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Mafia Capture the Shiny Victini Mafia! - Endgame (7/19/18)

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Endgame - Ditto Doomsday
Day 3 Final Votals

4. @DarthWolf - 1 (TheCapsFan)
5. @jdthebud - 0
6. @Jinjo - 0
7. @Elementar - 0
8. @Pika_pika42 - 0
9. @HumanDawn - 0
10. @Thanos - 0
14. @TheCapsFan - 6 (DarthWolf, Jinjo, HumanDawn, Elementar, jdthebud, Pika_pika42)

Endgame - Ditto Doomsday

The little girl wanders through the underground hall beneath the amusement park, past the control room seemingly left vacant in the hacker’s absence. She squeezes herself past some dripping pipes, ending up in a dark, discreet nook. “Yoohoo...little Pokémon...” she calls out in a faint, eerie voice. A small silhouette slinks towards the girl, making a goopy sloshing sound. “My uncle...is gone...so is his...spineless cousin...and I’m getting bored...with taking the Victini...you can have your fun now, little Pokémon...ehehehe...”

Above ground, Wolfrick and his Midnight Lycanroc have a Pokémon battle against the man named Jack and his Gallade; after the former had claimed the shiny Victini as his prize for assassinating the dentist, the latter man challenged him to said battle over custody of Victini. Jack and his Gallade emerge victorious in the match, causing Wolfrick to throw an angry fit of cussing and kicking things.
Meanwhile, inside a large, covered sandbox/play fort called the Palossand Pit near the old children’s theater, the scientist named Larry and I plant four sandwich boards, marking the spots where the hacker, Blake, Max, and Ryota are now buried. The faded signs have the names of the fallen trainers scrawled onto them in permanent marker—the hacker’s being the one exception, with “Rest In Peace” inscribed on his makeshift gravestone in place of a name. We stand a moment in silent reverence of the victims of the plumber and dentist, whose own bodies were unceremoniously dumped at the island’s harbor earlier.
“Well...what are you planning to do now?” Larry asks me. “We probably still have a bit of time before Officer ME apprehends that last culprit. And I’ve already got the dead trainers’ Pokéballs with me for safe relocation.”
“I’m gonna go continue working on my way off this island,” I answer. “Wanna help?”
“Actually...I thought I’d check out some rides before it’s time to leave,” Larry tells me. “You know, to, uh, test their structural integrity. See you around!”
“Heheh, gotcha. See you later!” We each go in opposite directions through the amusement park.
According to the sign above me, featuring cutesy images of a Bounsweet and Spoink, I arrive at “Bounce Alley,” a path lined with dusty, deflated bounce houses and similar inflatable playthings. I walk past a flattened Charjabug bounce house, floppy Wurmple obstacle course, and limp Lickitung slide among many others, before arriving at a rusty old storage building at the end. With my Dhelmise’s help, I bust into it, finding many large fans that would have been used to pump the inflatables full of air. I wheel many of these fans out on a flat cart and bring them to Dhelmise’s Swinging Anchor, where I get to work installing the fans on the bottom of the ride.

I finally secure the last piece of my modified carnival ride, and stand back to admire my work. The sky is beginning to get dark by now, and I can clearly see the blue, star-shaped pattern of lights on the revolving Super Shuriken in the distance, no doubt because Larry the scientist is riding it.
Then, another ride lights up against the twilight, that ride being the Alolan Exeggutor drop tower. One of the yellow gondolas modeled after Exeggutor’s heads slowly rises to the top, with two figures inside of it. The taller of the two riders lifts a megaphone to his mouth. “Attention, please,” Officer ME’s voice booms. “I have most excellent news. Our remaining culprit has turned herself in. We can now safely take down the force field and leave! I repeat, we can finally l-EEEEEEEEEEEEAVE!!!!” The officer’s megaphone flies right out of his robotic hand as the drop tower’s gondola sharply descends, but everyone on the island can still hear the last syllable of his message as he screams it all the way to the bottom of the ride.

Jack, Wolfrick, Officer ME and I all meet outside of the amusement park entrance. With Officer ME is a little girl, wearing a picnicker outfit and a gleaming pair of handcuffs.
“Wait, the last bad guy was a li’l girl??” Wolfrick blurts in disbelief.
“She’s clearly a bit of a...disturbed child,” Officer ME explains. “Sad to see her get wrapped up in her uncle’s evil scheme, but rest assured that the Boarder Patrol will get her to people who can help her when we’re out of here.” With that, the officer leads the little girl to the Boarder Patrol helicopter and places her in the back.

