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Welcome to the Time Travel Mishmash. Please leave your preexisting notions of causality at the door.

(have we been here before?)

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RULES

This is a mishmash. In addition to the rules posted below, standard werewolf rules apply. If you would like to renew your familiarity with standard werewolf rules, please follow this link.

There will be zero tolerance for slurs (ableist, racist, misogynist, otherwise) and gendered attacks. Personal attacks are on a short leash. Kindness and empathy are encouraged. It's been a year; let's be together in this.

As always, you may direct any questions about game rules or decorum to the mods by PMing this account (Time Travel Mod). Do not raise questions to the moderator in the thread. If you are ever unsure whether something is allowed, please PM the game mod and ask before you do it.

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MORE RULES

PMs

Please do not quote specific PMs in the thread or talk about any specific communications from the moderator. I will not hesitate to sub you out or, if necessary, modkill for this infraction. Please do not quote your role PM. Please do not quote results PMs. Generally try to avoid using the word PM and/or quotation marks when describing things, if you can help it. If you are unsure of whether or not you can say something, please PM me.

Editing and Deleting Posts

There will be absolutely no editing or deleting of posts.

Timing

The thread will generally open every day by 9:00 am server time and hopefully earlier (depending on how diligent I can be processing and sending out night results ldo). Each day will end at 9:00 pm server time. Posting at 9:00 pm is acceptable, and votes with that time stamp will be counted. Posting after that (i.e., at 9:01 and beyond) is not acceptable, even if I have not yet declared it night by posting "It is night." Weekends will constitute one game-day.

Participation

There is a maximum post limit of 120 posts on d1. This does not count event-related posts, and the restriction will lift one hour prior to EOD. There may or may not be maximum post limits on future days. Regardless, please try to minimize needless spamming to keep the thread as manageable as possible for everyone

Players are asked to maintain at least a bare minimum level of participation of 10 posts per day. If you do not make 10 posts in a day, you will have a 10% chance of being removed from the game for each post you fall short of the mark. (In the event that you are removed from the game, a sub will be sought overnight and you will be modkilled if no sub is found.) Anyone who does not make at least 5 posts in a day will have their night action, if any, fail that night.

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THESE ARE MAYBE MORE LIKE GUIDELINES

Claiming

Claim whatever you want! Go nuts. You do so at your own risk.

Resolution of Night Actions

If Roleblocker A successfully targets Roleblocker B, then Roleblocker B is roleblocked.

More broadly: actions that affect other actions (“meta-actions”) are resolved sooner than actions that do not affect other actions. Meta-actions that affect meta-actions are resolved sooner than meta-actions that do not affect other meta-actions.

Additional questions regarding the order in which night actions are resolved are to be directed to me. I may or may not be able to provide further clarification and/or enlightenment.

On Gameplay, Balance, and Fun

We have diligently striven for some modicum of game balance. Many hours have been spent revising and refining this roleset to match as closely as possible some vague ideal of game design where everything is cool and everyone has a fantastic time and it's thoroughly epic from top to bottom. Please trust that a fair amount of thought has gone into the design, and there are probably reasons for things that will become clear as stuff shakes out. However, mishmashes are intrinsically variance-heavy, and mishmashes with all kinds of timey-wimey shenanigans are doubly so. Depending on how the ping-pong ball bounces, this could turn out to be a giant, glorious mess or a one-sided bloodbath. Just, y'know, try to have fun and roll with it. Games should be fun. Let's have fun.

On Complaining

I live in a glass house. I am always trying to be better at respecting the work that moderators do, but it's easy to lose sight of that and vent when you're the one playing the game and feelings run high; I recognize that. I hope to make this as positive an experience as possible, and that's all I can do. Thank you for letting me run this game for you.

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OTHER STUFF

n0 actions

There were some n0 actions. All n0 actions must be submitted by 7:00 am server time. Some n0 actions will be randed if you fail to submit, but most will not. Check your role if you are unsure whether your n0 action will be randed (if it doesn’t say so, then it won’t be). Probably better just to submit regardless, though.

On future nights, night actions should be submitted by 6:30 am server time until further notice. We'll try that and see if it gives me enough time to monkey covering eyes emoji I'm not sure what I've let myself in for.

ITAs

There might be ITAs.

Events

Expect several events per day.

Mechanics

There are three major mechanics: Eras, Paradoxes, and Inflection Points. Let's cover these now.

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Eras:

In this game, the wolves are racing from era to era to create instability in the space-time continuum. The village’s mission is to chase after the wolves, try to undo any chronal damage they’ve caused, and ultimately eliminate them from the timestream.

