#HBC | Nabe
Beneath it all, he had H-cups all along
NON-VANILLA ROLES
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You are the Tournament Promoter's Son, and member of Team MAF.
You are Tom Hiddleston (no relation), the son of Tim Hiddleston, the public promoter of this tournament in Seattle.
Your father is old-fashioned, and not at all hip with the hop. He just doesn't understand the world of competitive video games anymore. He's aging and he's no longer the man you once looked up to, and doesn't understand opportunity when it's punching him in the face. (Which you fully intend to do.)
This is referring of course to your grandest profit scheme of all. You want to run League of Legends tournaments all along the West Coast. But your father won't support this venture, choosing instead to go for this childish new fighting game, as if those have ever been popular. He doesn't understand how classy and elite this new cadre of HARD gamers really is. IT IS THE BEST AND ONLY GAME EVER AND HE IS STUPID.
He doesn't seem to understand anything, really. He didn't even want to get caviar for the event. "Supporting local eateries"?! How daft can you get? You would've thrown this event on a cruise ship, rather than in a grungy old convention center. Competitors would have danced their gaming dance under the stars, while fireworks, blazons across the night sky, danced in based symphony on high, and again in reflection on the gently swirling waters. As you refereed the event topless and mankini'd and lying on your beach chair, attractive people wearing nothing but coconut shells would feed you grapes, and caviar, and sing you sweet melodies to a harp accompaniment. Your father cries in the corner over the pure beauty and wonder of the event, and in witness to your prowess as a tournament promoter.
And then, your eyes meet across the deck. An angel in glasses, playing her deft fingers across a controller, but all the while directing her smoldering gaze upon your prostrate, tanned, svelte form. You'd approach each other, meeting in the middle of the deck, her fingers flashing on her wireless controller and cries of dismay coming from her opponents all the while, her braces flashing by the bursts of light overhead.
You embrace, tongues mingling, her hands wrapped tightly in your hair, caressing your coarse neckbeard. She enjoys the cloying flavors of grape mingled with caviar and Code Red. Her bosom heaves against you beneath her hoodie, her body shaking with the bliss of multitasking intensive competitive gaming and sensuous passion of the flesh.
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Oh, uh. Anyway, your dad is lame so you're conspiring to ruin his tournament.
YOUR ABILITY
WIN CONDITION
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
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You are the Empoverished Restaurant Owner and Part-Time Food Poisoner, and member of Team MAF.
You are Jeff Evans, the owner of the Tito's Pizza franchise. Your gimmick is to pose as a traditional Italo-American pizza man named Tito (while serving pizza made from subpar but economical ingredients), with a portrayal that eschews so closely to stereotypes as to very nearly be offensive.
Some while back, you unfortunately had to send a customer away with a pizza he didn't want, due to all of the ingredients in your fridge becoming contaminated with food poisoning. You were the culprit of a corporate sabotage, by the Chinese restaurant next door to your restaurant. (Although, they didn't succeed... apparently, they too were overcome with an abundance of ham and pineapple.)
Well, you've shown them. The Tito's Pizza franchise now encompasses four locations in Seattle (including the new Hawaiian Assault Team! hot-and-ready location down on the waterfront) and you've seen a rush of new and exciting pizza market growth in the past years. Cheese was flying, business was booming, and you even invested in a hairnet!
But the world of sub-quality food products shows its darker side once again. Even those who arrange and design pizzas are under considerable economic stress in this period in history, as people avail themselves of every nutritional option available to them. Blaggards! On the cusp of the development of new pizza technologies in Sicily and New York, these roguish fops suddenly think they're too good for pizza? Well, you've got a daring plan to make some investment cash, and send pizza to the top of the 21st century on the shoulders of the meek.
Everyone knows that misery and pizza go hand-in-hand (and ice cream, but you sell that too). Sad people will willingly drown themselves in grease with an extra-large on their couch, watching quality Italo-American programming like Jersey Shore. So, you'll ruin this fighting game tournament, and everyone who's sad as a result will flock to you! You're a genius. (And besides, you're not happy with the Italo-American characters in this new game. I mean, "Mario"? Give me a break!)
Although it's not as quite simple as that. You'll have to make a name for Tito's Pizza at this event. Several other restaurants (if they can call themselves that) will be providing food at the tournament, just like you. But unlike you (this time), they are going to find themselves with their names besmirched by food poisoning! Har har har.
