The Molag Bal Game XVIII

[Musicman247]

The Molag Bal Game XVIII
It has been several years since the Daedra Molag Bal visited his particular brand of fun upon the land of Tamriel. Unfortunately for the people in the sleepy town of Nam-nimda, the Prince has grown bored and has set his sights on their town. Just off the coast from Southpoint in Valenwood, the town takes up the whole of Cisum Island. Being surrounded by water might once again prove useful for the hidden cultists who live there.

Once again it's time to play. Welcome to the Eighteenth Molag Bal Game! If you have never played before, the premise is simple: There are two groups - worshipers of Molag Bal, and normal villagers. The objective of the worshipers is to kill all the villagers during the night, one at a time, without being caught and killed off. They do so by secretly voting among themselves on one person to kill. The objective of the villagers is to kill all of the worshipers and rid their town of the pestilence of Molag Bal. They do so by voting for someone to kill during the day.

The Rules (these may be a little different from previous games, so read 'em):

• The Villagers win by killing all the Worshipers.
• The Worshipers win by killing all the villagers (yes, all the villagers).
• There will be special roles that some players will have. These will not be made known public unless the player they are given to decides to reveal it, or if their character dies. Beware of players who may try to make it appear they are something they are not.

During the day you may:

• Post in-character dialogue and actions. Everything will succeed except trying to kill someone outright, so if you want a mead you can get a mead, etc.
• Discuss with other players in character your character's suspicions
• Vote to lynch someone. Votes may be changed up until someone is lynched, which will occur when all players have voted, or 48 hours after the first vote has been cast. The player with the most votes against them after that time will have their character killed barring any intervening circumstances.

During the night:

• Some players with special roles will be able to take action.
• Worshipers will decide upon a victim

This is meant to be a game, and as such, to move quickly. A maximum of 48 hours will be given for each day and each night. Hopefully that time will not be needed.

During the first day players will have a chance to vote to lynch someone, thereby giving everyone a chance to interact and have at least one meaningful action before being killed by the Worshipers.

Signing Up
To sign up, leave a post here with the following information:

• Username: your username on this forum
• Character Name: What would you like your character to be named? Please keep it similar to your username, ie. Ma'ziq Ma'an would work for Musicman
• Race: What Tamrielic race is your character?
• Gender: For clarity's sake
• Biography: Give your character a little back story. Something short is fine.

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Username: Baloth-Kul
Character Name: Breloth
Race: Bosmer
Gender: Male
Biography: Breloth once served his homeland as a soldier. After losing a few toes and fingers in battle with a Khajiit, this hundred-and-something year old Bosmer now lives as a simple and content fisherman on Cisum Island.

Username: Archer
Character Name: Ahchor
Race: Nord
Gender: Male
Biography: Ahchor grew up sailing the ocean, so it was natural for him to become a pirate. A life of murder and thievery later, he has retired at a young age near the ocean, specifically Cisum Island .

Username: Dirty Spaceman
Character Name: Ytrid the Epic
Race: Nord
Gender: Female
Biography: Ytrid was once a fearless (and simultaneously fearsome) warrior, her feats known throughout all of Skyrim (or at least a respectable two-thirds). She fought many foes, and went on many long adventures, gaining the nickname "the Epic." The accumulated loot from years of treasure-hunting turns out to provide quite the nest egg, so Ytrid was able to retire at the age of 43. However, she got fed up with kids knocking on her Whiterun door for autographs, so she packed up her things and moved south. Really far south. And so she came to Nam-nimda, where she has lived since. Now 60, her hair has turned grey and her eyes and ears aren't what they used to be, but she still runs around the island twice each morning to keep in good enough shape to pack a punch.

Username: The Shadow One
Character Name: Rainbow Faux (Not close to my username, but nicknames work too right?
Race: Breton
Gender: Boopadoop I'm weiiiird~
Biography: Rainbow Faux is a pretty skilled forger, he came to the village to ply his trade in more quieter settings.

Username: Argonanza
Character Name: Gonads Gonzai
Race: Argonian
Gender: Male
Biography: In his youth Gonzai travelled all over Cyrodiil as a merchant. The coin was good, but when he married his wife they decided to settle down in the quiet town of Nam-nimda to start a family. Now a widower in his early fifties, Gonzai runs a small bakery near the town square.

