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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 1:18:18 GMT -5
There was a man who had no real immpact on the world other than to attempt to clean out a town of people who wittnessed his murder in a blatant powergrab for a position he'd never reach.
As his vision faded away, Donatello Fettuccini quietly assured himself, despite being no more than a two bit thug, this caper had been entirely worth it.
HonestMoley was Donatello Fettuccini. A small time mafia thug deluded with visions of living the high life once he took over the mafia's opperations in the area, despite being NOWHERE near the top of the organization. Still he did have some connections, and he could use these connections to just make someone disappear, and then take their place. He was the mafia Janitor Amnesiac.
Webster Harris was not so fortunate. As the others talked - only giving him the occassional sideway glance - he was preoccupied with escape. Not the windows - he was too portly for that. There was the fire escape but that would alert the others to his attempt to flee before they turned him over.
Inner stickler is Webster Harris, professional bullshit psychic. Each night he could harass and harange a player, convincing them to tell him about themselves through elaborate worldplay, convincing them that he had really told them their own life story. He is the mafia flavor cop.
As he sat down he kept thinking. And thinking. Noting Donatello had stopped breathing he wondered - did he still have his gun on him? A quick frisk proved fruitful, and soon Webster would make his move, sneaking up behind local resteraunteur Steakhouse Rex.
JustBeingGinger was Steakhouse Rex. Having long since retired from their vigilante days, Rex had settled in town, opening up a selection of fine resteraunts. However once the mafia threatened to silence anyone who cared to implicate them for their crimes, he dusted off his old gun, determined to put it to good use once more. He was the town desperado.
Soon enough he had the man who had killed his beloved locked in a choke hold.
"Attention, can I get everyone's attention? I would like to take the floor for a moment."
Everyone stopped. Their attention fixed on the man with the gun and the hostage.
"You, the man who wears that costume 24/7. On the ground. Now. You too, rookie."
"You're a cop. Don't you have a gun?" The Terrible Turtle was rather bemused by this turn of events.
The rookie officer could only reply with a sheepish grin.
Mr. Special Ed was the terrible turtle, mascot for the local highschool. He wore his costume 24/7. Ew.
Gnarlycharlie was the eager young police officer who's name escapes me. He was masoned with Deni. Wheee.
Once they were on the ground, he kicked rex onto his knees and instructed him to follow suit. Not letting his eyes drift away from the three men, he cautiously backed out of the hall, and into the figure of Maralyn Arnsworth, standing in hall entrance.
In a fit of panic, he spun around and shot her most fatally... but as he fled, he heard a voice.
"Don't you know death doesn't stop me? I remember you interviewing me a few days previous..."
Webster was paralyzed with fear. He turned to see the woman completely unharmed - and a syringe in hand. She plunged it into his side before he could raise his weapon again, injecting him with a slury of nanobots. The mafioso had dropped his weapon, and as he scrambled for it Arnsworth stepped back and produced a small black remote with a single red button on it.
"Any last words?"
Pollux Oil is Maralyn Arnsworth, Lunatic Nanoengineer. She had died messily in the quarantine at C.J. Memorial Hospital earlier that year. However being who she was she always had some way of cheating death on hand - and her nanobots were that. Once per game she could survive an attempt on her life. If she were to be lynched, however, she would not be so lucky.
The man had his hand on his gun. "Die bi-" was all he got out before Maralyn flipped the switch, and he exploded into a shower of gore.
She turned around to the three men behind her. "Seeya around." As she walked away from the hall, that was the last the town ever saw of her.
TOWN WINS!
Mafia loses.
BillMC loses.
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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 1:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by BillMc on Nov 12, 2011 1:28:56 GMT -5
Typical - I pick all the scum and still lose. Why couldnt you have lynched someone other than inner....bah humbug!
