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I get that, but this is mainly a starting point with some presets that players would want anyway. I'm ok with replacing the guardian for another role, or just dropping it altogether for a normal human.

I think you forgot "no changing victory conditions". Or is that allowed this time.
I also think that there should be a don't change allegiance rule since both of the previous Mephistopheles games where basicly decided by those deals.

Right, I meant to add that in but didn't. As far as the changing allegiance, I'm tempted to leave it as is, but a player cannot willing switch teams.

[TWG XLIII: My Name is Mephistopheles]

So I think I'll go ahead and throw in a game to host with my old Mephistopheles concept.

TWG XLIII: My Name is Mephistopheles

X Players:
3 Wolves (red) - The wolf team knows who each other are.
Faust - Seer* (blue)
Gretchen - Guardian* (blue)
X Humans (green)

*There's a 50/50 chance for seering and guardings to be effective. A coin flip will occur between the two roles and the winner's power will work. The other player will be told their power was unsuccessful.

Let's make a deal,

I have three of my agents scattered amongst you, the goal of the game is to seek them out and kill them. I have given to you, and only by the Grace of God, two allies to help you in this task. I'd rather have nothing more to do with these people, but my hands here are tied.

Your allies aren't terribly effective though, but I'm no monster so I'm willing to shift the balance. You want something to help you, and I can help you get it. I don't care what it is, and you don't care how you get it. There is a catch, though, as nothing in this world comes for free.

This is not an ordinary game of TWG, as each player can make a deal with the devil for any reason at any time. You can make a deal for whatever you wish, and I will tell you what it will cost you. I can deny any deal I wish, and you can only have one contract at a time.
Be creative in your deals, you can get anything your heart desires. There are a few ground rules, however; a few deals that the powers that be will not permit me to make:

 - You cannot kill anybody; no insta-lynchings or additional wolfings.
 - You cannot violate the laws of time and space, no phase extensions or reductions.
 - You cannot resurrect anybody; I'm not in the saving business, death is permanent.
 - You cannot prevent other players from being able to make deals.
 - You cannot change victory conditions; the wolves win when their number equal the humans, and humans win when all the wolves are dead.

I have a few ground rules of my own that you should understand before making a deal. I may not be holy, but I never said I wasn't fair:
 
 - All deals revolve around fair trade; something must give for you to get.
 - I get to decide what is given up for you to get what you want, and you will be told the cost, but not who will pay it or how.
 - Once the deal is struck, it is final; you cannot back out of it for any reason.
 - You cannot ask for information regarding deals with other players.

Making a Deal:
If you want to make a deal, all you have to do is call me via PM:

"I, [insert name], wish for [the deal you wish to strike] to be executed in the following manner:
List the details."
I will reply:
"I, Mephistopheles, agree to grant [name] the [deal you wish to make] in the following manner:
Details,
 At the cost of [to be determined]."

All you have to do then is reply with the phrase "I agree to this contract" and give your signature, or state that the deal is off. Once the deal is struck it will be given an identification number, randomly generated, and all parties will refer to it as such from that point on.

I advise you to be as clear and detailed as possible, otherwise you will give me the right to execute the deal in any manner I see fitting. If you feel I haven't lived up to my end of the bargain, you can take your case to the thread and allow them to resolve it by popular consensus through a jury of the damned. Whatever they decide will be final and I will abide by it. You cannot strike the same deal twice, if you back out from an earlier deal you cannot ask me about it later.

Once more to be perfectly clear:
You cannot discuss any aspect of these deals with anybody. You cannot tell anybody that you've struck a deal, the nature of a deal, or question other players about deals they might've had.

Jury of the Damned:
Comprised of all deceased players, it is their duty to decide the legitimacy of the claim against the host and look over all material pertaining to the issue. This happens in real-time and will not interrupt the game, meaning whenever they reach a decision is when they reach a decision. No deadlines, no idle periods of play. Once the player announces he has an issue with me, I will convene the jury and we will handle the matter in private. Once the Jury has made their decision it will be total and final, and their decision will be announced to the thread.

