The Syndicate

The Anti-Monitor's eyes flashed wickedly as he gazed through the multiversal observation screen to the universe of Kirby Mafia. "The Anti-Matter Cannon is nearly charged! The energy of this pathetic dreamland will soon be mine to consume!" He held up a fist, clenched tight with anticipation.

"You might be surprised at the power within the dream world," said the Architect crossly. For someone with my skills, it-"

"It pales in comparison to the negative energies of the Antimatter Universe!" the Anti-Monitor cut her off with a sharp bellow. "And there is nothing in this universe that could surprise me, for my power is beyond compare!" The Architect lowered her eyes and went silent.

"Where are we anyway?" smirked Dennis Reynolds. "This looks pretty damn far from Philadelphia!"

"My ship resides outside your limited concept of reality, human. Give thanks that you were called to serve me, for your Philadelphia has already been wiped from existence with the rest of your universe!"

Dennis nodded knowingly. "Great place to being a girl, right? I mean, she'd never say no, you know, because of the implication..."

The Architect glared in disgust. "PigI" she spat, coldly brushing past Dennis while he held out his hands wide, incredulous.

Uncle Fester giggled. "Look! The white wave is cresting on the horizon!" They all turned to the screen, where the Antimatter Wave was coursing across Kirby Mafia, silently consuming everything. As they watched, King Dedede tried to use the Star Rod's power to combat the wave, but it was like fighting a tidal wave with a pipe cleaner. Dedede used the rod to escape into a dream, only to discover that the white wave was consuming that as well.

As King Dedede grew increasingly desperate, a new portal opened up beside him. "What?!" shouted the Anti-Monitor angrily, as they watched the Monitor come out of the portal and take Dedede to safety just before the Antimatter Wave washed over them.

"What are we going to do?" said Uncle Fester, fearfully.

"Worry not, servant," said the Anti-Monitor, "This does not alter our plan. I will merely activate a contingency plan to deal with this situation. I have had ten million years to put these events into motion, and there is nothing I have not planned for...

Black Rock
Long Con

Players

Alive
Epignosis - Serena van der Woodsen
juliets - The Monitor
tedxtr - Bari Artzain
Tranq - Akechi


Dragomir Replaced

Dead
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME - Salvadore - Killed self Day 1 to determine lynch target
nutella - Prometheus - Lynched Day 1
No one died on Night 1
Master Radishes - Dennis Reynolds - Lynched Day 2
Dyslexicon - Killed Night 2
sabie12 - Uncle Fester - Killed Night 2
MacDougall - Saitama - Lynched Day 3
S~V~S - The Oracle - Killed Night 3
nutella 2.0 - Santa - Killed Night 3
sprityo - Lassie - Lynched Day 4
No one died on Night 4
sig - The Architect - Lynched Day 5
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME 2.0 - Harriet - Killed Night 5
ColinIsCool - Awards Presenter - Lynched Day 6
Turnip Head - Jack of All Trades - Lynched Day 6
Dom - Seamus Fitzroy - Killed Night 6
G-Man - Aja - Lynched Day 7
Jackofhearts2005 - Agatha Heterodyne - Killed Night 7
Sloonei - The Master - Killed Night 7
JaggedJimmyJay - The Anti-Monitor - Lynched Day 8
Michelle - Abed Nadir - Killed Night 8
TonyStarkPrime - Bill Rawls - Lynched Day 9

speedchuck - King Dedede - Killed Night 9

Polls

Game Dynamics

The Civvies must eliminate both baddie teams to win.

Each baddie team must eliminate the other baddies, and outnumber the living Civvies, to win.

Independent roles have their own unique Win Condition, which may evolve during the game.

General Rules

1. No illegal BTSC. This means communicating outside designated areas without permission, or communicating with players with whom you do not have host-allowed BTSC. If you need to communicate outside designated areas then you may ask the hosts for permission. Violators will be mod-killed without prejudice.

2. Dead players may not speak on-topic in the thread unless they are Ghosts.

3. All official PM's need to be sent to both hosts. We both need to know what is going on as we are working around our work schedules and our own business. If you don't follow this rule and your PM gets missed that's your fault.

4. Keep it real. It's a game, check your emotions. Don't get personal. If someone else is upsetting you with the way they are acting, contact the Mod On Duty instead of taking down the general mood of the thread.

