#secret thing

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hollow oasis
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Truth

sour harness
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hey dont call me out like that 😭

next marlin
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that's what causes the best 2 hour arguments

hollow oasis
next marlin
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anyway, hystrex, under what circumstances should someone execute a d1 mutant break,

hollow oasis
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I mean

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When the mutant

sour harness
next marlin
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the answer is "d1 in a 14p where it immediately mech rules out two demon types but, somehow, is by a significant margin the worse option for town"

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obviously

sour harness
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wait i wanna see that grim then

hollow oasis
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Lmao

next marlin
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that was the 8 savants game

sour harness
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i see

hollow oasis
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Oh

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Oh yea hystrex

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You know the light mode thing

next marlin
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town has what can be called 'some difficulty' worldbuilding around a cerelock when people are loudly exploding in public from non-locked ceremadness (he was specifically breaking as "I'm the ceremad mutant")

hollow oasis
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That thing you hate so very much

shrewd cloud
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I don’t think I’ve ever had the chance to consider a day one Mutant exe on SnV since they just don’t seem to break madness on D1 in my group

But I did do a custom with Godfather with another group where uh oh Godfather kill N2 after the Mutant went boom D1. And that Godfather kill did end up saving evil’s ass when they basically got caught but good needed two executions to completely clear the world

sour harness
hollow oasis
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And dark mode on reddit

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Does this make sense

sour harness
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no

ivory ridge
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what

next marlin
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no it does not

sour harness
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also

ivory ridge
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livetext are all minors?

sour harness
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dont use reddit

ivory ridge
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😭

sour harness
ivory ridge
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that's

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actually kinda crazy

hollow oasis
ivory ridge
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i'm like, undergrad age

hollow oasis
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Because BOTC

shrewd cloud
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I haven’t ever played live text here before but tbh

Not shocked there’s apparently a lot of minors there

sour harness
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ok but that's reddit

ivory ridge
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and me realizing i have to hear a minor's opinion every time make me want to die a bit inside

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😔

next marlin
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my general impression of livetext is a bunch of teenagers, a few people in the "undergrad to young adulthood" age band (incl. self), and more established adults who keep leaving

sour harness
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simply be older

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why weren't you born earlier?

next marlin
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but also that the first group includes a lot of people who kind of cycle out eventually when they realize they can't get games to run all the time by spampinging

sour harness
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that sounds like a skill issue

fast anchor
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no need for two hours

ivory ridge
shrewd cloud
fast anchor
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i have depicted you as the soyjack and myself as the Chad

hollow oasis
ivory ridge
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that explain your fondness of catfishing...

hollow oasis
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Yes

hollow oasis
next marlin
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hang on lemme get the meme

ivory ridge
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no way people actually like that script

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🔥

hollow oasis
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Me neither

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Soooooo

next marlin
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axo you have the "catfishing and minors" screenshot to hand right, I can't find it

ivory ridge
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wait no that's people

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oops parker confused you with someone else

sour harness
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i need to play it one more time so i can confidently say "nah i'd rather play snv"

hollow oasis
next marlin
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it's not about whether you'd "rather" play snv exactly

hollow oasis
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Seriously

sour harness
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then get a pfp

ivory ridge
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no i actually confused you with person1101

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like this is not a joke

next marlin
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person1101

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fake fan, wrong numbers

hollow oasis
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But the last time I made an avatar

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It was vaticidalprophet’s kazali rant

sour harness
ivory ridge
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send the rant

fast anchor
hollow oasis
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On my computer

shrewd cloud
hollow oasis
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Not on my phone 😔

shrewd cloud
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Clearly the best way to solve a disagreement

next marlin
ivory ridge
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ruling this ruling that

fast anchor
hollow oasis
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Oh yea

ivory ridge
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just ask your ST

hollow oasis
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I have this image

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From a real person1011 message

next marlin
hollow oasis
next marlin
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sorry forgot to remove the reply

hollow oasis
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Damnit

fast anchor
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light mode

hollow oasis
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Anyway

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Yes

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Anyways

fast anchor
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where was this 😭

shrewd cloud
next marlin
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I love how people comment every time on light mode screenshots and never on my insane cosmic mode background

hollow oasis
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Like 2 months ago

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I was auditioning for band regionals

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
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And i checked discord and saw. this

shrewd cloud
hollow oasis
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Dude it’s almost midnight

fast anchor
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anyway have fun you all i will go play rhythm heaven

hollow oasis
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Sun is good

sour harness
hollow oasis
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listen to the inner demons

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stay up 24 hours

next marlin
hollow oasis
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the game is fun

sour harness
hollow oasis
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Absolutely

next marlin
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though it's fairly mild in that one actually

ivory ridge
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wait

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outsider mod is not good savant info? it's joever

shrewd cloud
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Eh color scheme is fine, much better than suddenly getting flashbanged

hollow oasis
next marlin
hollow oasis
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Gonna be honest

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I kinda forgot what legion was like before I ran it weird

next marlin
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better start running some trad legion

hollow oasis
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Trad legion would suck so much on the script I have it on

ivory ridge
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whats trad legion

next marlin
hollow oasis
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and app players apparently don’t like trad legion after the LoT release script incident

next marlin
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e.g. I recently saw "2 forms of madness in play" in a 10p, which is only possible in exactly fang gu

hollow oasis
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Or like

ivory ridge
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how does ben b run it 😭

hollow oasis
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Average ST

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With 3 bluffs each

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With overlap

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maybe a lot, maybe a little

ivory ridge
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oh that's

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interesting

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my group wake all legion together

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and give them like 6 bluffs

hollow oasis
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See that’s close to what I do

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The best ways to run legion in my opinion

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No bluffs

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Or

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Get sets of 3 that recieve the same bluffs

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And they are unique

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they of course learn who is in their set

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And if leftovers, make new set

ivory ridge
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no bluff 😭

gusty bear
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woah this was not worth the backread

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i technically fall into none of these 3 categories

next marlin
gusty bear
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It has been around 20 minutes and I’m going to be late

warped fog
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Mastermind and uhuhhhhhh

