1:24:08 Carley is the most high functioning drunk ever. Brilliant little meeting here for the good team. And Carley doing an amazing job navigating that difficult role.
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.
I hope one day Jon and Adam become the storytellers while Ben and Tom join the game instead. I would love that role of reversals if we are continuing the Multiverse of madness.
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!
Having watched a few games with the amnesiac now, I think Ben both overestimates how easy it is to guess the abilities, and how useful the abilities are. He consistently makes them multi-step convoluted to the point that it would take 20+ questions to get anywhere near them without basically reading his mind. And, frankly, _if_ Blair guessed her ability right, she still has to be on constant listen and not fail to catch who said the secret word first AND be confident that Laurie and Ben didn't miss the first one and think someone else said it. Yes, knowing "Good" or "Evil" (which a binary like "same alignment as you" is) is powerful, but she again would have to figure out that her ability is telling her "Same alignemtn as you" or "telling you whether good or not" at the least to get it right. I think he needs to go with more straight-forward abilities; he'll probably be stunned by how hard it is for people to still guess them.
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.
1:55:30 Carly is so smart and a pro at the ins and outs of this game. Knowing just what lies to tell herself and what a liar may tell in return. Balloonist or Poppygrower Brooke. Finding that Brooke could be doing a Godfather play was clutch at that point.
"You know who I am?" "Yes." "Then you know what to do when I'm dead." Goddamn! Don't know what follows this, but Adam, one story writer to another, this was excellent dialogue.
Carley’s ability to drown out all the noise and think like an evil person (rightly pinning lil monsta on Isaac and not Dom) is just… it’s so good. She’s so freaking smart at this game.
@@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.
It’s insane how often they pinpoint the exact person they need to execute during the first or second day then talk themselves out of it. Literally every game bar one or two, it’s crazy. They have to trust their gut and not talk everything to death 😂
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
Sullivan's comment to Blair at 2:40:16 is so good to see! Even amongst the shouting and the lying and the silliness, genuinely supporting your friends inside and out of the game is always important. Good on you Sully!
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).
Sully is truly a BOTC savant (pun intended). Just a game or two ago he won as Philo, barely even understanding how the role worked. Here he claims Alchemist and Pixie-Alchemist in his two, which is brilliant, and points out that Dom can’t be the Pixie-Empath in a Vortox world, which is brilliant… and then he comes right out and breaks madness (smh), and also fails to nominate Brooke to get Carley off the block. Such beautiful, maddening inconsistency. But he wins again!
YEAH! What a great way to start the afternoon. Great to see Adam Pearson, my fellow disability advocate brother from another mother playing today. Go lie, deceive and cheat your way to victory son!!!
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
I was scared we won't get a Clocktower game this month. Just with that today became the best day of February. This is by far the most chaotic game , what else could we expect from Ravenswood Blake. Total bedlam, again Carly solving the game.
I would like to go on record as saying that I could listen to Sully doing voices all day - he's HILARIOUS with them! I could also just listen to Adam B's voice all day. Smooth like butter, pleasingly deep, and oh-so-soothing.
Blair winning this for good after spending 2 hours lost in the woods was a great moment. If you were going to script the ending, it would’ve been this. Great watch.
Angela really needs to be more careful with what she says about her role. Like Luke when he's good, she almost always gives the exact details of her role. I'd like to see what she's like in the late game but she rarely makes it there
Adam P is just the sweetest trusting player, but when he said “Dom you lied to me and my heart is broken” just completely threw the whole group! It was wonderful
The sad thing is, Ben shouldn't have gone to Isaac before Jon, and the whole poisoning of Jon (and all the consequences thereof) was a mistake. The Alchemist learns their ability well before the poisoner goes. The Night Order strikes again. Poor Jon...
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.
What a fantastic game! Usually Blair dies quickly or doesn't get a lot to do, so it was amazing to see her absolutely fumble through the game and actually win it in the end. So good to watch
My favorite thing about you guys playing this is that I don't have to necessarily watch you guys so I can just listen to you guys play the game on my car radio LOL
Is there no comment at all that two games ago Blair got her alchemist ability BEFORE being poisoned, but in this one Jon got it AFTER? I'm confused about the Night Order here.
