Also Pat, you're a piece of worthless debris, I risked my life for you and you didn't even come back by going the other direction. You rocked at the beginning and sank like a rock at the end. >:(

While it was tedious to keep up with the footprints, I celebrated much more every time Eleanor died. Hated the Humanist role, from a hosting stand point only. And I can understand how the Tracker role seems like a dead draw, but I have to back Paul up. As he already said Rhea had all the information to know where Carl and the staff were. Sure it's situational, but the situations in which it shines are ones that could have blunted a lot of heartache and wandering.

Pat got really fucking boned by the Virus.

We apologize for that one.

How did you execute the Humanist role with the larger rooms? Was it like 3 rooms away or 3 standard sized rooms away?

Kru @ 28/9/2013 23:06

How did you execute the Humanist role with the larger rooms? Was it like 3 rooms away or 3 standard sized rooms away?

Went by map squares. The biggest issue there was a lack of communication about method, since we both had our own way of doing it that never really synched up.

And I really, really do have to apologise for the virus. That was a shitty trap with a boring outcome.

Also:

Number 41

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Origo Aenigmatis Portrayed By: Shawn Remembered fondly as the fly man, or spider bait, Origo was the masked vigilante with a lust for judgement and showing up at the worst possible time. Not the worst of the game's inactives, but far from the best. Origo achieved precious little in his short life other than being a noble human sacrifice and being annoyed greatly. History: Shawn has an interesting history when it comes to these games. Taking cues and advice from his older brother Curtis (who always wants the best for everybody), he has slowly built up his ability to play mafia not terribly. Shawn captured the hearts of the predicition writers when he played as Carter in Sausage Island 5 (and later All Stars). His legacy as Carderp, one half of the most bumbling and tragic brotherhood of all time, made me very excited to see how he'd handle a game like this one. In the end, he didn't really. The game proved too much for him with its long and drawn out threads and he never quite gelled with the game or anybody around him. With no role to speak of, it wasn't a complete disaster. It was just a little sad. Character: Shawn's original application was as the Joker from Batman. Given that the game called for original characters, I obviously couldn't let it stand but I was very keen to let people play the type of character they wanted to play. I toyed around with the idea a bit and came up with something which was probably a lot more different than I originally intended. The end result came about because I saw the avatar when I was searching for another character's image and really, really liked it. I though the application it fit with the most was Shawn's, due to his desire to play the joker. The background I came up with was more than a little inspired by Rorscach from Watchmen, probably because the avatar was in a similar vein. Finally, I got the name by choosing a phrase that sounded mysterious and converting it into Latin. Origo Aenigmatis translates roughly to "beginning of the mystery" which summed up the character's background and style. He was envisioned as being a sort of middle of the road, ambiguous figure who seemed neither good nor evil. I suppose he was very much meant to be the "G" of Labyrinth 3. What came as a result of Shawn's portrayal wasn't even close. He did have his moments, when he was around to have them. We quite enjoyed the fact that Origo's only contributions were to scald and reprimand his group severely, whilst adding nothing of value himself. He had an almost surly attitude towards everything which was partly due to his not getting the game, and partly a characterisation. The problem was that Shawn was very inconsistent with it, and some days he would completely break character to apologize for his lack of overall activity, or something similar. This destroyed the image of Origo as a surly misanthrope and just made him seem more like a clueless idiot. It was good for comic relief but probably annoying to travel around with. His death was at least functional to the plot, serving as the sacrifice Genevieve was forced to make in the red room. Something very different may have panned out if she'd chosen a different target, but it was Origo's time to go. Journal: Like all inactives before and after him, Origo's journal was a blank canvas. Gameplay: Precious little to report. Origo had no role, so he had almost no functional value to his group at all. He would've served as a useful human shoe if it weren't for the fact he kept showing up to post right at the last possible second before becoming declared an inactive. Despite this, he was generally apologetic for his lack of participation. He seldom posted a theory, which was generally off-base and more often than not ignored in the mass of posts each phase. I chalk this up to at least having a go, though it wasn't much of a go and it wasn't really that helpful to anybody. He participated in a few room events, took a trap or two in the face and was at the very least, inoffensive to us as hosts. Conclusion: I think a lot of my disappointment here stems from the fact that I enjoyed Shawn so much in Sausage, and I really liked the character I devised for him. It was probably incredibly ambitious, and I can understand his lack of activity in the game. Still though, he'll always stand out to me as a "what could have been" kind of player. We respect that at the very least, he tried. Even if his trying amounted to nothing and was very rare, it was something.

It confounded me more than I would like to admit and became the bane of my existence. I started off treating every single room, regardless of size, as just one room. I realized just how hairy this made things when Eleanor would hit someone on the other side of the map from her. There would be like fifty different paths from her to the person.

Maybe 1/3rd of the way through the game we switched to doing map squares, if I remember correctly, while the monster Orb continued getting results more along the lines of how we were originally giving Humanist results.

Origo's avatar was probably one of my absolute favorites. I was rooting for him to be a badass from day 1.

Did you ever finish unlocking Brittany's phases and the rest of the red room?

Origo, he felt like some monster villain that Ed Wood would probably come up with.

Origo's early posts make me laugh so hard knowing that it's Shawn

Zersch @ 29/9/2013 0:26

Origo's avatar was probably one of my absolute favorites. I was rooting for him to be a badass from day 1.

I looked at him and thought, he is probably a giant mutant fly under those wrappings.

"I look at this group of people and get extremely disappointed"

Origo. Such a hero

Kru @ 28/9/2013 18:29

Zersch @ 29/9/2013 0:26 Origo's avatar was probably one of my absolute favorites. I was rooting for him to be a badass from day 1. I looked at him and thought, he is probably a giant mutant fly under those wrappings.

And him being attacked by spiders much like a fly probably cemented this thought for you.

All I remember is we had fought at one point.