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Post by storyteller0910 on Jul 3, 2014 12:02:32 GMT -5
Dark Souls
Chapter 1: Night – Inside the Tower The first day is calm enough – not quiet but not yet noisy – and the consensus reached early is never abandoned. They lead abstain, in spite of his soft and mild protests, to the door of the great tower and urge him through it. He descends slowly into the basement, increasingly worried in spite of his confidence.
"Good luck!" cries the wide-eyed ghoul, who has followed. "Nee hee hee hee hee! No lizard or goat down there, to be sure. Just a gentleman. Not a talkative sort, I’m afraid… but hospitable in his way."
Abstain reaches the bottom of the stair and glances around. The basement appears to be a simple, empty, circular room. A handful of torches light part of it, but shadows rule. There is no furniture, nor a helpful storage chest, to be found anywhere.
Just as abstain considers mounting the stairs to rejoin the lynch party, he hears a sound not unlike a giant metal foot crashing down on stone. It’s well that the sound is not unlike such a thing, of course, because its source is a giant metal foot, crashing down on the stone floor. The foot is followed by a leg, and shortly thereafter a torso: a man – perhaps? – not quite a giant, but eight feet tall, wearing armor so vast and heavy that abstain grows weary just looking at it. In his left hand is a shield larger than the door of a sturdy house; in his right, a steel hammer of sorts.
Calling upon his considerable agility and training, abstain sidesteps and prepares to roll away from the inevitable attack. He is mildly inconvenienced in the attempt when the gigantic hammer caves in his skull, killing him instantly.
Needless to say, when abstain returns to the others at the bonfire that evening, he is very put out.Abstain has now been HOLLOWED.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night One begins here, and will end on SATURDAY, JULY 5 at 12:30PM Eastern time. Please submit all Night actions before this time.
REMINDER: Please continue to copy both texcat and lightfoot (co-moderating this game) on all game-related correspondence, especially including any soapstone messages you decide to send to another player.
Have fun!
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Post by guiri on Jul 3, 2014 12:22:15 GMT -5
Farewell abstain's brains!
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Post by ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies on Jul 3, 2014 12:44:40 GMT -5
I have not had to think in terms of East Coast time for many moons Apologies.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 3, 2014 13:23:14 GMT -5
Remember, it is first come, first serve on Mahaloth's Night Kill sale! For one soul, you can tell Mahaloth who you intend to kill and get half of their miracles or sorceries!
My shop is open for all other business as well, so get your bids in. Here again is my inventory. You can buy something if it is a Night Power, still use it toNight.
MIRACLES:
Tranquil Walk of Peace (M) – Use this miracle by Day; for the Night immediately following, no player is permitted to use any miracles regardless of its purpose. Can be used only once in the game.
Replenishment (M) – Use this miracle by Night and select a target; that player will be restored to Humanity if Hollow, and any broken/exhausted items will be repaired/recharged. Costs one soul to use, and can be used only once in the game.
Burning Eye (M) – Use this miracle by Day or Night to identify the author of any one orange soapstone message.
Emit Force (M) – Use this miracle by Night to role-block a single player of your choice. Can be used an unlimited number of times, and does not cost any souls to use.
Soothing Sunlight (M) – Use this miracle by Night to provide a very specific kind of protection to a single Human target: namely, the target will be Hollow, but not dead, when the Night ends (no matter what other attacks or abilities are used on that target – even attacks that normally penetrate miracle-based protection will not permanently kill a player under the protection of Soothing Sunlight). Can be used only once in the game, but costs no souls to use.
SORCERIES:
Hush (S) – Use this sorcery by Day; for the Night immediately following, no player is permitted to use any sorcery regardless of its purpose. Can be used only once in the game.
Soul Forge (S) – Use this sorcery by Day or Night to create a single soul to be used for barter or to power items. Can be used to create a maximum of two souls.
Aural Decoy (S) – Use this sorcery by Night to redirect any abilities aimed at a first target onto a second (either target may be the caster). Costs one soul to use.
Soul Arrow (S) – Use this miracle by Night to attack and hollow one (Human) target of your choice. This attack will penetrate protection from Armor or Weapons, but has no effect on a player who is already Hollow. Costs one soul to use.
Magic Shield (S) – Use this miracle by Night to protect one target from hostile attacks. Ineffective against attacks that penetrate protection by sorceries. Costs one soul to use.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 3, 2014 13:23:54 GMT -5
And all purchases and inquiries are private! Even 1 soul gets you in!
