Struggling for Power 4/12
Killjoy
Sheepsaysmeep
shadowLancerx
Vaimes
Facing Stalin's Wrath 8/12
Roz_the_eevee - Lavrentiy Beria - Head of NKVD Security Forces, Vanilla Town - Lynched Day 1
LastWhisper - Vyacheslav Molotov - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Town Tracker - Killed Night 1
Wheat_Grinder - Anastas Mikoyan - Minister for Trade, Vanilla Town - Killed Night 1
Nancy Drew 39 - Georgy Malenkov - Deputy Party Leader, Mafia Goon - Modkilled Day 2
Gemma - Georgy Zhukov - Head of the Red Army, Town Vanilla - Modkilled Night 2 Rhand Hunger - Maria Yudina - Pianist, Town Vanilla - Lynched Day 3
Lissa - Vasily Stalin - Son of Stalin - Town Vanilla - Killed Night 3 Regfan Dels_8 - Lazar Kaganovich - Minister for Labour - Mafia 1-Shot Backup Roleblocker
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From: Central Committee, To all Members of the Party, to all Working People of the Soviet Union. March 5, 1953
Dear Comrades and Friends: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the USSR Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet announce with profound sorrow to the Party and all working people of the Soviet Union that at 9:50 p.m. 5 March, Iosif Vissarionovich STALIN, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died after a grave illness.
The heart of Lenin’s comrade-in-arms and the inspired continuer of Lenin’s cause, the wise leader and teacher of the Communist Party and the Soviet people, to Joseph Vissarionovich STALIN-has stopped beating.
Stalin’s name is boundlessly dear to our party, to the Soviet people, to the working people of the world. Together with Lenin, Comrade STALIN created the mighty party of Communists, reared and forged that party; together with Lenin, Comrade STALIN was the inspirer and leader of the great October socialist revolution, founder of the world’s first socialist state. Continuing Lenin’s immortal cause, Comrade STALIN led the Soviet people to the world-historic triumph of socialism in our land. Comrade Stalin led our country to victory over fascism in the second world war, which wrought a radical change in the entire international situation. Comrade STALIN armed the Party and the entire people with a great and clear program of building communism in the USSR.
The death of Comrade STALIN, who devoted all his life to the great cause of communism, constitutes a great loss to the Party and to the working people of the Soviet land and of the whole world.
The news of Comrade Stalin’s death will bring profound pain to the hearts of the workers, collective farmers, intelligentsia and all .....
"дерьмо, you clown, you've spilt coffee all over our proclamation!"
"Well it wouldn't have happened if you didn't insist on taking up the entire table with it!"
"Comrades PLEASE, we are trying to break the news that the Greatest Man who ever lived has died, not win the 'pettiest idiot' competition."
"Easy for you to say, you're not writing the bloody thing"
"It would be a truly immense honour to eulogize our glorious chairman, Father to the Soviet people, but my deepest regret is that my old war wound is acting up again, you see..."
A collective rolling of eyes. A pause while coffee is mopped, and tortuously wrung out into a metal bucket: the heavy silence punctured by the tinny plinking.
"Would you describe these days as 'sorrowful' or 'woeful'?"
"I'd describe your wife as 'sorrowful' or 'woeful'"
"WHO SAID THAT?"
Stalin is dead, and even before his body is cold his former comrades and associates are plotting against each other, vying for power, prestige, and - most importantly - their lives. Already one conspiracy has gained steam, and if it succeeds the reckoning will be bloody. The loyal party members must root out and remove these traitors and restore order to the committee - at least until someone else tries to seize power!
Joseph Stalin - (Former) General Secretary of the Central Communist Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Town Vanilla
A Leninist revolutionary, you were instrumental in the establiashment of the Soviet Union itself. You seized power after Lenin's death, and instituted economic and political reform on a massive scale. You ensured your grip on power was unassailable by having anyone who even slightly disagreed with you murdered as a traitor - peaking the Great Purge, which decimated huge swathes of institutions across the country. You were the chief architect in ending the Great Patriotic war, and were rightfully repaid with territory. You achieved the status of a deity with the Soviet Union as you cultivated a fearsome cult of personality.
It is unfortunate then, that you died just as you were really hitting your stride. You possibly could have survived your cerebral haemorrage, had your own guards not been so scared of your you that they did not investigate your collapse. Or if your purges of the intelligensia had not left no competant doctors in Moscow. Whoops.
