Chapter I - The Jutting Watchtower - The Cult of Sarasvati (and Atlas) is Triumphant

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Night actions will be generally in the following order.
:japanese_castle: Roleblocks / Redirects / Manipulative
:japanese_castle: Protective
:japanese_castle: Miscellanea
:japanese_castle: Killing / Attacking
:japanese_castle: Investigative
Abilities on the same step will generally attempt to be processed at the same time.
Passives apply immediately after the ability that triggers them.

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Earth to Earth

All players start with at least one ability.
There are exactly 17 Imperialists at the start of the game.
All others are Ancient Spirits.
You may claim flavor in the topmost section of your rolecard freely, as long as you do not copy-paste images or large blocks of text.
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Flavor claiming and discussion is encouraged.
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Illusions to Illusions

All Imperialists win if and only if all Ancient Spirits are banished.
Players have no abilities while dead, unless explicitly stated. Any ongoing effects due to a players’ abilities will cease when they die.
Roleblocked gated abilities will not be refunded.
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All players know their win conditions.
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Win conditions cannot change after the game has begun.
Players will flip correctly.
Investigative results will return correctly.


The Butterflies’ Coffin

Mikhail di Neiro

Empire Usurper

The elder of the two di Neiro siblings and the heir apparent to the Crown States after Lucifer’s passing the previous year. A former Lion, she graduated out of the university the previous year. This year, she is in the Crown States, managing state affairs for her ailing father.

Ability: Guard of the Futures
Mikhail can, by concentrating, scry on a person to observe the world through their senses, without any distance limits. In order to do this, she needs to have physically touched them before. She can only do this for one person at a time, and she has no perception of her own senses while doing this. The observed person can feel something foreign in their mind.

Female — March 5 — 18 — FRAGILE


On Borrowed TimePassive
You know there is a Prince, an Empire player with a fullcop ability.
This ability will be redacted from their flip.
An informed minority faction also knows their role exists, and has a gated factional ability.
If they target the Prince with this ability, something very bad will happen.

Never Make Me Cry AgainNight, 2-Shot
Choose a player.
If they are the Prince, their status as the Prince will be removed.


You are aligned with the Empire.
You win when all Ancient Spirits are banished.


Those Bound by the Golden Lock

@ArtemisDied Night 2, ???
@KiirumaDied Day 4, Violetta Aurora Castiglione, Ancient Spirit Troupe Master
@Italy
@Silviu200530
@Litten
@ScorbunnyDied Night 4, Leto Almyra, Empire Negotiator
@guavagudetama
@WindwardAwayDied Night 3, Domenyk d’Borczja, Empire Revealer
@HazardwasteDied Night 2, Acheron de Villefort, Empire Forger
@JarekDied Day 2, Bianca Gaetani, Empire Coercer
@CreatureDied Night 1, Maximillien Bordeaux, Empire Jailor
@RubyDied Night 1, Dalya Maryaszky, Empire Private Investigator
@MilliumDied Day 4, Johannes Karolson, Empire Limited Redirector
@Frostwolf103Executed Day 1, Antoine d’Eglesie, Empire Underhand Dealer
@minDied Night 3, Julian Romani, Empire Spectre
@beancat
@Jaiden
@AtlasDied Night 3, ???
@Sadbi
@MagnusExecuted Day 2, Tisiphone, Ancient Spirit Assassin
@Vulgard
@Zenon
Marluxion @WisdomExecuted Day 3, Castor Valois, Empire Tormentor
@L.una
@Cassandra

Records

Creative Contest — Portrait of Katze
Day 1 Begins
Something very bad has happened
Frostwolf is executed — Night 1 Begins
Creative Contest — A Player’s Avatar
Creature and Ruby die — Day 2 Begins
Jarek dies
Magnus is executed — Night 2 Begins
Creative Contest — A cat frolicking in the meadows
Hazard and Artemis die — Day 3 Begins
Wisdom is executed — Night 3 Begins
Creative Contest — Favorite Emoji
min, Windward, and Atlas die — Day 4 Begins
Millium and Kiiruma die
Game Over


Keyholders

@ElizaThePsycho
@Amelia
@Apprentice
@Arete
@catbae
@Prophylaxis
@Arctic

Theatergoers

@Icibalus
@Ashlyn
@Marshal
@IcetFeelsPain
@YoubutWorse
@sulit
@Moonwink

Event

Creative Contest!

