ESPIONAGE: Round Eight - [SPY and Informants WIN!]

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ESPIONAGE: Round Eight - [SPY and Informants WIN!]

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Are you so bored and want to rid some evil through deductions and investigations?

Do you want to order people around and create chaos and destruction all around?

Are you willing to put yourself at risk to protect that one person from your list that could either help in your survival or be the cause of the entire population's downfall?

Or do you simply want to accuse other people for no apparent reason and see them get lynched one by one until you escape with your team?

LOOK
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...is coming soon to a theater near you!

After 310 days since the last Detective vs Spy battle in the DCTP Forums, ESPIONAGE finally makes its long-awaited return to be GMed by none other than NOT me! ;D xD

With the success of the Part II of the Back-to-Back-Birthday-Surprise-HYPE that took place on the 18th of September (and after all the coding, testing, and cake-throwing), the Espionage Game Manager will now be up for use!

What is an Espionage Game Manager?

The Espionage Game Manager is an application created by dumytru that is able to facilitate a game of Espionage instead of having a human GM. With it, players can send actions such as Execute, Investigate, Order, and/or Vote each phase without worrying that the GM may have missed their last minute change of actions. It will also automatically update the results at exactly the end of each phase, cutting all those about ten-minute to almost hours of delayed results a human GM sometimes couldn't avoid due to unexpected circumstances that happens beyond their control.

How does the Espionage Game Manager work?

Right now, the plan is to install the Espionage Game Manager in the DCTP Forums. But while we wait for our respective DCTP admins to work on the technical things needed for the Manager to be fully moved here, we will be using the Espionage Forums in order to use the Manager in this round! All game discussions will still strictly take place here in this designated game topic in DCTP. All that is needed is to create an account in the Espionage Forums using your same DCTP username and avatar! A simple instructions will be made available later (yay procrastination! ...but really we're just waiting for the Manager to come back online since the server was shut down while we wait to start the game itself).

How do we sign-up this round?
Spoiler: Follow these instructions
1. To get started, go to the Espionage Forums by visiting www.espionage.gq

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2. Create an account by clicking 'Register' on the upper right corner of the Espionage Forums.

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3. Click the 'I agree to these terms' button.

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4. Fill out the boxes with any e-mail address and your desired password BUT make sure to use the exact same username you use in the DCTP Forums. You can also set your designated Timezone in this part.

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5. Once you've hit the 'Submit' button on the above, you can now Login using your DCTP username and the password you've entered.

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6. Next, click the 'User Control Panel' located on the upper left corner of the Espionage Forums.

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7. Click on 'Profile'.

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8. Click on 'Edit avatar'.

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9. Upload the exact same avatar you are currently using in the DCTP Forums.

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10. Once you've created your account in the Espionage Forums and uploaded your avatar, click the 'Espionage Manager' on the upper left corner just below 'Board Index' and then choose your spot to sign up!

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You can follow this link to better familiarize yourself on how the Espionage Manager itself will work.

General Overview

Roles and Objectives

Espionage revolves around the interplay between special roles that two players are assigned: the Spy and the Detective. The Spy's goal is to eliminate the Detective by whatever means possible, while the Detective's goal is to locate and lynch the Spy. The remaining players will be Civilians. Some of those have been corrupted and are to assist the Spy, they're the Informants. All other Civilians are to help the Detective.
So you can think of it like this: Detective and Civilians make up one team trying to kill the Spy, Spy and Informants make up another team trying to kill the Detective.

These are the four only roles in the game. There's one Detective, one Spy, a small number of Informants, and a lot of Civilians. How many Informants are in the game depends on the total number of players and is announced when the game begins. The roles are assigned randomly and aside from one exception you alone are informed of your role.

This is a game in which you are allowed to lie and players pretend to be roles they're not. You can rarely be certain if someone's telling the truth and it's often not easy to tell who's friend and who's foe.


Events Over The Course of The Game

The game consists of phases that are 24 hours long. Two important things happen at the end of every phase:
— A player might die at the hands of the Spy.
— A player might be lynched by the entire town.
Over the course of the phase every player is expected to send their vote using the Espionage Manager. Unless there is a tie, whoever receives the most votes is lynched. In addition to the vote the Spy can also use their Kill action, thereby eliminating a player. Players' roles are revealed upon death.

