tied to the Episode, "Bismuth." The following information will be made publicly known: During the Exposition of this Event, in addition for voting for a lynch all players may now also vote for a player to 'Shatter'. This votecount follows the same voting rules that normal voting does. If a majority vote is reached on the 'Shatter' vote, the voted player will be killed and only their alignment will flip. The Exposition phase will continue. One Stress will be added, towards Tragic Destiny. 2 Stress is subtracted, moving towards Slice of Life. The following information is private and only known to you: If a majority vote is not reached on the 'Shatter' vote, you are removed from the game for the following two Exposition phases. How could you value the gems of our enemies more than our own? You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RUBY (EYEBALL)

Eyeball, A Ruby In Need of Closure

I'm Ruby-1F4 Cut-4ND. I fought in the war for Earth.
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
At the very least, I thought Jasper might have some answers, but... If you ally with any player, you will learn if they are a Human or a Gem. So long as you are allied with a player, you are immune to all actions. I never thought I'd get a chance like this. If stress is at -2 or lower, your factional kill will have enhanced priority when overcoming protective effects--it can still be redirected or protected against by similarly 'enhanced priority' protection. If only you and/or Jasper are the final living members of your faction, any factional kill you attempt will always have enhanced priority. This kill will still fail on any non-legal target, such as any player that counts as 'out of game' for any reason. What will the Diamonds say when they hear that a Ruby defeated Rose Quartz? They're gonna give me my own Pearl! If no other 'Gem' characters exist outside of the scum faction, you gain control of a unique 'Pearl' account. I will send the details of this account to you if this is ever the case. This unique Pearl account will show up in the list of living players and on vote counts. You can submit votes with this Pearl account--both you and this Pearl account can never be the only voting players on a lynch. You can not post from this Pearl account otherwise. This Pearl account may be voted for and affected by Climax actions. This Pearl account can not form alliances. Each Climax Phase, you may have this Pearl slot perform one of the following actions: -This slot may protect any target player from being killed--any kills targeting the protected player will be redirected to the Pearl slot. This may not be used on consecutive Climax Phases. -This slot may target any player to cause their submitted action to fail. This may not be used on consecutive Climax Phases. EVENT: Sworn to the Sword EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3--if used during Episode 1, it is priority 0. REQUIREMENTS: You may only activate this ability at +2 or higher Stress. No requirements if used during Episode 1. Flavor is tied to the Episodes, "Sworn to the Sword" and "Crack the Whip" The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If used during Episode 1, the following will happen: You will form an alliance with the player with the flavor of 'Steven Universe'. You will gain a double-vote for the rest of the game. The following information is private and only known to you: However, Steven will also become immune to any action submitted by you--only you will know this. Steven will not be immune to your Pearl's actions or your -4 Stress Factional Kill. If used during any other Episode, this Event has the following public effects instead; Town may perform two lynches during this Episode's Exposition. After one player is lynched, the player lynched will die, then the votecount and deadline will reset for a second lynch. I got nothing else to lose. You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Connie, The Girl Who May Save the Universe

I don't know what will happen in the future, but if something dangerous comes along, I don't want to be a burden, I want to help!
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
I was face-to-face with a monster and I froze. Maybe if I trained a little harder... So long as you are allied with another player, you are immune to all actions. I want to, Steven. I want to be a part of your universe. If you ally with any player, you will learn if they are a Human or a Gem. I need to be able to protect you! If no other 'Gem' characters exist outside of the scum faction, you gain control of a unique 'Pearl' account. I will send the details of this account to you if this is ever the case. This unique Pearl account will show up in the list of living players and on vote counts. You can submit votes with this Pearl account--both you and this Pearl account can never be the only voting players on a lynch. You can not post from this Pearl account otherwise. This Pearl account may be voted for and affected by Climax actions. This Pearl account can not form alliances. Each Climax Phase, you may have this Pearl slot perform one of the following actions: -This slot may protect any target player from being killed--any kills targeting the protected player will be redirected to the Pearl slot. This may not be used on consecutive Climax Phases. -This slot may target any player to cause their submitted action to fail. This may not be used on consecutive Climax Phases. EVENT: Sworn to the Sword EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3--if used during Episode 1, it is priority 0. REQUIREMENTS: You may only activate this ability at +2 or higher Stress. No requirements if used during Episode 1. Flavor is tied to the Episodes, "Sworn to the Sword" and "Crack the Whip" The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If used during Episode 1, the following will happen: You will form an alliance with the player with the flavor of 'Steven Universe'. You will gain a double-vote for the rest of the game. The following information is private and only known to you: However, Steven will also become immune to any action submitted by you--only you will know this. Steven will not be immune to your Pearl's actions or your -4 Stress Factional Kill. If used during any other Episode, this Event has the following public effects instead; Town may perform two lynches during this Episode's Exposition. After one player is lynched, the player lynched will die, then the votecount and deadline will reset for a second lynch. The Earth is my home too, can't I help protect it? You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RUBY (DOC)

Doc, Leader of the Rubies

Focus, Rubies! This is an important mission from Yellow Diamond, so we can't mess it up.
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
We're here to retrieve the leader of the Earth mission! Each Climax Phase, you may forgo any action (besides allying) in order to target a player to discover if they are Jasper (The Traitor) or not. Once per game, during the Season Finale, you may allow all other Rubies in your faction to perform this action. I think we better double-check. Each Climax Phase, you may target a player to learn your choice of one of the following: -Who they targeted on any Climax phase of your choice. -Who they chose to ally with during any Episode of your choice. -Who targeted them on any Climax phase of your choice. -Which action they took on any Climax phase of your choice (you may only do this if you have information on who they targeted). Rubies, assemble! If you ally, you both gain the following abilities: You may not be killed by any normal killing actions. You may chat during both Exposition and Climax Phase. If all members of your alliance are voting the same target, an extra vote will be counted against the target--this can not hammer a player. During a Season Finale, you may form an alliance of up to five total players in this way and extend these benefits to all of your alliance. In order for players to join this five-player Alliance, you must submit each of their names and they must all submit your name for allying. EVENT: Full Disclosure EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3 REQUIREMENTS: Neutral or Positive Stress, must be after Episode 2. Tied to the Flavor of the episodes "Full Disclosure," "We Need to Talk," and other similar flashback episodes. Choose an earlier Episode in the game. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: Reduces Stress to zero (neutral). Players may only use abilities that they used during that Episode. Players are forced into the same alliances that they had during that Episode. All players who died since that Episode may post in the game thread and even take actions at Climax Phase. These players return to being dead after this Event is over. The Exposition will not end in a lynch, players will simply vote to end the Exposition phase. The Climax will include no kills. We've been tricked? Again?! You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Greg, a Dad in Over His Head

Wait, how is this even possible?
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Let's just... talk. Each Climax Phase, you may target a player to learn your choice of one of the following: -Who they targeted on any Climax phase of your choice. -Who they chose to ally with during any Episode of your choice. -Who targeted them on any Climax phase of your choice. -Which action they took on any Climax phase of your choice (you may only do this if you have information on who they targeted). I'm going to see a man about a tunnel brush... An internet man. If I'm not back in an hour, call the police. If you ally, you both gain the following abilities: You may not be killed by any normal killing actions. You may chat during both Exposition and Climax Phase. Well, sometimes it isn't about the fish you keep, but the company you catch. If all members of your alliance are voting the same target, an extra vote will be counted against the target--this can not hammer a player. During a Season Finale, you may form an alliance of up to five total players in this way and extend these benefits to all of your alliance. In order for players to join this five-player Alliance, you must submit each of their names and they must all submit your name for allying. EVENT: Full Disclosure EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3 REQUIREMENTS: Neutral or Positive Stress, must be after Episode 2. Tied to the Flavor of the episodes "Full Disclosure," "We Need to Talk," and other similar flashback episodes. Choose an earlier Episode in the game. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: Reduces Stress to zero (neutral). Players may only use abilities that they used during that Episode. Players are forced into the same alliances that they had during that Episode. All players who died since that Episode may post in the game thread and even take actions at Climax Phase. These players return to being dead after this Event is over. The Exposition will not end in a lynch, players will simply vote to end the Exposition phase. The Climax will include no kills. Now, remember, Steven, if you run into any trouble out there, you can always bail. There's never any shame in bailing. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RUBY (ARMY)

Army, The Ruby That Keeps Punching Things

Hi-yah!
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
Why I oughta razzle-frazzle your... If you are in an alliance with a player and they decide to ally differently, you may cause all of their actions to fail. Each Climax phase, you may dedicate your action towards continuing this effect. This ability may only ever affect a single player at any given time. If you change targets or stop using this ability, you will be unable to use this ability on your previous target until you ally with them and trigger these effects again. Strike Three!! During the Season Finale, if you hammer a player, that player is killed--no effect may keep them alive in any way. EVENT: Beach-a-Palooza! EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +1 Stress or Higher Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Sadie's Song." The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If this event is triggered, the Exposition Phase begins with this event and locks the public game thread. For 48 hours, all players may submit any target player to star in the 'Beach-a-Palooza' event. Every time a player is picked by another player, it counts as one point towards the picked player's score. Every time a player picks a player in an alliance with them, it counts as two points towards the picked player's score. If a player picks themselves, it counts as three points towards their score. Scum picks are only worth .5, 1, and 1.5 points, respectively. If there are any draws, I will break the tie towards the player with more words in their role PM. It will be revealed how many points each of the top 3 point-winners have earned. The winning player will have their flavor revealed publicly to the game. Scum players will have their fake-claim flavor revealed publicly. The winning player will be able to privately select one of three fabulous prizes: 1. One-shot kill immunity, consumed when next targeted by a kill. 2. One-shot Climax-phase investigate a target to see if they are capable of killing a player. 3. One-shot Climax-phase mass-redirect, which causes all other abilities to redirect to the user. Let's move out, soldiers! You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Sadie, Donut-Dealer and Tough Cookie

