[Mafia] Galaxy-Sane Mafia: A CubicalSucrose Concoction

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CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Galaxy-~~Brain~~ Sane Mafia: A CubicalSucrose Concoction is an experimental, SANITY-MECHANIC-HEAVY game designed for 17 players (& as many observers as Discord can handle) based off of inspiration from a recent obs-chat idea and a few hours of chatting with Iggy. Most of the positive refinement comes from Iggy, all of the remaining rough edges are from me.

This is the second game I�ve moderated, there�s a reasonable chance it just fails spectacularly, and thus it might be a bad idea for new players to join this one. But I�m not your supervisor!

There will be no fake flips, involuntary alignment changes, dramatic observer fuckery (though again I think unspoiled might be a better experience), no "hidden to everyone" win conditions, and I'm not requesting to be an IK. The only potential modkills this game should be lurker-related (he says, proverbially tempting the fates). I didn't do a full pass of other mod bastardry items so I'm probably (semi-intentionally) leaving a few things out just to keep the suspense up, but really the main gimmick is sanity.

Rule zero: If you ever encounter anything or anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable, threatened, abused, angry, or even unsure of how you feel, there are many people here, both within and outside of the SA Mafia community, who are happily willing to listen, provide support, and enact change to make the community better for everyone.
Here is a short list of only some of the people that other players have suggested as a resource that you should never hesitate to contact: Leperflesh and Antivehicular (probably the current Traditional Games Mods), VoodooFly, Hal Insandenza, Bifauxnen, Monathin, Wologar, Maerlyn, EccoRaven, CCKeane, Cloacamazing!, Opopanax, Sandwolf, Shellception, or whomever else you feel safer talking to!

Days will last 48ish hours, possible exceptions for weekends.
Nights will last 24ish hours.
Deadline will try to be at 21:00 UTC or 4 PM US Central to be a little more Euro-friendly.
If all night actions are in before deadline, there are no objections from any players, and the mod crew is agreeable, the next Day may start early with extra time allotted in.

A CUSTOM set of mafia rules apply:
- Don't be a jerk.
- Discord is necessary for this game. Please
JOIN THIS ONE.
- This is actually really important, don�t be a jerk.
- Don't edit your posts (unless otherwise indicated).
- Don't copy/paste mod comms (unless otherwise indicated).
- Post �sufficient content� in a hammer-time-adjusted game day or you'll get a lurker warning (unless otherwise indicated). This is at mod discretion, but I intend to be relatively lenient. Don�t just spam posts with single numbers to hit a post count requirement, that�s not (necessarily) useful content. Don�t try to game this by being an intentionally-lurky scum. A second lurker warning is likely a modkill (then why am I calling it a "warning?" Maybe it'll serve as a warning to other players?).
- If you need to sub out, earlier notice is better. If you think it�s not a great time for you to be playing, please don�t sign up.
- Don�t post anything with a ## except for a vote. THERE ARE NO DAY ACTIONS THAT REQUIRE A ##. Also try not to post anything even with a single #, since that gets confusing.
- Don't post after hammer (unless otherwise indicated).
- Don't post after you die (unless otherwise indicated).
- In order to actually sign up for this game, if you haven't played in a previous CubicalSucrose Concoction, you need to include something like �I actually read the rules and acknowledge this game is sanity-heavy� in your post. A quote of someone else saying they read the rules does NOT count! Preferably you�d read the entire OP, but I do actually want the game to run.
- Don't be a jerk.
- Flips may have flavor related to the theme, but will NOT reflect any game-related cause of elimination (though they may reflect other game-related characteristics).
- Finally, don't be a jerk.

Win Conditions (unless otherwise indicated):
Town wins when all threats to town have been eliminated.
Scum wins when they have unassailable control over the vote.

Day Eliminations:
- Will be based on PLURALITY voting.
- It is possible to vote for �No elimination� (this follows plurality rules)
- In the case of ties, everyone with the most votes on them will be eliminated (if there is a tie between at least one player and �No elimination� then the player[s] WILL be eliminated).

