In Want of a WIFOA - A Ridiculously Overcomplicated Jane Austen Mafia Game

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Hal what the unholy gently caress is your icon :staredog:

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 17:17

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# ¿ May 24, 2025 07:13

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As Destiny's Child predicted, I was not ready for this jelly.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 23:55

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Rhymes With Clue posted:

A link to "Jane Austen's Fight Club"
https://www.google.com/search?q=jan...nNnf4dI9AE,st:0
I didn't like the Fight Club movie much and I'm with Mark Twain when it comes to Jane Austen but I loved this. If you haven't seen it, you should. And it's short.

(The url, however...drat that is a long url)

I love that video and my only regret is that it's not a full movie

RWC I will forgive your slight against Austen if you join the discord (you are signing up, yes?)

# ¿ Oct 22, 2023 15:53

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Rhymes With Clue posted:

I keep thinking maybe, now I've matured, I should try Austen again. Then I realized I haven't actually matured, just gotten older.

Serious post: one of the hard things about Austen is that humor is so very context-dependent. There's a line somewhere in P&P about something that sounds innocuous like "she already had dinner waiting when they arrived, because she was a woman of style and taste" that sounds like "oh, ok" because we don't realize, without the context, that it's a joke. This is apparently a very tacky thing to do, akin to someone saying "the yard surrounding her mobile home was full of neatly arranged plastic flamingos, because she was a woman of style and taste" -- no one in 2023 would need that joke explained to them, but two hundred years in the future, people would shrug and assume that was in fact something stylish.

I have an annotated P&P that explains all of the context and jokes, but I imagine that would be dull reading for a first time through. Which is why I highly recommend the 1995 BBC adaptation, because with actors you can get the nuances of sarcasm and whatnot.

The premise of P&P is that there are five daughters who need to marry well or they're going to be out in the streets when their father dies, because they don't inherit his estate. The older two are pretty and smart, the middle one literally no one cares about, and the younger two are shameless flirts. Their mom is scheming to throw them at rich men in a horribly tacky fashion, and their dad stopped giving a gently caress about anything 10-15 years ago and hangs out in his library snarking at everything. Main character Lizzy is the second oldest, and she's inherited her dad's sense of humor, but also thinks she's a much better judge of character than she actually is.

People dismiss Austen as being all about proper young ladies getting married, not realizing that the undercurrent here is that if the ladies in question don't get married, they're going to be wholly dependent on their brothers to provide for them -- women can't work or inherit in a lot of cases. So do you aim for love, do you marry the practical person just to secure your future? Do you turn down the richest man you've ever met because he's a rude rear end in a top hat?

Er anyway that would be my suggestion, if you're interested in peering in at Austen again.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2023 21:11

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Hal Incandenza posted:

Thanks for that SiV! I won’t vote you for the first real life day of the game because of it.

Hal, because you changed your avatar, I can sincerely promise I won't vote for you all game. :thumbsup:

# ¿ Oct 22, 2023 23:51

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Just a note that several people haven't submitted their numbers yet! Please check that you've gone to your discord channel and submitted numbers! All must love the numbers and despair!

ETA ahahaha sorry I thought I was being Helpful

# ¿ Oct 24, 2023 18:13

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A question was asked, and it was a good one, so in the spirit of this being a semi-open set up, I'm answering it here.

It was about the "Masonizer" ability, because we invented that one so it's not exactly standard:

random player posted:

Emma picks two other players and they're in a masonry together (but not Emma)? Or Emma forms a masonry between any two players, including herself (so she can have multiple chats with individual partners)? Or Emma forms a masonry with her and two other people and she's like the third wheel?

Emma picks two people and those two people are in a masonry, herself not included. The flavor is that she's trying to create love matches so she'd just be in the way.

Whether Emma can Masonize herself and if so, whether she can do so multiple times, that's going to be left up in the air for whoever gets Emma to know.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2023 23:07

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Another clarification from another player question:

Colonel Brandon's duel ability is a one shot.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2023 07:33

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Another correction! The original description of Mr. Bingley, while hilarious, was missing some info. The underlined part is new:

Mr. Bingley, Cowardly Doublevoter
Mr. Bingley has reconsidered his opinion and has realized he should just do whatever Mr. Darcy says.
Has a oneshot doublevote, but can only vote for another player if at least one other player has already voted there.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2023 17:00

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ONE MORE QUESTION ANSWERED: which character is the hottest?

The answer is always :sparkles:

MR. DARCY

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# ¿ Oct 25, 2023 17:07

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shwinnebego posted:

are there any popular movies or tv series that are secretly jane austen adaptations like how the lion king and a million other things are hamlet

Bridget Jones' Diary is Pride & Prejudice.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 03:32

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Maerlyn posted:

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wologar posted:

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I love all of you and everything this game chooses to be :swoon:

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 03:33

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Rhymes With Clue posted:

Oh I liked that one.

But I actually don't remember a lot about it.

Cher, the lead girl, was Emma Woodhouse, privileged and rich and bored and trying to hook up everyone around her.

The girl with the amazing line "you're a virgin who can't drive," Tai, is Harriet Smith.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 03:36

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birdstrike posted:

thought it could have been one of those mashups like sense and sensibility and servo motors

# ¿ Oct 27, 2023 23:15

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Grandicap posted:

Being a Carmen Sandiego VILE Villain is on my aspiration board.

Sandwolf posted:

sigh to be a Carmen Sandiego VILE villain

Ok so who's running Carmen Sandiego Mafia?

.... obvs scum would be those dumb little kids tracking down the cool villains right?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2023 09:22

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Lady Vienna Spencer's mood was much improved over the previous morning. For one, that vulgar matchmaker, Birdstrike, had been removed from her gathering. For another, preparations for the grand ball were progressing marvelously. There was still the unresolved matter of Quackles' murder most foul, of course ... but why let such a thing dampen one's mood?

"Sometimes," Lady Vienna announced to Mme Clotilde, "one is best served by doing nothing at all, and allowing the problem to simply resolve itself. Perhaps all the ne'er-do-wells have achieved whatever they were attempting, and will stop trying to ruin my house party."

Those hopes were dashed when a parlormaid let out a bloodcurling scream.

