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Thank you for posting this script! I don't know if that's a new feature or I just haven't noticed it in the past, but it's very helpful to know what people's bluff options would be.
@@LucyTheBox That happened to me a couple of days ago. Playing Bad Moon Rising, The Assassin told me in private who he was, and I fell into a trap of focusing on him. Players did say why he'll do such a thing but it was a bold play that ultimately won the game for evil.
carley is like: you can't gaslight me because i'm okay with being the villain jon is like: you can't gaslight me because i'm already convinced i'm insane
It's true. When she has lost Zoom games she puts on these pout faces but watch long enough and she looks very sour about losing. It's fine, imo. She is just very competitive and great at the game.
@@Zilong09 its the exact way everyone reacts after several thousand hours in the genre, every subtle facial reaction everytime you offer good advice despite it going against your own express interests, every fake smile and literally all of it is an act but at this point none of it is a conscious effort anymore it took me watching carley in these to realize that charm isn't cute it's intimidating, and it always was
I think its the fact she's losing to sullys PLOT armor. Man put extra points into luck. A good amount of his games are just stumbling along and just going with it.
@@literallybest4482 I'm sorry, but are you actually claiming that the Vortox's power works on _itself?_ I mean, I honestly don't remember if _minions_ learn the wrong _demon_ (even though that by itself stretches credibility), but surely the demon doesn't receive bad info from its _own power_
@@micahnewby7964 That's actually the crux of the issue - learning the evil team is not part of the vortox's power. Demon and minion info only happen at the very start of the game, it doesn't automatically happen once there's no poppygrower in play. It's very specifically the poppygrower's ability which is giving out the information, and being a townsfolk, that information must be false in a vortox game. In fact, if the poppygrower power is removed from the game without dying (such as by pit hag), the evil team will never learn each other. It's an unintuitive ruling, absolutely, but it's a well established one.
@@connorlokey107 As ruled by TPI. In a non-PG game, Evil team learns each other night 1, but in a PG game, this phase does not happen and is triggered upon the PGs death. Because this information comes from the PG, this would result in the Evil team learning incorrect players.
Everyone having a good laugh that Luke gossiped if he was Luke to check if he was drunk, but I think it was the best thing the good team did. It ensured that he wasn't drunk, he was confirmed good and it made his second gossip the most valuable piece of information.
same! I always cheer for sully, I can't help it. And the addition of jon being confused as always was amazing, so happy to see them winning and celebrating
This was the perfect game because I always root for Sully and it causes me emotional pain when Adam goes full heel and just comepletely fucks Sully. It's great when they are on a team though because Adam is really good at this and this time that meant Sully wins too. Also, I love Jon and he's always so happy when he wins so I like to root for him too.
Includes spoilers: Adam perfectly understood how to play his role as Boomdandy in a game with Poppygrower in play... he was, for the first time, the absolute protagonist of a (yet again) masterpiece. Carly, who usually reads Adam the best, let his risky move of proclaiming Goblin in front of the whole circle pass up for one more round, that was enough for the evil team to solve the puzzle. Rooting for them the whole time, congratulations! PD: I would LOVE to have subtitles in your videos, since English is my second language and when chaos emerge I find it a little hard to follow all conversations 🥰
LAURIE, I saw in a video that you read every comment. Hopefully you see this! haha. Can you please strongly suggest adding better subtitles? I am hard of hearing, and when many people start talking at the same time, it's hard to keep track of what's been being said. This would not only benefit myself, but many other people as well, I'm sure. I am rooting for you to win another game!!
Note that you can turn on youtube's auto-generated english subs and they are good enough to understand what's going on. Although with AI tools nowadays it's not that hard to make subs for your videos which you can then refine if you want.
@emmanaden203 It should be noted that since they filmed this, they've changed how the Pixie interacts with the Vortox. The Pixie still gets told a character who isn't in play, because they have to learn false information, but if they maintain madness, when whatever player they're Pixie'd to dies they gain that ability they were made mad about.
Yep, started watching around the time they started in person games of BotC, and I think it helped me ease into the game and make the older episodes easier to digest
Since everyone's already pointing out all the great hits, I just want to shout out that Amnesiac ability. In almost every single instance, the Amnesiac ability has been some esoteric information gathering ability that never gets to affect the game because it's either never figured out or by the time it *is* figured out, it's too late to be helpful; which is *why* Dom was so willing to die because he figured "I'm not smart enough for this, let's just get this over with." But the Amnesiac ability can be **ANYTHING**. It might be cute to give someone an ability like "You learn how many people voted for the Demon" to let them feel smart for figuring it out. But if you give someone an ability like "Your vote is counted once for each day you've been alive", they can still have an influence on the game before figuring it out, and feel super powerful immediately after learning how good it is! I was seriously hoping that Adam was going to be put on the chopping block day one, because I wanted to see something unprecedented happen, and it was a right shame it didn't. Here's hoping we can get more intriguing and immediately useful Amnesiacs in the future!
