T-I-G CIV: Spambot Apocalypse (Game Thread)

[Nerwen]

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It seemed their captors had mined enough data for the microsecond, for that day the Downers were put to work diverting the course of a river of gushing radiance- an input/output stream. Gruelling though their task was, the slaves worked at it readily, waiting for a spare moment to attend to the real business of the day.

None of them had forgotten the way Blind Guardian, alone of the group, had refused to believe S.E.E.R. or take part in dismantling tomtom's brain. All agreed she must be an enemy of some kind- the question was, what?

"Clearly the Hacker," Shasta declared. "So the last bot is either Lottie or Kitanna."

Someone- no-one was quite sure who- whispered, "Lottie's dead..."

"Well, Kitanna, then."

"You mean Shasta," said Kitanna.

"Nah, I've got you down as the Hacker," said Morsul, "and BG's a bot pretending to be a hacker."

"Probably," Kitanna agreed. "Or she could be a hacker pretending to be a bot pretending to be a hacker. Or a bot pretending to be a hacker pretending to be a bot pretending to be a hacker. Or a hacker-"

"Why are you doing this to me?" Blind Guardian wailed. "I'm not a bot. My name's Blind Guardian, not Bot Guardian."

"Let us finish this," said Legate, and pushed her into the stream. There was a tremendous splash.

"Help!" cried Blind Guardian, treading data. "Help me, lucyyenic! I don't know which you are, but I'm on your side! I could be useful to you. I can hack my way into any database! No firewall can keep me out! Please, all I ever wanted was to become post-human- to be one of you. Lucy, please...,"

But Lucy, whichever of the four she really was, looked on with the impassivity of a true AI. With a final shriek of despair, Blind Guardian was swept under by the current.

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Living
Legate
Kitanna
Morsul the Dark
Shasta


Dead
Coppermirror, Lommy– seized by Adult Friend Finder.
Nerwen, Aganzir– poisoned by webcrawlers.
Rune– lashed to death with overseer-bot’s light whip. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Inziladun– ICE pick to the head. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Sally– pushed down a data-mineshaft. (R.A.N.G.E.R.)
Lottie- rubbed out. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Boro- brain unplugged. (tomtom.)
Galadriel55- incinerated by firewall. (S.E.E.R.)
Blind Guardian- drowned in I/O stream. (The Hacker.)

[Nerwen]

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Legate had resigned himself to death, but nonetheless he was startled when lucyyenic came into his cell bearing a large hypodermic syringe.

"What's that for?" he asked uneasily.

Lucy jabbed him in the arm.

"Ow, that hurt!"

"It's meant to," said the bot smugly. "I wrote it myself."

Legate hugged himself, shivering. The illusion of chills racing up and down his limbs was all too convincing, as was the burning sensation that followed, and the racking pains that came after that- as his virtual self slowly crumbled into a pile of glowing ash.

"Now that's a virus," said Lucy.

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Living
Kitanna
Morsul the Dark
Shasta


Dead
Coppermirror, Lommy– seized by Adult Friend Finder.
Nerwen, Aganzir– poisoned by webcrawlers.
Rune– lashed to death with overseer-bot’s light whip. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Inziladun– ICE pick to the head. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Sally– pushed down a data-mineshaft. (R.A.N.G.E.R.)
Lottie- rubbed out. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Boro- brain unplugged. (tomtom.)
Galadriel55- incinerated by firewall. (S.E.E.R.)
Blind Guardian- drowned in I/O stream. (The Hacker.)
Legate of Amon Lanc- caught a virus. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)

Day 5 has begun.

[Morsul the Dark]

GOing to make a relatively long post no one vote until then.

[Morsul the Dark]

Well well well...

So it's come down to this. Shasta can vote Kitanna, Kitanna can vote Shasta, then I have to be the tiebreaker. I have to say Ifigured this was the only outcome on Thursday or Friday and was mortified.

Then I realized this can be lots of fun for me. I know who I'm choosing, but here's the catch I'm not voting for my pick. I made my pick my target and will be voting myself.

