A Mid-Scummer Night's Dream - D.S. al Fine

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A Mid-Scummer Night's Dream

Moderator: morph the cat
(Cabd & fferyllt)
Reviewers: Vi, penguin_alien

Have you ever had a dream that you remembered in vivid detail, not just in the morning, but weeks, months, even years later? These memorable dreams are a precursor of lucid dreams. With a true lucid dream, dreamers are able to mold the dream into a form they desire. For me, memorable dreams that stay with me for years afterward all share one characteristic: the dream itself is a puzzle to solve. I'm thoroughly immersed in the dream, too much so to realize that there is one or more specific, persistent and taken-for-granted differences between the real world and the dream. As the dream progresses, those differences affect every moment, every experience, and every interaction with other people or creatures in the dream. Then, suddenly the puzzle is solved, and and I comprehend what is unique about the dreamscape. And then I wake up.

In this dream, you are presented with a puzzle. If you solve it, you too may wake up! If not, then you and the dream both, will crash and be lost in oblivion

Players

1. TheWayItEnds
   Syryana
   
   
2. Regfan
   GuyInFreezer
   
   
3. NoticeMeSenpai (JaeReed & Mastina)
   
4. Cephrir
   
5. MariaR
   
6. Brian Skies
   
7. serrapaladin
   Imperium (Tammy and Nachomamma8)
   
   
8. drealmerz7
   
9. Varsoon
   
10. Desperado
    Sunlit Diamond
    
    
11. MathBlade
    Sakura Hana
    
    
12. Floodgates (nancy and Prism)
    
13. Nosferatu
    
14. baku and munna (randomidget and Shiro)
    
15. hebichan
    
16. Lady Lambdadelta
    
17. mhsmith0
    hiplop

Spoiler: Still Dreaming (Alive)

TheWayItEnds
Regfan
Lady Lambdadelta

Spoiler: Left the Dream (Dead)

baku and munna,

The Mara, Mafia Nightmare

, was lynched on Day 1
Floodgates,

Baku, Dreamer

was terrified to death on Night 1
Nosferatu,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dreamer

, was lynched on Day 2
NoticeMeSenpai,

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Modified Mason-Lover

was terrified to death on Night 2
Varsoon,

Galen of Pergamon, Modified Mason-Lover

died of a broken heart on Night 2
Desperado,

Hypnos, Dreamer

, was lynched on Day 3
Brian Skies,

James Cameron, Dreamer

was terrified to death on Night 3
MariaR,

Mary Shelley, Dreamer

, was lynched on Day 4
mhsmith0,

George Orr, Heavy Sleeper

was terrified to death on Night 4
serrapaladin,

Paul Thomey, Dreamer

was terrified to death on Night 5
drealmerz,

Titania, Dreamer

, was lynched on Day 6
Cephrir,

Laura Rosen, Insomniac

was endgamed on Day 6
Mathblade,

Rene Descartes, Daydreamer

was endgamed on Day 6
hebichan,

Dominick Cobb, Dreamer

was endgamed on Day 6

Spoiler: Banished

Let's not go there

Spoiler: Vote Counter Settings

Living Players

TheWayItEnds (replaces TWIE; twie; Syryana)
Regfan (replaces GuyInFreezer)
Cephrir
drealmerz7 (replaces DREALMZ)
MathBlade (replaces Sakura Hana)
hebichan
Lady Lambdadelta (replaces LLD; lld)

Links

Day 1: Post #4
Day 2: Post #993
Day 3: Post #2472
Day 4: Post #3575
Day 5: Post #3995
Day 6: Post #4616

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Ego

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Setup Specific Rules (These are important!)

