[Day/Night Game] Trouble on the Citadel - round "LE Part 2: Why Cerberus Is Right For You"

Jan 30, 2018 5:27:28 GMT dragontartare said:

Players who voted for that person will be returned to the "not yet voted" list so they can vote for someone else.

Wouldn't it be better if she could just block it so no one is eliminated that day? Otherwise, if people are still allowed to use their vote then they might transfer their focus to Tali straight away, although I suppose they won't necessarily know who she is. I just feel that it is a bit too obvious is someone is getting the most votes and then Tali swoops in and stops it. How about at the beginning of the round she has to opt to use her ability but this will only be announced by the GM at the end, when no one is eliminated? So if people have been coming under fire the previous round that she wants to keep safe, then she would activate her ability but if the voting goes differently from how she imagined, then she may end up saving someone she didn't want to. Presumably she could also end up saving herself.

To give an example from the last game. Tali and Kasumi were spies and people had been voicing suspicions the previous round. So Tali opts to activate her ability. Then someone else came in and made a case for voting off someone else, like Garrus, but he is really a hero so Tali the spy inadvertently saved a hero. Conversely, if Tali is a hero and comes under fire, she could activate her ability to keep herself safe in the next round but instead the votes go towards an actual spy. So she inadvertently saves a spy.

So she doesn't actually have any control over who her ability saves from being voted off, which hopefully would even out the benefit so it doesn't favour a spy too much and she has to exercise a degree of skill (and luck) over when is the best time to use it. How does that sound?

I like the Karin Chakwas idea.

Also how about a Jack role? Once per game she can direct all votes to a player that she thinks is a Cerberus spy. If she is right then the player is eliminated but if she is wrong then she is eliminated instead. Of course this would only work with a good Jack but since this would be a floating role I suppose it would be okay for her to be always good because of the penalty if she gets it wrong. Or we can come up with an alternative for an evil Jack.

The main problem I see for the Evil Clone is how to write the narrative so it is not obvious who they are to either the heroes or the spies. If they are replacing someone either indoctrinated by the spies or shot by Garrus in the night, then they will be aware that their attack was not successful and thus the target had to have been someone who has been Cloned. It would also mean that it would be better if the Clone had to opt for the role they wanted to impersonate at the beginning of the game and could not change. After all I thought the real reason they were allowed to switch each day cycle was if their target was eliminated overnight but if they can still assume the role then that is no longer a problem. Then if the role they had targeted is eliminated either during the day or the night, the GM would PM them giving them details of the alignment and asking if they want to keep to it or switch. If they opt to switch and their target was a spy, then they are not told who the spies are. If they opt to keep the alignment then they are told the spies they are meant to help. Alternatively, the Clone remains neutral throughout the game.   They are not given a list of spies but simply have to work it out for themselves who they wish to support.

  If they opt for the role at the beginning of the game, then it would be possible for them to clone someone who was eliminated the first night.

Also would it be possible for them to change alignment if they had opted for one of the guaranteed good roles? So if they had opted for Liara and she was eliminated, would the result be written "Liara?" so everyone is aware that Liara could potentially now be evil instead of good?    If the Clone was always neutral then Clone Liara could carry on investigating people the same as the real one but just choose how to use the information, whether to help the heroes or the villains.