The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote:^a2z

Also, in case it isn't clear, Floyd redirected Eloh onto sig when Eloh decided to force her house's votes, AND Floyd had sig's name first in the tiebreaker mechanic, so there was that.

I appreciate you all going through my first closed setup.

A closed setup isn't really for me though.

MacDougall wrote:Got this fancy ass sig right here.

I made it grainy because of sand. Get it?

S~V~S wrote:I was surprised at no Shai Halud, he would have been an epic SK.

He ate the Baron.

Day 6. Shortest game I've ever hosted.

Matt F wrote:Epig - So did water actually do anything?

Water kept you from being blocked or killed in the desert your first time (it was a protection against TH's power).

Poisoned Matt F had like 4 votes today and FZ. I think had 3. I PM'd S~V~S about voting for Matt F and told her the poor guy had been poisoned from the getgo.

Golden wrote:Well no wonder I never solved what oral analysis was, lol.

Golden wrote:linki at epi knowing what I'm about to ask at every turn.

I'm addicted to spice.

I was hoping some more false information came into play. S~V~S lie detected bea's statement about having BTSC, but had she done so later, she would have been told that was a lie (since she gained it with Matt F). Had she lie detected a similar statement from Turnip Head early on, it would have come back true.

Matt F got to see the future. I would send him a PM a couple hours before the deadline.

Night 1, he would learn what would happen based on the first PM sent. Night 2, he would learn what would happen based on the second PM sent. And so forth. I obviously had to wait on the blocker and redirect for this to work, but it worked out fine I think.

He learned that S~V~S would not be killed Night 1 (which is why MattF asked the question he did).

He also learned the bea had failed on a Night there was no kill, which is why he went nuts over bea. Ironically, bea was his mate, and she searched him in order to hopefully get him off her back. She turned out to be successful and gained BTSC with Matt F.

Funny how that worked out.

Golden wrote:Did I save Eloh from death on night 3?

No. S~V~S protected Sorsha.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I don't have anything to say except this was my worst game ever.

Admitting I had BTSC almost saved me too. :P

Your team made some...questionable decisions. Luke never voted to save either of you OR bus either of you. Night 1 he poisoned someone who had a poison snooper (a cursory Google would have shown that was probably a bad idea).

One Night you guys wanted to kill and poison the same person.

Epignosis wrote:Spice Mélange - You are now being hunted by the smuggler, Esmar Tuek. Good luck surviving.
A Literjon of Water - It’s water. Save it for when you get thirsty.
Gom Jabbar - While you should be able to poison someone with this item, it has no poison on its tip. Strange. You feel a strange sensation come over you as you handle it.
Poison Snooper - If someone tries to poison you, it will fail the first time.
Windtrap - In three phases, you will have a Literjon of Water.
Lasgun - Use this weapon once to rob someone of an item taken Day 0.

See, this is why it's not always a great idea to go blabbing about your items. By saying "The Spice sucked," the lasgun takers knew not to rob you.

Spice Mélange - You are now being hunted by the smuggler, Esmar Tuek. Good luck surviving.
A Literjon of Water - It’s water. Save it for when you get thirsty.
Gom Jabbar - While you should be able to poison someone with this item, it has no poison on its tip. Strange. You feel a strange sensation come over you as you handle it.
Poison Snooper - If someone tries to poison you, it will fail the first time.
Windtrap - In three phases, you will have a Literjon of Water.
Lasgun - Use this weapon once to rob someone of an item taken Day 0.

Paul Maud’Dib- Matt F
Duke Leto- Elohcin
Lady Jessica- S~V~S
Thufir Hawat- Golden
Gurney Halleck- a2thezebra
Duncan Idaho- MacDougall
Wellington Yueh- Black Rock

Baron Vladimir- sig
Piter DeVries- MetalMarsh89
Feyd-Rautha- Luke11646
Gloussu “Beast” Rabban- Turnip Head

Stilgar- birdwithteeth11
Chani- bea
Liet-Kynes- FZ.
Shadout Mapes- NANANANANANA_BANANA

Shaddam Corrino IV- TheFloyd73
Princess Irulan- nijuukyugou
Gaius Helen Mohaim- Sorsha

Esmar Tuek- Draconus

Dune

House Arteides
You must defeat House Harkonnen and survive to win.

