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[Dave]

Day 3 ends.

Booberry Adam was led kicking and screaming to the gallows. "I'm not a vampire," he screamed. As Booberry often is in the supermarket aisles, he was ignored. Jeckles (Pop from Rice Krispies) happily pulled the lever, especially since he's the cop, everyone knows he's the cop and there is no game mechanic motivating him to hide that fact (nice job by me).

The Town stormed Booberry's apartment and found stacks magazines like "Ghostly Guys," "Haunted Hunks" and "Phantasmagorial Faeries." Jeckles and Deb (Snap) looked at each other. Although there was some substance on Adam's chin when they lynched him, it was not blood. He was not a vampire.

"Dammit," Pop exclaimed. "If only that idiot Crackle were here."

"What?" asked Snap, still soaking wet from last night's Holy Water bath. "We would've lynched someone else if Crackle was in town?"

"No, but I could've taken out my frustrations on him with my icepick."

The Town went to sleep. More strange flapping sounds were heard at night.

In the morning, they all gathered again at Frosty-Os Town Hall. Mango had Adam's magazine collection under his arm. He looked fangier than usual. So did Monogodo. WebKittyn looked down from the dais. "My first order of business as the new town mayor is to put an end to that awful Kroger's generic Chocolate Marshmallow Cosmos. Oh, and kill Frankenberry."

Three weeks later, cats outnumbered local town residents 4 to 1.

Cerealville is doomed. (Seeing as I'm supposed to be Frankenberry and am rotting in Count Chocula's dungeon, let me take this opportunity to say, "Thanks for nothing.")


The players were:
Adam - Booberry - lynched, day 3. Epitaph: "Why does no one eat my cereal?"
Bacony Goodness - Sonny - lynched, day 1. Epitaph: "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."
Deb - Snap
Jeckles - cop - Pop
Malfouka - vampire (1) - Yummy Mummy - lynched, day 2. Epitaph: "I'm embalmed with 8 essential vitamins and minerals."
Mango - vampire (2) - Fruit Brute
Monogodo - vampire (3) - Toucan Sam
WebKittyn - Count Chocula

Holy Water:
day 2
Deb HWed mono
Mango HWed jeckles
day 3
mono HWed deb

Epilogue...
Thanks for putting up with the experimental rules. I don't know. Something seems not quite right in this game (not to take away anything from the winners).
1. There is no reason for the cop to hide. He can only be killed by lynching. The only way he'd be lynched is if there were multiple (fake) claims for the cop (which I hate). The solution is simple: there need to be night kills (mob hits).
2. The problem with mob hits is that you can't have that AND turn a vampire. The bad guys get too strong too quickly. Solution: the person bit by the vampires is either killed or turned to vampire. I don't like the idea of a dice roll influencing this game, so maybe there is a priest. The priest has time to bless half the Town each turn (via PM list). If dracula bites a blessed person, that person's soul is saved, i.e. he dies, but he does not become a vampire. If dracula bites an unblessed person, that person becomes a vampire.
3. The Holy Water needs to be changed. Make the Doc the Bishop. He's the only one who can protect against a bite. He's functions exactly like the Doc. He has unlimited holy water.

[jeckles]

The cop isn't as unbalanced as you'd think... Sure I went a head and outed myself... but Every person a declared not a vampire WK turned (which is exactly what I would have done.)

Maybe make the cop a priest or a bishop or what ever. Sure he has no fear of outing himself, but the real question is does he want to share the information he is getting with a group of people whose alliances shift faster than he can keep up. Simplify the holy water by allowing him to distribute it, but not use it (He's a holy man and is too busying praying and shit to be running around flinging holy water at people.) You might want to further simplify the holy water, by making it either just a weapon or just protection. If the holy water were only a weapon, if it is given to a vampire to use nothing happens. You could also give the priest cop the ability to give away his garlic.

Just my two cents...

I liked this variant even though I'm kicking myself for not going after WK when my gut said I should.

[WebKittyn]

I think this is the first time in all the games I made it to the end. Probably won't happen again for a long time.

[Adam]

So let me get this straight, I'm the only one who used my holy water on WK? Jesus H. Good job WK, you deserved to win.

[Deb]

I used mine on Mono because I was suspicious so what's wrong with that?

I lasted till the end of the game. I am pleased.

[Adam]

Deb, on Dec 17 2007, 07:07 AM, said:

I used mine on Mono because I was suspicious so what's wrong with that?

I lasted till the end of the game. I am pleased.

I was more just mocking Jeckles than anything else.