Clover
neither simple, nor coherent.
WARNING! Reading this post will spoil major plot points of the DS game The World Ends With You. If you have not completed this game, or if you have any chance of playing it in the future, and don't wish to be majorly spoiled with the sheer awesomeness that is the plot to this game, please turn back now. Preferably back to the DS screen, so you can keep playing The World Ends With You!
Negligence and overestimation had allowed the entire district to slip once already, and nearly over the edge. It will not happen again - and with enough study, with careful planning and consideration, every outstanding issue might be resolved in one grand sweep of the board.
-- Twig Collins's Signal2Noise - Boy With A Coin, chapter thirteen
After the Long Game, it was difficult to assimilate back into the life they once knew. Every day was a blessing when they weren't fighting for their lives, when they didn't have a literal death clock ticking away, when they actually had friends again to hang out with. However, time marched on, and the gauzy anaesthetic of familiarity eventually settled on them again...
The Sunday was a day like most others. Neku's arms groaned with Shiki and Eri's purchases from 104, but he listened politely as the two babbled on over some new project they were working on or contest they were entering. Rhyme was Beat's guinea pig down at the Ramen Don, tasting the first batch of 'Rocket Ramen' he had cooked up without the help of his noodle mentor. Joshua watched the Game from his penthouse suite in Pork City, taking in the complex symphony of Shibuya's soul.
Then, the needle scratched. And it was nearly silent.
In the roads, cars kept moving, but seatbelts fell empty. In the streets, thousands and thousands of men and women disappeared from sight instantly. In 104, a coathanger dropped to the ground, and Shiki screamed.
All but a small handful of Shibuya's citizens had vanished - at least, from the point of view of the handful. Each of the stunned and frightened people then recieved a text message on their cell phones simultaneously.
We have taken control of Shibuya in order to conduct an experiment. Play... or face erasure.
-- The Angels
The group of former-partners made their way to Hachiko, hoping to find something or someone there who could explain. When everyone assembled, they were shocked to find people they were sure had been erased during the Game, as well as Reapers who sincerely had no idea what was happening. Mr Hanekoma conjectured that each of their Frequencies were locked into the Realground, and the citizens were in stasis in a plane slightly higher. They counted heads and mumbled questions before recieving another mail.
Mission: Reaper Sport 0. We are here. Find us. No time limit... but you'll want to hurry up.
Signed, the new Producer
The Basics
(nearly every word of this post and the next was stolen shamelessly from Butterfree and Negrek, save slightly reworded descriptions of roles and added snarky parenthetical comments.)
This is a game based on the party game Mafia or Werewolf, themed around the DS game The World Ends With You. To quote Wikipedia, it is a clash between the informed minority - the mafia (in this case, the Reapers) - and the uninformed majority - the citizens or innocents (the Players). Each person in the game has a randomly assigned role which may permit the member to do something special during either of the game's two phases, day and night.
Note that because the innocents are named 'Players', the word 'member' will be used when referring to one who could either be in the Reapers or the Players.
The Reapers
The Producer
The Producer's existence endangers the stability of the rules and balance of the UG and RG.
Normally taking no interference in the planes below, the one calling themselves the Producer here is the ruler of the Reapers and the target of the Players' vengeance. Motives unknown, they kill and leave the body's spirit to the chaos of an empty Underground. The Producer holds the final say over the murder, should the Composer or Conductor disagree.
The Composer
The Composer holds absolute authority over the Underground.
The Producer's second-in-command is just as shadowed as the leader themself, though showing a personality less analytical and more... batshit psychotic. They appear eager for the chance to toy with the Players caught like a mouse in a trap, and secretly harbor the hope of replacing their superior should the Producer come to an... unfortunate end. So long as the Producer is alive, they won't actively participate in the killings, however.
The Conductor
Under one Conductor, one ideal, the world of men marches toward bliss.
Presumably the lowest-leveled of the three, the Conductor is stoic and taciturn. Quietly rising through the ranks of the Ascended, the Conductor is on the team - but still only third-in-command, meaning that they don't get to do any actual murdering until their two superiors are killed off.
Sho Minamimoto
Cooperation is garbage.
