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Thursday, 27 September 2007

SensibleInnsmouth Epilogue - Day 12

quote [ If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! ]

The bus out of Newburyport was busier than I had been led to believe, and I had to push my way to the front of the crowd to ensure that I could take my appointed place. When I was safely seated at the back, my mind returned as it always does to Innsmouth, now only a few miles down the coast road.

A married couple occupied the seat in front, and to my satisfaction I saw that the morning newspaper under the gentleman’s arm had a grainy photograph of Arkham Sanitarium on the front page. I didn’t need to read the papers, my sources were far more reliable, but it pleased me to know that news of my exploits was reaching the common herd.

I had hoped to make the Sanitarium a place of serenity and wellbeing, a place where I would cure once and forever the stain of lunacy spreading through the world. Alas, it was not to be. I had spared my Judas, and I had of course received his kiss in return. I thought Doctor Howard was cured, but the seed of his lunacy remained within him and he had spread it among my staff who I had cured with my own hands, turning them against me with his lies. But I had seen more clearly than he knew, the Innsmouth notebooks had foretold the fate of Arkham Sanitarium. There was no point fighting against fate, all that was required of me was a carefully placed oil lamp, and judicious exit, locking the gates after me.

The blaze had been visible for miles, and although well meaning citizens might run hither outside, they were too late. Far too late.

No survivors they said, but Doctor Howard must also have survived, somehow. That was in the journal as well, although I didn’t realise it the time. My mistake was in thinking that my patient’s stories were from the past, an assumption of two-dimensional thinking.

Oh yes, Doctor Howard would have survived. On our final meeting I had dubbed him The Great Yam Heist, and told him that I would hunt him down in Innsmouth. He would be there, for certain, the murderer spreading his lies. I wonder what goes on his head; perhaps he believes our roles are reversed and that he is hunting me. An amusing notion, but there’s no accounting for sanity.

I stared at the young bus driver for quite some time, as he chatted to some housewife or other, her lap laden with groceries. dualscimitars didn’t look as had been described to me, but that was no doubt all part of his fishy disguise. This time he wouldn’t have the chance to escape Innsmouth for the welcoming abyss, I would see to that.

The bus was filling up now, but I resisted the temptation to start trying to pick out the Deep Ones that I knew must be among us. There would be time enough for that when we reached Innsmouth. The future had been vouchsafed, and I knew that I would prevail in my endeavour.

The young wife in front of me was reading something, and I bent my neck to see the title of the novel. ‘At the Mountains of Sensibility; 2008’. I wondered briefly what it meant, and dismissed it. What cared I for another’s jottings, when I was making history in the flesh?

My own journal was lost in the blaze, but I remember each word I had written in it. For this journey, though, I had furnished myself with a notepad to record my experiences. I licked my pencil, and smiled, and then began to write.

We left Newburyport and the day was warm and sunny, but the landscape of sand and sedge-grass, and stunted shrubbery became more and desolate as we proceeded. Once in a while I noticed dead stumps and crumbling foundation-walls above the drifting sand. This was once a fertile and thickly-settled countryside, and the change was thought by simple folk to have a dark connection with hidden forces of evil…

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...

H.P. Lovecraft

Thank you to everybody for playing, and we hope that the audience and participants have enjoyed SensibleInnsmouth as much as we

- eightysix and cb361

The cast :

Deep Ones:

37. 13ullet - Aviator Deep One Leader
21. juju - Town Prostitute - Deep One Investigator
20. foobar - Fireman - Deep One Evangelist
1. The Iron Rite - Drunkard - Deep One Thief
25. DirtyBirdy - Big Game Hunter - Deep One
43. logistics_wf9 - Gideon - Deep One

16. headlessfriar Sculptor - Lone Deep One
28. DefianceFalcon - Hotel Clerk - Lone Deep One (Sleeper)
29. dualscimitars - Bus Driver - Lone Deep One
34. badgerbaiter - Aristocrat - Lone Deep One
41. Kimota - Police Officer - Long Deep One

22. Eru - Gambler - Sleeper Killed with the Talisman
3. justus - Store Owner- Deep One Sleeper
36. DeadCarbonCopy - Deep One (Sleeper) Committed suicide
49. Wren - Circus Ringmistress - Deep One (Sleeper) Committed suicide
50. Context Fisherman - Deep One (Sleeper)

11. eskimonoise - Musician - Deep One Heretic

Humans:

19. RecnaMoruen - Waiter Dreamer
38. CapnSilver - Barman - Human (Originally Dreamer)
23. remiq - Circus Acrobat - Dreamer
47. Philistine - Bookstore Assistant - Dreamer
46. blindnerd Lawyer - Dreamer

48. KingPellinore - Explorer - Asylum Doctor
30. The Great Yam Heist - Parapsychologist - Serial Killer

14. Jewbacchus Circus Fortune Teller - Investigator (killed by xenophobia)
13. jadedobelisk - Librarian- Investigator
5. misanthrope - Landlord - Protector and Investigator
24. Dismortis - Pharmacist - Protector (Martyr)
26. The Cooler - Egyptologist - Protector
7. Stratafyre - Gold Buyer - Protector
31. Aidentas - Cryptozoologist - Human (Blocker)

4. equinophobe - Smuggler - Masonic Leader
45. gmg - Circus Freak - Mason Killed with the Shovel
6. nibbon - Bookstore Owner - Mason
33. verycleanteeth - Journalist - Mason Killed with the Dagger
17. Alacron - Mayor Mason
9. radioelectric - Inventor - Mason (Thief)

18. -_- - Actor - Witch Doctor
40. Araneidae - Archaelogist - Reanimator
39. skainsmate - Captain - Mark Writer

32. Zelgius - Astronomer - First Vigilante
8. kishi - Deep Sea Diver - Second Vigilante
10. rash1 - Undertaker
12. Dooming Doom - Antiquarian - Human Thief (Died from Masonic Knife)
2. assbastard - Horror Writer - Human (Thief)
15. thumble - Missionary - Human (Thief) (killed by xenophobia)
27. wtjones - Butler - Human
35. qtemo - Printer - Thief
42. redemption - Teacher - Human Thief and Dreamer

And:

44. lilmookieesquire - Poet - Finger Biter

Lynched
killed by Lunatic Serial Killer
killed by Vigilante
killed by the Deep Ones
killed by someone else

