[WW/Mafia] Harem Comedy: "Busted!" Season One

[AvatarVecna]

Spoiler: Original Recruitment Post

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"Busted!" Trailer

[The sun rising over the bustling city of Seattle. A light mist coats the busy city. The camera slowly drifts down until a skyscraper blocks its view of most other buildings. The camera falls faster and faster until it arrives at ground level and stops. There's a hairy man with a beautiful smile selling breakfast bratwursts, some kids playing tag on the sidewalk, and a young woman reading the newspaper on a bench. She's circling bits in the paper with red ink as she reads.]

"My name is Cassie Arthurs. And I'm gonna be the greatest journalist the world has ever seen."

[The scene changes. Cassie is chasing a winged girl down the street.]

"Today is my first day of college. And while classes are keeping me busy, I've got stories to find, scandals to uncover, mysteries to solve!"

[The scene changes. Cassie is confronting a hulking figure held together by stitches.]

"It's a tough job sometimes, especially since I'm just me. No magic, no supernatural powers. I'm just human, but that's okay."

[The scene changes. Cassie is perched on a rooftop, taking photos of two shady folks meeting in the park on the other side of the street.]

"I've got my wits, and I've got my friends. That's all I need to get the job done."

[The scene changes. A man in a bigfoot suit is hanging upside down wrapped in chains, surrounded by college kids. Cassie pulls the rubber mask off, and everybody gasps as his visage is revealed.]

"These four years will be the adventure of a lifetime!"

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Welcome to the first season of "Busted!", a harem comedy dating show where the lot of you attempt to woo the cunning Cassie Arthurs, detective extraordinaire! Solving mysteries, sharing secrets, sabotaging competitors, and making friends along the way! Unfortunately, some of your romantic rivals have formed a secret alliance to get the rest of you out of the way. Be it mean pranks, sniper bullets, or making you so unlikable you get written out of the show...whatever it takes to get one step closer to their one true love! Best of luck finding them before they find you~

Spoiler: Rules

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Basic Mechanics
This is a game of Werewolf/Mafia. It functions somewhat like "Among Us", if you are more familiar with that game.

Prior to the game starting, I will randomly assign roles to players from the lists below. The role you receive will define your win condition and what powers you have (if any). If you are a member of the scum team, you will start the game in secret contact with other members of scum team via a group QT, which you can use to discuss strategy without being discovered.

The game will start on Episode 1-A; this will last 72 hours, while subsequent A Phases will last 48 hours. During any A Phase, all players can vote for who they wish to "lynch" (remove from the game) that phase. Your vote is not set in stone once cast, and you can recast your vote at any time (or even unvote entirely), provided that the phase has not ended. To cast your vote, please bold and color in red the name of the person you wish to vote. It doesn't have to be their forum name proper, or some official "I vote [name]", as long as it's recognizable who you're voting and the formatting has been done.

I would like to vote AvatarVecna

AV is being pretty sus right now

Last night I scried Vecna as a wolf

At the end of the A Phase, I'll tally votes, and declare how many votes each wagon received. Whichever wagon has the most votes is lynched and can no longer participate in the game publicly or privately (except for Dead Chat, where they can talk with me and anybody else who is already dead). I will then inform the other players of that person's role and alignment. If there was a tie between who had the most votes, the tie will be resolved randomly.

After an A Phase ends, the game will shift to the B Phase (e.g "Episode 1-B); all B Phases will last 24 hours. If you possess a power that lets you target somebody during the B Phase, this is the time to use it. During this time, the scum team will be able to select a player to be killed (as well as using whatever other powers they might have as well). After a B Phase ends, the game will shift to the A Phase once more.

This cycle will repeat until one of two things happens: either all members of one team or the other is eliminated, or the elimination of all members of one team is inevitable. For example, if you get to an A Phase with 7 players left (3 town, 4 scum), town has basically already lost, and so a Mercy Rule will be invoked to call the game early instead of making everybody play through the next 120 hours.