TheCapsFan has forfeited the game!
Dear TheCapsFan, you are the picnicker, one of Chidamari Sketch's characters in Capture the Shiny Victini. She is the plumber's quiet and sinister niece, and was enlisted by her uncle along with several other trainers to help him steal the shiny Victini. The picnicker's personality is largely a mystery since she rarely speaks, but she has been seen enjoying and exhibiting bouts of cruelty upon others. She owns, among other Pokémon, a Zoroark that has helped her play tricks on her uncle's rivals and hide amongst them in plain sight.

Since you can infiltrate and fool your enemies with your Zoroark's illusions, you are the Mafia Rolecop + Framer. Each Night, you may select a player to investigate. You will learn your target's role (but not necessarily their alignment). Alternatively, one Night phase during the game, you may select a player to frame. If your target is not a member of your faction, they will appear suspicious to a Cop if checked that Night. If your target is a member of your faction, they will appear unsuspicious instead. You are sided with the Mafia, and win once the Town and all other opposing factions are eliminated, or nothing can prevent this.

“So...shouldn’t Larry have deactivated that force field by now?” I ask Officer ME.
“Yes, he should have,” replies the Boarder Patrol man. “I guess it’ll be ME taking care of that, then. Wolfrick, please watch the girl,” he requests before walking back to the amusement park.
“Uh...aye aye?” The Lycanroc thug leans against the Boarder Patrol helicopter, holding his gun at rest by his side.
“I’m going to see what’s keeping Larry and then head back to our helicopter with him,” Jack announces before carrying the shiny Victini into the park.
Well, I guess it’s time for me to leave, too... I think. I step over the rusted main gate still lying on the concrete, and walk back to Dhelmise’s Swinging Anchor alone.

Officer ME and Jack walk through the center of the amusement park, where the device generating the force field had been sitting in the crater made by the plumber’s Celesteela. However, the two men instantly knew something was wrong, as several streaks of light indicated that the device hadn’t been deactivated, but moved to somewhere else in the amusement park. Officer ME and Jack follow the bluish-white trails of light to their source, which Larry seems to be holding as he tinkers with the Shiinotic Spinner, the large, pink ride with many seats dangling from the large “cap” on top. A panel opened up on the side of the ride reveals strange, futuristic machinery that doesn’t appear to belong there. The force field generator is now connected to several of the futuristic components by some wires. “Hey, what are you doing, Larry??” Jack calls out. “Quit messing around, it’s time to go!”
“Oh, sorry...” Larry mutters in a deep voice and Russian accent he didn’t have before, smiling ominously. “...but I was waiting for you.” Suddenly, the scientist’s hands both morph into Dhelmise anchors, which he shoots out on chains to knock down and restrain the two men. Once Officer ME and Jack are ensnared in the chains, the anchors and excess lengths of chain melt into pink, gooey droplets, which then carry the shiny Victini to “Larry” seemingly of their own volition, and finally form back into the impostor’s hands. “Larry” then inserts the scared Victini into the open panel of the Shiinotic Spinner, where the mythical Pokémon is strapped in and pricked by needles. Fluid drawn from the shiny Victini’s bloodstream travels through some translucent tubes, mixing with other chemicals in a reservoir, creating a strange, pink solution inside the machine.
“Y-you’re not Larry Jones!!” sputters Jack angrily from on the cold, hard concrete. “Who are you, and what are you doing?!”
“I am doing something I was supposed to do...” responds the fake Larry. “...several decades into future.” He tucks in the force field generator, shuts the panel, and activates the swing tower. As the ride lights up, hums to life, and starts gyrating slowly, the impostor continues to speak. “I must thank the Black Mareep Corporation for their contribution to my success. While I could have rebuilt my machine here alone, given enough time, acquiring this extra piece of technology made it much easier task.”
Finally spinning at top speed, the swing tower shoots a large, vertical beam of magenta light up at the top of the force field, while the smaller streaks of light streaming from inside the repurposed ride turn pinkish as well. The magenta light the machine is emitting changes the color of the entire force field, and the entire contained area is bathed in a strange energy.

