Micro 1052: Lake Melancholy [END]

[Shuichi Saihara]

muahaha

[Flavor Leaf]

Vote Count 2.05

Page 26 of

Jerome's Journal: An Encyclopedia of Cryptids and Other Mythical Creatures

Shuichi Saihara [4]:

Skitter30, VP Baltar, Shuichi Saihara, Enchant ------

[FADE]

Enchant [1]:

Dwlee99

Not Voting [2]:

fireisredsir, Datisi

With

7

alive, it takes

4

to

fade

.

Day 2

ends in

(expired on 2022-04-30 20:00:00)

on

April 30th

.

Mod Notes:

Skitter30 is V/LA on Friday/Saturday.

[Flavor Leaf]

Lake Melancholy III

I turn around and begin to run, but the mud makes it hard to go fast. I want to cry, but I’m too afraid to even contemplate what is happening. I give up. This is too much for me.

In the sky, something begins to fly towards me from high up. It’s fast. It’s real fast. Giant black wings that look like they belong to a bat, sit on the back of a black horse. On the forehead of the horse is a lengthy black horn, smooth. The horn is longer than my leg, and a man sits upon the horse.

“Duck!” He yells. I duck.

I hear the sound of the beast chasing after me cry out, and I realize I closed my eyes. I turn to see the Horned Black Winged Horse with its horn completely impaling through the side of the beast’s neck. The man jumps off the horse, and walks over to me. He offers his purple gloved hand, as his black cape scratches the surface of the knee high water. I am muddy and wet. I am alive.

“That was a close one.” He says, calm like the water of Melancholic Lake. “There aren’t many people in this world who have seen a Bunyip and lived to tell the tale. I’m Lancelot.”

___

“Wha — wh…I — “ I struggle to speak.

“Shadow and I heard the roar, and flew over immediately. Shame we had to kill a Bunyip. Not many of them left. Was that your friend?” Lancleot asks, way too calm for the situation.

“There’s one in the…” I point towards the trees. Lancelot trots into the trees. I stand alone, knee deep in water, mud all over my back. I’m dripping, I’m cold, and I’m in disbelief that any of this has happened. Bunyip? A horned horse? Is this a unicorn? Greyson…is he alive? The horned horse walks backwards to pull its horn out of the body of the Bunyip, and the Bunyip crashes to the ground heavily. The horse was able to hold that beast up with just its horn?

Lancelot comes out holding a creature, similar to the Bunyip beast that fell, but much smaller. Much smaller. It’s small enough to fit in his hand, and its back legs are attached to its tail in a transparent casing. It wiggles a bit, trying to get out of his arms.

“It’s a cryptid, a type of creature that can harness a special energy. Like Shadow here, my Dark Pegasus. Can you do something for me?” Says Lancelot, I nod, “A Bunyip is an incredibly rare mythical cryptid, known to guard the fortress of the Water Sanctuary in ancient times. The mermaids hid their precious treasures they stole there, well defended by the Bunyip. There’s only a handful left in the world. Without its mother, it won’t survive, and I can’t handle something this attentive long term. It would be a tragedy to lose such a majestic beast; I need you to link with this Bunyip.”

___

“I don’t know…” Still in shock, I’m barely able to comprehend anything this strange man is saying to me. This man, Lancelot, I’ve heard of him before. He’s a Cryptid Skirmisher.

His purple hair waves in the wind, as he pulls out a necklace with a green crystal on it. The green crystal is encased by a copper triangle contraption.

“A Cryptid Crystal, you can harness the energy around cryptids, and create a soul bond; you should be able to mentally link with them thereafter. Here, this is for you to keep.”

He puts the crystal around my neck. The cold metal touches my bare neck, and a chill runs down my spine. The crystal begins to emit a green glow, and Lancelot holds the baby Bunyip up in front of it. A strange feeling takes over my body, and I feel as if I am on the precipice of a sneeze that won’t come out.

___

The baby Bunyip stares into my eyes. It’s afraid. She’s afraid. They squirm for a second before accepting the green glow into them. It encapsulates the entirety of the Bunyip before the Bunyip disappears. The green crystal in the copper contraption begins to flash and vibrate, then unflash.

“One.” Lance announces, before another green flash of the crystal. “Two.” The light dims out, and then flashes again before once again, dimming.

