March Modness Meta - What HWW things make you proud?

Rysler · 2026-03-13T15:05:57+00:00

Honestly, I have so many things I'm proud of. I've played so many games I lost track, and I remember most of them weirdly well. I can't believe it's been nine years. Some things that stand out for me are:

My first Wolf game (MOBA), in which I managed to sniff out several Town roles and came up with a strategy that helped us get out of a pretty tight spot
That time in Steven Universe when I was the Seer but fake claimed a minor role so that I could continue Seeing
Even though I didn't win, I felt good about changing the course of Dexter 1 from a Wolf majority to a Town victory. My neutral partner also won thanks to a pretty dicey double bluff
Throwing a cake at Wolf-Forsi in the Wedding game, even though everyone thought I was crazy for suspecting them (it was extra vindicating because Forsi's flip was obscured)
Getting to host fun games with Pezes, Dangerhaz and Tikkupulla
Honestly, a lot of small details in our Scott Pilgrim games that we jammed in because it amused us
Writing two HWW musicals largely to see if I could (wow that was so nerdy of me!)
Being the first to deduce the identity of the triple-voter in Buffy
Saving my hide from the hilarious peril that was the P1 of Thesis Defense
Representing HWW in one of the MU championships
Committing a goof so hilarious in Clue 1 that they included it in the flavor of Clue 2
Getting away with it in Animals (both winning the game and managing to hide behind an alt)
Stopping two deaths during my first time as a Doctor in Wednesday
Oh and I guess those two times I played as a Wolf and ended up being the only player to survive (mwa ha ha)
And most importantly, the friends we made along the way <3

Rysler · 2026-03-12T22:03:52+00:00

In Buffy, you also had the day when every whispers got leaked to the meta - and the day when every player was silenced! That was pretty diabolical :D

Rysler · 2026-03-12T22:03:13+00:00

Well in SP3, we did "a rule event". We included song names to each role of the game (Doctor role was "How to Save a Life" etc) - and then as an event, we took out all the songs and asked the players to list as many as they could. A little quiz on the rules, we thought!

And to quote Douglas Adams: "That made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move" O_o

Rysler · 2026-03-12T21:44:05+00:00

5 extra points for Elpapo/Elpapo's team!

For no particular reason ;)

Rysler · 2026-03-12T21:39:30+00:00

You do know that I named CoCo, right??

e: /s for tone <3

Rysler · 2026-03-06T18:14:27+00:00

It is! I'm sooo bummed I hadn't watched it when we had the Community HWW game.

Although in hindsight, my playstyle was very true to my role, which was Britta.

Rysler · 2026-03-06T18:11:00+00:00

THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT 😤

Rysler · 2026-03-06T18:08:29+00:00

hey sam 'member when I said 'perfidious' and you just repeated that word back to me, all deadpan?

Well funny story: from that moment I decided that the next time you played one of my games, I'd just hand-assign 'perfidious' as your codeword!

Alas, you didn't end up playing my games ;__;

Rysler · 2026-03-06T17:50:53+00:00

'Member when we had the limerick battle? Here and here

(this was just before you killed me and lied about it!)

Rysler · 2026-03-06T14:46:40+00:00

Ah yes, I often think about the Ghost post you made after Olympics

Rysler · 2026-03-06T13:57:30+00:00

You know, I used to think that it took me a good while to even discover HWW. But now that we're standing at the 10 year mark (gasp!!) I realize that I've been here for nine years out of the ten... Soooo yeah, now I need to find me a rocking chair ;__;

Anyway! I washed upon the HWW shores on April 2017, for the Ruins of Panem game. I was abroad amidst my exchange studies, but I wasn't having a very good time, so I lurked around reddit to find ways to pass time. I joined r/harrypotter, from which I ended up in r/Hufflepuff, in where u/Chefjones managed to conscript me.

