Fallout 2: Courser Correction

[flat_footed]

Spoiler: Recruitment Thread

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They created us in their image. We were made to fit in among the humans so well that there are humans out there who question the nature of their own existence. Is it any surprise that there are those of us who chose to abandon the Institute and forge our own paths? Eventually, we claimed the island of Acadia as our own. It was supposed to be a place of clarity. Understanding. Peace. While you're here in Acadia, synth-kind welcomes you, as long as you welcome us. At least... that's how it started. Word of our existence has made it back to the Institute and they wasted no time moving against us.

A small team has infiltrated our island one at a time and are communicating in secret to act against us. These coursers are designed to be elite killing machines, unlike other synth models. They are highly self-sufficient, trained in combat, infiltration, and tracking. In a word, coursers are relentless; it's us or them. If even a single courser is left to work from the shadows, it will mean the end of us and Acadia.

The Rules:
Each day phase will last 48 hours. Players can name their lynch targets by marking the name red, and cancel votes by crossing them out. If multiple votes are recorded by the same person, the latest legal vote will be counted. Failure to vote in two consecutive day cycles will result in being auto-lynched. If there is a tie, the person who reached that vote count first will be lynched.

Each night phase will last 48 hours and all players will have a night action of some sort. The wolves will have a collective Night Kill, which will be performed by one of their number. If there is no single wolf chosen to perform this kill, one wolf will be chosen at random.

Spoiler: Town

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Town wins if they have eliminated all coursers.

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Spoiler: Wolves

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Coursers win when their number is equal to the number of remaining town, or if such a situation is unavoidable.

Residents of Acadia:

gac3
Batcathat
bladescape
Book Wombat
Taffimai
Snowblaze
Robert Black letter
CaoimhinTheCape
Lady Serpentine
AvatarVecna
Supagoof
flame12
AudWorld
JoyWonderLove
Xihirli
Murska
Rogan

Thank you all for gathering here so early. I fear the moment we've been dreading has finally found us. Coursers, at the behest of The Institute, have infiltrated our island in unknown numbers. They are believed to have already replaced or killed some of us and assumed that identity. Any among us that were once counted as friends may be little more than a mask hiding a killer.

The fragile balance we have protected is about to be shattered. I look upon you all with both hope and distrust, knowing that our only chance lies wit-

An explosion rocks the area and flat_footed vanishes in a burst of smoke and flame. When your vision clears, all that's left of him is a crater.

flat_footed has been killed. He was Faraday, a member of Town.

Day 1 begins.

[Batcathat]

And so the madness begins again.

Let's start with Supagoof for being such a good suspect last game, only to turn out innocent.

[Book Wombat]

Roll roll roll your boat!
Who better than Robert Blackletter?

[flame12]

It's always AvatarVecnatime!

[Book Wombat]

It's always AvatarVecna time!

Hey, don't steal my lines!

[Snowblaze]

Let's kill Rogan.

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And despite Rogan changing his avatar I still thought flame was Rogan and thought "hang on, why isn't he voting for me?"

[JoyWonderLove]

Obligatory day-1-voting-is-silly-but-I'm-spooked-that-not-doing-it-two-days-in-a-row-meaning-autolynch post.

Also, Taffimai, who do you think we should trust, and why is it Snowblaze?

[Murska]

That's way too many people with one vote each. Let's kill AvatarVecna, because I trust them to convince me otherwise if they're good.

[Supagoof]

Snowblaze!

[Rogan]

Let's kill Rogan.

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And despite Rogan changing his avatar I still thought flame was Rogan and thought "hang on, why isn't he voting for me?"

Snowblaze

Happy now?

Oh and something else:

Taffimai- should not get lynched today. Seriously, don't do it. Let her play at least one full cycle, please!

[AvatarVecna]

I've been wolf in five of the last nine games. Of the other four, I was running two of them. If I had rolled wolf again I honestly might've just quit, or at least autolynched.

Rogan.

[Snowblaze]

Obligatory day-1-voting-is-silly-but-I'm-spooked-that-not-doing-it-two-days-in-a-row-meaning-autolynch post.

Also, Taffimai, who do you think we should trust, and why is it Snowblaze?

Stop trying to pocket me! Even I know that I'm not remotely trustworthy.

Snowblaze

Happy now?

Oh and something else:

Taffimai- should not get lynched today. Seriously, don't do it. Let her play at least one full cycle, please!

Agreed.

