Oblique Strategies - an Eno Mafia [ENDGAME]

#1

This will be a somewhat unusual, conceptual game of three teams lasting six days and six nights.

The teams start with no BTSC, but gradually gain it as the days progress. When a killer dies, the power does not pass to other team members.

Roles:
Gals - Only surviving members win
Cindy Tells Me - Can send an anonymous PM to one player each Night
Baby ’s On Fire - Kills Nightly
Judy’s Jungle - Role block
Julie With... - Protect
The Fat Lady of Limbourg - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Miss Shapiro - Can control one player’s vote

Fellas - Kill as many animals as you can - Team wins if has more surviving members than animals
St. Elmo’s Fire - Splits Ions in the Ether
Kurt’s Rejoinder - Retaliates against any night actions used against him.
Blank Frank - Kills nightly
The Great Pretender - A Seemer role
Third Uncle - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Energy Fools the Magician - Insanifier

Animals - Maintain an even balance between gals and fellas - Survival not necessary
Spider and I - Gains BTSC with one teammate daily
Sombre Reptiles - Add a lynch vote
Little Fishes - Subtract a lynch vote
The Camel - Sticks needles in your eye, making you vote blindly (randomly)
Mother Whale Eyeless - Team checks. Immune to the camel
An Arc of Doves - Protect

Locations:
Over Fire Island
In Dark Trees
By This River
Tiger Mountain
China My China
On Some Faraway Beach

Secret Hidden Location

Player List
1. insertnamehere - Killed Night 4 by Baby's On Fire after dying of natural causes
2. Boogs fingersplints - Killed Night 4 by Blank Frank
3. MovingPictures07 - Sombre Reptiles - Lynched Day 1
4. Dominus
5. Black Rock
6. sabie12
7. Metalmarsh89 - Killed Night 3 by Baby's On Fire
8. S~V~S - The Camel - Lynched Day 2
9. Ninja Blooper
10. Mongoose
11. A Person - Spider and I - Lynched Day 4
12. Vompatti - Baby's On Fire - Lynched Day 5
13. Roxy - Mother Whale Eyeless - Lynched Day 3
14. Bass Something Something Clever
15. DFaraday
16. Snow Dog
17. Juliets
18. triceratopzeuhl

#2

Rules:
1. No role outing (team claiming is okay).
2. No unauthorized BTSC.
3. No editing or deleting of posts.
4. No being excessively mean to each or or especially to me (Be mean to Epignosis all you want. It's what he's for.)
5. No double targeting.
6. No saying Eno is a hack.
7. No on topic posts from dead people.
8. No lack of having fun.

Remeber, the game will last until the end of Night 6 and that's it, so time your win condition accordingly.

#3

Day 0 - In Search of a Compass
Day 1 - Over Fire Island
Day 2 - Tiger Mountain
Day 3 - In Dark Trees
Day 4 - By This River
Day 5 - On Some Faraway Beach

#4

Day 0

"How did we get here?"

The group of eighteen people found themselves on a mist-shrouded plain, bereft of recognizable features. The memory of how they got there was even hazier than the atmosphere, are there was a distinct sense among some that they might be dreaming.

But dream or no, they could not just stand around aimlessly forever. Looking down, one of them notcied a six pointed compass etched into the floor, with each point labeled by a colorful, if enigmatic location name.

"Which way should we go?"

You have 24 hours to make decision.
Votes are changeable on night polls, but not in lynch votes.

#5

All roles have gone out. If you did not receive a role, let me know.
You may now post.

#6

@llama does anyone have any knowledge outside of thread knowledge on this poll?

#7

Yessss, game!

So, from looking at the roles, it looks like there is a way for everyone to win.

What about this: We only lynch Animals. This would require that the Animals reveal their team. Blank Frank and Baby's on Fire refuse to use their NK. Then, after 6 days and nights, we are left with
6 Gals, who all instantly win, 6 Fellas, who all instantly win, and 6 dead Animals, who (due to the fact that members of their team can win while dead) instantly win also.

It's a win-win-win.

Who's with me? :

#8

juliets wrote:@llama does anyone have any knowledge outside of thread knowledge on this poll?

Not yet.

#9

@Llama Can Blank Frank and Baby's on Fire choose not to use their NK?

#10

insertnamehere wrote:@Llama Can Blank Frank and Baby's on Fire choose not to use their NK?

Yes, anyone can choose not to use their night power.

#11

#12

insertnamehere wrote:Yessss, game!

So, from looking at the roles, it looks like there is a way for everyone to win.

What about this: We only lynch Animals. This would require that the Animals reveal their team. Blank Frank and Baby's on Fire refuse to use their NK. Then, after 6 days and nights, we are left with
6 Gals, who all instantly win, 6 Fellas, who all instantly win, and 6 dead Animals, who (due to the fact that members of their team can win while dead) instantly win also.

It's a win-win-win.

