Thack Desteck—Day 3, The Long Night

[Hinckley]

Players (in their anonymous character accounts) only please!!!

Day Three has begun. You may not vote in the first 24 hours. The day will last precisely 72 hours. Each day a random player will be given a scroll. The scroll will contain an ability that the Neutral (Traveler) can use. It will be up to the player who receives the scroll if they want to pass it along to the Traveler.

***Characters chosen for fake-out death scenes are chosen completely at random. Their involvement in the Night scenes gives no indication of their role or affiliation. They are simply for fun, nothing more.

Rules

(Deviations from the EB standard Mafia rules are in bold blue. Modified clauses have been struck through.)

1. Each player will be given a character to play, who will be aligned with either the Town (Oceanides) or the Scum (Gorgons). To win the game, the Town must kill off all the Mafia, while the Mafia needs to kill off all of the Town, or nothing can prevent this from happening (see example role PMs below) Third-Party (neutral) characters have their own win conditions as outlined in their roles.

1a. This is an anonymous game and you may only post in your character account sent to you by the host. Be sure to check before you post that you are in your anonymous account and not in your main Eurobricks account.

1b. When communicating in private, you should not reveal you true identities to each other, either.

2. Each day you will be able to vote to lynch a player. Voting is mandatory. Voting should be done in the following format; Vote: Character. Similarly, unvoting is to be done in the format; Unvote: Character. No other format will be accepted. A majority vote is required to lynch a player. The player with the most votes will be lynched.

3. A game day will last a maximum of 72 hours. You may not vote in the first 24 hours. The day will end when a majority vote has been reached. A majority being reached will not end the day. The day will continue for the full 72 hours and any majority vote that is reached can be overturned. After the day has concluded, a night stage will commence, which will last a maximum of 48 hours. Night actions must be sent to the host in the first 24 hours of the night stage.

3.5. Players may not target the same player two nights in a row, and may not target themselves. Players may not target themselves. Unless otherwise noted in your role PM, players CAN target the same player two nights in a row.

4. The alignment of lynched players, as well as those that died during the night, will be revealed at the beginning of the following day.

5. You may not quote or pretend to quote anything sent to or from you in PM with the game host. This includes all the details of your character and role, as well as any night action results. Role claims and reporting of night action results are acceptable, but in your own words only. Do not attempt to use the structure of your role PM to your advantage. Similarly, you may not directly quote any communications that were sent to you by other players in the game. If you wish to reveal private communications, these must also be paraphrased. 

5a. The Role PM is structured for every player in this way:

Player: Your EB Profile

Character: Character name

Affiliation: Town (Oceanide) or Scum (Gorgon) or Neutral (Traveler)

Role: [Either the details of a Night Action or] Vanilla. You have no ability. Your power is in your vote! Use it wisely.

Win Condition: Either (You win when all of the Gorgons (Scum) are eliminated) or (You win when all of the Oceanides (Town) are dead, or nothing can prevent this from happening) or (Neutral's win condition)

6. Do not play the game outside the thread. Similarly, do not post out of character inside the thread; you must always play the role given to you. Game tactics and roles may only be discussed in the game thread or via PM with other players. Private discussion is done at your own risk and should be treated as part of the game.

7. If you are dead, you may not post in thread or discuss the game with any of the players. Any information you had becomes void, and may not be passed on.

8. You may not edit your posts.

9. You must post in every day thread.

10. If you encounter a problem or have a question, please contact the host via PM.

11. Violation of the above rules will result in a vote penalty of half the required majority against you on your first offense, and the death of your character on your second offense. Violation of rule 7 will have a heavier penalty, including suspension, made at the discretion of the Games Moderator. A warning will be given upon our first violation of Rule 1. Do be careful when posting to ensure you are posting from the correct account.

12. There are no hints or clues in the day/night images.

NPC

Queen Tellia, Ruler of Thack Desteck

King Naryyus, Dead King

Kyrrio, King's Guard

Ddewy, Queen's Guard

—, Killer-for-hire

Proochllooeros, Ocean Shaman

Characters

Araveea, Master of Music

Cadd, Special Counsel to the Queen

Coralaaze, Master of Education

Eeyara, Master of Negotiations

Luxxon, Master of Music

Marwyyn, Master of Architecture

Mazziko, Master of Labor

Nancy, Master of Coin

Nerrio, Master of Public Relations

Scabowee-wah, Master of Invertebrate Relations

Tameekys, Master of Agriculture

Zandder, Master of Coral Protection

The Dead

Ronnan, Master of War—Oceanide—mudered on Night One

**Council titles are strictly for players to have fun with their characters.

[Marwyyn]

Right. I'ma start carrying weed on me for the hired killer. 

