Micro 39 - WUPBBYORGRMM!!! - D2

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AurorusVox brings you

Wildly Unbalanced Potentially Bastard Build-Your-Own Randomly Generated Role Madness Mafia!!!

An 8p Micro Semi-Open co-designed with Timeater

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Rules

(stolen and modified in the night from VasudeVa)

Please read over the rules carefully. I've

bolded

things that may be specific to this game for skimmers' convenience.

On Gameplay

• 1. I have the final say in any form of dispute.
  2. Although I am a handsome moderator, I am not infallible. Feel free to point out any mistake by PMing me or by a bolded message in thread.
  3. The moderator likes
  Pansy Purple (#8800BF)
  for important things. Don't use that colour. This is a modkillable offense.
  4. All game-related communication between the mod and players STAY between the mod and the players. Breaking this rule results in copious modkills.
  5. All game-related communication between players STAY in the thread
  unless explicitly stated otherwise
  . Talking about the game outside of the thread without the mod's approval is a modkillable offense.
  6. Falsifying the mod is a modkillable offense. I am the judge of whether I have been falsified or not.
  7. Small or invisible text as a secret communication is disallowed.
  Cryptography is also disallowed.
  
  8. Loopholes are bad and dick-ish. Modkills may ensue.
  9. Modkills revert the player's role into a Neutral Survivor. The player then dies a painful death, losing the game for themselves and embarrassing their family.

On Voting, Activity and Deadlines

• 0. This game is Cease-Fire
  Night Start
  - there will be no deaths N0.
  1. Please aim to post at least once a day. (The more the merrier!)
  2. V/LAs are to be announced in thread and bolded.
  3. Players who don't post in
  48 hours
  will be prodded. Players have 24 hours to respond to a prod or they will be force replaced. Players may request prods on a specific player via a bolded message in thread.
  4. A 'three strikes and you're out' rule on prods and replacement is enforced. That is, three prods and you're force replaced.
  5. This game has a
  two week deadline
  on D1, and
  one week deadlines
  thereafter. Keep in mind that your mod is a very busy (and very handsome) man, so I may be a little flexible on this to allow myself time to sleep. There will be deadline countdowns to help enforce timely conduct.
  6. Votes/Unvotes may be done either by bolding your Votes or using Vote tags. If you don't use tags, colons (:) make my life a lot easier. Usernames may be shortened but it has to be easily discernible. Example: VOTE: AV (although I don't know WHY you'd ever want to vote AV)
  7. Unvotes are nice but not required.
  8. Lynches need a majority (half the number of living players +1) to go through
  unless explicitly stated otherwise
  .
  9. A No lynch needs 50% of the votes.
  10. A No Lynch will happen at deadline without a full lynch majority.
  11. Once you're dead, please don't post
  unless explicitly allowed by the mod
  .
  I will allow one Bah! style post
  , so long as it contains no game related information.
  12. The Lynched may speak during Twilight (ie. before the mod posts the death scene).
  13. Play to win!

Clarity Rules

This is a subset of rules for theme games that moderators can add on to their normal rules. It was designed to help minimize swing in theme games and reduce some of the vagaries of moderator preference/implementation. The idea is to give players a baseline set of information so they can focus on the mechanics of the theme without having to worry about extraneous factors that can over-complicate games.

• 1. This is an 8p Micro Semi-Open.
  2. There are no third parties, cults or jesters.
  3. The setup is 6:2.
  4. This is a
  full reveal
  game. Players will flip with their full role and alignment.
  4a.
  For example
  -
  Timeater - Trolled Ascetic Non-Consecutive Doctor
  
  5. Mafia do
  not
  have daytalk.

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Below is a sample VT role PM. This role (obviously) does not exist in the game.

Welcome to Wildly Unbalanced Potentially Bastard Build-Your-Own Randomly Generated Role Madness Mafia!!!,

Timeater

!

You are a

Boring Plain Unoriginal Vanilla Townie.

Abilities

Nothing

- Pfft. You have no abilities.

Win Condition

You are aligned with the town. You win when all the threats to the town have been eliminated and at least one town aligned player remains alive.