What makes it worse is you now have to watch these bicerking imbeciles you called your comrades fight each other and threaten to undo your legacy. You only hope that the party, and the Soviet Union itself, will prevail.
Game Specific information
There are no win conditions listed in the role PMs. The town (Party Loyalists) win when all members of the Mafia are dead. The Mafia (Conspirators) win if they equal or outnumber the Town, or if such is inevitable.
This game is based on the film The Death of Stalin. Any historical innacurracies are Armando Iannucci's fault, not mine.
The characters have been randomly assigned to alignments, which means that who is conspiring with who is not (necessarily) in line with either the film or real life.
I think Regfan rolled wolf this time. I really feel it. I can just tell, you know? It's a gut thing and I just know it's true. You'll see, he'll flip wolf, I'll be vindicated by his flip. He's definitely a wolf, calling it now, I'm never wrong on Regfan's alignment. I think I'm going to tunnel him for the entire game until he gets lynched and actually, huh, this is a great way to sort him from now on in all our games together. I know he'll never get mislynched, so I'll just tunnel him and if he gets lynched at some point then it must be because he's mafia. This plan is foolproof. God, why didn't I think of this earlier.
Also, note to the mafia team, I actually crumbed my role in this post, see if you can find it. Good luck.
This is like, incredibly scummy. Wow. You are definitely a wolf, shadow.
You're ready to end the day in your first post. Did you get a n0 guilty or something? See, I know you didn't, because I'm the cop, and also n0's don't exist on this site. That means there's no other conclusion than: You Are Very Very Scummy.
Gosh, you really need to up your game, because you're getting caught in your first post now and it's kinda shameful. What happened to you, shadow. You used to be good at this.
Yeah that is actually pretty dreadful wow I didn't even read that. Also why is it Town Vanilla and not Vanilla Town? You guys write rolenames weird here.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
@sheep, we played together that one time in the hydra game, so I have a little bit to go on, but have you ever been towncleared for a dumbtell before? Have you ever been falsely towncleared for one?
shadow I wrote a poem for you and it was beautiful and lyrical and it's gone because I refreshed the page to see if there were any replies before I posted it, I'm crying so much that my tears are spilling over onto my hands and onto the keyboard and soon I will probably drown in here, if you never hear from me again this is it, my friend, I've done it all, I've lived it all, I bid you goodbye, through my kisses to fingertips and the wind waving half-turned to the hills with my flower-garnished hair caught by an ocean gust, I bid you goodbye I bid you goodbye, the music swells and you feel the emotion seep down your cheeks to join the swollen dust of my departure, you know in that moment that it's all true, it's everything, it's all too late, I bid you goodbye.
@sheep, we played together that one time in the hydra game, so I have a little bit to go on, but have you ever been towncleared for a dumbtell before? Have you ever been falsely towncleared for one?
sidenote any meta from that hydra game is probably unreliable ive played ~30 mu games since then and more than ~20 on other sites
dont remember ever having dumbtelled/fake dumbtelled
shadow I wrote a poem for you and it was beautiful and lyrical and it's gone because I refreshed the page to see if there were any replies before I posted it, I'm crying so much that my tears are spilling over onto my hands and onto the keyboard and soon I will probably drown in here, if you never hear from me again this is it, my friend, I've done it all, I've lived it all, I bid you goodbye, through my kisses to fingertips and the wind waving half-turned to the hills with my flower-garnished hair caught by an ocean gust, I bid you goodbye I bid you goodbye, the music swells and you feel the emotion seep down your cheeks to join the swollen dust of my departure, you know in that moment that it's all true, it's everything, it's all too late, I bid you goodbye.
That was as beautiful as any poem. But I forbid you from being swept away in your tears.
Roses are red
Gemma is blue
But I can fix that
So get back here you.
~~~~~
Hey Vaimes, if you were gonna RVS, who would it be?
@sheep, we played together that one time in the hydra game, so I have a little bit to go on, but have you ever been towncleared for a dumbtell before? Have you ever been falsely towncleared for one?
sidenote any meta from that hydra game is probably unreliable ive played ~30 mu games since then and more than ~20 on other sites
dont remember ever having dumbtelled/fake dumbtelled
Well dang, that's a lot of games. I'll keep that in mind, but I don't think much of what I remember from that game would be relevant anyway, it was a pretty awful game for me.
still sort of? dislike gemma's entrance although she might just be like that as either alignment will double check some games later maybe
dislike your read on her
so both of you are lean w neither are strong reads but dont think youre w/w
Ooh spicy, tell me what you don't like about her entrance. Also, ironically, literally every game before this that I've played with Gemma we've been W/W, so this is actually the first time I have to read her for real.