5. No reproducing the host PMs in thread.

6. Anyone on a mafia team may perform the Nightly Mafia Kill.

7. The Mafia will have 24/7 chat.

8. Days will last 48 hours, and Nights will last 24 hours, generally. Due to Host schedules, these times may be altered in order to make running the game doable. Mostly, we will adjust the Night times in order to aim for between 10pm and midnight, EST, for phase transitions. Some Nights, for instance, may be 21 or 22 hours instead of the full 24, for convenience. You will always be fully informed of the length of a phase.

9. You must use the word "champion" in your first post to prove you read the rules.

10. Character claiming, roleclaiming and infodumping are illegal. You may say whatever you like in BTSC. Talking about Items or prizes is fine.

11. No double targeting.

Ghosts

When a player dies, their ghost remains in the thread for three more phases. A ghost may post on-topic thrice-twice-once, in successive phases, in dead-red text. A ghost can claim its Win Condition.


Items

Items can be passed from player to player. A player can refuse to take an item. Cursed items arrive with the same description as regular items. When a player dies, their item goes with them. More Items may appear during the game.

Brotherhood Armor - Protect user from next kill attempt. Cursed armor doesn’t work, and makes the wearer bodyguard the last player they voted for.

Judge’s Gavel - An extra vote to use each lynch, and a one-time slam to roleblock another player. Cursed version has no extra vote, and the wielder’s apparent vote is actually a self-vote, and the slam roleblocks the wielder.

Message Bottle - Send a message, through the host, to another player. Cursed version allows Uncle Fester to edit the message first, or simply doesn’t arrive if he is dead.

T-Spheres - Circle the user, informing them of who targeted them at night. Enough charge for two uses. Cursed version gives a random one or two names.

Friendship Flower - Once used on a player, that player may not target the user negatively with night abilities for the rest of the game. Cursed version will prevent protections and blocks on user-targeting abilities from that player for the rest of the game.

Take Five Bomb - One-shot. If the user is about to be lynched, they can activate this bomb. It will freeze themselves and another two players of their choice in a time bubble, making them unable to be lynched on that day. It will also make them unable to post, use abilities or be targeted by abilities, during the next cycle.

The effect will wear off right before the next day’s lynch. Once that happens, the three players will receive any votes they had on them the moment the ability was used.

If there are less than 10 players alive, only 1 player will be frozen with the user, instead of 2. If there are less than 6, only the user will.

This Item cannot be given by Santa or Uncle Fester; it must be acquired through other means.

Green Arrow’s Bow - User can nightkill one player. If that player is bad, then they get another arrow in three phases. If the player is Civ, the user is roleblocked and unable to use Items the next night.

This Item cannot be given by Santa or Uncle Fester; it must be acquired through other means.

Roles


Civilians


The Monitor - You cannot be nightkilled by regular means. By the end of Day 1, you will choose two players to be Harbinger and Pariah. They will know who you are.

If Harbinger is alive, and has not been found by the Anti-Monitor at the start of Day 6, she will choose one player to resurrect.

Pariah’s ghost does not expire.


Awards Presenter - Each night, you will hand out an Award that the recipient can use to add or subtract a lynch vote from a player.


Seamus Fitzroy - Each night you will choose a player to have BTSC with during the next Day phase.


Jack of all Trades - You begin the game with four one-shot powers: doctor, vigilante, tracker, and roleblocker.


Santa - Each night, you will choose an Item and a player to give it to.


Oracle - If you get nightkilled, you can reveal a player’s role publically.


Salvadore - You may kill yourself to immediately determine the Lynch target.


Vanilla role - You are vanilla until a player tries to use an ability on you. The ability will appear to be blocked, and you will absorb it for a single use. If multiple abilities are used on you during a night, you will absorb the last one used, and the rest will affect you normally.


Agatha Heterodyne - You can make one Dingbot per night, and use its ability immediately, or save it for later. This action increases your Madness Meter by 1. If you don’t make a Dingbot, your Madness Meter decreases by 2. You start each Day phase with votes equal to your Madness Meter.

Each Dingbot will be able to use one ability before being destroyed. You must make all types of Dingbots once before making them again. You can use up to three Dingbots per night.

- Tracker Dingbot: Will track a player and learn who they targeted in the night.
- Watcher Dingbot: Will watch a player and learn who targeted them in the night.
- Fighter Dingbot: Will protect you from one nightkill.


Abed Nadir - Each night, you can target a player to fix any cursed items they have. You will learn the item, and once in the game, you can then steal the item.


King Dedede - If the final vote tally is tied when the Day phase ends, you will decide which player, within the tie, is lynched.