Previous Concoctions:
The Stepford Wives [2004]

CubicalSucrose fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jul 15, 2023

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# ¿ Dec 1, 2024 21:08

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Zoya posted:

i read the entire OP and i'm extremely down for this:

This is so much better than any of the art I'm going to be providing going forward. Also, welcome!

# ¿ Jun 27, 2023 00:31

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Potato Salad posted:

May I be an observer? Busy this month but I want to learn more.

Yeah hop in Discord and I'll get you set up.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2023 14:28

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Game full, please get in the Discord, things happening soon!

# ¿ Jul 13, 2023 23:32

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Maf edit: False alarm, need one more still, but will start setting things up expecting one to join soon.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2023 23:38

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Big thanks to Clo who will be doing all the good flavor (& some co-modding?) for this game. Any bad flavor is me.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 02:41

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Hooray! Your housing applications for Cubetown have been granted! It is time to move into your new homes, make yourselves comfortable and prepare for a nice and peaceful life.

Day 0 has ended and everything is fine. It is now Night 0.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 02:41

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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A beautiful suburban neighborhood located somewhere on the planet earth. White picket fences. Gardens filled with flowers. What a peaceful environment. Nobody could have expected that this would change so suddenly...

Iggy Meen, THREAD-aligned Sanity has been MODKILLED Night 0!

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Well, crap. The last remaining bastion of sanity in this game just died. You know what that means, right?

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Yup, we're all doomed.

Day 1 starts now!

# ¿ Jul 14, 2023 23:26

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 20:43

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

To be clear, I am not a player in this game and voting me won't do anything. Flip incoming, probably have to do flavor myself because uhh...that was speedy.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 20:43

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

[Out of character mod notes] --- If at any point (especially after seeing D1 results) you want a replacement, please let me know and we'll get on that ASAP. No hard feelings, etc. Mafia is supposed to be fun, and what some people find fun others might not at all.

Additionally, this is not a game where voting "no elimination" is a broadly winning strategy. Wincons have been provided. (OP was long but I tried to be explicit about 'no "hidden to everyone" win conditions.')

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Well, the people living in each of the four quadrants of Cubetown got together, brought their maps, brought their names and their neighbors' names. And realized that "Hey, that Illu fellow, anyone know them?" No one did. Their house was nestled basically in the center, but no one had ever seen anyone enter or leave.

Well, someone had killed the thread's sanity, that's for sure. And though there were no eyewitnesses, Cubetown had something better: Laywers and technicalities.

And so there were official communications and this and that, but...at the end of the day, nothing seemed to be resolved.

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...they said your house was too blue and if you didn't change it, you would be forcibly removed from Cubetown. However, your expert knowledge of pantones came through, and your house is just a single shade lighter than the regulations stipulate. You're staying in Cubetown! For now...

No one has been eliminated Day 1. It is now Night 1.

Night 1 is expected to end in ~24 hours, but may be extended if replacements are necessary.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 21:06

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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Years later, people would point towards the death of Sanity as the starting point for Cubetown's descent into madness. While several citizens attempted to reinstate order in their beautiful suburb, fights quickly broke out once night fell. And as the sun rose, so, to their great consternation, did the citizens. Along with their pets and furniture and pretty much everything that wasn't nailed to the floor. If there had been pigs in Cubetown, they would have flown on this day. This strangely localized gravitational anomaly could only have one explanation: Shwinn

Shwinnebego, The Force of Gravity, Paranoid-Aligned NAIVE (De/Em)powerer has been eliminated Night 1!

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You are PARANOID-aligned.

They're out to get you. You don't really know who ""they"" are, or what their goal is, but they're out to get you. Maybe it's the government, maybe it's aliens, maybe the government is lizard aliens. You don't really know and you don't care. You need to take them out before they get you.

