Task 7:
Let us take a look at a look at one of my favorite stories from ISFL werewolf. This is also, in my opinion, the biggest scandal in league history. For those who do not know what werewolf is, it is a great social game of deception and deduction. Everyone playing is part of a town, however, some amongst you are werewolves and you must figure out who are the werewolves before it is too late. The werewolves get to kill a member of the town each night. The town is able to fight back by voting on who they think might be a werewolf and vote to execute them. The catch is that the werewolves also get a vote since they are masquerading as members of the town. The wolves know who each other are and get to strategize each night. The town's best chance is through special roles that some or often each of the townspeople have. These roles will either provide key information each night, or provide key services each night. Some such role examples are the Seer who gets to submit a townsperson to the moderator and find out what role that person is or the Doctor who can save someone from being killed each night if they correctly guess who is going to die. The intricacies of the game come down to choosing who to believe and figuring out when the best time to reveal information is, OR being a convincing enough liar to throw the townspeople off. Each game the moderator of the game would award a trophy to a player who showed outstanding whit and cunning or just all around dominated the game. As we were approaching either the 50th or 100th game in the server (I can not remember exactly which one) it had been decided well in advance that that game would be an all-star game of sorts where only people who had earned a trophy would be eligible to play. This meant that the games approaching that all-star game were becoming critical for those of us who did not yet have a trophy. This then sets us up for one of the most tragic moments connected to the ISFL in league history. Before we get to the moment though, there is one more thing I must explain. A role for the wolf team called the Turn Coat. The Turn Coat is a wolf team member and knows who all of the wolves are, but the catch is that the wolves do not know who they are. So they must signal to the wolves that they are the turn coat without tipping off the rest of the village. This now brings us to SDCore. SDCore is a very good werewolf player who is known for just kind of posting nonsense for the first couple days and then coming up with the clutch reads to lead his team to victory, navigating lies, trickery, and all the chaos of the game like a pro. Well in this particular game, SDCore was the Turn Coat. He left a hidden message for the wolves to try and signal that he was the Turn Coat by leaving a complete nonsense sentence where the first letter of each word matched with the first letter of each of the usernames of the wolves. He left it up for about a day (if that) and then deleted it. A message like that is bold but was not a bad play as SDCore often posted messages like that and most people would ignore it as early game SDCore nonsense. Thankfully someone on the town side (I think it might have been numbers) pointed it out as a possible hidden message. It was then I who cracked the code and then as we started to get more and more info from other town roes, it became increasingly obvious that this code was correct and SDCore was likely the Turn Coat and the town won on an early concession from the wolves due to too many wolves lost early and the town having cracked the Turn Coat code and having a complete list of the Wolves in the game. This code cracking that I did led to a very decisive victory for the town, and possibly one of the more dominant victory in the history of the game due to this early list mixed with some luck in random early night kills and I think even a doctor save. Where this takes a turn to the greatest controversies in league history is that our moderator passed me over for MVP of the game in favor of the person who originally pointed out the message but did not crack the code. I then failed to get a trophy and was not able to partake in the all-star game despite being on a relative hot streak leading up to the game.
Let us take a look at a look at one of my favorite stories from ISFL werewolf. This is also, in my opinion, the biggest scandal in league history. For those who do not know what werewolf is, it is a great social game of deception and deduction. Everyone playing is part of a town, however, some amongst you are werewolves and you must figure out who are the werewolves before it is too late. The werewolves get to kill a member of the town each night. The town is able to fight back by voting on who they think might be a werewolf and vote to execute them. The catch is that the werewolves also get a vote since they are masquerading as members of the town. The wolves know who each other are and get to strategize each night. The town's best chance is through special roles that some or often each of the townspeople have. These roles will either provide key information each night, or provide key services each night. Some such role examples are the Seer who gets to submit a townsperson to the moderator and find out what role that person is or the Doctor who can save someone from being killed each night if they correctly guess who is going to die. The intricacies of the game come down to choosing who to believe and figuring out when the best time to reveal information is, OR being a convincing enough liar to throw the townspeople off. Each game the moderator of the game would award a trophy to a player who showed outstanding whit and cunning or just all around dominated the game. As we were approaching either the 50th or 100th game in the server (I can not remember exactly which one) it had been decided well in advance that that game would be an all-star game of sorts where only people who had earned a trophy would be eligible to play. This meant that the games approaching that all-star game were becoming critical for those of us who did not yet have a trophy. This then sets us up for one of the most tragic moments connected to the ISFL in league history. Before we get to the moment though, there is one more thing I must explain. A role for the wolf team called the Turn Coat. The Turn Coat is a wolf team member and knows who all of the wolves are, but the catch is that the wolves do not know who they are. So they must signal to the wolves that they are the turn coat without tipping off the rest of the village. This now brings us to SDCore. SDCore is a very good werewolf player who is known for just kind of posting nonsense for the first couple days and then coming up with the clutch reads to lead his team to victory, navigating lies, trickery, and all the chaos of the game like a pro. Well in this particular game, SDCore was the Turn Coat. He left a hidden message for the wolves to try and signal that he was the Turn Coat by leaving a complete nonsense sentence where the first letter of each word matched with the first letter of each of the usernames of the wolves. He left it up for about a day (if that) and then deleted it. A message like that is bold but was not a bad play as SDCore often posted messages like that and most people would ignore it as early game SDCore nonsense. Thankfully someone on the town side (I think it might have been numbers) pointed it out as a possible hidden message. It was then I who cracked the code and then as we started to get more and more info from other town roes, it became increasingly obvious that this code was correct and SDCore was likely the Turn Coat and the town won on an early concession from the wolves due to too many wolves lost early and the town having cracked the Turn Coat code and having a complete list of the Wolves in the game. This code cracking that I did led to a very decisive victory for the town, and possibly one of the more dominant victory in the history of the game due to this early list mixed with some luck in random early night kills and I think even a doctor save. Where this takes a turn to the greatest controversies in league history is that our moderator passed me over for MVP of the game in favor of the person who originally pointed out the message but did not crack the code. I then failed to get a trophy and was not able to partake in the all-star game despite being on a relative hot streak leading up to the game.