Overkill 1: Serenity/Firefly (GAME OVER)

[Almost50]

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Overkill 1:

Serenity/Firefly

The game flavour is based on Joss Whedon's Firefly (TV Series 2002–2003) & the subsequent movie Serenity

Flavour:

Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

This setup was designed by

Almost50

reviewed and approved by

Varsoon

Game Rules:

Hello and welcome to the first installment of the

Overkill Series Project

. I trust you all know the rules, but let's revise some:

General:

1- All site-wide rules apply.

2- If you have an action, please submit by PM before the deadline. If I gave you a PT for this game, you may use that to submit the action

on a separate line and bolded, please.

3- When voting, use playernames or easily identified shortened versions. If I can't tell whom you're voting I simply won't count it.

4- Also, please use the proper vote tags (

or at least make your vote visible by bolding it on a separate line

)*
Note: We intend to use a script for VCs and it doesn't recognize bolded votes, so please use the

vote tags

only.

5- Play to win.

6- Do not use my color (Actually, I don't have one, but still.. ).

7- This game uses the

MAJORITY LYNCH

(50% +1 rounded down of the living players) mechanic. If the deadline hits and no majority lynch, the day ends with NO LYNCH.

8- When in doubt: Ask the mod (preferably by PM).

10- Be civil, sensible, senseful & responsible. Personal attacks are strongly frowned upon. Criticism to setup/mechanics/flavour may be spared to post-game, please.

11- You have the right to make one "Bah" post within the following 24 hours of the start of the day following the cycle you died. If you don't make one; one will be made for you (Just kidding. Bah posts are alright though, as long as they don't contain any information or hints about the game).

12- I bet you didn't notice there's no rule #9.

13. Have fun, and let the others have theirs too. Always remember this: It's a GAME.

Game specific:

1- All PTs are open day & night

2- DAYTIME will last 14 IRL days. NIGHTTIME is 72 hours.

3- There are multiple killing mechanics in this game. To mitigate swing; this public mechanic will apply:

A maximum of TWO players of the

same faction

can die in the same cycle (D1/N1, D2/N2, etc).

In the case where more than 2 players are set to die in the same cycle the one(s) that go though are determined through a pre-set process that shall be revealed post-game.

4-

The game ends when either all threats to town have been eliminated or all town members have been eliminated.

5- No animals have been killed, injured or hurt in anyway during/as a result of creating this setup. Some people may have though, so God have mercy on their souls.

Click here to sign-up.

[Almost50]

All Role PMs are out. Bolded means they confirmed. game starts when 14/17 have confirmed.

Players

Players

:

1. Toogeloo
   
   
2. Jingle
   the worst
   
   
3. Tails
   *
   NicoRobin
   
   
4. Chara
   RadiantCowbells
   
   
5. RightKnight
   Nancy Drew 39
   Nancy Drew Shogunate
   Toranaga
   
   
6. TPFKAP
   
   
7. Chickadee
   
   
8. Flicker
   
   
9. Thor665
   
   
10. BuJaber
    *
    
11. CheekyTeeky
    
    
12. Light Ethos
    McMenno
    Skygazer
    
    
13. Elsa Jay
    
    
14. Reasonably Rational
    
    
15. Malakittens
    
    
16. Gamma Emerald
    randomidget
    
    
17. Aristophanes
    northsidegal

Spoiler: Alive

Toogeloo
Jingle
Chara
Chickadee
Flicker
BuJaber
CheekyTeeky
Elsa Jay
Reasonably Rational
Malakittens
Gamma Emerald

Spoiler: Flipped

TPFKAP

(Mafia Traitor)

Aristophanes

(Town Vengeful)

Light Ethos

(Mafia Jailkeeper)

Thor665

(Serial Killer)

Tails

(Mafia Jailkeeper)

RightKnight

(Serial Killer)

Spoiler: Sample Town Role PM

Hello

Almost50

You are [full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]. You are a

Flying Pumpkin That Shoots Laser Beams Out Of Its Ass

. Each night you may target a player to kill them. By default

you have a 75% chance of hitting your target

. You also have a

25% of surviving an attempt on your life

.

Once in the game

though you may "aim" to change your shooting precision to 100%

in exchange for your 25% BP on that night

.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

[Almost50]

Firefly/Serenity D1 VC #0

Gamestart

Day 1 Begins

VC#0

Not Voting: Everyone

Deadline (expired on 2018-10-16 02:00:00)

[Almost50]

Erm.. not sure if I posted this in the signups (if I didn't, my bad):

Ruru is my co-mod, and will be using a script to generate VCs. Please check the rules regarding the use of the vote tags and

especially

easily identified abbreviations of player names (I doubt the script will recognize "ArrrCeee" as a player in the game).

[Almost50]

Announcement

A sample Role PM has been added at the bottom of post #1

[Almost50]

Attention

Attention, please!

It has come to my attention that things are starting to get overly heated.

I would very much appreciate it if the parties involved were to step back for a little time while I try to resolve this.

Everybody else (who has not been a part of this) can continue to play normally. Just please remember this is a game, and I want it to be FUN (and believe me

it is

if you just play Mafia and keep the personal stuff away. I

promise

most of you will pre-in for the next Overkill episode although I have yet to finish the setup/flavor for it to even consider submitting it for preview.)