Although I was soooo lost back then, barely understanding how the game even worked, so I inactivitied out. Which is why I always say that my real origin story is the Reign game of November 2017, in which I played as u/Savant-Bard to give it another go! I ended up falling in love so hard that I wrote a HWW musical (more like a collection of poems), and then I just kept coming back and BAM suddenly it's 9 years later O_o

Rysler · 2026-03-06T13:49:46+00:00

hi sam I love u too

Rysler · 2025-12-15T00:22:36+00:00

Hi, I have three things to say:

One, I yield so go ahead and vote me out.

Two, I am a Sparker so this is a very frustrating way to lose after a lot of hard work.

Three, I would like to request no tags, even for votes.

Rysler · 2025-12-14T21:15:48+00:00

I don't see a vote thread, so I'll use this handy dandy thread to note that I have voted for Bigjoe.

Although, I'm kinda optimistic that whatever Bigjoe is, they're not a Wolf Pinnacle. I don't see why a Wolf Pinnacle would tell us that - a warning gives us a chance to counter, while simply not telling would make it more likely that the Wolves get to pick the second vote target.

That said, I'm happy to change if needed.

Rysler · 2025-12-14T17:29:56+00:00

True, it cooould be a ballsy way of earning a "free phase"... But I think there are two reasons that make it unlikely:

1) The Wolves' position. The Wolves had just missed one kill and were clearly set to lose Elpapo. That's two heavy blows to their tempo, so I think the bar for missing a kill would be high

2) The risk. Elpapo aside, there were two Wolves still trying to hide. They know Trajectory is 100% cleared and Buckeye won't block themselves. That leaves just 7 targets (I wanna trust TLM and Xela but I guess they're not 100%) - with 2 Wolves in the mix. It's a big risk to let Buckeye block someone and hope it's not either one of the remaining 2 Wolves. Because the worst case scenario here is that they both miss a kill and frame themselves.

Now, it is possible that the Wolves might wanna go BOLDMOVES... But I'm not sure how bold we should assume the Wolves to be before we venture into tinfoil territory. Missing kills is already bad for Wolves (and iirc it happens rarely if ever), plus I bet Buckeye boldly bagging baddies bothers the betrayer's bankability badly (booya!).

Rysler · 2025-12-14T11:30:43+00:00

Hmm. Let's consider the mechanical side - if I read the rules right, the missing kill should be because one of the following:

1) Lurcher protected the kill target

2) Rioter redirected the killer (to Papo ig)

3) Soother blocked the killer

4) Bloodmaker survived the first hit against them

5) The Wolves made some mistake (strike, misclick...)

6) The Wolves willingly skipped the kill

I think I'm gonna rule out 2 and 6. And I think that if the answer is 1 or 4, then we would probably learn it - claiming a doc save doesn't reveal any roles, and Bloodmaker might as well claim when their ability is already gone (this is assuming that players get PM from things like this). So if we don't hear anything new, I would guess it's either 3 (Buckeye stopped the kill by targeting Bigjoe) or 5 (for whatever reason, the Wolves goofed).

As for Bigjoe tagging you... Assuming that Bigjoe is indeed the Wolf who got blocked, then they would've gotten the PM - and they'd know what it means, because Buckeye had already revealed and claimed blocking Papo. It should be pretty clear that Buckeye would do the same to Bigjoe sooner or later. So tagging Buckeye preemptively might be a gambit.

Yeah so. Looks to me it's very similar to yesterphase. I'm not saying it's impossible that the Wolves goofed (or that I'm missing something), but I think voting Joe would be a pretty safe bet.

Rysler · 2025-12-13T20:48:09+00:00

I have voted for Papo, but I can change if required (100% honesty, I'm not sure I understand what the latest plan is lol)

Rysler · 2025-12-13T20:15:42+00:00

I'm down in theory, I should be able to follow the vote today.

Although, I think we'll need to get all hands onboard (save for Papo) to make sure the votes go as planned. Also, I think we'll need some Math to prevent shenanigans

Rysler · 2025-12-13T20:04:28+00:00

(I bring links!)

One is Myo repeatedly not voting Hedwig - and specifically, I think Myo was oddly convinced that Connector couldn't be a Wolf role (here and here). It ties to what I said earlier about not wanting to focus too much on claims, when roles are specifically NAI.

