The Syndicate

We left off the world here:



Serenity the Technomagus walked through the small crowd that had gathered, and it quickly parted around her in deference and respect, and Chief Advisor Tenquist followed closely, as always. The people had gathered to see the spectacle, but had not dared to get too close. Serenity passed the front ranks of onlookers and into the centre, where Typhoony, Matahari, and DisgruntledPorcupine stood, swords still drawn, over DFaraday's dead body. They sheathed their weapons as Serenity approached, and nodded in deference to her.

"You did not have to kill him," Serenity remarked. "The Nesting Doll is - was - a unique ally to have. He was important to me, I owe my life to him."

"Perhaps," said Typhoony indifferently. "But he was not inclined to ally himself with us, and so he had to go."

"And if I do not feel so inclined?" Serenity arched an eyebrow.

"Great Technomagus," said DP, dropping to one knee after shooting Typhoony a look. "We would never wish to stand against you."

"So long as you don't wish to stand against us," smirked Matahari.

Serenity turned to her, narrowing her eyes. "And what if I do wish this? What are your swords going to do against me?"

"Not our swords," replied Mata. "This." She held up the Data Cube of Erlatz, now in her custody as the last member of the Sons of the Ultramorph. "We've been studying this thing for some time now, and we've learned... a great deal from it. A great deal."

"We could send you somewhere far away," said Typhoony. "Far enough away that we would never have to worry about seeing you ever again!"

"Enough!" snapped DisgruntledPorcupine. "Things aren't going to happen that way, brother!" Typhoony rolled his eyes, and DP turned to Serenity once again. "We have agreed that you are not to be harmed, great Technomagus. You are the greatest thing that has happened to this realm, and they will need you here to recover from this war."

"Give me the Data Cube," Serenity's tone expected no argument.

Typh and Mata looked at each other incredulously, and DisgruntledPorcupine quickly answered, "Uh, no can do, Serenity." He seemed slightly embarrassed to be denying her. "We're going to hold on to it... we're actually going to do some travelling!"

Serenity arched an eyebrow. "Oh?"

Typhoony stepped forward, coming face to face with her. "That's right. We choose to let you keep ruling here, because, basically, we have better things to do. There are worlds out there to explore, adventures to seek!"

Serenity met his gaze unflinchingly. "You still reek of your master, Beelzebub," she said with disgust.

"Not anyone's master anymore!" Typh said jovially, backing away with his arms outspread. "The Musketeers are the ones in charge now, clearly!" As he spoke, Matahari activated the Data Cube, and a doorway opened in midair beside them.

"Ready to go?" she asked, stashing the Cube once again. "I, for one, can't wait to see what's out there!" She tipped her hat and leapt through the portal.

"Good luck here, Technomagus!" DisgruntledPorcupine gave one last bow to the great leader. "I know that you'll rule justly, as always!" He followed Mata through the portal.

Typhoony smirked one last time, and looked into Serenity's glowing eyes, feeling great satisfaction that she had nothing left to say. "Remember us, Serenity," he stepped one foot through the portal, "And always remember, too..."

He flashed one last evil grin before leaving the plane forever. "We won."

The game has ended. The Musketeers have won Recruitment Mafia III! Team Beelzebub has been eliminated! Team Ultramorph has been eliminated! Team Serenity has been eliminated!

Generations had passed since The Musketeers set out across the Multiverse, and Serenity the Technomagus ruled the realm in relative peace and tranquility. As the centuries passed, however, her organic parts slowly began to atrophy, with more and more needing to be replaced by Lifeforce-infused circuitry. With it, her interest in the concerns of humanity and the trivial matters of mortality waned, and she grew more and more distant. Serenity's direct involvement with the affairs of ruling was seldom, if ever, needed... the systems and councils she had in place took care of running the realm.

One day, Serenity was simply gone...

As always Recruitment is a game for many and we will not limit the amount of people that can sign up. We can't run the game with under 30 and we prefer 40 or more. All players will start with a role, a clan, and no alignment. That is all players except the FOUR. In this game we will have FOUR group leaders. This is not a new concept with this game. The change here is we will have two leaders on the side of good and two leaders on the side of evil.

