Popsicle Goes The Weasel | NRB Play Blood On The Clocktower 

Blair is right there......................

The entirety of NRB was just a ploy to pick up American chicks

Adam: "Another game that Laurie didn't win." 🤣

Which is disappointing that the in-person episodes don't have a billiards room.

@@sdspiveytrue, that was/is a missed opportunity

It so was but not helped by the storytellers only able to give half of the information out with their bad choice of words, especially as town square is 2 words not 1 as they explained at the beginning. Also the first word they chose should have been something that was guaranteed to be said by someone so Blair could understand it was a two step ability without that she couldn't begin to piece anything together that could possibly be the right answer. x:x

It was a terrible play. As if Angela's defense didn't paint a big enough target on her, Adam basically saying "hey, don't worry, my power will live on in Angela" sealed the deal.

Good idea, bad execution

I have played a game with Ben and can tell you, it's impossible to beat him when he's on the evil team 😅

That would have been SO GOOD

Exactly what I thought, possibility he'd somehow STILL be executed by the town

Even better, Laurie should have ran a script that had atheist in it, and then ran everything to hint towards atheist, but isn't. Drunk as Atheist.

@@DracoSuave oh that's evil 😈

@@jaredmccullough5088 And of course, Dom must be the Drunken Atheist.

its always fun when Dom is on the bad team becuase you know he will somehow draw massive attention, and then figure out how to weasel his way out of it.

Thank you. I actually think my error was so deeply sub-optimal, it was the only thing that allowed me to confuse Carley for once. I intend to be even more sub-optimal in future!

@@dominicallen541 I happen to think a Drunken Master style of botc play is often one that works incredibly well against high level players for this very reason!

Actually I’ve found him very good since his first game!

I think you mean "bubbaloo".

Didn’t even see 😂 love it

Wasn’t it Blair who made that final decision?

@@callmecarrots9628 yes, but before that Carly was the one who spoke up and said she thought it was Isaac and why. Before that literally everyone said to vote for Dom.

Carley to Adam on Day 1: “I spend most of my nights deciding whether I should lie to you.” Followed by a clear edit. I wish I could’ve heard that rebuttal from Adam.

This

I'm right there with you, it feels like they get too hung up on being drunk or poisoned (meta gaming) than going with the information they have at hand and only changing once that information has been proven wrong. At least that's how I'd play with someone else providing unquestionable data to show me that I'm drunk or poisoned rather throwing it in just incase as that leads to a lot but you knows (misleading information) instead of hard facts. x:x

Like for instance how they worked out that their must have been a poisoner In play but then didn't go through the facts of their clearly having 2 other minions and whom they maybe to move on from the vortox demon. It's feels like some folks need to breakaway from the town square after night 3 to think to themselves without distractions but they all just end up staying in the square bickering. x:x

especially considering, you know.

just got there, amazing

It's up there with, and can't remember which episode this was, but when during an execution they referenced Star Wars by saying I love you, I know.

What follows is Angela dies because they both basically said that she would get his amazing power.

Adam needed to be so much more astute when trying to get himself killed and directly speaking to Angela wasn't the way to go. x:x

He didn’t have to lie or cheat at all. He just figured it all out!

Yeah! Go show that disabled people can be just as cruel and evil as non disabled people! Let’s go! Now that we’ve created this narrative I kinda want him to be evil so he CAN win, could you imagine a sully Blair Adam P evil team? THE ADORABLE HORROR

May I ask what Adam Pearson is dealing with?

@@exodia1510 as far as I’m aware he has severe neurofibromatosis

@@exodia1510 I think you can ask questions without being offensive. Helps you learn about it.

Ben consistently favors hamstringing the good team. Whenever the storyteller gets a decision to make he avoids anything that could give the good team an advantage. Some of these videos have been entertaining but I would sooner commit acts of grievous bodily harm than play a game, any game, with Ben...and slightly less grievous harm before playing with anyone else in this crew of liars and charlatans. And no, this isn't a game about lying. The good team is most likely to win when they are careful with the truth but DON'T LIE. But this crew went from "I won't tell you who I am" to "I'll give you three possibilities" to "I'll give you three possibilities and they're all lies" to "these are my lies and attendant made up information." It's no wonder evil wins so often; they're all evil.

@@Ryvaken Ben tends to try to help evil bluff for two reasons, I think, one more legitimate than the other. First, because Evil is generally "on the back foot" to start out, and the game needs the good team to be less (reliably) informed to balance the numbers. Second, because the way that the misinformation works is supposed to be such that evil can pull off deceptions. I think the first is the _less_ legitimate one, though it can have something of a point to it. The trouble is that Ben has a tendency to underestimate how well Evil is doing in the late game, and has, a few times, come very close to making choices that would lock the victory for Evil on the basis that "they earned it" (when they really didn't) or without quite realizing it (which is forgiveable in the sense that STorytellers are human and can get tired and make mistakes). But he would do well to work on evaluating when it's time to help the GOOD team out. The second is actually the one I think he does the best when he leans into, because he gives the Evil team the rope they need to hang someone, even if it's themselves, and it maintains Storyteller neutrality to give disinformation that lines up with Evil's bluffs, where possible.