Pretty sure the reason why Dom was happy to die was because he got a 'quite warm' with regards to his ability having something to do with drunkenness or poisoning. I feel it's probable his thinking was that he had an ability that made people drunk, which is why he was willing to die as it would be a detriment to the town. Unfortunately for him, he had not figured out it was a Vortox at that point.
It’s interesting to see how much more willing the NRB crew are to kill an Amnesiac early than the more experienced players over at TPI’s own streams. I guess when you are still working to get your head around all the roles, abilities and combinations on the script, having a character that can have _any_ ability just becomes too much mental noise.
@@johanmilde yea. Amne is such a powerful role as well. I don't get why Ben say Huntsman is powerful. Cause usually damsel choose to die early cuz y not? And Huntsman become useless.
@@yugiwinninglex Huntsman change is absolutely certain, vortox-proof, mechanically verified confirmation of two good players that brings in an additional townsfolk ability _if it goes off_ - And it’s a massive if. Much safer to be a grandmother, but that’s much easier for an evil to bluff.
Tom is such an insanely good orator! His vocal control and writing is so crazy! It gives me goosebumps every time, not to mention his genius in wordplay. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air parody he made was almost as good as this one. I feel like this one was so much more crazy cause of his diction and emotion he conveyed, not to mention his facial and body gestures.
Tom and Ben would be such an interesting villain duo. There’s Tom looking all dapper in his suit and speaking gruesome poetry with Shakespearean levels of flair, and then there’s casual, deadpan Ben who’s really the mastermind of the whole operation. I’d watch a movie about them.
I adore this script. It’s been featured three other times on the channel and it’s always a new experience. Well worth it winning the competition a year or so ago. Also, this ending is incredible. So glad we got to see it in an in-person game.
@@logandepino8417 there's a playlist of BotC videos on the channel, the video titled "No Roles Barred" is the first (and the best it's such a riot) with the next two following it immediately.
@@robynthethird4776 I binge watched every episode and ranked them, the "No Rolls Barred" episode is the absolute best episode they've done, with the other 2 with this script in sixth and third respectively. And this game is gonna be up there as well, an absolute incredible script
Ben, that was a seriously impressive Amnesiac ability, given this game's evil team. It very elegantly gave the potential to thwart both minions and it could have given the town a really solid piece of info even if Dom picked a town that got executed.
I don't know, maybe in the in-person games, but I'm still going to cast my vote for when he was the lunatic and pretty much _immediately_ figured it out 🤣
The whole group is great, but I gotta say the absolute star of these videos is the editor(s). Sifting through all those private conversations and piecing this all together into a coherent story has got to be a herculean task. Every one of these videos is fantastic. Also, SPOILERS props to Adam for a steller overall game in this one. He's had a rough time in a lot I've seen in the past but he managed this one quite well and then of course pulls off the actual winning move.
Nothing I look forward to more than these videos to be honest, I have seen all the Blood On The Clocktower episodes (online and in person) and I still can't get enough!
Absolutely brilliant ending. It's wonderful to see how much better this group of folks is getting at this game as you continue this series. No one even hard claimed as the demon!
Carley's little "It was my fault" at 1:18:30 makes me so sad, I hope she doesn't feel too bad about how the game ended. It's a very complicated script and she did a good job to find her damsel, it was just unfortunate that Adam also worked it out
I mean, you win some you lose some. It's not like Carley hasn't proven time and time again that she's a BOTC Mastermind. Don't think anyone really "blames" her
This one is on her though. Tough script and easy to say watching but three turns is a long time to wait before using the huntsman’s ability. Adam did get very lucky although he didn’t have too many people to pick from.
@@Kings_Quest I actually think Carley's reputation as a BoTC Queen is a little over-rated. She does often work things out and pieces things together but she doesn't win friends or influence people along the way which is part of a social deduction game. For instance in this game, nobody glommed onto the fact that in a vortox game Carley was 100% good via Dan's empath, they were so distrusting of her they landed on either Carley and mara were both good or both bad, which isn't possible. On NRB Carley has a 56.5% win rate, just barely above the 54.83% average.
