The Lord of Hats posted:

Ready to charge into battle and die horribly!

Tommunist posted:

i wanna fight along side sir podima

Meinberg posted:

same

EccoRaven posted:

CCKeane, Atoninus, TOWN Ruzelian Knight, died from a broken friendship night 0.

Kashuno posted:

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To lynch them is my cause
I will travel across the thread
Searching far and wide
Each scum team bro to understand
The power that's inside
Mafia! Gotta lynch 'em all! It's you and me
I know it's my destiny,
Mafia! Oh you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Mafia! A heart so true
Our courage will pull us through,
You teach me and I'll teach you,
Mafia! Gotta lynch ‘em all
Every challenge along the way
With courage I will face.
I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place.
Come with me,
The time is right,
There's no better team.
Arm in arm we'll win the fight!
It's always been our dream!
Mafia! Gotta lynch 'em all! It's you and me
I know it's my destiny,
Mafia! Oh you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Mafia! A heart so true
Our courage will pull us through,
You teach me and I'll teach you,
Mafia! Gotta lynch 'em all
Gotta lynch 'em all! Mafia!

Max posted:

Please explain in 250 words why I should allow you to be be in my thread.

Murmur Twin posted:

Max posted:

Oh, also, please let me / us know if you are on gods true time zone or some other barbaric area of the world. (EST is the best time)

EccoRaven posted:

FINAL PLAYER LIST:


First, the Praetorienne Guard of Princess Jocasta:

Max
14) Kashuno
21) TMMadman

EccoRaven posted:

Also I have decided to institute ANOTHER SET OF GAME MECHANICS WOW NIFTY


It is a BATTLEFIELD MECHANIC. When Leaders submit their troop formations, they must also submit a BATTLEFIELD on which to fight. Different battlefields provide different, minor boons and damages depending on the location. This is literally exactly the same as in Tao's game (which was [poorly] replicated in busb's).

See Appendix E for further information (in like the 45 minutes it'll take for me to write it)

Kashuno posted:

the only one that matters. E S T

Tommunist posted:

what i'm saying is its time kashuno suffered for his game

EccoRaven posted:

THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS HAVE NOT YET SUBMITTED TO ME THEIR STAT DISTRIBUTIONS:

- fiery_valkyrie
- Doktor Perr
- Dominoes
- Venom Soag
- VivaNova


if they do not submit something by about twelve hours from this post then I will be very sad.

I cannot say who has or hasn't submitted stuff to Asiina yet (despite receiving half of her players' submissions!!! ugh!!)

Max posted:

Copping Gwyn was a result of QPQ talking about Shakespeare in Love in a post where he was answering one of my questions. Shakespeare in Love starts Gwynneth Paltrow. This information was coupled with scum essentially telling me that one of them were an advisor to Quandary. I thought we had a lead.

I can type more, but that's a lot to take in, for now.

Kashuno posted:

Asiina, you talk about the idea that scum in a soldiers game has to treat the scum role as less of a kill role and more of an annoyance. I know we have somewhat discussed this before, but I think it deserves a more indepth discussion re: night kill strength, healing, and the ability of scum to influence the game.

We have discussed the weakness of the NK in the scum docs, but I'd like a more public discussion of the subject. I understand wholeheartedly that the role of scum in a soldiers game must be to sow as much chaos as possible, but the NK as originally created (and even buffed) really doesn't do that like I think Ecco and Asiina believed. Without an immediate kill, the ability only serves to soft confirm the victim as town. Sure, scum can use it on themselves in order to build town cred, but this is the absolute worst play possible with such a neutered ability (arguably, even worse when it was buffed). At best, it bought a scum some time out of the limelight and drew a heal that could have been used on a townie instead. However, even at the stronger value, the ability is almost so bad that it actively hurts scum to use. When we discussed it d3 (and part of this was good luck on Max's part) we had 16 players that were either hard or soft cleared as town. By that point, using the NK at all was trash as a tactic because it could not kill, and worse due to a second factor I'd like to discuss.

There were too many heals in this game. By a wide margin. The amount of healing items people had, in addition to healers and the health boosts that came from putting points in stamina (which imo should be completely removed from the setup), scum had very little they could actually do. If a battle went good for Jocasta, for example, our scum team easily had the NK completely invalidated with absolutely no downside to town. Scum had absolutely no agency to sow chaos on their own, and relied entirely on the other town to play properly in order to get ahead. While I believe scum should not be able to end the game without the assistance of the other town, in this setup scum was useless without the other town. It is a delicate balance, and I don't think it was achieved in this game. To be fair, I'm not sure how I would solve it. This put the scum in a very bad position, and it was impossibly hard due to the fact that this was really a race against time, not a game of manipulation.

This is a result of what I believe, is probably the most egregious error in the setup; the ability for the leader, no matter the cost, to have a cop that cannot be disputed. If max found scum, that was it. There was absolutely no discussion that could be had, there was no counter argument to be made; it just was factually impossible to dispute. I wasn't kidding on d3 when I said Jocasta could have just no-lynched from then on and won the game. If Max had just kept throwing the same all town battle party in, and receiving almost full heals upon winning the battle, it was just waiting it out until max copped the remaining players.

Max posted:

I almost did, but was reminded that it takes up a Day action. I chose to get items instead.

fits posted:

i should have stuck to my ~gunz~ early game but then i got busy and lazy and dead but now i have some grand ideas for running a soldiers game, so we'll see if that ever works out

Quandary posted:

It's cetainly the most stressful, I'll give you that. Timezones have been loving awful for me given I'm in asia, I regularly woke up at 5 am on deadline days to prep battle actions and get involved with the thread.