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So I flipped another coin and you came up.

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roo has been prodded.

OSG has been prodded.

Everyone has been prodded.

Everyone has been prodded again!

I just prodded EP.
Idea: If everyone agrees, how about a one week limit for finishing the game?  If nobody is lynched by that point, everyone loses.

Everyone has been prodded again.

Now thinking about it...in hindsight. I don't really understood Web's hammer on day 1. I mean he could've easily turned the narrative that I'm scum for not sticking to my suicide plan. Caz might've believed it. TricMagic already voted me on a personal level. So really I could've gotten lynch if Web thought more clearly at that time.

Mafia literally can't bus unless it's the flagbearer bussing their mafioso, so keep that in mind. I don't think they'll have the guts to do it, but prove me wrong flagbearer I dare you!

To twist my CYOM Redux setup a little more, I've decided to add flaws back in. In order to get access to more powerful (and deadly) abilities, or start with more abilities, players take flaws. Flaws can never be ameliorated or detected, are random, permanent and usually pretty bad. The aim here is to aid also in fakeclaims (e.g. someone who takes a public action might fakeclaim to have the Usual Suspect flaw).

Some players won't want to risk the RNG and so will expand outwards instead of downwards.

Spoiler: CYOM Redux v.3 (click to show/hide)

Pick a species before the game begins. You will be assigned a random profession.

Species gives you unique protections. The Profession gives you Abilities. Each Profession has several abilities in it, forming a tree. To get later abilities, you have to have earlier ones. At the end of every day that you survive, you gain a new level in any one Profession. Specialise in one Profession, or branch out into several. Remember, you can only perform one action per phase.

Mafia gain this ability: Mafiakill [DEADLY][KILL] - Once per night, one mafia member can use their ability to perform the mafia kill
(this ability is immune to [WARPING] powers and cannot be sold by a merchant).)

Species
Stoneman - Cannot die from poison or infection, though you can still spread infection. [CORPSE] actions don't work on your corpse.
Llama - You don't show up up in the action reports of [ENLIGHTENING] abilities.
Ent - [TWISTY] powers can never redirect your actions.
Letterbeast - [WARPING] powers don't work on you.
Djinn - You cannot be blocked or protected against.
Pixie - You cannot be killed by [TRAP] abilities.
Golden - [VILE] powers don't work on you.

Player may optionally choose to start the game with two random professions or two levels in one random profession. If they do, they will gain a random flaw.

Professions
==Duelist==
1 - Challenge (redirect the target's target to you- if your target is using an ability with two  targets, you become the second target)
2 - Block (the targets action will fail, but they won't know why)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Duel [DEADLY] [KILL](the target will be killed; if they have a [KILL] action, if possible they will target you with that instead of their original target.)
5 - Riposte [TRAP] [TWISTY] (any action (other than a riposte) that would successfully target your target, is reflected back on the targeter instead)

==Priest==
1 - Atone (remove Curse)
2 - Delay [WARPING](Target's action happens in the next cycle, regardless of whether it could normally happen)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sanctify [DAY][TRAP][DEADLY] (the last player to vote for your target will die if the target is lynched).
5 - Resurrect [CORPSE] (bring a player back from the dead)

==Doctor==
1 - Cleanse (remove poison & infection)
2 - Protect (prevent blocks and [KILL] actions from affecting your target)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Infect [DEADLY] (player becomes Infected. They will die in two days time. Everyone an Infected person successfully targets also becomes infected. An Infected person knows that they are infected. While a person is infected, all their abilities that can target someone have the DEADLY tag.).
5 - Triage [UNTARGETED][DAY] (everyone is cured of infection and poison.)

==Spy==
1 - Coverup [VILE] (target doesn't appear on [ENLIGHTENING] action reports.)
2 - Track [ENLIGHTENING](see who your target targets)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Blackmail [VILE] (your target has no vote in the following phase)
5 - Boobytrap [PUBLIC][DAY][TRAP] (the next person who targets your target this cycle will be targeted by a free [KILL] action from your target.)