[Scabowee-wah]

Fweeew. Thought I was a goner there. Hired killer scares me. And I'm completely spineless! (ba dum tiss!)

So... with none of us dead.... I'm glad to see our night actors being successful. Oh crap, it could also mean they pulled off the recruit. So then one of us has now possibly switched. Bah! Another day and night done and we know so little. 

Day 3, I'm saying it's been long enough and we need to start lynching. Especially if the Gorgons have added another to their numbers. Time to pew-pew!

[Marwyyn]

Day three eh? Golly gee shucky darn why does it feel like day one still?

[Scabowee-wah]

Because we haven't pew-pew-ed anyone, and the evil Gorgons have only managed to take one of us out. 

[Marwyyn]

And yes indeed it was a long night BTW. It be like Brigadoon down here or something.

[Zandder]

Are they screwing with us or did they recruit in the night? Seeing how we vote today may reveal whether the Gorgons did manage to recruit someone.

[Scabowee-wah]

13 minutes ago, Zandder said:

Are they screwing with us or did they recruit in the night? Seeing how we vote today may reveal whether the Gorgons did manage to recruit someone.

We don't know that they recruited.... they could have been blocked, or the target protected. So we just don't know.

[Luxxon]

It feels an awful lot like its still Day 1.

10 minutes ago, Zandder said:

Are they screwing with us or did they recruit in the night? Seeing how we vote today may reveal whether the Gorgons did manage to recruit someone.

I doubt they would miss an opportunity for a kill, so they either did or were blocked, or their target protected, ..

I have been leaving open the possibility that we have a vig, but given the results so far, I'm starting to think we don't.

25 minutes ago, Marwyyn said:

Right. I'ma start carrying weed on me for the hired killer. 

Good idea.  *Heads off to find the granny.

[Marwyyn]

2 minutes ago, Luxxon said:

I have been leaving open the possibility that we have a vig, but given the results so far, I'm starting to think we don't.

Maybe they want better reads. Can't imagine why.  

[Nerrio]

This is Groundhog Day. This some kind of fever dream? Could scum (or vig, or anyone) have just stayed home in the night to throw us off?

[Zandder]

13 minutes ago, Nerrio said:

This is Groundhog Day.

Well, not quite. At least one thing is different: the number of scrolls in play.

[Araveea]

Yup, no kill is totally fishy. Many things might have happened but I'm going to assume the worst, that the three Gorgons are now working together as a team. But it's still surprising to me that they would have found their lost teammate so quickly... pure chance or did we miss an important clue?

2 hours ago, Zandder said:

Are they screwing with us or did they recruit in the night? Seeing how we vote today may reveal whether the Gorgons did manage to recruit someone.

I'm not sure how we would be able to tell, but it's probably better to keep it to yourself for now.

1 hour ago, Zandder said:

Well, not quite. At least one thing is different: the number of scrolls in play.

What do you mean?

[Mazziko]

Interesting, I’d advise the blocker to follow closely who they targeted last night.

I’m not sure about the whole “staying home at night to confuse the town” theory. Given that killing is basically a win-win for the scum (they either recruit the traitor or kill a townie) I don’t think they would want to waste that opportunity. 

3 hours ago, Araveea said:

But it's still surprising to me that they would have found their lost teammate so quickly... pure chance or did we miss an important clue?

It’s a 1 in 10 chance so it’s either down to pure luck or there was no recruitment and the blocker got it right. There could’ve been a clue but if so what? 

[Cadd]

Bah weed.

4 hours ago, Araveea said:

.. I'm going to assume the worst, that the three Gorgons are now working together as a team.
But it's still surprising to me that they would have found their lost teammate so quickly...

 

Now you’re being surprised for no good reason? Is what Eeyara had catching?

I’m confused that you would ever have assumed anything except that the grogons are working together, even if it wasn’t all on the same page. And why would it make a lick of difference anyways, since we need to pew pew them all anyway.

[Marwyyn]

8 hours ago, Nerrio said:

This is Groundhog Day. This some kind of fever dream? Could scum (or vig, or anyone) have just stayed home in the night to throw us off?

 There are a ton of possibilities for why there would be no kill. It's not a impossibility.

[Marwyyn]

9 hours ago, Zandder said:

Seeing how we vote today may reveal whether the Gorgons did manage to recruit someone.

Potentially, yes.

[Marwyyn]

7 hours ago, Araveea said:

I'm not sure how we would be able to tell, but it's probably better to keep it to yourself for now

Not sure what you mean by this. Like if someone has info he should keep it to themselves?