Day 0 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66616
Day 1 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66676
Day 2 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66732
Day 3 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66797
Day 4 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66864
Day 5 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66916
Day 6 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/66939
Day 7 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/67003
Day 8 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/67045
Day 9 - http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/67095
Day 10 - http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/67155
Day 11 - http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/67196

Rules - http://sensibleerection.com/profile.php/28323
Player list and recaps - http://sensibleerection.com/profile.php/6686

[mafia game] [by cb361@10:21amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

cb361 said @ 10:26am GMT on 27th Sep
The discussions groups are now open, and are as follows:

Deep Ones
http://groups.google.com/group/demonstrably-devious-department-of-damp-dudes

Masons
http://groups.google.com/group/moral-multitude-of-mightily-mystic-members

Circus
http://groups.google.com/group/circuitously-canonical-circle-of-caricaturist-comrades

Ghosts
http://groups.google.com/group/gregarious-group-for-gargling-ghosts

Towards the end of the game I forgot to invite some players to the ghosts group. My apologies; it was in no way personal.

CapnSilver said @ 11:15am GMT on 27th Sep
Of course it wasn't personal

cb361 said @ 11:17am GMT on 27th Sep
You're mistaking me for somebody whose properly organised, and I don't even know who joined and who didn't. I guess I missed you off...

sythe said @ 1:15pm GMT on 27th Sep
"Plus I'd like to continue
my pattern of killing him before he suspects me. ;-)"

....your ass is grass juju.

juju said @ 2:11pm GMT on 27th Sep
Hehehe, I wrote that knowing you'd be guaranteed to read it.
It's truly a sign of respect that I felt I was safest with you dead ;-)

cb361 said @ 10:28am GMT on 27th Sep
The PMs that went out to players are (or should have been) as follows:

Welcome to SensibleInnsmouth.
Please take a moment to read through the rules of the game in http://www.sensibleerection.com/profile.php/28323 . You don’t need to remember everything, but it will improve your enjoyment if you familiarise yourself with the parts that directly effect you.
There is a strict no PM rule. Please respect this as it improves the game for everybody.
If you die in the game, please restrict yourself to discussing non-game matters. Do not discuss strategy and never reveal any information that you had discovered.
Details of your role in the game follow.
You are free to reveal any information in public that you choose to, but copying and pasting these details verbatim is considered resignation from the game.

To 13ullet
Job Title : Aviator
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One Leader
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities : Deep One Contact
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To successfully Contact at least three new Deep Ones
Possessions :
Modifiers : Appears as Vanilla Human to Investigation. Breaks ties in the Deep One voting.
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips :
To perform the Deep One Contact Action, PM the referee. Doing so reveals your Deep One Identity to the Subject, whether or not they are Deep One or Human.
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To juju
Job Title : Town Prostitute
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One Investigator
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities : Investigation
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : There is a Town Investigator who is xenophobic and will die if you Investigate him/her. Your Quest is to bring about their death in this way.
Possessions :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips
To perform the Investigation Action, PM the referee. Your Investigation only reveals species.
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To The Iron Rite
Job Title : Drunkard
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One Thief
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : When the game finishes, the Tiara must be held by a surviving Deep One or Lone Deep One.
Possessions :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips:
To perform the Theft Night-Action, PM the referee.
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To foobar
Job Title : Fireman
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One Evangelist
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities : Investigation
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Recruit either a Mason or a Human Investigator
Possessions :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
To perform the Forcible-Recruit Night Action, PM the referee.
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To logistics_wf9
Job Title : Gideon
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : Somebody somewhere wants you dead in spite of any evidence.
Personal Quest : You hate the Missionary. The Missionary must be publicly lynched before you die. The Missionary knows that somebody hates them.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To DirtyBirdy
Job Title : Big Game Hunter
Race : Deep One
Role : Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group : Deep One Circle
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : Journalist knows that somebody hates them and if they guess it is you, they get an Investigation of you.
Personal Quest : You hate the Journalist. The Journalist must be publicly lynched before you die. The Journalist knows that somebody hates them
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
To be admitted to the Deep One Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To headlessfriar
Job Title : Sculptor
Race : Deep One
Role : Lone Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Deep One Contact
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Contact or be Contacted by someone in the Deep One Circle
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips :
To perform the Deep One Contact Action, PM the referee. Doing so reveals your Deep One Identity to the Subject, whether or not they are Deep One or Human.

To Eru
Job Title : Gambler
Race : Deep One
Role : Lone Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Deep One Contact
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Contact or be Contacted by someone in the Deep One Circle
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips :
To perform the Deep One Contact Action, PM the referee. Doing so reveals your Deep One Identity to the Subject, whether or not they are Deep One or Human.

To dualscimitars
Job Title : Bus Driver
Race : Deep One
Role : Lone Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Deep One Contact
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Contact or be Contacted by someone in the Deep One Circle
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips :
To perform the Deep One Contact Action, PM the referee. Doing so reveals your Deep One Identity to the Subject, whether or not they are Deep One or Human.

To badgerbaiter
Job Title : Aristocrat
Race : Deep One
Role : Lone Deep One
Alignment : Deep One
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Deep One Contact
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Contact or be Contacted by someone in the Deep One Circle
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Conditions : Deep One Circle equals or outnumbers all other players
Tips :
To perform the Deep One Contact Action, PM the referee. Doing so reveals your Deep One Identity to the Subject, whether or not they are Deep One or Human.

To Context
Job Title : Fisherman
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To Wren
Job Title : Ringmaster
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO :
Somebody in the game hates you and wants you dead no matter the evidence. Nominate this person correctly and get free Investigation of them and complete this part of your Quest
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players
Tips:
To be admitted to the Circus Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To justus
Job Title : Store Owner
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO :
You love the MAYOR. Keep the MAYOR alive. If they die for any reason, you cannot achieve your Personal Quest!
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To Kimota
Job Title : Police Officer
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To DeadCarbonCopy
Job Title : Museum Curator
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to Achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
Finish the game alive and possessing the Tiara. _IF_ you are found to be a Deep One, it also counts if another Deep One survives with the Tiara
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To DefianceFalcon
Job Title : Hotel Clerk
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to Achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
Finish the game alive and possessing the Tiara. _IF_ you are found to be a Deep One, it also counts if another Deep One survives with the Tiara
Possessions :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To eskimonoise
Job Title : Musician
Race : Deep One
Role : Heretic
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Your Quest is to go public with the name of a Deep One that you have discovered yourself.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle

