Micro 949 | Mask of Monsters | Mod PT

[northsidegal]

all account information looks good, going ahead

[northsidegal]

urgggh the formatting breaks down in the PM box

whatever, it looks fine enough i guess and it's not worth the hassle to change it now

[northsidegal]

you know i think SS has rolled scum in like the last 4 games he's been in that i modded

he replaced into scum in newsroom
he was scum in baton pass
he was scum in city that never sleeps
and he's scum again here

i can't seem to give him a break!

[schadd_]

think ive only modded one game of him. He was a woulf

[northsidegal]

here's hoping nobody altslips in their very first post

[northsidegal]

I'm so concerned. I really want to mess around but if there's anyone here who knows me, they could definitely guess my identity...

Maybe I should go with plan B of imitating Titus. Less fun but could work.

[northsidegal]

VOTE: Kim Mask

My early theory is that Kim and Komainu are the same person. If I'm wrong, I do think Kim is suspicious.

My reasoning:

Look at this post from Kim:

So how do we figure out who's scum? Do we just make conversation and see who sounds scummy? Idk how this really works

Anyone here who wants to talk about our avatars? Kay has the best one imo. I realize that could just be me buddying my other account but it's not I swear

She starts off with proper capitalization on the first letter in each sentence. Now, look at the rest of her posts, she quickly devolves into lower case only, which I assume is not natural for her.
She could simply be trying to maintain her mask, but she could also be trying to distance her two personas.

Look at the Kim and Komainu interactions - I get the inkling that someone is trying

too

hard to make two accounts seem unaligned right out of the gate. Keep the grammar from post 15 in mind.

woah

[northsidegal]

absolutely brilliant!

[northsidegal]

oh wait, i thought he meant Kay, not Kim. well, it was close.

[northsidegal]

i knew those two names were really similar and would probably confuse me at least once

[northsidegal]

very early guesses:
Kay is soemthing_smart
Kirk is Battle Mage

(No actual research done)

there's one correct read. i wonder if it'll translate into being able to solve the game? i guess it depends on how well SS can hide komainu being him – after all, i think his plan was to play Kay just like himself anyways, so this is basically all according to plan for him.

[northsidegal]

Subject: Dance of the Title Thread: No Duck-running Allowed Edition

It applies to too many people and doesn't fit as well. It does sound better. But I don't view titles as jingles

lol.

[northsidegal]

that's unfortunate.

[northsidegal]

haha, this is such a weird scenario because SS doesn't have the title thread ego'd.

arguably this is game-breaking, arguably this is exactly the sort of shenanigans that i was inviting with this game. either way, i'm still loving watching this game so far, and i hope it's just as interesting for the players.

[northsidegal]

I meant what I said on Komainu about modkills, by the way. I think modkilling is the only way to deal with an altslip.

half of the reason the alt-kill mechanic even exists is to sort of, if not remove, at least mitigate the game-breaking factor of alt-slips. (the other half just being that i find figuring out who people are interesting and so thought it would be an interesting mechanic)

sure, it can create weird and i guess stupid situations with someone who slips and doesn't die. i wouldn't say that it's

too

terrible, though?

[northsidegal]

This game really should have been played in a PT.

i considered this, as well. the advantages are obvious, although i did think that a public thread would be better for the sake of anyone who cared to spectate.

in retrospect, perhaps that's the biggest mistake about this setup – i suppose it doesn't really make sense to give theoretical spectators (of which there are likely few) more weight than the players themselves, especially when the players are already making such a big commitment by joining the game in the first place. if this game does get a sequel / another run, i think that it probably makes sense to go with it being played in a PT.

[northsidegal]

VOTE: Kris

VOTE: Kris

Why?

power move

[schadd_]

haha, this is such a weird scenario because SS doesn't have the title thread ego'd.

arguably this is game-breaking, arguably this is exactly the sort of shenanigans that i was inviting with this game. either way, i'm still loving watching this game so far, and i hope it's just as interesting for the players.

oh yeah i love that

they edited the post

[northsidegal]

@nsg: can you ask everyone to check in during the night, so that I can choose to end the night only when everyone has checked in?

thoughts on this? i'm inclined to just say no.

[schadd_]

yeah that doesnt seem necessary. if he wants to he can just wait 24hr, would have the same effect pretty much. lol.

[northsidegal]

ahahahahahahahaha enter is literally verbatim copying skitter posts

i don't know why that's so funny to me but it is

[schadd_]

thats clever - another dynamic that sort of weakens the alt guess. i think because of the == thing i would id that person as royally not skitter

[northsidegal]

northsidegal

, if the preference was PM'ed unanimous would you move the game to a PT? I'm having fun and want the mask part to go smoothly as possible.

i'm actually inclined to say yes. thoughts?

[northsidegal]

Katrielle = Ame
Karma = Kerset
Kitsune = Alisae (imitating Isis)
Kris = Porkens (not confident about this one)
Kay = Something_Smart
Kirk = Tuxedo Mask
Komainu = Elements
Kuzco = DOPPELGANGER

-redact-

i wonder if he got kerset by posting time similarity, i feel like karma's posting so far has been fairly neutral and uncharacteristic, but perhaps i'm just not familiar enough with kerset to be able to place it.

[northsidegal]

i think it's sort of interesting how people seem to fall into the same sort of biases this game as they do in regular games. for instance, suspecting kuzco as the least "charismatic" (or most lynchbait) player because his posts / logic tend to be somewhat weird. it's justified as "he has an unnatural vibe like a doppelganger", but i would imagine that if scum are capable of presenting themselves normally that they could do the same thing for their other account.

granted, kuzco only has 8 posts, but i like to think that i would actually take being kind of weird as a towntell in this game, because i think it's difficult to naturally fake, i think that someone who posts like that normally might have trouble faking an alternate identity, and i think that even

if

scum could convincingly fake that kind of posting, they probably wouldn't choose to.