GME Game 1, Status: Game Over, SK AMB wins

[Neo]

You are a doctor. You protect people, you may not heal yourself, etc. Any questions, email me at this email, otherwise, send your choice.

You are a cop. You investigate people, etc. Any questions, email me at this email, otherwise, send your choice.

You are the <insert name> family! Yay mafia! You start alone, and can either kill or can try to recruit a new member. If the person refuses, you kill them in addition to your night kill. If they accept, you make no kill. You may recruit up to three members.

You are a serial killer. I'm sure you know the drill, email me if you don't. You may choose your victim's death scene or method of death each day if you wish.

You are a Vengeful Townie! If you are lynched, you may kill one person the next night, doc's protection will not save them

You are a Priest. You may not cast the deciding vote for a lynching (either the deadline or full majority) Additionally, you may hide in the church 3 times, protecting yourself from a night kill.

You are a Bodyguard. Determined to not let the mafia have the town, each night you pledge to defend a person, thus protecting them.

You are the Poker Buddies (A mason group). Don't ask me how you play with only three people. The mafia are busy killing your town off one by one.

[Neo]

And now for a section called.....

What they didn't know!
The cops: ralphmerridew had anger problems, anybody he investigated who'd ended a day voting for him appeared guilty. quercitron was a stresed cop, he got an innocent every even numbered night, because that was the easiest way to lighten the workload. HH was sane.

Critic/RSA: They were told they were a doctor, however they were made of anti-matter, and negated all protection for their target.

The Mafia: If they attempted to recruit a killer, they were died.

The Bodyguards: They figured it out, if their person was attacked, they took the hit instead. Prevented one kill, and in TANSTAAFL's case, could be saved by a doc.

Priests: It they were lynched, another player from the bandwagon was lynched in anger. For this game, I used the earliest vote that was present at the end. GARM got very lucky

Would ya'll like a summary of each night's events?

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Usually, I try to take one day at a time, but lately, several days have attacked me all at once.

[Hitchhiker]

Ooh, yes, please!

[jadesmar]

Appologies HH, but after killing Gaspode and then, this:

quote:

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Let's get this day started, and get the slime who killed Doc Gaspode!

Vote: jadesmar, random.

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I had to kill you.

[Hitchhiker]

I just got (un)lucky.

[Amb]

Jesternl did very well to survive so far and then to make a basic tactical error. Killing a confirmed innocent when there was clearly another killer at large. I didnt believe the cop claim, and already believed Jesternl to be scum so I 'clubbed' him to death. I fully intended the last scene for a purpose.

eg alive GARM, me and Werebear the poker player. Dead Jesternl - died via a deck of cards. That scene was completely deliberate to attempt to fool GARM into voting Werebear, but in the end it wasnt needed.

I will post "My reasons why for each kill" later on.

It was sure fun flinging Trevize (my favourite of all my kills) from the mangonel, my intention had been to fling Degenerate, but Trevize name worked better, and he had voted me for no reason which caused me to think he was a cop. So off I went



[This message has been edited by amb (edited 02-12-2003 05:10 AM).]

[Amb]

I actually thought when I killed ralphmerridew (a non poem method) that there were no doctors left, but then became convinced that with this many docs, I was a SK who could override doc choices.

Why the hell was no-one protecting the cop that night? That decision severely swung the game evil's way.

Toward the end of the game I analysed every single player and began picking off from a list of most likely scum to least likely. Its nice to know I got very accurate, and I even told Neo via email with one of my last choices that I believed TANSTAAFL, Jesternl and Querci were scum. Querci's death via the priest was lucky and I was saying "Thank God I got off that bandwagon" I didnt know if I had been at risk, but getting off it could have saved my game.

I never intended to kill Werebear. As a guaranteed innocent, I would be able to buy his vote on the very last day if needed, but set the death scene up so I could add my vote to GARM's if he fell for the guise.

Thanks Neo. This has been a blast. I really do rate this game as my best ever.

And thanks to Vegt2001 who saved my life as a bodyguard. Without him * shudder * maybe town could have won.... definately a worst case scenario.