Think about it this is WW history, The game is almost impossible to end with less than two people, because if it comes down to three you have either two innocents vote a wolf so two innocents are left or one wrong move and suddenly it's one wolf one innocent.


we have me. Imagine a lone innocent in th village or a spammer all by their lonesome, I didn't look at every game in WW history(there being so many) but I can guarantee if it's happened it's not more than twice it's almost mathematically impossible with the way the game is set up.

So I invite you two to make history with me. Whether the village wins or loses, the game will certainly have a unique ending.

++Morsul

And an appropriate song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTQYGUhz_Y)

[Kitanna]

Then I realized this can be lots of fun for me. I know who I'm choosing, but here's the catch I'm not voting for my pick. I made my pick my target and will be voting myself.

Think about it this is WW history, The game is almost impossible to end with less than two people, because if it comes down to three you have either two innocents vote a wolf so two innocents are left or one wrong move and suddenly it's one wolf one innocent.
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You know I don't even care who wins or loses anymore since the last days have been insane. I'd rather risk me being your pick and see this village turn into Highlander.(there can be only one) plus I'm always up for making WW history.

++Morsul

[Nerwen]

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"WW history nothing," whispered the spectral voice. "Don't you know you're playing in a game modded by the sole survivor of the Great Werewolf Massacre of 2010? Nine players lynched at once! Now THAT'S WW history!"

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[Morsul the Dark]

:( Now I have to find that game...

EDIT: What did I just read? That was insane....

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I remember that.

++Morsul

[Morsul the Dark]

Vote tally

Morsul(3)

Woot

[Kitanna]

Vote tally

Morsul(3)

Woot

I await the results with bated breath.

[Nerwen]

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Morsul, or rather H.U.N.T.E.R., let Shasta and Kitanna out of their cells.

"Egad! No bondage?" said Kitanna.

"Er- no, doesn't seem much point," said H.U.N.T.E.R. "So it's come down to this: I know each of you is going to accuse the other of being a spambot, and expect me to judge between you. The trouble is, I'm only a beta version. My software just doesn't discriminate well between friend and foe. So I've got a surprise for you. I'm going to press this button," he indicated a knob behind his ear, "and hope for the best. The result won't disappoint you."

"Won't it now?" said Kitanna mockingly.

"What's the button for?" Shasta enquired.

"Oh, that activates my self-destruction subroutine. I'll blow myself to smithereens. But you wanted to hear the really fun part."

"I did, did I?" said Kitanna.

"The fun part is, I'll take my target with me! Leaving only one person alive: the winner!" The security program laughed heartily.

"My beloved always did have a peculiar sense of humour," Shasta muttered under his breath. Aloud he asked, "So which of us is your target?"

"Ah," said H.U.N.T.E.R. "That'll be the surprise!"

Immediately he pressed the button his aspect changed, his formerly cheerful face now set in an expression of implacable ferocity.

"Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate," chanted the bot as he advanced upon Shasta.

"Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic!" Kitanna remarked cryptically.

"Wait, you got it all wrong!" said Shasta. "I'm just a human- it's Kit you want. She's the one talking in palindromes. Get her!"

But H.U.N.T.E.R. was now beyond reason. Relentlessly he pursued Shasta, and soon caught him in a vice-like grip.

"Let me go! I tell you, you've picked the wrong pers-"

The explosion was heard throughout the server.

When the smoke cleared, all that was left was the solitary figure of Kitanna.

At first she just stood there, disbelieving. Then, as understanding seeped into her stunned mind, she began to dance.

Faster and faster Kitanna whirled, and as she whirled she changed. Her body became round and black, sprouting jointed legs that took up the steps of her dance, and clustered eyes that shone with triumph.

"Now I won!" Lucyyenic declared.

And there was much rejoicing throughout the length and breadth of the spambot empire. While some AIs regretted the loss of their cyber-slaves, all agreed that the humans posed much more of a threat than they had suspected. Lucyyenic was proclaimed the Palindromic Princess of Cyberspace, and armed with the knowledge she and tomtom had gained, the spambots went forth to conquer the internet.