I hate to say it due to his excellence in commanding the game and his commitment, but this is the third game in a row that Ben has really rubbed me up the wrong way with his meddling. There's helping the evil team and there's making deliberate choices that punish good play and help bad play. In the last game Angela made a great play and got outright punished for it by Carley being turned into the Snake Charmer, which was absolute meddling designed to diminish Angela's role the game, increase Carley's and use a good Good play to help Evil. This time was even worse: Angela and Adam once again made a great play that Ben outright punished, while Isaac made a bad play trying to fudge and influence a Demon kill he should have no influence over and was rewarded for it. Again, Angela (the less "big name" player) was taken out of the game in terms of influence while the "big name" player was preferred, and Evil was rewarded for bad play and Good punished for good play. It's not balancing the game, it's deliberate meddling both on a meta level and a game level and it saddens me because literally other than that dynamic this is my favourite thing on the Tube. And that's not even counting the Legion game where Ben overtly tried to help a Legion win despite everyone realising it was a Legion game very early and no Townsfolk turning on each other, which is literally the definition of Legion failing.

@@fromomelastocarcosa3575 Obfuscating what kind of demon is in play is an important thing for the storyteller to do, especially in little monster or legion games. A demon with a choice in who they kill would have absolutely gone for Angela there, as this is a script without anything that rewards good team for a player being killed. They planned it out in the open for the entire village to hear it, that's not a good move on good's part. If they had planned that beforehand in private that'd be a different matter.

@@fromomelastocarcosa3575 In the Legion video, he also made errors during voting twice. In places where no good team voted, he still counted the votes of Legion-only votes.

the curse of a power gamer. Everyone trusts you when you are evil, but struggling to convince a soul as good.

Everyone eventually believes her though, people were convinced that Dom held the li'l monster, till Carly convinced them otherwise.

Being an amazing liar is a double edged sword lol

@@lynxerax7011 Having certain kinds of confident personalities can be double edged in this way too. Carley has a confidence to her on top of the good lying, And probably facilitates her lying skill.

Thing is, Carley is unnecessarily duplicitous at times, which bites her in the ass sometimes when she needs to be trusted. That's the price you pay for being a good liar and using of that skill often!

That was a setup to his later joke at 2:42:56

Yeah, there’s no doubt in my mind that if Blair had gotten it wrong, Sully would’ve screamed at her for ruining it for the good team (as a lighthearted joke, of course).

Me too but Tom should get to play as a character. He would be unreadable

@@secret.headquarters he did in the very first episode. He was the priest or something

@@secret.headquarters Tom plays on the evil team in one of the patreon games! It's something special for sure

I agree but only if Tom is playing as well. It's disappointing seeing Tom at the start only for him to disappear. He's great.

Anyone who saw Lord of the Board is not surprised.

Yep. They did it properly a few episodes ago with Blair and Jon. This was a monumental slip up

He also screwed over Blair completely. First night he (by his own admission) didn't even listen to see if anyone said it and second he chose a word that no one but storytellers ever use. It didn't end up mattering because Blair was poisoned from night two and on, but if she hadn't been she'd have had her power stolen by the GM. I'm not happy about the last two games from him. Before that he's only made minor mistakes usually barely worth mentioning which is impressive from a GM in a game this complex.

So I wasn't going mad. I could've swore the Alchemist was one of, if not THE, first characters in night order. Sure enough, it's right after the Philosopher on this script. (Which makes sense since Philo is basically a poison/drunk role and those generally go first in their group.)

@@Gufnorkian At the time he chose "Town square", I just assumed he picked something that likely wouldn't be said because she was poisoned. When he said it was intended to be said in the post-game, I was like "WHAT?" lol. Sometimes we make choices as ST that feel like they'll 100% work out but they don't. Happens to all of us. We're only human.

@@kyleb8117 It's an easy mistake to make, yes, if that was it I wouldn't even have mentioned it. But neither word they chose was said in the nomination phase. If the first word isn't said, they have to pick a word that's basically guaranteed to be said and definitely not a word that's basically never been said. Picking a power that's difficult to deduce is fine, picking one that's impossible to deduce is not. They had an out because Jon said "outsiders" in public early on day 1 (33:23), when Blair seemingly was fishing for responses to it. They chose not to take it. Luckily the poisoner made the power not matter anyway.

Lol curious did you count how many times it was said?

Congrats! I’m now dead. Thanks.

So lonely

Thank you for pointing this out!

Same, once I saw Laurie as storyteller I was 100% prepared for it to be an Atheist game.

That's a tie, and Good always wins those

It's a reference to warhammer 40,000. The gun she had in the previous game as the huntsman was a WH40K boltgun/bolter, probably from a cosplay of some form.

@@scottwallbank4794 interesting. Thanks for the info!

Adam Pearson is in the Impact zone!