The Curse of Kowhai Mall - Game Over Thread

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

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Game Over Thread

If you are reading this thread, it means you have reached game over in The Curse of Kowhai Mall. You will have either succeeded in your goal, or failed in your goal.

Present

Michigan (Morning Tweet)
Blake (Chamber)
Kane (GeorgeBailey)
Quentin (Groza529)

Paul

(Porochaz, Winner)
Benson (Taly)
Spiro (Xalxe/Lendunistus)

Judith

(Nancy Drew 39, Winner)
Victoria (Talitha)
Harry (PookyTheMagicalBear)

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Game Over Michigan

Michigan (Morning Tweet) triggered one of the traps in the mall. She pressed on a country starting with G in the Travel Agency with Paul present in the room. She has been teleported to a UFO life support system, where she will now take up residence (in due course) on the other side of the Galaxy.

The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Michigan

Player:

Morning Tweet

You are a treasure hunter who was robbed of a million dollars cash by a local gang. You have learned the head of the gang is in the mall, and uses the code name Kingpin. You arrived by helicopter, and your helicopter is currently on the roof with an armed guard.

Goals

1. Find the Gang Leader 'Kingpin', and kill him in revenge
2. Find the one million dollars they stole
3. Find out how to get to the helicopter.
4. Get the one million dollars (and yourself) to your helicopter

You may need help moving that much cash.
You may optionally destroy the gang headquarters if you find it.

As alluded to in thread, some players are exiting the mall by train once done. You are not required to buy a train ticket. You must leave by helicopter. The helicopter seats 3 people and you may choose to take others with you to safety if you wish.

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Thanks. It was better for having you in it. You were a great player, but to be alone with the SK made that a lot easier for him. Even one more person in the room and he wouldn't have been able to pull that off. I've loved having you in the game. You were energetic and fun. Id have you back any time. If you have any questions about your role, or the path(s) to victory that you could have followed, let me know.

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For the record, Michigan was based on Indiana Jones. I figured whats better than Indiana? And looked at a map, and saw Michigan is north of Indiana, and thus the treasure hunter character was born.

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Antiques was full by the time you swapped your choices the other way round

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At first I thought Id screwed up, because I found your post and was like Oh no, I sent you to the wrong store, with the SK...

I really did panic just now, when I thought I'd sent you to your death by a mistake. But yeah, Antiques had the full contingent, and you were last to choose in effect. I didn't keep notes on that sort of change when I processed, so I was like "Oh NO" just now.

Phew for me. Maybe not so much for you. SO much is happening in the game its hard to remember some things off hand.

For the record, nearly everyone got super powers after the meteor storm. Had you lived, you would have been a Pikachu with electricity.

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Who says he is the only murderer?

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lol. Yeah unfortunately it sounds like they are going to find out the hard way they have no ability to save you

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Blake Chamber was attacked by a Demon that was under control by another player, who shook Blake to activate the alien teleportation crystal he was carrying. Sadly, as this was player driven there was no way to escape it.

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Kane (GeorgeBailey) was hit by an emergency gun used by Paul with an 80% accuracy. It vaporised Kane.

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Kane

Player:

GeorgeBailey

You are a Russian Spy, visiting the mall as you have intelligence that there is an alien spacecraft here at the mall. Your job is to find that spacecraft, learn to fly it, and get it home to Russia. You also need to eliminate anyone who knows about the craft, as you dont want an international incident before your fellow Russians can learn of the UFOs secrets.

Goals

1. Find the craft
2. Kill anyone on board the craft, or you can prove has been on board the craft.
3. Learn to fly the craft and fly it home to Russia

As alluded to in thread, some players are not exiting the mall by train. You are not required to buy a train ticket and cannot leave the game by any other means other than the UFO.

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Edit: Whoops, not Benson, Blake!

The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Blake

Player:

Chamber

You are Blake, an FBI agent who is being blackmailed into regularly destroying evidence against a man known as 'Kingpin' and his thugs. If you do what the gang say, your kidnapped wife will get to eat for another week. If not, they will starve her to death. You have learned that Kingpin and his thugs meet in this mall somewhere.

Goals

1. Find Kingpin, and take revenge on him. You can do this by killing kingpin, or destroying his gang/business in someway. You can be as creative as you like.
2. Find your Wife, and free her from wherever they have her caged.
You may action your goals in any order.

Once you have done all that, buy yourself (and your wife) a train ticket, then board the train alongside the mall, and leave the game.

