Do you remember, long ago, the satyrical commentary on the large theme form,
mystery box of silver five
, the aberrant fifth installment of the fan favorite series of satyrical commentaries on the micro form? no? that is because it did not play out very well and was a disaster in motion.see, that game asked a lot of its players and didn't give the players the tools they needed to keep that engagement up. i am attempting to remedy this by splitting the difference and cranking up what is asked of the players AND cranking up the corresponding tools.
we are overclocking this thing.
welcome to mystery box of silver ten: titans of the votehouse.
you can think of the mystery box series as me attempting to put forth what i wish to see more of in mafia games. normally these are micros because it is easy to make a micro setup that has a few fun things and zero problems. indeed: i got scummy nominations for setups that had like three characteristics.
mbos 5 was a shot at a third party that had actionable and fun goals, and that could potentially have been figured out by a committed and/or fortunate town. this is still something i do not see in large themes, but thats because i havent followed a large theme game since that time i ran one. anyone remember that?
what is for sure not in the large theme queue often enough, is me making fun of house of cards. so that is what i will be putting forth in this game. i dont like that show.
characteristics of this game
- there will be 23 players.
- you should not play this if you haven't finished at least two non-newbie games.
- hydras up to 3 heads
- everyone is multitasking. private threads will generally be open at all times. there is no redirection. if you can think of something similar to redirection, it's probably not in this. this is also generally unlike a role madness game - plenty of people will be vanilla or almost vanilla.
- you can ask me questions.
- northsidegal reviewed the setup. errant pabola will be my backup moderator.
- romance???????
motifs of the series:
assignment of roles to town by mafia; heavy information to mafia; night actions being determined by events (e.g., two players are assigned to collaboratively use a doctor ability); normal roles or otherwise non-flashy roles; uncertain guilties vs. certain innocents; setup fake-outs; vanilla by any other name tastes just as sweet.
playerz
- samantha97
- Christøpher
- Bell
- mastina
- Nero Cain (as 3rd party joat)
- April Ludgate
- Ban Hydras (Hectic + Hopkirk + Flopz)
- Vecna
- Morning Mage (Morning Tweet + Battle Mage)
- Almost50
- superbowl9
- Menalque
- Gamma Emerald
- Tayl0r Swift
- jjh927
- Titus
- NorwegianboyEE
- Pickaxe Pete
- PlusJOYED
- DiamondSentinel
- EchoVision
- DrDolittle
- TheGoldenParadox
- the worst at some point maybe!!!
- chemist1422
- shellyc (later!)
- i copy pasted the signup post of my last large theme and it was such a trip seeing awestfie here. does anyone remember that
- skitter30
- lilith2013
- Adorable
- brassherald