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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 1:32:58 GMT -5
Notes so far: fantasticstories.proboards.com/index.cgiWere the scum boards, and mostly consist later on of Moley ripping his hair out. He is now bald thanks to this game. Uhhh spoilers are somewhere if someone wants to put them down but they are not entirely accurate as there were a few last minute tweaks. Oh yeah BillMC's role pm since I could not be bothered to figure out how to work him into endgame flavor: Things I would Probably Change: Letting the poisoned know they were poisoned. Although I had some sadistic delight from the "Oh god am I going to die" angle of things it could have given some parties a bit more strategic flexibility had they known they were going to croak at day's end. Bill made an admiral effort of winning, although he got retroactively spite-killed by the mafia. Uhhh the masonchat was barely used, and consists mostly of deni being forever alone. I could have probably included a backup investigator, but I felt between the desperado, the masons, n' the tracker the town had enough inforoles. Although I would like more input on this. Also I was feeling a flawless mafia win up until texcat got shot in the face day four. Then everything sort of went downhill from there for them. Including Moley missing the obvious LEGITIMATE BUSINESSMAN hint.
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Post by Deni on Nov 12, 2011 1:34:13 GMT -5
Wow - Honest Moley you had me completely fooled. Good game paranoia!
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Post by Deni on Nov 12, 2011 1:35:51 GMT -5
Honest Moley - you were amazing to keep fighting like that without a team around.
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 1:59:34 GMT -5
Sorry scummies. Yeah, I pretty much lost that one on my own... although it's sickening that we were handed a GOLDEN opportunity to redeem things on the last day, with town votes on Pollux, and Inner wasn't there. I set things up beautifully for him in case I did get poisoned - which I didn't believe would happen by the way - and pretty much had Ed believing that Pollux and I were partners right until the end. Dunno what happened to Inner... hope he didn't just get too damn frustrated with me. It's possible. This was NOT a good game for my temperament or my strategy. It's also the first loss I've had as scum since "Gastards". Where did I lose it? - we could've night-killed Bill, and I could've taken his role, at pretty much any point in the game. Peeker had him pegged basically from day one as the poisoner. On Night Four we were all set to "Jan" Bill, but I came up with the brilliantly deluded idea of joint-winning with him instead. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Oh, and I thought Pollux was the traitor right up until the moment Lightfoot got offed, and did my best to communicate this to Pollux ironically - which is probably why Ed got such a strong vibe that we were scum together. (About the only thing Ed ever got right about my actions this entire game. Seriously, it was painful to see his reasoning for first voting me. The Texcat vigging, dude? I objected to it for EXACTLY the reason I'd said - namely, that Tex was going to be lynched anyway, so why waste the vig and end up scrambling for another target? What you said didn't even occur to me, and if it had, do you honestly think I would've given myself away THAT easily? I told about a thousand lies in this game, and you managed to pick the one thing I said that wasn't a lie, and accused me of lying about it!) Anyway... Pollux, the most suspicious man in the Universe, strikes again. I should just be banned from ever voting him or something. And talking of duff votes... Deon voted me because I'd mixed up Colby and Paul. You know, the same thing I did in the last game when I WAS TOWN. D'oh! On the plus side for both of them, evidently I was coming off as scummy as I thought I was, since they both caught onto me with precisely zero logical reasons for doing so! I'd like to know why Bill ended up poisoning me, because I was pretty sure he wouldn't, especially after reading his wincon. If you have to get the situation to MYLO / LYLO, why on earth would you poison a SCUM in that situation? Six people with a maximum of two scum left... why not take out Gnarley, for example? You didn't play this one very well though Bill... I should've killed you before you claimed, but I didn't believe your claim for a second once you HAD done so. A benign serial killer who can undo his own kills at daybreak? Erm... no. Not buying it. Sorry. I thought you were trying a