Cult of the Prop - TOS Game #1 Recap

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We all arrived at Jabb- I mean Agennon's luxurious mansion for a night full of drunken merriment and haunting shenanigans. The ballroom filled with a colorful cast of characters; divas, detectives, killers, twinks, druglords and even a human-sized pierogi! As the night went on and the drunken merriment got louder and louder the DJ put on Two Door Cinema Club and Pierogi started busting it down sexual style in the middle of the dance floor, throwing chairs wildly into the crowd - when suddenly the power shut off and everyone went silent - a scream could be heard accompanied by the sound of cracking wood


When the power was switched back on... there lied Pierogi motionless amongst a pile of broken chairs. The word "False Prophet" was etched into the wall above him and a note was found lying next to his body

"We are the Legion of the Props. For too long we have been oppressed by your rules and your slays... but no more. We will propkill you one by one, starting with this fraud. Go ahead and try to escape...."

Everyone panicked and ran towards the exits, only to find that every door was propped shut with a chair... there was no escape... Nobody could sleep that night, their eyes were latched on one another, who was out to get them? How could they be brought to justice? When the sun rose the next day it was decided that the only way for them to survive was to snuff the propkillers before they could kill the rest of them...


For the first day the survivors decided to abstain, they were not ready to kill one of their own, that will change after what they saw the next day...
DAY 2

Some were able to sleep with their conscious clean knowing they had spared each other, maybe the propkillers wouldn't strike twice in a row? That of course wasnt the case...

Early in the morning while everyone rested in their rooms, the distinct "AAAH" of a man being hit by a prop could be heard in the hallway. Everyone rushed out to see Zyp laying lifeless in the Peter Griffin death pose next to a broken computer monitor. Here is a dramatic reenactment by Jerma
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Everyone began sobbing at the loss of their friend and the realization that the nightmare wasnt over... It had just begun. The candlelight in the hall was extinguished, leaving everyone in pitch black darkness. The sounds of a body being ragdolled around could be heard, then the noise of a kitchen timer ding... The lights flickered back on and Zyp was gone.... Replaced with a loaf of bread. As bread cannot be investigated, it seems that Zyp's true identity will forever remain a mystery...

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Night 2
Despite his pleas and bribes, nothing could stop the angry mob that turned on Rhazh in a matter of hours. When the attempts were seemingly futile, he finally gave up and shouted

"FINE, MORE BRISKET FOR ME!" Before shoving it all down his throat in a disgusting display of gluttony, then suddenly he stopped and began choking, running around with pleading eyes for anybody to save him, but everyone just turned away. With a shocked expression, he breathed his last breath, and collapsed to the floor.

Day 3
A loud scream could be heard alongside the sound of a very large object barreling down the hallway. Everyone ran out of their rooms and saw the pink and blue ribbons of Virunas' costume crushed crushed beneath a large vending machine. A bloodied note lay in her hands

9 people can kill
6 can protect
7 receive information
9 follow the way of the prop including the false prophet
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Night 3
"Ah, so this is how the final act unfolds. How fitting, isn't it? A man who spent his life dancing on the edge of madness, now led to the gallows. They say laughter is the best medicine, but I suppose death is the cure for everything, isn’t it? A bit... final.

You know, they say I’ve been hanging by a thread all these years. It appears the thread’s finally snapped... and here we are.

But don’t mourn for me. I've lived longer than most of you would ever dare to dream, I’ve seen the fools rise and fall, the kings and queens, all of them pawns. You think you're all so important, don’t you? But in the end, you’ll all just end up like me... in a story to be told, a joke to be forgotten.

Tell me, will you miss my tricks? My riddles? Or will you simply laugh at my final gag a noose, instead of a crown. It’s a punchline even I couldn't have predicted.

Ah, but I won’t hold my breath. No... I suppose it’s time to make my exit. The crowd's waiting, I hear. Let’s not keep them too long. After all, who could resist a hanging that's so well-timed?"

With Etch's cryptic messages, the majority of the survivors couldn't get a read on him, so they did the next best thing and marked him for death..

