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[Phalla] Six Phalla Samurai - GAME OVER! A victory for spinach and Rock and Roll
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The "village" consists of all players in the game. Included in the village is a small number of bad guys. Normally, the bad guys all know one another at the beginning of the game, but nobody else knows anything about anyone other than themselves.
Each day (normally 24-hour period) the village discusses and publically votes for one person to be executed that night. At the same time, the bad guys choose one person to kill each night and PM the name to the narrator.
The good side wins if all of the bad guys die. The bad side wins if the number of good guys is less than or equal to the number of bad guys (on the assumption that at that point, they control the vote plus get their kill, so it's inevitable).
Usually, there will be one or more "special" roles among the good guys (and occasionally among the bad guys). Exactly who holds each role is only known to that person, although how many of each role exist is most often known.
Each night, the narrator gives the details of who died, and normally whether they were a bad guy. Some games also include clues or outright statements if someone who died is a good special.
Living players may not communicate regarding the game with dead players and vice versa, unless there is some specific mechanic in place to do so. In that case, communication normally goes through the narrator. If you are dead and the moderator allows a "goodbye" post, make sure it includes absolutely no information about the game, even if you think the information is obvious. If you receive a PM or see a post breaking this rule, notify the person running the game immediately.
You may not use any anonymous method of communication to discuss the game. Forum-based PMs, external IMs, e-mails and other message boards (like proboards) are allowed as long as the person you are talking to knows who you are. You may not use screencaps to "prove" anything to anyone. Do not speak in code.
Common Variations
Many larger games contain multiple groups of bad guys working at cross-purposes.
At least one game has included a council or single person elected every other night who are able to use a power publically. For example, one game had an elected council able to shift the execution vote to the second person. Another had an elected emperor able to choose a person to kill.
In a small game, the typical size for a group of bad guys is 3, although an individual game may have more, particularly if there is only one group of bad guys in a larger game.
Often, everyone gets a "flavor" role in the game. Bad guys and good specials usually get a normal "villager" role in addition to their special role. This keeps people from using their initial PM to verify someone else's role. The two most common ways to do this are to (a) use the exact same message to everyone, or (b) give everyone a unique villager role.
Special Roles
Roles will have different names depending on the theme of the game. Listed below are the usual "generic" terms for each role. Normally, specials exercise their power by communicating with the narrator via PM. The core roles present in some form in most games are:
Seer - once per night can "investigate" a particular person and find out from the narrator if they are a bad guy. Variations of seers may be able to determine a good special as well, although they may be unable to distinguish them from a bad guy.
Vigilante - once per night can kill a person of their choosing.
Guardian - once per night can protect someone from any death other than execution by the village. Whether they can protect against multiple attacks on one person in the same night is up to the narrator.
Masons - a group of two or three good guys who start the game knowing each other and knowing that they are all good.
There are many, many other roles that can be present. The following is a list of some of them:
Miller - a villager who appears to be evil when seered. A Death Miller appears to be evil when seered or upon death.
Thrall - an evil person who appears to be good when seered. Sometimes revealed to be evil upon death.
Bus Driver - once per night chooses two targets. Any powers targeting one instead targets the other, and vice versa.
Tracker - once per night may "investigate" someone. Unlike the seer, only finds out if their target used a power that night. Some variations finds out if their target was targeted by someone else, or who their target targeted.
Spy - in a game with multiple groups, is a member of two groups. Usually he is really only aligned with one of the groups.
Messenger - allowed to send messages to the narrator, which will then be relayed to a single person or during the narration.
Jester (Village Idiot)- wins if he is voted out, but loses if he dies for any other reason or if he survives to the end. Rarely used.
Survivor - wins if he survives until the end. Usually paired with some other power to make survival easier. Roles which require the player to survive until the end are usually called "neutral."
Serial Killer - basically an evil group with one person in it. The SK has a nightly kill and has to kill every single other person, or every other person but one. Often has other powers to make survival easier.