Mme Clotilde Incroyable was among the first to reach the dining room, being far swifter than her Ladyship, and was greeted with a most terrible sight: the lifeless body of EGalz18!

EGalz18, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, TOWN-Aligned Ninja Watcher has been strangled n1!

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"Then pray speak aloud. I must have my share of the conversation."

You are the Lady Catherine de Bourgh, antagonist of Pride and Prejudice, daughter of an Earl and a Very Important Society Woman. You know everything and have an opinion about everything. Being rich and important means that you intimidate the living gently caress out of everyone around you. You were Karen about 200 years before your time. The only people who stand up to you are your nephew Fitzwilliam and some little upstart nobody distantly related to your parson who thinks she's hot poo poo -- and boy, are you going to be pissed when Fitzwilliam ends up marrying that bint and not your daughter, Anne.

Your role is Watcher.

Nothing Escapes Her Sight: As a night action, you can deploy your fierce army of ninjas and have them ##watch to discover bits of information about your target. The ninjas will report back findings in the morning. As they are ninjas, your actions do not count as visits, which means they cannot be watched or tracked.

(Yes, we borrowed the army of ninjas from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Sure, the book hosed with Lizzy's character in unfortunate ways, but the ninja army was loving cool.)

"It's too horrible," Mme Clotilde sighed, placing a hand against her forehead. "I think I might -- I -- I simply can't --"

Her knees buckled and she moved as if to swoon dramatically before realizing there were no unmarried gentlemen in range to chivalrously arrest her fall. Better to save a good swoon where it might be more productive.

Lady Vienna huffed her way to the front of the growing crowd, her thick walking stick clutched in her palm. "Well, I never liked her," she announced to no one in particular. "Bossy, you know. She had the nerve to call me opinionated. Of course she'd ruin breakfast like this."

Lady Vienna was, as you can imagine, very rich, which was why she felt entitled to say any drat thing she pleased.

"Fly," she called out to her faithful steward, "do have someone clean all of this up. And tell the maids we'll be eating out on the veranda."

A bit of fresh air ought to brighten everyone's spirits.

As an afterthought, she frowned at the guests gathered around the opening to the dining room.

"And whomever is killing people, please stop. It's dreadfully rude."

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It is now Day 2!

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 19:24

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PhantomMuzzles posted:

The demise of the great Lady Catherine is regrettable. I myself have no knowledge of these events. I had a large cup of vanilla tea and slept soundly through the night.

I daresay, for want of a ward, Mr. Collins and his lovely wife Charlotte may find themselves without a home. I am relieved to have astutely decided not to marry him when I was presented with the opportunity.

The narrator does not wish to speak for anyone who may or may not be in the game, but as a P&P nerd, does imagine that Mr. and Mrs. Collins are currently hoping they have been sufficiently ingratiating with Lady Anne de Bourgh.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 19:47

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Breakfast on the veranda was decidedly less than pleasant. Accusations flew fast and furious -- so many of Lady Vienna's guests has been out of their rooms the previous night!

"I saw her! I saw her in the hallways, that trollop!" One guest proclaimed.

"And how did you see me if you were safely in bed?" shrieked the second, to the first guest's utter outrage.

Finally, it was decided -- the utter scandal of a wrestler claiming to be a lady author was simply too improper to be borne.

Your Personal Muse, Stone Cold Jane Aust--

I beg your pardon -- as YPM was escorted out, a wig slipped to the ground!

"I didn't want to be at this party, anyway!" Caroline Bingley cried, removing a small dagger from underneath a sparkling wrestling belt.

Your Personal Muse, Caroline Bingley, SCUM-aligned Votebomb was removed from the party D2!

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They were, in fact, very fine ladies; ... but proud and conceited. They were rather handsome; had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town; had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds; were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were, therefore, in every respect entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others.

You are Caroline Bingley, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You are trying SO loving HARD to win Fitzwilliam Darcy over, but he is somewhere between "indifferent to your entire existence" and "annoyed at most of the things you say." It's hard to be sympathetic to you, because you are extremely catty and mean to most of the characters that we like. I mean, verbally sparring with Lizzy, that's just a good time, but you actively try to break up your brother and JANE, aka, the nicest person on the actual planet. Not cool, Caroline, so no one gives much of a gently caress that you get owned hard. But you're fashionable and wealthy so you probably end up married to someone halfway decent. Does that help?

Your role is Bomb.

If I Can't Win, At Least You Lose! If you are executed, you will take the player casting the deciding vote with you.

Caroline turned to the closest guest she could find and plunged the dagger straight into Ignatius M. Meen's heart!

Ignatius M. Meen, Marianne Dashwood, SCUM-aligned Hammerer was brutally murdered d2!

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"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?"

You are Marianne Dashwood, one of the main characters of Sense and Sensibility. You are motivated by feelings, emotions, and passion -- in other words, you're melodramatic and extra. Everything is ENTIRELY TOO MUCH, YOU CANNOT EVEN. You fall for Willoughby, because he UNDERSTANDS YOUR PASSION!!, but eventually realize that Willoughby is in fact pond scum who covers it up by being charming. You are heartbroken, but eventually recover thanks to Colonel Brandon, who is Older and Sensible so at first you dismiss him as being boring. Turns out the steady dependable guy makes a good husband, and then you can be the dramatic one while he takes care of all the day to day poo poo. Really doesn't hurt that Colonel Brandon is fine as hell. Enjoy your happily ever after, girl.

Your role is Hammerer.

Lives For The Drama: If you are the deciding vote (hammer) on another player, you will receive a oneshot item randomized from a list.

Lady Vienna huffed her disapproval. "Truly?" She asked. "My dear, murder is all well and good, but if Iggy bleeds onto my Oriental rug, you shan't be invited back in a hurry."

Mme Clotilde Incroyable felt this was it, the perfect moment to faint! But she miscalculated how closely she stood to the nearest eligible gentleman, so the steward Mr. Fly was obliged to help her up from the floor.

"Fly," Lady Vienna said, "be a dear and put this body with the others, won't you?"

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It is now n2! You have 24 hours to get your actions in! But we'll be a bit flexible if it's over 24 since people likely didn't expect to be back in night phase so quickly!

