BMR. Love it or hate it, it’s got some great characters on it. The Lunatic is one of those. Great, in theory but so hard to balance for the Story Teller.
This brings me to a memorable game. I was the Shabaloth, or so I thought. My ‘minion’, the Assassin talked to me in the middle of day 1 and convinced me I was real, it didn’t take much. We had a plan around who to kill to support our bluffs of Courtier (minion) and Exorcist (me, ‘demon’). I killed the Professor and the Minstrel night 2 and things were going well. Then I heard whisper that my friend was the Goon, and I couldn’t resist turning them and helping to back up both bluffs. So I picked the already dead professor (to keep them dead) then picking the Goon, to turn them. But then… the Professor came back. Very odd. Continued killing but started hearing rumours that the person we executed on day 1 was next to a Tea Lady, whose other neighbour was the Goon. Night 4 the Minstrel was also resurrected. Whom I did not pick the previous night.
Day 4 arrives and things really started to unravel. Turns out the Goon WAS next to the Tea Lady whose other neighbour died day 1. There were unexplainable resurrections, which the Professor denied being responsible for. I was unravelling and finally it all clicked into place. The Goon can’t be evil day 1 if the minion doesn’t pick on night 1, which an Assassin does not. A player was resurrected not due to me OR the Professor.
*I* was the Lunatic, my ‘minion’ was the actual demon and the ‘Goon’, confirmed by outsider count, was just the actual minion. I nominated the demon, and good won. It was a glorious attempt at keeping me in the dark as the Lunatic and it very nearly worked.
It was also greatly helped by the demon and I being good Clocktower buddies and the minion also being a good friend so they knew just where to poke and prod to convince me of the world they were selling. The world I so desperately wanted to believe. And it very nearly worked.
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