To redemption
Job Title : Teacher
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
Finish the game alive and possessing the Tiara. _IF_ you are found to be a Deep One, it also counts if another Deep One survives with the Tiara
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To CapnSilver
Job Title : Barman
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
You hate the Smuggler, who has you over a supply barrel. The Smuggler must die before you do. The Smuggler knows that somebody somewhere hates them.
Possessions :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To remiq
Job Title : Circus Acrobat
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
You are in love with the Waiter. To achieve your quest you need to keep the Waiter alive until the end of the game.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players
Tips : To be admitted to the Circus Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To RecnaMoruen
Job Title : Waiter
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : Somebody somewhere hates you and wants you dead, in spite of any evidence.
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To Philistine
Job Title : Bookstore Assistant
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
The Book Store Owner has some sort of secret. You must discover what it is while the player is still alive. An Investigation would suffice.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To SiryumYum
Job Title : Lawyer
Race : ?
Role : Sleeper/Dreamer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Get Investigated to discover your true Race/Alignment. If you are Deep One, you must still Contact the Deep One Circle to achieve your Quest.
PLUS YOU MUST ALSO
You hate the Waiter. The Waiter must die before you. The Waiter knows that somebody somewhere hates them.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle. _IF_ you become a Deep One, the Deep One Circle must equals or outnumber all other players

To Jewbacchus
Job Title : Circus Fortune Teller
Race : Human
Role : Investigator
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Investigate
Liabilities : XENOPHOBIC – If Investigated by a Deep One, you will die!
Personal Quest : To publicly reveal the identity of an undiscovered Deep One
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tips : To be admitted to the Circus Discussion Group, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To jadedobelisk
Job Title : Librarian
Race : Human
Role : Investigator
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Investigate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To publicly reveal the identity of an undiscovered Deep One
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To The_Cooler
Job Title : Egyptologist
Race : Human
Role : Protector
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Protection
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To Protect a Human/Heretic from Death during the game, but not the Serial Killer
Possessions : Hot Potato
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Hot Potato : It’s a curse that will take effect on a certain day! You must nominate someone to give this to at Night or you will die.
Hot Potato : On the appointed day, the Hot Potato will take effect in the night, before you have a chance to pass it on.
Hot Potato : Passing on the Potato requires a Night Action. You cannot perform any other Night Action tonight.

To Stratafyre
Job Title : Gold Buyer
Race : Human
Role : Protector
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Protection
Liabilities : XENOPHOBIC – If Investigated by a Deep One, you will die!
Personal Quest : To Protect a Human/Heretic from Death during the game but not the Serial Killer
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To Aidentas
Job Title : Cryptozoologist
Race : Human
Role : Blocker
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Block
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To Protect a Human/Heretic from Death during the game
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To The_Great_Yam_Heist
Job Title : Parapsychologist
Race : Human
Role : Serial Killer
Alignment : none
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Kill
Liabilities : If Nominated by the Asylum Doctor, you are removed from the game.
Personal Quest : To either personally kill the Asylum Doctor, or be the last remaining player.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Be the last remaining player

To KingPellinore
Job Title : Explorer
Race : Human
Role : Asylum Doctor
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To Nominate the Serial Killer.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To -_-
Job Title : Actor
Race : Human
Role : Witch Doctor
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To use the Talisman to kill a Deep One
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : The identity of who is carrying the Talisman will be revealed to you in a PM. You may choose to activate the Talisman to kill the player holding it.

To Zelgius
Job Title : Astronomer
Race : Human
Role : Vigilante
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : If you fail to kill at least one Deep One with your first five bullets, your final Night Kill is automatically for yourself.
Personal Quest : To use the Revolver to kill at least one Deep One
Possessions : Revolver and six bullets
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To doramos
Now Misanthrope!
Job Title : Landlord
Race : Human
Role :
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Protect & Investigate
Liabilities : The Antiquarian is your illegitimate child. You automatically suicide next night if Antiquarian dies for any reason!
Someone in the game wants you dead, in spite of any evidence.
Personal Quest :
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : You can Protect or Investigate a player, but _not_ both

To wtjones
Job Title : Butler
Race : Human
Role :
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : You hate the landlord with a secret passion. Quest is to indirectly achieve death of the Landlord player
Possessions : Dagger (single use kill-object)
Modifiers : You May not attack Landlord directly, or vote to kill Landlord.
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : The Landlord has an illegitimate child somewhere in the game, and will commit suicide if that player dies.
To perform a Night-Kill with your dagger, PM the referee.

To skainsmate
Job Title : Captain
Race : Human
Role : Mark Writer
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate (just once)
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To reveal the name of a confirmed Deep One who has not already been made public.
Possessions :
Modifiers : Receives automatic Investigation of player who acquires the Invisible Mark
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : On day 1 you _must_ Nominate the player to carry your Invisible Mark or lose this Power.

To equinophobe
Job Title : Smuggler
Race : Human
Role : Masonic Leader
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To kill a Deep One with your Masonic Knife
Possessions : Masonic Knife
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : To perform a Night-Kill with your knife, PM the referee. If you accidentally kill a true Human, the knife will kill you.
Tip : To be admitted to the Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To nibbon
Job Title : Bookstore Owner
Race : Human
Role : Mason
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Personal Quest : You are curious and intrigued about the Book Store Assistant. Learn what their race/alignment is without them dying.
Possessions :
Tip : To be admitted to the Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address

To gmg
Job Title : Circus Freak
Race : Human
Role : Mason
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : The Circus Ringmaster knows that somebody in the game hates them, and if they can guess that it is you, they get a free Investigation of you
Personal Quest : You hate the Circus Ringmaster. The Ringmaster must die before you. The Ringmaster knows that somebody somewhere hates them.
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Tips : To be admitted to the Circus + Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To Alacron
Job Title : Mayor
Race : Human
Role : Mason
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities : Somebody somewhere wants you dead, in spite of any evidence.
XENOPHOBIC – If Investigated by a Deep One, you will die!
Personal Quest : You hate the Antiquarian and want them Publicly lynched while you are still alive to see it. If they are killed in any other way, you cannot complete your quest.
Possessions :
Tip : To be admitted to the Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To Dooming Doom
Job Title : Antiquarian
Race : Human
Role :
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities : Someone in the game wants you dead, in spite of any evidence.
Personal Quest : You hate the Mayor and want them Publicly lynched while you are still alive to see it. If they are killed in any other way, you
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To verycleanteeth
Job Title : Journalist
Race : Human
Role : Journalist
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Somebody in the game hates you and wants you dead no matter the evidence. Nominate this person correctly and get free Investigation of them and complete your Quest
Possessions :
Tip : To be admitted to the Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address
Tip : To Nominate a player as hating you, PM the Referee
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
:

