GeneralValter:
Nope, the target of the vision gets the side effects. The side effects are locked to a single person, eg. Xion always gave the wart curse. To make things even more confusing, Fifth, hroon, and Hideous were immune to side effects.
Re paranoia, yes, it was mostly to nail anyone who either admitted or acted far too much like a witch. Also, to give the humans a chance to win if they were behind, or kill each other senselessly if they were not.
I believe Inane may have contacted many people.
I don't think I would have done the same, but I'm not going to fault his tactic, because he managed to survive anyway.
Mind you, a few more votes during paranoia and it would be over for him.
Re your perfect guess, I actually wondered for a moment if my machine had been compromised.
Dacke:
Glad you enjoyed reading it.
There are many more interesting PMs that went around too. Got a few good unused ones as well.
(For everyone else- Dacke was the reserve I was going to bring in to swap out the inactive witchhunter role. I organised things with the poor guy, then when he was all ready to start, I received the werewolf move and the game ended. D'Oh!)
Lucaz:
Thanks.
Here's what would have happened if you had given the rose to a witch (I'll assume Hideous):
Lucaz insistently offers a single rose to Hideous.
"Ah... thankyou, I think?", says Hideous, who accepts the rose, and is not entirely sure what to make of the offer. He looks at the rose quizzically.
Suddenly, the rose begins to rot and fall apart in Hideous's hands.
All of a sudden, a bright green flame leaps up from the ground around Hideous. It doesn't harm him, but scares him senseless for a few moments. When he recovers, he is standing there amidst a pillar of green flame. Billowing spoke pours forth from the flames.
Suddenly, several black cats run out, encircling Hideous. A ring of crows begin to circle his head. The crows seem to be calling out "witch!" "witch!" "witch!".
"Okay, there is an entirely rational, sensible explanation for this all" offers Hideous. "This is in no way suggests that I am a witch."
Several silver coins fall from the sky, clattering around. Each of the coins are imprinted with a picture- a witch.
"There are still several, entirely rational explanations for this." adds Hideous.
The sky darkens as dark clouds cover the sky. The ominous sound of thunder can be heard. It is almost as if the sky is crying out "Hideous is a witch!" "Hideous is a witch!".
"This is merely a freak weather occurrence. In some towns, this happens all the time."
All of a sudden a large bubbling cauldron bursts out of a nearby house, landing in front of him. A nearby broom lands by his side. A black pointed hat is trying to land on his head to really drum in the point, but Hideous keeps swatting it away. While he is distracted, a black cloak does manage to sneak up on him from behind, attaching itself discretely to the back of his clothes.
Still fighting off the black pointed hat, Hideous admits: "Okay, I have to admit, this does make me look bad."
Several tap-dancing white rats enter the scene, dancing in a circle around Hideous. It is at this point that the effect is broken, as several of the black cats notice the rats, and begin to chase them. The crows fly off in all directions, crying out "witch" "witch" "witch" as the disappear into the distance.
Hideous admits defeat in his battle against the pointy black hat. It nestles itself upon his head.
Hideous is still surrounded in green flame and billowing smoke, which follows him around as he walks. Even the cauldron and broom slide along after him.
Hideous looks somewhat despondent at this point.
"I'm going to hazard a guess", begins Lucaz. "That Hideous may be a witch."
increpare:
After I got everyone's Guild preferences, I tried to come up with roles and abilities that made sense for everyone, and tied in with their preferences. The signup was one huge "select your character" screen with unlimited choices.
Attaching benefits to subobjectives encouraged people to use them a bit. Glad you liked.
I agree, I think the game went a fair bit better sans quote boxes. I didn't enjoy having to police it, but everyone who used them was happy to go back and fix them up later (eventually), which was good.
I was fully prepared to have the crowd burn anyone who didn't, though.
Xotes:
Not using the conversion ability during day one hurt your chances a bit too- because you would have got conversion two that night if you did. increpare copping everyone's interest was a second blow to the wolves chances, and your subsequent burning was the beginning of the end for the wolves. Fifth had incredible odds against him at that stage.
Glad you had fun.
Cheater:
Burn him! Burn him!
Actually, the cityfolk took care of that in day one.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Inane:
Nope, not you. The lists weren't in order. Your visions made people wake up under the bed. Xion was hit by you on day one, and he got this:
You wake up in a panic. You have something pressed right up against your face, and a hard surface below you. You struggle for a moment, but then realise what has happened. You are lying underneath your bed.
You roll out from under it, and look around. Your bedsheets are still on the bed, but somehow you fell out of bed without disturbing them, and ended up neatly under the bed.
How very strange.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I enjoyed watching you struggle through my horribly cruel subobjective, and you took it on like a champion.
Congrats.
Might be a while before I can host again, think 2009.
Takes up so much time, most of it doing the writing, of course. Much of the ruleset is there though, and I'd be happy to provide assistance to anyone willing to host the game with the same ruleset, including providing the missing details on how certain things worked. I'd definitely change the one-wolf thing though, which was effectively a plot twist, and put in some other sort of twist instead.
Converted wolves kept their same ability: Witches kept visions, Humans kept investigation. They were of use to each as the wolves had a vested interest in finding witchhunters, and knowing if the others were witches or humans helped as well.
Fifth:
Glad you enjoyed!
I spent a huge amount of time putting it together and writing the descriptions, all the time worrying: "Do people actually read this?".
When you have a chance, skim back through the long public posts, most have several gags worked into them. Some subtle, most not.
Here's an outtake from the Xotes burn battle, which I had to take out because hroon was killed and McAndrews was missing:
hroon spies a rapid motion, and in a moment, Xotes lands before him, smiling. A circle of cats surround hroon, awaiting his command. There are two hissing cats poised on his shoulders, ready to strike. hroon makes his move.
Pointing a finger toward Xotes, he cries: "Attack!"
The cats all immediately flee the area.
Xotes raises a mighty hand, and hroon nods in acknowledgment of what he must do. He flings himself into the air, against a building and crumples down onto the ground.
Xotes turns to find McAndrews backing away.
"Attack?" he asks the gathered clouds, who do not respond.
The odds were stacked against you once Xotes was caught (and very narrowly so, the three main suspects had roughly 30% of the city vote each). Knowing that battlerager could probably defend himself would have made your decision very difficult. Hindsight being 100% and all, but investigating him would have shown he was a witch, and if you could talk someone else into checking, you could have gone for the burn on the final few days.
Hideous:
Glad you thought so.
Yeah, I wasn't clear on the PM at night thing, and didn't clarify properly. Sorry about that guys. Ideally, I should have set the PM policy right from the start, but with all the other details, it slipped my mind.
Yes, your visions had side effects- you flooded rooms with water. This is what Gainsworthy got on night one:
In your sleep, you have a dream. You are a bird flying through the air, the cool wind caressing your face. You can see for miles. Everything seems to small from up here. All of a sudden, you feel a pain in your side. You are falling, falling down. You land in a lake. You gasp as the water begins to fill your lungs. You are drowning, drowning, drowning...
You wake up with a start. You are still drowning! You cough and choke, gasping for air. Your lungs are full of water! You hack and choke, and then cough up water. You gasp, and your lungs fill with air. You are alive.
You lie back down, and hear a squelch. That is when you notice that your bed is completely soaked in water. You sit up and look around. It appears that the entire room is now four inches deep in water.
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Keep those questions coming.
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