Aja - Each night, you will choose a player to jailkeep, blocking and protecting them.


Harriet - Each night, you will choose two players to bodyguard. If one of the players you guard is targeted with a nightkill, the kill will be redirected to you, and the targeter will receive an extra three votes in the next lynch. If one of the players you guard is targeted negatively, but non-lethally, the targeter will receive an extra two votes in the next lynch.


Bill Rawls - Each night, you will give a Civ role an order on how to use their power. If they comply, you will know the result, if any.


Lassie - Each night, you will sniff out a player to discover their alignment. If a player posts “[playername] fell down the well!” then Lassie will protect that player from kills that night. The last post of that nature will be the one that takes effect. A player may not use their own name.


The Master's Team - Kills on even nights


The Master - Each night, you will dose a player with radiation. Any protection that player has, or negative ability that player uses on a member of your team that night, will be nullified, and they will have a 50% chance to lose their ability the next night.


Saitama - Each night, you will choose one player to be limited to a single post during the next day. You have a one-time nightkill survival, and once in the game you can janitor a kill you perform, giving you alone the result.


Bari Artzain - You appear town to alignment checks. *secrets*


Serena van der Woodsen - Each night, you will give a Civ role an order on how to use their power. If they comply, you can control their power the following night.


The Anti-Monitor's Team - Kills on odd nights


The Anti-Monitor - You will survive the first two nightkill attempts, and you will start each Day with -2 votes. If you perform your team’s kill, it cannot be protected against by regular means. Each night, you will search for Harbinger, and if you find her, she will kill the Monitor.


Dennis Reynolds - If you have no votes at the end of a Day, you will deflect the first ability used on you that night to a random player.


Uncle Fester - Each night, you will choose an Cursed Item and a player to give it to.


Architect - Each night, you will switch two players, so that each is hit by the player targeting the other. *secrets*


Independent


Akechi - Each night, you can appear as the role of your choice to information roles. *secrets*


Prometheus - You can target two players each night. Your main goal is to target each of these roles: Bill Rawls, Serena van der Woodsen, Seamus Fitzroy, Architect, and Lassie. You may choose any of the found roles to die in your place. *secrets*

nutella wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:18 amQuick tip @ anyone who's not gonna read the whole thread, just read my entire iso because it is 100% comedic gold thank you

BWOOONNNGGGGG

Contest announcement!

The first player to post a fully functional ISO-linked player list will receive -1 vote during the Day 1 lynch!

ColinIsCool
Dom
Dragomir
Dyslexicon
Epignosis
G-Man
Jackofhearts2005
JaggedJimmyJay
juliets
MacDougall
Master Radishes
Michelle
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
nutella
S~V~S
sabie12
sig
Sloonei
speedchuck
sprityo
tedxtr
TonyStarkPrime
Tranq
Turnip Head

Black Rock
Long Con

That's how I want it to look. Not separate text "(ISO link)" or something.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:50 am @Long Con

Spoiler: show

ColinIsCool
Dom
Dragomir
Dyslexicon
Epignosis
G-Man
Jackofhearts2005
JaggedJimmyJay
juliets
MacDougall
Master Radishes
Michelle
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
nutella
S~V~S
sabie12
sig
Sloonei
speedchuck
sprityo
tedxtr
TonyStarkPrime
Tranq
Turnip Head

Black Rock
Long Con

You are the winner. Unless someone finds a mistake, then you get stripped of your -1 vote prize.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:57 amall these years I never noticed Mac's big D.

sprityo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:30 pm Is there any significance to Night 0 as oppose to Day 0? @Long Con @Black Rock

Night 0 just makes more sense to me. Day follows night. Plus it's 24 hours. Days are 48 hours in this game. I think I always do Night 0. Way cooler.

The mood was somber among The Monitor's gathered forces. King Dedede was inconsolable at the loss of everything he had ever known, and he had been sitting and staring at the same spot on the ground for hours.

The Monitor spoke. "The Anti-Monitor will strike again, and again after that. Our only chance is to locate the source of the Wave, and neutralize it."

"And how th'hell are we s'posed ta be doing that?" cried out Seamus Fitzroy. "Ye've seen what th'Anti-Monitor can do!"

"That is why I have enhanced each of your power sets - you all have abilities you were unaware of, quantum potentials waiting to be activated." The Monitor turned to Lassie. "Lassie, good girl, power up the multiversal scanner, would you?"