To dangerm00se
Job Title : Deep Sea Diver
Race : Human
Role :
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities : If Finger Biter bites you, you lose your nominate ability and cannot complete your quest.
Personal Quest : You are trying to hunt down Finger Biter. Nominate this player correctly to remove him/her from the game and complete your quest.
Possessions :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tip : To Nominate a player as Finger Biter, PM the Referee

To radioelectric
Job Title : Inventor
Race : Human
Role : Mason
Alignment : Town
Starting Group : Masons
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Survive Game with Tiara
Possessions :
Tip : To be admitted to the Mason Discussion Groups, please PM the referee with your valid email address
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To assbastard
Job Title : Horror Writer
Race : Human
Role : Professional Thief
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Survive Game with Tiara
Possessions : Tiara
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To thumble
Job Title : Missionary
Race : Human
Role : Professional Thief
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities : Somebody somewhere wants you dead in spite of any evidence.
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Gideon must die before you. The Gideon knows that somebody hates them.
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To rash1
Job Title : Undertaker
Race : Human
Role : Profession Thief
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : Survive Game with Tiara
Possessions : Shovel (single use killing object) + Talisman
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.
Tips : To Night Kill a player with your killing Object, PM the referee
Talisman Info’ : You have the Talisman. You are granted an Investigation of another player, and you will pass the Talisman to that person.
Talisman Info’ : If you fail to pass the Talisman on, you will be killed. PM the referee to indicate who to investigate and to pass the Talisman to.
Talisman Info’ : If you reveal that you possess the Talisman whilst you still have it, you will lose the ability to perform any Night Action for the rest of the game.
Talisman Info’ : If you reveal who you passed the Talisman onto whilst that person still has it, you will lose the ability to perform any Night Action for the rest of the game.

To qtemo
Job Title : Printer
Race : Human
Role : Professional Thief
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Theft
Liabilities : XENOPHOBIC – If Investigated by a Deep One, you will die!
Personal Quest : Survive Game with Tiara
Possessions :
Modifiers :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To Dismortis
Job Title : Pharmacist
Race : Human
Role : Martyr
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Protection
Liabilities : XENOPHOBIC – If Investigated by a Deep One, you will die!
Personal Quest : Sacrifice self to Protect a Genuine Town Aligned Player
Possessions :
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To Valen_85
Job Title : Archaeologist
Race : Human
Role : Reanimator
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities :
Liabilities :
Personal Quest : To reanimate a Human yourself
Possessions : Reanimation Agent. - This object allows the bearer to perform one reanimation on one Human Player who has died during the previous 24 game-hours. Reanimated players lose their possessions and any special role.
Modifiers : If Reanimation Agent is stolen, you gain the Theft Ability until such time as you have recovered it, or somebody else uses it.
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

To todde
Job Title : Poet
Race :
Role : Finger Biter
Alignment : Town
Starting Group :
Intrinsic Abilities : Nominate Player to bite finger of
Liabilities : Somebody somewhere is hunting Finger Biter. If they successfully Nominate you, you’re dead. Bite their finger off to stop them nominating you.
Personal Quest : To assemble eight fingers from eight different players before the end of the game
Possessions :
Modifiers : If bitten players + self ever outnumber all other players, you are the sole winner of the game!
Tip : PM the referee with the name of the player to bite.
Winning Condition : Town must eliminate the Deep One Circle.

eskimonoise said @ 11:12am GMT on 27th Sep
So when alacron investigated me, he was told I was the heretic?
I was thought I'd be revealed as a plain deep one, now I wish I'd said bollocks to my personal quest and not acted like a crazy person.

Alacron said @ 6:49am GMT on 28th Sep
it does seem kind of counter intuitive, but we would have just had you killed if I found out that you were a deep one only, without the heretic part.

Philistine said @ 12:26pm GMT on 27th Sep
Heh heh, I got the bad paste... I tried to give that away too!

thumble said @ 4:19am GMT on 28th Sep
Yyyyyeah see even in that summary it doesn't say I had xenophobia.

thumble said @ 4:21am GMT on 28th Sep
But I am glad that my death didn't fulfil logistic's PQ hah.

juju said @ 4:29am GMT on 28th Sep
Yeah, sorry about killing you (kinda) it would suck to die so early. A fate I think I'll probably get to experience for several cycles to burn off my karma from this game.

headlessfriar said @ 10:32am GMT on 27th Sep
What story is the finger-biter from anyway? I've read a fair bit of Lovecraft, but didn't recognize that role.

cb361 said @ 10:38am GMT on 27th Sep
A role playing scenario that somebody developed, and I came across when looking for ideas.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:d9jMiMxD-0AJ:www.chaosium.com/forms/biter.pdf+%22The+head+of+a+finger+biter+is+vaguely+human%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

assbastard said @ 10:50am GMT on 27th Sep
Best game yet. Thank you both for putting it on!

Aidentas said @ 10:59am GMT on 27th Sep
Well done, good sirs.

Aidentas said @ 11:15am GMT on 27th Sep
Also, sorry everyone for going crazy. I... My character had the syphilis.

sythe said @ 12:28pm GMT on 27th Sep
oooo...just you wait till I GM another game mister.

cb361 said @ 11:01am GMT on 27th Sep
Who did what when.

Night 1

Aidentas got the cryptogram - Now has a Dark-light camera. If he gets someone of importance, that dude would be fucked up until Aidentas dies. I made a new sheet on the .xls for Day 1 and noted the camera on Aidentas.
-

skainsmate the mark writer has inscribed his mark on CapnSilver. At the end of Day 1, he will get a free Investigation of CapnSilver. This will reveal to CapnSilver that someone has investigated him, and that he is Town, not Deep One.

King Pellionore/Asylum Doctor Nominates rash1 as the Serial Killer. Answer is "no"

The Cooler Passes Potato to Iron Rite. Protects CapnSilver

radioelectric burgles Dooms Dooms. Doesn't find anything.

