It is now Night 0. Get your actions in chaps, night lasts 48 hours.

Half-hour left!

NIGHT 0: THE VOYAGE BEGINS

As the guests sat down in the dining room the next day, it was remarked upon that there were a few missing. One of these, Sodamister, came limping into the room. "Someone tried to murder me in my bed!" he cried. "This ship is a death trap."

Dr Newt looked up quizzically from the top of the table. "Nonsense, the Imaginarium is as safe as they come. No expense is spared to ensure the safety of our passengers."

He buttered some toast with an elaborately-carved knife, which bore the initials 'V' and 'N'. "Of course, that didn't stop someone murdering Rotaretilbo last night in the engine room. Poor devil. It's far from ideal."

The guests looked in stunned silence at their host. Sitting the teacup back on the saucer, his mechanical eyepiece whirred as though to refocus. "Oh yes, and Dante's dead as well. But I doubt many of you will miss him, you know. Rather a bad egg, that one."

Dr Newt continued his breakfast in merry contemplation. Most of the others found that they had lost their appetites.

Rot (playing WRP, an Engineer) has been killed.
Dante (playing Sarn, a Mafia Doctor) has been killed.
Someone tried to kill Sodamister, but failed.

It is now Day 1.
There are 16 alive, so it's 9 to lynch

[This message has been edited by Newt_Gunray (edited 05-14-2012 @ 07:10 PM).]

What's an Engineer do?

"What does an engineer do?" asked Ash.

Dr Newt paused in eating his boiled egg. "The Engineer might not have seemed particularly important, but I can assure you that he was. You see, on a ship of this size and complexity, we take all possible precautions to ensure that things run smoothly. However, certain... problems... do have a tendency to arise from time to time."

"It may come as a shock to you, but there are certain parties who would seek to sabotage the mechanical workings of this fine vessel. Only in the most favourable of circumstances, granted, but such unsavoury types do exist. Your engineer, may he rest in peace, was instrumental in mitigating the potential damage that may have been done. Without the engineer..." The host sighed sadly.

"Without the engineer, any sabotage which might be carried out on this ship will be liable to cause far, far more serious damage than if he were alive."

Small pressure Vote: Coldviper

(V)ox ihili. I'm not really convinced of anything because I doubt that our host would really frame anyone in the morning write-up, but I wonder if perhaps you know something, especially if it's relevant to the murder of Rot.

Also, if any of you are millers, survivors, or playing Mozzarella Man, it'd be in your best interest to come forward now.

I want a name claim from popey.

Why?

I do agree, actually. If whoever's playing Mozzy isn't scum, it would probably be a good idea for them to claim now.

Bwah! Just noticed the initials thing. In the interests of fairness, no, that was just flavour: the V and the N on the knife do not stand for Vox Nihili. The meanings may become clear as the game progresses.

If you hadn't realised it, this is about as close as you're going to get to a Storyteller's without actually playing in a Storytellers. I go a bit mad with flavour.

I want a name claim from popey. I'll explain more once he's claimed that much.

@newt - I enjoy the flavor.

Well, I'm kind of honored to be blind fired N0. Hearts and hugs.

I'm Mozzerella Man, (jealous) survivor.
I'm told there's another survivor out there and I don't win if they're alive at the end.
My guess is mozzy is that other survivor.
I don't have the RL time to formulate some kind of elaborate plan in order to find that others survivor and have them offed. So I'll just get this claim out, and if the other survivor doesn't claim now, lynch all liars comes into effect in my favour?

My flavor investigations agree that he is indeed mozzy, and he has ranting letters decrying other passengers. However, I do not know who the other passenger is.

I can promise you all that I am neither a survivor, miller, or third-party player. I am entirely pro-Town according to my flavor which suggests no possibility nor hint of any misgivings toward the Town.

Also, I fear we may get confused. How should we separate players from their characters? Mozzy for the player (me) and Mozzarella Man for the character (played by Popey)? I don't know how this'll work for other players.

Unvote: Coldviper

No reason to pressure him at this point, then, other than randomness. And other people (Popey, Carol) are looking more interesting at the moment anyhow.

Mozzy, that's fine with me. I was refering to you in the above post. Denial of you being a survivor is good enough for me.

I also think it would be a good idea if we all went through and said if our player is in the game. if the majority are, we can use names to scum hunt and we can use occam's razor to assume that all the players in the game have a counterpart, and as such reduce scum fakeclaims to almost none, because then they would be counterclaimed.

of course, this may very well not apply.

Can I make the suggestion that you use Aberrations for the username and the full name when speaking about roles. Just a suggestion that would tell the two apart. *Back to being dead*

Quoted from Mozzy:

Also, I fear we may get confused. How should we separate players from their characters? Mozzy for the player (me) and Mozzarella Man for the character (played by Popey)? I don't know how this'll work for other players.

If you think it's bad for you guys, it's a nightmare for me. I came very close to emailing WRP to tell him he was dead. I doubt he'd have appreciated that, seeing as he's not even in the bloody game.

thank you newt!

scratch my above idea.

Yeah, differentiating between role names and real names will be key. I suggest that we always bold a name if it is a character.

Forgive me, how do we know if our player is in the game? Unless you mean name claim.
I have no idea if Popeychops is in the game or not.

doesn't matter, newt confirmed above that WRP is in the game, but WRP is not, meaning my plan is pointless.

Well, I like the bold idea you guys have proposed. haha

More importantly, we've seen that there are 3 kills. Whoever had the kills certainly didn't want many really strong and thorough players in the game. I mean, Dante and Rot both blind fired? What the hell. Although, I suppose Dante was lucky for us, their intention was clearly just to eliminate as many strong threats as possible. Well, and me, for whatever reason.

