I was Mould. I had the power of shooting at people with an unloaded weapon and giving away too much information to Kime. I was supposed to survive along with Love to the end of the game. I was under the misapprehension that there were only two competitors for Love, and when Zellpher died I was clear. I'm guessing that the song title lied to me now.
Yeah, he got blocked with a bandwagon combo to the face.
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Conclusion
The end came quickly that night. Five broke from the pack, tearing Death from his friends and spiking him on the centre pylon.
Then they turned, slipping from mortal forms into shades of extinction. A spray of semen took out the boy with the fiery eyes, no more magic to save him from melting.
The owl swooped down, tearing off the face of the last Muse, reducing her to gobbets of meat on the floor.
The final death was the gunman's, his arms shaking then falling off, blisters growing to putrescent bodies, tumours splitting his garb.
…Even Death could not save them now from annihilation.
Romantic Undead - Death As The Hunter: lynched Kime - Fire Eye'd Boy: dissolved
Burnage - Muse of the Static Elegy: owled Teucrian - Mould
The game is over. The "mafia" and a pair of neutrals have won.
The Victorious:
Infidel - The Monolith of Balnaa-Kheil
Daius - The Field Hag
Alegis - Crawling Omnipotent Chaos Rawkking Goodguy - Alternative Girlfriend
Delphinidaes - Schoolgirl (Russian)
Oh man, two out of ten players yesterday were village-aligned? I wonder why we lost!
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Before I forget, awards for best player use of music:
Song That I Actually Like - Egos, for Slayer's "Born Of Fire"
New Song Introduction - Alegis, for Tony Christie/All Seeing I's "Walk Like A Panther" (goddamn stuck in my head)
Runner up was LemmingHead for Ciara's "1, 2, Step"
And best musical reference was Samurai for "The Greatest Men Who Ever Lived."
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I am kind of annoyed that Arivqa's mistake on the first night meant samurai kept on living, instead of dying with me.
Still, apparently someone thought I needed to die on Night 1, so whatever.
My role was odd and I thank Deshadow for remixing me or it would have been a very dull game for me. Basically every night I would get the name of Suitor for my True Love and in order to win I had to be the only suitor left along with the True Love.
Then Egos got killed and Rawk came into my life and we lived happily ever after on the bones of the fallen.
Long Live Dango Family!
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I am kind of annoyed that Arivqa's mistake on the first night meant samurai kept on living, instead of dying with me.
Still, apparently someone thought I needed to die on Night 1, so whatever.
Yep, I fucked it up terribly for you. Actually, you should have lived and he should have died, but I forgot about Persistence when writing the narration.
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Here's the list of random play songs. As you can see, losing a vote was balanced against some of the others and yet wasn't the worst thing that could have befallen the village:
random plays:
-day for ghosts (delain, all players can speak in-thread, even if they are dead)
-miss a day (atb, there is no village vote that day)
-nightless night (husky rescue, there are no primary, secondary, or tertiary actions that day, special actions may still occur)
-the endless feed (dark tranquillity, each vote in a row after the first for the same player counts double the previous vote [ie, first is 1, second is 2, third is 4.] this chain may be broken by a post without a vote, a vote for another player, or a withdrawal of a vote.)
-cool my fire (i'm burning; ada; each player gains an additional roleblock to be used that night as a primary action)
-free will sacrifice (amon amarth; one player may sacrifice themselves to gain benefits for their faction)
-timewave zero (anaal nathrakh; the game ends at the end of the day, and special conditions come into play. this may be rerolled if chosen before the fourth day.)
-room for one more (anthrax; the first replacement is brought into the game as a new player)
-we are the nightmare (arsis; the "mafia" can send a message to be included in the next night's narration)
-telepathy (emiliana torrini; the village may publicly seer one player)
-red flag (billy talent; all women gain an additional power)
-ominous bloodvomit (bloodbath; the mafia receives an additional kill the next night if the players do not solve a riddle or problem)
-magic window (boards of canada; nothing)
-kill devil hill (bruce dickinson; all vigilante and mafia powers are doubled that night)
-we're not gonna fall (children of bodom; all villagers are guarded that night against one attack)
-inside the horror (chimaira; guard effects are useless that night)
-an enemy lead the tempest (cradle of filth; mafia actions occur first as a special priority)
-in power we entrust the love advocated (dead can dance; the village can vote for one person to be given additional powers the next night)
-destroy everything you touch (ladytron; all kills are guards, all other actions are kills)
-one of us must hang (khoma; if a villager is lynched that day, the village gains additional powers the next day)
-bright yellow gun (throwing muses; both the mafia and the village receive additional kills that night)
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I am kind of annoyed that Arivqa's mistake on the first night meant samurai kept on living, instead of dying with me.
Still, apparently someone thought I needed to die on Night 1, so whatever.
Yep, I fucked it up terribly for you. Actually, you should have lived and he should have died, but I forgot about Persistence when writing the narration.
The votes have fallen
My value has dropped
But don't shed a tear
Network heads walk like they own the place
Whilst others creep in fear
So try if you can to walk like a man
But you don't come near
You've got to fly like an eagle
Prowl like a lion in Africa
Leap like a salmon home from the sea To keep up with me
You've got to walk like a panther tonight
As for mafia roles and (new) abilities, the list. Killing a muse gave us new stuff.
I never knew if teucrian was either a metal or a pop song so we used both on him when we went paranoid-fuck-where-are-all-the-vigs mode.
