THE RECAP - PART ONE
So, yes. We'll start from the beginning of this, and you'll find out how the Town pretty much did itself in from the start, thanks to miscalculations / poor decisions on behalf of individuals and the town as a whole. Things didn't start well when everybody kind of...freaked out at the start. And...didn't know what to do. So what did people decide to do? Rolepost! Which, as one team in particular found out, would be right to there advantage.
NIGHT ONE:
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The obvious loser here was max, who wound up dead thanks to the Winners Mafia. There was no PM from Ecumenopolis, and Middle Kingdom & kishuu struggled to work out how they were meant to night kill people, meaning it was only L5 who used the night kill ability.
A: Been another thorn in the town's side when they were trying to lynch kishuu and
B: Been able to stop people like Luminary, Genesis and Sen from theorising in public.
Regardless, max's death benefitted both the Mafia's greatly, especially his gay Mafia teammates - as it allowed MK to post as Ron & Kelly without much suspicion, while the town went off and lynched the other gay teams (both of whom were pretty invaluable to them).
As for the other abilities, the big one that came through was Ken & Gerard going to find out what TK & Rachel's ability was (the flowers, which blocked the use of any ability during the night) and ending up being blocked by the flowers. Had CLD found out the use of the flowers, that might have stopped the first lynch and even unravelled the Winners, but alas, it didn't happen.
The other Winners teams that used actions were Yema and creep, with both targetting Charla & Mirna (the primary investigators); I figure that the plan here was to hope that the other investigator (Genesis) would try and investigate them, finding them to be Jeremy & Dani (who creep could con people as, with them being the Serial Killers) and then stop Nick from trying to retorting in the thread. It didn't happen though, but that didn't mean creep and Genesis would have a meeting later on in the game...
snow benefitted majorly throughout the game from the fact that people roleclaimed immediately (I didn't expect people to do so willingly, and especially didn't think that the Winners Mafia teams would claim who they were straight off the bat), and managed to kidnap the BQ's. Libra, meanwhile, tried to use Kynt & Vyxsin's night block ability on another team, which meant it failed on two levels - first of all, it couldn't be used on an individual team, and second of all, it was already night.
DAY ONE:
Nobody really knew what the hell was going on to begin with, but snowy and CG both started to work out what was going on; snowy figured out the basic gist of things from the first night post, while CG helped out by posting some basic mafia info. Snowy nearly hit the jackpot by casting the very first vote, and doing so on Ecumenopolis - who turned it back on snowy, before CLD voted for Ecumen...who then turned his vote on to CLD, after receiving a couple more votes (albeit admittedly, many of the votes at this point weren't counting since you bitches weren't bolding them!)
What surprised me, by the by, is the fact nobody ever suspected Rob & Amber might be some kind of evil role, especially when claims of "backstabbing" came in to the night posts. Ah well...anyway, Ecumen pointed people to the fact that there was, quite obviously, a Gay Mafia on the loose. That then convinced CG that, indeed, Ken & Gerard had a gay member, and therefore were suspicious - and then people were showing shock that CLD had an ability...despite alot of the people showing shock having abilities themselves.
max might just have sealed the deal by trying to get people not to vote for CLD, which was naughty enough, but the tide was already heading that way *anyway*. And then...Libra went off on one.
Libra said that there was the Gay Mafia, but incorrectly fingered Ozzy & Danny and Ken & Gerard in the Gay Mafia; then claimed that there was probably a 5th Place Mafia, as there were six people who finished 5th (completely by chance, people. They were the ones I just...picked.), but also noted that there were a lot of Winners too (dingdingdingdingding!). Libra also figured Darius' power to in fact be Freddy & Kendra's, as Nick had been silenced (but the night write up, in fact, showed that these were seperate events, as Charla & Mirna were already astonished when Ron started to try and use K&V's power).
DDU then asked how Ecumen had managed to swerve things away and on to CLD so easily, with Sen then asking why he was supposedly defending a Gay Mafia. That then led to a couple of votes heading to CG, but DDU was missing a big step here: he could have got rid of snowy by simply posting the fact that on Night One, he'd tested the statement that the Cho Bros. were "GOOD" and found out they weren't. Maybe he was waiting for longer, but it all ended up going wrong and...well...one way or another, CLD ended up dead.
