MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia (Tar's subgame): Game Over

[chenhsi]

*sigh*

Didn't notice that.

No.

[Boxman]

Well, I think that settles that.

Vote: chenhsi

[animorpherv1]

I guess were all in agreement. Chenhsi has killed.

EDIT: I fail spot checks. Never mind. - Tar

[veerus]

vote: chenhsi

[Tarhalindur]

Protip: If you want to end the subgame, you need to VOTE.

EDIT: ... Oh. You already did.

Never mind then. End of game scene forthcoming. - Tar

[Tarhalindur]

"The first sliver burst against the cave wall, and others piled in behind to deepen the new tunnel." - flavor text of Acidic Sliver

The Fourteenth and Final Vote Count (aka the "Game Over, Man! Game Over!" Vote Count)

2) veerus (0) -
10) animorpherv1 (rep. Mastin) (0) -
16) chenhsi (3) - animorpherv1, veerus, Boxman
23) Boxman (0) -

Not Voting (1): chenhsi

Votes required to lynch:

3

Current Deadline:

October 4, 2009 at ~6:00 P.M. CST (GMT -6)

Second Mod Deadline Review:

September 27, 2009 at ~6:00 P.M. CST (GMT -6)

Lynch Count has been reached. The Town faction has fulfilled its win condition. End of Game Scene forthcoming.

[Tarhalindur]

The End of the Time Spiral Subgame

One final day of fear. One final choice of life or death. Either you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

You bring the otherplanar chenhsi into the circle of doom.

There's nothing inherently wrong about being from another plane. Sure, you have to adapt to a new way of life. Sure, maybe your native plane was designed to overlay onto Dominaria and bring about a Phyrexian invasion. But that's not your fault. It's not inherently wrong.

Being a member of a hive-minded collective devoted to wiping you out to the last, however? Yeah, that would be inherently wrong.

And as the hissing, chittering form of chenhsi dissolves before you, you are relieved to see that he was, in fact, the latter.

With chenhsi down, the three of you eye each other warily. If one of you is an enemy, it would be trivial to stab the second and overpower the third...

But none of you do.

Ertai (the uncorrupted legend of the past), Jhoira (survivor of so many disasters), and the Mistform Ultimus (bane of Magic trivia questions everywhere); all are town.

And that means... this nightmare is over, isn't it?

16) chenhsi,

Metallic Sliver

Acidic Sliver, Tempest Mafia B Sliver Shredder, Lynched Day 5

2) veerus, Jhoira of the Ghitu, Townie Communicator, Survived
10) animorpherv1 (rep. Mastin), Mistform Ultimus, Townie Shapeshifter (post restricted), Survived
23) Boxman, Ertai, Wizard Adept, Townie FBI Agent, Survived

The

Town

(consisting of

11) Vino

,

27) Looker

,

7) Pyromaniac

,

2) veerus

,

10) animorpherv1

, and

23) Boxman

) and the

Star-Crossed Lovers

(

3) Benmage

and

30) Debonair Danny DePietro

) have won the Time Spiral Subgame of Magic the Gathering: Parallel Universe Mafia! (But not

31) Mufasa

, who was retroactively modkilled postgame for a violation of Rule 1.)

Note: There was an error in the role PM sent to chenhsi; it said he was Metallic Sliver when he was, in fact, Acidic Sliver. The death post here reflects this error.

Role PMs et. al. will be posted when the last subgame (Weatherlight Saga) finishes.

[Tarhalindur]

Since all three MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia subgames are now over:

Subgame 1 Setup:

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Telekinetic Sliver

Legendary Creature - Time Spiral Mafia Sliver Redirector, Mythic Rare, 2UU

All Sliver players have “{T}: The next time target player puts an ability on the stack this turn, if that ability could target another target player but doesn’t, that player changes one of its targets to that player.”

(Both targets are declared when you play this ability. Yes, this is a redirect.)

"Slivers are guided only by simple instinct. Advance the hive, and you will be welcomed. Impede the hive, and you will face unrelenting opposition."
—Freyalise

2/2

Current Abilities

{T}: The next time target player puts an ability on the stack this turn, if that ability could target another target player but doesn’t, that player changes one of its targets to that player.