Conditional Invincibility (Athan) - a (usually evil) person who is invincible until something happens. The role Athan from the Phalliad is the best known example.
Welcome to my phalla based on the film Six String Samurai. Blah blah traditional phalla blah blah some surprises; you will be various rock'n'rollers on their way to Lost Vegas to become the new King following the death of Elvis (or the nefarious characters out to stop that from happening :twisted:). I can accomodate as many players as want to play; the more the merrier. Sign-ups will run through Sunday evening-ish.
The wasteland, however, is not a forgiving place, and each of you has Death hot on your heels, so each night you must !red vote one player to be defeated by Death, his or her pick taken as a trophy.
This game will also feature duelling; duels will be announced in the narration, and you are to !yellow vote one of the two participants to win. Generally, the duelist with the most yellow votes will win the duel.
Kill order is duel->vig->vote, and votes trickle down.
Day One will begin sometime Monday evening (5/18). Clarification requests in orange. Vote will close 11:59pm PST each night, starting on 5/19. PM orders to TheWolfman, your humble narrator.
Minimum activity is two posts and a vote. Inactives will be eaten by the Cannibal Cleavers:
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
edited May 2009
FROM THE DESK OF:
Gosling
I have come to the conclusion that I cannot trust the village with my participation. Even though I have been a good guy in every single Phalla I have ever played, and have only gained my first non-vanillager, non-mason role two games ago over a Phalla career spanning two years and three months, I am, given personal statistics, at much greater risk of death at the hands of the village than I am of death at the hands of the bad guys.
The very first time I seriously pursue a theory of any kind, I mark myself for death. In my rookie Phalla, I did not seriously pursue anything, as I was still getting used to game mechanics. This was the first and to date only time I have ever survived to the final day of the game. Since then, I have routinely attempted to float theories. On the frequent occasions that I am wrong, the village kills me. On the rare occasions when I am right, the bad guys kill me. Usually I die on Day 3-5, but in the past two games I have died on, respectively, Day 2 and Day 1. Either way, I die far too early for it to be a wise idea to even begin to concern myself with the ultimate fate of the village, because I will be dead long before that fate is to be determined.
Clearly, drastic action is necessary.
I will sign up. However, regardless of my role, I hereby declare two things:
1. Fuck the village. It hasn't done anything for me lately. I am out for myself and myself alone, and will take any action I deem necessary to ensure personal survival. I do not care if I draw a guardian role and the seer outs himself and requires my protection to live. I will guard myself instead because I can no longer trust that I will survive the night, regardless of whether the seer does.
2. In lieu of offering legitimate advice or even misleading advice should I finally draw the role of bad guy, I hereby declare that I will offer no information of consequence whatsoever for the duration of my tenure in the game. Instead, you will be treated to a gamelong celebration of Dadaism. All votes will be decided via RNG, reverse RNG, Cheez-It contests, or the erasure of Cheez-Its. DADA IS DADA. DADA IS NOT DADA. ADAD IS DADA.
Gosling on
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
You realize that you're toast unless you convince us that bitter full of hate Gosling is too entertaining to not keep around, right?
enlightenedbum on
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
He's a pretty entertaining guy, I'll bet almost anything he survives until late in the game if he makes it past day two. And I think he'll escape the day one kimewagon.
enlightenedbum on
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
He's a pretty entertaining guy, I'll bet almost anything he survives until late in the game if he makes it past day two. And I think he'll escape the day one kimewagon.
Last game Lady Eri Day 1 vigged me. That's why I'm here now, because I'm already out of the House game.
Gosling on
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
He's a pretty entertaining guy, I'll bet almost anything he survives until late in the game if he makes it past day two. And I think he'll escape the day one kimewagon.
Last game Lady Eri Day 1 vigged me. That's why I'm here now, because I'm already out of the House game.