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Living
Kitanna. (Lucyyenic.)

Dead
Coppermirror, Lommy– seized by Adult Friend Finder.
Nerwen, Aganzir– poisoned by webcrawlers.
Rune– lashed to death with overseer-bot’s light whip. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Inziladun– ICE pick to the head. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Sally– pushed down a data-mineshaft. (R.A.N.G.E.R.)
Lottie- rubbed out. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Boro- brain unplugged. (tomtom.)
Galadriel55- incinerated by firewall. (S.E.E.R.)
Blind Guardian- drowned in I/O stream. (The Hacker.)
Legate of Amon Lanc- caught a virus. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)
Morsul the Dark- self-destructed. (H.U.N.T.E.R.)
Shastanis Althreduin- blown up by self-destructing H.U.N.T.E.R. (Ordinary cyber-slave.)

GAME OVER.

SPAMBOTS WIN.

[Inziladun]

yay! go lucy! go spambots!

Your victory is temporary, you cyberspace fiend! :p

Well, I hate to see that! I was hoping to be avenged indeed for my untimely demise. Looks like a good job by the 'bots. Nice to see I nailed Boro by my first vote, anyway. Was I thought to be the S.E.E.R because of that? I was semi-trying to look like it, to draw attention away from the actual one.

We'll get 'em next time, village. ;)

[Kitanna]

Well, I hate to see that! I was hoping to be avenged indeed for my untimely demise. Looks like a good job by the 'bots. Nice to see I nailed Boro by my first vote, anyway. Was I thought to be the S.E.E.R because of that? I was semi-trying to look like it, to draw attention away from the actual one.


I actually thought you might be since your reasoning against Boro was so flimsy.

I was surprised to see Morsul took Shasta down in the end. I honestly thought it would be me and Shasta would be the lone survivor. Though I'm certainly not complaining about it. :Merisu:

I'm glad I could take part in this game. Thank you to everyone for making this so much fun (my life has been severely lacking in WW for months.) And thanks to Nerwin for modding this.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I keep having to delete everything I type because it's coming out too snarky.

Good game Kit/Boro/BG/Sally (honorary traitor).

I was surprised to see Morsul took Shasta down in the end.

I wasn't. :rolleyes:

[Aganzir]

This was definitely a very interesting game to watch! Thank you everybody for providing entertainment for my otherwise a little bit duller but even so not very dull workdays!

[Boromir88]

Fantastic job Kit and BG.

I felt bad most of the time because my usefulness during the day and night wasn't very good. I might have sent a total of 3 messages to Kitanna....and I know the last one before G55's reveal was "I feel confident to day BG, G55, and Morsul are NOT the seer." :( And limitted it down to Lottie or Legate. Went with Lottie because she was doing her submarining-getting-gifted-feeling Lottie.

Then hindsight bias slapped me in the face with G55's reveal, because I've pulled that same, acting cobblery when you're the seer. It's rather perfect seer strategy when there is a cobbler as well.

Night 1 there was added temptation to off G55 early, because Nerwen informed us the hacker was cursed and would be switched if we nightkilled him/her. But we went with Inzil. I didn't think he was the seer, because I would have imagined he would have been more subtle maybe not even voted for me. I mean, my WW-playing life is a like a broken record...after a few days people want to lynch me regardless, so historically seers let me have fun for a few days, see if I give any leads to partners and then decide to out me if they have to reveal. I sent to Nerwen something like "Doubt he's the seer, but he's going to be a pain no matter what, and we don't want any pains."

Night 2, Kit said she thought Morsul was the hunter and either G55 or BG were the hacker. I said, I think I can stir the pot between Morsul and Shasta more, and I was more worried about Lottie being a cautious and quiet seer, who like sally expressed anger by all the gifted seer hinting.

