Micro 995: Secret Jesters

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Micro # 995
Playerlist:
Prods Indicated with *
Bold = Confirmed

Grace Hargreeves
Lila Pitts

Hazel Rofa

Cha Cha

A J Carmichael

The Handler

The Swedes

Sissy Cooper

Raymond Chestnut

Spoiler: The Living

Grace Hargreeves
Hazel Rofa
Cha Cha
The Handler
The Swedes
Sissy Cooper

Spoiler: The Dead

A J Carmichael, VT, is no longer swimming with the fishes literally. They are swimming with the fishes metaphorically though.
Lila Pitts, Jester, chewed through the restraints D2 and won the game!
Raymond Chestnut, Jester, was ejected from the game D3 and won the game!

Spoiler: We Dare Not Speak Their Names (The Modkilled)

None. Ever. Or else.

Spoiler: Important Links

Rules - Maf Topic - Mod Topic - Spectator Thread

Current Vote Count (As of Post 526)

Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (6): Grace Hargreeves, Cha Cha, The Handler, The Swedes, Sissy Cooper, Hazel Rofa,

With 6 alive, it takes 4 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

Important Notes

Sissy Cooper is confirmed to be aligned with the town.

Spoiler: ModCode for TRYHARD Mode

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Setup

3 VT
1 IC

VS.

2 Mafia Goon

VS.

1 Jester

VS.

1 Jester

VS.

1 Jester

Nightless setup. The game ends and all players who have not won lose when: ALL Jesters have won the game, Town has won the game, or the Mafia has won the game.

Sample Role PM's:

Welcome to Secret Jesters!

You are a VT, aligned with

The Town!

Win Condition: You will win the game should you manage to eliminate both Mafia players.

Powers: You have your Vote, which you may use to find your enemies during the day.

Welcome to Secret Jesters!

You are an Innocent Child, aligned with

The Town!

Win Condition: You will win the game should you manage to eliminate both Mafia players.

Powers: You have your Vote, which you may use to find your enemies during the day. You will be confirmed to be aligned with the town on D1.

Welcome to Secret Jesters!

You are a Mafia Goon, aligned with

The Mafia!

Win Condition: You will win the game should you manage to achieve parity with the TOWN ALIGNED players.

Powers: You have your Vote, which you may use to find your enemies during the day. You may communicate with your partner here.

Welcome to Secret Jesters!

You are a Jester, aligned with

Yourself, and Anarchy.

Win Condition: You will win the game should you manage to be eliminated before the game ends.

Powers: You may vote, and act obnoxious, and obfuscate your alignment.

The Rules: Always in Effect

1. Don't be a dick.
2. This is a game for fun. Act like it.
3. Pretending to break a rule IS breaking a rule.
4. Don't PROVABLY quote priveleged information.
5. Try not to allow outside influences to affect the game.
6. Follow Site Rules.
7. If you think it should be against the rules, assume it is.
8. I will change these at any time for the integrity of the game or if I think it will increase the enjoyment of the players.

The Rules: This Game

1. Deadlines are meaningless for this game. If the game stalls out without significant momentum in the direction of an elimination, the mafia may be given the option to choose an elimination. This criteria is entirely subjective, and a deadline for it's usage of at least 72 hours will be given.

2. The game will end if all three Jesters die.

3. The game will end if either the Mafia or Town complete their win condition.

4. The mod and backup mod may shitpost in order to increase their enjoyment of this game. This WILL not be done in an attempt to influence the game. All flavor is arbitrary, random, and entirely meaningless.

5. Activity is required. Please post once every 48 hours. If you cannot do so for whatever reason please declare V/LA. An excessive number of prods, an excessively long V/LA, or a failure to respond to a prod in 24 hours will result in a force replacement.

6. Please keep your arms and legs inside of the secret alt at all times. Claiming your main account or alt slipping will result in Force replacement. Claiming your main account on purpose may result in being blacklisted from further Secret Alt games I run, which will likely be the majority of games I run this year.

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Important!

Please keep your arms and legs inside the Alt at all times. Loss of limbs due to waving them about outside of the Alt are not the liability of Jingle. Any posting from an account not specifically allowed to post in this thread will be met with at least a force replace.

Please keep your Alt use specific to this game. Do not PM other players, post in other games or sections of the site, communicate in sitechat, or report posts using this account. If you do so by accident, please let me know as soon as you can, and I will determine what if any appropriate actions need to be taken.

You may change your signatures, pronouns, avatars, and any other preference based choices during this game. I highly encourage you to use a board theme you don't normally use to prevent slippage. They will be blanked at the conclusion of this game. Do not do so to attempt to signal your identity to other players. (I am unlikely to determine if this is the case, but it's just kind of a dick move, so don't do it.)

