JOAT uPick | FIN!
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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The JOAT uPick Design Process
My goal is to complete this uPick design and have reviewer sign-off within 7 days from Jan 21. This goal has become unattainable due to several real life happenings. All good things, but all time consuming! New goal is Jan 31 or sooner.
- Players choose up to 6 1-shot abilities -- COMPLETED
- Alignments are randomly rolled. -- COMPLETED
- Players' 1-shot picks are reviewed, narrowed down, and modified as needed for game balance and swing mitigation (~snort~). -- LAST PASS COMPLETED
- Role Cards are drafted and reviewed. -- COMPLETED
- Any additional mechanics are considered/drafted -- COMPLETED
- Role Cards are finalized - COMPLETED
- Game-specific rules are drafted and reviewed -- COMPLETED
- Game narrative and flavor is finalized -- COMPLETED
- One final review of everything -- COMPLETED
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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As is the norm with uPick games, JOAT uPick is role madness. There are no vanilla town roles in the game. There is no guarantee that each 1-shot ability is a unique snowflake in every particular.
The reviewers have concluded this game is a chaotic, swingy mess. It's what you asked for, and we hope we have delivered exactly the wild ride you ordered!
I will update this post with Confirmation Phase status, so check back occasionally if you're curious about progress!
Role PMsare going out nowhave all gone out. There are instructions on how to confirm at the bottom of your role PM. Once at least 13 of 17 players have confirmed, the game will begin!
If you would like a personal or hydra private thread for keeping notes in this game, please let me know and I'll be glad to set you up!
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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Day One will start at 7:00 PM US Eastern Time.
(expired on 2024-02-01 16:00:00)
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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I have been asked to confirm if this game design is still not bastard, as it was advertised in the Theme Queue.
There are no cults, mod lies, or bastard abilities in the game.-
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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One great thing about the Pandemic: now everybody uses Zoom and Zoom is available worldwide. It's made planning this strike so much easier. It's not fail-safe secure, but we save the secretive discussions for cutting edge encrypted message spaces. The fully coordinated strike begins today!
It's great to see so many enthusiastic, experienced, charismatic and capable faces on your monitor. There are a few participants who have their cameras turned off, but that is to be expected. Some of the countries participating in the strike planning work in extremely hostile circumstances.
We're set to settle down, officially call the strike and glue ourselves to social media to see how it rolls out!-
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Hi all, and nice to meet you. Except the person who posted before me.
I'm very excited to be here, the mod was generous enough in accepting my play (some from another site that no longer fully exists outside of archive.org) and some other data to let me join everyone.
I lead a very busy life, so I fully admit that I'm a touch concerned with keeping up given the few games I skimmed before signing up seemed to be very large in page count. But, I'm confident I'll have fun and do my best anyways.
I did want to go ahead and guide discussion towards the uniqueness of a bunch of known one-shot roles, and how that might warp the midgame? Specifically, I think this makes day four or so the more appropriate venue for a massclaim, but that does operate around the assumption that most everyone is going to be firing off their roles early. Additionally, since all investigative are by definition one-shots, is there any reason NOT to have a start-of-day mass hypo-claim? I'm not sure how one would handle lighter investigative roles, and protective ones. I'm also curious as to how everyone thinks we should approach refunded shots? As in, if your shot is refunded, do you claim that without claiming what the item refunded was? Should we just stay silent? Should we full claim everything that was blocked and refunded? My thoughts are less settled there.
Oh and uh, VOTE: Lemon.Tangerine for being one more citrus than I can handle.-
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I have one ability that takes another player and myself out of the game for one day. If you have something that benefits from that, share.-
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As a note, I am not feeling well IRL. Any accidental gibberish is brain related. Let's have a nice and wholesome game.