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Role PMs:
WARNING: Most PMs were laced with YouTube videos. (nsf56k)
Mafia:
1-5 Mafia: send to samurai6966;Alegis;Daius;Infidel;LemmingHead
You are what would be called in other games "the mafia." Here, you are a plague upon the mind: symphonies of decay and deceit made out of static and unharmony. Your virulence has grown in leaps and bounds, and now you are ready to assault the firmament, the institution. Your goal is nothing more than utter extinction of all melodies and musics: a world bereft of beauty and filled with plague.
You are death, and this is your epic.
Special Note: While your roles are tied to specific songs, I would not recommend listening to them unless you want to be slightly to completely disturbed.
Group Abilities:
Hidden in the Maker's Heart: All roles in this game descend from the listening history found in my last.fm profile. Note however, that your listens are so insignificant against the whole that the very possible existance of your roles is hidden.
Additionally, each of you possesses a cover identity: a role and song belonging to no one else that you may identify with. These roles also match additional abilities you might have.
Murder in the Maker's Mind: Each night, you may kill two players as a secondary action. Choose a specific member of "your mafia" to do each kill, and a specific form to kill with.
Inimical to Melody: None of you may be remixed.
Empowerment Through Devourment: Certain villagers, when murdered by you, grant the mafia extra powers. The Muses, which act as the pillars of the musical community, are certainly your greatest prizes.
Objective:
Murder or otherwise extinguish all villagers belonging to melody or music. The common end of most phalla games is in effect: that is, you win the game when you outnumber the village, able to control the vote and keep killing.
Individual Members:
Samurai6966 - Pylon
Source: "The Great Unwashed IV," The Axis Of Perdition
Gender: Female (Pylon possesses a warped, split and squirming womb)
Forms: Pylon, mother of demons; the Form on the Other Side of Silence; the Pendulum Predator
Cover: Bride in Cold Tears, from Tangerine Dream's "Bride In Cold Tears"
Special Ability: Once during the game, you may spawn a plague of unknowable creatures to plague and murder someone. This murder occurs as a secondary action.
Alegis - Crawling Omnipotent Chaos
Source: "Crawling Omnipotent Chaos," Portal
Gender: None
Forms: An ooze of dissolution, a pit of quicksand ash, a plague of blisters
Cover: Knight of Wands, from Au Revoir Simone's "Knight of Wands"
Special Ability: Once during the game, you may seer someone. This seering occurs as a primary action and is unblockable.
Infidel - The Monolith of Balnaa-Kheil
Source: "Balnaa-Kheil the Bleak," Ruins of Beverast
Gender: Male
Forms: A crushing monolith of stone, a spray of acid semen, a drowning deep mine
Cover: Mannequin Surfer, from Tujiko Noriko's "Mannequin Surfer"
Special Ability: Once during the game, may guard another member of the mafia from all attacks that night. This occurs as a primary action.
Daius - The Field Hag
Source: "The Field Hag," Wold
Gender: Female
Forms: A decrepit woman, a screech owl, a whip of desiccating hair
Cover: Jackie, from the New Pornographers' "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras"
Special Ability: Each night, may send another player a message anonymously. This occurs as a secondary action.
LemmingHead - Lice-Crawling Human
Source: "Lice-Crawling Humanity," Watchmaker
Gender: Male
Forms: A corpse riddled with insects and blight, a murderous construct of bone, an animate burst of static
Cover: Fernando, from ABBA's "Fernando"
Special Ability: Once during the game, may block another player's role and abilities with a blast of static. This occurs as a primary action.
You are Fog, one of the romantic suitors in Interpol's "Fog Vs. Mould For The Length of Love." Somewhere out there is your love, and you will do anything - kill anyone - to make her yours. Without her, you will die - bereft of purpose and being.
Remix: When remixed, you may kill your love to win the game.
Gender: Male
In Heated Blood: Each night, you may murder one person as a secondary action. If you murder your Love, you immediately lose the game.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
You are Mould, one of the romantic suitors in Interpol's "Fog Vs. Mould For The Length of Love." Somewhere out there is your love, and you will do anything - kill anyone - to make her yours. Without her, you will die - bereft of purpose and being.
Remix: When remixed, you may kill your love to win the game.
Gender: Male
In Heated Blood: Each night, you may murder one person as a secondary action. If you murder your Love, you immediately lose the game.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
You are Love, the perfect maiden that everyone seeks. You have many suitors and companions, many adorers and worshipers. In the mind, you are a dream, a hope for future life. Ultimately, you are content with companionship and not morals - you can be fulfilled even if everything else burns around you.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Calling Love: You may roleblock one player a night through various enchanting methods as a primary action.
Gender: Female
Objective: Survive the game with one or more of your suitors still alive.
You are Death, the inevitable end to all things. Yet in this place you are more active than ever - a reaper with scythe, reaching out among the chaos to strike down the weak and the strong with no care. Ultimately, you have an internal rhythm - a music to work and murder by, and as such this extinction of music worries you. On the other hand, you would also be perfectly happy with an eternal silence. Choices, choices...
Remix: When remixed, if you commit an unblocked murder in the same night you would be murdered, you instead murder your attacker.
Gender: None
Taste of My Scythe: You may murder one player a night as a secondary action.
Bathed In Blood: If you would be murdered on a night when you murder someone, you instead remain alive.
Objective: You may EITHER outlast all other players (the serial killer win condition) or help in the elimination of all forces inimical to music (the villager win condition.)