Game thread is here.
Please confirm your role and alignment to me via PM, and submit any N0 actions that you have available.

Good Luck and have fun!

Below is a sample Mafia Goon role PM. This role does not exist in the game.

Welcome to Welcome to Wildly Unbalanced Potentially Bastard Build-Your-Own Randomly Generated Role Madness Mafia!!!,

Timeaster

!

You are a

Boring Ability-less Mafia Goon

.

Role Abilities

Zero

(passive) - You passively have no abilities.

Team Abilities

Whilst you live, you can talk with your scumbuddy

XXXXXX

during night phases in this QT.

You also have access to a factional night kill. The night kill can be submitted by any living mafia aligned player in addition to any other actions that they can take that night. Kills can be submitted by PM'ing the mod, or by

Bolding

it in the QT, but if no kill is submitted, no action will be taken.

Game thread is here.
Please confirm your role and alignment to me via PM, and submit any N0 actions that you have available.

Good luck and have fun!

Final Notes

A massive thank you to my reviewer and co-designer

Timeater

, who helped me to come up with a bunch of role components, got rid of some of the more broken and boring ones, and overall helped to make the setup as wild as it currently is. He also did the amazing table and descriptions! What a guy!

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How it works

Players are randomly assigned to a column.
All players must submit

two

preferences for components from within that column.
Players will gain their first preference guaranteed.
In the event of two players choosing the same component, a coin will be flipped to determine who gets their first choice, and who gets their second.
All other components of the role are randomly assigned amongst players, with one component taken from each column.
There will be no duplicates.

Spoiler: Role Components

|

Column 1

-------|

Column 2

---------|

Column 3

-----------|

Column 4

|Negative------|Positive--------|Limits------------|Role

|Trolled-------|Bulletproof-----|Unlimited---------|Cop/Rolecop
|Slow----------|Vengeful--------|Psychic-----------|Doctor
|Brazen--------|Ascetic---------|Day---------------|Tracker
|Miller--------|Bending---------|Non Consecutive---|Watcher
|Loving--------|Ninja-----------|Double-Shot-------|Vigilante
|Hated---------|Loved-----------|Anxious-----------|Redirector
|Magnetic------|Copying---------|Gladiatorial------|Roleblock
|Macho---------|Neighborizing---|Bloodthirsty------|Jailkeeper

What does it all mean?!

Negative:

Spoiler:

Trolled:

When you target someone, you will "copy" their negative effect. This effect is cumulative.

Slow:

Your actions will happen the following day or night. For instance, if you Vig someone N1 the vig will go through N2.

Brazen:

When you target someone, your action and what you actioned with will be known to a random member of the opposite faction at the end of the night.

Miller:

You will always appear "guilty" to investigative reports.

Loving:

If your target is lynched the following day, you will die as well.

Hated:

You take one less vote than normal to lynch. For example, with 5 to lynch, you only require 4 votes to lynch.

Magnetic:

After you target someone, you must subsquently target them for the rest of the game whenever you wish to action as long as they are alive. If they die, the process starts over.

Macho:

You cannot be protected from kills in any way.

Positive:

Spoiler:

Bulletproof:

The first kill on you will not work.

Vengeful:

When you are lynched, you can choose to kill someone on your wagon.

Ascetic:

All night actions directed at you are reflexively roleblocked and have no effect except kills.

Bending:

You may redirect any actions used on you during the day to a target of your choosing.

Ninja:

Does not count as visiting for any actions.

Loved:

Takes 1 more vote to lynch than the rest of the players.

Copying:

When you target someone, you will "copy" their positive effect. This effect is cumulative.

Neighborizing:

Gain a QT with your target each night. For every target there will be a fresh QT.

Utility:

Spoiler:

Unlimited:

Normal night use, you have no role restrictions.

Psychic:

When you action, submit a guess as to what your target's role is. If you guess correctly, you gain a second shot of your action to be used at your discretion.

Day:

You may only use your power during the day.

Non Consecutive:

You may not use your power two nights in a row.

Double-Shot:

You have two shots of your power which you may use either at the same time or spread across different nights.

Anxious:

You can only action during the day before the halfway point of the deadline. For example, if the deadline is 7 days, you can only action in the first 3 1/2 days of the phase.