Yeah, I know. I'm shocked no one killed me in that game today. The bacteria are not playing a strong game over there.
enlightenedbum on
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
You realize that you're toast unless you convince us that bitter full of hate Gosling is too entertaining to not keep around, right?
You're basically witnessing the logical conclusion to bitter-full-of-hate Gosling's progression. It doesn't get much more bitter than 'Die, you stupid seer, I'm guarding myself out of 2+ years of built-up paranoia' and 'I have a theory but fuck the lot of you MY PANTS ARE MADE OF JELLO'.
Gosling on
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
You realize that you're toast unless you convince us that bitter full of hate Gosling is too entertaining to not keep around, right?
You're basically witnessing the logical conclusion to bitter-full-of-hate Gosling's progression. It doesn't get much more bitter than 'Die, you stupid seer, I'm guarding myself out of 2+ years of built-up paranoia' and 'I have a theory but fuck the lot of you MY PANTS ARE MADE OF JELLO'.
Yeah, but you have to be fun to keep around. Or you just become obnoxious like Eri. Or me in the NHL thread in D&D. Which will only get worse if the Wings beat the Blackhawks.
enlightenedbum on
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
You realize that you're toast unless you convince us that bitter full of hate Gosling is too entertaining to not keep around, right?
You're basically witnessing the logical conclusion to bitter-full-of-hate Gosling's progression. It doesn't get much more bitter than 'Die, you stupid seer, I'm guarding myself out of 2+ years of built-up paranoia' and 'I have a theory but fuck the lot of you MY PANTS ARE MADE OF JELLO'.
Yeah, but you have to be fun to keep around. Or you just become obnoxious like Eri. Or me in the NHL thread in D&D. Which will only get worse if the Wings beat the Blackhawks.
Hey, nothing else has worked in the past two years.
Gosling on
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
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RaakamToo many years...CanadalandRegistered Userregular
You realize that you're toast unless you convince us that bitter full of hate Gosling is too entertaining to not keep around, right?
You're basically witnessing the logical conclusion to bitter-full-of-hate Gosling's progression. It doesn't get much more bitter than 'Die, you stupid seer, I'm guarding myself out of 2+ years of built-up paranoia' and 'I have a theory but fuck the lot of you MY PANTS ARE MADE OF JELLO'.
Yeah, but you have to be fun to keep around. Or you just become obnoxious like Eri. Or me in the NHL thread in D&D. Which will only get worse if the Wings beat the Blackhawks.
Hey, nothing else has worked in the past two years.
I loathe the Red Wings. Utterly despise them. I'm not even signed up and Enlightenedbum.
Oh, why not !Sign Up. Maybe I can kill you myself!
ps: Go Canes.
Raakam on
My padherder they don't it be like it is but it do
Versus, involving gun-wielding zombie yakuza, is also fun. And damn it, Kay, your post has inspired me to !Sign up.
And all the way through, I thought she was a pretty girl!
Glad you could make it, Burnage. Let's hope there are many awesome duels to the death, and acoustic numbers around the campfire. Alternately, I want an electric guitar with a katana in it that can cut alien motherships in half.
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Welcome to my phalla based on the film Six String Samurai. Blah blah traditional phalla blah blah some surprises; you will be various rock'n'rollers on their way to Lost Vegas to become the new King following the death of Elvis (or the nefarious characters out to stop that from happening :twisted:). I can accomodate as many players as want to play; the more the merrier. Sign-ups will run through Sunday evening-ish.
The wasteland, however, is not a forgiving place, and each of you has Death hot on your heels, so each night you must !red vote one player to be defeated by Death, his or her pick taken as a trophy.
This game will also feature duelling; duels will be announced in the narration, and you are to !yellow vote one of the two participants to win. Generally, the duelist with the most yellow votes will win the duel.
Kill order is duel->vig->vote, and votes trickle down.
Day One will begin sometime Monday evening (5/18). Clarification requests in orange. Vote will close 11:59pm PST each night, starting on 5/19. PM orders to TheWolfman, your humble narrator.