When the first disappearances occured in the Halls of Sound, the Muses came to you, freeing you from shackles eternal. "Save us," they cried "do for us what we cannot do for ourselves." Now you, the Answer, are free, avenger for those fallen, slayer for the greater good.
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first attack that would kill you in the game.
The End Of The Line: Each night, you may kill one player as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Citizen of the Planet, in tune with all things and all places at all times. You can feel and see things that others might not, bringing formerly hidden truths to light. These disappearances worry you as much as anyone else - a light being snuffed out diminishes the glory of the whole.
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Words of the Wise: You may seer one person each night as a secondary action. When using this ability, you do not gain information from an Affinity for the Unknown.
An Affinity For The Unknown: Each night, you may receive extra details on an occurance that has gone on that night. You do not need to target this ability; it instead occurs passively.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Leader of the Rats, inciter of rebellion and revolution. The "disease" you spread is knowledge and insight, and your words carry miles. Despite your anger and irresponsibility, your understanding and communication may be crucial to withstanding whatever threat this is.
Gender: Male
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Bring Down The Walls: Once per game, you may declare publicly in the thread that you are using this ability. The last Whim & Whirl song chosen is removed from play, and another is chosen at random.
Spreading The Disease: Once per day, you may send a player a message anonymously (by PMing me the message and your target.) This is a primary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
13. Mary Martin (send to Zandracon)
Source: "The Mary Martin Show," by the New Pornographers
As B-list celebrity and interviewer Mary Martin, you get under your guests' skin, often making them reveal truths they'd rather keep hidden. Despite your upbeat, poppy facade, you hold a lot of possible power - some of it hypnotic.
Gender: Female
Come Any Closer: Once per day, you can interview another player, with an appropriate section added to the narration. This occurs as a secondary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
It Was Gold: When using Come Any Closer, you may also murder your interviewee. This also occurs as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Fire Eye'd Boy, quick to evade and good at giving the slip. Your sleight of hand, luckily, can be applied to others, allowing them to dodge certain deaths.
Gender: Male
Give 'Em The Slip: Once per day, you may guard another player (but not yourself.) This is a primary action.
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first ability that targets you during the game. This cannot block the vote.
Objective:You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are Six, a girl of unbelievable power and fragility. Survival is your goal - deliverance can only be attained through empowerment. You really don't care who wins or loses this conflict - only that you come out on top.
Gender: Female
Destroy Everything: Once during the game, you may murder someone. This is a secondary action.
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first ability that targets you during the game. This cannot block the vote.
Remix: When remixed, you kill the person who originally triggered Persistence.
Objective: You win the game by surviving until the end of the game.
You are Sophia, the wellspring of wisdom and life. Your song is fertile and immortal, and can never be quelled. Unfortunately for those less-wise, your infinity can rarely be seen until it is too late.
Gender: Female
Bringer of Wisdom: Once per day, you may seer another player. This is a secondary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Perennial: When killed, you are automatically brought back to life a day later. If you are lynched (voted for death) this effect does not come into play.
Objective:You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
17. God-Slaughtering Murder Machine (send to Typhus733)
You are the God-Slaughtering Murder Machine, a construct of pain and torture built only to kill. However, your essence is only a music of energy: this need to extinguish is not brought every night. Instead, you know that you may act once - and that your action will forever change yourself and others.
Gender: Male
Bring Death: You may sacrifice yourself and another villager (with their consent) to unblockably kill another player. This is a secondary action. To use this ability, you AND the other player to be sacrificed must PM me their consent with the target to be killed. If the other sacrifice is not a villager, this ability is wasted and you still die.
Remix: When remixed, Bring Death no longer kills you when used. It still requires a sacrifice.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
Once upon a time, you were the scion of a large empire. Then your father died, and you had to fight for your rightful inheritance. As The Heir Apparent, you must take advantage of the chaos to strike out against the hidden bastard child that would threaten you - a girl, a wisp. Nothing anyone will miss.
Gender: Male
Burning Gaze: Once per day, you may target a player to find out their gender. This occurs as a secondary action.
Strike Down With Sorrow: Once per game, you may kill one player. This occurs as a secondary action. You may not use this ability on the same day you use Burning Gaze.
Objective: Slay any one woman, and survive.
19. Son of the Staves of Time (send to JaysonFour)
You are the Son of the Staves of Time, a prophecied child given to visions and invention. You don't see on the same level as others sometimes - events in the past brought to you, images of the future. In the modern, current day, you work to stop the misshapen wishes of thoughtless men, block the few to save the whole.
Gender: Male
Clashing Invention: Once per day, you may roleblock another player. If the player is not male, this ability is wasted. This occurs as a primary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Wield A Stave: Once per day, you may look into the past to gain insight about a specific event. PM me a snippet of narration you wish to learn about. This ability may not be used at the same time as Clashing Invention. This occurs as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
20-21. Sisters (send to FrostMist and Jaenther)
You are the Sisters, almost twinned in devotion and care. You've stood against goblins, supped at pomegranates together. Ultimately, your existance is perpetuation of beauty and melody: and only together will you withstand these occurences.
Gender: Female
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Cloak In Shadows: Once per day, you may roleblock another player. If the player is not female, this ability is wasted. This occurs as a primary action.
Sister Sojourn Ghost (Jaenther)
Will of the Sojourn: You automatically roleblock the first ability targeted on you in the game.
