Mini 1488: Lucid Dreamers Mafia (Game Over)

[Guyett]

I guarantee that I am town. I am nearly sure Nat is town (only way he is scum is if scum fucked up my dream)
Cedric is the only suspicious one

[Guyett]

if GM flips town I should be banned from X-Lo

[Guyett]

Nat if you flip scum again I'm going to be so sad ;_;

[Natirasha]

I actually can't flip scum this game, sorry. I'm probably just dead tonight though.

[Guyett]

if GM is scum and this game is still active then you prob will go tonight

[Zaicon]

Final Vote Count - Day 4

goodmorning (4):

Haschel Cedricson, Natirasha, Guyett, killerjester

Haschel Cedricson (1):

goodmorning

No Vote (1):

caledfwitch

goodmorning,

Dreamer

, has been lynched!

Guyett,

Dreamer

, has been endgamed!
killerjester,

Dreamer

, has been endgamed!
Natirasha,

Dreamer

, has been endgamed!

caledfwitch,

Nightmare

, wins the game!
Haschel Cedricson,

Nightmare

, wins the game!

Give me a while to collect the dreams, then I'll post them here. Meanwhile, feel free to discuss.

[Guyett]

fuck it anyway.
GG scum

[Haschel Cedricson]

caled, please tell me that for some reason you didn't have a vote yesterday. Last night I literally (not figuratively) dreamt about yelling at you for not hammering.

More thoughts after I finish up some work things.

[Haschel Cedricson]

EBWOP: Last night as in real-life nights, not game nights.

[Natirasha]

Wtf

[Guyett]

I'll leave this game here as a slight rebuttal to that but am inclined to agree.

[Guyett]

I'll be signing up for the next lucid dreamers game Zaicon

[Natirasha]

I'm not.

[Zaicon]

I'm not planning on running another Lucid Dreamers outside of Marathon games. It could work with some modifications (including a change to the 'interpretation' mechanic), but I have other games I'd rather run.

[MafiaSSK]

So was it HC that said that one of the masons should die? I've gotta know.

[Zaicon]

►►Night 0 Dreams◄◄

ac1983fan

I dream of waking up on a bright, sunny day here in Dreamville. But, the paranoia of others is rampant. Suddenly, people are accusing me of being a Nightmare. But, I have no fear, for I simply raise my hand to the sky, and Morgan Freeman's booming voice declares "ac1983fan is not a nightmare."

Effect: This.

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chkflip

3. My dream was that of a pervert with a video camera. Searching for that one clip, that one moment to bring me to ecstasy. But it wasn't there. House to house this body went to look for that lustful fix, catching what everyone did on camera. My motions were too swift to see their faces but their actions were clear on the playback. This woke me up in the middle of the night with the grandest of ideas...

Effect: This.

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GuyInFreezer

I dream that when I wake up, I get a superpower to read Who's mind and see if he's lying or not.

Effect: This is basically a 1-shot lie detector. He checked this statement, which was true.

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Guyett

I had a dream that that an unknown person fell of a giant building but before they hit the ground a blackhole swallowed them whole and transported them to a land full of craft beer and bbq'd meat. They stayed there in content happiness blissfully unaware of their life for a short while before being realising they just had food poisoning and it was just a bad trip.

Effect: This made GuyInFreezer have a 1-shot miller-like ability (any "investigative" dreams would have turned up as "guilty" during that night). However, no one investigated GIF.

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Haschel Cedricson

3) I am at work, sorting aircraft parts. I notice that somebody has mixed all the nuts together, and I have to check each one individually to see if it has a right-hand or left-hand thread. Then I sort them by size. Then I move on to the bolts. It turns out that the AN numbering system is being replaced by the MS numbering system, and my boss GuyInFreezer tells me that I will have to memorize how to convert AN numbers to MS numbers in order to keep my job. He gives me a test, but the bolt that I'm supposed to figure out the MS number for is actually an NAS bolt and therefore cannot be measured with the AN bolt gauge. In anger I attempt to tear the bolt in two, but only succeed in transfering the cadmium plating from the bolt to my hands.

Effect: All of HC's votes were left on the Vote Counts for Day 1.

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MafiaSSK

3. I dream of pearly gates. Through those gates a deity looks over at me. He says, "MafiaSSK, I like you. Today, I will make you a saint." And so when I woke up the next morning I was granted Sainthood.

Effect: This gave MafiaSSK the power to "warp" someone's N1 dreams into a darker version of itself, since the deity chosen was the Saint of Anubis.

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Mutleyddmc

3) I dream that I was a ghost and could walk through walls and sneak into peoples rooms, I would be able to enter their bodies and see what they dreamt about that night

Effect: This.

