KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
Haha, I remembered what this setup was from back when you made it. Fun to watch only because I knew generally what was going on, though I can imagine the frustration from the players.
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i'm pretty sure i can find your ***** online within 3 minutes
SNL: again sorry for getting poppets modkilled. This game should've ran on the old forum. Having to work with quotes only on Curse is a curse
But... Yay! We won
I'm surprised you (plural you) created Poppets on Days 2 and 3. I think it was a sizable mistake to add more work for yourselves when you didn't need more Poppets.
The day 3 poppet was because there were poppets made on D1 and 2 and I wanted to make it look mechanical rather than player-steered.
The day 2 poppet... I didn't want that one
I /knew/ that SNL was Not Town, but I assumed he had a scumbuddy, because a two-man scumteam made the most sense.
That kind of led me to lynch fulcrum, just because we couldn't really get the votes on SNL (with hawk thinking he was confirmed town, and B_E's disappearance).
I'd appreciate how you would have tried to approach the situation on Day 3 - I tried to solve the game as much as possible, and I.. wasn't totally inaccurate about the gamestate, at least.
"Chamomile, my darlings?" Pleasance asked her guests with a perfect smile. "Or perhaps a spot of Earl Grey?" No response came, but Pleasance looked across the table at Alice, expecting one. "I know what you're thinking, Alice -- yes, Earl Grey is a touch dreary for a day like today. Chamomile it is." As she poured the tea from her gold-laced tea service and passed a plate of orange scones around the table, Pleasance knew this would be a fine soiree.
You are Pleasance Liddell, Town Hostess.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
“An Invitation from the Queen”: Once per Day, you may invite target Doll to your tea party.
“A Mad Tea-Party”: You and the Dolls at your tea party may talk in this thread as long as you remain alive.
"Fashion fades; only style remains the same." Gabrielle knew Chanel's words to be true, didn't she? How difficult it's been for her to clothe the world in her style within the ever-changing dictates of fashion. And now, she finds herself exhausted, her fingers able to sew together but one more dress. It will be the most extravagant dress she's ever sewn, though, and not a soul alive will be able to miss it.
You are Gabrielle Beaudoin, Town Couturier.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
La Dame aux camélias: Once during the game, during Night, you may tailor an outfit for target player. Tonight, all abilities that target players are redirected to that player, except for abilities that player himself used.
No. Not one more. Their eyes piercing your soul; their bodies torturing you from afar by just existing. Burn them all.
You are Haydn Jentsch, Town Pediophobe.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
Zur Entflammbarkeit des Unheimlichen: Once during the game, during Night, you may light a torch and kill all Poppets.
Volks, Luts, Peak's Woods, Little Monica...Yun-seok knew all the great ateliers in Korea and Japan. He loved ball-jointed dolls and everything about BJD culture. How he loved to travel to conventions, talk with fellow doll enthusiasts, and sometimes just browse the internet looking at new doll wigs, doll eyes, and doll accessories. How many dolls does Yun-seok own, you ask? Well, none. BJDs are ******* expensive. And does Cho Yun-Seok seem like the sort to hold down a steady job?
You are Cho Yun-seok, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
Linnea dropped the hairbrush in helplessness. She would have cried, if a doll were capable of tears. Never before had she been obliged to brush her own hair, since her former husband-to-be had brushed it for her every day over the past year. Never before had she been obliged to cook her own breakfast, or collect her own post, or wash her own body -- these are things a doll should not do herself. However, Linnea Rosenquist found herself more and more ostracized by a society that refused to accept that she was a doll. Even her lover reached his tipping point...is life bearable to live like this, for human or doll...?
You are Linnea Rosenquist, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
Marjorie stormed out of the conference room, incensed at the lack of answers she'd received from her publisher and editor, and incensed that the question needed to be asked in the first place. "Why didn't it get the Medal?" The Newbery Medal, that is -- Random House had promised that Marjorie's masterpiece, Pietro Comes to Life, would win the highest honor for children's books. The book's reviews, however, made it clear that there would be no awards in the book's future. "Pinocchio ripoff," they said. "Geppetto's dull cousin makes her own doll," they said. Marjorie knew that none of them understood the book's complex literary themes. She'd show them.
You are Marjorie Winifred, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
"Ah, so you hate dolls, then?" The interviewer seemed puzzled.
"No, I very much like dolls," Ichirou answered. So did my grandmater, you must understand. "There is an uncanny valley, but dolls fall on the right side of it." Ichirou's grandfather, you see, was Mori Masahiro, the roboticist who first posited the existence of the "uncanny valley" -- a place where humanoid robots and other human-but-not-quite human beings reside, frightening children and adults alike with feelings of unfamiliarity (...look it up).
"The right side, or the correct side?"
Ichirou smiled. "Is there a correct side? If I appreciate dolls for their beauty, does it matter if they're human-like or not?"
You are Mori Ichirou, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
Thomas Dapper understands porcelain and the beauty of porcelain quite well. Thomas Dapper, in fact, has worked with porcelain his entire life, since his father passed the craft on to him on his sixth birthday. Thomas Dapper, you see, is a toilet manufacturer. And really, how different are dolls? They're not toilets, granted, but Thomas Dapper thinks he can appreciate the craftsmanship of dolls, at least a little.