[Scabowee-wah]

10 hours ago, Nerrio said:

This is Groundhog Day. This some kind of fever dream? Could scum (or vig, or anyone) have just stayed home in the night to throw us off?

I can't imagine the scum skipping a kill just to confuse us. We're confused enough already, and the kill is their entire path to winning. 

1 hour ago, Marwyyn said:

Not sure what you mean by this. Like if someone has info he should keep it to themselves?

If I have any info, I'm not sharing it publicly yet. There's nobody here I trust enough to share night results with, if I have any. 

Now, if I got a read on things that I thought I'd figured out the traitor based on posts/votes, then yes, I'd be sharing that so we can all analyze together. 

[Zandder]

9 hours ago, Araveea said:

I'm not sure how we would be able to tell, but it's probably better to keep it to yourself for now.

What I mean is that if someone drops a case against someone else today, then there's a chance they're OG scum and traitor. It's nothing that needs to be kept secret and indeed shouldn't be. We must remain eagle-eyed.

5 hours ago, Mazziko said:

It’s a 1 in 10 chance so it’s either down to pure luck or there was no recruitment and the blocker got it right.

Correctamundo

[Tameekys]

I'll have you know that it's for medicinal purposes only. I'll also let you know that I've been baking it into all the cookies and pies that I've been giving you throughout the years.

With that out of the way, I think it's important to recognize that there are several things that could have happened last night, some of which have already been mentioned. There's the block and protect. There's the chance that they recruited their traitor by using their kill. There's a chance that in a game this small the scum can only kill every other night and therefore could have used a different night action. Or perhaps the traveler was able to use a block or protect scroll last night as well, which could be another possibility for the lack of kill. Someone said earlier that with twelve of us left it's a one in ten chance, which is true. It's possible that they might have gotten very lucky. 

[Nerrio]

4 hours ago, Marwyyn said:

 There are a ton of possibilities for why there would be no kill. It's not a impossibility.

2 hours ago, Scabowee-wah said:

I can't imagine the scum skipping a kill just to confuse us. We're confused enough already, and the kill is their entire path to winning.

I'm just throwing some thoughts out. I think it's essential today we get a lynch though. Hopefully it was due to a block there was no kill; we can't keep spinning our fins.

[Eeyara]

13 hours ago, Zandder said:

Well, not quite. At least one thing is different: the number of scrolls in play. 

It's possible, but it's also possible the scrolls were used. What is the traveler just stockpiling them? We don't even know that all the scrolls so far (2 as of the start of the day) were even passed on. I hope we don't waste another day guessing about scrolls.

13 hours ago, Nerrio said:

This is Groundhog Day. This some kind of fever dream? Could scum (or vig, or anyone) have just stayed home in the night to throw us off?

That's just stupid, why would the scum not kill just to "throw us off". There is absolutely no reason for them to skip a kill for that reason. If they were bout by rules to skip a kill, that's another issue.

7 hours ago, Cadd said:

Is what Eeyara had catching?

I wish it was correct to use past tense here, I really wish it was. :-(

[Araveea]

4 hours ago, Marwyyn said:

Not sure what you mean by this. Like if someone has info he should keep it to themselves?

Bear with me.

2 hours ago, Zandder said:

What I mean is that if someone drops a case against someone else today, then there's a chance they're OG scum and traitor. It's nothing that needs to be kept secret and indeed shouldn't be. We must remain eagle-eyed. 

Well you should have kept that to yourself, as I said earlier. At least until votes are cast. Now the recruited traitor (assuming they have been recruited) will make sure not to "drop a case" and look suspicious. It's a wasted opportunity to catch the traitor in the act.
 

2 hours ago, Scabowee-wah said:

Now, if I got a read on things that I thought I'd figured out the traitor based on posts/votes, then yes, I'd be sharing that so we can all analyze together. 

And then the Traitor will know what to avoid, and the scum will use your read to find out their partner if they haven't already. It's a double-edged sword really.

7 hours ago, Cadd said:

Bah weed.

Now you’re being surprised for no good reason? Is what Eeyara had catching?

I’m confused that you would ever have assumed anything except that the grogons are working together, even if it wasn’t all on the same page. And why would it make a lick of difference anyways, since we need to pew pew them all anyway.

It does make a difference, if you stop and think about it... Once they're recruited, the Traitor will have a different voting strategy. But I'll let you figure it out yourself, because I don't want to help Gorgons if I can avoid it. On the off chance that they haven't found out their partner yet.

 

[Scabowee-wah]

8 minutes ago, Araveea said:

And then the Traitor will know what to avoid, and the scum will use your read to find out their partner if they haven't already. It's a double-edged sword really.

No, because if I think I know who the traitor is, then I'll share that so we can pew-pew them and then they are dead.