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Natirasha

2. "Dreamt I was childhood friends with MafiaSSK and we had a secret code language on us could decipher.

Effect: The ability to use encoded messages with MafiaSSK in-thread.

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PimHel

2. I dreamt about a kingdom of some kind of video game. The princess was kidnapped and I had to tell the King what happened. Obviously, the king asked where the hero was, but there wasn't one. So the king told me that I'd be one... As I've never been one before and the King also suggested it, I searched for compagnions to help me in my quest. (Obv I don't know who they were, but I've decided on: Natirasha the mage, MafiaSSK as fighter, GuyinFreezer as Wyvernrider and Mutley as mascotte/dancer) However, the difficulty level is too hard and we had failed so far...
In the end, we were sick of it and let the King take care of it himself

Effect: This.

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SafetyDance

It is dark. I can't see anything. But I know someone else is there in the dark with me. Who is it? I don't know. A neighbour, a friend, an enemy. It could be anyone and I need to find out who they are and whether they are a threat to me.

But I can't see anything, not even my hands as I wave them out in front of me. "PimHel, is that you?" I cry out. "chkflip? Natirasha? Come on this isn't funny". I'm shuffling forwards, my hands moving about in all directions in case I touch something like a wall....or someone. I'm not used to this, trying to see distracts me and suddenly a solid object on the ground cause me to trip and fall on to my hands and knees. I grope around, trying to find the thing that fell me.

There, on the ground, the thing I tripped over: a flashlight. I turn it on and point it in front of me. Everywhere but the beam of light is illuminated. I swing it around and there! A flash of colour, its a person! It's...

Its...GuyInFreezer staring back at me. And now I know.

Effect: SD received the same thing as GIF.

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SXTLHGaiden

1. I was in a park. There were many people there, except the people were all lined up neatly in a grid. They didn't interact with anyone else, they just kept to themselves in that grid. But then, I look at one of them and thought "They look bored. I wonder if they'll ever talk to each other." All of a sudden, the people around this person began to talk to this person. Walking away, I thought to myself "I'm happy they could finally make some friends."

Effect: This.

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Who

I had a dream where I watched Guy_Named_Riggs while he slept because I was being a weird creepy stalker.

Effect: Absolutely nothing, since G_N_R never submitted a dream.

[Zaicon]

►►Night 1 Dreams◄◄

ac1983fan

Dream #2: I dream that I am a Secret Service agent, and one of the best. I have received years of training and practice in protecting important individuals, and have even managed to foil three or four assassination attempts in my time. I am the President's most trusted agent & protector, but of course I always have time for a little extra bodyguarding on the side.

Effect: ac1983fan bodyguards Who (which did nothing, since Who didn't die).

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caledfwitch

1) I am sneaking into someone's house with the initial plan to rob them. So far it's gone well, no one has noticed and I am almost out the door with the valuables. However I chicken out and put all of their stuff back, but end up putting them back into the wrong places.

Effect: I told SafetyDance that someone visited his house during Night 1.

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chkflip

2. I'm on stage. My best suit is on, the lights are bright, and everyone is staring. Nailed the first joke... no laughs. Nailed the second joke... no laughs. They're so silent. I try crowd work, my best impersonations, I even belittle myself... nothing. Just stares. Judgmental stares. I suffer through it as I have before, getting to the seven minute mark when the floor collapses below me. The infinite drop is terrifying, but not as bad as the eyes in the darkness. Then I'm floating... how? What happened? I'm in clouds. They lift me up, up, up. The ground closes again, and everyone laughs and applauds. I thank them for their time and remind them to tip their waitresses before heading off stage.

Effect: This.

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GuyInFreezer

"I dream that during the night, I become a huge spider that casts web to slow down all the evil spirit of nightmares."

Effect: Nightmare's dreams would be "slowed down" if possible. However, none of the dreams were able to be "slowed down".

Guyett

I dreamt I was a hired Privet Eye and I followed Marquis around. I took note of where he had been, who he had seen and what he had done. I had all of this information in a notebook that I always kept in my inside left pocket so I wouldn't lose it. I was good at what I did and brought the results back to my employers promptly and successfully.

Effect: I gave a "report" to Natirasha ("

You receive an official-looking report... you open it up and see a page about Marquis getting on a train and leaving.

"). This was the dream that Mutleyddmc chose to "warp", but there wasn't really anything to "warp".