Username: VirtualWeasel
Character Name: Vercel Bellette (Vercel as a corruption of Virtual or Virtuel (French), Belette is Weasel in French) Also, note that the first e in Vercel is to be pronounced as the e in vent, not the e in version.
Race: Breton
Gender: Male
Biography: A well-loved baker in the town of Nam-nimda, the early 50's Breton man is a pillar of the community. Famed locally and within parts of Valenwood for his excellent cakes, as well as both sweet and savory pastries and breads. Vercel always volunteers and helps out in the community when he can, and has even served in the local government a few times, filling various minor positions (stewardship, advisory, and the like) with complete contentment. Even with newer Argonian business competitors, Vercel has welcomed them with open arms, even trading the occasional recipe.

Username: Believe
Character Name: Bal Evey
Race: Imperial
Gender: Male
Biography: Bal is an old farmer, in his early 60's. He retired a couple of years ago, and when his wife passed away, he relocated to the retirement island of Cisum. He's known to be a bit deaf, and consequently louder than is usual for someone of his advanced age.

Username: Unionhack
Character Name: Ention Hackett
Race: Breton
Gender: Male
Biography: Ention is a traveling minstrel straight out of Daggerfall. Though he has played in the company of counts and kings, he has fallen on hard times recently in his middle-age and is thus on an extended 'vacation' in Nan-nimda, where he uses his savings to stay at the local inn. He is 45.

Username:Hissien
Character Name: Hizz'ian the Wise
Race: Khajiit
Gender: Male
Biography: Hizz'ian lived for many years in Elsweyr and made his living as a spice trader. After a plague killed his family, he left his home and runs an Alchemy shop. He is now in his mid forties.

Username: AKB
Character Name: Ak'ba
Race: Argonian
Gender: Female
Biography: Ak'ba is a young Argonian with a slim build, lightish blue-green scales, and a light, cheerful voice. A well-traveled adventurer, Ak'ba first arrived in Nam-nimda several years prior, following a series of adventures in Valenwood. During her initial visit in the town, she helped solve the infamous "Baker's Debacle", which has since become one of the town's darkest, and most closely guarded secrets. Despite the troubles of those time, she grew to like the town, and bought a nice property near the town center. While she has been known to go off and explore for long stretches of times, she always comes back for a visit, and even one of those pastries at her special rate.

Username: Emzi 43 (I'll change that someday)
Character Name: Emzaah
Race: Dunmer
Gender: Male
Biography: Initially a recluse, Emxaah began to come out of his shell after living amongst the villagers for a few years. Once an egg forager in Morrowind, Emzaah found his faith and joined the temple, serving as a travelling priest who visited miners and farmers in isolated places. These days he lives in the village, helping wherever possible and worshipping the reclamations.

Username: Dragon53535
Character Name: Drag Ond V
Race: Imperial
Gender: Male
Bio: When he was young, he was being groomed by his father to be a merchant (Dragul Ond IV). Due to his slightly dull personality his friends gave him the nickname Drag, for being such a drag. When Drag came of age, he decided that he didn't actually want to be a merchant like his father and ran away. Due to a series of bad decisions, he started gambling, and after losing a few he started borrowing from some bandits. Nowadays he is in Nam-nimda hiding from the bandits he hasn't paid back yet.

May I pulease join your game?
Username: Rachelsaurus
Character Name: Ra-zuur
Race: Argonian
Gender: Male
Biography: Ra-zuur comes from a long line of shoe-shiners. He ran away from home at the age of 16 to escape the pressures of taking over the family shoe-shining business. Unable to find work, he set up a shoe shine shop.

Username: Nicolae2099
Character Name: Nicolae
Race: Altmer
Gender: Male
Biography: Nicolae lives on Summerset Isle in a very privileged home. Having lost a bet with his friend Melaraa, Nicolae must travel to the dirtiest and most underprivileged places in Tamriel. His latest journey has brought him for a week in Nam-nimda.

Username: Musicman's archenemy, Thelastdovah.
Character Name: Fin Laitus
Race: Imperial scum
Gender: Male
Biography:Fin is a merchant from the city of Imperials and is said to be blessed by Sheogorath but haunted by Atakatosh's right buttock. He is a bit eccentric and seems to never run out of sweetrolls but does seem to supply the entire village with wares. For some reason, he always has an urge to shout at those who forget their purchase and it seems to involve "STOP RIGHT THERE *Race*! You have paid for your goods, now take them or forfeit them." He never does this unless apart from that one time he got drunk. Somehow, his breeches ended up on the roof.

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• The game began with the murder of Mayor Muze Ickman.
• The villagers then killed Fin, who turned out to be innocent.
• That night Breloth was killed by the worshipers.
• Everybody thought Drag Ond did it, so they killed him. Too bad they were wrong.
• Ak'ba made some pretty interesting claims.
• Then was killed during the night.
• The villagers finally find and kill one of the worshipers, Ention.
• Two deaths during the night, Ra-zuur and Rainbow Faux. Could they both be attributed to the worshipers?
• Ahchor confesses to killing Rainbow, condemming himself in the process.
• Bal Evey and Ytrid are killed during the night, while Rainbow returns to life!
• Rainbow is killed again, this time by lynching.

