Sigh…I tried to drop the hint on Day One:
Why the hell everyone was so sure everything was out in the open is beyond me, especially when storyteller clearly stated that may not be the case:
Well, guess what? It isn’t the case. We have at least one hidden element (and probably more) – me:
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I have bad news.
You’ve been erased.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is, you get to find out one of the hidden elements of the game. And you still get to play!
Yes, the Carpenter is no more. He’s been written out of the story, his pages scribbled away and replaced with your story. Which is interesting, because all of this is your story.
Welcome to the game; you are Geoffrey Chaucer
[indent]All of this is your creation. No one is quite sure if you had finished your story. After all, the Tales people now know are built off of 83 manuscripts and put together in order as they think you intended, but no one is quite certain. No one, except you. And you were most certainly not done with the tale. All that remains is to see if you have written yourself into the true ending of the story.
You are a third-party Survivor. Your win condition is simply to be alive at the end of the game. If town wins, you win with town. If scum wins, you win with scum. But this doesn’t mean you’re powerless. This is a world of your creation, and you may use your archaic prose to change things to your liking.
You may act any Night that you wish. You may choose as your action the power of any dead player who has not already used his or her power, though (like the player in question) you may use each power only once. So, for example, if the Man of Law dies on Day One, you may investigate a player on Night One. You may not subsequently investigate anyone, but if (for example) the Reeve dies on Night One without having used his/her power, you may use the Reeve’s investigation on Night Two (or thereafter). If a Scum player dies, you may not use his or her original Town ability.
You have one ability accessible to you from the outset:
- On any two nights, you may edit your manuscript, writing someone out of the game (i.e., killing them). However, be aware that the color of the kill will clearly distinguish your kill from all of the known methods of killing in the game. You cannot kill the Seraph. Your kill can be blocked or protected against as if it were a standard Scum kill.
You will note that investigations always deliver a Scum/not-Scum response. Thus they will not reveal your identity. However, if you happen to be investigated while under the influence of the Canon’s potion of True Sight, your true alignment will be revealed to the investigator.
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So, there it is – I was given a role I’ve always wanted to try (Survivor), and people have used some of the most nonsensical reasoning I’ve ever seen in a Mafia game to railroad me. So, yeah, I’m pissed/bummed about it.
I’m definitely going to work under the theory that this is a fair number of scum on my bandwagon, since there is absolutely zero good reason to be going after me. Every bit of it has been well-defended, and that defence has been frustratingly ignored and/or deliberately misinterpreted.
So, fuck it – I’m not town, but I’m not scum either. I was definitely playing this one to ride with town.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t use either of my kills, and never got a chance to use my power (the Miller is the only one available to me at the moment anyway).
Also note: story said that I “get to find out one of the hidden elements of the game” (bolding mine) So I’m thinking there’s a good chance someone else here isn’t who they seem to be – perhaps someone with a more malevolent goal.
Hopefully day lasts long enough for someone who has an actual case against them to take the lead…