“Three.” I said, understanding the Bunyip’s fear, but accepting me as its caretaker.

“Do you feel their presence?” He asks. I nod. It’s like the Bunyip is sitting in the back of my head. It feels cramped. “You can let her out now.”

I’m unsure what this means, but I try to take it at face value. I calm my mind, and the Bunyip appears in front of me. Both of us, terrorized from this unfortunate moment here at Melancholic Lake.

“I need to take you with me, for the Bunyip. Do you have anyone you need to say goodbye to?” Lancelot says.

I’m going on a journey. How do I tell my mother? The wistful nature of the situation that happened here at Melancholic Lake.

How do I tell her?
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[Flavor Leaf]

Shuichi Saihara

was a...

Spoiler:

Welcome,

Shuichi Saihara

, you are a

Mafia Goon

.

Abilities:

• You are in a

Neighborhood!

Join your fellow Neighbors here.
• You do nothing special.
• Join your Mafia partner in your Mafia private thread is here.

Win condition:

You win when you control at least 50% of the population or if this situation can no longer be prevented.

Game thread is here Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

The Town of...are Victorious!

Dwlee99
skitter30
fireisredsir
VP Baltar
Datisi
Shuichi Saihara
Enchant

+

Aristeia (in death)


________


PT's

Game Thread

Neighborhood 1

Neighborhood 2

Mafia Thread

Spectator Thread


________

Night Actions

Dwlee targets Enchant with PT Cop. Guilty!

Shuichi kills Aristeia

________


Role PM's

VT - Skitter30
Novice Mailman - Aristeria
1-shot PT Cop, 1 Shot Traffic Analyst - Dwlee99

Neighbor 1-shot Bunyip - Enchant
Neighbor - Fireisredsir

Neighbor - VP Baltar
Neighbor - Datisi
Scum Neighbor - Shuichi Saihara

Scum 1-shot Simple Neighborizer - Prism

Spoiler:

Welcome,

Skitter30

, you are a

Vanilla Townie

.

Abilities:

• During the day, you can vote and talk
• You do nothing special.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Aristeia

, you are a

Town Novice Mailman

.

Abilities:

• On any night besides Night 1, you may target a player. You will be able to write them a Message that will be sent to the other player by the Mod. They will know this is simply a message.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Dwlee99

, you are a

Town 1-shot PT Cop/1-shot Traffic Analyst

.

Abilities:

• Once during the game, at night, you may target a player. You will find out if they have access to a Private Thread or not.
• Once during the game, at night, you may target a player. You will find out if they have the ability to converse to another player outside of the game thread.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Enchant

, you are a

Town 1-shot Bunyip

.

Abilities:

• You are part of a

Neighborhood

! Join your fellow Neighbor here.
• Once during the game, at night, you may target a player. You will learn whether or not they are “Vanilla” or “Not Vanilla”.
• If your target is “Vanilla”, they will also be protected from any night kills on the night you target them.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Fireisredsir

, you are a

Vanilla Town

.

Abilities:

• You are part of a

Neighborhood

! Join your fellow Neighbor here.
• You do nothing special.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

VP Baltar

, you are a

Vanilla Town

.

Abilities:

• You are part of a

Neighborhood

! Join your fellow Neighbors here.
• You do nothing special.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Datisi

, you are a

Vanilla Town

.

Abilities:

• You are part of a

Neighborhood

! Join your fellow Neighbors here.
• You do nothing special.

Win condition:

You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated and there is at least one town player alive.

Game thread is here . Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Shuichi Saihara

, you are a

Mafia Goon

.

Abilities:

• You are in a

Neighborhood!

Join your fellow Neighbors here.
• You do nothing special.
• Join your Mafia partner in your Mafia private thread is here.

Win condition:

You win when you control at least 50% of the population or if this situation can no longer be prevented.

Game thread is here Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

Welcome,

Prism

, you are a

Mafia 1-shot Simple Neighborizer

.

Abilities:

• Once per game, at Night, you can target a player. If they are Vanilla, you will create a Neighborhood between them and yourself.
• Join your Mafia partner in your Mafia private thread is here.

Win condition:

You win when you control at least 50% of the population or if this situation can no longer be prevented.

Game thread is here.Confirm by replying to this PM with your role name.