Paul Maud’Dib
As the ducal heir, Paul Arteides, you will learn your father’s ability should he perish. As Maud’Dib, you will see glimpses into the future.

Duke Leto
As the Duke of House Arteides, you can, one time only, command all of House Arteides to vote one person the next Day. Everyone must obey this order or die for treason.

Lady Jessica
As a Bene Gesserit, you have a number of one-time abilities at your disposal:
Oral Analysis: You may ask the Host to give you the recipe to whatever meal he prepared that evening.
Internal Organic-Chemical Control: You are immune to poison. This is a passive ability and a constant effect.
Prana Bindu: You can fake your own death, and anyone trying to kill you will pass you by that Night.
Weirding Way: You can train someone in the Weirding Way, increasing that person’s combat skills and making your trainee immune against one Night kill.
The Voice: You can command someone to do something, either vote the way you wish or target in the manner you demand.
Sensing the Truth: You can lie detect one statement.
Petit Perception: You can discover if someone’s vote the previous Day was for someone of his or her own faction.

Thufir Hawat
Responsible for Arteides House security, you will choose to protect one role (your target) from House Arteides from all negative actions, including death. As a Mentat, you also choose a person and attempt to learn his or her secrets, receiving one letter to the puzzle. On subsequent Nights, you will choose another person and another letter, receiving that letter also for any previous role secrets you are working on. The Host will not confirm solutions.

Gurney Halleck
On odd Nights, you will play music on your baliset and sing a song. On even Nights, you will quote from the Orange Catholic Bible. Your submission will be posted to the thread through the Host.

Duncan Idaho
As a swordmaster, pilot, and survivalist, you will survive the first attempt on your life, whether by lynch or kill. Upon your survival, you will have one kill to use the next Night only, which will fail if you attempt to take the life of someone from House Arteides.

Wellington Yueh
As a Suk doctor, you can treat illnesses and poisons. Each Night, you will search for an ill person to treat, and if successful, restore that person to health.

House Harkonnen
You must eliminate House Arteides and the Fremen. One of you may kill each Night, but the killer cannot use his regular ability.

Baron Vladimir
Deploying your military forces to execute your stratagems and will, you will prevent someone from acting each Night. You have BTSC with Piter De Vries and Feyd-Rautha.

Piter De Vries
The Baron’s mentat, you are a calculating advisor with the mental processing power of a computer. You have BTSC with the Baron and Feyd-Rautha. As a Mentat, you may choose a person and attempt to learn his or her secrets, receiving one letter to the puzzle. On subsequent Nights, you will choose another person and another letter, receiving that letter also for any previous role secrets you are working on. The Host will not confirm solutions.

Feyd-Rautha
A fearsome and tricky warrior, you seek to poison someone each Night. Your victim will accumulate one vote each Day phase until dead or the poison is neutralized.

Gloussu “Beast” Rabban
Though terrible enough to be called “Beast” on Arrakis, you do not have BTSC with the rest of House Harkonnen. You are a tool. However, you are a terrible tool, one that frightens Arrakis. Each Night, you can banish someone into the desert, and while there, that person cannot vote the next Day. There is a chance that person cannot use any action that Night. There is also a chance that person will die that Night. While you do not know your co-conspirators, the rest of House Harkonnen know you. (Host secret: Beast gains BTSC with the remaining Harkonnen if the Baron is dead)

The Fremen
You must eliminate House Harkonnen. If Maud’Dib is alive at the end, you win whether you are alive or dead; otherwise, you must survive. If someone is in the desert, the Fremen will know and vote secretly on whether that person should be spared or killed. At least two votes among you are necessary for salvation; otherwise the individual is left to perish.

Stilgar
As the Fremen leader of Sietch Tabr, you hide someone in your Sietch, taking him or her off the poll.

Chani
Each Night, you will search for Paul Maud’Dib. As his concubine, you will gain permanent BTSC with him if you find him.

Liet-Kynes
As a notable planetologist and ecologist, you can study the activity of any person and learn whom he or she targeted that Night. Due to your knowledge of local plants and herbal healing, you may cure yourself from poison once.

