Haunting

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Ts: One huge weakness of the classic werewolves/mafia type games is perma death, making it so that some players will not get to play for a significant amount of the game. Any suggestions to resolve/alleviate this are welcome in this thread, but I want to bring up one that was actually done in this game in the (distant) past: Way back in S1-S2 it was possible for the dead players to "haunt" tavern during the night, making is to some whispers would reach that channel. IIRC this was done by generating a randomize list of words and having the dead players vote on this. This was horrible in every way. Is there anything we could do to bring back haunting in some way? I'm absolutely not sure how it could be executed in a better way or if that is even possible, but if there was an idea it could possibly be tied to an otherwise powerless TM role. Anyone have any opinions/suggestions or completely different ideas for involving dead players more?

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Ts: makes sense

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Captain Luffy: also, what would this new reporter be called

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Ts: unsure

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Ts: Mortician?

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Captain Luffy: but is that really an elected thing lol

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!Phantomtomic: Well if everyone's dead and ghosts maybe they want a dead leader

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!Phantomtomic: And mortician... inspects the dead?

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Captain Luffy: no it doesnt inspect dead, only ghosts

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Captain Luffy: incapable of targetting dead

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Ts: which presumably have a dead body somewhere

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Ts: which wouldn't disappear if the ghost dies I suppose so Mortician doesnt work

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Captain Luffy: anything to do with psychic abilities prob doesnt work either

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!Phantomtomic: What would a ghost journalist do, same as journalist?

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Ts: yea

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!Phantomtomic: Wouldn't this make ghost lynches basically the same as the main game with town lead and all that

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Captain Luffy: oh i know, what about gravekeeper

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Captain Luffy: they visit a grave every night

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Captain Luffy: and can tell what the ghosts role was

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Ts: I like it

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Ts:

Wouldn't this make ghost lynches basically the same as the main game with town lead and all that

This assumes that all lynches are perfect, and that no new information will be figured out

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Captain Luffy: also what would a ghostly modifier royal knight do

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Ts: Also even then they will lack behind

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Captain Luffy: which lynch does it impact

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Ts: undefined

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Captain Luffy: could ghost lynches be during night phase

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Ts: yea I originally had it as that

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Captain Luffy: oh wait but then u can just lynch the newly lynched person at day

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Ts: but I wasn't sure if that wouldn't be too inconvenient?

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Ts: oh and that too

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Ts: lets keep it on day then

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Captain Luffy: but the other way works too, could lynch the newly killed person at night

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Ts: do we have any ideas for a first elected role?

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Captain Luffy: it probably shouldnt be called a lynch either

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Ts: Ghost Mayor?

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Captain Luffy: just to make it more clear

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Ts: it really shouldnt

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Ts: oh and if we dont then RK becomes defined

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Captain Luffy: that fixes the royal knight problem

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Captain Luffy: yeah

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Ts: yea

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Captain Luffy: banishment maybe?

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Ts: sounds good

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Captain Luffy: is ghost mayor a bad idea

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Ts: idk

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Ts: its a bit boring but we need at least one if not two buffer roles to a role blocking role

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Captain Luffy: what about a ghost elected role that kills yourself in order to do something that helps the living

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Ts: doesnt seem fitting for an elected role I think

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Captain Luffy: would make the dead alignment population issue a bit less stable

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Captain Luffy: or some other downside like removing the ghost lynch the next day

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Ts: I think what could be an option is to have the options for ghost to fade (die) which does something favorable