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Knights of Arcadia Phalla: Endgame
Munkus Beaver
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WELCOME TO THE REALM
Arcadia Welcomes You
Arcadia Welcomes You
Welcome all to the game of Phalla! I shall be your host, [strike]Munkus Beaver[/strike] The Acquaintance.
I assure you, I have your best interests at heart.
[strike]I am the Anchor of Truth, I have been reduced to spectator. Defeat the Little Demon! I implore you! You must-
Do not trust his lies.
[/strike][strike]Little Demon, what machinations are these?
A bold move, Little Demon.
[/strike]Now now you two, let's not bicker in front of the children, what will they think of us?
WHAT IS [strike]PHALLA?[/strike] THE GAME?
[strike]
Phalla is a pyschological game where an informed minority (The Mafia) attempt to defeat an uninformed majority (The Village). The keys to the game are misinformation, lying, and determining when others are doing the same. The flip side is that telling the truth can be a powerful weapon, Mafia members who are well known for playing their roles straight are often less likely to be killed or found out.
Posting habits, voting habits, who you ally yourself with, all of these things go into play when determining who to trust and who to vote to die.
Ah yes, the mechanics. At the most simple form, the game is where the Village votes on who to kill each night, hoping to secure a mafia member in their net. Likewise, Mafia members chose who they want to kill each night. Mafia members can also vote in the Village, so a crafty and manipulative Mafia will use the villager to meet their own agenda.[/strike]
The game is all about manipulation.
In order to determine whether this country is 'worthy,' you must find the deceivers in your midst and oust them from your group.
Will the Truth win or shall the Liars succeed?
At least my pawns know their role.
And soon....I will be able to join the game in earnest
Despite your feelings toward me, you cannot be rid of me. For better or worse, you and I are in it until the end.
SO WHAT'S THE THEME OF THIS PHALLA? HARRY POTTER? MY LITTLE PONY? ANIME BOY JUNKIES 4?
None of the sort. It's a generic sort of fantasy world built exclusively for this game. You are all citizens of Arcadia, a country within the sphere of influence of magic, elves, dwarves, and demons known as The Realm. The Realm is currently ruled by descendent's of the Pendragon family, you are all various subjects of The Realm, each with their own unique backstory and motivations.
That's right, the important thing to note about this game is that THERE IS NO 'GENERIC' VILLAGER ROLE. You all get named roles to play. The 'special' roles have been determined using an RNG, they are already in place before you choose. People 'lucky' enough to be a 'special' will be informed of their true identity via PM.
The enemies you will be facing are all working to further the interests of The Enemy of Truth. The Enemy of Truth is, of course, [strike]a lying and evil man[/strike] Fear, so he may not have their best interests at heart.
HOW TO PLAY
Tell the truth to get ahead, lie to avoid death, manipulate and revel in your machinations.
!vote Patsy to put a vote for Patsy to die.
!vote Patsy to retract your old vote for Patsy.
The person with the most votes will find comfort that they will not suffer for much longer.
VOTING ENDS AT
10 PM CST on Thursday. 9 PM CST on Friday. 6 PM CST on Saturday. Then back to 10 PM on Sunday and so on. I have obligations, you see.
SPECIAL ACTIONS ARE DUE ONE HOUR BEFORE VOTING ENDS EACH NIGHT. These narrations taking a fucking long time to craft, so this is necessary to get started early.
INACTIVITY
You won't hurt my feelings by being inactive, will you? The absolute, BARE MINIMUM is two posts per game night. Furthermore, YOU MUST VOTE EVERY DAY I encourage you to have as much fun as you possible can. I know I will.
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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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This list will be updated as the game goes on.
The original thread has descriptions for all of the characters. It can be found here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=142061
Infected.
Dead.
Dead hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Bad Dead
Good Dead
Booted for being an inactive fuck
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Day 1: He is Kind
End of Day 1: Oh, But Angering That Sap Could Be A Terrible Mistake
End of Day 2: A Good Vintage Gone to Waste
End of Day 3: Death's Dignitary
End of Day 4: The Truth Shall Set You Free
End of Day 5: Surely Osa Had a Hand In This
End of Day 6: A Fault of Skill, Not Stars
End of Day 7: Oh Osa, Where Art Thou?
End of Day 8: No, You Do Not Get to Do That
End of Day 9: Last Chances
End of Day 10: Heroes are Hard to Come By
End of Days
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
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EDIT: If there are no reserves to replace the inactives by the end of tonight, they will simply die.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
they were dropping like flies in the elementalist phalla too
Also hello Arcadia!
I know one thing... there are few enough people now that we will not prevail against our accursed host and the demons that are helping him with blind votes.
