Inception [END]

[Master Radishes]

[mention]iaafr[/mention] get in here and give a BWOONNNG

[Master Radishes]

Everyone else spectating right now:

[juliets]

Yes I'm sure everyone thinks I'm crazy but the truth is I am EXHAUSTED from this game. I have lost my ability to think and reason.

[Master Radishes]

I feel you. Pretty sure this is the longest real-time game I've ever played. I'm used to smaller games and dying early.

[Master Radishes]

I'm also overloaded at work. We had another teacher leave and they can't find a suitable replacement so I've taken on some of his classes, meaning I have almost no free time to plan lessons and mark and such except late in the evenings and on weekends.

[Master Radishes]

If anyone is planning to see that movie 'Knives Out' they mention 'Mafia' in passing at one point.

[juliets]

If anyone is planning to see that movie 'Knives Out' they mention 'Mafia' in passing at one point.

Really wanted to take my mom to see that movie this weekend.

[juliets]

I can't believe Jack and LLD are missing this. They must be way busy.

[Master Radishes]

If anyone is planning to see that movie 'Knives Out' they mention 'Mafia' in passing at one point.

Really wanted to take my mom to see that movie this weekend.

It, uh...it involves the father dying.

[Master Radishes]

Jay puts all this thought into this awesome game and we let it end up decided on a 2-2 tied lynch in round 12.

Just mafia things.

[Master Radishes]

And I swear to fuck if we go into round 13 I'll scream.

[juliets]

If anyone is planning to see that movie 'Knives Out' they mention 'Mafia' in passing at one point.

Really wanted to take my mom to see that movie this weekend.

It, uh...it involves the father dying.

Oh wow - well the plans we made were before my dad died but we're in no mood for it now

[juliets]

Jay puts all this thought into this awesome game and we let it end up decided on a 2-2 tied lynch in round 12.

Just mafia things.

I hope they are not mad.

[Long Con]

[Master Radishes]

If anyone is planning to see that movie 'Knives Out' they mention 'Mafia' in passing at one point.

Really wanted to take my mom to see that movie this weekend.

It, uh...it involves the father dying.

Oh wow - well the plans we made were before my dad died but we're in no mood for it now

Yeah, maybe not the best choice at the moment anyway. I remember watching 'Little Miss Sunshine' with my girlfriend years ago right after her grandfather had died. Whoops.

The 'dad dying' thing is not a spoiler, by the way - it's the mystery that the movie is about. Just in case you do want to see it one day.

[Master Radishes]

BWOOOOOOOOOONNNGGGGG

[Jackofhearts2005]

BWOOOOOOOOOONNNGGGGG

[iaafr]

BWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG

[Jackofhearts2005]

I can't believe Jack and LLD are missing this. They must be way busy.

We went to a Charlie Brown Christmas ice sculpture exhibit (Gaylord Texan) and then were watching Home Alone.

[Jackofhearts2005]

[Jackofhearts2005]

[Master Radishes]

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Dat butt tho

After seemingly endless driving, the woman in the front seat jerks her head to the dash.
A bright red light is oscillating left and right within the speedometer.
FINALLY. We're getting out of here.
"Thank sweet baby Christ; I thought this dream would never end." says the man beside you.
"So we are dreaming then. Figured." you snort apathetically. Your mind is elsewhere.
A low rumble under the ground accelerates to a quake, and the scene seems to be collapsing into sensory nonsense.
Just before you can make sense of it, *snap*.
Your eyes open, and you launch yourself upward into a seated posture.
You're oddly sweaty. You must have been out for a while.
The room is empty. That had to be the most vivid dreaming experience of your life.

Without another thought, you reach for your smart phone and enter the search criteria into Google.
"Holy shit flights to Paris are expensive."
It hardly mattered though. There was only one thing you wanted.
A man that you believed to be in France had really pissed you off yesterday. He called himself Anaxagore.
You knew exactly how you'd exact revenge.
You would go to the airport, get on a plane, fly to France, and then hit him in the nutsack with a baguette.

Subconscious Phase 12 has ended.

Lady LambdaDelta was lynched. She was:

Spoiler: show

You are the subconscious aspect of joy.

You represent the mark’s purest conception of contentedness and the pleasure of life.

During any inception phase, you may select a player. If that player is targeted with any fatal action, it will be prevented. You begin the game with 8 role points.

You will win the game if all threats to the subconscious mind are eliminated.