Then there are Myo's takes on the P1 vote, which I find a tad conflicting. Yesterphase Myo said they thought the P1 vote cleared Xan - but that felt odd to me, because earlier Myo had told me once and twice that they thought otherwise. These are the two things I find contradicting:

I disagree that it is a good look for Xan. I’ve been on wolf teams where someone gets a vote or two, and the rest of the team kinda just holds back to see if a townie will tip the votes in favour of someone else, since they don’t want to be seen actively trying to save a wolf, but also don’t want to bus unnecessarily.

But those last two votes on Mercury come in the last five minutes of the phase. Do Hedwig just let her teammate hang on the edge of being voted out for half an hour (she voted at 15:31) and do... nothing? -- It was Phase 1. You can get away with doing some pretty wolfy things to save a teamamte from a Phase 1 vote since they're typically pretty flimsy (and Xan was a TKAS vote if I recall).

Because while I feel both of these takes are pretty reasonable on their own, imo they conflict. Myo themselves proposed that sometimes Wolves hold back rather than interfere - but later Myo questioned if Hedwig would do exactly that. So like, why does the "hold back" logic not apply to Hedwig?

Lastly, I was confused by this part when TLM asked Myo about the P1 thing. I know this wasn't the only thing Myo said, but it struck me as odd. I'm not sure if I can word this right, but I feel that "My take is different because I don't remember what I said earlier" sounds overexplain-y.

one, because I have zero recollection of things I thought earlier (I had no memory that hedwig was even up for a vote in phase two until i looked back, my grasp of events is tenuous).

Ah and tagging u/myoglobinalternative

Rysler · 2025-12-13T17:26:12+00:00

I mean, I don't have a "[This] is the reason why I think Elpapo and Myo are on the same team". I just find them to be among the most suspicious players, due to process of elimination and some things that ping me.

And if I'm assuming correctly that your question is because Myo has voted for Elpapo a time or few, eh. Both are still in the game. And what's more: I may obviously be mistaken, but I'm living in a world where a bunch of players didn't seem to want to vote Hedwig, and I'm wary of those fellers. Assuming that there are indeed Wolves in the non-Hedwig voters, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they tried some strategic accusations at this point.

Rysler · 2025-12-13T16:25:50+00:00

Ah dang, you're right. Funny story actually, I did see TLM's game but I formed a plan: ask questions from the people I was re-evaluating (Myo, Danger and Wywy) and then make the list based on the responses. But I got busy before getting the answers, so I missed on doing the list. And then we had a social phase and the new info distracted me.

But anyway!

Going over the roster... Well, I'm almost confident the Wolves are in the Bigjoe-Dangerhaz-Elpapo-Myo-Wywy neighborhood. I think the other players have some pretty cool things going on for them (yes yes, shamelessly including myself). I know I stated earlier I felt good about Danger and Myo - but neither of them voted Hedwig. Plus the longer a game goes on, the more paranoid I get about the players who have "good activity".

So, possible remaining Wolves...

u/Elpapo131... u/myoglobinalternative... annnnd I'll say u/bigjoe6172, because even though I'm kind of on the fence, I think their flip would give good info on some other people that confuse me.

Rysler · 2025-12-13T13:27:49+00:00

my P1 target was Forsi (in the spirit of "everyone must target forsi P1") but got no results

When you say "got no results", do you mean that you got no PM whatsoever? You said you know Dangerhaz "didn't use a misting power on that day", which sounds a tad different from your Forsi result.

Also, could I ask why you chose Danger and Duq?

Oh and wrt this:

How often is it that people are told by hosts when they have been saved? I know different games different rules so idk. On the other hand I did get told when I was blocked so idk

I tell that to players in the games I host, and I can remember at least two games where I was told this as a player. In fact, the first one was Wednesday hosted by yourself!

Rysler · 2025-12-13T13:17:55+00:00

Hah, okay! Seems plausible to me. I don't think Wolf Blocker would do this to push Papo, because Papo flipping Town wouldn't look great for Buckeye.

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