Lassie cocked her head, then turned to the unit and barked once, sending a green glowing wave of light from her mouth to the machine, which buzzed to life instantly.

"That's some dog!" said Abed, wide-eyed. "So... what do we do now?"

A deep and gravelly voice answered his question. "We find that son of a bitch," King Dedede walked slowly from the shadows, a fiery glint behind both eyes. "We find him, and we make him pay!"

Day 1 has begun, and it will last 48 hours! Lynch someone!

"We are arriving," intoned the Monitor. "Harbinger awaits us in this universe."

He stepped through the portal, beside the one he had chosen to be Harbinger, the Monitor's most powerful acolyte. His brow furrowed as he saw another figure coming close, out of breath. "Pariah!" he said, his voice grim. "Your presence can mean only one thing!"

"Yes!" said Pariah bleakly. "You must flee! There's no time!" Pariah looked around, panicked, as the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons began to stream out from every dark place, attacking the Monitor's group.

"Fall back through the portal!! Quickly!" The team managed to keep their wits, and their newfound powers, about them. They were able to keep the demons at bay and step back through the portal, with Harbinger and Pariah.

Harbinger raced to the portal controls. "It's no use! The portal won't close!"

"I can override it, I just need three minutes!" The Monitor stepped to the glowing interface.

"We can't hold them back that long!" shouted Pariah, firing a blaster cannon directly into a group of shadow demons who were scrambling to get at the portal from the other side. "They're - they're gonna get through!!"

"Nah, brother," said Salvadore, his deep bassy voice grim with resolve as he strapped a few extra grenades on. "I'll give you the time you need."

Seamus' eyes glistened. "Me friend... I've not the words. Anything I can do for ye?"

"Actually, I need someone to come through with me. I can't do it alone." Salvadore looked to Seamus and held out his hand.

"Er, well then good luck with that and all..." mumbled Seamus as he put his head down and quickly shuffled away.

Salvadore smirked. "No problem. No volunteers? Well, this just turned into a conscription!" He grabbed nutella by the collar and slammed a pulse rifle into her chest. Her eyes widened in shock.

"After you!" Salvadore laughed and tossed her through before she could react. He stood for a second and watched her frantically blowing away shadow demons in every direction, then chuckled and turned back with a final salute.

"I am very good at killing!" he cried, as he jumped through the portal and went back-to-back with a screaming nutella, firing rifles with both hands.

The view through the portal was nothing but fire and blood until the Monitor finally got it closed. Not a single demon got through.

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME was Salvadore (civilian), from Vault Hunt Mafia, hosted by speedchuck. Nanook has chosen to activate Salvadore's ability, killing himself and determining the Lynch target.

nutella has been lynched! She was Prometheus, an Independent role, from Arrowverse Mafia, hosted by DFaraday.

Nanook and nutella remain as Ghosts for the next three phases, and they may post as outlined in the Original Post.


A message from Salvadore:

sprityo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 3:53 am @Long Con @Black Rock for Lassie role, is that any time of day or night phase or just day phase? For the “X has fallen down the well!”

Any time. Last one before the night phase ends should be the one that sticks.

"The Anti-Monitor's ambush was foiled, thanks to the heroic actions of Salvador and Prometheus, but he won't wait long before striking again!" the Monitor gazed around with a serious expression, and continued. "Each of you has a part to play in the upcoming events... some of you will"

Abed slipped away through a side archway as the Monitor was talking. He grinned an evil grin, and his eyes went jet black for a moment so that the viewer would realize that he had been possessed by a shadow demon! :o Cackling as he walked into the dark, the demon reflected on how much more clever he was than the rest of them, fighting, scrambling, and dying in a frenzied attempt to breach the defenses. Now he would kill all the heroes in one masterful shot, and gain the Anti-Monitor's esteem for the rest of eternity!

Abed's grin widened as he found his destination, and the purplish glow from the central power station of the Monitor's base lit up his face. Drawing a laser pistol, he aimed it at the glowiest part, and, excited for the upcoming nuclear explosion, he cried out "For the glory of the Anti-Monitor!"

Just before he pulled the trigger, though, Aja and the Awards Presenter tackled him to the ground, and quickly bound his arms behind him while he trashed and frothed like a man possessed. Which he was, of course.

They carried him before the Monitor, who nodded with understanding. "You slipped by us, eh? Aren't you a clever one?" He reached out a great hand and placed it on Abed's forehead. With a flash of holy light, the demon was fried from his body instantly, and Abed slumped to the floor.

