[Game of Idleness] - Kingdom Royale Game #27

A failing kingdom

And its people with their self interest​

FOREWORDS​

This is the 27th round of Kingdom Royale.
The GM this time is @Acarnina .
What a bleak forewords.
And this is a template.

RULES​

1. Sign up at http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/kingdom-royale-interest-thread.12055/ . Each game will be hosted on a different game thread.
2. No private messages between participants about the game (meta-gaming). Private messages for other purposes are allowed.
3. You are forbidden from giving any form of clues / hints / or [Kingdom Royale] related remarks outside from this thread and each secret conversation chat rooms.
4. While I appreciate that RL takes precedence, please inform me if you're going to disappear for a while. I can always shoehorn someone else in there.
5. Observers are forbidden from giving any form of clues / hints / or [Kingdom Royale] related remarks to the players.
   While you are not forbidden from chatting casually or joke around (in moderation) in the game thread and each secret conversation chat rooms, it is highly probable that you might accidentally slipped some clues. So unless you are 100% sure that your post does not contain any of the mentioned above, please refrain from posting. I highly recommend you to ask anything you do not understand privately to the moderator of the game instead of in either thread and chat rooms.
   This also apply to ghosts.
6. Global forum rules apply.

GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW
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Spoiler

1. Day and night cycle take twenty-four (24) hours each, counting from the start of the phase, unless it is unanimously voted to be ended early. Both day and night can be voted to end early.
2. Before the [Day Phase] end, each player may select another player to form a private chatroom for the night. Both players will then be transported into the private room, where they can talk, deal, scheme, or attempt to murder each other without anyone knowing. If a player fail to specify a person, it will default to "no chat" option.
3. Each role has a different victory conditions. The game ends when all surviving players have met their victory condition.
4. All players start with 8 HP.
5. All players will recover 1 HP at the beginning of [Day Phase].
6. All players are given a knife, which can be used to [Stab] the other players regardless of roles. [Stab] may be done once per cycle, either day or night.
   The knife will disappear once it has been used it to stab someone. A new knife will be given to each player who has lost it on the next day.
7. Each [Stab] will reduce the remaining HP of the target by 4.
8. Attacking with the [Stab] action during daytime will be announced to everyone, whereas attacking at night will only be announced to the target (in the night chatrooms). However it can only be done to the attacker's conversation partner.
9. Defend mechanic :
   • If you still hold a knife (refer to point 6) and you're stabbed at day time, you can 'defend' against stabs, and the damage received will be halved to 2 HP.
   • If a player set up stab (and is set up to be stabbed) at the same time through scheduling, I shall deem defend to not happen. All attacks are received in full.
     For example, if A scheduled to stab B at end if day and B scheduled to stab C at the same time, the scheduled stab to B shall be received in full.
   • At night time, defend mechanic does not apply.
10. You can schedule your [Stab] actions with conditional order.
11. Roles will NOT be announced upon death. Nor will players be informed of their remaining HP.
12. If THREE cycles (day and night) have passed OR three players have been eliminated, sudden death will occur. During the sudden death, no HP will be regenerated.
13. If THREE cycles (day and night) have passed AND three players have been eliminated, double death will occur. During the double death, the [defend mechanic] is nullified, i.e. just hurry and die.
14. If amazingly the game goes on for SIX cycles (day and night), the Mummy end is triggered.

Possible Conditions for [Stab] Schedule​

You may only schedule [stab] action with the following condition:

• [Stab] @ by the end of the [{day/night} Phase]
• [Stab] @ at the beginning of the [{day/night} Phase]
• [Stab] @ if @ using their [Stab] {/ on @}
• [Stab] @ after I receive {x} amount of stabs
• [Stab] the {1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th} person who stabbed me {during this phase/for the rest of the game/for the next phase/any other time wording}
• [Stab] the {1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th} person who used their [Stab]

Any other conditions and I make no promises as to the consequences.

ROLES​

There are six roles in the game, with different ability and victory conditions.

Spoiler

[King]

Spoiler: Narration

He is the king who has ascended to the throne by assassinating the previous ruler and has carried out many invasions. Having a distrustful personality, he's scheming murder of the ones that threaten his throne. He does not notice that his distrust makes others lose their loyalty for him.
He can request his subordinates to commit [murder], but he cannot force them because he fears their animosity could become directed at him.
A land ruled by a man that cannot trust others is unlikely to have a bright future.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of the [King]

• [Murder]
  He can select a player he wants to kill and request the [Sorcerer] or the [Knight] to execute this action. He does not need to select. [Murder] may only be activated once during the [Night Phase]. The target of [Murder] is annulled by the end of the [Night Phase].
• [Substitution]
  He can once avoid being the target of [Assassination] by changing roles with [The Double] for a single day. If he was selected as the target on this day, [The Double] will die instead of the [King]. [Substitution] may only be activated during the [Day Phase]. Whether he was targeted or not, the King's skill [Murder] is passed to [The Double] for the day.
  If he choose to execute skill one day, it will be active at the next day phase (which is when [Assassination] is executed).

