[LoM] Aftermath

[Ashe]

Night Four began with immediate PMs asking a number of questions...

Celena sent me the following thoughts: "I'm using my ability to protect Mal for this night phase and for the following day phase. If there was ever a time I needed to use my power, it's now. I reckon Mal has sussed out the thrid mafia, and as a result, I'm 75% sure of who the forth mafia is, or rather, the person under Meer's control, and I'm going to lynch that person with my reason during the day phase coming up."

I replied with the following, trying to be sure that no misunderstanding took place with the use of this ability. "Ok, if you are preventing for the Night and following Day, it will be considered a Night ability, not preventing any lynch of today. If you use it to prevent a lynch for today, then you will protect this Day and the following Night instead.

If you wish to use it this Night (to prevent a kill) and the following Day, I'll add that to my list of Night actions."

He confirms "Yes, do that."

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Similarly, the following exchange occured with Rafael, who asked "Hey, if I use my ability on someone and they have no charges, can they use that skill that night phase?"

I responded with "If you refresh a charge on someone that has a "Limited Use" ability with fewer charges than the maximum, they can use it whenever the next available time to use it is. They will be informed that they have been Infused by Soraka during resolution of your ability, which is at the conclusion of the Night. They'd have to wait till after that before its considered "infused"."

His response was "In that case...I choose Rose" to which I had responded with "You now have 2 charges left." but needed to immediately make an on the spot ruling given that, even if this would be a limited set of giveable charges, I did not want to see this situation develop as far as it was appearing to become. "Also, something I meant to write in there that I didn't realize I had missed. You are unable to target the same target more than once in the game, to prevent some balance problems."

It was a bit inconsistent with the earlier portion of the game, but the mafia had enough going against them. I couldn't allow this potential exploit to happen.

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Rose lets me know that "Just confirming that I will not be feasting tonight. Saving some room."

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Piper makes his thoughts known with "I'mma protect Jarka"

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Whompt also sends me a note regarding 'The big kill' of the night being "Merr. He needs to go."

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Five hours after Celena's conversation concluded with me, Mal Nova sends me a message informing me that he wanted to use Destiny on "Whompt". I knew the outcome to this already - Singed's Poison Trail was not an ability requiring a target, so Kayle's Intervention would have no effect on it. Mal Nova created his own death here, but I have to admit to being once again frustrated that he directly targetted a mafia member through some preternatural senses I've never seen before or after from him. I regret that this situation came up, given that I know Celena's playstyle and he's very, very careful about the use of an ability like that, so having him completely waste it was not going to be taken very well.

I finally had to conclude the night.

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I looked at my notes and had the following:

Celena targets Mal Nova for Intervention. Continues to next day.
Mal Nova targets Whompt for Destiny.
Piper targets Jarka for Stand United.
Rafael targets Rose for Infuse.
Whompt targets Merr for Mafia Execution.

I then had to begin the PMs informing people of the results of their Night Actions, leading us into Day Five...

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