Private Communication

This game will make use of a Discord server, linked here. Each person has a private personal channel, which will not be shared with anyone else even after game has ended. You will not be allowed to share this personal channel with anyone else. This channel will contain your role name, alignment, and powers (if any). There will be some measure of private communication this game, but it will be limited in a sense. This is to make sure that a good deal of the actual gameplay is taking place in the forum, rather than in private chats.

Narrator Confirmation

Narrator confirmation of things will be limited, but the narrator will not lie to you; if you are told a thing by the narrator (such as a death reveal, or an answer on a power interaction), it will be the truth. With that being said:

1) There will be no powers that screw with vote totals in this game. The process and results of the lynch shall be sacred and public.

2) There is a bastard mechanic this game. I will not specify what it is until after game.

3) The narrator is an arbiter, not a participator or a competitor. Targeting them with powers or lynches will accomplish nothing mechanically.

Roles

From a certain perspective, this will be a fairly typical game of WW/Mafia. There's a few real power roles, which will be a bit stronger/weirder than they are in a more typical, and then there will what the community refers to as "Vanillagers". Vanillagers have the power to create private chats (or rather, to request that I create private chats). There are many character archetypes that can show up in a show like this, but only so many that will definitely be present in this game. I'll leave it unspecified which ones made it in. However, I will say: I make no promises that a given archetype will be connected with a given alignment or power. It might be, it might not, depends on my mood.

Player List:

1. Xihirli
2. 3SecondCultist
3. Aleph Null
4. Batcathat
5. bladescape
6. Book Wombat
7. Cazero
8. Illven
9. JeenLeen
10. Lady Serpentine
11. Let'sGetKraken
12. Murska
13. Persolus
14. Snowblaze
15. Taffimai
16. Xumtiil
17. Zelphas

Spectating:

1. CaoimhinTheCape
2. gac3
3. Rogan

Game not starting yet

Living Player List:

1. Xihirli Died N1 as Vigilante Girl
2. 3SecondCultist Died D3 as Geek Girl
3. Aleph Null Died D1 as Otaku Girl
4. Batcathat
5. bladescape
6. Book Wombat Died N4 as Pervert Girl
7. Cazero
8. Illven
9. JeenLeen Died N4 as Clumsy Girl
10. Lady Serpentine
11. Let'sGetKraken
12. Murska
13. Persolus Died D2 as Sorority Girl
14. Snowblaze Died N1 as Theatre Girl
15. Taffimai Died N2 as Werewolf Girl
16. Xumtiil Died D4 as Delinquent Girl
17. Zelphas

Discord Link for archival purposes

[AvatarVecna]

Episode 1-A Ends In ~72 Hours

[3SecondCultist]

Let's see, this is going to be a fun one...

I think a vote for Snowblaze is in order for the SOD. She made it to F3 last game - and was scum, to boot - both of which I find entirely unacceptable. On top of the fact that I wanted to build a case against her but real-life intervened, and now here we are.

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(This is not a serious vote, in case that wasn't clear)

[Zelphas]

I will begin the thread (unless sniped) by, unfortunately, being a poor role model and voting via random dice roll.

I rolled an 8, so Ilven is getting my vote for the moment.

[3SecondCultist]

I mean, I'm putting a real vote here but have absolutely zero intention of actually leaving it until EoD.

[Xihirli]

Protagonist-Kun, I think 3SecondCultist is here for all the wrong reasons. I don't like the way she's looking at you.
I don't think you should talk to her anymore.

[3SecondCultist]

Protagonist-Kun, I think 3SecondCultist is here for all the wrong reasons. I don't like the way she's looking at you.
I don't think you should talk to her anymore.

*adjusts glasses*

". . ."

[Lady Serpentine]

I was going to put a vote on Illven as a welcome to the game.

But Zelphas got there first and it wasn't even to greet the new person!