The inception team has completed the mission and escaped undetected. They have won Inception Mafia! Congratulations to:

Dragomir, Elephant, Evenstar, Jackofhearts2005, Long Con, and MacDougall

Also, for reaching an [essentially] kingmaker gamestate, the independent player has achieved his secondary win condition!
Congratulations to:

Master Radishes

[juliets]

Well, so it goes.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

[Jackofhearts2005]

Lol dickbutt

[Master Radishes]

[juliets]

Now townies, don't yell at me, I did the best I could.

[Sloonei]

Deflated bwong

[Sloonei]

Now townies, don't yell at me, I did the best I could.

You were tremendous.

[Master Radishes]

Now townies, don't yell at me, I did the best I could.

Your 'best' was better than literally everyone else in the game. Pretty sure you lynched more scum than anyone.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Now townies, don't yell at me, I did the best I could.

Without any question whatsoever, you were the best thing the civilians had to offer in this game.

[juliets]

You guys are super sweet.

[Master Radishes]

Very well played, Jack. I was growing more certain of you over the last couple of rounds but was a bit inhibited by needing to achieve certain optimal lynches and such.

Eff you guys for lynching Colin. I was trying to take him to F3 with me.

[iaafr]

ggwp all

[Jackofhearts2005]

Actually incepting the idea of flying to france and hitting someone in the nutsack with a baguette is pretty funny too.

[Jackofhearts2005]

Very well played, Jack. I was growing more certain of you over the last couple of rounds but was a bit inhibited by needing to achieve certain optimal lynches and such.

Eff you guys for lynching Colin. I was trying to take him to F3 with me.

Lol I knew you were the 3P like 6 phase ago and hard defended you so you wouldn't poison me.

[juliets]

Yeah Jack you did an excellent job. I just did not think it was your scum game at all.

[Master Radishes]

Very well played, Jack. I was growing more certain of you over the last couple of rounds but was a bit inhibited by needing to achieve certain optimal lynches and such.

(Addendum: I don't mean to imply you were totes obvious or anything. I did struggle mightily to read you throughout this game.)

[Jackofhearts2005]

I had no plan if Pawn hadn't been modkilled. I was waiting for someone to ask why Quin and Pawn were still alive and nobody would do it.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

juliets

Spoiler: show

You are the subconscious aspect of humor.

You represent the mark’s cognitive store for whimsy and drollery.

During any inception phase, you may elect to trigger an ability. This will render you unaffected by any other night actions targeted upon you during the same inception phase. You begin the game with 4 role points.

You will win the game if all threats to the subconscious mind are eliminated.

Jackofhearts2005

Spoiler: show

You are the architect.

You are the creative mind responsible for the design of the dream space and the mission.

Once per inception phase, you may select a player. That player will be guaranteed not to submerge to a new dream level in most but not all possible cases of submergence.

You have no other special abilities.

You may safely claim to be the subconscious aspect of wonder.

You represent the mark’s curiosities and most genuine respects for the amazing nature of being.

Extended inception team role card

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You are the inception team. You have been hired to plant an idea into the mark’s subconscious mind and to escape undetected. You will function in part like a mafia-aligned team would in most games.

During each inception phase, your team will have two specific responsibilities. First, as a team, you must decide which player not on your team to eliminate (as with a normal night kill). Second, you must choose member(s) of your team to remain behind while the rest submerge into new dream level(s). During the first two dream levels, you must leave two members behind each. In any ensuing dream levels, you are only required to leave one behind. These requirements could change under certain conditions.

For example:

After the first cycle of subconscious and inception phases in the first dream level, you will select two members of your team to remain behind in the first level. The remainder of the team will submerge into a new second dream level. This applies the same way when submerging beyond the second dream level as described above.

Your team must perform its night kill in every dream level wherein you have a member present during every inception phase. This means you’ll sometimes be targeting more than one player per inception phase as a team based upon the levels you occupy.

More details clarifying these instructions will emerge as the game proceeds.

Your team has two primary objectives for the overall mission:

1. You must penetrate the mark’s subconscious mind to depth of the Limbo level, where inception may be achieved. You must plant an idea (survive unlynched at the Limbo level). If you are successful in achieving inception, your team will be rewarded.
2. You must escape the mark’s subconscious mind by outnumbering the projections which threaten you. This is the standard win condition of a mafia team, and it is your win condition too.

Your team may use the following Discord server to communicate behind-the-scenes during all inception phases. You may all use this regardless of your locations among dream levels. It will be closed during subconscious phases.

https://discord.gg/fYzr8C

None of the above information will be revealed if a member of your team is eliminated from the game.