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wait is that

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oh no it's American date cool I didn't respond to a question from October

warped fog
agile raft
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Idk if I like being the goblin, but I like the effect it has on the game

ivory ridge
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wow i did not even see the secret thing question throughout the yapping

next marlin
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again

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average secret-thing series of events

ivory ridge
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hmmm favorite and least favorite minion huh

cyan reef
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not only is the "self-nom meta" a social problem that's not actually fundamental to the character, it's not even good strategy

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people can and should refuse to self-nom in those metas...and if everyone else thinks they're evil because of it, again, that's a social problem that the Storyteller should be addressing, and from a strategy perspective, players are best served actually trying to find evil and win the game rather than play this weird side game of hampering nominations

ivory ridge
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is saying your most favorite xaan is cringe

next marlin
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no favourite minion can be cringe except harpy

ivory ridge
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LOL

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hmmm i guess in a more serious tone

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is my most and least favorite, respectively

next marlin
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mez is my favourite minion to be good in a game with because I don't have to be good anymore :)

ivory ridge
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baron is my favorite minion because it is exactly a minion per minion

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mez is my least favorite because it is more than a minion per minion

next marlin
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I wanna be a mez turned alchemist

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it would be very funny

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new alch letting me be the evil alch cere in a game with a normal cere

ivory ridge
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i mean tbh

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mez is kinda fun

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i don't think i really hate any minion per se

next marlin
ivory ridge
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wait vat did you answer the question yes

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actually lemme guess

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cere - harpy?

next marlin
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cere or spidow favourite, pois or harpy least favourite

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(both spidows occupy the same space for this question)

ivory ridge
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insane

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oh sorry

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not the cere part

next marlin
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cerenovus is hard to categorize because it's aesthetically my favourite role in the game and insanely fun to play but I dislike playing against it and still have mixed views on madness overall

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also it's so swingy and not all that swing is player-controlled

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sometimes you just get unlucky with your picks or the ST doesn't know how to run it

ivory ridge
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yeah no cere is by far my favorite minion to get

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the power trip is real

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but like, it's really cringe to be cerelocked

next marlin
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also I'm literally a steampunk cyborg with mind control powers irl? so it makes sense

ivory ridge
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where does the prophet part come in

next marlin
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the line between "minion of a demon" and "messenger of a god" is thin

next marlin
ivory ridge
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so true!

next marlin
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anyway my other favourite minion is pithag because the pithag can turn me, the starting spidow, into the cere n2

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best of both worlds

ivory ridge
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😭

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ooh actually

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if you have to divide the minions in half

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one half being "more favored" vs "less favored"

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how would you sort 'em

shrewd cloud
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Good question, time to crack out the tier list template

ivory ridge
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do it

shrewd cloud
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Template doesn’t have Xaan, but it would be in More Favored. Tiers aren’t ordered

Splitting in half is hard, if this was simply Like vs Dislike there would be like three or four in Dislike lmao. A lot of Minions in Less Favored I like

zenith lotus
# hollow oasis

okay, for context i invited him to the server, and then he immediately started trying to get himself banned

zenith lotus
next marlin
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they wrote "people1011"

karmic slate
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Pedestrian0101

ivory ridge
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Citizen0101

zenith lotus
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HELP

shrewd cloud
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Homosapien1011

next marlin
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this mf is a person, get him

karmic slate
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Not just any person

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Person 1101

ivory ridge
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she homo on my sapien until i 1011

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i'm sorry

karmic slate
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Person 7

shrewd cloud
ivory ridge
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Persona 6 isn't even real 😭

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wait

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yup

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not real yet

next marlin
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also I missed this post but skill issue

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@feral snow garden mizu as a twin

ivory ridge
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what the fuck

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🔫

next marlin
ivory ridge
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ok tbf i think when i say that

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i just had the worst botc game of my life

next marlin
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many such cases

ivory ridge
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(it's not even ET's fault)

next marlin
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mizu continuing to be trapped in the livevoice mines where they play clockmaker+twin every game

ivory ridge
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livevoice...truly an experience

karmic slate
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Text voice games are just voice notes

ivory ridge
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livevoice is where you can see 3 people nominating themselves for witch check

next marlin
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oh that's just snv

ivory ridge
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and there is an evil twin + a town crier game

ivory ridge
next marlin
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I ran a game once with 10 noms d1

ivory ridge
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town crier pissing and crying

next marlin
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it was cere/twin and both twins nominated

ivory ridge
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so is flowergirl

next marlin
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by about nom 7 or 8 someone went "yeah guys I don't think there's a witch"

ivory ridge
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😭

next marlin
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they eventually random executed the juggler, who was also the only twinsolver on the grim

ivory ridge
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holy shit

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i think

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someone need to write a guide on how to play snv

next marlin
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no one agrees how to play snv, that's the magick of it

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however there is a correct way to run it [18 paragraphs follow]

ivory ridge
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i have

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so many question sometimes tbh

next marlin
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such as? 👀

fresh shard
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I keep thinking about the d1 mutant thing because my group prefers not to have attempts at secret madness breaks and idk if it's a problem that that means I'm almost never executing breaks

next marlin
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"Execute ceremadness more than feels fair and mutants less than feels fair" is probably the right landing spot?

ivory ridge
next marlin
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You need to blur the edges of the meta a little because it's very rough if town can meta things like "mutant is an evil scapegoat, if it saves someone from the block early game you should double tap them" but in general it's funnier to have mutants beg to die than confirm them most of the time

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Also depends on player count

fresh shard
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To be fair it feels like Ceremadness is doing its job because people are making convincing claims that are making good go down wrong tunnels

next marlin
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Mutant in large games is a townsider in an unfortunate way

fresh shard
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Yeah when I intro madness I do remind people that I can and will refuse to execute even blatant breaks sometimes

next marlin
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As player count decreases, executing mutants becomes worse for town, so something to do more often

next marlin
ivory ridge
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mutant when they don't madness break on block and get cerelocked though

