I can't believe the first guy I befriended was the village seer. Would've been a real lucky break except for the whole roleblock and him revealing himself thing.
Oh well at least I did one thing right when I guarded Caulk.
You are...
Applejack! You're the hardworking, loyal and tenacious pony of Ponyville. In fact, you pretty much run your Apple family's farm - Apple Orchard Acres - all by yourself! Your tenacity and loyalty goes so far that you would stand in the way of any danger to save your friends or anypony else.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
Bedlam on
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I'm just glad I didn't fully trust SNT.
Probably could have done things differently, like not reveal so early. But what the hey. I had fun.
AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
Role PMs:
1-6:
1) Twilight Sparkle: messenger w/ Spike
You are...
Twilight Sparkle! You're Princess Celestia's favourite student, a natural talent at magic, and the quickly growing social heart of Ponyville. Unfortunately, the magic dead zone on top of Ponyville is preventing you from directly helping out with the crisis at hand, but you can bring your friends together and get the job done!
Ability: Once per night, you can use your pet dragon Spike to send a message to another player through myself as host. That player will not be told who you are, but will be told the message came from Twilight Sparkle.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
2) Rarity: roleblocker
You are...
Rarity! You're the fashionista of Ponyville, a dramatic but loyal and caring pony. Despite the magic dead zone over Ponyville, you have more talents to help out than the minor magics you know as a unicorn. Specifically, you are very good at whining and getting your way when others would get in your way.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. That player is roleblocked (any actions they take that night do not happen.)
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
3) Pinkie Pie: action seer
You are...
Pinkie Pie! You're the fun-loving heart of the party in Ponyville. Your life's work is to bring laughter, light, and friendship to everyone's lives. Oddly enough, this includes an aptitude for comedic stealth: hiding in a box while you sneak up behind someone or by wearing a fake moustache and giant glasses as a disguise.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will learn any actions that player took, and the targets of those actions, but not the result.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
4) Applejack: guard
You are...
Applejack! You're the hardworking, loyal and tenacious pony of Ponyville. In fact, you pretty much run your Apple family's farm - Apple Orchard Acres - all by yourself! Your tenacity and loyalty goes so far that you would stand in the way of any danger to save your friends or anypony else.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
5) Fluttershy: seer
You are...
Fluttershy! You're so shy, you've sometimes scared yourself with your own voice! However, you're also a very caring pony, who makes sure that all of Ponyville's local wildlife is safe, happy, and healthy. Shyness isn't all bad - in your case, it stems from an intense sensitivty towards others' motivations and moods.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will discover the name of that person's role.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
6) Rainbow Dash: vig
You are...
Rainbow Dash! You're the flying, soaring, speeding wonder in Ponyville's skies. While you're actually responsible for keeping the weather cooperating, you have big ambitions for a place on Equestria's flying team, the Wonderbolts. Still, you love your friends more than anything else, and you'd fight to the last to defend any of them.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
Mafia PM (7-13):
You are...
the Mafia! Specifically, you are a bunch of terrible monsters from the Everfree Forest wreaking havoc in a Ponyville helpless to defend against you due to the magic dead zone. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Win Condition: To outlast and outnumber the ponies of Ponyville (the village.)
Abilities: Each night, choose four members of the mafia to use each of the following abilities. Each ability may only be used once each night, and each member may only use a single ability each night.
Knockout: You may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
[iKnockout:[/i] You may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
Distract: You may choose another player. That player is roleblocked (any actions they take that night do not happen.)
Encircle: You may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
The monsters you are are: A dragon (Tmoiy), a manticore (Spoit), a hydra (Shiny New Toys), an Ursa Minor (SlyM), some Parasprites (kuhlmeye), a Diamond Dog (Lucedes), and a cockatrice (Capfalcon).
You have seven cover roles. These ponies do not otherwise exist in the game: Carrot Top, Bon-Bon, Daisy, Derpy Hooves, Granny Smith, Davenport, and Apple Bloom.
And the rest (14-20):
7) Scootaloo
You are...
Scootaloo! You're one of the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, adorable little ponies who haven't grown up and found their passions yet. That's okay, but it means you don't have much to contribute right now.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
12) Cherilee
You are...
Cherilee! You're the teacher responsible for the young ponies of Ponyville. Between your calm and happy classroom and the always-enjoyable class trips, you bring up the ponies of tomorrow really quite well. Unfortunately, teaching doesn't help much when a monster is about to eat you.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
20) Zecora
You are...
