Mini 1198 - Marketplace Mafia - Game Over

Magua · Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:22 pm

It had started innocently enough. A venture capital funded pod of start-up companies, each looking to break their respective markets wide open, to be the next one to IPO for a few billion dollars or so. Everything was provided -- business suites right in the middle of downtown, the latest in high tech computers and office equipment, free coffee and soda and doughnuts...it was a wunderkind's dream come true.

Then came the rumors; the venture capital was drying up, the angel investors were going elsewhere. The sleek Aeron chairs and the air hockey table would have to be paid for out of things called "profit" and "revenue." But many of the start-up companies were in competition with each other, targeting the same areas of the market. And the pressure was on; fail to get enough customers, and someone might have to trade in the champagne breakfasts and corner offices for a regular 9-to-5 job and a tie. No one wanted that.

Some tried to adapt, prove themselves better than their competitors. Others decided to take a more direct route and remove their competitors entirely.

Welcome to...

Marketplace Mafia

Mod:

Magua

Backup Mod:

Andrius

Reviewed By:

Andrius, Faraday, zoraster

Spoiler: Still wheelin' and dealin' (Alive)

Spoiler: Crushed by the not-so-invisible hand (Dead)

Spoiler: Drafting business plans (Replacements)

Events

Pregame: Start - End
Day 1: Start - End
Day 2: Start - End
Day 3: Start - End
Day 4: Start - End
Day 5: Start - End
Day 6: Start - End
Day 7: Start - End

Magua · Post Post #1 (isolation #1) » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:03 pm

I. Rules

- The Golden Rules
The site-wide rules apply. Read them, know them, love them, but do not break them.
Play to win.
I reserve the right to change the rules at any time for any reason. If I do this, the rule changes will be posted in thread.
We're all here to have fun. Tempers may flare, but avoid personal attacks and keep it civil.
Do not edit or delete your posts in this thread. If there is a problem with a post, such as incorrect formatting, ask me to fix it for you.
Do not quote communications outside the game thread, including role PMs, Quicktopics, etc, in the game thread. This specifically includes PM timestamps. Paraphrasing is allowed. If in doubt, ask.
Do not use cryptography, invisible text, tiny text, or the like.
Do not use any form of provable randomness. Claiming you rolled dice and acting on that is fine. Using dice tags is not.
Do not impersonate or pretend to be the moderator.
If I edit a post, my words will be in purple.
Do not use this color.
Do not talk about this game outside of this game thread until it is completed, unless I have specifically told you it is allowed.
Do not bring outside factors into this game. This includes making bets, promises of real life rewards, etc.
Do not pretend to break one of these rules. Pretending to break a rule will be treated the same as breaking the rule.
Breaking one of these rules may, at my discretion, result in a modkill. If you are modkilled, you may become a Neutral Survivor, and thus automatically lose. Modkilling may or may not end the Day.
Each player is expected to post at least once every 72 real life hours. If a player goes 72 real life hours without posting, they may be prodded at my discretion, or upon being asked by another player. Prods will be announced in thread.
If a player does not respond to their prod within 24 real life hours, is prodded twice in the same Day, or three times in total within the game, they may be force-replaced at my discretion.
If you will be V/LA, please alert me in the thread or via PM.
Each Day will have a deadline of fourteen real life days.
In the event deadline is reached before a lynch has occurred, no lynch will occur.
Each Night will have a deadline of two real life days.
If a player has a night action, but does not submit a choice before deadline, they will perform no action.
I will accept PMs of conditional actions to take (such as, “If Magua votes me, dayvig him” or “If Magua is lynched and flips town, cop Faraday”). However, I require that all conditional actions be in a single PM; receiving a new PM with conditional actions will invalidate all previous ones from that player.
I may extend deadlines in the event replacements must be found, at my discretion. This will be announced in thread.
Votecounts will be provided at least once every 24 hours. I may provide more votecounts at my discretion, or if asked.
Votes must be bolded to count, and in the format of VOTE: Magua. Abbreviations, missing punctuation, and misspellings will be accepted as long as the vote is bolded and it is obvious to me who is being voted for.
Unvoting is nice, but is not necessary.
Once a majority of votes is reached (# of players / 2 + 1, rounded down), that person is lynched. Day is over, and no further votes/unvotes/Day abilities will be counted.
If you are dead, that is it. Do not post. Not even a "Bah" post.
You may VOTE: No Lynch. It still requires a majority of votes to end the Day before deadline.

II. Setup Rules and Information

Entrepreneur Role PM: At least one player will have received this Role PM:

Spoiler: ”Entrepreneur Role PM”
Hello, XXX!

You’ve done well for yourself in business. You’ve seen the market reward those (like yourself) who innovate, and punish those who stagnate. But lately, you’ve detected that all is not well in the market. Some of your fellow entrepreneurs have been winding up dead -- not the normal sort of hostile takeover. Someone’s attempting to corner the market, and you need to stop them.

You are an
Entrepreneur
.

Nest Egg:
You start the game with $100.

Wage:
At the end of every Day, you will receive $50.

Efficiency Bonus:
At the end of every Day, you will receive $5 for every full 24 hours that remained until deadline (since deadline is 14 real life days, this bonus will be between $65 and $0).

Grow Your Business:
Once per Night, if you activated no abilities during the previous Day and you activate no abilities during this Night, you may choose one ability you possess that has more than one use remaining; you gain another use of that ability.

You win with the
Town
: You win when all the players alive have the Town win condition, and there is at least one player alive.
Money: Each player starts with a set amount of money (their Nest Egg). Additionally, at the end of every Day, each player will receive an amount of money as described in their Role PM.
Spoiler: ”Money Example”
Magua is an Entrepreneur. His Nest Egg is $100. His Wage is $50, with an Efficiency Bonus of $5 per 24 hours remaining when the Day ended. If he spends no money on Day 1, and Day 1 lasts...
1. 5 hours: Magua will receive $115 at the end of Day 1, and have $215 total.
2. 204 hours (8 days, 12 hours): Magua will receive $75 at the end of Day 1, and have $175 total.
3. 336 hours (14 days -- deadline): Magua will receive $50 at the end of Day 1, and have $150 total.
Cash and Carry: No player may take an action that could possibly result in them having a negative amount of money. Specifically, no player may spend money that that they may need to pay a winning bid on an ongoing auction.
Mafia Knowledge: The following things are true about the mafia in this setup:
1. Each member of the mafia has a Nest Egg of greater than $100 and a Wage of greater than $50.
2. No member of the mafia gets an Efficiency Bonus; they receive the same amount of money regardless of the length of the Day.
3. The mafia do not possess a factional Night-kill. The only Night-kill available will be via the marketplace.
4. The mafia have daytalk.
Limited Reveal: When a player dies, their role and alignment will be revealed, but whatever money and abilities they possessed when they died will not be.

III. Auctions

Each Day, the marketplace will be seeded with a number of auctions related to the number of players. Each auction will last from between 72 to 168 hours in length. One of these auctions will always be for “Night-kill x 1”, which is a one-shot Night-kill.
The abilities that appear each Day in the marketplace are in a predetermined order.
The current bid and ending bid for an ability are public; the highest bidder (and the winner) are anonymous. Bid information will come along with the votecount. I do not guarantee that this will get updated more than once every 24 hours.
The rules for bidding are as so:
1. A player may PM the mod the *maximum* amount they wish to bid on an auction at any time while that auction is ongoing. This is the their “maximum bid”.
2. It costs $1 to place a maximum bid.
3. All bids must be in whole dollars. No fractions or decimals.
4. A player may only make bids that they have enough money to cover in the event that they win. Bids placed for more than this amount will be ignored.
5. Maximum bids function like eBay -- the current bid will always be $1 more than the second highest bid, or, to put it another way, if you are winning the auction, you are always bidding the minimum amount required to do so. If another player bids higher than the current bid, but less than or equal to your maximum bid, you will remain the highest bidder and the current bid will be raised appropriately. Clarification: The maximum bid mechanic is to reduce work for the moderator. A player may always choose to bypass the maximum bid mechanic and directly bid a specific amount, rather than the minimum required to win.
6. In the event of tied maximum bids, the earlier bidder gets priority. The first PM from each player within the first 24 hours of a Day are given equal priority; in this case, random.org will provide a tiebreaker.
7. Maximum bids may be increased at any time, but may never be decreased. Increasing a maximum bid still costs $1.
8. If a lynch occurs or deadline is met, all auctions are immediately ended, with the current bidder winning.
9. When an auction ends, the highest bidder immediately pays the current bid and receives the ability in question.
10. Escrow: Money that you have committed to an auction is in escrow; you may take no action that would leave you unable to pay a winning bid on an auction.
Spoiler: ”Bidding Example”
1. The ability "Extra Vote x 2" is in the marketplace. It has a starting bid of $10, but no current bid as of yet.
2. Magua has $100. He sends a PM that includes “
  Maximum Bid:
  Extra Vote x 2, $50”. This costs Magua $1 immediately. Magua is now the highest bidder for "Extra Vote x 2", with a current bid of $10 (the minimum amount required to win). He has $99, but $50 of that is in escrow in case he wins the auction -- he really can only spend $49.
3. Faraday has $100. He sends a PM that includes “
  Maximum Bid:
  Extra Vote x 2, $40.” This costs Faraday $1 immediately. Magua remains the highest bidder, with a current bid of $40 (Magua’s bid was earlier than Faraday’s; if it had not been, Magua would be the highest bidder with a current bid of $41). Faraday has $99, and can spend $99. Magua still has $99, and can still only spend $49.
4. Faraday sends a PM that includes “
  Maximum Bid:
  Extra Vote x 2, $65.” This costs Faraday another $1 immediately. Faraday is now the highest bidder, with a current bid of $51. Now that Magua is no longer the highest bidder, his $50 is not in escrow and can be spent on something else. Magua has $99, and can spend $99. Faraday has $98, but with $65 in escrow, can only spend $33.
5. If the auction were to end at this point, Faraday would pay $51 (the winning bid) and have $47 left over.
6. If, however, Magua were to come back and place a new maximum bid of $75, that would cost Magua another $1, and he would win the auction for $66. Magua would end up with $32 left over.

IV. Actions

Actions are things you can do, provided by your Role PM, or from the list below.
Actions are not abilities (see Section V), and cannot be affected by, nor affect, abilities -- actions cannot be roleblocked, will not show up on tracker/watcher reports, etc.
Unless otherwise stated, the following actions are available to every player.
Transfer:
At any point during the Day, you may transfer money to another player. A 5% fee (rounded up) will be deducted. Transferred money will arrive at the beginning of the next Day as one anonymous lump sum (regardless of the number of transfers). Transfers are irreversible, even if you or the recipient dies before the money is received.