I would be greatly amused if Popey's jealous target was Barcaii

Also, bold will get tedious. How about "quotation marks :/"

bolds are only tedious if you're not on a comp.

see, it's not so hard!

Some of us type out the actual tags for everything. Still, I think bold, or quotes, is fine. I'd say bold, because we already have a standard, and the last thing we need is a format war.

That said, I'm surprised someone went after Sodamister. He's much less likely to be scum at this point, but it's still odd. I don't think we can get anywhere from there though.

Popey seems fine at this point. No reason to doubt that claim. The other survivor has a strong incentive not to claim at this point. I don't see any great reason to force them to claim either.

The bottom line is that I don't have any real suggestions for how to proceed at this point.

Might I suggest random pressure?

As far as Sodamister goes, I suspect he was targeted because he was unlikely to be protected N-0 (no offence, Mr. Soda). Rot, Herr, and Abhaas are all popular N-0 victims and, as such, are popular N-0 targets for doctors, jailers, and such. A bit of a WIFOM here, but I suspect that Sodamister is either iron/stone or that his would-be killer was luckily role-blocked. I doubt very much that Soda was protected by a doctor.

So, who's an easy nut to crack?

CV?

He's gotten a lot better, actually. I don't even know how you you know about his old reputation.

Quoted from Popey:

I'm Mozzerella Man, (jealous) survivor.
I'm told there's another survivor out there and I don't win if they're alive at the end.
My guess is mozzy is that other survivor.

You're already Mozzy, why would the other survivor be Mozzy?

Basically I'm trying to point out that there is no reason that you would suspect Mozzy of being a jealous survivor. Or is there one?

Some of us type out the actual tags for everything.

Hi-five!

One of these days, people are going to remember that I'm worth protecting on Night 0. I think this is like the fourth or fifth game recently where I've died either on Night 0 or Night 1.

I think he meant that he believed ME (the player) to be his opposite.

I think this is like the fourth or fifth game recently where I've died either on Night 0 or Night 1.

Yeah, like protecting good players like Herr and Ser Periagil.

I suggest we put a mark infront of the name like mozzy! Im only saying this because Im ALWAYS on the phone.

Bold isn't going to work because it will confuse things when you come to voting.

Anyway, what's a mafia doctor ? It would seem a rather strange role combination. The only reason for it would be to protect against night kills from a rival scum group or to give a halfway plausible out if you come under pressure. It suggests that there are a lot of power roles in this game.

So what bulba, even I'm mobiley and yet I can type in codes.

More thoughts when I get to my system.

On second thought, maybe it won't be so confusing. Play it by ear? Anyway, let's get some random pressure going. I don't care who. Hell, I'll go first.

*checks random.org*

Magic number is twelve!

Thymole, do you have anything interesting?

Sass makes sense, I suggest we move to quotation marks like was suggested earlier.

Quoted from Mozzy 35:

I think he meant that he believed ME (the player) to be his opposite.

Yeah, but he essentially pegged you randomly because neither had you made a move to make him claim nor did he mention you (the player) in his claim.

Quoted from Sass 38:

It would seem a rather strange role combination. The only reason for it would be to protect against night kills from a rival scum group or to give a halfway plausible out if you come under pressure. It suggests that there are a lot of power roles in this game.

Indeed, 3 kills in an 18 player game would suggest that the mafia are indeed in need of protection themselves. Not sure if there are competing mafia groups though, wouldn't the dead mafia member be labeled differently then? Maybe that is deliberate to keep it ambiguous.

Popey's logic was that I was trying to find Mozzy and, since somebody apparently wants Mozzy dead, I was clearly his opposite jealous survivor. I suggest we leave it for now because the survivor feud is likely not going to involve the Town unless one of them can make the case that it would help us to favor one or the other.

Or it could be something similar to my game where one mafia group goes under the name of Mafia and the other Mafia group might be something like werewolf or whatever name he decides fits.

Popey's logic was that I was trying to find Mozzy and, since somebody apparently wants Mozzy dead, I was clearly his opposite jealous survivor. I suggest we leave it for now because the survivor feud is likely not going to involve the Town unless one of them can make the case that it would help us to favor one or the other.

Well not quite, you asked for Mozzerella Man to claim, which I took as the only hint I've had so far as to who might want rid of me. I'm not even told if the other survivor is jealous, that's just an assumption.
Me searching for the survivor is not something the town care about.

Does anyone see a good reason to think 'Sarn' should have been scum? The scum are going to be some collection of people, including him, but I have no idea who they're likely to be.

Quoted from Sass:

It suggests that there are a lot of power roles in this game.

I guess it makes some sense. It'd be a bit awkward to write a role saying "You are [Insert Forum Member Here]. You're a boring bastard with no interesting features." It's now clear to everyone that not every player in the game also represents a role so it would be easy to avoid doing that too much. Obviously there's an outside chance Newt is more eloquent than I am but even so. It wouldn't surprise me if there were very few completely basic roles.

In the interests of fairness, no, that was just flavour: the V and the N on the knife do not stand for Vox Nihili. The meanings may become clear as the game progresses.

Dr Newt and Lady V?

I'd guess Mozzy just assumed a role named after him wouldn't be honestly pro-town in the same way as I'm assuming a role named after me doesn't exist.

I agree with much of what's been said so far (powerful scum factions, we shouldn't worry over-much about the survivors, etc.). I don't have much to go on yet, but I'll come up with something by later today.

Newt, did you get my email?

Two survivors in one game? Interesting.

Due to nothing much happening, I'll support some pressure on Thymole for now.