Thank you

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

Toranaga

is replaced with

Nancy Drew Shogunate

(hydra of Toranaga and "obviously" Nancy Drew 39.

[Almost50]

@A50

would you define the flavour of this game as contributory towards alignment?

Why do you think the flavour was [

redacted

]?

will scum be given fakeclaims / knowledge of flavours which are or are not in the game?

You mean, like.. "You may claim

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

?".

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

RadiantCowbells

is replaced with

Chara

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

the worst

is replaced with

Jingle

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

Announcement

randomidget has been prodded

Announcement

Chara

is having technical properties posting. They will be back shortly.

[Almost50]

randomidget

failed to pick up his prod

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

randomidget

is replaced with

Gamma Emerald

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

Announcement

Skygazer has been prodded

Announcement

northsidegal has been prodded

[Almost50]

@mod: please replace me out

Noted. I'll first try to contact a couple of players privately, and if that fails I'll put it up for grabs in the replacement queue.

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

Skygazer

is replaced with

McMenno

effective immediately.

P-edit: Too late now

[Almost50]

Just so I don't keep you all waiting

Firefly/Serenity D1 VC #?

No Hammer

Day 1 ongoing

VC#?

TPFKAP (6): Thor665, Gamma Emerald, Elsa Jay, CheekyTeeky, BuJaber, Jingle

BuJaber (4): McMenno, Chickadee, Chara, Toogeloo
Flicker (2): Reasonably Rational, northsidegal
NicoRobin (2): Malakittens TPFKAP
Reasonably Rational (1): NicoRobin
Malakittens (1): Nancy Drew Shogunate


Not Voting: Flicker

Deadline (expired on 2018-10-16 02:00:00)

[Almost50]

A LYNCH has been achieved

VC#0

TPFKAP (9): Thor665, Gamma Emerald, Elsa Jay, CheekyTeeky, BuJaber, Jingle, Nancy Drew Shogunate, Chara, Toogeloo

BuJaber (2): McMenno, Chickadee
Flicker (2): Reasonably Rational, northsidegal
NicoRobin (2): Malakittens TPFKAP
Reasonably Rational (1): NicoRobin


Not Voting: Flicker

Deadline suspended

[Almost50]

TPFKAP was ...

Spoiler:

Hello

TPFKAP

You are Lawrence Dobson, an undercover Union of Allied Planets agent in pursuit of Simon and River Tam. You know that mysterious pair going by “Hands of Blue” are also in pursuit of the Tam siblings on behalf of the Union, but they are not notified of your identity. You are immune to

your own faction's kill

. If both HoB players die you inherit their kill.

You win when the Serenity crew are eliminated or nothing can stop that from happening.

To make it simple: You are a Traitor aligned with the HoB.

Important: To avoid flavour gaming; Town players have NOT been given their flavour.

"Simon Tam, you are ordered by law to stand down."

Thread is now locked and it's Night 1

Please send in you night action before the deadline expires

Night Deadline (expired on 2018-10-15 22:00:00)

[Almost50]

"We’re not going to die. We can’t die, Bendis. And you know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw! Huh? C’mon." - Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds.

Serenity crew and allies managed to survive the night unscathed, but so did their enemies.

Thread is now unlocked and it's Day 2

Day 2 Deadline (expired on 2018-10-29 22:00:00)

[Almost50]

Attention

Attention, please!

Someone asked (via PM) about the Lightning Rod/Ascetic resolution, and while

I can neither confirm nor deny either of these exist in the game

I will say that in a

hypothetical situation

where these two exist I would

NOT

let a Lightning Rod affect the Ascetic player. (Yes, I know that's not what most of you think and I acknowledge your PoV might have more merit than mine, but I would treat the Lightning Rod as "action

targeting

everyone" if that makes any sense.)

You all do realize this isn't a "Normal", so I would strongly recommend you ask me how >I< would resolve any hypothetical situation.

Thank you

[Almost50]

It confirms the FLAVOR of the scumteam. It is arguably possible that the mod removed the section on whom the HoB are, but unlikely.

Anyway, there's a solution:

@A50: Was the HoB traitor informed of their scummates identities?

Only their flavor, but not the players/slots

[Almost50]

@Mod: Were scum given flavor for their characters, or are all players flavor redacted?

Actually, never mind. Let me rephase.

Are only town aligned players the ones without role flavor?

Short answer: No.

The idea behind redacting flavour is to prevent alignment-confirmation through matching your role with your flavour.

So, if claiming one's flavour

would directly lead to them getting lynched

, then they got it. (there's no need to redact flavour that is indeed incriminating on it's own). Everyone else's was redacted.

Does this answer your question?

[Almost50]

This is important because the role pm from the traitor specifically states town players have had their flavor redacted. It seems to be added so that we can't just auto-confirm Chickadee (e.g.) for claiming to not know who they are, because scum know we don't know who we are. Why? Because apparently the Neutral Ascetic Bulletproof Survivor Doctor doesn't know who they are either, and 3p are not aligned with town.

I can confirm that it was indeed added (pre-game) to forewarn scum not to slip something like "I know my flavour".

[Almost50]

@50: can we get a prod on NR? Additionally, can we get a prod on NSG assuming she hasn't posted in an hour?

"Friendly prods" going out for both. Official prods (marked with an asterisk on the players list in post #1) go out on 72 hours of not posting, and have 24 hours deadline to respond.