Hopefully I can help with this...
Voting Histories
Accidentally forgot to include BFL's vote for Redfenix.
the only thing that would make that better is if we had a time of vote, which would be the most tedious thing to keep track of.
It is generally in order of who voted first, not counting retracted votes.
Then again, I also didn't find Lawinator's justification for his bold post for everyone to retract their votes from AMP'd sufficient to allay suspicion. Perhaps he was being manipulated, but I find it easier to believe he was working with AMP'd.
T4CT immediately changed his vote from AMP'd but it is clear now he was innocent.
As of yet, though, my suspected demons seem to be:
Spoit
Lawinator
I assume if I am right then I am painting a target upon me. But if I am killed, then that confirms my suspicions.
Edit: Oh right, it's been a long morning reading the thread again. I guess I overlooked the plagues.
I'm not sure about voting for The Acquaintance. Maybe it's the right thing to do, but it says in the OP "In order to determine whether this country is 'worthy,' you must find the deceivers in your midst and oust them from your group." I don't really consider The Acquaintance to be in our group, and I'm not sure if it's even possible to vote him out.
If we kill the demons, then I know where my final vote shall be going.
I'm making the case not to vote for me, sure, because I'm not mafia. But both mafia and villagers would do that and no one else has caught flack for simply defending themselves.
360/PS3 - JCofDI | Steam
Begging for life and only citing human nature is only grating and gives us no reason to let you live in place of some random other.
So far, last minute please have been all pathos and no logos.
One could argue that it's the villager's duty to protest their death, lest they be blamed in the postgame for putting the vote to waste and, ironically, not being vocal enough.
Incidentally JC if you do turn out to be evil I'll punch you in the face. To death.
Actually that's a lie, I'd hire someone else to do it. Weak bones, you see.
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Plus, Thaddeus Kolinski is awfully close to Ted Kaczynski, and that's logic you can take to the bank.
he's in the news all the time these days it seems. What is this, two decades ago?
i'm old, all my references are 2 decades old =(
i haven't seen these references you speak, i thought it was clever =(
edit: not around here neth, just, he's been talked about on NPR the past few weeks on and off for a few different things
That was my initial stance. Then some people got uppity that I wasn't throwing other people under the bus and cited it as even more suspicious.
360/PS3 - JCofDI | Steam
suspicious of your lack of suspicion?! BRILLIANT!
The problem with defending yourself is if you are a special (good or bad) and defend yourself too vigorously then you'll die to the bad specials who know you aren't one of them thinking you are suspicious, or you die to the village who thinks you are being super suspicious being so defensive. So then instead you take Uriel's stance and just give up, making you also suspicious.
Clearly you need to out yourself by doing the super secret village handshake. if you don't know it, you must be a baddie.
360/PS3 - JCofDI | Steam
People then just went along with it from there.
The current player list appears to be
2. Trinn Asper - neth
3.Basil Blackpepper - Centipede Damascus
4. Jon Racewether - Marth
5. Denton Royce - TrippyJing
6. Joaseph DuPont - Wiet
7. Monk Ursa - Neli
8. Mirdyn Paval - Dys
9. Kristen Dermott - Taya
10. : Damon "Hack" Hammond - Butler For Life #1
11. Dibby Smeltblower - Melding
12. Lans Kartarken - Seriously
13. Hogarth DePalma - redfenix
14. Dolcasta Vimes - Edcrab
15. Sandra Torrance - Langly
16. Majist Kendrick - ZeroFill
17. Nolan Tonner - JC of DI
18. Son Heimlech - I Win Swordfights
19. Carey Garrahan - HeavyVillain
20. Kendrick Mcmeekin - A duck!
21. Thaddeus Kolinski - Uriel
22. Bryon Ramis - MacGuffin
23. Jeffry Bemiss - SLyM
24. Armand Calicutt - Nirya
25. Roman Rohrich - Wandering Hero
26. Noah Lundblad - Sal
27. Jackson Delbridge - Hullis
28. Randall Stephens - NinjaSquirrel
Of that, Hullis and Ninja Squirrel are currently infected. That leaves 26 people, of which I think we know there are four demons among them.
I feel like some names on that list are just not posting very frequently (from reading the old thread). They could easily be a demon but simply aren't drawing suspicion by not openly participating very much.
Edited: because I am try the cross reference the OP and Night Seven a getting a little confused.
I rest my case.
Hrm... this is confusing.
Night Seven says
But the OP states that Ninja Squirrel is dead and Hullis and Solar is plagued.
Gonna go by the narration post and assume Hullis and Ninja Squirrel are plagued currently. Editing my previous post to reflect this.