YOUR ABILITY
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
OTHER MAF MEMBERS
WIN CONDITION
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
SPECIAL TIPS
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You are the Arc System Works Exec. V.P. of Vengeance, and member of Team MAF.
YOUR ABILITY
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
WIN CONDITION
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
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You are the Once-a-Star Tournament Player of a Rival Scene, and member of Team MAF.
YOUR ABILITY
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
WIN CONDITION
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
SPECIAL TIPS
You are the Tourney Cop.
Justice and punishment for misdeeds is the way of the world, and is what you gave your body to almost from birth. You have no birthday, and when you die, no one will remember you. Yours is a heart of cold iron. Your name is meaningless, your home life inconsequential. You are become Justice, and thus your existence is eternal and everlasting, the weight of the title passing from one nameless soul to the next, ever and ever, on and on. The importance of your function cannot be understated -- the world of competitive gaming must always be protected from those with evil in their hearts.
YOUR ABILITY
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
SPECIAL NOTE
You are the Tournament Promoter's Son, and member of Team MAF.
You are Tom Hiddleston (no relation), the son of Tim Hiddleston, the public promoter of this tournament in Seattle.
Your father is old-fashioned, and not at all hip with the hop. He just doesn't understand the world of competitive video games anymore. He's aging and he's no longer the man you once looked up to, and doesn't understand opportunity when it's punching him in the face. (Which you fully intend to do.)
This is referring of course to your grandest profit scheme of all. You want to run League of Legends tournaments all along the West Coast. But your father won't support this venture, choosing instead to go for this childish new fighting game, as if those have ever been popular. He doesn't understand how classy and elite this new cadre of HARD gamers really is. IT IS THE BEST AND ONLY GAME EVER AND HE IS STUPID.
He doesn't seem to understand anything, really. He didn't even want to get caviar for the event. "Supporting local eateries"?! How daft can you get? You would've thrown this event on a cruise ship, rather than in a grungy old convention center. Competitors would have danced their gaming dance under the stars, while fireworks, blazons across the night sky, danced in based symphony on high, and again in reflection on the gently swirling waters. As you refereed the event topless and mankini'd and lying on your beach chair, attractive people wearing nothing but coconut shells would feed you grapes, and caviar, and sing you sweet melodies to a harp accompaniment. Your father cries in the corner over the pure beauty and wonder of the event, and in witness to your prowess as a tournament promoter.
And then, your eyes meet across the deck. An angel in glasses, playing her deft fingers across a controller, but all the while directing her smoldering gaze upon your prostrate, tanned, svelte form. You'd approach each other, meeting in the middle of the deck, her fingers flashing on her wireless controller and cries of dismay coming from her opponents all the while, her braces flashing by the bursts of light overhead.
You embrace, tongues mingling, her hands wrapped tightly in your hair, caressing your coarse neckbeard. She enjoys the cloying flavors of grape mingled with caviar and Code Red. Her bosom heaves against you beneath her hoodie, her body shaking with the bliss of multitasking intensive competitive gaming and sensuous passion of the flesh.
...
......
..............
Oh, uh. Anyway, your dad is lame so you're conspiring to ruin his tournament.
YOUR ABILITY
Every phase of the game, you may send me one message of 160 characters in length, to be sent immediately to your choice of one of the following four recipients:
The Arc System Works Executive V.P. of Vengeance
The Once-a-Star Tournament Player of a Rival Scene
The Empoverished Restaurant Owner and Part-Time Food Poisoner
The Tourney Cop
You are the only player of Team MAF who can communicate in this way.
I will disregard any message that seeks to circumvent the character limit by inclusion of a URL or by any other means (or any message that breaks the standard rules of the game in any way) but the use of URLs in messages is not disallowed. I'm also a ****, and will disallow any message that takes advantage of an oversight on my part with the set-up, the rules, or something else that was not taken into consideration. (This doesn't mean you shouldn't try to take advantage, though.)
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)- To (by the end of the tournament) have been in a hotel room with each of the other three members of MAF.
- To sample as many restaurants as you can (so you know first-hand how terrible they are).
- To get a Bye at least once during Cycle 1.
- To avoid being raised (voted for by the majority) for Suspicion in Cycle 2.
