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[Phalla] indie-series: Hot Potato - Village Victory | MrT is HoPo Champion
ObiFett
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Scenario
Welcome, HoPo Professional!
Congratulations! You have been invited to 100th Annual Hot Potato World Championship. Select Professional players from all over the World have been chosen to attend this year's ultimate game. Should you perform well in this game, you may be invited to the Hot Potato Professional League which includes a high-end contract and access the best endorsements in the sport.
We have included two tickets to the event location and have arranged lodging accommodations. Any support staff will need to be provided for out of your own funds. Please check in with the HoPoGaCo one week before the Championship event. If you do not check in by that time, a replacement will be found.
As outlined in the Hot Potato Official Rules, any contact with previously banned players is a bannable offense. If you are found to have done this, you will be ejected from the Championship and banned from all future official HoPo events.
Good luck
Game Overview
Genre: Village v Mafia with a heavy dose of interactivity and choice for all. The game was created so that everyone would have something to do and could play a very important part in their side's eventual victory or defeat. At its heart it is still a Phalla game, Penny Arcade Forum's version of the party game Mafia. If this is your first game, it will be informative to visit the linked topic for some background information.
In this game, the Village are Hot Potato Professionals from all over the globe attempting to win the Hot Potato World Championship. The Mafia are students of a formerly disgraced and banned Legend of the Game have infiltrated the Championship in an attempt to return the Title to their Master.[/b]
Special Mechanics and Game Design
This is the first game in my "indie-series". The goal of the indie-series set of games is to simplify my design process and limit a game to a single mechanic or concept. The chosen mechanic/concept will be explored fully and every power in the game will revolve around that concept. In this game, that mechanic/concept is busdrivers. These are still Obi-Phalla, however, and I create games with the following mindset:
1) I don't like straight seering.
2) I prefer Basic Villagers to have powers along with the power of voting/analysis.
3) I like mechanics that punish inactive mafia. On the flip-side, I like mechanics that reward mafia who are active in muddying the waters and staying hidden in plain sight.
Sample Vanillager PM:
You are a HoPo Professional. You've worked your way up from the gritty street games of Hot Potato, to the underpaid and under-appreciated Spud League, and finally to the Hot Potato Championship. Your skills have been honed to unnatural levels: if someone throws a potato at you, you can throw it away immediately. Seriously. It is amazing. People speak in hushed tones about it. But rumors are that the tactics of the shamed Blackleg have returned through the presence of a number of his students in this Championship. You can not allow one of those students to win. If they do, all you know about Hot Potato will be lost when their tactics take over and you will have no chance at winning any Championship in the future. This is your future and your chance at infamy. The Hot Potato Championships are about to begin! Your time to be a HoPo Legend is at hand!
Focus: Choose a target each day. The first time each Active Potato is thrown at you, you throw it at your chosen target.
Primary Wincon: Ensure that no banned students win the HoPo Championship.
Secondary Wincon: Win the HoPo Championship.
Voting
Due to rumors of previously banned participants in the championship, there will be regular votes to turn in players who are suspected of using Blackleg's tactics. Vote for the player who you find most suspicious in bold red. You may retract a vote by posting "!retract vote for <player name>" or similar phrase in bold limegreen or change your vote by making another one in bold red. Do not, under any circumstance, edit a post that has a vote. If an edit is necessary, make a new post instead. The player who receives the most votes will be turned over to the HoPoGaCo (Hot Potato Gaming Committee) and removed from the game. Should there be a tie in the vote, then all players involved in the tie will be eliminated, as well as the player that instigated the tie, whether that be due to a vote being placed or a vote being removed.
Voting will close each day at 10PM MST (12AM EST | 5AM UTC) SHARP; any votes before the hour (x:59) will count, any votes on the hour and later (x:00) will not.
Orders
Every player should have orders to submit and they must be submitted before vote close. All villager orders must be submitted by responding to your role PM. Mafia orders can be submitted on their proboards.
Signing Up
Sign up with the phrase "I !sign up" or similar phrase in bold limegreen or other bright, easily visible color to ensure that your intent to play is acknowledged.
Signups will be open until I feel like closing them.
Inactivity
It is expected that players make at least two posts, make a vote, and submit private actions. A warning will be sent on the first day that this requirement is not met, and a replacement will be made on the second consecutive day of inactivity or third day overall. If there are no replacements available, then the player will be eliminated from the game.
Clarifications
Any questions about the general game rules may be made by highlighting the question in bold darkorange text. Answers will be posted in the thread and collected in the below section. Player-specific inquiries that are not addressed in the general rules may be asked via PM to the host.
Other Rules
Standard Phalla rules apply: no sharing of host-provided PMs via screenshots or direct quotation. However, information may be shared indirectly, such as through rephrasing. You may not add new players to preexisting private conversations after the first message - start a new conversation instead. No anonymous contact is allowed. All messages must be traceable to a player in the game. Once you are eliminated, you may not make any more game conversation with players remaining in the game.