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Haschel Cedricson

3) I am visiting my parents, who live in a house on a mountain that is the highest point in the Willamette Valley. I need to go into town to purchase a few things, and so I drive down the hill in front of their house. Now, IRL this road is a dead end, but in my dream it keeps going and connects to town. Unfortunately, as soon as I drive past my friends house, I get pulled over by a fuckton of cops for speeding. They ask me to step out of the car. I comply, but say "I do not consent to any searches of my vehicle." They are visibly frustrated by this. Eventually I am let off with a warning because I am white. This makes some of my teammates on the New York Giants upset.

Effect: Any investigations on HC won't work. However, there were no investigations on HC.

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MafiaSSK

1.
The dream began with a simple sound. A giant freaking roar. Then the visual appeared and "memories" along with it.

I was in a jungle strewn about were vines and trees. It was sort of foresty. And right there next to me was my best friend from childhood, Natirasha. We had set up camp here a couple of days ago, to get away from our city lives. Things were simply becoming too stressful with the overencumbarance of the recent mafia outbreak. So we went to the outskirts of town where the forest met the mountain tops. I thought it would be a brilliant idea and would keep us at peace and at rest.

But as it turns out, if you go to the mountains, there's going to be mountain lions. And if you kill a mountain cub, the mountain lion mom will be pissed. Natirasha was simply looking for food and then outcame a little cub, showing itself to the world, that Natirasha easily killed.

So we finally get to this moment. A giant mountain lion had finally found us and is about to come and ruin our picnic.

Natirasha began running immeadiately. Through moss, through cobwebs, through Monkey shit, Natirasha ran. I quickly followed. I had the best eyes and ears, and I had to make sure that everything would be clear.

Finally, we started up a path that looked familiar. Biggorocku Trail. This was the most difficult trail nearby, because it went the steepest path up the mountain straight to the top. At least the mountain lion wouldn't get us?

But Natirasha's wit and agility led us up the path just fine. The mountain lion, however followed through.

At the top of Biggorocku Trail, however, was its namesake, the Big Rock. No single man could ever move Big Rock. And as we approached Big Rock, Natirasha slipped and fell and got his leg stuck under Big Rock. I couldn't let Natirasha die like this. Never, ever. Natirasha deserved a more honorable death. The only way to save him would be to move the rock. And fast too. The mountain lion was coming.

The lion let out another roar.

I pushed.

Natirasha pushed with his leg.

And together, the rock came loose and started to fall down towards the lion. It collided with him and the lion tumbled down towards the forest. Dead.

I had been able to save Natirasha.

And together, we had done this. By working together, we were able to make two men's strength into the strength of three. By working together, we were able to kill the lions.

Then after that realization, the dream ended.

Effect: Nothing, because MafiaSSK was killed N1. The plan was for MafiaSSK & Nat to get a QT to make a single dream during N2, though.

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Marquis

I'm sitting on a train. There's no sign of other human life in any direction that I can see. I'm alone on the train, but it moves forward, hurtling westward faster and faster and faster. What I can see outside of the train becomes a bright white blur, and the force shoves me deeper and deeper into my seat. But for one everlasting second, the train instantly slows down. Or perhaps it's just time which slows only for me. My body floats up to look through the window, and there's a junkyard, filled with the mangled corpses of old blue post office boxes. I have an eternity to stare them down, but the rust simply crusts over their bodies. And when I scream, letters pour out like blood, and the train speeds away.

Effect: He was allowed to post for 24 hours after the thread lock for Day 2.

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Mutleyddmc

2) I had a dream that I was a bus driver and that I would take people to where they wanted to go and I was the happiest guy alive. Sadly my customers were not so happy and they never ended up in the place the asked me to go!

Effect: Someone got mad at him, hijacked his bus, and left him stranded in the middle of nowhere (and thus cannot be targeted).

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Natirasha

-I dream that my body is covered with florescent pink, unremovable glitter that gets on everything in the near vicinity around me.

Effect: Everyone that targeted Natirasha would have their vote in pink. However, no one targeted Natirasha.

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SafetyDance

Oh no! A rush of panic overcomes me and I start to sweat, heart starts beating. I'm watching the news and they just said a large asteroid was heading to Earth! Fuck! What am I going to do! There's only a week till it comes!!!

Suddenly I'm in the hardware shop, arm full of supplies, tools, all sorts of things. I pay for them and walk out to my truck, loading them in the back, where there's a lot of wood n metal.

Now I'm at home working around my shed. It's a brick shed but I'm re-enforcing it with titanium sheets and boarding up the small window. Inside I'm putting up shelving and setting up a tiny green-room, to grow plants and things.