Dooms Dooms burgles Alacron. Doesn't find anything.

Falcon burgles burgles Wren. Doesn't find anything.

Aidentas uses Dark-light camera on Jewbacchus. Finds out Jewb is an investigator. Loses Dark-light camera.

Zelgius Vigilante/Revolver kills headlessfriar

Thumble burgles TheCooler

assbastard burgles Todd - no result

Juju Deep One Investigates Jewbacchus (clever girl that juju!)

Jewbachus changes his Investigation to remiq

Yam Heist Serial Kills TheCooler. (Clever bastard that Sythe!)

Dismortis martyr-protects CapnSilver.

jadeobelisk investigates Kimota. Get's Kimota's Race+PQ etc. Kimota becomes Lone Deep One

rash1 burgles jewbachus nothing. Gives Talisman to CapnSilver

Redemptiion burgles jewbacchus as well. This town is full of bloody grave robbers Smile

verycleanteeth nominated qtemo as the person hateful towards him. incorrect.

DCC burgles Jewb. Nothing.

qtemo steals from remiq. Nothing.

---------------

Headless friar votes to kill Dismortis

Badgerbaiter Deep One Kill - CapnSilver

JuJu Deep One Kill - SirYumYum

Eru Deep One Kill - CapnSilvert

Night 2

Iron Rite tossed the Hot Potato to juju (!)

KingPellinore nominates Eru as the Serial Killer. Answer "no"

lilmookie bites off Aidentas 's finger

assbastard steals from aidentas. No result

Stratafyre protects Stratafyre

Dooming Doom robs Adentas

Redemption robs Adentas

Radio Electric robs Adentas

Thumble robs Adentas

Aidentas BLOCKs Dirty Birdy

qtemo robs adentas.

qtemo actives TOKEN

Dismortis MARTYR-PROTECTs CapnSilver

Falcon robs dirtybirdy

Serial Killer Yam Heist KILLS assbastard. Serial Killer gets Tiara!!!!!!

jadedobelisk Investigates Aidentas!!!!

rash1 steals from Dooming Doom

juju Deep One Investigates Thumble "Human"

Verycleanteeth thinks that nibbon hates him. "Wrong" (It's DirtyBirdy)

Dead Carbon Copy steals from Kishi

zelgius KILLS radioelectric

Philistine - Gold Token
qtemo - Silver Token

qtemo attempts theft off aids - aids has nothing.

---------------

Deep One 13ullet votes to kill Dismortis
Deep One foobar votes to kill Dismortis
Deep One Dirty Birdy votes to kill Dismortis
Deep One juju votes to kill Dismortis

Night 3

Badgerbaiter wants to Deep One Contact Eskimonoise(!)

stratafyre protects self

juju passes Hot Potato to rash1

wtjones wants to kill cleanteeth with arabic dagger.

Iron Rite wants to steal from Yam Heist.
rash1 wants to steal from Yam Heist.
DefianceFalcon wants to steal from Yam Heist as well!
Redemption wants to steal from DefianceFalcon. Ha!
Dooming Doom wants to steal from Yam Heist as well! ! ! ! ! !
qtemo wants to steal from Yam Heist as well! ! ! ! ! !

DeadCarbonCopy steals from CapnSilver - Gets Invisible Mark! Gets Investigates. Finds out he's a Sleeper. So does skainsmate.

jadeobelisk investigates foobar! Not a good night for the Deep Ones.

lilmookieesquire finger bites qtemo ( right little finger )

verycleanteeth nominates lilmookie as the person who hates him. Wrong (It's DirtyBirdy)

Eru (Lone Deep One) uses Talisman to Investigate juju (Deep One)
Eru passes Talisman on to CapnSilver.

juju Deep One Investigates -_- ( Human )

Serial Killer Yam murders Badgerbaiter

Deep One 13ullet votes to kill CapnSilver
Deep One juju vote to kill Dooming Doom
Deep One DirtyBirdy votes to kill badgerBaiter
Deep One foobar votes to kill badgerBaiter

Night 4

rash1 passes the Hot Potato on to Dooming Doom.

Stratafyre protects jadedobelisk.

KingPellinore Nominates Yam Heist as the Serial Killer (Yes)

qtemo steals from Iron Rite

Iron Rite steals from Dooming Doom

Dooming Doom steals from Philistine

DefianceFalcon steals from Eru

Redemption steals from -_-

CapnSilver Investigates Valen85 with the Talisman. Gives Talisman to Eru.

Misanthrope Investigates wtjones (We've got too many Investigatory roles I think)

jadedobelisk Investigates equinophobe.

Kishi guesses that Wren is Finger Biter (no)
Lilmookie Finger Biter bites Wren's finger ( left ring finger )

GreatYamSythe kills Kimota.

Vigilante Zelgius kills Blind Nerd

Deep One juju Deep-One-Investigates : Wren
Deep One juju votes to kill : Yam Heist

Night 5

Dooming Doom passes the Hot Potato to -_- . Whoever gets it from -_- will die (?)

qtemo activates his Silver Token

qtemo steals from dualscimitars.

defiancefalcon steals from wtjones

stratafyre Protects jadedobelisk

! rash1 KILLS gmg with the SHOVEL

! -_- KILLS Eru

Zelgius Vigilante kills lilmookiesquire.

Deep One juju Investigates - Equinophobe

Deep One Dirty Birdy Vote - CapnSilver
Deep One juju Vote - CapnSilver

Night 6

-_- gives Hot Potato to Zelgius. Vigilante dies.

Stratafyre protects jadedobelisk!

new reanimator wants to bring KINGPELLINORE back to life. Well that screws up my story plans.

vigilante zelgius kills logistics_wf9
jadedo investigates defiance - sleeper, defiance is now lone deep one

theft
defiance, qtemo steals from rash1 - nothing
redemption steals from alacron - nothing
dooming doom steals from dualscimitars - nothing

alacron wins an investigation/protection/kill

deep ones
juju investigates araneidrae

juju votes for skainsmate

Public
KingPellinore's reanimation
skainsmate death
logistics_wf9 death

Night 7

Iron Rite steals from eskimonoise (nothing)

Zelgius tries to pass Potato to Dual Scimitars (Ha!)

rash1 steals from misanthrope

stratafyre protects jadedobelisk

misanthrope investigates dualscimitars ( Lone Deep One )

jaded investigates -_- ( Witch Doctor )

Dooming_Doom's steals from RecnaMoruen

qtemo steals from redemption. (useless chicken bone??)

alacron investigates eskimonoise (deep one heretic)

Juju :
Kill: -_-
Investigate: Misanthrope

Night 8

Kishi vigilante kills juju

stratafyre protects jadeobelisk

rash1 steals from equinophobe (gets the masonic knife!)