[Flavor Leaf]

I'll update the front post in a little bit, and give my thoughts, but congrats to the town!

All neighbors except Enchant were Vanilla, and as such, could be effected by Prism's Simple Neighborizer and Enchants Bunyip protection.

[Dwlee99]

Gg

[fireisredsir]

sorry for dragging that out lmaooo wp people who actually caught scum

[Dwlee99]

Oh a Bunyip is a cryptid

[Dwlee99]

All neighbors except Enchant were Vanilla, and as such, could be effected by Prism's Simple Neighborizer and Enchants Bunyip protection.

Fwiw, I think that this is counterintuitive. Neighbor is a power role so I wouldn't consider the player vanilla.

[Flavor Leaf]

All neighbors except Enchant were Vanilla, and as such, could be effected by Prism's Simple Neighborizer and Enchants Bunyip protection.

Fwiw, I think that this is counterintuitive. Neighbor is a power role so I wouldn't consider the player vanilla.

Exactly why I used it as a function, not a role.

To be fair, this is like the 3rd time I've done that as well, so it's not brand new brand new.

[Flavor Leaf]

Scum were given that information indirectly through their roles, of course. Shuichi being it, and then Prism having the Simple modifier.

Been using Bunyip since 2015. Wanted to make a new role, but the story I was telling involved a Bunyip. I should have used a Pegasus Knight as well like a variation of a Seraph Knight.

But yeah, I've said it in spectator.

Scum played a HIGH aggression game, which came with many drawbacks, however had scum been able to get a misfade Day 1, I think it would have been able to be a scum victory, or at least get down to a final 3 based on the Night Kill allowing them to gain more control.

Prism could have flipped a switch middle of Day 1, and I think Enchant being brought up to claim as the Bunyip basically helped them get townie, where if it was say, Skitter that happened to, I dont think they would have came off as townie.

But respect to the high aggression play. High Risk for the High Reward.

[skitter30]

All neighbors except Enchant were Vanilla, and as such, could be effected by Prism's Simple Neighborizer and Enchants Bunyip protection.

Fwiw, I think that this is counterintuitive. Neighbor is a power role so I wouldn't consider the player vanilla.

^

[skitter30]

<3 ceph i'm sorry that this last day was so unejoyable for you

[Flavor Leaf]

For the most part, I'm always going to be considering Neighbors as Vanilla in games unless I have a more definitive reason not to.

Just more I can do setup wise with Vanillas being there while adding the Neighbor spice.

[skitter30]

thanks fl for modding!

[Cephrir]

thank god

[VP Baltar]

gg all. Thanks for modding Flavor!

I am very happy with my play this game, even if it tilted a bunch of people at me.

Fire, my boy, one day you will be able to read me

[Cephrir]

prism's comments about me in the dead thread are pretty much spot on. i'd have at least made a run at taking down the whole table if i weren't dealing with massive scum pm exhaustion, but even best case scenario i really benefit from having at least one partner survive a while for morale reasons. and i think a group that are all super familiar with both each other and me is not the kind of group i'm going to be able to do it in

[Cephrir]

i guess i have done that very thing one time but tbf mala set me up with some really good antiassociatives in that one.

and yknow i hadn't rolled scum like 8 times in my last 9 games or whatever it is now.

[skitter30]

v. understandable, esp. after that first day
this was A Game certainly

[Cephrir]

i think i basically have to take a break from mafia bc i literally am not capable of playing to a scum wincon right now

[Aristeia]

gg - ty for modding FL

sorry for being so brutal on you ceph on the way out >_>

Hope you feel better soon <3 rolling scum that many times in a roll is an awful experience

[fireisredsir]

Fire, my boy, one day you will be able to read me

someday!!!

i know there were times that were unpleasant for some people but i had fun this game, playing with so many strong players was both a challenge and made things really interesting, if a bit intense sometimes

ty for modding and for playing, would gladly play with you all again

[VP Baltar]

i think i basically have to take a break from mafia bc i literally am not capable of playing to a scum wincon right now

This is the exact scenario that led me to taking a break way back. Too many scum PMs in a row is too exhausting. You should definitely take as much time as you need and come back. The game will be fun again then.

[Prism]

No redactions to the scum PT.

Congratulations to the town. I disagree with 2610. I have no further public comments for the game.