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Gonzai
Hizz'ian
Vercel

[The SheoDovah]

Can Dovah be a Dovah or Akatosh? Will join it to defend my title and see if i can survive 2 in a row.

[Baloth-Kul]

Time for my first MBG! ...And my first MBG win. Prepare yourselves, and prepare to be unseated, Dovah, for Breloth cometh!

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Username: Baloth-Kul
Character Name: Breloth
Race: Bosmer
Gender: Male
Biography: Breloth once served his homeland as a soldier. After losing a few toes and fingers in battle with a Khajiit, this hundred-and-something year old Bosmer now lives as a simple and content fisherman on Cisum Island.

[Musicman247]

Sorry, tld, only going to allow the humanoid TES races: Altmer (High Elves), Argonian, Bosmer (Wood Elves), Breton, Dunmer (Dark Elves), Imperial, Khajiit, Nord, Orsimer (Orc) and Redguard.

[Archer]

Not missing this one.

Hidden:

• Username: Archer
• Character Name: Ahchor
• Race: Nord
• Gender: Male
• Biography: Ahchor grew up sailing the ocean, so it was natural for him to become a pirate. A life of murder and thievery later, he has retired at a young age near the ocean, specifically Cisum Island .

[Dirty Spaceman]

That was quick. Anyway here's my character, fresh off the streets.

Hidden:

Username: Dirty Spaceman
Character Name: Ytrid the Epic
Race: Nord
Gender: Female
Biography: Ytrid was once a fearless (and simultaneously fearsome) warrior, her feats known throughout all of Skyrim (or at least a respectable two-thirds). She fought many foes, and went on many long adventures, gaining the nickname "the Epic." The accumulated loot from years of treasure-hunting turns out to provide quite the nest egg, so Ytrid was able to retire at the age of 43. However, she got fed up with kids knocking on her Whiterun door for autographs, so she packed up her things and moved south. Really far south. And so she came to Nam-nimda, where she has lived since. Now 60, her hair has turned grey and her eyes and ears aren't what they used to be, but she still runs around the island twice each morning to keep in good enough shape to pack a punch.

[The SheoDovah]

Baloth....


BRING IT ON! *RIPS SHIRT AND INSTANTLY LEVELS UP HIS MANLY LEVELS OF POWER*

Hmm, to go with the flow or to use a beast, decisions, decisions, decisions. That and somehow, i need to turn my name into a lore friendly name.

[The-Shadow-One]

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Username: The Shadow One
Character Name: Rainbow Faux (Not close to my username, but nicknames work too right?
Race: Breton
Gender: Boopadoop I'm weiiiird~
Biography: Rainbow Faux is a pretty skilled forger, he came to the village to ply his trade in more quieter settings.

Boop a doop.

[Argonanza]

Hidden:

Username: Argonanza
Character Name: Gonads Gonzai
Race: Argonian
Gender: Male
Biography: In his youth Gonzai travelled all over Cyrodiil as a merchant. The coin was good, but when he married his wife they decided to settle down in the quiet town of Nam-nimda to start a family. Now a widower in his early fifties, Gonzai runs a small bakery near the town square.

[VirtualWeasel]

Admittedly, in all my years here, I have never participated in an MBG. Now seems like a good time to do just that.

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Username: VirtualWeasel
Character Name: Vercel Bellette (Vercel as a corruption of Virtual or Virtuel (French), Belette is Weasel in French) Also, note that the first e in Vercel is to be pronounced as the e in vent, not the e in version.
Race: Breton
Gender: Male
Biography: A well-loved baker in the town of Nam-nimda, the early 50's Breton man is a pillar of the community. Famed locally and within parts of Valenwood for his excellent cakes, as well as both sweet and savory pastries and breads. Vercel always volunteers and helps out in the community when he can, and has even served in the local government a few times, filling various minor positions (stewardship, advisory, and the like) with complete contentment. Even with newer Argonian business competitors, Vercel has welcomed them with open arms, even trading the occasional recipe.

I hadn't seen that you'd made a baker already until about halfway through writing the sheet up, Nanza, but I figured I'd keep with it. We might be able to make a good dynamic out of it, if you're interested.

[Argonanza]

Oh it is on.

[Baloth-Kul]

All the town's violence is going to revolve around the damn bakeries developing a rivalry. Turns out both bakers are cultists and they are baking the flesh of the fallen into their pies. Breloth would be okay with this, as long as he doesn't end up inside one of the pies. If the pies end up inside him, that's good.