You act like I don't know you don't want to be seen with me, but I do know. I'm not stupid.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
I understand enough! You're only my friend when it's convenient for you. If you are in an alliance with a player and they decide to ally differently, you may cause all of their actions to fail. Each Climax phase, you may dedicate your action towards continuing this effect. This ability may only ever affect a single player at any given time. If you change targets or stop using this ability, you will be unable to use this ability on your previous target until you ally with them and trigger these effects again. Just get out of my life! During the Season Finale, if you hammer a player, that player is killed--no effect may keep them alive in any way. EVENT: Beach-a-Palooza! EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +1 Stress or Higher Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Sadie's Song." The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If this event is triggered, the Exposition Phase begins with this event and locks the public game thread. For 48 hours, all players may submit any target player to star in the 'Beach-a-Palooza' event. Every time a player is picked by another player, it counts as one point towards the picked player's score. Every time a player picks a player in an alliance with them, it counts as two points towards the picked player's score. If a player picks themselves, it counts as three points towards their score. Scum picks are only worth .5, 1, and 1.5 points, respectively. If there are any draws, I will break the tie towards the player with more words in their role PM. It will be revealed how many points each of the top 3 point-winners have earned. The winning player will have their flavor revealed publicly to the game. Scum players will have their fake-claim flavor revealed publicly. The winning player will be able to privately select one of three fabulous prizes: 1. One-shot kill immunity, consumed when next targeted by a kill. 2. One-shot Climax-phase investigate a target to see if they are capable of killing a player. 3. One-shot Climax-phase mass-redirect, which causes all other abilities to redirect to the user. I just thought, for once, I'd get to do things my way, but you came in and took over everything like you always do! You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RUBY (LEGGY)

Leggy, The Ruby On Her First Mission

Wait! So we just... get up and walk around? Whoa-!
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
I'll just go stand over here then. You have no Episode Event or other abilities. You may not commit the factional kill unless you are the last surviving member of your team or if stress is at -2 or lower. Any attempt to investigate if you have access to a kill will provide a negative result until this point in time. Any attempt to investigate if you have any abilities, Climax-abilities, or other actions will provide a negative result until this point in time. During the Season Finale, you may publicly confirm that you have no abilities or Episode Events outside of the capacity to confirm this information. If you choose to do so, I will post the following in the game thread: "This player has no other non-factional abilities or Episode Events besides the ability to confirm this information." But we just got here... You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Lion, The Pink Enigma

Don't worry. He's not going anywhere.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You do not count as Human or Gem.
Sorry, Dr. Maheswaran, that's my lion. You have no Episode Event or other abilities. Any attempt to investigate if you have any abilities, Climax-abilities, or other actions will provide a negative result until this point in time. During the Season Finale, you may publicly confirm that you have no abilities or Episode Events outside of the capacity to confirm this information. If you choose to do so, I will post the following in the game thread: "This player has no other non-factional abilities or Episode Events besides the ability to confirm this information." Lion? Lion!? He walked off! You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RUBY (NAVY)

Navy, A Ruby Along for the Ride

What a lovely planet!
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
Oh, Ruby, you're so forgetful! During the Climax Phase, you may use your action to learn which players targeted you during the previous Climax Phase. If you are allied with a player, this action will instead tell you which types of actions were used on you. I'll be using basic descriptors such as 'Investigative', 'Protective', 'Blocking', etc. During the Season Finale, you may have me privately confirm one of these sets of information to your Alliance members. EVENT: Historical Fiction EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +2 Stress or Higher, Must be after Episode 1. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Historical Friction" In addition to submitting this Event, you must pick a previous Episode. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If this event is triggered, the Exposition Phase begins with this event and locks the public game thread. For 48 hours, every player may privately submit a message to the moderator claiming (and even lying about) which actions and alliances they picked on that Episode. Any player who does not submit a claim will, by default, submit the phrase "I did not take any actions or pursue any alliances." You will be given this list of claimed information. Select three players from all players who were alive during the selected Episode. All of the claimed information will be moderator-posted into the game thread. The selected players' submitted claims will be amended to being the truth when posted into the game thread in this way. Ba-Byee~ You are aligned with Threats to Earth . In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive. In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.

Jamie, The Theatric Mailman

And for the other roles I guess I'll have to play... all of them.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Oh, I've got gooder than the goods. During the Climax Phase, you may use your action to learn which players targeted you during the previous Climax Phase. If you are allied with a player, this action will instead tell you which types of actions were used on you. I'll be using basic descriptors such as 'Investigative', 'Protective', 'Blocking', etc. During the Season Finale, you may have me privately confirm one of these sets of information to your Alliance. EVENT: Historical Fiction EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: Equal to the Stress when activated. If activated at 0 stress, this Event becomes a 'Zero Priority Event' and may happen alongside other Events. REQUIREMENTS: Stress must be at 0 (Neutral) or Positive. Must be after Episode 1. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Historical Friction" In addition to submitting this Event, you must pick a previous Episode. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: If this event is triggered, the Exposition Phase begins with this event and locks the public game thread. For 48 hours, every player may privately submit a message to the moderator claiming (and even lying about) which actions and alliances they picked on that Episode. Any player who does not submit a claim will, by default, submit the phrase "I did not take any actions or pursue any alliances." You will be given this list of claimed information. Select three players from all players who were alive during the selected Episode. All of the claimed information will be moderator-posted into the game thread. The selected players' submitted claims will be amended to being the truth when posted into the game thread in this way. "Follow your dreams," they said. But no one said anything about all the rejection and sadness there was to be found. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Varsoon · Post Post #12577 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:49 am

THE CRYSTAL GEMS

(THIRD PARTY):

Spoiler: FACTIONAL MECHANICS

Spoiler: FACTIONAL EVENTS

Spoiler: STEVEN

Steven Universe, A Child With a Intergalactic Destiny

I have to protect you, what if somehow you get hurt? What do I do? I don't want that for you.
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem and a Human.
Is it weird I'm getting numb to this? So long as the Stress meter is at +1 or higher, you may not be killed normally. Events and special kills will still kill you. At +4 Stress, you may not be removed from the game in any way--kills, events, lynches, etc. will all fail on you. Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 1. If you are Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may not be killed normally. Events and special kills will still kill you. Once per game, you may bring a lynched-and-bubbled player back to life when you unbubble them. Can we talk for a moment? You have been provided with an alternate account. If you alter the password or details of this account, I will modkill you. You may use this account for various factional and role-related abilities. The account's username is: Steven Quartz The account's password is: [REDACTED] But at least I've got you. And you've got me! So stop leaving me out of this. If you are in an Alliance with only Amethyst, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. When both you and Amethyst are voting for a player, your votes are worth three votes altogether. During the Climax Phase, you may target a player to cause their actions to fail. This will not stop Factional Kills. If both you and Amethyst target the same player in this way, their actions will fail and they can not form an alliance for the following Episode--this will stop a Factional Kill. If you're the one protecting me, then who's the one protecting you!? Two shot. Climax-Phase only. Target a player you are allied with--all killing actions directed at that player will be redirected to you instead. If you use this power, any attempts made by other players to protect you from kills will fail. During the Season Finale, you are refunded one shot of this power. During the Season Finale, you may select two players with this power. Steven, you could be using your dreams to connect with her mentally. One shot. Climax-Phase only. Target a player and decide 'anonymous' or 'in character'. You will receive a Climax-Phase-only PT with that player--this PT will persist the entire game or until you form a different PT with this power. If you choose 'in character', you will be able to communicate in this thread via the provided alternate account. If you choose 'anonymous', you will join this thread as your primary account. During the Season Finale, you are refunded one shot of this power. EVENT: I spent the day with my mind in your body. EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate during Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +2 Stress or higher. Will fail if heading into LYLO. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "The New Lars." Target a player when you activate this Event. You will learn that player's non-factional role information. This will yield fake-claims from scum. You will be able to submit that player's action and alliance choices during the Climax Phase. They will lose access to any alliance thread they would have had during this Event--you will take their place via an alternative account. I will create a flavor-named account for you to use to access their alliance for the duration of the Episode. At any point during the Exposition Phase, you may PM me to keep the chosen player from either being able to post or vote. At any point during the Exposition Phase, you may PM me to change who the selected player is voting for. How'd we get ourselves into this mess? You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Spoiler: GARNET