1. At the start of each day phase, three dream titles will be revealed.
2. In addition to the lynch, players may vote on a dream to "flip". Flipping a dream is done on plurality.
3. The flipped dream will have its effects revealed at the same time the lynch is revealed, and the dream with the least votes will be removed.
4. This setup features an additional phase known as "Moonrise" between the flip after a lynch and the start of night.
5. At the start of the Moonrise phase, the thread will remain locked, but the 2 most popular dream titles will be available for players to continue voting on, including the one that flipped. Players can change their votes during this period via PM, and can indicate if their vote is final.
6. All players with the ability to vote for dreams as specified in their role PMs will submit their choice of dream via a PM to the mod at this point.
7. Moonrise will end when one of the following conditions has been met: A dream has a true majority of votes after 6 hours, all players have voted, A majority of votes have been specified to be final, or 24 hours from the start of Moonrise.
8. The winning dream (chosen by plurality, not majority) will go into effect immediately; and a post explaining the dream will be posted in the thread. The game will then proceed to night phase.
9. Dreams that are not flipped or chosen may show up on a different night.
10. There is at least one ability in the game that will modify dream choices.
11. Dreams can affect the night phase, day phase, or both.
12. Dreams may also grant power roles to players. Unless specified, these may be held onto or used the same night. Dream recipients are chosen randomly unless an ability states otherwise.
13. Dreams with global effects will not affect more than one night-day cycle
14. All private topics have day talk enabled at all times. Temporary dream or role mechanics may restrict talking done in PTs during other times.
15. This game features a "deadline battery" mechanic. The formula for the drain is not public information, and players are advised to be wary of stalling out the game.

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General Rules (These are also important!)

1. 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.
2. If we say it violates these rules, it does. You can take it up with us postgame if you wish.
3. Play towards your win condition. Gambits are fine, directly harming your own team is not.
4. Once a lynch is reached, you may continue discussion until we lock the thread. No votes or unvotes will count after a lynch has been achieved.
5. A lynch is achieved as a majority of players voting for somebody. Half is not a majority.
6. 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.
7. Do not talk about this game anywhere else, or with anyone else.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Claiming scum by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is an instant modkill. Don't do it.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. If our vote count is wrong, you can PM us or post in the thread (use the bold tag and "@MOD") about it.
14. We do not fix tags or edit posts where you might make a formatting mistake, even if you ask us to.
15. 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.
16. Loophole abuse is all fun and games until we modkill you. Don’t try it.
17. Blue

(This color at #0000FF)

is our color. You are welcome to use any other color of the rainbow.
18. Encryption, text hiding, and the like are silly. Don’t do it.
19. Extensions will be granted at 48 hours per replacement, up to a total duration of 4 days max per game phase.
20. Do not use temporary information to convey messages. This includes your signature and your avatar, but is not limited to these things.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. All factional decisions must be agreed upon by all living members of that faction.

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Role PMs will go out in a few hours. Confirmation will take place via reply to your Role PMs.

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Sample Role PMs

Welcome to A Mid-Scummer Night's Dream!

You are

Morpheus, Dream-Giver

, the Greek god of dreams. You are responsible for creating the dreams of people who are in deep sleep. A whimsical god, you may bring pleasant and restful dreams to your subjects, or you may bring troubling visions that haunt people even after they awaken. Sometimes you send prophetic dreams. Sometimes you send messages from other gods. Sometimes you rule over the dreams of the gods, themselves. This game is your domain and you may be beneficent or punitive, at your will.

You are a member of the

Moderator

faction.

Your abilities:

Arbiter of Dreams

- You will offer dreams to your subjects at the start of the Day phase. You will tally their desires through the Day and Moonrise, and choose the dream you discern is appropriate and desired in the Night phase.

Ruler of the Dream

- You will send the chosen dreams to dream receptive players each Night (or by other means immanentize the dreams) and interpret how the dreams will affect the waking world on the following Day.

Nitpicker of the Day's Events

- You will tally and post vote counts, track the vagaries of public passions and decisions, command the sands of Time, and end each game day with a lynch or no-lynch as your subjects choose.

You win when one of the factions achieves their win condition and the Dream comes to an end....For Now.

Welcome to A Mid-Scummer Night's Dream!

