Mini 1630: Edgar Allan Poe uPick GAME OVER!

[Ghatokaca]

"reck outplayed us with an amazing trick"
no. absolutely not. If reck did anything to cause this magic result I will stick a pineapple up my ass

[Ghatokaca]

Damn right I played like shit. I played fucking atrociously. does that justify what is happening now?

No. it doesn't justify what's happening right now.

[copper223]

Well since you are scum you don't have to do that, otherwise I want the pictures.

[Ghatokaca]

jesus christ you just had to make another post

[copper223]

It's entertaining to see the BS you are coming up with.

[Ghatokaca]

Let's dance with a hypothetical (far off chance, I know, but just amuse me for one tiny second):

What would you call a player who policy lynched town in lylo with a bullshit guilty? if you maybe happened to somehow claim I was scum even though you had absolutely no information of what alignment I was, what kind of player would you be?

[Ghatokaca]

And hey I know we are living in some crazy bizzaro land where shit like this actually happens, but I'm amusing you, now you amuse me.

[copper223]

A complete moron, I would be pissed as hell and would not play another game with the guy.

[copper223]

I however did get the mod message and I don't use this kind of underhand tactics, I would have just pushed for your lynch otherwise.

[copper223]

I also saw CoA log into their account during the night phase while I was online, and the text is coning from TTH, so once again unless Reck can somehow intercept and change messages you are confirmed scum. Combined with your play I don't see a universe where we don't lynch you.

[Ghatokaca]

Please forgive me if I'm having trouble believing you. If you are telling the truth about this and its just some bullshit, ok. I'm sorry, my reaction here is unwarranted if you're telling the truth.

But, if you're lying, I'm making sure that either you quit the site or I get banned from it because policy lynching someone in this nature in LyLo is far beyond being a moron or making a mistake: it's being an egotistical piece of shit who decided my play wasn't good enough to fit a fucked set of standards and that is beyond infuriating to me.

[copper223]

Sure, I have no problems with that as I can post the message as soon as the game ends.

[fferyllt]

Vote Count 6.2

Look 'round thee now on Samarcand!
Is not she queen of Earth? her pride
Above all cities? in her hand
Their destinies? in all beside
Of glory which the world hath known
Stands she not nobly and alone?
Falling- her veriest stepping-stone
Shall form the pedestal of a throne-
And who her sovereign? Timour- he
Whom the astonished people saw
Striding o'er empires haughtily
A diadem'd outlaw!

O, human love! thou spirit given
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!
Which fall'st into the soul like rain
Upon the Siroc-wither'd plain,
And, failing in thy power to bless,
But leav'st the heart a wilderness!
Idea! which bindest life around
With music of so strange a sound,
And beauty of so wild a birth-
Farewell! for I have won the Earth.

Ghatokaca

(1): Catastrophe

Not Voting

(2): Ghatokaca, xRECKONERx

Deadline: March 12, Midnight US Eastern Time.

Countdown: (expired on 2015-03-11 21:00:00)

Mod Notes:[/b]
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[xRECKONERx]

VOTE: ghato

Did we win?

[copper223]

are you town?

[fferyllt]

Vote Count 6.3

When Hope, the eagle that tower'd, could see
No cliff beyond him in the sky,
His pinions were bent droopingly-
And homeward turn'd his soften'd eye.
'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a sullenness of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming darkness (known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, would fly
But cannot from a danger nigh.

What tho' the moon- the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly, and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one-
For all we live to know is known,
And all we seek to keep hath flown-
Let life, then, as the day-flower, fall
With the noon-day beauty- which is all.

I reach'd my home- my home no more
For all had flown who made it so.
I pass'd from out its mossy door,
And, tho' my tread was soft and low,
A voice came from the threshold stone
Of one whom I had earlier known-
O, I defy thee, Hell, to show
On beds of fire that burn below,
A humbler heart- a deeper woe.

Father, I firmly do believe-
I know- for Death, who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath left his iron gate ajar,
And rays of truth you cannot see
Are flashing thro' Eternity-
I do believe that Eblis hath
A snare in every human path-
Else how, when in the holy grove
I wandered of the idol, Love,
Who daily scents his snowy wings
With incense of burnt offerings
From the most unpolluted things,
Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven
Above with trellis'd rays from Heaven,
No mote may shun- no tiniest fly-
The lightning of his eagle eye-
How was it that Ambition crept,
Unseen, amid the revels there,
Till growing bold, he laughed and leapt
In the tangles of Love's very hair?

Ghatokaca

(2): Catastrophe, xRECKONERx

Not Voting

(2): Ghatokaca

Deadline: March 12, Midnight US Eastern Time.