/official announcement

The Clans
Children of Serenity
Guardians of Lifeforce
Warriors of the Shadows
Sorcerers of the Elements
Brotherhood of the Inner Eye

Roles

The last one almost broke my heart. Rotten Musketeers. But you know I'm in.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! x 9001.

Shame I didn't get to play RM3, but RM1 and RM2 were amazing, and RM1 still might just be my favorite game I've ever played.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Shame I didn't get to play RM3, but RM1 and RM2 were amazing, and RM1 still might just be my favorite game I've ever played.

RM1 is still my fav as well. That was such a nail biter and a new experience for me. RM3 was the first time everyone started out with a role. Aapje actually convinced me I should do it that way. I think it worked out well. It was easier for players to stay interested when they had something to do while waiting to be recruited.

Turnip Head wrote:The last one almost broke my heart. Rotten Musketeers. But you know I'm in.

They broke a lot of hearts and I think they all the way broke aapje. I will not try and force him in on this one. I would be real upset if you didn't play this one so I'm glad we didn't all the way break you.

How do you write like that jerk Typh so well? It's like I can picture him talking..........


stopid typh.

bea wrote:How do you write like that jerk Typh so well? It's like I can picture him talking..........


stopid typh.

That is all LC, he understands jerk.

http://forum.revolutionmafia.com/viewto ... f699709e36

For those who wanted to you can look at the third installment in that link. Unfortunately the first two were played on The Piano and are no longer online. This one is closer to the format of the fourth anyways.

I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

Can't wait BR!!!

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

This news excites and frightens me.

Stop hyping me up. I'm too hyped.

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

I think I know exactly what you mean. There's nothing quite like giving yourself chills when constructing a game.

That said, I may have to play this Recruitment game to see the mechanism in all its glory. BR/LC games are what originally inspired me to aim for epic with every game I put together, small and large.

And G-Man puts some of the greatest creative effort into his posts that I have ever seen. I can just remember The GAME and it's zany, malicious, cute, and kind of neurotic personality... it always reminded me of Flight of the Navigator when the Ship goes crazy.

I won't deny that I have a gift with words but you guys have a real gift for constructing worlds and mythologies. I write pretty posts to make up for some of the simplicity of my ingredients. You guys have crafted some of the most well-thought-out, fully-realized games I've seen.

(No disrespect to any other hosts!)

Oh, and for the record- I've never seen Flight of the Navigator.

G-Man wrote:I won't deny that I have a gift with words but you guys have a real gift for constructing worlds and mythologies. I write pretty posts to make up for some of the simplicity of my ingredients. You guys have crafted some of the most well-thought-out, fully-realized games I've seen.

(No disrespect to any other hosts!)

No disrespect to me. I save my good ideas for stuff that could actually make me money.

G-Man wrote:

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

I think I know exactly what you mean. There's nothing quite like giving yourself chills when constructing a game.

That said, I may have to play this Recruitment game to see the mechanism in all its glory. BR/LC games are what originally inspired me to aim for epic with every game I put together, small and large.

Yeah, you know what I mean. I love the constructing part, the idea of beating my last good idea for the next game has become difficult. Tonight it smacked me in the head. I am so happy with how it's just going to start writing itself.

Black Rock wrote:

G-Man wrote:

Black Rock wrote:I just blew my mind tonight. This game is going to be awesome!

I think I know exactly what you mean. There's nothing quite like giving yourself chills when constructing a game.

That said, I may have to play this Recruitment game to see the mechanism in all its glory. BR/LC games are what originally inspired me to aim for epic with every game I put together, small and large.

Yeah, you know what I mean. I love the constructing part, the idea of beating my last good idea for the next game has become difficult. Tonight it smacked me in the head. I am so happy with how it's just going to start writing itself.

I echo this sentiment.

I love playing mafia, but there is nothing like game construction and then seeing how it plays out.

Maybe this time people will listen to me when I call out 90% o the baddies.

DharmaHelper wrote:Maybe this time people will listen to me when I call out 90% o the baddies.

lol, not likely.