Victory conditions for the [King] To protect his throne. (Elimination of the ones that threaten the king's throne [Prince] [Revolutionary] [Knight])

[Prince]

Spoiler: Narration

An ambitious person. He was originally only at the third place in the inheritance order of the king's rank. But taking advantage of the king's mistrust, he made him murder the other princes and moved up to the first place. He acquired anti-magic to guard himself against this mistrust.
If he comes to the throne, this land is likely to turn into a worse dictatorship than it was before.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of the [Prince]

• [Throne Succession]
  He becomes able to use [Murder] once the [King] and [The Double] die.
• [Anti-magic]
  He cannot be killed by [Sorcery]. In addition, he will be informed by the identity of the [Sorcerer] once [Sorcery] is used on him.

Victory conditions for the [Prince] To become the king. (Elimination of [King] [The Double] [Revolutionary] [Knight])

[The Double]

Spoiler: Narration

An ex-farmer who is loyal to the [King] and looks exactly the same as him. He is not really ambitious, but he can absolutely not allow the [Prince] to become the king since he was always made a fool by him.
If he, with no ideals, becomes the king, this land is likely to fall into ruin in no time.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of [The Double]

• [Inheritance]
  If the [King] dies or [Substitution] was executed, he becomes able to use [Murder].

Victory conditions for [The Double] Death of the ones that try to kill him. (Death of [Prince] [Revolutionary])

[Sorcerer]

Spoiler: Narration

A subordinate of the [King]. He is the teacher of the [Prince] in magic and also gets on well with the [Prince]. He is satisfied as long he can pursue his studies in magic and has no interest in the king's throne whatsoever.
No matter how much he can raise his magic skills, nobody will value a person that secludes himself in his shell.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of the [Sorcerer]

• [Sorcery]
  He can choose whether to effectively kill the character that was selected by [Murder]. [Sorcery] may only be activated during the [Night Phase]. The targeted character will become a burnt corpse by the end of the [Night Phase].

Victory conditions for the [Sorcerer] To survive.

[Knight]

Spoiler: Narration

A subordinate of the [King]. While being a subordinate, he is plotting revenge on the royal family for they have ruined his homeland. He believes firmly that he can only attain happiness by exterminating the royal family.
As a matter of course, a man that has drowned in his own feelings of loss will only fall into the darkness of misfortune.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of the [Knight]

• [Deathblow]
  He can choose whether to effectively kill the character that was selected by [Murder]. Only executable when the [Sorcerer] is dead. [Deathblow] may only be activated during the [Night Phase]. The targeted character will die due to beheading by the end of the [Night Phase].
• [Fitness]
  Intense physical training is the requirement of being a knight. Gain 2 extra HP.

Victory conditions for the [Knight] To take revenge. (Death of [King] [Prince])

[Revolutionary]

Spoiler: Narration

He is the right arm of the [King]. Because of his competence, he realized that this land is going to fall into ruin if it goes on like this. Hence, he prepared himself to take over the land.
A ruler that has accumulated feelings of bitterness due to assassinations is incapable of leading a kingdom. At most he will be assassinated himself.

Spoiler: Skills

Skills of the [Revolutionary]

• [Assassination]
  He can assassinate the selected character. He does not need to select one. [Assassination] may only be activated during the [Night Phase]. The targeted character will become a strangulated corpse at the beginning of the [Day Phase].

Win conditions of the [Revolutionary] To become the king. (Murder of [King] [Prince] [The Double])

EXECUTION ORDER​

1. Scheduled [stab] by the end of [night phase].
2. The target of [Murder] become a burnt or beheaded corpse by the end of [Night Phase] if applicable.
3. The target of [Assassination] become a strangulated corpse at the beginning of the [Day Phase] if applicable.
4. All players recover 1 HP if applicable.
5. Scheduled [Stab] at the start of [day phase] if applicable.