You are the Muse of the Eternal Melody, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for trance and all things electronic, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Muse of the Complacent Song, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for pop music, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Muse of the Static Elegy, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for the odd musics that hide in the corners, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are the Muse of the Energetic March, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for metal, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
You are That Song, the melody and lyric everyone gets stuck in their head from time to time. Eventually, you take over, pushing out other music, making everything just a repetition of you. In my headspace, in the Halls of Sound, things are no different.
Gender: None
Infectious Melody: Once per day, you may remix another player. This occurs as a primary action.
Objective: You win the game if a majority of players are remixed when the game is over.
27. Erica America (send to dunadan019)
Source: "Erica America," by Saint Etienne
You're a girl who has grown up on the outside of society, on a town far out in the boonies. You're bored with life here - bored with the three dateable boys in your grade, the lack of good shopping, whatever. And you want to escape - escape to America, in fact.
Gender: Female
Patriot: All your posts in the game thread must include some form of praise for America or its cultural products.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Go Down Tonight, Yankee: Once per day, you may murder someone who has defamed or criticized America in the game thread that day. This occurs as a secondary action. You must PM me a link to the post where they offer this criticism.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
28. Receiver (send to simonwolf)
Source: "Receiver," by Fall of the Leafe
You are a faceless citizen, a mere Receiver of things given to you and thrown upon you. You have no life or being beyond what is created for you, and only by stitching imposition together can you find your own place.
Gender: Male
Receive and Amplify: Once per day, you may target another player. Any abilities used on you that night are also used on them. This occurs as a special action BEFORE primary actions.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Reception Persistence: You survive the first attack that would kill you in the game. This ability can only be used once.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
29. Automatic Flower-Bearer (send to The Cow King)
You are a giver of magic modern wonders, the Automatic Flower-Bearer! Your metal flowers never die, never wilt, open with the sun and close with the night. Best yet, they can be used to defend one's self in case of attack!
Gender: Male
Give A Flower: Once per day, you may give someone a flower as a secondary action. This flower guards them from all attacks that night.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Flower Edged In Steel: Once per day, you may kill someone with one of your flowers as a secondary action. You may not use this ability and Give A Flower on the same night.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
30. Schoolgirl (send to Delphinidaes)
You are a schoolgirl, full of dreams and ideas. But you're confused too - you're beginning to feel the stirrings of love, but for a woman, not a man. Is this right? Can you live with this?
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
The Things She Said: Each night, you will be messaged the name of another suitor for your Love's attention.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
31. Alternative Girlfriend (send to Rawkking Goodguy)
Amazingly fun game Arivia! Sorry I didn't help out the village at the end but it was easier to team up with the mafia and ensure that Rawk and myself got a win rather than potentially be killed tomorrow when the mafia ran out of other people to target.
Also Deshadow for the remix from last night was it on an every other day timer or did you have someone else you remixed?
Ah nevermind the role pm answered that.
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Some general notes:
Mafia Identity: As you can now see in the role PMs, there were metal songs as neutrals and villagers. No, what differentiates the mafia here from the other players was the hatred and disturbing qualities of their sources. The "musics" they're taken from isn't designed to entertain, it's meant to depress and evoke a lot of darkness. It's an experience, not something fitting on the whole. There's a reason the mafia pm got tagged with a "you probably don't want to listen to these" bit: white noise and screaming is the best outcome. Their sources really do want to destroy everything literally, and that felt distinctive to me.
Mafia alternate forms were based upon other songs by those artists. Yes, Advent's unmixed ability was only to tie two mafia forms together and hint at the greater horror.
The Automatic Flower-Bearer was actually an insane GUARD. I sent Kime a PM about this: "automatic flowers just aren't enough" hints at his ineffectiveness. Unfortunately, I failed at the source material: reading lyrics instead of just listening to Raine Maida mumble makes it pretty clear it's a song about pot.
Both the village and the mafia could gain power: the village from remixing (of which DeShadowC was the only source) and the mafia from killing muses. Whim & Whirl could help or hinder either side, and they both took pretty big blows from it.
Remixing (and more specifically the "The Song" role) was me working with the usual conversion mechanic: quite obviously, it shouldn't be an invisible threat to the village, so I tweaked it to be beneficial for them while giving DeShadow an alternate goal. The infectious part of the usual pop song was still relatively felt, I feel.
I had a gut feeling infidel was evil and I suspected daius
when the ysent me powers like im a one time guard and I used it and i can vote x2 I was like, in a sea of powers like razor blade flowers and kill me I give you strength they have such shitty things like that, bullshit.
I had a gut feeling infidel was evil and I suspected daius
when the ysent me powers like im a one time guard and I used it and i can vote x2 I was like, in a sea of powers like razor blade flowers and kill me I give you strength they have such shitty things like that, bullshit.
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Yeah I didn't really like those. Did you gain anything when you were remixed?
Nope. Apparently I was "too powerful".
The only time I was told anything about what happened when someone was remixed was against samurai6966.
since this is the last narration and all I figure I can post so nyehh
Steam
Steam
The end came quickly that night. Five broke from the pack, tearing Death from his friends and spiking him on the centre pylon.
Then they turned, slipping from mortal forms into shades of extinction. A spray of semen took out the boy with the fiery eyes, no more magic to save him from melting.
The owl swooped down, tearing off the face of the last Muse, reducing her to gobbets of meat on the floor.
The final death was the gunman's, his arms shaking then falling off, blisters growing to putrescent bodies, tumours splitting his garb.