You are Thomas Dapper, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
The imperfection of human flesh -- it sickens Raphael to the core of his being. Disease, death, decomposition...our bodies fail us at every step in our walks through life. The pure, silky porcelain skin of dolls, however, is not a hair's length short of perfection. That's what humankind needs: to be more like dolls. To be just like dolls. That's what Raphael will do; he'll replace the body of each and every man and woman with that of a doll, remolding the face of the world in porcelain. Yes, there won't be a moment's sleep for Raphael Fontana until his people have achieved perfection.
You are Raphael Fontana, Mafia Dollmaker.
You win when you and your Figurines equal or outnumber the town. However, you lose when you die.
Perfezionamento: Each Night, you must kill target non-Doll player. Whenever you kill a player, you fashion a mafia-aligned Figurine in their image. The Figurine joins the game with the account "[Username] Doll," to be controlled by the Puppetmaster.
Reminiscenza: Once per Day, you may fashion a mafia-aligned Poppet in the image of any MTGS Mafia player not in this game. The Poppet joins the game with the account "[Username] Doll," to be controlled by the Puppetmaster.
Insonnia: All non-killing abilities that target you or your Dolls during Night are roleblocked.
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Click click click click click. The gears and cams of the automaton spun round and round, moving the doll's hands across the paper for as long as the mainspring had power within its coil. Raphael watched the automaton in wonder, despite having seen its act hundreds of times in the fifteen years he had owned it. The automaton was a gift from his artisan-inventor father, and the boy it was drawing was a younger version of himself. The secrets of the machine eluded Raphael, but to appreciate its artistry -- even a man as simple as him could do that.
You are Raphael Fontana, Town Vanilla.
You win when the mafia has been eliminated.
You have no abilities.
You are Parvati Mishra, Mafia Puppetmaster.
You win when the Dollmaker and his Figurines equal or outnumber the town. However, you lose when the Dollmaker dies.
Chhaya's Blessing: To all appearances, you don't count as a player. Your existence is unknown to the town, you can't post in the game thread, you can't vote, you can't be voted, and you don't count toward the lynch threshold.
Saraswati's Blessing: You may talk to the Dollmaker at any time using this thread. However, the Dollmaker can never talk back to you.
The Art of Kathputli: You have exclusive control over the Dollmaker's Dolls and their accounts. Here are the rules for controlling Dolls, subject to Doll modkill if broken:
A Figurine can speak only by quoting its namesake's posts from the game thread.
A Figurine can vote only by quoting a vote its namesake posted in the game thread (therefore, Figurines can only vote players their namesake voted before dying).
A Poppet can speak only by quoting any of its namesake's posts from the Mafia subforum, as long as they aren't from ongoing games. Poppets can't vote.
All Dolls can quote another player's post from the game thread, but only if that post isn't altered or shortened in any way.
Don't change any setting in any Doll account without my permission.
Don't view or post in threads outside the game thread with any Doll account.
@Rhand: Sorry, but I didn't want the Poppet-making to look inconsistent
Time to explain my kills!!!
hansanator
When I played scum with hans in [Llamas with Hats], he didn't talk a lot on Day 1. I figured that this was a mafia/pr tell for him, and lo and behold, I was right! It was a stretch, but it worked out.
kosakosa
I was deathly afraid that there was a watcher in this set-up, so I didn't want to go for the obvious kills. This means that, no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't kill Lain. I believe Day 2 came down to B_E and Kosa in my head, and I went for lynching the more experienced player. Oh, and he had a vote on Lain
Burning_Earth
Since he voted Lain a while back, he let me control the vote and win the game. Protip: Always nightkill the player that lets you win the game
Good game, everyone! I hope I never have to be scum again. That was hard!
Did the thought about the first figurine not being able to vote cross your mind at all?
This is also a lesson in why we only do l-2 lynches.
I told you the doll was scum too. Lol.
But... Yay! We won
Seriously tho, sorry,
Yes.
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I'm surprised you (plural you) created Poppets on Days 2 and 3. I think it was a sizable mistake to add more work for yourselves when you didn't need more Poppets.
The day 2 poppet... I didn't want that one
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I /knew/ that SNL was Not Town, but I assumed he had a scumbuddy, because a two-man scumteam made the most sense.
That kind of led me to lynch fulcrum, just because we couldn't really get the votes on SNL (with hawk thinking he was confirmed town, and B_E's disappearance).
I'd appreciate how you would have tried to approach the situation on Day 3 - I tried to solve the game as much as possible, and I.. wasn't totally inaccurate about the gamestate, at least.
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"No, I very much like dolls," Ichirou answered. So did my grandmater, you must understand. "There is an uncanny valley, but dolls fall on the right side of it." Ichirou's grandfather, you see, was Mori Masahiro, the roboticist who first posited the existence of the "uncanny valley" -- a place where humanoid robots and other human-but-not-quite human beings reside, frightening children and adults alike with feelings of unfamiliarity (...look it up).
"The right side, or the correct side?"
Ichirou smiled. "Is there a correct side? If I appreciate dolls for their beauty, does it matter if they're human-like or not?"
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Did the thought about the first figurine not being able to vote cross your mind at all?