I'm now stocking everything, there's only one day to go. There's loads of canned food of all sorts. A huge tank of drinking water, plus a purification system. Generator with loads of petrols. Guns, crossbow, knifes too, in preparation for whatever. It's all ready.

Finally, I take one look outside, and heaving, close the first door. I've added another to seal the place shut and I close the final door too. Now, I breathe a sigh of relief. For finally I am protected from the outside world, cut off where any dangers can't get me.

Effect: This was originally just going to jailkeep SD, but he changed it to jailkeep Who.

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Who

I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that I would never die.

Effect: This would have changed his death flavor if he had died N1/D2.

[Zaicon]

►►Night 2 Dreams◄◄

caledfwitch

1) As a practical joke, I hire a mariachi band to follow Natirasha around for the day. It is really hilarious and everyone laughs really hard but it is also really distracting because everyone else can't stop staring at the mariachi band in their silly costumes.

Effect: I missed the part that said "for the day". And since Natirasha basically commuted for N2, this had no effect.

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displaced

2)
I focused on my hands and turned them over, twisting and wriggling my fingers. Marquis had taught me well, the dream world had begun to solidify again around me and I knew the chance of awakening had passed, for the moment. Now to concentrate and seek out those who'd gone before, those who had died facing the nightmares. Somewhere out here in the astral realm, their conciousness' lingered, waiting to warn those travellers who knew not of the dangers of projection and seeking to arm those who were ...

Effect: This would have allowed Marquis to send displaced one message, but HC's dream prevented it.

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Guyett

Last night I dreamt I was out walking my dog when I found an injured person. I thought for a second on what to do before deciding to get my dog to protect the man while I ran home and returned with my car 2 minutes later. The man was in serious pain and so I returned him to my home. The man told me his name and thanked me for my care. I nursed him back to enough health so that he would be able to try to return home. He returned to his normal life briefly but then unfortunately I heard over the radio that he had died of his injuries soon after.

Effect: This delayed the kill for 48 hours. Guyett was told who would have died (SD).

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Haschel Cedricson

2) There is a giant alarm clock that won't stop ringing. Because of this, displaced has difficulty reaching the REM stage of sleep.

Effect: displaced was unable to dream properly.

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Natirasha

1. I dream that Who and I are a young lovers. One night, we sneak out of parent's houses and take a secret trip to an unnamed, tropical island. No one knew where we were for a couple weeks.

Effect: This worked as intended.

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Shane

A klingon beamed down into my bedroom and handed me a batleth

Effect: Shane would "attack" anyone PGO-style, which would leave a blood trail back to them. However, no one targeted Shane.

[Zaicon]

►►Night 3 Dreams◄◄

caledfwitch

Okay, a rewrite of the third dream: Haschel is a paramedic and he saves killerjester and goodmorning from a burning house; they are injured and can't do anything but are otherwise fine.

Effect: killerjester and goodmorning were told they were trapped in a burning house and that Haschel saved them. Originally, the dream included both caled and HC as the paramedics. This was not included as "targeting" goodmorning.

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goodmorning

Reuse PGO-stlye dream.

Effect: Same as Shane's dream, and no one targeted goodmorning.

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Guyett

Last night I dreamed I was police commissioner Gordon. I had a legion of well trained honest police men at my service. I had summoned my brightest detective, Maemuki , to my house for dinner and a chat. After dinner we retired to the living room and I approached my drinks cupboard. "Scotch?" I inquired. "just a small one Commissioner" he replied. I poured both of us a measure of Laphroaig 10 year old each. I sat down opposite him and asked him what he knew on the well known citizen Natirasha. He said that he knew where the upstanding fellow lived but that he had placed a GPS device on Natirasha's car for a previous misdemeanor. I knew then what must be done and that it must be done within the eye's of the law. I sent Maemuki to investigate Natirasha's dealings, businesses and to find out if Natirasha was the upstanding citizen that he made himself out to be. Being the good detective that he was Maemuki delivered his report on Natirasha back to me promptly but also had made a note on the results for his own benefit.

Effect: Guyett received

"I investigated Natirasha over the course of the Night, but my target did not leave the house or have any sign of outside communication with others. It's possible that this doesn't mean anything, but I think it's a good sign!"

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Haschel Cedricson

2) I am playing Magic: The Gathering in a tournament. My opponent and I each play a bunch of cards in succession, and now we need to figure out what order the spells will resolve in. I pull out a bottle of Wite-Out and change the official Rule Manual so that it states all creature-killing abilities will resolve BEFORE any other effects. My opponent complains, but the judge decides that he has to go by what I've written down in the rulebook.

Effect: This allowed the kill to be processed before dreams.

