[Phalla] Ad Astra Per Phalla: Finale - Humanity Enslaved

Elki

Awesome game.

tuxkamen

giltanis wrote: »

I like the post postmortem explanations Tux. It was kinda weird not only this being my first Phalla but starting late too. Its crazy how close we were to not losing though.

I felt like the guilds didn't quite work though. It would have been better I think if they had either been larger and/or had some power to use through out the game or some ability to decide whom among them was evil. Then I feel like the private guild discussions would have focused on that stuff and less on pre-picking who to bandwagon in the main thread like seemed to happen a couple of times.

That said it was a lot of fun and the narrations were really good...I especially liked when you started to incorporate the deaths more.

EDIT: How often do new Phallas start btw?
EDIT of Edit: Typo

Ooh, I don't know about larger than they already were, considering what happened as far as pack voting. That's not interesting to the people who actually want to vote on their own intuitions. Smaller, if anything, but I also didn't want to have too many (remember, I initially did not have any powers set up for them).

Here, Phallas have break time in between of two weeks or so.

frandelgearslip

B:L wrote: »

tuxkamen wrote: »

Zek wrote: »

Good game and well narrated, but to be perfectly honest my interest level was low because I didn't like the rules of this phalla. The complete lack of any solid information in any form really kills any potential strategy and reduces everybody to voting on suspicions. We didn't know what roles were in the game or how they work, and the seers have no concrete information so no networking. I felt like I was just coming in every night, putting on a blindfold and tossing a dart at a list of names.

That's interesting, because it seems that the other players were able to make reasonable hunches based on the kills that did occur. The Argosy were killed in three straight nights based, in part, on the association between Frosteey and MrBallBaggins. In some games, guesses are all you get. I'm sorry if you didn't find it enjoyable.

Moving on to the Guilds and the story itself...

Don't worry about that criticism, tux. The change in mechanics was a breath of fresh air, and allowed for more thinking and planning to those who wanted to get involved. 8-)

And yeah, hunches can go a looong way. Unless you're frandel.

Hey I called mrbalbaggins I was the biggest person arguing against sparing him.

Bogey

Aldo wrote: »

So, I got fooled by Gnasty, as did the rest of my guild. I was well aware of Gnasty's reputation and I was suspicious of him all along. But Gnasty is very smart and everything he did protected either the members of our guild or was in the interest of the village. So I saw no reason to stop supporting his actions.

I didn't trust him after he betrayed my Guardian partner. I made a comment suspecting him on our Guild board, but then shut up after you defended him. I didn't know if you two were in cahoots by then.

Aldo

Bogey wrote: »

I didn't trust him after he betrayed my Guardian partner. I made a comment suspecting him on our Guild board, but then shut up after you defended him. I didn't know if you two were in cahoots by then.

Damn, wish you had told me.

James

Aldo wrote: »

New phallas start all the time, ODaM usually has a few running. IIRC there's a cooldown of a week in D&D's games,

The Debate Competition is coming up next, so it will be a while before we have another phalla here

Bogey

Aldo wrote: »

Bogey wrote: »

I didn't trust him after he betrayed my Guardian partner. I made a comment suspecting him on our Guild board, but then shut up after you defended him. I didn't know if you two were in cahoots by then.

Damn, wish you had told me.

I decided to play very conservative at that point, because a Seer had declared themselves and the 7-kill massacre pretty much reset a lot of things for me. Then you died the next night.

Also, aww, no new Phalla in D&D for a while.

Aldo

Debate competition should be awesome, though.

cheez

Boo, I was hoping the debate competition wouldn't preclude the start of the next Phalla.

Anyway, I guess Plutonium still hasn't opened up the Sensorium board, so for those who care, it's at http://jwhedoninspace.proboards91.com and my account is cheez/merkabah.

Gnasty

Why can't the Debate run at the same time as the next Phalla?

Last Son

Oh yea, The Centauri Forums. The password is ooc.

All of the D&D 'games' are on the same list, with only one running at a time. I think there was some issue when they used to have games running constantly, but I wasn't around back then so I have no idea what they were.

DevoutlyApathetic

I think it has something to do with this being primarily a discussion forum as opposed to a game forum, of which we have two of.

cheez

But there aren't any Phallas in G&T!

Last Son

Well there was one, and I think there were more in the past. I don't think the mods there have any problem with phalla games, just that no one is hosting over there.

DevoutlyApathetic

cheez wrote: »

But there aren't any Phallas in G&T!

I invite you to remedy this situation.

Spoiler:

Disclaimer: I have no actually ability to invite you to run a game in G&T.

Couscous

There was one Phalla in G&T. It was weird.

DevoutlyApathetic

There have been at least 3 and I think 4 in fact.