Spoiler: ”Transfer Example”
It is D1. Magua has $100. Magua transfers $80 to Faraday; Magua now has $20. After the 5% fee ($4), Faraday will receive $76 at the beginning of D2. If someone else were to transfer $100 to Faraday during D1, Faraday would receive $171 at the start of D2. In no case does Faraday learn who transferred the money, or how many transfers were made.
Invest:
At any point during the game, you may invest your money in a CD; when the CD matures, you will receive 150% of the investment (a 50% premium); this amount will be rounded down. If you invest at Night, the CD will mature the next Night. If you invest during the Day, the CD will mature at the same point the next Day (or the following Night, if that Day ended earlier).

Spoiler: ”Invest Example”
It is 72 hours into D1. Magua has $100. Magua invests $80 in a CD. Magua now has $20. 72 hours into D2, Magua will receive $120 from his CD. If D2 ends before 72 hours, Magua will receive the money N2.
Auction Ability:
At any point during the game, you may auction off some or all usages of an ability that you currently possess and have not yet activated during this Day. You determine the minimum bid (between $1 and $100, inclusive) and the auction length (between 72 and 168 hours, inclusive; 3 to 7 real life days). If you choose to do this at Night, the auction will start with the rest of the auctions at the beginning of the next Day. Otherwise, it starts immediately.
1. The cost to do this is 5% of the minimum bid, rounded up (minimum $1). This is paid immediately.
2. The auctioning player immediately loses the specified number of usages of that ability. If the seller still has usages of this ability, the seller may not activate them for the rest of the Day.
3. The auction is anonymous, and is otherwise handled like a normal auction in every way.
4. A player may not bid on their own auction.
5. When the auction ends, the player who auctioned off the ability will receive the winning bid, minus a 5% (round up) charge.
6. If there are no bids by the end of the auction, the ability is returned.
Spoiler: ”Auction Ability Example”
Magua has the “Extra Vote x 2” ability. He chooses to auction a single usage off, starting with a $20 minimum bid, and an auction length of 72 hours. This costs $1. Magua immediately loses one usage, leaving him with “Extra Vote x 1”. The auction ends with a winning bid of $51; after the 5% charge, Magua receives $48.

V. Advertising

Advertising allows players to pay money to start another auction for a specific ability.
Each Day, players may privately (via PM) spend money along in the name of a specific ability that has come up for auction already (on this Day, or a previous one). This costs $1, plus the amount spent.
The name of the ability that currently has the most money spent on it will be public (but not the amount of money). In the event of a tie, the ability that reached that amount first will be “the winner”.
At the end of every Day, the ability with the most money spent on it will “win”. The next Day, an auction for that ability will be held. Once an ability has won an Advertising auction, it cannot be advertised for the rest of the game.
Money spent on Advertising for an ability that did not win carries over to the next Day.

Spoiler: ”Advertising Example”

Spoiler: Advertising History

VI. Abilities

Abilities are the powers that can be won from the auctions in the marketplace.
Actions, like those in Section IV, or those that appear in Role PMs (such as “Grow Your Business”, from the Entrepreneur Role PM), are not counted as abilities. They cannot be roleblocked or auctioned off, and, if applicable, will not appear on tracker or watcher reports.
All abilities have a limited number of uses (even abilities that are normally considered passive, such as “Investigation Immunity”, must be activated to gain their benefit). The number of uses remaining comes after the name. Eg, “Cop x 2” is a two-shot Cop; each use returns one investigation, “Night-kill x 1” is a one-shot Night-kill, and so on.
Abilities may only be activated once per phase (Day or Night), even if you have multiple uses of that ability. However, you may activate as many *different* abilities per phase as you desire.
Unless otherwise specified, an ability lasts for the length of the phase (Day or Night) on which its activated. Eg, an activation of “Investigation Immunity” is good for the entirety of the Night on which it is activated, and the extra vote from “Extra Vote” lasts for the entire Day on which it is activated.
Each ability is put into one of the following categories:

a.
Day:
This ability is activated during the Day. It cannot be roleblocked, and will not show up on tracker and watcher reports. Many Day abilities will trigger an in-thread announcement; if so, the activator of that ability is always anonymous.
b.
Targeted:
This ability is activated at Night, and targets a specific player. This ability can be roleblocked, and it will show up on tracker and watcher reports. Targeted abilities may not be used on yourself.
c.
Personal:
This ability is activated at Night, and does *not* target a player. It cannot be roleblocked, and will not show up on tracker and watcher reports.
Ability Glossary: The effects and rules for each ability are known and are public. When an ability appears in an auction for the first time, its effect and any associated rules will be listed on that auction, as well as the glossary in the next post. Where the rules of an ability contradict other rules, the ability rules take precedence.

Magua · Post Post #2 (isolation #2) » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:05 pm

Spoiler: ”Ability Glossary”

Accountant (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will learn how much money this player possessed at the start of this Night.
Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Blind Bid (Day):
For the remainder of the Day, only you can see the current bid for auctions. To everyone else, it will be hidden. This will be announced in-thread. Other players will be informed if they are, or are not, the highest bidder as normal.
Bulletproof (Personal):
You are protected from a single Night-kill targeting you this Night.
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Cop (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will receive back a report of “Mafia” or “Not Mafia”. You are guaranteed sane; however, other abilities may modify the result of the report.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Extra Vote (Day):
You gain control of an extra vote, which will appear on the vote counts as ‘???’. This vote may be controlled by PM’ing the mod. This will be announced in-thread. The lynch threshold may go up as a result of activation of this power. This extra vote is not affected by any voting restrictions upon you.
Federal Reserve Chairman (Day):
Every living player (including yourself) immediately gains $200. This will be announced in-thread.
Forensic Accountant (Targeted):
Choose another player who has died. You will learn every auction that that player won, if any.
Governor (Day):
Choose another player. That player cannot be lynched for the remainder of this Day. This will be announced in-thread. This cannot be used once someone has already been lynched.
Gravedigger (Targeted):
Choose another player who has died. You will receive all of the abilities they had when they died. This activation and the dead player who was chosen will be announced in-thread, but not who activated it or what was received.
Hitman (Personal):
If you activate “Night-kill” in the same night you activate “Hitman”, “Night-kill” will ignore one ability that would stop the kill from working (ie, ignore one roleblock or protection).
Investigation Immunity (Personal):
You appear as “Not Mafia” on Cop reports, regardless of your actual alignment.
Last Will (Personal):
Choose another player. If you die during this Night, or during the following Day, and that player is still alive, that player will receive all of your money and remaining abilities. The recipient of this transfer, but not its contents, will be announced publicly in-thread.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Neighborizer (Targeted):
Choose another player. At the start of the next Day, a Neighbor Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time while alive. If you use this ability a subsequent time, you may choose to add the new player to an existing Neighbor Quicktopic (this will work even if you die that Night), or create a new, separate one.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Ninja (Personal):
You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
Oracle (Day):
You will receive a PM from the mod showing the items that will be auctioned off during the next Day.
Peace Treaty (Targeted):
This ability cannot be roleblocked. You are treated as targeting every other player. You will perform a roleblock on all Night-kill activations that target anyone *except for you*. However, any Night-kill that targets *you* will work regardless of any other abilities (that is, you cannot be protected and Night-kills on you cannot be roleblocked).
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Setup Information (Day):
You may PM the mod a yes-or-no question about the setup (but not about players in the setup, or about the current game state -- that is, you may only ask a question that could be answered before the roles were randomized and assigned) and receive back a truthful answer. Moderator is a maroon addendum: Questions which will effectively result in mod confirmation of information about a player, including alignment, role, win condition, etc, are also not valid.
Tracker (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
Vote Freezer (Day):
Choose another player who is voting, but is not voting for No Lynch. Their vote is now frozen and cannot be changed for the rest of the Day. This will be announced in-thread. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Vote Nullifier (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not have a vote the following Day. This will be announced in-thread. The lynch threshold may go down as a result of activation of this power.
Wage Freeze (Day):
The length of this Day, for the purposes of determining Efficiency Bonuses, only counts the time up to the activation of this ability, instead of the entire Day. This will be announced in-thread.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #3 (isolation #3) » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:40 pm

By the time I arrived, everyone else had already assembled. I was in a bad mood to begin with, because I had a presentation to give to the Gartner Group in the afternoon, and it still needed a lot of prep to shine.

I came in, saw the horrified looks on everyone's faces, and figured that was it, funding had been cut. Nevertheless, I had a presentation to work on, so I wandered into the break room to pour some coffee only to find the pot empty, like no one had bothered to fill it. Mooks. I stormed out, ready to give everyone a piece of my mind, to find that they were actually circled around Andrius' dead body.

Looks like that Breadcrumb Bakery business won't be doing so hot after all.

Empty coffee pot still gripped in my hand, I lost it. "That's it! That's [expletive deleted] it! This ends now! No one's going home until we've found the person responsible for this, and kicked them the [expletive deleted] out of this [expletive deleted] office! Got it?"

Then I went to make the coffee. This would take awhile.

Role PMs are now out. Please confirm in the thread. Day 1 will start when everyone has confirmed.

Scum may talk in their QT, and everyone may talk in this thread. Votes, etc, will not be counted until Day 1 officially begins, but I will accept PMs with bids or other actions now and process them when Day starts, if you wish. Remember that it costs $1 to place a bid on an auction.

Spoiler: Auctions for Day 1

Magua · Post Post #12 (isolation #4) » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:07 pm

hiphop wrote:If money is invested, can the money be taken out at any time like a real cd (penalty of course), or must one wait for the cd to mature?

You must wait.

hiphop wrote:When can we start bidding? Start of day, or now?

Nothing game-wise will actually occur until the start of Day 1. However, as a convenience to you, the consumer, you may PM me bids (or any other possible actions) now if you wish, though I will not actually process them until Day 1 starts.

Magua · Post Post #30 (isolation #5) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:33 am

RedCoyote wrote:So, Mod, in other words, if I were to buy, like, a Vig power, not use it during the current day I buy it or the succeeding night, I would have two shot the next day? If that's not true, could you give an example of this for me?

You have the idea correct; however, it is not true in this specific case because of the "you possess that has

more than one

use remaining" clause, which would keep it from working if you only had Night-kill x 1.

Magua · Post Post #33 (isolation #6) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:44 am

Breaking News

Regfan has requested to be replaced by Ethos, a hydra of Regfan and Slaxx.

As I know that some people do not want to play with hydras, I am asking you, the valued customer, to PM me in the next 48 hours if you do not want this allowed. Two nays nixes it.

As always, your satisfaction is our #1 priority.

Magua · Post Post #37 (isolation #7) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:20 am

We disposed of Andrius' body the same way we did all the rest -- we dumped it in the break room and let the cleaning staff take care of it.