You are

Vi, Dreamer

, a mafia player who dared to dream up intricate, convoluted, and imagery-intense game designs with which to torment and delight your players. You enthusiastically embraced the Mindscrew tradition and pushed it forward in new and different directions in your own game designs. Like intricate clockwork devices, the roles in your games clashed and meshed in ways that most players could neither expect nor anticipate.

You are a member of the

Dreamer

faction.

Your abilities:

Don't Call me VI

- You can vote anonymously via PM to the Mod for the dream of your choice during each Day phase and during the Moonrise phase. The dream will be chosen by plurality vote of all living players.

Let's See How Far RiftSixtian's Ongoing Post Dump of Hope and Puppies Takes Us

- You are likely to be affected by dreams.

You win when all threats to the

Dreamers

have been eliminated, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

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All Role PMs are out. The game will begin when at least 14 players have confirmed.

Fifteen players have confirmed!

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I drift in space.

I? You?

We.

We drift in space, our minds as empty as the void around us. Who are we?

Only nothingness echoes and reverberates back from the question.

Looking outward into the heart of the galaxy is dizzying and beautiful, but ultimately boring. We are nothing if not self-centered.

We shift our focus, looking back from whence we came, and our minds tell us to gasp. But, there is no thing to gasp. No air. No mouth. No lungs.

A bauble nestles in the vast blackness. A blue bauble. Home. Terra. Earth.

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

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

It is time to be.

It is time to dream.

Else all is lost.

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VC 1.0

Day 1 Begins!

Not Voting

(17): NoticeMeSenpai, Nosferatu, Imperium, hebichan, drealmerz7, Sakura Hana, Brian Skies, Floodgates, Baku and Munna, Lady LambdaDelta, Varsoon, hiplop, Syryana, MariaR, Cephrir, GuyInFreezer, Sunlit Diamond

With 17 alive, it takes 9 to lynch.

Dream Timer:

Day 1 Dream Choice

1. "My Dream Came True"
2. "We Don't Need Another Hero. Oh Wait, Yes We Do!"
3. "I Can't Make Up My Mind"

Vote for the dream of your choice by PMing the mod.

At the end of day 1, information about the dream that receives the most votes will be revealed.

You will be able to finalize your dream choice during the Moonrise phase.

[baku and munna]

First
VOTE: hebichan

[Sunlit Diamond]

Second! VOTE: GIF

[drealmerz7]

dreams are my realm

[drealmerz7]

many confirmations, but so few postings

hmhmmm

WAKE UP, IT'S DREAM TIME!

[Sunlit Diamond]

Now this game has started, no one is allowed to sleep anymore.

[GuyInFreezer]

I am a rebel

*goes to sleep*

[Sakura Hana]

That is a very colorful deadline

[hiplop]

I dreamed a dream of time gone byyyyy

[Cephrir]

hi

VOTE: hebi

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We've been asked privately if it is ok to discuss the dreams and your votes.

It is ok to discuss them. There will be no mod confirmation about vote counts before Day 1 ends. Individual votes will remain anonymous.

[MariaR]

Sweet dreams are made of this~

VOTE: GIF

[Nosferatu]

VOTE: Maria

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Vote:Hebi

Will have a small activity drop for the next few days due to The International and all my friends currently being in Seattle to watch it live with me, but I should be able to provide content all the same.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

That is a very colorful deadline

Actually,

Vote: Sakura Hana

I wanted to put pressure on Hebi, but I'll be able to read her eventually anyway.

Why have you opted not to vote, and instead post what is essentially an empty "I'm here" post?

[hiplop]

LLD why did you call out sakura for that but not me?

[Lady Lambdadelta]

LLD why did you call out sakura for that but not me?

Two reasons.

1) She was the first one for whom I saw to do it, checked their iso, and saw no other posts beyond that one.

2) I wanted to see what her reaction would be, and if she would ask something similar to this. Once I noticed you had done it in the post right after, I wanted to see if she would respond with "Why me?", in particular.

The fact that you responded for her feels very weird. Why did you choose to defend her instead of letting her respond, THEN asking this question? You know I do a lot of reaction tests, was this intended to stop that?