@@SPACKlick perks of being a good liar ig. Idk I don't think the disparity is that big, I just hear the rest always mention that and I think she's also been on the PDI streams which means she's at least experienced. Someone who tries to take a lot of control over the game is always going to be met with a level of distrust. Overall, I think Carley just got kinda unlucky/kinda misplayed, no big deal
I know lots of people are saying that Adam distracting Carley was what ultimately led to that Damsel win, but I think that Dan’s conviction that this wasn’t a vortex game was what was distracting her the most. She was focusing so hard on proving to him that she wasn’t evil. Also, Brooke was the only person who believed Dan’s info was true and thought Carley was evil the whole time, which was another factor that led to them not speaking.
yeah i keep thinking about how this is a problem for a lot of complex boardgames too - familiarity (i don't want to argue about "skill") with the game changes your perspective and language in a way that makes it difficult to mix those levels of literacy. hence, Carlie (whose strength is in spotting and sorting a large number of puzzle pieces into a coherent image) gets distracted by Dan (who doesn't know enough about his one piece to even understand where it fits with anything else) and it's rough because it makes it difficult to being new players into experienced groups. Carlie could have just ignored Dan earlier and probably had better focus, but at the cost of alienating a friend to the game instead of welcoming them into it. :/
I really appreciate the sports-ass narration between game-runners + the tokens and names showing up on people all the time. Great vibes all around. I usually don't like more complicated "werewolf" iterations but the way this one is handled and some of the details of the rules make it much more enjoyable; it retains the social gossip angle instead of turning into pure logic/deduction like some versions tend to. Genius play at 45:25
Spoilers ahead… Have to say, he’s had a few rough ones in the past, but this one has got to be Adam’s masterpiece in terms of Botc gameplay. Creating the general distrust and confusion at the start with his goblin, poppygrower claims and then when the good team were just starting to get a clearer picture of who to trust. The Hail Mary damsel play, truly a great game.
Totally agree! Although calling it a “Hail Mary” undercuts his sleuthing a bit. He was silently trying to find the damsel the entire game and at the very end knew it was either Brooke or that Brooke and Mara had done role swap to throw off the minions. What a game!
Spoilers . . . . . . The evil team hug at the end was so wholesome. Also I know it made for a bit of a shorter episode, but I loved seeing a damsel win because I think that's the first one for this group. Adam's chaotic play style in this episode was so fun to watch.
@@TheLastSane1 Mind telling me where to find this episode? I also thought it was their first damsel win. The episode you discribe sounds fun, but I can't find it on either the channel or the Patreon.
@@TheLastSane1 Damn, I found out about them just after it was too late for getting in on the Kickstarter. It's too bad, because that sounds like a really fun one.
I was looking for something to watch with a bored ass face, and my soul just suddenly lit up my whole body when I saw this notif. My favorite thing to watch on YT, ever.
I absolutely enjoyed this game. I re-watch a lot of BOTC. The in-person games aren't nearly as re-watchable. You feel like you have to watch rather than listen. But boy oh boy, does that first initial watch and surprise have more investment. Like watching a movie rather than listening to a podcast. Incredible content. We appreciate you all.
Rewatching this made me realize amnesiac can be a really good "vortox detector" if you waste one of your questions to ask some random nonsense that is impossible in the game the storyteller wont be able to say you're far off because that would be telling the truth arguably better than the artist because you are only wasting one day, rather than your whole power
How surreal - I saw Mara on stage in person just a few months ago as part of Spontaneous Potter. I had no idea they were part of No Rolls Barred but I recognzied them instantly at the start of this video, small world!
I'm right at the start when they're describing roles. Alchemist could be a good bluff for a demon with a Poppy grower in play, because if you bluff a minion ability that is in play that minion will know something is up. Requires a bit of luck to work, but it could pay off.
The snap cut of Sully and Som talking about Adam lying about being the poppy grower to Adam lying to more people about being the poppy grower is perfect.
Never really thought about it before now, but looking at the icon for the Amnesiac... That's a baller design. Whoever thought of that: Nice. That's... That's really clever.