That handled, I gathered everyone together in one of the conference rooms and gave my speech.

"You little [expletive deleted]s. If this gets out, our funding is cut for sure. What sort of [expletive deleted] are you [expletive deleted]s trying to pull here? Now [expletive deleted] fess up so we can all get back to work."

No one confessed, so I ploughed on.

"Fine. If that's the way you [expletive deleted] want it. No one's [expletive deleted] leaving the [expletive deleted] office until we figure this [expletive deleted] out. I've locked the [expletive deleted] doors, so nothing's getting in and nothing's getting out."

There was a gasp of surprise around the table.

"But what about our Starbucks deliveries?" a woman asked.

I had to think quickly; lynching and murder was one thing, but if Frappucino's were denied, things could get real ugly. "Fine," I backtracked, "We'll let in the [expletive deleted] Starbucks. But that's it!"

"But I have an Amazon package I'm expected," someone whined.

Grrrr. "Ok. Whatever. [expletive deleted]. Amazon deliveries are let in."

One of the programmers stood up, disturbing a caking of Doritos dust. "I'm out of Moutain Dew."

"[expletive deleted]. [expletive deleted]. Whatever. All deliveries are let in. Now can we just [expletive deleted] find the people responsible for this [expletive deleted] mess? [expletive deleted]."

It is now

Day 1

.

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	-	3 days**	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

** Vote Nullifier was incorrectly listed as being a 7 day auction in post #3. It is a 3 day auction.

Magua · Post Post #40 (isolation #8) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:20 am

PeregrineV wrote:@Magua- So if I bid on #1 and no one else does and win it, I get 2 cop investigations for $50.

Correct.

PeregrineV wrote:And there may or may not be another auction similar to #1 tomorrow?

Correct.

Magua · Post Post #54 (isolation #9) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:52 am

Vote Count 1.1

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

malpascp (2): Ghostlin, ChaosOmega
HipHop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
Seacore (1): WeyounsLastClone
HellloooNewman (1): IceGuy
WeyounsLastClone (1): bobsnox

Not voting (7): RedCoyote, Regfan, PeregrineV, HellloooNewman, hiphop, Seacore, malpascp

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$15	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$20	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #77 (isolation #10) » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:38 pm

RedCoyote wrote:I'm sorry,
Mod
. I'm still confused. Could you give me an example, please? Just from any random power.

Certainly. I have spoilered the explanation for length.

Spoiler: Grow Your Business Examples

Magua · Post Post #81 (isolation #11) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:50 am

Vote Count 1.2

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

malpascp (2): Ghostlin, ChaosOmega
Midnight's Sorrow (2): RedCoyote, hiphop
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
Seacore (1): WeyounsLastClone
HellloooNewman (1): IceGuy
WeyounsLastClone (1): bobsnox
ChaosOmega (1): PeregrineV

Not voting (4): Regfan, HellloooNewman, Seacore, malpascp

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$29	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	$30	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$20	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #92 (isolation #12) » Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:09 am

Breaking News

Amongst the general brouhaha of who was to blame and who stole the last doughnut and who killed Andrius, someone was obviously streaming some internet news site. During a lull in the conversation, a particular snippet stood out:

"...officials at

the Marketplace

say they have no leads on the perpetrator, who managed to make off with literally tens of dollars earlier today, in what is being described as a brazen Dillinger-esque robbery..."

And then the brouhaha resumed.

Event:

$50 was taken from

the Marketplace

.

Magua · Post Post #113 (isolation #13) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:08 am

Breaking News

Ethos replaces Regfan.

Magua · Post Post #114 (isolation #14) » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:32 am

Vote Count 1.3

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

malpascp (3): Ghostlin, ChaosOmega, Seacore
Midnight's Sorrow (2): RedCoyote, hiphop
Seacore (2): WeyounsLastClone, malpascp
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
WeyounsLastClone (1): bobsnox
ChaosOmega (1): PeregrineV

Not voting (3): Ethos, HellloooNewman, IceGuy

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$36	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	$30	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$20	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #133 (isolation #15) » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:40 am

Vote Count 1.4

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

malpascp (4): Ghostlin, ChaosOmega, Seacore, PeregrineV
Seacore (2): WeyounsLastClone, malpascp
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
WeyounsLastClone (1): bobsnox
Ghostlin (1): Ethos
bobsnox (1): RedCoyote

Not voting (3): HellloooNewman, IceGuy, hiphop

V/LA: Seacore (July 4th)

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$40	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	$30	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$20	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	$26	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

I will be slightly LA this weekend. I'm expecting to update the vote count / auctions twice a day, but you may have to wait 'till evening to receive anything from a winning auction today. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Magua · Post Post #155 (isolation #16) » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:33 am

Vote Count 1.5

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

malpascp (4): Ghostlin, ChaosOmega, Seacore, PeregrineV
Seacore (2): WeyounsLastClone, malpascp
WeyounsLastClone (2): bobsnox, hiphop
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
Ghostlin (1): Ethos
bobsnox (1): RedCoyote

Not voting (2): HellloooNewman, IceGuy

V/LA: Seacore (July 4th)

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Doctor

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
3	Extra Vote x 2	$10	$40	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	$30	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
6	Last Will x 3	$25	$29	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
9	Oracle x 2	$10	$20	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
10	Setup Information x 3	$10	$41	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	$25	$35	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-01 13:00:00)

Abilities for completed auctions have been sent out.

PeregrineV wrote:@Magua- Can Oracle winners share their results without it being considered quote a mod PM?

They cannot quote what they receive, but they may paraphrase as normal.

Magua · Post Post #173 (isolation #17) » Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:20 am

Vote Count 1.6

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

WeyounsLastClone (4): bobsnox, hiphop, Ghostlin, Ethos
malpascp (3): ChaosOmega, Seacore, PeregrineV
Seacore (2): WeyounsLastClone, malpascp
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow
bobsnox (1): RedCoyote

Not voting (2): HellloooNewman, IceGuy

V/LA: Seacore (July 4th)

Deadline is July 12th, 2011, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-12 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Doctor

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
1	Cop x 2	$50	$91	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
4	Governor x 1	$30	$30	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$39	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-03 13:00:00)
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-05 13:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #190 (isolation #18) » Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:53 pm

Vote Count 1.7

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

WeyounsLastClone (7): bobsnox, hiphop, Ghostlin, Ethos, RedCoyote, HellloooNewman, Seacore

malpascp (2): ChaosOmega, PeregrineV
Seacore (2): WeyounsLastClone, malpascp
hiphop (1): Midnight's Sorrow

Not voting (1): IceGuy

Lynch was reached as of Post #184, July 3rd, 2011 at 5:46 EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 8 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

Doctor
There will be an auction for Doctor x 2 tomorrow. Doctor may not be Advertised for the rest of the game.

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length
1	Cop x 2	$50	$95	7 days
2	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days
4	Governor x 1	$30	$31	5 days
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	$25	$39	5 days
7	Neighborizer x 3	$20	$20	5 days
8	Night-kill x 1	$50	$100	7 days

Magua · Post Post #191 (isolation #19) » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:01 pm

We argued back and forth, but things didn’t get really bad until the last doughnut was taken.

We all stared at WeyounsLastClone. The doughnut crumbs were still around his mouth. He tried to wipe them away, saying, “Hey, guys, what are you looking at me for? I’m on a diet. I…I…I wouldn’t even eat a doughnut.” But he was obviously guilty as sin, and we descended on him.

We strung him from the fluorescent lights hung above the conference table, and pelted him with staples and ballpoint pens until he succumbed.

It is a well known maxim in the office that doughnut thieves are always bad people.

WeyounsLastClone,

Mafia Zaibatsu Member

, was lynched D1.
It is now

Night 1.

Due to the 4th of July weekend, Night 1 will be extended slightly until 12:00 noon July 6th, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown:

(expired on 2011-07-06 13:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #192 (isolation #20) » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:36 pm

Due to technical difficulties at my end, available balances aren't going out, but are available upon request. This will be rectified by the time Day 2 starts.

I have responded to all requests, at the very least acknowledging that I received them.

Specifically, I have notified everyone who won (or was outbid on) on each auction, and so everyone who won an auction should know which ability/abilities they have, and everyone who was winning an auction but was outbid has also been alerted to this fact.

If you are in doubt as to whether you won or lost an auction (or on any other facet of the game), feel free to PM me.

Magua · Post Post #193 (isolation #21) » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:41 pm

Since it has been asked more than once: all abilities that are activated during the Night are resolved simultaneously at the end of the Night/beginning of the next Day.

The order that I receive the activations does not matter

.

Magua · Post Post #194 (isolation #22) » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:15 am

We all woke up as the hum of the overhead lights kicked on, backs aching and muscles sore from sleeping at our desks, in the sleek Aeron chairs, or under the conference table.

Bleary eyed, I noted with approval that the cleaning staff had come by and taken down WeyounsLastClone's swinging body during the night. They even vacuumed.

Yawning and stretching, I brushed past the line for the coffee, exercising my managerial perogatives. Everyone else was too busy stewing in their own thoughts about who we would string up and kill today anyways. Surprisingly, after I had had my cup of joe and could actually think, I noticed that no one was missing; even Susan from Accounting, who had been knocking back shots from her private stash of imported vodka last night was up and about, albeit with shades and a wince every time someone raised their voice.

"Alright, [expletive deleted]s," I said, purposefully raising my voice, "Time to get down to [expletive deleted] business!"

With a mass of grumbling, I herded them back into the conference room and we got back down to deciding who would die.

No one died during the Night.
It is now

Day 2

.

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
18	Ninja x 4	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
20	Tracker x 2	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Ninja (Personal):
You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Tracker (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #209 (isolation #23) » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:00 am

PeregrineV wrote:@Mod- Does this use a "usage" if your target player does not die?

Yes, an activation of Medium still counts if the chosen player does not die. Similarly, an activation of Last Will still counts even if the activator does not die.

Magua · Post Post #210 (isolation #24) » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:52 am

Vote Count 2.1

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

Not voting (12): IceGuy, RedCoyote, Ethos, bobsnox, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, HellloooNewman, hiphop, Seacore, ChaosOmega, Ghostlin, malpascp

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
18	Ninja x 4	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
20	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Ninja (Personal):
You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Tracker (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #226 (isolation #25) » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:40 am

Breaking News

Midnight's Sorrow, Ghostlin have been prodded

Magua · Post Post #277 (isolation #26) » Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:52 am

Vote Count 2.2

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (5): malpascp, bobsnox, hiphop, Seacore, IceGuy
malpascp (1): ChaosOmega
IceGuy (2): Ethos, HellloooNewman

Not voting (4): RedCoyote, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, Ghostlin

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
18	Ninja x 4	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
20	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Ninja (Personal):
You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Tracker (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

HellloooNewman wrote:@ Mod - Is the current high bid on NK correct? I bid $190, am not the high bidder, but the auction lists high bidder @ $190?