Zecora! You're the strange zebra everypony in Ponyville thought was a spooky monster. Luckily with time and patience and assistance from the young pony Apple Bloom, they learned to trust you. Unfortunately, the dead magic zone over Ponyville has spread to your hut in the Everfree Forest, and you can't do much to help out the ponies of Ponyville directly!
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
17) DJ Pon-3
You are...
DJ Pon-3! You're the hipping, hopping, non-stopping disk jockey for all events in Ponyville. While you can lay down a good soundtrack and some monster beats, your music isn't going to help with the monsters at hand...
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
8) Sweetie Bell
You are...
Sweetie Belle! You're one of the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, adorable little ponies who haven't grown up and found their passions yet. That's okay, but it means you don't have much to contribute right now.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
16) Lyra
You are...
Lyra! You're an excitable, friendly pony. So friendly in fact, that you're best friends with Bon-Bon, another pony. Unfortunately, you don't have any real skills to contribute to the effort against the monsters.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
10) Big Mac
You are...
Big McIntosh! You're Applejack's big brother, a tall, stocky pony who can pull a load for ages and push down hundreds of trees of apples! Unfortunately, you exerted yourself a bit too hard awhile back and now you're unable to push around these monsters from the Everfree Forest.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
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From my correspondence with bedlam:
"Matev is Rainbow Dash.
I've been his targeting system since day two. as in, since we have little actual networking, I like to think of it as Pinkie having nuclear launch codes and just throwing random numbers into the targeting computer"
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In retrospect, probably should have picked up on the whole "matev confirmed himself to the network" + "caulk admitting that the role block worked" + "there's no way in hell there are 2 reverse seers"
I dont get it then. You got two kills but only one person died each night? And then one night no one died from mafia?
Well, the first night magic happened that got rid of our extra kill. Then, the night where there was no kills, magic happened that kept us from killing anyone.
In retrospect, probably should have picked up on the whole "matev confirmed himself to the network" + "caulk admitting that the role block worked" + "there's no way in hell there are 2 reverse seers"
Yeah I figured there was no way to answer your question without making it completely obvious who Matev was.
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In retrospect, probably should have picked up on the whole "matev confirmed himself to the network" + "caulk admitting that the role block worked" + "there's no way in hell there are 2 reverse seers"
Yeah I figured there was no way to answer your question without making it completely obvious who Matev was.
In retrospect, probably should have picked up on the whole "matev confirmed himself to the network" + "caulk admitting that the role block worked" + "there's no way in hell there are 2 reverse seers"
Yeah I figured there was no way to answer your question without making it completely obvious who Matev was.
Which question?
Oh, nevermind. That was Tmoiy asking how Matev had been confirmed. But yeah.
Big thing I'm a little disappointed in is that the Host deliberately misled us on a kind of major point.
There's no generic villager (too many fun characters for that)
There's nothing misleading about that. It means exactly what it says: there is no generic villager. Doesn't mean there can't be villagers with different names and fluff.
Big thing I'm a little disappointed in is that the Host deliberately misled us on a kind of major point.
There's no generic villager (too many fun characters for that)
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There's nothing misleading about that. It means exactly what it says: there is no generic villager. Doesn't mean there can't be villagers with different names and fluff.
Yeah, I clarified that in private with rivs since asking that in public would be a clear give away that I was mafia
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Big thing I'm a little disappointed in is that the Host deliberately misled us on a kind of major point.
There's no generic villager (too many fun characters for that)
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By that I meant there's no generic villager role, aka "pony of ponyville;" there were characters with no abilities and I would have answered that question clearly (and did to Spoit on the mafia boards.)
Heh I was 95% sure spoit was mafia when I got day 1'd.
How did you end up with 7 mafia? Thought up the roles for them first and forgot to adjust mafia to a 20% baseline?
Yep. I always forget what the number should be; that and all of my other games have had very powerful villages, so overshooting it was fine. I totally forgot to do the math and sim it, all my fault.
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Big thing I'm a little disappointed in is that the Host deliberately misled us on a kind of major point.
There's no generic villager (too many fun characters for that)
There's nothing misleading about that. It means exactly what it says: there is no generic villager. Doesn't mean there can't be villagers with different names and fluff.
Okay, this is only my second phalla, but to my mind, you just described a generic villager: someone with no ability beyond voting.