The last one was very disappointing, so I hope for all of you that you will give us your best this time!

Today’s prompt: Favorite Emoji

Players: Unlimited
Chance of Death: None
Mobile-Friendly: Yes
Duration: 24 hours

How to Join:

Submit a message in your rolecard starting “Creative Contest Submission!” before 2023-07-19T20:00:00Z! Results and prizes will be distributed at the end of the day.

You may not talk or hint about any ongoing events in any non-event chat, public or private (except your rolecard).

Pings

@Kiiruma
@Italy
@Silviu200530
@Litten
@Scorbunny
@guavagudetama
@WindwardAway
@Millium
@min
@beancat
@Jaiden
@Atlas
@Sadbi
@Vulgard
@Zenon
@L.una
@Cassandra

WindwardAway has died.

She was Domenyk d’Borczja, Empire Revealer

Domenyk d’Borczja

Empire Revealer

A flamboyant second-year Lion, Domenyk never passes up an opportunity to make a dramatic entrance. Athena has never seen him have anything the least bit disorganized or out-of-order: he even seems to organize some of his classmates’ notes for them. Despite his extroversion, Athena has never talked to him except in passing.

Ability: Take Your Heart
Domenyk can enter the thoughts of a dreaming person. He can influence their dreams mildly without appearing to them, or more majorly by appearing to them: The more he influences a dream, the more memorable it is. He can interact with and pull thoughts out of the subconscious of his targets’ minds.

Male — April 8 — 16 — SANE


You’ll Never See it ComingNight
Choose a living player.
You will become SANE.
They will learn their full rolecard.
You may not use both this ability and Take Over on the same night.

Take OverNight
Choose a dead player.
You will become INSANE.
If this ability changes your sanity, you will learn their full rolecard.
You may not use both this ability and You’ll Never See It Coming on the same night.

Blooming VillainPassive
You may receive information at night from other roles.
When you become SANE, you learn all information you received while INSANE. You do not learn when you received each piece of information.

You’ve Been Sold OutNight, 1-Use
Choose a dead Empire player.
You learn who they visited and when.


min has died.

He was Julian Romani, Empire Spectre

Julian Romani

Empire Spectre

A cold and reserved member of the Eagles. He’s not warm to Athena nor is he to anyone else: he spends every waking minute of his free time practicing swordfighting despite not being part of the Swordfighting Club. Leto tries talking to him often to no avail.

Ability: A Dream Deferred
Julian can, by pouring wine on the ground, create a fog that allows the spirits of the dead to manifest themselves. All spirits can appear and be talked to, but they often don’t like talking to people who they aren’t close to, and can choose not to appear if they want to stay hidden. These spirits are visible to everybody.

Male — December 17 — 17 — FRAGILE


Crawled Back From HellPassive
You are dead.
You appear to be alive until you are killed again.

Ghost’s HauntingNight
Choose a player.
If they are INSANE, they are roleblocked.


Atlas has died.

They were ???

???

???


???

my heart sunk when I saw that flip

did it, dear?
how about this one?

anyway

what?
twice isn’t enough to kill me

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aren’t you dead

Night isn’t available once more, so I’m sorry for the delay, she will update this with flavour when she gets the chance - The Cool Host xx

Day 4 has begun.

It will last 48 hours and end 2023-07-20T20:00:00Z.

Submit all day actions by 2023-07-20T18:00:00Z.

Pings

oh, how much they wish so

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is Min also alive still

he is not.

his flip implies he is

oh, for the record, two things
one. kiiruma was the only visitor on windwardaway last night
two. if you want to kill litten, you have to kill vulgard first.

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helo I am back

LMAO

it appears he was killed again

vulgard gave me an ability that greenchecked you.

wat