Gladiatorial:

You can only use your action during the night on people who voted for you during the day.

Bloodthirsty:

If there is ever a no-lynch, you cannot action on the following night. However you can action normally like 'Unlimited' if this is not the case.

Roles:

Spoiler:

Cop/Rolecop:

Cop for town, Rolecop for scum. Cops will receive either "Guilty or Innocent". Rolecops will receive their targets Role (e.g Doctor, Roleblocker, etc).

Day Version - Cop/Rolecop:

No difference.

Doctor:

Protect your target from kills. No self doctoring.

Day Version - Governor:

After the majority has been hit during twilight if you so wish you can reverse the lynch and prevent the lynchee from being lynched.

Tracker:

Track your target during the night to find out who he visited.

Day Version - Gunsmith:

Find out whether your target owns a gun. Includes mafia, vigilantes and cops.

Watcher:

Watch your target during the night to find out who visits him or her. No self watching.

Day Version - Blacksmith:

Find out whether your target is a protective role. Includes doctors and jailkeepers.

Vigilante:

Kill somebody during the night.

Day Version - Vigilante:

No difference.

Redirector:

Your targets actions will be redirected into a secondary target of your choosing.

Day Version - Vote Thief:

Target someone, they lose their vote for today and it becomes yours.

Roleblocker:

Your target will not perform any actions. You stop their role from working for a night.

Day Version - Vote Blocker:

Target someone, their vote is nullified for the rest of the day, meaning they cannot vote/its useless.

Jailkeeper:

Your target is both Doctored and Roleblocked, meaning they cannot be killed and they will not perform any actions.

Day Version - Warden:

Your target is Vote Blocked and cannot be lynched for that day.

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Players

Alive

saulres
MagnaofIllusion
drmyshotgun
Salamence20

Dead

Rubick - Trolled Ascetic Psychic Redirector - Town Aligned - Lynched D1

IceGuy - Magnetic Vengeful Unlimited Doctor - Mafia Aligned - Lynched D2

Klick - Macho Bulletproof Double-shot Cop - Town Aligned - Venge-killed D2

Guy_Named_Riggs - Brazen Copying Bloodthirst Roleblocker - Town Aligned - Killed N2

Replacements

PM me to get on this list!

Modkilled

None - and let's keep it that way!

[AurorusVox]

Randomly generating roles...
Please stand by...

The floodgates are open...

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Day 1 | First Vote Count

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(0)

Not Voting (8) - saulres, IceGuy, Guy_Named_Riggs, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun, Salamence20, Klick, Rubick

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

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Day 1 | Vote Count 2

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(1) - Salamence20 [L-4]

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(3) - Rubick, Guy_Named_Riggs, Klick [L-3]

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(0)

Not Voting (4) - saulres, IceGuy, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

[AurorusVox]

@Mod

: I'm going to be V/LA starting in roughly a couple of hours until late Wednesday or early Thursday US time.

Acknowledged.

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Day 1 | Vote Count 3

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(3) - Rubick, Guy_Named_Riggs, Klick [L-3]

Klick

(2) - Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion [L-3]

Rubick

(0)

Not Voting (3) - saulres, IceGuy, drmyshotgun

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

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Day 1 | Vote Count 4

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(1) - IceGuy [L-4]

drmyshotgun

(1) - Rubick [L-3]

Salamence20

(2) - Guy_Named_Riggs, Klick [L-4]

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(3) - drmyshotgun, Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion [L-2]

Not Voting (1) - saulres

Activity

• Saulres is V/LA until Thursday
  
• Klick is V/LA until Saturday

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

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Edited VC to reflect above derpish mod error

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Day 1 | Vote Count 5

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(1) - IceGuy [L-4]

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(3) - Guy_Named_Riggs, Klick, Rubick [L-3]

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(3) - drmyshotgun, Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion [L-2]

Not Voting (1) - saulres

Activity

• Saulres is V/LA until Thursday
  
• Klick is V/LA until Saturday

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

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Day 1 | Vote Count 6

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(1) - Rubick [L-4]

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(1) - IceGuy [L-4]

drmyshotgun

(1) - Klick [L-3]

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(4) - Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion, saulres, drmyshotgun

[L-1]

Not Voting (1) - Guy_Named_Riggs

Rubick is at L-1!