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Post by peekercpa on Jul 3, 2014 14:35:03 GMT -5
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Post by sinjin on Jul 3, 2014 15:26:34 GMT -5
For your entertainment: I am waiting for the eye of Arthur to pass by. So far lots'o'rain and some gusty behaviour. We are about an hour south of Wilmington, NC, on Oak Island, NC in case you want to play along The house is on pilings and we are rocking and rolling
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Post by Chronos on Jul 3, 2014 15:32:19 GMT -5
I understand what Suburban Plankton was saying about it looking like abstain was trying to get lynched... But my problem with that is that if there is such a role, what is Town supposed to do with them? If someone's a threat, then we lynch them. If someone is a threat who benefits from being lynched, then... What? In response to bufftabby's points against me: I will not punish fellow mason(s) for anti-Town behavior, because I do not intend to punish Town, and I know that they are Town. I punish anti-Town behavior in others because I believe it is an indicator of anti-Town alignment. It's too bad that you don't see any Townishness in me, but I am playing the way I always play as Town, attempting to hunt our enemies to the best of my ability, and I intend to continue doing so. And I can't really make any response to your disbelief in masons without their own board, because that's the role I have, and I didn't choose anything about how it's set up: If you want to know why it's that way, you'd have to ask Storyteller. Though I will point out that, if I were making up the role myself, I could have included a Mason board just as easily as omit it. Mahaloth, I think you need to make it clear in your tracking offer which way the rounding goes on the "50%". I suspect that most of us are capable of using two item-types, and start the game with one item of each usable type. That would mean that most of us have only one miracle or sorcery... What's half of one? Do you keep the item in that case, or does your customer? It would seem rather a bum deal to pay a soul and get nothing for it. Actually, it looks like people are risking that anyway, since you might not track their intended victim.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 3, 2014 16:46:04 GMT -5
If the individual killed only has one item, I will give it to the purchaser instead of keeping it for the store. We at Mahaloth's Shop of Sorceries and Miracles put the customer first.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 3, 2014 16:51:52 GMT -5
:commercial: Ever want to add another power to your capability? How about role-blocking? That's right, I am selling a miracle that can be REUSED OVER AND OVER AT NO EXTRA COST. Yep, if you make me an offer, I'll sell you Emit Force, which allows you to role-block over and over and you do not have to pay each time you use it. One time purchase means you get the power for the rest of the game(as long as you remain among the mostly living).
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Post by Chronos on Jul 3, 2014 17:48:21 GMT -5
Huh, really, you haven't had any offers on that one yet? I would have thought that was the most valuable of your inventory, if only because of its reusability. Then again, I also have a higher opinion of the value of role-blocking than most players: I believe it's comparable in value to the Doctor.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 3, 2014 19:14:36 GMT -5
Huh, really, you haven't had any offers on that one yet? I would have thought that was the most valuable of your inventory, if only because of its reusability. Then again, I also have a higher opinion of the value of role-blocking than most players: I believe it's comparable in value to the Doctor. I didn't say I didn't have any offers on it. I'm just pointing it out to folks so they know to make a bid.
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Post by abstain on Jul 3, 2014 20:49:40 GMT -5
Hahahaha, it took me a fair while to beat Havel. One hit kills are painful.
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Post by storyteller0910 on Jul 3, 2014 21:36:10 GMT -5
Hahahaha, it took me a fair while to beat Havel. One hit kills are painful. OOG/ I can't wait to write the color for the Capra Demon. Seriously, screw that guy.
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Post by storyteller0910 on Jul 3, 2014 21:59:27 GMT -5
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT GAME MECHANISMS:
Without reference to any particular role or player: the existence of soapstones makes it possible for individual players to strike any number of different kinds of deals - trading items for other items, items for souls, or even items/souls for specific services. I need to emphasize that such deals are:
1. Not an official game mechanism. If I agree via soapstone conversation to send texcat a soul in exchange for her Coat of Many Colors, that's fine and dandy, but the moderators won't make that happen for us; I have to PM the moderators saying I'm sending texcat a soul, and texcat has to separately PM the moderators to say she is sending me her Coat of Many Colors. texcat and I needn't ever have a formal soapstone-PM in which we agree on the deal.
2. Not enforceable by moderator. If I send texcat the soul and she just doesn't send me back the Coat, I am out of luck and will have to find my own ways of handling the situation.
