Results and Analysis
Day 0:
For those wondering what this Day 0 poll was all about, it was pretty much tied to Commander Squizloid's role. At the start of Day 0, Commander Squizloid had to choose any of the Nebulos between Nebulo 1 and 17 to place his backup fleets. Commander/trice chose Nebulo 8, which served him quite well.
The corresponding options had the humans starting at the respective Nebulo:
Sun portal - Nebulo 1
Earth portal - Nebulo 9
Neptune/Pluto portal - Nebulo 17
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Day 1:
Nothing too out of the ordinary here other than the after-effect of the Day 0 poll. All of those who voted for the winning Day 0 option had their votes count like normal, whereas those who voted for a losing option lost the power of their vote without their knowledge.
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Night 1:
Night 1 was nuts! Kate, who was Scott Walker, decided to use her tilt function the very first night. This meant that any night action that was going to hit one side of the alphabet hit the other side of the alphabet. In addition to reywaS's four target switches, it made for a lot of target chaos, and explains why your target likely went somewhere other than you intended Night 1.
NIGHT 1 TILTED TARGETS:
Vompatti | AceofSpaces |
triceratopzeuhl | axxon n |
The Truth | bea |
S~V~S | Benthayer15 |
Roxy | birdwithteeth11 |
reywaS | BoatsBoatsBoats |
rabbit8 | Boomslang |
Mr. Droopy Cash | Captain Bunny Killer |
LoRab | chaindeath |
LittleTiger | Devin the Omniscient |
Kate | DFaraday |
Jokreher | DharmaHelper |
insertnamehere | DisgruntledPorcupine |
Illyria | Epignosis |
Targets that were supposed to hit the players on the left actually hit players on the right.
Most significantly, Kate was actually the target of DP/Herman's Night 1 kill, but managed to avoid it and DFaraday was killed in her place.
Another significant action on Night 1 was that Commander Squizloid/trice decided to prime for attack, since he chose Nebulo 8 and that is where the players were headed. Since Nebulo 8 was indeed selected in the night poll, trice could then choose someone to kill by end of Day 2.
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Day 2:
Very interesting lynch, down to rabbit8 and bea, both baddies. It was very much along team lines. Those who were on The Residents voted rabbit, and those who were on Ziltoid's team voted for bea (except for Epignosis and The Truth). What made this lynch more interesting was the fact that all votes of The Residents were worth 2x because of The Sinister Exaggerator's power, so it was actually an even closer lynch than it seemed (only by 1 vote!). Unfortunately, both bea and Roxy missed the poll.
The most interesting part of Day 2 was Epignosis's fake silencing of himself as well as his fake vote for The Truth. Some suspected axxon n was silenced, but he was not. John Cage/AceofSpaces did not begin silencing until Night 4.
Then at the end of the day, Commander/trice sent in his one-time kill to be used on LoRab, hence her death.
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Night 2:
Epignosis/The Sinister Exaggerator had his first successful exaggeration this night. His Night 1 exaggeration failed because he was role blocked by extension (Illyria was role blocked).
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"Meanwhile, The Truth reports that he heard weeping. He looked around the corner of an intersecting corridor and saw rabbit8 eating crayons. Rabbit8 was muttering to himself about how addicted he was to them, and he was also talking about how his days were numbered because bea was the way home. And that he had a supercrush on her."
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Day 3:
The good old Droopy lynch. The only thing to note here is that timmer (at the time Captain Bunny Killer)'s power of negative vote went into effect here for the first time. triceratopsoil was the first victim, so his vote for Vompatti was worth negative four (with bea dead).
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Night 3:
Boomslang/The Omnidimensional Creator uses his first resurrection on Mr. Droopy Cash. Now what's funny here is that the coin actually flipped tails, so it was randomly selected among those dead. I put all the dead names into the name randomizer... and Mr. Droopy Cash comes up, lol. So his original target was rezzed after all!
What was very interesting is that Jokreher had successfully stolen/mimicked Kate's power the night previous, so he attempted to tilt all night targets away from him this night. However, it failed automatically because Kate did not use her power that night. Unknown to both the Greys, if they tried to execute a power they stole from someone the night before, the role had to be using it the same night they tried to execute.
