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[Pavowski]

Hey, so.
Like.
I got vanilla'd
and I'm no longer loverized to galron.

-Bell

Bet

VOTE: galron

What does that mean? Bet? You think we still are?

Just sitting here waiting to see if we actually get to see a flip on Galron or not.

Odds?

[Wisdom]

ugh this will be painful if he doesnt flip
you will all continue spamming he was scum

[Pavowski]

Yeah it just occurred to me that if JC didn't flip there's no guarantee Gal will. That would suck. But that's pessimist!me talking. I am sure the dawn will bring us all the answers and the game will go smoothly from that point!

[fferyllt]

Twilight has ended!

Peter Quince, played by Galron, a

Marlowe's Miscreant

has been eliminated

.

Spoiler: Galron's Role

Welcome!

You are

Peter Quince

, of

A Midsummer Night's Dream

.

You fancy yourself a playwright, but have a tough time with rhyme and meter. You like to play bit parts in your own plays. And you soliloquize. Frequently. At length. Of all Shakespeare's characters you maybe the one most like the Bard himself.

Your signing bonus for joining the Globe Theatre Troupe is:

1 gold coin

, and the Globe Theatre will pay you

1 gold coin

at the end of each game day. For more information about the

coins

, read this post carefully.

Abilities:

All the world's a stage:

Your greatest abilities of all, your voice and your vote

You shall play it in a mask, and you may speak as small as you will:

Each night you can write a dialogue or scene between yourself and another player in the game, send it to me, and I will deliver it anonymously to the player at the end of the night. If the player chooses, they may send you a dialogue back by the end of the next day.

Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude:

For each dialogue you send, you will also get a random snippet of flavor from the player's role card.

Slings and Arrows

: You shall not suffer them.

O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted:

There may be other aspects of your role of which you are currently unaware.

O most courageous day! O most happy hour!

• Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts:
  You can buy a spell to upgrade to your partial flavor cop, making it a partial ability cop. You will learn one (random) of the player's non-factional abilities. The cost is
  8 gold coins

  .

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

• You are a member of
  Marlowe's Miscreants
  .
  
• You share a factional private thread with [REDACTED}. The thread will be open for your discussions throughout the game unless some unforetold event should occur.
  
• Christopher Marlowe pays you wages of
  1 gold coin
  at the end of each game day.
  
• You may pool or redistribute the team's
  gold coins
  each night as your team see fit.
  
• While [REDACTED] both live, your team has the factional ability to steal up to
  2 gold coins
  from another player at night two times during the game. This ability counts as a visit to the player you steal from. You must specify who performs the heist. Together, you decide how you wish to distribute these ill gotten gains.
  
• You share a factional kill and must specify who performs the kill each night.
  
• You cannot target the same player for steal and kill in a single night.

Win Condition

You win when

Marlowe's Miscreants

achieve numerical parity or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here. Confirmation instructions are in Post #4 of the thread. Or, post in the factional PT.

[fferyllt]

The ghost of a young girl slides effortlessly center stage. She stares out into the balconies for a moment, and then exits before the curtains come down.

Juliet, played by Juliet Capulet, a

Marlowe's Miscreant

has performed her last scene.

Spoiler: Juliet Capulet's Role

Welcome!

You are

Juliet

, of

Romeo and Juliet

.

You are the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet, You fall in love with Romeo of House Montague, then tragically die, and in doing so help mend the long and bitter blood feud between two great Houses.

Your signing bonus for joining the Globe Theatre Troupe is:

1 gold coin

, and the Globe Theatre will pay you

1 gold coin

at the end of each game day. For more information about the

coins

, read this post carefully.

Abilities:

All the world's a stage:

Your greatest abilities of all, your voice and your vote

A thousand times good night!:

You have two potions. When you drink one at night, you fall into such a deep slumber that night phase that you cannot be targeted in any way by anyone.

Parting is such sweet sorrow:

When you die you will be able to make one final post in the game thread. If you die at night, you must post within 24 hours of the next game day starting. If you die during the day, you will be able to make that post during the night. To make the post at night, please PM me and I will open the thread for you.

O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die:

Your role will not be disclosed until the end of the following phase after you die. e.g., if you die on Night 2, you will not flip until the end of Day 3.

Slings and Arrows:

You may suffer some.

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!:

There may be other aspects of your role of which you are currently unaware.

There lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords

• The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.:
  You may buy one additional potion. The cost is
  8 gold coins

Tis but thy name that is my enemy

• You are a member of
  Marlowe's Miscreants
  .
  
• You share a factional private thread with [REDACTED}. The thread will be open for your discussions throughout the game unless some unforetold event should occur.
  
• Christopher Marlowe pays you wages of
  1 gold coin
  at the end of each game day.
  
• You may pool or redistribute the team's
  gold coins
  each night as your team see fit.
  
• While [REDACTED] both live, your team has the factional ability to steal up to
  2 gold coins
  from another player at night two times during the game. This ability counts as a visit to the player you steal from. You must specify who performs the heist. Together, you decide how you wish to distribute these ill gotten gains.
  