Agatha gasped. "Will he live?"

"Worry not, Agatha Heterodyne." said the Monitor. "He will recover. No one is going to die here tonight!"

No one has died. Day 2 has begun! You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Welcome Dragomir!

NANOOK has replaced the vacant slot, and is therefore alive again!

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:39 pm This has to be a first: our game gained a player after Night 1.

No, it's just that player XXXXXXXXXXXXXX was very quiet for the first phase. Like Dragomir!

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:58 am @Long Con @Black Rock Does Nanook 1.0 still get ghost posts?

Hell yeah!

"He can't be allowed to stay!" shouted the Awards Presenter, showing uncharacteristic negativity and pointing his microphone accusingly at Abed Nadir. "He just tried to kill us all!"

"Please!" cried Abed, "I - I just need a minute... I don't know..."

The Awards Presenter gestured angrily to a video feed, which showed Abed pointing the blaster at the power core and laughing. Abed put a hand to his face in turmoil, shaking his head.

"That wasn't really him, you idiot!" grumbled Bill Rawls. "Did you miss that he was possessed by a shadow demon?" He turned to Abed, whose unsure expression plainly revealed his confusion and shame. "Look, Mr Nadir - some shit went down in there today, we both know that. But I'll be damned if you are going to take the blame for any off this. This was not your fault!"

"So, what then?" the Awards Presenter held his arms wide. "How do we know it won't happen again? How do I know you're not 'possessed'?" He held up air quotes.

"We don't," said Bill, narrowing his eyes. "And what's more, I've been doing some snooping. Pretty sure that not everybody here is fully on our side, demonic possession or not." He held up a scrap of burnt paper. "Someone tried to burn this, but there was a scrap left in the bin. It's not much, but it looks like orders, and signed by someone called The Master."

"Ooooh, it burned?" said Harriet, a fire in her eyes. "I do wish I hadn't missed that!" Her cats yowled and fretted, but she ignored the silly beasts.

Bill noticed MasterRadishes trying to slip out a side door during the conversation, and his Monitor-enhanced cop skills kicked in. "THERE! Grab him!"

Radishes was grabbed, and dragged kicking and screaming back into the room. "Sorry, Mr Radish." said Bill, drawing his Glock 17. "We can't take any chances, with the Multiverse at stake!"

<<BLAM!!>>

Master Radishes has been lynched. He was Dennis Reynolds, a baddie on the Anti-Monitor's team, from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Mafia by JaggedJimmyJay.

Night 2 has begun!

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:09 pm Why is Captain Cold not on the poll?

Because he's been off the show too long. And because he'd just auto-win.

"It's out of the question!" The heroes could hear the Monitor arguing with Harbinger from an antechamber. "If you try to wield power like that, it will consume you!" They couldn't hear Harbinger's voice as she replied. "You know the price... it's not yet time."

Harbinger strode quickly from the room, her face sad and angry. Seeing the heroes, she moved to them, saying, "He's wrong, I do have the power! We need to act now, before he's ready for us! Follow me!"

The heroes gathered behind her as she took them to a tightly sealed room, with three-foot thick titanium walls and door. "This room will shield the rest of the universe from what we're doing here. I'm going to open a portal to the Anti-Matter universe so that you can take this fight directly to the Anti-Monitor!"

The heroes looked uneasy. "I thought the Monitor said you couldn't-" began Agatha, before Harbinger cut her off sharply.

"We can't just sit around, waiting to get picked off by shadow demons!" She stood in the centre of the room, and held her arms up. "The Anti-Matter universe will feel rather strange, and crossing over creates a bit of reality shear, so try to hang on to your sense of self." Her hands glowed brightly, and an energy vortex formed in front of her.

Aja gulped. "My sense of self? What?"

"Ho ho hooo!" laughed Santa. "I guess we'll find out! Hope we've all been good!"

With that, the portal exploded open, and waves of force began emanating from it, causing the heroes to squint and shield their faces. "Move through!" cried Harbinger. "I don't know how long I can - AAIIIEEE!!" The glow from her hands began to spread down her arms to her shoulders. "GO!!"

The heroes rushed for the portal, but as they went through, they could see a few of the Anti-Monitor's goons waiting to ambush them on the other side. As they met, the clash of universes warped reality, causing normally stable things like distance, time, and proportion to vary wildly. After a quick battle which neither side was fully prepared for, the heroes broke through. King Dedede looked back once to Harbinger, whose entire body was covered by the glowing energy, and as the portal began to close behind them, the energy seemed to consume her entirely. Or did it? He couldn't be sure.

