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A Mid-Scummer Night's Dream II

Moderator: morph the cat
(Cabd & fferyllt)
Reviewer: penguin_alien

Some games give us puzzles to solve. Some give us an escape from life's grind. Some give us a sandbox for solving our real world problems. Some are metaphors for our past, present and future. Some allow us to see childhood friends again, and renew memories of relatives, loved ones, and beloved pets who are no longer with us. Some throw images into our defenseless minds that scare the hoolies out of us: bad memories, and things that just plain scare us.

We embark on an dream adventure. Not all of us will wake up. Not all of us will want to wake up. But, dream we shall until the dreaming ends for good or for ill.

Players

1. ActionDan
   
2. Enchant
   Gimli
   
   
3. Von Payne (Black/Doctor Drew hydra)
   
4. Catgirl Chipotle (Alisae/MariaR hydra)
   
5. DragonEater70
   
6. Kyoko Kirigiri
   
7. Klick
   
8. Hu Tao
   
9. Prism
   
10. Aureal
    
11. Silver Ravens (GuyInFreezer/Dunnstral hydra)
    
12. Sunflower (fireisredsir/JupiterXV hydra)
    
13. Ydrasse

Spoiler: Still Dreaming (Alive)

Von Payne
Sunflower
Ydrasse

Spoiler: Left the Dream (Dead)

Hu Tao, Deep Sleeper of the

Dream Voyagers

, was eliminated on Day 1
DragonEater70, Sleep Specialist of the

Dream Voyagers

, died on on Night 1
Klick, Deep Sleeper of the

Dream Voyagers

, was killed on on Night 1
Aureal, Tarhalindur, Deep Sleeping Master Roaster of the Midsummer Night's Coffee of the

Bad Dreams

, was eliminated on Day 2
Prism, Deep Sleeper of the

Dream Voyagers

, was killed on on Night 2
Kyoko Kirigiri, Deep Sleeping Inventor of the

Dream Voyagers

, was eliminated on Day 3
Action Dan, Dream interpreter of the

Dream Voyagers

, was killed on Night 3
Catgirl Chipotle, Deep Sleeping Stoner of the

Dream Voyagers

, was eliminated on Day 4
Silver Ravens, Deep Sleeper of the

Bad Dreams

, was eliminated on Day 5
Enchant, Deep Sleeper of the

Dream Voyagers

, was killed on Night 6

Spoiler: Banished

Let's not go there

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Setup Specific Rules (These are important!)

1. One member of the
   Dream Voyagers
   is selected to be the
   Dreamer
   during Pregame, and their identity is not revealed. The
   Dreamer
   is the ultimate arbiter of which Dream will take place during the night. Due to various circumstances, such as night kills, other players may become Dreamer as the game progresses.
   
2. At the start of each
   Moonrise
   phase, 6 dream titles will be revealed.
   
3. This setup features 2 additional phases.
   Moonrise
   occurs first, before the day phase and lasts at least 24 hours, and as long as needed to select the Night cycle's dream.
   Twilight
   occurs after the Elimination has been posted, and last 6 hours.
   
4. During the Moonrise phase players may begin voting for 3 unique Dreams by sending a PM to the Mods. Players can change their votes as often as they wish. Votes inside the thread can be posted, but the mods will not keep count, nor will any vote in the game thread count towards the result.Ties will be resolved by a non-random mechanic known only to the
   Bad Dreams
   .
   
5. The game will remain unlocked during the first 24 hours of the
   Moonrise
   phase and players can continue discussing the merits of the various dreams and voting/changing their votes for their top 3 Dream preferences. At the same time, the
   Bad Dreams
   will confer and secretly come up with a discard priority. After 24 hours, the game thread will be locked and the
   Bad Dreams'
   highest priority among the top 3 voted dreams will be discarded. The vote tallies and final two Dreams will be posted in the Game thread.
   
6. The
   Dreamer
   privately chooses which of the final two dreams to reveal, and picks the Night's dream. The chosen Dream will be revealed by the Mods. If the the Dream the
   Dreamer
   revealed isn't chosen, then both dreams will be revealed. This ends the
   Moonrise
   phase and Day begins.
   
7. Discarded Dreams cannot become one of the 6 dreams on a later
   Moonrise
   phase. Any dream that is discarded will be "flipped" showing the exact effects it would have had.
   
8. Unchosen Dreams that aren't revealed or discarded can show up again on future
   Moonrise
   phases.
   
9. There is at least one ability in the game that will modify dream choices.
   
10. Dreams can affect the night phase, day phase, or both.
    
11. Dreams may also grant power roles to players. Unless specified, these may be held onto or used the same cycle.
    
12. Dreams with global effects will not affect more than one cycle.
    
13. All permanent private topics have day and night talk enabled at all times unless temporary
    Dream
    or role mechanics restrict talking done in PTs.
    
14. Dreamers
    beware! The
    Bad Dreams
    are looking for you. The
    Bad Dreams
    have at least one ability that will actively hunt the identity of the
    Dreamer
    . You very much do not want this to occur.
    