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Strong, weak, electromagnetic. You're not one of those, not quite. Probably. You're strong enough to keep the planets orbiting, but weak enough that tiny birds regularly scoff at you. Well, now's your time. You'll show them. You'll show them all.

At night, you may ##__power a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Naive: Your target will be powered. Your action will succeed. Their action resolution is unaffected by you

For the purposes of visiting, regardless of your sanity, the results of your action will count as a single visit from you to them.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

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Nobody was exactly sure who this Keats person was or when he had moved into the neighborhood. He claimed to have always lived there, but before these events, nobody had seen him. It looked as if some people thought this suspicious... As the sun rose and neighbors tried to check on him, all they found was a packet of cane sugar cubes and the cover of a notebook titled "MY GALAXY-BRAIN PLAN". Unfortunately, the pages had been ripped out and stolen.

Johnny Keats, A New/Returning Mafia Player, Insane-Aligned INSANE "Watcher or Tracker" has been eliminated Night 1!

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You are INSANE-aligned.

They say you're insane. They're probably true, but isn't sanity boring? You're living your best life here! Yes, okay, maybe there have been one or two incidents that could be interpreted as having endangered you and the people around you, but saying you need to be locked up is a bit too much.

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You played in an SA Mafia game like five years ago or something, now this Chess-themed one you heard about is calling you back. Social deduction stuff is fun, but the naming conventions are so confusing. Watching or tracking, hard to keep all this straight. Oh well, just going to say 'watch or track' every time from here on out and let the veterans try to parse out what you mean.

At night, you may ##watch-or-track a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Insane: You will receive the results of both watching and tracking your target. In the same batch (deduped), you will receive the results of both watching and tracking your target's target (if one exists). In the same batch (deduped), you will receive the results of both watching and tracking your target's target's target (if one exists).

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

Day 2 has begun, you have just under 48 hours until deadline, 4 PM Central (US) on Tuesday.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 21:17

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

[Announcement] Maugrim has replaced Sandwolf, the game continues. VF updates for the day are pending, please ping me if there's a hammer in the next hour or so and I need to close thread.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 21:46

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

VF updated, players will need to redo D2 votes, sorry about the delay/out-of-order processing.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 22:16

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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As the neighbors looked around, realizing their quadrant representation was clearer and clearer and things would never be able to go back to how they'd been just a few weeks ago, they looked toward the on who had started the roll call. Zoya looked up at their fellow residents, pleading that they were working for the good of Cubetown. That even though a few chemicals might have been slipped in here or there, they were no worse off knowing, right? And then the attack began.

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"I'm doing this for the good of Cubetown!" Zoya screamed as the circle drew closer and closer. "So what if I've added some sodium to the water to cancel out the government's fluoride? I had to do it so THEY wouldn't get you! I'm a loving hero, you jerks!"

Zoya, Jesse P, Paranoid-Aligned PARANOID Apprentice-Poisoner has been eliminated Day 2!

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Ricin, yo! Or glass? Or a woodshop? Or maybe you're working at a Cinnabon? A special model of vacuum things? There's a lot going on, so maybe it's just time to sit down and cook.

At night, you may ##cook for a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Paranoid: You slowly poison your target. They will DEFINITELY die at the end of (two nights from now), unless they're already dead/eliminated. This effect cannot be prevented by any means.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

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Day 2 has ended, it is now Night 2!

To clarify a bit, given the shortness of both days, no lurker warnings have been or will be issued for either.

Night actions due in...say, 29 hours, 4 PM Central (US) Tuesday.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2023 16:07

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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"Rationally speaking, the free market would not profit sufficiently from my death to make my murder a valid option." Voodoofly said smugly before laying himself down to sleep. Tragically he found out too late that there was an anti-capitalist organization right next door, intent on redistributing the wealth of the individual to the masses. On retrospect, he thought, it was probably better that he had to go out like this instead of sharing space with their ilk.