Only two nights until the Grand Ball!

Post count requirements for the day are waived as the day lasted less than four hours!

# ¿ Oct 30, 2023 01:11

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Lady Vienna was powdering her nose -- not a euphemism, dear reader, she was liberally applying powder to her face -- as she told Mme Clotilde that she expected the house party would be far more successful from here on out.

"That YPM was obviously behind all the atrocities," she explained, "and now that YPM has left us, we have nothing to fear."

Mme Clotilde was a nervous sort of woman, not unlike a small overbred dog. She clutched at her necklace and worried her lower lip between her teeth.

"But ..." she began, loath to correct Her Ladyship, as Her Ladyship often had a Temper, "... didn't Fly say that four of our guests were responsible for the killings?"

"Bah," Lady Vienna gestured wildly, spilling powder all over her table. Not that she noticed; that was a matter for the servants to deal with. Much like everything else in her life. "Fly was exaggering, no doubt. Very well, we had two malcontents: YPM and Iggy. They were clearly arguing over some gentleman, and now that that's been settled --"

Let it never be said that chambermaids don't have an impeccable sense of timing, for that was the exact moment that one screamed.

Lady Vienna sighed. "Bloody hell," she said, endeavouring to stand her considerably-sized elderly self up (and having some difficulty, one must say). "Remind me to tell the maids: double pay for the week if they stop shrieking every time a guest drops dead."

A crowd had gathered outside mycelia's room. Several of the onlookers were weeping quietly, especially any who felt it would add an alluring color to their cheeks.

Mycelia, Captain Wentworth, TOWN-aligned Pirate, was found strangled d3!

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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago."

You are Captain Wentworth, love interest of Persuasion. Eight years ago, you proposed to Anne and she accepted ... but then took it back after her godmother, Lady Russell, points out that you don't have much money or very many connections and that maybe this isn't the most practical match for her. So you decide to sail off and become a pirate, because why not? Over several years you end up making a ton of cash, so naturally you head back to Anne to throw it in her face. Hey, look what you missed out on, Anne! Suck it! You spend half the book flirting with various women so that Anne will see how totally over her you are ... yeah, it's not fooling anybody. Except, hilariously, Anne. Eventually you propose again and she accepts again and this time, there are no take-backsies.

Your role is Pirate.

It's Called Privateer If It's Sanctioned By The Crown, Okay?: As a night action you may ##scavenge for loot from another player. This has a chance of giving you a oneshot item - or you might just find a handkerchief. You may only successfully scavenge from each player once. You may either use the item yourself or give it to another player as a private and anonymous day action in your confessional.

"Look on the bright side," Lady Vienna announced brusquely. "At least this morning, we can have breakfast in the dining room like civilized people."

Yes, the surviving house party members ought to focus on the real priority here: not inconveniencing Lady Vienna.

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It is now Day 3! Tomorrow evening is the Grand Ball!

# ¿ Oct 30, 2023 19:43

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Johnny Keats posted:

It's annoying to check flips posted by Siv

If you're just checking for flips, there's a link to the start of each day posted at the end of the OP.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2023 03:05

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Drama! Scandal! Madness! In the midst of heated preparations for the ball, a scuffle broke out! Perhaps someone stole someone else's shoe-roses? Shoe-roses are not to be trifled with. Cube drew his gun and aimed directly at Keats' heart.

Johnny Keats, Mr. Collins, TOWN-aligned Jailer, has been shot and killed d4!

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Mr. Bennet�s expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.

You are Mr. Collins, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You are a pastor who ministers at Rosings, the estate of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, so you've decided to throw yourself at her feet and grovel to anyone who will listen about how amazing she is. You will inherit Longbourne from Mr. Bennet because he had five daughters and no sons, and you decide that this means you should marry one of his daughters to keep the inheritance in the family. You are also such a dim-witted tool that Mr. Bennet spends much of dinner making fun of you without you realizing it. When Lizzy refuses your proposal, Charlotte Lucas bats her eyes at you, so you end up with a wife who is much smarter than you are, one who somehow endures your countless speeches about LADY. CATHERINE. DE BOURGH.

Your role is Jailer.

Allow Me To Enlighten You On The Manyfold Benefits Of My Benefactress, Lady Catherine De Bourgh: As a night action you may ##jail another player, holding them captive with the many tales you have of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. This will prevent them from doing any night actions, and block all actions being performed on them. You may use this action on yourself, but may not target the same player twice in a row - for some strange reason, if you call on them the next evening, they are never at home.

It is still Day 4!

# ¿ Nov 2, 2023 05:06

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The ball! The night was finally here, and though the house party had dwindled to less than half its original numbers, Lady Vienna was determined to see it out.

The house guests argued amongst themselves over dance partners, over whose dress was least appropriate, over who had stolen who's shoe-roses.

Finally it was decided: shwinnebago had been far too mopey for this particular festivity. He had spent too long mourning the dead and not nearly enough time being sociable. It didn't matter that he had already arranged a dance partner for the evening -- shwinn simply had to go.

shwinnebago, Captain Benwick, TOWN-aligned Mourner was escorted out of the party d4!

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"You cannot know the depth of my despair. Phoebe would have married me before I went to sea, but I told her - I told her we should wait for money. Money!"

You are Captain Benwick, side character of Persuasion. You were engaged to Fanny Harville, sister to Captain Harville, one of your friends. (The quote above calls her "Phoebe" because they renamed her for one of the TV adaptations for no good reason.) Anyway. She wanted to get married right away, and you were all responsible and decided to go off with Captain Wentworth and "make your fortune" so that you guys wouldn't be hopelessly poor. And then she dropped dead while you were at sea so ... yikes. Throughout the book you're in mourning, understandably, but you finally move on with Louisa Musgrove, which delights the main character Anne because she thought Captain WENTWORTH was into Louisa Musgrove, and she's way into him. Yeah, pairing you off just clears the way for the main characters to hook up. I said you were a side character, didn't I? At least you end up with a happily ever after.

Your role is Mourner.

What A Tragedy: After two TOWN-aligned players have died, you'll receive a oneshot based on one of their abilities, randomly picked. This action can't be blocked or redirected, and will automatically happen after every second TOWN death.