Shadout Mapes
You are the head housekeeper for House Arteides. You search each Night for Lady Jessica in order to give her your Crysknife. If this happens, Lady Jessica gains one kill.

The Emperor

Shaddam Corrino IV
Commander of the Sardaukar elite troops, you have been attempting to weave a delicate political scheme without tipping your hand altogether. You win if Paul, Duke Leto, Lady Jessica, and Baron Vladimir are dead. As the Emperor, you may force someone to target as you see fit. You also are the determiner of any ties (provide the host with an updated list as long as you are alive).

Princess Irulan
Historian and chronicler of great renown, you are the Princess Irulan. Each Night, you will research one person in an attempt to learn more about Paul Maud’Dib, and you will submit a commentary to the thread through the Host. You can win with any faction as long as Paul Maud’Dib is alive at the end. If he is dead, then you can win with your father, Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV.

Gaius Helen Mohiam
You live your life constantly testing things to seek the truth. You have seen a vision of four who could change the world. What four did you see? You saw the ones who have the stolen Gom Jabbar from Day 0. If any of these four survive to the end, your prophecy comes true, and you win, whether you are alive or dead. As a Bene Gesserit, you have a number of one-time abilities at your disposal:
Oral Analysis: You may ask the Host to give you the recipe to whatever meal he prepared that evening.
Internal Organic-Chemical Control: You are immune to poison. This is a passive ability and a constant effect.
Prana Bindu: You can fake your own death, and anyone trying to kill you will pass you by that Night.
Weirding Way: You can train someone in the Weirding Way, increasing that person’s combat skills and making your trainee immune against his or her first Night kill.
The Voice: You can command someone to do something, either vote the way you wish or target in the manner you demand.
Sensing the Truth: You can lie detect one statement.
Petit Perception: You can discover if someone’s vote the previous Day was for someone of his or her own faction.

The Smuggler

Esmar Tuek
You are a smuggler, and all you care about is getting the spice mélange off Arrakis. However, politics has complicated things. You must survive, and anyone who has spice mélange Day 0 must be dead for you to win.

Day 6:

Looking over the dunes of Arrakis, you see a swarm of Fremen, their blue-in-blue eyes glowing the desert night like stars come to destroy the planet.

Instead, they begin their task of eliminating the Sardaukar.

A well-planed lasgun blast destroys the shield walls, and many are slain.

A diminutive S~V~S approaches Luke11646, and says, “This was meant for Lady Jessica, but you killed her, so I’ll give it to you instead.”

Luke11646’s face drains of color as S~V~S drives a hidden crysknife into the fortress around his heart.

And then into his actual heart.

Luke 11646 has been lynched and was Feyd-Rautha.

Dune has been purged of Harkonnen.

Congratulations to:

bea, Elohcin, Golden, MacDougall, MattF, a2thzebra, FZ., S~V~S, nijuukyugou, and Sorsha

S~V~S is replacing Banana.

I'm bad about putting people BACK on the poll. Carry on.

“Do not seek to find the evil in your lists, for it is not the true evil.
Turn away from the water, and look into the golden light: there, you shall find what your heart seeks.”
-Princess Irulan, Sayings from the Empire

Night 5

The death of the emperor caused a furor among the Sardaukar, and they took you prisoner.

Inside their shield walls, you studied your predicament, hoping to find a way out.

In the journey, you didn’t hear the cry of someone pierced with a hunter-seeker.

S~V~S has been killed by Feyd-Rautha. It is now Day 6. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Day 5

You escape the sietch. With your stillsuits hastily thrown on, your maneuver out into the desert to find another strategic location away from trouble.

A ship is out there waiting. Sardaukar soldiers ambush you.

The Fremen fight them off with ease, but they soon realize that the Sardaukar are not there to destroy them.

It was an extraction mission for TheFloyd73.

TheFloyd73 has been lynched and was Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV.

It is now Night 5. You have 23 hours to submit your PMs.

Who killed a2thezebra?