Redemption steals from Araradne (too late)

jadeobelisk investigates Justus

Dooming Doom steals from rash1 (gets knife ????)

juju investigates recnamouern.
juju votes to kill eskimonoise.

Night 9

DirtyBirdy the new Investigator investigates redemption.

qtemo activates token

dooming doom activates token (oh dear Wink )

Misanthrope investigates 13ullet

kishi murders wtjones

strat protects jade

rash1 steals from dirtybirdy

redemption steals from iron rite
jadedo investigates qtemo

According to random.org : equinophobe and Araneidae are the new owners of tokens

Night 10

qtemo steals from rash1

strat protects jade

misanthrope protects Dooming Doom (won't work)

redemption steals from Dooming Doom

rash1 steals from alacron

Dooming Doom MASONIC knifes redemption (bad move)

kishi kills DirtyBirdy

jade investigates philistine

justus Contacts Alacron

dirtybirdy investigates kishi

justus votes kill Kishi
Deep One Iron Rite votes to kill Redemption
dirtybirdy votes kill jaded

Night 11

Iron Rite votes kill Kishi

Philistine gets a green liquid which kills people.
Equine gets a green paste which protects people.

Stratafyre said @ 11:06am GMT on 27th Sep
Aw, man! I fail at my PQ.

Aidentas said @ 11:12am GMT on 27th Sep
So... No one got the Cryptonomicon?

Jewbacchus said @ 11:19am GMT on 27th Sep
...
I apparently overthought this shit waaay too much.

assbastard said @ 1:03pm GMT on 27th Sep
Who ended up with the tiara?

Stratafyre said @ 11:04am GMT on 27th Sep
I had an absolute blast, and I'm definitely going to be playing in all the games after this, assuming they'll have me.

-_- said @ 11:15am GMT on 27th Sep
Here's the GM waiting list for you then, to the best of my knowledge:

Eskimonoise - Sensible Aliens
Dioxin - Sensible Necropolis
Shiney Things - Sensible Doctor Who
-_-/sythe - Sensible Sunnydale
Narrenschiff - Sensible Celibacy
Badgerbaiter - Sensible Hooligans
nibbon - Sensible Jedi

Expect Sensible Sunnydale around November.

Aidentas said @ 11:19am GMT on 27th Sep
Er...

Eskimonoise - Sensible Aliens
Dioxin - Sensible Necropolis
Shiney Things - Sensible Doctor Who
-_-/sythe - Sensible Sunnyvale
Narrenschiff - Sensible Celibacy
Badgerbaiter - Sensible Hooligans
nibbon - Sensible Jedi
Context - Sensible Super Heroes
sythe - Sensible epicerie
? - Sensible Sensible Erection dot com
eightysix - Sensible Hammer
Stratafyre - Sensible Resident Evil Concept
Wren - Sensible Cyberpunk

...Doesn't matter at the moment, really.

badgerbaiter said @ 11:25am GMT on 27th Sep
Quick and small games?

Aidentas said @ 11:33am GMT on 27th Sep
That topic was discussed in the ghost group. Really, it's up whomever starts the next few games, but the concept of smaller games came highly recommended.

Especially since I hear big things about Sunnyvale.

sythe said @ 12:27pm GMT on 27th Sep
Gi-gigalo-normous things.

sythe said @ 4:14pm GMT on 27th Sep
also, the working title is Sensible Sunnydale

-_- said @ 9:25pm GMT on 27th Sep
It's showing some definite potential alright ;)
And it's good that it does given how high the bar has been raised by Sensible Innsmouth :)

cb361 said @ 11:08am GMT on 27th Sep
My Mistakes :

I forgot to tell Thumble that he was xenophobic, leading to accusations of shenanigans.

qtemo should have stolen the tiara from rash1 at the end of the game.

DefianceFalcon said @ 1:05pm GMT on 27th Sep
Wait, still confused:
I thought people were only allowed one Action per Night, and the Hot Potato specifically states no other actions, but you've got The Cooler passing the Potato and protecting on Night 1, and qtemo is listed as using the Token and performing two robberies on Night 2.
And what was up with the Tiara? rash1 apparently won the clusterfuck at Yam's place on Night 3. But then three attempts to steal from rash1 don't get it (me & qtemo on Night 6, Dooming_Doom on Night 8).

rash1 said @ 3:22pm GMT on 27th Sep
Pfft. That's what bribes are for.

cb361 said @ 8:31pm GMT on 27th Sep
These are the requests that players submitted, not the action that was necessarily performed.

But I think that close to the beginning I forgot that players can't pass on the Potato and perform an action. Dismortis should have died protecting CapnSilver on Night 1, because TheCooler had his hands full.

Who stole the tiara was decided by random.org

I made a mistake with the tiara on the last night, so as far as I am concerned, qtemo and rash1 both fulfilled their quest.

Some quests were easy, whereas others were almost impossible, so it isn't a competitive thing. Just something to add a bit of personal fun.

qtemo said @ 4:10pm GMT on 27th Sep
Fuck yeah!

that means I win, and I won!!!

cb361, you are my hero

Equinophobe said @ 11:15am GMT on 27th Sep
what about the chicken bones?

Philistine said @ 11:20am GMT on 27th Sep
Heh heh, good show Iron Rite! your colloquial style of writing must have been equally as maddening to the deep ones as it was to the town! Kudos on a role well role-played :D

cb361 said @ 11:23am GMT on 27th Sep [Score:2 Funny]
He even submitted his kill-votes in gibberish - it drove me crazy.

badgerbaiter said @ 11:24am GMT on 27th Sep
So I still win even though my contribution was negligible?

cb361 said @ 11:26am GMT on 27th Sep
There was a lot of experimental stuff in this game. I would love to know what people thought worked well and what didn't work.

The whole Lone Deep One/Sleeper thing in particular turned out to be far more difficult for the players than I had anticipated, and Eru was the only player to claw his way into the Deep One Inner Circle.

