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Night Actions
Cephrir,replaced byKnight of Cydonia Day 1
Role:, becameCultistNight 1.Murderer
Night 0 Action: Craft Fetish: Drench
Night 1 Action: Craft Fetish: Datadanne, Pass Fetish of Drench to Cass, Submit Drench's name to the Ritual (success) (Insanity: Psychopathy),.Bloody
Modkilled Day 2.
EriktheRed
Role:Cultist
Night 0 Action: Equip Forensic Tools
Lynched Day 1
Magua
Role:Cultist
Night 0 Action: Craft Fetish: Kise
Night 1 Action: Craft Fetish: RestFermata, Pass Fetish of Kise to Kise
Night 2 Action: Craft Fetish: semioldguy
Night 3 Action: Rob Grave: chenhsi (Insanity: Distraction), received Protective Wards, Submit semioldguy's name to the Ritual (blocked) (Insanity: Sadism),.Bloody
Night 4 Action: Launder, submit Furpants_Tom's name to the Ritual (Insanity: Taboo (Ward)),, heardBloodyNoise.
Mastin
Role:Cultist
Night 0 Action: No action, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: No action, Murdered by Drench
Nyx,replaced byCass Day 2,replaced byCSL Day 4
Role:Cultist
Night 0 Action: Craft Fetish: dramonic (unsuccessful)
Night 1 Action: Craft Fetish: dramonic, received Fetish of Drench
Night 2 Action: Rob Grave: Knight of Cydonia (Insanity: Aversion (Jebus)), received Fetish of Drench, heardNoise.
Night 3 Action: No action.
Lynched Day 4.
Santos,replaced byzwetschenwasser Day 1
Role:Cultist
Night 0 Action: Craft Fetish: arelian, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: Rob Grave: EriktheRed, Murdered by chenhsi
12Keyblade,replaced bySeraphim Day 1,replaced bySlySly Day 2
Role:, began with Occult BooksInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Occult Books
Night 1 Action: Stalk: zwetschenwasser (Insanity: Aversion (Datadanne))
Night 2 Action: Equip Protective Wards
Night 3 Action: Ward: ryan2754, heardNoise.
Night 4 Action: Equip Forensic Tools
arelian,replaced bysykedoc Day 2,replaced byNachomamma8 Day 3
Role:, began with Occult BooksInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip ProtectiVe Wards, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: No action.
Night 2 Action: No action.
Night 3 Action: Equip Occult Books
Night 4 Action: No action.
chenhsi
Role:, began with Protective Wards, becameInvestigatorNight 0.Murderer
Night 0 Action: Stalk: Santos (Insanity: Psychopathy)
Night 1 Action: Murder: zwetschenwasser (Insanity: Avolition),, heardBloodyNoise.
Lynched Day 2.
Datadanne
Role:, began with Resuscitation KitInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Protective Wards
Night 1 Action: Stalk: Deathnote (Insanity: Taboo (Launder)), heardNoise.
Night 2 Action: Murder: Deathnote (Insanity: Twitchy),, Resuscitation Kit destroyed.Bloody
Night 3 Action: Rob Grave: dramonic (Insanity: Aversion (Nachomamma8)),.Bloody
Night 4 Action: No action,, heardBloodyNoise.
DeathNote
Role:, began with Resuscitation Kit, becameInvestigatorNight 1.Murderer
Night 0 Action: Resuscitate: Exalt
Night 1 Action: Stalk: nhammen (Insanity: Psychopathy), heardNoise.
Night 2 Action: Murder: nhammen, murdered by Datadanne, Resuscitation Kit destroyed.
dramonic
Role:, began with Resuscitation KitInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Stalk: Tuberkulos (Insanity: Avolition), heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: Murder: Tuberkulos (Insanity: Psychopathy),, Resuscitation Kit destroyed, heardBloodyNoise.
Night 2 Action: Stalk: Furpants_Tom (Insanity: Taboo (Launder)),.Bloody
Lynched on Day 3.