Garnet, The Stoic Brawler Made of Love

I will fight for the place where I'm free, to live together and exist as me!
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem.
And if you think you're safe here, well, I got news for you. You've lost! Now, stay off my planet! Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 2. If the stress is +2 or higher, your priority is 0. If you are Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may increase the priority of any Crystal Gem Factional Event by 1 (to a maximum of 1). You may also lower the Stress Requirement of any Crystal Gem Factional Event by 1. Once per game, you may discover which Events the Scum Team are capable of using during the next Climax Phase. During the Season Finale, you are immune to all negative effects such as kills, blocks, etc. I am not, nor will I ever be, interested! Go away! So long as you are Garnet, you may not Ally with any player outside of the Crystal Gems. You may ignore this ability if the Stress is +1 or higher. I embody my... I mean, Ruby and Sapphire's love. I'll always exist in them, even if I split apart. You have been provided with three alternate accounts. You may interrogate players as Ruby, Sapphire, or Garnet. If you alter the password or details of these accounts, I will modkill you. You may use these accounts for various factional and role-related abilities. The account's username is: Garnet The account's password is: [REDACTED] The second account's username is: Sapphire The second account's password is: [REDACTED] The third account's username is: Ruby The third account's password is: [REDACTED] I can be brash, you can be reckless, and we can both get carried away. If you are in an Alliance with only Amethyst, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. If both you and Amethyst are voting for a player, your votes are worth four votes altogether. If you hammer a player, that player is killed. During the Climax Phase, any player that was voting for you at the end of the Exposition will have their actions redirected to you. What we need now is to be careful. You and me, Pearl. Let's Fuse. If you are in an Alliance with only Pearl, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. If both you and Pearl are voting for a player, that player may not vote or take any actions. During the Climax Phase, whatever player you were voting for during the end of the Exposition can not take actions, ally, or trigger Events. EVENT: Ah! Don't hurt her! Don't hurt... me. EPISODE EVENT: Reactionary. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: This event is triggered when you die. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "The Answer." When you die, your information will not be posted in the main game thread. Instead, you may continue play as your choice of either Ruby or Sapphire. Both the rolecards for Ruby and Sapphire will be provided in your role PM. We'll be fine. You can do this. We believe in you. You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Sapphire, The Visionary Who Fell In Love

Such is fate.
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem.
I didn't need to feel. I saw. Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 5. You may only interrogate players as Sapphire. If stress is at +2 or higher, you are immune to all non-killing actions. If stress is at +4, you are immune to all actions. If you are the Leader of the Crystal Gems, you are immune to all non-killing actions. Furthermore, as Leader, you may trigger Factional Episode Events regardless of their requirements. I can see the path of fate as it stretches toward the horizon. If you ally with another player, you may use your Climax Action to learn which actions your ally submitted during the same Climax Phase. During the Season Finale, you may target an ally during the Exposition to learn which non-factional actions they may take during the Climax Phase. You honestly think I'm not upset about what happened? I just wanted to do the right thing... You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Ruby, The Eternal Flame

You're not as above this as you think you are!
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem.
I don't wanna go alone... Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 6. If you are Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may target a single player to during the Climax Phase to prevent them from taking any actions. If you target the same player twice in a row, you will kill them as well. If stress is at +3 or higher, you may always choose to kill a player with this ability if you wish--you may also decide against killing a player on consecutive visits. Oh, come on. We'll punch 'em together when we fuse. That's why they sent, uh, three of us! If you ally with another player and both you and your ally are voting for a player, an extra vote will be submitted against that player. During the Season Finale, both you and your ally's votes count as double. If you and your ally are both voting for a player during the Season Finale, neither of you may hammer a player. This is all my fault! I didn't want to look for a solution, I just wanted to be mad! You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Spoiler: PEARL

Pearl, The Forlorn Gem Duelist

Rose made me feel... like I was everything.
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem.
I don't get tired; I get results. Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 3. If you are Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may target four players during the Climax Phase. If the stress is at +3 or higher, you may target the same player multiple times instead. You will learn who the first target visited. You will learn who visited your second target. You will learn who your third target tried to ally with. You will learn which non-factional actions your fourth target took. I am a gem of many talents. A dedication to fact is just one of them. You have been provided with an alternate account. If you alter the password or details of this account, I will modkill you. You may use this account for various factional and role-related abilities. The account's username is: Pearl The account's password is: [REDACTED] Pearl points are awarded for punctuality, perseverance, and positivity. If you ally with another player, you may reward them with 'Pearl Points'. The points cumulate and are never taken away. Pearl Points can not be rewarded on Episodes when the Exposition ended on a 'No-Lynch'. Players will earn 1 Pearl Point for being on the same wagon you are on when the Exposition Phase ends. Players will earn 2 Pearl Points for allying with you on consecutive Episodes. Players will earn 3 Pearl Points for lynching scum. During the Season Finale or at +3 or Higher Stress, players earn double the Pearl Points. We may be smaller, weaker, and less gifted than our opponents but with these P's, we have the keys to success aaaand to the Pearl prize pouch! You may, at any time, reward players who have earned enough Pearl Points. You may never give the same reward to a player twice. If a player has 5 Pearl Points, you may grant them one-time kill immunity. If a player has 10 Pearl Points, you may grant them a one-shot, Climax-only ability to determine if a player has the capacity to kill another player. If a player has 15 Pearl Points, you may grant them a one-shot killing ability. If a player has 100 Pearl Points, you may allow them to achieve a unique third-party win-condition and leave the game. You're always together... I just—I wanted to be a part of that. If you are in an Alliance with only Garnet, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. If both you and Garnet are voting for a player, that player may not vote or take any actions. During the Climax Phase, whatever player you were voting for during the end of the Exposition can not take actions, ally, or trigger Events. Opal is an amalgam of our combined magical and physical attributes fused into a single entity. If you are in an Alliance with only Amethyst, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. At the end of the Climax Phase, you will be told which actions were taken against you. The next Episode will not begin for 24 hours after the Climax Phase ends, during which you may avoid one of these actions. During the Season Finale, you may avoid any number of actions in this way. EVENT: Mine's taller. I win. EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3 REQUIREMENTS: +1 Stress or Higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Back to the Barn." Choose a player. For the duration of the Exposition, you and the other player may take turns challenging each other. At any point, either you or your target may choose to end the challenges. Winning a challenge rewards one point. In the case of a tie, both players get a point. The challenges are as follows: -Whoever has more text in their role PM wins this Challenge. -Whoever has more posts made among all threads they've ever had access to (related to this game) wins this Challenge. -Whoever has more abilities in their role PM wins this Challenge. -Whoever has had the most players try to ally with them wins this Challenge. -Whoever took the most Climax Actions wins this challenge. -Whoever has triggered the most Events wins this challenge. -Whoever has the most mod-confirmed information about other player's roles (independent of factional info) wins this challenge. The player with the most points at the end may choose one of the following: Lower the Stress by 4 points. Lynch a player of choice. Raise the Stress by 2 points. I'm just a Pearl... I'm useless on my own. You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Spoiler: AMETHYST

Amethyst, A Gem Fighting For Freedom

You think that all you are is who you could be, but we don't hang out with you because of who you could be. We like you.
You are aligned with The Crystal Gems. You are a Gem.
Yeah, this plan stinks. Your priority for being Leader of the Crystal Gems is 4. If you are Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may stop players you are voting from forming alliances or triggering Events. If you are the Leader of the Crystal Gems, stress decreases by 3 when scum players die and increases by 2 when town players die. This time let's build a moat. I could be THE CROCODILE! You have been provided with an alternate account. If you alter the password or details of this account, I will modkill you. You may use this account for various factional and role-related abilities. The account's username is: Amethyst The account's password is: [REDACTED] Yep! That's me! Always huge, never small, all the- all the time since I was made! You will always yield an 'Enemy of Earth' result to any investigation of your alignment. Furthermore, you yield a 'no result' to any player who attempts to yield any other sorts of information by targeting you. Homegirl knows we're gonna beat her into a green pancake. You gain access to the following abilities if you are in an Alliance: Any player you are voting for may not affect you with their Climax actions. You may vote for up to three players at once. If the stress is at +3 or higher, you may vote for up to four players at once. This does not allow for multiple lynches. If you're ever only voting for one player, your vote counts as two votes. Hey, Garnet! How'd you like to mix it up with this? If you are in an Alliance with only Garnet, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. If both you and Garnet are voting for a player, your votes are worth four votes altogether. If you hammer a player, that player is killed. During the Climax Phase, any player that was voting for you at the end of the Exposition will have their actions redirected to you. You wanted me to be more like Pearl and now I am! If you are in an Alliance with only Pearl, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. At the end of the Climax Phase, you will be told which actions were taken against you. The next Episode will not begin for 24 hours after the Climax Phase ends, during which you may avoid one of these actions. During the Season Finale, you may avoid any number of actions in this way. Don't bother putting your socks back on, 'cus I'm abouta knock 'em off again! If you are in an Alliance with only Steven, you may decide to Fuse instead. If you both agree to Fuse, you lose access to the rest of your role's abilities for the duration of your fusion, but gain the following: When you form this Alliance, you may decide which one of you will die if either player were to die. When both you and Steven are voting for a player, your votes are worth three votes altogether. During the Climax Phase, you may target a player to cause their actions to fail. This will not stop Factional Kills. If both you and Steven target the same player in this way, their actions will fail and they can not form an alliance for the following Episode--this will stop a Factional Kill. EVENT: Knock it off. I know you let me win. EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: +2 Stress or Higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Steven vs Amethyst." Choose a player. For the duration of the Exposition, only you and the target player may be voted for. The only players that may hammer are you and your target. If the Exposition ends on a no lynch, reduce the Stress by 3. If the Exposition ends on a lynch, the stress does not go down if the lynch flips town-aligned. Oh, good... You didn't need me at all. You are aligned with The Crystal Gems . In order to win the game, at least one Earth-Aligned player and one Crystal Gem-aligned player must be alive. In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. If all members of The Crystal Gems are dead, you lose the game.