1:41:06 I can't believe Dom weaseled his way out of that vote, he was dead to rights him and his little demon child. Adam B really said oh that imposter that was claiming his own role was fine, and the 2 people who were told to trust each other by Dom because he was the empath and knew they were good also just fell in line with it (even after Dom was advocating for killing Adam P, someone he claims to know is good just to check Carly who was already confirmed good by the original empath)
Man Adam has a wonderful voice with that little segment in the middle of the video. Can we get Adam singing with someone else like mjf and Chris Jericho
@@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!
Just noticed on second viewing at 44:40 Blair is labelled as Alchemist not Amnesiac which mirrors Ben accidentally calling Jon an Amnesiac at the start....double blunder or a nice nod?
Number of games Adam won : 1 Number of games Adam lost : 13 Games played total in 2022 : 15 Number of times Adam WILLINGLY chooses yellow: 3 Number of games Adam wins BotC: 2 (won't count to win score) Number of games Adam's wins in other series: 2 (won't count to win score) Number of games Sully has broken his resolution to always win: 12 Number of games Laurie has won BotC in 2022: 0 Has Adam played Diplomacy with Dom yet? Yes: No: ✓
So here’s a rules question- what would have happened (assuming no poisoning was involved) if Dom had selected Jon as his Fearmonger target, Dom nominated Jon, Jon claimed that he was the Alchemist Goblin, and Jon was executed? In that scenario, an “instant win” condition has been met for both teams, so…who wins?
I love when the title is initially confusing but makes perfect sense after finishing the video. 😄 Spoilers... I so love Isaac's villainous monologue at his final nomination! Honestly, very well played by both teams, it was just down to who Blair would choose to nominate in the end, and Blair finally overcame her curse of being a water diviner for Evil! Perfect ending! Now when I saw Laurie was going to be a storyteller, I was almost expecting him to add an Atheist to the script just to finally get to win one... it still eludes him, but it's amazing that more of the crew are taking up the storyteller role!
I love the moments, in all videos across the WrestleTalk Universe, when Laurie gets up to either let his cat in or out of the room. Cats hate closed doors and I can relate to him. #catdad
Yeah I thought that was a rough clue. Who is going to mention Town Square during nominations, after everyone has already assembled? If Ben wanted to steer away from mechanics, I would have gone for something like 'lying' or 'trust' or something completely off like 'UA-cam' if he wanted a better hint.
People usually say it in private chats. "Oh, we have to get back to the Town Square, I think nominations are about to open." But they rarely say it once they're already there. Yeah, I agree that it was a rough one, but I think the poisoned nonsense words were so funny that I don't even mind.
Late to the game but, with the clue you can try and get someone to say it by either outing it to someone who wants to be tested as good, OR you can say "I really had issues with my room getting back to the clock tower, wait..." And some people in this group will jump on correcting
@Relisysification apart from that you don't know that someone has to say it at that stage. I would agree if this would be further down the line and she would already have an idea but at this stage she knew nothing. They should have chosen something in the beginning which would have been mentioned for sure so that the mechanic at least would have been triggered.
This series is incredible; we're only 22 minutes in, and Jon Gracey has alerady been played by the sheer audacity of the game that makes Blood on the Clocktower and NRB together the funniest board game to watch. Hope you guys had a lovely evening ❤
Watching this can be so maddening when they're discussing worlds that just don't work, but it's always cathartic to get to see Sullivan actually flag them. It's a shame they don't listen to him more.
Jon's red token in place of his blue token with 4 various blue and red reminder tokens just sums up his luck playing this game with this group, even 2 years later now
I think what would've been really funny in this game is if in the final night, the three evil players chose to give lil monsta to Adam P. Adam P would immediately come forward saying he was told that he has lil monsta, but then everyone has to decide if they believe he's a good player who got given the baby as a way to confuse the good team on the final night, or if he's a minion who doesn't have the baby and is trying to get them to waste their final execution. In this situation, keep in mind the demon kill is decided after the vote, the final 3 is Isaac, Dom, and Adam, where Isaac is seen as the good player there who nominates Dom, who doesn't have the baby, and good might follow through with the vote if they think Adam is a minion. It would be a risky play, but i think there's a good amount of info that might make Adam P seem like a minion, like Dom talking to Adam P night one immediately, even if he later covers it up by claiming empath. I think the main problem with it was that Dom was largely pushing to execute Adam P throughout the game, but it at least would've been funny
Hindsight's 20/20 but if Brooke had chosen not use her godfather ability, Carley wouldn't have been drunk confirmed, and I think the evil team probably wins.
