Sméagol

Looks pretty cool, but is very expensive ($ 475): Weirder things have happened, a Playboy and Hello Kitty collab:

Bit of a weird purchase, but I was compelled. Can´t wait to find out what Steins;gate is all about.

First of all, all the abilties. I´ll post my comments later. The abilities are abbreviated for the sake of being practical. If anyone want more detailed info.. You´ll actually have to ask the player performing the ability, as I deleted most of the PM´s out of necessity. I also deleted the abilties for dead people, so I try if I can recall them, otherwise, the players themselves have to fill in the blanks. Also, I can´t recall every request I rejected. If you want to know why I rejected something, you can ask now. There is going to be a sequel at some point (I´m thinking Christmas), so take a good luck (especially future mafia members), to see what you´re up against. Turn 1 The Peeps passive: on targeting send player PM with "We Like Roy!" The Peeps active: alignment investigate Yvonne immediately (report sent) Yvonne passive: if 2 players attempt to use the same ability in a turn, grant double vote next turn. Yvonne active: make The Peeps active and passive ability apear in the write-up Rummy passive: on targeting notify Rummy of who´s targeting him and attempting to perform what action. Rummy active: a copy of the PMs ReZourceman sends. Mr-Paul passive: appear town under investigation Mr-Paul active: protect Cube from all targeting Jonnas passive: n/a Jonnas active: kill Jimbob (night) Sheikah passive: on death roleblock player responsible for death (either killer or hammer) next turn Sheikah active: on target, use the ability on the player instead top priority. Jimbob passive: n/a Jimbob active: make anyone targeting Jonnas appear opposite alignment DuD passive: on death (kill), kill killer as well. Dud active: n/a Cube passive: n/a Cube: active: n/a ReZourceman passive: on targeting with a negative ability (kill, ability interference), player must write in green text next turn. If they break this rule, they won´t be able to send in an ability that turn. ReZourceman active: steal The Peeps PM (Peeps already received a PM, no use) Comment: The Peeps had already gotten his result, so there was nothing left for ReZ to steal. Jonnas got extremely lucky.. There was an exact 30% chance Jimbob would be mafia. If Jonnas didn´t take the shot, Sheikah would´ve killed Rummy. Turn 2 The Peeps passive: on targeting include player´s name in a list in the write-up The Peeps active: reflect abilities back to source Yvonne passive: Receive previous night's target for anyone who uses the @ symbol in a post in current day phase. Yvonne active: delay effects of abilities on Yvonne by one phase. Yvonne status: double vote Rummy passive (change available): on targeting notify Rummy of who´s targeting him and attempting to perform what action. Rummy active: a copy of the PM´s Sheikah sends Mr-Paul passive (change available): appear town under investigation Mr-Paul active: kill Sheikah Jonnas passive: n/a Jonnas active: jailkeep mr-paul Sheikah passive (change available): on death roleblock player responsible for death (either killer or hammer) next turn ##### made a mistake, forgot to update passive ability. Was supposed to be changed Sheikah active: placebo truth serum thing Jimbob passive: n/a Jimbob active: n/a DuD passive: passive and active abilities can stop or alter DuD´s passive or active abilities. DuD active: when somebody kills, DuD will take place of killer, but will have the option to decide whether to go thorugh with it. DuD wants to kill Cube instead of Sheikah Cube passive: on death (kill lynch) kill player as well Cube active: n/a ReZourceman passive (change available): on targeting with a negative ability (kill, ability interference), player must write in green text