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[Phalla] The Conquest of Deepnest - Host Notes Up
38thDoe
lets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
lets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
Beyond this point you enter the land of King and Creator.
Step across this threshold and obey our laws.
Bear witness to the last and only civilization, the eternal Kingdom.
The Conquest of Deepnest
Produced and directed by 38thDoe
with Balance and Design Support by @MrBlarney
Witness a kingdom at the height of its power bravely bringing civilization and enlightenment to the far reaches of the world. Witness the brave knights, soldiers, and explorers that brought faces and minds to all they encountered. Perhaps you would like to join them on their greatest campaign, past the wastes to bring light and learning to places ever dark and brutish. Behold the simple barbarians who will welcome your coming with geo and love. Hoist your nail and repair your shell and prepare yourself for your greatest adventure. Wealth, Glory, and Enlightenment await you on your return to the palace. Perhaps you may even receive a ticket to see Marissa sing.
Sign up today to join the eternal kingdom's army!
(WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!)
What’s all this now?
This is a regular game for 30 or more people. There is an informed minority and an uninformed majority.
Phalla is the Penny-Arcade Forum Version of the Party Game Mafia. General rules of Phalla can be found here. New players are welcome as are old of course.
Specific rules can be found below:
Standard Phalla Rules/Mechanics:
You must vote each day. Vote in bold red for whomever you think is likely to be a threat to you. The winner of the vote will be eliminated every night. Tie votes will kill both people involved and the person causing the tie. Be careful.
In addition, everyone should make at least two posts each day. Failure to vote or contribute will lead to warning and replacement.
Do not directly quote anything from PMs with me, or take screenshots of them. It is okay to paraphrase role PMs however.
Do not add other players to PM conversations.
Do not anonymously contact anyone.
When you die you may make one ghost post which cannot contain any game information whatsoever.
Ask for clarifications in Bold DarkOrange. You can always PM me with clarification requests, or post them directly in the thread. If you have questions about your role you should probably use the PM method to avoid giving away info to the other players. They are *already* suspicious of you.
Make sure you invite me to any PMs or proboards you might form.
Order of actions: Vote>???>Guard>!!!>Attacks>Seer
The Day will Close at 3PM Eastern Time. Votes and orders cast at 2:59PM Eastern and earlier will count, those at 3:00PM Eastern and after will not count.
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Specific Rules/Mechanics:
Each player will have actions they may take every day.
Each player may only take one action per night unless otherwise stated.
Players will have an amount of hit points. If their hit points are reduced to zero they will be eliminated from the game.
If a player wishes to refrain from taking an action they may enter a defensive stance and will reduce the damage from the largest attack they receive by 50%. (rounded up)
Clarifications:
Rounded Up.
Someone wrote:Can I attack myself?
You may not attack yourself.
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Narration Links:
Opening Narration
Day 1
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Day 3
Day 4
Finale
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Round down or up? :P
Rounded Up.
So much reading of the OP going on in here. Suspicious.
I'll admit I read enough to know the theme, though.
Well I read enough to know I didn't know the theme and to google "deepnest" and now I know the theme and that's good enough right?
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Bury the lady, lovely and pale!
Bury the priest in his tattered gown,
Then bury the beggar with his shining crown!
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@discrider what!?
Seriously though, Hollow Knight is a fairly typical Metroidvania game, whereas Shovel Knight was sort of a mash-up of SMB3, Legend of Zelda II, Mega Man, and some Duck Tales. Mind you, Hollow plays great and looks great, but it's not blending several different game types like Shovel was. I don't think they're very comparable, is my point.
Hollow Knight and Disco Elysium are probably my two favorite games on Steam right now. But they are so different that its hard to rank them. I would say something like maybe everyone should play HK, but it aint gonna be everybodies cup of tea either.
Also Doe's Grub did a thing y'all gotta see:
Confusion will be my epitaph
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Dragging my feet on committing is practically a tradition for me at this point.
I think so but then I really enjoyed Shovel Knight as well. I think Shovel Knight was actually the weakest part of Shovel Knight and it didn't really hit its stride until Specter Knight. King Knight's campaign was the best, and you can really see what they learned from the other three. Do you like Metroid games or post Symphony of the Night Castlevanias? I think its better than any of those I have played as well.
Haven't played many/any.
My problem with Shovel Knight was that the levels seemed far too long, with the difficulty not really spiking until the end of the level.
So I got to the checkpoints going 'Do I break this for the dosh or keep it open just in case I do manage to stuff up and not have to go through the slog before again?'.
Honestly not sure what a Metroidvania is, having not played either of the titular games.
Like is VVVVVV one?
Generally platformers with additional content unlocked by powers you get through gameplay and accessed by re-traversing stuff you previously cleared but in a new way.
E: and often new weapons available throughout in modern ones.
Spells and magic doohickeys also. Many add movement modes.
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Metroidvanias typically are:
It's on the borderline, but like you said, there's a sidescroller - action genre that is mostly subsumed into the -vanias now which Shovel Knight is trying to reference, much more so than it is the main-line branch of the genre.
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