Micro 759: Tarot uPick III - Game Over!

[Yetichain]

He was self voting iirc so I think I hammered him.
Porkens are you scum

[Yetichain]

I suppose I should rephrase that. If you thought that was a hammer, it looks like a quick attempt to get a lynch and avoid things swinging back towards you.

[fferyllt]

Vote Count 4-6

garaputo

(3): northsidegal, Yetichain, Porkens

Not Known 15

(1): garaputo

Porkens

(1): Not Known 15

Not Voting

(0):

None.

With 5 alive, it takes 3 to lynch.

Deadline: January 17, Midnight US Eastern Time.

Countdown: (expired on 2018-01-16 21:00:00)

Mod Notes:

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A Lynch Has Been Achieved!

[fferyllt]

The reader places the next card down. The center of the card is occupied by an Egyptian goddess. She stands in a bed of poppies beside a small stream. behind her is a huge field of flowers, a waterfall, and beyond that is a distant mountain.

"Who is she?"

"Selket, the funerary goddess of protection, magic and healing."

A huge white dove soars beside her. A huge disk is directly behind her. It looks almost like a part of her flower-headdress, until the querant realizes the disk as actually the earth. Another disk looms higher, it's lower portion visible at the top of the card. It's a deep orange color, that reminds the querant of Mars, or a huge harvest moon.

"What does it mean?"

"I'm not sure. Unless..."

The querant gives the reader a sharp glance. "Unless???"

"Well, this is the Empress. She usually represents motherhood, nurturing, even protection."

"So someone -- my mother? -- is going to protect me?"

"Possibly, but I think the card could actually represent your own actions to care for yourself. It's a path outward, beyond passively waiting for the disruptions of the Tower to pass. It suggests that to start the process of rebuilding, you should focus on taking care of yourself and being careful to stay true to yourself as you start over."

She taps the card beside the Empress. "Remember the Moon, and the indications that you might be trying to slow down this wave of change? I think this card explains why. Your focus has been to protect yourself, rather than to embrace, or at least submit to the Tower. The shadow side of this card suggests that you could be over-protective, basically smothering yourself. To smother oneself with self-protection, or to be swept up in uncontrollable, cataclysmic change. Both options look dangerous, eh?"

"Yes. Both."

[fferyllt]

garaputo was an

2-Shot Neighborizing Jailkeeper

Spoiler:

Your Significator is the

Empress

: Protectress, createtrix

You are illuminated by -

Fool-Child

: You know you are taken care of, and trust the Universe

Hanged Man

: achievement attained opposite how expected, with passivity and surrender to whatever comes

You are a

2-Shot Neighborizing Jailkeeper

[fferyllt]

The reader smiles. "Though the first few cards suggested you were in the grips of a situation you couldn't control, these last two cards suggest that you have found your feet and are making your own way through the situation, with care, particularly care of and for yourself. I think you have found your way through the cataclysm.

The querant smiles with relief.

Town wins!

Congratulations!

[northsidegal]

Yes!!!!!! Absolution!!!!!

[fferyllt]

I'll post the PTs shortly.

Thanks so much for playing! And extra thanks to NorthSideGal, garaputo and AnonymousGhost for replacing in! And Extra-Extra thanks to everyone who played all the way through! I hope you enjoyed the game!

[Varsoon]

Apologies to anyone/everyone I offended.
I was very into this game. It was neat to follow along after my death. Mad props to Garu for fighting an uphill battle from replacing in. I wish I could've been alive to play alongside you.

[AnonymousGhost]

GG~

Well played everyone! Sorry for sussing you Pork! I was in major tunnel mode!

Seconding NSG... FREEDOM!

[nancy]

Yes!!!!!! Absolution!!!!!

I so love you right now <3<3<3<3<3<3<3

[AnonymousGhost]

Absolute props to Nancy for catching Scum!Gara in the Dead Thread!

[nancy]

Ftr I was force replaced because I was compromised by drealmer who told me about his role after he was lynched when he thought I was replacing out even though I had rescinded the request (not his fault).

[nancy]

Absolute props to Nancy for catching Scum!Gara in the Dead Thread!

I did that in the game already >_>

[nancy]

Also holy shit I loved my role and in true tarot fashion so much of the flavor was/is relevant to my life THANK YOU FFERY <3<3

[RadiantCowbells]

Yay NSG wp! Key too.

[northsidegal]

good game everyone! i enjoyed playing with all of you.

[fferyllt]

nancy(AnonymousGhost)/yetichain neighborhood: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74370
acidphoenix(garaputos)/Dunkerdoodles neighborhood: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74369
garaputos/yetichain neighborhood: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74496

Scum thread: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74152

Dead thread: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74168

Design thread: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74002

I think the design thread is a pretty good representative of how chaotic the design process for a uPick game can be. You'll see that there are two sets of role PMs, and you'll see how much impact the reviewers had on the final form of the game. Based on Nacho's feedback and the creativity he brought to the design, I would up tweaking almost every role, and I feel like the final form of the game was much improved by Empire and Nacho's feedback. I would definitely ask them to review a game again, and hopefully they'd like to do that some time.

[fferyllt]

Also, if you're interested and have access to the Speakeasy subforum: viewtopic.php?f=86&t=65066&p=9880542#p9880542

[Not Known 15]

Lol. All three players who didn't have major arcana as Significator survived.

GG. Sorry for being so scummy.

[garaputo]

GG all, sorry I wasn't around for the lynch, I was out playing cards.

I had fun, hope to play with you all again, I hope nothing I did was considered out of line for fair play.

[Porkens]

VOTE: nk15

[garaputo]

Also, NSG deserves a lot of credit making me sweat at the end there, I was considering conjuring up a reason to vote porkens rather than no lynch and would have probably no killed again to have forced even one more day had that happened...

As I said in the scum thread, it was a real uphill battle, I probably made bad choices but felt I had low odds to begin with so why not sow some confusion...

[Keychain]

! we won?!

gg scum! And thanks for not giving into your paranoia about me North It was good working with you at the end there, you put me on the right track. Nice work.

Keen to read the PTs when I get the chance.

Absolute props to Nancy for catching Scum!Gara in the Dead Thread!

I did that in the game already >_>

Of course. Are you also taking credit for catching "scum!Dreal"?
It was fun playing with you.


And of course thank you ffery! Such cool roles and flavour. Should have saved my marshmallows though.

[nancy]

I was just tilted as fuck on drealmer. I didn't keep my vote on him for a reason -_-

Was fun playing with you too, sorry for being bad