Countdown: (expired on 2015-03-11 21:00:00)

Mod Notes:

A Lynch has been Achieved!

- [/area]

[fferyllt]

The City In The Sea
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters he.

No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently-
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-
Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls-
Up fanes- up Babylon-like walls-
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.

There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye-
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
Along that wilderness of glass-
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea-
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.

But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave- there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide-
As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy Heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow-
The hours are breathing faint and low-
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.

Ghatokaca was the

Miasma-aligned City

from The City in the Sea

The Morbid Win!

[fferyllt]

Mod Notes: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=60300
Dead Thread: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=60416
Miasma Thread: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=60304
Ghatokaca/Lynxkuroneko neighborhood: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=60498
Ghatokaca/copper223 neighborhood: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=60709:

From the mod notes: The overarching theme here is morbid, melancholy miasma. Some players embody death. Some are dead. Some are sure to die. Some mourn the dead and want to join their beloveds in death. So death (lynch/nk) has afterlife implications. I want nearly every player to have an after-death aspect to their role.

This made the game difficult to balance, and I knew the design was quite swingy. If town PRs had all done the most optimal possible things, town could have won the game by the end of day 2. Day 1 and Night 1 were a little scary to watch as a result!

Regarding Bookitty's replace out, this was due to no fault of hers. Although I didn't announce it as such, she was force replaced after she let me know she had been contacted by a dead player who could still potentially impact the game, and as a result she surmised the dead player (LynxKuroneko) had been neighborized by Ghatokaca. I saw all the PMs, and although I don't think the PMs necessarily supported that conclusion, it was still an influence on the game that shouldn't have happened.

After discussion with the listmods, I patched the game with the following:

- replaced bookitty, but didn't announce it as a force replacement
- Removed LynxKuroneko from the game completely
- gave Ghatokaca their one-shot neighborize back

Regarding the infamous "One! At least One" - when I began designing the game after all the uPick choices were in and the alignment rolls were done, I had two slots whose rolls dictated they would be either town or 3rd party depending on how I felt about the game balance. Those two slots were Faster than Light and BRantz. I would up making them both town, but used the wording I had settled on to indicate the possibility of 3rd parties. I'm not sure I like the impact this had on player morale, so it's probably the one part of my game design I'd most want to reconsider by either modifying Lynxkuroneko's role pm or by changing the wording of the result.

There are probably a couple other notes about the game I'll remember and mention later!

Thanks so much to everyone for playing, and for your absolutely amazing picks from elements of Poe's works. I loved the way so many of the various mechanics came together as the game played out, and how some things I designed wound up being more true to the original works than I even had intended.

[copper223]

@Ffery
Thanks for the modding!

@Nacho
I would be pissed as well if I thought someone was going to instalynch me out of being self-righteous so no hard feeling from me, here's the message as promised and props for TTH for helping a lot to win the game!

You have been sent a message from an anonymous source, somewhere beyond your chamber door:

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"- here I opened wide the door;-
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Hello, it's <redacted> TTH! I have this <redacted> ability to message people after death and it's going to <redacted>. ! I was screaming <redacted> at my computer screen <redacted> yesterday when Catastrophe wanted to lynch Reck.

As ffery already told you, we were C. Auguste Dupin, the original genius detective (Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are just rip-offs).
We were an even-night tracker. On night 2, we tracked Ghatokaca and he targeted BRantz (the nightkill for that night). On night 4, we tracked Catastrophe and he didn't do anything.

<redacted>

Good luck.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"-
Merely this, and nothing more.

If you choose to discuss this message in the game, you may paraphrase, only.

I'm going to enjoy reading what the rest of you had to say now and how the setup was designed.

[F-16_Fighting_Falcon]

Thanks for modding Ffery.

Sorry for the minimal activity. I was drained completely.

[BRantz]

Thanks for modding Ffery! This game was a lot of fun.

[Cephrir]

This was certainly a game~

[toolenduso]

Well cool, I'm glad this worked out. Bring on the hate-bashing if you still feel like it, Kthx.

[Bookitty]

I'm really glad town won Yay!

[copper223]

@Kthx
I think you played as well as you could D2 after the CC and maybe it was also my bad for not having the confidence to defend you more than I did, but you really made a big mistake outing yourself like you did D1 and that allowed Krystal to cc you with a good chance of success, that is the kind of "egotistical" play Ghato was accusing me of, in my opinion it's always a bad idea to jeopardize claims in order to get your reads in, if your read is good some players will pick it up sooner or later no matter what scum does to try and dismiss them and what you did was really unnecessary (also it was a bad read but that happens all the time).