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Yeah, you were the most active player of the Kingpin story line. You, Taly and Chamber all had the same location in mind. Along the way two players got themselves 200,000 cash.

Every storyline has 3 participants. I would imagine it really hurt Taly and Chamber that you died, as you were the most likely to find clues from the way you were approaching the game. Taly is still alive, but not responding to PM prods unfortunately, and it's impractical to replace him at this stage. A lot of his clues are walking around in other peoples hands now.

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For the record, his wife was in one of the Crypts in the grave yard. Kingpin was taking a spa in the spa bath, but had clues in his clothing and his tattoo. There were clues to his identity with Madame Seer, video footage in the Security room,a badge for sale at Merricks that matched the tattoo, and larmouth was the login for Lyle Armouth on the computer systems. His banking details were accessible elsewhere too, and could be drained from his bank account. Taking or burning the million from his illegal poker game would have also constituted success. THe room was loaded with explosives, so a fire there would have been fun (and still could be!)

Yes, you, Chamber and Taly could have all allied together. You had the same basic goals. If you had managed to chat enough to work it out, the three of you could have robbed the bank easily, cheated the poker game, found and killed Kingpin while he bathed.

(The easiest way to rob the bank was to have one person arrested by the guard, and the other two make merry while the arrested person was interrogated. The guard wouldn't have been able to respond. That or cutting the power. That or coming in from the tunnels in the carpark. That or blowing the safe door with a grenade. Or even via computer. Armouths Password was 'DoubleCross', but the person who found that changed his password on me)

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Paul has completed his win condition, and has departed earth with 4 victims and a bonus 2 kills.

In the process Quentin was killed after his gun was left uncharged at the point necessary to pull off the win.

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Taly

has withdrawn from the game. At this late stage, with his fellow players on the same goal already dead, we have made the call not to replace him.

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Nah, I can't let players who played replace. You have knowledge that would be unfair.

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Quentin

Player:

Groza529

You were in the mall, minding your own business when you suddenly found yourself inside a glass container with a lifesupport system being pushed into your back and fact. By chance you were carrying a weight, from which you were doing some exercise. You used the weight, smashed your way out and found yourself on board a UFO parked in the carpark. Inside the UFO was a laser gun, of unknown power. You grabbed it and hit a few buttons on the control panel trying to get the door open. Instead of opening, you teleported to the Santa's Grotto in the mall.

And you are furious! Who knows what health affects teleporting twice in rapid succession will have on your stunningly fit healthy body.

Goals

1. Find the Alien who captured you.
2. Kill the Alien who captured you.
3. Find the UFO
4. Destroy the UFO by any means necessary.

Once done, buy yourself a train ticket, board the train and exit the mall.

Be aware: This game contains many NPC characters. The alien you hunt may be a player in the game, an NPC in the game, and may or may not be disguised. You'll want evidence of who the alien is before reacting too quickly. Killing innocents may have unintended consequences.

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Paul

Player:

Porochaz

You are an alien, disguised as Paul the Human, whose spacecraft was nicely parked in the carpark. Mall security moved it to another location without your permission. As annoying as that is, you are still in need of acquiring nice human specimens to take back home for 'research'.

Goals

1. Find where your UFO is
2. Find a source of power for your UFO (You were a bit low on fuel when you arrived on Earth)
3. Capture 4 living humans

To help you capture 4 living humans, you have rigged some teleportation crystals up around the mall. They will activate if you can get anyone to do any of the following:
1. Get someone to press a country starting with G on the Interactive globe in the TRAVEL AGENCY.
2. Get someone to sit in the confessional in the CHAPEL, with you in the priest seat.
3. Get someone to drink from the BROWN TRIANGULAR bottle on Shelf 5 of the APOTHECARY.
4. Get someone to climb into the tunnel in the LAST DRYER in the LAUNDROMAT. You must shut them in and turn it on for it to work
If you find more teleportation crystals, you may be able to rig your own traps.
If you witness someone teleporting via other means, you may be be able to interfere with that process.
Each crystal can only be used once.

If you are unable to capture people by the traps, you can lure them to your UFO and knock them out. Or knock them out first. Heck, you may even be able to get them to climb into the Life Support Systems on board the ufo.

Once you have 4 living humans on board, fly your craft home. This will severely damage the mall in the process, but, hey, you dont care.

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George was unlucky, you shot the first person to board the UFO, and he was first.