Philistine said @ 12:25pm GMT on 27th Sep
A great game! The days felt a litttle long sometimes, and as a sleeper/dreamer, I had no idea how I would have even begun to make my way into the inner circle, had my investigation gone the other way, but it meant that I could play a townie convincingly.

Your write-ups added an incredible amount of atmosphere to the game. The hot potato conclusion, and the final day made for fantastic reads. Many thanks again for your, and eighty sixes efforts.

Oh, when eightysix gets here, can we have a the clue solutions please? I missed the chicken bones and the unicursal one (twice!) :(

justus said @ 1:15pm GMT on 27th Sep
I liked the PQ system as it gave people a reason to play beyond just trying to lynch intelligently. I do wish there had been more tangible rewards, however, and like I said before, I wish they had been somewhat more consistent with the rest of the game (being a Sleeper and having a PQ to keep a townie alive was a downer). I understand that they were mostly random, of course, so it doesn't bother me too much.

The variety of items was nice, too. My only request there would be to have made it easier for players without special powers to acquire them, possibly through some sort of use-it-or-lose-it clause. As it was, a lot of the cooler items were essentially hoarded until the end of the game.

Investigatory powers would've helped the Lone Deep One role, yeah. I had assumed that my PQ was supposed to be a hint so as to make it more reasonable, so that would also have been an option for those players. It would've been more fun if jadedobelisk hadn't been an uncanny fish-sensing destroyer, too.

Overall, I enjoyed the game; your prose really livened up the experience. Thank you guys for all the effort you put into it.

Eru said @ 4:51pm GMT on 27th Sep
And I wouldn't have been able to do that if I hadn't gotten the talisman from Capnsilver. Twice.

Lone Deep One was a bastard of a role to play, how to look suspicious without getting yourself killed.

qtemo said @ 7:38pm GMT on 27th Sep
Look suspicious with out getting killed? I could teach a course in that.

DirtyBirdy said @ 5:43pm GMT on 27th Sep
lone deep one / sleeper thing could be tweaked a bit ... maybe with lone deep one investigations, maybe by having lone ones only sort of lone, put them in pairs possibly

I liked the concept of the cryptograms, etc. but the timing necessity of it killed it for people besides the early ones.

The Hot Potato was nice

personal quests were good... I put some thought into trying to fulfill mine, but didn't want to risk being exposed, as I figured verycleanteeth was probably a person.

Deep One's limited investigations were useful, but some way to find the masons would have been good.

-_- said @ 9:29pm GMT on 27th Sep
I really liked the items .. expect to see some variations on the theme in Sensible Sunnydale.
*chortle*

cb361 said @ 11:52pm GMT on 27th Sep
The objects allowed a few different subgames, like the Talisman or the Potato, but I think that the main purpose of items was so that any player would have at least the opportunity to wield a bit of power, sometime in the game. I hated being allocated a powerless town role at the start of the game, and knowing that I couldn't do anything but talk for the rest of the game.

If I did this again, I think I would allow a small number of items but make every player a thief.

DirtyBirdy said @ 11:36am GMT on 27th Sep
Thanks, that was fun!

We'd have probably fared better as Deep ones had we had a better way of getting the lone one in -- but we couldn't come up with any way to initiate contact with the right group of people. (and when we found a sleeper by investigation they went and killed themself!)

cb361 said @ 11:39am GMT on 27th Sep
I should have allowed the Lone Deep Ones to perform Investigations, to give them a fighting chance. But by the time I realised what a tough job they had, the game had started and it was too late to alter things.

Eru said @ 4:54pm GMT on 27th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
What you guys should have done was this...

A split second after the lynch one of you comes out and says "I'm a deep one, lone deep ones contact me tonight." Of course that person would die during the night, but you'd likely have gotten 5 new members.

sythe said @ 5:03pm GMT on 27th Sep
Bingo.

DirtyBirdy said @ 5:33pm GMT on 27th Sep
I thought about it, but then also figured that if someone did that and I was a lone deep one I'd take it as a trick.

Of course, if you made it through the night, it would be easy to get a bonus kill out of it by saying that Mr. X attempted contact. When Mr. X is killed and shows up to be a townie, then it's all over.

sythe said @ 5:41pm GMT on 27th Sep
With the vigilante around, it was a pretty safe bet that you'd not have made it through the night. The flipside of that being that it'd be pretty random for a townie to independently try and trick all the lone deep ones by doing that. Now a mason on the other hand....

kishi said @ 12:17pm GMT on 27th Sep
Awesome game, guys, I had an absolute blast. Definitely my favorite of all the games I've read so far. Right on.

kishi said @ 12:30pm GMT on 27th Sep
As a request, could you guys put up the answers (and possibly explanations of how to solve) your cryptography puzzles?

eightysix said @ 6:06pm GMT on 27th Sep
yeah, i planned to do that from the beginning. Part 1 is out, but I really have to go somewhere.

13ullet said @ 1:06pm GMT on 27th Sep
Great game I loved it and had a lot of fun. Thank you and all for a great game.

verycleanteeth said @ 1:27pm GMT on 27th Sep
Good jorb guys. My favorite addition was the items. It's something I'd like to see included in future games.

Now, NEXT GAME NEXT GAME! What will it be? I know there's a list, but is anyone prepping one up right now? I've been dead for too long. I'm eager to get back to some fingerpointing.

Dismortis said @ 4:20pm GMT on 27th Sep
I echo that. I kind of tuned the game out after death. Itching to get my game on again!

qtemo said @ 4:13pm GMT on 27th Sep
I have to say, great game guys. Very well put together and well written. It was a blast....

I can't wait for the next round.

wtjones said @ 4:50pm GMT on 27th Sep
nice job guys. I really enjoyed it. Next time I won't be quite so much of a loose cannon.

verycleanteeth said @ 5:41pm GMT on 27th Sep
:(

Philistine said @ 6:15am GMT on 28th Sep
Loose cannons are fun!

eightysix said @ 6:04pm GMT on 27th Sep [Score:1 Informative]
The Cryptonomicon of Abdul Al'Eightysix

AJMUHQ PQJ UCCN CY PQJ PQTUX GJDJG CV PQJ GTOQPQCKAJ - Dark-light Camera

This is a simple substitution cypher that a lot of people submitted the answer to within hours of the post going up.