PLAYER LIST​

• @Ddraig
• @Fossil - Incinerated Night 1
• @Hasr11
• @kyuukestu
• @Miiro
• @WhitesRabbit48

OBSERVER LIST​

• @Nyan sempai
• @Cypress
• @Blitz

MISCELLANEOUS​

Summary
There are only 2 rules for players

1. One stab per cycle
2. No comment in thread during night phase

There are only 2 rules for ghosts and observers

1. Don't talk if you don't know whats not allowed to be said.
2. Read and understand the first rule. Then read and understand the first rule again.
   
   
   So, let the blood flow​
   In this failing kingdom

 

Roles to be sent out once I finish rolling my dice.

Roles assigned. Feel free to beginning the madness.

 

Nina me and @Cypress will be observing

 

@Ddraig @Fossil @Fr0stb1te @kyuukestu @Miiro @WhitesRabbit48:

As a casual reminder please note that there are currently 3 in the waiting list for the next game and I am very willing to switch out inactive players. As a quantitative measure, let's go with 0 posts during a phase => inactivity => new player substituted in.

You are all currently at 0 for the first day. You've got 14 hours and 18 minutes to fix that.

 

Hey everyone I am still alive so please don’t kick me out.
I also !vote day end.

 

Also still alive! So how’s everyone doin´?

 

Well, I'm certainly not inactive.

I'm doing quite well. If I didn't have an exam today, it'd be perfect xD

 

Lets end the day
!vote day end

 

...Just so you know, people do sleep. It’s not that strange.

 

I’ll visit Miiro tonight.

 

Sleep is important!

 

Same actually.

I’ll visit Kyuukestu tonight.

!vote day end

 

Current Status:

No stabs.

@Ddraig votes end day.
@Fossil will visit Miiro and believes in sleep.
@Fr0stb1te has not posted and may be replaced.
@kyuukestu is not inactive.
@Miiro isn't visiting anybody but still wants to end the day.
@WhitesRabbit48 is visiting kyuukestu and votes end day.

@Zone Q11 and @Hasr11 are first in line to replace inactives at day's end.

@Nyan sempai and @Cypress are watching you.

Days end is in 7 hours ~30 minutes.

 

Exams done~

I'll visit Fossil and !vote to end the day.

 

!vote day end

 

As it turns out, in an unfortunate chain of events poor @Fr0stb1te was running late for the conference and ran into the common thief @Hasr11 on the road. He was stabbed to death by the enterprising youth and everything he owned was taken, including his letter of invitation and the trappings of his role in society.

As thieves are typically put to death in this kingdom, @Hasr11 decided he could do well for himself in his new role and came to the castle, intending to fake his way into his position. Luckily enough for his somewhat questionable planning, it turns out nobody in the conference knew anybody else, nor what their roles were. Breathing a sigh of relief, he slipped into the conference hall and began to play out his new position.

Unfortunately it did not take him long to realize this was a death trap in which everyone was planning to kill each other when he was issued a knife at the door.
Fortunately, he's already stabbed someone to death.
He'd just have to do it again if they threatened his new financial security.

 

Day has been ended 2 hours early by common vote!

It was a boring first day at the conference, filled with polite words of nothing and stony silences from the more tired attendees. Despite being given knives with which to liven things up by their intrepid host, they showed remarkable restraint in not using them. One spot of excitement was the late arrival of @Hasr11, circumstances explained above, but all else was remarkably tame.

Now, the attendees retire to a night of scheming and planning in which to exercise their ability.

@Ddraig will visit kyuukestu.
@Fossil will visit Miiro.
@Hasr11 will visit WhitesRabbit48
@kyuukestu will visit Fossil.
@Miiro will try to avoid social interaction.
@WhitesRabbit48 will visit kyuukestu.

@Blitz, @Nyan sempai, and @Cypress are watching you.

No, seriously, they're the maids. Just ask them if you want a drink or anything. We've got a wonderful selection of wines and teas, but no coffee. Because caffiene is evil. Also, have you seen our dessert bar?
It's to die for.

 

As the sun rises in the West to reveal long shadows over the kingdom, a blazing pyre runs from the topmost tower to plunge over its rim. As it falls, it's flesh turns to ash and only a dark shadow in the breeze is left to scatter across the surface of the castle's most. @Fossil, legacy of the ancient world, passes from this world in a blaze of fire.

Five others still survive, wary of the others, one of whom must have set that blaze; another who may have commanded it. @Ddraig stretches from a late night; @Hasr11 exchanges a glance with a rabbit; @kyuukestu sees some of his secrets pass with the ash; @Miiro hopes again for solitude; and @WhitesRabbit48 starts his hopping early.

Day 2 has begun.

 

Alrighy... an eventful night?

only one death...no strangulated corpse too...