Then G55 reveals and sort of spoils those plans. I see the writing on the wall that amongst the unknowns, I'm probably the one who was going to get lynched. And thought maybe a last ditch effort to act like the hacker and thus make people less willing to lynch me would do the trick, since we didn't have to worry about G55 being protected. And to try to keep the cursed hacker (now abundantly clear it was BG) alive for Kit to change over.

Fantastic game concept and narrations Nerwen!

[Blind Guardian]

WE WON WE WON! :cool: Epic game people! Really surprised Kit was the other bot!

[Loslote]

Well, maybe I just am.

Unfortunately, I have no wolves to offer you. What I can give you is names of people not to lynch.

I knew it! Day 1, I said, "I bet she's the Seer pretending to be the Hacker...better insist as loudly as I can that she's the Hacker!" and I was right! Ha! :D

In other news, brilliantly played Kit - I never really suspected you until after my death.

General apologies for not being able to participate more. I seriously underestimated how much time classes were going to take up. :o Good game, though! Can't wait for the next one. ;)

[Morsul the Dark]

I actually thought you might be since your reasoning against Boro was so flimsy.

I was surprised to see Morsul took Shasta down in the end. I honestly thought it would be me and Shasta would be the lone survivor. Though I'm certainly not complaining about it. :Merisu:

I'm glad I could take part in this game. Thank you to everyone for making this so much fun (my life has been severely lacking in WW for months.) And thanks to Nerwin for modding this.

I actually had as my target the night before you were saved by a technicality ;)

[satansaloser2005]

Good game Kit/Boro/BG/Sally (honorary traitor).

Hey, I was on y'all's side until you killed me. And whose fault was that, my darling? I think you'll find the real traitor here was....well, it was BG, really, but let's not bother with technicalities. :rolleyes:

[Inziladun]

Looks like tom got bombed. Pity, that. :D

[Galadriel55]

SPAMBOTS WIN.[/B]

Well, hopefully at least that won't be true in RL! :eek:

Well done, wolves! That was very well and tactically played!

and I know the last one before G55's reveal was "I feel confident to day BG, G55, and Morsul are NOT the seer."

At least my cover worked. :D

WE WON WE WON! :cool: Epic game people! Really surprised Kit was the other bot!

I wasn't. A very brilliant thought came into my mind just as I was being burned by that firewall - Boro would not throw himself under the wagon (or the bus) unless his mate was still unseen and out of danger. That would put BG out of the picture (aside from the fact that she was quite obviously the cobbler by the end), and I just happened to dream Shasta. I wanted to scream NO, STUPID VILLAGE!, but I reaized I was no better for when I was still alive and I would probably be no better had I continued living.

In other words, nice one village, and well played to the wolves! And even if we lost, how many times was there a solitary wolf after endgame? WW history it is!

[Morsul the Dark]

SO what we're saying is had I voted I would've won because I would have vote Kit...

I'll get you next time gadget, next time....

[Kitanna]

In other words, nice one village, and well played to the wolves! And even if we lost, how many times was there a solitary wolf after endgame? WW history it is!
The real question is what is a bot to do all by herself? I suppose I should find some adult friends to help repopulate the village.

[satansaloser2005]

Botanna: As always, a stellar performance, darling! It was lovely to bicker with you again, though said bickering rather tipped me off that you were more artificial than intelligent (which is impressive, considering how cleverly you played this game). You were at the top of your very bloody game and you truly deserved the win here. ++Kudos!

BG: A hacker you were indeed, and you served your purpose well. An excellent (if not terribly nuanced) performance, young Miss. Congratulations on your lynch, as yours is really the only scenario in which it's okay to say so.

Boro: My sweet prince, how could you? Sadly your shenanigans were cut short, but you did quite well, and you put up a brave front against a seer reveal. As always, good show, you clever boy.

Gal: A bold play indeed, Ma'am! I'm sorry I wasn't around to extend your gift, but you did quite well on your own, and at least you made Kit's last Day or two interesting. Well done, and of course lovely to play with you again. :)

Legate: Terribly sorry I suspected you, lovely. Your words re: Rune didn't sit right with me and I just sort of ran with it from there, not wanting to rush to judgement (again) on Morsul. You played a good game and, as always, it was wonderful to play with you again, even for a short spell.