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😭

next marlin
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I've noticed a lot of people will out d1 if they're a ceremad-as-townsfolk mutant and this is interesting to me because from my pov it's better for town to let the cere waste their ability giving you a free bluff

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(this is also why I've come to think I don't like putting cere and mutant in together as much as I historically have, sometimes the cere gets unlucky)

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(I am terrified of this when I'm cere)

ivory ridge
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also people will claim you as ceremad anyway and be fine with it

fresh shard
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I figure the logic is they'll be more of a liability later

ivory ridge
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i presume, but also outing cere come at the cost of other townsfolk becoming liable to cere

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versus "yeah there's technically a cere but they locked me, the mutant so they're just a blank token"

fresh shard
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True, I hadn't thought of the meta of "hide cere to make the ST less likely to execute madness breaks" (which is a strategy I'd be impressed by people coming up with organically)

next marlin
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You're also breaking the madness execution barrier which, when running madness well, should mean later players are much more likely to be executed

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Yeah

fresh shard
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I've found that the Cerenovus is usually most dangerous when locking a dead player

ivory ridge
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that is

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i don't want to think about it too much

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but that's true, i think

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since dead player read socially more likely good than not

next marlin
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hey mizu given that you're the clockmaker are you cool with being executed d1

ivory ridge
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this give me vietnam flashback

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i want to advocate for the "don't execute people" meta more

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😭

next marlin
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ofc we're going to build every single world around your clock number that isn't a number you randomly made up through madness

fresh shard
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My group is too keen on executing people who want to due and we've had loads of evil clean sweeps because of it (and most good wins have been lucky picks with tons of evils alive) so I'm trying to push back on it

next marlin
ivory ridge
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i think the problem is that

next marlin
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(on specifically d1, later we should always be going into pings)

ivory ridge
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i'm fine with executing random people d1

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but

fresh shard
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I won't push back on it too hard but there is such a thing as overvaluing confirmation

ivory ridge
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but like

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stop "executing spent role"

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😭

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unless there's like, some information

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it's just whenever i say stuff like "do we need to execute people d1" i am framed as evil

cyan reef
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people develop some weird metas that sound good when you're newer, for some groups for some reason they seem to have trouble moving past them

next marlin
ivory ridge
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obviously the spent clockmaker/seamstress/artist that is willing to vote on themselves

next marlin
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d1 snv has very high info uncertainty and there are useful things that can come out of executing a very likely good, like oracle checking, but it's super player count dependent

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and not so good as to be a dominant strategy

ivory ridge
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yeah i do think snv is

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better for execution

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i just heavily dislike people executing for non-abstract reason

next marlin
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If there are seam pings and we have anything that might help us interpret them I'd generally rather kill into the pings if the interpretation suggests that's a good idea, same with artist questions

ivory ridge
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wait lemme explain what non-abstract means. personally i think randomly targetting stuff d1 because "they're 180 degree from me" is better if you have limited information and a lot of uncertainty. but when you nominate someone because they are a spent role and there are better info role, it's unlikely that you hit someone worthwhile and more often than not can be detrimental

fresh shard
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Even pushing on someone who you don't think will get exed is useful because people sometimes need the push to actually consider the possibility that they'll be evil

next marlin
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Having said all of this I have a long and bloody trail of bodies behind me originating from absolutely horrible d1 executions I keep pushing off my asspulled incapacity for social reads

ivory ridge
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but then if you do have information, you should push on it

fresh shard
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Especially if the pattern of not getting on the block is suspicious

fresh shard
ivory ridge
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oop

ivory ridge
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sometimes it's just like that though

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you identify evil

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but you do not have the vote power for it

fresh shard
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My gut always makes me pick correctly then I talk myself out of it

ivory ridge
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so you just, sit there till f3

next marlin
ivory ridge
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what were you

next marlin
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I was an evil traveller in f3+trav with two evil residents

fresh shard
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Lmao I saw that one

next marlin
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The evil residents were outed but there wasn't the info for demon vs minion

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My demon had the more miniony socials wry

fresh shard
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Travellers always seem to get exiled in final 3 for us

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Just as a policy

ivory ridge
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they always should

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unless

next marlin
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This almost always happens but they didn't bother to exile me but also it wouldn't have mattered because it was social rather than mechanical

ivory ridge
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they're super confirmed good?

fresh shard
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Although the time the final good got -3 votes in f3 because people forgot was very funny

ivory ridge
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but it's hard to verify beside like

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gnome

next marlin
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i.e. if I'd been exiled it would've gone the same way

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I don't really like policy exiling travs anyway

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But I say this because I want to bone collect the mutant in f3

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So probably don't take my word for it

ivory ridge
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holy shit

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that's

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brutal

hollow oasis
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Funny

cyan reef
fresh shard
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I have yet to see a bone collector and I think STs forget about resurrection as a thing

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They keep refusing to accept dead player gossips and forgetting this confirms no Shab in play

hollow oasis
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Professor isn’t real

fresh shard
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(then again I have never actually been in a Shab game)

cyan reef
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if the Traveler is probably good, and they have an ability that can't significantly disadvantage good (whether they are good or evil), it's definitely worth considering having them around

next marlin
# fresh shard Lmao I saw that one

also was that from the game-highlights post or as a spectator in the actual game? because I noticed at some point on final day that the lobby had 25 members

next marlin
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the last living good was also playing snv for the first time 😭

fresh shard
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SnV clicked for me in the game where I was the demon, accidentally sank a kill night 1, and then coasted the entire rest of the game because nobody even asked me for a claim

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I was going to bluff Philo without really knowing what the role was or what good picks were but the day 1 sink just threw everyone into Pit Hag tunnels and my Cere drew all the attention

next marlin
fresh shard
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That wasn't something I'd considered

next marlin
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...but last time I ran snv I forgot this and the pithag parlayed it into a 5D chess play as the confirmed good artist with 2 questions

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so it worked out

cyan reef
next marlin
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the potential for 2-3 artist questions is there so I get it

cyan reef
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eh, I mean, that doesn't make it an inherently good play