Aroduc's First, Dong/Wang, Excessively RPed one. I thought the 20's mafia themed one happened there too but I can't recall.

Squashua

I really have nothing to add, but I'm going to say that I prefer a smaller phalla.

I guess I have a tight vagin.

Excellent narrations.

FunkyWaltDogg

Squashua wrote: »

I really have nothing to add, but I'm going to say that I prefer a smaller phalla.

I guess I have a tight vagin.

Excellent narrations.

You cheeky bastard, you missed the signups for my ODaM game!

tuxkamen

Squashua wrote: »

I really have nothing to add, but I'm going to say that I prefer a smaller phalla.

I guess I have a tight vagin.

Excellent narrations.

You know, originally I designed the game to be only 40 or 45 people, but whatever way I balanced it, the odds were just too stacked against the humans. I needed the padding and the extra specials in order to make it a roughly 50/50 chance.

Fun fact: In the initial ruleset, there were no vigilantes. The thralls would have been able to fake it, were they so inclined.

Squashua

FunkyWaltDogg wrote: »

Squashua wrote: »

I really have nothing to add, but I'm going to say that I prefer a smaller phalla.

I guess I have a tight vagin.

Excellent narrations.

You cheeky bastard, you missed the signups for my ODaM game!

I was out of town w/o internet access; you can add me, but that'd seem suspicious. Of course, you can always boot an inactive.

drinkinstout

that was a great game tux - loved the story.

cheez was supposed to be the next seering target the night I got killed so it's interesting that he lived to the end because he should have been seered as an alien if titmouse kept our original plan. I haven't looked at the external boards yet but can anyone tell me why I was killed off and by who?

precisionk

I would like to know why and how many people targetted me for death on the first night? Was it because I am so god damn awesome at Phallas that this happened or is it because I was the God-Emperor of the Precisionk Consortium itself?

Smasher

tuxkamen wrote: »

B:L wrote: »

C'mon, tux. Spill the beans on pk.

Exactly how many explosions rocked pk's world that night?

(note: not actually looking for a record to break )

On night 1, precisionk was:

Attacked by the Argosy
Seered by both seers
Vigilante'd
Guarded

His computer systems fried from all the attention.

tuxkamen

drinkinstout wrote: »

that was a great game tux - loved the story.

cheez was supposed to be the next seering target the night I got killed so it's interesting that he lived to the end because he should have been seered as an alien if titmouse kept our original plan. I haven't looked at the external boards yet but can anyone tell me why I was killed off and by who?

I can tell you that the Argosy killed you that day.

You were the medscan for cheez and got interrupted; after your death, titmouse went for Zek.

Squashua

precisionk wrote: »

I would like to know why and how many people targetted me for death on the first night? Was it because I am so god damn awesome at Phallas that this happened or is it because I was the God-Emperor of the Precisionk Consortium itself?

Bogey and I actually had you under Guardian protection that night.

OOPS.

tuxkamen

If you guys want to see the spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pp8M65s0lSEsPatQqtE-nEA&hl=en#

precisionk

Smasher wrote: »

tuxkamen wrote: »

B:L wrote: »

C'mon, tux. Spill the beans on pk.

Exactly how many explosions rocked pk's world that night?

(note: not actually looking for a record to break )

On night 1, precisionk was:

Attacked by the Argosy
Seered by both seers
Vigilante'd
Guarded

His computer systems fried from all the attention.

This awesome. I feel so special from all the attention.

Squashua

precisionk wrote: »

Smasher wrote: »

tuxkamen wrote: »

B:L wrote: »

C'mon, tux. Spill the beans on pk.

Exactly how many explosions rocked pk's world that night?

(note: not actually looking for a record to break )

On night 1, precisionk was:

Attacked by the Argosy
Seered by both seers
Vigilante'd
Guarded

His computer systems fried from all the attention.

This awesome. I feel so special from all the attention.

Vigilanted... idiot.

tuxkamen

To close this off nicely...

Ad Astra Per Phalla

(in chronological order)

Prologue: Home / Chapter I: Perspective
Chapter II: Haj
Chapter A: The Thompsonite Conflict
Chapters B / C: Departure / Connection
Chapter III: Unscheduled Maintenance
Chapter 4: Hangover
Chapter 5: Forward Progress? (guest narrator: Ardor)
Chapter 6: Mixed Results (guest narrator: Ardor)
Chapter 7: Resolve (guest narrator: Ardor)
Chapter 7.5: Prioritization
Chapter 8: Small Claims
Chapter 8.5: Apotheosis
Chapter 9: Expectations
Chapter 10: Memorias
Chapter 11: Into Place
Chapter 12: Cascade of Failure

(To see the thread in its original order, please check the OP.)
Thank you all for playing.

Elki