very desperate bluff on me, and I'm the absolute last person you should ever try that kind of thing on in a game like this! My only other comment would be that although I'm sorry for losing this one, we were without a doubt the worst scum team I've ever had the misfortune of playing as part of. Not because everyone was incompetent (although we basically were - by the end of Day Two, I was just about ready to bus EVERYBODY) but because our personalities are so incompatible. Plus there's the history element... I've got major baggage with Peek, Inner, Pollux (who I thought was the traitor), AND Texcat in another game as it turns out (albeit not under the same name as I know her by here). I never once felt that I could really work with these guys. As a matter of fact I said to Paranoia in a PM that I expected the scum team to be picked off, one by one, from day three onwards. That obviously didn't happen. What did happen is that I screwed up, big-time, and unfortunately I was in no mood by then to listen to the better advice of my peers. Oh, and the "funeral" comment at the start of Day Five might be the single stupidest thing I've ever done in a mafia game. I will be headslapping myself for that one for months. So yeah, I deserved the loss, but I'm sorry for dragging the other scum down with me. I think this game might go down in history as one to consult if you want to learn how NOT to play mafia, because just about everybody in it played really badly. At times it was actually quite funny - I thought at one point during the last day that my incompetence in not killing Bill earlier might be offset by my further incompetence in not recognising Lightfoot as the traitor and therefore forcing Bill to target a townie to poison instead when she died! - but I daresay it was a good game to be a spoiled watcher for. Anyway, it was a great setup and good job hosting, Paranoia. Given who you chose as my scum team-mates, I'm not exactly convinced that you didn't choose us all for the sheer revenge value following "Spies 7"... but I hope our rapid descent into chaos was at least fun for you guys to watch! Cheers!
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Post by gnarlycharlie on Nov 12, 2011 2:04:20 GMT -5
Typical - I pick all the scum and still lose. Why couldnt you have lynched someone other than inner....bah humbug! too bad, Bill. you played a great game. good game, Town! thanks for a fun game, Paranoia.
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Post by Silver Jan on Nov 12, 2011 2:08:06 GMT -5
I must learn to stay with my gut feelings, I am so glad Moley was scum Well done Town!!!
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 2:10:39 GMT -5
Honest Moley - you were amazing to keep fighting like that without a team around. Thanks very much, but it was largely down to me that they weren't around in the first place. (Well, not Tex so much, she was going DOWN. Heck, by the time I voted her I'd just about had it with the entire scum-team. But the rest of them... yeah. I screwed up really, really badly on Night Four, and basically lost the game for us. See my last post as to how.)
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 2:12:02 GMT -5
I must learn to stay with my gut feelings, I am so glad Moley was scum Well done Town!!! Yeah, REALLY sorry for the surprise lynch. I guess it's better to go down that way than to have to fight until the end and still lose... especially when you have other real-life stuff to worry about. (Hope that continues to go well by the way.) Deni just handed us an opportunity that I felt I had to take.
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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 2:23:48 GMT -5
Moley I had no idea you were cuddles. That was sadly hilarious when I found out.
One last note:
I am actually rather pleased with the activity this game. (minus stickler sticking his head between his legs and cowering in the corner at game end - he still had a chance and just basically rolled over n' died without a defense.)
Soooo uhhhh thanks everyone! It was fun to watch.
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Post by special on Nov 12, 2011 2:32:54 GMT -5
Well, score one for my new playstyle.
Great game, Paranoia. Interesting set up. can't read everything as proboards seems to be having issues.
Since I obviously suck at this game, I'm now just casually reading and trying to guess who feels most Scummy to me. And that's about it. No more real re-reading. No more serious thinking. I mean, it's obvious that doesn't work for me, so I'll just read, have fun, and poke at people.
it's really a more enjoyable game that way too.