[Almost50]

@Almost: We will also accept you giving me a day-vig ability and leaving it to myself to murder one of them. It'll make the game fun, I promise.

Granted!

Spoiler:

[Almost50]

@A50 Hi

Hello to you too. I hop the game is interesting to you (and everyone else) so far.

[Almost50]

Announcement

northsidegal has been prodded

(2nd prod)

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

northsidegal

is replaced with

Aristophanes

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

Announcement

NicoRobin has been prodded

[Almost50]

@)Humble request to Almost: if Robin doesnt post game-relevant content in say 24 hours, I feel a replacement is necessary considering all the prod dodges with no real content from the slot.

If at least 8 players request the force replacement of the slot based on them not actually playing the game then I will.

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

NicoRobin

is replaced with

Tails

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

McMenno

is replaced with

Light Ethos

effective immediately.

[Almost50]

@Mod: I'm V/LA until the 30, thanks.

Noted.

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

Nancy Drew Shogunate

is replaced with

Nancy Drew 39

effective immediately.

Personal Note: I for one will miss you, Tor.

[Almost50]

@Almost50 this game uses NAR correct?

NAR is the main reference, yes. But I wouldn't say I'm following it to the book. If in doubt, better ask me in a PM about how certain roles interact with each other.

[Almost50]

Just bc Cheeky asked

Firefly/Serenity D2 VC #?

VC#?

Tails (7): Reasonably Rational, Flicker, Chara, Gamma Emerald, BuJaber, Aristophanes, CheekyTeeky

Aristophanes (5): Tails, Elsa Jay, Thor665, Jingle, Malakittens
CheekyTeeky (2): Light Ethos, Nancy Drew 39
Chickadee (1): Toogeloo
Light Ethos (1): Chickadee

Deadline (expired on 2018-10-29 22:00:00)

[Almost50]

@A50: IF there are multiple scum factions in this game, does the multiple death in a single phase protection apply to them collectively, or individually? That is, if each loses a single member, does that mean no further deaths could happen in either faction, or could they each lose *2* before the protection kicked in?

Each

faction

is treated separately. 3 non-town players can die at any given phase provided they're not all aligned with each other.

[Almost50]

Forgot the bolding!

Yes, you did, and I would have missed it .. if I wasn't enjoying this game so much I'm literally reading EVERYTHING!

[Almost50]

@A50: I...feel like that number of 3 should not have been given to us...

It's the least number above two.
3

or more

non-town players can die, provided that no more than 2 are of the same faction.

[Almost50]

A LYNCH has been achieved

VC#0

Aristophanes (9): Tails, Elsa Jay, Thor665, Jingle, Malakittens, Chickadee, Toogeloo, Flicker, Aristophanes

Tails (5): Reasonably Rational, Chara, Gamma Emerald, BuJaber, CheekyTeeky
CheekyTeeky (2): Light Ethos, Nancy Drew 39

Not Voting: -

Deadline suspended

[Almost50]

Aristophanes was ...

Spoiler: Redacted Version

Hello

Aristophanes

You are [full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game], a member of the Serenity crew. You are

Vengeful

. If you are lynched, you may kill any other player as you die. If you are hammered PM me with the name of your target. If you are getting close to a lynch and wish to send in a PM before twilight, you may do so. If the lynch doesn’t go through, the target will not be binding on future days.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

Spoiler: Full Flavoured Version

Hello

Aristophanes

You are

Jayne Cobb, Serenity’s hired muscle. You have a twitchy trigger finger and a mean temper.

You are

Vengeful

. If you are lynched, you may kill any other player as you die. If you are hammered PM me with the name of your target. If you are getting close to a lynch and wish to send in a PM before twilight, you may do so. If the lynch doesn’t go through, the target will not be binding on future days.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"Time for some thrilling heroics."

Standby...

[Almost50]

Also Light Ethos had died. He was ...

Spoiler:

Hello

Light Ethos

&

Player Name 2

You are The "Hands of Blue", going by (Hands of Blue 1 & Hands of Blue 2). You are contractors to the Union of Allied Planets and are in pursuit of River and Simon Tam. You kill without mercy using a sonic device that induces massive bleeding from every orifice. You both are Jailkeepers, but the same person can't JK and kill at the same night, and

if you both target each other with the Jailkeep both your actions will fail

. You are also aware that there's an undercover Union of Allied Planets agent working on the same mission, but you don't know who they are (it means

the 3rd member of your team is a Traitor

). You win when the Serenity crew are eliminated (i.e. all town-aligned players are dead) or nothing can stop that from happening.

Important: To avoid flavour gaming; Town players have NOT been given their flavour.

TWO BY TWO, HANDS OF BLUE.

Here is your Hands of Blue/Union of Allied Planets PT.

Thread is now locked and it's Night 2

Please send in you night action before the deadline expires

Night Deadline (expired on 2018-11-01 18:40:00)

[Almost50]

Thor's body has been found with a pierce through the heart. He was..

Spoiler:

Hello

Thor665

You are a Reaver. Each night you may target one other player and torment them to the point where they die of fear. You have a 2-shot Commuter ability though so you may use that if you don't want to kill on any given night.

You win when

all other players are dead

or nothing can prevent that from happening.