“That doesn’t look deactivated...” I mutter from aboard the Dhelmise ride.

“What the hell??” Wolfrick exclaims. The little girl he’s guarding just giggles sinisterly.

Suddenly, Officer ME angrily breaks off his chains with his robotic arm. As his chains are reduced to violet goo, the officer sends out his Metagross to attack the false Larry. However, no sooner has Metagross emerged from its Pokéball when it freezes up, instantly succumbing to the bizarre, pink energy field. Metagross somehow liquefies, becoming a Ditto, which then turns around and glares at its own trainer maliciously due to the influence of the machine. “...Metagross?” Beads of sweat form on the concerned officer’s face. The Dittofied Pokémon then transforms into a Hydreigon and attacks Officer ME and Jack.

Thanos lost in endgame!
Dear Thanos, you are Officer ME, Maniacal Engineer's character in Capture the Shiny Victini. Officer ME holds the distinction of being the first character to swipe the shiny Victini from somebody else, namely MegaPod. He commands guards of the Boarder Patrol, and repeatedly apprehends trainers as an excuse to get his own hands on the shiny Victini, collecting the Mythical Pokémon as "contraband."

Because of your occupation as an officer, you are the Town Cop. Each Night phase, you may select a player to investigate. You will find out whether your target is unsuspicious (sided with the Town or otherwise benign) or suspicious (sided with the Mafia or otherwise anti-Town). You are sided with the Town, and win once the Mafia and all other opposing factions are eliminated.

Jinjo lost in endgame!
Dear Jinjo, you are Jack the Awesome, one of MassiveShock11's characters in Capture the Shiny Victini. Jack the Awesome is an undercover investigator and journalist who once infiltrated the plumber's group of cronies as a spy. However, he had been suspected all along, and was captured after the plumber was done humoring him. Later, Jack was revealed to be an associate of the mysterious Black Mareep Corporation.

As an investigative journalist who tracks down criminals to get the scoop on them, you are the Town Tracker + Reporter. Each Night, you may select a player to track. You will learn of every player your target visits that Night. Additionally, you may submit an "article" before the end of each phase, which will be published anonymously with the flavor text at the end of phase update, under the pen name Jack the Awesome. You are sided with the Town, and win once the Mafia and all other opposing factions are eliminated.

The fake Larry then proceeds to open up all of the dead trainers’ Pokéballs, which he’d swiped from the real Larry Jones beforehand, causing the hacker’s, Blake’s, Max’s, Ryota’s, the dentist’s, and the plumber’s teams of Pokémon to all turn into Ditto slaves. These Ditto then turn into Genesect and split into several swarms that fly off in different directions.

A chained up Larry Jones watches helplessly in terror as several Dittofied Pokémon in the form of Genesect fly towards the Ferris wheel he’s been trapped in, then blast his gondola to bits with a series of Techno Blasts.

jdthebud lost in endgame!
Dear jdthebud, you are Larry Jones, one of MassiveShock11’s characters in Capture the Shiny Victini. Larry Jones is a scientist employed by the Black Mareep Corporation, a company specialised in developing futuristic technology. After getting fired for inadvertently causing a Cofagrigus to rampage in his laboratory, Larry was re-hired by the Black Mareep Corporation CEO, Frank, and tasked with obtaining the shiny Victini for research purposes. Larry was at one point revealed to be the inventor of the Dialgloves, the time-travel devices first seen used by the Ditto-nator to bring all of the game's players into the future. Larry has also been seen using other fancy gadgets to do his work, such as a flashbang grenade with mind-clearing properties and a Hyper Beam Cannon. He gets around with his signature Pokémon, a Goodra that has curiously developed wings and the capability to fly due to a genetic mutation.

Since you have an arsenal of specialised gadgets at your disposal, you are the Town Inventor. You start the game with 1×Dialgloves, 1×Flashbang,and 1×Hyper Beam Cannon. Once a Night, you may give one of your inventions to another player. Once recieved, the invention may be subsequently used once by the recipient instead of their normal action. The inventions' powers, once given to a player, are as follows:

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You have received Dialgloves! This time-travel device provides you with 1×Phase Resetter. Once during any phase of the game, you may reset. This will undo all of the events (Night actions, lynches etc.) of the previous Day phase and Night phase, and the game will resume from one full Day/Night cycle before the item's use.