Minamimoto's been picked up from under the vending machine, and can only fume about the loss of his hat and despise the Players in secret. None of the Reapers know who he is, nor does he know their true identities, and he doesn't participate in their discussions. Instead, he hangs out on the sidelines, quietly cheering them on. If the Reapers manage to kill every innocent Player, he also wins. If, however, he is pressed, he's ready to throw his life away to at least take someone else out before being killed and can choose to do so if the other members vote to kill him during the day. Before they can carry out the sentence, he will run up to any other member and unleash a Lv.i Flare, killing himself but also taking out the member of his choice. If Hanekoma checks his Frequency, he will conveniently look the other way and consider him innocent.
The Players
Sanae Hanekoma
While the situation seems dire, I believe the key to getting ahead of all of this is at hand. You see, time always builds upon the past.
The hip café barista of WildKat, sole designer of all things CAT and Gatito brand, and Fallen Angel after the whole Taboo Noise incident, Hanekoma is also a gambling Pisces whose favorite word is 'windfall'. He's capable of using his heavily censured Producer powers to check the Frequency of any member he chooses, permitting him to identify whether or not the target is a Reaper. Unfortunately, because he was not only censured by the Reapers but also previously by the Angels due to his Fallen status, he only has the energy to use this ability once per night.
Raimu "Rhyme" Bito
A problem shared is a problem halved, right? If we don't help each other out, we'll all... We might...
A Player turned Noise turned pin turned human turned Player, Rhyme has learned to extend her psych powers to prevent loss of life by casting Cure Drink on a member of her choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means that night, they will not die. However, if Rhyme and Shiki both choose to target the same member with Cure Drink, the sugary sweetness of their drinks will rot that member's teeth instead of saving them. And then they'll die.
Shiki Misaki
As head seraph for the White Angels, I'm gonna bless your head off!
Turning her sadness from the loss of her best friend to fuel to fight the Reapers, Shiki has learned to extend her psych powers to prevent loss of life by casting Cure Drink on a member of her choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means during the night, they will not die. However, if Shiki and Rhyme both choose to target the same member using Cure Drink, the added carbonation of their drinks will give that member extremely bad gas instead of saving them. And then they'll die.
Uzuki Yashiro
All Reapers deserve to enjoy their work. To feel rewarded!
Kariya's partner. The two are close friends and are always making bets, playing games, and eatingsea salt ice cream ramen together. If Kariya is killed and Uzuki is still alive, she will go mad with grief and use her next night action to hunt down and kill the member she most suspects to be responsible. Uzuki knows who Kariya is, but the two cannot communicate.
Koki Kariya
Since we showed up in silhouette last time, you probably thought we were up to something dastardly. We're totally not.
Uzuki's partner. The two are close friends and are always chatting together, fighting together, and eating together. If Uzuki is killed and Kariya is still alive, he will go mad with grief and track down one of the members he suspects to be Reaper and kill them out of revenge. Kariya knows who Uzuki is, but the two cannot communicate.
Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu
Life's little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger.
Joshua is determined not to go down without a fight. Using his censured Composer powers, he can wear the pins and (girly) threads required to enact SOS Strategy on himself once per night, such that if he is killed by vote in the following day, he will drag one member of his choice to the grave with him. With a prissy giggle, to be sure.
Nao (Nao-Nao for short)
Like, fighting so isn't the answer?
Nao-chan isn't the best with like, fighting and stuff? So she can form, like, a Pact, you know, with any other member? The Pact will allow the two of them to talk together privately outside the thread, yeah? But like, if either her or her bestest friend die somehow, they'll both die? Isn't that totally lame? (it hurt more to type that than it did to read, trust me)
Megumi Kitaniji
By tearing down the differences between us, I can make the world a paradise!
The former Conductor - and somewhere else in space, somewhen else in time, the mayor of Shibuya - Kitaniji knows it is his responsibility alone to ensure law and justice is kept in this chaotic 'Survivor' scenario. All the world's ills can be traced back to individuality, so he'll just make sure his individual counts a bit more by casting two votes each day. In practice, this will only be evident if it is very close, and his vote calls for a rematch or a tipping of the scales by one vote. In other words, the number would be noted manually after the computer vote.
Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito
He who stays an' fights away lives today another fight!