…Even Death could not save them now from annihilation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kswq1yJl0mc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA
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Why did the music go away? Why did you fail me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTtFIL6LHLw
Consigned To Potter's Field:
Romantic Undead - Death As The Hunter: lynched
Kime - Fire Eye'd Boy: dissolved
Burnage - Muse of the Static Elegy: owled
Teucrian - Mould
The game is over. The "mafia" and a pair of neutrals have won.
The Victorious:
Infidel - The Monolith of Balnaa-Kheil
Daius - The Field Hag
Alegis - Crawling Omnipotent Chaos
Rawkking Goodguy - Alternative Girlfriend
Delphinidaes - Schoolgirl (Russian)
The Losers:
DeShadowC - The Song
EDIT: Kime! Daius! EVERYONE GRUDGED.
Oh, whoops! I'll add you in.
forum - featuring an enraged 'betrayed' samurai:
http://mafiametal91245.proboards.com/index.cgi
Things were looking terrible for us today, after messing up our kills past few days we were only able to win now thanks to delph and rawkking.
I wish I could have actually done something.
Oh well!
Man, being mafia is fun.
edit: Shadow, what could you do??
Also can we get a list of role PMs sometime I'm curious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn2G_0x3Im0
Great game everyone! Shenanigans abound!
Did everyone who got my messages enjoy them?
A Big Dango family!
We fucked up our kills at times, we definitely could have used those better.
And you can find the one mega-mafia-PM on our proboards.
I mean more like day 2 or vigged.
Song That I Actually Like - Egos, for Slayer's "Born Of Fire"
New Song Introduction - Alegis, for Tony Christie/All Seeing I's "Walk Like A Panther" (goddamn stuck in my head)
Runner up was LemmingHead for Ciara's "1, 2, Step"
And best musical reference was Samurai for "The Greatest Men Who Ever Lived."
Still, apparently someone thought I needed to die on Night 1, so whatever.
Then Egos got killed and Rawk came into my life and we lived happily ever after on the bones of the fallen.
Long Live Dango Family!
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Yep, I fucked it up terribly for you. Actually, you should have lived and he should have died, but I forgot about Persistence when writing the narration.
-day for ghosts (delain, all players can speak in-thread, even if they are dead)
-miss a day (atb, there is no village vote that day)
-nightless night (husky rescue, there are no primary, secondary, or tertiary actions that day, special actions may still occur)
-the endless feed (dark tranquillity, each vote in a row after the first for the same player counts double the previous vote [ie, first is 1, second is 2, third is 4.] this chain may be broken by a post without a vote, a vote for another player, or a withdrawal of a vote.)
-cool my fire (i'm burning; ada; each player gains an additional roleblock to be used that night as a primary action)
-free will sacrifice (amon amarth; one player may sacrifice themselves to gain benefits for their faction)
-timewave zero (anaal nathrakh; the game ends at the end of the day, and special conditions come into play. this may be rerolled if chosen before the fourth day.)
-room for one more (anthrax; the first replacement is brought into the game as a new player)
-we are the nightmare (arsis; the "mafia" can send a message to be included in the next night's narration)
-telepathy (emiliana torrini; the village may publicly seer one player)
-red flag (billy talent; all women gain an additional power)
-ominous bloodvomit (bloodbath; the mafia receives an additional kill the next night if the players do not solve a riddle or problem)
-magic window (boards of canada; nothing)
-kill devil hill (bruce dickinson; all vigilante and mafia powers are doubled that night)
-we're not gonna fall (children of bodom; all villagers are guarded that night against one attack)
-inside the horror (chimaira; guard effects are useless that night)
-an enemy lead the tempest (cradle of filth; mafia actions occur first as a special priority)
-in power we entrust the love advocated (dead can dance; the village can vote for one person to be given additional powers the next night)
-destroy everything you touch (ladytron; all kills are guards, all other actions are kills)
-one of us must hang (khoma; if a villager is lynched that day, the village gains additional powers the next day)
-bright yellow gun (throwing muses; both the mafia and the village receive additional kills that night)
forever grudged
riv's gonna be forever grudged
i'm really gonna grudge forever
forever, forever grudged
As for mafia roles and (new) abilities, the list. Killing a muse gave us new stuff.
I never knew if teucrian was either a metal or a pop song so we used both on him when we went paranoid-fuck-where-are-all-the-vigs mode.
Thanks for hosting arivia!
WARNING: Most PMs were laced with YouTube videos. (nsf56k)
Mafia:
You are what would be called in other games "the mafia." Here, you are a plague upon the mind: symphonies of decay and deceit made out of static and unharmony. Your virulence has grown in leaps and bounds, and now you are ready to assault the firmament, the institution. Your goal is nothing more than utter extinction of all melodies and musics: a world bereft of beauty and filled with plague.
You are death, and this is your epic.
Special Note: While your roles are tied to specific songs, I would not recommend listening to them unless you want to be slightly to completely disturbed.
Group Abilities:
Hidden in the Maker's Heart: All roles in this game descend from the listening history found in my last.fm profile. Note however, that your listens are so insignificant against the whole that the very possible existance of your roles is hidden.
Additionally, each of you possesses a cover identity: a role and song belonging to no one else that you may identify with. These roles also match additional abilities you might have.
Murder in the Maker's Mind: Each night, you may kill two players as a secondary action. Choose a specific member of "your mafia" to do each kill, and a specific form to kill with.