Just opened the video to listen to it, and then I heard the name Adam a second time and I was like "I heard that voice before", and indeed I had, Adam Pearson has arrived to No Rolls Barred! AND we get storyteller Laurie? This is going to be an absolute banger of an episode.
Jon at the beginning, as a joke: "Would the godfather just like to come out to the group?" Brooke, the actual Godfather: "I'm the Godfather guys" *everyone assumes it's a bit*
Isaac could have built a viable vortex world, though easier to do when looking at the whole grim. If Blair was the vortox, only one person got correct information (sully). Could explain that by him being evil. "But there would be four evil in this world" you say since Brooke and Dom were obviously evil except the bounty hunter adds an evil townsfolk. This is further backed up by the fact the alchemist goes before the poisoner on night 1 and the only way could have gotten wrong information about his ability is from a vortox (this was an ST mistake)
What happens when: 1. Fearmonger chooses the alchemist - good goblin. 2. Fearmonger nominates good goblin. 3. Fearmonger successfully executes good goblin Would fearmonger make the good team lose? Would good goblin make the good team win? Also, in one of the previous episodes, the storytellers didnt change the alchemist-goblin-to-be's role before assignment due to being poisoned the first night. This is... inconsistent. In that game, Blair was the good goblin and was executed while knowing she was the good goblin. If it's done as in this episode, Blair wouldnt have spoken up because she thinks she has a different ability. In this game, they completely switched the order in which the operations are assigned (or just that Ben forgot to poison Blair's ability that game... which is unfortunate)
Good team would usually win the tiebreaker in an event that would have resulted in an instant win to both teams. edit: for example, if Isaac had actually been a Goblin holding the Lil Monsta, when executed Good team would still win
They need to stop inviting Carly… she has the brain the size of a planet and processes all options so quickly and finds the right chain of events so quickly
I'm only at 21:03 and I'm dying laughing XD Ben very gleefully cheering that isaac poisoned Jon... bro what did Jon ever do to ben for ben to antagonize him this much hahahaha.. (jk ik ben loves it cuz like all of us he loves when Jon goes banans and loses his mind)
I've thought about putting it in, but I genuinely think it's the strongest Townsfolk in the game and often worry that a less experienced evil team might just get stomped.
@@bennburns I mean, yeah, that's entirely fair, you want someone who can roll with the absolute chaos. I won't lie, I'm a little self-serving in wanting to see it in action because it's one of my favorite roles, but at the same time, given how this group plays the Snake Charmer, the results could be...interestingly explosive.
If an alien species found this video, they would likely assume that all men have a British accent and all women have an American accent.
Blair is right there......................
The entirety of NRB was just a ploy to pick up American chicks
1:24:08 Carley is the most high functioning drunk ever. Brilliant little meeting here for the good team. And Carley doing an amazing job navigating that difficult role.
Congratulations to Laurie for not losing a game of Blood on the Clocktower.
Adam: "Another game that Laurie didn't win." 🤣
The billiard boys has persisted as a joke since episode 2 and I love it
Which is disappointing that the in-person episodes don't have a billiards room.
@@sdspiveytrue, that was/is a missed opportunity
Blair trying to figure out her Amnesiac role up until the bitter end is just about the cutest thing I've ever seen in a social deduction game.
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
adam falling on his sword so philosopher angela can pick up his role was very cool. too bad it didn't last. great game!!
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 hope one day Jon and Adam become the storytellers while Ben and Tom join the game instead.
I would love that role of reversals if we are continuing the Multiverse of madness.
I have played a game with Ben and can tell you, it's impossible to beat him when he's on the evil team 😅
Absolutely dying at the "Wait, you were the hot bounty hunter?" banter
I love how hard Isaac laughed at "hullabaloo". He knows what happened.