Be aware that the subconscious-aligned (civilians/townies/villagers) players do not begin the game with any awareness of dream levels. Their roles may provide vague hints, but nothing more.

Subconscious-aligned players are given “characters” reflecting various aspects of the mark’s mind and personality. Refer to the example vanilla role card in the game’s first post for an idea of how the flavor is structured. We also have provided each of you with safe character claims as well as flavor text to accompany those false characters.

Master Radishes

Spoiler: show

You are an invasive projection of an external subconscious mind. You are self-aligned.

You are not supposed to be here. An intruder in the subconscious mind has brought you along unwittingly, and your presence here is a danger to everyone including the mark.

You have two primary objectives in this game:

1. You must penetrate the mark’s subconscious mind to depth of the Limbo level, where inception may be achieved. You must plant an idea to corrupt the mark’s mental integrity and hinder the inception team (survive unlynched at the Limbo level). The results of your success or failure in this effort will be described later in this role card.
2. You must survive the game as the last player standing. This is your win condition. Under special circumstances it may be plausible to win the game without being the sole survivor. Those details will remain unrevealed.

You begin the game with the following abilities:

You are immune to the first night kill attempt directed at you in any dream level.

If you are investigated by a role-checking role, you will show as “vanilla”. This does not apply to alignment checking roles.

Once per inception phase, you may select a player. The possible effects of this selection are described below.

If you successfully achieve inception, all of those players selected will immediately be killed and completely wake from all dream states regardless of their current level. Additionally, you will lose your previous selection ability and gain a new ability. Once every two inception phases thereafter, you may select a player. That player will be killed. You will also be granted a single extra kill to be used during any other inception phase not otherwise applicable to your kills.

If you fail to achieve inception, one of the players you selected at random will be poisoned. Likewise, you will lose your previous selection ability and gain a new ability. During any inception phase, you may select a player. That player will be poisoned. You will have 6 role points. All poisoned players will be informed of their ailment, and they will die at the end of the subconscious phase following the onset of the poison. These poisons cannot be prevented by any means.

Whenever submergence to a new dream level is possible, you are guaranteed to submerge.

Be aware that the subconscious-aligned (civilians/townies/villagers) players do not begin the game with any awareness of dream levels. Their roles may provide vague hints, but nothing more.

Subconscious-aligned players are given “characters” reflecting various aspects of the mark’s mind and personality. Refer to the example vanilla role card in the game’s first post for an idea of how the flavor is structured.

You may safely claim to be the subconscious aspect of reason.

You represent the mark’s capacity to derive inferences about the external world on the basis of previously acquired concepts, perceptions, and data.

[juliets]

So, how did those 3 no kills happen?

[Jackofhearts2005]

Yeah Jack you did an excellent job. I just did not think it was your scum game at all.

Mac provided some behind the scene coaching about my normal scumtells and how to not do them.

I thought you were gonna get me, too.

[juliets]

I used my power twice and their were no kills each time but I'm not sure if it was me or not.

[Master Radishes]

Very well played, Jack. I was growing more certain of you over the last couple of rounds but was a bit inhibited by needing to achieve certain optimal lynches and such.

Eff you guys for lynching Colin. I was trying to take him to F3 with me.

Lol I knew you were the 3P like 6 phase ago and hard defended you so you wouldn't poison me.

This is what made me start to think you were scum. (Likewise, Mac coming out immediately to follow up on Eva's spew made me consider him too.)

But it got to a point where poisoning you was not optimal, as I needed some townies to die.

[Benson]

[Jackofhearts2005]

Lots of really good play from the other factions. Narrowest win I've ever gotten.

[Sloonei]

I used my power twice and their were no kills each time but I'm not sure if it was me or not.

(it was)

[Jackofhearts2005]

Very well played, Jack. I was growing more certain of you over the last couple of rounds but was a bit inhibited by needing to achieve certain optimal lynches and such.

Eff you guys for lynching Colin. I was trying to take him to F3 with me.

Lol I knew you were the 3P like 6 phase ago and hard defended you so you wouldn't poison me.

This is what made me start to think you were scum. (Likewise, Mac coming out immediately to follow up on Eva's spew made me consider him too.)

But it got to a point where poisoning you was not optimal, as I needed some townies to die.

If not for the no claiming rule, I probably would have come out and asked what your wincon was since I knew if it went down to you and me, I'd still win.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

So, how did those 3 no kills happen?

Both of your commutes and Radish's one kill protection.