You have received a Flashbang! This is a special version of the weapon with mind-clearing properties, so it provides you with a combined 1×Roleblocker/Psychiatrist. One Night phase during the game, you may select a player to stun instead of using your normal Night action. Your target will be prevented from using their own action that Night. Additionally, if your target is a Serial Killer, they will be reverted into a Town player.

You have received a Hyper Beam Cannon! This powerful weapon provides you with 1×Vigilante. One Night phase during the game, you may select a player to kill instead of using your normal Night action.
———

You are sided with the Town, and win once the Mafia and all other opposing factions are eliminated.

Wolfrick desperately tries shooting at the large congregation of Dittofied Pokémon, but it does nothing to stop their advance. The group of brainwashed Ditto all point their cannons at the thug and fire away.

Pika_pika42 lost in endgame!
Dear Pika_pika42, you are Wolfrick, one of MegaPod's characters in Capture the Shiny Victini. He is ex-leader of a gang known as the Lone Wolves. He's more brawn than brains, and has a grudge against the plumber, whom he's tried many times to violently steal the shiny Victini from, only to be met with fierce retaliation ultimately resulting in the rest of his gang's demise. Wolf's signature Pokémon are his two Lycanroc, which he has tattoos of on his arms.

As a gun-toting, law-breaking (and not terribly bright) tough guy, you are the Town Macho Miller + 1×Vigilante. One Night phase during the game, you may select a player to kill. Also, due to your Macho modifier, you cannot be saved from getting killed by any means of direct protection. Finally, due to your Miller modifier, you will appear suspicious if checked by a Cop. You are sided with the Town, and win once the Mafia and all other opposing factions are eliminated.

I can’t believe this is happening all over again... I mutter in exasperation. Indeed, I’d been through something like this before in a past—or should I say, future event involving time travel. Having no choice but to confront the one behind this myself, I start up the modified Dhelmise ride. Thanks to the dozens of fans installed all over the ride, the whole thing begins to propel itself into the air. At the helm which I’ve added inside the anchor-shaped gondola, I steer my new Dhelmise airship towards the spinning Shiinotic swing tower at the heart of the gradually expanding energy field. By turning the airship sharply and swinging its gigantic anchor, I knock the swarm of Ditto coming at me away. As I approach the Shiinotic ride, I attempt to swing the Dhelmise airship at it as well and destroy it; however, the Ditto swarm changes from Genesect into Rotom, and they all take control of the fans making up my Dhelmise airship’s propulsion system before I can do so. The Dhelmise airship crashes down just yards away from the giant machine, and I crawl out of the wreckage to come face to face with the scientist, who drops his disguise and reveals his true form, an old nemesis of mine. “So, we meet again, MegaPod,” states the Ditto wearing shades. “Too bad for you that rotten plumber is not around to help you thwart me,” he taunts, an evil smirk briefly forming on his almost perpetually frowning face. “Soon, the entire world will be under the control of me and my Ditto army.”
“How is this possible, Ditto-nator?” I ask. “We defeated you.You were extremely weakened...”
“The hacker child who captured me was extremely useful tool for achieving my victory,” Ditto-nator responds. “I used him to bring me here, where I could recover my strength and rebuild my machine in peace. Then I lured the shiny Victini here with his cooperation. After that, it was simple matter of letting you foolish humans fight amongst each other while I finalized my grand plan. So here we are. I win. You lose.” I glance around at the swarm of Ditto in the form of Fan Rotom surrounding me, ready to mindlessly eliminate me at Ditto-nator’s command. “Now give me your Pokémon, MegaPod.”
Without uttering so much as “no,” I dart forward, stepping on Ditto-nator and squishing him into the concrete, buying me a few seconds before he pops up again.
“Get him,” the evil Ditto snarls coldly to his brainwashed lackeys. The controlled Ditto swarm closes in on me, fans buzzing threateningly. Ditto-nator laughs cruelly as I’m forced to the ground, and begins shapeshifting into a large, terrifying combination of Pokémon with a Torracat body and legs, Golisopod claws and head, and Aggron armor all over. The monstrous Ditto boss stomps over to me, rears up, and brings one giant paw down on my face.