I think you mean "bubbaloo".
@@TeacherDoug7 no.
Nobody reacted to Laurie’s “beaten to death with a silver spoon” joke about Sully. That was amazing.
THEY SAID IM WARM! IM A WARM POPSICLE! - Blair
What a hullabaloo this is.
Shout out to Dom. He's become a much better lier (except for the poison slip). Full credit for speaking calmly under pressure.
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!
Laurie as Storyteller should have been an Atheist game. I'm sure Laurie would relish breaking the rules.
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.
Isacs smug smile after blair says she has no idea what her ability does was amazing :D
Two things Carley can manage even when drunk:
- playing very Well in BOTC
- explaining boardgames
Having watched a few games with the amnesiac now, I think Ben both overestimates how easy it is to guess the abilities, and how useful the abilities are. He consistently makes them multi-step convoluted to the point that it would take 20+ questions to get anywhere near them without basically reading his mind. And, frankly, _if_ Blair guessed her ability right, she still has to be on constant listen and not fail to catch who said the secret word first AND be confident that Laurie and Ben didn't miss the first one and think someone else said it. Yes, knowing "Good" or "Evil" (which a binary like "same alignment as you" is) is powerful, but she again would have to figure out that her ability is telling her "Same alignemtn as you" or "telling you whether good or not" at the least to get it right.
I think he needs to go with more straight-forward abilities; he'll probably be stunned by how hard it is for people to still guess them.
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.
34:24 Carley accidentally drawing on her own chin had me rolling. I love how they can't see each other
Didn’t even see 😂 love it
1:55:30 Carly is so smart and a pro at the ins and outs of this game. Knowing just what lies to tell herself and what a liar may tell in return. Balloonist or Poppygrower Brooke. Finding that Brooke could be doing a Godfather play was clutch at that point.
"You know who I am?"
"Yes."
"Then you know what to do when I'm dead."
Goddamn! Don't know what follows this, but Adam, one story writer to another, this was excellent dialogue.
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
Carley’s ability to drown out all the noise and think like an evil person (rightly pinning lil monsta on Isaac and not Dom) is just… it’s so good. She’s so freaking smart at this game.
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.
It’s insane how often they pinpoint the exact person they need to execute during the first or second day then talk themselves out of it. Literally every game bar one or two, it’s crazy. They have to trust their gut and not talk everything to death 😂
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
58:10 “I spend most of my nights deciding whether I should lie to you” could be a very poetic line if taken out of context
especially considering, you know.
Watching Laurie enjoy the punishment he’s dished out is just everything. Long live Blakenswood Bluff
Sullivan's comment to Blair at 2:40:16 is so good to see! Even amongst the shouting and the lying and the silliness, genuinely supporting your friends inside and out of the game is always important. Good on you Sully!
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).
Blair’s entire saga was absolutely hilarious
“That’s one way to make it bigger.” Dear God Isaac 😂😂
"It's me, I'm the godfather!" - said the godfather, publicly, on day one
Sully is truly a BOTC savant (pun intended). Just a game or two ago he won as Philo, barely even understanding how the role worked. Here he claims Alchemist and Pixie-Alchemist in his two, which is brilliant, and points out that Dom can’t be the Pixie-Empath in a Vortox world, which is brilliant… and then he comes right out and breaks madness (smh), and also fails to nominate Brooke to get Carley off the block. Such beautiful, maddening inconsistency. But he wins again!
"I'm gonna poison Jon Gracey."
*BEN SILENTLY CELEBRATING BECAUSE HE GETS TO SCREW WITH JON AGAIN*
I love this group
YEAH! What a great way to start the afternoon. Great to see Adam Pearson, my fellow disability advocate brother from another mother playing today. Go lie, deceive and cheat your way to victory son!!!
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.
Gotta love how it was the fact that Blair's ability was completely insane that everyone believed that it was real.
I was scared we won't get a Clocktower game this month. Just with that today became the best day of February. This is by far the most chaotic game , what else could we expect from Ravenswood Blake. Total bedlam, again Carly solving the game.