Spoiler: BUBBLED TEXT

Varsoon · Post Post #12578 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:50 am

EARTH ALIGNED

(TOWN):

Spoiler: MAYOR DEWEY

Mayor Dewey, The Mayor Known as Mayor Dewey

What coverup?
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Why, young man, I credit the voters with saving Beach City! You may not form alliances if the Stress is at -2 or lower. You may submit up to three targets to ally with and have an alliance of up to four players, including yourself. You will only successfully ally with players who fail to ally with their intended target. If any player submits you as their ally, they will automatically join your alliance regardless of your targeting. The players that you pick will have first priority with allying with you. Well, nice hustle, gentlemen, keep it up! So long as you are allied with a player, their actions will have increased priority--only other increased priority actions can cause them to be redirected or fail. So long as you are allied with a player, any limited shot actions will not use their limited shots--Events will still be used. Fantastic work! I love the message: Vote Mayor Dewey! How about I offer you another role? Once per game, during the Exposition or Climax of the Season Finale, you may grant another player access to all of the abilities and Events of any single dead and flipped player. The inheritor of these abilities will be able to access and use them for the rest of the game. The inheritor of these abilities will lose access to any of the abilities and Events that were featured on their original rolecard. The inheritor of these abilities will still have access to their factional Events and abilities, should they have any. Thank you, for preserving my legacy. If you are ever in a three-player LYLO situation, you may confirm yourself as town. Cover-up? WHAT COVER UP?! Once per game, you may post this ability name in bold to cause the stress meter to fall by two, towards Slice of Life. During the Season Finale, this ability shifts the meter by four points. What!? This wasn't in the script! Once per game, you may post this ability name in bold to cause the stress meter to rise by two, towards Tragic Destiny. During the Season Finale, this ability shifts the meter by four points. EVENT: Cut Funding EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: -1 Stress or lower. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Historical Friction" You may immediately end any Episode Event that is taking place. I must be off then to bask in the adulation of my constituents. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: RONALDO

Ronaldo Fryman, Connoisseur of the Weird

It's our duty to let those simple people live out their simple lives, without ever knowing the burden of being friends with us.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Is that giant hand from the sky sitting right in the middle of the beach?! I gotta get some of this for my blog! Posted with the starting Votecount of each new Episode will be a quote box featuring text advertised as the 'Keep Beach City Weird' blog. Each Climax Phase, starting with the pre-game, you must submit a post of at least 100 words to be featured in the 'Keep Beach City Weird' blog. Failure to make any of these posts will result in your role losing access to this ability altogether. You will submit posts to me. I will edit any of the content of the post to be untrue with regards to private information. Only you will know that the information posted in the Keep Beach City Weird blog is selectively untrue. I will not edit any factionally-oriented information, such as information that confirms or deconfirms a player's alignment. I will not edit any information that is publicly known. That's just what people like us do. Suffer quietly, shouldering the knowledge no one else can bear. One Shot. Climax-Phase only. Only usable if you are in an Alliance. You may target a player to learn four pieces of information regarding abilities that the target player has. Three of these four pieces of information will be incorrect. One of these four pieces of information will be correct. If the stress is at +3 or higher, three of these four pieces of info will be correct. During the Season Finale, you are refunded a shot of this ability. EVENT: Rising Tides and Crashing Skies EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Trigger at Climax. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +3 Stress or higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies" Publicly, this event will only announce that you have filmed a documentary. This event shifts the stress towards Slice of Life by three points. Privately, you learn the nature of the Crystal Gems. Privately, The Crystal Gems will learn that you know of their nature. This is a matter of weird and death! You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: LAPIS

Spoiler: CENTIPEETLE

Centipeetle, A Corrupt Gem Struggling to Survive

You remember me, don't you?
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Gem.
Remember, she's not cracked, she's corrupted, and that's something different, something nearly impossible to describe. You will return negative results to any attempt to investigate you--any check to discover your alignment will result in 'Threat to Earth'. You love chips, and I love chips! We love chips from Chaaaps! If you are allied with a player, you both take two more votes to lynch than usual--this effect does not function in LYLO. During the Season Finale, all members of your alliance are immune to being lynched. Your Alliance does not grant an Alliance PT. We'll just talk through the language of art! During the Climax Phase, you may draw a picture with crayons or via MS Paint. If you have access to neither, use this site: https://sketch.io/sketchpad/ You may send this picture to any other player. These pictures may not include text--they must be images only. If you just submit any image of your choice, all this does is count as 'visiting' the player with a Climax-action. However, you may draw specific kinds of images and instill meaning into them. In order to 'Instill Meaning', you must write what you intend to be true about the image. If you instill meaning in an image, I will confirm the truth of any meaning that you instill so long as it is true. In this way, you can mod-confirm to other players any knowledge you have. However, if you try to Instill Meaning with regards to any factional information about your role or any factional info that you have guessed, it will fail. EVENT: Monster Reunion EPISODE EVENT: Trigger at any time. PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +1 Stress or higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Monster Reunion." Privately, you immediately gain a private thread with the player who has the flavor of 'Steven Universe'. Privately, you will be confirmed as town to Steven Universe. Publicly, this Event lowers the Stress by 2. She can stay un-bubbled. But you have to understand. Some Gems are beyond our help. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: KEVIN

Kevin, The Coolest Character In This Show

I look like a guy you know? That's impossible. There's only one... Kevin.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Your whole "two kids in a beautiful trench coat" routine won't fool me this time, so don't even try it! Two-Shot. Climax-Phase only. You may target a player to discover what their allying bonus is and who they are allied with. During the Season Finale, this power will also inform you of any allying bonuses that their allies have as well. During the Season Finale, this power is refunded one shot. Have we met before? Many of your abilities will earn you 'Kevin Points', which are a kind of currency that you can use to fuel other abilities that you have. I will be keeping track of your total number of Kevin Points. At any point in time, you may PM me to ask how many Kevin Points you have. Heh. I see what's going on here. You've had a taste of Kevin, and now you're obsessed. If a player ever allies with you more than once, you gain one Kevin Point. I know, baby. I'm the worst. All actions that target you fail. Every time an action fails in this way, you gain one Kevin Point. Players who have their actions fail due to this ability will be informed that it was you who caused their action failure. You know, this mountain pass has some really beautiful views. Shame you'll only be seeing my tail lights the whole time. During the Climax Phase, you may target a player to cause their non-factional actions to fail. Players who have their actions fail due to this ability will be informed that it was you who caused their action failure. Every action that you cause to fail in this way causes you to gain one Kevin Point. I know you want to be close, but this is a little clingy. At any point in time, you may immediately end the alliance you are in to cause your allies to lose access to all their allying bonuses. Players in your alliance will be informed that the alliance was disbanded by you, on purpose. Every time you disband an alliance in this way, you gain one Kevin Point for each ally that you jilt. The truth is I don't mean to be this way. I-I just lash out because of my little brother. He's sick. Been sick all our lives. Sometimes I think if I act real cool and never let anyone see my pain, then maybe the pain will go away. And maybe... I can take his pain away, too. You may claim that you and another player share a Masonry. So long as the other player does not refute this claim within their next five posts, this ability is successful and you gain three Kevin Points. Dude! I don't even have a brother! I'm like this because I think it's funny! Chowzers! You may have me mod-confirm in the public thread that you are NOT masons with the claimed player. Doing so increases the Stress by one point. Doing so also earns you three more Kevin Points. Finally. You caught up. I was worried you'd miss seeing me win. The first time that you are lynched, the votecount will reset instead--this also resets the deadline. If you are 'lynched' in this way, you will gain two Kevin Points. It's Kevin time. At any point in the game, you may exchange Kevin Points for extra voting power. You may only ever exchange up to a maximum of Kevin Points equal to 1/2 the votes required to lynch a player. This ability may never let you be the single voting player on a lynch. First one to the bottom wins, but you don't have to worry about that last part. If, at any point in the game, you have twenty Kevin Points, I will inform you. If this is the case, then you will be able to leave the game for a unique third party win. EVENT: Come on, how am I going to get a cool-down lap if no one wants to go? EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Trigger during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: +1 or higher Stress, at least 5 Kevin Points Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Beach City Drift." You will challenge a player to a race. Target a player. That player may publicly leverage non-factional information about their role and actions in order to earn points towards winning the race. Once they ante up their information, you may spend however many Kevin Points that you want in order to win. You will always win the race. If you don't have enough Kevin Points, you will lose all your Kevin Points. They will be told that if they win, they get fabulous prizes, but they can not win. If the player submitted at least five points of information, you gain back five Kevin points. If the player submitted at least ten points of information, you may have me publicly confirm all the information they submitted. If the player submitted at least fifteen points of information, you may choose to make that player lose all of their abilities, factional and otherwise. Publicly, all that will be revealed is the fact that you are racing a player and that they may leverage points of information in order to attempt to win. First place, baby! It's like I invented winning. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: LARS