I think I listened to you a little dh. Idk it is hard to remember anything but Tranq and typh yelling at me in bts all the time.

DharmaHelper wrote:Maybe this time people will listen to me when I call out 90% o the baddies.

You're so pretty

RM3 is probably my favorite game and easily the win that I'm most proud of

Typhoony wrote:

RM3 is probably my favorite game and easily the win that I'm most proud of

Typh

Typhoony wrote:

RM3 is probably my favorite game and easily the win that I'm most proud of

You fucking bitch.

Hello to you too rabbit, nice to see you haven't OD'd on drugs yet

And hello to Golden, have not seen you in a long time :o

Typhoony wrote:Hello to you too rabbit, nice to see you haven't OD'd on drugs yet

And hello to Golden, have not seen you in a long time :o

FUCK INSECTS.

That is all.

Typhoony wrote:Hello to you too rabbit, nice to see you haven't OD'd on drugs yet

And hello to Golden, have not seen you in a long time :o

WTH? No.

Typhoony wrote:

RM3 is probably my favorite game and easily the win that I'm most proud of

As it should be. If not for you those roles would have not been larger than life. Could we expect you in RM4? It won't be for a loooooong time but you know how I feel about you needing to play our games. Please?

Typhoony wrote:

RM3 is probably my favorite game and easily the win that I'm most proud of

Rude.

You broke my heart Fredo...

you don't have to even remotely convince me
i feel bad for whoever has to mod this because they'll be missing out

The Clans

Children of Serenity - They were the true believers in the lessons of Serenity, The clan is made of law makers, judges, those who will maintain order.

Guardians of the Lifeforce - Peaceful, believers in nature, healers. They have little use for civilization. They seem cold to some because they shun progress.

Warriors of the Shadows - Strong, honorable, vicious. They are often thought of as evil but they are interested in maintaining peace.

Sorcerers of the Elements - Selfish, Chaotic, driven by power. They are talented in magic. Not truly evil though.

Brotherhood of the Inner Eye - Interested in inner peace,they respect order. They will choose to influence people's choices

Each role will be assigned a clan, aspects of the roles are influenced by the clan they are from. These are not teams, just origins.

The Ones Seeking Power

Caelia - Children of Serenity
“I enforce the law with my head, not my heart. I bear this burden so they don’t have to.”
Position 1: Lynch Pardon
Position 2: Heal/Protect
Position 3: Kill (learns role of person killed)
Position 4: Put message in the thread through hosts
Position 5: Immune to NK/Lynch

Ahriman, Grand Master - Brotherhood of the Inner Eye
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Position 1: Redirect Night powers
Position 2: Immune to NK/Lynch
Position 3: Choose 5 people to block
Position 4: Kill
Position 5: Votes worth 3

Ubzargan the Ruthless - Warriors of the Shadows
“The tale of the victor is told on the battlefield, and written in blood. This is all that matters.”
Position 1: Immune to NK/Lynch
Position 2: Lynch Switch
Position 3: Thread Lock
Position 4: Poison
Position 5: Heal/Protect

Azura Nokomis - Sorcerers of the Elements
"There is no good and evil, there is only power...and those too weak to seek it. Better to save your own life and join me."
Position 1: Power Steal
Position 2: Chooses a player. Votes for her go to that player, and votes for that player go to her
Position 3: Immune to NK/Lynch
Position 4: Curse
Position 5: Choose 3 people to force votes


The Ones Looking For a Leader to Follow

The Apprentice - Sorcerers clan
At the beginning of the game he has a 30% chance of any of his powers working. Every night his chances improve. Once he is recruited the changes increase by 20% and continue to improve. Sometimes when a power fails they fizzle, other times a random effect happens.