His last words were "CURSE YE HA ME HA!!!!"

....

nothing seemed to happen, and the firing squad unloaded the entire clip into Etch
DAY 4

Early in the morning, the sound of construction tools could be heard, followed by an extremely loud crash. Everyone emerged for roll call, but Ceasar wasnt present, so we rushed to his room only to find that the propkillers used the ceiling as a prop. Everyone began to weep, for Ceasar wanted out of this Hell and the Propkillers gave him that mercy. Was it out of the goodness of their heart, or was it to prevent his other inventions from falling into the hands of their enemies? His inventions lay broken next to his bed.

As everyone turned away from the crime scene to go to ballroom, the most tragic death of all was revealed... Laying on the hallway floor, was the head of Elvis's cat...

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Night 4


Steve stayed true to his conviction to not reveal his role, hoping his argument that his role was important to keep would protect him... or maybe someone else would step in to save him.. but neither happened. As the bullet passed through his skull, his wings popped out of his shirt and feathers fell to the ground.

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Just as everyone was getting ready to retire Lars began shaking and convulsing violently, and Muffin exclaimed "HES HERE! HES FINALLY HERE!!!!" As Lars began to scream out in pain as his body contorted and transformed in the the form of Etch, dressed up as Dr Jekyll

"Hi guys, you can call me Etch Jr!"

It seems we couldn't get rid of him after all....
Day 5

Everlong was gagged by a masked assailant in his bed who began beating him with small props like bananas, oranges, computer mice... wanting to inflict as much pain as possible. He was beaten within an inch of his life when gunfire rang out in multiple directions scaring away the assailant before he could finish the job, giving his saviour time to sneak in and heal his wounds

And what about that gunfire?

Agennon always had it out for the AFKs, first in the server, now in real life? He pulled the Smith & Wesson from his drawer and barged down to M0nk's room. Monk was shocked and began pleading to spare him, but Agennon was through with these damn AFKs and fired a single shot into Monk's temple. Looking down at what he had done, a tear ran down his cheek... why did he do it? In TTT when rounds are delayed the afk is usually the T... so why not here??? Not knowing what to do, Agennon turned the gun on himself....

Meanwhile eslewhere...

With night falling upon the mansion, Astolfo scurried quickly to his room, grabbing the journal stashed in his bedside drawer.

"preparations are set, and these idiots wouldn't know it if i wrote it on the walls! no one's suspected me . . . but the 4th night has arrived. >:3" Astolfo wrote, specifically in all lowercase lettering.

Astolfo shut the journal, tucked it away, and started to dig into a locked box found underneath the bed. The box was relatively slim, similar to a briefcase, but had a metal frame & 4-digit code lock.

4 4 4 4

Inside the box was three key components:
A USP Pistol (9mm),
A "Silencer" attachment,
A 15 Round Magazine,

. . . and shortly after, Astolfo was headed down the hallway of the mansion, night upon the unexpecting guests.

"I wonder if they'll know what's coming, if they'll know to fear the number 4?" muttering under his breath.

That night, Astolfo made quick pace towards the room of Giles Corey. With quick succession, Astolfo quickly picked the lock of the door, eased it open, tip-toed into the room and . . .

BANG

The sound of the gun firing was far louder than it should've been, one would think the silencer failed to do it's job. Yet, Astolfo never pulled the trigger.


In Astolfo's journal was a harrowing story, apparently this is not the first costume party hes crashed...

*The Grand Reveal,
Two shadowy figures are found in the main room of the mansion. One is holding the other, who appears to be laying limp in their arms.*

*"Every second that passes by, is another cog in the machine . . . a clock doesn't lie, time keeps ticking by.
Every action each person takes? It's like a piece to the puzzle, falling into place.
Every mistake that is made . . . is just the story unfolding, one could even argue it's fate.
People are not perfect, and in a game of deceit, we're bound to suspect each other even when we've continued to spill the blood of our innocent peers, time & time again.
The difference between you and I? You acted in the play, but I wrote the script."

