Silvercrys Presents: Matter Mafia Based on a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks Reviewed by Cantripmancer and Bur
(This is a closed set up Normal game for 16 players. The introduction, role PMs, and game flavor may contain spoilers for the novel.)
The Shellworlds had been built by a species called the Involucra, or Veil, the best part of a billion years earlier. All were in orbits around stable main-series suns, at varying distances from their star according to the disposition of the system’s naturally formed planets, though usually lying between two and five hundred million kilometres out. Long disused and fallen into disrepair, they had, with their stars, drifted out of their long-ago allotted positions. There had been about four thousand Shellworlds originally; 4096 was the commonly assumed exact number as it was a power of two and therefore – by general though not universal assent – as round a figure as figures ever got. No one really knew for sure, though. You couldn’t ask the builders, the Involucra, as they had disappeared less than a million years after they’d completed the last of the Shellworlds.
That four-thousand-plus figure had been reduced to a little over twelve hundred now, mostly because a species called the Iln had spent several million years destroying the Shellworlds wherever they could find them and nobody had been willing or able to prevent them. Exactly why, nobody was entirely sure and, again, the Iln were not around to ask; they too had vanished from the galactic stage, their only lasting monument a set of vast, slowly expanding debris clouds scattered throughout the galaxy and – where their devastation had been less than complete – Shellworlds that had been shattered and collapsed into barbed and fractured wrecks, shrunken compressed husks of what they had once been.
A king is dead. His eldest son is missing. A conspiracy to put a usurper on the throne runs far deeper than the courtly intrigues of a backwards, feudal people on the eighth level of the Shellworld known as Sursamen... because the inheritors of the Involucra, the Oct, have discovered an ancient artifact on Sursamen's ninth level they believe will establish their birthright.
Welcome to Matter.
Backups Recorded (/in)
1. Grapefruit21
2. ZeDorkSlipeur
3. Gentleman Johnny
4. Rhand
5. Jackrito
6. TubbaFett
7. shadowlancerx
8. tomsloger
9. Vaimes
10. Lastwhisper
11. Umami
12. M plus 7
13. Rodemy
14. ITF
15. Killjoy
16. Axelrod
Whoops, meant to include that in the OP, I'll edit it in
Phases are 11/2 with a 24 hour twilight phase (so a 14 day cycle), though I could do somewhat faster if there's interest (I'd guess there will be more activity due to quarantine lmao). Lynch is majority only.
Whoops, meant to include that in the OP, I'll edit it in
Phases are 11/2 with a 24 hour twilight phase (so a 14 day cycle), though I could do somewhat faster if there's interest (I'd guess there will be more activity due to quarantine lmao). Lynch is majority only.
I might be super likely to join in if the phases were something close to 5/2.
Whoops, meant to include that in the OP, I'll edit it in
Phases are 11/2 with a 24 hour twilight phase (so a 14 day cycle), though I could do somewhat faster if there's interest (I'd guess there will be more activity due to quarantine lmao). Lynch is majority only.
I might be super likely to join in if the phases were something close to 5/2.
The other option would be to just start at the faster pace (5/1/1) but you know us lol
I think 5/2 is just about perfect if you have time to actually play but not everyone does (like me, I don't really have time to play at the moment)
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.
Silvercrys Presents: Matter Mafia
Based on a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks
Reviewed by Cantripmancer and Bur
(This is a closed set up Normal game for 16 players. The introduction, role PMs, and game flavor may contain spoilers for the novel.)
The Shellworlds had been built by a species called the Involucra, or Veil, the best part of a billion years earlier. All were in orbits around stable main-series suns, at varying distances from their star according to the disposition of the system’s naturally formed planets, though usually lying between two and five hundred million kilometres out. Long disused and fallen into disrepair, they had, with their stars, drifted out of their long-ago allotted positions. There had been about four thousand Shellworlds originally; 4096 was the commonly assumed exact number as it was a power of two and therefore – by general though not universal assent – as round a figure as figures ever got. No one really knew for sure, though. You couldn’t ask the builders, the Involucra, as they had disappeared less than a million years after they’d completed the last of the Shellworlds.
That four-thousand-plus figure had been reduced to a little over twelve hundred now, mostly because a species called the Iln had spent several million years destroying the Shellworlds wherever they could find them and nobody had been willing or able to prevent them. Exactly why, nobody was entirely sure and, again, the Iln were not around to ask; they too had vanished from the galactic stage, their only lasting monument a set of vast, slowly expanding debris clouds scattered throughout the galaxy and – where their devastation had been less than complete – Shellworlds that had been shattered and collapsed into barbed and fractured wrecks, shrunken compressed husks of what they had once been.
A king is dead. His eldest son is missing. A conspiracy to put a usurper on the throne runs far deeper than the courtly intrigues of a backwards, feudal people on the eighth level of the Shellworld known as Sursamen... because the inheritors of the Involucra, the Oct, have discovered an ancient artifact on Sursamen's ninth level they believe will establish their birthright.
Welcome to Matter.
Backups Recorded (/in)
1. Grapefruit21
2. ZeDorkSlipeur
3. Gentleman Johnny
4. Rhand
5. Jackrito
6. TubbaFett
7. shadowlancerx
8. tomsloger
9. Vaimes
10. Lastwhisper
11. Umami
12. M plus 7
13. Rodemy
14. ITF
15. Killjoy
16. Axelrod
Reviewing Files (/replace)
1. Prophylaxis
2. Slothful
3.
Spectating
1.
Phases are: 11 days per Day phase followed by a 24 hour Twilight phase and 2 day Night phase (two week cycle)
I may shorten phases to 5/1/1 starting on Day 5 unless there are objections in the sign up thread
Lynch is majority only (if the day ends without a majority lynch there will be no lynch)
Mafia have day chat
Any other questions let me know!
The GJ way path to no lynching:
How long are the day/night phases?
Phases are 11/2 with a 24 hour twilight phase (so a 14 day cycle), though I could do somewhat faster if there's interest (I'd guess there will be more activity due to quarantine lmao). Lynch is majority only.
I might be super likely to join in if the phases were something close to 5/2.
I think 5/2 is just about perfect if you have time to actually play but not everyone does (like me, I don't really have time to play at the moment)
Looking forward to watching this!