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[MiniPhalla] Past Lives - GAME OVER - Infiltrator Victory! (Fanatic Minor Victory)

SpectrumSpectrum Archer of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
edited April 2010 in Critical Failures
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Past Lives
A Spectrum and Burnage Production


'I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. I am hero.'

That's the tantalizing phrase Ouroboros advertised themselves with, the promise you could have been one of the world's greats in a past life. It's why you came to this facility, after all, to be part of the first ever public group to find out about their Past Lives.



This is a Phalla, the Penny Arcade version of the party game Mafia. This in particular is a Mini Phalla, which is smaller and shorter in duration than a Main Phalla. Confused? The CF Phalla Signup List will probably prove informative.

The usual Phalla rules apply. No screen caps, no anonymous contact, no dead people talking to the living, no quoting/sharing of PMs from from the host, etc. Also, don't forget to PM me the URL of all proboards! And for the love of fucking God, play to your win condition or I will break you in half.

Vote close is at 11PM EST. Narration will follow as soon as possible and will be posted no later than 1AM EST. Hopefully.


This is an intermediate mechanics game.

Every day, you must vote for one person in bold red to be eliminated from the game. Retractions are unnecessary unless you are specifically abstaining for the time being. Votes in posts that have been edited will not be counted.

Aside from the initial distribution of roles, the RNG will not be used at all in this game. Vote ties will be resolved by the death of the first person to reach the total.

Action Order:
Possible Actions > Vote > Various Actions > Kills

Inactivity:
Every player is required to make a minimum of 2 posts and 1 vote per day. This is your ONLY warning. Failure to meet activity requirements on any day will result in a reserve being activated. If no reserves are left, the offending player will be removed from the game. For the purposes of activity, all posts/votes made after vote close and before narration will be ignored.

Signups:
Sign up in bold lime. After you sign up, you are required to PM the host your birth date. Your sign up will not be officially recorded until that happens. If, for privacy reasons, you do not wish your real birth date to be known, send in something similar.

Spectrum, how have you contrived to give the mafia a perfect victory this time?

I have a secret co-host, who will be announced in due time! :D


Villager PM:

You are...
...an investor in the Ouroboros company, a pioneer of research into past lives. The company came into being 3 years ago, after a landmark research paper was released proving that human beings reincarnated AND that it was possible to recover information about a given person's life. Their business model revolved around giving a customer a glimpse back into what life was like for their previous selves, along with the potential that someone could have been someone truly great. With a lure like that, they soon had customers lining up, with the wait list now 4 years long.

Now, after many years of hard work, they say they are prepared to open for business. As part of the announcement, they have invited you, one of the original investors, to a private session.

Abilities:
Democracy: You can voice your disapproval of another invitee in bold red in-thread. The one who the most people are speaking against will be ejected.

Win condition:
Ensure that nothing happens to damage your investment.


Updated Win Condition:
Win Condition:
Safeguard yourself by eliminating all those who would do unjust violence to the invited guests of the Ouroboros company.


Clarifications:
As typical, please ask all clarifications in bold orange.

1) Any type of role can be present. Thralls, insane seers, vote immunity, conversions, you name it. As such, epic reveals may prove detrimental to your health. May.

2) All clarifications by the host are trustworthy.

3) If you had the good fortune to begin masoned with someone at the start of the game, you are guaranteed to share win conditions.

4) If a person a and person b are tied for the vote and person a was the first person to reach that total, he dies. What if person b was given one more vote but then the vote was removed and person a and b were tied again. Would b then die to the vote instead of a?

Correct. If you are the new vote leader by any means, in order to STOP being the vote leader, someone must pass you, either through them getting voted or you getting retracted even further.

5) Are the male and female hosts in the narration players?
Clarification denied.

6) Are they the actual hosts, yourself and another person?
Clarification denied.

7) Is your mystery co-host on the player list?
Clarification denied.

8) Can we legitimately vote for you?
Clarification denied.

9) Are role PM's trustworthy?
Win conditions are trustworthy. Masoning, as mentioned in #3, is trustworthy. Gender is trustworthy.

Anything else? Clarification denied.

For example, if there was an insane seer in the game, it would be fair to say that their ability description and their results each day were not entirely trustworthy.

If.


10) Is the vigilante kill of the night missing from the narration, or was there no kill?
I have been consistent with my depiction of which actions have been making it into the narration as main focus.

I have *also* taken great pains to fit small details into the narrations that are telling, agonizing over word choice to craft things just so.

