Laughing Among the Crying Wolves [OVER - MAFIA WIN]

This is the shrine of the Orochi. A cursed land where the sky is muddled with clouds.

Born in the ancient times, the cursed spirit Orochi feeds off humanity's sins.
Greed. Pride. Avarice.
Reborn every three hundred years, it seeks out a host and inhabits it, leading them to kill again and again until strong enough to rise in its full form and rear its head high under the ever-present clouds cast over Oumi.
It devours all living with insatiable hunger, scorching the earth and defiling the seas.

The serpent of destruction is rising once again.

Pay heed, for the Orochi is the enemy of mankind...



Descendants of the prominent houses of Oumi, you have all lived your lives since birth with only one goal in mind - to seek out and destroy the Orochi when it reappears. The time of its rebirth is near; and while you are the only people that can draw out, seal and destroy the ancient cursed spirit, you are also the only ones the spirit will inhabit... surely enough, one of you will become the True Orochi's Vessel - the shell for the Orochi within to slowly but surely gain strength before rising once again in its full form.

You must seek out the Vessel and kill it before it is too late; as you are now, you stand no chance against the serpent of destruction at its full power.

But be warned; the Orochi will not idly wait. While it settles within the body of one among you, it will use them to kill time and time again, without their knowledge. The signs will not show until it is already too late... find the Orochi, find it and destroy it before it destroys us all - and disperse the clouds over Oumi so that sun may shine again over our lands.

In this game, each player is unaware of their own alignment, as you do not know that you are the Orochi's Vessel.

Therefore, Night phases will work differently than you are used to.

All players are required to pm the host a NK target.

If the player's alignment is mafia/they are possessed by the Orochi, their pm will be counted as a vote towards the NK. However, if the NK votes form a tie, the Orochi will not be able to decide on their target, and no one will die.

If the player's alignment is town, there is a chance that they will actually protect their target instead. One player among the town will be chosen as channeling divine protection every night, and their target will be immune to NK. They will not be told that they were able to protect someone that night.

Additionally, every player may attempt to contact another player through the host every night. If they and the person they attempted to contact are both mafia, they will be revealed to each other and will continue to operate as standard mafia together.

There is a possibility that the mafia may be given an option to recruit a single town player upon finding each other, if the game balance at the time requires it.

All players will vote in-thread normally for the target that they wish to sentence to death by hanging.

In the case of a tie, the lynch will be RNGed between the tied players.

All Mafia are immune to NK. If they are the majority target of the night votes, they will appear as if they were protected. If they are one of the two tied targets however, the vote on them will be ignored and the other target will be killed despite the tie.

Additionally, two players will be randomly picked that will have a one-time killproof. One of the mafia, being the Fake Orochi's Vessel, will be able to escape death once by faking their death (flavour). One of the town, being the Shikigami summoned to seal the Orochi, will deny the attempt made on their life once.

• No kill or No vote is not a valid target for the NK pm.
  
• Night phase votes will never be publicly revealed in thread by the host, but you are allowed to claim them.
  
• Players are allowed to plan night targets in-thread, but are of course under no obligation to actually follow the plan.
  
• No lynch or No vote is a valid day phase vote.
  
• You have unlimited vote changes both during the night phase and the day phase.
  
• Please make sure to vote every. single. phase. as the game is purely reliant on votes.
  
• Outside the mechanism, all players are vanilla.
  
• The game ends when either Town eliminates the Orochi, or when the Mafia/Servants of the Orochi outnumber Town.
  

• Luxaria
  
• Cure
  
• Ninfia - killed N0 - Town - Kumo Soramaru
  
• Tiki the Troll - killed N2 - Town - Ashiya Mutsuki
  
• Entelechy - lynched D1 - Town - Kinjou Shirasu
  
• Sammiya - killed N3 - Town - Abe no Sousei
  
• aeiou - lynched D2 - Town - Botan
  
• Rasei - lynched D4 - Town Kumo Chuutaro
  
• Five - lynched D3 - Mafia - Sasaki Kiiko
  
  Characters used: Kumo Tenka, Kumo Soramaru, Kumo Chuutarou, Kinjou Shirasu, Abe no Hirari, Abe no Sousei, Sasaki Kiiko, Ashiya Mutsuki, Botan.
  

• First Cloud - Game Start
  
• Second Cloud - N0->D1
  
• Third Cloud - D1->N1
  
• Fourth Cloud - N1->D2
  
• Fifth Cloud - D2->N2
  
• Sixth Cloud - N2->D3
  
• Seventh Cloud - D3->N3
  
• Eighth Cloud - N3->D4
  
• Ninth Cloud - End
  

mechanics - special wrote:All Mafia are immune to NK. If they are the majority target of the night votes, they will appear as if they were protected. If they are one of the two tied targets however, the vote on them will be ignored and the other target will be killed despite the tie.