In the author’s words
A demon has killed the storyteller, a sign of the end times, and everyone’s drinking to forget their woes. Town are brutally strong, but because of the Pope, any number of them could be drunk. Town is relying on the Mathematician(s) to parse their information and discern who’s wrong, who’s just lying, and whether there’s a demon at all.
Bootlegger
- The Mathematician cannot be the Drunk.
This is for two reasons. First, in a game with so much possible misinformation, the Mathematician is being relied upon to help sift through it, and that only works if it’s sober. But also, if you have a mixture of drunk and sober Mathematicians, the order you wake them is arbitrary, so the sober Mathematician has no way of deducing if the Drunk Mathematician is being woken before them (i.e. is part of tonight’s count) or after them (i.e. will be part of tomorrow’s count). This also means that the Storyteller only has to place one set of “Abnormal” tokens.
Hints
- Each drunk Atheist is +1 “Abnormal” on night 1. This is because the “[No evil characters]” part of their ability malfunctioned since dawn. They are never “Abnormal” for the rest of the game: the Storyteller failing to break a rule is not abnormal.
- The Spy learns which players are the Drunk on night 1. This is intended, in part, to keep the Storyteller honest: if the sober Artist asks “Is X the demon,” it’s more fun to give them the correct answer than to add an “Is the Drunk” token and fudge it.
- The Drunk might be the duplicated character, and therefore all players might have received a different token.
- The Mathematician might not be in play, might die early, or might be bluffed by evil, leaving good with no way to parse which information is true and which is false. This is fine: this is a social game, not just a deductive game.
- Particularly in games with an evil team, it is probably more fun to just have one or two Drunks, than for all of town to be the Drunk, so that the good team has multiple sources of good information.
Player sheet goes here — export it from the official script tool and drop it in assets/jinxit/images/ under either name:
The Party at the End of the World (Player Sheet).pngthe-party-at-the-end-of-the-world-player-sheet.png
Storyteller sheet goes here — export it from the official script tool and drop it in assets/jinxit/images/ under either name:
The Party at the End of the World (Storyteller Sheet).pngthe-party-at-the-end-of-the-world-storyteller-sheet.png