[Persolus]

Hello everyone! I'm Persolus and think that you shouldn't kill me first round!

yeah yeah, i, like, totally don't dig Lady Serpentine's vibes
she's like completely not chill at all, even google thinks she's weird
Cass - i can call you cass right? good - you should hang out with me instead

Lady Serpentine, by order of the allmighty Google Random Number Generator, you are my start-off vote.

[Batcathat]

I was wrong about bladescape being a wolf last game, maybe I was just a game early?

[Snowblaze]

Let'sGetKraken, since I've needed him dead every game we've played together.

[Cazero]

Book Wombat is too nerdy for this.

[Batcathat]

Book Wombat is too nerdy for this.

Looks like I was right, you are the jock of the story.

[Cazero]

Looks like I was right, you are the jock of the story.

Oh-em-gee, stop trying to solve stuff like that.
It's only cute when Cassie does it.

[Taffimai]

The Feather

Cassie flew in through the open window
and covered my mangled body with her wing

torn and tortured like my turbid soul
finally formed as I feel
yet caressed by her gentle smile

that dream was everything
and even as I slept
I cried
for the dawn that would surely steal

not even sneaking
but barge in
with the clamour
of breakfast radio

my Cassie
no not mine
a blanket against the world
as snow upon a landscape
marred by apathy and scorn
of selfish passers-by

the alarm glares and sears
and quietly she melts
I feel her loss even
before I dare to look

yet there it is
beside me on my pillow


Let's start with Xumtiil, that worked out well last game

[Persolus]

The Feather

Cassie flew in through the open window
and covered my mangled body with her wing

torn and tortured like my turbid soul
finally formed as I feel
yet caressed by her gentle smile

that dream was everything
and even as I slept
I cried
for the dawn that would surely steal

not even sneaking
but barge in
with the clamour
of breakfast radio

my Cassie
no not mine
a blanket against the world
as snow upon a landscape
marred by apathy and scorn
of selfish passers-by

the alarm glares and sears
and quietly she melts
I feel her loss even
before I dare to look

yet there it is
beside me on my pillow

ughhh, a poem? you're always so extra. cassie's got far better things to do than, like, read

this is freaking awesome and I love it. ... 50% chance it's going to end up hiding a secret message, but either way, amazing.

[Batcathat]

ughhh, a poem? you're always so extra. cassie's got far better things to do than, like, read

this is freaking awesome and I love it. ... 50% chance it's going to end up hiding a secret message, but either way, amazing.

Look hard enough and it's quite obvious.

The Feather

Cassie flew in through the open window
and covered my mangled body with her wing

torn and tortured like my turbid soul
finally formed as I feel
yet caressed by her gentle smile

that dream was everything
and even as I slept
I cried
for the dawn that would surely steal

not even sneaking
but barge in
with the clamour
of breakfast radio

my Cassie
no not mine
a blanket against the world
as snow upon a landscape
marred by apathy and scorn
of selfish passers-by

the alarm glares and sears
and quietly she melts
I feel her loss even
before I dare to look

yet there it is
beside me on my pillow

(In case anyone's unsure: no, this accusation is in no way serious. )

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Very nice poem, though. But surely Cassie is above falling for honeyed words (everyone knows women always falls for sarcastic quips... right?)

[Book Wombat]

Snowblaze, your time has come (maybe)!

[Xumtiil]

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
and Jeen could eat no Leen
My poetry's awesome
And if you disagree you're mean.

Protagonist-Kun, I think 3SecondCultist is here for all the wrong reasons. I don't like the way she's looking at you.
I don't think you should talk to her anymore.

Bold your vote, imouto-sama.

[Murska]

Oh! We're doing poetry? That's fun! Let me think...

