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mystery box of silver ten: titans of the votehouse LETSA GO

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 5:01 pm
by schadd_
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
  1. samantha97
  2. Christøpher
  3. Bell
  4. mastina
  5. Nero Cain (as 3rd party joat)
  6. April Ludgate
  7. Ban Hydras (Hectic + Hopkirk + Flopz)
  8. Vecna
  9. Morning Mage (Morning Tweet + Battle Mage)
  10. Almost50
  11. superbowl9
  12. Menalque
  13. Gamma Emerald
  14. Tayl0r Swift
  15. jjh927
  16. Titus
  17. NorwegianboyEE
  18. Pickaxe Pete
  19. PlusJOYED
  20. DiamondSentinel
  21. EchoVision
  22. DrDolittle
  23. TheGoldenParadox
replacements:
  • the worst at some point maybe!!!
  • chemist1422
  • shellyc (later!)
spectating
  • 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

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 5:54 pm
by the worst
all too well.

egopost and like, probably lategame replace if needed

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:39 pm
by PookyTheMagicalBear
In post 0, schadd_ wrote:romance??????
sold

/in

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:40 pm
by samantha97
/in

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:42 pm
by Christøpher
/in

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:43 am
by skitter30
Spectate

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:13 am
by Princess Leia
/in

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:36 am
by Bell
/in

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:58 am
by lilith2013
In post 5, skitter30 wrote:Spectate

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:45 pm
by Errantparabola
/in

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:53 pm
by the worst
pls be town, i feel like you'd be able to read this plist really well.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:10 pm
by mastina
/in

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:19 am
by Princess Leia
/out

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:02 am
by SirCakez
/in

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:19 am
by Nero Cain
/in as 3rd party joat

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:27 am
by NotAJumbleOfNumbers
/wait why didn't the text keep getting smaller

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:31 am
by schadd_
are u joining the game

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:57 am
by April Ludgate
/in

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:33 am
by Ban Hydras
/in as hydra of Hectic, Hopkirk, and Flopz

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:59 am
by Ban Hydras
In post 18, Ban Hydras wrote:/in as hydra of Hectic, Hopkirk, and Flopz
Confirming Hopkirk.

Now I know what you're all wondering. On our avatar which one is which powerpuff girl? We spent a few hours vigorously debating this. We had to kick EgdufEkac out of the hydra in the end because she insisted that she get to be her overpowered self insert powerpuff girl from her powerpuff girls fanfic. This worked out pretty well in the end since we realized there was a maximum of three heads anyway.

Blossom - The pink/red smart one and the leader of the group. I wanted to go with Bubbles until Flopz started sending me photoshopped fanart of me dressed as Bubbles. Obviously it didn't look anything like me and was super weird, but I really didn't want him to keep sending me more pictures so in the end I just agreed to make him stop. Spoilers - he didn't.

Bubbles - The blue airhead. I'm blonde and have blue eyes so obviously Flopz insisted on being this one. Not a smart move picking the airhead Flopz, feels like the kind of move Bubbles would make tbh.

Buttercup - The green angry tomboy. Flopz wanted to be this one at the start so Hectic knocked most of his teeth out and that pretty much decided things. Hectic broke both of Flopz's kneecaps anyway just to be on the safe side. I for one support this move, mostly because I love my kneecaps.

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:51 pm
by Chemist1422
/uhhh in to replace or hydra i guess if anyone wants to?

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:01 am
by Menalque
In post 8, lilith2013 wrote:
In post 5, skitter30 wrote:Spectate

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:03 am
by Menalque
one day schadd_ will mod a game at a time when I'm available

one day

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:48 am
by Christøpher
what's it mean to be a spectator besides that you're reading the thread

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:59 am
by the worst
u can hang out and talk about it in the dead thread without needing to die first