Iron Man (TOWN Governor)

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are Iron Man[/i]

REAL NAME: Anthony ("Tony") Edward Stark
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS: community.fxuk.com/blogs/fox_insider/Ironman.jpg

ALIGNMENT: Town
GENERIC: Governor
WIN CONDITION: All Anti-Registration forces have been neutralized

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BACKGROUND:

In contrast to those of your more enthusiastic colleagues, your road has always been rather more pragmatic than heroic. You began your career as a professional rich person, inheriting Stark Industries - a multibillion dollar weapons manufacturing firm - from your father at his death. You probably would have contented yourself with a life of vodka, explosions, and easily impressed blondes, but a series of occassionally unfortunate events - heart injury, terrorists, kidnapping, it's complicated - left you the owner of a shiny new armed and armored flying suit, and an untested but equally shiny new conscience.

As Iron Man, you have spent your life since in pursuit of some variety of justice (and, to be fair, in pursuit of more vodka, explosions, and easily impressed blondes). As one of the few of your kind to openly admit your public identity, you have enjoyed a considerable amount of exposure - exposure you relish and enjoy. For better or for worse, you are in many ways the public face of the so-called "superhero." You've used this fame - and millions of dollars of good old-fasioned cash - to establish and nuture powerful political connections, and in turn leveraged those connections into an environment most conducive to success for yourself and for others like you.

When the SHRA began to seem like a real possibility, you used every channel at your disposal to prevent its passage - the anonymity enjoyed by many of your friends is essential to their effectiveness. But after Stamford, you realized that you were fighting a losing battle. Public sentiment overwhelmingly called for registration of heroes with the government, and no amount of star power would change it. You also realized something else: if the "cape" community resisted registration, a frightened public might call for even more Draconian measures in an effort to eliminate the perceived threat.

Once the SHRA was signed into law, Iron Man became its staunchest supporter. It brings you no joy to round up men and women like Steve Rogers and Lucas Cage, and even less to work with the functionaries, S.H.I.E.L.D. opportunists, and other unsavory characters with whom your cause, in part, is associated. But for the good of the country, for the good of the community of which you are a part, you must see that this law is enforced, and that those who flout it - even the ones with white stars on their shields - are neutralized by any means necessary.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. As the public face of the Pro-Registration movement - and one of the few heroes whose public identity is widely known - you are familiar to all even without your armor. Accordingly, you will begin the game as mod-confirmed Town.

2. Your commitment to the Pro-Registration cause is firm and unwavering. You cannot be recruited.

3. So long as you are alive, it is your responsibility to set the lynch threshold each Day. As your Night action each Night (beginning Night Zero), you will message the moderator with the percentage of voters who must vote for a given player to secure that player's lynch (to be rounded up to the nearest vote at Dawn). The threshold will be announced in the Dawn post each Day. If you die, this power will be passed to another. If both you and your deputy die, the lynch threshold will thereafter be automatically set at one vote less than that required for a simple majority.

[Frank]

MODERATION NOTE: If Iron Man dies, the power to set the lynch threshold passes to She-Hulk. She-Hulk does not retain this power if she is/has been recruited.

[Frank]

Hey, what if instead of stopping recruitment altogether, Tony's continued life keeps certain potentially-recruited players in-line? So, while Tony is alive, maybe the Black Widow, Spider Man, Deadpool, and one or two others are unrecruitable. I don't know.

[sachertorte]

I thought this was a throw away role. Don't scum know that Iron Man must die in order for recruitment to be successful? Isn't that setting up the first couple of nights to be rather predictable? Or are scum unaware that Iron Man prevents recruitment?

[Frank]

Yeah, you're right. From a fun standpoint AND from a gameplay standpoint, should we just eliminate the provision that Iron Man prevents recruitment? Or limit it? Like, pick 2-3 characters and make those characters immune to recruitment as long as Iron man is alive, then tell the Scum that Iron Man's influence will prevent a few select Townies from defecting.

This makes for a fun dilemma for the Scum: try to kill Iron Man early, when he may be protected and clearly is not an investigator or protector? You could just leave him alive for a while, try to recruit someone that Iron Man does not protect from recruitment.

If he protects everyone from recruitment, then yes, clearly the Scum's primary objective Days 1-2 are to get him dead as quickly as possible.

What do you think? Doing something like this would make it more likely that recruitment will happen early in the game. I'd say we could say: as long as Iron Man is alive, the Black Widow, Penance, and Maria Hill (ie, the primary Cop and the primary Doc, along with the lynch manager) are immune to recruitment (along with Iron Man himself). Everyone else is fair game?

[sachertorte]

Do you mean "say" as in you say to me privately and secret from the scum? Or "say" as in tell Iron Man this as well as the scum?

[Frank]

Secret from the Scum. The Scum get something like "As long as Iron Man is alive, certain select members of the Pro-Registration movement will be prevented from considering recruitment." (insert appropriate color as needed).

[sachertorte]

That doesn't sound secret.
Iron Man will be confirmed town at the beginning of the game. Scum will STILL want him dead ASAP.

[Frank]

So what if we eliminate the condition altogether. Iron Man's only power is setting the lynch threshold, but the Scum don't even know he has that power. So the only thing he has going for him is that he's confirmed Town. The Scum will want him dead eventually, but ASAP? I'm not so sure.

I think what will happen is that the Punisher will "watch" Iron Man every Night in the hopes that someone will protect him, which in turn will result in a dead protector. THEN they'll go ahead and Night kill Iron Man. This isn't bad, exactly, but it seems a little too predictable to be interesting. How can this be fixed? I welcome suggestions.