I would like to go on record as saying that I could listen to Sully doing voices all day - he's HILARIOUS with them!
I could also just listen to Adam B's voice all day. Smooth like butter, pleasingly deep, and oh-so-soothing.
I adore this new thing of rotating storytellers, I hope it continues (though of course I would be just as happy for Tom & Carley to return!)
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.
Blair winning this for good after spending 2 hours lost in the woods was a great moment. If you were going to script the ending, it would’ve been this. Great watch.
finally there is more i watched/listened all the previous blood on the clock tower vids in a week. excellent content thanks to you all.
Angela really needs to be more careful with what she says about her role. Like Luke when he's good, she almost always gives the exact details of her role. I'd like to see what she's like in the late game but she rarely makes it there
Fuckin Adam right at the end "that's another game Laurie didn't win"....lost my shit. That was funny
Adam P is just the sweetest trusting player, but when he said “Dom you lied to me and my heart is broken” just completely threw the whole group! It was wonderful
The sad thing is, Ben shouldn't have gone to Isaac before Jon, and the whole poisoning of Jon (and all the consequences thereof) was a mistake. The Alchemist learns their ability well before the poisoner goes. The Night Order strikes again.
Poor Jon...
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.
Rewatching this episode really makes me want Carley to be the amnesiac with one of these complicated abilities, and see her puzzle it out!
What a fantastic game! Usually Blair dies quickly or doesn't get a lot to do, so it was amazing to see her absolutely fumble through the game and actually win it in the end. So good to watch
My favorite thing about you guys playing this is that I don't have to necessarily watch you guys so I can just listen to you guys play the game on my car radio LOL
Is there no comment at all that two games ago Blair got her alchemist ability BEFORE being poisoned, but in this one Jon got it AFTER? I'm confused about the Night Order here.
1:52:15 The look on Isaac's face, upon remembering that he poisoned Jon, at the beginning, and realizing the implications.
Thank you for pointing this out!
1:41:06 I can't believe Dom weaseled his way out of that vote, he was dead to rights him and his little demon child. Adam B really said oh that imposter that was claiming his own role was fine, and the 2 people who were told to trust each other by Dom because he was the empath and knew they were good also just fell in line with it (even after Dom was advocating for killing Adam P, someone he claims to know is good just to check Carly who was already confirmed good by the original empath)
"I've been your bounty hunter"
"WHAT? YOU were the sexy man!?"
"I heard he was a fuckin legend mate"
Fucking rolling
Man Adam has a wonderful voice with that little segment in the middle of the video. Can we get Adam singing with someone else like mjf and Chris Jericho
So lonely
Behold, as a strange Amnesiac power turns Blaire into the Lunatic.
Anyone who saw Lord of the Board is not surprised.
Adam P just wandered in and killed it! I wonder if he'll be back for a redemption arc after becoming Laurie's Sith apprentice.
Take a drink every time someone says
“If it’s a Vortox game ...”
Lol curious did you count how many times it was said?
Congrats! I’m now dead. Thanks.
I'm starting to feel bad for Carley for how little the others trust her even when she's arguing solidly against an obvious lier.
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!
I absolutely 💘 Carly. She is just brilliant with this game.
This my favorite series period.
Just noticed on second viewing at 44:40 Blair is labelled as Alchemist not Amnesiac which mirrors Ben accidentally calling Jon an Amnesiac at the start....double blunder or a nice nod?
#1 takeaway, Adam has a nice singing voice.
Number of games Adam won : 1
Number of games Adam lost : 13
Games played total in 2022 : 15
Number of times Adam WILLINGLY chooses yellow: 3
Number of games Adam wins BotC: 2 (won't count to win score)
Number of games Adam's wins in other series: 2 (won't count to win score)
Number of games Sully has broken his resolution to always win: 12
Number of games Laurie has won BotC in 2022: 0
Has Adam played Diplomacy with Dom yet? Yes: No: ✓
So here’s a rules question- what would have happened (assuming no poisoning was involved) if Dom had selected Jon as his Fearmonger target, Dom nominated Jon, Jon claimed that he was the Alchemist Goblin, and Jon was executed? In that scenario, an “instant win” condition has been met for both teams, so…who wins?