The current high bid on 17. Night-kill x 1 is correctly listed as $190.

For the second half of your question, I direct you to the "Bidding Example" in section III of the rules.

Magua · Post Post #282 (isolation #27) » Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:13 am

Breaking News

We adjourned for a short bathroom break as the eggheads started arguing numbers. [Expletive deleted], I got my MBA so that I wouldn't have to deal with [expletive deleted] numbers.

I surfed the web instead while everyone was distracted. Pornography, Facebook, pornography, my online poker site, pornography, news...wait a minute...what was this story?

"Masked Marauder Mugs Marketplace More"

I glanced through it. Person in mask. Made off with...[expletive deleted], almost two hundred dollars! I sat and thought about the king-sized mansion I could be living in for two hundred dollars, not to mention the requisite Ferrari. I daydreamed like that for awhile while everyone came in and continued their arguments.

Event:

$190 was taken from

the Marketplace

.

Magua · Post Post #337 (isolation #28) » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:21 pm

Ghostlin wrote:Mod: Was there an error? If you could fix my balance to show the correct amount, then maybe we can get this cleared up?

The ending bid of $95 for 1. Cop x 2 from D1 is correct.

Magua · Post Post #338 (isolation #29) » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:42 pm

Rules Clarification

I will publicly confirm or deny public information (is this vote count correct, is this bid price correct, etc).

I will not publicly confirm or deny private information, including information related to a player's bids. Feel free to ask me via PM.

In the case that moderator error is found, I will publicly state that a moderation error was made.

Magua · Post Post #349 (isolation #30) » Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:02 am

Vote Count 2.3

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (4): malpascp, bobsnox, Seacore, Ghostlin
IceGuy (2): Ethos, HellloooNewman
malpascp (2): ChaosOmega, hiphop

Not voting (4): RedCoyote, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, IceGuy

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
18	Ninja x 4	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
20	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Ninja (Personal):
You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Tracker (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #352 (isolation #31) » Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:29 am

Breaking News

These auctions have completed.

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
18	Ninja x 4	$25	$51	3 days
20	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days

Magua · Post Post #356 (isolation #32) » Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:46 am

Vote Count 2.4

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (4): malpascp, bobsnox, Seacore, Ghostlin
IceGuy (2): Ethos, HellloooNewman
malpascp (2): ChaosOmega, hiphop

Not voting (4): RedCoyote, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, IceGuy

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$50	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #367 (isolation #33) » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:43 am

Breaking News

Lady Lambdadelta replaces bobsnox.

Magua · Post Post #369 (isolation #34) » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:50 am

Vote Count 2.5

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (4): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta, Seacore, Ghostlin
IceGuy (2): Ethos, HellloooNewman
malpascp (2): ChaosOmega, hiphop

Not voting (4): RedCoyote, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, IceGuy

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$50	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Auction Detective (Day):
Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
Commuter (Personal):
All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Doctor (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
Love Potion (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
Medium (Targeted):
Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
Night-kill (Targeted):
Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
Roleblocker (Targeted):
Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
Watcher (Targeted):
Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.

Magua · Post Post #394 (isolation #35) » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:28 am

Breaking news

The following auctions have completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	$81	5 days
13	Commuter x 2	$25	$51	5 days
14	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	$25	5 days
16	Medium x 3	$25	$25	5 days
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$84	5 days

All relevant PMs are sent. If you have any questions, PM me.

Magua · Post Post #440 (isolation #36) » Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:32 am

Vote Count 2.6

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

Midnight's Sorrow (5): Seacore, ChaosOmega, RedCoyote, HellloooNewman, Ethos
HellloooNewman (2): malpascp, Ghostlin

Not voting (5): PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, IceGuy, Lady Lambdadelta, hiphop

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$68	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #442 (isolation #37) » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:46 am

Breaking News

Midnight's Sorrow has been prodded.

Magua · Post Post #452 (isolation #38) » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:31 am

Breaking News

GreyICE replaces Midnight's Sorrow

Magua · Post Post #494 (isolation #39) » Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:02 am

Vote Count 2.7

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

GreyICE (5): Seacore, ChaosOmega, RedCoyote, HellloooNewman, Ghostlin
Ghostlin (2): GreyICE, Lady Lambdadelta
IceGuy (1): Ethos

Not voting (4): PeregrineV, IceGuy, hiphop, malpascp

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$100	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #495 (isolation #40) » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:08 am

Breaking News

The following auctions have completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$100	7 days

All relevant PMs are sent. If you have any questions, PM me.

Magua · Post Post #509 (isolation #41) » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:46 am

Vote Count 2.8

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

GreyICE (5): Seacore, ChaosOmega, RedCoyote, HellloooNewman, Ghostlin
Ghostlin (3): GreyICE, Lady Lambdadelta, IceGuy
IceGuy (1): Ethos

Not voting (3): PeregrineV, hiphop, malpascp

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

Magua · Post Post #550 (isolation #42) » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:45 pm

Vote Count 2.9

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

Ghostlin (7): GreyICE, Lady Lambdadelta, IceGuy, malpascp, Seacore, Ethos, ChaosOmega

GreyICE (3): RedCoyote, HellloooNewman, Ghostlin

Not voting (2): PeregrineV, hiphop

Lynch was reached as of Post #524, July 14th, 2011 at 9:20 EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 5 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

None

Magua · Post Post #551 (isolation #43) » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:04 pm

The droning on and on and on and on of the arguments bored me, and I found myself drifting off to sleep, startling awake every so often to the vibrating of my Blackberry.

I had just switched it off and was settling down for another snooze when I was awoken by GreyICE jumping onto the table, lunging at Ghostlin, calling him the scum of the earth. He drew out bills and receipts and threw them at Ghostlin, screaming that he'd been cheated.

Ghostlin backed away from his accuser, trying to placate him, but his words just made the rest of the crowd hungrier for his blood. Finally, they surged towards him, stringing him up.

Ghostlin,

Mafia Zaibatsu Member

, was lynched D2.

Breaking News

Shortly before we were all about to bed down for the night, sleeping in the office yet again, there was a buzzing at the front door. I sent the secretary to go see who it was; she came back with a spectacled gentleman who introduced himself as Henry Dewey, a partner at the prestigious law firm of Dewey, Cheethem, & Howe, carrying a rather oversized briefcase.

"Did someone sign a funding contract?" I asked, overjoyed at the news, but Mr. Dewey shook his head.

"I am here on the behalf of the estate of one Mr. Ghostlin to discharge a provision in his last will and testament. I believe there is a Mr. RedCoyote here?"

We dutifully shoved RedCoyote forward.

Mr. Dewey cleared his throat and said, officiously, "Mr. RedCoyote, as per Mr. Ghostlin's last instructions, I submit to you the remnants of his estate. Good day, sir."

With that, he handed RedCoyote the oversized briefcase. RedCoyote asked, "What is th...", but Mr. Dewey cut him off: "I said, good day!"

Then Mr. Dewey left, and we all settled in for the night.

Event:

Ghostlin's

Last Will

activated. It targeted RedCoyote.

It is now

Night 2.

Night 2 will be extended slightly until 9:00am July 17th, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown: (expired on 2011-07-17 10:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #552 (isolation #44) » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:30 am

Breaking News

Voidedmafia replaces RedCoyote

Magua · Post Post #553 (isolation #45) » Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:35 am

I was awoken at 5:45am by [expletive deleted] Rebecca [expletive deleted] Black's autotuned voice digging into my skull. Over and over and over and over and [expletive deleted] over.

I pulled myself to my feet, only vaguely aware that around me other everyone else was looking for the source of the sound, so that they could [expletive deleted] kill it.

We swarmed in the direction of IceGuy's cubicle, all the while being informed (repeatedly) about the order of certains days of the [expletive deleted] week.

In retrospect, he was really lucky that he was already dead by the time we got there. Someone smashed his iPhone in with their foot, bringing sweet, blessed silence back to the office.

"[expletive deleted] has Rebecca [expletive deleted] Black as a ringtone? No way he was a good guy," I growled.

IceGuy,

Mafia Cartel Member

, was killed Night 2.

It is now

Day 3

.

With 10 alive, it takes 6 to lynch.

Deadline is July 31th, at 11:30am EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-31 11:30:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
22	Accountant x 3	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
23	Blind Bid x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
24	Bulletproof x 2	$40	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
25	Federal Reserve Chairman x 1	$10	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
26	Gravedigger x 1	$40	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
27	Hitman x 2	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
28	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
29	Vote Freezer x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #586 (isolation #46) » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:03 am

Ethos wrote:Hey Mr. Mod Sir, can someone outbid themselves on an item?

Someone can specifically choose to do this, yes.

Rules Clarification:

I am clarifying III.4.e:

Magua wrote:Maximum bids function like eBay -- the current bid will always be $1 more than the second highest bid, or, to put it another way, if you are winning the auction, you are always bidding the minimum amount required to do so. If another player bids higher than the current bid, but less than or equal to your maximum bid, you will remain the highest bidder and the current bid will be raised appropriately.
Clarification: The maximum bid mechanic is to reduce work for the moderator. A player may always choose to bypass the maximum bid mechanic and directly bid a specific amount, rather than the minimum required to win.

Magua · Post Post #667 (isolation #47) » Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:42 pm

Seacore wrote:Mod: Rule Clarification - If a an auction closes early due to a lynch (as it did in Day 1) and the current highest bidder of that item is lynched, would they still win the item, and thus it be 'buried with them'? Or would it instead expire with no winner? Or is there another option?

They would win the item, and then be lynched immediately thereafter.

Magua · Post Post #676 (isolation #48) » Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:08 am

Vote Count 3.1

With 10 alive, it takes 6 to lynch.

PeregrineV (2): Ethos, hiphop
HellloooNewman (2): Lady Lambdadelta, Voidedmafia

Not voting (6): PeregrineV, HellloooNewman, Seacore, ChaosOmega, malpascp, GreyICE

Deadline is July 31th, at 11:30am EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-31 11:30:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Cop

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
22	Accountant x 3	$10	$80	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
23	Blind Bid x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
24	Bulletproof x 2	$40	$40	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
25	Federal Reserve Chairman x 1	$10	$10	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
26	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
27	Hitman x 2	$50	$50	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
28	Night-kill x 1	$50	$151	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
29	Vote Freezer x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #766 (isolation #49) » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:09 am

Vote Count 3.2

With 10 alive, it takes 6 to lynch.