Drench
Role:, began with Forensic Tools, becameInvestigatorNight 0.Murderer
Night 0 Action: Stalk: Mastin (Insanity: Psychopathy), heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: Murder: Mastin, destroyed by Ritual.
Exalt,replaced byRestFermata Day 1,replaced byFurpants_Tom Day 2.
Role:, began with Forensic ToolsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: No Action, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: Investigate: chenhsi (negative), heardNoise.
Night 2 Action: Investigate: Pablo (negative), heardNoise.
Night 3 Action: Investigate: ZykeZero (negative).
Night 4 Action: Equip Occult Books
itacv2,replaced bySajin Day 1
Role:, began with Protective WardsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Occult Books
Night 1 Action: Stalk: Sarag (Insanity: Avolition)
Night 2 Action: Equip Resuscitation Kit
Night 3 Action: Resuscitate: semioldguy (success),.Bloody
Night 4 Action: Equip Forensic Tools,.Bloody
JamesBond
Role:, began with Forensic ToolsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Investigate: dramonic (negative result)
Night 1 Action: Stalk: zwetschenwasser (Insanity: Compulsion)
Night 2 Action: No action.
Night 3 Action: Investigate: Pablo Molinero (negative)
Night 4 Action: Equip Resuscitation Kit
jasonT1981,replaced byryan2754 Day 1
Role:, began with Occult BooksInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Protective Wards
Night 1 Action: Equip Forensic Tools
Night 2 Action: Investigate: Kise (negative)
Night 3 Action: Rob Grave: zwetschenwasser (Insanity: Twitchy), received Forensic Tools, heardNoise.
Night 4 Action: Research: Pablo (negative) (Insanity: Compulsion)
Kise
Role:, began with Protective WardsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Ward: dramonic, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: No action, received fetish of self (Insanity: Twitchy)
Night 2 Action: Ward: Cass, heardNoise.
Night 3 Action: Rob Grave: DeathNote (Insanity: Avolition).
Night 4 Action: Rob Grave: CSL (Insanity: X)Mod Error here picked up post game - Kise asked to take Avolition as his insanity, and being away from my spreadsheet at the time I didn't see that he already had it.
Modkilled Day 5.
nhammen
Role:, began with Occult BooksInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Protective Wards
Night 1 Action: Research: Sarag (negative) (Insanity: Twitchy), heardNoise
Night 2 Action: Rob Grave: Mastin, murdered by Deathnote.
Pim,replaced bysemioldguy Day 1
Role:, began with Occult BooksInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Occult Books
Night 1 Action: Equip Forensic Tools
Night 2 Action: Research: ZykeZero (negative) (Insanity: Distraction)
Night 3 Action: Equip Resuscitation Kit, heardNoise.
Night 4 Action: Launder.
Sarag
Role:, began with Forensic ToolsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Protective Wards
Night 1 Action: Equip Resuscitation Kit, heardNoise
Night 2 Action: Rob Grave: Tuberkulos (Insanity: Twitchy), received Protective Wards, heardNoise.
Night 3 Action: Investigate: semioldguy (positive), heardNoise.
Night 4 Action: Equip Occult Books
sideney,replaced byPablo Molinero Day 2
Role:, began with Resuscitation KitInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Resuscitate: Mastin
Night 1 Action: No action
Night 2 Action: Resuscitate: Sarag, heardNoise.
Night 3 Action: Resuscitate: semioldguy (success),, heardBloodyNoise.
Night 4 Action: Equip Occult Books,.Bloody
Tuberkulos
Role:, began with Protective WardsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Ward: xxFabianxx, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: No action, murdered by dramonic.
xxFabianxx,replaced byJebus Day 2,replaced byChaco Day 4
Role:, began with Protective WardsInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Forensic Tools, heardNoise.
Night 1 Action: No action.
Night 2 Action: No action.
Night 3 Action: No action.