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Spiro would have been fun, he would have gone poltergeist on you.

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The UFO would have been thrown into the helicopter, and wrecked. I dont know. I wasnt expecting you to land the thing on the Poltergeist that Primate unleashed

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I guess last post for me for now, but can I say ambic/meme. You did a great job with this and being so responsive and detailed with the rooms, the items, the characters and how they interact. I left the laundry knowing there was still stuff left to discover and slightly disappointed I didn't find everything (although I assume I'd have to move heavy machinery to do so). Also chamber removing the crystal I was going to use to kill spiro... although I'm guessing he wouldn't have counted towards my 4. I enjoyed playing me, thanks for that amb! Hopefully next time I don't play a kidnapper. There is a reason I come back for this game and it doesn't disappoint. I hope to be on the contact list for the next one. Thanks guys!

Thanks! Yeah the players who interact get a lot out of the game, and thats what I love to see. There are more shenanigans to come, but we are two phases away from finishing I think.

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The ghost of Spiro has arrived in the dead thread

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I did my best to help you get started. A few allies would have been good, and I ever run one again I might consider having people paired up from the start

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Judith

Player:

Nancy Drew 39

You are Judith, a descendent of Van Helsing himself, and a veritable famed Ghost Hunter. You also dabble in killing any creatures of otherworldly origin. You have heard there are at least 3 ghosts haunting this mall. Find them, and destroy them.

Goals

1. Find and destroy at least 3 ghosts
2. If along the way, you find evidence of Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Aliens, Mummies, or any other inhuman creatures, you need to eliminate them as well. (These may or may not exist)

Once you have captured at least 3 ghosts, buy yourself a train ticket, board the train running alongside the mall, and leave the game. You will not be able to leave the game if along the way, you have uncovered evidence of other types of inhuman creatures. You will need to eliminate these creatures too. You will receive notification, when and IF this occurs.

NB: I removed the condition of the vampires, as to be honest, they are about to be destroyed anyway

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Spiro

Player:

Xalxe

lendunistus

You are a police officer responding to a callout about a dead body in the mall. Apparently a body was found in the mall, stashed in a Tesla display model. From what you understand, the body has been moved to a safe location.

Goals

1. Find the body in the mall
2. Find out who killed the person, or the circumstances of the death (eg was it an accident, deliberate, natural causes, etc)
3. Report your findings back to Police HQ to find out what they want you to do next.

Once done, unlike other players in the game, you do NOT need buy yourself a train ticket, board the train and exit the mall. You may drive away in your police car. You may take other players with you if you so desire, but anyone you put in the back will probably be in handcuffs

Spiros police car was destroyed. Spiros body was buried in the graveyard, where it wont be found. The evidence was fully destroyed (Videos, Fingerprint, BLood Samples, you name it - it was systematically destroyed. It left Spiro with no viable win path, but I had to leave him alive for Judith to suck up with the vacuum and the help of the 3 cats in the mall.

Judith never found the final ghost (Pat Miyagi of the antique store is the Asian Dorian grey. Had his painting been destroyed, he would have become a ghost)

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Victoria

Player:

Talitha

You are a mad scientist who was 99% of the way complete in making a Frankenstein when some vampires stole the body! Of all the things! You had no idea vampires were even real! Your tracking device suggests the body is somewhere in or around Kowhai mall.

Goals

1. Find your Frankenstein
2. Complete your Frankenstein
3. The vampires trashed your lair, so you will trash theirs in retribution
4. Once you have taken revenge on the vampires, buy yourself (and your Frankenstein) a train ticket and go home to tidy up.

For extra credit, kill a vampire.

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Talitha was sadly tranquilised on the verge of victory, and left to die

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Primates win condition included elimination of any one who found spiros body in the freezer

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Im so sorry. Even i had no idea he was going to tranquilise you then

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Victoria had the power to learn other peoples mana abilities if she saw them using them

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sorry, I’m just confused
and slightly mad

It’s understandable. Primates goal was to destroy the evidence related to your death. Your goal was to find it, and on finding it you would have discovered you were a gohst. Once you found out you were a ghost, you would have known to avoid nancy. The three of you were a single story line. Primate unfortunately was very proficient in actions but he also made allies who were helping him out.

Also, unrelated,there was a doorway to the vampires in the laundromat too, that you didn’t find. All the clues about not causing fires, putting pink underwear in the whites, turning out the lights,causing floods, or even bleaching the vampires load of red trigger scenes that help find that door.