15. You may not be out of the game when you die. Players will not be added to the spectator thread while that possibility exists. Instead you will receive a private thread for your musings and speculations about the game. If you have a role to play after death, this private thread may become part of it.

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General Rules (These are also important!)

1. Site Rules are in effect. Please familiarize yourself and follow them.
   
2. We don’t tolerate ad hom wars. If your posting is merely insulting a player without providing game content, you can expect a strike from us. Three strikes, you’re out. We are fairly lenient about this, but posting “Fuck you” over and over again is simply not acceptable. Severe issues will be reported to the list mod(s) via our super sekrit chat room we totally have with the hive.
   
3. If we say it violates these rules, it does. You can take it up with us postgame if you wish.
   
4. Play towards your win condition. Gambits are fine, directly harming your own team is not.
   
5. Once an elimination is reached, you may continue discussion until we lock the thread. No votes or unvotes will count after an elimination has been achieved.
   
6. An elimination is achieved as a majority of players voting for somebody. Half is not a majority.
   
7. Do not quote or pretend to quote any information you get from us via PM. This includes posting your role card verbatim. Paraphrasing is fine, as are role claims naturally.
   
8. Do not talk about this game anywhere else, or with anyone else.
   
9. Do not discuss ongoing games in this thread. This includes games on sites other than mafiascum. This also includes using [redacted] as that loophole does not fly here.
   
10. We are usually rather lenient upon activity. This game is an exception. Post every 48 hours. Failure to do so will earn you a prod. Respond to your prod within 24 hours, or face replacement. Three prods is also a force replacement.
    
11. If you need to replace out of this game, send us a private message about it. Once you have sent that PM you are out of the game, unless you change your mind and we agree to it. Do NOT post that you want to be replaced, or that you have asked to be replaced in the game thread.
    
12. Claiming scum by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is an instant modkill. Don't do it.
    
13. We do not require unvotes. Your vote will be counted so long as you bold it or use the vote tag. Shorthand names are fine so long as it’s clear who the vote is for.
    
14. If you have a question, please PM us. If a question is something that should be answered publicly, we will make a post addressing it without naming who asked it.
    
15. If our vote count is wrong, you can PM us or post in the thread (use the bold tag and "@MOD") about it.
    
16. We do not fix tags or edit posts where you might make a formatting mistake, even if you ask us to. There is ONE exception. If you accidentally misgender someone you can ask for it to be corrected after the game is over.
    
17. We reserve the right to add to these rules or modify them, but only when we post notifying all players in the game of the change.
    
18. Loophole abuse is all fun and games until we modkill you. Don’t try it.
    
19. Blue
    (This color at #0000FF)
    is our color. You are welcome to use any other color of the rainbow.
    
20. Encryption, text hiding, and the like are silly. Don’t do it.
    
21. Extensions will be granted at 48 hours per replacement, up to a total duration of 4 days max per game phase.
    
22. Do not use temporary information to convey messages. This includes your signature and your avatar, but is not limited to these things.
    
23. While putting your vote or unvote on its own line is helpful, it is not necessary and any attempts to game voting formatting will be dealt with as an attempt to cheat. If we think it was a vote, it was a vote.
    
24. A modkill will always punish the faction modkilled more as far as timing goes. All modkills will be done after consultation with the listmods. Modkills may or may not end the day. Modkilled players will be changed to a neutral survivor, meaning they lose the game instantly.
    
25. In the event of site downtime lasting more than 3 hours; time will be added to the deadline to compensate at a 1 to 1 ratio.
    
26. All factional decisions must be agreed upon by all living members of that faction.

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I have been here before

Wandering through space and time.

Is it I?

Is it You?

We.

We have been here before, adrift in space, our minds as empty as the void around us. Who are we? What are we?

Nothingness echoes and reverberates back to us, the questioners.

We look inward, to the heart of the galaxy. It is dizzying and beautiful, but ultimately boring. Where is the substance of our center?

What is to be gained by looking back?

We shift our focus, looking forward to where we will go, and our minds tell us to gasp. How can we gasp with no air? No mouth? No lungs?

A bauble nestles far out on the edge of an encircling arm made of star stuff, flung outward from the galaxy's empty, churning center. A blue orb. Home. Terra. Earth.

To see is to draw near.

A dark cloud, coruscating with beautiful energy discharges, moves into our field of vision. It approaches on a tangent, from the dark side of Earth, but even the sun-side grows dim, as though the cloud’s shadow passes right through the planet.

The vision would stop our heart if we had a body.

We are afraid.

What is it?

An illusion?

It’s real

There is no real

Earth is real

Earth is a dream

We are real

We are a dream

We exist

We dream

We wait

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Role PMs are being sent out now. The game will start once 12 players have confirmed, or 24 hours have passed, whichever occurs first.

(expired on 2024-03-10 00:31:36)

[morph the cat]

Clarified wording around a few rules. If you read the rules prior to seeing this post, please re-read them. Our apologies.

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12 players of the 12 required have confirmed.