Lady Vienna drew herself up. "Mme Clotilde," she said graciously, "would you do me the honour of favouring me with the first dance?"

What's a ball without a little scandal?

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It is now n4! Please enjoy the Ball, or sit alone in your room if you have failed to find a partner!

# ¿ Nov 3, 2023 20:47

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The much beleagured Lady Vienna Spencer Ball had finally taken place, albeit with far fewer guests than anticipated. But there were many lovely couples dancing together, and the white soup had been exquisite, and that meant the ball had been a resounding success, as was all that mattered.

The day after a ball was always a tiring sort of day, especially if one was the type to imbibe heavily of the refreshments, which Lady Vienna Spencer was. Truth be told, she imbibed heavily on nights that didn't contain balls, but allow the narrator to say that during festive occasions, she overindulged to an increased degree.

Which is to say that the Lady Vienna Spencer was still in her room, in her dressing gown, with a damp cloth resting over her eyes, at an hour far later than her guests might have anticipated.

When a scream once more ripped through the air, she huffed. "Find whomever that is and fire her," she announced to the room around her. She wasn't actually sure if any of the servants (or her poor companion) were still in the room, but -- surely someone would hear her? Look, she was indisposed, all right? Couldn't this wait until later?

Sadly not, because there was, of course, another dead body.

RhymesWithClue, Mrs. Jennings, TOWN-aligned Gossipy Voyeur has been strangled n4!

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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

You are Mrs. Jennings, side character of Sense and Sensibility. You're a lovely older lady who is a little bit TOO into gossip, but goodness, you mean well, you're not like evil and catty or anything. And oh, any time you see two people talking, especially if they're young and pretty, you are absolutely convinced that they are deeply in love and can't wait to have them married off. Look, you're bored and you're not really hurting anyone, okay? And you're very nice to the Dashwood sisters. You don't need a happily ever after in the book -- you're already living out yours, just whiling away your days trying to fix up all the nice singletons around you and maybe getting a little too invested in the neighborhood tea, but gently caress it, who doesn't love tea?

Your role is Gossipy Voyeur.

The Juiciest Gossip: As a night action, you may ##voyeur another player, learning what actions were performed on them.

Spreading Gossip: Additionally, you may choose to ##share a gossip with another player, who will receive the information that "Mrs Jennings tried to target [Player]. Their target was seen having the following actions performed on them: [action]. Scandalous!"

In due time, Mr. Voodrum Fly was dispatched to dispose of the remains. One wonders if he was beginning to regret his place of employment ...

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It is now Day Five! All Ball masonries have been CLOSED!

# ¿ Nov 4, 2023 21:15

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When Lady Vienna Spencer finally bothered to thump her way down for a very (very) late breakfast, she discovered all of her remaining guests bickering at the breakfast table.

It was decided, then: it had to be Grandicap. It must be, it simply must be! Who else could be causing all of these difficulties?

Grandicap, Elizabeth Watson, TOWN-Aligned Vanilla was escorted off the property d5!

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Miss Emma Watson, who was very recently returned to her family from the care of an aunt who had brought her up, was to make her first public appearance in the neighbourhood, and her eldest sister, whose delight in a ball was not lessened by a ten years' enjoyment, had some merit in cheerfully undertaking to drive her and all her finery in the old chair to D. on the important morning.

You are Elizabeth Watson, character in Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons. You are the older, unmarried sister to main character Emma Watson, and you are convinced your older sister Penelope ruined your chance at love by scaring off a Mr. Purvis. We don't know how you end up, because -- again -- Jane Austen didn't actually finish this novel. You probably find Mr. Purvis again and get married and have a lot of fat babies, because that seems on-brand for Austen.

Note from co-mod Clo!: In the closest thing to a canon completion, Elizabeth actually marries a shopkeeper and Pnurtis is never mentioned again. She does get him in the version that kills off several major characters and has Emma's aunt take up horse-racing, so that's something.

Your role is Vanilla.

Even Vanilla In This Game: Being a spinster from an unfinished novel that almost no one has read means you're stuck being Vanilla Town. Sorry the RNG failed you.

Perhaps now things could get back to normal? Perhaps now the evil was at an end?

"But weren't there four evil-doers?" Mme Clotilde asked, as she poured herself a cup of tea.

"Just two now," said Phantom Muzzles, pulling a small pistol from the bodice of her dress.

"That should make this easier," Cubical Sucrose agreed, advancing on a very nervous-looking Sandwolf and Hal.

Phantom Muzzles, Mary Bennet, Vanilla and Cubical Sucrose, Mr. Dorcy, Copier have won the game for scum!

Sandwolf, Mr. Wickham, Hider, and Hal Incandenza, Catherine Morland, PGO have been endgamed!

Lady Vienna surveyed the wreckage of her breakfast nook with a sigh. "Is it finally over, then?" she asked. "Terribly rude of you all to murder my guests without warning like that."

Cubical Sucrose eyed Phantom Muzzles speculatively. "What about her, then?"

Phantom Muzzles beamed at Lady Vienna. "I've had such fun at this ball," she gushed, a real smile lighting her eyes for the first time. "I've discovered something I'm much better at than my sisters. Murder!"

"Wonderful," Lady Vienna said warmly. "Congratulations to you. It's always a special time when a young woman claims her first kill."

"You aren't going to turn us in?" Cubical Sucrose asked, hesitantly.

Mme Clotilde giggled over her tea. "Goodness, no," she said. "If we called the cops, they might ask about all the bodies in the backyard."

"Yes, poor Lord Spencer, missing these past three years," Lady Vienna sniffed. "What the police don't know certainly isn't their business. Tea, anyone?"

THIS HAS BEEN

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A JANE AUSTEN MAFIA

spacing in vienna fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Nov 5, 2023

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 02:46

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

Other role PMs incoming! Game is over! Ask any questions you want!

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 02:47

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

Sandwolf posted:

*what*?

Iggy decided he didn't want to know who his teammates were or join scum chat. So he didn't.

So he had no idea that YPM was (a) scum or (b) a votebomb.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 02:50

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

ROLE PMS FOR END OF GAME PLAYERS:

Cubical Sucrose, Mr. Fitzwontiam Dorcy, Copier

quote:

"Oh, Mr. Darcy! You make all the ladies swoon with your ... wait. Wait, you're not Mr. Darcy. Who the gently caress are YOU?"