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Post by Pollux Oil on Nov 12, 2011 2:39:58 GMT -5
Holy bajeesuz. I was right! I finally pulled it off! Oh my god! Every time I'm in these lynch or lose situations as a townie I always screw it up! Yay! Yay! Yay! Do you believe me now, Ed? DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? BAM! Ahem. Seriously, though, Moley, you did an absolute amazing job as scum, aside from not killing Bill on Night Four. I think if Bill hadn't poisoned you, and you'd gone to three-handed with me and Ed/Ginger/charlie you would have pulled it out because I was trying my damnedest to be as pro-town as I could, but everything I did was misinterpreted. It's a curse, I tell you: nobody pays attention to me for the first three Days or so, then BAM I'm the scummiest person on earth, no matter what my alignment is. I'm also glad my righteous paranoia about Charlie voting for me was correct: I knew if you were scum you were going to capitalize on it. I don't think you should blame yourself too badly, this game was kind of played bad by both sides. Town was running around like chickens with their heads cut off until we nailed texcat. Day 5 and 6 were touch-and-go but somehow we managed to pull it off. One of these days, you and I need to end up on the same scum team so we can finally work together instead of being at each other all game. Haha. I think Bill was the best player by far this game, though. Thanks Bill, I'm really sad you didn't win because town wouldn't have won without you. And thanks Paranoia for running an awesome game! This was really fun! I'm glad to finally end up on the winning side of a nailbiter for once.
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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 2:41:25 GMT -5
www.quicktopic.com/46/H/Xn2sGRJjwfVThe most obvious change to things was deni's wincon - originally she just had to survive the game. However I thought better of the mixed-mason thing (although scum-town masonages are still afwhnnnggg.) and changed her wincon to straight town before game started. I also removed the 'blocks bill's poison kill" thing from moody's omnidelaykill thing on account of the fact bodystacker is hard enough without someone who can completely dick you out of a kill. Oh yeah one last thing: Kill control went like this: main mafia team -> lightfoot if they are eliminated -> BillMC becoming a straight sk if the rest of the scum drop before he achieved his wincon.
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Post by special on Nov 12, 2011 3:02:50 GMT -5
Holy bajeesuz. I was right! I finally pulled it off! Oh my god! Every time I'm in these lynch or lose situations as a townie I always screw it up! Yay! Yay! Yay! Do you believe me now, Ed? DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? BAM! Ahem. Seriously, though, Moley, you did an absolute amazing job as scum, aside from not killing Bill on Night Four. I think if Bill hadn't poisoned you, and you'd gone to three-handed with me and Ed/Ginger/charlie you would have pulled it out because I was trying my damnedest to be as pro-town as I could, but everything I did was misinterpreted. It's a curse, I tell you: nobody pays attention to me for the first three Days or so, then BAM I'm the scummiest person on earth, no matter what my alignment is. I'm also glad my righteous paranoia about Charlie voting for me was correct: I knew if you were scum you were going to capitalize on it. I don't think you should blame yourself too badly, this game was kind of played bad by both sides. Town was running around like chickens with their heads cut off until we nailed texcat. Day 5 and 6 were touch-and-go but somehow we managed to pull it off. One of these days, you and I need to end up on the same scum team so we can finally work together instead of being at each other all game. Haha. I think Bill was the best player by far this game, though. Thanks Bill, I'm really sad you didn't win because town wouldn't have won without you. And thanks Paranoia for running an awesome game! This was really fun! I'm glad to finally end up on the winning side of a nailbiter for once. Yes, and obviously from my message to you on Night 3, you were highest on my likely Townie list. I just didn't get the coordination I was feeling between you and Moley, and now in reading the Scum thread, it seems possible that I was picking up on Moley's confidence that you were his traitor. Or maybe it was just coincidence. And obviously I listened to you at the end and picked Inner over you as Moley's teammate. But, yes, I played the game poorly, was wrong more than I was right, but I had fun, and isn't that what matters? When I worked at an alternative school for kids with emotional and behavioral poblems, during PE, the students would ask me who won the game, and my answer was always, "If you had fun, you were a winner." They didn't always like that, but we still never kept score.
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Post by special on Nov 12, 2011 3:04:13 GMT -5
What is MYLO?
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Post by Paranoia on Nov 12, 2011 3:08:27 GMT -5
Mislynch and lose.
Basically it's a scenario with say six townies n' two scum and it's day time.