Position 1: Insanifier
Position 2: Random Potion
Position 3: Silence
Position 4: Negative a vote
Position 5: Position Switch

The Stranger - No Clan
Position 1: Seduction
Position 2: Lie Detect
Position 3: Deflects every other vote
Position 4: Vote worth 2
Position 5: Blocks

War Monger - Warrior Clan
Position 1: Mind Control
Position 2: The Hunger
Position 3: ?
Position 4: ?
Position 5: Competition

Warden of the Inner Eye - Brotherhood Clan
Position 1: Role Nullifier
Position 2: Role Block
Position 3: Power Stealer
Position 4: Power Absorber
Position 5: Give a power

Seeker of the Way - Children of Serenity
Position 1: Tracker (find target)
Position 2: Alignment Check
Position 3: Tracker (find Targeter)
Position 4: Track the amount of votes each player ended up with
Position 5: Track BTSC

Druidic Elder - Guardian Clan
Position 1: Heal
Position 2: Protect
Position 3: Possible Rezz
Position 4: Silence
Position 5: Lynch Switch

Windscout - Sorcerer Clan
Position 1: Randomly blows votes
Position 2: Random Redirects 4 night powers
Position 3: Every X vote is doubled
Position 4: Seemer
Position 5: Team Seemer

Pyromancer - Sorcerer Clan
Position 1: Cremates a body
Position 2: Fireshield
Position 3: Firetrap
Position 4: Fire Vision
Position 5: Immolate

Shield Spinner - Guardian Clan
Position 1: Immune to all Kills
Position 2: Immune to Ubzargan Kill
Position 3: Immune to Caelia Kill
Position 4: Immune to Ahriman Kill
Position 5: Immune to Azura Kill

Mistwood Ranger - Guardian Clan
Position 1: Untargetable
Position 2: Remove a player from the poll
Position 3: Abduct a player
Position 4: Sees if a player is recruited
Position 5: Finds out a secret

Jilted Lover - Children of Serenity Clan
At the beginning of the game the Jilted Lover will choose another player to be her lover.

Position 1: Can’t die as long as ? alive
Position 2: Dies in the place of ?
Position 3: Has temp BTSC with ?
Position 4: Coupler effect with ?
Position 5: Saves ? life

Supreme Judge - Children of Serenity
Position 1: End day period early
Position 2: Thread lock
Position 3: End night early
Position 4: Restart night
Position 5: Restart day

Highborn Assassin - Warrior Clan
Position 1: Seemer
Position 2: Parasite
Position 3: Power Steal
Position 4: Night Kill Survive
Position 5: Silence

Keeper of Ravens - Guardian Clan
Position 1: Message to the thread through host
Position 2: Message to clan through host
Position 3: Message to player through host
Position 4: Temp BTSC
Position 5: Message to role through host

Master of Ancient Arts - Brotherhood Clan
Position 1: Switches two targets
Position 2: Picks 5 people for a negative vote
Position 3: Turns into a Dragon
Position 4: Choose a player, if they are targeting someone they need to pick a new target
Position 5: Choose 3 other players to protect, they start the next day with three votes each

Deathmask Shaman - Guardians Clan
Position 1: Dead role check
Position 2: Dead power usage of lynched player
Position 3: If you die you will auto rezz
Position 4: Temp BTSC with dead player
Position 5: Possible rezz

Relicsmith - Children of Serenity
The receiving player can choose to keep the item or pass it on. Items could be positive or negative.

Position 1: Boon
Position 2: Item give
Position 3: Item give
Position 4: Random Item give
Position 5: Power Corruption

Wielder of Lightning - Brotherhood Clan
Position 1: Picks Player
Position 2: Picks Protect or Block
Position 3: Picks Player
Position 4: Picks Positive or Negative Boon
Position 5: Picks an element, if Thunder picks the same element they both use that element’s power

Lord of Thunder - Brotherhood Clan
Position 1: Picks 3 minus or plus votes
Position 2: Picks Player
Position 3: Picks Alignment or Role Check (they both receive info)
Position 4: Picks Player
Position 5: Picks an element, if Lightning picks the same element they both use that element’s power

Brutal Executioner - Warrior Clan
He chooses a player, the kill goes through if they are the right clan.

Position 1: Kill a Sorcerer
Position 2: Kill a Guardian
Position 3: Kill a Brotherhood
Position 4: Kill a Warrior
Position 5: Kill a Children of Serenity

Chaos Dancer - Sorcerer Clan
Position 1: Switch three roles powers
Position 2: Switch two players targets
Position 3: Pick a player, that player's target is put to sleep instead
Position 4: Chaos Curse
Position 5: Bind two people

The Immortal - Warrior Clan
While unrecruited is vulnerable, once recruited he will no longer be able to killed or lynched until he is the last of his group. Once he is the last man standing he will become killable again.
Position 1: Randomize three players, block one, protect one, kill one
Position 2: Randomize three players, one is +2 votes, one is -2 votes, one votes = 0
Position 3: Choose three players to receive the same fate
Position 4: Choose three players, nothing can happen at night and none can be lynched the next day
Position 5: Choose three players to receive gossip about, the gossip is not player specific.


Neutral

Terras, Bastion of Hope - Guardians of the Lifeforce
“I care not for these shallow political games, I must unite my clan. The welfare of my clan is all that matters.”
Terras wins by surviving and having at least three other Guardians alive at the end of the game. He can win alongside of any faction. Other Guardians can win with Terras regardless of their alignment.

Position 1: Protects all Guardians
Position 2: Knows how many Guardians are alive
Position 3: Guardian Alignment Check
Position 4: Check Player to see if Guardian
Position 5: Stops Guardian Lynch




Game Elements
We will be repeating the Epic Challenge in this game. It was very fun last time around.
There will be two civvie teams and two baddie teams for the first time in a Recruitment game.
The Nesting Doll has heavily influenced this game. Every role is now a Nesting Doll. Each role will have 5 positions. Each night we will vote on the position for the next day.
For those that have no idea how this game even got to number 4 or how we run things Muh haha ha, or you can check out Recruitment three here http://forum.revolutionmafia.com/viewto ... =24&t=2168

This is the original Nesting Doll role:
The Nesting Doll

Chooses a position each night, 5 positions. Each position has to be used before they can be used again.
Position 1: Protected from Technomagus kill, also protects another player from a kill.
Position 2: Protected from Creeping Death’s kill, also deflects the kill from her to a random player also chooses another player to deflect a power from them.
Position 3: Protected from Ultramorph’s kill, also absorbs the same power as the Ultramorph and also chooses another player to absorb a power from.
Position 4: Protected from the Super Secret kill, also their vote counts as two the next day and also chooses another player’s vote to count as two.
Position 5: Protected from all kills, also takes two people off the next lynch poll.

EPIC CHALLENGE: If you are successfully able to avoid three kills on yourself you will then complete you Epic Challenge and gain a sixth position.
The Sixth Position: You will be able to choose which powers used on you to deflect that night.

You can see the format here. It will not be exactly the same, only the format. Also no individual will get to choose the position, it will be voted on.

This post will be updated as I take time to fill in the rest of the roles.

That was not a response I was expecting.

Also, all the roles that I have listed all completely flushed out. I won't be releasing the descriptions until every role is ready. Just in case it needs tweaking.

Black Rock wrote:That was not a response I was expecting.

Those names...look menacing.

Role names look exotic and intriguing. Incorporating the Nesting Doll in each role sounds like fun. I would like to sign up now please.

Epignosis wrote:

Black Rock wrote:That was not a response I was expecting.

Those names...look menacing.

They should, it's going to be an evil game.

Turnip Head wrote:Role names look exotic and intriguing. Incorporating the Nesting Doll in each role sounds like fun. I would like to sign up now please.

Hopefully soon enough.

I think that having each role cycle through different powers as the nights go on will give another dimension to analyzing a player's game. Players will be voting on the next Position to go to, and some roles benefit more than others from some Positions. Maybe someone will REALLY need to rally to get Position 4 some night, and smarter players will think they know why... it's gonna be fun!

Omg! My brainz are broke all ready!! Can't wait though!

The Scribe should have his own clan

If I end up playing this I will be quoting from the Book of Truth, the Scribes manifesto, daily.

I have updated the roles, you will find a link to them in the first post. I still have some roles to post but it is late and I am tired.

Signups are on!

Long Con wrote:Signups are on!

I don't believe it!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Long Con wrote:Signups are on!

I don't believe it!

That matters not... Dawn of the Clans believes in you.