Endgames: Masquerade Ball​

(SIGN-UPS)​

Mods: SLOTH and TERRAINE
Special Thanks to ika, Kelly and Lexicat for help balancing things out.​

They heard the call. All of them, over and over again - across the farthest reaches of Creation: You Are Invited.

The banner of the Judge rose, and his monsters coiled around it.

You Are Invited.

The Mortal Queen's flag flew, and brought her army with it.

You Are Invited.

Morning sat on his throne of salt and ashes, and tilted his head. His smile was different.

You Are Invited.

The Broken Doll tore the summons from cold hands, and grinned.

You Are Not Invited....but you will come all the same.

One by one, alone or together, they gathered in the kingdom of illusion.

One by one, they found the Castle at the Edge.

One by one, they don their masks.

And for each and every one...the Doors have opened.

~~o~~​

RULES​

Day Length: 5 days (Day 1: 10 days)
Night Length: 24 hours

Decorum

1. No Out Of Game communication is allowed.
2. At least some attempt at readable grammar. There is no LoLcat flavor or role in this, so please do not type like one.
3. Lying about RL commitments is expressly forbidden. Similarly, questioning someone about their RL is forbidden. If you have a RL problem, please also inform the mods in your QT.
4. Please, try to keep posts civil. We’re not going to make you hold hands and force you to sing kumbaya, but keep personal attacks off the table and focus on the gameplay.
5. Keep the See You Next Tuesday language out of this game. Please and Thanks.
6. If we see a post in question, we will PM the player(s) at hand. If you have a problem with a post, bring it up in your QT or PM us.
7. All mod decisions are final unless otherwise specified.

Gameplay

• Days will be 5 days long, with the exception of Day 1, which will be 10 days. Day will be cut short if vote majority is reached.
  Nights will be 24 hours.
  There will be Twilight for one hour if Day ends at deadline. If Day is cut short due to lynch, there will be Twilight of a length ranging from whatever time remains in the day to up to a maximum of 8 hours, whichever comes first. Twilight only begins after the flip.
• Deadlines may be extended at mods’ discretion. But, if you don't get an Action in by the end of a phase, the deadline will not be extended for you.
• Posting after the Day/Night deadline but before the Lynch/Kill is resolved is not allowed. Violators will receive punishment (or not) at the mods' discretion.
• Day/Night actions have a set order which is both public and reasonable to the mods.
• Dead players may post until the mods have flipped them, or there’s an announcement to halt posting. After they’ve flipped, they can no longer post.
• Posts cannot be edited.
• You may not quote directly from the mods or QTs unless explicitly told so.
• Mod questions can be posted in-thread or privately, and will be responded to through the same medium. Please bold and color questions on a separate line.
• Lying about anything but RL is expressly allowed. Go Nuts. Hell, maybe we’re lying now by telling you this. Dun dun dun.
• Though we can’t guarantee we’ll always have the time, this game will ideally be Flavor-heavy. However, the Flavor is just that: Flavor, entirely for the sake of entertainment.
  There will be short, concise statements afterwards outlining the actions that have taken place, and those are the only relevant info that should be taken away from it.
  We cannot stop you from trying to dissect the Flavor for clues to other players identities, but in doing so, you can - and probably will, knowing us - entirely misread the situation and lose the game for your faction. You have been warned.
• Please cast your vote on a separate line bold and colored, in the regular “VOTE [PLAYER]” format.
  Improper format will not be accepted.
  Deliberately trying to misuse the vote format (aka vote shenanigans) will not be tolerated.
• Lynches occur on vote majority, and if one is not reached by the end of the Day, it will result in a No Lynch.
• The Town win when all threats to town have been eliminated, and at least one town player is alive.
  The Scum win when all opponents have been eliminated, or nothing can prevent this.
  Any Third-Player faction wins when they meet their respective wincons.
  If everyone is dead at the end of any phase, however unlikely, the game is a draw.

The Most Important

• This game has Bastard Elements. You have been warned and know it going in. All complaints will be fed into the black hole that resides where TerRaine’s soul should be. Sloth will provide the dip.