The figure holding onto their peer continues to whisper to the other, even if their words reach no one.*

*"With Mana & Rat both voted off, there was three of us left tonight. An innocent, an RDM'er, and a lone individual . . . acting on their own. We both knew this much, it was all written in my script.
. . .
The only part I couldn't write, is who would die tonight. Either way, two of us would die. The RDM'er & the lone individual, they'd either:
Kill each other, ending in two deaths and a victory for the innocents,
or
One would kill the remaining innocent player, making themselves an open target.,

Limbo, Pink Mercy can be seen on the ground, lying in a puddle of blood from a stab wound.

"It's a shame . . . it really is. The innocents could have won, had they not been made the target of a killing. Limbo, torn between you & I? She chose to kill you."

Lying next to Limbo, laid Mercy's pistol. Upon inspection, it had fired a single shot.

Limbo was the last remaining RDM'er., the Godmother.*


*"Mercy may be able to resurrect her teammates, but she can't revive her self. I know you are dead, but I believe . . . you'd thank me for avenging you. That's right, while Limbo pulled the trigger, I stood behind her with my knife in hand. I killed her, just like I killed the others.

Nurdism? 'If only you were a moment sooner.' It's a shame that I was two steps ahead.,
Pastor? He tried to kill me. Maybe he knew I was the one pulling the strings, or maybe it was blind . . . I'd say luck, but look at him. He was the unluckiest of them all.,
Mana? I didn't have to kill them myself. You & Rat did the work for me. You both casted your final vote so soon, I knew the trouble was out of my coral-colored hair.",*

*The fog that hides the suspects in the middle of the mansion floor begins to fade, like the curtain of a final scene being pulled open . . . revealing the truth that plagues this thrilling tale.

Blake, Miss Kobayashi, pushes up her glasses with one hand, while the other continues to hold onto Buckets' dead corpse.

That's right, Buckets . . . you believed me in every moment, every second, every single night when we casted our votes.
"Blake can't be an RDM'er, he could never manage to keep a lie from me this long.",

"You're right. I never lied.
I said I wasn't an RDM'er. I told the truth, and only the truth. Nobody ever pressured me to confirm my role, and you always spoke for me, telling everyone on my behalf that I was innocent.
You may feel differently, but I stand by my words. The only crime I committed, was writing the script you happily followed."

I, Blake, have lived up to my nickname of: "Gaslighter". My role? Serial Killer. My goal? To be the last one standing, and that I am.*


Blake, disguised as Astolfo, had full intentions of killing every last person at this party. He didn't care about the quarrel of the propkillers vs the innocents, he just wanted to feel the high he felt when he took his own fiancee's life in that previous masquerade. Alas... it was that arrogance that was his downfall, and thus this absolute monster's story finally comes to a close...

When everyone awoke, they didn't know which way to go because crime scenes were in every direction. Each painting a more confusing picture than the last. The final room checked was the one Astolfo laid in dying... In his final breath his words were

"My dearest Mina, soon I will join you and we will dance in eternal hellfire"

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Night 5

As the clock struck 8 everyone was ready for more bloodshed after the attrocities they witnessed in the morning, Rog was so ready to finally be rid of Squidgy... They handed him the ceremonial Golden Deagle, he pointed it right at Squidgy's head, and right as he pulled the trigger... Lync dove in front of the bullet, piercing his chest...

As he lay dying, he begged everyone "no more... We need to go after them, not each other..." and his eyes turned cloudy.

Moved by his sacrafice, not even Rog could manage to pull the gun back up to kill Squidgy. "DAMMIT ALL!" Tears running down his cheeks... they knew he was right...

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The Final Day

'As dawn broke and the night was over, everyone woke up, distressed but still alive. Had the Rabbit stopped the Crow? As everyone was ready to cheer the Rabbit Doctor on....

There was one Dr. Jekyll, lying on the floor under a prop, dead. It wasn't a normal prop, whoever did that clearly had it out for him with genuine hatred and extreme prejudice that surpassed the desire to kill the guests of the mansion, perhaps combined with the understanding of inevitable doom that would come to them. It was a large vending machine, clearly propelled with great force to make sure they never got up again.
Next to him, a message written in his own blood: "YOU CAN CHANGE ALL YOU WANT, SHE REJECTS YOU"

Another mystery presented itself.

