Skygazer's mini normal review, September 2018

[Skygazer]

Thank you implosion, this was so quick!

RC! schadd! fancy seeing you two here!

/ego

[Skygazer]

Thanks RC, thanks schadd!

The Innocent Child Babysitter is a very interesting and high-powered hybrid role (the name is also kind of hilarious to me tbh). I envision it basically acting as a somewhat risky protective until it decides to reveal, and then they get to take someone out with them upon dying as a sort of night vengeful. The riskiness of the protection and the IC part of the role makes follow-the-cop strats less viable imo.

I think the Neapolitan isn't too strong here with only five vanilla townies to show up as hard clears.

In the unlikely event that mafia and one-shot vig both attempt to kill a player on the same night, and the babysitter protects that player, the protection should fail, correct?

[Skygazer]

I'll fix the role pms when I get on a laptop!

Maybe the Nea or Tracker could be swapped for a psychologist?

Like maybe odd-night tracker and even-night psychologist instead of tracker and neapolitan?

[Skygazer]

01 Town 1-Shot Vigilante
02 Town Innocent Child/2-shot Babysitter
03 Town Neapolitan
04 Town Tracker
05 Town Neighbor
06 Town Vanilla
07 Town Vanilla
08 Town Vanilla
09 Town Vanilla
10 Town Vanilla
11 Scum Vanilla Cop
12 Scum Neighbor
13 Scum Goon

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town One-Shot Vigilante

.
Abilities:
Once per game, during a night phase, you may attempt to kill another player.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Innocent Child Two-Shot Babysitter

.
Abilities:
At any point in time, you may tell me to publicly confirm your alignment in the game thread.
Twice per game, during the night phase, you may target one player in the game to babysit them. They will be protected from a single kill. However, if you are killed, your target will die with you.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Neapolitan

.
Abilities:
Each night phase, you may target one player in the game to investigate them. You will receive a result of "Vanilla Townie", "Not Vanilla Townie", or "No Result".
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Tracker

.
Abilities:
Each night, you may investigate one player in the game and you will discover which player(s) they targeted (if any).
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Neighbor

.
Abilities:
You are in a neighborhood with [Player Name]. At any time, you may talk to your neighbor [here].
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Vanilla Townie

.
Abilities:
You have no abilities other than your voice and your vote.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Vanilla Cop

.
Abilities:
Each night phase, you may target one player in the game to investigate them. You will receive a result of "Vanilla" if they're a Vanilla Townie or Mafia Goon, "Not Vanilla" if they're not a Vanilla Townie or Mafia Goon, or "No Result".
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill. You may not kill and investigate in the same night phase.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Neighbor

.
Abilities:
You are in a neighborhood with [Player Name]. At any time, you may talk to your neighbor [here].
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Goon

.
Abilities:
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

[Player Name] is a Vanilla Townie.

[Player Name] is not a Vanilla Townie.

[Player Name] visited [Player Name] last night.

[Player Name] visited no one last night.

[Player Name] is Vanilla.

[Player Name] is not Vanilla.

Mini Normal ####: Cool Art I've Found Mafia

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Moderator: Skygazer
Back-up Moderator: ruru
Reviewers: ??? and ???

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Spoiler: Living Players

Everyone is alive!

Spoiler: Dead Players

None yet!

Spoiler: Events

None yet!

Rules, adapted from schadd_ who adapted them from Nexus.

Be nice. It's a game.

General:
- Please adhere to the site rules.
- Do not discuss this game of mafia outside of this thread.
- Day phases will last 2 weeks (or until a lynch is achieved).
- Night Phases will last 48 hours maximum. On any given night, if all players PM me that they are okay to speed up the night, it will end sooner.
- During night phase, no talking may be done in the thread.
- Do not quote PM's from the mod at all (real or fabricated). Paraphrasing is acceptable.
- If you have any questions about your role, or the game, feel free to PM me.
- "Bah" posts are not allowed.
- If you break any of these rules, you may be modkilled or force-replaced.

Voting / Player actions:
- Vote either with vote tags (VOTE: Skygazer) or with bold (

vote: Skygazer

). You may use nicknames and abbreviations if you wish, as long as it's unique to the player and I can figure out who you intended to vote.
- Don't try to confuse me with your votes.
- You may vote No Lynch to Not Lynch.
- A lynch will occur once a majority decision is reached. If no majority is reached by deadline, then no lynch shall occur.
- Following a lynch, it is twilight. You may continue to post until I lock the thread and declare it night.
- If nobody dies for 4 consecutive day and night phases, the town will win.
- If you have a Night Action, you may submit it from Night 1 and each subsequent Night (or whichever nights are specified by the role).
- If you have more than two night specific actions, you may only use one per night unless specified otherwise.

Activity:
- You are expected to post at least once every 48 hours. If you haven't posted for 48 hours, I shall prod you. If you do not respond to the prod within 24 hours (either in thread if it's Day, or via PM during the Night) then I will replace you.
- As well, if you require more than three prods, I will force-replace you.

Mechanics:
- 006688 is my color. Feel free to use it if you'd like! Just not to impersonate me or to mislead others.
- No impossible/hard to read text, or cryptography. For example, I would prefer that no font size smaller than the one you're reading now be used.
- I may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
- If you need to get the mod's attention, either PM me, or bold the text you wish to draw to my attention.
- I reserve the right to alter/remove/add any rules as I see fit. You will, of course, be notified if that happens, however.
- Day-talk is enabled.

Sample Role PMs:

Spoiler: Vanilla Townie

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Vanilla Townie

.
Abilities:
You have no abilities other than your voice and your vote.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Spoiler: Mafia Goon

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Goon

.
Abilities:
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

[Skygazer]

^Full changes^

For Role PMs, I've updated the Town Tracker and Vanilla Cop ability descriptions and the scum win condition per schadd's advice.

