mystery box of silver ten: titans of the votehouse LETSA GO

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mystery box of silver ten: titans of the votehouse LETSA GO

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Mon Sep 14, 2020 5:01 pm

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Do you remember, long ago, the satyrical commentary on the large theme form,
mystery box of silver five
, the aberrant fifth installment of the fan favorite series of satyrical commentaries on the micro form? no? that is because it did not play out very well and was a disaster in motion.


see, that game asked a lot of its players and didn't give the players the tools they needed to keep that engagement up. i am attempting to remedy this by splitting the difference and cranking up what is asked of the players AND cranking up the corresponding tools.


we are overclocking this thing.


welcome to mystery box of silver ten: titans of the votehouse.


you can think of the mystery box series as me attempting to put forth what i wish to see more of in mafia games. normally these are micros because it is easy to make a micro setup that has a few fun things and zero problems. indeed: i got scummy nominations for setups that had like three characteristics.


mbos 5 was a shot at a third party that had actionable and fun goals, and that could potentially have been figured out by a committed and/or fortunate town. this is still something i do not see in large themes, but thats because i havent followed a large theme game since that time i ran one. anyone remember that?


what is for sure not in the large theme queue often enough, is me making fun of house of cards. so that is what i will be putting forth in this game. i dont like that show.


characteristics of this game
  • there will be 23 players.
  • you should not play this if you haven't finished at least two non-newbie games.
  • hydras up to 3 heads
  • everyone is multitasking. private threads will generally be open at all times. there is no redirection. if you can think of something similar to redirection, it's probably not in this. this is also generally unlike a role madness game - plenty of people will be vanilla or almost vanilla.
  • you can ask me questions.
  • northsidegal reviewed the setup. errant pabola will be my backup moderator.
  • romance???????
motifs of the series:

assignment of roles to town by mafia; heavy information to mafia; night actions being determined by events (e.g., two players are assigned to collaboratively use a doctor ability); normal roles or otherwise non-flashy roles; uncertain guilties vs. certain innocents; setup fake-outs; vanilla by any other name tastes just as sweet.

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  1. samantha97
  2. Christøpher
  3. Bell
  4. mastina
  5. Nero Cain (as 3rd party joat)
  6. April Ludgate
  7. Ban Hydras (Hectic + Hopkirk + Flopz)
  8. Vecna
  9. Morning Mage (Morning Tweet + Battle Mage)
  10. Almost50
  11. superbowl9
  12. Menalque
  13. Gamma Emerald
  14. Tayl0r Swift
  15. jjh927
  16. Titus
  17. NorwegianboyEE
  18. Pickaxe Pete
  19. PlusJOYED
  20. DiamondSentinel
  21. EchoVision
  22. DrDolittle
  23. TheGoldenParadox
replacements:
  • the worst at some point maybe!!!
  • chemist1422
  • shellyc (later!)
spectating
  • i copy pasted the signup post of my last large theme and it was such a trip seeing awestfie here. does anyone remember that
  • skitter30
  • lilith2013
  • Adorable
  • brassherald
Last edited by schadd_ on Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:46 pm, edited 12 times in total.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Mon Sep 14, 2020 5:54 pm

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all too well.

egopost and like, probably lategame replace if needed
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:39 pm

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In post 0, schadd_ wrote:romance??????
sold

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That evil teddy bear has got everyone twirling by his thumb.
It's like witnessing an slow but unavoidable train crash you can't stop."

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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:40 pm

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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:42 pm

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/in
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:43 am

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Spectate
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:13 am

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/in
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:36 am

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/in
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:58 am

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In post 5, skitter30 wrote:Spectate
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:45 pm

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/in
did another ms user do something lovely? recognize their achievements here!

Today's modern mafia consumer demands dozens, nay, hundreds of roles that are vanilla cops.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:53 pm

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pls be town, i feel like you'd be able to read this plist really well.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:10 pm

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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:19 am

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/out
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:02 am

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/in
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I just wanna say Cakez is an evil mod and this is an evil setup.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:19 am

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/in as 3rd party joat
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:27 am

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/wait why didn't the text keep getting smaller
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:31 am

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are u joining the game
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:57 am

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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:33 am

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/in as hydra of Hectic, Hopkirk, and Flopz
It takes a lot more than a couple of cheap shots to make us cry.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:59 am

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In post 18, Ban Hydras wrote:/in as hydra of Hectic, Hopkirk, and Flopz
Confirming Hopkirk.

Now I know what you're all wondering. On our avatar which one is which powerpuff girl? We spent a few hours vigorously debating this. We had to kick EgdufEkac out of the hydra in the end because she insisted that she get to be her overpowered self insert powerpuff girl from her powerpuff girls fanfic. This worked out pretty well in the end since we realized there was a maximum of three heads anyway.

Blossom - The pink/red smart one and the leader of the group. I wanted to go with Bubbles until Flopz started sending me photoshopped fanart of me dressed as Bubbles. Obviously it didn't look anything like me and was super weird, but I really didn't want him to keep sending me more pictures so in the end I just agreed to make him stop. Spoilers - he didn't.

Bubbles - The blue airhead. I'm blonde and have blue eyes so obviously Flopz insisted on being this one. Not a smart move picking the airhead Flopz, feels like the kind of move Bubbles would make tbh.

Buttercup - The green angry tomboy. Flopz wanted to be this one at the start so Hectic knocked most of his teeth out and that pretty much decided things. Hectic broke both of Flopz's kneecaps anyway just to be on the safe side. I for one support this move, mostly because I love my kneecaps.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:51 pm

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/uhhh in to replace or hydra i guess if anyone wants to?
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:01 am

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In post 8, lilith2013 wrote:
In post 5, skitter30 wrote:Spectate
"we knew everything... And we knew nothing."
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:03 am

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one day schadd_ will mod a game at a time when I'm available

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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:48 am

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what's it mean to be a spectator besides that you're reading the thread
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:59 am

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u can hang out and talk about it in the dead thread without needing to die first
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