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Game reviews: Cabd, Cephrir, and Syryana





Living Agents
Bronzed

Canceled by SyFy

Game Episodes


Sample Informational PMs:

1) There is only one anti-town faction in play for this game (Mafia). There are four Mafia-aligned players.
2) This game uses a Night phase and a Day phase. The Day phase is split up into two sections: Morning and Afternoon. Morning will have a 48 hour deadline and Afternoon will have a 192 hour (eight day) deadline. Night will be 48 hours.
3) There will be a Night 0 in this game. It will last 48 hours. No factional kill will be available to the Mafia team for this Night phase only.
4) A significant mechanic in this game is the distribution of Artifacts. The abilities they grant are all one-shot and work by the following rules:

Each Artifact has a flavor name taken from the source material, an action (Power) it provides, and a Negative Effect that will activate upon use. Before distribution, the default state of information on all Artifacts is flavor name only. Upon receipt, the recipient(s) will be told its Power and its Negative Effect. At this point a general Power description will also be attached to the flavor name for ease of comprehension, but the description of the Power is the final authority on how it works mechanically. All Powers in the game are non-refundable.

Upon receipt, a player may choose to interact with one Artifact in their possession per game phase. They may either use it or transfer the selected Artifact to another player rather than using it. This counts as the player's Artifact interaction for the night. Transfers may only be performed during the Night phase. If transferred, the recipient will be informed of the Artifact's Power and Negative Effect. They may also use any non-Artifact actions they have from their role, including the factional kill if Mafia. There is a limit of one non-factional kill role action used per player per phase.

Two Artifacts are presented to the Mafia at the start of the Night phase. They pick one to keep by the end of the Night phase (along with a recipient for it, among their faction or elsewhere) and one that will go to the game thread at the start of the Morning, where the living players will vote on the recipient of that Artifact decided by plurality. The Morning will end if a majority vote is reached for the Artifact recipient.

Other Artifact distribution mechanics may be in play throughout the game. A set number of Artifacts were designed prior to game start. If the Warehouse is unable to distribute enough Artifacts during the game for a given phase at any point, a priority list has been designated by the mod for the distribution of remaining Artifacts. Once there are no more Artifacts to distribute, no new ones will be generated and the game will continue without that mechanic in play

5) Elimination in this game will be referred to as Bronzing by the mods and for the purposes of all role- and Artifact-related information. Bronzing is decided by majority vote, defined as (50% + 1) rounded down of living players.
6) There may be mechanics that change the number of votes required to Bronze; these will always be known to the affected players.
7) The page count limit for each Day phase will be equal to 5 x # of living players (mod posts subtracted from the count). After that point, each living player may make a single post that must contain a vote for the remainder of the Day phase. Posting beyond that will result in a mod kill (Canceled by SyFy). This count includes Morning and Afternoon phases combined.
8) Vote counts are intended to be posted at least every 24 hours, more frequently as judged necessary by the mods. Requests for vote counts made in the game thread will not be honored; please PM the mod or post in a factional PT if requesting a vote count.
9) Please note the win conditions specified in the sample Role PMs. They may be slightly different from what is normally seen.
10) If you've actually read all this so far, you now know that the Role PM confirmation phrase is 'Endless Wonder' because I'm corny that way.
11) Day talk will be enabled.
12) In the event abilities used by a Town player and a Mafia player 'clash,' the Mafia player's action will take priority.
13) All flips will be Character Name, aligned with {Town, Mafia}, Town/Mafia [role name], in possession of (Artifact inventory with flavor names only listed) has been Bronzed.



General Behavioral Expectations:
• All site-wide rules are to be followed. Loophole hunting is not appreciated--there are no loophole Artifacts in play.
• Personal attacks on any basis are prohibited. Excessive vulgarity will also be stomped upon. When in doubt, err on the side of being civil and respectful.
***If you feel someone has crossed a line into a personal attack, or if you are concerned about another player's mental state, contact the mod and the back-up mod immediately. Whoever sees it first will intervene. Do not escalate in the game thread. I'm not interested in the gamestate becoming toxic.
• Play to your win condition. Gambits, yes; trying to sabotage your faction, no.
• Do not discuss this game anywhere outside the game thread and designated PTs. Do not discuss ongoing games in any spaces for this game. When in doubt, ask the mod before posting or just don't do it.