DarthWolf lost in endgame!
Dear DarthWolf, you are MegaPod, MegaPod's main character in Capture the Shiny Victini. MegaPod, as the game host's own character, was the first to stumble upon the impossibly rare shiny Victini. Though his zany plans tend to backfire on him, MegaPod has shown to improbably escape death numerous times. Starting early in the Victini game's story, he also pilots a Metapod-shaped airship of his own design.

Because of your death-defying tendencies and handy airship, you are the Town 1×Bulletproof + 1×Commuter. The first kill that reaches you will result in failure. Additionally, one Night phase during the game, you may choose to commute. You will be completely untargetable by any actions, but may not post during that Night phase. You are sided with the Town, and win once the Mafia and all other opposing factions are eliminated.



Upon Elementar’s death:

Dear DarthWolf, MegaPod's Braixen has died. In Capture the Shiny Victini, the loss of his Braixen caused MegaPod to go berserk.

Due to this new development, you are now the Serial Killer. Each Night, you may select a player to kill. In addition, you retain any previous abilities of yours you haven't consumed. You are now sided with yourself, and win once you are the last player alive, or nothing can prevent this.



Upon phase reset:

You have reverted to your original role!

HumanDawn has WON the game!
Dear HumanDawn, you are Ditto-nator, one of MegaPod's characters in Capture the Shiny Victini. Ditto-nator is a malevolent Ditto from an alternate timeline. He has cool shades, a Russian accent, and a major superiority complex. Ditto-nator was first seen disguised as the future version of MegaPod in order to get closer to the shiny Victini, which he needed for his plan to turn every Pokémon in the world into mindless Ditto slaves turned against humans. Ditto-nator could transform into giant, powerful amalgams of Pokémon, making him especially hard for the plumber and MegaPod to thwart. He was sent millions of years back in time, but eventually resurfaced with a vengeance. The threat Ditto-nator could pose to the Pokémon world was ultimately nullified when he was critically injured by the plumber, causing his powers to be reduced to that of an ordinary Ditto.

Since you are an evil shapeshifter with your own plans to divide and conquer, you are the Independent Replacer. At Night, if you have not already done so successfully, you may select a player to replace. If successful, you will kill that player, while transferring any powers, modifiers, and items they may have to yourself. This action bypasses passive protection, but is affected by any other forms of protection. Additionally, information about your target's role will be omitted from their in-thread death announcement the following Day; only their role name will be revealed publicly. You are sided with yourself, and win if you survive until endgame, which will cause all other factions to lose.

Suddenly, my eyes shoot open. I look around, seeing the familiar albeit wrecked interior of my Metapod airship. An alarm blares loudly into my ears, though I can hardly bring myself to move. Then I sigh with relief. That didn’t really happen... I assure myself. ...none of it did. That Darkrai put me to sleep after all, didn’t it? I check the Metapod airship’s bridge for the shiny Victini, but it’s nowhere to be found. I run out of the bridge, ready to take back Victini and face whatever challenges await me next...

— — —


The game ended in a win for the Independent Replacer, HumanDawn!

Congratulations to our winner, and great game to everybody else who participated! I’ll probably post some comments of my own later, but for now, here’s some questions for the players.

Did you enjoy playing the game?

How was the setup of the game?

Bastard enough for ya? Too much?

Did you like the flavor text?

What would you have done differently (as a player or as a host)?

Would you consider playing another Mafia game by MegaPod?


I do feel the need to announce that, while I enjoyed hosting this game and have many future plans for other Mafia games to host, I probably won’t be hosting anymore for quite a while as I will be shifting my focus towards other things. But I am very happy to have finally done this, and I hope to do it again sometime in the future. Until then, I’ll probably still be playing TWR games here and there, so you can still expect to see me around.
 
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...GG HD :) I feel swindled. In my defence though, I've never seen that role, so that was not on my radar in the slightest xD Well deserved win though.

Thanks to @MegaPod and @Max1996 for hosting. It was a really fun game that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Bad luck town. We played well, but were unlucky in the end.

Did you enjoy playing the game?
Very much so.
How was the setup of the game?

I know it was bastard, but I feel like mafia was quite underpowered. I didn't really think they stood a chance, and by the end they were easy to pick out. Other than that, it was really interesting and fun.
Bastard enough for ya? Too much?

This game was a really fun bastard. I liked it.
Did you like the flavor text?

I enjoyed it. Very well written :)
What would you have done differently (as a player or as a host)?