PeregrineV (4): Ethos, Seacore, hiphop, GreyICE
HellloooNewman (2): Lady Lambdadelta, Voidedmafia
Voidedmafia (1): PeregrineV

Not voting (3): HellloooNewman, ChaosOmega, malpascp

Deadline is July 31th, at 11:30am EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-31 11:30:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Cop

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
22	Accountant x 3	$10	$81	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
23	Blind Bid x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
24	Bulletproof x 2	$40	$40	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-20 11:30:00)
25	Federal Reserve Chairman x 1	$10	$10	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
26	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
27	Hitman x 2	$50	$50	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)
28	Night-kill x 1	$50	$212	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 11:30:00)
29	Vote Freezer x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-22 11:30:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #768 (isolation #50) » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:35 am

Breaking News

One of the programmers yawned as he said, "That robber guy struck agai...oh, they've got a picture of him this time."

We crowded around his laptop to see:

Spoiler: Robber Image

"Well, that's [expletive deleted] helpful, isn't it?" I asked. "How many Jedis can there be out there?"

The programmer rolled his eyes. "Vader is a Dark Lord of the Sith.

Big

difference." He even added "Derp" at the end. I [expletive deleted] hate it when they do that.

"What-[expletive deleted]-ever. Back to work."

Event:

$212 was taken from

the Marketplace

.

Magua · Post Post #769 (isolation #51) » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:55 am

Moderation Error

The deadline for Day 3 was erroneously listed as 10:30pm EST. It is actually 11:30am EST. This has been changed in posts #553, #676, and #766. The times given in the countdowns were correct, and are unchanged.

Magua · Post Post #776 (isolation #52) » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:48 am

Vote Count 3.3

With 10 alive, it takes 6 to lynch.

PeregrineV (6): Ethos, Seacore, hiphop, GreyICE, PeregrineV, Voidedmafia

HellloooNewman (1): Lady Lambdadelta

Not voting (3): HellloooNewman, ChaosOmega, malpascp

Lynch was reached as of Post #775, July 19th, 2011 at 3:35pm EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 11 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

Cop
There will be an auction for Cop x 2 tomorrow. Cop may not be Advertised for the rest of the game.

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
22	Accountant x 3	$10	$82	3 days
23	Blind Bid x 1	$25	$25	5 days
24	Bulletproof x 2	$40	$40	3 days
25	Federal Reserve Chairman x 1	$10	$10	5 days
26	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$116	7 days
27	Hitman x 2	$50	$50	5 days
28	Night-kill x 1	$50	$212	7 days
29	Vote Freezer x 1	$25	$25	5 days

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #777 (isolation #53) » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:13 am

The arguments continued.

I played "Angry Birds" on my iPhone.

When I looked up again, they were projecting Excel spreadsheets onto the wall, and several of them were scribbling down figures and making little notations on tablets. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it, so I was just about to go back to the iPhone when a stray comment caught my attention:

"Voidedmafia is suspicious," PeregrineV said.

In one of those quirks of coincidence, the room fell silent as he said that. Even the projector seemed to quiet itself.

"What," Voidedmafia said into the void (har har, I told myself), "the hell?"

Discussion broke out immediately throughout the room all at once, but it didn't take long for me to tell that it was moving against PeregrineV. It didn't take long for him to figure it out, either.

But PeregrineV was proactive. He jumped up on the table, and wrapped the surge protector cable nee noose that we had been using around his own neck, moving to the very edge of the table, teetering on the brink.

"Huh?" he spat at Voidedmafia. "You think I'm scum?" He looked around at all of us. "YOU THINK I'M SCUM? YOU ALL HAVE NOTHING! WHERE'S YOUR EVIDENCE? YOU'VE GOT NOTHING!"

He tightened the noose around his neck, showing us all it was taut, while we looked on with horrid fascination. Finally, Voidedmafia climbed up onto the table with him and pushed him over the edge.

PeregrineV,

Entrepreneur

, was lynched Day 3.

It is now

Night 3.

The deadline for Night 2 is 4:30pm July 21st, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown: (expired on 2011-07-21 16:30:00)

Magua · Post Post #778 (isolation #54) » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:46 pm

I herded the cats in a collective bleary eyed mess.

"You [expletive deleted]," I mumbled at ChaosOmega as I poked him. "Wake the [expletive deleted] up, it's your turn to make the coffee."

I poked him again.

It took me a long while to determine that, underneath the eighteen layers of robes and cloaks and whatnot he was wearing, he wasn't just sleeping, he was dead.

Those beady-eye things? Not his real eyes. Clever makeup. Who would've guessed?

Point remains that he was dead, and now who was going to present the business plan for Cloaks 'R' Us? Certainly wasn't going to be [expletive deleted] me.

ChaosOmega,

Entrepreneur

, was killed Night 3.

It is now

Day 4

.

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
35	Wage Freeze x 1	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #780 (isolation #55) » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:53 pm

Rules Modification

Previously, when a bid was placed, I would inform the bidder of the current winning bid after theirs was placed. Using this, it was possible to narrow down time windows in which counter-bids could or could not have been placed.

This is not a desired outcome of the system.

Moving forward, I will only inform the bidder if they did or did not beat the maximum bid

as of the last vote count.

I will not include any information that has occurred since then. When the next vote count comes about, all relevant bidders will receive updated PMs.

tl;dr: All bid PMs I respond to will be processed as if they were the only bid PMs received, until the next vote count has occurred.

If this is confusing or you have any questions, PM me.

Magua · Post Post #821 (isolation #56) » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:35 am

Moderation Error

Suddenly, a light appeared over the conference table, hovering in midair. We gasped.

It spoke to us, delivering these words of wisdom: "Um. Sorry, guys. My bad."

Then it vanished.

The

Setup Information

ability was not intended to allow for mod-confirmation of player information. The fact that it could be used to get exactly this result sadly escaped my notice, in my desire to bring a product to you, the valued consumer.

After discussion with Andrius, I am changing the description of Setup Information:

Setup Information (Day):

You may PM the mod a yes-or-no question about the setup (but not about players in the setup, or about the current game state -- that is, you may only ask a question that could be answered before the roles were randomized and assigned) and receive back a truthful answer.

Moderator is a maroon addendum: Questions which will effectively result in mod confirmation of information about a player, including alignment, role, win condition, etc, are also not valid.

This is 110% my fault. I'm very sorry.

Magua · Post Post #826 (isolation #57) » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:05 am

Vote Count 4.1

Voidedmafia (1): Lady Lambdadelta
Lady Lambdadelta (1): Seacore

Not voting (6): Voidedmafia, Ethos, GreyICE, HellloooNewman, hiphop, malpascp

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
35	Wage Freeze x 1	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #889 (isolation #58) » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:24 am

Vote Count 4.2

Lady Lambdadelta (3): Seacore, GreyICE, HellloooNewman
Voidedmafia (1): Lady Lambdadelta
HellloooNewman (1): malpascp
malpascp (1): hiphop

Not voting (2): Voidedmafia, Ethos

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$300	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$50	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
35	Wage Freeze x 1	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

EDIT: 32. Night-kill x 1 was incorrectly listed as having a current bid of $50. The correct current bid is $300.

Magua · Post Post #913 (isolation #59) » Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:36 am

Vote Count 4.3

Lady Lambdadelta (3): Seacore, GreyICE, HellloooNewman
Voidedmafia (1): Lady Lambdadelta
HellloooNewman (1): malpascp

Not voting (3): Voidedmafia, Ethos, hiphop

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	$100	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	$51	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$101	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
35	Wage Freeze x 1	$10	$11	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-24 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #921 (isolation #60) » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:01 am

Breaking News

The arguing had been subdued for most of the day, so it wasn't nearly as dramatic when the intern raced in as it would've been if, let's say, we'd been looping the surge protector cable around someone's neck.

Sometimes life isn't nearly as dramatic as it should be.

Still, the intern raced in, waving a sheaf of papers around in her hand, screaming wildly. It took us a minute to determine that, no, someone hadn't been found mysteriously dead.

"FUNDING HAS COME THROUGH," she screamed. Then we screamed. We all screamed for ice cream. Baskin-Robbins delivered, and we all ate our sundaes in comparative delight for awhile, glad to be taking a break from the problem at hand.

Event:

Federal Reserve Chairman

has been activated. All living players gain $200.

Magua · Post Post #941 (isolation #61) » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:53 pm

Breaking News

The following auctions have completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
35	Wage Freeze x 1	$10	$11	3 days

Magua · Post Post #945 (isolation #62) » Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:38 am

Vote Count 4.4

HellloooNewman (3): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta, hiphop
Lady Lambdadelta (2): Seacore, HellloooNewman

Not voting (3): Voidedmafia, Ethos, GreyICE

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	$122	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	$100	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	$101	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$124	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #973 (isolation #63) » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:00 pm

Breaking News

I excused myself from the deliberations on the pretense of having to hit the bathroom, but really I just needed to get out and browse some porn where no one could watch.

What? [expletive deleted] you. I've been under a lot of stress lately.

Anyways.

Somehow, while browsing, I managed to follow some dodgy links...and ended up on a legitimate news site, of all places, where I saw yet another headline about the robber. I couldn't help myself, and read the story.

Apparently, there was no Darth Vader costume today. An artist's rendition of the robber was included, drawn from eyewitness testimony.

Spoiler: Artist's Rendition of the Robber

By the time I was done reading that, it was time to rejoin the meeting.

It's cool. I washed my [expletive deleted] hands.

Event:

$520 was taken from

the Marketplace

.

Magua · Post Post #985 (isolation #64) » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:22 am

Vote Count 4.5

HellloooNewman (3): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta, GreyICE
Lady Lambdadelta (2): Seacore, HellloooNewman

Not voting (3): Voidedmafia, Ethos, hiphop

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	$350	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	$100	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	$191	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$124	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-26 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #989 (isolation #65) » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:02 am

Friendly Reminder

Please remember the modification mentioned in #780, specifically as it relates to "sniping" an auction. I am essentially processing all bids for auctions that are ending today, that were also made *after* the vote count in #985, simultaneously when the auctions end.