Rune and Dun: It was a pity you lads had to leave us so early. Dun, I actually considered saving you on the first Night, but opted to protect Morsul instead for some reason. My condolences to you both.

All the other innocents: Well done, all! The bots were simply too tricksy, but you all played a solid game and did your best against the pesky beasts. Just, um, next time don't lynch me in my sleep, okay? It's as much my fault as it is anyone else's, given that I couldn't return before DL, but this is only the second time I've been a ranger ever and I didn't even get to do anything. :( Still, a wonderful experience. It's been too long since we've played! We must do it again soon.

Botwen the Modbot (and her sultry co-bottess, Agan): A fantastic game, my dear! The narrations were amusing and the concept was fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the game both prior to my death and after the wretched event. As always, a joy to play in your game.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I felt bad most of the time because my usefulness during the day and night wasn't very good. I might have sent a total of 3 messages to Kitanna....and I know the last one before G55's reveal was "I feel confident to day BG, G55, and Morsul are NOT the seer." :( And limitted it down to Lottie or Legate. Went with Lottie because she was doing her submarining-getting-gifted-feeling Lottie.
That's absolutely typical way of things. I get the feeling this happens really often. So no need to worry about that, Boro.

Did you have any specific reasons why you thought I might be Gifted?

And as for your reveal, so the reasons for it were that you thought you might go anyway, and wanted to create some confusion? I am just wondering if it would have been possible for you to still survive... personally, I was inclined to vote you (in fact, already the Day before), and I know there were others, but would enough people have shared the idea? Then again, it ultimately worked, so you certainly can't say your sacrifice was in vain...

Well, hopefully at least that won't be true in RL! :eek:

Well done, wolves! That was very well and tactically played!
Just so, just so! I must say, from my part, Kitanna really managed to stay on the "innocent-looking" list all the time and were it up to me, I'd have voted Shasta (sorry, pal, for suspecting you!). I really call this a good performance from a Wolf, and a deserved victory.

At least my cover worked.
Certainly did. I was quite convinced, throughout the game, that you have some special role, but I was hovering between Cobbler and Hunter, Seer crossed my mind only shortly. And were it not for Boro's reveal, I could have still suspected you of being a Cobbler. Definitely good job.

In other words, nice one village, and well played to the wolves! And even if we lost, how many times was there a solitary wolf after endgame? WW history it is!
Couple of times it happened. But not that often, for sure.

Legate: Terribly sorry I suspected you, lovely. Your words re: Rune didn't sit right with me and I just sort of ran with it from there, not wanting to rush to judgement (again) on Morsul. You played a good game and, as always, it was wonderful to play with you again, even for a short spell.
And likewise so sorry to have voted you... even though it was given by circumstances, mostly. (Really, during the first two Days, I practically had to vote people who already had votes, then in the next two Days I was voting for practically clear Wolves/Hackers... Talk about free will!) It really was such a total fail to vote you, of all people, and I am sure the village could have also done much more had you been still around. Well, hope next time it's going to be better!

But in conclusion, your Highness! Thanks to the Moddess (and to the co-Moddess) for really enjoyable game, despite losing, this was a good game and not only because it was after such a long time of no WW, but also because the theme was fun, the game itself was fun and balanced (no awkward roles or role-changes in the course of the game), people played well on all sides and it was nice.

I will let people talk about this game for a while still (because it really deserves it) and then I am going to ask when's next ;)

[Galadriel55]

Noteworthy things about the game:

A lone wolf victor. Nuff said.

I said point-blank that I am the Seer and no one cared.

The Night I dreamt Inzil I almost dreamt Kit, and the Night I dreamt Legate I almost dreamt Boro.

We lynch a ranger. :(

The hunter commits suicide.


The list goes on, I just have to go to school now. You guys continue it. :)