Who's with me? :

If it were only that easy, some how I doubt that will happen.

#13

thellama73 wrote:Rules:

6. No saying Eno is a hack.
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#14

Yay game!!

INH, that's a really interesting idea! Like BR said though, not sure whether everyone could agree to that.

#15

#16

Hello, Trice! So glad to be playing alongside you after so long.

#17

I'm Taking Tiger Mountain....by any means.

#18

Likewise

Where to go...

Over Fire Island - sounds hot and dangerous

In Dark Trees - I didn't bring my flashlight

By This River - sounds safe enough

Tiger Mountain - tigers are not friendly animals

China My China - I don't speak chinese and that sounds awfully far to walk

On Some Faraway Beach - as above, sounds like a long haul to get there

#19

o hai

#20

Ok I'm on boRED with .....................

#21

I'll probably be analyzing the poll based on which song I like the most. Tough call, since they're all awesome...

But I'll go with Over Fire Island.

#22

INH, that could certainly work, especially since team claiming is OK, but then we would have to believe claims, and everyone would have to agree to do it.

I am inclined to pick Fire Island, i am about 5 miles away from it. It's pretty in the winter, when it isn't swarming with greasy, shiny people sporting tans. I don't know about the Eno-related aspects of the choices.

Does "hack" = pretentious poseur?

#23

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Likewise

Where to go...

Over Fire Island - sounds hot and dangerous

In Dark Trees - I didn't bring my flashlight

By This River - sounds safe enough

Tiger Mountain - tigers are not friendly animals

China My China - I don't speak chinese and that sounds awfully far to walk

On Some Faraway Beach - as above, sounds like a long haul to get there

Tigers are neither friendly or unfriendly.

#24

S~V~S wrote:
Does "hack" = pretentious poseur?

Not really. But we can add that too.

#25

So we are allowed to say that?

#26

S~V~S wrote:So we are allowed to say that?

I read the rules and there's nothing against it. So pretentious poser is ok, but pretentious hack poser.....is not!

#27

Brian Eno is one of my favorite musicians of all time.

#28

MovingPictures07 wrote:Brian Eno is one of my favorite musicians of all time.

We all have crosses to bear.

#29

The more I think about it, the more I believe it would be absolutely awesome if we could accomplish INH's plan.

I'm curious if anyone has any problems with it, but otherwise I think it would be best for at least one person to claim Animal so that we can lynch that person tomorrow.

#30

MovingPictures07 wrote:The more I think about it, the more I believe it would be absolutely awesome if we could accomplish INH's plan.

I'm curious if anyone has any problems with it, but otherwise I think it would be best for at least one person to claim Animal so that we can lynch that person tomorrow.

I totally agree. I am not animal.

#31

Snow Dog wrote:
Tigers are neither friendly or unfriendly.

It's technically not unfriendly for them to eat us, no, you are correct. I still would rather not try my luck as food

#32

Also, problem with the plan is that if even 1 non-animal accidentally dies (whether via lynch, nk, host event deedly, etc) then the animals can't win. Might make them reluctant to cooperate and out themselves.

#33

(sorry triple post) I shouldn't say "can't win," but aren't guaranteed to win

#34

Hello. I am your mod. If you get mad, talk to me first. If you want to talk bad about Eno, well, that's too bad, because it's against the rules, and I do not condone breaking rules. Fortunately, I'm not playing, so

I bet Eno never even got through the first grade with a name like his.
Ambient means "I am too lazy to properly learn an instrument. Here, listen to me holding down an E-flat note while adding effects."
The studio is no more an instrument than a kitchen is.
Is Brian Eno even progressive rock? Shouldn't he be in Prog Related?
I bet Eno isn't even a Libertarian.

Have fun everyone, but I seriously doubt you will.

#35

triceratopzeuhl wrote:Also, problem with the plan is that if even 1 non-animal accidentally dies (whether via lynch, nk, host event deedly, etc) then the animals can't win. Might make them reluctant to cooperate and out themselves.

Well, that's true, but the only one of those that is completely out of our collective control is a host event.

Other than that, as long as everyone agrees to it, it should be possible. And as long as no one wants to win at the exclusion of others, then I don't see why it would be against someone's self-interest to agree, even if they're an Animal.

#36

Plus, as Eno is a self-proclaimed "non-musician", successfully implementing INH's plan so that every player can win seems like the perfect way to honor that sentiment in this game.

#37

If we could make it work, I would be OK with it. But the killers would have to not kill, and we have no way of knowing that will happen until they ... don't kill. The vote manipulators should not use their powers either.

It seems almost TOO easy, but looking over the win cons, I don't see any reason it would not work; even down to team outing being specifically OKed by the host. Although it will be harder once teams start getting BTSC, and Trice makes a good point. Plus I just have an ingrained bias against outing, even if it is allowed

But a plan that allows everyone to win is an attractive one.

I am going to vote for Fire Island.

