[Misc] Airlock — Pregame (14/14)

[N.1]

Oh yeah
Morse code is banned

If you attempt to gimmick the PR to an excessive extent by using the same cipher over and over again, you might break PR. Mixing up your ciphers enough is acceptable, though.

[Moleland]

[Zone_Q11]

@N.1

Videos are okay too, but nothing that could possibly be transcribed to any understandable speech or song in any language is allowed.

Inb4 a maniac like me tries to make codes from musical notes, and upload videos on a YT channel…
–which is not impossible. I only need 9 notes.

Though, literally nobody will ever be as dedicated as I am.
I bet that if the Pet is ever in the game, they will legitimately post only memes.

[Moleland]

Without the text lol

[Zone_Q11]

Eh… I can’t decipher it.

[Moleland]

As though it didn’t mean anything

[N.1]

I revamped the Pet’s Passive 3. Let me know if it looks good now or if there is anything else I should adjust.

@N.1

Pet (Difficulty Class on a D6 Murder Attempt: 2)
Passive 1 : You will know how many of your living neighbors are aliens at all times while alive.
Passive 2 : You cannot die via any method besides airlock.
Passive 3 : You may only communicate via text-less, number-less emojis and text-less, number-less images, videos GIF’s, and symbols. You may not speak, use any text, numbers, or characters from any language. Videos can only be used in which there is no transcribable speech or song in the video, in any language. Same goes for GIF’s and lip-reading. Note by “character” I mean any alphabetic character or numeral that exists in any language. If you ever defy this, you will be airlocked immediately. If this passive activates while you are already dead, a living player of the host’s choice that shares your alignment will be airlocked instead. All of these rules apply fully within whispers, as well.

There are a few necessitated exceptions to the above rule to make the game run properly. They are, however, the only exceptions, and they are as follows. Note that you must use the syntax below exactly to eliminate any chance of triggering this passive, and that such syntax must be the only contents of the post in which it is within. I recommend copy pasting and replacing the word username when applicable:

You may propose whispers with players that are not your neighbors based on seating order via the following syntax. If you send a whisper request, you may send requests to others but may not send another request to the same person until they either accept or deny your original request:
**/whisper @username**

You may accept whisper requests from other players that are not your neighbor based on seating arrangement have sent to you via the following syntax. Note that you can only use this as a reply message to a whisper request to you. Also, if a neighbor sends you a whisper request, you must ignore that request, of course. Make sure your post is a reply message to the whisper request to you based on Discourse’s UI:
**/accept**
or
**/deny**

You may never vote for warp or for airlock, but while you are alive, you may nominate any living player that has yet to be nominated that day for airlock up to once per day, using the following syntax:
**/nominate @username**

You may attempt to murder someone with the following syntax, so long as you as a player (not role-related) have yet to attempt to murder anyone, you are alive while making the attempt, and the individual you want to shoot is also alive:
**/shoot @username**

There is one more thing: The best way to be able to communicate understandable information with this class is probably via use of Ciphers. If you would like to use ciphers, please keep in mind the following rules, of which if any of them are broken, you will also trigger this passive:

1. All other aspects of this passive also apply to ciphers at all times.
2. All the ciphers that you use must be created by you. You may not use any already existent ciphers, well-known or not (so morse code is obviously banned, for instance). It is recommended to spend a few minutes searching to ensure that you have not created an identical cipher to one that already exists.
3. Each cipher that you create may only be used in a maximum of five posts each.

This passive has Airlock Priority Level One. If it activates, it must trump both the standard airlock process (which has Airlock Priority Level Three) and the the Stowaway’s Passive 1 (which has Airlock Priority Level Two) for the day.

Please keep in mind that this passive never applies within your classcard, so if you would like to walk us through any thought processes, cipher creation methodologies (if you choose to make and use any ciphers), and/or argue as to whether you have broken PR or not (if there’s a grey area, we will hear your side of the story within your classcard before making a determination), feel free to do so.
Passive 4 : All of your votes will be ignored and not count. This passive remains postmortem.
Passive 5 : You will register as some alien class and as alien alignment to all investigative checks.

@Zone_Q11 and others.

[N.1]

I also adjusted the Stowaway role a bit, to eliminate any possible gimmicking.