All proboards must be linked to the host and all conversations must have the host included. NO CONVERSATION OF THE GAME IS ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF THIS FORUM OR LINKED PROBOARDS. No chat rooms. No facebook. NOTHING. No communication is allowed outside of PA forums and linked proboards.
Clarifications
The vote winner is an invalid target for all powers. It will be as if you didn't use your power that round.What happens if we redirect to the vote winner?
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Posts
1 - MegaFrost
2 - GreenBarons
3 - kime
4 - premium
5 - MrTlicious
6 - jdarksun
7 - SaberOverEasy
8 - Phyphor
9 - Mill
10 - Buddha73
11 - Gizzy
12 - Hippie
13 - Zombie Hero
14 - Preda
15 - Flarne
16 - The Anonymous
17 - Vertroue
18 - Auralynx - Withdraw
19 - SirFabulous
20 - discrider
21 - undergroundmonorail
22 - Sepah
23 - Heffling
24 - Bedlam
25 - TheRoadVirus
26 - Jaenther
27 - Schuss
28 - Marikir
29 - MikeyCTS
30 -
31 -
32 -
33 -
34 -
...
Enough spaces for whoever wants to play
Reserves:
1 -
__________________________
Results
Round 1:
The Anonymous - HoPo Professional
Jdarksun - HoPo Professional
Round 2:
Flarne - HoPo Professional
premium - HoPo Professional
Marikir - HoPoGaCo Agent
Round 3:
TheRoadVirus - HoPo Professional
Gizzy - Heater
Vertroue - Cooler
Buddha73 - HoPoProfessional
Round 4:
undergroundmonorail - HoPo Professional
Schuss - HoPo Professional
Preda - HoPo Professional
Round 5:
SaberOverEasy - Student of BlackLung
Jaenther - Student of BlackLung
MikeyCTS - Node
Round 6:
INANTP - Student of BlackLung
Hippie - HoPo Professional
Heffling - Cooler
Sepah - Warper
Round 7:
kime - Student of BlackLung
discrider - Warper
Phyphor - Student of BlackLung
Round 8:
GreenBarons- Student of BlackLung
Bedlam - Heater
MegaFrost- HoPo Professional
Final Round:
ZombieHero - Warper
SirFabulous - Warper
____________________________
Village Victory!!
____________________________
MrTlicious wins the 100th annual HoPo Championship!
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Narrations
Pre-Game Show
Round 1 Recap
Round 2 Recap
Round 3 Recap
Round 4 Recap
Round 5 Recap
Round 6 Recap
Round 7 Recap
Round 8 Recap
Final Round Recap
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Right.
So I am redefining it for my game(s).
vanillager implies a vanilla game
I do find it ... disheartening ... to think that you two are for some reason are criticizing my OP behind the scenes. Like if this is the thing you felt was necessary to bring to my attention, I am a little sad to think of the topic of conversation this must have been brought up during.
Vote Winners' busdriver powers will still activate if they are voted out.
In terms of Obi-Phalla, this game would barely register on the scale.
Role Distribution is very vanilla.
There are just A TON of busdrivers.
substitute train and choo-choos with bus and honks
Really depends on when the game starts. I'm going to be indisposed on the 25th, 26th and most of the 27th.
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
you're tempting me to make a graph illustrative example, PHYPHOR!
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Lets so this.
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Why is it called a busdriver anyway? Does everyone in Phalla take a bus to their intended target and just blindly trust the driver to get them to the right dude without ever questioning that maybe that does not at all look like the right guy?
'cause that's weird.
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I remember very well when company would come
I would have to be right still until the whole crowd ate
my momma always said to me "Jim, take a tater and wait."
Now taters never did taste good with chicken on a plate
but I had to eat 'em just the same.
That is why I look so bad and have these puny ways
because I always had to take an old cold tater and wait.
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Soo.. what's a busdriver?
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A busdriver is a power that redirects all powers from one target player to another target player.
There are generally two types:
One Way - Two players ( A and B ) are chosen and all powers targeted at A go to B.
Two Way - Two players ( A and B ) are chosen and all powers targeted at A go to B and all powers targeted at B go to A.
If you are curious about other powers that can exists in other games, the OP of this thread has some good information.
So the vote winner's redirection powers will activate, but will redirection powers that target the vote winner activate?
Also can bus drivers redirect away from themselves?
If you look at the sample PM, most people will have a one-time one-way busdriver
I'm trying to figure out if the optimal strategy is to have everyone target the vote winner (kills only land on double taps, or killing the vote winner's target)
I'd expect the mafia's potatoes to cheat though, considering their presupposed poor potato form.