Beat is just obnoxious. He knows rushing headlong into everything is the only way to live, pal. Using all twenty words of his vocabulary, Beat can attract the attention of any of the other members, causing them to ignore their initial target and use their powers against him instead. Beat is told all attacks that target him, but not whether they came from the member he distracted or someone else entirely. If he distracts the Composer or the Conductor before the Producer has been killed, he will not die, as only the leader of the Reapers is responsible for the group's killings.
777 ("triple seven")
One day, we're gonna start a rock revolution, just wait and see!
777 considers himself a wild card. Not yet signed to a label (the whole 'being erased and turned to Noise' thing didn't exactly help his career), he takes a cue from his namesake and keeps things exciting by gambling up the actions. One night during the course of the game, he may choose to use Randomizer. This power will cause the targets of all night actions to be randomized to anything not the member's chosen target. When the members wake up, they will see the image of a die plainly in the street and realize that their targets were scrambled, but they will not know who they really targeted. Night actions without a specific target will go through as normal.
Yodai Higashizawa
I will turn this week's fracas into a fricassee!
Higashizawa knows that too many cooks spoil the broth. He can use his power-nullifying Taste Test psych against any member each night. That member's night action, if any, will then not happen. If Mr Higgy chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Shuto "Shooter" Dan
Divided, we were no better than Pinpricks. But together, we can reach our Pinnacle! (GET IT?)
Shooter, having played in so many Tin Pin tournaments, knows when it feels like someone's cheating - or if the game's just not going well for him. One night during the course of the game, he may choose to end the night early at whatever point he wants during the Midnight stage. Any night actions that happen after this point (see the order of night actions below; this is not a question of when the night actions are sent in) will be skipped, and instead the dead are simply rounded up and the next day starts.
Sota Honjo
Let's just all stay sharp and get through this together, huh?
Sota, a charismatic fellow, understands that occasionally, one has to take a chance and roll the dice. Risk it all, it's just a part of life. (cough.) Sometimes he might be hit by something bad - or another hit by something good - so he'd rather take his chances and copy what someone else is getting. Every night, he may choose a member to use Fusion on. Instead of being targeted by whatever targeted them that night (excluding Hanekoma's Frequency Tuner, Beat's distraction, and Nao's Pact), he will be targeted by whatever was used on the member he targeted during that night. If Sota chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Eiji Oji
I mean, if you were a Prince like me, just walking the streets could start a revolution.
The Prince being as popular as he is, he occasionally requires a buffer between his lovely self and his overly adoring fanbase. In this crazy RG/UG amalgam location he finds himself, this has translated to an adept skill at forming the shield walls as Support Reapers do. Every night, he may choose to use Shield Wall. This protects him from nighttime assaults of any kind - and better yet, it does not clash with the healers' Cure Drinks if they are used on him. However, if he uses Shield Wall any one night, he cannot use it again the next night, and he is, of course, always vulnerable to execution during the day. If Eiji chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Ken Doi
Remember - the future is a clean slate, and you're the chalk!
The ramen guy, besides having a lot of backstory, can also serve one member a plate of his secret Knockout Curry when serving the hungry members dinner each night. That member will then sleep through the next day and be unable to participate in discussion and voting. That a member is sleeping through the day will be noted in the morning. If he chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Miki "Mick" Makoto
Follow me? The whole game is about image.
Makoto, still finding his wings when it comes to being popular, can drop out of sight entirely, flying beneath the radar and leaving confused, bereft Reapers in his wake. While in this stealth form, he is very difficult to see during the night. If any lethal attack targets him, it has a 50% chance of missing him altogether.
Normal Players
They're not just some strangers. I can't shut them out like that.
A variety of normal Players also populated the understreets of Shibuya (it was a Game week), and are just as mired in the conflict as anyone else. They may not have any special psychs to lend to the fight against the Reapers, but it is up to them to use their numerical advantage and voting powers to find the traitors in their midst.
Variable Alignment
Mitsuki Konishi
I simply choose to align myself with the man in charge. It hardly matters who.
Mr Mew
What if it's possessed - waiting to pork-chop us in the back of the head?