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it can be a good play, but I think the game is better for a few different reasons once players move past the meta of advocating for the death of good players

fresh shard
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Tbh a Pit Hag having this happen to them is only a small distance from having been Vigor killed in smaller games

next marlin
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yeah the pithag whiffed his only living one but when bonecollected turned the math into the klutz, who got jumped

cyan reef
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I mean, it definitely happens and is how most people I know play

next marlin
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and the artist question implicated the flowergirl who was loudly clearing the sweetheart

cyan reef
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we're not going around just killing Recluses, top 4, Clockmakers, etc for no particular reason

fresh shard
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I have what seems to be a weird meta where the Pit Hag will pretty much always turn themselves or someone else into the Evil Twin eventually

zenith lotus
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yea its a good play

next marlin
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I ran a game where that happened going into f4 and the pithag forgot until I explicitly told him that I'd have to (in that particular gamestate) assign him a dead twin

zenith lotus
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add a wincon for evil, and even if it doesnt work good still has to spend an execution to get rid of it

fresh shard
next marlin
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also, the brand new fang gu who didn't know her minions accidentally barberswapped the mutant and seamstress the same night

fresh shard
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Evil still won though

ivory ridge
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is this just a livevoice thing

fresh shard
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Oh that was the other thing I did in that weird sunk kill game, I barber swapped two good players which made people tunnel on the idea they were bluffing

cyan reef
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now, my group does have some rather archaic Pit-Hag metas...almost exclusively creating Outsiders (even in a game that already has 2 or 3 Outsiders in play), changing a Demon to a Fang Gu even though the Demon is not currently in need of an out, etc

next marlin
# next marlin also, the brand new fang gu who didn't know her minions accidentally barberswapp...

morning of f4:
"[ex-mutant desperately waving] HI. HI I WAS THE MUTANT [in a 13p] so I know it's fang gu and I JUST GOT TURNED INTO THE SEAMSTRESS so that's what the barberswap was and the fang gu has already jumped"
"[ex-seamstress] No you didn't. No I'm still the seamstress"
"[savant, who was executed two days ago] By the way, guys, I never mentioned this, but I'm in a twin pair"
"...can we have a round robin?"

cyan reef
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there's a reason tons of people think the game is best played in more limited servers

fresh shard
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I think people tend to learn eventually once evil starts figuring out how to game it

next marlin
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I don't think there's a single meta

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All the public game communities I observe have about 10-15 sub-metas that are somewhat different from each others'

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I discuss "app meta" or "livetext meta" or "livevoice meta" for rhetorical purposes though

cyan reef
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you still do hear the same kinds of metas over and over again, just generally speaking

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I was reading through this thread again because someone mentioned the "self-nom" meta with Fearmonger, that's one you hear a lot of

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someone earlier mentioned the meta of killing a spent character

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these are all extremely common

fresh shard
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I'm at least glad the game has actual rules for dealing with stuff like "town pressuring everyone to Damsel guess themselves"

next marlin
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Spent role meta is one of those things that half the time is honoured in the breach rather than the observance, though also I don't think there's a singular "spent role meta" (e.g. the arguments for trying to mechconfirm extremely powerful YSKs on a loud minion script are different to those for "let's execute the recluse for no reason, which is pure negative utility", even though I don't personally much like doing either)

cyan reef
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my hypothesis would be that public places (namely here and on the Patreon server/public lobbies) that it's more difficult to advance metas because there is, at least to some degree, a constant rotation of players, of all experience levels

ivory ridge
cyan reef
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The Grimoire, Grim Scenarios, CTBotC, my Hard Claim server, Patters and Alejo each have servers that I presume have non-streamed games and such

ivory ridge
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wait

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what are any of those

cyan reef
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BotC servers 🙂

next marlin
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large non-public servers

ivory ridge
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there are multiple botc server? pog

cyan reef
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I mean, they're public in the sense that anyone can join them

next marlin
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I started playing on one of them but drifted away over time because I prefer STing to playing and have the consistent impression the one I started playing on doesn't let people ST by just asking

cyan reef
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but they're not the size of this server, and more concentrated on how they can be regulated

ivory ridge
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hmmm

cyan reef
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Grim Scenarios, for example, only allows games meant for people only on that server

ivory ridge
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so you have to join the server first

cyan reef
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both Grim Scenarios and The Grimoire have regular events as well

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yeah

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my server is mostly concentrated on my streams, though there a non-streamed Wednesday game somebody runs

ivory ridge
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what do you think about the other server that you listed

cyan reef
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which ones?

ivory ridge
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ctbotc, patter & alejo

foggy grotto
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Favorite: Pit Hag, it’s just too fun

Least Favorite: Organ Grinder by far

cyan reef
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CTBotC is great, they run games through Discord and the old app still, so that could be a more familiar place...I don't think they run as many non-streamed games, but they are there

next marlin
foggy grotto
#

that was yesterday wasn’t it

cyan reef
#

I don't keep up as much with Alejo's and Patters' servers since I can only focus on so much (and they're also EU based whereas I'm in the US), but both are obviously great personalities within the Clocktower space

next marlin
#

so maybe not yesterday enough

foggy grotto
#

ok

cyan reef
#

I know there's tons of other servers out there too that I'm not quite as familiar with

next marlin
#

approximately none of which is about the question

zenith lotus
ivory ridge
#

truly

#

hmm maybe i'll join one of the server you mentioned

#

does anyone else have any experience on 'em

next marlin
#

welcome to #secret-thing! we got:

  1. meta arguments
  2. hystrex and axo pressgang vati into playing bmr
  3. discussions of server culture
  4. snv
ivory ridge
#

the fourth point is most crucial

next marlin
#

this is just a description of half the discussion channels isn't it

ivory ridge
#

no

#

spec and spoil is decidedly homebrew

cyan reef
#

missing specs/spoiler chat, and homebrew chat

ivory ridge
#

which is incredibly funny

next marlin
#

specspoilers is also #lore-discussion, #snv-2, and #bmr-2

#

and #offtopic for that matter

ivory ridge
#

which is more active i wonder

#

#ccs or secret thing

next marlin
#

specspoilers

#

for sure

next marlin
#

we'll convert you to liking the script soon enough

zenith lotus
#

and catfishing!