Night 4 Action: Investigate: Nachomamma8 (negative)
ZykeZero
Role:, began with Resuscitation KitInvestigator
Night 0 Action: Equip Forensic Tools
Night 1 Action: No action.
Night 2 Action: Research: Pablo (negative) (Insanity: Twitchy)
Night 3 Action: Rob Grave: nhammen (Insanity: Paranoia), received Occult Books and Protective Wards, heardNoise.
Night 4 Action: Investigate: Magua (negative)Last edited by Percy on Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:27 am, edited 1 time in total.Stars Aligned III continues!- Percy
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Mod Notes
First and foremost, I had a really good time moderating this game, so thank you to everyone again. I'm going to run through what I thought was good, what I thought was bad, and a few other things.
Replacements: This really, really hurt. I had to replace twenty (!) players over the course of this game, and this is not an easy game to replace into. If I run a game of this complexity again, I will have to insist on more established players. Speaking of which,
Complexity: The original idea behind this game is to give everyone something to do, but make every action "imperfect" in some way - Investigates are good, but hard to pull off; Research is good but you go crazy too; Resuscitates are good, but the person you save goes insane and you're bloody; Wards are good, but they only block weak attacks and prevent you hearing Noise; and the ever-present, ambiguous "Noise" that helps the scum cover themselves and heighten tension. Some players found it difficult to scumhunt the traditional way, and I think that is a flaw in this game.
Even simple things like the phrasing of "Equip" confused many players - they already had Occult Books, but wanted to know if they had to Equip them before they could use them. Perhaps "Fetch" would have been a better name.
The fact that you can be "confirmed" via Blood was actually a strategy I assumed the scum would pick up on - in a desperate situation, resuscitate your ritual target and you've just bought yourself a lot of towncred, or just resuscitate your scumbuddy! It swings both ways, of course. Scum should also have equipped RKs - the day after you hear Noise, it's too late!
I'm glad people noticed Chaos, which was a late addition to the game after reading about the "Texas Solution". As far as I know, there isn't a breaking strategy for this game (I crunched hard!), but I'd be happy to hear someone's take on one.
In short, Ipersonallywould love to play a game like this, but the complexity was difficult/overwhelming for some players. I think if I ever run it again (and I do intend to), I'll tweak a few things and write a "Player's Guide to Stars Aligned" before the game starts.
Modkills: I had to do two of these. The first, Knight of Cydonia, came after he threatened to reveal the names of his Cultist buddies. I couldn't even take that chance; misrepresenting a conversation with me was minor, but I didn't want to make his alignment clear. This sucked, as I honestly thought no-one would pick Traitor, and was interested in seeing how it would go, especially with KoC at the helm.
The second was Kise. Insanity Infraction counts were intended to make sure people didn't just take Insanities and ignore them. Twitchy was too onerous in this regard (as it came up every post), thus the signature rule change late in game. I liked the Insanity as it was both public and possible to fake, but I might remove it next game.
Insanity Spread: Hallucination was the only Insanity that wasn't taken, and I think that's awesome. I'm glad each Insanity appealed to different people.
Murderers: I was quite shocked at the number of Murderers - I assumed most players would understand just how hard it was to win as a murderer, and I'm further assuming that most players thought "OOH, SK!".
It was also a bit of a shame to see so much scum crosskilling going on, and I think making you wait until your third Insanity to choose Psychopathy (the optimal play, as others have pointed out) may dissuade some people.
Lynches: Town were amazing. I couldn't believe that there wasn't a single mislynch. Well done!
Flavour: I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. I didn't get through half of the plot I had planned, so I'll have to save that for another time.
Cultist QT: Here!
Advertisement: I'll take this opportunity to advertise the next game I'm running - it's calledCults of Darkness and Shadowand will be ready for signups in the Mini Normal Queue very soon. The game is for 12 players and has only one novel mechanic, and should be heaps of fun. I'm accepting pre-\ins via PM.Stars Aligned III continues!- Magua
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My night two QT began: "Hi. Well, I think we're fucked..."Sarag wrote:Good job Magua for sticking out a game that must have been hard going, especially after KoC's betrayal.