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Narrations:
    Day 0
    Day 1
    Day 2
    Day 3
    Day 4
    Day 5
    Final Day
    Epilogue

    Post-Mortem/Game Design
    Game Breakdown

    Roster:
    Below~

    Reserves:
    kime
    Darian
    adventfalls
    Zandracon

    The Dead
    Night 0
    Burnage - Chief Marketing Manager | Irish Prophet - EXPLOSION

    Night 1
    Jaenther - Investor | Carolingian Shoemaker - Wrong place, wrong time
    Rawkking Goodguy - Investor | Thai Theravada Buddhist Nun - Given the baby seal treatment, intercepted, and coup de grace'd
    The Anonymous - Investor | Mayan Architect - Never forgiven, never forgotten

    Night 2
    cj iwakura - Investor | South African Dutch Colonist Performer - defenseless
    Delmain - Investor | Maori Surgeon - blaze of glory
    DevoutlyApathetic - Investor | Berber Prophet - silenced
    REG Rysk - Lottery Winner | Navajo Historian - pincushioned
    Ringo - Investor | Ezo Sailor - DRUUUUUUUUUUUNKS

    Night 3
    Fiaryn - Investor | Berber Engineer - eternally in search of kittens
    Keika - Investor | Irish Judge - jurisprudence disagreement
    Mr. Defecation - Investor | Surgeon of the Sokoto Caliphate - tongue tied
    Toxic Toys - Investor | Mamluk Broker - proletariat backlash

    Night 4
    Dunadan019 - Investor | Mississippian Shaman - SUSPICIOUS
    [strike]Wildcat[/strike] jdarksun - Investor | Egyptian Architect - not paying attention and mercykilled
    [strike]samurai6966[/strike] Malkor - Investor | Irish Broker - caught napping
    simulacrum - Infiltrator | Hopi Medium - justice

    Night 5
    Alegis - Investor | Mongol Horse Archer - clotheslined and arrow stormed
    [strike]Teucrian[/strike] AoR_Final - Infiltrator | Apache Medicine Woman - cornered
    The_Reflection - Investor | Eskimo Shaman - spite

    The Victorious
    Lucedes - Infiltrator | Siberian Tailor
    Shanic - Traitor | Scottish Cook
    vagrant_winds - Infiltrator | Gypsy Alchemist
    (and their dead comrades)

    Minor Victory
    Robos A Go Go - Fanatic | Eskimo Tailor

    Surviving:
    Phyphor - Investor | Irish Priest of the Morrigan
    [strike]Gumpy[/strike] TheLawinator - Investor | Inuit Hunter

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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I'm in

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  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Feeling cold

    Deadly cold

    I think I have hypothermia

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I was a great here, once.

    Once .... long ago

    In different times

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  • LucedesLucedes might be real Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !I think I remember this... yes, violent death, many times before.

    Over. and over.

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  • The_ReflectionThe_Reflection Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I used to be Abraham Lincoln

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign up, please.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Malkor Up

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sign Up

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    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
  • LucedesLucedes might be real Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So, anyone else wondering who the secret co-host is?

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  • WhiteWolfWhiteWolf Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sure

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    If your name has not been recorded on the roster, I would recommend you read the OP more carefully.

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  • REG RyskREG Rysk Lord Rageface Rageington The Exploding ManRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Signed

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Yes, I will sign up

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    My SteamID Gamertag and PSN: TheLawinator
  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign up

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !sign up

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Hopefully my reputation for incompetence has restored itself, and I don't have to worry about getting day oned.

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  • Rawkking GoodguyRawkking Goodguy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Lucedes wrote: »
    So, anyone else wondering who the secret co-host is?

    The only way for the mafia to win is to direct all their day 1 kills on Infidel!

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign Up

    I can't not support a Spectrum Phalla

    Despite the lamentable choice of avatar.

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  • ShanicShanic Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
  • Toxic ToysToxic Toys Are you really taking my advice? Really?Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    ! Sign up.

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    3DS code: 2938-6074-2306, Nintendo Network ID: ToxicToys, PSN: zutto
  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    signup

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !sign up

    !clarification if a person a and person b are tied for the vote and person a was the first person to reach that total, he dies. What if person b was given one more vote but then the vote was removed and person a and b were tied again. Would b then die to the vote instead of a?

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  • TeucrianTeucrian Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sign up

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !sign up

    !clarification if a person a and person b are tied for the vote and person a was the first person to reach that total, he dies. What if person b was given one more vote but then the vote was removed and person a and b were tied again. Would b then die to the vote instead of a?
    Correct. If you are the new vote leader by any means, in order to STOP being the vote leader, someone must pass you, either through them getting voted or you getting retracted even further.

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sign up. Sounds interesting.

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  • The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign up

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  • KeikaKeika Delectable tea, or deadly poison? Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign-up

    It's been far too long since I participated in one of these.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Let's see if I have time this week

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    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
    Edcrab's Exigency RPG
  • samurai6966samurai6966 Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    In my past life, I was Kime...

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    !Sign Up
    (Or !Reserve Up if bastard evil people took all the spots.)

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    In my past life, I was Kime...

    But Kime can't die?

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  • JaentherJaenther Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Looks like I lose, but I'll reserve up. I wanna be on the pink text team!

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The roster is correct. There are still slots open.

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  • JaentherJaenther Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oh, well, never mind then, I'll just Signup! instead.

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Spectrum wrote: »
    If your name has not been recorded on the roster, I would recommend you read the OP more carefully.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Jaenther wrote: »
    oh, well, never mind then, I'll just Signup! instead.

    Be sure to read the OP carefully. It might just tell you why there are four slots left and how you might be sure you'll occupy one of the remaining ones.

    HINT HINT FUCKING HINT

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  • DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sign up to !Dunadan

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sign or reserve up, whichever happens

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  • JaentherJaenther Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oh, READING, >.<

    Well, if I was too slow, at least I deserved to lose.

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