Spoiler: BUCK

Spoiler: DR. MAHESWARAN

Doctor Priyanka Maheswaran, Concerned Mother

It scares me that you can't talk to me! I need to know what's happening in your life. I need to step in when you're in over your head.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
Oh, don't worry, the rules of doctor-patient confidentiality keep me from sharing the graphic details but... During the Climax Phase, you will protect your allies from dying. If stress is +1 or higher, no ability may cause them to die, even kills that have advanced priority or the means to normally bypass protection. This will not keep Events from killing your allies. Do you know how many children I see everyday who've cut their faces off playing with swords?! Two-Shot. Climax-Phase Only. You may target a player to learn if they have any abilities that negatively affect other players. During the Season Finale, you are refunded one shot of this power. NONE! Because they all have parents who love them, and who don't let them play around with deadly weapons like some kind of gang member! One-Shot. Climax-Phase Only. You may only target a player that you got a positive result on with your previous ability. They permanently lose access to their negative abilities for the rest of the game--this does not include factional abilities. During the Season Finale, you are refunded one shot of this power and may use it during the Exposition Phase. EVENT: I'll have a talk with your father to calculate just how grounded you are. And we're using the abacus! EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: +1 or higher Stress. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Nightmare Hospital." Target a player that you received a positive result on with your investigative ability. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: This player loses all access to any abilities, alliances, and events for two Episodes. A votecount will be held publicly for players to decide to overturn this action. If a majority of players vote that this player should not be grounded, this event fails. Reduce the Stress by 1. If this Event fails, reduce the stress by 3. Hmm, no heartbeat... Ugh, cheap hospital budgets. You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: WATERMELON STEVEN

Spoiler: VIDALIA

Spoiler: ONION

Spoiler: ONION STEALING LIST

Spoiler: MARTY

Spoiler: MR SMILEY

Mr. Smiley, Arcade Owner and R&B Singer

You know what an old friend of mine told me once? A little smile never hurt anybody!
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
You kids want another lifetime ban? Once per game, you may target a player to cause them to be unable to take part in any Events or use any Events of their own for the rest of the game. Yeah. You can say we're a little "fun-derstaffed." You may only use this ability if you are in an alliance or if stress is at +2 or higher. During the Climax Phase, you can give one of the following powers to another player: One-shot, Climax Phase, form a Neighborhood with a player that allows for chat for the rest of the game. One-shot, Exposition Phase, Vote for a player twice. One-shot, Exposition Phase, Lock a player's vote in place for the rest of the Exposition. You can only give out each of these abilities once, but your choice of one is refunded during the Season Finale. Furthermore, during the Season Finale, you may hand out all three of these abilities to separate players--this does not cost against your usual limit. EVENT: All this running around. I'm not even in a union. EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Event--Activate during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: None. Can not be used during the Season Finale. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Too Short to Ride." Reduce the Stress by 2. The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread: For duration of the Episode, players may submit their highscores in the following games: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/ste ... index.html At the end of the Episode, the players with the highest score in each game will receive the following choice of rewards: One-shot kill protection, consumed when next targeted by a kill, One-shot Climax-Phase Stress Reduction (Resets Stress to Neutral), or One-shot Climax-Phase prevent a player from taking any actions and being affected by any actions. If a player has the high-score on multiple games, they only get one prize, but then also earn the grand prize: One-shot, Climax-Phase, Form a permanent alliance with another player of choice. This alliance will exist in addition to any other alliances you form. I'm glad you seeing the humor in it, Steven, because I haven't seen a bed in six days! You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Spoiler: KIKI

Kiki, Pizza-Delivery Girl and Best Sister

Yep, that's me -- the nice one.
You are aligned with the Town Faction. You are a Human.
I... I don't want to let her down! I'm her favorite twin! You will always ally with a previous ally if they choose to ally with you another time. If multiple previous allies try to ally with you, you will always ally with the oldest of the bunch. As long as you are allied, all negative abilities that would affect your ally are redirected to you instead. During the Season Finale, you are immune to redirected abilities. There's a lot of other people having "me" time tonight. But it's alright. I love running. Anyways, Gotta get back to it! During the Climax Phase, you may target a player to deliver a pizza to them. They will learn that you used your action to deliver the pizza to them as the Climax Phase resolves. EVENT: Thanks for calling Fish Stew Pizza. We do fries now. EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Event--Activate during the Climax Phase. PRIORITY: 3 REQUIREMENTS: Stress +1 or Higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Restaurant Wars." This Event pauses the game entirely, locking all threads except for alliances PTs and issuing in a 'Restaurant War Phase' instead of an Exposition phase. Once this Event is over, the Exposition Phase will begin as normal. When submitting this event, you will also select three players to make up a 'panel of judges'. You must designate another player to be who you challenge to a 'Restaurant War'. That player and their alliance will be pitted against you and your alliance. Each member of both alliances may submit one piece of information that they know to be true to the panel of judges. Information about other roles can only be submitted as "This player told me [information]" or "I used an ability to learn [information]." Lies can be submitted. The judges will each individually judge each piece of information--it is anonymous who sent which info. A Judge can either reward or deny the information given. If a Truth is rewarded, it gains the team one point. If a Truth is denied, it loses the team one point. If a Lie is rewarded, it gain the team two points. If a Lies is denied, it loses the team three points. The team that has the most points wins--their information is published publicly in the game thread. At this point in time, the lies will be marked in red and the truthful information will be marked in green. For every lie present, Stress goes up by 1. For every truth present, Stress goes down by 1. The Alliance that wins the restaurant wars are immune to all negative effects for the remainder of the Episode. The Alliance that wins the restaurant wars can not be lynched for the remainder of the Episode. Aaagh! It doesn't matter! You are aligned with Earth . In order to win the game, all threats to Earth must be removed from the game. In order to win the game, at least one Earth-aligned player must be alive.

Varsoon · Post Post #12579 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:51 am

THE LEFTOVERS

(INDIVIDUALLY ALIGNED THIRD PARTY):

Spoiler: PERIDOT

Peridot, A Homeworld Gem Learning to Live on Earth

This place doesn't exactly feel like home yet.
You are aligned with The Leftovers (Third Party). You are a Gem.
I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting! You know that there is a faction in this game called 'The Crystal Gems,' and that they are unified with the Town faction. After Episode 2 but before the end of Episode 4 (the first Season Finale), you may join The Crystal Gems at any time. If you join The Crystal Gems, you will lose your current win condition and gain the win condition of The Crystal Gems. I'm the one who betrayed the mission, who called Yellow Diamond a clod, the new leader of the Crystal Gems! If you are the Leader of the Crystal Gems, you may not be lynched or killed except if you are the last remaining Crystal Gem. Your priority for being the Leader of the Crystal Gems is 7. Doesn't anything work on this cruddy planet!? All members of your Alliance may chat during the entire Episode. What do I know? Everything there is to know, you pebble! Two-shot. Climax Phase Only. You may target a player you are allied with in and choose any number of alliance chats you have had access to. The targeted player will gain viewing access to any previous alliance chats you selected in this way. During the Season Finale, you are refunded one shot of this ability. Log date -- whatever, Facet -- whatever! Ughh, WHATEVER! Each votecount may feature a 'tweet' message that is flavor-confirmed to come from Peridot. You may write me a message to post with any upcoming votecount, but I will only post one per Votecount. These messages can not exceed 150 characters in length. If they do, I will cut them short. I've got metal powers! I'll show you! ...in a moment! Unlimited Shots. Climax Phase only. You may target a player to send them a useless hunk of metal. If a player tries to kill you while you are using this ability on them, you will kill that player instead. EVENT: Direct Line to the Diamonds EPISODE EVENT: Climax Only PRIORITY: 0 REQUIREMENTS: +2 Stress or higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Message Received." You may confirm your flavor to the scum-team and send their leader a single message of your choice. Publicly, all that will be known is that a player has sent a message to the scum team as a result of this Event. EVENT: A Trap for Clods EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Trigger any time a player successfully allies with you. PRIORITY: 2 REQUIREMENTS: +2 Stress or higher. Tied to the Flavor of the episode "Friend Ship." You may immediately (privately) end your alliance to cause all players allied with you to publicly be removed from the game for an entire Episode. You may privately decide to kill a single player that is removed in this way. They will die upon returning to the game. I'm still learning. I hope you understand. I want to understand. I'm sorry. You are aligned with The Leftovers . In order to win the game, you must survive until another faction reaches their win-condition. Once another faction reaches their win-condition, so do you. If you die before this happens, you lose the game.

Varsoon · Post Post #12580 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:54 am

ACTIONS & ALLYING:

PREQUEL ALLYING:

Firebringer > Shiro
Shiro > Firebringer
Farside22 > Yume
Yume > Farside22
Foxbird > Skybird
Skybird > Foxbird
Not Chara > grapes
grapes > Not Chara
randomidget > Creature
Creature > randomidget
CooLDoG > Seraphim
Seraphim > CooLDoG
SirCakez > Almost50
Almost50 > SirCakez
DrippingGoofball > Klingoncelt
Klingoncelt > DrippingGoofball
Obi-Wan Kenobi > Reasonably Rational
Reasonably Rational > Obi-Wan Kenobi
McMenno > Kraskaesque
Kraskaesque > McMenno

PREQUEL EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

Farside22 claims a Masonry with Firebringer -- Success, Firebringer does not refute, Farside22 goes up to 3 KP.
Farside22 mod-denies the Masonry -- Success, Farside is at 6 KP.