Two rather completely different members in appearance, they both share a wide potential of psych power. Their path to greatness is not yet known: will they choose to fight valiantly by the sides of their innocent Player comrades, or work against them in secret, intent on a quick promotion with the coming of the Underground's new ruling order? During the first night, Konishi and Mr Mew can choose to activate one of their psych powers and choose either the Players or the Reapers to side with. After that, they will function exactly like their chosen role and alignment. If Konishi or Mr Mew chooses to align with the Reapers, they are informed of who the Reaper members are and they of who he or she is, but not until the end of the first night. When killed, Konishi and Mr Mew appear to be innocent, no matter what their true alignment was.
They will send, during the first night, along with their chosen alignment, which of the previous seven character's psychs they wish to emulate, and will thus act exactly like the named character in that regard. Because I like cutesy names, they each have a cutesy name:
Pachinko Mode
Iron Chef Mode
Red Card Mode
Determined Mode
Support Wall Mode
Knockout K'noodles Mode
Yôkai Mode
The Alien
Neku Sakuraba
I just met you. I don't like you. And I don't give a rat's ass if you think I'm rude!
Neku's grown since the Game; felt his world expand just a tiny bit. Still, his first reaction after comprehending his situation was 'aw, hell no'. His super-genius psych powers are sufficient to protect him from even the most deadly of Reaper assassinations, but as we've seen, being shot is a pretty big Berserk Button for him. After an attempt on his life is made, he will become increasingly paranoid and turn his innate protection into a weapon, ready to be released at the first sign of danger. If it is voted that he be killed while in this state, he will instead snap and unleash the entirety of his Soul's power upon all of Shibuya, tearing apart Player and Reaper alike in a final, crazed attempt to end the Angels' game. In such an instance, he wins, and this is the only way that he can win. If it is voted that he be killed or if he is killed by another means before an attack by the Reapers causes him to transform, he still loses as usual. If the Reapers attack him again after his transformation, or if he is killed by some means other than the vote at this time, he again dies as normal. After his transformation, Hanekoma will identify him as Reaper, and he will be posthumously identified as Reaper if he somehow dies in this state.
The Reaper's Game
This is a game of Mafia like any other, except that the roles are based on TWEWY characters rather than Pokémon or forum members or whatever. Signups will take place in this thread and are open until Sunday, the eighth of November. Currently, I plan to take all members who sign up, and tell your friends! There are /plenty/ of roles; I'll have to trim them down if/when I don't receive enough signups. (i liek roles.) Once signups are over, this thread will be locked and a new one shortly created for discussion and the actual progression of the game.
If you have played this form of Mafia in the past, I have stuck all the rules in the next post so that you can conveniently ignore them. If, however, you've never played before, please read them carefully and make sure that you understand them, though you'll likely also conveniently ignore them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them. Also, I'll do my best to make this game rock as awesome as the last I held did. (Exploding lesbians, anyone? I don't even remember who won, I just remember 'dude. exploding lesbians.')
~The Mafia Ends With You~
A The World Ends With You Game of Mafia
A The World Ends With You Game of Mafia
Negligence and overestimation had allowed the entire district to slip once already, and nearly over the edge. It will not happen again - and with enough study, with careful planning and consideration, every outstanding issue might be resolved in one grand sweep of the board.
-- Twig Collins's Signal2Noise - Boy With A Coin, chapter thirteen
After the Long Game, it was difficult to assimilate back into the life they once knew. Every day was a blessing when they weren't fighting for their lives, when they didn't have a literal death clock ticking away, when they actually had friends again to hang out with. However, time marched on, and the gauzy anaesthetic of familiarity eventually settled on them again...
The Sunday was a day like most others. Neku's arms groaned with Shiki and Eri's purchases from 104, but he listened politely as the two babbled on over some new project they were working on or contest they were entering. Rhyme was Beat's guinea pig down at the Ramen Don, tasting the first batch of 'Rocket Ramen' he had cooked up without the help of his noodle mentor. Joshua watched the Game from his penthouse suite in Pork City, taking in the complex symphony of Shibuya's soul.
Then, the needle scratched. And it was nearly silent.
In the roads, cars kept moving, but seatbelts fell empty. In the streets, thousands and thousands of men and women disappeared from sight instantly. In 104, a coathanger dropped to the ground, and Shiki screamed.
All but a small handful of Shibuya's citizens had vanished - at least, from the point of view of the handful. Each of the stunned and frightened people then recieved a text message on their cell phones simultaneously.