~~o~~​

CHARACTERS​

TOWN

1. Alaryce “Ryce” Gallagher - The Heiress Lie Weaver
Ryce is the half-human daughter of the Angel of Death, Azrael. Her past has left her a touch sociopathic to the plights of all others outside of the friends that her twisted family has trapped in this nightmarish game.
Don’t let her tiny stature or vicious loyalty to her friends fool you, the eyes behind her glasses can be that of a Monster.
Abilities:

• Bond Of Family - She shares a mental bond with Leo, allowing her to communicate with him during Night and Day.
• Birthright - Once per game, she can summon a dead player's shade, controlling them. She then has a One-Shot of their role abilities (available immediately) to use any way she wishes.
  There are restrictions to this action.

2. Adam “Metestasnathean” Matthews - The Morning Child
Or, y’know, just Met. Ryce’s closest...person. A perpetually nonchalant, content creature of quiet smiles, whose existence is denied by most and understood by little, and whose deeds are plagued by myth and frozen terror.
He enjoys croissants with his coffee. Calls them “moon bread.”
Abilities:

• Price To Pay - His sins have made it so that Met often goes unnoticed in the Night, and thus is immune from Night actions.

3. Scott De l’Vida
Scott is the one good, and honorable, man in this group of monsters and survivors - though he is a bit of a whore. As the lone heir to Elizabeth De l’Vida, CEO of Vida Corp., he has it in him to be either a soldier or a politician. By the sharp edge of his knife or mind, Scott will do whatever he has to in order to protect his family and friends.
Abilities:

• The Flying Pumpkin That Shoots Laser Beams Out Of Its Ass - Because Ryce said so. He can use his luminescent arse to entertain his friends.
  
  • “This is why we can’t have nice things,” Met nods.

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4. Tia Guerrero
A powerful Amazon who is as beautiful as she is deadly.
Like all of her kind and legacy, Tia is a natural master at most forms of armed and unarmed combat, as well as warfare strategics. Coupled with strength, speed, endurance and reflexes well beyond that of a normal human’s, she’s a force to be reckoned with.
However, she also carries her kind’s burdens: That of a thirst for violence, social ineptness and psychotic fits of rage she struggles to control.
She was hired to protect Ms. De l’Vida’s son, but she would lay down her life for any of her friends...and she may have to.
Abilities:

• More Than Honor - Each Day and Night, Tia must select a player to guard. Any successful Kill Actions used on that player are redirected to her, and she dies in their place. This action is compulsory and failure to act will cause random targeting.
  Protected players are informed of her sacrifice.

5. Leo Muir
A selkie born in the irish sea, and Zola’s fiercely protective older half-brother. The pressure and stress of trying to find a cure for his sister has made him driven, focused and taken a toll on his body: Though only a few years older than his friends, his greying hair and tired eyes often make the difference much starker.
Nonetheless, Leo is a veritable force of nature not to take lightly, both with his physical appearance of almost 7 feet of muscle and fat, and with the magic he wields, channeling the earth’s elements to his will.
Abilities:

• Bond Of Family - He shares a mental bond with Ryce, allowing him to communicate with her during Night and Day.
• Selkie Skin - At night, Leo can use his magic to sense someone targeting him and switch into his Selkie Skin to absorb the action - he can use this action as a one-shot ability as soon as the next Night.
  Leo cannot absorb more that one action at once.
  He cannot absorb any successful Kill actions.

6. Zola Muir
A selkie born in strange, foreign waters far away from her clan, Zola is Leo’s younger half sister. Her life has been struck by misfortune - in the terms we are familiar with, she’s been afflicted by a terrible terminal illness, and is slowly withering away. Once a healthy, curvy creature of the sea, she’s becoming weaker with each passing week, her magics all but gone.
However, with her death so imminent, she has come to appreciate life more and all the risks, joys, and even cruelties it has to offer her. She may be dying, but she’s not dead yet and has no intention of acting like it.
Abilities:

• Light And Life - Every Night, Zola must select a target and slam her Shillelagh at the ground at their feet. This will disorient the target, and redirect their action in a random direction, hitting a new target. This action is compulsory and failure to act will cause random targeting.
  There’s no feedback to being randomized.