[Cabd]

Neuter's egopost here.

[fferyllt]

spayhalf's ego post here.

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The game will launch shortly.

(expired on 2024-03-09 14:00:00)

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Sample Role PM

Hello, penguin_alien!

You are a

Deep Sleeper

of the

Dream Voyagers.

Your abilities are:

• To sleep, perchance to dream
  : As a Deep Sleeper you are potentially able to Dream. See the Game-Specific Rules in the Game Thread for more about dreaming.
  
• Do I talk in my sleep? Are you sure?
  : Your voice and your vote.

Your Win Condition is

You win when all

Bad Dreams

have been eliminated or nothing can prevent that from happening

Please confirm by quoting or paraphrasing Item 3 of the Game-Specific Rules in a reply to this PM.

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Moonrise from the International Space Station

First Moonrise Phase Begins!

During the first 24 hours of this phase you can discuss the apparent merits of the different in this thread. To vote, SEND A PM TO THE MODS. You can change your vote throughout the 24 hours.

Once 24 hours have passed, the thread will be locked, and we'll post the three dreams with the most votes, along with the dream the

Bad Dreams

have decided to discard. The

Dreamer

will choose one dream to fully reveal, and then will choose the Dream for Night 1. After that, Day 1 begins!

Moonrise 1's Six Dreams

• Forget 11, I just turned the dial to 12!
  
• This slide never seems to end...
  
• You know how Vi does what Vi does? Well...
  
• Protest is effective, but why have we super glued ourselves to each other, exactly?
  
• I'm 30 years old, why do I still need a car seat?
  
• These sheeple have.. fur? And horns? Wait these are literally sheep people

[Gimli]

forst

[Sunflower]

hi it's me Jupiter and I'm phone posting which is really annoying but it has the benefit of autocorrect
I'm the less cool member of this hydra and my signoff is

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Please hold. A minor moderation error has occured.

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For transparency:

The mod error that occurred was the announcement of the discarded dream. That was an example I (Cabd) had provided and that was mistakenly taken as directions to add to the opening Moonrise post. The resolution of this error will be as follows:

1: The "I lost my job and had to go back to my first job: Pizza Delivery." dream is fully removed from the setup and will be left unknown forever.
2: A new sixth dream will be randomly selected from the pool of all dreams and inserted into the list of

Moonrise

dreams for this phase instead.
3: 1 hour will be added to the deadline to compensate for this error.
4: For clarity, the discard from the

Bad Dreams

faction occurs once the votes have been tallied for the end of the

Moonrise

phase and there are three dreams remaining.


Players may discuss their guess as to what the discarded dream was/did, but not any other aspect of this error. Thank you!

[morph the cat]

Post 11 has been updated with the corrected list of six dreams. Play may resume.

[DragonEater70]

hi it's me Jupiter and I'm phone posting which is really annoying but it has the benefit of autocorrect
I'm the less cool member of this hydra and my signoff is

Jupiter!!!! It's my pleasure to be finally playing with you!

[DragonEater70]

Do you guys think the third dream would result in Vi suddenly joining the game and/or influencing it in some way? I think it's unlikely but I can only hope.

[Prism]

It feels good to be back in the saddle. Despite the fears I have for this game, mafia fills a void for me like no other. I think this playerlist is close to my ideal. I am already fond of some of you, but I have had my eye on some of you for awhile now. I am excited to finally play with you.

I think turning the dial and car seat are the most promising. The first sound strengthening, which is best used on Night 1 with the most roles in play. The second sounds protective, though it may come with roleblocks. I'm worried that supergluing creates lover pairs, but it might also create neighborhoods. I don't think the slide sounds fun, nor am I interested in sheep.

I wish I remembered the first game, but I don't. I may review it later, but you shouldn't expect any setup insight from me yet.

This paragraph is tedious, but it is important. My work-life balance is not what it used to be. I will not post as much as my meta implies, and I expect to be outposted by a wide margin. It is easier to draw attention, and hammer in your perspective, by splitting posts into a hundred bite-size pieces. I expect this to be the game's norm, but I cannot do this. Treating my posts on equal footing will take conscious effort, but it is critical for reading me correctly. My posts will be accessible and high-quality to compensate. You should expect me to skip commentary on discussions I think were either fully explored by others or not very probative for discerning alignment.

[DragonEater70]

Well my reading comprehension sucks. But I think Vi is known for setup design so it'd probably influence the setup?

Pedit: Prism! It is also my pleasure to be playing with you!

[Prism]

I missed the Vi dream since I wrote that before the lock. Vi had a knack for designing interesting but scumsided games, usually with a bastard Tarhalindur over Mafia included. ("Town Calamity Trigger" was a fun one.)

I'm not sure what their conception of Vi is. It'd be fun if they introduced the battery mechanic from Mafia Behind the Maiden, which would selfishly be amazing for me but bad for the playerlist.

[Silver Ravens]

hi guys

[Ydrasse]

peepo

[Silver Ravens]

I like how the dial sounds because it sounds chaotic and chaos is good