Inimical to Melody: None of you may be remixed.
Empowerment Through Devourment: Certain villagers, when murdered by you, grant the mafia extra powers. The Muses, which act as the pillars of the musical community, are certainly your greatest prizes.
Objective:
Murder or otherwise extinguish all villagers belonging to melody or music. The common end of most phalla games is in effect: that is, you win the game when you outnumber the village, able to control the vote and keep killing.
Individual Members:
Samurai6966 - Pylon
Source: "The Great Unwashed IV," The Axis Of Perdition
Gender: Female (Pylon possesses a warped, split and squirming womb)
Forms: Pylon, mother of demons; the Form on the Other Side of Silence; the Pendulum Predator
Cover: Bride in Cold Tears, from Tangerine Dream's "Bride In Cold Tears"
Special Ability: Once during the game, you may spawn a plague of unknowable creatures to plague and murder someone. This murder occurs as a secondary action.
Alegis - Crawling Omnipotent Chaos
Source: "Crawling Omnipotent Chaos," Portal
Gender: None
Forms: An ooze of dissolution, a pit of quicksand ash, a plague of blisters
Cover: Knight of Wands, from Au Revoir Simone's "Knight of Wands"
Special Ability: Once during the game, you may seer someone. This seering occurs as a primary action and is unblockable.
Infidel - The Monolith of Balnaa-Kheil
Source: "Balnaa-Kheil the Bleak," Ruins of Beverast
Gender: Male
Forms: A crushing monolith of stone, a spray of acid semen, a drowning deep mine
Cover: Mannequin Surfer, from Tujiko Noriko's "Mannequin Surfer"
Special Ability: Once during the game, may guard another member of the mafia from all attacks that night. This occurs as a primary action.
Daius - The Field Hag
Source: "The Field Hag," Wold
Gender: Female
Forms: A decrepit woman, a screech owl, a whip of desiccating hair
Cover: Jackie, from the New Pornographers' "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras"
Special Ability: Each night, may send another player a message anonymously. This occurs as a secondary action.
LemmingHead - Lice-Crawling Human
Source: "Lice-Crawling Humanity," Watchmaker
Gender: Male
Forms: A corpse riddled with insects and blight, a murderous construct of bone, an animate burst of static
Cover: Fernando, from ABBA's "Fernando"
Special Ability: Once during the game, may block another player's role and abilities with a blast of static. This occurs as a primary action.
Roles 6-10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZNPoLUbJo
You are Fog, one of the romantic suitors in Interpol's "Fog Vs. Mould For The Length of Love." Somewhere out there is your love, and you will do anything - kill anyone - to make her yours. Without her, you will die - bereft of purpose and being.
Remix: When remixed, you may kill your love to win the game.
Gender: Male
In Heated Blood: Each night, you may murder one person as a secondary action. If you murder your Love, you immediately lose the game.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
7. Mould (send to Teucrian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZNPoLUbJo
You are Mould, one of the romantic suitors in Interpol's "Fog Vs. Mould For The Length of Love." Somewhere out there is your love, and you will do anything - kill anyone - to make her yours. Without her, you will die - bereft of purpose and being.
Remix: When remixed, you may kill your love to win the game.
Gender: Male
In Heated Blood: Each night, you may murder one person as a secondary action. If you murder your Love, you immediately lose the game.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
8. Love (send to Egos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSHLb31dj2Y
Source: Anna Ternheim - Calling Love
You are Love, the perfect maiden that everyone seeks. You have many suitors and companions, many adorers and worshipers. In the mind, you are a dream, a hope for future life. Ultimately, you are content with companionship and not morals - you can be fulfilled even if everything else burns around you.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Calling Love: You may roleblock one player a night through various enchanting methods as a primary action.
Gender: Female
Objective: Survive the game with one or more of your suitors still alive.
9. Death as Hunter (send to Romantic Undead)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDoSYsCsvcY
Source: The Crown - Death Is The Hunter
You are Death, the inevitable end to all things. Yet in this place you are more active than ever - a reaper with scythe, reaching out among the chaos to strike down the weak and the strong with no care. Ultimately, you have an internal rhythm - a music to work and murder by, and as such this extinction of music worries you. On the other hand, you would also be perfectly happy with an eternal silence. Choices, choices...
Remix: When remixed, if you commit an unblocked murder in the same night you would be murdered, you instead murder your attacker.
Gender: None
Taste of My Scythe: You may murder one player a night as a secondary action.
Bathed In Blood: If you would be murdered on a night when you murder someone, you instead remain alive.
Objective: You may EITHER outlast all other players (the serial killer win condition) or help in the elimination of all forces inimical to music (the villager win condition.)
10. The Answer (send to MinorSecond)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8B1ai25lUo
When the first disappearances occured in the Halls of Sound, the Muses came to you, freeing you from shackles eternal. "Save us," they cried "do for us what we cannot do for ourselves." Now you, the Answer, are free, avenger for those fallen, slayer for the greater good.
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first attack that would kill you in the game.
The End Of The Line: Each night, you may kill one player as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
Roles 11-15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK1ktgvmCmo
You are the Citizen of the Planet, in tune with all things and all places at all times. You can feel and see things that others might not, bringing formerly hidden truths to light. These disappearances worry you as much as anyone else - a light being snuffed out diminishes the glory of the whole.
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Words of the Wise: You may seer one person each night as a secondary action. When using this ability, you do not gain information from an Affinity for the Unknown.