#38

Epignosis wrote:Hello. I am your mod. If you get mad, talk to me first. If you want to talk bad about Eno, well, that's too bad, because it's against the rules, and I do not condone breaking rules. Fortunately, I'm not playing, so

I bet Eno never even got through the first grade with a name like his.
Ambient means "I am too lazy to properly learn an instrument. Here, listen to me holding down an E-flat note while adding effects."
The studio is no more an instrument than a kitchen is.
Is Brian Eno even progressive rock? Shouldn't he be in Prog Related?
I bet Eno isn't even a Libertarian.

Have fun everyone, but I seriously doubt you will.

Ok. No more Eno bashing.

Don't want to be modkilled and Another Green World is a great album.

#39

MovingPictures07 wrote:Plus, as Eno is a self-proclaimed "non-musician"

I'm a non-airplane pilot.

#40

S~V~S wrote:If we could make it work, I would be OK with it. But the killers would have to not kill, and we have no way of knowing that will happen until they ... don't kill. The vote manipulators should not use their powers either.

It seems almost TOO easy, but looking over the win cons, I don't see any reason it would not work; even down to team outing being specifically OKed by the host. Although it will be harder once teams start getting BTSC, and Trice makes a good point. Plus I just have an ingrained bias against outing, even if it is allowed

But a plan that allows everyone to win is an attractive one.

I am going to vote for Fire Island.

This is true, but whether they kill or not is uncontrollable, and one would think their chances of killing are MUCH less if the entire thread is in agreement on a plan for everyone to win that seems pretty possible. What motivation would there be to kill? Unless, like I said, one team wants to win at the exclusion of others, but that seems completely unnecessary.

#41

I think, as long as everyone is OK with it, we try the plan, and only one Animal can then come forth and offer to be lynched.

What is there to lose, really?

#42

MovingPictures07 wrote:I think, as long as everyone is OK with it, we try the plan, and only one Animal can then come forth and offer to be lynched.

What is there to lose, really?

I'm with it.

Man!

#43

You know, just to show how committed I am to this and how I really think it's the best option for everyone:

I am an Animal.

Feel free to lynch me on Day 1.

That way no one else has to team claim and we can see how this plan is going to play out. I'm willing to sacrifice my life in order to pursue this.

#44

a non-mafia game for a non-musician

That would be oddly satisfying, and likely a very unique game. Truthfully, we can always abandon that strategy if an unexpected kill throws the plan off, so it hurts nothing to start off trying this out. Well, maybe it hurts whichever animals have offered themselves up for sacrifice to that point.

(also I like Eno and consider him a musician)

#45

MovingPictures07 wrote:You know, just to show how committed I am to this and how I really think it's the best option for everyone:

I am an Animal.

Feel free to lynch me on Day 1.

That way no one else has to team claim and we can see how this plan is going to play out. I'm willing to sacrifice my life in order to pursue this.

Well done Alex. No point agreeing with a plan then hiding. Kudos to you!

#46

triceratopzeuhl wrote:a non-mafia game for a non-musician

That would be oddly satisfying, and likely a very unique game. Truthfully, we can always abandon that strategy if an unexpected kill throws the plan off, so it hurts nothing to start off trying this out. Well, maybe it hurts whichever animals have offered themselves up for sacrifice to that point.

(also I like Eno and consider him a musician)

Agreed entirely.

Now that I've team claimed truthfully, no other Animals need to needlessly put their lives on the line until Day 2, at the very least. But even still, I just don't see how anyone would oppose this.

#47

A moste noble socke thou art.

No lynch yet though, so, where are we going?

#48

Doen't matter what i think about Eno. Simple fact is Roxy Music with Eno is far better than Roxy Music without him.

#49

Snow Dog wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:You know, just to show how committed I am to this and how I really think it's the best option for everyone:

I am an Animal.

Feel free to lynch me on Day 1.

That way no one else has to team claim and we can see how this plan is going to play out. I'm willing to sacrifice my life in order to pursue this.
Well done Alex. No point agreeing with a plan then hiding. Kudos to you!

It was difficult because I LOVE ENO and I REALLY want to play this game, but after discussing it and seeing others so far appear in agreement, I'm absolutely willing to do what it takes so that we can all enjoy a win here, and I'm happy with this.

I was going to wait a bit longer to make sure the plan had no holes and that everyone was OK with it, but then I realized there really isn't a point and that the only possible hole is something totally beyond our control (host event possibility). Only other way it could not work is sabotage. Thus, it actually made more sense for me to sacrifice my life for the cause right off the bat, so that all the Animals didn't team claim so early on, just in case someone decides to go against the plan.

As Trice said, I also believe, in addition to winning, it would be oddly satisfying to pull this off.

Pacifist mafia game ftw?

#50

Pacifist mafia game would be a nice change from me antagonizing everybody like a paranoid schizophrenic.

Anyway, you can always lurk around with us as ghost/zombie sockface

Last lynch. Choose wisely.