Poll ended at Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:58 pm

bea
0
No votes

Elohcin
0
No votes

FZ.
3
S~V~S (5), TheFloyd73 (11), Matt F (14)
18%

Golden
0
No votes

MacDougall
0
No votes

Matt F
0
No votes

NANANANANANA_BANANA
0
No votes

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Sorsha
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

TheFloyd73
8
Golden (3), MacDougall (4), Elohcin (6), Luke11646 (8), Sorsha (12), nijuukyugou (15), FZ. (16), bea (17)
47%

Linda Hunt (The Host, the Non, the Dead)
6
MovingPictures07 (1), a2thezebra (2), Epignosis (7), Draconus (9), Metalmarsh89 (10), sig (13)
35%

Total votes : 17

Missing votes: NANANANANANA_BANANA

Night 4

In the sietch, you observe an ancient Fremen ritual. You watch waves of blue-within-blue eyes, like a luminescent sea on a world bereft of water.

As though a sacrifice demanded by the ritual, one of your number collapses in the dust of the sietch floor.

“There are enemies among us,” the sietch leader cries. “Search for them.”

A number of Fremen warriors do as they are told.

“We must preserve his water,” the sietch leader says, and two Fremen remove the body.

a2thezebra has been killed by Feyd-Rautha. It is now Day 5. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Day 4

You have been ambushed by Fremen.

They are suspicious of your activities on Arrakis.

The Fremen bring you into their sietch, a place of shelter during danger.

“One of you must fight,” you are told.

You nominate Turnip Head, who cowers on the ground as his opponent pierces him again and again with his crysknife.

Turnip Head has been lynched and was Glossu “Beast” Rabban.

It is now Night 4. You have 24 hours to submit your PMs.

Who failed to kill?

Poll ended at Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:06 pm

a2thezebra
0
No votes

bea
1
Matt F (8)
8%

Elohcin
1
nijuukyugou (9)
8%

FZ.
0
No votes

Luke11646
2
FZ. (11), Turnip Head (12)
15%

MacDougall
0
No votes

Matt F
0
No votes

NANANANANANA_BANANA
0
No votes

nijuukyugou
0
No votes

Sorsha
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

TheFloyd73
0
No votes

Turnip Head
5
TheFloyd73 (4), Golden (6), a2thezebra (7), Sorsha (10), Elohcin (13)
38%

Paul Smith (The Host, the Non, the Dead)
4
Epignosis (1), MovingPictures07 (2), sig (3), Metalmarsh89 (5)
31%

Total votes : 13

Missing votes: bea, Luke11646, MacDougall, NANANANANANA_BANANA, S~V~S

IMPORTANT HOST ANNOUNCEMENT

Get Eloh. Steal the cupcakes.

-Princess Irulan, from The Collected Sayings

Night 3

Your escape from the sandworm was not as fortuitous as you had hoped.

You lost your bearings and now you are wandering the wilderness of Arrakis at night.

Some of you have the image of that mighty creature burrowed in your mind.

But tonight is peaceful, and you fear no beasts as you look into the heavens and try to remember your planets of origin, though some of you need only breathe in the spice-laden air to know you are indeed home.

No one has been killed.

It is now Day 4. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

I will only say "No one has been killed." If, for example, one kill fails and some other kill succeeds that same Night, it would only look like there was one kill.

Day 3

Your party searches the remnants of the crashed ornithopter for any remains but finds none.

Then one of you remembers his final warning, and it’s as though you can feel the ground beneath your feet susurrating.

“We’re not all going to make it,” someone cries.

“sig looks like he won’t make it anyway. Tether him to this debris.”

Others of you try to trap TheFloyd73 in the wilderness as well, in order to improve your changes of escape, but it would seem that sig’s grotesque corpulence, buoyed by suspensor belts, is enough to keep him from escaping, and is enough to satisfy the sandworm burrowing ever closer.

sig has been lynched and was Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

It is now Night 3. You have 22 hours to submit your PMs.

Who made Draconus crash?