next turn. If they break this rule, they won´t be able to send in an ability that turn. ReZourceman active: force The Peeps = reZ to post 5 sentences or more each post. Reflected by The Peeps ability Comment: Like I already told him, in hindsight, I shouldn´t have allowed DuD´s ability, and I didn't next turn. At first it looked cool, but after looking at it some more, I felt there was very little to distinguish it from a regular kill. Would have allowed it again without the redirection part. It didn´t do anything this time however, as the killer, mr-Paul, was roleblocked. Or well, jailkept. If he was not, Cube would be dead. DuD´s original request was quite involved. I kept replying that I´d need something very detailed and specific before I even considered it. Eventually, this scared him off, and he requested something else. If I had allowed it the way he wanted, he would be a bona fide terrorist. I forgot to update Sheikah´s passive. I forgot what he wanted. It was my mistake. ReZourceman got reflected with his own ability. He had to post 5 or more sentences each post. He did. He neglected to think of some sort of punishment though, and I couldn't be arsed with one, so I didn´t check for this. I also thought this was actually some sort of roundabout way to alignment investigate someone (perhaps why ReZ didn´t think of a punishment). I only allowed it because that turn, nobody actually bothered with an actual alignment investigation. Turn 3 The Peeps passive(change available): on targeting include player´s name in a list in the write-up The Peeps active: alignment investigate Cube immediately: report sent Yvonne passive: Get an extra vote for every page of discussion this turn Yvonne active: anyone targeting Yvonne dies. Yvonne status: triple vote Rummy passive (change available): on targeting notify Rummy of who´s targeting him and attempting to perform what action. Rummy active: get PM´s from mr-paul Mr-Paul passive: reflect everything back to user Mr-Paul active: kill DuD Jonnas passive: people who are blocked by Jonnas won´t be informed Jonnas active: jailkeep mr-paul Sheikah passive: reflect abilities back to user Sheikah active: n/a DuD passive: find out who is targeted for death DuD active: wants to be untargetable Cube passive: on death (kill lynch) kill player as well Cube active: n/a ReZourceman passive (change available): on targeting with a negative ability (kill, ability interference), player must write in green text next turn. If they break this rule, they won´t be able to send in an ability that turn. ReZourceman active: protect The Peeps from mafia Comment: Yvonne´s ability is quite powerful. In normal circumstances, I´d probably would´ve though longer about it, but from turn 2 it was already apparent (to me) that the mafia team were doomed. Also, it was technically indiscriminate, so I thought it potentially could do the mafia some good. However, Yvonne was basically the first person to put the PM´s to good use, he warned a few players he trusted. Even still, the fact it did nothing in the end confirms to me it does not affect the balance. Sheikah was disappointed his reflect ability didn´t work. I don´t consider passive abilities as abilities being used on him. He triggered it himself. Mr-Paul finally chose a useful passive, which became available after Sheikah died because of the lynchbomb (I had to doublecheck this as I´d almost forgotten). It meant that Rummy got his own PM´s, and Jonnas jailkept himself. The reason why the kill failed was therefore because DuD was untargetable, which h chose because he was well aware he was the intended victim. Turn 4 The only thing that happened was that The Peeps roleblocked himself due to Mr-Paul´s reflect ability. So, those are all the abilities if I´m correct. Again, I´ll post my comments about the game in general later.