ivory ridge
#

i am being harpy mad rn

next marlin
#

last time mizu said they "played catfishing" I found the grim for the game and it wasn't even catfishing

#

"[looks at fang gu pithag custom] is this catfishing"

ivory ridge
#

my in person group run it once, we all hate it 🥰

next marlin
#

I mean I know you've played it at some point because squall referenced playing it irl on reddit

ivory ridge
#

what the fuck

#

stalker 🔫

next marlin
#

as soon as two people say they've played together I just draw this immediate map in my head

#

anyway

ivory ridge
#

but yes, squall run it explicitly say they run it because they hate it

next marlin
#

this was the "catfishing game" you played as drunk amne and it WASN'T EVEN CATFISHING

tardy wyvern
#

my favorite catfishing minions: boffin and summoner

zenith lotus
#

BH fang gu 😭

ivory ridge
#

oh right

next marlin
ivory ridge
#

summoner turn the evil ft fang gu

hollow oasis
foggy grotto
#

yes

hollow oasis
#

But wahy

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
#

old OG was pretty bad tho, I’ll give you that

next marlin
#

yes because he told me he was posting the savant infodump on reddit so I know which of the /r/botc posters he is

ivory ridge
#

thank you soldier o7

foggy grotto
#

it just takes a crucial part of the mechanics of BotC away, new OG is not any better as it literally has to turn its own ability off to be a “buff”

#

it’s just not fun to play in an OG game for me

hollow oasis
#

Organ Grinder is fun with things like Levi and zealot

#

the fear

ivory ridge
#

organ grinder is fun with fg

#

truly an experience of time

hollow oasis
#

Wait no

#

Flowergirl OG is a crime

#

As is Yaggababble Gossip

next marlin
hollow oasis
#

And Goon Summoner/Alhadikia

#

Goon Alhad is really bad

next marlin
#

summoner puzzlemaster 🔥

ivory ridge
#

she aut on my ism until i'm restrained

#

oh wow that sound worse given the context

hollow oasis
#

New response just dropped!

ivory ridge
#

imagine if evil could see who vote in an OG game

hollow oasis
#

So broken

ivory ridge
#

actually idk if it would make OG better

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
#

It would make it stronger

#

but like xaan

#

It’s cooler when evil doesn’t have the info

ivory ridge
#

people proceed to put godfather, spy and xaan together

#

😔

ivory ridge
#

but like also, evil seeing who vote isn't that strong

hollow oasis
#

That’s so horrible

hollow oasis
zenith lotus
#

nice new name luis 😉

primal crescent
#

[∃t ∈ ℝ]: What is a community ruling that you wish was official?

hollow oasis
#

and it’s another reason to drunk yourself

ivory ridge
primal crescent
#

i massively disagree lmao

ivory ridge
#

what

hollow oasis
#

damnit your role is not info

ivory ridge
#

wait no elaborate

primal crescent
#

Imo Alejo SC removes half of what makes snake charmer snake charmer

foggy grotto
next marlin
#

It keeps 80% of it and removes the bit where sometimes the game is randomly ruined for everyone else d1

hollow oasis
#

Vigor Mastermind

foggy grotto
#

or Modified Cult Leader but not many people run that

primal crescent
#

like the entire point is that if you want to go balls to the wall and choose on N1, go ahead, but if could blow up in your face

hollow oasis
ivory ridge
#

what's patters huntsman again

hollow oasis
#

Pray tell?

foggy grotto
# hollow oasis Modified?

"Each night, you learn the alignment of one of your alive neighbors. If all good players choose to join your cult, you become that alignment and your team wins."

next marlin
#

anyway

  1. alejo sc
  2. vigorkilled minions retaining their ability if the demon changes players
  3. demon knowing trav alignments
primal crescent
#

Like the Demon is still hidden bc the Snake Charmer hasn't outed

hollow oasis
#

That variation is better

foggy grotto
#

mhm

primal crescent
#

oh idk about that one lmao

ivory ridge
#

oh my god vigor scarlet

#

i forgot about that

primal crescent
hollow oasis
#

Riot atheist

primal crescent
ivory ridge
primal crescent
#

like that's part of travelling

next marlin
#

I just really, really hate traveller baiting

primal crescent
foggy grotto
hollow oasis
ivory ridge
#

d1 out 😔

foggy grotto
#

like maybe it’s fun once in your group

#

and then no traveler is ever trusted again

primal crescent
#

💀

primal crescent
hollow oasis
#

I have 3 problems with travellers

ivory ridge
#

i am

next marlin
#

me when I spend 4 days trying to convince the demon to let me actually play the game before travelling out

ivory ridge
#

whatever to the 3rd point

hollow oasis
#

Bad metas on the traveller level

ivory ridge
#

i do agree though that traveller demon hunting is not fun

#

but also

hollow oasis
#

Bad metas on the specific character level

ivory ridge
#

everyone need a hard lesson sometimes 🔥

hollow oasis
#

And unbalance

foggy grotto
hollow oasis
#

Like apprentice

feral snow
hollow oasis
ivory ridge
hollow oasis
#

this is why I don’t travel

ivory ridge
hollow oasis
#

Just frame your demon

#

Win because you found the demon

#

Not your twin

#

trust me

#

I found the demon!

next marlin
ivory ridge
#

win because you lie to your demon and form a pact with the good twin-turned snake charmer

primal crescent
#

yk my biggest ruling that i wish was official?

hollow oasis
#

That works

primal crescent
#

The alignment/character type of an ability is that of the ability's character, not its source