PREQUEL CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Yume Elects to be Leader of the Crystal Gems -- Success, priority is 1.
Almost50 Activates Event, "Joy Ride" and selects Firebringer, SirCakez, Farside22, CooLDoG -- Priority is 2.
Mastin2 Activates Event, "Monster Reunion" -- Priority is 0.
Skybird Activates Event, "Sworn to the Sword" -- Priority is 0.
Creature posts the following Blog Update, which will be updated to:

Spoiler: ORIGINAL

Spoiler: EDITED

Varsoon · Post Post #12581 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:54 am

EPISODE 1 ALLYING:

Foxbird > Grapes
Grapes > Foxbird
Not Chara > firebringer
firebringer > Not Chara
randomidget > Shiro
Shiro > randomidget
McMenno > Mastin2
Mastin2 > McMenno
Farside22 > Skybird
Skybird > Farside22
Xkfyu > Almost50
Almost50 > Xkfyu
Klingoncelt >> killthestory (Klingoncelt dies)
killthestory >> Klingoncelt (Klingoncelt dies)
Reasonably Rational > Yume
Yume > Reasonably Rational

Obi-Wan > DrippingGoofball
kraskaesque > Not Chara
Creature > Shiro

EPISODE 1 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

Xkfyu sends the following Tweet for VC 1.06:

Spoiler:

Farside22 disbands their alliance with Yume - Success, Farside is at 7 KP.
Farside22 disbands the Joy Ride Alliance - Success, Farside is at 11 KP.
Xkfyu sends the following Tweet for VC 1.14 and 1.15:

Spoiler:

EPISODE 1 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Reasonably Rational triggers the Event, "Message Received." -- Success.
Skybird scum-kills grapes -- Failure, grapes is protected.
Yume bubbles Firebringer -- Success.
Farside loud-blocks Shiro -- Success, but Shiro took no actions.
Shiro decides to retain communication with Firebringer -- Failure, Firebringer is bubbled.
Not Chara attempts to learn if Reasonably Rational has negative abilities -- Success, answer is yes.
Xkyfu sends a Hunk of Metal to TheFuzzylogic99 -- Success.
Obi-Wan steals an item from Creature -- Success.
McMenno sends pizza to Obi-Wan Kenobi -- Success.
Mastin2 sends the following drawing to Obi-Wan Kenobi:

Spoiler:

Creature writes the following blog post:

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12582 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:57 am

EPISODE 2 ALLYING:

DrippingGoofball > TheWayItEnds
TheFuzzyLogic99 > grapes
grapes > TheFuzzyLogic99
Yume > Titus
Titus > Yume
Farside22 > Not Chara
Not Chara > Farside22
McMenno > Mastin2
Mastin2 > McMenno
SnarkySnowman > Creature
Creature > SnarkySnowman
Skybird > Xkfyu
Xkfyu > Skybird
Almost50 > Reasonably Rational
Reasonably Rational > Almost50

Mathblade > TheFuzzyLogic99
Shiro > randomidget
Shadow_Step > Farside22
randomidget > Reasonably Rational
TheWayItEnds > Skybird

EPISODE 2 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

Xkfyu sends the following Tweet for VC 2.01:

Spoiler:

Xkfyu sends the following Tweet for VC 2.02:

Spoiler:

Xkfyu sends the following Tweet for VC 2.05:

Spoiler:

Yume releases Firebringer22 from the Bubble -- success.

EPISODE 2 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Reasonably Rational submits the Beachapalooza Event, Priority 0 -- success.
Titus submits their Onion IC Event, Priority 3 -- success.
Yume foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 1 to the MR. MR = 1.
Almost50 foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 1 to the MR. MR = 2.
Shiro foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 1 to the MR. MR = 3.
McMenno foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 1 to the MR. MR = 4.
Mastin2 foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 2 to the MR (McMenno ally). MR = 6.
Xkfyu foregoes taking any actions -- Adds 2 to the MR (Almost50 ally), MR = 8.
Titus steals an item from Farside22 -- Loud Failure, Farside22 is at 12 KP
Farside22 targets grapes to make their non-factional actions fail -- Success, but grapes took no actions.
Not Chara attempts to learn if DrippingGoofball has negative abilities -- Success (due to increased priority), answer is yes.
TheWayItEnds checks which actions were taken against them on Episode 1 -- Success, result is none.
Reasonably Rational kills Klingoncelt -- Success.

Creature writes the following Blog Update:

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12583 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:57 am

EPISODE 3 ALLYING:

ReasonablyRational > 1. Titus 2. Shiro
Titus > 1. ReasonablyRational 2. Shiro
Shiro > 1. Titus 2. ReasonablyRational
Firebringer > 1. Farside22 2. Kraskaesque
Farside22 > 1. Kraskaesque 2. Firebringer
Kraskaesque > 1. Farside22 2. Firebringer
Almost50 > 1. MangaofIllusion 2. grapes
MagnaofIllusion > 1. Almost50
SnarkySnowman > 1. TheWayItEnds
TheWayItEnds > 1. SnarkySnowman 2. Randomidget
Not Chara > 1. Mastin 2. McMenno
McMenno > 1. Mastin 2. Not Chara
Mastin2 > 1. McMenno 2. Not Chara
Shadow_Step > 1. Xkfyu 2. Creature
Xkfyu > 1. Shadow_Step 2. Creature
Creature > 1. Shadow_Step 2. Xkfyu

grapes > 1. MagnaofIllusion 2. Almost50
Randomidget > 1. Shadow_Step 2. Xkfyu
Thefuzzylogic99 > 1. Creature

EPISODE 3 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

BaP: Titus > Titus, Titus at 3.
BaP: McMenno > McMenno, McMenno at 3.
BAP: Mastin2 > Mastin2, Mastin2 at 3.
BAP: Yume > Mastin2, Mastin2 at 4.
BAP: Firebringer > Reasonably Rational, RR at 1.
BAP: MagnaofIllusion > Reasonably Rational, RR at 2.
BAP: Grapes > Titus, Titus at 4.
BAP: Farside22 > Not Chara, NC at 2.
BAP: Not Chara > Not Chara, NC at 5.
BAP: Xkfyu > Titus, Titus at 5.
BAP: Kraskaesque > Titus, Titus at 6.
BAP: Almost50 > Mastin2, Mastin2 at 5.
BAP: Creature > Shadow_Step, S_S at 1.
BAP: ScumTeam > Mastin2, Mastin2 at 7.
Farside22 is Lynched for the first time - is at KP 14.
Reasonably Rational activates Event "Remote Detonator" -- Priority is 0.
Xkyfu activates Event "A Trap For Clods" -- Priority is 2, decides Skybird should die.

EPISODE 3 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

TWIE Activates Event "Historical Fiction," targeting Episode 1 -- Priority is 0.
TheFuzzyLogic99 Activates Event "Steven, is that you in there?" -- Priority is 1.
Not Chara foregoes -- MR = 9.
Farside22 foregoes -- MR = 11.
McMenno foregoes -- MR = 12.
Xkfyu foregoes -- MR = 13.
Almost50 checks McMenno to see if they negatively affected a player this phase -- Success, Answer is 'no'.
TheWayItEnds kills Not Chara -- Success.
TheFuzzyLogic99 kills Firebringer -- Success.
Mastin2 investigates TheWayItEnds to determine if they are capable of killing a player -- Success, Answer is 'yes'.
Creature yields Ronaldo-Info from Randomidget -- Success

Spoiler: Ronaldo-Info

Creature writes the following Blog Post:

Spoiler: Original

Spoiler: EDITED

Varsoon · Post Post #12584 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:59 am

EPISODE 4 ALLYING:

McMenno > Mastin2
Mastin2 > McMenno
Shadow_Step > Xkfyu
Xkfyu > Shadow_Step
Farside22 > Kraskaesque
Kraskaesque > Farside22

MagnaofIllusion > Randomidget
Reasonably Rational > Randomidget
Shiro > Firebringer
Almost50 > grapes
Titus > Farside22
Creature > grapes

EPISODE 4 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

Spoiler: IS THAT YOU LYNCH

Spoiler: HISTORICAL FICTION

Titus steals Reasonably Rational's Ability -- Success.
SnarkySnowman enables Creature to take a double action -- Success.
Reasonably Rational triggers Event "The Cluster" -- Success, Cluster is successful.
Farside22 uses 4 KP to do a 5x vote -- KP at 10

EPISODE 4 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Reasonably Rational triggers the Event, "Return to Earth" -- Success, Priority is 0
Cluster kills McMenno and Xkfyu.
MagnaofIllusion bubbles Xkfyu -- Failure, is killed by The Cluster.
TheWayItEnds scum-kills Titus -- Success.
Titus checks MagnaofIllusion -- Failure, Titus is dead.
Shiro retains their Alliance Chat with Reasonably Rational and Titus -- Success.
McMenno sends Pizza to Farside22 -- Loud Failure, Farside is at 12 KP
Almost50 checks Creature with Buck's Season Finale Check -- Creature took no actions.
Farside22 checks ReasonablyRational with Kevin's Season Finale Check -- Success, result is 'No allying bonus', receives Titus & Shiro's ally bonuses, too.
Xkfyu sends a Useless Hunk of Metal to Shiro -- Success.
Creature writes the following Blog Post :

Spoiler: ORIGINAL

Varsoon · Post Post #12585 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am

EPISODE 5 ALLYING:

ShadowStep > Mastin2
Mastin2 > ShadowStep
Kraska77 > TheFuzzyLogic99
TheFuzzyLogic99 > Kraska77
MagnaofIllusion >> Randomidget (Random dies)
Randomidget >> MagnaofIllusion (Random dies)
Almost50 > Grapes
Grapes > Almost50
Farside22 > Reasonably Rational
Reasonably Rational > Farside22
Creature > Shiro
Shiro > Creature

EPISODE 5 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

Kraskaesque uses the Event, "Cut Funding." -- Success, ends the "Return to Earth" Event.