I had forgotten about him already.

I am absolutely serious?

Someone still has to explain Dog-amoto´s post.. As far as I know everyone survived the Oscars.

I´m voting for ReZ day 1.

Like I said, I´ll comment on it more elaborately.. But I have absolutely no clue about the balance. This game provides no data at all. I think it may be in favour of town, but this game proves nothing. Mafia had (relatively) loads of unused abilities left due to inactivity.. I still want to see what happens if a group of people work together. The abilities are still limited to once per turn, that should help, the ratio is exactly the same as it always has been, and a group should have the advantage of co-ordinating and brainstorming. However, Mr-Paul was on his own, and he soon gave up it seems. I imagine being on your own against all of town is intimidating though.

End of day 4 Final vote count: Mr-Paul [5]: Jonnas / Rummy / Yvonne Not voting [4]: The Peeps / Mr-Paul / DuD / ReZourceman There are 7 active players. Absolute majority is 4. Majority has been reached. Report: Mr-Paul has been lynched. Mr-Paul was mafia. The last member of the mafia has been lynched. Town is victorious! End of game

And there we go.. Downloading episode 2 as I speak. Also forget to mention: When I had to replay 400 days and ep 1, I made some changes in ep 1.

Vote count: Mr-Paul [5]: Jonnas / Rummy / Yvonne Not voting [4]: The Peeps / Mr-Paul / DuD / ReZourceman There are 7 active players. Absolute majority is 4. Majority has been reached. Deadline is advanced to 05-03-2014 00:00 CET (04-03-2014 23:00 UK) 1 hour remaining.

Who is getting it on PC by the way? If plenty people get it, I may just spend some money I shouldn´t spend end of the month.

Vote count: Mr-Paul [2]: Jonnas / Rummy Not voting [5]: The Peeps / Yvonne / Mr-Paul / DuD / ReZourceman There are 7 active players. Absolute majority is 4. Majority has not been reached. Deadline is 06-03-2014 00:00 CET (05-03-2014 23:00 UK) 26 hours remaining.

And I´d love to comment on that after the game.

End of night 3 Report: - ReZourceman Start of day 4 There are 7 active players. Absolute majority is 4. Deadline is 06-03-2014 00:00 CET (05-03-2014 23:00 UK)

Ok, it seems like a missed more than Idina Menzel performing Let it go. Who was murdered at the Oscars?

So.. I don't actually care about the Oscars, but I had nothing better to do at that moment (well I did, I should´ve gone to bed, anyway..), so I watched the boring show. It was amusing to see some people eat pizza though. Gravity won some prizes, which is cool. I happened to see Gravity for a 2nd time the night before, because of the Oscar buzz it was rereleased for a few days. I mainly wanted to express my disappointment in missing the highlight of the show: Idina Menzel singing Let it go. I´m glad she won, and from the few short clips I see on Youtube it looked and sounded amazing, unfortunately I can´t find a good clip of the whole performance. I missed the last hour of the show or so, because I had to go. Looking forward to see some Oscar nominated / winning films though. Most of them are still being shown in the cinemas here.. I should have seen most of them already, but I haven´t been to the cinema much lately, after the film festival. I´ll have some catching up to do, and I intend to see things like Nebraska, 12 years a slave, Dallas buyers club (Matthew McConaughey seems to be on a roll), and Her. I can also confirm La grande belleza and Blue Jasmin are excellent.

The game isn´t that demanding actually, you could get it on PC. The beta sure was fun. And the leaked screenshots look nice. I´d get it if I had the money.

I´ll sign up, I´lll PM you 2 figures later.

Sorry guys, just got on. Will extend the deadline if necessary, I´ll go read my PM´s in a minute. Note: Since I got on so late, I´ll extend the deadline to roughly 04-03-2014 12:00 CET. Hopefully that will give everyone a chance to react to my replies.

This game filled my whole PM box.

Vote count: Cube [5]: Rummy / The Peeps / DuD / Jonnas / Sheikah Not voting [4]: Yvonne / Mr-Paul / Cube / ReZourceman There are 9 active players. Absolute majority is 5. Majority has been reached. Deadline is advanced to 03-03-2014 00:00 CET (02-03-2014 23:00 UK) 30 minutes remaining. End of day 3 Final vote count: Cube [5]: Rummy / The Peeps / DuD / Jonnas / Sheikah Not voting [4]: Yvonne / Mr-Paul / Cube / ReZourceman There are 9 active players. Absolute majority is 5. Majority has been reached. Report: Cube has been lynched. Cube was mafia. Sheikah has been killed. Sheikah was town. Start of night 3

Yeah, but I bought from Amazon US. It was 30 dollars. Including shipping, it costed me around 25 euros I think.. I´d say that´s cheap. I don´t know if Amazon UK gets incredible deals, but I suggest pre-ordering season 4 as soon as it´s up, to make use of their lowest price guarantee. If you don't care which region you buy from, you may consider Amazon US, I suspect the´re cheaper.

It was just a suggestion . Though I seriously volunteer to do them next year.

Probably, but the form is technically public, and you never know what some less invested new member may do. Plus, it also helps if people simply forgotten they already voted, or if they want to fill out some fields they haven´t filled in before, or if they want to change things.