That's a tie, and Good always wins those
I love when the title is initially confusing but makes perfect sense after finishing the video. 😄
Spoilers...
I so love Isaac's villainous monologue at his final nomination! Honestly, very well played by both teams, it was just down to who Blair would choose to nominate in the end, and Blair finally overcame her curse of being a water diviner for Evil! Perfect ending!
Now when I saw Laurie was going to be a storyteller, I was almost expecting him to add an Atheist to the script just to finally get to win one... it still eludes him, but it's amazing that more of the crew are taking up the storyteller role!
Same, once I saw Laurie as storyteller I was 100% prepared for it to be an Atheist game.
I love the moments, in all videos across the WrestleTalk Universe, when Laurie gets up to either let his cat in or out of the room. Cats hate closed doors and I can relate to him. #catdad
I can't explain why, but I deeply love the look of confusion on Adam's face when Tom skips over him to do Laurie first at the beginning
Blair’s words sound like the codewords to activate the Winter Soldier!!! Outsiders, Town Square, Hullabaloo, Popsicle…
In over a dozen of these videos, I don't think any player has ever said "Town Square" during nominations. That was a garbage word clue.
Yeah I thought that was a rough clue. Who is going to mention Town Square during nominations, after everyone has already assembled? If Ben wanted to steer away from mechanics, I would have gone for something like 'lying' or 'trust' or something completely off like 'UA-cam' if he wanted a better hint.
People usually say it in private chats. "Oh, we have to get back to the Town Square, I think nominations are about to open." But they rarely say it once they're already there. Yeah, I agree that it was a rough one, but I think the poisoned nonsense words were so funny that I don't even mind.
Late to the game but, with the clue you can try and get someone to say it by either outing it to someone who wants to be tested as good, OR you can say "I really had issues with my room getting back to the clock tower, wait..." And some people in this group will jump on correcting
@Relisysification apart from that you don't know that someone has to say it at that stage. I would agree if this would be further down the line and she would already have an idea but at this stage she knew nothing. They should have chosen something in the beginning which would have been mentioned for sure so that the mechanic at least would have been triggered.
Isaac did in this game, just not when it was the phrase needed.
It's scary how good everyone has become! Thought Brooke did an especially good job
This series is incredible; we're only 22 minutes in, and Jon Gracey has alerady been played by the sheer audacity of the game that makes Blood on the Clocktower and NRB together the funniest board game to watch.
Hope you guys had a lovely evening ❤
Watching this can be so maddening when they're discussing worlds that just don't work, but it's always cathartic to get to see Sullivan actually flag them. It's a shame they don't listen to him more.
Great to see adam Pearson. Its that time of month again.
oh i bet laurie has been waiting a loooonnng time for his unbridled revenge. i can't WAIT to see how this turns out
Seems like you gave blair the most impossible ability to solve along with a bunch of words that no one will ever say
the way Carley dealt with her drunkenness was impeccable
Carly is SO good at playing evil that Adam never trusts her when she's good.
"The Poisoned Popsicle" would make a fantastic wrestling nickname.
Laurie is killing it in this role
Really really hope we get a Poppy-grower game. Imagine the chaos and paranoia.
Adams singing at 1:27:17 was a genuinely lovely interlude
If that amnesiac ability was a real role, it would be super cool to put in a game with a mezepholes
Laurie‘s intro was *insane*. Well done
Looking forward to see everyone, especially Jon and Adam, think Caley is evil.
Jon's red token in place of his blue token with 4 various blue and red reminder tokens just sums up his luck playing this game with this group, even 2 years later now
Love these games, and it's always a sign of good storytelling when it goes down like this.