As shown earlier, CLD tried to use the ability on DC, which could have blown the entire Winners Mafia open...had DC not chosen to use the flowers on Ken & Gerard that night. I still don't understand how people decided they were Gay Mafia though, even though there was at least one other team (Ozzy/Danny) that had two gay members...
NIGHT TWO:
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One team won, two teams were killed, and the Winners Mafia turned on each other. An odd night all round, really. Let's start with the big winner of the night - snowy.
snowy benefitted, as I previously said, from the massive miscalculation on my part that people wouldn't be roleclaiming - and roleclaiming with their real identities - so easily. Had snowy captured Middle Kingdom, of course, then that would have blown his cover, but it didn't happen. snowy had the easiest win condition in the end, even if DDU could have thrown a spanner in the works. Ironically, Genesis tried to spy on snowy on this night, which would have brought back a Gay Mafia result, but snowy had already left the game at this point.
Next up, Ecumenopolis got off the killing mark by taking out Thinga...
Thinga's double vote never really came in to play, but it could have later on in the game (generally when the double votes do start to be effective - they're less noticeable when there's 13 votes to lynch, for example). Ecumen's serial killer ability, of course, depended on Amber making the kill...and not being found out, which seemed to work surprisingly well for him during the game. Nick had tried to check on Thinga during the night, but it was fairly useless in the end...
And finally, the last person to be killed during the night was Libra.
I got the impression at times that Libra didn't fully understand Ron & Chris' power: it didn't give the chosen player the new ability, but rather it used it on them. Darius nearly got fingered as a Mafia (presumably the 5th place Mafia that Libra had posted in the big spiel during Day 1) because Charla & Mirna were silenced, even if the write-up had proved otherwise. Libra posted too much too quickly, as it were, but I got the impression that the information Libra was putting across was almost...ignored until later on in the game.
The only other noticeable events were that survivorcreep conned DDU for the first...and certainly not the last time, while for some reason, Destinys Champion went and used the flowers on BJ & Tyler, their fellow Mafia members. Maybe they were hoping that, if there was a cop who could see abilities, they wouldn't suspect them? Meanwhile, Middle Kingdom & kishuu still didn't understand how to kill people at this point >_>
DAY TWO:
A lot of random votes, with Darius being pinned for the death of Libra due to the whole "silencer" issue; DDU meanwhile accused Dr Will, then seemed to realise that in fact, this was a mistake. There's not much to report for Day Two, in fact, because Night Three would lead to much more...interesting developments. A no lynch that the town could have down with, in the end...
NIGHT THREE:
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By this point, DDU was bringing in some interest. And as such, a lot of people decided to use their abilites on him. All three possible night kills were sent in, but one of them didn't go through...and the game suddenly became very, very interesting, when a comment about a team played a huge part at the end of the game. Let's go through the kills first...starting with Dr Will:
Dr Will never got to use his ability, thanks to being kidnapped for the first two night phases, then he nearly got lynched for...well, no reason whatsoever. Then, kishuu finally managed to get a kill in, and took out the BQs. Not much else to say on this matter. The next kill that went through was L5's on Nick.
The main cop, Nick ended up manging to clear CG, then became snagged on Thinga and was going to spy on DDU during the night, which would have completely thrown everything up in the air had Nick survived. The town really fell down at this point, and would struggle even with one cop still left in the game.
Ecumen tried to kill yzysg, but yz went and protected himself again, therefore stopping that kill before it could take place.
And...now. DDU, having been more or less made public enemy #1 in the night phase, stumbled in to a whole wealth of night abilities. Notably, survivorcreep used his "con" ability on Danny & Ozzy - which would make them appear as Jeremy & Dani, Pissed Off Ex-Teammates and Serial Killers. That would have been the identity that came back for Nick, had his spy gone through. Unfortunately, it didn't...but Genesis also spied on DDU during the night. The problem?
Genesis was a broken cop.