Voodoofly, HPMOR's Professor Quirrell. Normal-Aligned INSANE Killer Seer has been eliminated Night 2!

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You are NORMAL-aligned.

You are completely normal. There is nothing wrong with you whatsoever. You live in a suburban house with a white picket fence, your marriage partner, 2.3 children and a dog. You work from nine to five, five days a week. Life's good. Or it would be, but recently the neighborhood has been overrun by some crazy abnormal people, and this needs to stop.

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"It's time to play a game called 'Who's the most dangerous student in the class?''' Well, it's not really a game I guess. There are no prizes, not really. But at the end of the session, the students know some things about some other students, and it furthers various plots of yours. All in a day's work.

At night, you may ##deadly-check a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Insane: You will receive the opposite of your target's ability to kill.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

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Spork considered his house to be very safe. Not only had he locked his door with the latest two-factor authentification system, he had also made certain to add a biometrical scan to it and make the second authetification his beloved aunt, who lived about 80 miles away. Sure, he always had to call her before he could enter his home, but it had the added bonus of making the dear old lady happy to hear from him, so as far as she was concerned, this was a plus.

If only Spork had remembered to pay half as much attention to the windows...

Sporkchan, The Second Key Turner, Insane-Aligned NORMAL Sanity Checker has been eliminated Night 2!

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Never the hero, not the sidekick. But the wise one. The trusted one. When the one in charge is going to act, make the hard decision that could spell doom for all, you're there as the backstop. They can't do it without you. You need to turn the second key before that plastic guard around that big red button opens. If you can't be trusted, who can? That's...just what you want them to think.

At night, you may ##sanity-check a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

You share a collective one-shot no-execute with at least one other player (if you are voted out during the day, you are NOT eliminated). You will be notified when this is used up.

Normal: You will receive your target's sanity.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

Night 2 has ended, Day 3 has begun!

Deadline will be 4 PM Central on Thursday, about 52ish hours from now.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2023 16:17

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"We need to kill all killers! And TMor is one of them, I'm sure!" the thread said as with (almost) one voice.

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Tired Moritz took a deep breath:

"What the gently caress did you just loving say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my scumteam in the Insane alignment, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on all alignments, and I have over 3 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top (and only) sniper in the entire Insane armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the gently caress out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my loving words. You think you can get away with saying that poo poo to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across Cubetown and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're loving dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Insane scumteam and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable rear end off the face of the continent, you little poo poo. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your loving tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will poo poo fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're loving dead, kiddo.

Tired Mortiz, The Juggernaut, Insane-Aligned NAIVE Cocky? Juggernaut has been eliminated Day 3!

quote:

"I'm the juggernaut, bitch!" is the only thing I know about the Juggernaut. And even that might be a quote that one of my old acquaintances just made up and said every once in a while. I'm not sure. And I'm not inclined to try and look it up.

At night, you may ##strongperson a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Naive: You kill your target.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

Day 3 has ended, Night 3 deadline is 4 PN Thursday, about 28 hours from now.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 16:51

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Unsure why VF borked there.

Votecount for Day 3

Tired Moritz (7): Yami Fenrir, ~~Yami Fenrir~~, Maugrim, Rhymes With Clue, Punkreas, Yami Fenrir, PlasticAutomaton, NeverHelm, saladscooper

Maugrim (4): Punkreas, Yami Fenrir, saladscooper, ~~Yami Fenrir~~, ~~Punkreas~~, Hal Insandenza, fool of sound, Tired Moritz, JosefStalinator, ~~saladscooper~~

Not Voting (1): Illusionis

With 12 alive, it's 7 votes to execute. The current deadline is July 20th, 2023 at 4 p.m. CDT -- that's in about 3 hours, 4 minutes.

CubicalSucrose fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 20, 2023

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 17:14

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"I can see everything..." Hal told his visitor. "You're a Taurus, your lucky color is kind of like lavender, except a bit more on the blue side, no idea what that shade's called, anyway, bluish lavender like, your lucky number is e and you're here to kill me. Wait, what was that last part?"