Game Play, Voting, Bronzing, and Night Actions:
• Do not quote mod communications anywhere in the thread. That includes role PMs and PM exchanges with the mod. (#FF8000) so do not use it for any purposes, particularly impersonating me.
• If you see errors in the vote count or other administrivia, you may PM me or post in the thread (using the bold tag and '@Mod') requesting a fix.
• Claiming to be an anti-town player sharing an alignment with another living player in the game is a modkillable offense regardless of one's actual alignment or whether the statement was intended to be taken seriously.
• When placing a vote, it is not necessary to unvote first or to put your vote on a new line. However, votes must be submitted in bold like this: or like this: VOTE: penguin_alien or like this: . I will accept any votes in these formats so long as I can tell the intended target from the abbreviation used. If I think it's a vote, it's a vote.
• Bronzings (or decisions to no-Bronze) require a majority of the votes in play.
• No cryptography is permitted. Do not use temporary information (signature, avatar, etc.) to convey game information.
• Discussion may continue in twilight.
• All factional decisions must either be agreed upon by all living members of that faction or be resolved as outlined for that faction. Action control may be proxy'd to another player in your PT by PMing the mod or posting your permission therein.
• Once you are killed, do not post in the game thread. This includes ‘Bah!’ posts.
• Game actions may be PMed to me or posted in bold in the appropriate PTs. If you know you will be V/LA during the night phase, you may send in a conditional night action in advance.
• There exists the possibility of mod errors or disagreements about mod decisions. Unless overridden by list/site mods, my decisions are final. You may take it up with me post-game should you so choose.

Activity Parameters and Mod Communication:
• Prods will be sent out by PM to players who have not posted within the past 48 hours. Players receiving prods have 24 hours to post before I will start looking for a replacement. If the day ends before you can respond in-thread, you must PM me within the allotted time. Don't prodge; you know what I'm talking about.
• Three prods in one game day phase or four prods overall will result in my replacing you.
• If the site had downtime of more than three hours, time will be added to the relevant deadlines to compensate equal to that lost to the downtime.
• While you are welcome to post about any issues that arise in the thread (use bold to get my attention, please) you may also PM me concerning any problems. Use your best judgment here, and I will endeavor to do the same. Questions may be answered publicly if it is something the full game should know. It is likely questions will be answered with "I will not answer that". This also applies to issues with me or my modding or other players. I do not fix tags or formatting issues in non-mod game posts.
• If you go on V/LA, please PM me.
• Night phases will always run their full allotted time unless all living players PM me or post in a PT that they are ready for the night phase to end.
• Alterations to these rules will be announced in-thread and PMed to all players in the event they become necessary either due to unforeseen circumstances or my own oversights.

Violations of these rules will result in a warning for a first offense and a potential forced-replacement or modkill for subsequent offenses depending on circumstances. I reserve the right to skip the warning for particularly willful or egregious violations.

Modkills will happen in a way to punish the player's faction as far as timing and phase progression is concerned. These will only happen after consultations with the listmods. A modkilled player will become a neutral survivor.

Confirmed: 16/17

Syryana, Pete the ferret, aligned with Town, , in possession of no Artifacts, has been Bronzed!
Dandelion Wine, Marcus Diamond, aligned with Mafia, , in possession of , has been Bronzed!

No players will be eliminated during Night 0.

Night 0 starts now and will end in (expired on 2021-02-20 15:05:47)

The Artifact of the Morning is:

Lucretia's Comb

Morning Vote Count 1.00

Morning 1 will end in (expired on 2021-02-22 15:17:03)

With 17 players alive, it takes 9 votes to deliver to a player. If no one receives that many votes by deadline, plurality rules will apply. Plurality here means whoever has the highest number of votes. If there is a tie, whoever reached that number first will receive the Artifact.

