Micro 974.1: Dung Beetle Redux (Game Over)

[Something_Smart]

Micro 974.1: The Last of the Red-Horned Dung Beetles, Take 2

Moderator: Something_Smart
Backup Moderator: the worst
Shoutout to: Isis, our new Micro listmod!

Alive Players:

Spoiler:

1. Herta,
   Mafia Goon
   
   
2. Bunno,
   Mafia Goon

Dead Players:

Spoiler:

1. TheGoldenParadox,
   Town Surgeon
   , executed Day 1
   
2. NorwegianboyEE,
   Town Surgeon
   , killed Night 1
   
3. Tayl0r Swift,
   Town Surgeon
   , executed Day 2
   
4. Taly,
   Town Surgeon
   , killed Night 2
   
5. bugspray
   Professor Mafia
   ,
   Town Surgeon
   , executed Day 3
   
6. Smoke and Mirrors (PookyTheMagicalBear + Nancy Drew 39),
   Town Sentry
   , endgamed
   
7. JohnnyFarrar,
   Town Surgeon
   , endgamed

[Something_Smart]

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16. The mafia have daytalk and may request a Discord server if they so desire.
17. This is an open setup. The setup is as follows:

Spoiler: Setup

Breaking news! A live specimen of the Red-Horned Dung Beetle (Scarabaeus perplexia), once thought to be extinct, has been discovered deep in the African jungle. As far as we know, this is the only living Red-Horned Dung Beetle left in existence, and that has caught the attention of some... rather eccentric collectors, who seem to be abandoning scruples in an attempt to capture it.

The beetle was placed in the care of Dr. Zenkava of the University of Warsaw, but it seems there has been some grave news on this front. Dr. Zenkava was shot outside of the laboratory and is now in critical condition at Orłowskiego Hospital. We can only hope that Dr. Zenkava is able to recover quickly enough to identify the attacker, who is still at large. In the meantime, a new caretaker for the beetle must be found...

2 Mafia Goons

7 Townies

All townies have an equal chance of being a

Gardener

, a

Sentry

, or a

Surgeon

.

The

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

begins the game with no caretaker. During any day in which it has no caretaker, players may-- but do not have to-- make a majority vote to place the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

in the care of a player. If a Mafia member ever becomes the caretaker of the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

, the Mafia win immediately. (This means that any player receiving it is confirmed as town, if the game continues.) If the caretaker of the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

dies, it will revert to having no caretaker.

During the night, the players may take the following actions:

Mafia Goon

-- each night, one Mafia member may carry out the factional kill on a player of their choice.

Mafia Goon

-- each night, each Mafia member may attempt to steal the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

. This will only succeed if the Beetle has no caretaker at the time the action resolves; steals resolve after kills, so this can happen if the caretaker dies that night. If successful, the Mafia member will come into possession of the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

, and thus win the game.

Mafia Goon

-- once during the game, one Mafia member may roleblock a player, preventing them from taking any actions that night. This may be done at the same time as the above actions.

Town Gardener

-- each night, the Gardener may choose one of two options: either (1) target a player and learn whether or not that player has attempted to steal the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

on this night or any previous night; or (2) target a player and make them permanently unable to possess the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

(if they are voted to receive it, instead nothing will happen, and if they attempt to steal it the attempt will automatically fail).

Town Sentry

-- once per game, if not the caretaker of the Beetle, the Sentry may choose one of two options: either (1) defend the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

, preventing anyone from stealing it that night; or (2) attempt to steal the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

, becoming its new caretaker if successful (if the Beetle has a caretaker, this is only successful if the caretaker dies that night). Sentries have a higher steal priority than Mafia members; if multiple players of the same alignment make an unblocked attempt to steal the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

in the same night, one will succeed at random.

Town Sentry

-- once per game, if the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

has a caretaker, the Sentry may choose to guard that caretaker. If the caretaker would die at night, the Sentry dies instead. If multiple Sentries guard a player who is attacked, one dies at random. If the Sentry guards a player who is also healed by a Surgeon, the Sentry will still die.

Town Surgeon

-- each night, the Surgeon may choose one of two options: either (1) heal a player that they did not heal in the previous night, protecting them from death if they are not also a Surgeon; or (2) operate on Dr. Zenkava. If exactly one Surgeon operates on Dr. Zenkava, and that Surgeon survives the night and is not roleblocked, the operation will be a success, and any further operation attempts by that Surgeon will do nothing (but will not interfere with other Surgeons operating). If two successful operation attempts are made on Dr. Zenkava, the Doctor wakes up and is able to identify the attacker; the Mafia must choose one of their living members to be publicly revealed as Mafia at the start of the following day.