The time is here once more
to fight that same old war
The battlefield of love
So cruel, the sky above

Raise arms and lift your voice
to exult and rejoice
With smiles so bright and wide
and fears so masked by pride

Your heart a drummer's beat
For life is short yet sweet
To give of what you get
partake in the roulette

Lay down with broken hearts
torn up with Cupid's darts
Take up the game again
this dance you can't abstain
Soon everything will end
though never break nor bend
Onward to fields so hallow
Swift death, and graves shallow


Anyway, I was going to third-vote Snow but 3SecondCultist's opening seems really awkward and defensive. A disclaimer at the bottom and then another message just to make sure no-one thinks they're seriously voting in the first post of day 1? Why all the stress - perhaps you should take a rest.

[Snowblaze]

Right. Yes. Cool setting, should RP.

Honestly? None of these fools understood what Cassie really wanted. Not sappy poetry and certainly not jockiness. No, she needed a companion. Someone brave enough and smart enough to follow her into adventure without a second thought.

The girl who went by Snow knew that she was that person. If Cassie would only give her a chance to prove it. And if not... well, then she'd just have to make her own chance.

(This character will probably drive me insane if I keep up the RP.)

Anyway, seconding Murska's opinion on 3SC (though I may be biased since OMGUS + glad I'm not being wagoned properly).

Snowblaze 2: 3SecondCultist, Book Wombat
3SecondCultist 2: Xihirli, Murska
Ilven 1: Zelphas
Zelphas 1: Lady Serpentine
bladescape 1: Batcathat
Let'sGetKraken 1: Snowblaze
Lady Serpentine 1: Persolus
Xumtiil 1: Taffimai
JeenLeen 1: Xumtiil
Book Wombat 1: Cazero.

No posts: bladescape, JeenLeen, Ilven, Aleph Null, Let'sGetKraken

Will wait for more people to check in before serious votes.

[bladescape]

Imagine, if you would, that a perfect gem were to be surrounded by imperfections. Imagine again that these imperfections stylised themselves as her match. That, you must understand, is how Cassie stood amongst these drivel who consider themselves to be even barely near her. None of them deserved the right. Nor even the possibility.

The one known as Blade flipped their hair, careful to brush the blue highlights evenly through their bangs. They would show them. They would show them all. And when they stood upon the pinnacle with their true beloved beside them?

Then the rest would understand how they never stood a chance!

Turning around to admire themselves, Blade fantasized over how romantic their first meeting would be.

No one told them that they would need to go outside to meet someone.

(Murska.)

[Aleph Null]

Wow, this is just like that one time on Chairem Anime where everyone was trying to figure out who killed Lamp-Senpai, and then it turned out it was Refrigerator-Senpai all along! Except...Cassie is much more amazing and wonderful than Tomoko-chan ever was, let alone her daughter Bomoko or her grand-daughter Gromoko. So I'm sure she'll figure out who's here lurking before it's too late!

Uhm, I'm not really gonna do the whole random voting thing, since according to my calculations there's a far greater chance that my finger points at an innocent, but there are two current "wagons" being built. Cases exist for both sides...on the one hand, Snow mentioned amogus [yes I'm aware that OMGUS means "OMG u suck" but memes ok] which, in this context, is what would be called "cringe." But on the other hand 3SC's posts were extremely suspicious (as some would say, "sus," except we're not 12-year-olds).

I'm just going to go with my gut reaction to Murska's deep-reading and say that whether or not Snow is actually scum (I'm leaning toward a no, but it's impossible to say) that this seemed a bit too eager for my tastes. EDIT: Not that I'm siding with 3SC either, since we don't have enough information about that either.
(God I need to learn to use the preview feature. Colors are hard)

[Snowblaze]

Uhm, I'm not really gonna do the whole random voting thing, since according to my calculations there's a far greater chance that my finger points at an innocent, but there are two current "wagons" being built. Cases exist for both sides...on the one hand, Snow mentioned amogus [yes I'm aware that OMGUS means "OMG u suck" but memes ok] which, in this context, is what would be called "cringe." But on the other hand 3SC's posts were extremely suspicious (as some would say, "sus," except we're not 12-year-olds).