In essence, that meant that all of the results that Genesis got back were reversed. Now, normally it would have been the alignment that would have been the reverse (so, in a Night Two example, Genesis would have got the result that Erwin & Godwin were Gay Mafia - a town would appears as Winners, Winners as town), but survivorcreep's con meant that the con was instead reversed...so the identity of the con artist was put in to place, therefore revealing DDU to be Eric & Danielle, and revealing the Winners Mafia in the process of doing so.
Finally: that "last F/F team standing" comment. It was simply an intentional mistake: a lot of the stuff in that little paragraph is wrong (either grammar, spelling or just information - they weren't good judges of character at all, for example), and that was one of them. In the end, it pretty much killed off the town's chances, even though it shouldn't have in comparison with the other information the town had, especially on L5.
DAY THREE:
Things couldn't have got off to a better start for the town, as yope decided that Impact Blue was a good target for the lynch. Unfortunately, it was to get him to be active in a different game. Genesis then revealed the info on DDU, sparking off the big ass rush to lynch DDU. Senescence started trying to work things out via lynch votes, which in fairness was a smart idea - were it not for the fact that the two people up for the lynch on Day Two were both town, and therefore it was inconsequential. DDU would be lynched, knocking another vitally important townie out of the mix.
DDU could have saved himself by revealing the info on snowy, probably, but that would likely have made him a mafia target...so there was really a no-win situation by the end for DDU. The amount of night abilities used on him on Night Three alone should prove this...
Part two of the recap up soon...
So, yes. We'll start from the beginning of this, and you'll find out how the Town pretty much did itself in from the start, thanks to miscalculations / poor decisions on behalf of individuals and the town as a whole. Things didn't start well when everybody kind of...freaked out at the start. And...didn't know what to do. So what did people decide to do? Rolepost! Which, as one team in particular found out, would be right to there advantage.
NIGHT ONE:
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The obvious loser here was max, who wound up dead thanks to the Winners Mafia. There was no PM from Ecumenopolis, and Middle Kingdom & kishuu struggled to work out how they were meant to night kill people, meaning it was only L5 who used the night kill ability.
max never got to use his ability, which he deemed "useless" in a PM to me. In fact, he was meant to be the Gay Mafia's silencer, except he couldn't block people's votes - but had he stayed on later in to the game, he would have probably
maximillian,
You are Reichen & Chip, Formerly Married Members of The Gay Mafia
The designated "hotties" of the Gay Mafia, you are Reichen & Chip, the only M/M married team in the race's history (well, whilst you were racing, at least). Of course, you're split up now, but this is a call to arms...and you want to win by any means necessary. Hell, you might even need to use an ex-boyfriend along the way...
Every night phase, you may PM me the name of a player you wish Lance Bass to sing to. That person will then only be able to post N*Sync videos (apart from votes) the next day.
You may converse with your fellow Mafia members outside of the game thread. They are: kishuu & Middle Kingdom
You win when the Mafia make up 50% of the remaining population.
A: Been another thorn in the town's side when they were trying to lynch kishuu and
B: Been able to stop people like Luminary, Genesis and Sen from theorising in public.
Regardless, max's death benefitted both the Mafia's greatly, especially his gay Mafia teammates - as it allowed MK to post as Ron & Kelly without much suspicion, while the town went off and lynched the other gay teams (both of whom were pretty invaluable to them).
As for the other abilities, the big one that came through was Ken & Gerard going to find out what TK & Rachel's ability was (the flowers, which blocked the use of any ability during the night) and ending up being blocked by the flowers. Had CLD found out the use of the flowers, that might have stopped the first lynch and even unravelled the Winners, but alas, it didn't happen.
The other Winners teams that used actions were Yema and creep, with both targetting Charla & Mirna (the primary investigators); I figure that the plan here was to hope that the other investigator (Genesis) would try and investigate them, finding them to be Jeremy & Dani (who creep could con people as, with them being the Serial Killers) and then stop Nick from trying to retorting in the thread. It didn't happen though, but that didn't mean creep and Genesis would have a meeting later on in the game...
snow benefitted majorly throughout the game from the fact that people roleclaimed immediately (I didn't expect people to do so willingly, and especially didn't think that the Winners Mafia teams would claim who they were straight off the bat), and managed to kidnap the BQ's. Libra, meanwhile, tried to use Kynt & Vyxsin's night block ability on another team, which meant it failed on two levels - first of all, it couldn't be used on an individual team, and second of all, it was already night.