PQJ appears twice, and one may logically deduce that it can be decrypted to THE

?E???H THE ???? ?? THE TH??? ?E?E? ?? THE ???HT?H???E

CY and CV could be, in the English language, the following: an, as, at, ax, be, do, by, do, if, in, me, my, no, of, on. As it precedes THE in both instances, one narrows this down to as, at, be, by, do, if, in, of, on. In this case, it was ON and OF.

?E???H THE ?OO? ON THE TH??? ?E?E? OF THE ???HT?HO??E

The palindrome is a rare occurrence in the English language. GDJDG decrypts to LEVEL.

?E???H THE ?OO? ON THE TH??? LEVEL OF THE L??HT?HO??E

L??HTHO??E is of course, LIGHTHOUSE. By this point, the answer to this cypher should begin to become clear.

SE???H THE ?OO? ON THE THI?? LEVEL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE

The thi?? level? Surely one must surmise that we are referring to the third level.

SE?R?H THE ROO? ON THE THIRD LEVEL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE

SE?R?H can only be search, but possibilities for ROO? are ROOM and ROOK, as F is already decrypted. I'd imagine more people would search a ROOM than a ROOK, though. And so the answer that should have been sent in (by Aidentas who was choosing between solving this and sleeping) was:

SEARCH THE ROOM ON THE THIRD LEVEL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE

TTDDH ITRFN IHEAA AOOOL SERGL and OHSHI IHWHH OTUTF KEETS LNOIE - Gold and Silver, Father Da--- and Mother Hy---.

The answer to these were partly dependent on the keys which were Dagon and Hydra. A simple cursory inspection of the first line of cyphertext would reveal that DAGON was present in the first one in order allowing one to solve it very quickly, but methods exist for solving it even if it were not.

Firstly, number the blocks from 1 to 5. (Unsure how to use a fixed width font)

TTDDH -1
ITRFN -2
IHEAA -3
AOOOL -4
SERGL -5

Supposing DAGON=12345, arranging these letters alphabetically would make the number order 21354. One needs only to arrange the cyphertext in this order and read vertically.

ITRFN -2
TTDDH -1
IHEAA -3
SERGL -5
AOOOL -4

ITISATTHEORDEROFDAGONHALL. Insert spaces and that's where you'll find the gold coin.

IT IS AT THE ORDER OF DAGON HALL.

OHSHI IHWHH OTUTF KEETS LNOIE can be solved using the same method, Hydra if numbered and rearranged as described above, is 35241. However, in this cypher, you arrange it in numerical order.

LNOIE -1
OTUTF -2
OHSHI -3
KEETS -4
IHWHH -5

LOOKINTHEHOUSEWITHTHEFISH. If you asked me what I was referring to, I have to admit, I don't rightly know. The silver token was there though.

LOOK IN THE HOUSE WITH THE FISH.

Philistine found the Gold Coin, and qtemo, the Silver Token.

8.15.110.63.132.247.306.95.115.174 - The Grimoire of Abdul Al'Hazred

This was one that nobody solved. I had actually changed the font colour of this one in my profile to #235711 after 2 days to see if anyone could use that as a clue. The key to solving it was to use ascending prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11 ...) Divide the numbers in the cypher by these numbers.

8/2=4, 15/3=5 and so on..

4.5.22.9.12.19.18.5.5.6

This can be assigned alphabets. 4=D, 5=E, ... Which provides us with

DEVILSREEF (I loved this object, and I was disappointed that noone got it, though I only have myself to blame. I wonder which ability would have been used.)

Regarding the chicken bones in the gew gaw boxes, you have known the answer from the first day. Today, it is staring you in the face.

Look to the right a bit of Cthulhu's tentacle. I meant it when I said it was staring you in the face. I made the font colour of this #006686 in my profile, too. And of course, my profile number was 6686, a page we've been linking to since Day 01.

Masons Equinophobe, Alacron and gmg got the bones, but the story behind the use of the bones is very interesting one.

Other solutions coming soon.

eightysix said @ 6:05pm GMT on 27th Sep
Hahhhhh. just realised that I had to be out 15 minutes ago.

Narrenschiff said @ 7:14pm GMT on 27th Sep
Best written one yet, I think. Good show.

DeadCarbonCopy said @ 9:10pm GMT on 27th Sep
good game everyone, especially our GM's. ...though, I would like to make it to the end of one of these one day.

-_- said @ 9:36pm GMT on 27th Sep
In case my respect isn't obvious ...

GREAT GAME GM's YOU REALLY RAISED THE BAR!!

GREAT GAME PLAYERS TOO!!

This was the game that told me we really have something amazing coming together here on SE ... all those poor people over at mafiascum that think a 20 player game is unmanageable don't know what they're missing... but let's not tell them yet.

cb361 said @ 12:11am GMT on 28th Sep
Thanks, and it's a testament to this community that can hold six-week games together.

Fifty-four players were a few too many, though. I would like to see large games, with smaller ones like yours starting about halfway through to give the players who have been killed off early something to do.

Actually what I would like would be to find a way to allow the dead player to continue participating, but I haven't thought of an elegant way to do it.

CapnSilver said @ 2:37am GMT on 28th Sep
Remember way back when I said that I'd learned a game this big is hard?
Well, yeah.

sythe said @ 4:35am GMT on 28th Sep
They get a lot easier to manage if you can find a way to kill everyone at once. :)

qtemo said @ 5:37am GMT on 28th Sep
I think I have a way to play this where the dead can keep participating... I'm working on a concept for two different games right now... I just need to separate the features into two different categories.

grosaprap said @ 5:14pm GMT on 28th Sep
Sensible Zombies? :-P

Zelgius said @ 12:29am GMT on 28th Sep
I know it's been said by almost everyone already, but seriously, it was an awesome game. Great job guys, I had loads of fun.

redemption said @ 5:45am GMT on 28th Sep
Awesome guys, absolutely awesome.
One small gripe looking at it the events of Night 9 though, I wasn't informed I'd been investigated, which I thought you were if you were a sleeper/dreamer so you knew what side you were on at last. A small thing, but it may have saved our Masonic Knife user from death. At least from using it on me anyway.

So how long till the next one?

Impeached Alacron said @ 6:27am GMT on 28th Sep
An absolutely wonderful game, the story text in every post and interacting with everyone in this deadly game of cat and also cat.

You did some serous work on this cb361 and eightysix

so I propose three (or more) cheers for the numbers who ran this complected and detailed game so well.

Also this is the first game I've survived to the end it is a good feeling.