Mini 2284: The Thing Anonymous [The End?]

[petapan]

My brain as it turns out gets unhappy trying to read games with similar icons but garry 2 did the job well ! ty for modding and gg

i have been yelling at peta on discord about this exact issue lole

yeah this was obviously an issue, i basically had to throw stuff together at the last minute so I just pulled the pictures of the characters off the wiki, i didn't have a problem with them but obviously it was for other people, if i were to do another iteration of this i probably try to make the avatars more visually distinct? of course it's hard because a lot of the movie takes place indoors at night, it's not a brightly lit movie most of the time

[petapan]

these were my guesses:

MacReady~ skitter30
Blair~ cephrir (this is the one guess that i have no fucking clue about and my confidence in it is zero)
Childs~ mastina
Clark~ elements
Nauls~ greeting
Palmer~ datisi <3
Copper~ kittytacky
Norris~ pooky
Bennings~ ydrasse
Garry~ rh9
Fuchs~ lukewarm
Windows~ thestatusquo
Lars~ radical rat

the thestatusquo guess was solely because the way windows was linking posts was identical to how shea does it. but i should've known that the fact the posts didn't feel similar at all was important

you did very good but fireisredsir had absolutely absurd accuracy

[fireisredsir]

imo you could just like put a coloured border around each one, that would go a long way

i was initially somewhat trying to avoid alt guessing but i ended up doing it bc it made it easier to keep track of who was who

[Datisi]

goddammit

[petapan]

PTs

Things:

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Garry/Freedom Notes:

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Dead/Spec:

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Mod:

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[fireisredsir]

my guesses

these ones im p confident on, roughly in order of confidence

copper - kittytacky
childs2 - mastina
palmer - datisi
fuchs - lukewarm
macready - gamma emerald
blair - pooky
nauls - meuh (kinda surprised to see her in a game but i really feel the vibes here)
garry2 - rh9? (low content volume so hard to judge but i think this is right)

these ones are more full on guesses. most of these are more likely people ive never played with

clark2 - elements?
windows - deasvail? (purely on vibes, i don't know)
bennings - andresmvb??? (doesn't quite feel right but nothing does)
norris - marci?? (im like 80% sure this is wrong but i don't have any better ideas)

and for bonus points, although I'm not very confident on these

clark1 - roden?
garry1 - just for fun im going to guess ydrasse hardcore voice changing here. i kinda feel it

i just never considered skitter might be playing, thought she would be too busy, and never reconsidered a wrong early guess (and forgot gamma physically could not be playing oops)

[skitter30]

Wow that's p amazing!

[Uncrowned]

fire cookin

[Uncrowned]

datisi picking me as ydrasse hell yeah lmao

[Ydrasse]

:3

[skitter30]

Doesn't assimilation happen after action though?

Original you could have sent the message
Gotten assimilated
Assimilated-you sees what actions original you had taken
And thus known original you sent the message

Like once you have access to the account you can see everything the slot did previously, no?

Also fwiw i still think this would have been really cool

[Prism]

i just never considered skitter might be playing, thought she would be too busy

That is exactly the moment you should have realized she was playing tbh

[Lukewarm]

Norris (4): Nauls, Lars, Copper, Childs

I wonder if the scum team had angled somewhat towards the Norris elim, if that would have gone through.

There were a lot of townies, really wanting Marci dead, but the scum team appears to have largely stayed off. 1 or 2 more voices in that direction might have been the difference.

[petapan]

Doesn't assimilation happen after action though?

Original you could have sent the message
Gotten assimilated
Assimilated-you sees what actions original you had taken
And thus known original you sent the message

Like once you have access to the account you can see everything the slot did previously, no?

Also fwiw i still think this would have been really cool

was suggested the things needed more incentive to assimilate given the difficulties in doing so in a forum setting (in addition to all the stuff about posting styles and timezones, there's the simple factor that in a forum game it's usually easy to tell what nightkills "should" happen and it usually will be obvious if someone jumps - but if a scum is generally being townread it's rarely in their interest to jump to a new account)

i definitely did not consider the possibility both sides could be ambiguous about the FN message effectively making them unable to be jumped while the other was alive

i was worried about scumsiding the setup too much with a mechanic like this but if if i ran a V2 of the setup i would probably have something like that to make the things stronger. that wouldn't be for some time though obv

[skitter30]

I think that there might be some tweaks for a v2 but overall very fun and innovative. Great concept!

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

Things do not have powers beyond the factional kill and assimilation.

I think this piece of information was really strong in terms of letting the town really game out what the scum side could do.

Overall I think scum could've played a lot more aggressively in pushing their agenda - agree that if they just hard shoved norris maybe they can get the elimination rammed through and then jump into new bodies to escape the blowback.

[Freedom]

i feel kind of silly with how 100% convinced i was that norris was pooky, and then i spent half an hour wondering who blair was...

Me too.
I thought that Norris was Pooky, Childs was Math, you were Ceph and that Ydra and Titus were in the game.
I did figure out Childs was mastina later (because of the use of ) and Blair was Pooky (for using lowercase). Though, overall, it took me way after N1 to figure out anybody.
(Also, congrats, you and fire for guessing so much people!)

[marcistar]

Things do not have powers beyond the factional kill and assimilation.

I think this piece of information was really strong in terms of letting the town really game out what the scum side could do.

Overall I think scum could've played a lot more aggressively in pushing their agenda - agree that if they just hard shoved norris maybe they can get the elimination rammed through and then jump into new bodies to escape the blowback.

[marcistar]

pooky we did so epic

on another note, i kept meaning to make a readslist but kept forgetting and running out of time, sorry everyone!
i did try at certain parts though

[JunkoChan]

Did you change the account's theme from the default the mod gave you? Do you have the beige theme on your main? Your alts should always have different themes.

I had one account in each browser (i have 3 monitors) and then I goofed opening the wrong game in the wrong account

[KittyTacky]

I probably have one of the most distinctive styles on the site.

[SirCakez]

it's way late for me so i don't have time for full thoughts but basically: assimilation mechanic never came into play because town stomped from very early on, unfortunate but sometimes thats the way it goes. there are obvious obstacles to the mechanic of scum jumping to a new account that make it tricky/intimidating to use, some of these can be compensated for but if i ran a game like this again i'd have to clarify things/add mechanics to make assimilation more favorable. for an initial run of the setup i wanted to make it reasonably simple, though. had idea for some complex item based mechanics but cut them down to make something more familiar to most players. maybe more tomorrow.

this setup could def be run again - I remember this also happened first time Divide and Conquer got ran it ended day 1

[petapan]

it's way late for me so i don't have time for full thoughts but basically: assimilation mechanic never came into play because town stomped from very early on, unfortunate but sometimes thats the way it goes. there are obvious obstacles to the mechanic of scum jumping to a new account that make it tricky/intimidating to use, some of these can be compensated for but if i ran a game like this again i'd have to clarify things/add mechanics to make assimilation more favorable. for an initial run of the setup i wanted to make it reasonably simple, though. had idea for some complex item based mechanics but cut them down to make something more familiar to most players. maybe more tomorrow.

this setup could def be run again - I remember this also happened first time Divide and Conquer got ran it ended day 1

well i mean i can't re-run a closed setup but i'd throw in some tweaks

[petapan]

also thing pt is now released

[mastina]

Plural gang.

Yup, we do a lot of discovery on the discord for that. (And the mafiascum speakeasy thread.)