(Both targets are declared when you play this ability. Yes, this is a redirect.)

{T}: Target a player in this game and a player in another game you can see from your seat. Those players exchange games at end of turn.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

Time Spiral Mafia

Enchantment - Win Condition, R, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames

Time Spiral Mafia

Artifact - Factional Abilities, 0, Rare
Time Spiral Mafia is red and blue.
Each Time Spiral Mafia player has “As long as it is night, you may talk with all other Time Spiral Mafia players outside the thread.”

(The Time Spiral Mafia consists of XXXX and XXXX. You may talk with Time Spiral Mafia members in different subgames.)

{T}, Tap an untapped Time Spiral Mafia player: Target Time Spiral Mafia player destroys another target player.

(You may only target players in any subgame which contains a Time Spiral Mafia player.)

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Mesmeric Sliver

Legendary Creature - Time Spiral Mafia Sliver Swapper, Mythic Rare, 3U

All Sliver players have “{T}: Target a player in this game and a player in another game you can see from your seat. Those players exchange games at end of turn.”

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

Slivers are evil and Slivers are sly, and if you get eaten then no-one will cry.

2/2

Current Abilities

{T}: The next time target player puts an ability on the stack this turn, if that ability could target another target player but doesn’t, that player changes one of its targets to that player.

(Both targets are declared when you play this ability. Yes, this is a redirect.)

{T}: Target a player in this game and a player in another game you can see from your seat. Those players exchange games at end of turn.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

Time Spiral Mafia

Enchantment - Win Condition, R, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames

Time Spiral Mafia

Artifact - Factional Abilities, 0, Rare
Time Spiral Mafia is red and blue.
Each Time Spiral Mafia player has “As long as it is night, you may talk with all other Time Spiral Mafia players outside the thread.”

(The Time Spiral Mafia consists of XXXX and XXXX. You may talk with Time Spiral Mafia members in different subgames.)

{T}, Tap an untapped Time Spiral Mafia player: Target Time Spiral Mafia player destroys another target player.

(You may only target players in any subgame which contains a Time Spiral Mafia player.)

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Nicol Bolas

Legendary Creature - Nicol Bolas, Mythic Rare, 2UUBBRR

{T}: Destroy target player in any game visible from your seat. When that player is put into a graveyard from play this turn, put a grave counter on Nicol Bolas.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

If Nicol Bolas would be destroyed, you may instead remove a grave counter from Nicol Bolas. If you do, regenerate Nicol Bolas.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak."
—Nicol Bolas

7/7

Nicol Bolas

Enchantment - Win Condition, UBR, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions in all three MTG: Parallel Universe games have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win all three MTG: Parallel Universe subgames and every other player in all three MTG: Parallel Universe subgames who is a member of another faction loses the game.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Venser, Shaper Savant

Legendary Creature - Neutral Planeswalker Survivor, Mythic Rare, 2UU

When Venser, Shaper Savant comes into play, put a Planeship artifact token with “{T}: Exchange games with target player in another game you can see from your seat. If you do, that player gains control of Planeship” into play under the control of target player in another game visible from your seat.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat. Venser, Shaper Savant comes into play at the beginning of the game. Exchanging games does not cause a player to come into play.)

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

2/2

Planeship

Artifact-Planeship, token

{T}: Exchange games with target player in another game you can see from your seat. If you do, that player gains control of Planeship.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe aubgames are visible from your seat.)

Survivor

You are not a member of a faction.

(You do not count towards any factional win condition and do not lose the game when a faction fulfills its win condition.)

Win Condition

— If you are alive when a faction in the subgame you are in fulfills its win condition, you win the game. This does not cause other players to lose the game.

Planeswalker

Enchantment - Alternate Win Condition, {2/U}, R

Alternate Win Condition

— When you have been in all three MTG: Parallel Universe subgames, you win the game and remove yourself from the game. This does not cause other players to lose the game.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Baru, Fist of Krosa

Legendary Creature - Star-Crossed Lover, Mythic Rare, 3GG

"My mind has changed. My strength has not."
—Kamahl, Fist of Krosa

4/4

Star-Crossed Lover

Enchantment - Win Condition, 1, Rare

(Star-Crossed Lover is colorless.)