I feel really bad for Luke because I actually thought his play of gossiping ‘I’m Luke’ was quite good but the fact that was the only info he got before being murdered and everyone shit on him for that makes it look really bad
@@yugiwinninglex true it wasn’t the best thing he could have done but it wasn’t as bad a play as it ended up looking, he also thought it would prove a vortox or not which it doesn’t but can’t really blame him for not realising that, it was funny though
Holy heck didn’t expect this to come out this evening. That’s my weekend booked with watching this and then rewatching a ton of the other by consequence 😢
And just like that, just when I thought Adam was the worst BOTCT player I'd ever seen, he totally redeems himself. What a brilliant play from start to finish. Claiming Goblin publicly, sowing seeds (quietly but not TOO quietly) of a Poppy Grower so that the evil team can bring up the possibility without seeming suspicious and opening up the real Poppy Grower to double claim and possibly out themself publicly, and then calling Brooke's (admittedly poor) bluff that she had a once per game ability that she was cagey about and hadn't used yet on DAY THREE - all masterstrokes. Evil wants to sow chaos, but he did it with an alibi that made sense to the good team, and with a bluff that meant that even if the good team thought he was evil, they were taking a huge risk to execute him (which is also a competent Poppy Grower play if they want to play aggressively), and even if they did call his bluff, his Boomdandy ability meant it would STILL be bad for the good team. Hilariously, this game with the Poppy Grower seems like EXACTLY the game Adam wanted in the ill-fated game "with" Tempest. Just pure chaos where even evil doesn't actually know what's going on. And he killed it.
Between the script and some of the player choices this game was absolutely evil in the best possible way. And somehow in all that Jon went on to put in an all-time bit running his own BOTC with all his 'friends'
I'm afraid I've spotted a significant error at 7:21 - Tom says "Mechanically speaking..." but then does not talk in a hilarious robot voice. Hopefully this can be corrected and re-uploaded.
PLEASE make another kickstarter for a season 2! I wasn't able to help fund the first one but would absolutely love to invest in another round of BoTC In-Person episodes!! Literally these episodes are so fun in person! Thank you guys so much for making these, all of you have wonderful personalities and really make this game shine!
Such a great game for Adam. Just one flaw: when he played outed evil, he shouldn’t have said he was the Goblin. He should have lied about being some other minion. This is not because the claim of Goblin would confuse a real Goblin. It is because as Boomdandy he wants to get executed, and town will not execute him if they think he is the real Goblin.
Dan went so hard in this game that I'm glad he was proven wrong. He absolutely refused to believe his info wasn't correct in a game with drunkenness, poisoning, and a vortox on script. At least entertain the possibility!
Haha yeah i was like "balloonist! Great bluff! Just point to a person and they can't disprove it (except with outsiders, but on this script outsiders are pretty quiet). But then he continued "and on night two..."
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Thank you for posting this script! I don't know if that's a new feature or I just haven't noticed it in the past, but it's very helpful to know what people's bluff options would be.
Is there a night order for this script?
@@paulharries9558 seriously why don't they release the night order sheet?! I been looking for ages
wrong video great video though
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adam running around like a goblin, claiming goblin, is amazing and the confusion he left in his wake is what i aspire to do
Nah, he was a sapper. Planting explosive charges everywhere.
The "wait what?" From the other person everytime he left the room really made this video
Isaac telling Jon that Laurie was his demon was a better mindfuck.
@@LucyTheBox That happened to me a couple of days ago.
Playing Bad Moon Rising, The Assassin told me in private who he was, and I fell into a trap of focusing on him. Players did say why he'll do such a thing but it was a bold play that ultimately won the game for evil.
@@LucyTheBox bob - that was YOU
I refuse to believe that Adam, as the boomdandy, saying "we can defuse that later" was unintentional.
carley is like: you can't gaslight me because i'm okay with being the villain
jon is like: you can't gaslight me because i'm already convinced i'm insane
Jon: "id love to do a bit, but I dont have any"
*proceeds to do the best bit yet, with editing
Nearly reached the heights of “Laurie’s my Demon”
He even got Tom's cadence of speaking down really well
I was dying laughing 😂
The looks on Laurie & Carly’s face at 1:13:00 after Sully says “we all enjoyed it…” is priceless lol.
It's true. When she has lost Zoom games she puts on these pout faces but watch long enough and she looks very sour about losing. It's fine, imo. She is just very competitive and great at the game.
@@Zilong09 its the exact way everyone reacts after several thousand hours in the genre, every subtle facial reaction everytime you offer good advice despite it going against your own express interests, every fake smile and literally all of it is an act but at this point none of it is a conscious effort anymore
it took me watching carley in these to realize that charm isn't cute it's intimidating, and it always was
I think its the fact she's losing to sullys PLOT armor. Man put extra points into luck. A good amount of his games are just stumbling along and just going with it.
Adam using words like “defuse” and shaking hands like a dandy
Oh THATS what the handshake thing was
Dom is DEFINITELY the main character. It’s his world and we’re all just living in it
Go Dom Go Dom Go Do GO!
Dom squad assemble
The Dom show! Ghost Lawyer on the case of the Legion
I support dommunism
If Dom has a million fans, then I'm one of them.
If Dom has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE.
