She-Hulk (TOWN Bodyguard)

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are She-Hulk[/i]

REAL NAME: Jennifer Walters
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shehulk01.jpg

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

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BACKGROUND:

As a great philosopher once noted, it's not easy being green. But it helps when you're also 6'5", stronger than virtually anyone outside of cousin Bruce when he's really ticked off, and trained in three kinds of martial arts (the law included).

Unlike your more famous male counterpart, you also have control over your tendency to shift to different parts of the color spectrum when under extreme stress. As a result, you fit more comfortably and easily into society; you have never worn a mask or taken particular pains to conceal your public identity, so the SHRA is no great burden for you in particular.

However, even if it were, your years as an attorney have given you an immense respect for the law and the power of due process. You've worked closely with Tony Stark on helping your friends who have chosen to register keep their rights to privacy and even anonymity as much as possible, and feel firmly that working within the Act instead of against it is in the long-term best interests of everyone involved.

And so you have come to Ryker's Island, where you initially intended to assist Tony in the processing of new registrants but find yourself instead forced to conceal your identity and stand against those who oppose the SHRA. You will do your level best to convince them of the foolishness of their ways: by well-crafted argument if possible, by giant green right hook if necessary.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. Once per Night, you may choose a player over whom to stand guard. If an attack would normally target that player, it will target you instead. This will result in your death in most cases.

2. Your power grows along with your confidence, and in your case winning arguments and being proved correct builds your confidence. If you ever place either the first or the hammer vote on a non-Town player, resulting in the lynch of same, on the subsequent Night you will survive a successful protection (ie, you will be a Doctor). Your power will still be lost after such an event, however - you'll just live through it, and so will your charge (absent some other occurrence).

On the other hand, if you ever place either the first or the hammer vote on a Town player, resulting in the lynch of same, you will be unable to act at all on the subsequent Night.

[Frank]

MODERATION NOTE: If Iron-Man dies, the ability to set the lynch threshold each Day passes to She-Hulk until she herself dies or is recruited. Once it does, she may no longer use her vote charging power.

[Frank]

Is this a lame role? Should it be replaced with something more potent?

[sachertorte]

Lame for Town. Powerful for scum.

[Frank]

Well, I guess that's OK, though, right? I mean, she's a hedge against the "one less than a majority" requirement being gamed by the Scum. In a no-vanilla game, some roles are going to be less powerful or the Town would be overwhelming. OK, I've convinced myself. Let me write her a quick background.

[sachertorte]

What I meant was. As Town, she's boring and useless. As Scum she turns the "one less than majority" win condition of the scum into "two less than majority".

5 Town
2 scum (CA and She-hulk)

Vote threshold is 3:
Scum Hammer!

Do you want this to possibly happen?

[Frank]

She-Hulk would definitely be Town! I think I'm OK with boring and useless, in a certain sense. Again, she's a hedge against a very specific kind of endgame play and the Town does need at least a few players with less exceptional powers.

[sachertorte]

Are you saying she is unrecruitable? I'm confused.

[Frank]

Whoops. The way I intended the thing to run, She-Hulk loses her power to vote-charge if she gains the power to set the lynch threshold. The only way she gets her power to set the threshold is if Iron Man is dead. The only way she can be recruited is if Iron Man is dead. Thus she can only be recruited if she has the power to set the lynch threshold, and thus if she does not have the power to vote charge.

This, however, creates a serious problem. Vote-charging would be too powerful for Scum. The power to set the threshold, on the other hand, would be game-breaking. She could just set the threshold at one vote every Day, then make sure she slips in and votes for a Townie before anything else happens.

[Pleonast]

Bah, that's what you get for using vote-manipulation powers.

[Frank]

You know, I kind of hate this role. It's going to complicate things to eliminate an entire role this late in the game, but anything I give to her is going to be overpowered in the hands of Scum if they recruit her, and underpowered in the hands of Town if they don't. She's just cannon fodder. I'm eliminating her power and coming up with something else.

[Pleonast]

Nov 16, 2009 13:34:34 GMT -5 Frank said:

2. Your power grows along with your confidence, and in your case winning arguments and being proved correct builds your confidence. If you ever place either the first or the hammer vote on a non-Town player, resulting in the lynch of same, on the subsequent Night you will survive a successful protection (ie, you will be a Doctor). Your power will still be lost after such an event, however - you'll just live through it, and so will your charge (absent some other occurrence).

On the other hand, if you ever place either the first or the hammer vote on a Town player, resulting in the lynch of same, you will be unable to act at all on the subsequent Night.

I like it! You need to fix the blued words.

[Frank]

How so?