#

bc what the actual fuck is that ruling

ivory ridge
#

you have to

hollow oasis
#

Awww

ivory ridge
#

elaborate

zenith lotus
#

old alch

#

it wasnt "you have a not in play minion ability"

hollow oasis
#

Ok

zenith lotus
#

it was "you have the ability of a not in play minion"

hollow oasis
#

Alch vortox is laughably dumb

#

Dude, My ability isn’t info

next marlin
hollow oasis
#

It’s my goddamn role

primal crescent
#

I'm more so pointing to the notion that a philo/canni-snitch gives false bluffs in a vortox game

primal crescent
#

like what are you on about

ivory ridge
primal crescent
#

snitch is an Outsider ability

hollow oasis
#

Sike

ivory ridge
#

you have to explain 😭

hollow oasis
#

Ok

#

So apparently

next marlin
hollow oasis
#

Vortox alch causes the alch to see the wrong ability

ivory ridge
#

oh

primal crescent
#

I mean RAW I think that they should get false info

ivory ridge
#

right

hollow oasis
#

that’s dumb, if I told you you were the washerwoman when you were the librarian, that wouldn’t make sense

ivory ridge
#

just jinx it tbh

primal crescent
#

what isn't right, is an Alch-GF getting false info in a Vortox game

ivory ridge
#

wuh

#

why?

hollow oasis
#

The alch’s info being vortoxed is the part that’s ok

primal crescent
#

w h a t

#

what do you mmeeaaannnnnn

#

it's a Minion ability

#

😭

ivory ridge
#

have you guys considered that alch is

#

not a good character

primal crescent
#

blasphemy

ivory ridge
#

alchemist [townsfolk]: YSK if you are a townsfolk, townsider, or outsider.

hollow oasis
#

To be fair alch vortox and godfather on the same script is a crime

next marlin
hollow oasis
#

DA Goblin Xaan ET are good alch choices

ivory ridge
#

xaan alch oh nooo

hollow oasis
#

Xaan alch

#

Is fine

primal crescent
#

like if you have bad alch minions on a script with alch

hollow oasis
#

Indeed

primal crescent
#

you know what you're doing

#

(or you explicitly don't and it's your first script including atheist legion riot mez and og)

hollow oasis
#

Truth

hollow oasis
#

My first script was legion

#

now it’s actually good

#

But like

#

Still

#

That’s true

ivory ridge
#

i think

#

hmmm

#

alchemist

hollow oasis
#

Alch role being vortoxed is dumb

#

The info it gets can be vortoxed

primal crescent
#

Like sure

#

alch-mm is horrid

hollow oasis
#

and most alch roles don’t even care

primal crescent
#

but just don't put them on scripts together

#

😭

hollow oasis
ivory ridge
#

true!

primal crescent
hollow oasis
#

Then it loops around to being good

ivory ridge
#

but beside that

hollow oasis
#

for no fucking reason

primal crescent
#

💀

ivory ridge
#

idk how to feels around a townsfolk require the entire minion set to build around it

primal crescent
#

i mean

#

Dreamer

#

UT

#

Empath

hollow oasis
#

SNV and BMR in general

primal crescent
#

there's a reason people build scripts from the Demon suite and work upwards lmao

hollow oasis
#

Legion is probably the hardest thing to scriptbuild with

#

It took me a bloody year to balance mine

#

Heretic is easier

ivory ridge
#

right but demon > minion set is different than tf > minion. at least the order that i script built from is d > m > o > t
and also for snv and bmr, i don't know if it's really a singular character that influence minion, or multiple together

#

but

hollow oasis
#

D>M>T>O

ivory ridge
#

i don't mull over this point much, i don't have such strong opinion on it

hollow oasis
#

Is my setup

ivory ridge
#

why T over O?

hollow oasis
#

Outsiders kinda need to be suited to the TF

#

And the minions

#

And literally everything else

primal crescent
#

yeah i see that

hollow oasis
#

you can’t put a recluse if nothing registers for it

primal crescent
#

but arguably

#

if you know you'd like a recluse

#

then you can put in characters that interact w it

ivory ridge
#

yeh

primal crescent
#

it's a <=> moment

ivory ridge
#

for me i put recluse first

hollow oasis
#

O=T

ivory ridge
#

that's cool yeah

hollow oasis
#

Outsiders are usually the least of my concerns

#

Unless like

ivory ridge
#

heretic

hollow oasis
#

Its the big 3

ivory ridge
#

b3?

#

heretic, drunk, lunatic?

#

idk

hollow oasis
#

(Heretic,Legion,Atheist)

#

The big 3 of script building pain

ivory ridge
#

oh big 3 including not outsider

#

yeah that's fair

hollow oasis
#

Different big 3

next marlin
#

📝 atheist is an outsider

hollow oasis
#

Lmao

ivory ridge
#

shhh

hollow oasis
#

no but yes

ivory ridge
#

heretic is a tf 📝

hollow oasis
#

this is distinctly different from yes but no

hollow oasis
#

Heretic

#

Gonna be honest

#

Might

#

Just might

#

Be as good as golem on the wrong script

#

no it won’t make your script balanced

ivory ridge
#

between the 3

#

who is the hardest and easiest to script build

hollow oasis
#

Legion is probably hardest

#

Atheist is easiest

#

because it’s quite literally atheist

ivory ridge
#

what make a legion script building hard?

tardy wyvern
#

but now alch mm is basically useless

sour harness
feral snow
#

Confirmation becomes really powerful

#

And all good players are sober and healthy in legion, so you need to be careful to not give info that’s too op

next marlin
feral snow
feral snow
#

Or Flowergirl

next marlin
feral snow
#

Or juggler

primal crescent
#

ik people like the scripts but i really don't like NWC and FoR that much

#

i think if they're fun they're fun, I played FoR once and liked it but they aren't scripts that I'd ask to play/run

#

like the amount of reminders that they both have is WILD

ivory ridge
#

what about

#

FyF

next marlin
#

still maybe worth it?

primal crescent
#

of the 3 FyF is the best by miles

hollow oasis
#

LoTR?

primal crescent
#

?