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killerjester

1. I stand at the end of a sidewalk, waiting for the pedestrian signal to illuminate. Cars whiz back and forth through the intersection. A white man appears on the other side of the street and instructs me to, "Walk." My first step off the sidewalk sends me falling through the pavement and into a spiraling abyss. I look back up. The cars carry about their business without any hint I was ever there. The faceless white man looks at me begins to grin as the words, "Don't Walk," form on the underside of the pavement.

Effect: killerjester was told that Maemuki traveled during N3.

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Maemuki

I dreamt... Well. Maybe dreamt isn't completely accurate. I was asleep, definitely, but it didn't feel like my dream. It didn't even feel like I was in the present day. I could only see the person's shadow for most of the dream, except at the very end, when I saw the person's face, very faintly, in the distance.

... Who the hell dreams about women and salad, anyway?

Effect: Maemuki would have been told that Marquis was the one who was responsible for the picture in the Vote Counts.

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Natirasha

3. I dream that everyone who does not submit a dream tonight dreams that they protect the player below them on the player list

Effect: This would have worked, but everyone submitted a dream.

[Haschel Cedricson]

First off, I want to say that I'm happy with the outcome of this game. I'm not a particularly skilled scumplayer, so obviously I'm happy to have survived until the end, but usually I start decent and spiral into an awful talespin and here I felt I picked up my game as we went along. Even though several people (including myself) said that we were too focused on dream interpretation and not focused enough on traditional scumhunting, most of my lategame posts helped nudge the town into doing the former instead of the latter. My dreams, too, improved to take better care of the mechanic. Night 1I just submitted a few random dreams that I had recently had IRL. When we started Day 1 with two people basically confirmed town I realized I would have to focus my dreams more. Night 2 was terrified of everybody using investigative dreams so I made myself immune to cop investigations. An improvement, but still thinking too small. By the third night, I figured out how to best use the dream format to accomplish specific goals: roleblocking displaced while making me look pro-town in the process, and guaranteeing a kill on conftown Maemuki despite probable protective intervention*.

I think caled changed his dream at the last minute to make me the paramedic, and me not noticing that almost screwed us over. Luckily, by this point the town had started narrowing down potential scumpairs and since the only accurate pairing wasn't being discussed it wasn't too hard to talk my way out.

Nat, I was terrified of leaving you alive every night. I thought for sure I'd do something to remind you of me in Pick Your Partners that would give me away, and I knew that you were clever enough to come up with competent dreams every night. We got lucky that a lot of your dreams were ambiguous/unconfirmable, but that feeling was always there. In fact, I think caled wanted to kill you every night.

Also, in retrospect the turning point of this game was the GIF modkill. He was conftown, so killing him on our own would have been a gamble, and it got the numbers in our favor for today. Also, it let me make a fake EBWOP that got me on Nat's good side for the rest of the game.

Sorry about lurking at times, but that was a gamewide problem that sort of snowballed upon itself.

Anyhoo, I'm excited to see the dreams/dreams that could have been, and I enjoyed playing with all of you (even caled, despite me sending a PM to the mod yesterday consisting entirely of the word "AAAAAAAAA" repeated several times). Thanks for modding, Zaicon.



*Said intervention never came, which made me sad because the mind games in the town would have been hilarious.

[Haschel Cedricson]

Here's the Mafia QT, by the by.

http://www.quicktopic.com/50/H/eWCiv2XFkprS

[Natirasha]

Good game, Haschel. I actually was thinking your lurking was just a characteristic of your play most of the time, since in Pick Your Partners, you were kinda forced into never saying a word. I didn't actually get any good scum-info out of it.

Most nights I knew I was a high-priority target, so I was focused on either preventing my death(Commute) or painting a picture of my death(the pink paint). My mason bluff was high-risk, high-reward, although I wish it could have lasted a little longer. Every night though, I was like "why am I still alive?".

If we'd went to night this time I was gonna roleblock caled. I think a big thing with the town was that everyone was focused on making up random fucking dreams that did nothing instead of accomplishing stuff.

By the end I just wanted this game over(in case it wasn't obvious).

[Guyett]

If it wasn't for the outcome of Robs bastard mafia I was going to investigate Cedric ;_;
Ah well gg guys

[Haschel Cedricson]

I think a big thing with the town was that everyone was focused on making up random fucking dreams that did nothing instead of accomplishing stuff.

This is especially true. Day 1 had me terrified by how quickly two people became conftown with one more becoming probtown and then that Morgan Freeman thing happened. If the town had continued in that direction we would have had no chance.

[Guyett]

Nat at least I tried to sort my dreams out later on
The first one was appalling