Magua · Post Post #992 (isolation #66) » Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:04 pm

Breaking News

The following auctions have completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
31	Forensic Accountant x 2	$25	$100	5 days
33	Peace Treaty x 1	$25	$300	5 days
34	Roleblocker x 3	$50	$510	5 days

Magua · Post Post #1010 (isolation #67) » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:23 am

Vote Count 4.6

HellloooNewman (3): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta, GreyICE
Lady Lambdadelta (3): Seacore, HellloooNewman, hiphop

Not voting (2): Voidedmafia, Ethos

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	$350	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1017 (isolation #68) » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:53 am

Vote Count 4.7

malpascp (3): GreyICE, Ethos, Seacore
HellloooNewman (2): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta
Lady Lambdadelta (2): HellloooNewman, hiphop

Not voting (1): Voidedmafia

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

V/LA: malpascp (7/29)

Deadline is August 4th, at 8:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-04 20:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
30	Cop x 2	$50	$350	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-28 20:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1020 (isolation #69) » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:15 am

Vote Count 4.8

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

malpascp (5): GreyICE, Ethos, Seacore, Voidedmafia, HellloooNewman

HellloooNewman (2): malpascp, Lady Lambdadelta
Lady Lambdadelta (1): hiphop

Lynch was reached as of Post #1019, July 28rd, 2011 at 2:06 EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 7 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
30	Cop x 2	$50	$350	7 days
32	Night-kill x 1	$50	$520	7 days

Magua · Post Post #1021 (isolation #70) » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:25 am

The talking went 'round and 'round and 'round, but there was one person who didn't spend so much time talking.

Eventually, everyone started talking about him.

"Hey, mal, what do you think of that robber?" hiphop asked.

"What robber? Is anything being robbed here? Jeez" malpascp responded.

We stared.

"The robber that you were talking about before," Ethos finally said.

There was a drawn out silence. Then malpascp said, "Why are you all staring at me like that?" He looked around at everyone, and then added, "I need to go to the bathroom. I'll be back later. Maybe in a few days."

But we made sure he didn't even make it to the door.

malpascp,

Entrepreneur

, was lynched D4.
It is now

Night 4.

Night 4 will end at 2:30pm July 30th, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown:

(expired on 2011-07-30 14:30:00)

Magua · Post Post #1022 (isolation #71) » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:14 am

The grousing as people started to rise was even worse than normal, which is [expletive deleted] saying something with all the death we've witnessed.

I stumbled through the people that had gathered around the break room, the stench of death already preparing me for the body that I was going to encounter (but still not waking me up as well as a cup of coffee would). I loudly and roundly cursed the scum who infested us who hadn't even had the [expletive deleted] courtesy to kill someone at their desk so at least the coffee could be made.

But when I broke through the crowd, I saw IceGuy's body lying on the break room table. "[Expletive deleted] [expletive deleted]! He already dead two days ago! What the [expletive deleted]?"

All around IceGuy was a spreading pool of water, and then it hit me. The cleaning staff hadn't been taking the bodies away, they'd just been shoving them in the freezer.

I kept my lunches in that [expletive deleted] freezer.

"[Expletive deleted] this! Get him the hell out of here!" I yelled at some of the sales people. Then I checked the freezer. Yep. Stacked with bodies. Well, [expletive deleted].

However, a quick headcount showed that no one else had died during the night, so once we got IceGuy's body stowed safely back away, we were ready to begin.

Night 4 Event:

IceGuy was targeted by

Gravedigger

.

No one died during the Night.
It is now

Day 5

.

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Deadline is August 13th, at 3:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-13 15:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
36	Doctor x 2	$40	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
37	Hitman x 2	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
38	Last Will x 3	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)
39	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-06 15:00:00)
40	Tracker x 2	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1056 (isolation #72) » Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:24 am

Vote Count 5.1

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Lady Lambdadelta (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman

Not voting (5): Voidedmafia, Ethos, Lady Lambdadelta, hiphop, Seacore

Deadline is August 13th, at 3:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-13 15:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
36	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
37	Hitman x 2	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
38	Last Will x 3	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)
39	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-06 15:00:00)
40	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1103 (isolation #73) » Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:23 am

Vote Count 5.2

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Lady Lambdadelta (1): HellloooNewman

Not voting (6): Voidedmafia, Ethos, Lady Lambdadelta, hiphop, Seacore, GreyICE

Deadline is August 13th, at 3:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-13 15:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
36	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
37	Hitman x 2	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
38	Last Will x 3	$25	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)
39	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-06 15:00:00)
40	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1108 (isolation #74) » Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:52 am

Vote Count 5.3

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Lady Lambdadelta (1): HellloooNewman

Not voting (6): Voidedmafia, Ethos, Lady Lambdadelta, hiphop, Seacore, GreyICE

Deadline is August 13th, at 3:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-13 15:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
36	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
37	Hitman x 2	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-04 15:00:00)
38	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)
39	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-06 15:00:00)
40	Tracker x 2	$10	$31	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-02 15:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1109 (isolation #75) » Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:19 am

Breaking News

The following auctions have completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
38	Last Will x 3	$25	$25	3 days
40	Tracker x 2	$10	$70	3 days

Magua · Post Post #1136 (isolation #76) » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:54 am

Vote Count 5.4

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Lady Lambdadelta (4): HellloooNewman, hiphop, Seacore, Ethos

Not voting (3): Voidedmafia, Lady Lambdadelta, GreyICE

Lynch was achieved as Post #1129, August 3rd at 3:11am EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 10 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
36	Doctor x 2	$40	$61	5 days
37	Hitman x 2	$50	$50	5 days
39	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1137 (isolation #77) » Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:02 am

I had settled in for another grueling day. Everyone around me had gone quiet, keeping to themselves; it was eerie the amount of silence that lay thick in the room.

I cleared my throat, the sound echoing loudly, but no one reacted.

"[Expletive deleted] this," I thought to myself, and brought up the Gartner presentation on my laptop, figuring I would get some of the work out of the way during this lull.

When next I looked up from the screen, Lady Lambdadelta was swinging from the flourescents. I had barely heard more than a murmur as the crowd had exerted their will.

Lady Lambdadelta,

Mafia Cartel Member

, was lynched D5.
It is now

Night 5.

Night 5 will end at 10:00am August 5th, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown:

(expired on 2011-08-05 10:00:00)

EDIT: Originally incorrectly listed the roleflip as "Mafia Zaibatsu Member". The correct flip is "Mafia Cartel Member".

Magua · Post Post #1138 (isolation #78) » Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:45 am

Breaking News

There has been an error in moderation.

EDIT: The error is private. It does not concern any public information (flips, vote counts, etc.) I am announcing the error publicly as per my policy here.

Magua · Post Post #1139 (isolation #79) » Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:01 am

I woke up to a stench, and it took me a few groggy minutes to realized that it wasn't a decomposing body, but was actually my own body. I hadn't showered in almost a week at this point, and neither had anyone else still alive.

Our cubes and what-not got cleaned every night, but the assorted dirt and grime was beginning to build up on all of us. No one was a pretty picture.

It got worse as I herded everyone into the small confines of the conference room, but we hard work to do.

No one died during the Night.
It is now

Day 6

.

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
41	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-10 10:00:00)
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1171 (isolation #80) » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:40 am

Vote Count 6.1

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Not voting (6): Voidedmafia, Ethos, GreyICE, HellloooNewman, hiphop, Seacore

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
41	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-10 10:00:00)
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Ethos wrote:Considering that night-kill is a 'Targeted' ability would this receive a message back saying "Ability blocked" if roleblocked?

No. By "result", I mean "report". Abilities that do not return a report (Doctor, Love Potion, Night-kill, etc) will not be informed of being roleblocked.

Magua · Post Post #1177 (isolation #81) » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:38 am

Breaking News

The conference room office phone rang.

That was new.

All eyes turned towards me as I keyed the phone for speaker. The raspy voice was instantly identifiable as Mr. Moneybags himself. "You got Seacore there?" he aked.

"Yeah", I replied, somewhat guardedly. I'd been ambushed in these situations before.

"Just got the weekly market trending reports, and Mooninites Marvels, Inc. is showing a projected gain of 357% month-over-month volume. You tell Seacore whatever it is he's doing, it's the bees knees!" Bees [expletive deleted] knees. I [expletive deleted] hated the way Mr. Moneybags talked. "And, Magua," he added, in the tone that indicated that I wouldn't like whatever he said next, "You make sure Seacore stays happy there, eh? Make sure nothing bad happens to him. If it does," he added, somewhat redundantly, "I'm holding you responsible.

Capiche?

"

Then he hung up.

Event:

Governor

activated. It targeted Seacore. No further votes for Seacore will be counted.

Magua · Post Post #1210 (isolation #82) » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:12 am

Vote Count 6.2

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Ethos (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman
hiphop (1): Ethos

Not voting (3): Voidedmafia, hiphop, Seacore

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
41	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-10 10:00:00)
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

EDIT: Corrected "Most Advertised Ability" from

None

to

Tracker

.

Magua · Post Post #1219 (isolation #83) » Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:48 am

Correction

The "Most Advertised Ability" in Vote Count 6.2 should read

Tracker

, not

None

. This has been corrected.

Magua · Post Post #1224 (isolation #84) » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:28 am

Vote Count 6.3

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Ethos (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman
hiphop (1): Voidedmafia

Not voting (3): Seacore, hiphop, Ethos

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
41	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-10 10:00:00)
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

EDIT: Added Voidedmafia's vote for hiphop from #1216

Magua · Post Post #1226 (isolation #85) » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:00 am

Voidedmafia wrote:
Mod: I'm voting Hip, Mag...

Votecount has been corrected.

Magua · Post Post #1248 (isolation #86) » Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:01 am

Vote Count 6.4

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

Ethos (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman
HellloooNewman (2): hiphop, Seacore
hiphop (1): Voidedmafia

Not voting (1): Ethos

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
41	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-08-10 10:00:00)
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1257 (isolation #87) » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:59 pm

Ethos wrote:I read through the OP and I actually can't find it so I'm unsure where I read it. I'll take another look later but yes, Magua confirming if they have the ability not to or to do so would be appreciated though.

Rule I.21. I will happily accept actions to occur at a specific time.

Your convenience is our #1 priority.

Magua · Post Post #1270 (isolation #88) » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:10 am

Breaking News

The following auction has completed:

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
41	Commuter x 2	$25	$25	5 days

Magua · Post Post #1271 (isolation #89) » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:11 am

Vote Count 6.5

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (3): hiphop, Seacore, Voidedmafia
Ethos (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman
hiphop (1): Ethos

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	$50	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	$200	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1283 (isolation #90) » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:46 am

Vote Count 6.6

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

hiphop (3): Ethos, Voidedmafia, Seacore
Ethos (2): GreyICE, HellloooNewman

Not voting (1): hiphop

Deadline is August 19th, at 10:00am EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-19 10:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	$101	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)
44	Watcher x 1	$20	$200	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-12 10:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1285 (isolation #91) » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:10 am

Vote Count 6.7

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

hiphop (4): Ethos, Voidedmafia, Seacore, HellloooNewman

Ethos (1): GreyICE

Not voting (1): hiphop

Lynch was reached as of Post #1284, August 11th, 2011 at 12:45pm EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 7 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

Tracker
There will be an auction for Tracker x 2 tomorrow. Tracker may not be Advertised for the rest of the game.