An Affinity For The Unknown: Each night, you may receive extra details on an occurance that has gone on that night. You do not need to target this ability; it instead occurs passively.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
12. Leader of the Rats (send to Romanqwerty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSghj8qlek
You are the Leader of the Rats, inciter of rebellion and revolution. The "disease" you spread is knowledge and insight, and your words carry miles. Despite your anger and irresponsibility, your understanding and communication may be crucial to withstanding whatever threat this is.
Gender: Male
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Bring Down The Walls: Once per game, you may declare publicly in the thread that you are using this ability. The last Whim & Whirl song chosen is removed from play, and another is chosen at random.
Spreading The Disease: Once per day, you may send a player a message anonymously (by PMing me the message and your target.) This is a primary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
13. Mary Martin (send to Zandracon)
Source: "The Mary Martin Show," by the New Pornographers
As B-list celebrity and interviewer Mary Martin, you get under your guests' skin, often making them reveal truths they'd rather keep hidden. Despite your upbeat, poppy facade, you hold a lot of possible power - some of it hypnotic.
Gender: Female
Come Any Closer: Once per day, you can interview another player, with an appropriate section added to the narration. This occurs as a secondary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
It Was Gold: When using Come Any Closer, you may also murder your interviewee. This also occurs as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
14. Fire Eye'd Boy (send to Kime)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGwylbB3PA
You are the Fire Eye'd Boy, quick to evade and good at giving the slip. Your sleight of hand, luckily, can be applied to others, allowing them to dodge certain deaths.
Gender: Male
Give 'Em The Slip: Once per day, you may guard another player (but not yourself.) This is a primary action.
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first ability that targets you during the game. This cannot block the vote.
Objective:You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
15. Six (send to Erich Zahn)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNJ7fXSzVE
You are Six, a girl of unbelievable power and fragility. Survival is your goal - deliverance can only be attained through empowerment. You really don't care who wins or loses this conflict - only that you come out on top.
Gender: Female
Destroy Everything: Once during the game, you may murder someone. This is a secondary action.
Persistence: You automatically are guarded against the first ability that targets you during the game. This cannot block the vote.
Remix: When remixed, you kill the person who originally triggered Persistence.
Objective: You win the game by surviving until the end of the game.
Roles 16-21:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOhqgYAKDY
You are Sophia, the wellspring of wisdom and life. Your song is fertile and immortal, and can never be quelled. Unfortunately for those less-wise, your infinity can rarely be seen until it is too late.
Gender: Female
Bringer of Wisdom: Once per day, you may seer another player. This is a secondary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Perennial: When killed, you are automatically brought back to life a day later. If you are lynched (voted for death) this effect does not come into play.
Objective:You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
17. God-Slaughtering Murder Machine (send to Typhus733)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4o-vA2bSqM
You are the God-Slaughtering Murder Machine, a construct of pain and torture built only to kill. However, your essence is only a music of energy: this need to extinguish is not brought every night. Instead, you know that you may act once - and that your action will forever change yourself and others.
Gender: Male
Bring Death: You may sacrifice yourself and another villager (with their consent) to unblockably kill another player. This is a secondary action. To use this ability, you AND the other player to be sacrificed must PM me their consent with the target to be killed. If the other sacrifice is not a villager, this ability is wasted and you still die.
Remix: When remixed, Bring Death no longer kills you when used. It still requires a sacrifice.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
18. The Heir Apparent (send to The_Reflection)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3XZeRyTHg
Once upon a time, you were the scion of a large empire. Then your father died, and you had to fight for your rightful inheritance. As The Heir Apparent, you must take advantage of the chaos to strike out against the hidden bastard child that would threaten you - a girl, a wisp. Nothing anyone will miss.
Gender: Male
Burning Gaze: Once per day, you may target a player to find out their gender. This occurs as a secondary action.
Strike Down With Sorrow: Once per game, you may kill one player. This occurs as a secondary action. You may not use this ability on the same day you use Burning Gaze.
Objective: Slay any one woman, and survive.
19. Son of the Staves of Time (send to JaysonFour)
You are the Son of the Staves of Time, a prophecied child given to visions and invention. You don't see on the same level as others sometimes - events in the past brought to you, images of the future. In the modern, current day, you work to stop the misshapen wishes of thoughtless men, block the few to save the whole.
Gender: Male
Clashing Invention: Once per day, you may roleblock another player. If the player is not male, this ability is wasted. This occurs as a primary action.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Wield A Stave: Once per day, you may look into the past to gain insight about a specific event. PM me a snippet of narration you wish to learn about. This ability may not be used at the same time as Clashing Invention. This occurs as a secondary action.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
20-21. Sisters (send to FrostMist and Jaenther)
You are the Sisters, almost twinned in devotion and care. You've stood against goblins, supped at pomegranates together. Ultimately, your existance is perpetuation of beauty and melody: and only together will you withstand these occurences.
Gender: Female
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
Sister Nightfall (FrostMist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy7VWVD7zvU
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Cloak In Shadows: Once per day, you may roleblock another player. If the player is not female, this ability is wasted. This occurs as a primary action.
