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[Mini-Phalla] of Brass: The Philosopher Kings (God Save The Queen: Cultist/Templar Win)
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Defending my position opposing the above rule change
This rule has the unfortunate ability to expose village specials. This is due to the way the geth interaction works. Awesome means death, agree means vig, and watch means seer. Lets look at the list of possible player types and the reason they would or would not want to play this "Geth Lottery".
- Vanillagers: Due to not having any powers, they will push hard for a Geth agree or watch and they will not care about being awesome'd because a vanillager death does not hurt the village. They have nothing to lose and will buy as many tickets to this Geth lottery as possible.
- Mafia: Are most scared of death and will lay low to avoid being awesome'd. Unless they have a way to avoid rule changes. Either way this is likely a risk to them and will not be sought after as whole.
- Village Specials: Already have a power and need to stay alive. Gain no benefit from this system and instead are punished. Their posting rate will drop.
As a result, the mafia and specials will need to skirt inactivity. Since the mafia know who each other are, they will be able to determine who are most likely village specials from the posters who are on the lower activity scale. Therefore, this will give the mafia a smaller pool of players to choose from when hunting specials and will hurt the village.
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Attack of above defense
Assuming that the lack of activity and signups in phalla is due to lack of crazy mechanics is completely fallacious. Saying something doesn't make it so. And in fact, the most recent phalla have been some of the craziest games mechanics-wise. If anything, the crazy mechanics are pushing players away from playing due to distance it is mechanically from normal mafia. SaberOverEasy said it best in a PM to me:
(bolded added for emphasis)
So not only did you not prove that the lack of signups is due to a lack of interesting games, but look at the most recent list of Minis:
and Mains:
Of those, only 3-4 can be considered vanilla-ish games. Most of them have relied on battle mechanics, hp systems, locations, and more. Phalla doesn't need more crazy mechanics to bring more players in, it need less crazy mechanics so our community can get back to the roots of what makes phalla truly interesting: behavioral analysis, human interaction, and diplomacy.
Therefore, to claim that adding more mechanics into an already mechanic filled game will increase sign-ups of future games is patently false.
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@Assuran Premium is no longer among the living. But he was mafia so spot on.
vote close is in half an hour btw
So, that was bad and I feel bad. That's what I get for trying to vote off of lists from other people's quotes.
Basically, I was going to vote for Ketbra, but then I looked at his posts for this game and didn't see anything worth voting for, so I'm back to square one.
I suppose I'll vote for TA , instead.
I guess I'm actually going to go with Iron Weasel, for similar reasons to SLyM: that's to say, IW is putatively offering reasons, but it's actually pretty hard to tell a story about how that 'vote switching weirdness' actually makes TRV a mafia.
Voting.
Riiight
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“I am fine,” Arthur yelled – or at least, attempted to yell. A weak, shivering wheeze came from him instead.
“You are not,” his companion insisted, attempting to get him to sit back down. “You've had fever all day, and been ghastly white. You are far from well.”
“Get off me,” Arthur demanded, attempting to push him away. He failed, quite thoroughly. “I need to keep going.”
“You can barely stand,” his associate insisted, “I will not permit it. Now lay down, I'm getting more tea.” When in the other room, he heard Arthur fall to the ground. Truth be told he expected it, but felt that the lesson had to be learned the hard way.
When he returned to the room, uncanny panic seized him. Desperate he turned Grunt's Ghosts Arthur Norvulk over, wiping the bile drooling out his mouth. He tried, and he tried, and he tried to resuscitate him.
He did not.
Vice-Chancellor Daniel Mason shook his head, inspecting the document. “I think this is mad,” he told Passeridae. “Phyphor Braide Cobbler is a bright student, to dismiss her on this is foolish.”
“So much fear,” he sighed wearily, “Everyone casts doubt on one another. What am I to do? There is so much suspicion that surely none of the accused can be accused. I must take the fearmongers from the school.”
The Vice-Chancellor shook his head, placing the letter back down. “Richard,” he said slowly, “About this whole affair...”
“What is it Daniel?” The Headmaster-King sighed. His weight sank heavy into the chair behind him. “I am so busy with this, so tired, and I must presume I have enemies around every corner.”
“Have you considered that it might be about...your daughter?”
Quiet as his shoes would let him be, the paramour delicately stroked SLyM Lillian Améry's cheek. Distant, but a fetching lass. In the chair across the room blahmcblah Vincent Calviera slumped. She could do better than him. Not much better, admittedly – not the paramour, certainly, but well enough.
Still though, no matter how attractive she might have been, it was best to do her in. He procured the syringe, then paused. Either out of habit or to assuage his fears he lifted the covers.
“Oooh not FUCKING AGAIN!” he yelled, and fled. He heard the sword bury itself in the door frame as he ducked through it.
“What are you implying?!” Passeridae blustered, nearly yelling. “I will not have you tarnish-”
“You know the family she married into, Richard!” Daniel Mason demanded, striking his fist into the table. “You can't ignore the reputation forever!”
“She would have nothing to do with that nonsense,” the Headmaster-King snarled, “It demeans me to dishonor her to my face!”
“To deny her agency in her own life is insulting to her in equal parts!” Daniel continued. “All choose their family, and she chose-”
“MY ANNIKA WOULD NEVER CONSORT WITH ANARCHISTS!” Headmaster-King Richard Passeridae yelled. The gaslight lamp on his table, luckily unlit, fell to the ground and shattered.
Vice-Chancellor Daniel Mason was quiet for a moment. “Then you were a father to all but her,” he said calmly, and turned, and left.. In the quiet of his office, Richard Passeridae buried his head in his hands and cried.
Also KetBra Geoffrey Jerston forgot to breathe and died.
Phyphor: Braide Cobbler (Professor Skinner's Drinking Buddy) – Tied the vote
Grunt's Ghosts: Arthur Norvulk (Vig) – Poisonous Manner
blahmcblah: Vincent Calviera – Betrayed!
SLyM: Lillian Améry (Savant) – Betrayed! and Penitence
KetBra: Geoffrey Jerston – Democratic Failure
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2/4 Metaphors Remain
ObiFett defeated TheRoadVirus in debate by 4 points. The proposal codenamed “Geth Powers” is nullified.
Grunt's Ghosts The Anonymous is debating for the transfer of special abilities. TheRoadVirus opposes, and has first post.
Lockeout is debating for a dodgerblue public seer vote. The Anonymous opposes, and has first post.
Please do not begin debates until all PMs are out. Please do not discuss these PMs until they are all out. Upon all PMs being out, players are open to resume their expulsion, proposal, and support votes.
Day 4 ends at 8 PM PST Sunday. Day 4 debates end an hour earlier, at 7 PM.
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It's happened before
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Third times the charm? TRV
I'm still mad.
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