The Happening.... *not* crap M. Night Shyamalan version

 

Scenario:

The once quiet town of Samwise Gamgee has been having some trouble recently: movie attendance is down, happiness seems at an all time low, and no-one is buying Valentine's cards! One resident - Donald Sutherland, a Canadian character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years - seems to remember a movie he once starred in that had a similar plot. He announces to the town there can only be ONE cause: people are being replaced by replicas grown from plantlike pods! He calls his out-of-town friend (and co-star in the 1978 movie), Leonard Nimoy, who reminds him how the movie had a totally crap ending for Humanity, and persuades Sutherland to run away with him. Together they will find William Shatner's truck bed camper (which he still lives in) and attempt to turn it into an inter-stellar ship.

 

Meanwhile, the nice townfolk stare at each other in confusion. What should decent, smart people do? MOVE, of course. What are YOU gonna do? Try to figure out who the pod guys are and lynch 'em during the daylight! I'm not kidding, folks. That's the plan, unless you want to "make like Sutherland" or "pull a Nimroy." Which would be totally lame, and your future children would disown you.

 

 

So there is good news and bad news. The bad news is, the pod people move at night - and might switcheroo OR kill one of the townsfolk (never both). The good news is, due to their desire to blend in, they will never switcheroo to a equal number or majority. If there are 3 townsfolk and 1 pod person, the next morning there will still be 3 townsfolk (if noone was murdered). If pod people outnumber or equal the Innocents during the day, the pods win, if the Innocents wipe out the pod people, Donald Sutherland can come home.

 

Rules:

[01] Votes should be in bold. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted, unless you're clever and add it to the spreadsheet also. Failsafe system!

[02] Please put some effort into making posts longer than 1 or 2 sentences. I can't force you to do it, but it would be helpful.

[03] Lynching will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, their pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. The exception to this rule is if the deadline is reached, and no majority has been achieved - see below *

[04] You may vote: no lynch. Majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death.

[05] Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. You can make a single “Bah!” post but no relevant information.

[06] No small text. Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts either.

[07] Don’t quote any PMs from me. If you do, I will destroy you.

[08] If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you. If you do not submit a choice to me, I’ll flip a coin or get creative, depending on how much I've had to drink.

[09] If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 24-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.

[10] If you have any questions at all, please PM me or post the question in the thread.

[11] Remember, it’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. Be nice to your fellow players.

 

*"What happens if the deadline is reached, and there is no 'majority'?" This is most likely to happen if either (1) some people are inactive, or don't vote or (2) the spread of votes is evenly distributed. In scenario 1, all those unvoting members at the deadline become "abstaining" and lose their vote that round, and in the case of (2) whoever has the oldest vote of lynch gets it. Believe it or not, this is to HELP the townies, trust me.

 

Vote for a player to be lynched by posting and using the NIFTY SPREADSHEET BELOW. The spreadsheet shows you (at any moment) how things stand, the posting is so historically people can look back and decide how evil or decent you are. Yes, we can also post votecounts, but the spreadsheet is the best way to make sure I don't miss something or screw up. If there are 2 players with the same amount of votes at deadline, then I will lynch the one who reached that number of votes first.

 

 

Players:

 

1/ ScoutX

2/ Falzis

3/ Aquinas

4/ CanucksDynasty

5/ KevinH

6/ Electric Mango

7/ Narsis

8/ Tobias Greene

 

Finally....

THE NIFTY SPREADSHEET OF AWESOMENESS

 

The above link is to a spreadsheet which lists everyone still alive, and a column for each player. This is to save me the endless back and forth that I've seen here. Open the sheet, find the column at the top with your name, and then place an X in that column under who you want killed (list of candidates is on the left).

 

YOU SHOULD ALL HAVE PMs SITTING IN YOUR INBOX WITH CHARACTERS. LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY SNAGS.

Edited February 5, 201016 yr by molestargazer

yeah i guess i got a bit lucky.

 

 

i was really worried about there being a role immune to conversion. i know that Hades isnt stupid...and it seemed like a stupid move to balance the game so apparently to my side. i actually suspected ScoutX of being immune. KevinH was my first thought to nk last night, but CD gave a convincing enough reason to kill Scout and it didnt really matter anyway.

 

 

as for Falzis...yes i suspected him of a power role. it was actually a bit of a toss up night 1: Falzis(power role suspect), CD(experienced and a useful asset...and dangerous opponent), and KevinH(who went against the norm of his no lynch stance and is experienced). EM is experienced, however his activity was lacking so i considered him less of a threat. i deemed the threat of a power role greater then the threat of CD or Kevin night one, so converted him.

 

then comes night 2...now it again came down to EM, CD, and Kevin. however, EM hadn't voted against Falzis the day before...making him a good pod suspect day 3. and i considered CD more of a threat then Kevin.

 

also...even if i had come under suspicion on any day...i had devised what i considered a pretty good fake roleclaim form the getgo. i was a butcher(that is truth), and since pods were naturally plant people...i devised the claim of being conversion immune.(plants hating meat...kidna sounds silly now but made sense back then and prob would have worked).

Good play by the scum.

I investigated Falzis and knew he was scum so I was happy to get that lynch without role-claiming.

I got a bonus reveal that ScoutX was townie, so I had some info on him but he might have been converted.

Last night, I investigated EM and found him to be townie so I was pretty sure that Aquinas must be scum.

It turns out that I was played for a fool.

Congratulations to the winners!

@mole: considering how the game might have actually been quite well balanced...will you include this one in the wins losses? (please?)

The friend power was actually kind of nice because it didn't really matter who I used it on. No matter what, if any of those people voted for me, I'd instantly know they were pods.

Uh. Who were actually the scum who won here?

Uh. Who were actually the scum who won here?

 

 

SCUM: Narsis, Falzis, CanucksDynasty.

 

 

 

It was an 8 player game with Narsis starting as Mafia.

He could recruit or kill townies.

2 townie power roles could not be recruited.