Sister Sojourn Ghost (Jaenther)
Will of the Sojourn: You automatically roleblock the first ability targeted on you in the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnzVku1JqY
Roles 22-25:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ezR1ijzoPE
You are the Muse of the Eternal Melody, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for trance and all things electronic, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
23. Muse of the Complacent Song (Mr. Defecation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QY6bIHiOo
You are the Muse of the Complacent Song, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for pop music, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
24. Muse of the Static Elegy (Burnage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCtHNSUq-c
You are the Muse of the Static Elegy, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for the odd musics that hide in the corners, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
25. Muse of the Energetic March (shalmelo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT86_ShMKHU
You are the Muse of the Energetic March, one of the pillars of strength that hold up the Halls of Sound. Despite being responsible for metal, you hold little power yourself: only things diplomatic and emotional bend to your will.
Gender: Female
Vessel of Power: You hold a great deal of unusable power, a battery of music. Those that murder you may be able to draw upon it in some way.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
Roles 26-31:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGN9UBuk9w
You are That Song, the melody and lyric everyone gets stuck in their head from time to time. Eventually, you take over, pushing out other music, making everything just a repetition of you. In my headspace, in the Halls of Sound, things are no different.
Gender: None
Infectious Melody: Once per day, you may remix another player. This occurs as a primary action.
Objective: You win the game if a majority of players are remixed when the game is over.
27. Erica America (send to dunadan019)
Source: "Erica America," by Saint Etienne
You're a girl who has grown up on the outside of society, on a town far out in the boonies. You're bored with life here - bored with the three dateable boys in your grade, the lack of good shopping, whatever. And you want to escape - escape to America, in fact.
Gender: Female
Patriot: All your posts in the game thread must include some form of praise for America or its cultural products.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Go Down Tonight, Yankee: Once per day, you may murder someone who has defamed or criticized America in the game thread that day. This occurs as a secondary action. You must PM me a link to the post where they offer this criticism.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
28. Receiver (send to simonwolf)
Source: "Receiver," by Fall of the Leafe
You are a faceless citizen, a mere Receiver of things given to you and thrown upon you. You have no life or being beyond what is created for you, and only by stitching imposition together can you find your own place.
Gender: Male
Receive and Amplify: Once per day, you may target another player. Any abilities used on you that night are also used on them. This occurs as a special action BEFORE primary actions.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Reception Persistence: You survive the first attack that would kill you in the game. This ability can only be used once.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
29. Automatic Flower-Bearer (send to The Cow King)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed8levpwKdU
You are a giver of magic modern wonders, the Automatic Flower-Bearer! Your metal flowers never die, never wilt, open with the sun and close with the night. Best yet, they can be used to defend one's self in case of attack!
Gender: Male
Give A Flower: Once per day, you may give someone a flower as a secondary action. This flower guards them from all attacks that night.
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
Flower Edged In Steel: Once per day, you may kill someone with one of your flowers as a secondary action. You may not use this ability and Give A Flower on the same night.
Objective: You win the game when all forces inimical to music have been eliminated.
30. Schoolgirl (send to Delphinidaes)
You are a schoolgirl, full of dreams and ideas. But you're confused too - you're beginning to feel the stirrings of love, but for a woman, not a man. Is this right? Can you live with this?
Gender: Female
Remix: When remixed, you gain the following ability:
The Things She Said: Each night, you will be messaged the name of another suitor for your Love's attention.
Objective: Find your Love, eliminate all other suitors and competition, and survive the game.
31. Alternative Girlfriend (send to Rawkking Goodguy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQF3-jDV-3I
You are the Alternative Girlfriend, a siren hidden in the shadows. Now that that pesky Love is gone, you can take one of her suitors for your own!
Remix: When remixed, you gain the folllowing ability:
Downfall: Once per game, you may murder another player as a secondary action. This ability fails if the target is not a suitor.
Win Condition:Survive the game with one of Love's suitors still alive.
Also Deshadow for the remix from last night was it on an every other day timer or did you have someone else you remixed?
Ah nevermind the role pm answered that.
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Kime
Samurai
The cow king
Delph
Burnage
Infidel
Mafia Identity: As you can now see in the role PMs, there were metal songs as neutrals and villagers. No, what differentiates the mafia here from the other players was the hatred and disturbing qualities of their sources. The "musics" they're taken from isn't designed to entertain, it's meant to depress and evoke a lot of darkness. It's an experience, not something fitting on the whole. There's a reason the mafia pm got tagged with a "you probably don't want to listen to these" bit: white noise and screaming is the best outcome. Their sources really do want to destroy everything literally, and that felt distinctive to me.
Mafia alternate forms were based upon other songs by those artists. Yes, Advent's unmixed ability was only to tie two mafia forms together and hint at the greater horror.
The Automatic Flower-Bearer was actually an insane GUARD. I sent Kime a PM about this: "automatic flowers just aren't enough" hints at his ineffectiveness. Unfortunately, I failed at the source material: reading lyrics instead of just listening to Raine Maida mumble makes it pretty clear it's a song about pot.
Both the village and the mafia could gain power: the village from remixing (of which DeShadowC was the only source) and the mafia from killing muses. Whim & Whirl could help or hinder either side, and they both took pretty big blows from it.
Remixing (and more specifically the "The Song" role) was me working with the usual conversion mechanic: quite obviously, it shouldn't be an invisible threat to the village, so I tweaked it to be beneficial for them while giving DeShadow an alternate goal. The infectious part of the usual pop song was still relatively felt, I feel.
when the ysent me powers like im a one time guard and I used it and i can vote x2 I was like, in a sea of powers like razor blade flowers and kill me I give you strength they have such shitty things like that, bullshit.
Steam