Sarah
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Re: Mafia 34 - Margana
Didn't muz say (hint) that he protected lyn? |
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Akasha
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clubs: | Yes. |
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Akasha
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Once he was killed, no one else survived an attack. That's when I knew he must have protected me. |
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Sarah
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I'm a little confused about that whole thing where Gomez protected you with armor? |
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Akasha
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clubs: | Unless he also protected me or something. I have no idea what that was about. |
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Gomez
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That's interesting, I was sure that you were army and that my armor gave you the 50/50.. |
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Akasha
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clubs: | Awww..... you gave me armor? Why thank you.  |
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muzscman
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said by Sarah  :Didn't muz say (hint) that he protected lyn? I got to either protect one person a day or heal one person if a kill did not go through. For day one I chose to protect Lurlyn from the get go.... |
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muzscman
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clubs: | And my protection, as far as I know, was 100% for the whole day.... |
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Gomez
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| said by muzscman :And my protection, as far as I know, was 100% for the whole day.... Curious as to how she got the 50/50. If Yock only had a 50/50 he was dead on from there. |
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Akasha
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| said by Gomez :Curious as to how she got the 50/50. I played in a game (I forget who modded it, sorry) and I was a bad cop. I had a 50/50 chance of being discovered upon intersecting the "real" cops investigation.
So since I was saved, I thought maybe the person that tried to kill me sorry cow only had a 50/50 chance of succeeding.
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chlen
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50/50 was not good enough for me
Good morning. You are Aegis Emitenitas, a Sentry in the Royal Army. Your military training makes you a hardy sort. You have a 50% chance of surviving an attack as long as Piers Marigon survives, but you will be unable to speak until the doctor heals you. You have no attack resistance while injured.
also...I liked to wake up to this...
From AmeritecTech
Good morning! You are dead. 
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»lp.org/
»www.ronpaul2008.com/ |
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Sarah
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| said by chlen :50/50 was not good enough for me Or me. As if the game weren't tipped towards yock enough already he seems to have used fixed dice for all the 50/50 survivals  |
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AmeritecTech
Change we can believe in, 1922
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| A standard American coin was used. You guys flunked the flip twice and lynched your third soldier. One minute and 22 seconds after Yock killed Sarah, she submitted a decision that would have made all military and Gomez invincible for a day. Gomez's protection only came into play twice, and failed both times.
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Sarah
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clubs: | I think that armory needs some new quality control practices. |
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Dezbend
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My role PM:
"You are Ed Thorfin, a cartographer."
Ameritectech designed the game for 9 but 2 of us joined late and he let us in (thank you).
We noticed the funny order of the names day 1.
Rook noticed the anagram hint day 1.
If we had only put it all together a little sooner I am sure we could have cracked it.
Even without cracking the list... Peter pointed to Tony.
I solved Tony's anagram last night, but thought it was just coincidence "yock wants blood" or whatever it said. I wish I would have thrown it out there when I saw it.
Anyway all in all a very enjoyable game.
Master Design. All hail Ameritectech. I nominate him for Mod of the Year.
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Gomez
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said by AmeritecTech :A standard American coin was used. You guys flunked the flip twice and lynched your third soldier. One minute and 22 seconds after Yock killed Sarah, she submitted a decision that would have made all military and Gomez invincible for a day. Gomez's protection only came into play twice, and failed both times. I suggest this: »www.random.org/integers/?num=1&m···&rnd=new
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Dezbend
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join:2001-04-20 | After all, random choice generation is too important to leave to chance.
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Gomez
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AmeritecTech
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Okay, I'm home! Some stuff...