#

the lord of the ring one?

hollow oasis
#

Yea

primal crescent
#

that's burnt

hollow oasis
#

It’s pretty good

primal crescent
#

i'm sorry bim but it's burnt

#

lmao

hollow oasis
#

have played

#

It’s the ||Jnak script|| but good

#

The latest version is pretty good

#

And the travellers are good

#

Like

#

It’s fun to have travellers in the game

next marlin
#

80% chance

hollow oasis
#

Lmao

primal crescent
#

Tbf something i do like about NWC is the Bomb

#

it's a clever way to solve evil majorities that doesn't just cuck conversion characters like SoI does

fast anchor
#

you still have things like kabaltician symphathizer at base 1/2 outsider that's kinda icky that bomb doesn't solve

#

but it's a good counterbalance against commie that basically forces them to get their shit together by final 5

#

(since most good players getting executed in final 3 will drop the bomb)

hollow oasis
#

I really need to play NWC

gusty bear
next marlin
#

people keep trying to play 12p botc for some reason

fast anchor
#

you're right it solves that at base 1, I forgot it was greater than or equal to

#

it doesn't at base 2 though

hollow oasis
#

5 to 4 is rough

fast anchor
#

Consider a 9p game where there are a max of 4 people that can win with evil and 5 good players

#

or an 11p game with 5 vs 6

fast anchor
next marlin
#

was that the longtext that just ended

fast anchor
#

yeah

next marlin
#

yeah I read like half of that and reforged my "I love a ton of stuff about this script and would go concerningly insane if I tried to play it" conclusion

ivory ridge
#

is there a guide to playing nwc

gusty bear
#

There’s an almanac in #new-world-chaos

next marlin
#

[time isn't real]: Now that we've finished discussing every rule in Blood on the Clocktower (#rules-discussion message), what should we do with the server?

hollow oasis
#

Make a legion script

sour harness
#

We should figure out how to make time real again

karmic slate
#

Question 32X-TCG: If your favourite character(s) became trading cards, what would their stat line be?

ivory ridge
#

turn #rules-discussion into #626025489919770644-rule-discussion and keep making up characters to argue about

next marlin
ivory ridge
#

"the more mad that their info is actually the real info last night, the stronger the real info is"

#

the boy who cries wolves and what not

sharp violet
hollow oasis
next vault
#

idk why the pukka gives me fezandipiti + salazzle vibes except it has regen

hollow oasis
#

Atheist

#

(Support)

#

If the opponent agrees to a draw, you win and they lose instead.

next vault
#

what if both players have atheist?

ivory ridge
#

both win

next vault
#

also you'd probably only use that on something like the equivalent of stall

hollow oasis
#

Although actually

next vault
hollow oasis
#

Loops around to a draw again

#

you can also just not accept the draw offer

#

Leviathan
(Support)
After turn 8, you win.

ivory ridge
next vault
#

what card game is this btw? because I don't play Magic

ivory ridge
#

the idea is that baron need to frame the outsiders as evil, and that's their only job

ivory ridge
#

standard tcg

hollow oasis
#

Riot
Attack:20
Defense:0
Effect:On Turn 6(This is announced) after 10 seconds, both players may take a turn at any time.

#

are you fast?

next vault
#

Doomsayer:
(Support)
Attack: N/A
Defense: N/A
Effect: When played, you may choose a number between 1 and the number of cards that are currently in your side, you must then throw that number of cards to your discard pile. Afterwards, choose the same number of cards to be discarded from your opponent's side. This card cannot be used for its own ability.

hollow oasis
#

That’s a support card!

#

mark accordingly

next vault
#

idk

#

Idk anything about magic

hollow oasis
#

This is a new game

next vault
#

my only TCG experience is the Pokémon TCG game for the gameboy

hollow oasis
#

There’s 5 made up rules

next vault
#

lol

hollow oasis
next vault
#

ngl i'd be super up to play a BOTC TCG

hollow oasis
#

This is original ideas here

#

Fang Gu
Attack:2
Defense:4
Effect:Once per game, you instantly kill an opponent’s card and heal to full.

foggy grotto
#

Imp (4 cost, Rare)
Attack: 3
Defense: 3
When this card is destroyed, a Minion becomes an Imp

#

(i am using PvZ Heroes as my reference so don’t yell at me magic fans)

karmic slate
#

That is my favourite oart of the question, everyone using a different TCG 😆

hollow oasis
#

Isn’t Imp already a PVZ character

#

Uhhh

sharp violet
#

I just made one up

#

If I was to make it in an actual TCG:
Heraldic Beast Cerenovus
EARTH/Fiend/Level 4/ATK 1900/DEF 1200
When this card is Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Heraldic Beast" monster from your Deck, but if this card was Special Summoned, its effects are negated. You can only use this effect of "Heraldic Beast Cerenovus" once per turn. Once per turn (Quick Effect): Target 1 monster your opponent controls, also if it is your opponent's turn, discard 1 card; its name is treated as "Unknown".

fast anchor
sharp violet
#

yep

#

fits right in with the new heraldic beast support revealed yesterday

sour harness
#

Goblin: you may reveal this card, then exchange any number of cards from your hand (including this) with cards from the top of your deck. If you have done this and lose while this card is in your hand, you win instead

next marlin
#

A week later, I would like to update my answer to "pithagged someone into a good vortox, he coldcalled I was the pithag as the only person in the game who would make a good vortox on purpose"

severe raven
#

Banshee: 5 energy
2 Fear. Look at 1 earned Fear card.

fast anchor
#

SPIRIT ISLAND 🔥 🔥 🔥

severe raven
#

Correct!

tall raft
sly crescent
#

and yes, that's a mtg card that requires opponent's deck to be designed to make it useful 😆

sharp violet
#

What’s the mana cost? Just U?

next marlin
#

[time isn't real]: I'm blatantly recycling this one because 1. I need more scripts and 2. it's a good one. What are some great non-famous customs you've played/STed that you didn't make yourself?

next marlin
#

lol I was literally just copypasting it

sour harness
#

I've had a witch pop OFF on this script

#

The mez never turned anyone and evil swept, that's how much it popped off

ivory ridge
barren zenith
next marlin
#

non-famous

ivory ridge
#

shhhh

ivory ridge
#

surely surely

next marlin
#

it's worse cc

ivory ridge
#

:wail:

#

i firmly think it's quite different than cc

#

i think

sour harness
#

Wait

#

Vati

#

Just play BMR

ivory ridge
#

but anyway i'll scour livevoice to see if there are any commonplace custom that i like

next marlin
#

What did I say about "playing"

ivory ridge
#

maybe i'll post it here

next marlin
#

I need more scripts to run because sometimes people seem to weirdly 'not want' to play 5 consecutive snv games

ivory ridge
#

are you running some games soon?

sour harness
#

Literally just learn BMR

next marlin
#

I am often running games

sour harness
#

I'd ST it for you right now if I could

next marlin
#

axo screaming crying throwing up reminding you there's a livetext scheduled in 3 hours

gusty bear
#

you should play in that livetext hystrex

sour harness
#

I don't think I can :(

gusty bear
#

vati can you react with the overdramatic crying one

next marlin
sour harness
#

I'll prob kib but I'm too busy today to actually play a game

#

WAIT SHE'S RUNNING BABYTALK

#

I wanted to try that one

next marlin
#

be less busy

sour harness
#

My bad

barren zenith
sour harness
#

I should dedicate every waking moment to clocktower (just because I actually do doesn't mean we have to mention it)

next marlin
ivory ridge
#

woah

#

knight properly used

next marlin
#

I contributed a bunch to the script!! (infodumped about vigor at length)

ivory ridge
#

i've seen too many knight script w/ fang gu and/or scarlet woman

gusty bear
#

is this autumn's competition winner?

barren zenith
next marlin
#

Every time I see autumn or dylan post with the comp winner colours I just go "!! I gave feedback on those scripts"

next marlin
barren zenith
#

You could easily win a stream comp with clockwork cyborg +[insert new character here] tbh

next marlin
#

I mean

#

I do want Wizard on it

#

Or Occultist when they finally make Occultist real (cope)

gusty bear
#

if wizard releases i will be submitting a version of babytalk with wizard on it to the stream comp

barren zenith
gusty bear
barren zenith
#

Witch?

next marlin
#

funnily enough given the names, prob witch

#

yeah

#

gf/witch step on each others' toes

#

which I don't like, but there aren't enough minions that work

ivory ridge
#

just add 6 minions

#

why not

gusty bear
#

they have a cute synergy together, but i get what you mean

barren zenith
next marlin
#

However, mez kazali did not work

#

So -mez +poli, which is why it instead has 6 outsiders

ivory ridge
#

kazali is not a strong demon anyway

#

i think

next marlin
#

then why does this script have like an 80% evil win rate 😭

gusty bear
ivory ridge
#

i actually don't know how strong kazali is

barren zenith
fast anchor
gusty bear
#

i'm also gonna make a forum post for the goon version when axo has run the livetext today and i have feedback on it, as it's currently untested

next marlin
#

it's going to be a 7p livetext with no goon and you know it

gusty bear
#

tbf, it's less about the goon necessarily being in play and more how it allows for more worlds to be open

fast anchor
#

non-famous? dunno if this qualifies but nobody runs Trust and it's incredibly fun

gusty bear
#

trust is banging

fast anchor
#

even though it literally won the '23 clocktower con comp

gusty bear
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one of the only live games i played in this server the drunk oracle hard solved vig

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I think of Trust as famous but I think this is the "scripts Axo talks about 50 times a day, which no one else plays" cluster of pseudofame

fast anchor
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am i enough of a microcelebrity to have my own category

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You make posts so yeah

gusty bear
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are berk and funnydoggo the same reaction just with different names

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yes but they're slightly different shapes

lean isle
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Idk

fast anchor
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was about to post a script with a harpy, remembered that vati hates whimsy and joy

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I can travel into babytalk as the apprentice harpy if you'd like

ivory ridge
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exile d1

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Angel protection

ivory ridge
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still exile

fast anchor
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whether or not b&s is a "good script" is very disputed, but every single game I have run or played of this has been hilariously fun for both teams

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fuck "objectively good" this script is funny as shit

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i love it

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Maybe I'll take the harpy over the poisoner

fast anchor
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hey vati, does lunar eclipse count as non-famous?

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lunar eclipse is 100% famous

barren zenith
sour harness
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Lunar eclipse? I hardly know 'er!

ivory ridge
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idk lunar eclipse

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it's like, one of THE most famous customs

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ivory ridge
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honestly, all i know famous custom wise is catfishing and ec 😔

barren zenith
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Lunatic is fun on there ngl

ivory ridge
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oh right, hhr is also famous

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the non-levi script people made to make lunatic work*

fast anchor
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harpy on ICAN isn't a problem because the only 5 minions on ICAN are spy, poisoner, spy, poisoner, and spoisoner

fast anchor
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monkey 🥹

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honestly yeah I would probably kazali pick organ grinder instead but that's out of sadism

ivory ridge
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be the most insufferable kazali you can be

fast anchor
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unless i have a death wish i am probably picking marionette

barren zenith
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it's literally the kazali release script, make of that what you will

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back to basics is probably zets' better kaz script though

fast anchor
gusty bear
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wdym, clockwork cyborg is the kazali release script

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:sotrue:

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fast anchor
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kazali/drunk with no drunk detector is what it is but it IS a really funny way of balancing out "kaz has a hard time with mechconfirmy roles"

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tealady
drunk
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NO FANG GU

safe from hystrex

ivory ridge
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tea lady is oh wow

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it's a kazali spoisoner script that manages to NOT make spoisoner hegemonic

ivory ridge
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wdym?

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spy poisoner is ridiculously centralizing in kazali if you have that combo on script but specifically spy/pois/scarlet/DA turns out okay because they're all super strong and spoisoner has 0 safety net

ivory ridge
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i get spoisoner and scarlet, but why da?

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confirmation mimicry and also burning executions

barren zenith
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barren zenith
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Well... you could

fast anchor
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It's also just good for evil to be DA protecting people

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an execution where you don't kill anyone is an execution where town doesn't eliminate a demon candidate

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ivory ridge
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we could've won that game so easily

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well, i could've 😔

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many such lost games