If Dom has no fans, that means I'm dead.
Okay, 18 minutes in and I’m CACKLING at the fact that Sullivan, the DEMON, told the POPPY GROWER not to tell their role.
@@literallybest4482I believe you are mistaken on this. I’m pretty sure the vortex ability reads that TOWNSFOLK learn false information.
@@literallybest4482 I'm sorry, but are you actually claiming that the Vortox's power works on _itself?_ I mean, I honestly don't remember if _minions_ learn the wrong _demon_ (even though that by itself stretches credibility), but surely the demon doesn't receive bad info from its _own power_
@@micahnewby7964 That's actually the crux of the issue - learning the evil team is not part of the vortox's power. Demon and minion info only happen at the very start of the game, it doesn't automatically happen once there's no poppygrower in play. It's very specifically the poppygrower's ability which is giving out the information, and being a townsfolk, that information must be false in a vortox game. In fact, if the poppygrower power is removed from the game without dying (such as by pit hag), the evil team will never learn each other. It's an unintuitive ruling, absolutely, but it's a well established one.
Its was simply a trust builder.
@@connorlokey107 As ruled by TPI. In a non-PG game, Evil team learns each other night 1, but in a PG game, this phase does not happen and is triggered upon the PGs death. Because this information comes from the PG, this would result in the Evil team learning incorrect players.
I feel like Tom deserves a mention for being a really great storyteller. In the traditional sense as well as the game sense.
Absolutely. His monologues are fantastic
Yeah, I loved his flavour text in this one!
He is also great about asking questions and getting Ben to give his thoughts. He makes a good show host.
Everyone having a good laugh that Luke gossiped if he was Luke to check if he was drunk, but I think it was the best thing the good team did. It ensured that he wasn't drunk, he was confirmed good and it made his second gossip the most valuable piece of information.
With both vortox and poppygrower in play, the ONLY valid info either team had was "Yes, Luke is, in fact, Luke"
I love it
Incredible, Luke truly made a great play. I only wish I held but a fraction of his power.
Well at least they knew for sure he's the gossip lol
"We've all enjoyed it, haven't we?" *cut to Carley and Laurie giving death stares* 😂
There is something incredibly funny about the voice of god saying "either you're lying or I fucked up"
And the fact that people actually entertained him being the balloonist afterwards 😂 like Ben literally just told y'all he's lying
Nothing brings me joy as much as when Adam and Sully win together
same! I always cheer for sully, I can't help it. And the addition of jon being confused as always was amazing, so happy to see them winning and celebrating
This was the perfect game because I always root for Sully and it causes me emotional pain when Adam goes full heel and just comepletely fucks Sully. It's great when they are on a team though because Adam is really good at this and this time that meant Sully wins too. Also, I love Jon and he's always so happy when he wins so I like to root for him too.
The unexpected ending, the unchained laughter of the three, the "I killed you", the absolutely pissed of faces.. bloody brilliant
Includes spoilers:
Adam perfectly understood how to play his role as Boomdandy in a game with Poppygrower in play... he was, for the first time, the absolute protagonist of a (yet again) masterpiece. Carly, who usually reads Adam the best, let his risky move of proclaiming Goblin in front of the whole circle pass up for one more round, that was enough for the evil team to solve the puzzle. Rooting for them the whole time, congratulations!
PD: I would LOVE to have subtitles in your videos, since English is my second language and when chaos emerge I find it a little hard to follow all conversations 🥰
LAURIE, I saw in a video that you read every comment. Hopefully you see this! haha. Can you please strongly suggest adding better subtitles? I am hard of hearing, and when many people start talking at the same time, it's hard to keep track of what's been being said. This would not only benefit myself, but many other people as well, I'm sure. I am rooting for you to win another game!!
I don't know how much of the sleuthing was the evil team as a whole versus Adam soloing the damsel hunt, but otherwise agree.
Agree on Adam playing it well. I was like "oh, he's now just going full evil hoping to get nommed and executed to explode"
At the very least Sullivan was able to remain mostly suspicion-free until he talked with Adam doing the Goblin bit, which is something.
Note that you can turn on youtube's auto-generated english subs and they are good enough to understand what's going on. Although with AI tools nowadays it's not that hard to make subs for your videos which you can then refine if you want.
Poor Laurie. His power this game is just “you have no power, and also you’re very confused”
Why put a pixie in a vortox game? I don't get that at all. Poor Laurie :(
@emmanaden203 It should be noted that since they filmed this, they've changed how the Pixie interacts with the Vortox. The Pixie still gets told a character who isn't in play, because they have to learn false information, but if they maintain madness, when whatever player they're Pixie'd to dies they gain that ability they were made mad about.
