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So i accidentally dropped my miner down a shaft, wups i thought, looking at his injures (red right upper arm, red right shoulder, red left lower arm, yellow right lower leg, yellow left lower leg, yellow skull and yellow left lung) as he lay there unconscious. A dwarf ran over and fed him and i started to set up a hospital zone.

And then he got back up and went straight back to mining, apparantly using his broken right arm without any trouble at all. Also his skull and lung healed.

This was, oh maybe 1 minute of gameplay after he fell down the hole.



So, in conclusion.

Wat.

I think it's safe to say this is probably a bug...



Either that or it actually means to say "Many Photons"

Fiction i is writings. Actually i wrote this story back during my final year of High School for creative writing, but i'm redoing it from the ground up, page by page. Here's the first page. The story is titled 'Albert', because i never came up with anything better.







Albert looked down at the small gemstone in his hand, he foci, the source of his powers. Or so he had thought. Last night he had come to realise that the foci was nothing more than a placebo, a scaffolding around which he had built his rituals and subconscious patterns to better access the energies of reality. Armed with this knowledge, he wondered how he could have ever thought that such a tiny, imperfect thing could possibly be the source of such tremendous power.
But then again, in comparison to the universe, he himself was a tiny and imperfect thing, and the atoms that made him up were tiny and imperfect; size, he had come to learn, was not indicative of power or importance. Still, this discovery had opened up new paths for him; his power was no longer limited by elaborate rituals or carefully constructed devices. In fact, now that he thought about it, there were no limits at all.

Albert looked up from the gem to the woman standing next to him, his voice quivering faintly in the storm of revelation.
“How does one live, knowing he is as close to Divine as a man can ever be?”
The woman’s expression remained almost unchanged, a slight upturning of the left edge of her lips the only outward indication that she had heard Albert’s words. Her voice was full and melodic, but the careful listener could discern sub-chords that were, perhaps, not quite right.
“One simply does Albert, one simply does. Living is a goal in and of itself.”
“Perhaps you are correct.” Albert mused, “Perhaps the reason to live could be to live. It makes sense, in a sort of twisted, paradoxical way.” He paused, staring at the beam of light that slanted through the slight gap between the curtains.
“Yes. Perhaps i shall live, because i can live.”
“Perhaps you shall.” She suggested.
“Perhaps i shall, indeed.”

IF the Universe understood what had just happened, it might quake. The very foundations of reality itself might ripple and crack, such was the import of that instant. But the Universe does not understand, it does not care, it does not listen. It simply is. And now, so is Albert.
But while the Universe could not notice nor care about this moment, forces within the Universe could, and did. They say that you must be careful if you look into the void, for fear of the void looking back into you. This is not entirely true. It is not the void that looks back, it is the things that sit within.

And so begins this story. For a given value of ‘begins’, and perhaps a given value of ‘story’.

MultipickMafia is Neruz's new Mafia game. Currently in signups\discussion stage. This game will begin after Neruz's Vectors Bastard Mafia ends, assuming enough people have signed up. If not, signups will remain open until sufficient people are gotten.

The idea behind MultipickMafia is simple. At the game start, i will post a list of roles from the Xylbot list (the saner ones. Don't expect Chuck Norris or Jackie Chan). There will be 1 less number of roles than there are people. I will also post a series of 'modifiers' that will get applied semi-randomly to roles after they have been chosen.

At this point, each player PM's me the role they want from the list, if two or more players pick the same role, all players who pick that role will instead get the vanilla version of their role (Townie, Mafioso, SK etc).


Once i have a list of all the roles, i'll distribute the modifiers as appropriate using random.org, but adjusting if it is too heavily skewed one way or the other.


EXAMPLE LIST FOLLOWS:


7 Man Game, role list is:

Cop
Bus Driver
Crazed Fiend
Copycat
Delayer
Double Voter


Possible Modifiers are:
Miller
Kill-Immune
Insane
Action-Immune


Possible Alignments:
Town
Mafia
Serial Killer


Note that not all modifiers may occur, some might not enter into the game.
Note that alignments are possibilities, not all alignments may enter into the game. It is guaranteed that at least 1 town and 1 scum will be in the game, nothing more.


This is a Semi-Open setup!
I will not lie to you, but i may not give you all the information.
All possible roles will be known, but not how many scum or if a role was cancelled out or not.





If you have any thoughts or critisism. Make them here. If you want to sign up, do so. I am currently torn between giving out alignments before or after picking roles. So discuss that.

Why do you never have any goddamn iron ore in you! WHYYY?

9 freaking local map tiles of dolomite 4 layers thick.

TWENTY FOUR CLUSTERS OF TALC. FUUUUU-

So, i made a comment in the Mafia game types thread that once MSPA Mafia was over i'd run a small 7 - 9 man Bastard Mod game.

Here it is; this will be a generic bastard mod Mafia setting, i've learned a few fun tricks to try with MSPA Mafia, as well as a few fun tricks to not try, so we'll see how this works out. I promose i'll do my best to try and not create a horribly broken role that can instantly win the game for everyone XD



Standard Mafia rules will apply, but i'm going to add a new one; Because this is a bastard game and there is every possibility i will be lying to you, you may quote Mod PM's if you so wish. You may also make up quoted Mod PM's to fuck with people.

You may PM other players, so long as i am copied in on all PM's.


I can't guarantee this will be balanced, but it should be fun, and i'll try to balance it as well as i can.



Discuss.

So, i've been turning over various ideas for different Mafia games, mostly bastard-mod ones, after toying with a couple of 'puzzle mafia' varients this one hit me, it seems feasible and probably fun, so i thought i'd give it a shot and see how it works. If it works out then that's a good sign for a couple of other ideas i've had.




Ovbiously, ideally i need a number of people that is easily divisible into teams, 12 people for example could be divided into 3 teams of 4, and so on. But if i end up with an undivisible number there are certain options that remain available to me. Tee hee.


Oh, and as a fair warning; this is a semi Bastard-Mod Mafia. You can probably trust me.



Thoughts? Sign ups? Go for it.

Oh, and i'll run a vote for Hammers or Deadlines, so vote for which one you want when you sign up.


Standard Mafia rules apply. You may PM each other, but i must be copied in on each PM. Direct quoting the role PM in it's entirity is not allowed (unless, of course, it is), pretending to quote the role PM and actually making shit up on the spot is fine (unless, of course, it isn't.)




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Pandarsenic (Hammerers!)
Org (Hammerers!)
ExKirby (Hammerers!)
Vector (Did Not Vote!)
Tack (Hammerers!)