Cmon now. Think to yourself: What purpose would it serve me as scum to learn a single person who doesn't have an item. I already know several people who do have items, so if I was looking for a hit I would just kill one of them. If someone does come forward, they will likely be able to learn that my intentions were pro-town anyways.

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 21:38 GMT

#409

lolol killing Palmar. Good thing I decided to use my night action elsewhere :p

Puzzle time!

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 21:43 GMT

#412

Does town agree that Varp should reveal his alignment check since he already outed himself as dt in the thread?

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 21:54 GMT

#420

On August 08 2011 06:46 Varpulis wrote:
well, to be fair, i wasn't told explicitly that he took it, just that i lost the deck. Thing is, he came to my room for a smoke and the cards disappeared. I still got the result of my check on Coag though. He's not scum.

What say you, trotske?

Sigh, I would have preferred if you didn't claim trotske's identity, but I'll claim responsibility now before the town goes after him. I have the ability to swap items between two players. Originally, I was going to swap Palmar and a player I thought most likely to be scum. When you role claimed detective, I had a feeling you would be the person most likely to be hit so I moved the item to the person I had the strongest town read on based on the day one lynch, hoping to hide the location of the cards. Now that you claimed who has them again, they will probably have to switch hands once more.

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 21:56 GMT

#424

hold on curu, if the thread can come up with a better guess, you can use ours. There is no sense submitting a guess, unless you're pretty sure it could be correct.

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 22:17 GMT

#436

On August 08 2011 07:05 Varpulis wrote:
sorry kita, but for all i knew he was scum and he stole it.

No worries <3

*Examines the keypad.

I wonder if the fact that there are only letters A-Z means its a single word.

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 22:20 GMT

#442

Haha

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 22:23 GMT

#444

On August 08 2011 07:21 Varpulis wrote:
Exercising all my self control to stop myself from pming DrH with the solution "horcrux"

Or maybe if we gather all three hallows?

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 22:46 GMT

#450

lol syllogism imba

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 23:10 GMT

#459

Err so DrH's profile has a link to his blog and there is a link that leads to this text, but that is where I got stuck. Does this mean anything to anyone?

falltoyourknees 1
dontlookback 2
getoutwhileyoucan 3
itsnotsafe 4
stop 5
runand 6
youwill 7
prayformercy 8

you will find the URL

kitaman27

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August 07 2011 23:18 GMT

#461

Near the top of the page there is a link that says "Did you come here from something" and then there is a page that asks "what numbers did you need again?" and the 8th d has another link that leads to that text.

kitaman27

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August 08 2011 00:05 GMT

#464

Just a heads up, I submitted prayformercy which was wrong.

kitaman27

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August 08 2011 22:54 GMT

#550

On August 09 2011 06:44 Curu wrote:
BTW I'm pissed. I used my weak anonymous Mason power to send this to kitaman:

Diary: day 6

This hell persists around us. The sick stench of blood and gore pervades the halls as our assailants seek us out. Entering this castle was our worst mistake, for we had entered into the seventh circle of Hell itself. My companions stare wild eyed, some unbelieving that I would take the time to write this piece in our short reprieve.

We hide now in one of the rooms, but there is no way out. We are trapped, the sounds of the beasts prowling outside more terrifying than anything I could have imagined.

And I harbor a secret from my companions. The small bite on my thigh, hidden carefully from view. What I first dismissed as merely a glancing wound seems to be so much more. I can feel my blood clot as it thickens, and half my teeth have already sharpened to fangs. Thoughts of cannibalism enter my head unbidden and lately it has been ever harder to dismiss these thoughts. But I suppose it couldn’t be considered cannibalism anymore; I am no longer sure I am even human.

The urge rises but only my writing can distract me. But it is becoming so hard…so hard…just a bite can’t hurt. Just a taste of that sweet flesh. I thirst. I hunger. I can resist no more…but I must, I must, I must, I MUST, I MU

To try to get everyone to lynch Coagulation. Blood clot = Coagulation get it? Ha ha ha...

kitaman didn't even post it. Grrrrrr.

lol sorry. I actually didn't catch on to the blood clot clue. I just figured it was flavor text hinting at a second vampire themed recruiting role. I didn't want to post anything immediately because the only thing that would do would discredit any of the people who came out looking pro-town after the day one lynch. Instead I was going to wait and see if anyone had a drastic change in playing style or happened to mention a vampire related role. Also, apologies for trying to get you killed last minute. However, it was clearly just a ploy to trick bum into outing himself as scum :p

Thanks for hosting DrH. Looking forward to the real thing ^_^

kitaman27

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August 08 2011 23:29 GMT

#557

On August 09 2011 07:59 DoctorHelvetica wrote:

What did you like most about the game?
The flavor text was probably the best I've ever seen in a mafia game here. Great job with that! The puzzles were fun and the second one was definitely challenging.

What did you like least about the game?
It ended too quickly

If you could remove something from the real haunted game, what would it be?
One problem with the puzzles was that it completely shut down discussion for actual scum hunting. It worked out in the end for town, but the day one lynch results would have been a nightmare if Amber flipped town. Arguably, discussing the puzzles could be considered a mafia tactic, but perhaps removing the puzzles from the day phase, and instead putting them in a puzzle/night phase would make it seem more like a mafia game.

If you could add something to the real haunted game, what would it be?
If you plan to continue the theme with the items, maybe more variety than the standard medic, vig, dt roles. Also, needs more Vampires :p

Do you think this game was imbalanced in favor of town or mafia?
Clearly imba for town since we had Meapak. I liked that both scum was recruited on night zero. The biggest problem with recruiting-like roles seems to be that its much more difficult to scum hunt when the player thinks they are town for the first half of the game. It also is more of a headache when your most pro-town player could likely end up as scum the following cycle.

Were the puzzles too easy or too difficult?
The biggest problem was it was sometimes difficult to tell what was being asked. For example, with the leviathan puzzle it wasn't really clear that a number solution was needed, but maybe that was the intention. The second harder puzzle was interesting, but it seems like everyone got stuck at the same point. Something like the puzzle clue item might come in handy as a safeguard against a complete standstill.

Additional Comments:
Ty. It was fun ^_^