You don't know who they are! You've never met before this event, communicating only through underworld channels. You do know that there are four of you in total, and you do have their cellphone numbers, but that's all. (Even if you learn their names, you can't contact them privately unless you share a hotel room.)
WIN CONDITION
Your Win Condition is for a member of Team MAF to win first place in the tournament, or for there to be no members of the Town remaining in the tournament. (If the latter, the tournament will still play out to the end to determine a winner.)
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Eat at a different restaurant every Lunch phase. (Unless you have a hunch the restaurant is poisoned. You're not Superman, you know.)
- Be in each hotel room (1 - 4) for at least one Night phase each.
- Get a Bye at least once during Cycle 1.
- Make sure you've read the rules, so that you know exactly what information the town has about you and your faction!
- Make sure you've read the standard town PM, so you won't be caught awkwardly somehow!
- Make sure you've read the tourney cop's PM, so you know what you're up against!
You are the Empoverished Restaurant Owner and Part-Time Food Poisoner, and member of Team MAF.
You are Jeff Evans, the owner of the Tito's Pizza franchise. Your gimmick is to pose as a traditional Italo-American pizza man named Tito (while serving pizza made from subpar but economical ingredients), with a portrayal that eschews so closely to stereotypes as to very nearly be offensive.
Some while back, you unfortunately had to send a customer away with a pizza he didn't want, due to all of the ingredients in your fridge becoming contaminated with food poisoning. You were the culprit of a corporate sabotage, by the Chinese restaurant next door to your restaurant. (Although, they didn't succeed... apparently, they too were overcome with an abundance of ham and pineapple.)
Well, you've shown them. The Tito's Pizza franchise now encompasses four locations in Seattle (including the new Hawaiian Assault Team! hot-and-ready location down on the waterfront) and you've seen a rush of new and exciting pizza market growth in the past years. Cheese was flying, business was booming, and you even invested in a hairnet!
But the world of sub-quality food products shows its darker side once again. Even those who arrange and design pizzas are under considerable economic stress in this period in history, as people avail themselves of every nutritional option available to them. Blaggards! On the cusp of the development of new pizza technologies in Sicily and New York, these roguish fops suddenly think they're too good for pizza? Well, you've got a daring plan to make some investment cash, and send pizza to the top of the 21st century on the shoulders of the meek.
Everyone knows that misery and pizza go hand-in-hand (and ice cream, but you sell that too). Sad people will willingly drown themselves in grease with an extra-large on their couch, watching quality Italo-American programming like Jersey Shore. So, you'll ruin this fighting game tournament, and everyone who's sad as a result will flock to you! You're a genius. (And besides, you're not happy with the Italo-American characters in this new game. I mean, "Mario"? Give me a break!)
Although it's not as quite simple as that. You'll have to make a name for Tito's Pizza at this event. Several other restaurants (if they can call themselves that) will be providing food at the tournament, just like you. But unlike you (this time), they are going to find themselves with their names besmirched by food poisoning! Har har har.
YOUR ABILITY
Every Night phase of Cycle 1, you will privately contact me with the name of one restaurant to contaminate for the next Lunch phase. (I'll make you aware of the remaining restaurants each time.) If that restaurant is visited during the Lunch phase by any hotel room group or solo player, they will get sick, and the restaurant will be taken out of the Lunch options for the remainder of the game. (Make sure you get this in, because it's a crucial game mechanic, and I'll randomize the choice if need be, including your restaurant in the mix.)
Every Night phase of Cycle 1, you may poison an additional restaurant for the next Lunch phase, with the additional effect that your restaurant (Tito's Emerald City Pizza) will also be poisoned for the next Lunch phase. Keep in mind that if your restaurant is visited while poisoned, it will be removed from the game just like the rest, disqualifying you from achieving many of your optional goals.
Once per game, during a Night phase of Cycle 1, you may select one restaurant to concentratedly poison. That restaurant will immediately be shut down. This ability has no bearing on your other abilities.
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- To have the restaurant Tito's Emerald City Pizza still remaining at the end of Cycle 1.
- To ruin the reputations of as many other restaurants as you can, by removing them from play. (Take note: restaurants are only taken out of play if they're visited during Lunch phase after being poisoned the previous Night phase.)
- For many players to have visited Tito's Emerald City Pizza at least once during a Lunch phase, by the end of Cycle 1.