• You share a factional kill and must specify who performs the kill each night.
  
• You cannot target the same player for steal and kill in a single night.

Win Condition

You win when

Marlowe's Miscreants

achieve numerical parity or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here. Confirmation instructions are in Post #4 of the thread. Or, post in the factional PT.

I will give you thy well-earned wages, and then Night 2 shall begin!

[fferyllt]

Night Two Begins!

Night actions are due in (expired on 2021-11-13 09:00:00)

[fferyllt]

'Twas another night of many movements. The effects are being processed. The sun will rise anon!

[fferyllt]

Night 2 hath ended!

And tragedy hath once more struck:

The Bear

, a

Loyal Cast Member

, as played by

GuiltyLion

, has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Spoiler: GuiltyLion's Role

Welcome!

You are

the Bear

, of

The Winter's Tale

.

You speak no lines, and you make but one appearance, and yet you are one of the most famous pieces of stage direction of all time. What more can I say?

Your signing bonus for joining the Globe Theatre Troupe is:

1 gold coin

, and the Globe Theatre will pay you

1 gold coin

at the end of each game day. For more information about the

coins

, read this post carefully.

Abilities:

All the world's a stage:

Your greatest abilities of all, your voice and your vote

Exit, pursued by a bear:

On Night One, you must select a player to track that night, and every night thereafter as long as you are both alive in the game.

Slings and Arrows:

You may suffer some.

A feather for each wind that blows:

There may be other aspects of your role of which you are currently unaware.

We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i’ the sun

• Pale primroses, that die unmarried, ere they can behold bright Phoebus in his strength:
  You can buy a potion that will break the bond between you and and the player you track if that player is yet alive. When you drink the potion at the beginning of a Night, you will be able to track any living player that Night and each thereafter, as long as you live.The cost will be
  5 gold coins
  .

Win Condition

You win when all threats to

Loyal Cast Members

have been eliminated or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here. Confirmation instructions are in Post #4 of the thread.

[fferyllt]

Another dawn hath risen



Dawn phase will last no longer than 6 hours: (expired on 2021-11-13 22:23:59)

If you have a dawn action, 'tis best sent to me soon!

[fferyllt]

A voice booms out from somewhere backstage:

Section A: Crier Corner

I did a lot of thinking over the night. As I mentioned, I'm able to post my thoughts even if I meet an untimely end here, so there's no real reason for me not to to this. I'm also going to disembody myself from my physical form... I'm acting as a pure spirit of reasoning and wit, and I shall not be held back by my wordly biases!

I'm the crier who wrote the message in post 1014, but I didn't write the poem after that, which means there is another crier still alive. I'm not sure what their intentions are, or what to think. What I do know is that I was right about Juliet being a rogue crier, a real no-do-gooder trying to give us noble criers a bad rap. In any case, I'm the good crier that you can trust, ok?

Section B: Mechanical bookkeeping

In post 1038 Titus claims to have been liberated of her gold. This means that there is another role who can liberate someone of their gold.
In post 1772 Skybird claims to have received a message. This matches up with Galron's role, which also gave Galron a random snippet from Skybird's flavor.
Galron also claimed to have been liberated of his gold, and to have received a message, in post 1158. We can assume he was lying.
We must also keep in mind that the duration of day 2 was halved by an unknown force. I'm currently assuming that this was a scum ability, but would be open to explanations in the future.

Section C: Juliet Capulet

So, she flipped mafia after all, and while the events of day 2 are fresher on everyone's minds, it will be worth it to go back and look over day 1 as well with this new information. I will say that although I am a thought-form with no bias whatsoever, I will still act upon my (perfect) memory of the events of day 2 and filter this to really be about what I find interesting in the context of both days. I'm also going to skip the bits in her role about stealing gold coins, and talk about that later.

I believe that it is clear that Juliet was pretending to be town in order to confuse the town after her elimination, with the delayed flip. This ended up being overshadowed by the track on Galron, but it was their intentions. I believe that their last post where they hand out reads like candy is largely wifom nonsense that can be safely ignored. To be clear, I think that if we combine Juliet's day 1 wagon, and compare with day 2, we will come up with something. My conclusion is in Section E, though conclusion is a misnomer, really, as I'll be open to hearing new arguments during day 3.

Section D: Galron

How could Galwrong feel so right? This was an interesting wagon, there were people claiming suspicion before the track results were revealed, and when the actual track was revealed, a second wagon formed. Let's take a moment to look over what Galron was doing, though.

Post 596 is, in hindsight and paired with the mafia factional ability to steal coins, obvious fishing for info. It makes me wonder if 597 is also fishing for some kind of information... because look at the mafia role again, it says they have the ability to steal coins as long as 2 specific players are still alive. My bet is that the mafia only received the flavor of these players, and Galron here is trying to figure out flavor claims so he knows who to potentially not kill.

