WW222: Oops All Cupid Parasites Day 1

The sun shines brightly down on the city of Los York. Across the plaza is the entrance of Cupid Corp, the number one love matching agency in the city. Your appointment with them starts in ten minutes!

Your meeting is in a small partially outdoor office. There is a human-sized desk and two very tiny stools on the other side. You take a seat on the client side and place your filled out profile on the desk. At the sound of you taking your seat, two chickens hop from the adjacent coop into the room.

“Welcome to the Los York branch of Cupid Corp! I’m Bwok, and this is Bawk. We’re going to be your advisors.”

A talking chicken?!

“N-Nice to meet you, Bwok…” You hold your hand out to shake her… wing?

Bawk hops into your hand and looks at your face closely. He clucks a few times, communicating his findings to Bwok.

“Oh, very nice observation, Bawk. I agree! Now, can you come help me type this in?” The speech-endowed chicken flaps at the profile.

You watch the two chickens settle in front of the keyboard, straighten up, and then start frantically pecking at the keys. You lean over a little to see what they’re doing, and you’re impressed to find that they are perfectly entering your profile data into their system. There isn’t a mouse on the table–they’re navigating the entire computer using keyboard shortcuts!

“There we go! Now let’s see what Cupid Corp can do for you…”

This is the opening theme for the actual game 🙂
Clients & Cupid Corp! (a.k.a. Vanilla Town and Roled Town!)
  • 12 Clients (Vanilla Townies) — The clientele of Cupid Corp. Your vote is your power… and so is your ability to be paired off at night!
  • Lynette Mirror (Town Vigilante Cupid): Lynette Mirror is the minor goddess Cupid herself come down to Earth to learn how humans fall in love without the intervention of her arrows. Each night, Lynette must pick a player to be in a Cupid Couple. Please see the Lynette’s Current Powers tab to stay up to date on cupid’s mechanics 🙂
  • Chii (Cupid’s Bodyguard): Chii is Lynette’s divine beast companion from Olympus. Chii shares a private chat with Lynette. At the first day or night kill attempt on Lynette, Chii will die in her place.
  • Owen Herriot (Town Doctor): Shelby Snail’s very overworked personal assistant who is so busy he doesn’t have time to date. Each night, Owen may pick a player to protect from a kill. Cannot pick the same option two nights in a row.
  • Claris Tia (Town Alignment Investigator): Lynette’s best friend and an app developer at Cupid Corp. She wrote the Love Match Test matching quiz which is famous for sorting clients into compatibility pools. Each night, Claris may pick a player to investigate to learn their Alignment.
The Parasite Five! (a.k.a. Wolf Roles)
  • Gill Lovecraft (Agape/Devotion): Once during the game, Gill may pick another player who he will observe for the rest of the game. All night actions going forth taken by and acted upon this player will be reported to Gill. The formation of couples starting on observation night is reported, but if the observed player is already in a private chat its existence will not be reported.
  • Shelby Snail (Pragma/Practical): Once during the game, Shelby may attempt to make his own Couple with another available single player. Shelby’s coupling will render his partner ineligible for future couplings. For the purposes of Lynette’s and Claris’s powers, Shelby appears as “Cupid Corp”.
  • Raul Aconite (Ludus/Playful): Once during the game after the first Parasite death, Raul may attempt to recruit a Client into the Parasite 5.
  • Ryuki Keisaiin (Eros/Passion): Once during the game, Ryuki may select another player and learn their full role description with all hidden components included.
  • Allan Melville (Mania/Obsessive): Once during the game, Allan may select a player to Jail. If that player was in a Cupid Couple, the couple is torn apart and neither player may be coupled up by Lynette again.
Lynette’s Current Powers…

Some hidden mechanics may alter the specifics of Lynette’s powers. Check back here each morning to know the result 😉

  • Lynette cannot select anyone from Cupid Corp (Roled Townie) for her pairing.
  • On the first successful selection, the selected player will be told “Cupid has her eye on you!”
  • On a second successful selection, a Cupid Couple may be formed.
  • If the players are a Client (vanilla townie) and a Parasite (wolf), the couple will fall apart and both players exit the game.
  • Cupid Couples can be made up of Client/Client or Parasite/Parasite.
  • If one half of a Cupid Couple dies, the other will survive and no longer be couple-able.
  • Lynette will not be told the outcomes of her attempted couplings.
Special Mechanics and Win Conditions!

Special Mechanics…

  • Each night, in addition to their faction kill, Team Parasite may choose for one of their members to use their one-shot power. Only one Parasite may use their one-shot power per night.
  • There are hidden roles/mechanics in this game.
  • We’re going to be “playing” the game together in the header each day so movements at night will have an effect on the narrative. 😉

Win Conditions…

  • Town wins when all parasites are gone.
  • Wolves win when they make up half or more of the number of active players.
  • Hidden additional win conditions exist for some roles but do not alter the fundamentals of a town victory versus a wolf victory.
Rules!
  1. Do not edit or delete posts on the daily Open Thread (OT), for any reason.
  2. Do not quote directly or post screenshots from Discord in the daily OT.
  3. Do not discuss specific gameplay with other living players outside of the daily OT or Discord.
  4. Only votes posted directly in response to the designated vote thread are counted.
  5. Be accommodating of different playing styles and different levels of role play (RP). Attack arguments, not people.
Players!
  1. Josephus @JosephusBrown:disqus
  2. sic humor @sic_humor:disqus
  3. Lindsay @gaydisaster:disqus
  4. MSD @DekaTria:disqus
  5. Kim Hall @disqus_ifspnTt6XE:disqus
  6. April @April_LKD:disqus
  7. Chum @chumjoely:disqus
  8. beinggreen @beinggreenbeingondisqus:disqus
  9. Cork @2bruce2:disqus
  10. Lamb @theprincethatwaspromised:disqus
  11. raven @ravenampersand:disqus
  12. jake @forget_it_jake:disqus
  13. Nate @NateTheLesser:disqus
  14. copy @copywight:disqus
  15. Eleanor @disqus_Alanna:disqus
  16. Indy @inndeeeeed2:disqus
  17. Grump @Grumproro:disqus
  18. sagittariuskim @sagittariuskim:disqus
  19. Flubba @flubbagunto:disqus
  20. Kappa @TheKappa:disqus
  21. Quee @mrsqueequeg:disqus
Backups, Spectators, Mentors!

Backups:

  1. Greenwitch @disqus_XPBaffH88o:disqus
  2. Goat @Goatfuldead:disqus

Spectators:

  1. Blip @thegreatdistortion:disqus
  2. Pablo @Taffy_0831:disqus
  3. Sport Ponies @sportponies:disqus

Mentors:

  1. Pablo @Taffy_0831:disqus
  2. Moolissa @disqus_6nGGCKBk8m:disqus

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