7. Brittany Marceline Maltz
Scott’s oldest friend. A scientist, not a warrior by any means. Britt knows her survival chances are microscopic, but as a not-thin, glasses-wearing, plain nerd whose hair can only claim shampoo as its stylist, she’s perfectly at ease with these situations: That’s where her brain shines the most.
If nothing else, she’ll get the slutty, pretty-boy home to his mommy in one piece.
Damn, her fiance is going to bitch at him for dragging her to danger again...
Abilities:

• Neitherpologist - Brittany follows the life science of nonhuman beings, which makes the patterns and behaviors of these creatures all too easy to recognize. Every Night, this allows her to see who a player of her choosing was targeted by, phrased in an “XXX/YYY/ZZZ visited your target” format.

8-11. Vida Corp Militia (x4)
Elizabeth De l’Vida’s highly trained men or women for hire. They do not have any abilities other than their wits to try and help their boss’ son, and his friends, escape.
Note: They are not a mason. They are 4 separate players, with 4 separate QTs.
Abilities:

• Good Men Die Easy - You have the power to vote.

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SCUM
Note: All Scum are outfitted with the Night Kill ability. It is up to them to decide amongst themselves who the target is, and who carries out the kill.
They do not have to give up their Night Action to perform the NK.

1. D’Xias - The Vineyard Blight
The twisted aberration spawned from Azrael’s encounter with Shub Niggurath. A faceless, hooved mass of flesh in a vaguely humanoid shape. Every so often his mouth will bubble up onto the surface of his skin followed by a multitude of orange, glowing eyes - the eyes of the Goat.
D’Xias despises his sister, Ryce, and the favor she has with their father. He will do anything and everything to see her suffer. He has done everything to see her break.
Abilities

• White Oblivion - Once a game, Day or Night, D’xias can erase a player from existence. Use of this ability during the Day violates Creation, and causes Night to fall immediately.
  There is no Twilight.
  There is no flip.
  This ability cannot be used until Night 2.
  This ability cannot be blocked by any means.

2. Maerwynn - Lady of Ashen Winter
The only of Azrael’s daughters to join in on this macabre game willingly. The spawn of an ancient, powerful, glacial wyrm, she wields the fierce freeze of the arctic in her hands. She is beautiful, with pale skin, full frosty-blue lips, and hair as black as midnight - like her father’s. However, her flat eyes are that of a lizard’s.
There is no love between her and her youngest sister, but that is not why she’s here. The Morning Child broke her mother...she will bring the cold into his heart.
Abilities:

• Glacial Kiss - Once per Day and per Night phase, Maerwynn can select a player and freeze them in place, effectively preventing the use of any abilities they have. Her targets will thaw out when the next phase begins.
  Unless the targeted player takes action, there will be no feedback for them.

3. Cris’tiel - The EverDraught
Cris’tiel is a nightmarish cross between man and centipede. An Earth Elemental whose insatiable thirst finds no lasting relief. The closest he achieves is from drinking the blood of his own and his means to obtain that quenching nectar…It is not spoken of and he is no longer welcome among his Elemental kin.
It’s left him looking ever so thin…
Abilities:

• Sounds Of Crawling - Every Night, Cris’tiel may select a target to see who they targeted, phrased in an “Your target visited XXX/YYY/ZZZ” format. A target that took no action will have the feedback “Your target visited nobody.”

4. Sal’iendre - Old Philosopher
Sal’iendre is the lowly result of Azrael’s coupling with a common kitsune. Despite his aged appearance, he is far younger than his three siblings. It is his stealth and cunning that have allowed him to live as long as he has amongst them. He is best described as a guarded creature with his best interests and survival always at heart.
Abilities:

• Scholar’s Step - Any action he performs will not be seen by informative roles of any type. Any investigation of him will reveal him an innocent, performing no action.

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THIRD PARTY

1. Allocen
She likes games.
All kinds of games.
...Especially messy ones.
But how can she truly enjoy them if she cannot see her playmates?
There is only one truth for Allocen….Everyone must S̨̮̠̙͍̱͇̞͑̇̂̈͠ͅĪͣ̍̇̆̎͏̷̷̸̗̻̮̗̩̪͖̻͓̰̜̤̥̹̭̥͞ͅNͥͤ ͐ͯ̒ ̷̫̗͙̰͙̲̠̞̬̭̖͎̫̫͙͙̖̼́͂͢͜͞G̵̨̧̼̮̭͚̔̀ͪ͋̀̀.
Abilities:

• Scrambled Or Over-Easy? - She can only target those she knows the identity of. For every Day+Night cycle, she must make no less than 1 and no more than 4 guesses as to who is hiding behind the masks. Those who are guessed correctly die instantly.
  She cannot guess on a specific player’s more than once per Day/Night phase.
  She can not use this action in conjoint with Let Me In. (meaning that they cannot both be used in the same Day/Night phase.)
• Let Me In - Each Day or Night, she may check on a player to find out what their faction is. The results will be in a “Target is Town,” “Target is Not Town” or “Target yields No Results” format.
  She can not use this action in conjoint with Scrambled or Over-Easy? (meaning that they cannot both be used in the same Day/Night phase.)