Activity

• Klick is V/LA until Saturday
  
• MoI is LA for the weekend

With 8 alive, it is 5 to lynch

Deadline is

9:00pm GMT, 9th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-09 20:00:00).

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Day 1 | Final Vote Count

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(1) - Rubick [L-4]

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(1) - IceGuy [L-4]

drmyshotgun

(1) - Klick [L-3]

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Rubick

(5) - Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion, saulres, drmyshotgun, IceGuy [lynch]

Not Voting (1) - Guy_Named_Riggs

Rubick has been lynched!

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Rubick - Trolled Ascetic Psychic Redirector - Town Aligned - Lynched D1

It is now N1.

All actions are due to me within

(expired on 2012-10-01 16:20:00)

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No one died N1

Day 2 | First Vote Count

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(0)

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Not Voting (7) - saulres, IceGuy, Guy_Named_Riggs, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun, Salamence20, Klick

With 7 alive, it is 4 to lynch

Deadline is

6:00pm GMT, 8th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-08 17:00:00).

[AurorusVox]

Please note that one week deadlines are now in effect.

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Day 2 | Vote Count 2

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(2) - Klick, Salamence20

[L-2]

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Not Voting (5) - saulres, IceGuy, Guy_Named_Riggs, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun

IceGuy is at L-2!

With 7 alive, it is 4 to lynch

Deadline is

6:00pm GMT, 8th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-08 17:00:00).

[AurorusVox]

MOD - Can a Doctor protect against a Slow Vig Shot by protecting N2 the target?

Yes.

A N1 doc would

not

protect against a Slow Vig submitted on that player N1.
But a N2 doc on the target

would

.

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Day 2 | Vote Count 3

saulres

(0)

IceGuy

(4) - Klick, Salamence20, drmyshotgun, MagnaOfIllusion [lynch]

Guy_Named_Riggs

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(0)

Klick

(0)

Not Voting (3) - saulres, IceGuy, Guy_Named_Riggs

IceGuy has been lynched!

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IceGuy - Magnetic Vengeful Unlimited Doctor - Mafia Aligned - Lynched D2

Please stand by for venge-kill information

It is now N2.

All actions are due to me within

(expired on 2012-10-03 21:26:00)

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Klick - Macho Bulletproof Double-shot Cop - Town Aligned - Venge-killed D2

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Guy_Named_Riggs - Brazen Copying Bloodthirsty Roleblocker - Town Aligned - Killed N2

Day 3 | First Vote Count

saulres

(0)

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(0)

Not Voting (4) - saulres, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun, Salamence20

With 4 alive, it is 3 to lynch

Deadline is

7:30pm GMT, 10th October 2012

. That's in (expired on 2012-10-10 18:30:00).

[AurorusVox]

Klick's BP was negated by his macho. He knew this from pregame.
Slow does not affect scum kills.

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Day 3 | Final Vote Count

saulres

(3) - Salamence20, MagnaofIllusion, drmyshotgun [lynch]

MagnaofIllusion

(0)

drmyshotgun

(0)

Salamence20

(1) - saulres [L-3]*

Not Voting (0)

Saulres has been lynched!

*PS - please note Salamence was L-3 today, so yes: he could not be lynched without self-voting.

[AurorusVox]

Saulres - Miller Bending Non-Consecutive Watcher - Mafia Aligned - Lynched D3

Game over! Town win!

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[AurorusVox]

Thanks
I'll post up more thoughts and full roles when o get home. I think I'd include an faq on role interactions next time for one thing!

[AurorusVox]

Actually, I think Salamence gambited correctly with his role. Considering he could only vig people who voted him, declaring himself in favour of a NL was a good way to garner votes on something that probably wasn't scummy enough to see him lynched.