Lynched HD. Other than that, nothing.
Would you consider playing another Mafia game by MegaPod?

Definitely :) I'm looking forward to them.
 
HumanDawn has WON the game!
I... I... You... But... It...
...Well played HD... Well played...

Did you enjoy playing the game?
Yeah, it was a good time.
How was the setup of the game?
Mafia feels a bit weak. Those were some damn strong roles we had and the Mafia just felt weak in comparison. I dunno, maybe the SK was supposed to balance things, but in that case I think it would've been better to not have a way for them to get back to being Town.
Bastard enough for ya? Too much?
Oh this was so incredibly bastard... I loved it. Replacer felt a bit much though. I know it was a bastard game, but I'd say it's a little too bastard to include a 100% custom role (meaning that no-one could possibly prepare for it) that just steals victory if players are nice to indeps.
Did you like the flavor text?
Absolutely, loved reading it.
What would you have done differently (as a player or as a host)?
Buffed the mafia/nerfed the Town, and either removed Replacer or changed its wincon. That last part's just me though.
Would you consider playing another Mafia game by MegaPod?
Yeah, this was pretty fun.
 
Good game everyone! @HumanDawn for the record we knew you weren't survivor since Night 1 Pt. 1, Feenie had the good idea of using the rolecop on you. We didn't know what to do with you though because we didn't know what Replacer was, so we just left you alone.

It kinda sucks that town won, because I honestly thought that we were playing really well and I feel like we definitely would have won the game had the phase reset never happened. Despite that we still managed to mislynch someone each day except the last.

Did you enjoy playing the game?

Yes I did! It was one of the more fun games I've played recently and I had two buds as scum partners, so that was cool.
How was the setup of the game?
I mean, it was obviously townsided. Tracker/watcher combo, complete with full investigative Cop and protection Doctor is like a town dream team. We had strongman to counter Doctor, I guess. But Framer should have been different. When I've used Framer in the past (see Masters of the Whoniverse circa 2015) we were able to flip a completely different role PM off a lynch. Changing the result of a cop check is useful, but not powerful enough compared to town.
Bastard enough for ya? Too much?
There was no spy, so cons to that. I just love that role. But I think if you made it any more bastard it would have been even less helpful to scum.
Did you like the flavor text?
I didn't read it but I'll go read it now :)
What would you have done differently (as a player or as a host)?
Not pretend to be silenced on the last day.
Would you consider playing another Mafia game by MegaPod?
Of course.

I have one more piece of feedback that I want to say outside of the questions because I feel like it's very important.

I would like to propose that in future games here in TWR, the Silencer strategy of talking with votes should be banned. I understand that it might be up to host's discretion, but it really is loophole abuse, no different than Elieson talking in his signature in his first game here. If you want the player to be able to vote while silenced, you can have them vote in PM. I just feel like it really takes away from the charm of the role, and although it's a clever strategy as town, it can indirectly make town even more powerful than originally intended.

I promise I don't intend that to be me complaining as a poor sport but just me suggesting something :)
 
I'd say a couple of things could be improved -
1. HD. Too powerful.
2. Mafia were underpowered. This wouldn't be a problem in and of itself, but I hate it when a game can be solved simply because town's roles are easy to prove and so Mafia can be singled out as the only players with passive/unprovable claims. Give Mafia claim room and decent counters for town roles.
Otherwise, the game was quite good. The FT was especially nice, and you could see thought went into the unique roles. It just worked out unbalanced, is all.
 
The man’s briefcase pops open, spilling out its unusual contents.
“Ow...what was that?” mutters the scientist as we continue to speed off.

Should have read the flavor text before, this confirms there were items.

“Don’t give ME that attitude!!” shouts the officer with a burp. “You know what? No. I’m gonna find who did this now, and I’m gonna bring ‘em to justice, and then I’m gonna be the guy who brought ’em to justice. Not the guy who killed him, because I’m gonna bring who killed him to justice.” Once he’s finished rambling and burping, the drunken officer stumbles out of the helicopter with his beer bottle in hand.

If this really ain't @Maniacal Engineer ...

9. @HumanDawn - 5,000 (MegaPod, Max1996)

Didn't see this until now, why did you guys do this? :p

Excellent job on the FT, you two.
 