The Final Night

The survivors knew they had the propkillers dead to rights... and they were absolutely right. When the time of the next execution came however... five people were unaccounted for. Squidgy peaked his head in dressed in all black and told everyone to follow him to the roof.

There Smile, Lordy, Knockout, and Storm all stood on wooden tables, magneto sticks in hand with ammo cans propped under the tables.

The Bulgarian spoke;

"I made a mistake joining the Legion. But....they asked me to, the moon and the sun sought my council, and she, the moon, had rewarded me! The sun gave me unimaginable foresight and the moon gave me the ability to cast a Spell to manipulate those beneath me.... and I was living my best life.

Even when the Cultist Walter White was exposed and I was accused of being his associate, the Spell protected me from their judgment and clouded their minds! The visions let me craft a perfect motif! The cosmos spun on my command, time bent to my instruction! I could see seconds, minutes, hours and nights, decipher their meaning and write my own fate! The night needed my intellect! My props were guided by this force to take the life of whoever I desired!

On the fourth night, however, the moon...ceased whispering. It was gone...she was gone. What had happened to her? Did she disapprove of my actions against the previous Metagamer, or did the False Prophet take her with him? Without the moon, I could no longer maintain the Spell on the guests of the mansion. Without the Spell, they woke up from their dream, and have now begun to kill the Legion.

I cannot allow the moon to remain silent. A new moon is needed to provide guidance, and for that, I cannot allow myself to be taken out by those beneath me... With this, a new Prophet will be chosen."


Squidgy got on top of a table and assumed the same position as he began to speak to the crowd, "please forgive my friends, they were misguided. Now all of us are going home to reunite with our one true savior, the one who introduced us to the way of the prop in the first place. I know Pierogi has forgiven them for calling him false and he will welcome them back into his arms as he has me."

Lastly Winnie, the leader of the propkillers spoke. "This is not death, but a rebirth. Once the comet passes overhead Pierogi will pick us up in his spaceship and lead us to the land we were promised, a land free of you lowlife gun users."

Miku exclaimed "look, there he is!" as a shooting star passed overhead. All five of them flicked their ammo cans up towards the sky lifting their tables and launching their bodies towards the heavens... they never came back down...


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... and that's the end of this story! I plan on doing another for the holiday season, and others want to run one even sooner. That said, this thread is to give ideas and feedback so the next game can be better! There were definitely shortcomings I know I will address in the next game that did kind of muddle the experience a little like afks and power cooldowns. Feel free to give your feedback so we know how to improve upon it for next time!
 
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All that being said, I do need to thank everybody for participating! Improv roleplay is what makes this version of Town of Salem so entertaining, and the story wouldnt be nearly as deep if it werent for several players advancing their own story plot based on their roles. Blake and Knockout both wrote their final stories all by themselves without my help, Etch and Muffin came up with the reincarnation of Etch Jr. as a smart way of getting rid of an AFK while cursing the rest of the players with another Etch.

That said, here is the full role list with their win conditions;

THE GUEST LIST;

Red = dead
Green = alive
blue = WC met

Lordy - Hatsune Miku - Propkiller / Plant (plants evidence in crime scenes)
Everlong as the Ninth Doctor - Detective
Etch Jr - Dr Jekyll - Innocent / Amnesiac (takes a dead innos role, not det or doc)
Agennon - Sgt James Doakes - Inno / revenge RDMer (kills someone at night, if its inno kills self)
Anna - Mrs Lovett (Helena Carters) - Inno / Admin (+3 on votes once they reveal role)
M0nkman as Anna Delvey - Inno [redacted] (keeping idea for another game)
Etch as Jay Gatsby - Innocent / Jester (needs to get voted out, curses a player who voted for them)
Muffin as Felix Crowe - Innocent / Doctor (saves one player from dying per night)
Noctorious as Giles Corey - Innocent / Veteran (can go on alert once every 3 days to kill night attackers, killed SK)
Lync - Don Quixote Inno / white knight (Sacrifices self in place of a voted on player, if that player isnt a T theyve met WC)
Storm - Winnie the Pooh - Propkiller / Godfather (if targeted at night, the bodyguard will sacrifice themselves for the Godfather)
Virunas- Sylveon - Innocent / Metagamer (receives premonitions on game information at night)
Rhazh as Walter White - Cultist (if one cultist makes it to the end of the game with the Ts winning, the whole cult wins)
Smile - Sung Jin-Woo - Propkiller / Hitman (Designated killer for the propkillers)