Poll ended at Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:47 pm

a2thezebra
1
Elohcin (9)
6%

bea
0
No votes

Elohcin
0
No votes

FZ.
0
No votes

Golden
1
a2thezebra (8)
6%

Luke11646
0
No votes

MacDougall
0
No votes

Matt F
0
No votes

NANANANANANA_BANANA
1
Luke11646 (16)
6%

sig
5
MacDougall (3), Golden (4), Matt F (5), S~V~S (10), TheFloyd73 (14)
29%

Sorsha
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

TheFloyd73
5
FZ. (11), nijuukyugou (12), Sorsha (13), Turnip Head (15), bea (17)
29%

Turnip Head
0
No votes

Kenneth McMillan (The Host, the Non, the Dead)
4
Epignosis (1), MovingPictures07 (2), Metalmarsh89 (6), Draconus (7)
24%

Total votes : 17

Missing votes: NANANANANANA_BANANA, sig

Host note: The poll will come about 90 minutes tardy.

The change in vote reflects a correction due to a misunderstanding.

I've changed my opinion.

Stop talking about your damn powers. If you can't catch Mafia the old-fashioned way, then we'll just start having vanilla games. My intention was to fashion this like timmer's Liar's Club (loads of fun), but what I've created won't fit that paradigm.

Carry on.

Golden wrote:@Epi - one further clarification, because I feel this is within the rules but I just want to check.

I would be allowed to say 'my power is x and I targetted y with it last night.' - as long as this was not claiming an ability like 'I check if people are mafia'

Claim what you want without breaking the rules.

I should add that faction claiming is legal for a reason- because it doesn't mean it's good for your health.

Faction claiming is fine. "Give me a word to prove you are not lying" is game-breaking. You might as well copy and paste your role PMs into the thread.

Relevant posts deleted.

I also want to add that, just because you are on the same faction does not mean you have the same win condition.

Golden wrote:Host - what is the correct interplay/interpretation between these two rules?

Epignosis wrote:The Rules

3. No role outing of yourself or anyone else.

14. This is a closed setup. Any claims a player posts in the thread will not be confirmed or contradicted by the host.
I assume this means, for instance, I could not claim to be "Gurney Halleck" (using that because we know its zebra 1.0) but I might be able to claim other things such as my ability or win con?

You can't say, "I'm Gurney Halleck" or "I found out Epignosis is Mafia." Claims other than that are fair and subject to rule 14.

Host Error: Elohcin has been added to the poll.

You must vote again even if you already voted.

Night 2

It came time to see the Carryalls and Spice-Lighters in action.

Your guide took you out to the desert, flying high past the rolling dunes of Arrakis.

A pilot in a nearby ‘thopter sent a transmission of moving sand to the north- something big.

Then, “What is this?” he shouts. His sudden scream pours through the speakers in a barrage of distortion. You can see his ‘thopter whirling sandward.

“Who was that pilot?”

“Draconus, sir. I cannot see how he would have survived that crash.”

Draconus has been killed by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

It is now Day 3. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Night 2 has ended. I must now take my meal in my great hall, and then I will return for your petty and pathetic Night 2 post.

You have one hour to submit your PMs.

Matt F wrote:Yo Epig, do we get to see MM's role power?

No.

Day 2

How could a Mentat not see this coming?

When Metalmarsh89 bent down to retrieve the hunter-seeker from Black Rock’s body, a party of five ambushed him and hanged him with a suspensor belt.

He choked in midair for a long time, calculating ways to escape, but could find none.

MetalMarsh89 has been lynched and was Piter De Vries.

It is now Night 2. You have 24 hours to submit your PMs.

Who assassinated Black Rock?

Poll ended at Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:11 pm

a2thezebra
0
No votes

bea
0
No votes

Draconus
0
No votes

FZ.
0
No votes

Golden
0
No votes

Luke11646
0
No votes

MacDougall
0
No votes

Matt F
0
No votes

Metalmarsh89
5
Sorsha (3), S~V~S (4), TheFloyd73 (8), Matt F (10), Golden (13)
33%

NANANANANANA_BANANA
1
Luke11646 (12)
7%

nijuukyugou
1
Elohcin (6)
7%

sig
1
nijuukyugou (7)
7%

Sorsha
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

TheFloyd73
5
a2thezebra (5), sig (9), Metalmarsh89 (11), Turnip Head (14), FZ. (15)
33%

Turnip Head
0
No votes

Sting (The Host, the Non, the Dead)
2
Epignosis (1), MovingPictures07 (2)
13%

Total votes : 15

Missing votes: bea, Draconus, MacDougall, NANANANANANA_BANANA

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