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Chaos in the Academy WW - The Rift
Chaos In the Academy WW - The Rift
Narrators: Bladescape & Saposhiente.
Rules written by: Saposhiente
In most worlds, most planes, most stories.. Separate Worlds are often split by the void which holds them apart. It is a protection again power surges, a way to insure that the actions of one plane does not effect another. Although this, in itself, makes it extremely difficult to travel between two planes. But this was not always the case, as there have always been anomolies. In this case, it was the oddest abberation in the history of the layers of dimensions. There lay not two, not three, not even four but five planes adjacent. They were, in fact, so interwoven that it would not be difficult to pass from one to another. It is here that my tale begins.
So used to traveling between worlds, The denizens of the five planes created a place, called the Arcanium. Situated on the center plane, it was the school of magic, the central resource for any user of power on these planes. As such it had a massive concentration of knowledge interred within. From the scrolls of planar knowledge that they had scrounged to books on Necromancy. Nothing was forbidden, and rarely was Death the final frontier for the members of the Arcanium.
But when you have such a massive gathering of power all centered in one place, inevitably things go wrong. The students, often travelling between planes to return home, disturbed the Void, shook it out of its ponderous slumber. For the Darkness does not takes lightly to such casual use. It could not strike immediately, though, as the members of this school had near perfectly mastered the intricacies of short length planar travel.
However, its chance was not long in coming. Nearing the end of another break at school in the Arcanium, the students begun returning, one by one, in a slow trickle. The usual greetings and banter of those that had not seen each other in a while flowed easily across the courtyard, reacquanting themselves with each other, the students ventured inwards. But the gatekeeper wasn't there, and the Arcanium seemed abandoned. The reason became apparant very soon.
There was a Rift, into the void. The darkness dwelling within called forth, sucking everything near into it. It moved ponderously, but nothing could escape once in it's grasp. And here it was that they learned what had happened. One of the remaining Teachers had, in an effort to add a sixth world to the Arcanium's link network, searched and stretched out into the void. It had reacted, tearing a planar hole right into the inky darkness....
But the promise remained in sight for all the students. The first one to properly understand and control the force that compelled this Rift.... Would have a memoir written in their name. And they would be known as the conqueror of the Rift. On top of that, the power inside of it was immense, and being able to wield that at will would be something any student would dream of. So began the game of lives, the dangerous game. How close could you come to the portal before you were sucked in? But how close did you need to be to work out what fueled this thing? ......
Rules:Spoiler
-Everything outlined at {Werewolf Central}
-Game begins at Night
-Each phase lasts 48 hours unless people vote to extend the phase
--Extending a phase 1 more day requires 20% of people in favor
---Each day-long extension after that will require an additional 20% (So extending a phase to last 96 hours in total would require 40% in favor, etc)
----It is not possible to have 120% of people in favor. Just make up your minds, people.
---Votes to extend Night (but not Day) can be submitted via PM.
-When a person is lynched, the list of people who had been Leeching (see the Major Spell) off of them is revealed (Use this to determine which players are less of a threat (since their Leech targets have died) and which are growing more powerful)
-In the case of a 2-way tied lynch vote, both players die (This can be used to kill the two remaining Study-ers with neither one winning)
--You may vote to "tie Person A and Person B". Your vote will be distributed to try to make both players be lynched
-In the case of a 3-or-more-way tied lynch vote, one of the players will die at random
-Try to act in your own best interest
Traditional Bladescape Rules:
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Striking Through Votes: Please strike out old votes, when changing to another. This helps out the narrators when counting the votes. When I tally the votes, if you do not do this, I will count your first vote.
Autolynches: We will be autolynching players only if they do not point for 3 days straight. Of course, if you let me know that you will be gone for more than a week, we will give you a pass. (Autolynches happen at the end of Day phases and do give additional Knowledge points to Study-ers, identical to if multiple people were lynched.)