Important: There is a chance the game may end before you can accomplish your mission, so choose your victims wisely.

Even more important: To avoid flavour gaming; Town players have NOT been given their flavour.

“I ain’t going over there with them bodies. No rutting way. Not if Reavers messed with ‘em.”

Thread is now unlocked and it's Day 3

Day 3 Deadline (expired on 2018-11-15 18:45:00)

[Almost50]

Replacement

Replacement Announcement

Nancy Drew 39

is replaced with

RightNight

(hydra of Nancy Drew 39 & Mathblade) effective immediately.

[Almost50]

hey Almost, Ethos is green in the first post. is there something you aren't telling us?

No, he's not. PROVE IT!

[Almost50]

A50: If you can, how would you resolve the interactions between a lightning rod and the jailkeep ability displayed in the HoB flip we have?

-Cerb

IF JK is targeting LR, LR will blocked. If JK is targeting someone else, LR attracts JK,

then

JK will be on LR.

In the first scenario (from my PoV) it's the JK that initially affects the LR and not vise versa (JK already targeting LR), so JK resolves first.

In the second scenario, obviously it's the LR that affects the JK and not vise versa, so the LR resolves first.

[Almost50]

{{

A50 a vote count please?

}}
~~Math

votecount

With 13 alive it takes 7 to lynch.

Tails (5):	Reasonably Rational (3754),	CheekyTeeky (3803),	Gamma Emerald (3840),	BuJaber (3864),	Chara (3939),
Reasonably Rational (1):	Tails (3869),
Not voting (7):	Toogeloo,	RightNight,	Chickadee,	Flicker,	Elsa Jay,	Malakittens,	Jingle (3899),

(expired on 2018-11-15 18:45:00) remain.

Nothing changed.

[Almost50]

Announcement

Tails & BuJaber have been prodded. Flicker is 6 hours away from a prod.

[Almost50]

A LYNCH has been achieved

VC#0

Tails (7): Reasonably Rational, CheekyTeeky, Gamma Emerald, BuJaber, Chara, Flicker, Toogeloo

Reasonably Rational (1): Tails

Not Voting: Elsa Jay, Jingle, Malakittens, Chickadee, RightKnight

Deadline suspended

[Almost50]

Tails was ...

Spoiler:

Hello

Light Ethos

&

Tails

You are The "Hands of Blue", going by (Hands of Blue 1 & Hands of Blue 2). You are contractors to the Union of Allied Planets and are in pursuit of River and Simon Tam. You kill without mercy using a sonic device that induces massive bleeding from every orifice. You both are Jailkeepers, but the same person can't JK and kill at the same night, and

if you both target each other with the Jailkeep both your actions will fail

. You are also aware that there's an undercover Union of Allied Planets agent working on the same mission, but you don't know who they are (it means

the 3rd member of your team is a Traitor

). You win when the Serenity crew are eliminated (i.e. all town-aligned players are dead) or nothing can stop that from happening.

Important: To avoid flavour gaming; Town players have NOT been given their flavour.

TWO BY TWO, HANDS OF BLUE.

Here is your Hands of Blue/Union of Allied Planets PT.

Thread is now locked and it's Night 3

Please send in you night action before the deadline expires

Night Deadline (expired on 2018-11-08 23:00:00)

[Almost50]

Serenity crew and allies managed to survive the night unscathed, but so did their enemies.

Thread is now unlocked and it's Day 4

Day 4 Deadline (expired on 2018-11-21 23:00:00)

[Almost50]

@A50: Can you confirm that the town is made up of the Serenity and allies?

I think I'll take the 5th on this one.

[Almost50]

@Almost50, can use please confirm whether or not a passive LR, could show up as an action to a MD?

1- Please

bold

questions directed at me so I won't miss them.

2- I already did. I am treating the Lightning Rod as an

action targeting

everyone else. Jingle kindly even corrected me that this would be a self-mass-redirector, and RR agreed, so that's what it is in application.

[Almost50]

Attention

Attention, please!

Since it seems to be an overwhelming popular demand; all nights from now on will be 48 hrs rather than 72 hrs.

Thank you

[Almost50]

Let's keep it nice, children

~Almost.. erm... I mean 5 months

past

50

[Almost50]

And yet you still managed to keep the maturity of an 8 year old.

Okay, I should probably go back to just official business until the game is over. Sorry I interrupted the flow.

[Almost50]

A LYNCH has been achieved

VC#0

RightKnight (7): Flicker, Chickadee, Toogeloo, BuJaber, Reasonably Rational, RightKnight, Elsa Jay

You don't need the other wagons, do you?

RightKnight were ...

Spoiler:

Hello

RighKnight

You are the Operative, a Union of Allied Planets agent sent to destroy River Tam and all witnesses on Serenity. Each night you may target one player to kill them with your sword. You have a 2-shot Commuter ability though so you may use that if you don't want to kill on any given night.

You win when

all other players are dead

or nothing can prevent that from happening.

Important: There is a chance the game may end before you can accomplish your mission, so choose your victims wisely.

Even more important: To avoid flavour gaming; Town players have NOT been given their flavour.

“Would you be killed in your sleep, like an ailing pet?”

[Almost50]

GAME OVER!!