2. Azrael - Whom God Helps - The Helper
The Angel of Death.
He is father to all the Scum team and to Ryce. Older than time itself, he has seen worlds born and seen them wither unto dust. Why he’s chosen to play is not something anyone on either side can comprehend.
It’s probably just best to stay out of his way?
After all, it’s never clear whose side he’s really on, but he seems to sort of love his youngest daughter. That’s the hope, at least.
Abilities:

• Absent Father - His goal is to make it to the end of the game.
  If only he and Allocen remain, she wins.
  He wins any other stalemate.

~~o~~​

ORDER OF ACTIONS​

Night Actions

1. Met’s Price To Pay
2. Ryce’s Birthright | D’xias’ White Oblivion
3. Zola’s Light And Life
4. Maewynn’s Glacial Kiss
5. Tia’s More Than Honor
6. Allocen’s Scrambled Or Over-Easy?
7. Scums’ Night Kill
8. Leo’s Selkie Skin | Brittany’s Neitherpologist | Cris’tiel’s Sounds of Crawling | Allocen’s Let Me In

Day Actions
Note: Far more fluid and open to change at the Mods’ discretion.

1. Ryce’s Birthright | D’xias’ White Oblivion
2. Maewynn’s Glacial Kiss
3. Tia’s More Than Honor
4. Allocen’s Scrambled Or Over-Easy? | Allocen’s Let Me In

 

Sign-ups
1. Fonti
2. Snowvon
3. The Waco Kid
4. Citrus
5. Atum
6. Luckylee
7. Blab
8. his fluffiness
9. Polysemous
10. Mathblade
11. Kento Kraitos
12. Zenzao
13. Titus
14. Irene
15. Riley
16. Rubicon
17. Bill Door

Replacements
1. Q
2.
3.

Observers
1.
2.
3.

Q&A

1. Allocen must know someone's identity to target them yet uses her other ability to check peoples' factions? Might want to clarify that

Allocen is very similar to Riddler: She guesses, and if right, the player dies.
She has a cop check to narrow the pool of guessing.
She can use both abilities in the Day phase and Night phase, but she can’t use both together in the same phase.

2. Can Allocen still win if Azrael dies? Is there any incentive to have a living Azrael for Allocen?

Allocen and Azrael can’t both win together. Think of it like this:
“Allocen wins over Azrael wins over mafia wins over town”
or
“Allocen > Azrael > mafia > town”

3. Day actions have an OoO -> If Allocen uses her ability during the day is it instantaneously resolved or at the end of the day at it's time in the OoO? It shouldn't be in the OoO for day if it's resolved instantaneously aka Batmafia's riddler.

There are several factors that may influence the Outcome of Allocen’s guess during the Day.
As Noted in the OoO, the actions that occur on this phase are more fluid and subject to influence.
In other words: This Game has Bastard Elements.

4. Allocen's ability, she can guess 1-4 people when she uses that ability. Can she stagger these guesses or has to submit them all together as one action once per day/night cycle?

She can make any number of guesses she’s allowed at any time of her choosing.

5. Does Azrael share in scum night chat since he's the father of scum?

Azrael is Third Party, and also the father of one of Town’s characters.

6. If Zola is afk does the slot auto-randomize? If Zola does not submit a night action is she told who she randomly targeted? Would help with any potential issues along those lines

Yes the target will be randomly chosen.
No she is not told who she targeted. Thats the punishment for not submitting an action. If the player knows that they will not be around they may “queue” an action.

7. Leo clarification - he is notified if he was targeted and has the option to use his ability the following night? Is the ability one-shot per time he was targeted or one-shot for the game?

This Game has Bastard Elements.

8. Tia's day guard and night guard - are they separate choices or she picks someone for each cycle?

Tia may pick and change her defense target at any time, but she may only have one.