The Truth/Ziltoidian Monk survived the night kill because he rolled a 10.
Flyin' High/Exuma survived the night kill because the coin flipped heads and she successfully avoided the night action.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"An extraterrestrial ghost appeared before Vompatti. It raised its hands, but something made it stop. Then it sibilated, "No -- we have further use of you." Then it vanished."
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Day 4:
The Vomps lynch. S~V~S was the second victim of the negative vote curse, so her vote for Vompatti was worth negative four (with bea dead) and trice's vote for Vompatti was also worth negative four. Despite this, he had more than enough votes to offset the negative eight and he was still lynched.
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Night 4:
Another crazy night! This one was unbelievable. Kate was targeted with another kill, this time by The Residents, and she tilted AGAIN, her second and final tilt. Talk about awesome timing. Regardless, Captain Bunny Killer was executing the kill and she was blocked by BoatsBoatsBoats/Chris Cutler, so the kill did not go through. If it had, DisgruntledPorcupine/Herman would have died.
NIGHT 4 TILTED TARGETS:
insertnamehere | Flyin' High |
Jokreher | Epignosis |
juliets | Dom |
Kate | DisgruntledPorcupine |
LittleTiger | DharmaHelper |
Mr. Droopy Cash | chaindeath |
rabbit8 | Captain Bunny Killer |
reywaS | Boomslang |
S~V~S | BoatsBoatsBoats |
The Truth | birdwithteeth11 |
triceratopzeuhl | AceofSpaces |
Targets that were supposed to hit the players on the left actually hit players on the right.
chaindeath died this night, so the people he successfully cursed (rabbit8 and BoatsBoatsBoats) could be frozen. Flipped heads for rabbit8 and tails for Boats, so Boats was not frozen. In reality, rabbit8's should have hit triceratopzeuhl instead because trice absorbs all night targets. I messed this up because chaindeath's original target was Flyin' High the night previous and it was redirected by reywaS/The Mysterious Voice to rabbit8.
Now as to how chaindeath died... this was interesting. DharmaHelper/Damo actually targeted Mr. Droopy Cash and he rolled a 7, which was his Black Mushroom (instant death). However, it was redirected to chaindeath via Kate's tilt. So Droopy would have died again lest for that.
birdwithteeth11 was recruited by The Residents this night. He actually targeted Mr. Droopy Cash, but because of the tilt, it hits chaindeath, and I flipped heads -- so The Residents were indeed notified.
Flyin' High survived the kill attempt by once again successfully avoiding the night action.
DharmaHelper, birdwithteeth11, DisgruntledPorcupine, Mr. Droopy Cash, insertnamehere, Epignosis, and reywaS all could not be blocked this night because of their participation in the poker tournament.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"insertnamehere was drunk. In the midst of the inebriated rant, insertnamehere shouted that he shouldn't have voted for DharmaHelper, and that he should have gone with his gut and voted to lynch Kate."
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Day 5:
This was a strange lynch. timmer seems to receive the most votes, but both trice and S~V~S still have negative four votes (bea and chaindeath dead, but birdwithteeth11 has been recruited) and both vote for timmer, so it ends up being a tie between LittleTiger and DharmaHelper. The only reason it was even a tie is because S~V~S/Fred Frith's force votes were actually not counting, so Ace's vote for DH was null; this offset the 2x vote against him from Epignosis. I flipped a coin for this and LT died.
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Night 5:
Kate finally dies at the hands of DP/Herman!
triceratopzeuhl was killed and Illyria was resurrected. As you all know, the living voted for Illyria to die, but I sent a PM to all of those on the list (non-NKed people) asking which living player deserved to die. All of them sent me in a name, but because it was a tie, I used the name of the person who was actually resurrected, and Illy chose trice.
Boomslang survives the kill because of his role (Omnidimensional Creator).
DharmaHelper, birdwithteeth11, DisgruntledPorcupine, Mr. Droopy Cash, Epignosis, and reywaS all could not be blocked this night because of their participation in the poker tournament.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"Epignosis was trying to forget his mistakes in voting, and trying to convince himself that he would not make another mistake. But a green eyeball materialized. The figure held an old-fashioned Tommy gun in its hands. It hissed, "For voting chaindeath!" Epignosis ducked behind a piece of furniture as the shots rained down upon him. Epignosis cried out! When the shots stopped, Epignosis cautiously raised his head, and saw no one."