The roles did shake out fairly well in the end. It would have been good if "vengeful" tripped guilty to a gunsmith as that would have meant GNR was not clear, but I decided at the start that it was only mafia, vigs and cops. Macho Bulletproof was my favourite, and Slow Gladiatorial Vig actually took care of one of mine and Timmy's worries pre-game -- that the vig kills would mean this game was over far too quickly. Actually, the high proportion of kill-stopping roles also contributed (docs, JKs, RBs, redirectors) as well, but I liked that the vig wasn't as all powerful as it could have been.

Double-Shot cop dropping was terrifying for me, though, as I hurt to think what would happen with that role N0. Not taking it was probably for the best for the game! Although -- I don't think anyone actioned N0 at all! Here are all the roles and actions as they happened:

Spoiler: roles

IceGuy - Magnetic Vengeful Unlimited Doc
drmyshotgun - Hated Ninja Day Warden
MoI - Loving Neighbourizing Anxious Gunsmith
Klick - Macho Bulletproof Double-Shot Cop
Salamence20 - Slow Loved Gladiatorial Vig
GNR - Brazen Copying Bloodthirsty Roleblocker
Saulres - Miller Bending Non-Consecutive Watcher
Rubrick - Trolled Ascetic Psychic Redirector

Spoiler: Actions

D1

MoI Gunsmiths Saulres
Saulres Bends investigation onto Salamence20
MoI gets result: Owns a Gun
MoI and Salamence20 gain QT
MoI becomes Lovers with Salamence20.

Rubrick is lynched.

N1

GNR Roleblocks IceGuy.
GNR's action is brazenly sent to IceGuy.
GNR Copies
IceGuy doctors Saulres (blocked)
IceGuy kills MoI (blocked)
Salamence20 submits kill on GNR to take place N2.
Saulres Watches MoI
Saulres gets result: No one visited MoI
Klick submits double-shot Cop on drmyshotgun and IceGuy
Klick gets result drmyshotgun: Innocent
Klick gets result IceGuy: Guilty
Klick has no more cop investigations left.

There is no kill.

D2

MoI Gunsmiths GNR
MoI gets result: Does not own a gun
MoI and GNR gain QT.
MoI and Salamence QT closes.
MoI becomes lovers with GNR.

IceGuy is lynched.
IceGuy vengekills Klick.

N2

Salamence cannot submit a kill as no one voted him.
Salamence's slow vig shot hits GNR.
GNR submits roleblock on

drmyshotgun

Saulres
GNR's action is brazenly sent to Saulres.
Saulres cannot use Watch as he used it N1.
Saulres submits kill on MoI (blocked)

GNR is killed N2.

D3

Saulres is lynched.

PEDIT: TIMMY!
I think in the future to keep Brazen it would prob needs to be sent to any random alignment. If Maf had gotten it, then they're revealed with their first action x_x

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No actions N0 lad.

[AurorusVox]

Oh, GNR probs couldn't due to BLOODTHIRSTY! nature.

[AurorusVox]

It only occurs if they are lynched ^^

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I considered making it via NKs as well, buuut it woulda been a few too many kills flying around.

I think scum got outmaneouvered really.
GNR's blocks (in conjunction with MoI at the end) tipped it against them - bare in mind that if GNR hadn't gotten the block off on IceGuy, it would have been a very different outcome -- a kill on N1, even with IceGuy lynched D2, would've resulted in the 3p lylo with drmyshotgun quick-hammered.

Scum getting Vengeful helped nullify the blocks, and the misVig meant that town still had as many members killed as if this had been a straight NK game.

Umm, what else...
Oh, both Utility players went for Day as their top choice. I realised that it was probably because Day is like Unlimited, but also can't be blocked and a WHOLE lot more powerful given that you can out results there and then.

I'm not sure if this game can ever really be balanced in favour of the scum -- whaddya think? Would it run as is again, or would I need to tweak it?

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Well my next micro will be a Lucid Dreamers, and after that I have something else planned as a test pilot for the Mini Queue, but I will definitely rerun this with a few tweakers here and there. Loved/Hated I decided to let loose as it was advertised as potentially bastard but I can see where you're coming from. If anyone has any suggestions for changes, additions or things to get rid of, let me know!

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I think the gamut of kill preventing roles plus the modifiers in the setup should generally take care of too many kills - but there is the potential for it to be all over by n1, which isn't ideal.