CaffeineBoost
6th Best Circus Poster of 2023
As seen on The Genius!
GAME STATUS: POSTGAME: Check out the post!
Won by Asek, Cancerous, Drookez, Wolv, and zorbees.
Hello one and all, my name is CaffeineBoost and I have decided to bring a very unique FFA strategy game to you all from the Korean gameshow The Genius. Some of you may already be familiar with the show and this game but for those of you who either haven't watched the show or can't remember the game, I will explain the rules of Food Chain.GAME STATUS: POSTGAME: Check out the post!
Won by Asek, Cancerous, Drookez, Wolv, and zorbees.
At the beginning of the game, you shall receive 1 of 13 roles. No two players shall receive the same role and all 13 roles will be in play.
You are all free to claim whichever role you want at any time you want as long as you don't provide screenshot evidence. Anything else (quoting the host or any private conversation or anything like that) is fair game.
Once you have received your role, you will peek at the role of a player of your choice. Once everybody has finished peeking at roles, the game shall begin.
In this game you will take on the role of an animal which is part of this food chain:
What's even more key however is that each animal has its own characteristic. For those at a disadvantage on the food chain, a helpful ability is provided. For those higher up, the characteristic is a requirement. Each animal has its own win condition as well. For many, the aim is to survive. For some, another goal must be met. All information on what the roles do is public and can be found here:
SOMETHING I NEED TO CLARIFY: Somebody pointed this out. The Snake's win condition says "More than 9 people dead". This includes 9. If 9 people are dead at the end of the game, the snake wins.
Here are the PM's for each role: so stop trying to ask for proof.
Here are the PM's for each role: so stop trying to ask for proof.
Each animal also has its own home habitat ad some animals are restricted from entering a certain habitat. The habitats play a key part in this game. I shall explain this during the explanation of how the cycles work.
This game will have 4 cycles in total. Each cycle lasts 48 hours and is comprised of a 24 hour Discussion phase followed by a 24 hour Action phase.
During the Discussion phase, players will be free to converse in this forum thread.
Players will also have to decide which of the four habitats they wish to reside in for the Action phase.
There are four habitats to choose from. Field, Forest, River, and Sky.
Each animal has a home habitat which it must return to the Action phase after residing in a habitat which isn't their home.
If for example the Lion decided to reside in the Forest for Cycle 1's Action phase, it must reside in its home habitat, the Field, for Cycle 2's Action phase. The Lion would be free to visit whatever habitat it wants in Cycle 3's Action phase (except the Sky which it cannot access).
During the discussion phase, you must DM the host (that's me) with your choice of habitat. You are required to do this even if you are forced to return to your home habitat. Failure to choose a habitat in the Discussion phase will result in a modkill.
During the Action phase, the habitats that players have chosen to reside in will be posted on the thread and players will not be allowed to post anything in this thread.
Each habitat will have its own quicktopic in which players residing in the habitat will communicate. OUTSIDE CONTACT IS FORBIDDEN DURING THIS PHASE.
Players may attack and attempt to eat other players during the Action phase by posting the following in the quicktopic:
Please use this exact format when attacking a player.ATTACK: Player
During the Action phase, all attacks are resolved in the order that they were posted (this is not a gameplay mechanic you should ignore) and all deaths will be posted in an announcement. This announcement will not contain the specifics of each attack, only the players who died. This means only people who were in the habitat know who attacked who. Roles will not be revealed on death and players are free to talk even after they have been attacked until their death is officially announced.
Once this phase has ended, we move onto the next cycle.
Resolving attacks:
Several situations can occur when resolving attacks. This is how they are resolved.
- If the Snake is attacked by any player, the attacking player is killed and the Snake lives.
- If an attacking player is higher on the food chain than the player they attacked, they kill their attack target and eat them.
- If an attacking player is on the same level of the food chain as the player they attacked, neither player dies.
- If an attacking player is lower on the food chain than the player they attacked, neither player dies.
- If all of the surviving members who have the Deer, Mallard, Otter and Rabbit roles are gathered in the same habitat, they cannot be killed.
- A predator that fails to successfully attack another player during an action phase starves for one round.
Let's create a hypothetical situation where only the Mallard, Rabbit, Eagle and Crocodile are still alive (and the snake but we'll ignore the snake for now). The predators have already starved for one round.
The Mallard and the Eagle are in the Sky habitat. The Crocodile and the Rabbit are in the river habitat. The snake is elsewhere.
Attacks occur in the following order:
- The Eagle attacks the Mallard
- The Crocodile attacks the Rabbit
At the end of Cycle 4, the game will end and the results will be posted. All details will be revealed in a postgame where players shall hopefully discuss their strategies and the potential of a future game being hosted with the same or a similar ruleset.
Players that were modkilled will be awarded a game loss regardless of whether their win condition was achieved.
Those are the rules, now for the players! The first 13 players to apply shall get a spot. Other players who apply will be considered to be substitutes lest a player has to leave. If you have to leave by the way, please tell me instead of being modkilled.
Currently alive:
- Da Letter El
- apricity
- Asek
- zorbees
- Whydon
- MathTurtle
- Wolv
- ajhockeystar
- Trace
- ButteredToast
- Drookez
- XnadrojX
- Cancerous
- Steven Snype
- Former Hope
Good luck to you all!
btw Zorbees approved this, just in case this is an important detail I need to include.
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