As a relative newcomer to this channel, I cannot even begin to describe the sheer joy it has brought me. So excited for this!
I recall feeling like I’ve found an oasis when I first stumbled upon this channel…welcome :D
Yep, started watching around the time they started in person games of BotC, and I think it helped me ease into the game and make the older episodes easier to digest
watch the others they're all very good: ua-cam.com/play/PLQBGXhGots83LIf1qY4Zg0Mp9qU1Kr2Hv.html
23:00 bless the editors. best bit of the whole video. i laughed my ass off during it. well done team.
And honestly bless you for starting that time stamp with the necessary context and not straight to the edited moment
The bit with "Jon's friends" as empty benches would be a great meme.
Since everyone's already pointing out all the great hits, I just want to shout out that Amnesiac ability.
In almost every single instance, the Amnesiac ability has been some esoteric information gathering ability that never gets to affect the game because it's either never figured out or by the time it *is* figured out, it's too late to be helpful; which is *why* Dom was so willing to die because he figured "I'm not smart enough for this, let's just get this over with."
But the Amnesiac ability can be **ANYTHING**. It might be cute to give someone an ability like "You learn how many people voted for the Demon" to let them feel smart for figuring it out. But if you give someone an ability like "Your vote is counted once for each day you've been alive", they can still have an influence on the game before figuring it out, and feel super powerful immediately after learning how good it is!
I was seriously hoping that Adam was going to be put on the chopping block day one, because I wanted to see something unprecedented happen, and it was a right shame it didn't. Here's hoping we can get more intriguing and immediately useful Amnesiacs in the future!
I have game where the amenesaic figure out their ability and live to F3 for some reasons. Though I did make it simple.
Pretty sure the reason why Dom was happy to die was because he got a 'quite warm' with regards to his ability having something to do with drunkenness or poisoning. I feel it's probable his thinking was that he had an ability that made people drunk, which is why he was willing to die as it would be a detriment to the town.
Unfortunately for him, he had not figured out it was a Vortox at that point.
It’s interesting to see how much more willing the NRB crew are to kill an Amnesiac early than the more experienced players over at TPI’s own streams. I guess when you are still working to get your head around all the roles, abilities and combinations on the script, having a character that can have _any_ ability just becomes too much mental noise.
@@johanmilde yea. Amne is such a powerful role as well. I don't get why Ben say Huntsman is powerful. Cause usually damsel choose to die early cuz y not? And Huntsman become useless.
@@yugiwinninglex Huntsman change is absolutely certain, vortox-proof, mechanically verified confirmation of two good players that brings in an additional townsfolk ability _if it goes off_ - And it’s a massive if.
Much safer to be a grandmother, but that’s much easier for an evil to bluff.
Adam's face upon learning he's the boomdandy is gold
Exactly like a kid who received exactly what they asked for for Christmas day
Tom is such an insanely good orator! His vocal control and writing is so crazy! It gives me goosebumps every time, not to mention his genius in wordplay. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air parody he made was almost as good as this one. I feel like this one was so much more crazy cause of his diction and emotion he conveyed, not to mention his facial and body gestures.
If you haven't already, should definitely check out his work on City British Wrestling over at the PartsFUNknown sister channel.
* Jon really said "I don't have a bit" then gave us the best BOTC bit ever
Tom and Ben would be such an interesting villain duo. There’s Tom looking all dapper in his suit and speaking gruesome poetry with Shakespearean levels of flair, and then there’s casual, deadpan Ben who’s really the mastermind of the whole operation. I’d watch a movie about them.
I adore this script. It’s been featured three other times on the channel and it’s always a new experience. Well worth it winning the competition a year or so ago.
Also, this ending is incredible. So glad we got to see it in an in-person game.
do you have a link to the other episodes which included this script
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@@logandepino8417 there's a playlist of BotC videos on the channel, the video titled "No Roles Barred" is the first (and the best it's such a riot) with the next two following it immediately.
@@robynthethird4776 I binge watched every episode and ranked them, the "No Rolls Barred" episode is the absolute best episode they've done, with the other 2 with this script in sixth and third respectively. And this game is gonna be up there as well, an absolute incredible script
@@AcornPlays hello! Where could I find this ranking?😊
Ben, that was a seriously impressive Amnesiac ability, given this game's evil team. It very elegantly gave the potential to thwart both minions and it could have given the town a really solid piece of info even if Dom picked a town that got executed.
Thanks dude!
To be honest, you should create a second kickstarter right now or in the near future just to gather funding for a further 6 more in-person episodes!