DAY ONE:
Nobody really knew what the hell was going on to begin with, but snowy and CG both started to work out what was going on; snowy figured out the basic gist of things from the first night post, while CG helped out by posting some basic mafia info. Snowy nearly hit the jackpot by casting the very first vote, and doing so on Ecumenopolis - who turned it back on snowy, before CLD voted for Ecumen...who then turned his vote on to CLD, after receiving a couple more votes (albeit admittedly, many of the votes at this point weren't counting since you bitches weren't bolding them!)
What surprised me, by the by, is the fact nobody ever suspected Rob & Amber might be some kind of evil role, especially when claims of "backstabbing" came in to the night posts. Ah well...anyway, Ecumen pointed people to the fact that there was, quite obviously, a Gay Mafia on the loose. That then convinced CG that, indeed, Ken & Gerard had a gay member, and therefore were suspicious - and then people were showing shock that CLD had an ability...despite alot of the people showing shock having abilities themselves.
max might just have sealed the deal by trying to get people not to vote for CLD, which was naughty enough, but the tide was already heading that way *anyway*. And then...Libra went off on one.
Libra said that there was the Gay Mafia, but incorrectly fingered Ozzy & Danny and Ken & Gerard in the Gay Mafia; then claimed that there was probably a 5th Place Mafia, as there were six people who finished 5th (completely by chance, people. They were the ones I just...picked.), but also noted that there were a lot of Winners too (dingdingdingdingding!). Libra also figured Darius' power to in fact be Freddy & Kendra's, as Nick had been silenced (but the night write up, in fact, showed that these were seperate events, as Charla & Mirna were already astonished when Ron started to try and use K&V's power).
DDU then asked how Ecumen had managed to swerve things away and on to CLD so easily, with Sen then asking why he was supposedly defending a Gay Mafia. That then led to a couple of votes heading to CG, but DDU was missing a big step here: he could have got rid of snowy by simply posting the fact that on Night One, he'd tested the statement that the Cho Bros. were "GOOD" and found out they weren't. Maybe he was waiting for longer, but it all ended up going wrong and...well...one way or another, CLD ended up dead.
CatLurvesDorothy,
You are Ken & Gerard, Loveable Brothers & Town Aligned
Everybody loves you; you were easily the funniest team in TAR 3, and there was a near uproar when you didn't get picked for All-Stars. In fact, you're probably the team that people would most like to spend time with, since they know you'd entertain them.
Little do they know, of course, that you're only being friendly to get to know people. And in particular, what their ability is. Every night phase, you may PM me the name of a player, and you will find out what their ability is (if they have one, of course).
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
As shown earlier, CLD tried to use the ability on DC, which could have blown the entire Winners Mafia open...had DC not chosen to use the flowers on Ken & Gerard that night. I still don't understand how people decided they were Gay Mafia though, even though there was at least one other team (Ozzy/Danny) that had two gay members...
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One team won, two teams were killed, and the Winners Mafia turned on each other. An odd night all round, really. Let's start with the big winner of the night - snowy.
snowboarders only,
You are Erwin & Godwin, Cho Bros & Members of the "Back Pack"
Er...wait a minute. Where the hell are the rest of the Back Pack? There's no sign of Dave & Mary...or Lyn & Karlyn!? Well, this just won't do! You will not rest until the Back Pack has been reformed!
How, therefore, are you going to do this? It's simple: every night phase, you may PM the name of a player you wish to bring in to the "Back Pack". If that player has a M/F or F/F team, then they will join the "Back Pack" and be unable to post. Once you have recruited both a M/F and F/F team, you have reformed the "Back Pack".