You are Mr. Fitzwontiam Dorcy, the secret evil and dorky twin of Fitzwilliam Darcy, the love interest of Pride and Prejudice. You look exactly like Mr. Darcy except for the mustache and goatee that give you away as being an evil dorky twin. You are totally a canonical character, honestly, for reals, and not both of the mods just being silly and inventing a dorky evil twin for Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy because they think it's super funny. Honest. You are kept up in the attic, but occasionally you sneak out and wreak havoc on the townsfolk, attempting to seduce and charm and bluff at cards but somehow failing miserably. Sorry, Mr. Dorcy, but you're no Mr. Darcy.

Your role is Copycat.

...Oh. Mr Dorcy.: For whatever reason nobody seems to take you seriously when you take your shirt off, so you can't make people swoon like your brother can. It might be the giant glasses. Or the bowtie. You're still trying to figure out the details, so you have decided to observe better looking people than you are to figure out how they do it. As a oneshot night action, you may ##copy another player's night action, receiving a oneshot item based on the action they used that night. You may use this item from the next nightphase on.

Hal Incandenza, Catherine Morland, PGO

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

You are Catherine Morland, protagonist of Northanger Abbey. If you looked up "naive" in a Regency-era dictionary, there would be a picture of you there, eyes wide, exclaiming, "Goodness! I'm in the book!!!" And then you'd probably assume there was a vast conspiracy around who put you in the book and WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN??? You're very sweet but man, you have read far too many Gothic novels, and you tend to assume everyone is hiding a dead wife in their attic instead of realizing some people are just garden-variety assholes. It's super adorbs, ngl. Don't worry, you get a happy ending with a guy, even if he only notices you because you are crushing so hard on him. Look, you still get a happily-ever-after, so let's not worry about the details, k?

Your role is Paranoid Gun Owner.

Personally I Blame The Violent Horror Novels: If anybody visits you at night, you will draw your gun and shoot them in a paranoid frenzy.

Phantom Muzzles, Mary Bennet, Vanilla

quote:

Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached. Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure.

You are Mary Bennet, side character of Pride and Prejudice. Look, here's the thing. The oldest two Bennet sisters are pretty and clever; the youngest two are shameless flirts, and the one in the middle ... is also there, in the book. That's you. You are the first Bennet sister to be adapted out, because you don't serve much of a purpose other than sitting around being ignored and complaining about being ignored. Dad prefers the oldest two, Mom prefers the youngest two, and no one gives a singular gently caress about you. If it helps at all, Austen's writings reveal that, after your other sisters are married, your mom finally takes an interest, and you come into your own and start getting attention in society, and you end up happily married to a shopkeeper. So that's nice.

Your role is Vanilla.

Even Vanilla In This Game: Being the least notable Bennet sister means you're stuck being Vanilla Town. Sorry the RNG failed you.

Sandwolf, George Wickham, Hider

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All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light. He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman�s family. Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and everybody began to find out, that they had always distrusted the appearance of his goodness.

You are George Wickham, side character of Pride and Prejudice. When you first appear in town, you have many stories of how poorly treated you were by Fitzwilliam Darcy, and everyone believes you -- partly because you're charming, and partly because Darcy has been a tremendous rear end in a top hat. You charm Lizzy Bennet, but both of you know it can't go anywhere -- neither of you have any money. Partway through the book, she finds out that you're actually a slimeball, but doesn't air it publicly ... which she regrets when you run off with her youngest sister, Lydia, and don't bother to marry her. You are eventually bribed into making Lydia an honest woman, but everyone figures out that you're a scumbag. Turns out the reason you move around so much is that you run up debts and get young girls pregnant and then skip town to avoid the consequences. Lydia is thoroughly happy to be married to you and you ... probably cheat on her a lot.

Your role is Hider.

Skipping Town: As a night action you may hide, causing all actions aimed at you to fail. If you use this action, you can't use it the next night. It's very difficult to remain famous enough to seduce all the pretty women, but not become famous enough that their fathers, brothers and husbands can find you.

If there's interest I'll post the unused role PMs, lmk

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 02:56

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but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

CubicalSucrose posted:

Yeah we talked about it D1, "Hey what if..." etc. But then as soon as I saw my hosed-up results my hand was actually forced. Because Wolo knew that I targeted scum N1 so I had to roll with it.

When YPM was at...-2 I think, I tried to @iggy and warn them, but that message obviously didn't get through.

I was waiting for someone to wonder why you had, n1, targeted someone who was low in the draft order and had claimed to be vanilla.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 02:58

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

ALSO

no one picked the charging vig, the gunsmith, the dance partner rearranger, or the recharger.

I don't mean no one got them -- I mean nobody even listed them as a back up and then got their first choice. Nobody listed any of those four, full stop.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 03:01

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

Hal Incandenza posted:

Did I stop any scum from getting PGO though? Not that it even mattered but hopefully my altruism at least frustrated someone

Yeah PMuzz was #4 in the draft order and that was her first pick. Nice job.

Her second was Messenger, hence ending up vanilla.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 03:05

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

The roles took a sec because they were coded for Discord and not BBCode so I had to do some tagging on the fly. And away we go!

Unused Roles, Main List

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Roleblocker/Charging Vig

quote:

"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will always be under good regulation."

You are Fitzwilliam Darcy, love interest of Pride and Prejudice, rich AF, hot AF, and completely over this stupid podunk country town. You also have a stick jammed so far up your rear end that you manage to alienate the one young woman clever and witty enough to be your match. To be fair, dude, you proposed by telling her that it's embarrassing how far you are out of her league. Can't believe that one didn't work! The good news is that Lizzy Bennet chewing you a new rear end in a top hat makes you realize how badly you've hosed up, and you come around to being a much better person in the back half of the book, and you and Lizzy get your happy-ever-after.

Your role is Roleblocker / Charging Vig.

Ooooh, Mr Darcy!: At night, you can ##roleblock another player, causing them to swoon dramatically. They will faint, helpless, at your manly feet, unable to perform whatever action they intended this evening.

