Puppets and Puppeteers. game over! master polikshadowbliss wins!

So, I tried launching this game about 5 months ago, before the official ToL release, but there wasn’t enough interest in it at the time. Hopefully the TOL population has expanded to the point where this game is viable. If you signed up for the last game, You will need to sign up again.

This is a game where you choose whether to be good or evil during the game, and can even switch sides during gameplay.

Yes, Yes, I know that sounds like a broken system to some of you. But hear me out; I think that this game has mechanics which mitigate some of the negative effects of this sort of game.

Instructions

Each faction attempts to further their own goals through the use of actions.

Masters control the actions of their slaves.

A master wins when more than half of all living players are slaves of that master.

Teamers are all players that are not masters or slaves.

All players start as teamers. Teamers win if, during a round, there are no enslavement attempts. They try to accomplish their objective by freeing slaves, finding Masters, and deciding whether to forgive or execute them.

Actions

Every player (except the sheriff), chooses from one of three actions each round. This action will be PM’d to me, the host.

  1. /Enslave (target)

players who attempt this action are attempting to enslave a fellow player. Enslaved players do not immediately know that they are slaves, but players will be informed if they have successfully enslaved a target. Once a player is enslaved, his master may secretly control that player’s actions. Not even the slave know the actions that their master is making them perform.

example:
/Alice > investigate Bob.

A master chooses an action for each of his slaves (and himself) each round. Teamers who attempt to enslave can not be enslaved by other teamers that round, and masters can not be enslaved. If everyone attempts to enslave in the first round, everybody loses.

  1. /investigate (target)

Players who attempt this action are attempting to discover the action of another player during that round. Slaves who attempt to investigate are informed that they are slaves. If the target of an investigation is a slave, the investigator sees the action the Master makes the slave perform, rather than the action that the slave attempted to perform.

Example:
Alice is Bob’s slave. Alice attempts to investigate Charlie, and is told she is a slave. In the same round, Bob forces Alice to enslave David. Edward investigates Alice, and sees that she chose the “enslave” action this round. Bob chooses to use his own action to free Frank. George investigates Bob, and sees that he chose the “free” action.

  1. /free (target)

Players who attempt this action are attempting to free a slave. Note that a Master may NOT use his slaves to free his own slaves. (This prevents masters from easily becoming teamers when things are not going well for them.) Players who choose this action will be told whether or not their target is a slave after all actions have been calculated. Slaves who attempt to free will be told their target is still a slave.

NOTE:

A slave who is forced to enslave someone will not become the master of the new slave. Rather, the new slave will belong to the original slave’s master.

A slave who is forced to investigate someone will not receive the information from that investigation. Rather, only the slave’s master will receive the information.

The sheriff

The player who is the target of the most actions in any given round will become the sheriff of the next round. The sheriff may not choose any of the three normal actions, and instead must execute a player (/execute (target)). The execution action itself is the only action NOT counted as a vote for the next sheriff. The Sheriff may be a slave. In case of a tie, the sheriff is decided randomly between those who tied for the most targeted. If the new Sheriff happens to also be the person the last sheriff executed, the new sheriff will be the player who received the second highest number of actions. When a master is executed, all of his slaves are freed. If the sheriff is inactive and/or does not choose someone to execute, he shoots himself.

resolving conflicts

If many different masters attempt to enslave a player, the player will become enslaved to the master which was behind the most enslave attempts on that player. In case of a tie, the targeted player does not change factions.

example 1:

Alice would like to enslave Bob, who is currently Charlie’s slave. She uses her slaves’ actions to attempt to enslave Bob twice in the same round. Charlie, however. knows this will happen, and so he also uses his slaves’ actions to attempt to enslave Bob twice, In order to keep Bob in his possession. Since the number of enslavement attempts from both Alice and Charlie are equal, Bob remains in charlie’s possession.

example 2:

Alice and Charlie would like to enslave Bob, who is currently a teamer. Using their slaves’ actions, they both attempt to enslave Bob twice. Since the number of enslavement attempts from both parties is equal, Bob remains a teamer.

Attempts to free a slave are weighed against the master who used the most enslavement attempts to get or keep that slave.

example 3:

Alice would like to enslave Bob, who is currently Charlie’s slave. Using their slaves’ actions, both Alice and Charlie attempt to enslave Bob twice. Three different Teamers attempt to free Bob. Bob is freed. (If only two teamers had attempted to free Bob, Bob would have remained in Charlie’s possesion).

rounds

At the start of each round, I, your host, will post a public notice which will show how many times each type of action was used in the previous round, who the new sheriff is, and who the last sheriff killed. Rounds start at midnight pacific time and last 48 hours. The first round will be done in conjunction with confirmations, and may not last that long, or may last longer.

I should also mention that slaves are not teamers and do not win with them, whether dead or alive. Dead teamers win with living teamers, though.

player list:

Living:

1.Hippolytus
2.Moleland
3.Braxien
4.RopestringFace
5.polikshadowbliss

dead:

  1. Simon
  2. Nozbugz
  3. Nuclear burrito
  4. Strangle
  5. Pokemonkidryan

Oh, and whispers are allowed! Feel free to post any questions or improvement suggestions you have in this thread.

results

Round 1:

enslavements 8
investigations 2
emancipations 0
inactions 0

Round 2:

enslavements: 6
investigations: 1
emancipations: 2
inactions: 0

Round 3:

enslavements: 4
investigations: 0
emancipations: 1
inactions: 3

Round 4:

enslavements: 4
investigations: 1
emancipations: 2
inactions: 0

Round 5:

enslavements: 1
investigations: 2
emancipations: 3
inactions: 0

Round 6:

enslavements: 1
investigations: 1
emancipations: 0
inactions: 3

game over! Master Polikshadowbliss wins!

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Welcome back!

Hey wait a second. Can’t everyone just win immediately if no one attempts to enslave N1?

This seems very cool
/join

guys lets all agree to not enslave anyone and then we all win automatically!

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Also, you gave no win condition for slaves

Exactly. (I’m assuming)

yup.

That’s by design.

The thing is, you have to trust every other player not enslave, or even attempt enslavement.

If someone DOES enslave, players who attempt to enslave later will be at a disadvantage over players who attempt to enslave earlier.

So do you trust your fellow players? :wink:

Anyone who is a slave at the end of the game loses.

You don’t want to be a slave, and the easiest way to avoid that is to enslave others.

As long as people aren’t idiots they will realize that they are not increasing their chances of winning by enslaving, so we should all just not enslave

Im definately gonna enslave someone otherwise it would be boring.

/join

Then again being a slave is my kink so I might have a dilemma :thinking:

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/join This isn’t FoL soooo

*noz gets modkilled day 2 *

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Fuck you Simon. I will be gud slave :3

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Tarnation*

Noz you banned from FoL?

Nah, he’s salty

/Join
I think we all just agree not to do anything at the start.

I’ll /join as long as you never Lynch me as king again @gingerbeardgentleman

I am deffffoo enslaving someone just saying. Probably PKR :wink:

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