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Day 6:
The Flyin' High lynch. Only S~V~S had negative four votes at this point, with trice dead, and timmer being blocked the past two nights in a row.
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Night 6:
The portal night! Anyone who used the portalscope to look at the portals had a chance of being roleblocked this night. For each portal they chose to look at it, it added 20% chance to their chance of being roleblocked (max 80%).
Each portal did correspond to a respective team but no one was made aware. Here is the information regarding the four portals:[/b][/color]
Portal 1 - Volcano (The Duo of Destruction) - The player thrown into the volcano has a 50% chance of burning to death. The Duo cannot be harmed by lava, resulting in a lynch stop effect. The Duo may also select another player or two (depending on how many of the original Duo are currently alive) to be thrown in the volcano as well, setting them on fire, giving each other player a 50% chance of death as well.
"As you peer into the portalscope, you see a large volcano and a grey sky filled with volcanic ash. An ominous sight."
Portal 2 - Eden (Civilians) - All players vote on the "most civvie" player. If that player is indeed civvie, all civvies gain automatic night protection the coming night. If the player is not a civvie, the players are notified and they do not gain any protection.
"As you peer into the portalscope, you see a wonderfully vibrant and incredibly soothing garden."
Portal 3 - Psychic Jugglers (The Residents) - All lynch options are not assigned to players/names. The Residents in this portal select in what order they wish to list the players and must send to the host within 24 hours. The Residents can juggle around the names and re-submit to the host again twice within the last 24 hours before the poll ends.
"As you peer into the portalscope, you see a deranged background with many twisting colors of purple, blue, black, among others. There are strangely shaped figures juggling. It almost hurts your eyes to peer into this imagery too long."
Portal 4 - Disruptr (Ziltoid the Omniscient) - Ziltoid's team may end the lynch at any time they wish.
"As you peer into the portalscope, you see hardly anything. It is almost uncomfortable, however, as if some kind of nebulous creature will disrupt the nothingness at any moment."
DisgruntledPorcupine specifically held his kill because of the newly revealed information.
DharmaHelper, birdwithteeth11, DisgruntledPorcupine, Mr. Droopy Cash, Epignosis, and reywaS all could not be blocked this night because of their participation in the poker tournament.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"Timmer was just going to sleep when he heard the rattling of a gun. He chose to investigate. What he saw shocked him: A bloodied body was on the ground while a figure stood over it. The figure turned around, revealing a green eyeball for a face. The figure sprang forward, but Timmer was able to hide."
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Day 7:
See Portal 2 above. S~V~S is deemed most civvie and thus all civvies cannot die on Night 7.
All of The Residents' vote manipulation (negative and 2x) was not valid during this day period.
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Night 7:
DharmaHelper was killed by Ziltoid's Army, but then I realized the stipulations of the portal (civvies cannot die), as soon as I posted the night post, so I resurrected him for that reason.
DP held his kill once again.
Epignosis survived the kill from Moondog (Illyria) ONLY because she flipped two tails in executing it, and she thereafter lost her ability to kill and her lynch vote (but had a 50% chance of surviving lynches). If this had instead gone through, the game could have become quite different.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"S~V~S looked at her gift. It was a pretty thing, almost like a Faberge egg, but it was light in an otherworldly way, and almost seemed to float in her hand. She had been so enamored with the trophy itself that she had not noticed the inscription on the piece. Squinting, she read it: "You have two days to live.""
Now this exaggeration was genius because it was not actually true at all, yet everyone seemed to believe it was.
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Day 8:
See Portal 1 above. Epignosis received the most votes, but was not lynched because of the negative votes. S~V~S, and now Boomslang and BoatsBoatsBoats all had negative four votes. S~V~S and Boats both voted for Epignosis.
DP survived the lynch because of the fact it was his portal. He and reywaS then selected S~V~S and rabbit8 to be thrown into the volcano, and both coins flipped heads.
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Night 8:
This was the night that really changed the dynamic of the game. The Duo of Destruction had been playing so well, and then The Residents decide to have birdwithteeth11 target reywaS for a kill. Naturally, because of the automatic deflection, birdwithteeth11 died.