Pride Goeth Before A Shooting: You receive one vig shot that can be fired during the day. The vig has a 25% success rate. As a night action, you may choose to forgo roleblocking in order to ##charge the vig, getting increasing odds of success the following day: 50%, then 100%, then 100% + juggernaut.

You cannot both charge your vig and roleblock on the same night.

Elizabeth Bennet, Gunsmith

quote:

"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

You are Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet, protagonist of Pride and Prejudice, a clever young woman whose family is teetering right on the brink of not being upper class any more. You're totally that friend who dishes the good tea, and you're not afraid to stick up for people you care about. You have a bit of a temper and aren't quite as good a judge of character as you think -- and you completely misjudge Fitzwilliam Darcy as being the biggest rear end in a top hat in the universe (although, to be fair, he was practically speedrunning the competition at the time). You learn to stop prejudging people so much just in time to save things with Mr. Darcy, so congrats on a well-earned happy ever after.

Your role is Gunsmith.

Prejudiced: As a night action, you may ##gunsmith another player. You will receive information on whether or not the player CAN KILL or CANNOT KILL. All scum players will be considered CAN KILL as they are able to perform a factional kill; other players such as any vigilantes, duelists, and votebombs will also return CAN KILL responses.

Powerful Warrior (SCUM bonus): On even nights, your action cannot be blocked by any normal means.

NOTE: There are ways to gain one shot abilities in this game. Your information will only be accurate at the exact moment it is gathered. E.g., Player A might receive CANNOT KILL on n1 -- but if they gain a one-shot vig on n2, you will not be informed that your information is out of date.

NOTE: if a player attempts to fire a vig shot but the shot fails, they will still be considered CAN KILL for the remainder of the game -- they held the ability to kill, they just didn't actually manage to succeed at implementation. On the other hand, if they use up their killing oneshot, they will show up as CANNOT KILL after the fact.

Anne de Bourgh, Jack of All Trades

quote:

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health had allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully.

You are Anne de Bourgh, side character of Pride and Prejudice. The thing is, you're an intriguing enigma. You don't speak a single word when you're onscreen, and protagonist Lizzy Bennet thinks you look "sickly and cross." Most of what we know about you is from your full-on Karen mother explaining that either you're the best at everything OR that you WOULD be the best at everything if not for being so sick. It's possible that you're just as awful as your mom is, and that you make life miserable for everyone around you ... but it's also possible that you are secretly plotting a way to get out from under her horribleness, and might perk up considerably once you're free of her. At least, that's a great start for a lot of Jane Austen fanfics, anyway, usually ones where you end up married to Colonel Fitzwilliam, who is p cool. And either way you're going to inherit Rosings, a huge estate, so your life can't suck TOO badly.

Your role is Jack of All Trades.

So many accomplishments!: You have access to the following oneshot abilities:
Hunting: As a night action you may ##track another player, learning who they visited.
Observation: As a night action you may ##watch another player, learning who they visited.
Caring: As a night action you may ##doc another player, protecting them from any killing actions during this nightphase. You may not target yourself with this, an accomplished young woman cares more for others than for herself.
Poetry: As a private day action in your confessional, you may ##message another player anonymously. They may reply if they wish.

So many accomplishments! SCUM version: You have access to the following oneshot abilities:
Karate Chop: Your night action becomes unstoppable by any normal means.
Ninja: Your night action becomes undetectable by any normal means.
Seduction: As a night action you may ##roleblock another player, distracting them from any action they may attempt.
Poetry: As a private day action in your confessional, you may ##message another player anonymously. They may reply if they wish.

John Dashwood, Dramatic Party Crasher

quote:

Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy, would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree. She begged him to think again on the subject.

You are John Dashwood, side character of Sense and Sensibility. When your father died, you clasped his hands on his deathbed and promised, PROMISED, that you would use some of your inheritance to provide for your stepmother and three half-sisters. And you actually might have done it, maybe, sort of, except for the fact that your wife immediately began campaigning for you to save all that money to give to your own kids, and gosh, she's probably right. So yeah, you disobeyed a direct order from your dying father, because you're a spineless, selfish weasel who let himself be convinced that, you know, he didn't mean you should spend TOO much. Just toss them a few bread crumbs, that counts, right? I'd say you're the worst, but clearly, your wife is the worst. Nice job picking her.

Your role is Dramatic Party Crasher.

Professional Party Host: After your death, an alphabetic list of any visitors you received during the course of the game will be published in the thread. If you were voted out, this list will include the player who cast the deciding vote (hammer) on you.

Dramatic Revelation: As a night action you can compose a message of up to 500 characters per night that will be published in the thread on your death. Finally, they will listen to you!

Colonel Brandon, Duelist

quote:

"Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to."

You are Colonel Brandon, love interest of Sense and Sensibility. The quote above isn't 100% accurate -- it's something mean-spirited said by Willoughby, aka the guy who is trying to pick up the same woman you have your eye on (Marianne Dashwood), and he's a slime weasel. (He also got your ward pregnant and ditched her, so "slime weasel" is putting it mildly.) Marianne is very MELODRAMATIC and at first swoons over Willoughby's superficial charm, but eventually begins to see the "slime weasel" side of things, and then finally realizes that what every extremely melodramatic person needs is someone very very stable and dependable to balance things out nicely, at which point she promptly falls in love with you. Whew! It helps that, in that one movie, you're played by Alan Rickman. Maybe that's why Willoughby was such a jerk about you, because you're fine as hell.

Your role is Duelist.

Avenging The Honor: As a oneshot public day action, you may ##challenge another player to a duel. Once you do, both of you will be placed in a temporary masonry where you can attempt to resolve your differences peacefully. The masonry will last until the end of the day, at which point your duel will resolve.

If your opponent surrenders, they will be declared a yellow-bellied coward, losing their next night action due to shame.

If you withdraw your challenge, your dueling ability will still count as used up.

If neither of you is willing to concede, the duel will begin, with a 50% chance for either of you to get killed.

Dirty Tricks: SCUM Bonus: Your chance of surviving the duel is 40%, your opponent's chance of dying is 60%.