still sort of? dislike gemma's entrance although she might just be like that as either alignment will double check some games later maybe
dislike your read on her
so both of you are lean w neither are strong reads but dont think youre w/w
Ooh spicy, tell me what you don't like about her entrance. Also, ironically, literally every game before this that I've played with Gemma we've been W/W, so this is actually the first time I have to read her for real.
reading it again i dont even fully remember
was mostly gut also she really prefers scum and seemed super overhyped still unsure if it's a personality thing
Struggling for Power 4/12
Killjoy
Sheepsaysmeep
shadowLancerx
Vaimes
Facing Stalin's Wrath 8/12
Roz_the_eevee - Lavrentiy Beria - Head of NKVD Security Forces, Vanilla Town - Lynched Day 1
LastWhisper - Vyacheslav Molotov - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Town Tracker - Killed Night 1
Wheat_Grinder - Anastas Mikoyan - Minister for Trade, Vanilla Town - Killed Night 1
Nancy Drew 39 - Georgy Malenkov - Deputy Party Leader, Mafia Goon - Modkilled Day 2
Gemma - Georgy Zhukov - Head of the Red Army, Town Vanilla - Modkilled Night 2
RhandHunger - Maria Yudina - Pianist, Town Vanilla - Lynched Day 3Lissa - Vasily Stalin - Son of Stalin - Town Vanilla - Killed Night 3
RegfanDels_8 - Lazar Kaganovich - Minister for Labour - Mafia 1-Shot Backup RoleblockerEvents
Start of Day 2
Start of Day 3
Start of Day 4
Game Over
Full Setup
Rules
Deadlines and Activity
Voting
This game will use my super fancy vote counter. As a result, votes MUST follow some simple rules in order to count. These rules are detailed here. Fundamentally, so long as your vote is within its own set of bold tags, you should be fine. If your vote is not counted, simply revote. I will try and point out and explain invalid votes.
Team Mafia Rules
The full list can be found here
Summary:
Do Not Post.
Dear Comrades and Friends: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the USSR Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet announce with profound sorrow to the Party and all working people of the Soviet Union that at 9:50 p.m. 5 March, Iosif Vissarionovich STALIN, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died after a grave illness.
The heart of Lenin’s comrade-in-arms and the inspired continuer of Lenin’s cause, the wise leader and teacher of the Communist Party and the Soviet people, to Joseph Vissarionovich STALIN-has stopped beating.
Stalin’s name is boundlessly dear to our party, to the Soviet people, to the working people of the world. Together with Lenin, Comrade STALIN created the mighty party of Communists, reared and forged that party; together with Lenin, Comrade STALIN was the inspirer and leader of the great October socialist revolution, founder of the world’s first socialist state. Continuing Lenin’s immortal cause, Comrade STALIN led the Soviet people to the world-historic triumph of socialism in our land. Comrade Stalin led our country to victory over fascism in the second world war, which wrought a radical change in the entire international situation. Comrade STALIN armed the Party and the entire people with a great and clear program of building communism in the USSR.
The death of Comrade STALIN, who devoted all his life to the great cause of communism, constitutes a great loss to the Party and to the working people of the Soviet land and of the whole world.
The news of Comrade Stalin’s death will bring profound pain to the hearts of the workers, collective farmers, intelligentsia and all .....
"дерьмо, you clown, you've spilt coffee all over our proclamation!"
"Well it wouldn't have happened if you didn't insist on taking up the entire table with it!"
"Comrades PLEASE, we are trying to break the news that the Greatest Man who ever lived has died, not win the 'pettiest idiot' competition."
"Easy for you to say, you're not writing the bloody thing"
"It would be a truly immense honour to eulogize our glorious chairman, Father to the Soviet people, but my deepest regret is that my old war wound is acting up again, you see..."
A collective rolling of eyes. A pause while coffee is mopped, and tortuously wrung out into a metal bucket: the heavy silence punctured by the tinny plinking.
"Would you describe these days as 'sorrowful' or 'woeful'?"
"I'd describe your wife as 'sorrowful' or 'woeful'"
"WHO SAID THAT?"
Stalin is dead, and even before his body is cold his former comrades and associates are plotting against each other, vying for power, prestige, and - most importantly - their lives. Already one conspiracy has gained steam, and if it succeeds the reckoning will be bloody. The loyal party members must root out and remove these traitors and restore order to the committee - at least until someone else tries to seize power!