The portal snapped shit and vanished, and in the sudden silence, the heroes began to take stock of their situation, which included a couple of dead bodies.

Dyslexicon has been killed!

sabie12 has been killed! She was Uncle Fester, a baddie on the Anti-Monitor's team, from Addams Family Mafia by Epignosis.

Day 3 has begun!

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:45 pm @Long Con @Black Rock
Two things
When a mafia team is eliminated, does the remaining team then kill every night, or still just every other night?
And re: the poll, Radish is on it and Colin is not.

Thanks, fixed. Tony is currently voting for Colin. :o

If a team gets eliminated, the other team kills every night.

The heroes made their way through the Anti-matter realm until they found one of the Anti-Monitor's fortresses. Stealthily, they entered, making their way to a control room.

"Look at these screens," said Agatha. " I think that they are monitoring different places in our universes. Look, I can see Castle Heterodyne!"

"Maybe there's a way for us to get back when we're done here," suggested Abed tentatively.

The Jack of all trades chuckled grimly. " I'm not sure any of us ever getting back there, my friend. Let's complete the mission in save the Multiverse first."

"Look!" cried the Awards Presenter. "He's even got one in the Monitor's base!" As they watched, they could see Mac creeping through the shadows, a wicked knife in his hands.

"We have to try and get a warning to the Monitor!" cried the Oracle. "One of these buttons or levers has to do something, right?"

She began pushing and twisting difference knobs and buttons, as Mac crept closer and closer to the Monitor's exposed back. Just before he was close enough to attack, one of the levers caused bright flare within the Monitor's base.

The monitor turned around just in time, and his eyes widened as he held up a hand and blasted Mac to tiny particles with a bright flare of energy.

The heroes breathed a collective sigh of relief, and moved on with their mission to find and destroy the Anti-Monitor.

Macdougall has been lynched! He was Saitama, a baddie on the Master's team, from One Post Mafia by speedchuck.

Night 3 has begun!

The heroes made their way through the Anti-matter realm until they found one of the Anti-Monitor's fortresses. Stealthily, they entered, making their way to a control room.

"Look at these screens," said Agatha. " I think that they are monitoring different places in our universes. Look, I can see Castle Heterodyne!"

"Maybe there's a way for us to get back when we're done here," suggested Abed tentatively.

The Jack of all trades chuckled grimly. " I'm not sure any of us ever getting back there, my friend. Let's complete the mission in save the Multiverse first."

"Look!" cried the Awards Presenter. "He's even got one in the Monitor's base!" As they watched, they could see Mac creeping through the shadows, a wicked knife in his hands.

"We have to try and get a warning to the Monitor!" cried the Oracle. "One of these buttons or levers has to do something, right?"

She began pushing and twisting difference knobs and buttons, as Mac crept closer and closer to the Monitor's exposed back. Just before he was close enough to attack, one of the levers caused bright flare within the Monitor's base.

The monitor turned around just in time, and his eyes widened as he held up a hand and blasted Mac to tiny particles with a bright flare of energy.

The heroes breathed a collective sigh of relief, and moved on with their mission to find and destroy the Anti-Monitor.

Macdougall has been lynched! He was Saitama, a baddie on the Master's team, from One Post Mafia by speedchuck.

Night 3 has begun!

Welcome to Inception Mafia! Some of you have fallen asleep, perchance to dream, some are deeper still, and others will insist that they are still awake! If this is indeed a dream, then it is a shared one... and your decisions could be lethal!


The heroes were relieved to have stopped Saitama's assassination attempt, but the victory had not come without a price. Messing with the dimensional machine's controls had revealed the heroes' presence to the Anti-Monitor, who had sent a legion of shadow demons, led by his lieutenant, The Architect. As the fortress began to fill with enemies, they sealed and barricaded the doors of the control room.

The Architect laughed. "You are fools to think you can stand against the might of the Anti-Monitor! Together, he and I will construct new universes, and live as GODS!"

"He's right," sighed Aja. "What have we done, but trap ourselves in here?" A loud bang dented in the door, causing them all to jump. "Not for long though!"

"Surely there's something we can do... maybe these machines can open a portal!" Agatha Heterodyne began working furiously to figure out how they worked, as the banging on the door grew louder, and the influx of shadow demons more imminent. "Eureka! I think I have it!" she cried, jamming two wires together with a shower of sparks, causing a portal to flare to life. The destination appeared to be in flux, though, shifting from Kirby Mafia, to Community, to a white haze, then Fallout Mafia.