EPISODE 5 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Shadow_Step kills MagnaofIllusion -- Success
Farside22 loud-blocks Shiro -- Success
MagnaofIllusion uses their Leader ability -- Success
Mastin2 sends the following message to Almost50:

Spoiler:

Creature writes the following blog post:

Spoiler: ORIGINAL

Spoiler: EDITED

Varsoon · Post Post #12586 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am

EPISODE 6 ALLYING:

TheFuzzyLogic99 > Farside22
Farside22 > TheFuzzyLogic99
Mastin2 > ShadowStep
ShadowStep > Mastin2
Almost50 > Shiro
Shiro > Almost50
Randomidget > Reasonably Rational
Reasonably Rational > Randomidget
Grapes > MagnaofIllusion
MagnaofIllusion > Grapes

Creature > Shadow_Step

EPISODE 6 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

EPISODE 6 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Randomidget does not run for leader, Leader of CGs is now MagnaofIllusion.

Shadow_Step Kills Farside22 -- Failure, KP is 14
Farside22 Loudblocks Creature -- Success, KP is 15
Creature investigates Shiro -- Failure, Farside Block.
Shiro retains alliance with Creature -- Success.
MagnaofIllusion ally-actionchecks Randomidget -- Success.

Mastin2 sends Almost50 the following message:

Spoiler:

Creature writes the following Blog Post:

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12587 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am

EPISODE 7 ALLYING:

Almost50 > 1. Reasonably Rational 2. Thefuzzylogic99
Thefuzzylogic99 > 1. Reasonably Rational 2. Almost50
Reasonably Rational > 1. Almost50 2. Thefuzzylogic99
Farside22 > 1. Randomidget 2. MagnaofIllusion
Randomidget > 1. MagnaofIllusion 2. Farside22
MagnaofIllusion > 1. Farside22 2. Randomidget
Shiro > 1. Grapes 2. Shadow_Step
Grapes > 1. Shiro 2. Shadow_Step
Shadow_Step > 1. Shiro 2. Grapes

EPISODE 7 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

MagnaofIllusion triggers CG Factional Climax Event, "Peace and Love on the Planet Earth" -- Priority is 1.

EPISODE 7 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

MagnaofIllusion bubbles Shiro -- Success
Farside22 Kevin-checks Shadow_Step -- Success, result is 'Allied with Mastin2 during Episode 6, does not provide any allying bonuses)
Shiro retains alliance chat with Almost50 -- Failure, Shiro is bubbled.

Mastin2 sends the following message to Almost50:

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12588 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:01 am

EPISODE 8 ALLYING:

Mastin2 > Grapes
Grapes > Mastin2
Thefuzzylogic99 > Reasonably Rational
Reasonably Rational > TheFuzzylogic99

Farside22 > Almost50

EPISODE 8 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

MagnaofIllusion triggers 'Back to the Moon' Factional Event -- Priority is 0.

EPISODE 8 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Thefuzzylogic99 kills Farside22 -- Success, the kill has increased priority.
Almost50 checks Grapes with Buck's Season Finale Check -- Success, result is 'Grapes took no actions at all'.
Farside22 loudblocks Almost50 -- Failure.
Mastin2 sends the following message to Almost50 --

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12589 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:01 am

EPISODE 9 ALLYING:

Mastin2 > Grapes
Grapes > Mastin2

Reasonably Rational > Grapes

EPISODE 9 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

EPISODE 9 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Reasonably Rational triggers Scum Factional Event 'Keeping It Together' -- Priority is 1
MagnaofIllusion bubbles Grapes -- Success
Reasonably Rational kills MagnaofIllusion -- Success

Mastin2 sends the following message to Almost50:

Spoiler:

Varsoon · Post Post #12590 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:01 am

EPISODE 10 ALLYING:

EPISODE 10 EXPOSITION ACTIONS:

EPISODE 10 CLIMAX ACTIONS:

Shiro triggers Event "Don't be a Stranger" targeting Randomidget -- Priority is 0.
Grapes triggers Event "I CAN'T GET DISTRACTED" targeting Almost50 -- Priority is 1.
Randomidget bubbles Almost50 -- Failure, Almost50 is removed by Grapes' Event.
Reasonably Rational kills Randomidget -- Success.

Varsoon · Post Post #12591 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:13 am

I sincerely apologize for any frustrations caused by this game and my moderation. I am aware now that the setup likely has some shortcomings that, while perhaps not evident on every iteration of this game, were clear in this play-through. I did make major moderators error in regards to resolving actions I shouldn't have (the whole Snarky Snowman debacle) and I apologize for how that negatively impacted the game.

I hope that everyone had a fun time despite these pitfalls.

The reality is that this game was incredibly stressful for me to run. I poured a ton of time into the setup, only to end up with issues left and right (such as having an earlier, poorly written version of the scum's factional events posted in their PT for a majority of the first day) that made the overall quality of the game suffer. I pushed for elements of the setup that I found interesting (the Crystal Gem faction) that I won't be able to justifiably run in another setup for years, at least, due to the fact that the faction only works if kept a secret. If public, it changes the dynamic entirely. Please refer to the dead thread if you're curious for more justification I have on these points, but I realize now it was likely a mistake to design the setup this way, if only because it could iterate out poorly. The poor outcomes of what I felt were good/fun design decisions and earnest efforts to run the game (botched VCs, messed up actions, etc) contributed to a lot of mod stress on top of what's already there for singlehandedly running a game of this caliber and magnitude. I tried to direct some of that frustrated energy to luchador jokes. I don't know if it helped, but I will stand by this setup, even if it had me losing sleep and pulling hairs.

Varsoon · Post Post #12592 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:21 am

In post 33, Errantparabola wrote:i dream of one day making a setup that's varsoon quality

In post 34, Varsoon wrote:I dream that, one day, I can make a setup I feel is varsoon quality, too.

McMenno · Post Post #12593 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:21 am

well

this sure was a game

McMenno · Post Post #12594 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:22 am

also first ~get rekt~

ISO · Post Post #12595 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:24 am

Remember me?
I am convinced Varsoon is secretly a robot.

Creature · Post Post #12596 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:25 am

In post 996, McMenno wrote:
Spoiler: we haven't forgotten, almost

Cerberus v666 · Post Post #12597 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:26 am

]This is being written at the start of LYLO, without the benefit of knowing how Mastin is going to decide to resolve things. I just thought I should take the time to explain some of the decisions we've made without necessarily forcing everyone to wade through the infinite logs Drixx and I have left in our hydra PT.