Thus, every day beginning d1, the thread will find itself in a different historical Era, with different flavor-appropriate mechanics and events. Each Era will be chosen by the wolves from a list of three alternatives posted in the thread at the end of the previous day (or in the case of d1, sometime on n0). The wolves may or may not have some limited additional information about their choices than what is publicly provided.

It is the job of Vanilla villagers to decide where and when the wolves will be going next by PMing their guess to the mod that night. If the village fails to anticipate the wolves’ next move, then the wolves will arrive in the new Era far enough in advance that they can do some damage to the timeline before the village gets there; this will result in a minor Paradox and, depending on the Era, other potentially pro-wolf effects.

On the other hand, if more Vanillas guess the correct destination than any other destination, then the village arrives in the Era in time to prevent the Paradox from occurring. In addition, every Vanilla who guesses the destination correctly will receive one Inflection Point at the end of that night, whether or not the village as a whole anticipated the wolves’ move.

Here are the wolves' potential destinations for d1:

1960s Berlin
-Berlin Wall mechanic
-Searchlight event
-Radio Free Europe event

1870s New York
-Boss Tweed mechanic
-Gilded Age event
-Investment event

15th century Lisbon
-Court Intrigue mechanic
-Renaissance event
-Age of Exploration event

No matter the Era, there may be additional events not listed above.

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Paradoxes:

Paradoxes happen when damage has been done to the timeline, either through the wolves’ choice of Era or through some interaction of various players’ roles: basically, if something happens and then unhappens in a way that makes it impossible for the thing that made it unhappen to have happened itself in the first place, that’s a paradox. I trust that sentence is perfectly clear.

There are two types of Paradoxes, minor and major. A major Paradox causes twice as much instability to the timestream as a minor Paradox.

Paradoxes will always be announced in the thread, although not necessarily immediately. The thing that caused the Paradox will not be made clear publicly. It may be possible for certain players to understand why a particular Paradox happened when it did, based on role-related bits and bobs. Feel free to claim that knowledge if you really think it’s wise.

The more Paradoxes pile up, the more unstable the timestream gets, and the more powerful the wolf team grows. That works like this: after a certain number of Paradoxes have occurred, the wolves will get a one-time team action to be used that night (say, a roleblock). After a certain number of additional Paradoxes have occurred, they will get a one-time team action of slightly better quality, and so forth, until the timestream has become so unstable that the wolves are awarded a really, really good action: whatever you’re thinking of, you’re probably in the right ballpark. At that point, the timestream will finally manage to repair itself, and the instability level will be reset down to zero.

The specific number of Paradoxes that trigger each specific wolf team action will not be made public. The level of instability in the timesteam at any given time will be roughly ascertainable based on flavor. There may or may not be roles that have the capacity to reduce the instability level on their own, delaying the wolf team’s ability to gain powers.

Cliffs: Paradoxes bad. Sometimes unavoidable, but still bad.

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Inflection Points

Inflection Points are ways for players, especially Vanilla villagers, to attempt to influence the timeline in the form of night actions. As mentioned, every Vanilla who guesses the wolves’ next-day destination correctly will earn one Inflection Point at the end of that night. Both Vanilla and non-Vanilla players will also occasionally have the opportunity to gain Inflection Points in other ways, particularly in events.

Here’s how Inflection Points work. There are six basic ways in which a player with an Inflection Point may try to influence the timeline: vigs, peeks, angels, tracks, watches, and roleblocks. Each of these actions has a certain number of potentiality slots on a given night, representing a range of possible futures. Players can use Inflection Points to fill those slots with their own desired action.

For example, let’s say that actions have the following number of potentiality slots:

Peek (12)
Vig (10)
Angel (8)
Track (8)
Watch (6)
Roleblock (6)



Player A has two Inflection Points and uses them both on trying to vig Gadarene. Player B has one Inflection Point and uses it to try and vig UncleDynamite. Three of the ten potentiality slots for this action have been filled. There will be a twenty percent chance that Player A will gain a vigilante shot on Gad, a ten percent chance that Player B will gan a vigilante shot on UncleDynamite, and a seventy percent chance that nothing will happen.

You will be told if you gained an action through the use of your Inflection Points. (If you did, that action can then have been roleblocked, redirected, tracked, etc. as normal.) If you did not gain an action, you retain any Inflection Points you have and may try to use them on a subsequent night instead. You may claim to have Inflection Points and to have used Inflection Points, but you do so at your own risk.

Oh, one other thing: If a player is the only one to use Inflection Points on a given action that night, then the number of potentiality slots that that player occupies will double.

You will be told how many potentiality slots each action has at the start of a given night. This number may or may not change during the game.