Serenity crew and allies are

triumphant

[/color]

It even looks like Shepherd Book survived this time, but at the expense of Jayne

Please hold while I fetch all roles and night actions

[Almost50]

Here are the unflipped rolw Pms (edited to show the readcted flavor)

Spoiler: Modified Motion Detector

Hello

Reasonably Rational

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

Captain Malcolm Reynolds, the captain and owner of Serenity.

This ship is your home and the crew is your family. In an effort to protect them, each night you may target one other player to see if they've spent the night in their chamber and/or have been visited by someone.

Role: Modified Motion Detector (You get told whether the action detected was incoming or outgoing)

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

Spoiler: Masons (2 players)

Hello

Gamma Emerald/Jingle

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game], a member of the Serenity crew

.

Zoe Washburne, first mate on Serenity/Hoban (Wash) Washburne, pilot of Serenity.

You are a mason with <Player name>

.

As Serenity’s married couple, you are a mason with your husband/wife <Player name>

. You may talk to them

anytime

in this PT.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

Zoe (to Mal): "Sir? I’d like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.”
Wash: “Work, work, work…"

Spoiler: 1-shot Lightning Rod

Hello

Toogeloo

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

Inara Serra, Companion on the ship Serenity.

You are a

1-shot Lightning Rod

. Once during the game you may choose to activate at night, and on that night all actions will be redirected to target you instead.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?"

Spoiler: Vengefull

Hello

Aristophanes

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game], a member of the Serenity crew.

Jayne Cobb, Serenity’s hired muscle. You have a twitchy trigger finger and a mean temper.

You are Vengeful

. If you are lynched, you may kill any other player as you die. If you are hammered PM me with the name of your target. If you are getting close to a lynch and wish to send in a PM before twilight, you may do so. If the lynch doesn’t go through, the target will not be binding on future days.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"Time for some thrilling heroics."

Spoiler: Loved

Hello

Chara

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game], a member of the Serenity crew.

Kaylee Frye, mechanic on Serenity. Your naturally sweet and bubbly personality makes everyone like you, and

You are Loved

, so it takes one additional vote for you to be lynched.

This ability is disabled in LyLo/MyLo.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"No power in the ‘verse can stop me."

Spoiler: Compulsive Doctor

Hello

CheekyTeeky

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game], a member of the Serenity crew.

Simon Tam, doctor on Serenity.

You're a Compulsive Doctor. Each night you may target one other player to protect them from one kill that night. If you do not submit a target, one will be assigned to you at random.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"This must be what going mad feels like."

Spoiler: Modified Day Flavour Cop

Hello

Chickadee

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game].

River Tam, refugee and gifted prodigy on Serenity. Your psychic abilities allow you to delve into the minds of the others.

You are a Modified Day Flavour Cop. Once per day phase you may PM me the name of another player to receive a hint of their identity (something that’s either uppermost on their minds, or an event/conversation you were involved in with them.)

For example: If you were to investigate Tom (of Tom & Jerry), you may get

any

of the following photos, and then it's up to you decide what character you've investigated.






You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems."

Spoiler: Priest

Hello

Flicker

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

.

Book, a passenger who has made his home on Serenity.

You are a Priest, so you

may not

cast the hammer vote on any player, although you may otherwise vote as normal. You have no other abilities.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here."

Spoiler: Seraph Knight

Hello

BuJaber

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game].

Sir Warwick Harrow, a nobleman on Persephone who owned some "property" that he needed moved off-planet in violation of Union of Allied Planets regulations. When (Captain) Malcolm Reynolds inadvertently challenged Atherton Wing to a duel, Harrow agreed to serve as Reynolds' second.

You are a Seraph Knight for the player whose flavour is "Captain Malcolm Reynolds". If they should die by lynch or a night kill, you die in their stead.

You win when all threats to Serenity and its crew have been eliminated.

"You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."

Spoiler: Survivor

Hello

Elsa Jay

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

.

Badger, a “business” contact for the crew of Serenity. Your only interest in all of this is to survive.

You are a Survivor. You win if you remain alive at the end of the game. To help you achieve your goal you are an Ascetic

non-weak

Hider with a 1-shot BP vest. (This means you can hide behind anyone and won't die if your target is not town-aligned)

"Crime and politics, little girl. The situation is always…fluid."

Spoiler: Lyncher

Hello

Malakittens

You are

[full flavour will be revealed upon your flip or at the end of the game]

.

Sir Atherton Wing, a young nobleman on Persephone who accepted an unwitting challenge to a duel from Malcolm Reynolds (Captain of Serenity).

You are self-aligned and you win if you manage to lynch Captain Malcolm Reynolds. If successful, you will promptly leave the game with a win. If Reynolds die at night though you will lose the game. To help you survive; you are totally NK-immune (you cannot be killed at night).

"Well, get ready to starve. I'll see to it you never work again."

[Almost50]

Spoiler: Flavour Cop results

Captain Reynolds:

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: This is meant to tell Tam the most important thing on her target's mind is his crew.

Zoe

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: This is meant to tell Tam the most important things on her target's mind are her loyalty to the captain and her husband.

Wash

River receives this image + text: "Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"



Explanation & notes: This is a

tricky

result. To those unfamiliar with the show, obviously the words "inevitable betrayal" should be alarming. However, in the show Wash is actually playing with dinosaurs and this is one of his famous quotes from that seen. Anyone familiar with the show should be able to identify the character her, and if they don't then someone else would, but at the cost of the Cop outing already for no good reason.