Not voting (17): sangres, Tammy, borkjerfkin, SirCakez, Kitty Trauma Team, Lady Lambdadelta, mastina, Bell, Titus, Spiffeh, GreyICE, PookyTheMagicalBear, MathBlade, quiet, Prism, Dunnstral, Battle Mage

Mod notes: borkjerfkin is V/LA
0/85 pages used

Greetings, Gentlebeings!

Hi bork, you should have received a flavor claim from me overnight. Please confirm, and do with it what you will.

Whoever the comb takes control of, it makes that person have a deep yearning to be loved, just like Lucrezia had. However, the wearer will do anything to obtain love, and usually begins a bloody reign of terror and destruction. The comb also has mind control powers; when the user reads the trigger aloud, the comb releases a bright light that alters the brain chemistry of anybody that sees it and essentially brainwashes them. The indicator that a person is brainwashed is that they keep repeating the trigger. The wearer will have a hole in their heart that will be filled after everybody everywhere is in love with them or is dead. If the comb is neutralized, light seems to shoot out of its victims and return to it and all the comb's victims have no idea what they did or what happened.

From here: https://warehouse13.fandom.com/wiki/Luc ... a%27s_Comb

hmm

Hi awesome people!

Playing Shadowrun will be back later.

Try not to get too bogged down in mechanics. Lucretia’s comb turns people into a lovesick mass killer on the show until neutralized and then the killer remembers nothing.

https://warehouse13.fandom.com/wiki/Luc ... a%27s_Comb

Please also keep in mind the post count. Imho a majority of posts should be on who we townread and then keeping artifacts away from scum if possible. Both the artifact vote and regular vote gives us stuff.

Will be back in like 5+ hours please don’t spam the thread people.

I'm so excited to not care what any of you think about me

Hi all,

Setting expectations: I am undergoing job training for a month, I will not have the same activity I had pre-job.

Just going to go out and say it,
I'm A dOcTor ThIs GaME (this is not a crumb).

It sounds like we should be sending the comb to someone we don't like. tbh.

VOTE: Spiffeh

Test.

Bell are you enjoying the game so far?

Yes.

Also I would like the artifact because I am undisputedly town

VOTE: Spiffeh

WHO KILLED SYRYANA
VOTE: spiffeh
It was you wasn't it you little scumfuck

Math I trust you to be my flavor guide this game

page count limit is a genius move, but I don't really share the level of concern from Mathblade - 85 pages is MORE than enough for Day 1 in any game.

also what is post 8?

maybe a dumb question but are we sure the flavour of the artefacts is not different to the mech in the game? otherwise, it's pretty easy to use the flavour to figure them all out?

wary of a swerve haha

I'll do too, so we can progress quickly to the important business of the day!

Im so excited for the page count limit
I'm so sick of unlimited day 1s that go in circles forever
Anyone who was in recent Booneytoonz knows what I'm talking about

if the comb gives random killing powers which aren't the decision of the owner, does it even matter who gets it?

Hi!

Sangres - Which one of you is doing the comforting this game?

A little note: To anyone who played with me in the before time that has not played with me since, I'm not the same player I used to be. I am town; I am still readable, but if you had meta tells such as Tammy reacts x way if I call her scum when she's town, posts x amount if town, gets super emotionally invested if town, is aggressive as town, is only mad in a certain way as town, or any other pretty superficial thing that was part of my meta then, it will not apply now. (Hopefully, oh gods hopefully)

If you read me based on how I looked at the game, explained my reads, or those things that are mindset tells, those still apply. I'm still trying to find a good mafia/real life balance, so I'm hoping this game will look more like my play in Fakegod's Smoke-Filled game than popcorn where I got so invested and over posted that I'm still trying to catch up on work I got behind on.

Have not seen the show, still processing what I think about the artifacts and oh gods save me I have a town lean on spiffed already :/