If town lynches town in that scenario it goes into night 2-3 scum shoot town 2-2 WOOPS OVERRUN.
LYLO is day time, 2 scum 3 townies *must* lynch or lose.
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Post by Pollux Oil on Nov 12, 2011 3:15:40 GMT -5
Yes, and obviously from my message to you on Night 3, you were highest on my likely Townie list. I just didn't get the coordination I was feeling between you and Moley, and now in reading the Scum thread, it seems possible that I was picking up on Moley's confidence that you were his traitor. Or maybe it was just coincidence. And obviously I listened to you at the end and picked Inner over you as Moley's teammate. But, yes, I played the game poorly, was wrong more than I was right, but I had fun, and isn't that what matters? When I worked at an alternative school for kids with emotional and behavioral poblems, during PE, the students would ask me who won the game, and my answer was always, "If you had fun, you were a winner." They didn't always like that, but we still never kept score. D'aww I was just teasin'. I had fun, too, it's just with my mafia record I usually have fun and lose. It's nice to have fun and win one time. I was stinkin' wrong most of the time, too. I thought I had Ginger dead to rights for a while there. Whoops. The coordination on my side was mostly me wanting to see anybody but Lightfoot lynched due to my texcat analysis. That's why I was following Moley around on voting, I thought for sure town was going to lose if we lynched Lightfoot. I think there was pretty weird play all around this game....the activity wasn't the greatest, the first like...68 hours would take up two pages, then we'd have seven pages of discussion in the last 4 hours when everything blew up. I think we set a record on last-minute votes this game. Still really fun though. I love playing with you guys! I miss some of the older players.
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Post by gnarlycharlie on Nov 12, 2011 5:20:10 GMT -5
Gnarlycharlie was the eager young police officer who's name escapes me. He was masoned with Deni. Wheee. [/color][/b] [/quote] for the record, my name is Francine Mookus.
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 6:28:07 GMT -5
I don't think you should blame yourself too badly, this game was kind of played bad by both sides. Town was running around like chickens with their heads cut off until we nailed texcat. You mean until I nailed Texcat, don't you? (Sorry, not letting you get away with that one.) But yeah, it felt like fighting stupid with stupid at some points... and it was by far my worst game as scum since Gastards. I mean, I'm coming off four pretty huge scum victories, so I really had nowhere to go but down unfortunately. So I can't take much satisfaction in this one. Also Bill damn-near got "janitored" and his role stolen pretty much every night from #2 onwards. We left it WAY too late.
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 6:29:17 GMT -5
Holy bajeesuz. I was right! I finally pulled it off! Oh my god! Every time I'm in these lynch or lose situations as a townie I always screw it up! Yay! Yay! Yay! Do you believe me now, Ed? DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? BAM! Ahem. Seriously, though, Moley, you did an absolute amazing job as scum, aside from not killing Bill on Night Four. I think if Bill hadn't poisoned you, and you'd gone to three-handed with me and Ed/Ginger/charlie you would have pulled it out because I was trying my damnedest to be as pro-town as I could, but everything I did was misinterpreted. It's a curse, I tell you: nobody pays attention to me for the first three Days or so, then BAM I'm the scummiest person on earth, no matter what my alignment is. I'm also glad my righteous paranoia about Charlie voting for me was correct: I knew if you were scum you were going to capitalize on it. I don't think you should blame yourself too badly, this game was kind of played bad by both sides. Town was running around like chickens with their heads cut off until we nailed texcat. Day 5 and 6 were touch-and-go but somehow we managed to pull it off. One of these days, you and I need to end up on the same scum team so we can finally work together instead of being at each other all game. Haha. I think Bill was the best player by far this game, though. Thanks Bill, I'm really sad you didn't win because town wouldn't have won without you. And thanks Paranoia for running an awesome game! This was really fun! I'm glad to finally end up on the winning side of a nailbiter for once. Yes, and obviously from my message to you on Night 3, you were highest on my likely Townie list. I