Inara

River receives this text (with no image)

"A companion chooses her own clients, that's guild law. But physical appearance doesn't matter so terribly, you look for a compatibility of spirit."

Explanation & notes: It's a direct quote from Inara; describing how she chooses her clients.

Jayne

River receives this text (with no image)

"Six men came to kill me one time. And the best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge thorough gauge. It is my very favorite gun... I call it Vera."

Explanation & notes: He's a mercenary and he's the muscle of the ship. this is a good hint of his character.

Kaylee

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: Obviously she has an affection to strawberries .. and Simon.

Simon

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: Nothing ever matter to Simon than his sister and her well being.

River

River receives NOTHING. Why would a cop self-target anyway?

Shepherd

River receives this text (with no image)

"I don't care what you believe. Just believe it!"

Explanation & notes: Those were Book's dying words to Mal.

Sir Warwick

River receives the following image (with the subsequent text)



"You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."

Explanation & notes: The image is from the ball at which Sir Warwick first appeared. It was where he accepted to Reynolds' second in the duel vs Atherton. The quote should help differentiate him from Atherton himself, since I'll be using the same image for them both.

Operative

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: This is Tam as a test subject before her brother Simon helped her escape from the facility. Alternatively, I could've used the following image:



But I thought that it would be too revealing (and a bit too large in size too).

Reaver

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: Reavers are just.. Reavers. They have no memories.

Badger

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: Badger is self-centered, so the only person he really cares about is himself.

Sir Atherton

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: The image is from the ball at which Reynolds challenged him for a duel.

HoB

(both of them)

River receives this video (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: In the show, HoB are after River and whoever is protecting/helping her. Since I've made them the main Mafia team assigned to kill the whole crew to win, I thought this video says finding the whole crew is what matters most to them.

Lawrence Dobson

River receives this image (with no additional text)



Explanation & notes: This is another tricky/inconclusive result which is up to the player to interpret. Dobson is a part of the Mafia team and is informed of their identity, so he thinks about them. The Cop doesn't know that though, so..

[Almost50]

The predetermined mechanic for the kills was simple: SK1 (Operative) has a priority 1 on odd nights, and 2 on even nights. SK2 (Reaver) has a priority 1 on Even nights and 2 on odd nights. HoB kill has a priority 3 always.

[Almost50]

N1 Action:

OUCH! Didn't see that one coming

N1 submitted action so far:

Elsa Jay

: Hide behind Gamma (success. Elsa is also Ascetic, so doesn't get affected by blocking/redirection)

Toogeloo

: Activate Lightening Rod

McMenno

: Jailkeep BuJaber

LOOP! JK (block) resolves before redirection. However, in this case redirection affects the block target. Then again, the

new

block target is the source of the redirection. Hmmm...

Since the original action list makes it so the block should not affect the redirection (original block target isn't Toog), I'm ruling that the redirection resolves first here, and thus Toog gets protected from ALL KILLS (JK protection extends to stop ALL kills submitted on the target on that night). The block is thus nullified (if it resolved first it would have blocked BuJaber who doesn't have a night action to submit anyway)

CheekyTeeky

: Protect Chara (redirected to Toogeloo)

NDS

: shoot CheekyTeeky (redirected to Toogeloo. Fails due to JK protection)

Thor

: Shoot Elsa Jay (redirected to Toogeloo. Fails due to JK protection)

Nico Robin

: Shoot Elsa Jay (redirected to Toogeloo. Fails due to JK protection)

RR

: Motion detect Flicker (redirected to Toogeloo. Result: Your target had outgoing action & received incoming action)

N2 Action:

N2 submitted action so far:

Elsa Jay

: Hide behind Thor (success)

Thor

: Shoot Elsa Jay (Fail. Elsa is Hiding behind Thor)

Nancy Drew

: shoot Thor (Success. Thor is dead. Elsa Jay lost the BP)

#Note: Nancy is replaced by RightKnight, a hydra of Nancy Drew and Mathblade.

CheekyTeeky

: Protect RR (Success)

RR

: Motion detect Chickadee (Success. "Your target had incoming actions")

Tails

: Jailkeep Chickadee.

So this was actually 2 different groups of 3 actions each. Thor+EJ+ND39 & CT+RR+Tails

First group: Hide > 2 shots resolving simultaneously (both not on town anyway)
Second group: JK > Protection > Investigation

N3 Action:

BWAHAHAHAHAHA... even better..

CT has changed her protect target from Mal's Seraph Knight to Mal himself.

CT

: Protect R (Success)

RK

: Kill RR (Fail. RR protected by CT)

RR

: MD Flicker (Your target had no incoming/outgoing action)

EJ

: -

[Almost50]

I would never have considered Inara a Lightning Rod lol.

She was originally a Vote Manipulator, but Varsoon thought a 1-shot LR was cooler, and I agreed.

[Almost50]

Serenity crew are -as Toog remarked- Mal, Zoe, Wash, Jayne & Kaylee. I simply twisted Simon to fit as a crew member (as Mal agrees to help him and River "in exchange of his services").

Mal had "special text" instead of "a member of the crew" because he is not "a member". He's the owner and captain of the ship.

[Almost50]

Everybody, check the Night Action and change ONE event.. see how things could have dramatically changed.