Hal Incandenza, Shermonk Clouseau, Normal-Aligned NORMAL Alignment Seer has been eliminated Night 3!

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Bumbling, brilliant, both? You've been detecting things for as long as you can remember, but...you can't quite remember how long that has been. Something doesn't seem right, and you'll get to the bottom of it. Right after you figure out who the normal people and bad people are.

At night, you may ##align-check a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

You share a collective one-shot no-execute with at least one other player (if you are voted out during the day, you are NOT eliminated). You will be notified when this is used up.

Normal: You will receive your target's alignment.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

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"And it it for that reason, and that alone, that we cannot compromise on what's most important to us: the future of our children!" Saladscooper finished his rousing election speech. "They need a working economy, and we will give it to them! Down with the naysayers who want our town to be forever poor! This oil-powered nuclear fission reactor cooled with waste water is our future! Why, I have been drinking their water for weeks, and I feel all the better for it! I fact, I... feel... g...re...a..."
Sadly, Saladscooper never got to finish his story, on account of his untimely demise.

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You are NAIVE-aligned.

Isn't it great here? Everything is so beautiful! All the people are so nice! Yesterday someone even called you to make sure your refridgerator hadn't run away! That's what neighborhood community is all about! You decide to go outside and pet your unicorn (the horn fell off but it's still magic!) before getting ready for another wonderful day!

Saladscooper, Roger Bannister, Naive-Aligned PARANOID Sneaky? Politician has been eliminated Night 3!

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Stepford is very open-minded. And now look at you, considering running for state senate. Think of all the good you could do. But is it worth changing everything about yourself? Or maybe it's just looking at the world a little differently. Oh look, there's your partner Jerry, I'm sure a nice quick chat with him will get everything sorted out.

The results of your ##vote actions during the day will vary depending on your sanity. Note that VF will not reflect anything special and hammers will happen as-expected assuming no adjustments to voting, but results post-hammer may vary.

Paranoid: Your vote counts twice.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

It is now Day 4.
Deadline will be 4 PM Central on Saturday, about 51 hours from now.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 18:04

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"I'm a doctor, not a killer!" shouted Punkreas as the residents turned their attention toward the sharply-dressed, slightly cross-eyed, currently-human-form. But too many had seen Punkreas turn blue, show razor teeth, and demonstrate that they were a threat to anyone and everyone. Solution: remove the threat.

Punkreas, Dr. Jekyllstein Frankenhyde, Naive-Aligned INSANE (Mad?) Doctor has been elininated Day 4!

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You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs or using egg-like-substitute, that's what you've always said. Through the powers of science, especially anatomy, you're pretty sure you've found a way to help people more effectively than those other, lesser doctors. Pretty sure.

At night, you may ##do-science to a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Insane: You will kill your target.

You are a threat to every other alignment in the game.
You win when all threats to your alignment are eliminated.

Hope folks can get night actions in within about 18 hours or so, but will do a hard-ish deadline in ~24 hours.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2023 02:38

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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An uneventful evening passes.

Night 4 has ended. Day 5 begins!

Deadline at 4 PM Central Monday, about 50 hours from now.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2023 18:40

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"You don't get it, I'm not a killer!" JosefStalinator screamed as the mob turned on him. "I'm a doctor, really! I'm just... really bad at doctoring!"

JosefStalinator, Kwai Chang Bill, Normal-Aligned PARANOID Trainee? Ninja has been eliminated Day 5!

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You are fast. Lightning-fast. Your samurai sword (made of real hanzo steel) can cut through stone as if it was rice paper. You are the last remaining heir to your style's special heart stopping technique.

At night, you may ##kung-fu a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

Paranoid: You will poison your target. They will die at the end of the next night.