We have taken control of Shibuya in order to conduct an experiment. Play... or face erasure.
-- The Angels
The group of former-partners made their way to Hachiko, hoping to find something or someone there who could explain. When everyone assembled, they were shocked to find people they were sure had been erased during the Game, as well as Reapers who sincerely had no idea what was happening. Mr Hanekoma conjectured that each of their Frequencies were locked into the Realground, and the citizens were in stasis in a plane slightly higher. They counted heads and mumbled questions before recieving another mail.
Mission: Reaper Sport 0. We are here. Find us. No time limit... but you'll want to hurry up.
Signed, the new Producer
The Basics
(nearly every word of this post and the next was stolen shamelessly from Butterfree and Negrek, save slightly reworded descriptions of roles and added snarky parenthetical comments.)
This is a game based on the party game Mafia or Werewolf, themed around the DS game The World Ends With You. To quote Wikipedia, it is a clash between the informed minority - the mafia (in this case, the Reapers) - and the uninformed majority - the citizens or innocents (the Players). Each person in the game has a randomly assigned role which may permit the member to do something special during either of the game's two phases, day and night.
Note that because the innocents are named 'Players', the word 'member' will be used when referring to one who could either be in the Reapers or the Players.
The Reapers
The Producer's existence endangers the stability of the rules and balance of the UG and RG.
Normally taking no interference in the planes below, the one calling themselves the Producer here is the ruler of the Reapers and the target of the Players' vengeance. Motives unknown, they kill and leave the body's spirit to the chaos of an empty Underground. The Producer holds the final say over the murder, should the Composer or Conductor disagree.
The Composer holds absolute authority over the Underground.
The Producer's second-in-command is just as shadowed as the leader themself, though showing a personality less analytical and more... batshit psychotic. They appear eager for the chance to toy with the Players caught like a mouse in a trap, and secretly harbor the hope of replacing their superior should the Producer come to an... unfortunate end. So long as the Producer is alive, they won't actively participate in the killings, however.
Under one Conductor, one ideal, the world of men marches toward bliss.
Presumably the lowest-leveled of the three, the Conductor is stoic and taciturn. Quietly rising through the ranks of the Ascended, the Conductor is on the team - but still only third-in-command, meaning that they don't get to do any actual murdering until their two superiors are killed off.
Cooperation is garbage.
Minamimoto's been picked up from under the vending machine, and can only fume about the loss of his hat and despise the Players in secret. None of the Reapers know who he is, nor does he know their true identities, and he doesn't participate in their discussions. Instead, he hangs out on the sidelines, quietly cheering them on. If the Reapers manage to kill every innocent Player, he also wins. If, however, he is pressed, he's ready to throw his life away to at least take someone else out before being killed and can choose to do so if the other members vote to kill him during the day. Before they can carry out the sentence, he will run up to any other member and unleash a Lv.i Flare, killing himself but also taking out the member of his choice. If Hanekoma checks his Frequency, he will conveniently look the other way and consider him innocent.
The Players
While the situation seems dire, I believe the key to getting ahead of all of this is at hand. You see, time always builds upon the past.
The hip café barista of WildKat, sole designer of all things CAT and Gatito brand, and Fallen Angel after the whole Taboo Noise incident, Hanekoma is also a gambling Pisces whose favorite word is 'windfall'. He's capable of using his heavily censured Producer powers to check the Frequency of any member he chooses, permitting him to identify whether or not the target is a Reaper. Unfortunately, because he was not only censured by the Reapers but also previously by the Angels due to his Fallen status, he only has the energy to use this ability once per night.
A problem shared is a problem halved, right? If we don't help each other out, we'll all... We might...
A Player turned Noise turned pin turned human turned Player, Rhyme has learned to extend her psych powers to prevent loss of life by casting Cure Drink on a member of her choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means that night, they will not die. However, if Rhyme and Shiki both choose to target the same member with Cure Drink, the sugary sweetness of their drinks will rot that member's teeth instead of saving them. And then they'll die.
As head seraph for the White Angels, I'm gonna bless your head off!
Turning her sadness from the loss of her best friend to fuel to fight the Reapers, Shiki has learned to extend her psych powers to prevent loss of life by casting Cure Drink on a member of her choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means during the night, they will not die. However, if Shiki and Rhyme both choose to target the same member using Cure Drink, the added carbonation of their drinks will give that member extremely bad gas instead of saving them. And then they'll die.