But, hey, it was fun.
Let's see:
I messed up claiming to Ward RestFermata rather than Res him. That was a slip on my part, though the not matching RestFermata up to Exalt on the noise list was true.
n0, I went with the assumption that a large spread of fetishes would be more useful than grabbing equipment. I'd recommend to the next scum group to go with 2/3 fetish and 1/3 res kit. I simply did not expect 3 stalkings the first night.
I think that if the semioldguy ritual had gone through, things would've been quite different. That right there gave the town two clears (Pablo and looker), with semioldguy either a clear or a half clear, depending upon how you look at it. It probably still would've been a town win, I think it just would've taken longer.
But town not mislynching a single time was pretty impressive. Honestly, I probably cursed you all for that more than anything. =P- Drench
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Seriously guys, why me?
I loved this game for the little that I played of it. I wanted to kill Mastin so I could set up a policy-vig claim later (as I think I breadcrumbed to a bit). I also didn't want him around since long posts = flakage for me most of the time, which was something I didn't want. So yeah.
Town kicked ass. I would applaud, but I converted N1, so yeah. =\
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This. *I* was screwed since Night Zero. (My playstyle certainly didn't help, nor the fact that I had flaked, nor the fact that I was overextended, nor the fact that...well, you get the idea. I was incredibly anti-EVERYTHING [no benefit to ANY alignment], it's probably for the better.)Magua wrote:Oh well. Cult was really screwed losing half their number by d1, and then having all the murderers taken out by d3. Town played really well.
Erik was also screwed day one.
Two down.
Losing the others, however, now that, was really bad. I knew I was a walking corpse, as being cult, I KNEW that I was stalked N0. I was hoping that maybe, just maybe, I could use this to help them, to attract attention to myself. (I think, anyway. 'Twas months ago; I don't remember what exactly I was thinking at the time. But that's what I think I was doing.)I'm back! Well, kind-of.No Access on Weekends. :/
Advid reader/contributor to MD, as I'm far better in theory than I am in reality. :P
True to my word, I'm retiring. Totally not me. :P- Mastin
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Also, I did nothing N0 somewhat intentionally--I wanted to play the game as if I were a vanilla, 'cause I really didn't want to deal with all that investigator stuff. I figured that doing nothing was the safest claim of all.
I knew day one was coming to an end, so I had a catchup post prepared, but flaked before being able to post it. (The primary purpose of said post was to further Erick's lynch and hope the heck that Zwet would come off looking MUCH better. Or, maybe, *I* would be lynched, *WITH* Zwet, cast suspicion on pro-town players, and spare the much-better Erick.
Either would've helped, but I doubt I would've succeeded.)
I'm definitely counting this game as a failure for me. I know I am capable of good scumhunting. (I did particularly well when I replaced in at Lylo, in one case.) I wouldn't know about faking scum hunting, but probably not (I have yet to win a single game as scum without SERIOUS aid from my scum partner...), so definitely a failure. I just suck that badly. :/I'm back! Well, kind-of.No Access on Weekends. :/
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True to my word, I'm retiring. Totally not me. :P- nhammen
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You could have still crafted fetishes and claimed to have done nothing. Also, I really HATED your claiming a list of scum on D1. As soon as you died, your entire scumteam was doomed. If I ever see that in a game I am in I will ask the mod to force replace you or replace me, because I will not stay in a game with that. I also HATED KoC's same idea. I am glad the mod killed him.Mastin wrote:Also, I did nothing N0 somewhat intentionally--I wanted to play the game as if I were a vanilla, 'cause I really didn't want to deal with all that investigator stuff. I figured that doing nothing was the safest claim of all.-
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I really would've enjoyed this game more had I been in it at the beginning :/
I was just so lost when I got to page 20, I just said "Fuck it, I'll do whatever Sajin says.""Playing with Nacho is like playing with a religious conservative." ~UncertainKitten
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