Night 5 begins! Deadline in about 24 hours.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2023 15:44

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

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"What am I even doing, this isn't what I signed up for..." contemplates Yami as the plots and plans race through their head. It sounded like a fun little jaunt. Move to Cubetown for a little bit, investigate a cast of wacky characters, and act as a backstop against tomfoolery. It went off the rails immediately. The protection you brought wound up being more cursed than useful. At long last though, you're finally able to drift off to that eternal slumber and be rid of this nonsense.

Yami Fenrir, The Second Key Turner, Naive-Aligned NORMAL Sanity Checker has been eliminated Night 5!

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Never the hero, not the sidekick. But the wise one. The trusted one. When the one in charge is going to act, make the hard decision that could spell doom for all, you're there as the backstop. They can't do it without you. You need to turn the second key before that plastic guard around that big red button opens. If you can't be trusted, who can? That's...just what you want them to think.

At night, you may ##sanity-check a player. The results you get will depend on your sanity.

You share a collective one-shot no-execute with at least one other player (if you are voted out during the day, you are NOT eliminated). You will be notified when this is used up.

Normal: You will receive your target's sanity.

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You've done it! You've finally figured out all the who's, what's, and how's of every Cubetown resident! Unfortunately, there are quite a bit fewer of them now. But that's not your problem. With the census data now comprehensive and complete, Illu is able to proverbially ride off into the sunset!

Illusionis, The Player that Board Game Designers Have to Make Solo Modes For - Self-Aligned Mastermind Changeling (with Normal Sanity) has achieved their personal win condition and absconds the game Night 5!

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- You cannot be permanently voted out. (You share a collective one-shot no-execute with at least one other player. If you were to be voted out after that, you become a non-voting stump that can still fulfill your wincon.)
- You cannot be permanently killed at night. (You start with an individual one-shot bulletproof. If you would be killed after that, you become a non-voting stump that can still fulfill your wincon.)
- If you are a stump, though you can't vote during the day, you will be consulted to resolve ""Plurality tiebreaks.""
- You are not a threat to any alignment.
- You have a compulsive N0 action to ##set your own Alignment, Sanity, and Role for investigative purposes (See list of alignments, sanities, and roles below). This is unblockable and does not actually count as an action. This does not affect your actual Alignment, Sanity or Role.
- Each night, starting with N1, you MAY choose to ##changeling your own Alignment, Sanity, and Role for investigative purposes. This is unblockable and does not actually count as an action. Changes take effect as-of the very start of that night. This does not affect your actual Alignment, Sanity or Role.
- Your goal is to ##solve the game. Each night, you can submit a guess similar to how the game Mastermind works (details TBD). If your guess exactly matches the Alignment, Sanity, and Roles for all remaining players, you win and abscond the game (the game continues).
If any other alignment wins before you, you lose.

Based on ##set and ##changeling actions, for the entire game, Illu investigated as a Normal-Aligned INSANE Alignment-Seer. Their role's flavor fake-claim was "Shermonk Clouseau."

It is now Day 6! Deadline in about 53 hours 4 PM Central Thursday.

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# ¿ Dec 1, 2024 21:08

CubicalSucrose: Jan 1, 2013; Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

quote:

"And every rube down in Cubeville, the tall and the small, was waiting, without *any* voting or killing at all! The lack of sanity hadn't stopped the endgame from coming, it came! Somehow or other...it came just the same."

Galaxy-Sane Mafia has ended (with a whimper) in a victory for: Team Paranoid --- Sandwolf, Maugrim, Plastic, Shwinn, and Zoya!

Additional (unexpected) victories go to: Rhymes with Clue, Fool of Sound, and Neverhelm (and Illu who already won)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEP7z39NCGs

And I really regret saying this:

CubicalSucrose posted:

Additionally, this is not a game where voting "no elimination" is a broadly winning strategy. Wincons have been provided. (OP was long but I tried to be explicit about 'no "hidden to everyone" win conditions.')

