Golden Sun

[Isis]

I submitted this as a joke setup to a monthly contest to chilly reception. But it seems better than most junk my mind effuses so I wanted to present it more seriously without the joke presentation/mechanics to see if there was a fatal flaw I was missing or presentation alone was the issue.

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Mafia Compulsively Vengeful Alchemists

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Vanilla Townies

Skip odd nights.
Night 4, the mafia must turn a townie into a

Town Alchemist

instead of performing a factional nightkill.
At the start of Day Four, the moderator publicly identifies which living players are Alchemists, and those players lose their voting privilege. Instead of voting for an elimination day four, players vote on which Alchemist they'd like to ascend the lighthouse. The Alchemist who ascends the lighthouse immediately wins the game for their faction.

[Isis]

Since it's a pretty associative setup I also want to muse about 3 scum forms:

Spoiler:

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Mafia Compulsively Vengeful Alchemists

8

Vanilla Townies

Nightless, Town Alchemist is kept in updated preference list.
Ascension day triggers when there are exactly four townies.

?

[Isis]

Actually the setup in post #1 is maybe just better.

[Isis]

In a normal 3:2 eLo, if everyone agrees 1 certain townie in the town is the scummiest person is the game, they also lose, as long as the scum don't mess up and NK that person.

[Isis]

I think I mean night 4, I counted and recounted a jillion times.

Eleven players to start.
Four eliminated by daily decisions D1-4
One killed night two by factional NK
Leaving the day 5 decision as 11 minus 5, 3 alchemists and three nononalchemist townies.
If scum is hit, it's four eliminations, one venge and one night kill, 11-6, and there will be five players left, two alchemists and three nonalchemist townies.

[Isis]

I editted the python to try the setup in the OP as an 8:2 without the NK and I got 24.44%. I -think- that's tolerable. Vanilla nightless is 33.3%, and the last time it was run it was a town stomp and historically towns have done well in it. And Vanilla nightless does not have any townsided mechanics, while this has some associative information in the final phase.