I think what would've been really funny in this game is if in the final night, the three evil players chose to give lil monsta to Adam P. Adam P would immediately come forward saying he was told that he has lil monsta, but then everyone has to decide if they believe he's a good player who got given the baby as a way to confuse the good team on the final night, or if he's a minion who doesn't have the baby and is trying to get them to waste their final execution. In this situation, keep in mind the demon kill is decided after the vote, the final 3 is Isaac, Dom, and Adam, where Isaac is seen as the good player there who nominates Dom, who doesn't have the baby, and good might follow through with the vote if they think Adam is a minion. It would be a risky play, but i think there's a good amount of info that might make Adam P seem like a minion, like Dom talking to Adam P night one immediately, even if he later covers it up by claiming empath. I think the main problem with it was that Dom was largely pushing to execute Adam P throughout the game, but it at least would've been funny
Literally caught up on all episodes nrb plays botc yesterday. I was bummed out bc like now what?...MORE NRB BOTC!!! YAY
Dude I was just about to watch some of the older videos for my Clocktower fix... And just like DJ Kahild here comes the crew with another one!
They tried to nerf Carley by making her drunk but it only made her stronger.
Hindsight's 20/20 but if Brooke had chosen not use her godfather ability, Carley wouldn't have been drunk confirmed, and I think the evil team probably wins.
Loved having the other Adam here as a guest. It's not only really empowering for disabled people, but it's also great to see NRB expanding the cast.
Juat when i've been missing BOTC, y'all upload the next installment!! MVPs
Laurie that was one hell of a creepy intro kudos sir Kudos
Damn that amnesiac stuff was some world class bullshit, only to be saved by being poisoned
What a great swerve right at the beginning! God I love this channel
Carley is fun to watch. I especially love the way she flat-out lies to a person on day 1 just to see how it plays out.
Just opened the video to listen to it, and then I heard the name Adam a second time and I was like "I heard that voice before", and indeed I had, Adam Pearson has arrived to No Rolls Barred! AND we get storyteller Laurie? This is going to be an absolute banger of an episode.
Adam Pearson is in the Impact zone!
Jon at the beginning, as a joke: "Would the godfather just like to come out to the group?"
Brooke, the actual Godfather: "I'm the Godfather guys"
*everyone assumes it's a bit*
watching blair try to figure out whats going on has got to be one of the funniest botc moments
Isaac could have built a viable vortex world, though easier to do when looking at the whole grim. If Blair was the vortox, only one person got correct information (sully). Could explain that by him being evil. "But there would be four evil in this world" you say since Brooke and Dom were obviously evil except the bounty hunter adds an evil townsfolk. This is further backed up by the fact the alchemist goes before the poisoner on night 1 and the only way could have gotten wrong information about his ability is from a vortox (this was an ST mistake)
What happens when:
1. Fearmonger chooses the alchemist - good goblin.
2. Fearmonger nominates good goblin.
3. Fearmonger successfully executes good goblin
Would fearmonger make the good team lose?
Would good goblin make the good team win?
Also, in one of the previous episodes, the storytellers didnt change the alchemist-goblin-to-be's role before assignment due to being poisoned the first night. This is... inconsistent.
In that game, Blair was the good goblin and was executed while knowing she was the good goblin. If it's done as in this episode, Blair wouldnt have spoken up because she thinks she has a different ability.
In this game, they completely switched the order in which the operations are assigned (or just that Ben forgot to poison Blair's ability that game... which is unfortunate)
Good team would usually win the tiebreaker in an event that would have resulted in an instant win to both teams.
edit: for example, if Isaac had actually been a Goblin holding the Lil Monsta, when executed Good team would still win
Yoooo always great to see Adam Pearson.
They need to stop inviting Carly… she has the brain the size of a planet and processes all options so quickly and finds the right chain of events so quickly
I'm only at 21:03 and I'm dying laughing XD Ben very gleefully cheering that isaac poisoned Jon... bro what did Jon ever do to ben for ben to antagonize him this much hahahaha.. (jk ik ben loves it cuz like all of us he loves when Jon goes banans and loses his mind)
I keep hoping we'll get a Poppy Grower one of these days.
I've thought about putting it in, but I genuinely think it's the strongest Townsfolk in the game and often worry that a less experienced evil team might just get stomped.
@@bennburns I mean, yeah, that's entirely fair, you want someone who can roll with the absolute chaos.
I won't lie, I'm a little self-serving in wanting to see it in action because it's one of my favorite roles, but at the same time, given how this group plays the Snake Charmer, the results could be...interestingly explosive.
What a fantastic watch thank you all