Remaining players were:
Maugrim & NeverHelm - Sanity Checkers
Plastic, RwC, and FoS - Alignment Checkers

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What a wild ride! Thanks everyone for indulging me with Concoction #2. Hope it was some level of fun for at least ~~most~~ some of you! After my first game, I took a lot of feedback from many folks into consideration, but there was some really great feedback (specifically from wins) that was ignored, at my peril. (something like "Make sure that when things do go wrong it degrades gracefully into normal mafia.")

To address the question of "Is this Mafia?" - Maugrim a few months back (after I accidentally reinvented Survivor with a setup idea I had), suggested that mafia has "the concepts of town & scum, night kill, day vote." This (experimental) game skirted the edges of those a bit, for sure, but it had most of those. Though what actually played out D1 kicked it over an unfun line. Illu's role could have done something very similar D1. It was a bit risky, probably too risky.

As it was, I felt like the game was much closer to RimWorld 2 (and I cribbed the "experimental" word from that OP) in style, though some disagree. We'd setup spec'd (4 teams of 5) there. In Illu's recent 18-player game, I setup spec'd (6 teams of 3). This did (4 teams of 4) for real.

In any case, here are the main game design notes:

I'd been reading back through the Maf thread on SA and a lot of Ecco's most interesting/hated/loved roles involved some sort of sanity component. But, for reasonable reasons, I hadn't seen any "live" games with sanity considerations since playing again.

In Illu's spoiled-chat discord for Vaguely Strange Feeling, the vaguely strange concept of "Galaxy Brain Mafia" came up. It was very complicated as-discussed. However, it inspired me to come up with the concept for this game. "Build around a sanity-checker role."

I asked Iggy if they wanted to brainstorm with me and we got to chatting. I originally had "say it's sanity-related upfront, maybe fire and ice, have sanity-checkers with some BP to avoid curse-of-interesting-role." Iggy suggested CPR Doc as another sanity-ish-related role. Immediately threw out redirection from the setup.

Very quickly landed on four teams with the team names as the four sanities used.

After mocking up some roles, I landed on the (relatively) elegant (to me) structure of:
- Four teams of four
- Each team gets a Normal sanity-checker (later changed to 3 Normal, 1 Naive to ensure the alignment seers had one of each sanity)
- Each team gets an alignment-seer (one of each sanity)
- Each team gets a different killing role
- And then four unique roles to round things out.

I then added player 17, because four scum is the typical number for a 17-player game. I expected folks to setup spec a lot and they didn't disappoint, but was surprised at how quickly each team immediately jumped to "4 x 4." Keats was quickest.

A few other misc. notes:
- Roger Bannister was a callback to Stepford Wives. Illu's role was also a half-callback. I thought some of the fake Stepford roles were actually really interesting, so felt good about including them.
- "Watcher or Tracker" was a self-insert. Team Insane self-killing that role off (and not using the action N1!) made my job as a mod much easier. I wanted to include this as part of Keats' flip but it felt leaky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ru8DMW-grY
- Trainee Ninja with the David Carradine hint was a phenomenal moment. That role's Stable Diffusion generated image was probably my favorite.
- The melting Rubik's Cube was something I made for a Photoshop thread a few years back - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3942554&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=12
- Empathized with Somber's "It's rude when people come up with better ideas than you." from Hunters in the Garden, as the idea of "Each team has to eliminate exactly one other team" would've probably gone a lot better.
- Illu's role was something I was very concerned about after seeing chores in Egyptian Job. But it didn't really become relevant.
- The alignment checkers all had single-word role PM differences hinting at their sanities.

Also - Sand being replaced was 100% me misreading/misinterpreting a conversation. Big mod error!

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Huge huge thanks to Iggy (for initial brainstorming), Clo (for doing all the great flavor and helping correct many of my errors), and Shell for making a lot of the issues with the setup much more clear with their explanations.

As a final note, I hope everyone will always remember that "Three prawns are hardly a galaxy." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sri91uVMoEg

# ¿ Jul 25, 2023 21:58

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