[Batcathat]

I've been wolf in five of the last nine games. Of the other four, I was running two of them. If I had rolled wolf again I honestly might've just quit, or at least autolynched.

I feel like you've said similar things several times before. The problem is, I don't really remember what games or what alignment you had, so it's not super useful. (And as always, even I don't really trust my memory. This time I'm gonna have a spread sheet do my remembering for me).

[JoyWonderLove]

Taffimai- should not get lynched today. Seriously, don't do it. Let her play at least one full cycle, please!

Oh, is Taffy the new Avatar Venca, in terms of day 1 lynchability? If so, yeah, it makes sense to choose someone else. I'm not exactly paying attention to the "meta" or w/e the word is.

Stop trying to pocket me! Even I know that I'm not remotely trustworthy.

Or I pocket you so hard the whole group feels obligated to nickname you their own loveable pokémon of choice from now on. Hey everyone, why do we all like Snowblaze so much? >_<

I feel like you've said similar things several times before. The problem is, I don't really remember what games or what alignment you had, so it's not super useful. (And as always, even I don't really trust my memory. This time I'm gonna have a spread sheet do my remembering for me).

The less suspect AV is, the more suspect AV is.

Always remember that.

[Rogan]

I feel like you've said similar things several times before. The problem is, I don't really remember what games or what alignment you had, so it's not super useful. (And as always, even I don't really trust my memory. This time I'm gonna have a spread sheet do my remembering for me).

I remember her saying this in UPick. She was town there (even if I didn't believe it at first, but hey... It somehow worked out in the end.

But even with this additional info, I'm not sure how much faith I should put in this promise.

Oh, is Taffy the new Avatar Venca, in terms of day 1 lynchability? If so, yeah, it makes sense to choose someone else. I'm not exactly paying attention to the "meta" or w/e the word is.

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The less suspect AV is, the more suspect AV is.

Always remember that.

It's a new trend, nothing too regular yet.
Oh, and in case you noticed Snow and me: The meta is, we can't share the same team. Literally never happend yet. So feel free to vote for one of us and chances are good, you will get a wolf out of it.
And another meta info:
I expect a vote for AV from Taffi. She has sworn revenge for killing the dog.


About AV in general, I'm not too sure about your advice. Sometimes she is suspect and it's correct! So... AV is still a prime suspect, no matter what she does.

[AvatarVecna]

Oh, is Taffy the new Avatar Venca, in terms of day 1 lynchability? If so, yeah, it makes sense to choose someone else. I'm not exactly paying attention to the "meta" or w/e the word is.

The past two games, we have lynched Taffimai D1 - not on general principle, more for weird behavior D1. Both times town. So even if Taff stands up today and admits to wolf-dom, we're probably gonna let it slide until D2.

[Rogan]

@Flat

Two questions for you.
Will the death reveal of a player contain their power? Asking, since your own death didn't mention a power (or at least no description of the power), which might be because you don't have one.

The other thing is, how would you like to receive the night actions? PM?

[flat_footed]

@Flat

Two questions for you.
Will the death reveal of a player contain their power? Asking, since your own death didn't mention a power (or at least no description of the power), which might be because you don't have one.

The other thing is, how would you like to receive the night actions? PM?

Player deaths will contain power explanations.

PM is fine, I also have Discord channels set up for various reasons.

[Batcathat]

The less suspect AV is, the more suspect AV is.

Always remember that.

Trust me, after two games in a row where I not only didn't suspect AV but actively townread them until it was far too late, I'm painfully aware of this fact.

The other thing is, how would you like to receive the night actions? PM?

"Hey everyone, I just want to make it clear that I most certainly don't have access to any alternate ways of contacting flat."

Or maybe it's a legit question and I'm being paranoid.

[Rogan]

"Hey everyone, I just want to make it clear that I most certainly don't have access to any alternate ways of contacting flat."

Or maybe it's a legit question and I'm being paranoid.

Well... Flat is/was in a discord channel with me, from last game. So I know his discord name/number and could send them there. Thats assuming I even get a chance to use my night action. If not? Well, someone else might still profit from this question. So nothing lost.

Yeah, I realized you could see this as a way to imply I don't have an alternative way. So... Maybe trust me I would not risk such a plot if I didn't know if the town PN contains a way to contact flat? Or don't trust me. It's up to you.

[gac3]

Obligatory day-1-voting-is-silly-but-I'm-spooked-that-not-doing-it-two-days-in-a-row-meaning-autolynch post.

Also, Taffimai, who do you think we should trust, and why is it Snowblaze?