- In Cycle 2, win one match without Cheating or using a Banned Exploit. (Take note: this goal can only be achieved if you are still in the game for Cycle 2.)
OTHER MAF MEMBERS
You don't know who they are! You've never met before this event, communicating only through underworld channels. You do know that there are four of you in total, and that one of you has the contact information for all four, but not their names. (Even if you learn their names, you can't contact them privately unless you share a hotel room.)
WIN CONDITION
Your Win Condition is for a member of Team MAF to win first place in the tournament, or for there to be no members of the Town remaining in the tournament. (If the latter, the tournament will still play out to the end to determine a winner.)
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Eat at least once with as many players as possible.
- At any point during the game, win a match without Cheating.
- Enjoy yourself and have fun! (In other words, this goal is practically a freebie.)
SPECIAL TIPS
- Make sure you've read the rules, so that you know exactly what information the town has about you and your faction!
- Make sure you've read the standard town PM, so you won't be caught awkwardly somehow!
- Make sure you've read the tourney cop's PM, so you know what you're up against!
You are the Arc System Works Exec. V.P. of Vengeance, and member of Team MAF.
You are Koushiro Morikawa, Executive Vice President of the Vengeance Division (formerly Marketing) at Arc Systems Works. It's the largest division of ASW, which makes you a busy man, and your Iron Tagers (the in-house term for employees who are low on the corporate ladder) usually do all the messy field work. But this assignment is so big and so personal that you decided to take the job yourself.
Referred to as That Man within the company walls, you've earned every inch of your dark and bloody reputation. When people slight The Company, you solve the problem with cold efficiency. In ASW's infancy, you were a vigilante, working out of Marketing and making minimum wage while you single-handedly protected The Company's public image. Now you're upper management, with an eight-figure salary, and your division get results every time.
Your brother-in-law ran the ASW Twitter account. In his childish excitement, and to your shame, he leaked what was then Project SFCF (Super Famicom Fusion) to the public. A grievous corporate accident, and to his loss. His accidental death shortly after (he accidentally fell one hundred stories off the roof of the ASW tower) was regrettable. But despite your best efforts, Nintendo and Square-Enix decided to switch developers. And that is an insult that cannot stand.
Unfortunately, corporate policy has shifted in recent years. The Director wants this done bloodlessly. The old fool. You have a full report on all the development work done on Koopa VS Kefka by The Company before The Incident, and you'll do your best to sabotage this tournament with the help of your outside vengeance consultants, but it doesn't feel... right. The Company once endorsed your most effective methods, and now they seek to strip them away again.
YOUR ABILITY
Once per Night Phase of the game, you may request a report from The Company (by PMing me) on one "Koopa" character and one "Kefka" character. You'll learn what moves each character has.
Alternatively, you may ask for a report on a single character with a banned move. I'll randomly choose one from all available options that you haven't seen and give it to you. If you take this option, you cannot requestany report the following Night Phase.
Once in the game during Cycle 1, and only once, you may discreetly Kill one player of your choice. You may do this at any time in Cycle 1, during any Phase, to be effective immediately after my receipt of your PM stating your intent and your name. (At the moment the Tourney Cop comes out with his public announcement at the end of Cycle 1, this ability is void.) But if the player you've chosen is not theTourney Cop, you will be found out, disqualified from the tournament, exiled from The Company, and left to rot in an American prison cell for the rest of your life. And Team MAF will have a hard time winning if it's missing a member, so choose wisely, if at all.
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Thwart the Tourney Cop, by whatever means necessary. (Doing well in the tournament would work, I should mention, you bloodthirsty savage.)
- Avoid being raised (voted for by the majority) for Suspicion in Cycle 2.
- Win one perfect match without Cheating or Banned Exploits.
You don't know who they are! You've never met before this event, communicating only through underworld channels. You do know that there are four of you in total, and that one of you has the contact information for all four, but not their names. (Even if you learn their names, you can't contact them privately unless you share a hotel room.)
WIN CONDITION
Your Win Condition is for a member of Team MAF to win first place in the tournament, or for there to be no members of the Town remaining in the tournament. (If the latter, the tournament will still play out to the end to determine a winner.)
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Take at least third place in the tournament.
- Win one perfect match, without Cheating.
- Change rooms at least three times.
- Make sure you've read the rules, so that you know exactly what information the town has about you and your faction!
- Make sure you've read the sample town PM, so you won't be caught awkwardly somehow!