You are Tony Blackwoods, full-time Innkeeper and part-time Serial Killer. You were formerly known as Peter Henkine in the last town you did your wicked deeds. You are not listed on the player list. You are tasked with killing all players. You are neither required to nor prohibited from posting in the game thread. You win when all other players are dead. You kill during the day and get one kill per day. If the day exceeds 24 hours, you receive an extra kill opportunity. For each additional 12 hours of day, you receive another kill opportunity. Kills may not be saved up. The first kill must be used in the first 24 hours, the second in the next 12 hours, and so on. Kills not used within the target window are forfeit. If a lynch vote succeeds before you submit a kill for the day, you lose that day's kill. You are Dale Priestly, town doctor and hobbyist astronomer. Each day, submit a choice to protect. If your choice has not been killed already, he or she will be protected for the rest of the day. Your choice is locked in, once made. You may not protect yourself. Choices should be submitted in the name of the player, not the name of the character. If a player survives an attack, you may heal them by treating them for one day's time. You may not protect anyone during this period. Healing was never needed. The astronomy part was necessary for the following letter he received:
Hello Dale,
I had been meaning to get in touch with you. Its been so long since our days at the Starmaster Academy. Its such a shame that we haven't kept in better touch with each other, but your decision to go into medicine definitely set us on different courses. We really should get together and talk about old (and new!) times. Today, though, I write to you about a far more serious matter.
I fear something wicked may befall your township. You see, we've just experienced several deaths which we could not explain. Our detective had been suspicious of a citizen, but didn't have enough evidence to lock him away. Then our detective ended up dead and the citizen vanished. Upon searching his home, we found several travel scrolls for Margana that sung the praises of your town. It seems that he was planning to go there next. The man's name was Peter Henkine. Please be on the lookout for him, and you might tell others to watch for him as well. He was a creepy sort. Let me know how things turn out.
Cordially,
Thomas Billon
Setec Astronomy He removed that first paragraph when he re-posted it, I guess in an attempt to disguise that he was the doctor. I intended for muzscman to have a quandary about whether or not to post it, as initial flavor indicated that the doctor was the only one to receive a letter, but he fired away. Yock didn't seem to notice anyway, which certainly benefited the town when he went after Lurlyn, who was protected by muz. This letter was designed to be my second attempt (first, Margana backwards is Anagram) to clue you guys in to the anagrams. Thomas Billon was appointed Royal Anagamatist to to Louis XIII, which is the most prominent thing mentioned about him on most Google results. Setec Astronomy is the most popular pop-culture reference that I could think of to anagrams. Its an anagram for Too Many Secrets (which was also the name of Day Two) from the movie Sneakers, which had a cast of big names. Good flick.
The first picture's "Subject" in properties was "18 15 20 M 7 15 15 7 12 5 9 20". To decode, A = 1, B = 2 etc., very simple, so it translates to ROT 13 GOOGLEIT. »rot13.com Rot 13 was the method used to encode the message in comments. That message stated that the doctor had the name of the killer, a probe I was using in case he didn't post the letter to increase his quandary. Subsequent image codes were typically done in ROT13 but without any explanation of such, as it could be gleaned from the first picture.
Designing anagrams can be difficult. You've got to try a bunch of different starting phrases before you come up with a half-way believable name. This was my tool: »wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html
After pulling down some sample anagrams for a phrase, I would look through them for one that had some sort of name in it. I would then designate that name as a mandatory component and come up with a decent workable last name. Some letters are extremely hard to use in anagrams. J, for example. Also, you often run into the problem of too many vowels. No decent anagram could be found for Start Message, Begin Message, or others, so Aegis Emitenitas for Initiate Message was a best effort surrender. I made him a sentry for added credibility (Aegis was the shield of Zeus). The whole message went through an extensive evolution as I honed the anagrams.
Omega Fesdens was one of my better accomplishments, I think, a triple entendre. Omega is the last Greek character, he's the last one on the manifest, and he translates to End Of Message. I thought that was going to work as a cluestick if it got translated, but it didn't.
Yock having two names was, I felt, necessary to give a fighting chance. If you guys had caught on to the anagrams early, you might have gone directly to solving his, so I added an extra layer to make it harder.
When you guys were failing to dig deep enough, I went back to the pictures. I started posting picture after picture of hints. The river of blood's hidden message said that the killer 'wants blood' to make such a river. The sun standing still image was my attempt to again warn you of the dangers of not ending the day. To keep you guys working on the puzzles, I decided some motivation was needed to compel you. Its too easy to just let things stagnate if time is unlimited, I feared, especially in a game like this. If you guys discovered eternal life (not voting), that would be unacceptable, so I gave Yock a way to keep the blood flowing. He was 11-1, so I don't consider 3 kills in a day to be unfair, especially since you guys didn't heed the 24 hour warning after reminders from Dezbend.
Yock was not aware of the anagrams until later in the game. Dezbend actually solved it before Yock even did.
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