All Reapers deserve to enjoy their work. To feel rewarded!
Kariya's partner. The two are close friends and are always making bets, playing games, and eating
Since we showed up in silhouette last time, you probably thought we were up to something dastardly. We're totally not.
Uzuki's partner. The two are close friends and are always chatting together, fighting together, and eating together. If Uzuki is killed and Kariya is still alive, he will go mad with grief and track down one of the members he suspects to be Reaper and kill them out of revenge. Kariya knows who Uzuki is, but the two cannot communicate.
Life's little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger.
Joshua is determined not to go down without a fight. Using his censured Composer powers, he can wear the pins and (girly) threads required to enact SOS Strategy on himself once per night, such that if he is killed by vote in the following day, he will drag one member of his choice to the grave with him. With a prissy giggle, to be sure.
Like, fighting so isn't the answer?
Nao-chan isn't the best with like, fighting and stuff? So she can form, like, a Pact, you know, with any other member? The Pact will allow the two of them to talk together privately outside the thread, yeah? But like, if either her or her bestest friend die somehow, they'll both die? Isn't that totally lame? (it hurt more to type that than it did to read, trust me)
By tearing down the differences between us, I can make the world a paradise!
The former Conductor - and somewhere else in space, somewhen else in time, the mayor of Shibuya - Kitaniji knows it is his responsibility alone to ensure law and justice is kept in this chaotic 'Survivor' scenario. All the world's ills can be traced back to individuality, so he'll just make sure his individual counts a bit more by casting two votes each day. In practice, this will only be evident if it is very close, and his vote calls for a rematch or a tipping of the scales by one vote. In other words, the number would be noted manually after the computer vote.
He who stays an' fights away lives today another fight!
Beat is just obnoxious. He knows rushing headlong into everything is the only way to live, pal. Using all twenty words of his vocabulary, Beat can attract the attention of any of the other members, causing them to ignore their initial target and use their powers against him instead. Beat is told all attacks that target him, but not whether they came from the member he distracted or someone else entirely. If he distracts the Composer or the Conductor before the Producer has been killed, he will not die, as only the leader of the Reapers is responsible for the group's killings.
One day, we're gonna start a rock revolution, just wait and see!
777 considers himself a wild card. Not yet signed to a label (the whole 'being erased and turned to Noise' thing didn't exactly help his career), he takes a cue from his namesake and keeps things exciting by gambling up the actions. One night during the course of the game, he may choose to use Randomizer. This power will cause the targets of all night actions to be randomized to anything not the member's chosen target. When the members wake up, they will see the image of a die plainly in the street and realize that their targets were scrambled, but they will not know who they really targeted. Night actions without a specific target will go through as normal.
I will turn this week's fracas into a fricassee!
Higashizawa knows that too many cooks spoil the broth. He can use his power-nullifying Taste Test psych against any member each night. That member's night action, if any, will then not happen. If Mr Higgy chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Divided, we were no better than Pinpricks. But together, we can reach our Pinnacle! (GET IT?)
Shooter, having played in so many Tin Pin tournaments, knows when it feels like someone's cheating - or if the game's just not going well for him. One night during the course of the game, he may choose to end the night early at whatever point he wants during the Midnight stage. Any night actions that happen after this point (see the order of night actions below; this is not a question of when the night actions are sent in) will be skipped, and instead the dead are simply rounded up and the next day starts.
Let's just all stay sharp and get through this together, huh?
Sota, a charismatic fellow, understands that occasionally, one has to take a chance and roll the dice. Risk it all, it's just a part of life. (cough.) Sometimes he might be hit by something bad - or another hit by something good - so he'd rather take his chances and copy what someone else is getting. Every night, he may choose a member to use Fusion on. Instead of being targeted by whatever targeted them that night (excluding Hanekoma's Frequency Tuner, Beat's distraction, and Nao's Pact), he will be targeted by whatever was used on the member he targeted during that night. If Sota chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
I mean, if you were a Prince like me, just walking the streets could start a revolution.