When the Spy dies the game ends in a Detective/Civilians win. When the Detective dies the remaining Civilians have two more phases in which they can try to find and lynch the Spy and win. If the Spy is still alive after those two phases, the game ends in a Spy/Informants win.


Rules

Roles and Their Abilities

Spy
Kill: Kills one player the Spy chooses to target.
Order: Sends a message of any length to all Informants.
Note: Order can be used every phase, including Prep Phase.
Spoiler: Rules applying to Order
An Informant's response to cues from the Spy received through the ability Order has to take place in the game topic and cannot involve anything outside of it, including posts in other topics elsewhere on the forum or the changing of signatures or altering any other profile information. Additionally, it must not be requested to edit posts for confirmation purposes.
Detective
Investigate: The Detective sends in the names of three players to be investigated one of which they'll learn is not the Spy. Since there is just one Spy in the game out of the three names submitted either two or all three are non-Spies. Which of those two or those three is returned is random.
Spoiler: Rules applying to Investigate
— Every player's name cannot be sent in more than two times.
— The Detective may not submit his or her own name.
— The number of players the Detective has investigated must be three, it cannot be more or less.
— If the Detective's submitted Investigate is invalid it fails. In that case there's no non-Spy revealed.
Informant
No abilities
The Informant learns the identity of the Spy when the game start.
If the Spy uses Order, all Informants still alive receive the message at phase change.

Civilian
No abilities
At the end of Prep Phase, every Civilian receives a list with a unique set of names of fellow players. Each contains the Detective's and all Informants' names among others.
Spoiler: How lists are generated
The number of names on each list depends on the total number of players in the game and is announced when the game starts. Aside from Detective and Informants who are on every list, names are randomly chosen from the remaining players, that is Spy and Civilians. All players assuming either the Spy's or a Civilian's role have the same chance of appearing on a list, the Spy isn't any more or less likely to than any Civilian. The only player who cannot appear on a list is the Civilian receiving it.
With the exception of Order, all abilities mentioned above cannot be used in Prep Phase. Use is optional any Day phase.

Each Day phase every player, no matter what role they've been assigned, has to cast a vote for any player still alive. Whoever receives the most votes will be lynched. Specific rules:
— You may not abstain.
— You have to vote a player who is alive as of the phase the vote is cast. Voting a dead player or someone who isn't even playing is invalid. You may vote yourself.
— Ties cancel the lynching.
— If you fail to send in a valid vote in time, you'll automatically vote yourself.
— Votes are made public regardless of ties. Results don't indicate if a player voted him or herself due to no valid vote having been submitted or not.


Order of Abilities

At the end of every phase the lynching always takes place before the Spy's Kill ability. That means even if you are killed, your vote still goes through. If the Spy intends to Kill the player receiving the most votes, the ability has no effect as the target will already have been lynched. In that case, additionally to the votes, who was lynched, and their role, it is announced that no one died. Phase change results don't specify if the above-mentioned is what happened or if the Spy decided not to kill.


Gameplay

— You are not allowed to discuss the game in private messages with other players as long as either you or they are alive. The only place to discuss it is this topic.
— Once you have been killed by the Spy or lynched, you are dead and therefore considered 'out of the game'. From that point forward you can no longer use your abilities or vote, and are to stop discussing the game in this topic or influence the game in any way until it ends. You are allowed to talk about the game with other players that have died.
— In order to vote or use your abilities, just go to the 'Actions' section of the Espionage Manager. If you want to change vote or use of an ability, you can do so as long as the phase is still ongoing.
— It is advised to ask any questions you may have concerning any rules before the game starts since there will be no human GM to assist you in this round once the game begins.




Guidelines

— Do not attempt to participate with more than one username. This is grounds for permanent banning from any and all future games.
— You may not quote, screenshot, or otherwise duplicate or showcase messages from the Espionage Manager to prove your role, actions, or results.
— Encrypted codes, invisible text or any other attempt to hide information in your posts are forbidden, except for evil players (Spy & Informants) >:D This also means that players shouldn't try to use references only some people will understand (insider information, so to speak).