I enjoyed the game and I also felt pressured about my role because I was the Town Tracker + Reporter and some of the Town players did not believe my claim. I had my suspiciouns on HD all along from the beginning thinking that he was a bad independent and I did not believe in his Survivor claim. Even though I did not believe in his Survivor claim, I still played along pretending HD was a Survivor when in fact he was not. I was inactive on Day 1 and yet, I did something so reckless before I went inactive and I had to cancel my reckless action after I caught up on the thread on Day 1. Playing as the Tracker + Reporter, I made a report and I wrote, "DarthWolf has been revealed to be the Roleblocker.". After I submitted my report on Day 1, I went inactive for around 38 hours. Reason why I wrote that was because DarthWolf's posts in the beginning looked like a Mafia playstyle and I came back 3 hours before Day 1 was going to end and I had to read what I missed fast to catch up. I saw there was an early bandwagon on me and I almost got lynched for being inactive and then DarthWolf noticed I was inactive and told the players that I was inactive. That's when I realized DarthWolf must be Town and I immediately cancelled my reckless report that would be published on Night 1 about DarthWolf on guessing that he was the Mafia.

I thought the setup was good.

With the Independent Replace role and Elementar's death about a Town player becoming the SK after he dies, yes, it did feel Bastard for me and I'm not used to playing 100% Bastard games.

What would I have done differently. I would have loved to warn Town not to trust HD so fast about his claim but I chickened out because I thought Town would not be happy with me and thought they would start accusing me for being Mafia and so, I just stayed quiet.

I would consider playing another game by MegaPod as long as I'm available.
 
Woah that was a shocking surprise. Congrats HD. Great win for you.

I think even normal survivors are going to be afraid to claim now as Lynch Indeps D1 is going to be a thing after this game.

Did you enjoy playing the game?
I enjoyed this game a lot. I think this was one of my better games as Town.

How was the setup of the game?
I don't understand the balance thing too much, so I won't comment on that but like everyone said, even I felt the Mafia to be underpowered.

Bastard enough for ya? Too much?
I don't really keep any expectations in bastard games as you can be showered with surprises. This game was surely bastard but enjoyable nevertheless. I am going to be salty about the HD role though.

Did you like the flavor text?
I have read only till N2. Need to catch up on it. It's really interesting to read.

What would you have done differently (as a player or as a host)?

Lynched HD. Other than that, nothing.

Would you consider playing another Mafia game by MegaPod?
Sure. Would love to play.
 
I also forgot to mention Tracker is one of my favorite roles and being a Tracker was a privilege for me.
 
Should have read the flavor text before, this confirms there were items.

If this really ain't @Maniacal Engineer ...

Didn't see this until now, why did you guys do this? :p

Excellent job on the FT, you two.
Yeah, I did sneak little things like that in there.

I know, you totally can’t tell him apart from the real deal!
Well, I did try my best, anyways

Well, HumanDawn tried to vote me and Max that phase, which A) was invalid because you can’t vote two people at once, and B) was not gonna fly. So I took it upon myself to show HD exactly what absolutely never happens when he tries to pull something like that.

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As for everyone’s biggest complaints about the setup...yeah, I could’ve done better with it for sure.

The Replacer wincon (not wincing, autocorrect!) was definitely a sneaky thing, and it was also a smart move on HD’s part to keep his actual Replacer action idled the whole game so he could simply play the harmless Survivor part. I mean, I kinda figured someone would want to try out the new toy I gave them, but I shouldn’t have banked on that, clearly. Though, save for HD theoretically replacing The Godfather, I’ll note that HumanDawn would’ve been scanned suspicious by the Cop due to his anti-Town wincon. (There weren’t any benign indeps in my game, but any wincon that outright clashes with the Town’s own is how I define a role as anti-Town. When playing, I also may use “scum” as a collective term for such players, Mafia or Independent.) And who knows, maybe he could’ve pinned his own kill on the Mafia Janitor with success? :p But yeah, just the wincon was enough of an insanely powerful tool for him in its own right.