You win when the "Back Pack" has been reformed. Once you leave the game, the members of the "Back Pack" that you have recruited can return to active play.
snowy benefitted, as I previously said, from the massive miscalculation on my part that people wouldn't be roleclaiming - and roleclaiming with their real identities - so easily. Had snowy captured Middle Kingdom, of course, then that would have blown his cover, but it didn't happen. snowy had the easiest win condition in the end, even if DDU could have thrown a spanner in the works. Ironically, Genesis tried to spy on snowy on this night, which would have brought back a Gay Mafia result, but snowy had already left the game at this point.
Next up, Ecumenopolis got off the killing mark by taking out Thinga...
Thingamajig,
You are Kevin & Drew, The True Frats (Who's All-Stars Performance We'll Forget About) & Town Aligned
Yeah, All-Stars doesn't count for you. Don't panic, we won't hold it against you. Instead, we remember the Kevin & Drew from TAR 1, who raced to the max whilst still being America's big "fat bastard" swinging teddybears. Oh, and you were like family with Nancy & Emily...and you think you may just have spotted them over at the starting line...
Because you were so loved, the fans have decided you deserve double priority: therefore, your lynch votes count double.
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
Thinga's double vote never really came in to play, but it could have later on in the game (generally when the double votes do start to be effective - they're less noticeable when there's 13 votes to lynch, for example). Ecumen's serial killer ability, of course, depended on Amber making the kill...and not being found out, which seemed to work surprisingly well for him during the game. Nick had tried to check on Thinga during the night, but it was fairly useless in the end...
And finally, the last person to be killed during the night was Libra.
Libra is a Whore Slut Skank,
You are Ron & Christina, Purveyors of Real Truth Ownage & Town Aligned
WHY DIDN'T YOU WIN TAR 12!? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LET TK & RACHEL WIN!? *ahem*. Anyway, yes, you are Ron & Chris, who proved that just because your partner is your daughter, it doesn't mean that you have to say that you love them, and can dish out some Real Truth. Hell, it doesn't even matter if it isn't your daughter!
The other teams need to taste some Real Truth. They can't handle their abilities, so you're going to take matters in to your own hands. Every night, you may PM me the name of a player who's ability you wish to take. You then must also include the name of the player you wish to use this new ability on (if the person you targetted has one).
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
I got the impression at times that Libra didn't fully understand Ron & Chris' power: it didn't give the chosen player the new ability, but rather it used it on them. Darius nearly got fingered as a Mafia (presumably the 5th place Mafia that Libra had posted in the big spiel during Day 1) because Charla & Mirna were silenced, even if the write-up had proved otherwise. Libra posted too much too quickly, as it were, but I got the impression that the information Libra was putting across was almost...ignored until later on in the game.
The only other noticeable events were that survivorcreep conned DDU for the first...and certainly not the last time, while for some reason, Destinys Champion went and used the flowers on BJ & Tyler, their fellow Mafia members. Maybe they were hoping that, if there was a cop who could see abilities, they wouldn't suspect them? Meanwhile, Middle Kingdom & kishuu still didn't understand how to kill people at this point >_>
DAY TWO:
A lot of random votes, with Darius being pinned for the death of Libra due to the whole "silencer" issue; DDU meanwhile accused Dr Will, then seemed to realise that in fact, this was a mistake. There's not much to report for Day Two, in fact, because Night Three would lead to much more...interesting developments. A no lynch that the town could have down with, in the end...
NIGHT THREE:
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By this point, DDU was bringing in some interest. And as such, a lot of people decided to use their abilites on him. All three possible night kills were sent in, but one of them didn't go through...and the game suddenly became very, very interesting, when a comment about a team played a huge part at the end of the game. Let's go through the kills first...starting with Dr Will:
Dr Will Hatch two point oh,
You are Dustin & Kandice, Awesome Beauty Queens & Town Aligned
You might just be the best TAR F/F team in history. Sure, 'Bama beat you to being the first F/F team in a Final Three, but you placed 2nd, and it's a moral 1st if it's over Eric & Danielle. Hell, you made final four in two consecutive seasons, something nobody else has/(probably) will manage. You pretty much defied the dumb blonde stereotype.
It does help of course that you happen to both be pretty blondes, and your beauty can be used to your advantage: every night phase, you can PM the name of a player who you wish to dazzle with your beauty. They will be so stunned that they won't be able to do anything that night.