I feel the same way about day one voting but gave up on that ages afo

Trust me, after two games in a row where I not only didn't suspect AV but actively townread them until it was far too late, I'm painfully aware of this fact.



"Hey everyone, I just want to make it clear that I most certainly don't have access to any alternate ways of contacting flat."

Or maybe it's a legit question and I'm being paranoid.

I mean, i see where you are coming from but it's also a valid question... Though I guess I would have asked privately once I realized that it wasn't addressed? Or assumed it would be PM.



I'm very uncomfortable that we started with nearly 3 instantaneous wagons, however I said I'd vote them so Rogan

[Murska]

Okay, AV has given a binding promise to us all publically to get autolynched if they are a wolf. I'll trust nobody would defile their honour in such a way as to not keep a promise like that.

Let's tie up these wagons. Snowblaze.

[gac3]

I've been wolf in five of the last nine games. Of the other four, I was running two of them. If I had rolled wolf again I honestly might've just quit, or at least autolynched.

Rogan.

Must be nice. I haven't had a chance to be a wolf since that first time when I accidentally pitched your plan you were using to you.

[JoyWonderLove]

I feel the same way about day one voting but gave up on that ages afo

y gac3

y did u turn 2 darksied

[Book Wombat]

y gac3

y did u turn 2 darksied

Because we have cookies.

[gac3]

I've been wolf in five of the last nine games. Of the other four, I was running two of them. If I had rolled wolf again I honestly might've just quit, or at least autolynched.

Rogan.

y gac3

y did u turn 2 darksied

Because being all "I don't like voting people based on nothing" led to "Gac3 is acting sketchy, lets vote them".
To be fair though, since then I usually use *arbitrary reason which amounts to absolutely nothing* and still get "Gac3 is acting sketchy, let's vote them". My only saving grace had been usually other people are more sketchy until I can prove my townieness.

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Because we have cookies.

I thought for just a second this was a scum slip... But I assume it references day one voting. So... Noted

[Taffimai]

Taffimai

Since I'm rather attached to my avatar I will avoid confusion by using a title above each post.

Claim: I am one of the neutrals this game, and I have two possible win conditions. The first is to survive till the end of the game. The second option is related to my night action, but I'm waiting for Flat to get back to me with some clarifications about that. It has a very low chance of happening, but I'll do my best.

Also, Taffimai, who do you think we should trust, and why is it Snowblaze?

We should definitely trust JoyWonderLove¹, because they have a friendly face, and with the continuous pro-Snow agenda I've become convinced they're just an alt account Snow has made to increase her chances of survival².

¹ Do you mind if I shorten your name to "Joy"?
² This accusation is entirely baseless, please don't anyone take it seriously.

I expect a vote for AV from Taffi. She has sworn revenge for killing the dog.

Revenge can take many forms, and there are enough Day 1 AV votes already that I don't want to add to the heap. Instead, I will regale you all with daily roleplay where Sparky and I live out our futile revenge fantasies.


The Adventures of Zombimai and Sparky the Wonderdog!

WHUMP!
The synth known as AvatarVecna looked towards the origin of the sound.
WHUMP!
Behind the window, a humanoid shape was gearing up to smash its face into the reinforced glass again.
WHUMP!
While AvatarVecna was thusly distracted by the zombie (hadn't they all been cured or eradicated or whatnot?), a second, four-legged figure drew close.
WHUMP!
Zombies aren't known for their subtle tactics, and yet. Here the two were clearly working together, the pointless attempts to break through the glass perfectly covering up the footfalls (pawfalls?) of the prowling dog. As soon as he got close enough, he went straight for the throat. Synths can't be zombified, sure, but that doesn't bother the zombies. They just want to taste your viscera.
WA-THUMP!
Unfortunately, not only can synths not be zombified, they also don't care about 30kgs of decaying golden retriever hanging from their neck. Before Sparky could get back up, AvatarVecna had walked briskly out the door, closed it behind her and latched the bolt.

To Be Continued...

[bladescape]

I actually don't have anyone I've looked at their daystart and said "This looks like a wolf" this game.

Idk how to feel about this.

Snowblaze

Because at this point wagoning you day 1 is tradition.

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Snow inevitably surviving the D1 wagon is also tradition.

[Robert Blackletter]

Two wagons of equal size, so I'm flipping a coin....

It was heads so that means Rogan, it was nice knowing you

[Book Wombat]

I thought for just a second this was a scum slip... But I assume it references day one voting. So... Noted

I mean, it's the first thing in my signature.