==Surveyor==
1 - Check Papers (Learn the species of your target)
2 - Poll [UNTARGETED] (Receive a random list of half of all Profession names in play)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Watch [ENLIGHTENING] (See everyone who targets your target)
5 - Spotlight [ENLIGHTENING][UNTARGETED] (Every ability has a 50% chance of being public this night)

==Merchant==
1 - Sell Shield (target gains a shield: the next [KILL] action on them fails. Shields don't stack. Gain +1 Gold.)
2 - Sell Sword (target gains a one-shot Duel ability; this appears in Read Palm results. Gain +2 Gold.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Sell Ability (give a random ability as a one shot. Gain +X Gold, where X is twice the level of the ability given. You don't learn what ability was gifted, though you do learn its level.)
5 - Investment [DAY][UNTARGETED] (if you spend 5 gold, your next night action can be self-targeted.)

==Flowermaiden==
1 - Buttercup (learn whether your target has any [VILE], [TWISTY] or [WARPING] abilities; though you don't learn which or how many.)
2 - Poppy [DEADLY] (target is Doped: they cannot take more than one action in the next cycle. If someone is doped twice in a row they die.)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Lily (learn whether your target has any [DEADLY] abilities (including one-shots), though you don't learn which ones or how many).
5 - Belladonna [DEADLY] (target dies; note this doesn't count as a [KILL] action.)

==Witch==
1 - Read Palm (learn one random tag of one random ability of your target)
2 - Read Entrails [CORPSE][ENLIGHTENING] (learn one of the professions of one random person who targeted a dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Curse [VILE] (the target can never gain new abilities or items)
5 - Hypnotise [WARPING](target uses one of their powers on a second target of your choice; either name a power you think they have or use a random power. This doesn't use up the target's action for the phase).

==Fool==
1 - Randomise [TWISTY] (Randomises the target of actions the target takes)
2 - Ability Swap [WARPING] (swap any power you have, including Ability Swap, with a random ability your target has)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Redirect [TWISTY](redirect one target onto another)
5 - Bodyswap [WARPING](you gain your target's species, flaws and status conditions and they gain yours.)

==Assassin==
1 - Frame [VILE] [UNTARGETED] (name an actor and a victim: at the end of the next day a fake [PUBLIC] action report will appear saying the actor acted against the target)
2 - Poison [DEADLY] (the target will die in two days time, they know they're poisoned)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Hide [UNTARGETED] (you cannot be targeted until the end of the next day; you cannot perform any other actions of any kind until the end of the next day.)
5 - Murder [KILL][PUBLIC][DAY][DEADLY] (kill the target at the end of the day.)

==Necromancer==
1 - Medium [CORPSE] (open a chat with one dead player)
2 - Channel [CORPSE] (Use the ability of one dead player)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Consume [VILE][CORPSE](destroy target dead player, they cannot be graverobbed, resurrected, raised or have their entrails read, gain an additional action use next cycle)
5 - Raise Zombie [VILE][CORPSE][WARPING](target dead player kills a target of your choice)

==Doge==
1 - Empower (target may use an additional action (without duplicating) in the next cycle)
2 - Buy Vote [VILE]  (gain your target's vote for the next phase)
3 - Gain a random flaw.
4 - Ban [UNTARGETED] (name an ability: all uses of this ability will fail until the end of the next day)
5 - Pardon [PUBLIC][DAY](the target cannot be lynched at the end of the day)

==Thief==
1. False Documents [UNTARGETED] (Name an ability: your False Documents now appear as that ability, with its tags, in all inspection results.)
2. Stakeout [ILLUMINATING][UNTARGETED] (name a profession: you will gain a list of all people targeted by members of this profession, though you won't know who targeted whom.)
3. Gain a random flaw.
4. Plunder (name a non-mafiakill ability you think your target has. If you're right, for the next cycle, gain that ability as a one-shot; they cannot use this ability for this cycle.)
5. Bait & Switch [TWISTY][DAY] (Name two targets: in the following night phase, everything targeting one player will target the other and vice-versa)

Tags
[PUBLIC]: If an ability is public, there will be an action report declaring who targetted whom, though it won't say what the action was.