You are not a member of a faction.

(You do not count towards any factional win condition and do not lose the game when a faction fulfills its win condition.)

Win Condition

— When you are in the same universe as your lover, you win the game and remove yourself from the game. This does not cause other players to lose the game.

Star-Crossed Lover

Artifact - Factional Abilities, 0, Rare

(Star-Crossed Lover is colorless)

Each Star-Crossed Lover player has “You may talk with all other Star-Crossed Lovers in all MTG: Parallel Universe subgames at any time.”

(The Star-Crossed Lovers are XXXX and XXXX.)

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Legendary Creature - Townie Cop, Mythic Rare, 2UUU

{T}: Investigate target player.

(Whenever you investigate a player, you learn that player’s alignment.)

When Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir is put into a graveyard from play, you may target a player in another game visible from your seat. That player will learn the results of every investigation made by Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

To save this world, he must forsake all others.

3/4

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Legendary Creature - Townie Ass-Whupper, Mythic Rare, 1RR

Jaya Ballard, Task Mage comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.

(Jaya Ballard, Task Mage comes into play at the beginning of the game. Exchanging games does not cause Jaya Ballard to come into play.)

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Jaya Ballard, Task Mage: Destroy target player in any game you can see from your seat. You may play this ability any time you could play an instant.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

"Yes, I think toast is an appropriate description."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

2/2

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Saffi Eriksdotter

Legendary Creature - Townie Slider Doctor, Mythic Rare, GW

{T}: Regenerate target player other than Saffi Eriksdotter in the same game and target player in another game you can see from your seat. Those players exchange games at end of turn if either player regenerates this way this turn.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

Ach, Hans, run! It's the Tarmogoyf!
—Saffi Eriksdotter, last words

2/2

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Radha, Heir to Keld

Legendary Creature - Sparked Townie, Mythic Rare, RG

Radha, Heir to Keld comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.

(Radha, Heir to Keld comes into play at the beginning of the game. Exchanging games does not cause Radha to come into play.)

If Radha, Heir to Keld would be put into a graveyard from play, you may instead remove a +1/+1 counter from Radha, Heir to Keld. If you do, exchange games with target player in another game you can see from your seat. (Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

"Run home, cur. I've already taken your master's head. Don't make me thrash you with it."
—Radha, Heir to Keld

2/2

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Jhoira of the Ghitu

Legendary Creature - Townie Communicator, Mythic Rare, 1UR

Jhoira of the Ghitu comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.

(Jhoira of the Ghitu comes into play at the beginning of the game. Exchanging games does not cause Jhoira to come into play.)

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Jhoira of the Ghitu: Target player in another game visible from your seat gains the ability to talk with you outside the thread at any time.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

"I wonder how it feels to be bored."
—Jhoira, artificer

2/2

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Mistform Ultimus

Legendary Creature - Townie Shapeshifter, Mythic Rare, 3U

Changeling

(This card is every creature type at all times.)

Mistform Ultimus comes into play with a -1/-1 counter on it.

(A player with 0 or less toughness dies as a state-based effect.)

It may wear your face, but its mind is its own.

3/3

Current Abilities

{T}: The next time target player puts an ability on the stack this turn, if that ability could target another target player but doesn’t, that player changes one of its targets to that player.

(Both targets are declared when you play this ability. Yes, this is a redirect.)

{T}: Target a player in this game and a player in another game you can see from your seat. Those players exchange games at end of turn.

(Only other MTG: Parallel Universe subgames are visible from your seat.)

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Welcome to MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia,

PLAYERNAME

. You are:

Jasmine Boreal

Legendary Creature - Weak-Minded Townie, Mythic Rare, 3GW

As long as Jasmine Boreal is in a MTG: Parallel Universe subgame other than the game it starts out in, Jasmine Boreal is Cult-aligned instead of any previous alignment.

"Peace must prevail, even if the wicked must die."
—Jasmine Boreal

4/5

Townie

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

Cult

Enchantment-Win Condition, G, Rare

Win Condition

— When all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same, you win the game and every player who is a member of another faction loses the game. This doesn't affect players in other subgames.