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
42	Gravedigger x 1	$40	$40	7 days
43	Night-kill x 1	$50	$101	7 days
44	Watcher x 1	$20	$200	7 days

Magua · Post Post #1286 (isolation #92) » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:22 am

"You can't be serious," hiphop was saying.

But we were serious. Quite serious.

Deadly

serious, one might say (har har).

"I shot IceGuy," hiphop said. "He was bad and I killed him."

"Sure," Ethos countered. "But, a robber would know their way with weapons."

"You want to know why I'm good with weapons?" hiphop asked. He jumped up on the table (right where PeregrineV had stood, I noted), and pulled off his face, revealing the costumed mask underneath. "I'm the [expletive deleted]

Batman

Spiderman. That's how. I'm a [expletive deleted] superhero!"

"Don't believe it," said HellloooNewman, and he calmly roped the superhero vigilante up.

hiphop,

Entrepreneur

, was lynched Day 6.
It is now

Night 6.

Night 6 will end at 2:00pm August 13th, 2011 EST.
Deadline countdown:

(expired on 2011-08-13 14:00:00)

Magua · Post Post #1287 (isolation #93) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:00 am

When the alarm started buzzing, I forced myself awake.

There wasn't anyone nearby me; the sea of cubes, once full of hopeful startups, were now almost completely deserted.

I stepped over Lady Lambdadelta's exhumed body in the break room. There was no line for coffee.

Seacore's body went an hour before being discovered in the labyrinth of unused workspaces.

Once everyone was herded into the conference room, there was no jockeying over who got to use a power outlet. Everyone had another, empty, chair that they could put their feet up on.

We began.

Night 6 Event:

Lady Lambdadelta was targetted by

Gravedigger

.

Seacore,

Entrepreneur

, was killed Night 6.

It is now

Day 7

.

With 4 alive, it takes 3 to lynch.

Deadline is August 27th, at 2:00pm EST (site time).
Countdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-08-27 14:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
45	Night-kill x 1	$50	-	7 days	(expired on 2011-08-20 14:00:00)
46	Tracker x 2	$10	-	3 days	(expired on 2011-08-16 14:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

Magua · Post Post #1308 (isolation #94) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:33 am

GreyICE wrote:
Magua: Can you choose to pay more to raise the bid on an auction than $1 more than the lower bid?

For instance, say I bid $200 on an auction with a minimum bid of $40 and no one else is bidding. Can I choose for the winning bid to be $101 rather than $40?

Yes. See also #586

Magua · Post Post #1315 (isolation #95) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:27 pm

It wasn't quite so dramatic to point fingers at eachother when everyone was sitting at their own quarter of the table, but that's what was going on.

At least, until the phone rang. Again. There was only one person who could be on the other end of the line. Mr. Moneybags.

"Yes, sir?" I stuttered.

We all waited to hear what he would say.

D7 Event:

Extra Vote

has been activated.

Magua · Post Post #1316 (isolation #96) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:32 pm

Vote Count 7.1

With

4

5 alive, it takes 3 to lynch.

Ethos (3): HellloooNewman, GreyICE, ???

Not voting (2): Voidedmafia, Ethos

Lynch was reached between posts #1314 and #1315, at 10:05pm EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.
For Efficiency Bonus purposes, there were 13 24-hour periods remaining.

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Auction Length
45	Night-kill x 1	$50	$151	7 days
46	Tracker x 2	$10	-	3 days

Magua · Post Post #1317 (isolation #97) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:37 pm

Mr. Moneybags got right to the point. "You got this Ethos guy there?"

"Yes," I said, looking up to meet Ethos' stare.

"Guy looks like an angel?"

"Yes," I said again.

"Get rid of him."

"What?" I couldn't help but exclaim.

"Highly religious themes are testing poorly in the technology sector," Mr. Moneybags explained to me as if I was a dolt. "His funding's cut. Toss him." The line went dead.

HellloooNewman and GreyICE were already stringing Ethos up; I merely helped complete the deed.

Ethos,

Entrepreneur

, was lynched Day 7.
It is now

Night 7.

Please stand by...

Magua · Post Post #1318 (isolation #98) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:44 pm

For the last time, I woke up. Eyes glazed, I took survey of the ruins of the offices. On my survey of the cubicles, I stumbled across HellloooNewman's dead body. Dejectedly, I scarcely even paid it any attention.

There weren't many to gather. GreyICE and Voidedmafia. They stood, glaring at eachother over the conference room table that stood between them. Each one yelling that the other was the culprit, each one telling me to help one string up the other...

HellloooNewman,

Entrepreneur

, was killed Night 7.
It is now

Day 8.

I held my head in my hands. This decision would be hard; both of them presented good cases on the other, but neither could lynch the other without my help. I stared back and forth between the two, unable to make up my mind.

Exasperated, GreyICE took his cellphone out of his pocket, and sent a quick text message. Before I could even ask him why, the conference room phone rang again.

I put it on speaker.

It was Mr. Moneybags.

D8 Event:

Extra Vote

has been activated.

"Yes, sir?" I asked, but I already knew. I already knew what was coming.

"Voidedmafia. Kill him," Mr. Moneybags said.

GreyICE handed me the extension cord as we strung him up, my arms following the rote motions.

Voidedmafia,

Entrepreneur

, was lynched Day 8.

Please stand by...

Magua · Post Post #1319 (isolation #99) » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:45 pm

The man surveyed the results of the day as he fired the encrypted message into the aether, a last eulogy to those he felt a true kinship with here. Organized criminals? They were called criminals because they had standards. They knew the importance of family, they knew actions had to have consequences even if the laws that the Capitalists bough with their money would never convict them.

Break into a man's home and steal his TV, but find he's in and kill him in a fight? Twenty to life. Twenty to life.

Set safety standards that are ludicrously low, and unleash a horror on Bhopal that would have shocked the Schutzstaffel with their scope and audacity? Bad executives! No bonuses for you this year! Have some fines that you'll never even pay.

The mafia, these 'criminals' wouldn't have accepted that. Their families died in that? Their friends were killed? Their sister's babies born with deformities that have them living the few minutes of their tortured lives outside the womb in screaming agony. They would have enacted the death penalty on each and every one of those criminals. It's what they deserved. It's what justice required.

They were too short-sighted, of course. They'd do anything for their own personal family, but they couldn't see that every man trapped in this was a brother to another, every woman who suffered in this system a sister. In that respect, they were as dangerous as the Capitalists, for it was okay if atrocities happened as long as the atrocity didn't happen to them. They would even inflict them happily, in the name of their family, on Comrades and Capitalists alike.

But still, the man had felt a deep kinship with this lone woman, fighting for her Cartel, fighting for her right to break the system as it broke so many others. He wondered if he could have aimed a gun at her, tightened his finger on the trigger. Could he have voted in these sham trials to hang her, watched her body twitch and die and know that he had contributed?

The man would never know, and in his way, he was grateful.

These Capitalists that would hurt this woman's family? They would all die. Her family wouldn't control this market, but nor would anyone else.

He surveyed the other results of his sabotage. Some directed at the Capitalists, some directed at their systems. Any one of them still alive could save the systems with a simple touch of a button, a code phrase entered into the system, but if everyone was dead, then that code would never be entered, the system never receive it. And if that happened...

The man smiled. A death, but not in vain. The market they coveted would no longer exist, but her family would be safe. Everyone's family would be safe when he was done.

And if a few atrocities were committed along the way? No more than they'd done in kind, no more than were being committed every day. The man knew his heart would be cut by every one of them, and he welcomed the pain. His brave new world might be built on a mountain of corpses, but his could top the stack, and the world would be free, free to move forward without ever knowing what he'd done, free of the shackles that bound them all.

But first, there was work to do, places to go, people to kill.

GreyICE,

Communist Saboteur

, has won the game!

Info dump to be posted shortly.

Magua · Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:58 pm

Spoiler: Setup

Spoiler: Entrepreneur Role PM

Spoiler: Mafia Cartel Member Role PM

Spoiler: Mafia Zaibatsu Member Role PM

Spoiler: Communist Saboteur Role PM

Spoiler: Quicktopics

Spoiler: D1

Spoiler: N1

Spoiler: D2

Spoiler: N2

Spoiler: D3

Spoiler: N3

Spoiler: D4

Spoiler: N4

Spoiler: D5

Spoiler: N5

Spoiler: D6

Spoiler: N6

Spoiler: D7

Magua · Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:58 pm

Voidedmafia wrote:Though, I don't see why we couldn't have had a night phase, since there was still a chance to kill the last guy.

GreyICE outbid you on the Nightkill. He had the only Nightkills in the game, so no chance of him dying.

GreyICE wrote:In case you were wondering, there was a love potion that prevented Voidedmafia for voting for me on the last day, so I was actually entirely unlynchable.

There was no Love Potion on Voidedmafia; his Commuter had roleblocked it. You could've been lynched the last Day. =P

Magua · Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:01 pm

In case it's not blindingly clear, here are the QTs (they're posted in one of the many spoilers up above):

Mafia Cartel QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/kptyV5mF8wtP
Mafia Zaibatsu QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/TuCWZB8wncGG
Serial killer QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/jechEvZB78p
Dead QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/uDhXNYFLCdBMS

Neighbor (

Voidedmafia

,

Ethos

,

GreyICE

,

hiphop

) QT: http://quicktopic.com/46/H/5VMFprXaZJxh
Ghost (

HellloooNewman

,

ChaosOmega

) QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/bwVtBXxDWRA

Magua · Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:20 pm

Mod thoughts:

Under the Table Dealings:

So all of the antitown roles could communicate anonymously. The idea was that they could use this to maneuver around any breaking strategies the Town might come up with. Actually usage was a little different: bobsnox and Ghostlin both claimed who they were via UTTD messages D1. This proved particularly problematic for Ghostlin because after WeyounsLastClone was lynched, he was still outted to the other mafia. This meant that Lady Lambdadelta (who replaced bobsnox) and GreyICE both actually knew that Ghostlin was mafia D2, and GreyICE knew that Lady Lambdadelta was mafia after that. GreyICE and LLD do use the UTTD messages to collaborate D4/D5ish in terms of who does what, but it's a pretty one-sided relationship since LLD knows that she's outted.

Setup Information:

Yeah, this sucked. I never figured that it'd make it to massclaim, and the gamebreaking of it at that point was pretty obvious. I talked with Andrius about changes to it as early as D3, IIRC, but did not actually step in to do anything until it was *actually* used to try to break the game. I guess I figured if I waited, maybe Seacore would've asked a non-breaking question like he did on D4. I like the idea of town being able to glean parts of the setup, but in future versions it would need to be a lot more limited -- maybe to specific pre-determined pieces of information or something.