Reporting posts, if necessary, should be done from your main account. This is not an attempt to prevent you from reporting posts, but rather because the mod team will need to be able to reach out to you, not me, to let you know anything relevant to your report and I would prefer to cut down on unnecessarily playing the messenger. Similarly, subscribing to threads will simply fill up the dummy inbox I set up for these alts.

You are not allowed to change the email or password of this account without notifying me and having a damn good reason to do so. I don't expect this to come up.

At the end of the game, I will not be revealing identities by default. I will redact the post in the mod thread with the identities and passwords before releasing it and will allow post game discussion with these accounts. You, of course, are free to reveal your identity as a player after the conclusion of the game. In addition to the list mods and myself, Sirius will have knowledge of the players in this game as he offered to be my "In case Jingle falls off the planet due to a sudden lack of gravity" safety net.

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Attention, Players!

Sissy Cooper is aligned with the

Town Faction.

That will be all.

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Role PMs are out!

With 9 alive, it takes 5 to eliminate.

DAY 1 IS GO!

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do you think the mod is trolling and Sissy is actually scum

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Oh, incidentally, I had meant to rewatch the series to find quotes for all of these accounts, but lost track of time. That means none of you have prepared signatures.

If any of you wants to find a signature that is a quote from your character, I will likely not change it after the conclusion of the game. Unless it sucks.

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There are very few outright 'bad guy' characters in UA. AJ, for example, is the goldfish leader of a shady organization, but I wouldn't say he's necessarily evil, Raymond is a civil rights activist from the 60's, and Sissy Cooper is a potentially abused housewife in Dallas Texas (also in the 60s). This is definitely a supporting cast kind of playerlist from the accounts used though. I used the main characters for the last one.

There are definitely some psyopathic hitmen/women in this list though.

And no, I'm intentionally staying away from spoilers.

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Vote Count 1.1

Raymond Chestnut (1): Hazel Rofa,
A J Carmichael (1): Raymond Chestnut
Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Lila Pitts (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (7): Grace Hargreeves, Lila Pitts, Cha Cha, A J Carmichael, The Handler, The Swedes, Sissy Cooper,

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 1.2

The Swedes (2): Sissy Cooper, Grace Hargreeves,
A J Carmichael (1): Raymond Chestnut,
Sissy Cooper (1): A J Carmichael,
Raymond Chestnut (1): Cha Cha,
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Lila Pitts (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):


Not Voting (4): Lila Pitts, The Handler, Hazel Rofa, The Swedes,

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 1.3

The Swedes (3): Sissy Cooper, Grace Hargreeves, Cha Cha,
A J Carmichael (2): Raymond Chestnut, Lila Pitts,
Lila Pitts (1): A J Carmichael,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Raymond Chestnut (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):


Not Voting (3): The Handler, Hazel Rofa, The Swedes,

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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why is my vote not being counted?

Because I'm dumb and you should know better than to expect competence from me.

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The Handler has not confirmed and is being replaced.

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Vote Count 1.Final

A J Carmichael (5): Raymond Chestnut, Lila Pitts, Sissy Cooper, The Handler, Cha Cha,
The Swedes (1): Grace Hargreeves,
Lila Pitts (1): A J Carmichael,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Raymond Chestnut (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):


Not Voting (2): Hazel Rofa, The Swedes,

What's this? A HAMMER!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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We have recieved an urgent message from the agency. It appears that A J Carmichael was a loyal member of our group and had received the following Role PM:

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Subject: Secret Jesters Role PM
Date: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:43 pm
From: Jingle
To:

Welcome to Secret Jesters!

You are a VT, aligned with

The Town!

Win Condition: You will win the game should you manage to eliminate both Mafia players.

Powers: You have your Vote, which you may use to find your enemies during the day.

Oh. Well now, that's a little unfortunate.

Still, we here at the agency have every confidence that you can figure this out among yourselves.

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Vote Count 2.1

Raymond Chestnut (0):
Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Lila Pitts (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (8): Grace Hargreeves, Lila Pitts, Cha Cha, The Handler, The Swedes, Sissy Cooper, Raymond Chestnut, Hazel Rofa,

With 8 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 2.2

Raymond Chestnut (2): Grace Hargreeves, The Handler,
Sissy Cooper (1): The Swedes,
Grace Hargreeves (1): Hazel Rofa,
Lila Pitts (1): Raymond Chestnut,
Cha Cha (1): Lila Pitts,
Hazel Rofa (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (2): Cha Cha, Sissy Cooper,

With 8 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 2.3

Raymond Chestnut (2): Grace Hargreeves, Lila Pitts,
Grace Hargreeves (2): Hazel Rofa, Raymond Chestnut,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Lila Pitts (0):
Cha Cha (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (4): Cha Cha, Sissy Cooper, The Swedes, The Handler,

With 8 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Prodding Sissy Cooper.

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Vote Count 2.4

Grace Hargreeves (2): Hazel Rofa, Raymond Chestnut,
Raymond Chestnut (1): Grace Hargreeves,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Lila Pitts (0):
Cha Cha (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (5): Cha Cha, Sissy Cooper, The Swedes, The Handler, Lila Pitts,

With 8 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

I'll be back in a few hours to perform a prod/replacement check.

