Welcome! If you enjoy deception, detective work or pretending to be a mod, this game is for you. Don’t worry, it’s not a forum game, just a game that takes place on the forums—an important distinction.
Now that I’m a mod, there’s no better time than to run a social experiment about distinguishing real CYStians from trolls! This activity has slight similarities to Mafia/ Werewolf, as you’ll see below, but with a CYS twist. Feel free to play as yourself or assume a character, whichever you prefer.
Some notes:
- The maximum number of slots is 11 (minimum is 9), but if you sign up late, I’ll put you on the waiting list for if anyone decides to drop out halfway
- There’ll be at least 24 hours for each choice to account for time-zone differences and irl happenings
- Throughout the game, feel free to discuss strategies, form alliances and completely lie about your role
Roles
Good Team
To win, you must eliminate all the trolls from the forums
Bad Team
To win, you must eliminate either all the Mods or all the CYStians
Neutral Team
To win, survive long enough to take on a new role
All roles would be assigned via a random wheel generator.
Rules
The game is split into iterations of nights and days, which are repeated until one group wins. During the night, each member chooses a room to stay in.
- The number of seats/ beds represents the number of people who can be in a room each night
- News & Updates and the Lounge will be off-limits
Night
Troll attack: the trolls will vote to attack one user (every night) and the hacker troll will temporarily change one user’s IP address (every night).
Moderation: the contest mod will SHAME one person, who will be unable to use their abilities but cannot be killed (every night; optional), investigator mod will doxx one user and find out their alignment - good, bad, or neutral (every night) and chaos mod can purge an entire room of users (once per game).
Thunderdome (once per game): if the productive CYStian challenges a troll or Cogite, their opponent will be eliminated. If the productive CYStian challenges any other user, they will be eliminated instead.
Day
Gazette news (every morning): Information would be revealed about who—if anyone—was eliminated from the Forums. If there was a Thunderdome match, the identity of the eliminated loser will be revealed (the winner’s identity remains a secret). The user in the Pit of Shame can communicate with other members as normal but cannot vote
Revival (once per game): When someone has been eliminated at night, their skeleton will remain in Bugs & Problems throughout the following day and if the majority agrees, they can visit the Feature Wishing Well to resurrect them.
Voting: All members would take part in a discussion and cast votes. If most people decide not to vote, no one will be eliminated. If there is a tie, a revote would happen, but if it ties again, no one will be eliminated.
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