If TPFKAP cared to play the game, Town would not have lynched them, and Toog probably would not gave used his role on N1.

If RightKnight didn't shoot Thor and shot virtually anyone else.. if Thor didn't insist on taking out the Hider... if Chickadee checked other targets than whom she did..

This is the reason why there were not as many kills as I had foreseen. the HoB original trio only had ONE active player (Skygazer) and even Sky scum slipped early!! Town used their abilities PERFECTLY. Vengeful was the only Town kill aside from the lynch and it netted scum. Scum only shot Twice all game, and they didn't succeed.

Mala had it tough also because of that exact reason. She was NK immune, and if BuJ got lynched or shot early then Mal was out there for her to lynch. BuJ played a great game too, not too town so as not to be directly shot, and not too scum so he won't be the high priority lynch.

[Almost50]

Time had NO VIGILANTE, so either SK could have claimed Vig!!!

Also, When nancy was shopping for a fake claim she brought up enabler and then MOTION SENSOR, and I said MOTION SENSOR ENABLER was GOOD. She didn't take it!

[Almost50]

There's nothing much in ANY of the PTs, but I will hold for the next 48 hrs to see if anyone objects to the release of their PT.

[Almost50]

Now, I would appreciate all your remarks regarding design, flavor and running the game. Anything at all is GOOD feedback, regardless of whether it's applause or criticism. Thank you

[Almost50]

There's nothing much in ANY of the PTs, but I will hold for the next 48 hrs to see if anyone objects to the release of their PT.

*sad face*

~D

LOL.. oh yeah... you had some stuff but I never got it in real time.

Watch me discuss Queen and Freddie Mercury with Jingle in the Masons PT. Watch Tails talking to me about most everything when he was left alone in the HoB PT. TPFKAP asked for their own PT but didn't use it in any way. Even the dead thread wasn't active enough to call it a discussion.

[Almost50]

Otherwise town has three cops that scum can do nothing about

What 3 Cops? Town only had a Motion Detector and a nerfed Flavor Cop.

[Almost50]

One thing that I think needs addressing A50, is that you basically encouraged us to flavor game by removing our flavor in an attempt to get us to not flavor game. Town needed a few Vanilla in order for Scum to have a bit more safety in their claims. I do like the off the wall roles since that could also encourage some wild roles to be thought up, like Enabler, scum to hide in, but role madness allowed for town to discern the identities of players simply based on their powers. I only had 3 players wrong in my flavor spec before you announced it, and if you are trying to hide our identities before our flips, then there definitely needed to be more room for doubt in who was what role.

Very good advice. I am skeptical about submitting the Overkill II setup to be reviewed for mechanical reasons, but I made the flavour cannot be gamed already (safe claims are available for all non-town roles). It's a completely different flavour btw.

[Almost50]

Yup, yup, we were done for, once Chick checked us. A50 can say fakeclaiming MD enabler would have helped but I don’t think it explains away that damning pic.

Well, it wouldn't have saved you at THIS point, but it still was more interesting than Doctor Enabler, tbh.

Oh, well.. I t was interesting to see you try still. That was fun on its own.

[Almost50]

Why would we assume an MD even existed in the game and you initially tried to talk us out of it, until I insisted.

I tried to talk you out of claiming Motion Detector, not Enabler to Motion Detector. Double check your PMs

[Almost50]

There were simply too many on the nose/unlynchable roles. We probs should have been vt as well as book not being priest. If playing with heavy flavor you need to make sure it can’t be manipulated like that. If you’d like I’d be happy to lend a hand with balance for the next setup, btw.

I thought about it, but I also enjoyed seeing you play and wanted to have you as a player in that next game. Hmmm.. I'll ask Varsoon if he wants to play instead of review though.

[Almost50]

Well, you don't know how much it please me to learn you had fun playing this game. Definitely the most important aspect on my mind when designing a game is "how will this feel if I was in their shoes". That's why I gave special attention to some roles (like giving the Survivor a 1-shot BP).

@Jingle: OK.. I'll submit the preliminary setup roles (w.o. the flavour, for ease) and add you to the thread.

[Almost50]

they were the same alignment (3p)

You need to come back me up against a whole lot of players who insist SK is an ALIGNMENT, Survivor is an ALIGNMENt, and no matter how I try to explain these are all ROLES and their alignment is THIRD PARTY they won't accept it.

[Almost50]

I'm fine with peeps having access to my love of Queen. Also, you refusing to flip me as Queen Latifah.

Actually, I intended to.. except Scum didn't feel like kissing you goodbye.

[Almost50]

The craziest player .. by far .. was EJ. We (myself, ruru & Varsoon) were wondering what he was doing with the Doctor fake claim. Then it got interesting. I'll smoke whatever you're smoking dude.

[Almost50]

but I know I am an ass.

Anyone who call themselves an ass are most definitely not.

[Almost50]

with the exact same abilities

I beg to differ. One of Thor's abilities is look Town enough for the general public to be convinced he's Town. You have a very different play style as Scum than your Town play.

[Almost50]

Just so you all know it, the next Overkill will have tweaks to many aspects. No 2 role PMs will be exactly the same regardless of role/alignment. Fake claims already provided for all non-town players. Referencing game-related interactions with the mod outside of your own Role PM and/or action results is an offense punished by a modkill, regardless of whether it's true or fake.