I also changed the IC Babysitter to a IC 2-shot babysitter to nerf it a little bit. Is that too nerfed? I figure two protections or one protection and one quasi-vig is a little more balanced.

[Skygazer]

I forgot to update the sample Mafia Goon PM's win condition but just did that in my text file, it'll show up in the next draft.

[Skygazer]

Draft with that correction to the sample role PM:

01 Town 1-Shot Vigilante
02 Town Innocent Child/2-shot Babysitter
03 Town Neapolitan
04 Town Tracker
05 Town Neighbor
06 Town Vanilla
07 Town Vanilla
08 Town Vanilla
09 Town Vanilla
10 Town Vanilla
11 Scum Vanilla Cop
12 Scum Neighbor
13 Scum Goon

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town One-Shot Vigilante

.
Abilities:
Once per game, during a night phase, you may attempt to kill another player.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Innocent Child Two-Shot Babysitter

.
Abilities:
At any point in time, you may tell me to publicly confirm your alignment in the game thread.
Twice per game, during the night phase, you may target one player in the game to babysit them. They will be protected from a single kill. However, if you are killed, your target will die with you.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Neapolitan

.
Abilities:
Each night phase, you may target one player in the game to investigate them. You will receive a result of "Vanilla Townie", "Not Vanilla Townie", or "No Result".
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Tracker

.
Abilities:
Each night, you may investigate one player in the game and you will discover which player(s) they targeted (if any).
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Neighbor

.
Abilities:
You are in a neighborhood with [Player Name]. At any time, you may talk to your neighbor [here].
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Vanilla Townie

.
Abilities:
You have no abilities other than your voice and your vote.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Vanilla Cop

.
Abilities:
Each night phase, you may target one player in the game to investigate them. You will receive a result of "Vanilla" if they're a Vanilla Townie or Mafia Goon, "Not Vanilla" if they're not a Vanilla Townie or Mafia Goon, or "No Result".
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill. You may not kill and investigate in the same night phase.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Neighbor

.
Abilities:
You are in a neighborhood with [Player Name]. At any time, you may talk to your neighbor [here].
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Goon

.
Abilities:
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

[Player Name] is a Vanilla Townie.

[Player Name] is not a Vanilla Townie.

[Player Name] visited [Player Name] last night.

[Player Name] visited no one last night.

[Player Name] is Vanilla.

[Player Name] is not Vanilla.

Mini Normal ####: Cool Art I've Found Mafia

[picture goes here]
Moderator: Skygazer
Back-up Moderator: ruru
Reviewers: ??? and ???

Player List:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.

Spoiler: Living Players

Everyone is alive!

Spoiler: Dead Players

None yet!

Spoiler: Events

None yet!

Rules, adapted from schadd_ who adapted them from Nexus.

Be nice. It's a game.

General:
- Please adhere to the site rules.
- Do not discuss this game of mafia outside of this thread.
- Day phases will last 2 weeks (or until a lynch is achieved).
- Night Phases will last 48 hours maximum. On any given night, if all players PM me that they are okay to speed up the night, it will end sooner.
- During night phase, no talking may be done in the thread.
- Do not quote PM's from the mod at all (real or fabricated). Paraphrasing is acceptable.
- If you have any questions about your role, or the game, feel free to PM me.
- "Bah" posts are not allowed.
- If you break any of these rules, you may be modkilled or force-replaced.

Voting / Player actions:
- Vote either with vote tags (VOTE: Skygazer) or with bold (

vote: Skygazer

). You may use nicknames and abbreviations if you wish, as long as it's unique to the player and I can figure out who you intended to vote.
- Don't try to confuse me with your votes.
- You may vote No Lynch to Not Lynch.
- A lynch will occur once a majority decision is reached. If no majority is reached by deadline, then no lynch shall occur.
- Following a lynch, it is twilight. You may continue to post until I lock the thread and declare it night.
- If nobody dies for 4 consecutive day and night phases, the town will win.
- If you have a Night Action, you may submit it from Night 1 and each subsequent Night (or whichever nights are specified by the role).
- If you have more than two night specific actions, you may only use one per night unless specified otherwise.

Activity:
- You are expected to post at least once every 48 hours. If you haven't posted for 48 hours, I shall prod you. If you do not respond to the prod within 24 hours (either in thread if it's Day, or via PM during the Night) then I will replace you.
- As well, if you require more than three prods, I will force-replace you.

Mechanics:
- 006688 is my color. Feel free to use it if you'd like! Just not to impersonate me or to mislead others.
- No impossible/hard to read text, or cryptography. For example, I would prefer that no font size smaller than the one you're reading now be used.
- I may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
- If you need to get the mod's attention, either PM me, or bold the text you wish to draw to my attention.
- I reserve the right to alter/remove/add any rules as I see fit. You will, of course, be notified if that happens, however.
- Day-talk is enabled.

Sample Role PMs:

Spoiler: Vanilla Townie

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Vanilla Townie

.
Abilities:
You have no abilities other than your voice and your vote.
Win condition:
You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

Spoiler: Mafia Goon

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Mafia Goon

.
Abilities:
You share a private topic with your partners [Player Name] and [Player Name]. You may communicate with them at any time [here].
Your team has a factional night-kill. Each night your team can designate one teammate to perform this kill.
Win condition:
You win if at least one member of your group is alive and all other players are dead (or when your factions controls half of the votes).

The game thread is [here]. Please send me a PM confirming your role and alignment.

[Skygazer]

So um any balance things or does this pass or

[Skygazer]

oh ok sorry

[Skygazer]

hewoo mr rc do i pass??

[Skygazer]

*notices schadd's pass* uwu whats this