If I'm wrong in this, someone please tell me why.
Edit: nevermind. Just saw arivia's answer. Still seems hand-wavy, but whatever.
Big thing I'm a little disappointed in is that the Host deliberately misled us on a kind of major point.
There's no generic villager (too many fun characters for that)
There's nothing misleading about that. It means exactly what it says: there is no generic villager. Doesn't mean there can't be villagers with different names and fluff.
Okay, this is only my second phalla, but to my mind, you just described a generic villager: someone with no ability beyond voting.
If I'm wrong in this, someone please tell me why.
The statement means that everyone had unique fluff, if nothing else.
As I pointed out earlier, I was his targeting system.
I always hated that episode where Pinkie Pie could magically detect things with no clear reason and Twilight Sparkle (and the audience) were instructed to merely take it on faith.
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You are...
Applejack! You're the hardworking, loyal and tenacious pony of Ponyville. In fact, you pretty much run your Apple family's farm - Apple Orchard Acres - all by yourself! Your tenacity and loyalty goes so far that you would stand in the way of any danger to save your friends or anypony else.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
Probably could have done things differently, like not reveal so early. But what the hey. I had fun.
Just so you know, we started with two kills a night.
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1-6:
You are...
Twilight Sparkle! You're Princess Celestia's favourite student, a natural talent at magic, and the quickly growing social heart of Ponyville. Unfortunately, the magic dead zone on top of Ponyville is preventing you from directly helping out with the crisis at hand, but you can bring your friends together and get the job done!
Ability: Once per night, you can use your pet dragon Spike to send a message to another player through myself as host. That player will not be told who you are, but will be told the message came from Twilight Sparkle.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
2) Rarity: roleblocker
You are...
Rarity! You're the fashionista of Ponyville, a dramatic but loyal and caring pony. Despite the magic dead zone over Ponyville, you have more talents to help out than the minor magics you know as a unicorn. Specifically, you are very good at whining and getting your way when others would get in your way.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. That player is roleblocked (any actions they take that night do not happen.)
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
3) Pinkie Pie: action seer
You are...
Pinkie Pie! You're the fun-loving heart of the party in Ponyville. Your life's work is to bring laughter, light, and friendship to everyone's lives. Oddly enough, this includes an aptitude for comedic stealth: hiding in a box while you sneak up behind someone or by wearing a fake moustache and giant glasses as a disguise.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will learn any actions that player took, and the targets of those actions, but not the result.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
4) Applejack: guard
You are...
Applejack! You're the hardworking, loyal and tenacious pony of Ponyville. In fact, you pretty much run your Apple family's farm - Apple Orchard Acres - all by yourself! Your tenacity and loyalty goes so far that you would stand in the way of any danger to save your friends or anypony else.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
5) Fluttershy: seer
You are...
Fluttershy! You're so shy, you've sometimes scared yourself with your own voice! However, you're also a very caring pony, who makes sure that all of Ponyville's local wildlife is safe, happy, and healthy. Shyness isn't all bad - in your case, it stems from an intense sensitivty towards others' motivations and moods.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will discover the name of that person's role.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
6) Rainbow Dash: vig
You are...
Rainbow Dash! You're the flying, soaring, speeding wonder in Ponyville's skies. While you're actually responsible for keeping the weather cooperating, you have big ambitions for a place on Equestria's flying team, the Wonderbolts. Still, you love your friends more than anything else, and you'd fight to the last to defend any of them.
Ability: Once per night, you may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
Mafia PM (7-13):
the Mafia! Specifically, you are a bunch of terrible monsters from the Everfree Forest wreaking havoc in a Ponyville helpless to defend against you due to the magic dead zone. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Win Condition: To outlast and outnumber the ponies of Ponyville (the village.)
Abilities: Each night, choose four members of the mafia to use each of the following abilities. Each ability may only be used once each night, and each member may only use a single ability each night.
Knockout: You may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
[iKnockout:[/i] You may choose another player. You will knock that person out for the rest of the game.
Distract: You may choose another player. That player is roleblocked (any actions they take that night do not happen.)
Encircle: You may choose another player. You will guard that player from any attacks they may incur that night, without taking damage yourself.
The monsters you are are: A dragon (Tmoiy), a manticore (Spoit), a hydra (Shiny New Toys), an Ursa Minor (SlyM), some Parasprites (kuhlmeye), a Diamond Dog (Lucedes), and a cockatrice (Capfalcon).