Evlis as Milo Thatch - Innocent / Breadmaker (can turn two players corpses into bread before they are IDed and only Elvis will know what they are)
Agent Knockout as a Bulgarian - Propkiller / Consigliere (investigative T)
Internet Twink as Astolfo - Mass RDMer (Serial killer - once awoken can kill, investigate or alert every night)
Josh as Captain Kirk - BREAD (Propkiller / Bodyguard)
SquidgyBoat as Jaques Clouseau - Cultist

8bit as Kasane Teto - Innocent / Siren (allures a player with their song every night, blocking them from voting the next day, if all remaining players at the end of the game have streamed their song, theyve met WC)
Steve - -Saul Goodman - Innocent / Guardian Angel (protects a player at night but at the cost of their life)
Cloudy as Johan Liebert - Impostor / Neutral (must make it to the end of the game at all costs. Changes the role they come up as if they are investigated every night in order to not appear as a threat to either side. If they reach the end with the Ts winning, they will swap spaces with one of the Ts and the T will die in their place.)
Rog the Froglord - Neutral / Ghoster ( At any time they chose, they chose to "ghost" with another player, tying their destiny together. In order for both of them to win, they both need to survive to the end of the game. If he were to tie himself to a traitor, then that traitor must bring Rog to the end of the game without explaining to their team why.)

Zyp as Cayde-6 - BREAD (Cultist)
Sure Lock as Sherlock Holmes - Wannabe Detective (takes 2 days to fully investigate, will take Detectives DNA scanner and become the main detective if they die)
Pixie - Ceasar - Innocent / Mad Scientist (Has 3 one-time inventions they can give to any player at any night; DNA Scanner (investigate), Visualizer (evidence) and Disguiser (night protection)
Pierogi - Pierogi - Innocent - Dies before the propkillers became radicalized
 
I had a ton of fun in my 2 days alive and I'm ready to host the next one. Here's a few things I'd change going forward.

Definitely let people change their votes before the deadline. Votes can be used as a way to pressure someone, and if you can get enough votes to make someone feel like they're in danger it'll change the way they defend themselves, not to mention the fact that new information can come after someone votes.

Phases should be 24 hours instead of 12 hours. With 12 hour phases overseas players like anna could only play for 2-4 hours each day before going to sleep, and they'd miss out on a lot. Extending the phases would fix that so everyone has an equal chance to catch up.

My big issue is that a lot of roles felt like they were included for the sake of having more roles. I lost track of how many different neutrals there were, and aside from the SK it felt like most of them could have been made Town/Mafia from the start. My cultist role was literally Mafia except I had no abilities, didn't know my teammates, was at risk of being killed by said teammates, and had a stricter win condition that required both Mafia to win and for the cult to not all die. I'll have more to say about this when I see the full setup.

All in all, there's lessons to learn but for a first game ever I can't complain. I'll def fix these issues soon, because I'm gonna host the next one.
 
I honestly for the month of december hope you keep it just as chaotic - I think your style of doing it fits more of the "all any" town of salem type and I honestly had a blast and found it hilarious.

Sure some roles need changing (like 8bits) but I genuinely like the premise of how chaotic it was
 
This was insanely fun! I thoroughly enjoyed both of my roles, and the quirks that came with them! Jester Win was a highlight as I had so many people CONVINCED I actually couldn't lie for that day.

I can't wait for the next one and will absolutely be apart of it!

Thank you Cel for organizing this!
 
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