FC's Rule of Narrator Invocation: If you claim that the Narrator made a mistake, and the Narrator is asked about it, the Narrator will answer honestly. So don't use the Narrator's name in vain.
Bladescape's rule of formatting theft: Bladescape will invariably steal formatting, rules and other such things from other Narrators, especially Lex-Kat. Do be warned that any rights that exist belong to the original creators of the formatting, rules and etc. If they do wish it, he will reformat and remove the copyrighted formatting.
Roles:Spoiler
-Wizard- You may, every Night:
--Cast one Major Spell and one Minor Spell OR
--Cast three Minor Spells OR
--Cast a Minor Spell as a Major Spell (This allows Scrying spells to pierce Defends, Hides and Disguises) and cast one Minor Spell
-(Everybody is a Wizard)
Spells:Spoiler
{table=head]Spell Name|Description|Type
Major Spells
Leech|While target player is alive, you gain an additional vote in the Day. You are informed if this spell fails.|
Study|You gain one Knowledge point for every person that is lynched in the next Day phase. If at any time you have a number of Knowledge points greater than 4/5 of the number of players that joined the game and no other living player does and you are alive, you win immediately.|
Silence|Target player's vote does not count in the next Day phase.|Attack
Void|The spells target player casts in this phase fail.(If two people Void each other (or in similar cases involving a chain of 3 or more people), all of both players' spells fail.)|Attack
Trap|Players that target you with Attack spells in this phase are Voided and Silenced. Players that target you with Scrying spells in this phase are Voided. ("Is/are Voided/Silenced" is unavoidable, even if you Trap. Think of it as being Voided/Silenced by a Narrator, who, since he is not a player, cannot be voided back.)|
{colsp=3}Minor Spells
Store Energy|You gain one Energy point. During any Day phase, you may expend any number of Energy points via PM to gain that many votes in that phase.|
Disrupt|Guess what Minor Spell target player is casting this phase. If they are casting that spell, their vote counts three less (to a minimum of 0) in the next Day phase. If they are not casting that spell, their vote counts two less (to a minimum of 0) in the next Day phase.|Attack
Scan|You learn what players target player is leeching from, including any player targeted in this phase|Scrying
Defend|Minor Scrying and Minor Attack spells targeting you fail
Hide|Players who target you with target Minor Scrying spell in this phase are Voided. (See note on Trap)|
Disguise|Players who target you with Minor Scrying spells are told results as if you were target player.|Deception
Fake Weakness|You are reported as if you had been leeching from all players that die in the next Day phase.|Deception
Compare Deception|Among three target players, you learn who has used the most and the least Deception spells. Ties are resolved at random. You may target yourself with this ability.|Scrying[/table]
Player list
Spoiler{table=head]#|Player|Role|Tags
01|52.5 Lemons||
02|BourgeoisJerry||
03|Billtodamax||
04|CD4||
05|Eternis||
06|Gilthonial||
07|Gray Mage||
08|Grue Bait||
09|Internet Flea||
10|Lord Loss||
11|Mangosta71||
12|Penguinator||
13|Runeboundshade||
14|Ramsus||
15|SuperDark33||
16|The Grimmace||
17|Usourselves&we||
18|Vanderscamp||
[/table]Last edited by bladescape; 2011-12-13 at 08:33 AM.
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2011-11-24, 09:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Chaos in the Academy WW - The Rift
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Bladescape is a Narrator = I'm in.
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2011-11-24, 11:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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In, please!
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2011-11-24, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Chaos in the Academy WW - The Rift
I seem to remember Saposhiente saying she'd reward anyone who could break a game she ran, but I don't see it on the rule list.
In. Am I to assume it's a free-for-all and the Leech spell is permanent (and can you leech the same person more than once)?SpoilerWhat kind of paranoid mind sees that as something else. ~ The Narrator, during Stranded in Space.
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2011-11-24, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm in.
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2011-11-24, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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In. Need more words for the 10 character minimum.