Post 1160 all the way to 1253 is all fake confusion over the crier message. He was scum with Juliet, he knows she didn't send that message, this is all acting. And what is his purpose? More role fishing? From me, no less. Or is he simply wasting town's time on a half day? Or is he trying to look town? Maybe I really am just on another level and I fried his mind as he tried to fathom my intentions, as if he cast Read Thoughts on someone with an intelligence of 26 or higher?

Section E: My suspect

Off The Hook was suspected going into day 2. Notably from them is 1163 and beyond which I feel looks the most like theatrics of all those who responded to Galron talking about the crier (that's me). They end up town reading Galron for this posting later, which could be a planned move, and in 1366 they encourage the town to keep Galron alive for their claim, and place the third vote on the counter-wagon. There's another problem with 1366 in that it does feel like their stated suspicions were pulled out of nowhere, onto an awfully convenient place, at an awfully convenient time. And the followup in post 1376 seems very weak to me. I'm also not buying the way they try to tie Galron to Dunnstral near the end of the day, when it is looking more clear that Galron is going to be the elimination, because that goes against the spirit of their earlier vote and stance, while not being explained. It feels like they are already playing for the next day phase, knowing that two mafia are about to flip. This is post 1623, for reference.

I would like for Off The Hook to be the day 3 elimination, barring new evidence. I would also like to keep up the pretext of anonymity. This is a conundrum, though I'll figure it out.

Section W: Is dumb

This section is dumb. This section is dumb. There were a lot of sections skipped to arrive at this section, and this section doesn't even make any sense. And it's repeating itself. A curious section, indeed.

[fferyllt]

What ho? Another voice cries out from the wings:

Alas, I do not have much to think
Why dwell in my mind when I may instead speak
Marlowe's Miscreants look to be down
Yet how do I prove that I am indeed town?
With diligence and wit that I do not possess
Perhaps a lost cause? No, maybe, yes.

[fferyllt]

Thou hast an opportunity to earn one extra

gold coin

today. Post thine own, self-made sonnet and if it be fair to the eye and ear, and the subject be our esteemed MAFIASCUM community, ye shall earn your extra wage.

[fferyllt]

Vote Count 3-1

Day 3 Begins!

Today's performance is

King John

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Not Voting

(13): Lukewarm, DeasVail, Titus, Wisdom, Lady Lambdadelta, Dunnstral, Child of Fairies, Skybird, Bowser Jr., Off the Hook, Cephrir, Pavowski, Icebox

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to eliminate.

Deadline: November 23, Midnight US Eastern Time.

Countdown: (expired on 2021-11-23 21:00:00)

Mod Notes:

-

[Off The Hook]

VOTE: Lukewarm
A test is in order.

-GE

[Pavowski]

Oh a sonnet, bet

[Child of Fairies]

VOTE: Wisdom

[Off The Hook]

BTW anyone think I'm partnered with Galron needs to look at how many times I doubled back and threw a new question his way, and imo none of them were slow pitches that could be swatted away easily, so anyone thinking I'm a Galron partner needs to consider why I continually trying to make him dig a deeper grave while having a general position of TRing/wanting to keep Galron alive. It's like my typical habit of asking aimless questions but with an actual honed edge in play this time.

-GE

[Pavowski]

BTW anyone think I'm partnered with Galron needs to look at how many times I doubled back and threw a new question his way, and imo none of them were slow pitches that could be swatted away easily, so anyone thinking I'm a Galron partner needs to consider why I continually trying to make him dig a deeper grave while having a general position of TRing/wanting to keep Galron alive. It's like my typical habit of asking aimless questions but with an actual honed edge in play this time.

-GE

Something about methinks protesting forthwith

Wisdom is like, way too obvious to sus CoF, unless you think all those posts at EoD were a stone bluff

[Child of Fairies]

my brain's telling me wisdom was the one who made a post about JC dying at the end of the day well before her flip but I can't go back and find it right now so I'm just putting it here until I can find the post

[Bowser Jr.]

I said she’d flip at EOD2 because it’s a mirror of a similar role used in a last game of Fferys.

[Skybird]

I want to clear one thing up as we get started today. I mis-read the pm from the mod and I didn't get robbed night 1. I clarified meaning with the mod last night.

[Pavowski]

VOTE: Lukewarm
A test is in order.

-GE

VOTE: Luke
This looks fun, what are we testing?

[Off The Hook]

I want to clear one thing up as we get started today. I mis-read the pm from the mod and I didn't get robbed night 1. I clarified meaning with the mod last night.

yeah I also thought we might have had an accounting error based on our notifs as well

-GE

[Bowser Jr.]

GuiltyLion died a hero's death. We must honor his memory accordingly.

~Spiffy

[Icebox]

Hey, so, Bowser Jr. Pavowski, Lukewarm and I are in

A scum PT together

a neighborhood and none of us are admitting to making it.
As all good townies do, you shouldn't post in them. It's bad.

I have already done my traditional dunking on of the scum team in these two neighborhoods and so,
for the third time: lmao.

VOTE: OTH

-Bell