You will learn the Cult's factional abilities when you become a member of the Cult.

[Benmage]

Go me 3rd party star-crossed lover huzzah winner.

[Tarhalindur]

Useful Links:

The Parallel Planning Grid - This is where the mod team built the setup. Certain major issues (including my preference for a SpyreX modkill in FL's subgame and my disapproval of MafiaSSK's modding late in his subgame) can be found there, along with the setup. (Note that most of the discussion for the most important decision - approving the Yos2 modkill in FL's subgame - was done over AIM, and I didn't record the chat logs.) Night actions should be in the Planning Grid as well.
The Green Zone - Where dead players could talk.

Preliminary Notes:

This setup wasn't really completed, and it showed. Several issues were never really worked out among the mod team prior to the game:
- Ruleset (the really nasty one - I didn't add the falseclaim abilty because I expected to work out a ruleset with Lord Gurgi and Natirasha before both flaked, and then forgot to add it at the end when we decided to just use my standard ruleset with additions; in addition, we never really discussed potential problems with templating discussion, and we probably should have required players to be up-to-date in all three subgames to prevent issues where a bunch of people in one subgame start doing something that was warned in another subgame - which is, of course, what happened)
- Templating (we SHOULD have caught the "Kamigawa Vanilla Townie" problem and the misnamed Slivers (Clot and Acidic Sliver in the SSK subgame), but we didn't)
- Several poorly thought-out roles (especially Nicol Bolas, added early on due to awesome factor and never revisited - the role really doesn't work well in my ruleset; also the Star-Crossed Lovers, the lack of swapping roles in SSK's game, and some I'm forgetting).

I know I'm forgetting some problems.

[Boxman]

Hurray for victory!

Anyway, I agree the modding could have been better if the original modding team had stayed together, but I'd say it turned out pretty well given the changes and mistakes made in modding.

[malthusis]

Hurray for victory! Very Happy

Anyway, I agree the modding could have been better if the original modding team had stayed together, but I'd say it turned out pretty well given the changes and mistakes made in modding.

I wouldn't say that by a longshot, Boxman.....

If MafiaSSK had actually posted a deadline when he was supposed to, I wouldn't have had to delay until his day was done and I could swap Coug back in, promptly causing me to lose my cover and lose the game. I still feel slightly shafted at that...

[Vino]

Cool I won a game for once, even though I played piss poorly in it!

[Kinetic]

The Nicol Bolas role seemed a lot of fun and I'm sad I didn't get to play Oremore, however I could tell how incomplete it was. For anyone who doesn't know, my pregame consisted of having several of my abilities being errata'd to work correctly :p. In that it felt like a magic the gathering game very much so.

[Starbuck]

@ the town - You're welcome!

<3

[Mastin]

Lol. Sorry I caused so much trouble in my flaking. I wanted to play this game a good deal, because it was my first time with a posting restriction. (A rather nasty one, too. Less than...wasn't it 450 words? 40 posts per day maximum. It, uh, definitely forced me to shut the heck up and not ramble. )

I switched Kise and the lover in order to make them win, and because I wanted to play with Kise. (I didn't even think of the group Kise was in at the time.)
I was right about Kinetic, but as that was my only suspicion the entire game, no clue how I would've done if I stayed.
Overall, not a bad game for me, and I've definitely had worse.

[Tarhalindur]

Late update: Mufasa has been retroactively modkilled (autolossing him) for a violation of Rule 1. - Tar

[animorpherv1]

Lol. Sorry I caused so much trouble in my flaking. I wanted to play this game a good deal, because it was my first time with a posting restriction. (A rather nasty one, too. Less than...wasn't it 450 words? 40 posts per day maximum. It, uh, definitely forced me to shut the heck up and not ramble. )

I switched Kise and the lover in order to make them win, and because I wanted to play with Kise. (I didn't even think of the group Kise was in at the time.)
I was right about Kinetic, but as that was my only suspicion the entire game, no clue how I would've done if I stayed.
Overall, not a bad game for me, and I've definitely had worse.

250 words.