DP/Herman cannot kill because he received votes on Day 8.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"Alone, Epignosis was thinking back on the previous day's events. He wanted to determine what was what so he could show the others. Absentmindedly, he began singing "If I Were a Rich Man," and around the second verse, the air began to vibrate. There was Herman the Hologram. Herman screamed, but even though it was a scream, it was of a low volume: "YOU KNOW I HATE MUSICALS! I should kill you now, but I have a better use for you tomorrow. And I will make sure you speak not a word to anyone!" Herman's image vanished, and Epignosis was unable to finish the song."
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Day 9:
See Portal 4 above. This is hands down the most hilarious thing that happened all game. With rabbit8 now gone, The Truth is the only one alive on his team. He had actually approached me a day period or so before asking to be replaced because his laptop died, but I told him I'd likely not be able to since I had no one lined up and it was so late in the game.
Now, he had the ability to end the game, so he PMed me back and ended it. I noticed he hadn't voted first, which I thought was strange, but OK. I was at work at the time, so I come back from lunch and quickly put all the names into the randomizer... to find that The Truth's name pops up.
Because it's his portal, I wondered for a second whether that would make sense; I didn't think to exclude his name. But then I thought, 'Screw it, this would be funny, and the randomizer has spoken regardless'. So that's how he died and his team was eliminated.
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Night 9:
BoatsBoatsBoats is targeted for a kill by DP/Herman because no votes rolled in during Day 9, but everyone except for The Residents is blocked because of Dom's enhanced Red Eyeball ability. This is the first night all game that he flipped two heads since Vomps was lynched.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"A ghost appeared to reywaS at the stroke of midnight. The ghost was feminine, with short hair and a gracefully aged face. Her soprano voice seemed to gently vibrate the air around reywaS' room. "Who goes there?" reywaS asked. "I am Julie Andrews," she intoned. "Or I used to be. I cannot tell." "What do you want from me?" reywaS asked. "I have been search of my murderer, a demented hater of musicals," she said, "And having viewed these events these past nine nights, I believe you are connected with him." Then, without warning, Julie Andrews opened her pursed mouth and started to sing: "When Herman bites / When the Voice stings / When I'm feeling dead / I think of revenge and how good it would feel / To finally have your heads!" Then she vanished."
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Day 10:
See Portal 3 above. This came at a perfect time for The Residents, as they could assign any person they wanted to the options (and had to) within 24 hours, and then could switch the lineup again up to twice before the end of the day period. Naturally, they wanted to get rid of reywaS/The Mysterious Voice, now that they knew it was him.
With S~V~S dead, negative votes were now shared by BoatsBoatsBoats, Boomslang, and DharmaHelper, so their votes were worth negative three each. And with Epignosis's 2x vote multiplier for all of his team, that's how reywaS died even though he began the lynch period with negative three votes against him due to his role. DisgruntledPorcupine joined him in death because the team automatically dies when The Mysterious Voice is eliminated.
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Night 10:
Once again, everyone but The Residents is blocked due to Dom's Red Eyeball ability and flipping two heads once more. Didn't matter much at this point though, as The Residents began to solidify their win.
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"DharmaHelper was distraught about suspecting Epignosis. He was so upset, that he thought he would give Epignosis a gift. As he was deciding what, however, he heard a loud ruckus, as though a room were being destroyed by a cyclone. Upon investigating, he soon found a disoriented Dom, hiding behind a piece of furniture and breathing heavily. "What happened?" DharmaHelper asked. "It was an eyeball!" Dom cried. "I think he was looking for something. He left just as quickly as he came in." "Don't worry," DharmaHelper said: "This will all be over soon enough.""
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Day 11:
No more portals, so finally back to a regular lynch! Only the negative votes and 2x multipliers make it so that The Residents can essentially control it completely. Even though timmer receives nearly all of the votes, he receives negative nine votes combined from Boats, Boomslang, and DH, easily crafting his victory.
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Night 11:
Boomslang dies and then is resurrected because he flipped heads and was able to resurrect himself.
As to the bombs, anyone who would have said 'No' would have exploded. Since literally everyone said 'Yes', no one died!
The exaggerated portion of this night post was:
"Beer."
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