[ralphmerridew]

The last night I investigated TRSC, and got a mixed result (originally innocent, then guilty), and figured I'd found a recruited prostitute. If there were another prostitute, that would allow her side to take out any doctor in the chain at will, and I thought you might have put that error in deliberately. Had I survived, I probably would have tried to get the town to lynch you, and asked any vigilante to kill RSAC.

Also, Neo, I think you omitted the pimp's role description.

[TANSTAAFL]

great game, i was very disappointed when i died. Definitely in for the next one.

[Werebear]

Five serial killers. An anti-doc, and two mafia groups. *shakes head* The town actually had an excellent lynching record, considering.

[jesternl]

Originally posted by AMB:

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Jesternl did very well to survive so far and then to make a basic tactical error. Killing a confirmed innocent when there was clearly another killer at large

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Either you or GARM was the other bad guy, and I figured that neither of you would go for the confirmed innocent, so that way I could force a standoff...


Neo, thanks for modding, it was absolutely a fun game to be in!!
But was was the pimp's part? That one had me stumped all game long.

Originally posted by Werebear:

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Five serial killers. An anti-doc, and two mafia groups. *shakes head* The town actually had an excellent lynching record, considering.

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Well it would be hard for the town to lynch an innocent

And AMB, you so owe your victory to Vegt.. I'm pretty sure I tried to kill you that night, which would've made my life a lot easier.

[Amb]

I only count 4 SK's - but all those doctors? How any scum got past that is unknown. Imagine how much harder if the anti doc had died early on....


I remember Neo saying earlier in the game that a 1 in a million thing had happened, and he had actually thought to himself "nah it wont happen" and made no plans for it... What was that Neo?

[Neo]

Oh yeah, the pimp and the prostitute.

You are the prostitute You hide in other people's homes to protect yourself, but if your Pimp finds you, there could be trouble. Whoever Samadhi targetted performed no night actions Goal was to survive to the end of the game.

You are a Pimp. You took a blow to the head and forgot your prostitutes name, but you'll remember it when you see it. Once you have found them, you may send your prostitute to other houses, keepingthat person busy for the night. Your win condition is to keep yourself andyour prostitute alive to the end of the game.

The trick to this was that JEEP had to target the house that his prostitute was in, not necessarily just the person themselves.

That one in a million night happened with these two and Antrax, the head of the Leopald family. Samadhi chose to "occupy" Antrax, who chose to recruit Samadhi, and Jeep searched Antrax's home.

[Neo]

Oh, and amb, the good (anti)doc also targetted ralphmerridew

[ralphmerridew]

What did SK post after getting killed?

And why did I get that "innocent/guilty" result on TRSC?

[Neo]

It was partially your rage, and the fact that TRSC was a borderline role

[Neo]

And I can't remember SK's post

[Neo]

Questions from me:

To the SKs, did my allowing you complete and utter control of death scenes factor into your strategy?

The Leopalds: what made you think you "had" the game?

To all: What were your thoughts as the number of dead docs increased? Did you feel the game was very balanced?

The Docs: As the dead docs increase, did you consider not claiming Doc to avoid suspicion?

[ralphmerridew]

Where did The Critic or RSA vote for me?

[ralphmerridew]

BTW, 1 in a million? With 31 people, I get (1/30)*(1/30)*(1/30) == 1/27000 ~= 37 in a million.

[Neo]

You were ticked because s/he'd been so quiet

[ralphmerridew]

Were there any doctor saves besides Gaspode's protection on night 1?

And under what circumstances would I (or one of the other cops) get an ambiguous result, like my result on Samadhi?

[Neo]

Probably, I'd have to go back throught he spreadsheet, thats not happening until the weekend. I do know GARM saved amb a bunch of times though.