[DAY] powers mean you can use them during the day.

[UNTARGETED] abilities don't have a target and don't trigger abilities which change targets or trigger on being targeted.

[CORPSE] abilities can only target the dead.

[VILE] abilities are non-fatal powers that nevertheless show unpleasantness or corruption.

[DEADLY] abilities can kill.

[TWISTY] abilities redirect someone.

[WARPING] make you act when you didn't choose to act.

[ENLIGHTENING] powers seek to investigate the movements of a target.

[KILL] actions are targeted kills that can be protected and shielded against.


Flaws
1. Hardcore (all protects on you fail)
2. Blatant (all your actions become Public)
3. Minimalist (If you ever receive an item from a Merchant it is randomly given away to a non-minimalist player if there are any non-minimalist players alive.)
4. Hazy (Each cycle you will be incapable of targeting one player, chosen randomly.)
5. Blinkered (You can only target one player each cycle.)
6. Lender (each cycle, one of your non-mafiakill abilities is gifted as a one-shot to a random player, disabling its use for you.)
7. Pariah (you have no vote)
8. Magnetic (your powers have 50% chance of targeting yourself.)
9. Lover (a random living player is picked, if they die, so do you)
10. Intermittent (your abilities only work on even cycles.)
11. Fragile (If you are targeted by a level 5 ability, it will kill you.)
12. Guilty Conscience (You die if your vote is on a town player and they get mislynched.)
13. Wasteful (all your non-mafiakill abilities become one-shot)
14. Afflicted (at the end of each cycle, you gain 1 additional unique flaw)
15. Squeamish (all your [DEADLY] powers fail)
16. Unreliable (your abilities have a 50% chance of failure.)
17. Mutation (your Species no longer has any effect.)
18. Corrupt (you may only use [VILE] and [DEADLY] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one such ability, you will randomly target someone with a random [VILE] or [DEADLY] ability that you have.)
19. Tricksome (you may only use [TWISTY] and [WARPING] abilities; if you choose not to act in a phase in which you could have used a one of these abilities, you will randomly target someone with a random [TWISTY] or [WARPING] ability that you have.)
20. Usual Suspect (at the end of every day phase, a fake action report will appear saying that you targeted another random living player.)

Items and Conditions

Players may be gifted shields, and one-shot abilities. They learn at the end of the night phase any shields or one-shots they have been given, and any shields they have lost.

Merchants may accumulate gold. The only use for gold is the Cash Out ability. If a player has gold they will be told the amount at the end of each night phase.

Players may be Poisoned, Infected, and Doped. They are informed whether they (still) have any of these statuses and what they have at the end of each night phase. If a player isn't told they have a condition at the end of a night phase then they don't have it. A player is informed if they have been Plundered.

Action Sequence

All actions in a phase happen simultaneously. If the order matters, [TWISTY] powers happen first, then [WARPING]. [KILL] actions happen last. Otherwise, where there would be ambiguity, the order is chosen randomly. Hide triggers before any other action.

Game Sequence:
Signups: Everyone sends me a species they would like to be.
N0: Everyone is randomly assigned one profession and is given their alignment; then they can send in a non-[KILL] action if they wish and are able.
D1: Day begins. At the end of the day, all survivors gain an additional level in any profession of their choice.
N1: Players use any night actions
D2-N2+: the game continues in this fashion, with new profession levels gained at the end of each day survived..

EDIT: If scum kills off each other, there's a possibility that the Serial Killer could gain control over both scumkills. To prevent the SK from  being overpowered though...the SK can only use one of those scumkills per night. They cannot use both.