Investment:

Oh, boy, 50% return was broken. Although it was intended that some people would do nothing but invest, it wasn't the intention that *so many* people would do this thing, and the investment returns just became obscene at the end -- Seacore wins for investing $514 D4, getting him $771 D5. Similarly, had Ghostlin (who invested most of his money D2), lived to D3 instead of being lynched, he would've had more than $600, more than double the next leading player. This needed to be much lower or removed entirely.

Advertising:

I'm still surprised this got so little used. Even when GreyICE pushed for things to be Advertised (because he'd get a free usage of that ability), it never really happened. This was put in so that the Town could play around the unpredictability of the marketplace, or that the mafia could drain Town's money by Advertising things like "Investigation Immunity" or "Ninja" and then forcing Town to counter-Advertise. Just mostly got ignored, though.

Moderation Error:

If you missed it, when Voidedmafia used Forensic Accountant on IceGuy, I had omitted that IceGuy won the Night-kill auction from D1. There was a second moderation error when GreyICE Gravedigger'ed IceGuy and I gave him one too many Roleblocker usages, but I didn't announce that one publicly (but you can see it in the Communist Saboteur QT).

Overall:

A

BIG THANK YOU

to my replacements. I'm glad I only ever had to find three, and I'm glad each and every one of you stepped up. I seriously owe you.

D1 through N2 was just complete and total town domination. I have to say, kudos to the town here, because you really took the scum to task during this period.

A stunning turnaround for GreyICE, who replaced into "a challenging slot" only to discover he was a Serial Killer without a kill who was at L-1.

Overall, a game I am happy to have modded for all of you.

Magua · Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:36 pm

Also, this from N1:

IceGuy uses Night-kill on RedCoyote: Fails (Doctor protect)
Ethos uses Neighborizer on RedCoyote: Success (QT created)
Seacore uses Doctor on RedCoyote: Success (protects against kill)
Ghostlin usesLast Will on RedCoyote: Success

RedCoyote is one popular mofo.

IceGuy was originally going to kill Ethos. I was sad when he changed his mind. =P

#	Name	Length	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Winner	Bid History
1	Cop x 2	7 days	50	95	WeyounsLastClone	malpascp ($60), malpascp ($90), WeyounsLastClone ($99), malpascp ($95)
2	Doctor x 2	5 days	40	40	Seacore	Seacore ($49)
3	Extra Vote x 2	3 days	10	40	IceGuy	malpascp ($25), Ghostlin ($15), Ghostlin ($30), hiphop ($29), malpascp ($35), hiphop ($39), IceGuy ($63)
4	Governor x 1	5 days	30	31	Ethos	Midnight's Sorrow ($30), Ethos ($40)
5	Investigation Immunity x 4	5 days	25	25	IceGuy	hiphop ($38), IceGuy ($43)
6	Last Will x 3	3 days	25	29	Ghostlin	Ghostlin ($30), RedCoyote ($29)
7	Neighborizer x 3	5 days	20	20	Ethos	Ethos ($35)
8	Night-kill x 1	7 days	50	100	IceGuy	PeregrineV ($99), hiphop ($76), IceGuy ($137)
9	Oracle x 2	3 days	10	20	HellloooNewman	HellloooNewman ($24), Midnight's Sorrow ($20)
10	Setup Information x 3	3 days	10	41	Seacore	Seacore ($49), HellloooNewman ($24), Midnight's Sorrow ($25), Midnight's Sorrow ($30), HellloooNewman ($41)
11	Vote Nullifier x 1	3 days	25	35	Midnight's Sorrow	Ghostlin ($25), Midnight's Sorrow ($36), Ghostlin ($35)

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
IceGuy	$162	Extra Vote x 2, Investigation Immunity x 4, Night-kill x 1
RedCoyote	$90		Gains $147 148 hours into D2
Ethos	$137	Governor x 1, Neighborizer x 3	Replaces Regfan
bobsnox	$125		Gains $138 62 hours into D2
PeregrineV	$189
Midnight's Sorrow	$100	Vote Nullifier x 1
HellloooNewman	$117	Oracle x 1	Gains $75 8 hours into D2
WeyounsLastClone	N/A	Cop x 2	Gains $75 69 hours into D2
hiphop	$166		Gains $30 D2
Seacore	$107	Setup Information x 3, Doctor x 2
ChaosOmega	$90		Gains $150 60 hours into D2
Ghostlin	$200	Last Will x 3	Gains $75 31 hours into D2, $82 96 hours into D2
malpascp	$185

#	Name	Length	Minimum Bid	Winning Bid	Winner	Bid History
12	Auction Detective x 2	5 days	25	81	Lady Lambdadelta	malpascp ($80), Lady Lambdadelta ($50), Lady Lambdadelta ($75), Lady Lambdadelta ($150), Ethos ($51)
13	Commuter x 2	5 days	25	51	PeregrineV	HellloooNewman ($50), PeregrineV ($188)
14	Doctor x 2	5 days	40	40	malpascp	malpascp ($100)
15	Love Potion x 1	5 days	25	25	Midnight's Sorrow	Midnight's Sorrow ($40), Midnight's Sorrow ($91)
16	Medium x 3	5 days	25	25	HellloooNewman	HellloooNewman ($50)
17	Night-kill x 1	7 days	50	190	hiphop	HellloooNewman ($116), hiphop ($195), HellloooNewman ($190)
18	Ninja x 4	3 days	25	51	bobsnox	Midnight's Sorrow ($50), bobsnox ($106)
19	Roleblocker x 3	5 days	50	84	IceGuy	HellloooNewman ($75), Ethos ($83), IceGuy ($161)
20	Tracker x 2	3 days	10	10	Ghostlin	Ghostlin ($99)
21	Watcher x 1	7 days	20	100	Ethos	Ghostlin ($99), Ethos ($51), RedCoyote ($50), Ethos ($68), Ethos ($83), Ethos ($101)

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
IceGuy	$202	Extra Vote x 2, Investigation Immunity x 4, Roleblocker x 3
RedCoyote	$410	Last Will x 2, Tracker x 2	Receives $92 transfer start of D3
Ethos	$106	Governor x 1, Neighborizer x 2, Watcher x 1	Replaces Regfan
Lady Lambdadelta	$125	Auction Detective x 2, Ninja x 4	Replaces bobsnox , gains $190 121 hours into D3
PeregrineV	$212	Commuter x 2
GreyICE	$190	Doctor x 1, Love Potion x 1, Vote Nullifier x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow
HellloooNewman	$237	Medium x 3
hiphop	$80	Night-kill x 1
Seacore	$76	Doctor x 1, Setup Information x 2	Gains $159 12 hours into D3
ChaosOmega	$315
Ghostlin	N/A		Gains $112 47 hours into D3, $133 74 hours into D3, $123 105 hours into D3
malpascp	$218	Doctor x 2

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
Voidedmafia	$241	Hitman x 2, Last Will x 2, Night-kill x 1, Tracker x 1	Replaces RedCoyote , gains $150 6 hours into D4
Ethos	$188	Governor x 1, Neighborizer x 1	Replaces Regfan
Lady Lambdadelta	$678	Auction Detective x 2, Ninja x 4, Vote Freezer x 1	Replaces bobsnox
PeregrineV	N/A	Commuter x 2
GreyICE	$246	Accountant x 3, Doctor x 1, Federal Reserve Chairman x 1, Gravedigger x 1, Love Potion x 1, Vote Nullifier x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow
HellloooNewman	$342	Medium x 3
hiphop	$105		Gains $299 D4 from transfer ( ChaosOmega ), gains $118 25 hours into D4
Seacore	$314	Blind Bid x 1, Setup Information x 1
ChaosOmega	$105
malpascp	$282	Bulletproof x 2, Doctor x 1

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
Voidedmafia	$572	Forensic Accountant x 2, Hitman x 2, Last Will x 2	Replaces RedCoyote
Ethos	$120	Cop x 2, Governor x 1	Replaces Regfan
Lady Lambdadelta	$554	Auction Detective x 2, Night-kill x 1, Ninja x 4, Vote Freezer x 1	Replaces bobsnox
GreyICE	$474	Accountant x 3, Cop x 1, Doctor x 1, Gravedigger x 1, Love Potion x 1, Roleblocker x 3, Vote Nullifier x 1, Wage Freeze x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow , receives $100 transfer ( hiphop )
HellloooNewman	$323	Medium x 2, Peace Treaty x 1
hiphop	$594		Gains $150 54 hours into D5
Seacore	$85	Blind Bid x 1	Gains $771 71 hours into D5
malpascp	N/A	Bulletproof x 3, Doctor x 1

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
Voidedmafia	$668	Forensic Accountant x 1, Hitman x 2, Last Will x 2	Replaces RedCoyote
Ethos	$220	Cop x 1, Governor x 1	Replaces Regfan
Lady Lambdadelta	N/A	Auction Detective x 2, Night-kill x 1, Ninja x 4, Vote Freezer x 1	Replaces bobsnox
GreyICE	$511	Accountant x 2, Doctor x 3, Extra Vote x 2, Investigation Immunity x 4, Love Potion x 1, Night-kill x 1, Roleblocker x 5, Vote Nullifier x 1, Wage Freeze x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow
HellloooNewman	$397	Last Will x 3, Medium x 2
hiphop	$473	Tracker x 2	Receives $450 84 hours into D6
Seacore	$905	Blind Bid x 1, Hitman x 2

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
Voidedmafia	$726	Commuter x 2, Hitman x 2, Last Will x 2	Replaces RedCoyote
Ethos	$85	Cop x 1	Replaces Regfan
GreyICE	$443	Accountant x 2, Doctor x 3, Extra Vote x 2, Investigation Immunity x 4, Love Potion x 1, Night-kill x 2, Roleblocker x 4, Vote Nullifier x 1, Wage Freeze x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow , gains $448 D7 from transfer ( hiphop )
HellloooNewman	$85	Last Will x 2, Medium x 2
hiphop	$N/A	Tracker x 1, Watcher x 1
Seacore	$949	Blind Bid x 1, Gravedigger x 1, Hitman x 2	Gains $567 D7 from transfer ( Ethos , HellloooNewman )

Name	Money	Abilities	Notes
Voidedmafia	$725	Commuter x 1, Hitman x 2, Last Will x 2	Replaces RedCoyote
GreyICE	$740	Accountant x 1, Doctor x 3, Extra Vote x 2, Investigation Immunity x 4, Night-kill x 1, Roleblocker x 4, Tracker x 1, Vote Nullifier x 1, Wage Freeze x 1	Replaces Midnight's Sorrow
HellloooNewman	$85	Last Will x 1, Medium x 1