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Sissy Cooper is being replaced.

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Sissy Cooper has been replaced.

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BE THE JESTER YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD!

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Vote Count 2.Final

Lila Pitts (5): Lila Pitts, Raymond Chestnut, The Handler, Hazel Rofa, Sissy Cooper,
Raymond Chestnut (2): Grace Hargreeves, The Swedes,
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Sissy Cooper (0):
Cha Cha (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (1): Cha Cha,

With 8 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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A WIN CONDITION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED!

Lila Pitts has been thrown out of the madhouse for having WAY TOO MUCH FUN.

THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, AND WE DEMAND THAT YOU ALL TAKE IT WITH EXACTLY AS MUCH GRAVITAS AS IT DESERVES.



Ahem. That should work, they'll never suspect she escaped now.

Lila Pitts was a

Spoiler:

Jester

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Vote Count 3.1

Raymond Chestnut (0):
Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (7): Grace Hargreeves, Cha Cha, The Handler, The Swedes, Sissy Cooper, Raymond Chestnut, Hazel Rofa,

With 7 alive, it takes 4 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 3.2

The Handler (0): Raymond Chestnut, Hazel Rofa,
Raymond Chestnut (0): The Handler, Grace Hargreeves,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (7): Cha Cha, Sissy Cooper, The Swedes,

With 7 alive, it takes 4 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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Vote Count 3.Final

Raymond Chestnut (4): The Handler, Grace Hargreeves, The Swedes, Hazel Rofa,
The Handler (1): Raymond Chestnut,
Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (7): Cha Cha, Sissy Cooper,

With 7 alive, it takes 4 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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A WIN CONDITION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED!

Raymond Chestnut has been released because a cult leader told me to.



Raymond Chestnut was a

Spoiler:

Jester

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Vote Count 4.1

Sissy Cooper (0):
Grace Hargreeves (0):
Hazel Rofa (0):
Cha Cha (0):
The Handler (0):
The Swedes (0):


Not Voting (6): Grace Hargreeves, Cha Cha, The Handler, The Swedes, Sissy Cooper, Hazel Rofa,

With 6 alive, it takes 4 votes to eliminate!

Deadline? There is no Deadline!

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A win condition has been achieved!

The Swedes, Jester, have decided to retire and become Ice Cream Salesmen.



At this point, we're giving up on you. We're cutting our losses and liquidating all remaining assets.



Sissy Cooper, IC, has lost the Game.
The Handler, VT, has lost the Game.
Hazel Rofa, VT, has lost the Game.
A J Carmichael, VT, has lost the Game.
Cha Cha, Mafia Goon, has lost the game.
Grace Hargreeves, Mafia Goon, has lost the game.

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You may use the secret alts to engage in the post game discussion for at least one week. You may still not use them elsewhere on the site. I will let you know when I begin blanking the accounts.

If anyone would like the scum PT edited before release, feel free to speak now.

I'll be editing the mod thread to obscure identities later today and then releasing.

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I will never out who is Raymond so a random player can come here and claim to be Raymond


everyone can be Raymond on this glorious day

Am I Raymond? The world may never know.

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I hope

everyone

had fun.

And yes, I am aware that this game is heavily biased to a Jester sweep. That is intentional. Town and scum have roughly equally terrible chances at winning the game and the design is to be a game that is as full of Jesters as possible while still being playable, you know, for the memes.

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Tactically, I think town had a couple big misplays. Not going for a scum fade before the Lila one was probably the wrong choice, because once Lila had claimed they functionally had to townside.

Additionally, scum had a guaranteed out on the final day if they'd seen it and demonstrating awareness of it would have resulted in me calling the game in their favor.

If scum had realized that the Swedes was confirmed Jester and had mutually outed their team, they could have made town voting Swedes playing against wincon and Swedes voting anyone but themselves playing against wincon. This would have resulted in a gamestate without forward momentum where the clause of mafia controlling the elimination would have come into play, and they could have eliminated Sissy for the win.

We'll never know if they saw the out for sure though, since Swedes got eliminated before they could join the thread.

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I would have voted you as scum for precisely that reason, Lila. But no, what should have happened is that after you claimed Sissy should have led the campaign to vote out whichever jester claim they thought was the least likely to be a jester. And I think we all knew you were never scum there.

Sissy chose to play the honorable way to get the other Jesters to continue helping, but at that point you had no choice but to help and hope you hit scum before you hit two more Jesters.

It was a valid choice, but from my perspective I think keeping you around to make sure they didn't lose to a jester sweep was probably the more tactically sound choice.


Also, if anyone else wants to run this setup, in hindsight the plurality deadline deadlock breaker was probably more elegant.

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Thanks for the necro, I'd totally forgotten to wrap this up.