3. Not instantaneous. ALL exchanges of items (including souls) happen ONLY at Dawn or Dusk, respectively, of the Night or Day on which they are ordered. So if texcat and I agree on the trade above, and each separately send our PMs to the moderators during Night One, she gets her soul and I get my coat at Dawn of Day Two.
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Post by abstain on Jul 4, 2014 2:28:52 GMT -5
Hahahaha, it took me a fair while to beat Havel. One hit kills are painful. OOG/ I can't wait to write the color for the Capra Demon. Seriously, screw that guy.I couldn't beat him first playthrough, I had to throw firebombs over the wall. Ng+ and another run through, beat him first time. Experience definitely helped.
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Post by BillMc on Jul 4, 2014 10:47:55 GMT -5
Bleh - sorry folks, this week has been manic with the canucks off mon+tue and most of the US out thu+fri, it's been down to us noble Brits to hold the global fort (whoopie!)
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Post by Meeko on Jul 4, 2014 10:58:14 GMT -5
Bleh - sorry folks, this week has been manic with the canucks off mon+tue and most of the US out thu+fri, it's been down to us noble Brits to hold the global fort (whoopie!) Hosting the "loser party" ? ;-)
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Post by storyteller0910 on Jul 4, 2014 11:12:13 GMT -5
Bleh - sorry folks, this week has been manic with the canucks off mon+tue and most of the US out thu+fri, it's been down to us noble Brits to hold the global fort (whoopie!) Hosting the "loser party" ? ;-) Too soon.
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Post by Chronos on Jul 4, 2014 12:31:21 GMT -5
I've heard of Brits celebrating July 4 as "Good Riddance Day". I've also been to 4th of July parties where I was the only American in attendance, out of about ten guests.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 4, 2014 12:38:42 GMT -5
4th of July weekend sale!
Bid 2 souls on any* miracle or sorcery and it is yours! First come first serve!
And for just 1 soul, tell me who you are killing and I'll give you either their only miracles/sorceries or their only one if that is all they have. Great deal!!
*not including Emit Force
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Post by nesta on Jul 4, 2014 12:43:29 GMT -5
Hosting the "loser party" ? ;-) Too soon.OK, this made me LOL. I'm off to blow shit up in celebration of shrugging off the oppression of our seemingly indifferent rulers. (And why is the default smiley face some bouncing bunny on this board?)
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Post by Chronos on Jul 4, 2014 14:41:11 GMT -5
OK, I've finally finished catching up on my patented game notes. I find that they're not just useful for later reference and for catching up players, but I also tend to notice things while I'm writing them that I didn't notice on first read-through. For instance, I find that swammerdami's views on me vs. abstain seem to have evolved interestingly over the course of the Day: In reply 53, he suggests that we interrogate abstainIn 71, he says that the role seems likely to be anti-Town, and that he'll move his vote if there's no explanation. In 98, he says that he doesn't have a Scum read on either of us, but that I have a good point that abstain appears to be anti-Town. By 131, abstain has become one of the two people he thinks least likely to be hostile, and he's leaning Scum on me because of my "bad vote" (which he had earlier said was a "good point"). He also offers abstain advice on how to get unvotes, and says he'll probably move his vote to save him (wouldn't it make more sense to wait for abstain to actually take that advice?), in place of his earlier threat that he'll vote against abstain if he doesn't offer details (which at this point he still hasn't). In 142 he continues to think abstain isn't a good lynch, but now doesn't think I am either because of my Mason claim. Though he does remain suspicious of me in 179. In 181, abstain agrees to swammer's offer, and says that he'll PM him his secrets. In 187, swammer recaps what abstain has said publicly about his role, and says that he believes this role is most likely Town (in contrast to his earlier statement that it's most likely not), and goes so far as to say that he's suspicious of anyone still voting abstain, based on him having a so-obviously-Town role. He makes no indication here that he's actually gotten any new information from abstain, and even if he has, why would he hold others accountable who have not? Now, I think that both I and abstain stayed pretty consistent throughout the Day yesterDay. Why this complete reversal of position from swammer? And have you actually gotten that PM of more details from abstain? On another note, gnarliecharlie, in post 50, you said that you thought it was obvious that abstain was 3rd party, and that his claim makes sense in light of this. But abstain later claims to be Town, specifically not 3rd party. If you're correct about him, this means he's lying. Is your opinion of him changed in light of this? Oh, one other point: When I quoted my PM, I said that I had one soapstone. That was true at the start of the game, but I have used that stone for business with Mahaloth. I can say that so far as I can tell, he does appear to be dealing fairly... but it means that I'm now completely out of soulstones. If there's someone in the game with, like, a dozen of them to burn, I could really use just one more.