"Is that safe?" asked Abed tentatively.

"Safer than staying here, kid!" shouted Seamus. "They're almost through!"

The Architect, seeing their plan through a window, chuckled evilly, and quickly accessed the portal controls through a panel. The door finally gave way with a loud blast, and shadow demons began to flood into the room.

"The portal has stabilized!" shouted Agatha. Everybody in-HHRRRK!" She fell back, a large gash on her shoulder from a wicked shadow demon claw. Bill Rawls grabbed her and quickly got her through the portal, and most of the heroes made it through.

"Agatha!" shouted Bill. "How do we close it?!" Agatha, however, was unconsious. He looked down and found a controller in her limp hand, and picked it up and jammed the button with his thumb.

"Wait!" cried Abed. "Not everybody made it thr-"

<<FLASSHHHHH!!!>>

Everyone was knocked out for a moment when the portal closed violently, and when they woke up, they could see that not everyone was still together. They knew, though, with grim certainty, who hadn't made it through the portal.

S~V~S has been killed! She was The Oracle, a Civilian, the MU season 6 Scrimmage Mafia, by Sloonei. S~V~S was also Pariah, and her ghost will never disappear.

The Oracle has chosen to reveal sig's role. Sig is The Architect.

nutella has been killed! She was Santa, a Civilian, from World Flags Mafia, by sprityo.

Day 4 has begun!

Tossed into the universe of Inception Mafia, and scattered throughout the dream world, the heroes fought bravely to reconnect, and once again awaken. The Architect laughed as he shifted them from one level to the next, using his power to keep them all wondering what was real. King Dedede alone stood against The Architect, clutching the Star Rod tightly as he fought to wrest control of the realm from the evil servant of the Anti-Monitor.

Clutching it tightly in both fists, Dedede shouted, "This is for Dreamland, you son of a bitch! This is for KIRBY!" A bright golden beam of glowing stars blasted forth from the Rod, striking The Architect in the chest and knocking him hard to his back. The heroes were released from the dream flux, and appeared together, behind King Dedede, who stood tall.

Glaring grimly at Dedede, The Architect used the back of a hand to wipe a trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth, and said, "Fine. If that's the way you want it." He snapped his fingers and vanished suddenly, soundlessly.

The heroes could feel the air around them change, now filled with tension and foreboding. "S-something bad is going to happen," whispered Harriet. "I'm scared!"

A low growl from the centre of their group caused each of the heroes to take a step back. To their horror, Lassie was beginning to snarl and snap, her pleasant collie frame bloating and swelling with thick, dark muscles, and her eyes flaring red with angry fire.

Lassie leapt upon Abed, gnashing her teeth and trying to tear his throat out. The Awards Presenter tackled the nightmare dog, trying to hold her down while she thrashed and clawed.

"Do something!" shouted Aja. "Stop her, get her under-"

<<BLAM!>>

Bill Rawls stood above her, his pistol still smoking, his eyes red and rimmed with tears.

sprityo has been lynched! He was Lassie, a Civilian, from Cats and Dogs Mafia, by Dragon D Luffy.

Night 4 has begun. Right now I'm out of town on my phone, but I would like to see everyone back in the main thread, back to normal. I'll get things tightened up tomorrow morning when I get home.

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:05 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:19 pm I wish we got three lunches out of the inception thing

I agree I’m hungry

Lunch costs extra.

juliets wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:09 pm @Long Con when does the night phase end?

In the next hour or so... I'm easing into it.

With the Architect's nightmare Lassie defeated, and the Architect fled back to the Anti-Monitor, Kind Dedede was able to use the Star Rod to open a portal out of the Inception dream world. They came out in a strange world that was mostly paper and flames.

"Oooh, this is my world!" cried Harriet. "Its still here!" The smiled widely and beckoned to the rest of them. "Come on, I can get us some scrumptious scones and missile launchers!" As she began to run off, however, the flames near them began to shift and form, into a giant Anti-Monitor!

"You may have defeated my Architect, foolish heroes, but it was not without great cost!" He lifted a giant boot and smashed it down, scattering the group. "Little do you know that you will simply be undone from within!
That fool The Master is like a cancer, dismantling your pathetic attempt to survive my onslaught!"