Yes please. I would like to contribute to this production value
I’d be a repeat backer. This was 100% worth backing and I’m so happy we got these episodes.
100% would back again
yes! i missed out the first round, would definitely back for another "season"
100% would contribute to this one, I missed the first one and these are amazing
1:11:28 the moment dom sealed their fate
😂😂
yep
This was the best, most entertaining Adam performance yet!
I don't know, maybe in the in-person games, but I'm still going to cast my vote for when he was the lunatic and pretty much _immediately_ figured it out 🤣
I'll take the time Adam was the dreamer and he just kept being targeted by the ceronovus
coming to you from the future if you haven't already seen the most recent one Adam definitely one-ups himself
The hug at the end had brightened my day, watered my crops, and banished the plague from my lands. They are go SO happy!
The whole group is great, but I gotta say the absolute star of these videos is the editor(s). Sifting through all those private conversations and piecing this all together into a coherent story has got to be a herculean task. Every one of these videos is fantastic.
Also, SPOILERS
props to Adam for a steller overall game in this one. He's had a rough time in a lot I've seen in the past but he managed this one quite well and then of course pulls off the actual winning move.
Happy to see my script again. Thanks guys!
Such a great script. Would be great if @NRB could get you on as a guest!
Nothing I look forward to more than these videos to be honest, I have seen all the Blood On The Clocktower episodes (online and in person) and I still can't get enough!
Absolutely brilliant ending. It's wonderful to see how much better this group of folks is getting at this game as you continue this series.
No one even hard claimed as the demon!
Probably my favorite ending to a game of BotC ever
This and last month when Isaac turned adam
Sully's first ever game as evil has still got to be my favourite BOTC episode, but this is definitely up there as one of the best endings with it.
@@GwynnDdu you'll never see another demon bluffing clockmaker, that's for sure
Kudos to Editor James for that lovely musical epilogue! I look forward to it the most
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I loved Adam's play. Especially the bit in the townsquare.
"I'm evil, are you?"..."No?" *rushes off screen*
Carley's little "It was my fault" at 1:18:30 makes me so sad, I hope she doesn't feel too bad about how the game ended. It's a very complicated script and she did a good job to find her damsel, it was just unfortunate that Adam also worked it out
I mean, you win some you lose some. It's not like Carley hasn't proven time and time again that she's a BOTC Mastermind. Don't think anyone really "blames" her
This one is on her though. Tough script and easy to say watching but three turns is a long time to wait before using the huntsman’s ability. Adam did get very lucky although he didn’t have too many people to pick from.
I've noticed that Brooke and Carley rarely have private chats in botc. I think if the damsel was any other character, Carley would have gotten it
@@Kings_Quest I actually think Carley's reputation as a BoTC Queen is a little over-rated. She does often work things out and pieces things together but she doesn't win friends or influence people along the way which is part of a social deduction game. For instance in this game, nobody glommed onto the fact that in a vortox game Carley was 100% good via Dan's empath, they were so distrusting of her they landed on either Carley and mara were both good or both bad, which isn't possible. On NRB Carley has a 56.5% win rate, just barely above the 54.83% average.
@@SPACKlick perks of being a good liar ig. Idk I don't think the disparity is that big, I just hear the rest always mention that and I think she's also been on the PDI streams which means she's at least experienced.
Someone who tries to take a lot of control over the game is always going to be met with a level of distrust. Overall, I think Carley just got kinda unlucky/kinda misplayed, no big deal
I know lots of people are saying that Adam distracting Carley was what ultimately led to that Damsel win, but I think that Dan’s conviction that this wasn’t a vortex game was what was distracting her the most. She was focusing so hard on proving to him that she wasn’t evil. Also, Brooke was the only person who believed Dan’s info was true and thought Carley was evil the whole time, which was another factor that led to them not speaking.
That as well, but she spent most private discussion time dealing with Adam lol
@@Moleoflands Yeah, the Huntsman should really speak to everyone as early as possible.
yeah i keep thinking about how this is a problem for a lot of complex boardgames too - familiarity (i don't want to argue about "skill") with the game changes your perspective and language in a way that makes it difficult to mix those levels of literacy. hence, Carlie (whose strength is in spotting and sorting a large number of puzzle pieces into a coherent image) gets distracted by Dan (who doesn't know enough about his one piece to even understand where it fits with anything else)
and it's rough because it makes it difficult to being new players into experienced groups. Carlie could have just ignored Dan earlier and probably had better focus, but at the cost of alienating a friend to the game instead of welcoming them into it. :/
Great ending, congrats to the winning team. Love how Adam went full mad genius again, been a while since he did that.