- Make sure you've read the tourney cop's PM, so you know what you're up against!
You are the Once-a-Star Tournament Player of a Rival Scene, and member of Team MAF.
You are [CENSORED], a former player of [CENSORED], which is a fighting game whose tournament scene is somewhat in competition with the burgeoning Koopa VS Kefka. You won many titles in years past, and for a while you were hailed as The Best. You've more or less left the scene recently, but you still harbor an undying affection for the community and the game.
Amidst the never-ending questions of, "Is [CENSORED] really a fighting game at all?", and with all the excitement over this new game, you're worried that your favorite series of THEY ARE DEFINITELY FIGHTING GAMES BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN FIGHTING games is going to fall to the wayside.
Well, not if you can help it. You're prepared to tighten up your belt and get back in the game at last!
YOUR ABILITY
You're a master in the field of fighting games, and can play well with any character. Every round you play, you'll have a colour buff. (Just make sure not to get noticed by anyone else who's familiar with your characters!)
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Win the tournament outright, getting first place.
- Win two matches without Cheating or Banned Exploits (to prove your skill).
- Win one perfect match.
You don't know who they are! You've never met before this event, communicating only through underworld channels. You do know that there are four of you in total, and that one of you has the contact information for all four, but not their names. (Even if you learn their names, you can't contact them privately unless you share a hotel room.)
WIN CONDITION
Your Win Condition is for a member of Team MAF to win first place in the tournament, or for there to be no members of the Town remaining in the tournament. (If the latter, the tournament will still play out to the end to determine a winner.)
FAKE TOWN OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Win the tournament outright, getting first place.
- Win two matches without Cheating (to prove your drill).
- Eat at a different restaurant every Lunch phase. (Unless you have a hunch the restaurant is poisoned. You're not Superman, you know.)
SPECIAL TIPS
- Make sure you've read the rules, so that you know exactly what information the town has about you and your faction!
- Make sure you've read the sample town PM, so you won't be caught awkwardly somehow!
- Make sure you've read the tourney cop's PM, so you know what you're up against!
You are the Tourney Cop.
Justice and punishment for misdeeds is the way of the world, and is what you gave your body to almost from birth. You have no birthday, and when you die, no one will remember you. Yours is a heart of cold iron. Your name is meaningless, your home life inconsequential. You are become Justice, and thus your existence is eternal and everlasting, the weight of the title passing from one nameless soul to the next, ever and ever, on and on. The importance of your function cannot be understated -- the world of competitive gaming must always be protected from those with evil in their hearts.
YOUR ABILITY
You can (usually) Review one match per Match phase in Cycle 1. (I'll contact you when all matches are over for the Day so you can make your decision.) If the Reviewed match involves Cheating (or Banned Exploits), the caught player(s) forfeits the match and loses one point. At this time, your Review choices are not public, but any effects on matches (forfeits) are public.
At the end of Cycle 1, you will make a public guess in the thread on a single player who might be MAF. If the guess is correct, that MAF member is disqualified from the tournament (and leaves the game), and you take their spot in the Bracket (based on your own point total from match play). Otherwise, you are out of the tournament, but can still post in the thread.
Every Match phase of Cycle 2, you can continue to Review one match a Day. At this time, if you Review a match involving Cheating, the caught player(s) will forfeit their Match. Also, your Review choices during Cycle 2 Match Phases will be made publicly (again, after all the matches have been played). You cannot Review the final match of the tournament -- all you've got at that point is hope.
You cannot Cheat during any match gameplay.
YOUR OPTIONAL GOALS (in order of importance)
- Eliminate as many Team MAF members as possible from the competition, by any means.
- Get to Cycle 2 without Team MAF figuring out who you are. (You likely won't know if you've accomplished this until the end of the game.)
- Try not to ever get voted into a Bye in Cycle 1.
- Sample six different restaurants during Lunch phases in Cycle 1 (to enjoy your only vice, in your brief period of respite, to its fullest extent).
- Spend at least one Lunch or Night phase in each of the four hotel rooms.
- Review every player at least once.
Your Win Condition is to find and punish cheaters (including Team MAF) to discourage others from cheating and ensure a fair and just competition! (In general, do your best at your function!)
SPECIAL NOTE
No other player has as many optional goals as you, so it would be wise not to reveal them all if the situation comes up.
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