No players may self-target.

The

Town

wins when all Mafia members are dead.
The

Mafia

win when they control 50% of living players, or if a Mafia member is ever the caretaker of the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

.

Spoiler: Role PM's

Town Gardener

Welcome, XXXX, to Micro 974: The Last Of The Red-Horned Dung Beetles. Your role is

Town Gardener.

Each night, you may choose one of two options:

• Target another player and learn whether or not that player has attempted to steal the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  on this night or any previous night; OR
  
• Target another player and make them permanently unable to gain possession of the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  .

You win when all mafia members are dead and at least one town member remains alive.

Please respond to this PM indicating you understand your role and your win condition.
The game thread is here.

Town Sentry

Welcome, XXXX, to Micro 974: The Last Of The Red-Horned Dung Beetles. Your role is

Town Sentry.

Once per game, if you do not possess the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

, you may choose one of two options:

• Defend the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  , preventing anyone from stealing it that night; OR
  
• Attempt to steal the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  , becoming its new caretaker if successful (if the Beetle has a caretaker, this is only successful if the caretaker dies that night).

Additionally, once per game, if the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

has a caretaker other than you, you may use the following ability:

• Guard the Beetle's caretaker. If the caretaker would die at night, you will die instead.

You win when all mafia members are dead and at least one town member remains alive.

Please respond to this PM indicating you understand your role and your win condition.
The game thread is here.

Town Surgeon

Welcome, XXXX, to Micro 974: The Last Of The Red-Horned Dung Beetles. Your role is

Town Surgeon.

Each night, you may choose one of two options:

• Heal a player that you did not heal in the previous night, protecting them from death if they are not also a Surgeon; OR
  
• Operate on Dr. Zenkava. If exactly one Surgeon operates on Dr. Zenkava, and that Surgeon survives the night and is not roleblocked, the operation will be a success, and any further operation attempts by that Surgeon will do nothing. If two successful operation attempts are made on Dr. Zenkava, the Doctor wakes up and is able to identify the attacker; the Mafia must choose one of their living members to be publicly revealed as Mafia at the start of the following day.

You win when all mafia members are dead and at least one town member remains alive.

Please respond to this PM indicating you understand your role and your win condition.
The game thread is here.

Mafia Goon

Welcome, XXXX, to Micro 974: The Last Of The Red-Horned Dung Beetles. Your role is

Mafia Goon.

Your partner is YYYY. You have a private topic (link) that you may talk in at any time.

You have the following powers:

• Factional kill: Each night, one of your members may carry out the factional kill on a player of your choice.
  
• Steal: Each night, you may attempt to steal the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  . This will only succeed if the Beetle has no caretaker at the time the action resolves; steals resolve after kills, so this can happen if the caretaker dies that night. If successful, you will come into possession of the
  Red-Horned Dung Beetle
  , and thus win the game.
  
• Factional roleblock: once during the game, one of your members may roleblock a player, preventing them from taking any actions that night. This may be done at the same time as the above actions.

You win when the mafia control 50% of the town or when a mafia member possesses the

Red-Horned Dung Beetle

.

Please respond to this PM indicating you understand your role and your win condition.
The game thread is here.

Spoiler: Action Resolution Order

1. Mafia

   Roleblock
   
   
2. Gardener

   Prevent
   
   
3. Sentry

   Defend
   
   
4. Sentry

   Guard
   
   
5. Surgeon

   Heal
   
   
6. Mafia

   Kill
   
   
7. Sentry

   Steal
   
   
8. Mafia

   Steal
   
   
9. Gardener

   Investigate
   
   
10. Surgeon

    Operate

[Something_Smart]

Role PM's are out. The game will begin when 8/9 players have confirmed.

Confirmed: 8/9

[Something_Smart]

Yadda, yadda. Something something flavor. You all know the drill. Let's get started!

VC 1.0

Not voting (9)- Herta, Smoke and Mirrors, Taly, NorwegianBoyEE, Tayl0r Swift, Bunno, JohnnyFarrar, Professor Mafia, TheGoldenParadox

With 9 alive it takes 5 to reach a majority.

Deadline is in (expired on 2020-10-27 20:00:00)

Mod notes: Professor Mafia has 24 hours from the start of the game to confirm or be replaced.

Beetle Status

The Red-Horned Dung Beetle has

no caretaker.

Not voting (9)- Herta, Smoke and Mirrors, Taly, NorwegianBoyEE, Tayl0r Swift, Bunno, JohnnyFarrar, Professor Mafia, TheGoldenParadox

[Bunno]

[Taly]

iM nOt A gArDeNeR

[Bunno]

btw I've decided to not vote for fluff stuff in this game in hopes of getting a higher scum-voting-history by the end

I was inspired to adopt the style after a very recent encounter

so yeah I probably will only vote when I'm confident on something

[Bunno]

iM nOt A gArDeNeR

this isn't serious right?