I really appreciate the sports-ass narration between game-runners + the tokens and names showing up on people all the time. Great vibes all around. I usually don't like more complicated "werewolf" iterations but the way this one is handled and some of the details of the rules make it much more enjoyable; it retains the social gossip angle instead of turning into pure logic/deduction like some versions tend to. Genius play at 45:25
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Have to say, he’s had a few rough ones in the past, but this one has got to be Adam’s masterpiece in terms of Botc gameplay. Creating the general distrust and confusion at the start with his goblin, poppygrower claims and then when the good team were just starting to get a clearer picture of who to trust. The Hail Mary damsel play, truly a great game.
Adam had to redeem himself after the heretic game after all.
Literally he played the game brilliantly.
He’s gone for big plays in the past and paid dearly. This one had to feel good.
Totally agree! Although calling it a “Hail Mary” undercuts his sleuthing a bit. He was silently trying to find the damsel the entire game and at the very end knew it was either Brooke or that Brooke and Mara had done role swap to throw off the minions. What a game!
Last game he lost unfairly due to bad luck. This time he served everyone. Adam is legit a great BotC player
Absolutely loving Rosie's design of the set pieces. chef's kiss
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The evil team hug at the end was so wholesome. Also I know it made for a bit of a shorter episode, but I loved seeing a damsel win because I think that's the first one for this group. Adam's chaotic play style in this episode was so fun to watch.
That ending was so fun since it was so unexpected :)
@@TheLastSane1 Mind telling me where to find this episode? I also thought it was their first damsel win. The episode you discribe sounds fun, but I can't find it on either the channel or the Patreon.
@@TheLastSane1 Damn, I found out about them just after it was too late for getting in on the Kickstarter. It's too bad, because that sounds like a really fun one.
@@Ryujishidahey good news
Dan's refusal to believe that he may have been in a Vortex game was very strange.
That is 100% the coldest end to a BOTC game I’ve ever seen. It might be the coldest end to anything I’ve ever seen honestly
The best ending of any episode yet I was on the edge of my seat knowing with the time left something crazy was gonna have to end the game soon
I was looking for something to watch with a bored ass face, and my soul just suddenly lit up my whole body when I saw this notif. My favorite thing to watch on YT, ever.
I absolutely enjoyed this game. I re-watch a lot of BOTC. The in-person games aren't nearly as re-watchable. You feel like you have to watch rather than listen. But boy oh boy, does that first initial watch and surprise have more investment. Like watching a movie rather than listening to a podcast.
Incredible content. We appreciate you all.
I think this is my favorite game to date, LEGENDARY play by Adam at the end plus the goblin/poppygrower play. This was very fun to watch
Carley saying adams fumble seemed legit early on and then claiming she knew it was fake all along at the end was pretty amusing
I think it was Mark Twain who said "It's easier for Carly to fool someone than to figure out she's been fooled."
Rewatching this made me realize amnesiac can be a really good "vortox detector"
if you waste one of your questions to ask some random nonsense that is impossible in the game
the storyteller wont be able to say you're far off because that would be telling the truth
arguably better than the artist because you are only wasting one day, rather than your whole power
You can see it on all their faces *cuts to a couple of people looking absolutely livid*
That got me :')
How surreal - I saw Mara on stage in person just a few months ago as part of Spontaneous Potter. I had no idea they were part of No Rolls Barred but I recognzied them instantly at the start of this video, small world!
I'm thrilled to have seen the social aspects of a Poppy Grower/Damsel game in person
I genuinely think, looking back, this is my favorite clocktower episode
Me too
I'm right at the start when they're describing roles. Alchemist could be a good bluff for a demon with a Poppy grower in play, because if you bluff a minion ability that is in play that minion will know something is up. Requires a bit of luck to work, but it could pay off.
I think the Amnesiac's ability has to be different than any character, not just in-play characters
The comical bonk of Carley hitting her head at the end is amazing
I absolutely love Tom's masterful display of word play, the chaos of these BotC games, and the production value of these videos.
It's great to see Luke on the in person game, hopefully soon we can see him on some in person BGC next
This episode solidified Dom as my favorite member
certainly the main character
Just as I was about to watch them all from the beginning again, you upload another!
I'll still rewatch them. Just in 90ish minutes from now
The snap cut of Sully and Som talking about Adam lying about being the poppy grower to Adam lying to more people about being the poppy grower is perfect.
I really hope that these episodes convince people to back future NRB-BotC Kickstarters for more episodes. Love these so much
I love seeing Sully and Adam win together, it feels like they're always on opposite teams even during other games.
Hands down, