Blood on the Forums XXVII: Hide and Seek (pregame, signups closed)

I’d be baffled if 15 occurs so my goal is 9 or 12

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I could start it this week if I changed the phase shift interval mid-game

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I forgot that the sequel to my favorite book releases in two weeks and I want to have sufficient time to dive into it, so this game will start Thursday at 1:31 p.m. cdt if there’s been no more signups by then, unless anyone objects

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With phase shifts changing to later in the day mid-game

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cannot understate that this is literally 1 minute after one of my classes starts (but don’t change the phase time just for me i’ll probably be on my phone anyway)

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Phase change will be made 8 hours later after like night 2 – i just need it to conform with evening shift for the weekend while i cover for a colleague

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Heads up in advance; I will reiterate this multiple times but

The way that I run madness is that you must be playing as you would as that character. Claiming the role at least privately is usually required. Of course you can’t hardclaim/soft other roles. And claiming publicly is usually helpful but not for no reason. And especially not if you’re a role that wants to hide. For example I would execute someone who was made mad as sage and claimed publicly.

I know this is kind of a less merciful way to go about this, but in my book, fulfilling madness has less to do with how hard you are trying and more to do with how effectively of a job you are doing at causing other players to believe you are actually that role.

This is of course easier to judge in this setting where the storyteller is present for all whispers

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A storyteller i play for a lot now says that that madness is not “play as if you are that thing” but “convince others that you are that thing” and thus publicly claiming is required

But to me the difference between those two phrases is dubious at best. No one is ever going to be convinced that you’re the sage if you’ve hardclaimed publicly

My way of doing things is admittedly impractical in person but in this lobby of vets where I hear all whispers, I’m going to run madness the way I think it should work

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assuming this is. with context cuz like
obviously in f3 if youre the sage you claim sage, or if you just died in the night

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Yes of course

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how do you plan on running it if someone’s ceremad as mutant

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because i’ve been ceremad as mutant before and it’s like. kinda hell on earth because there is nothing that falls under the umbrella of successfully being ceremad as mutant that wouldn’t get a real mutant executed

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honestly like 95% sure the play is just to instaclaim mutant and dare the storyteller to execute you

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I mean under my ruling of madness the player just has to be making players believe that they are the mutant. So they should never claim outsider privately or publically; if they did I could just kill them as a real mutant would never do that

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In terms of how to make players believe they might be mutant without claiming, maybe hardclaim different garbage in each whisper idk

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Then again a mutant might claim if they’re failing to get the message across any other way. Which would violate its own ability, but if they were believed, it would satisfy Ceremad. NOT because they claimed, but because they were believed. So it’s for different reasons but still totally up to ST yeah

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for the record since it was 7p s&v i just pushed fang gu world (indirectly) while it was blatantly not a fang gu game

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Wait my definition also hurts mutant lmao
Players must simultaneously believe you to be the mutant and believe you to be a non-outsider. This is absolutely impossible probably even more screwed than normal madness

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No objections here.

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incorrect, a real mutant can and has done this it’s a valid strat

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