@N.1

Stowaway (Difficulty Class on a D6 Murder Attempt: 4)
Passive 1 : If any living player that is not the VIP (yes, anyone, this passive applies to all players, not just yourself) claims to be the Stowaway, they will be airlocked immediately. If any dead player that is not the VIP claims to be the stowaway, a living player of the host’s choice that shares alignment with that player will be airlocked immediately. This passive applies fully, both in public chat and within all whispers. This passive will always be in-play, even if the Stowaway is not in the game. This means that this role, if it’s in the game, is just a nerfed VT that must lie about their class if they ever choose to claim. This passive can override itself if used later by multiple players the same day (will always go with the latest). This passive will also activate if anyone attempts to communicate that they are claiming stowaway in some sort of obvious way that the hosts can detect, such as “I am not the stowaway" or something. This will also happen if the Quartermaster sees the Stowaway via their ability and chooses to reveal that (The quartermaster would be considered the stowaway-claimer in that case), or other similar events. Basically, discussion of the Stowaway role should usually be avoided. Generally, you should avoid trying to claim stowaway via any means, layerally protected or otherwise. Think of it as somewhat like Madness from BotF 2, except it doesn’t really matter what you claim; just not stowaway. This passive has Airlock Priority Level Two. If it activates, it must trump the standard airlock process (which has Airlock Priority Level Three) for the day, but it will not trump the Pet’s Passive 3 (which has Airlock Priority Level One) if that also occurs the same day.

[N.1]

Pls gib thoughts when ppl see this. ty!

[N.1]

@KyoDaz

And am I right in assuming your goal for host choices would be to prolong the game; or are you going to choose the most beneficial one to the team that’s influenced by the choice?

As i’ve stated before, what applies in BotF will apply here too.
Technically hosts don’t have to abide by any norms, so long as they comply with all the rules of the setup.

Nevertheless, what I’ve said before regarding my stance on flipless games with host powers applies here too: When I host a game like this or BotF, my goal as a host is usually to keep the game as close as possible for as long as possible; so yes, to prolong the game. To prevent angleshooting, even though that is what I like, it’s always possible I can defy that stance (if I sense angleshooting based on my hosting philosophy, there’s a greater chance I will do that), so please do remember that.

However, I don’t have any say on what eevee’s philosophy on host powers is, and he will have say too of course as the other host, so keep that in mind.

[N.1]

Also, i would advise against outing instantly to converted ppl without hesitation, unless ur confident.

Remember that everyone who is capable of acting at night learns whether or not they were occupied at SoN, but if the guard were in the game, the converter would not be informed if their conversion was prevented by the guard. Among the other things their ability does, the guard also prevents all abilities which give someone the passive and/or convert someone from ship-aligned to alien-aligned (doesn’t prevent the other way, though).

[Zone_Q11]

I think all is well. (The best way to try something is by running it, but at this point we just need the players.)

[N.1]

Do the new pet and stowaway cards look good and comprehensive enough now?

[Zone_Q11]

That is a subjective matter. If you mean “good” as “100% understandable if you take your time reading it, and is nearly loophole-proof”, then yes it is good. If you mean “comprehensive” as “it’s quick and easy to understand after reading at first glance”, then no; it’s too big.

Personally, I think it’s good since I have literally seen what extent you have gone through to fix as many possible loopholes that you can solve. But I still don’t know if the new players who will join will see the same way as I do.

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–also, we might need a masstag to summon new players.
We literally only need 4 more people. It shouldn’t be too hard to find them…

[N.1]

Is it okay that I made pet have a rule where if they use ciphers, all the ciphers they use must be custom made by themself (not already existent ones), and each cipher they make may only be used in a maximum of five posts each @Zone_Q11?

[Zone_Q11]

@Zone_Q11

nearly loophole-proof

I am only saying this because -if people put their effort into it- there is no loophole that can’t be found.
Personally I think it’s tough to find any loopholes, but -if there will ever be a bastard more cunning than I am- there might be people who can find some.

[Zone_Q11]

To be honest, how does that one work?
As in… I don’t even know how many ciphers my clock code had.

Why don’t you just make it so that they can -if they are truly wanting to communicate thoroughly- only post 5 encoded messages per Day Phase? (I’d imagine a wallpost if they are ever to do it.)

–but seriously though, I think that it will be fine. I am still betting that people like Marshal will post the “boxed in” meme, and people like sulit will still post cat images and videos.

[N.1]

@Zone_Q11

I don’t even know how many ciphers my clock code had.

The clock code i would count as one cipher.

Anything that is all a part of the same code counts as only one.

[N.1]

Basically, so long as two different messages have the exact same key required to solve the cipher as a whole, they count as a part of the same cipher.

[Zone_Q11]

(…N, I don’t think anyone -not even me- would ever go through such lengths to even make more than one cipher. One is enough to communicate… so why would one bother to make another?)