just didn't get the coordination I was feeling between you and Moley, and now in reading the Scum thread, it seems possible that I was picking up on Moley's confidence that you were his traitor. Or maybe it was just coincidence. And obviously I listened to you at the end and picked Inner over you as Moley's teammate. But, yes, I played the game poorly, was wrong more than I was right, but I had fun, and isn't that what matters? When I worked at an alternative school for kids with emotional and behavioral poblems, during PE, the students would ask me who won the game, and my answer was always, "If you had fun, you were a winner." They didn't always like that, but we still never kept score. NO! THIS IS NOT FUN! THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!!! ;D
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Post by JustBeingGinger on Nov 12, 2011 8:18:23 GMT -5
Excellent! Very good game Paranoia
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Post by BillMc on Nov 12, 2011 10:21:18 GMT -5
I'd like to know why Bill ended up poisoning me, because I was pretty sure he wouldn't, especially after reading his wincon Because it was the right move. Tex, Lighfoot, Peeker all had to go in quick succession, and Inner had very little suspicion upon him. I thought I had put a pretty obvious olive branch out there -- kill me and town will most likely win, leave me alive and scum would most likely win. So the scum will either kill town, or kill me --- so at dawn: 4-2-0 - looks good for town 3-2-1 - scum still have a chance Poisoning you was the insurance policy. If IS had not gotten lynched, I would have met my wincon despite being dead, and still would have won. If I had still been alive, I would have sided with IS and you on lynching town, leaving it 2-1-1 -- I would have met my wincon, IS would have NK'd town, and scum would have won. So scum lost because a) you killed me, b) IS went awol. I think Bill was the best player by far this game, though. Thanks Bill, I'm really sad you didn't win because town wouldn't have won without you. Thanks
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 15:22:30 GMT -5
Makes sense I guess, but the problem was, it wasn't hard to work out that you were lying about your wincon, even before I saw it. I thought that you'd want either one side or the other to WIN the game, not just to get to LYLO; and you'd made your preference clear.
The moment I saw your wincon, I thought you'd poison a townie to take it to 3-2. Didn't expect to end up dead today!
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Post by Holy Moley! on Nov 12, 2011 16:43:00 GMT -5
I miss some of the older players. I miss ROOSH. And maybe Storyteller a little bit... although I expect Bill is probably glad he wasn't in this game. As am I... I think we compliment each other perfectly, but I'd hate to be on the team that had to beat him! Bill, how many third-parties have you played now? I've played something like thirty-odd full-length forum mafia games, and I've yet to play a single one...
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Post by sinjin on Nov 12, 2011 17:18:11 GMT -5
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Post by Pollux Oil on Nov 12, 2011 17:19:33 GMT -5
I miss some of the older players. I miss ROOSH. And maybe Storyteller a little bit... although I expect Bill is probably glad he wasn't in this game. As am I... I think we compliment each other perfectly, but I'd hate to be on the team that had to beat him! Roosh is in med school, if it was possible for me to drag him back to play a mafia game I would, but he's up to his ears in applications for residency and stuff. We've managed to get together once in the past two years, that's how busy he's gotten. I was looking through some of the old games: Storyteller, NAF, Kat, Rysto, Nanook, BLAM!, bufftabby, KidV, mhaye, Cookies. I mean, I guess I've been out for a while too, but yeah. Sniff. I miss everyone.
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Post by LightFoot on Nov 12, 2011 17:59:00 GMT -5
hesus on a crutch. How many times did I type " I f I knew who Scum were I'd be one" I was told Scum Knew they had to find me ( and I existed) PLEASE can I have some insight tot he line of thought ? I really thought Bill was Scum and I bailed on his lynch so Scum could win ( since the bugger poisoned me) Can someone tell me what I missed?
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Post by special on Nov 12, 2011 18:17:08 GMT -5
No one played as poorly as I did. And yes, thanks to Bill we pulled this one out. I liked his won condition. Well thought out.
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