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Let's see if I can survive at least one game run by blade.
Am I correct to assume this is a every wizard for himself game?
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2011-11-24, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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I do believe I'm in...
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2011-11-24, 09:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah. LOL. I see we're making another musical. XD
See below, free-for-all it is. Leech is permenant, but you cannot leech one person multiple times.
(Also, not sure, but breaking the game of Saposhiente's isn't a rule. )
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2011-11-25, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Looks like a ripsnorter of a time, I hope the majority of my cognitive faculties return by that time.
I’m getting kind of lonely.
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2011-11-25, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Whoops, forgot to add that.
It is now. (Note that the reward is that you gain a trophy and an internet cookie and then the rules are changed. To collect this, PM me with the method of breaking the game.)
Note that I am aware that certain spells are usually more useful than other spells and that certain spells powerfully pair with other spells. This (probably, unless there's something really weird) can't be broken because everyone has the same things, and therefore the same chances and opportunities.
Clarifications:
Can I cast the same minor spell more then once a night?
Also, shouldn't Minor Scrying and Minor Attack be listed in the spells section?Last edited by Saposhiente; 2011-11-25 at 04:56 PM.
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2011-11-25, 07:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'll join! This looks cool!
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2011-11-25, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)VanderscampGuest in the Playground
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In! Looks pretty solid
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Sounds fun. I'd like to be in.
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2011-11-26, 02:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Am I to understand that the 'study' major spell is the only way to win the game?
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2011-11-26, 02:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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No. Last one standing also wins.
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They play Rock-Paper-Scissors with Silence, Trap and Store Energy. If they both choose Trap or they both choose Store Energy, they both die and lose. If they Silence each other,
they play again.EDIT: On second thought, technically they'd both die and lose even though no valid votes were cast.
Also, if one person has only a minor advantage (1 more stored energy than the other), then it's the same situation except the person with the advantage wins ties of Trap and Store Energy (Interesting effect on the game, since Silence becomes a worse choice verses an opponent that chooses at random, which makes Store Energy worse for the person with the disadvantage, but this of course makes Silence better, etc).
If one person has a moderate advantage (2 additional stored energy), they play again with no advantage if they Trap and the opponent Stores Energy.
If one person has a major advantage (3 or more additional stored energy), they win if they Trap (but they might not know that they have a major advantage).Last edited by Saposhiente; 2011-11-27 at 01:12 AM.
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Just a question about silence, does it also stop any energy votes from discharging store energy?
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Except that they get to both trap/silence and store energy, which means that, unless they have energy stored from earlier, they will both still die.
I have not joined this game for two reasons:
There isn't sufficient benefit from working with someone for any true alliance to form, and the endgame is too likely to see everyone dead or a random win with a lucky studier.
My suggestion would be to add one or two spells that are fairly weak by themselves, but become quite powerful with the assistance of another player*. In addition, there should be some way to scry for how much someone has studied and/or even disrupt their studying, to make studying carry a comparable risk to not studying.
*It is important to note that two minor spells that bolster each other won't satisfy this with the way the game is currently set up.The BareFoot Programmer
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Yes, you can Leech as many people as you like.
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Re: Chaos in the Academy WW - The Rift
Originally Posted by RuneboundShade
Originally Posted by cd4
The choice of Store Energy is to cast Store Energy three times, in place of casting a Major Spell. For the other ones, they cast both that spell and Store Energy.
I have not joined this game for two reasons:
There isn't sufficient benefit from working with someone for any true alliance to form,
and the endgame is too likely to see everyone dead or a random win with a lucky studier.
My suggestion would be to add one or two spells that are fairly weak by themselves, but become quite powerful with the assistance of another player*.
In addition, there should be some way to scry for how much someone has studied
and/or even disrupt their studying
to make studying carry a comparable risk to not studying.Last edited by Saposhiente; 2011-11-27 at 11:08 PM.
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