What to Keep in Mind

— You are allowed to share details of your list publicly, but while it may help identify Informants you might be helping the Spy find the Detective. It is up to you if you want to reveal whole or parts of lists publicly, and if what you claim is even true. But always consider that you are not just talking to your allies, your opponents are listening as well.
— As Spy it is generally considered advisable to use Order to figure out who the Informants are, so as to prevent to accidentally kill an ally. Usually, orders among other things include the request to post messages in the game topic that are framed a certain way, so the Spy can tell who was on the receiving end of the order.
— While the ability is referred to as Order, Informants are not obligated to comply. They can evaluate the situation themselves and might decide to disobey if they see fit to.
— Unlike Mafia, in Espionage you cannot leave any wills to be published upon your death.
— Unlike some previous rounds, in this round no partial lists are revealed upon a Civilian's death.


Lastly, I'm not making this a rule, but I would ask players to be careful when it comes to editing. From the second something is posted, it's possible another player has seen it. If that has happened, it would be unfair to withhold that information from players who haven't seen it yet by editing it out or deleting it. If you have an additional thought shortly after posting and you don't wanna start a new post just for that, go ahead and add a paragraph and indicate that it was edited. If you realize you've referred to the Spy as Detective and your entire post doesn't make sense or is misleading because of that, change the word and indicate what you corrected. Doing that is okay. But please refrain from deleting parts of your messages.

We don't have a set time for when phase changes will take place but tentative start date will be: October 5, 2015, Monday. The options below are based on past rounds' phase changes. Vote for your desired phase change time!

OPTION 1

OPTION 2

OPTION 3

OPTION 4: Others. Please specify!

*I just discovered you can't make polls in the Forum Games section...
**Choices updated!
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Re: ESPIONAGE: Round Eight - [starts October 5th?!]

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How do we sign-up this round?
Spoiler: Follow these instructions
1. To get started, go to the Espionage Forums by visiting www.espionage.gq

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2. Create an account by clicking 'Register' on the upper right corner of the Espionage Forums.

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3. Click the 'I agree to these terms' button.

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4. Fill out the boxes with any e-mail address and your desired password BUT make sure to use the exact same username you use in the DCTP Forums. You can also set your designated Timezone in this part.

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5. Once you've hit the 'Submit' button on the above, you can now Login using your DCTP username and the password you've entered.

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6. Next, click the 'User Control Panel' located on the upper left corner of the Espionage Forums.

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7. Click on 'Profile'.

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8. Click on 'Edit avatar'.

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9. Upload the exact same avatar you are currently using in the DCTP Forums.

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10. Once you've created your account in the Espionage Forums and uploaded your avatar, click the 'Espionage Manager' on the upper left corner just below 'Board Index' and then choose your spot to sign up!

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You can follow this link to better familiarize yourself on how the Espionage Manager itself will work.
I included these instructions on the first post but re-posting it for people to see... Still trying to figure out what to do with users who don't use any avatars. The current default image the Espionage Manager uploads in the poster can be seen below:
Spoiler:
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Feel free to post for any suggestions. Also, don't hesitate to post in this topic for any questions about the manager! Check out the options on the first post to vote for your desired phase change time. The Espionage Manager is temporarily counting down to start on October 5th 14:00 Pacific Time. That will obviously change when phase change time is finally decided.
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Re: ESPIONAGE: Round Eight - [starts October 5th?!]

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I'll vote for Options 2 and 3!
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I'm confused, why are we picking new names..?

(I'd also rather be a female Shinichi :P)
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I'll do this tomorrow. Someone remind me.
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I'm in. It seems fun. Also, option 2 works best for me.
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Iwamoto Yuri wrote:I'm confused, why are we picking new names..?

(I'd also rather be a female Shinichi :P)
I know this is confusing. Basically the manager will do the GM's job, and it works like this: think of the manager as an extension of the forums. Both share the same accounts. If the manager would be installed on DCTP, then the manager will know who you are, and you won't have to log in. But right now, the manager we're using is installed on the Espionage Forums (www.espionage.gq). This means you'd have to create an account on the forums.

All actions will be sent at the manager on www.espionage.gq, while the discussions will take place here, in this thread. This is why you have to create another account on Espionage Forums with the same name and avatar.

Should I explain in more detail? I know this is confusing.
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dumytru wrote:
Iwamoto Yuri wrote:I'm confused, why are we picking new names..?