The Prince being as popular as he is, he occasionally requires a buffer between his lovely self and his overly adoring fanbase. In this crazy RG/UG amalgam location he finds himself, this has translated to an adept skill at forming the shield walls as Support Reapers do. Every night, he may choose to use Shield Wall. This protects him from nighttime assaults of any kind - and better yet, it does not clash with the healers' Cure Drinks if they are used on him. However, if he uses Shield Wall any one night, he cannot use it again the next night, and he is, of course, always vulnerable to execution during the day. If Eiji chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Remember - the future is a clean slate, and you're the chalk!
The ramen guy, besides having a lot of backstory, can also serve one member a plate of his secret Knockout Curry when serving the hungry members dinner each night. That member will then sleep through the next day and be unable to participate in discussion and voting. That a member is sleeping through the day will be noted in the morning. If he chooses nothing, he will simply not perform a night action.
Follow me? The whole game is about image.
Makoto, still finding his wings when it comes to being popular, can drop out of sight entirely, flying beneath the radar and leaving confused, bereft Reapers in his wake. While in this stealth form, he is very difficult to see during the night. If any lethal attack targets him, it has a 50% chance of missing him altogether.
They're not just some strangers. I can't shut them out like that.
A variety of normal Players also populated the understreets of Shibuya (it was a Game week), and are just as mired in the conflict as anyone else. They may not have any special psychs to lend to the fight against the Reapers, but it is up to them to use their numerical advantage and voting powers to find the traitors in their midst.
Variable Alignment
I simply choose to align myself with the man in charge. It hardly matters who.
What if it's possessed - waiting to pork-chop us in the back of the head?
Two rather completely different members in appearance, they both share a wide potential of psych power. Their path to greatness is not yet known: will they choose to fight valiantly by the sides of their innocent Player comrades, or work against them in secret, intent on a quick promotion with the coming of the Underground's new ruling order? During the first night, Konishi and Mr Mew can choose to activate one of their psych powers and choose either the Players or the Reapers to side with. After that, they will function exactly like their chosen role and alignment. If Konishi or Mr Mew chooses to align with the Reapers, they are informed of who the Reaper members are and they of who he or she is, but not until the end of the first night. When killed, Konishi and Mr Mew appear to be innocent, no matter what their true alignment was.
They will send, during the first night, along with their chosen alignment, which of the previous seven character's psychs they wish to emulate, and will thus act exactly like the named character in that regard. Because I like cutesy names, they each have a cutesy name:
The Alien
I just met you. I don't like you. And I don't give a rat's ass if you think I'm rude!
Neku's grown since the Game; felt his world expand just a tiny bit. Still, his first reaction after comprehending his situation was 'aw, hell no'. His super-genius psych powers are sufficient to protect him from even the most deadly of Reaper assassinations, but as we've seen, being shot is a pretty big Berserk Button for him. After an attempt on his life is made, he will become increasingly paranoid and turn his innate protection into a weapon, ready to be released at the first sign of danger. If it is voted that he be killed while in this state, he will instead snap and unleash the entirety of his Soul's power upon all of Shibuya, tearing apart Player and Reaper alike in a final, crazed attempt to end the Angels' game. In such an instance, he wins, and this is the only way that he can win. If it is voted that he be killed or if he is killed by another means before an attack by the Reapers causes him to transform, he still loses as usual. If the Reapers attack him again after his transformation, or if he is killed by some means other than the vote at this time, he again dies as normal. After his transformation, Hanekoma will identify him as Reaper, and he will be posthumously identified as Reaper if he somehow dies in this state.
The Reaper's Game
This is a game of Mafia like any other, except that the roles are based on TWEWY characters rather than Pokémon or forum members or whatever. Signups will take place in this thread and are open until Sunday, the eighth of November. Currently, I plan to take all members who sign up, and tell your friends! There are /plenty/ of roles; I'll have to trim them down if/when I don't receive enough signups. (i liek roles.) Once signups are over, this thread will be locked and a new one shortly created for discussion and the actual progression of the game.
If you have played this form of Mafia in the past, I have stuck all the rules in the next post so that you can conveniently ignore them. If, however, you've never played before, please read them carefully and make sure that you understand them, though you'll likely also conveniently ignore them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them. Also, I'll do my best to make this game rock as awesome as the last I held did. (Exploding lesbians, anyone? I don't even remember who won, I just remember 'dude. exploding lesbians.')
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