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
Dr Will never got to use his ability, thanks to being kidnapped for the first two night phases, then he nearly got lynched for...well, no reason whatsoever. Then, kishuu finally managed to get a kill in, and took out the BQs. Not much else to say on this matter. The next kill that went through was L5's on Nick.
Nick227,
You are Charla & Mirna, Sucks Icons & Town Aligned
You are perhaps Sucks' TAR icons. A midget and her cousin, who talk to prostitutes and get electrocuted. And give all your food and don't eat tomorrow. Oh, and TWOP hated you and they suck for doing that. You even have your own partially made up language, where everything has a weird Spanish accent.
Charla, of course, has the height "advantage", and having trained on Level 5, you also have the advantage of being remarkably quick. So quick and so small, in fact, that people won't realise if you have a quick look at who they really are. Every night phase, you may PM me the name of a player. You will then receive the identity AND alignment of that person's team at the start of the day phase.
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
The main cop, Nick ended up manging to clear CG, then became snagged on Thinga and was going to spy on DDU during the night, which would have completely thrown everything up in the air had Nick survived. The town really fell down at this point, and would struggle even with one cop still left in the game.
Ecumen tried to kill yzysg, but yz went and protected himself again, therefore stopping that kill before it could take place.
And...now. DDU, having been more or less made public enemy #1 in the night phase, stumbled in to a whole wealth of night abilities. Notably, survivorcreep used his "con" ability on Danny & Ozzy - which would make them appear as Jeremy & Dani, Pissed Off Ex-Teammates and Serial Killers. That would have been the identity that came back for Nick, had his spy gone through. Unfortunately, it didn't...but Genesis also spied on DDU during the night. The problem?
Genesis was a broken cop.
In essence, that meant that all of the results that Genesis got back were reversed. Now, normally it would have been the alignment that would have been the reverse (so, in a Night Two example, Genesis would have got the result that Erwin & Godwin were Gay Mafia - a town would appears as Winners, Winners as town), but survivorcreep's con meant that the con was instead reversed...so the identity of the con artist was put in to place, therefore revealing DDU to be Eric & Danielle, and revealing the Winners Mafia in the process of doing so.
Finally: that "last F/F team standing" comment. It was simply an intentional mistake: a lot of the stuff in that little paragraph is wrong (either grammar, spelling or just information - they weren't good judges of character at all, for example), and that was one of them. In the end, it pretty much killed off the town's chances, even though it shouldn't have in comparison with the other information the town had, especially on L5.
DAY THREE:
Things couldn't have got off to a better start for the town, as yope decided that Impact Blue was a good target for the lynch. Unfortunately, it was to get him to be active in a different game. Genesis then revealed the info on DDU, sparking off the big ass rush to lynch DDU. Senescence started trying to work things out via lynch votes, which in fairness was a smart idea - were it not for the fact that the two people up for the lynch on Day Two were both town, and therefore it was inconsequential. DDU would be lynched, knocking another vitally important townie out of the mix.
Dan Down Under,
You are Oswald & Danny, Team Cha Cha Cha & Town Aligned
Okay, so you're fabulous bitches. There is no denying this; you're pretty much the gay friends that anybody would want. You call yourself "platonic husband & husband", and managed to entertain throughout both TAR 2 & All-Stars (and everybody was totally sad when they heard that you had a fight, but you're back together now and so yay!).
In fact, people trust you and love to gossip with you. Thankfully, you have the ability to tell when people are telling the truth or a lie - sort of human lie detectors. Every night phase, you may PM me a statement that a player has made, and test to see whether or not this is a truth or lie. You can even get people to make statements (if they want too, of course), but this has an inherent risk of revealing your ability.
You win when all threats to the Town have been removed.
DDU could have saved himself by revealing the info on snowy, probably, but that would likely have made him a mafia target...so there was really a no-win situation by the end for DDU. The amount of night abilities used on him on Night Three alone should prove this...
Part two of the recap up soon...
at stupid detectives Kami and Karla. CharlaAndMirna4EVA!
at Yema silencing Nick and DC using those flowers on CLD during Night
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