9. Is Adam immune to night kills as part of 'night actions'?

Price to Pay comes before Night Kill in OoO.

10. Maerwynn - she gets to pick someone each day and each night? Or one person per full cycle? Is there a limit to how many times she can target one single player?

This Game has Bastard Elements.

11. Uh at a glance without knowledge of bastard interactions, the game seems pretty scum-sided? Scum are pretty damn strong + fairly anti-town neutrals + town being forced to act screws some of it's own actions up. Zola in particular is kinda anti-fun to be, it might be a lot better to let her choose where her targets target aka witch?

This Game has Bastard Elements.

12. Is Azrael just a vanilla who has to make it to endgame?

Azrael is a Survivor

13. What's Allocen's wincon, or is it a secret?

Allocens win con is to find out your favorite color, how sharp these forks are, and what music tastes like


14. Does the Riddler type role go before the random act maker?

(No.)

15. How can the Riddler use their cop ability if they must also use their Riddler ability and they can only use one?

Allocen may use Let Me In and Scrambled Or Over-Easy? during the Day and Night phases.
She simply cannot use them both in the same phase.
Additionally, she has to guess at least once per cycle (cycle = one Day and one Night), but does not have to investigate.

16. When is this game starting? Planning RL schedule cause my finals is mid march.

The game will start no more than 3 days after the last slot is filled

17. Also 2. By bastard elements you mean bastard modding?

Going strictly by the definition of Bastard Mod outline in mafiascum?

The answer is Oh God.

18. This is going to a no-reveal for kills/lynch or is it an open game?

This is an Open Set-up. There will be flips and reveals for every death besides D’Xias’ White Oblivion

 

In.

/ten char

 

/IN

HAVEN'T EVEN READ THE SETUP YET

 

THAT WILL BE SOMETHING YOU'LL WANT TO RECTIFY.
(Welcome aboard.)

 

Count me in!

This sounds great

 

/winner winner chicken inner

 

XD At this point, it might be a good idea to open the floor to any questions that you may want to ask while we wait for more players.

 

/in

Oh my god the setup looks like a Slothwall.

 

...Thank...you?

 

You're welcome. What's Allocen's wincon, or is it a secret?

Also, let me read your book! Please?

 

Only looked at 3rd party thus far:

Allocen must know someone's identity to target them yet uses her other ability to check peoples' factions? Might want to clarify that

Can Allocen still win if Azrael dies? Is there any incentive to have a living Azrael for Allocen?

Day actions have an OoO -> If Allocen uses her ability during the day is it instantaneously resolved or at the end of the day at it's time in the OoO? It shouldn't be in the OoO for day if it's resolved instantaneously aka Batmafia's riddler.

Allocen's ability, she can guess 1-4 people when she uses that ability. Can she stagger these guesses or has to submit them all together as one action once per day/night cycle?

Does Azrael share in scum night chat since he's the father of scum?

If Zola is afk does the slot auto-randomize? If Zola does not submit a night action is she told who she randomly targeted? Would help with any potential issues along those lines

Leo clarification - he is notified if he was targeted and has the option to use his ability the following night? Is the ability one-shot per time he was targeted or one-shot for the game?

Tia's day guard and night guard - are they separate choices or she picks someone for each cycle?

Is Adam immune to night kills as part of 'night actions'?

Maerwynn - she gets to pick someone each day and each night? Or one person per full cycle? Is there a limit to how many times she can target one single player?

Uh at a glance without knowledge of bastard interactions, the game seems pretty scum-sided? Scum are pretty damn strong + fairly anti-town neutrals + town being forced to act screws some of it's own actions up. Zola in particular is kinda anti-fun to be, it might be a lot better to let her choose where her targets target aka witch?

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^Tons of questions for you above

 

/in

The more you know, I guess.

 

Haven't bothered to read the setup, but then I never read batmafias either. I'll call a tentative in, with license to change at any point in the near future.

 

/in

/10char

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Is Azrael just a vanilla who has to make it to endgame?

 

Questions will be answered in the second post

 

Obs please?

 

OBs'd.

(The Packers won the very first SuperBowl.)

 

......pfffft.

 

Oh shut up, I still kick your ass at Trivia Crack.

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Also, well, we WILL need a few betas once the draft is done.

The problem is that finding the time to write is kinda hard right now. XD
Hoping that changes once I move.

But yeah, sure.