Once people started coming out the airvent, you could have pushed a desk under vent and climbed into it too. Youd have open up a number of rooms to go exploring

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Harry and Pooky are fighting. Pooky has drunk his potion but the full moon is not visible from the eatery. They did 4 points of damage each.

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Pooky has been stabbed to death, before managing to get outside.

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Role:

Harry

Player:

PookyTheMagicalBear

You are Harry, the (former) werewolf. The vampires of the mall stole your ability to turn into a werewolf, and bottled it as a potion. And it angers you immensely. You miss the days of wanton damage, and chaos that they took from you.

Goals

1. Find out how to get your werewolf powers back
2. Become a werewolf again
3. Make sure the vampires learn NEVER to steal from a werewolf again by destroying their lair and or anything they value.

Once you are satisfied they will never touch you again, buy yourself a train ticket and leave the mall. You cannot leave the mall until you have become a werewolf again and the mods are happy that the Vampires will never think of coming at you again.

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Only Matthew and Charlie remain. Matthew isn't posting ATM either.

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Primate has completed his goal.

Matthew is MIA, and has been declared as lost.

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Full Map of The main rooms: https://media.discordapp.net/attachment ... nknown.png

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1. Each player had 3 ish lines they could get depending on where they were at
2. It was a place a body could be stored/hidden or a player could lock themselves for safety
3. Main Control and Elevator. Flicking the MC ones changed the lights and the vault in the bank
4. See above
5. You could dynamite in, come in from underground (if you knew how), find out from the tellers when the vault was open, have the tellers open the vault at the same time the guard was interviewing people. SPiro as a ghost could just walk in.
6. They were an alternate solution for Kane should someone destroy the book in the bookstore
7. The cats were part of Judiths role. They sat near ghosts or their bodies.
8. The orb gave you mana if you touched it, and also was a power source for the UFO if stolen
9. Jack Solitaire was the priest in the church, he was possessed by a demon. He died, and his ghost remained possessed. Judith inadvertently released the demon when she captured the ghost
10. Marcus fell off the roof in an accident
11. Sarah was a vampire and she was communicating with the invisible vampire who did the donkey work for the VCS such as attacking the Tesla while the eatery was vacated
12. THe pentagram was for destroying or controlling ghosts and the Demon that was released. If Pat Miyagi was ever turned into a ghost (He was Asian Dorian Grey) then you may have needed it for him too, especially if he went poltergeist in the main eatery area
13. Kingpin was in the Tub in the spa shop. His real name was Lyle Armouth. He kept quiet, but his clothes and his lair had evidence mainly for Michigan. Her death severely impacted that storyline, and once Chamber was gone too, the poker game faded away to nothing.
14. There was going to be another way into the Lair from the carpark tunnels. I removed it.
15. He was an invisible vampire
16. The servers were where a person wanting access to Kingpin's data could hack into it. Faded mostly into irrelevance with the death of both Morning Tweet and Chamber
17. No You would never have succeeded, and they would have instantly died if disconnected from the life support systems.

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A lot of things required people to work together. Eg B&E mens, you could distract them together or get them both in the staff room and lock them in. There was a padlock. OR you could get them both distracted at shelves, and lock yourself in the staff room. One of the two attendants had a gun you could steal if you were creative.

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Everyone had multiple paths to success. Eg the UFO could be powered by the generator (done for Paul by some helpful people), THe glowing Mana Orb, or the power source in the Altar. At a pinch, Id have probably allowed Paul to steal the defibrillator too.

WHich reminds me, Talitha didnt actually need power to start up the Frank, she decided she needed it, and I just let her run with it

As much as possible I wanted you all to drive the story. ANYTHING that was logical and not game breaking, I tried to allow.

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1. See the threads, now public.
2. She told him where to go, and thats where he went
3. You got the lot (Blood, body, Video Footage, Witnesses)
4. Very (He would have come back at you with a +15 beast that was intended for the Vampires rather than players)

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Lets just say pooky had a 3/15 chance of killing anyone outright with a single dice roll

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Pooky did not have Mana, and he didnt gain any abilities from the meteor storm, so your nulling had no effect. He was simply away from the full moon when he drunk up

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I think Porochaz was amazed to discover a Kiwi who has never been to the UK lampooned Black Pool in the game.

Also the Princess Bride for Primate as it turned out