Bell, I do not.ShowThe scum had the misfortune of Titus being absurdly accurate on day one.Really quite impressed by that.~Drixx
You're letting Titus win the game by herself.Good luck now I guess.You have no chance to win.~Tywin
GTKTitus Part 2
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greedant has requested replacement...searching-
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new record
Show"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown-
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VOTE: Maid Cafe-
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PookyTheMagicalBear Pooky got your back
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i am striking against the capitalist overlords by refusing to produce content without compensationShow"I hope one day I can openly play as wolfy as Pooky and get zero pressure for it grumble grumble."
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That evil teddy bear has got everyone twirling by his thumb.
It's like witnessing an slow but unavoidable train crash you can't stop."
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I'll get back to you on this.In post 10, LadyTerminallyOffline wrote: Hi all, and nice to meet you. Except the person who posted before me.
I'm very excited to be here, the mod was generous enough in accepting my play (some from another site that no longer fully exists outside of archive.org) and some other data to let me join everyone.
I lead a very busy life, so I fully admit that I'm a touch concerned with keeping up given the few games I skimmed before signing up seemed to be very large in page count. But, I'm confident I'll have fun and do my best anyways.
I did want to go ahead and guide discussion towards the uniqueness of a bunch of known one-shot roles, and how that might warp the midgame? Specifically, I think this makes day four or so the more appropriate venue for a massclaim, but that does operate around the assumption that most everyone is going to be firing off their roles early. Additionally, since all investigative are by definition one-shots, is there any reason NOT to have a start-of-day mass hypo-claim? I'm not sure how one would handle lighter investigative roles, and protective ones. I'm also curious as to how everyone thinks we should approach refunded shots? As in, if your shot is refunded, do you claim that without claiming what the item refunded was? Should we just stay silent? Should we full claim everything that was blocked and refunded? My thoughts are less settled there.
Oh and uh, VOTE: Lemon.Tangerine for being one more citrus than I can handle.
As of now, I have one role that absolutely should not fire night 1 and one that I probably will. However, I'm not a fan of mass hypo claiming. Let's passively get to know each other and coordinate that way.
Nice to meet you.
Can you describe the type of roles on your site?ShowThe scum had the misfortune of Titus being absurdly accurate on day one.Really quite impressed by that.~Drixx
You're letting Titus win the game by herself.Good luck now I guess.You have no chance to win.~Tywin
GTKTitus Part 2
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Titus She/herMoon WalkerShe/her
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Can a hug count as compensation? Your avatar looks so hugable.In post 17, PookyTheMagicalBear wrote: i am striking against the capitalist overlords by refusing to produce content without compensationShowThe scum had the misfortune of Titus being absurdly accurate on day one.Really quite impressed by that.~Drixx
You're letting Titus win the game by herself.Good luck now I guess.You have no chance to win.~Tywin
GTKTitus Part 2
Titus Academy
VLA Friday nights until Sunday morning.
All hail the Scum Empress!-
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Nice it begins
VOTE: Firepup
Warning in advance that im playing Infinite Wealth and atm my time for mafia is very limited, but i'll try to read and post at least once a dayI bloom in spring?
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PookyTheMagicalBear Pooky got your back
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In post 20, Titus wrote:
Can a hug count as compensation? Your avatar looks so hugable.In post 17, PookyTheMagicalBear wrote: i am striking against the capitalist overlords by refusing to produce content without compensation
titus is a capitalist overlord she is trying to compensate me
gottemShow"I hope one day I can openly play as wolfy as Pooky and get zero pressure for it grumble grumble."
-MariaR
"I can't even look at the game anymore.
That evil teddy bear has got everyone twirling by his thumb.
It's like witnessing an slow but unavoidable train crash you can't stop."
-Norwee-
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PookyTheMagicalBear Pooky got your back
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shockingIn post 22, Sakura Hana wrote: Nice it begins
VOTE: Firepup
Warning in advance that im playing Infinite Wealth and atm my time for mafia is very limited, but i'll try to read and post at least once a dayShow"I hope one day I can openly play as wolfy as Pooky and get zero pressure for it grumble grumble."
-MariaR
"I can't even look at the game anymore.
That evil teddy bear has got everyone twirling by his thumb.
It's like witnessing an slow but unavoidable train crash you can't stop."
-Norwee
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