Also, info available about your own flavor with links to another site (imdb) for reference. HOWEVER, knowledge of any flavor is NOT necessary and will have no bearing on the game at all. (That's me saying there will be no Flavor Cops and the flavor cannot be gamed anyway).

[Almost50]

Also trying to work out something to guarantee more NKs

[Almost50]

Just .. |A Blood-Thirsty Sylvester Stallone" themed game. Characters Mr Stallone played in his long career. You all get to be Sylvester.

[Almost50]

And with how many movies he made, fake claims were easier than the real ones.

[Almost50]

I and others have referenced many game-related mod comments in many games I’ve been in, so am I missing something specific here?

I dunno what you mean. Are you talking about THIS game (Serenity) or the upcoming one (Stallone)?

[Almost50]

And with how many movies he made, fake claims were easier than the real ones.

Donald Trump would be the ultimate fake claim.

~Nancy

That would be an explicit SCUM claim to half the players though.

[Almost50]

TPFKAP personal PT

Nancy & friends hydra PT

HoB PT

Masons PT

Reasonably Rational hydra PT

Dead Thread

[Almost50]

I’m just wanting clarity on this because I’ve done it and seen it done many many times, so why would that result in a modkill?

But yes, please explain it wrt both games then, because I’m confused.

In short, you can't say "I was chatting with the mod and was able to deduce so and so" like EJ did. You can discuss your own role/flavor (true or fake) and you can discuss your own ability results (true or fake).

This is to avoid being put in a situation where I would have to lie to cover up for your own mistakes. Like, if I was asked if the Doctor version I use is the standard (1 kill heal) or the variant.. I wouldn't know how to answer that w.o. either calling EJ a liar or lying to you myself. Also, EJ said he deduced that there was one scum left from my chat with him, when -in fact- I was hinting he got shot more than any other slot (when I said it was funny the Town wants to lynch him NOW). I concede it's still MY mistake, but I am learning from my mistakes. The Mod should not intervene in the game nor should they be made to look like they are intervening.

[Almost50]

Well, if you like to ask about something else you can do it here or via PM.

[Almost50]

@Cerb: What I've noticed is you do approach the game rationally, but then you get paranoid and have over-complicated assumptions. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, you know. In other words, sometimes if it looks to be good to be true it still is and you're just lucky!

[Almost50]

Oh, and to ALL: How the hell did you guys think HoB might've killed Thor when he was found with a pierce through the heart? HoB flipped with their flavor saying they kill with a sonic device that induces blood from every orifice.

[Almost50]

Happy Scumday btw A50

Happy scumday A50.

Thank you, guys

Or have all town roles be formatted the same way to cut down on gaming the system. A sample town PM is provided in the OP as usual.

I'm going quite the opposite. "No two Role PMs are worded the exact same way, regardless of Role/Alignment."

Asking the mod clarifying questions, and then relaying those answers, should not be banned and punishable by a mod kill. If EJ didn't do the required homework before fake claiming, then that's their fault. You can either choose not to answer or answer truthfully. Don't punish the players that ask. That's just bastard.

That's exactly what I meant. If you don't do your homework and decide to fakeclaim anyway you will be punished. People are free to ask questions in the main thread to get the answer revealed to everyone, but if they choose to do it in private they need not jump to conclusions and then come share it as "mod said so".

Dibs on Oscar.

"Of course I knew. I just had no idea!"

[Almost50]

^This is a good point, but it also could lead to much confusion and debate. What if someone posted some gibberish like "My someone of would and with your style"? (I took the first word of each paragraph in 4731 followed with the last word of the first line of the same paragraph). Now what?

How about posting song lyrics? Or something like "remember what we talked about earlier via PM?"?

I mean, sometimes scum (and Masons) would agree to use some kind of code that is readable to everyone but not as easily comprehended. I think the daychat being available all time takes care of most of this, but still I don't really know if posting a song lyrics or video is in fact meant to include a code or not.

[Almost50]

1. Follow Site Rules.
2. DBAD. (Don't be a dick.)
3. Pretending to break the rules is just as bad as breaking the rules.
4. I reserve the right to add to or modify these rules.

1. I believe that's my #1 too
2. And that is supposedly covered by my #10
3. Noted. This should be adopted into my set of rules (the missing #9, perhaps??)
4. Also should be adopted in my rules set. I'll have them both copied and saved into the Word file for now, and will include them along with the other 4 or 5 we talked about in the preview thread when we are putting the final touches for the opening page.

Oh, btw .. in the previous game .. everything that went wrong was my fault. Varsoon did everything right.
In the next one everything that goes wrong is Jingle's fault. (Just kidding. He's given some good advice and has been encouraging)

[Almost50]

Sorry Tails
I’d love to try another game with you sometime

How about Overkill 2? I'll be sure to make Tails a Mason and give YOU a scum role.

[Almost50]

My problem with Strongman is it will always resolve, meaning the strongest Town player will always leave the game on N1. It also defies the protective best guess, so even if they do outguess the killer's choice they still can't do anything about it.

That said, I can guarantee you Overkill 2 will not have something as strong as a Lightning Rod + Jailkeeper combination.

[Almost50]

I was expecting groupscum to shoot Masons and Cops.

Yet they didn't.

Next time remember:

If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.