To summon the jury, make a post in the thread saying:
"I want to contest Deal X on the grounds that [state your issue]."
After which I will summon the jury via PM and we will handle it from there. We will both state our cases, with the plaintiff presenting first, and hand the Jury all PMs regarding the deal. They will deliberate with no input from either of us. If necessary we will bring in a third party to resolve the matter, such a party will not be a current player. However, I would advise you to consider if an outcome or occurrence does not happen has you desired or planned, odds are good another player's deal might have had an impact on it.

All deals with me are confidential; you will not be allowed to discuss your deal or its terms to any other player. Doing so is a breach in contract and I have every right to collect your debt. "What is your debt?" you may ask. In order to play this game, you will agree to sign over your soul to me until this game is completed. You have no obligation to sign this contract, and there will be no penalty against you if don't. However, if you if you think you can survive this game and win, all you have to do is sign on the dotted line.

Name your price,

Mephistopheles

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I'm also debating designing a game, depends on how long we have to do so.

[Mastersuperfan]

Mastersuperfan

Well then.

Just want to point out that I've suspected Bubbles almost all game.

[Lkjhgfdsa_77]

All caught up now, and it looks like the consensus LKJ. Looking everything over I agree he's been putting in the bare minimum to seem like an active player but hasn't done really anything. His big post about the updates I think is the biggest tell, because I think he's actively trying to distract players from the game at hand by focusing on irrelevant details of the updates and stories.

I still hold that Bubbles is a wolf for similar reasons, but more along the line of "going with the flow just enough to show activity". Her being sick is a convenient excuse for this, but if she were a vanilla human, I doubt she'd even go through the effort if this were the case.

Lkjhgfdsa_77

[MaestroUGC]

I hoped to do well, but I failed.

MaestroUGC

Nobody else place a vote for BDS. We want to avoid an insta to see if a counterclaim occurs.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

BlackDragonSlayer

Not seer.

The Constitution was made to be amended.

You can make the laws have a provision where law enforcement can still carry weapons, but in other countries where nobody has guns, violence by guns is far lower than in the US.

Violence still happens, but the whole point of gun control is to limit the kinds of weapons people can legally get as well as the means they can obtain them. You'll still have they very, very, very small group of people getting them illegally, but outside of organized/gun-related crime or terrorist conspiracies, the average person will have no idea how to buy an assault rifle if it's not sold in a store.

A wolfing? No. Not if you're Monika, anyway. Besides, Monika would make a point to avoid voting for wolves.

I discussed this a bit in the Discord, but I'll summarize.

So at this point I think it's safe to assume the wolves hit Monika Night 1, which is unfortunate because this means they may be working with her to have an extra vote each day. With that, I have some suspicions of a possible wolf team:

Bubbles, THC, E. Gadd, and SuperMarina.

The wolfing pattern is really odd. They went for Trasdegi Night 2, a player who really had no current impact on the game, but follow it with very vocal player Olimar. Olimar is particularly curious as so far his suspicions panned out very poorly (both being davy and Dudeman). It seems that they did this in order to stave off having him direct his attention towards the wolves, otherwise a paranoid act.

This group assumes that there's only one experienced wolf in the set, and based on how fervently Bubbles jumped in from a seeming absence almost feels like she was doing damage control. Hitting Monika Night 1 might've caught them by surprise, and they really needed to scramble with how to portray it, with Bubbles echoing the more vocal players so as to seem more in-line with the group. E. Gadd was (and still is) largely absent from the game, opting to abstain from voting Day 1 for no real reason. THC has been jumpy all game, and I'd bet this has to do with him being inexperienced and not knowing how to react to, well, anything. The last is SuperMarina, of which I don't have much to go on, but I suspect is playing a bit too cautiously so as to avoid direct suspicion.

Now I think SuperMarina might instead be replaced with another experienced player, BDS or FA perhaps, both of whom have been very vocal and opposed Olimar each in some way. Or, perhaps, one of them might be Monika, who would likely be in pattern with the wolves, as she would have a vested interest in their victory.