Minimum activity is two posts and a vote. Inactives will be eaten by the Cannibal Cleavers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnAKwZRbLO8
And for your perusing pleasure:
Opening narration
Day One narration
Day Two narration
Day Three narration
Day Four narration
Day Five narration
Day Six results
Day Seven results
Day Six/Seven narration
Closing narration
Rock'N'Rollers on their way to Vegas:
List of player roles
Do not infer networks based on the group of names on that PM, unless you want me to summon the Spinach Monster with my Rock and Roll magic.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Steam
Or shall I wait for permission first?
EDIT:
It's based off of the movie Six-String Samurai. Scenario is pretty much like that presented in the OP, though not as serious as you might think.
The Six-String Samurai!
Gosling
I have come to the conclusion that I cannot trust the village with my participation. Even though I have been a good guy in every single Phalla I have ever played, and have only gained my first non-vanillager, non-mason role two games ago over a Phalla career spanning two years and three months, I am, given personal statistics, at much greater risk of death at the hands of the village than I am of death at the hands of the bad guys.
The very first time I seriously pursue a theory of any kind, I mark myself for death. In my rookie Phalla, I did not seriously pursue anything, as I was still getting used to game mechanics. This was the first and to date only time I have ever survived to the final day of the game. Since then, I have routinely attempted to float theories. On the frequent occasions that I am wrong, the village kills me. On the rare occasions when I am right, the bad guys kill me. Usually I die on Day 3-5, but in the past two games I have died on, respectively, Day 2 and Day 1. Either way, I die far too early for it to be a wise idea to even begin to concern myself with the ultimate fate of the village, because I will be dead long before that fate is to be determined.
Clearly, drastic action is necessary.
I will sign up. However, regardless of my role, I hereby declare two things:
1. Fuck the village. It hasn't done anything for me lately. I am out for myself and myself alone, and will take any action I deem necessary to ensure personal survival. I do not care if I draw a guardian role and the seer outs himself and requires my protection to live. I will guard myself instead because I can no longer trust that I will survive the night, regardless of whether the seer does.
2. In lieu of offering legitimate advice or even misleading advice should I finally draw the role of bad guy, I hereby declare that I will offer no information of consequence whatsoever for the duration of my tenure in the game. Instead, you will be treated to a gamelong celebration of Dadaism. All votes will be decided via RNG, reverse RNG, Cheez-It contests, or the erasure of Cheez-Its. DADA IS DADA. DADA IS NOT DADA. ADAD IS DADA.
Yeah, I know. I'm shocked no one killed me in that game today. The bacteria are not playing a strong game over there.
Yeah, but you have to be fun to keep around. Or you just become obnoxious like Eri. Or me in the NHL thread in D&D. Which will only get worse if the Wings beat the Blackhawks.
I loathe the Red Wings. Utterly despise them. I'm not even signed up and Enlightenedbum.
Oh, why not !Sign Up. Maybe I can kill you myself!
ps: Go Canes.
they don't it be like it is but it do
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Count me in!
I am the Ghost of Elvis.
You need someone to kill Day 1 that is not Gosling.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
For those of you wondering what the hell this is about....Netflix has it available for instant streaming.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
It's like Rock and Roll had a three way with Fallout and Lone Wolf and Cub and this movie is their glorious love child.
Wild Zero, starring japanese J-punk band Guitar Wolf, was another. It's about zombies and aliens and how rock and roll kicks ass.
I always did like trickle-down mechanics- just allows for a deeper level of strategizing.
That is the best damn film.
Versus, involving gun-wielding zombie yakuza, is also fun. And damn it, Kay, your post has inspired me to !Sign up.
!Sign Up
Also, Gosling, you made me giggle. If I am the guard, you will survive!
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Glad you could make it, Burnage. Let's hope there are many awesome duels to the death, and acoustic numbers around the campfire. Alternately, I want an electric guitar with a katana in it that can cut alien motherships in half.