Mary Crawford, Dance Partner Rearranger

quote:

"Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

You are Mary Crawford, side character of Mansfield Park. You are attractive, witty, worldly, and practical -- you fall for Edmund but agonize because he intends to be a parson, and you're not quite Parson's Wife material. Also, he's the second son and won't be inheriting, and you happen to enjoy the finer things. This condemns you as a hopeless materialist, GASP!, and thus unworthy of the boring Edmund. When your brother creates a massive scandal with a married ex, you think everyone involved is very stupid and look for a way to cover it up quickly, when apparently the PROPER response would be to cut him off and never speak to him again. So Edmund dumps you for not disowning your brother and marries horrible Fanny; they can go be poor and holier-than-thou together. The book never mentions what happens to you, so let's assume you find a rich guy who isn't so dull.

NOTE: co-mod Spacing in Vienna hates Fanny Price and makes no apologies for the biased nature of this blurb.

Your role is Dance Partner Rearranger.

Maximum Chaos: As a oneshot night action, you may choose any number of players to ##rearrange dance partners.

The players in your dance will be arranged in a randomized list, the exact order is unknown to you. Any player in the dance will have their target, if they have one, redirected to the next player down the list. Any actions targeting a player in the dance will be busdriven to the next player down the list. You may include yourself in this dance.

Charlotte (Lucas) Collins, Recharger

quote:

I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins�s character, connexions, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.

You are Charlotte (Lucas) Collins, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You are best friends with protagonist Lizzy Bennet, although you're far more practical than she is. When the odious Mr. Collins proposes to her, she is outraged because, well, he's lame AF. And that's fine for Lizzy, because Lizzy is pretty and young and is aiming a little higher, but you? You're several years older, a good deal plainer, and your family has almost nothing, so you're well on your way to being an old maid whose brothers will need to pay for your upkeep. It turns out that smiling warmly at Mr. Collins and agreeing that Lizzy was super mean to him is enough to get him to notice you; he proposes only a few days later. Lizzy is appalled that you can marry such a witless dull man, but Lizzy doesn't see the reality of your situation -- he's dumb, sure, but he's not going to drink heavily or beat you, and he has his own living and expects a decent inheritance. Not something you can turn your nose up at.

Your role is Recharger.

Incredibly Supportive: As a night action you may ##recharge a player, recharging a oneshot that has been used up. If they have more than one oneshot used up, the recharge will be randomized.

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Fanny Price, Vanilla

quote:

"When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."

You are Fanny Price, main character of Mansfield Park. You are sweet and unassuming and you are going to go sit in your corner in the attic and not tell anyone it's cold because oh goodness, someone might be upset if you actually had opinions so better to not bother!!! You are St. Fanny, martyr, who was plucked from your family at age ten and raised with your richer cousins but always reminded that you are the POOR RELATION and not good enough. Despite this you are stupidly in love with your cousin Edmund (ew) who is captivated by the way more interesting Mary Crawford until he decides she's a shameless hussy because she ... won't disown her brother for creating a scandal. Great morals, Edmund. Edmund eventually settles for you and you two can be boring and stupid together.

NOTE: co-mod Spacing in Vienna loathes Fanny Price and makes no apologies for how biased this blurb is. Deal with it.

NOTE: If for some unfathomable reason you deliberately picked Fanny Price and weren't just assigned her as a consolation prize for failing to get the roles you actually wanted, co-mod Clo! would like to apologize for this role blurb, as well as for siv's future behavior. Also what's wrong with you?

Your role is Vanilla.

Even Vanilla In This Game: Fanny is too boring to be anything other than Vanilla Town. Sorry that the RNG has failed you.

Kitty Bennet, Compulsive Visitor

quote:

"I do not cough for my own amusement," replied Kitty fretfully.

You are Kitty Bennet, side character of Pride and Prejudice. Okay, here's the deal. The older two are beautiful and witty; the younger two are shameless flirts, and no one cares about the middle daughter, Mary. You're sister #4, one of the hot skanks, although you're more the follower to Lydia's leader. When Lydia elopes with George Wickham, scandalizing the whole family, you're mostly upset that she gets to have fun without you. And that everyone is pre-emptively grounding you so that you can't do sweet gently caress-all. Apparently after the book is over, you straighten up the more ho-ish tendencies and end up happily married to someone respectable, so maybe lord that over Lydia, because she's stuck with Wickham the gross sleaze. Also, you cough frequently, and your mother always snaps at you for it, claiming it's horrible for her nerves. Yeah, your mom is A Lot.

Your role is Compulsive Visitor.

Bored With Being A Minor Character: As a night action you must choose another player to visit. This visit has no effect, but can be detected (because of all of your coughing).

Mr. Bingley, Cowardly Doublevoter

quote:

"Your conduct would be quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say, 'Bingley, you had better stay till next week,' you would probably do it, you would probably not go�and at another word, might stay a month."

You are Mr. Bingley, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You are rich, sweet, and handsome -- you are also easily persuaded by everyone around you, especially your best friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. You fall hopelessly in love with Jane Bennet, who is just as amiable and sweet and lovely, but Darcy and your sister Caroline convince you that Jane just isn't that into you, and talk you into skipping town without a word to her -- ouch. To be fair, Darcy did legit think Jane was just being polite -- she's reserved -- and when he finds out she was just as smitten as you are, he 'fesses up to his interference. (Caroline, on the other hand, wants you to snag a richer young lady and lied her rear end off.) You and Jane end up together, and your father-in-law jokes that you're both so nice that the tradespeople will rob you both blind. He's probably right.

Your role is Cowardly Doublevoter.

Influential Gentleman: As a oneshot public day action you may ##doublevote another player, gaining an additional vote. During the day phase where you use this action, you may ##undoublevote to remove your doublevote and place it again as often as you want, but after activating it once, your doublevote is used up.

SCUM Restriction: You may not use your doublevote on EXLO.

Darcy Knows Best: Sadly, you have no spine to speak of, so you can't cast the first vote on a player. You can only vote someone if another player has already voted for them - if the vote has since been removed it still counts. This restriction is lifted during EXLO, where you finally find your spine.

Louisa (Bingley) Hurst, Bulletproof

quote:

They were, in fact, very fine ladies; ... but proud and conceited. They were rather handsome; had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town; had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds; were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were, therefore, in every respect entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others.

