Maybe it has become too easy for wolves to win WW these days, and maybe my game was guilty of that. I'd like to think not. In all my RNG trials, the wolves (original or converted) never made it to end game. Not once. So, despite the inherit flaws of RNG-ing through a game trial, I'd like to think that the Affiliated Pirates kicked ass so thoroughly, not because I made it too easy for them, but because they were just that awesome.
@Trilt noticed my catastrophic roster fail that I was really, really hoping no one would figure out. I thought I'd randomized roles and names in excel, so that when I posted the roster in sign-up order it would be all jumbled and wonderful. Except I didn't. And when I realized it, it had already been posted and I couldn't mess with it, so the roster was in perfect faction order. Exhibit A:
Tootles - DVMD
Nibs - Dyachei
Slightly - BBC
Curly - HTML
Twin - Rojo
Twin - Kam
Bill Jukes - Trilt
Cookson - BSC
Alf Mason - KCough
James Hook - Guis
Cecco - 1dogg
Noodler - Katashark
Robt. Mullins - Vetmedhead
Gentleman Starkey - Jilary
Smee - Genny
Mrs. Darling - Caiter
Mr. Darling - Gwen
Wendy Darling - Kaydubs
Michael Darling - Aloha
Mermaid - Animal Midwife
Jane - RM
Tiger Lily - ImAVet
Tinker Bell - Hayley
Peter Pan - Sandstorm
Crocodile - morniqlory
If villagers had wizened up to it, the wolves would have been done for as soon as the first original was found. I'm pretty sure Trilt lost sleep over it.
The game had six factions:
Lost Boys, who needed to make the game last until Day 12 to win (6 original players)
Affiliated Pirates, who needed to be the largest faction remaining (3 original)
Unaffiliated Pirates, who needed to find each other and be the largest faction remaining (6 original)
London, who needed to be the largest faction remaining (4 original)
Mermaid, who needed to drown 3 players from 3 different factions (1 original)
Solo roles, who had individual win conditions (5 original players)
The game was designed so that more than one faction or player could potentially win. It was also possible that no one would win - if no win conditions were met, the game would end with no winner.
So, what happened last night?
@Caiter92 was killed. The exact circumstances went something like this:
Her head was chopped off and a wolf head was attached to the stump of her neck, she was dressed up in a Sherlock Holes hat, pipe, and magnifying glass, and paraded around Neverland by the cheering wolves.
This death wouldn't have been enough to win the game - there was still one lost boy in play, and as long as
@rojo was alive and/or affiliated with his original faction, the game had to continue. His win condition still hung in the balance.
(By the way, RNG made it to Day 14 every time. I thought my Day 12 win condition was being kind - but here we are.)
And so the game would have continued, but last night
@kcoughli converted
@thedrjojo to her faction.The last lost boy became an
Affiliated Wolf.
The final roster:
Kata - Unaffiliated
Caiter - London/Unaffiliated
Kam - Lost Boy/Affiliated
BSC - Affiliated
Animal Midwife - Mermaid
Rojo - Lost Boy/Affiliated
Sandy - Solo/Affiliated
KCough - Affiliated
And the winners:
Affiliated Wolves have Won due to being the largest faction remaining!
Mermaid (go @Animal Midwife !) has Won for drowning 3 players from 3 factions and living (sort of living) to the end!
For you, my winners:
Accolades to:
@BrownSwissCows, whose logic in the wolf thread kept surprising me, and who I'll have to keep my eye on in the future
@Kam325, who identified Trilt as a wolf from the N1 kill, and who sent clever hidden messages asking to be converted (hidden because Kam and Rojo shared a pm thread, and she had to keep him from catching on)
@Gwenevre, who was the only one brave enough to drink the medicine
@kaydubs for being so damn entertaining
@Lupin21 for secret things I'm not allowed to talk about, and for helping me get around my 5-person pm limit
@rockatiel,
@Devastating, and
@WildZoo for being awesome co-mods
So, that's a wrap, folks! Thanks for playing my first game.
Questions? Comments? Complaints?