Harriet looked around to see the heroes, bewildered and burning, as a dark shape was about to take advantage of the situation. She cried out, as did her three cats beside her, and there was a confusion of motion and flame and shouting, with the flaming Anti-Monitor effigy laughing cruelly. Abed came running out of a nearby school with a firehose, shouting, "Take THIS!" He blasted the giant right in the chest, dousing the flames quickly, and proceeded to spray the hose around at everybody, stopping them from burning, and stopping any nefarious actions that were taking place.

No one has died!

Day 5 has begun.

Tranq wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:18 am

Dom wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:53 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:46 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:49 pm
The Monitor - You cannot be nightkilled by regular means. By the end of Day 1, you will choose two players to be Harbinger and Pariah. They will know who you are.

If Harbinger is alive, and has not been found by the Anti-Monitor at the start of Day 6, she will choose one player to resurrect.

If this happens I recommend nutella.

Question:
If they rez SVS and she then dies again later-- do we get another role?

This is an excellent question.

@Long Con ?

Absolutely!

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:23 am Oh nice

Harbinger should absolutely rez SVS then, we can get either a red check or a confirmed town via them living

Actually @Long Con @Black Rock is the resurrected player guaranteed to have the same alignment as when they were alive?

Yes.

"Architect!" bellowed the Anti-Monitor. "Why do you not bring me news of their deaths?"

The Architect paled. "Th-they had unexpected power, master. A strange artifact called the Star Rod, I didn't think it even e-existed! I-"

"SILENCE!" thundered the Anti-Monitor. "I no longer require your pathetic services. You have been nothing but a disappointment." And with that, he unceremoniously disintegrated the Architect.

"That's it?" said a watching shadow demon.

"Yeah, I'm kind of tired," said Long Con.

sig has been lynched! He was the Architect, a baddie on the Anti-Monitor's team, from Inception Mafia by JaggedJimmyJay and Sloonei.

Night 5 has begun.

The heroes counted themselves lucky to have escaped the awful hellscape of the Anti-Matter universe, even if it had been through the nightmare Dreamscape of the Architect. Back with the Monitor at his fortress base, they were able to take a night and relax, preparing for whatever came next.

Harriet went strolling, humming softly to herself as her cats danced and bumped her legs. Soon, she came to a large door, marked 'ARMORY'. "Oooh," she said to her cats, "I should indeed like to see some fine armour!"

Her cats meowed in protest as she tried to open the door. "Drat it all," she said, frustrated, "Why's it all locked up?" Then an idea came to her - her Monitor-enhanced powers might be just the thing! She focused her pyrokinetics on heating up the large lock, and to her delight, it soon began to melt away!

Harriet clapped her hands as she nudged the hot door open with her foot. Entering the armory, she was surprised to see that it wasn't armour at all! Instead, there were grand weapons of all types, all on display!

She could feel her heart beating faster, as she thought about the grand fires these weapons could create! Her cats yowled and hissed as her hands began to glow.

"Oh my!" cried Harriet, sparks leaping to the various rockets and grenade launchers. As they began to fire, her cats reared up and scratched her legs, fed up with her foolish ways. Harriet cried and fell to the floor, and the cats descended upon her, feral with annoyance. She shrieked as they all were immolated by the chain reaction of explosions, which blew a quarter of the Monitor's base to rubble.

NANOOK has been killed! He was Harriet, a Civilian, from Shockheaded Peter Mafia by Epignosis.

It is now Day 6. Due to the night poll result, there will be two lynches today: one regular, and one by secret vote!

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:30 pmIf there were people A B C D and A is Harriet and protects B and C and D is vanilla scum and kills B and then A and D vote for C and C votes for A who gets lynched?

Ok... the targeter gets three votes against them in the lynch. So A has one vote from C... B is dead... C has two votes, the natural way, and D has three votes and ends up lynched.

Dom wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:05 pm Question-- @Long Con @Black Rock

If someone gets the 3 extra votes from Harriet's power, would they know about it?

Nope!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:36 pm Coordinating a consensus for the secret vote is fine, assuming we're allowed to discuss them. I say that given the chance this mechanic is pulled from Inception, where that was disallowed.

I'll move off of Turnip Head for now for the sake of the dialogue. [VOTE: ColinIsCool] aubergine

I am allowing vote discussion before and after the secret lynch.

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:07 pm @Long Con can you confirm it's ok for me to summarize some quotes from the dream level?

Summarize, but no direct quotes, and no toeing the line.

Dom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:34 pmCan secret votes be changed before the deadline?

Yes.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:54 pm

Is it... is it too late?