[VirtualWeasel]

You know, I just noticed that pretty much everyone so far is either retired or above 40. Nam-nimda must be some kind of retirement community.

[Dirty Spaceman]

Today's schedule: Bingo starts at 8pm sharp, right after lynching hour at 7!

[Believe]

I'm in.

Hidden:

Username: Believe
Character Name: Bal Evey
Race: Imperial
Gender: Male
Biography: Bal is an old farmer, in his early 60's. He retired a couple of years ago, and when his wife passed away, he relocated to the retirement island of Cisum. He's known to be a bit deaf, and consequently louder than is usual for someone of his advanced age.

Keeping with the theme.

[Unionhack]

Oh, what the hell.

Hidden:

Username: Unionhack
Character Name: Ention Hackett
Race: Breton
Gender: Male
Biography: Ention is a traveling minstrel straight out of Daggerfall. Though he has played in the company of counts and kings, he has fallen on hard times recently in his middle-age and is thus on an extended 'vacation' in Nan-nimda, where he uses his savings to stay at the local inn. He is 45.

Spoiler:

Straight outta Daggerfall, this crazy [&@%!] named Hackett...

[Hissien]

Always wanted a hand at this:

Hidden:

Username:Hissien
Character Name: Hizz'ian the Wise
Race: Khajiit
Gender: Male
Biography: Hizz'ian lived for many years in Elsweyr and made his living as a spice trader. After a plague killed his family, he left his home and runs an Alchemy shop. He is now in his mid forties.

I can see our resident bakers needing a little of what Hizz'ian has to offer... Cinnamon, Moon Sugar.... Nightshade...

[AKB]

Can Dovah be a Dovah or Akatosh? Will join it to defend my title and see if i can survive 2 in a row.

Yes, you definitely "survived". You survived long enough that I gave some ambiguity to whether or not you actually survived for ten seconds off of the island. The only one to definitely survive was ZeRoc.

The last game was really fun, I had so many fun plans and possibilities that the players managed to carefully thwart, like ZeRoc being my "spare VIP", getting killed very quickly. It was pretty fun watching people react to special roles, like dragon escaping execution, only to be lynched properly next time. I had originally made that role with a cultist in mind, but thought it would be much more intriguing if it were a villager role, since no one would trust that villager after that, at least that's what I imagined would happen. There was a lot of systems put into place with the sole purpose of causing confusion, actually. Like Nanza getting some hints as to what was actually happening, or Duruza not having a role simply to hide the fact that TLD would appear to have a blank role if investigated. I hope you keep that in mind, Music. This is a game about gut intuitions, and about not knowing enough to make many clear judgements. With that said, I'm glad my role system is being incorporated again.

And I'll play!

Hidden:

Username: AKB
Character Name: Ak'ba
Race: Argonian
Gender: Female
Biography: Ak'ba is a young Argonian with a slim build, lightish blue-green scales, and a light, cheerful voice. A well-traveled adventurer, Ak'ba first arrived in Nam-nimda several years prior, following a series of adventures in Valenwood. During her initial visit in the town, she helped solve the infamous "Baker's Debacle", which has since become one of the town's darkest, and most closely guarded secrets. Despite the troubles of those time, she grew to like the town, and bought a nice property near the town center. While she has been known to go off and explore for long stretches of times, she always comes back for a visit, and even one of those pastries at her special rate.

[Baloth-Kul]

What's this? Admiral Ak'ba has broken the chain of all characters being old/retirees!

Hidden:

[AKB]

So far my characters in MBG have been an elderly Altmer librarian who kicked all kinds of ass, and Molag Bal, who is also quite old. I wanted a change from that.

[Musicman247]

The last game was masterfully done, AKB, and I'm actually a bit nervous going into this one. I hope everyone has fun. I'm using a couple of the mechanics from the special roles last time, and adding a couple new twisty turny ones. I'm also using the word "couple" very loosely.

[AKB]

You should be nervous, since if it is not as good as mine, I am banning you.

[Emzi 43]

Username: Emzi 43 (I'll change that someday)
Character Name: Emzaah
Race: Dunmer
Gender: Male
Biography: Initially a recluse, Emxaah began to come out of his shell after living amongst the villagers for a few years. Once an egg forager in Morrowind, Emzaah found his faith and joined the temple, serving as a travelling priest who visited miners and farmers in isolated places. These days he lives in the village, helping wherever possible and worshipping the reclamations.

[Dirty Spaceman]

12 players so far! This is gonna be a good one...

[Musicman247]

12? I only count 11 submissions so far.