Joseph Stalin - (Former) General Secretary of the Central Communist Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Town Vanilla
A Leninist revolutionary, you were instrumental in the establiashment of the Soviet Union itself. You seized power after Lenin's death, and instituted economic and political reform on a massive scale. You ensured your grip on power was unassailable by having anyone who even slightly disagreed with you murdered as a traitor - peaking the Great Purge, which decimated huge swathes of institutions across the country. You were the chief architect in ending the Great Patriotic war, and were rightfully repaid with territory. You achieved the status of a deity with the Soviet Union as you cultivated a fearsome cult of personality.
It is unfortunate then, that you died just as you were really hitting your stride. You possibly could have survived your cerebral haemorrage, had your own guards not been so scared of your you that they did not investigate your collapse. Or if your purges of the intelligensia had not left no competant doctors in Moscow. Whoops.
What makes it worse is you now have to watch these bicerking imbeciles you called your comrades fight each other and threaten to undo your legacy. You only hope that the party, and the Soviet Union itself, will prevail.
Game Specific information
With 12 alive, it takes 7 votes to lynch.
only person here i know how to read is nancy drew
/ready to end the day
Vote: Regfan
I think Regfan rolled wolf this time. I really feel it. I can just tell, you know? It's a gut thing and I just know it's true. You'll see, he'll flip wolf, I'll be vindicated by his flip. He's definitely a wolf, calling it now, I'm never wrong on Regfan's alignment. I think I'm going to tunnel him for the entire game until he gets lynched and actually, huh, this is a great way to sort him from now on in all our games together. I know he'll never get mislynched, so I'll just tunnel him and if he gets lynched at some point then it must be because he's mafia. This plan is foolproof. God, why didn't I think of this earlier.
Also, note to the mafia team, I actually crumbed my role in this post, see if you can find it. Good luck.
This is like, incredibly scummy. Wow. You are definitely a wolf, shadow.
You're ready to end the day in your first post. Did you get a n0 guilty or something? See, I know you didn't, because I'm the cop, and also n0's don't exist on this site. That means there's no other conclusion than: You Are Very Very Scummy.
Gosh, you really need to up your game, because you're getting caught in your first post now and it's kinda shameful. What happened to you, shadow. You used to be good at this.
That was premature of me. I apologize.
Please don't lynch me, I super duper promise I'm really actually town.
Hi. It's me. Townie.
A townie. A townie townie. Townie town town hi hi hi it's me.
Tee-oh-you-en that is me to a T.
Okay bye I made too many posts bye! Bye!!!
For quadruple posting
Would lynch Stalin irl
Vote Regfan
Also Gemma, I’m gonna be super ticked if you rolled scum without me, so do me a favor and be town? Mmk? Mmk.
tbh
Hey sheep, were you trying to vote or saying you should vote?
Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Did you just
Do
The thing
Did you
Did...
... you
Did you just
Double RVS
Oh
My.
G.
O.
D.
S-shadow
You just did
the thing
You just did the thing
shadow, w-hAT are you Doing?
Vote Rhand for not RVS voting me.
I think he wanted to... but he's just stallin'.
Or! Or!
What if we...
Both...
Tunnel Regfan, all game, Together!?!?!?
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Warning issued for image leeching -- CavalryWolfPack
is that how you vote idk
The gif is now in the signature. Remember that umage leeching is against the rules -- CavalryWolfPack.
([b]vote Regfan[/b])
~~~~~
Gemma, I’m sold with this plan. What should we do about everyone else?
It'll be like that townies lynch yourselves meme, except instead of doing it themselves Regfan is doing it for them.
Actually, to the thread at large, what’s your preferred alignment? Some of you I know, but I think it’s worth asking.
(If my team name doesn’t make it apparently obvious, I prefer scum)
dont remember ever having dumbtelled/fake dumbtelled
actually im pretty bad at town too so theyre ~same
Love you, Gemma.
Roses are red
Gemma is blue
But I can fix that
So get back here you.
~~~~~
Hey Vaimes, if you were gonna RVS, who would it be?
Do you have any thoughts about the game so far?
I was totally going to, but then Gemma quadruple posted
dislike your read on her
so both of you are lean w neither are strong reads but dont think youre w/w
was mostly gut also she really prefers scum and seemed super overhyped still unsure if it's a personality thing
feels more nai this time
for now
i think
not bold
it looks amazing
also where is nancy drew she's like one of the easiest reads ever outside of like creature