Part of the aim of this game was to try and break the worship of cops, it annoys me to see the town stall until a cop comes out, and then follow blindly. Hence the stressed and wrathful cops. You ralphmerridew, were the only one that had hte possibility of results open to interpretation, although I'd thought that the result I sent you (the one in question) stated innocence and had some mindless anger ramblings, I wouldn't be suprised if I were wrong htough, there were parts of this game that were run while I shoulda been in bed, and stringing together coherent sentences was suprising.

Your role was just that of a person with a bad temper. Borderline roles like that of TRSC, JEEP, and Samadhi would set you off, (the posting thing was a joke) votes would set you off, getting 5 innocents in a row would have made you angry and changed the result on number to guilty no matter what.

[Amb]

Yes the ability to write scenes was used tactically, and toward the end I delib changed styles away from the poems just to make sure. The final death scene was meant to be a master touch

Reasons
1. Porro - Priest - nailed to ceiling with a poem. I just felt like killing someone with a lot of game experience.

2.Antrax - Leopald Family - decapitated and cut into pieces (2 killers) one left a poem. Antrax deleted Saber Kitty's post before I could read it. Him dying was punishment for not letting an external mod delete the post, and thus it was one less player with an advantage.

3a.Courk - Pastrami Family - deal gone wrong, poem left. Tried to recruit me, but I wanted to win alone so I took her out as a free kill.
3b.Trevize - Poker Buddy - shot into a terrible storm via mangonel, poem left. Trevize voted me during the day, and said it was for "no reason" making me suspect he was cop. I had originally planned Degenerate for this day.

4.Degenerate - Doctor - suffered fatal head trauma from flying anvil, killer left a poem. - Degenerates name stood out as easy to rhyme, and he was too quiet. Killing vocal players is usually not as smart as killing the quiet ones.

5.ralphmerridew - Cop - who knows? He was the cop, and I went for him fully expecting to fail my night kill.

6.TANSTAAFL - In my mind I had linked Jesternl and TAN as likely both mafia from the same team. I was wrong about the teams, but my kill proved decisive in removing a lot of annoying other scum teams.

7.Jesternl - It was obvious as hell he was lying about random cop, since if he was really a random cop his investigations of amb guilty and innocent would mean he had solid proof I was scum. Since he didnt vote me, I knew who to kill that night, and if he was telling the truth id just have to make Werebear vote GARM, and I had a plan sorted out to achieve that. Im sad I didnt get to try it....

[Amb]

Id like to see the dissertation of night choices

[jesternl]

I'll try and recall why.. in the beginning most were random, I didn't want to leave any sort of pattern..

[Ancalagon]

BTW, I was told by xer0x after my death that a loophole allowed him to reveal to the masons that I was maf when I attempted to recruit him. Ruined my game.

[Neo]

Speaking of, did the surviving masons buy my attempt at crisis management?

[Werebear]

what are you talking about

[Neo]

On Night 1, Ancalagon tried to recruit xer0x, who refused (the consequence was death) and turned right around to email you and Trevize about it. I had to CA by emailing you two and tell you that xer0x may or may not have been given truthful information, and that you should disregard his email.

I guess it worked better than expected

[Amb]

Just rubbing it in

[ralphmerridew]

Since amb did some thread necromancy, I thought I'd post the text from my investigations:

Night 1: Samadhi

Although Samadhi has some shady dealings on the wrong side of the law, you find no connection to the mafia. It angers you, but oh well. Samadhi goes on your list as innocent.

Night 2: crackerjack

innocent

Night 3: Courk

guilty guilty guilty

Night 4: jadesmole

You knew it, that dirty stinkin rat was guilty! How dare he cross you! The nerve of him!

Night 5: The Raging South Critic

Your first instinct is that s/he () is innocent, but another look and review of the past few days forces you to see that this inconsiderate clod is obviously guilty! It's so obvious! And now s/he is making it worse by increasing your blood pressure! HOW DARE THEY!

Neo intended this to be just an innocent message, colored by my biases, but since we'd had evidence of recruitments, I took it as TRSC was somebody who was originally town, but had since been recruited. Not that it mattered, since I didn't live to see daylight.

[Amb]

Which of course was me trying to kill the cop How fluky was that....