I'm just going to go with my gut reaction to Murska's deep-reading and say that whether or not Snow is actually scum (I'm leaning toward a no, but it's impossible to say) that this seemed a bit too eager for my tastes. EDIT: Not that I'm siding with 3SC either, since we don't have enough information about that either.
(God I need to learn to use the preview feature. Colors are hard)

Don't really get the logic here - if you agree that 3SC is "extremely suspicious" then why is Murska voting for him suspicious?

[3SecondCultist]

Anyway, I was going to third-vote Snow but 3SecondCultist's opening seems really awkward and defensive. A disclaimer at the bottom and then another message just to make sure no-one thinks they're seriously voting in the first post of day 1? Why all the stress - perhaps you should take a rest.

No no no! This is the part of the movie where nobody really says what they mean. It’s the hook, the inciting incident. The first body hasn’t dropped, which means the masks are still on. There are angels and demons on both sides of the dance floor, can’t you see?

(In case anyone's unsure: no, this accusation is in no way serious. )

Also - and I can’t be the only one to have noticed this - but when another contender goes ahead and makes the same message, that isn’t considered suspicious? Come on. If you’re going to play by the rules of the genre, then play by the rules. So disappointing.

(Seriously though, I did a joke randvote and now am just trying to adjust to actual RP, plus BCH made literally the same post as me. Don’t see why I’m getting legitimately sussed for this)

[Batcathat]

(Seriously though, I did a joke randvote and now am just trying to adjust to actual RP, plus BCH made literally the same post as me. Don’t see why I’m getting legitimately sussed for this)

Exactly the same feels like an exaggeration, I jokingly claimed to have found some "evidence" and wanted to make sure no one thought I was being serious, you made a jokey placeholder vote (something almost all of us do literally every game) and felt the need to comment on that fact not once but twice. That said, it's not exactly a smoking gun even by D1 standards, so I'm not really sure who I find the most suspicious (if anyone, townies tearing into each other isn't exactly unheard of).

[Let'sGetKraken]

Let'sGetKraken, since I've needed him dead every game we've played together.

Ah, my Rival. We were friends until the unfortunate incident with the ouija board tore us apart, and we've been frenemies
ever since. The incident with the gecko and the graveyard was the nail in the coffin. Could winning Cassie's affections be enough to bring us together again and repair our damaged friendship?

Probably not.

Snowblaze.

[3SecondCultist]

Exactly the same feels like an exaggeration, I jokingly claimed to have found some "evidence" and wanted to make sure no one thought I was being serious, you made a jokey placeholder vote (something almost all of us do literally every game) and felt the need to comment on that fact not once but twice. That said, it's not exactly a smoking gun even by D1 standards, so I'm not really sure who I find the most suspicious (if anyone, townies tearing into each other isn't exactly unheard of).

Yes, I suppose that is fair. Maybe I messed up, but I never claimed to be perfect. I’m still trying to see through these darn glasses…

Anyhow. What conclusions do you come to, if any, about our fair Bladescape’s recent vote for the murky-kun? I do not see rhyme or reason for it.

[Zelphas]

Your poems are due by the end of the day, everyone; right now, freeform is fine, just get out what you're thinking and feeling. Nothing too personal, though; someone has to read all of these works when you hand them in, you know.

I don't like being on a new player for too long after the randvote (I should've double-checked that when I rolled), so reroll until more votes and information are in!

I rolled a 7... is Cazero new? If so, I'll plan to swap again soon enough.

[Batcathat]

Anyhow. What conclusions do you come to, if any, about our fair Bladescape’s recent vote for the murky-kun? I do not see rhyme or reason for it.[/COLOR]

Not much, other than the fact that blade haven't been secretly replaced by some talkative doppelganger. Any reason you asked about blade in particular?