And looking at it now, Town was certainly OP. The Triggered Serial Killer was an attempted means of countering the Town’s power, yes, but it could still be played to the Town’s advantage rather easily as we’ve seen. And definitely it was an excellent play on jd’s part to get Pika those Dialgloves on the very first Night.
To give the Mafia some more power in the game, I could’ve probably given Roleblocker to the plumber role as an unlimited action, and that could’ve worked well flavorwise too. I certainly underestimated the importance of a good Roleblocker for the Mafia, especially in such a role madness game, when I first devised their team. And maybe the dentist could’ve had a one-shot Doctor to counter the multitude of possible non-Mafia killing roles...damn I regret not doing that now! I’ll also try to have tighter reins on Silenced players in the future too, should I use Silencer again. (I mean, I did disallow some cheaty stuff, but not enough I suppose) The temp secret voting idea is actually a cool suggestion.

Anyways, guess I’m still learning how this Mafia hosting biz really works, so I hope y’all will stay patient with me when I decide to host again. Maybe I’m not the best host, but I’ll try to be a memorable one at the very least! :p
 
What I thought during the game:

Random: Just pretend to possibly be Fool by saying I'm an Independent who is okay with being lynched, and that might get me to Endgame? I don't expect to win any other way, if I stay too quiet I will be NK food, or lynch food, if I speak and am seen as a threat, I am also NK food...

(in my role PM)

One of my ideas was to try to give Jester impressions, but I thought that it would be too risky... and thus...

I'm an Independent Survivor and need to make it to Endgame to win.

Why have I claimed? Because there's no way in hell I'm going to make it to Endgame alive. If I'm too quiet, I get suspected to be a PR and maybe get nightkilled, if I'm too loud, same thing. If I'm on the middle ground or I am a little quiet, I might be thought of as Mafia and thus get some votes that may get me lynched. Both teams benefit from my claim in that the Mafia will not waste an NK/RBlock/RCop/etc. on them and neither will Town waste a lynch or PR on me. That said, I know that Indepentent = Serial Killer/Cult but I'm neither of those, and if the fear of me being either of them is fear enough to get me lynched, then so be it, because I seriously doubt I would have been able to win either way like I already explained. It's your call if it nets you a safe lynch this Day Phase.

I decided to be honest and I seriously was completely up to get myself lynched, but with the lack of players wanting me to get lynched, I decided to defend myself more and more to win.

Doing nothing while a game is on-going is not my thing, so I'll post, but I won't try to be too helpful because I don't want to get Nightkilled. I won't post reads lists. Being dishonest and doing anti-Town things will risk me getting me lynched if they get noticed.

This is very true - It's very agonizing to play this way!

I was VERY ecstatic to see quite the support for my survival at this point.

Re: Feenie, I think she only did something a bit reckless. Mafia would be more interested in digging up info about other roles instead of just one player. A Town player would be more interested in digging up what they can, in this case, the Miller claim to see if it is legit or not.

Re: AussieEevee is comimg off as his usual self, but there is more insistence on the Miller claim potentially being fake. I'm almost sure he has played games where the Miller claimed D1 and he wasn't that against it. Not sure what to make of him.

Both of these are lies - Feenie was scummy but I wanted to try to deflect the bad attention she got with the Pika vote so maybe she'd think I really am Independent.

AussieEevee looked like their Town selves so I decided to say I was unsure to try to not give a positive read that may not get them lynched.

I checked the player list and noticed that Jinjo has not posted at all. Considering how chatty she usually is I am concerned she hasn't posted with half the Day Phase over. Maybe she finally hit a Mafia role and doesn't know how to blend in yet? I kinda doubt she's some information role because when she was one before, she still posted.

I said this because this is what I would think as Town and do if Feenie didn't raise any eyebrows. I really didn't know that there was a game Jinjo didn't post Day 1 in though.

This makes me feel better about HD. I mean it's a bastard game but 2 SKs would be overkill, quite literally.

Serial Killer reveal and Phase Reset helped immensely in making me look not anti-Town.

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You're the Doctor... if you didn't protect Kyriaki, or you protected her but have been told that you've blocked, then you know that it's much more likely that it's because of her Masonizer.

So, PoE? Process of Elimination it is.

I felt that the votes on Cilantro were a bit unfair because it could have very easily been a coincidence that he was the target, but I thought that if he was actually Mafia then I'd look like I was defending them.

Vote: DarthWolf

Vote won't go to TheCapsfan unless he's going to claim that he can become the SK or something convincing.

I actually thought TheCapsFan could be telling the truth because a Coroner makes sense if there are two Role PM hiding roles on death, 1 from Mafia and 1 from mine. That, or they Rolecop checked me and learned my full role details.
 
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