STEVEN UNIVERSE 2: SPECTATOR THREAD

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thoughts

i'm guessing that the peridot role is going to be interesting, because there's probably a good game-related reason to have her not a member of the crystal gems when you have the rubies from hit the diamond (and jasper) as the scumteam

going in, i think if i were a member of the scumteam, i'd mainly fear mastin here. i haven't really played mafia in a long time (here and there) so i'm unfamiliar with a lot of this playerlist. but i'm definitely rooting for the scum here, and definitely hoping that RR do some great things.

and wow, those crystal gems have a lot of reading to do. i guess i should also read that at some point. and i see yume got steven, lol

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oh wow. scumteam have reading to do as well. and dgb is a traitor? good shit, good shit

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skimming role pm thoughts (i'll read in more detail later):

okay, so as soon as i see that there are word counts for everyone's role pm, i'm assuming that some crazy shit is going to go down.

jasper: it took me so long to realize why there were two role pms under the jasper spoiler. and then i realized fakeclaims. good shit. these fakeclaims are really good

eyeball: that pearl account thing is awesome, hopefully skybird can do some cool stuff with that.

doc: i really like the time travel thing. knowing rr, they're gonna be able to use that to their advantage.

army: the beachapalooza event is insane. wow. your creativity continues to blow my mind, man. wonder what your reviewers think when reviewing your setups

navy: historical fiction is also interesting. i like how scumteam's powers can swing either way, which i guess ties into the anti-flavor-breaking thing (as in scum powers are also believably town powers to make fakeclaims super solid)

steven: so basically, steven's dream power allows him to confirm player identity or role identity. cool. overall crystal gems being able fuse specifically and also the alternate accounts thing. insane

pearl: nice alt account password. also word count and abilities count thing. like actually how do you think of this stuff?!?!

i think i have to stop now. this is so much to process. you are actually a creative genius.

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yeah. sorry about that.

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My process usually involves trying to distill something core about the theme into a public mechanic, then designing all the roles to interact with the public mechanic in the flavorful ways that they do in the source-theme.
I also try my hardest to make roles have good verisimilitude. I want the player playing as Pearl to feel as though they are embodying Pearl through their role, rather than just playing Mafia with a theme tagged on it. So I try to come up with unique mechanics that reflect a character's ethos and give the player the same sort of approach to the game that the character might have in the theme.

yeah i can see how this mentality plays into the design of your setups (especially this one)
i'm only about 40% done with reading all of the mechanics and roles in the setup right now, and honestly it's probably going to take me a few days or even weeks to work out optimal strategies and interactions. masterpiece.

and i read the baseball event. goddamn mind boggling.

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looking at the page count of the game and thanking every god i know that i didn't sign up for this game
(i mean, it would be great fun but i just have so little time...)

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i'd imagine... like, the su minitheme was crazy enough.
i finished reading the setup. now i just need to read the posts.

it's bad enough that somehow i got roped into replacing into a game. how do these things happen???

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Btw sky is totes connie. I can predict her event being linked to the recent episode they fused.

Yes I am making flavour assumption varsoon, what ya gonna do about it?

when shiro is aware that you specifically designed the game to work against flavor-based assumptions, does it anyway, and gets hardcore blindsided

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genius plan
instead of actually reading the game thread i'm just gonna read all of the alliance threads
that should maybe give me a decent idea of what's going on

nice steven universe drawing in the mod topic by mastin. that's true art.
quality blog post too.

i'll probably read your iso in the game too so i can see what crazy events have triggered

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eyyy varsoon
i'll replace into your game
wink wink wink

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reading this completely slippd my mind and i suck
sorry you went to all this effort to make a spectator thread for me and i just squandered it

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now i've only read here and there
but it appears that cerb and drixx are playing like fucking champions
i hope they pull a win out of their asses. do it guys

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aww man.
would it be kosher if i asked you to tell drixx that i hope he can get something to make the injury not terrible
and that both of them are sweethearts

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fun fact:
Reasonably Rational has more game posts than I do

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i dream of one day making a setup that's varsoon quality

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This game almost has more posts in it than I have made in my entire time on the site.

I wonder how many more varsoon games until RR gets Jack of All Trades?