You are Mrs. Hurst, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You are one of Mr. Bingley's sisters and you accompany him to Netherfield Park, where you spend most of the book agreeing with Caroline, who gets a lot more onscreen time, and ignoring your husband, Mr. Hurst, who seems largely concerned with things like "when is breakfast" and playing cards and shooting at small woodland creatures. You're rooting for Caroline to end up with Fitzwilliam Darcy, and you scheme to separate Mr. Bingley from his beloved Jane, but honestly, you're sort of an afterthought, the kind that gets adapted out easily. At least Mr. Hurst is wealthy? I guess that counts for something.

Your role is Bulletproof.

Not That Much Worse Than My Husband's Snoring: You have a oneshot bulletproof, protecting you from a single killing action. You will be notified when your bulletproof is used up.

The Patriarchy, Executionproof

quote:

"We used to have all the money and land / And we still do, but it's not as fun now." -- Bo Burnham, "Straight White Male"

You are The Patriarchy, side character of most of the novels of Jane Austen. She never uses the term, but seriously. You're why Lydia's reputation is ruined by being alone with Wickham and his isn't destroyed at all by knocking up countless farmer's daughters. You're why Mr. Darcy can make problems go away by waving money at them. You're why John Dashwood is in a position to screw over his stepmother and half-sisters, you're why Willoughby practically gets away with murder with his reputation intact, you're sort of the motivating factor for half of the plots. Need I go on?

Your role is Executionproof.

Too Powerful To Defeat In One Attempt: You have a oneshot of executionproof. The first time people try to execute you, you will survive and the day will end with no execution. You will be able to laugh at those feeble females, trying to understand why you haven't been defeated yet. Ahahahahaha!

Fanny Brice-with-a-B, Lightning Rod

quote:

"Don't tell me not to live / Just sit and putter / Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter / Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade."

You are Fanny Brice, the main character of ... wait. Does that say BRICE? Okay. Let's try this again. You are Fanny Brice, protagonist of the Broadway musical "Funny Girl" and real-life star of the early twentieth century. You are NOT Fanny Price, the boring lump-like lead character of Mansfield Park -- you are a completely different person. The mods would like to deny any and all theories that you are actually a typo that they found to be funny enough to include. Seriously. You're in here because .... um. For completely different other reasons.

Your role is Lightning Rod.

Siren Song: As a oneshot, you can ##redirect any actions targeting another player onto yourself.

Margaret Dashwood, Vanilla

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Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne�s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

You are Margaret Dashwood, a side character in Sense and Sensibility. The novel is all about your two older sisters, Elinor and Marianne, finding love and getting married; you are a whopping thirteen, so all you do is moon about on the sidelines, thinking things are SO ROMANTIC and dreaming about when it's going to be your turn. You are frequently adapted out, because you're ... not really doing anything interesting. Sorry.

Your role is Vanilla.

Even Vanilla In This Game: Being the forgotten Dashwood sister means you're stuck being Vanilla Town. Sorry the RNG failed you.

Mr. Bennet, Letterwriter

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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

You are Mr. Bennet, side character of Pride and Prejudice. You fathered five girls with the silliest woman alive and got bored raising them around #3. You needed to have a boy so that he'd inherit the estate, but you didn't. Whoops. You should be concerned about how they'll all survive once you drop dead, but you checked out of giving a gently caress a long time ago. You now amuse yourself by mocking people right to their faces but cleverly enough that they often can't tell. And by winding up your wife, which, to be fair, isn't hard. You come to realize late in the book that you've been an utter failure as a father in certain regards, but you even say yourself that you'll get over it "quicker than you should." I sound harsh, but you're a lot of fun even if you're not exactly Father of the Year.

Your role is Letterwriter.

A Snarky Letter To The Editor: Once per game you can post a message of up to 500 words on Discord. This message will be immediately posted in the thread by the mods (within reason, please ping us). It will be clearly marked as a message with quote tags, but will be completely anonymous.

spacing in vienna fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Nov 5, 2023

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 03:33

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

The shwinn thing: before game started we had a doc written up with a quick note on what each person would hypothetically gift to the mourner if they died. E.g. pgo was a vig, watcher was a watch. Vanilla didn't have anything. If it was a two power role loss, we'd flip a coin. If it was one power role and one VT, we'd go with the power role.

This created some weird spots for the hammerer and the pirate, because they didn't have roles that lent themselves easily to one-shot items. We could have handed them the same instructions -- dig for a treasure or hammer to get a random one-off -- but that felt underpowered. The idea was, for every two town deaths, the Mourner gets an item, not a chance at possibly scaring up an item. If it's n3 and instead of getting an item, the Mourner gets a chance to possibly hammer and get an item d4 or a chance to dig up a yard and maybe get an item n4 -- that's kind of not in keeping with what we wanted the role to be.

So we decided, if the pirate or hammerer died, we would randomize it from their possible lists of one shots they could have received, so that we were cutting out the middleman.

The real problem to me was that people didn't understand how the pirate role worked. What mycelia dug up was not in any way connected to whose house it was -- we randomized a list of items to yards.

So the assumption was that mycelia had a hide that shwinn inherited -- incorrect but it works logically -- but then everyone assumed the hide could only have come from sandwolf, which wasn't the case at all. I think that's what got everything tangled.

If you disagree with how we handled it, that's fine, these were all experimental roles we were trying out. Sorry to shwinn that that put him in a bad position. But I think there was a pile up of assumptions that got looped back onto themselves -- it wasn't just that one decision.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 09:19

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

Voodoofly posted:

Best WIFOA ever

Thank you for letting us play with your format, and for stepping on as co-mod!

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 09:20

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# ¿ May 24, 2025 07:13

spacing in vienna: Jan 4, 2007; people they want us to fall down
but we won't ever touch the ground
we're perfectly balanced, we float around
til no one is here, do you hear the sound?; Lipstick Apathy

Oh lol the sand stuff was a misunderstanding -- at the beginning he said he didn't care what character he got and asked us to pick a real sleazebag for him, not realizing I think that roles were connected to characters. So he ended up with George Wickham, Hider.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 09:23

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