I nominate…
Marluxion/Chloe, and Maple/Ephemeral for Best Scum Performance, Group (Large Game) in Morphogenetic Mafia Thread A/Thread B
This game was a bit weird mechanically, given the “hydras, but not really, but also yes” nature of it, as there were two threads with 9 players each, and each slot had one player in each thread.
Both mafia slots properly utilized this to dominate thread control in the first thread, which caused a chokehold over the entire game. In the second thread, while they weren’t the dominant voices themselves, the wolves were strongly townread by every dominant voice, allowing them to still control the general narrative. This is all the more impressive when you consider that the second thread had multiple traditionally strong villagers.
Additionally, the mechanical play of the wolf team was extremely good – targetting a PR for nightkills every single night, and, despite a wolf being Jailkept N1, they never lost their cool, and continued doing their thing.
Both slots played exceptionally well in all these regards, and as a team. This is most evident if you read through the team chat, where there are literally thousands of messages between them. All four of them were bouncing off each other, both strategically and morally.
@Chloe for Most Dedicated/Enjoyable/Enthusiastic Player, and Best All-Around Player
“Dedicated, Enjoyable, Enthusiastic” are three words I think define Chloe extremely well, both inside and outside of the game.
Chloe has shown in every single game she’s played that she is not there to give it anything less than 100%. She will post hundreds, sometimes thousands of times… and these aren’t just one liners. While doing this, Chloe manages to consistently be the most enjoyable player in the game. Time and time again, she will be a shining beacon of good vibes. She is the life of the party, and brings it with her wherever she goes… while she herself, is also partying hard.
Now, while being all of these things, Chloe is very competent as both alignments. As a villager, she is able to consistently be found as one, letting her commonly become a town leader, which she is very capable of doing. Her WiM is consistently extremely high, and she is able to view the game from multiple angles, including some unique perspectives, which commonly allows her to have greater than average reads in these games.
As a wolf, Chloe has displayed the ability to shake off any struggles in her way and translate them into a scarily strong social game – and has proven to be capable of turning her strengths as a villager into a surprisingly capable wolf game.
All of these traits together just turn Chloe into a player who you want to play with, and you’ll enjoy it so much you might forget that you should be scared to play against her.
@Arete for Best Flavor
Whenever Arete is writing flavor for a game, you can consistently guarantee that the flavor will be worth reading. Whether it be good storytelling, or just amusing – commonly both – time after time, they’re able to consistently deliver on this front, always providing a high quality of flavor at the very least.
@eevee for Best Legacy Scum/Neutral Performance (Individual) in Enemy Within 4
Watching eevee play this game didn’t really feel fair. He was multiple steps ahead of the town at all times, not even using his converts until N5 and N8; because he simply didn’t need to use that.
Their mechanical play was incredible as well; protecting themselves from a vig shot N1, then preventing themselves from being cop checked later on, there’s a level of play that I don’t think very many people can replicate here.
Eevee was just playing his own game, and the rest of the players were his pawns, until it was too late.
@Wazza for Best Legacy Scum/Neutral Performance (Individual) in Rokugan FM
Was her role a bit overtuned? Yes, it absolutely was.
Does that discount how well she played in that game? No, I don’t think it does.
Wazza being able to convince half of the game to claim to some extent, via several different manipulative actions – all on D1 – is not a small order, especially with multiple people explicitly trying to stop her. also lying darkness funny
parts. The final mystery was a very good concept. Although they didn’t solve it in the end, it’s very cool to have to solve a murder the Mastermind had committed before the game even started. The map was well-designed as well; only having 2 floors until the very end, and the 3rd floor being smol, was actually probably a good design decision. Overall, well-designed and enjoyable (for the period that I played, at the very least)