[Taly]

iM nOt A gArDeNeR

this isn't serious right?

depends, you think claiming

gardener/not gardener

is a good idea here?

[Bunno]

Taly vote norwe for me pls

he hasn't suffered enough for betraying us in the previous run

I only hope he isn't gonna betray me again because in that scenario I would need to disown him from the weeb family

[Bunno]

iM nOt A gArDeNeR

this isn't serious right?

depends, you think claiming

gardener/not gardener

is a good idea here?

HmhmHmhm

I'm thinking if I can do even smarter things here so for now I would like to hold on claims

[Taly]

the equity of me being a braindead pocket has skyrocketed because technically the previous game concluded.

i want to know if your mech ideas have changed

p-edit

iM nOt A gArDeNeR

this isn't serious right?

depends, you think claiming

gardener/not gardener

is a good idea here?

HmhmHmhm

I'm thinking if I can do even smarter things here so for now I would like to hold on claims

good, i said that to see your reaction

[Bunno]

Schrödinger's Lovers

was both successful and a failure in the previous run I guess

In the first night, it was likely that John would be able to operate the doctor, but since there was no other doctor it didn't mean much. It's not like I hadn't realized the fact that there's that possibility, or the fact that if we pick a "both-doctors" pair, and both waste their operation together, our chances of getting Dr.Zenkawa operated gets to pretty much zero since we would need four doctors to exist at minimum in the game.

It's a good plan overall though, I'm just thinking if I can do better here.

[Bunno]

Of course I hadn't said that hoping mafia wouldn't realize it by themselves, but I may have better ideas for this game hmm

[TheGoldenParadox]

would you like me to read the last game or just describe the plan

[JohnnyFarrar]

Man we woulda wrecked that last game so hard

[Bunno]

I'll describe a plan when I've settled on one I think. If you mean you do have a plan you're free to share, but I highly, highly, highly suggest you read the previous game

We talked a lot about mech stuff there from pages 7 to 13 especially. I'm super not in the mood to repeat myself to be honest.

[Bunno]

Man we woulda wrecked that last game so hard

I basically consider it a win tbh

[TheGoldenParadox]

sounds good.

[Taly]

don't disappoint me i have a

sHaRp BeAk

im running out of toucan gifs

p-edit

would you like me to read the last game or just describe the plan

2 non-gardeners claim.
any sentries will withhold N1 actions
any doctors will operate

this allows some role coordination with as little one-shot flushing as discussed so far + minimal mafia info

Man we woulda wrecked that last game so hard

I KNOW RIGHT. OH MY GOD.

THE ONE TIME I HAD GOOD READS.

p-edit again omfg

Man we woulda wrecked that last game so hard

I basically consider it a win tbh

same, i feel for

norwe

tbh haha

[Bunno]

I'm super not in the mood to repeat myself to be honest.

I mean by explaining why the plan is bad

By the way I would have explained a few things after I got the bug in the last game, but I'll explain now:

The "mafia has a natural 25% ~ 33% chance of winning this if we go along with the [sentries steal bug at night plan], because mafia can target someone in the potential sentries group with a [Steal & NK], potentially winning in N1" thingy was a white lie.

I told it to get the bug, and because of some other reasons, but you can understand that it's a lie when you look at the natural order of resolution:

Mafia Roleblock
Gardener Prevent
Sentry Defend
Sentry Guard
Surgeon Heal

Mafia Kill

Sentry Steal

Mafia Steal
Gardener Investigate
Surgeon Operate

The mafia NK is resolved before the steals actions, therefore even if they attempt to [kill & steal] from a potential sentry that would get the bug, the kill would be resolved before the mod would count the sentries/mafia steal actions. Therefore there is very low odds that mafia would get the bug in N1 if there's at least 2 sentries. It's basically impossible for them to get if there's 3 sentries and all of them steal during the night.

It's possible to lose by having only one sentry though, and I felt like it would simply be better if I would get the bug myself there but...

I don't really feel like getting the bug here, It's too effort consuming to town tell as hard as I did in the past game, fight off suspicious, keep replying to people, etc. I'm ok being more of a side character here.

I'm honestly a bit tired overall.

[JohnnyFarrar]

I'll still be p townie honestly my whole style is pretty low effort

[Bunno]

this thread died fast...

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

yo norwee

are you a VT again?

:3

[TheGoldenParadox]

you should feel for me

i was so happy that i rolled scum

and now
poof
i'm boring old town again