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Post by Chronos on Jul 4, 2014 14:47:15 GMT -5
Bah, I mean that I'm out of soapstones, not soulstones. I've been playing too much Diablo.
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Post by swammerdami on Jul 4, 2014 18:06:45 GMT -5
Chronos, you are correct that my views on Abstain evolved. ... And not due to any particular new evidence, but just due to my continued and clearer thinking. I've always been a slow thinker -- give me credit for willingness to change my mind! In my most recent post I laid out my reasons for strongly thinking Abstain is Town. If his claim is true, then he has a role which game designer is most likely to give only to Town. If instead he made a false claim Day 1, he made a most unusual play. If Scum (or even 3rd Party) makes an early unforced false claim, they should tell a lie which will greatly help their team. I don't see Abstain's claim as fitting that mold. I do think that if a Town bothers to claim at all, they should provide enough details to enlighten rather than confuse. Thus, although I think he's Town, I think Abstain did not follow through in a pro-Town fashion. Perhaps he has a role where being Hollowed isn't bad for him. I also have you as probable Town now, Chronos. In a game with a special PM'ing mechanism, it certainly seems quite plausible that the Masons would have to spend their soapstones even to talk to each other. Plankton and Colby are also only weak suspects. ToMorrow I'll be looking for the recent arrivals (Bill, Hal, etc.) to participate. Bah, I mean that I'm out of soapstones, not soulstones. I've been playing too much Diablo. I admitted earlier that I have several soapstones. With Mahaloth making money selling his cheap magic gimmicks; I thought of opening Swammi's Messenger Service, but just to help Town: I wouldn't want to sell soapstones or messages in exchange for souls, gimmicks (or promises of sexual gratification). Information can be worth much more than magic gimmicks. For example, suppose four players (one of whom is me) all trust each other. We could tell each other everything we wanted to if I spend three soapstones, and each of the others spends but a single soapstone. Such a trusted circle could even set up a code to communicate without spending soapstones in future. (e.g., mentioning a player in the same sentence as "smell" means suspect/investigate that player.) Of course players wouldn't want to reveal everything even to players they tentatively trust. But some information should be given, for example the number of soapstones a player possesses is important just to understand whether future communication is practical. I could also simply give soapstones away to Townies (especially if recipient promises to use them to send a message to me!) But, although still well above zero, my supply of soapstones is limited. I'm sure the Masons are unwilling to trust me enough to use Swammi's Messenger Service. But I may eventually give a no-strings-attached soapstone or two to any desperate Townie that I strongly trust. Just follow my advice and use the initial PM to set up a code so future communication won't require soapstones. One reason I didn't advertise "Swammi's Messenger Service" is that it could be abused. If I promised to relay any message, a hostile party could send a useless message and force me to waste a soapstone. I will promise to respond with information to any message I receive from someone I think is very likely Town but only if the message contains a non-trivial amount of useful information. And I'll promise to keep information confidential unless the sender gives me discretion. For that reason I won't comment on whether Abstain and I exchanged any PM's.
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Post by abstain on Jul 4, 2014 19:30:59 GMT -5
Swammer is the most cautious scum I've ever seen. For him to change his mind on me, when I was a pretty easy lynch, may not necessarily be something he would do.
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Post by Mahaloth on Jul 4, 2014 22:38:55 GMT -5
Remember, you can always pool together souls to purchase miracles and sorceries! You have to pick who the item goes to, but still!
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Post by patricia on Jul 4, 2014 23:18:41 GMT -5
as I wipe egg off my face for my error yesterday - I should have way more time to play starting Monday!
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Post by Chameleon on Jul 5, 2014 2:30:55 GMT -5
Swammer - I assume you are not saying that you are the other member of the merchant guild with Maha, correct? You've just decided to use your abundance of soapstones to gather information (hopefully for Town, but who knows at this point)? We still haven't heard from the other merchant. It makes me curious to know if he or she is selling the same things. I'm not sure how they would have much of a chance of winning without going public. Although I can see some significant problems with going public as well.
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Post by Chronos on Jul 5, 2014 10:12:59 GMT -5
We also haven't seen an orange soap from them (or anyone). Actually, I'm a bit surprised by that: I would have thought someone or other would have been tempted to push the big red button just for the heck of it: Taunting from one of the enemy factions, advertising from a merchant (Mahaloth or otherwise), "See Rock City", something.
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