1) The SC wagon. This was a bit of shitshow. We were prepared to step in and keep SC from being lynched, however his posting, for the most part, never really dissuaded anyone in and of itself. Even though we knew his loss would be a major blow to us, especially given that it would remove any uncertainty from the DGB/KC situation(even though somehow it didn't....), we couldn't risk throwing good money after bad, as it were, and risking our slots who were decently positioned.
2) The Klingoncelt kill. We knew that KC was a gem, and from what Yume had told us had a good idea that the gems had a pt together/were confirmed to one another. During D2 there was a major incident where mastin2 insisted that there were no third parties, which we knew to be false. The goals with this kill were threefold: First, to remove a Crystal Gem, so as to enable Skybirds late game powers; Second, to prove that there WERE third parties, and thus discredit mastin(at that exact moment her reads were actually atrociously wrong, however we were in more contact with Titus, the other likely town leader, and thus wanted town to be more inclined to listen to the individual we were actively influencing, rather than the one we had no communication with; Third, simply to remove someone who we expected to have a very powerful role.
3)Beach-A-Palooza: Yes, Mastin, we did deliberately give you the victory here. Out of all the reasons you had for suspecting us, this particular connection was the soundest one. We specifically told you about our hammer power(which did exist, and which Varsoon did tell us would count as a killing power even if we didn't have access to our factional) because we knew we'd be your most likely target, and because the rest of the target you had expressed interest in were either town, or S_S, who would show up as innocent to a gunsmith. In hindsight, piling onto Titus would have likely been better, but we expected the gems, at least, to follow along with the plan as we had presented to them, and to hopefully get their allies to go along as well. Basically, Titus winning seemed unlikely if people acted as they said they would.
4) The Yume kill: A rather critical moment of this game. First of all, full disclosure: This was a fuck-up, plain and simple. The objectives were to, again, work towards removing all the gems, buying skybird some town cred from the unlikeliness of scum!her removing Yume, as well as hoping that removing Yume would cause the gems actual win condition to be revealed, and/or remove the delay on flips, and finally, to pile on so much stress as to enable strong town powers whose usage would slingshot stress back down to -3, so the cluster could be activated the next day. Only the third objective was attained, through enabling TFL99's vote/lynch event. The fuck up here was simply that we completely forgot about XKFYU's event. We did not consider that we would be enabling it at all. Perhaps our reasoning would have been similar to that which we were accused of, that we wouldn't have thought he would have dared to use it on Skybird, had we considered it...but we didn't. And it cost us our end game plan.
5) Historical Fiction: During this event, we didn't have ANY plans in place. We had expected to be able to communicate during it and learn exactly what people claimed and determine how best to manipulate the game, but due to Fuzzy's event, we were unable to speak with TWIE. The most important thing that occurred here was TWIE's decision to make Skybirds declaration of actions true. She originally submitted that she attempted to kill us, but TWIE decided that if/when no explanation for our survival surfaced, that would immediately lead to our death, and that "clearing" grapes was worth removing that risk. i think both lines could have worked, given that protectives generally won't claim, and all it would take is one flipped targeted protective that hadn't claimed an action N1 to allow that gambit to work. Either way, we had no influence over the way this event played out.
6) Return to Earth: This event was bullshit. Such an incredibly weak, CRAPPY thing. Drixx and I joked about how useless it was as soon as we sat down and chatted about events. We planned to NEVER use it...until Farside hammered and left the town with nearly no planned alliances. That turned it from "shit event" into "free no lynch", and coupled with the guilty on TWIE, "potential free kill with a bus that would get everyone EXTRA cred since we could have made ourselves unable to vote". I still don't understand how this didn't work, btw....kraska should not have been able to ally with farside, so there should have been NO alliances at all, so kraska should not have been able to stop it. Of course, since our own planned alliances ended up failing for other reasons, I think if kraska hadn't stopped the event, we wouldn't have been able to submit a kill for the night either, making the day a wash and the event a waste.
7) Shooting Farside: This was spurred by S_S's realization that farside had claimed to be a roleblocker, and that she was suspicious of my slot. Since S_S was incapable of submitting the kill, this meant if Farside remained around it was simply a matter of time until she stopped one of my kills and caught us, so she had to go...which was a damn shame, because this whole time Drixx and I had planned to have her as a ripe LYLO lynch. Unfortunately, farside didn't understand her own role, and we could have ignored her safely, and not wasted this kill. Fun fact Farside: Drixx and I, prior to Titus stealing our power, had considered making you an offer of nightly targeting in our alliance, to guarantee you'd get your 3p win. After we lost our power, our team no longer had any means of targeting other than the NK, making this idea unworkable, but I think it could have been an interesting gambit.
8)Shooting MoI: Simply put, we determined that succeeding or failing on this kill would have no effect on how many lynches we needed to succeed on in order to win, and decided it was worth it to take the shot and add to the weight of evidence against the possibility of us being scum. Our information was also incomplete and we didn't know exactly what form MoI would continue in, so we had some hope that they would simply be stumped or otherwise weakened.
9) Getting Farside shot by Fuzzy, and skipping our own kill: At this stage, as I outlined in the game, we couldn't afford for there to be any more clears...this meant we had to deal with A50's track on grapes. A50 was an essential part of our lylo win at this stage, so the simplest option, simply shooting A50, wasn't an option...and we didn't trust that the town would seriously consider that grapes could be a ninja. That meant the next simplest option was simply skipping our kill, empowered though it was, to maximize the uncertainty in the game. At this stage, Farsides death was, again, unfortunate. We would have preferred to have her alive in lylo, or removed via her 3p win con to give us a free kill, but keeping A50 alive to vote with us was more important than keeping her alive to be voted on. On this day we could have also let Fuzzy shoot A50, while we shot mastin, but again...we WANTED A50 alive in lylo pretty badly.
10)Setting stress to +4: The event used to set stress to +4 was intended to cause the following sequence to happen(because we did not expect the bubble to happen that night): mislynch grapes, shoot a gem, in 4p mylo. Stress is at +4, and nobody is lynchable because tragic destiny was in effect. Get a free kill that night, which would be on either Mastin or Shiro, both of whom were conftown(Shiro because we had reached 4 or less alive, therefore there couldn't be two scum alive), putting us into an us, a50, mastin/shiro LYLO. We weren't certain which one we preferred to have in lylo with us, there were argument to be made for both.
11) The bubbling of grapes etc: The "guaranteed wins" which we offered town on this day phase were all fundamentally flawed because once grapes was returned and left the game, we would again be at 4 alive, forcing a no lynch. This would force the game into a state where a missed bubble by random would result in a game loss. An unfortunate side effect of this plan was that if random didn't bubble that night, we would immediately lose because it would be impossible for anyone else to be scum. Our only counter in that situation was no killing YET AGAIN and hoping to force the lynch on Shiro or Grapes. It would be a long shot, but it was our only play in that situation.
12)After Grapes' event was revealed my MoI, we were quite concerned since that ability obviously messed up our timeline that would allow us to sculpt the endgame we desired, with the conftown we wanted left alive. We decided to push ahead with the plan though, raising stress to +4 and enabling it etc, because we believed that grapes was most likley to use his power on A50, which wasn't going to be fatal, and that it was POSSIBLE that grapes' power was climax only, in which case his refusal to use the event could be easily painted as scum in mylo just trying ot eke ou that last day to get a win. In spite of this prior planning, we were surprised when the morning came and grapes and A50 were gone. I had assumed that grapes, being town, had honestly claimed his power to random, and the fact that they didn't use it during the previous day came down to the inactivity that comes from not being alive in a game anymore. This put us into a rather desperate spot, where we did in fact expect to lose almost immediately due to the fact that mastin remained alive and had been both reluctant to consider the idea of a seven man scum team and tunneling us all game. Our initial plan for the day was to keep all the possible options for the scum team open, that is,A50, RR, A50/Grapes, Grapes/Shiro, and Shiro/A50(because we knew the town had not been paying close enough attention to the tragic destiny mylo/lylo triggers to clear them on that basis(as is easily noted because when Grapes was returned to teh game, Varsoon did not include the Tragic Destiny increase in the lynch threshold, and nobody mentioned it) however we soon realized that on a 14 day timeline, we had to expect that the easily cleared pairings would be caught and decided to get out ahead of them. This is what led to us removing A50, A50/Shiro(this was a mistake on my part, I KNEW they were cleared by the same reasoning but forgot to include it in my posting), and then eventually Shiro alone. This led us to a game state where we were able to nudge Shiro towards no lynching without causing alarm in mastin that could have caused her to immediatley hammer us. Unfortunately, Shiro didn't engage with us anymore after we had responded to his mechanical concerns about a 7 scum man team, and so the opportunity to shut mastin out of the equation entirely and jump straight ot a win wasn't realized.

I'll have more to say later, but I just wanted to get all this out as soon as the end of game was announced.

Pedit: McMenno, don't. I will be EXTREMELY pissed if anyone else displays even the tiniest bit of arrogance in victory.

Seriously.

I haven't had fun in this game for like 2 months and Varsoon requested we not give up REPEATEDLY. We knew we had a miniscule chance of winning off purely mechanical things for months, and that was when we thought the gems only had limited bubbling.

I will not abide anyone thinking they can, joking or not, gloat in any way.

Titus · Post Post #12598 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:27 am

Good game everyone.

Mastina, we'll have a few minor words on pushing TWIE and taking credit for that but you made the right decision. I am proud overall. Titus and Mastina, we may argue but Transparent Obscurity wins every time.

Steven Quartz · Post Post #12599 (ISO) » Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:27 am

So, you know who I am, and I have this to say:

I'll start from the beginning. I feel as the character I got wasn't a mistake. We share the same qualities basically, the good and the bad ones. We share all of them.

But we both also have a flaw. We are treated as useless and maybe we are. This game in particular, was a proof of it. We joined it together as a test that we can stand on our own, and we played together ever since. I done what I believed he would have done in such a situation, and he loved this game, I could tell.

Yet, we feel as if we've failed this test. We messed up, I'll admit it freely. We trusted the wrong people and the ones we didn't trust turned out to be allies of ours.

While we started to mistrust Eyeball partway through the game, we couldn't bring ourselves to get rid of her via our ability, mainly because she was nice to us and we wanted her around. This was our biggest mistake, we feel.

And then we were killed. We liked to think this happened because we did something right, but ultimately it turned out we got killed because they feared a power we didn't even have, not because of play-based reasons. We considered using it, but by the time we decided to, it was too late to do so.

Our only use was by dying, allowing for the end of Eyeball. And even then, we were against her death. As they say, once fooled, forever fooled.

And as it turns out, we caused our own death ourselves. They needed us to directly admit it, and we did.

Another thing, we got told we were among the most powerful individuals in the game, ability wise. Yet, we were perhaps the wrong people to have them. We had to rely on others for most of our time alive. The only thing we did on our own was trying to shield our group from death, and we received criticism for doing this.

So basically, we were largely useless. We feel we are simply followers as opposed to someone who makes their own decisions.

That will be all.