If you have multiple Inflection Points, you do not need to allocate them all on a given night, but you may not allocate Inflection Points to multiple actions or towards multiple targets that night. So if you have two, you could use both on vigging Gadarene, or you could use one on vigging Gadarene, but you could not use one on vigging Gadarene and the other on roleblocking eyebooger.

Finally, from time to time, Vanillas will also have the option to use their Inflection Points to reduce the timestream’s instability level rather than to perform an action. More details will be provided about this as appropriate. You may not use Inflection Points to reduce timestream instability on the same night that you use them on a night action.

Cliffs: If you have Inflection Points, you can use them.

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Inflection Points, pt. 2: Windows of Opportunity

I said above that you will retain Inflection Points that don't translate into an action on a given night, and that's true. The tide of history flows, though, and the chance to act doesn't last forever.

For every Inflection Point you earn, there is a Window of Opportunity in which to successfully use it. At the start of the game, that window is six nights. In other words, an Inflection Point earned on n0 will expire at the end of n6 if not successfully used before then.

This Window may lengthen or shorten as the game progresses.

Cliffs: If you have Inflection Points, you should use them.

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There are 48 players in this game. Here they are in alphabetical order.

Player List

72off
a missread issue
accobra_kid
Adam33
Amrock
ApocPS
Bakes
Birdman10687
BitchiBee
Booker Wolfbox
Cannon Fodder
captain binkles
carolinacoder
confirmedtroll
Creature
Doctor Zeus
DonkDonkDonkDonk
dyachei
el chupacabro
fanmail
filthyvermin
fnord_too
Gamer Dude
iamnotawerewolf
insanity31
iraisetoomuch
jonnyd
Kaze13
Lissa2
LKJ
Luckbox Inc.
Montecore
No Lunches
pry
SGT RJ
Sun Tzu
Suqata8
Tehtoes
Telcontar
traz
Viggorous
VoraciousReader
wahoopride
Whysper
xander biscuits
Xkf
Yawn
Zurvan

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there was a young lady named Bright

whose speed was far faster than light

she started one day

in a relative way




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I SUPPOSE YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO WIN SPACE-TIME

Win Conditions

The village win condition is as follows: You are a Villager, and you win when the village has eliminated the wolves and any other threats that may exist.

The wolf win condition is as follows: You are a Wolf, and you win when the wolves have achieved irrevocable parity with the village and eliminated any other threats that may exist.

The fact that these win conditions mention other threats that may exist neither confirms nor refutes the existence of other threats.

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Good Morning!

This is Lisbon, 1499.



You stand in one of the cultural centers of the European Renaissance and the heart of global trade and commerce.

This is truly an exciting time to be alive.

It would have been a bit less exciting had you been here just a little bit earlier, though.

The wolves have already made their mark, and a minor Paradox has occurred.

You don't know how they've done it, and you can only guess at their sinister future aims, but, well...

They've persuaded King Manuel I to rename the country as it spreads its influence across the globe. There's a sign, right there at the main harbor, that, translated, reads:

WELCOME TO LISBON BLORTUGAL. WE HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR STAY.

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Court Intrigue



As you start to familiarize yourselves with Ribeira Palace, you learn that King Manuel's court is, unsurprisingly, full of all manner of gossip and shadowy backroom dealings, alliances and betrayals, casual shifting of personal loyalties, as everyone strives to be closer to the crown at this moment when a royal word could make or break your fortune and your legacy.

As such, it's not always what people say in public that counts.

After the day has ended, and during the 15 minute corrections period, each player will have the chance to secretly move their vote to another of the existing wagons.

The revised vote totals will be shown along with the lunch reveal -- although, of course, the identities of voters on the newly reconstituted wagons will be anonymous. That's the palace for you.

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OKAY SO, LAST BIT

There will be a 120 post maximum today prior to the last hour of the day. This will not count any posts made in events, of which more anon.

Anyway, it's time to get to work. There are wolves to catch. Or, depending on your predilection, villagers to evade. And remember...



The sun is shining brightly on the Blortuguese Empire!

IT IS DAY. YOU MAY POST!

First

First

I jinxed myself into a villa rand by preemptively whining that I was gonna rand wolf for sure




Sup Amrock, nice to see you friendo

great, that's great

***EVENT***

Lego!

Never done a post capped 12/12 before. I think it will allow me to be a little more productive throughout the day with real life stuff. I am going to do most of my energy after 5 PM EST today anyway.

F

So basically this means we can't have any vanity wagons, right? We consolidate into certain wagons, and anybody doing vanity wagons is just giving wolves an opportunity to win. We basically have to be unanimous if we really want to optimize

I've always wanted to visit Blortugal. it is next to Blanama and Blaraguay

Howdy

Omg start of date event. 15th! Or something.

Lets doooo this