You have seven cover roles. These ponies do not otherwise exist in the game: Carrot Top, Bon-Bon, Daisy, Derpy Hooves, Granny Smith, Davenport, and Apple Bloom.
And the rest (14-20):
You are...
Scootaloo! You're one of the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, adorable little ponies who haven't grown up and found their passions yet. That's okay, but it means you don't have much to contribute right now.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
12) Cherilee
You are...
Cherilee! You're the teacher responsible for the young ponies of Ponyville. Between your calm and happy classroom and the always-enjoyable class trips, you bring up the ponies of tomorrow really quite well. Unfortunately, teaching doesn't help much when a monster is about to eat you.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
20) Zecora
You are...
Zecora! You're the strange zebra everypony in Ponyville thought was a spooky monster. Luckily with time and patience and assistance from the young pony Apple Bloom, they learned to trust you. Unfortunately, the dead magic zone over Ponyville has spread to your hut in the Everfree Forest, and you can't do much to help out the ponies of Ponyville directly!
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
17) DJ Pon-3
You are...
DJ Pon-3! You're the hipping, hopping, non-stopping disk jockey for all events in Ponyville. While you can lay down a good soundtrack and some monster beats, your music isn't going to help with the monsters at hand...
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
8) Sweetie Bell
You are...
Sweetie Belle! You're one of the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, adorable little ponies who haven't grown up and found their passions yet. That's okay, but it means you don't have much to contribute right now.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
16) Lyra
You are...
Lyra! You're an excitable, friendly pony. So friendly in fact, that you're best friends with Bon-Bon, another pony. Unfortunately, you don't have any real skills to contribute to the effort against the monsters.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
10) Big Mac
You are...
Big McIntosh! You're Applejack's big brother, a tall, stocky pony who can pull a load for ages and push down hundreds of trees of apples! Unfortunately, you exerted yourself a bit too hard awhile back and now you're unable to push around these monsters from the Everfree Forest.
Ability: You don't have a special ability. But you can vote!
Win Condition: You win when all threats to Ponyville have been eliminated.
Yep. Twilight's sudden magic was basically my shim to make up for stuff. Hence it kicking in to give the village a second life.
So did our last kill get blocked "just cause?"
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"Matev is Rainbow Dash.
I've been his targeting system since day two. as in, since we have little actual networking, I like to think of it as Pinkie having nuclear launch codes and just throwing random numbers into the targeting computer"
Just to give the village one more chance at the proverbial apple, yep.
And for all of you wondering: Silas Brown is my boyfriend. That's why he appeared from nowhere :P
Jokes aside, I'm just disappointed that the vig had such bad aim. If they'd hit even one mafia it might've made a difference, but as it was...
Anti-Farangu?
@Bedlam: Basically I was waiving kills to give the village the briefest of a fighting chance.
Well, the first night magic happened that got rid of our extra kill. Then, the night where there was no kills, magic happened that kept us from killing anyone.
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We already had an anti farangu, but I can't remember who it was at the moment
That and the 7 mafia thing.
Which question?
Oh, nevermind. That was Tmoiy asking how Matev had been confirmed. But yeah.
7 mafia might actually have been balanced against 13 specials, even if some of them were minor specials like vote manip or something
By that I meant there's no generic villager role, aka "pony of ponyville;" there were characters with no abilities and I would have answered that question clearly (and did to Spoit on the mafia boards.)
How did you end up with 7 mafia? Thought up the roles for them first and forgot to adjust mafia to a 20% baseline?
Yep. I always forget what the number should be; that and all of my other games have had very powerful villages, so overshooting it was fine. I totally forgot to do the math and sim it, all my fault.
Okay, this is only my second phalla, but to my mind, you just described a generic villager: someone with no ability beyond voting.
If I'm wrong in this, someone please tell me why.
Edit: nevermind. Just saw arivia's answer. Still seems hand-wavy, but whatever.
Still a good game overall.
sorry guys, got a llittle a Rainboom happy there.
7 mafia!? Are you serious!? Ugh....
Here are the forums the (mini) network was working so you can see our fail from start to finish.
I always hated that episode where Pinkie Pie could magically detect things with no clear reason and Twilight Sparkle (and the audience) were instructed to merely take it on faith.
I am now vindicated.
that would be ridiculous