(I'd also rather be a female Shinichi :P)
I know this is confusing. Basically the manager will do the GM's job, and it works like this: think of the manager as an extension of the forums. Both share the same accounts. If the manager would be installed on DCTP, then the manager will know who you are, and you won't have to log in. But right now, the manager we're using is installed on the Espionage Forums (http://www.espionage.gq). This means you'd have to create an account on the forums.

All actions will be sent at the manager on http://www.espionage.gq, while the discussions will take place here, in this thread. This is why you have to create another account on Espionage Forums with the same name and avatar.

Should I explain in more detail? I know this is confusing.
I get that, but why the akai shuuichis and hattori heijis..?
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Iwamoto Yuri wrote:
dumytru wrote:
Iwamoto Yuri wrote:I'm confused, why are we picking new names..?

(I'd also rather be a female Shinichi :P)
I know this is confusing. Basically the manager will do the GM's job, and it works like this: think of the manager as an extension of the forums. Both share the same accounts. If the manager would be installed on DCTP, then the manager will know who you are, and you won't have to log in. But right now, the manager we're using is installed on the Espionage Forums (http://www.espionage.gq). This means you'd have to create an account on the forums.

All actions will be sent at the manager on http://www.espionage.gq, while the discussions will take place here, in this thread. This is why you have to create another account on Espionage Forums with the same name and avatar.

Should I explain in more detail? I know this is confusing.
I get that, but why the akai shuuichis and hattori heijis..?

Oh. We had a special forum-mini-espionage round. To avoid having people create new accounts, we created those and asked them to pick a character.
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dumytru wrote:
Iwamoto Yuri wrote:
dumytru wrote:
Iwamoto Yuri wrote:I'm confused, why are we picking new names..?

(I'd also rather be a female Shinichi :P)
I know this is confusing. Basically the manager will do the GM's job, and it works like this: think of the manager as an extension of the forums. Both share the same accounts. If the manager would be installed on DCTP, then the manager will know who you are, and you won't have to log in. But right now, the manager we're using is installed on the Espionage Forums (http://www.espionage.gq). This means you'd have to create an account on the forums.

All actions will be sent at the manager on http://www.espionage.gq, while the discussions will take place here, in this thread. This is why you have to create another account on Espionage Forums with the same name and avatar.

Should I explain in more detail? I know this is confusing.
I get that, but why the akai shuuichis and hattori heijis..?

Oh. We had a special forum-mini-espionage round. To avoid having people create new accounts, we created those and asked them to pick a character.
oh.... too bad I missed that :T
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Iwamoto Yuri wrote: oh.... too bad I missed that :T
Maybe we can do another sometime. Next time with 15 minutes phases.
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Options 2 or 3
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Kleene Onigiri wrote:Options 2 or 3
As the instructions state, you must use exactly the same avatar as on DCTP.
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Here's the current poster of who joined so far:

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Note: This is the latest screenshot of the Round Eight poster. Once you've created your account in the Espionage Forums, you can actually select/click a spot/number of your choice on the poster to join!

Some additional notes:

— Players who use rotating avatars may still use them on the Espionage Forums. The Espionage Manager will randomly choose the current avatar you have by the time you select 'Join'.
— Players may change their avatar on the Espionage Forums anytime while the round has not yet started. However, the Espionage Manager will not update your avatar on the poster. You'll have to leave the round and re-join again. Just refresh the page if you do not see the change.
— Players who do not use an avatar in DCTP Forums may choose to not upload an avatar on the Espionage Forums. However, the Espionage Manager currently uses this as default avatar to those who do not have any.

Current Phase Change Votes:

OPTION 1 = 0 vote

OPTION 2 = 3 votes

OPTION 3 = 3 votes

OPTION 4: Others. Please specify! = 0 vote

Only four people actually voted so far... xD bash7353 voted for OPTIONs 2 and 3, Max1996 voted for OPTION 2, Kleene Onigiri voted for OPTIONs 2 or 3, and I voted for OPTION 3. My real life schedule right now is all over the place and I don't really mind whatever phase change time will be chosen. Keep in mind that this round will be 'GMed' by the Espionage Manager. Unlike with past rounds where phase change time is decided based on the human GM's availability and schedule, Espionage Round Eight will have 24-hour phases with results updated automatically at exactly the phase change time!

@Max1996: Kleene has a rotating avatar and the one she used in the Espionage Forums is one of her most epic and rare game-face avatar! She can use it.
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option 3
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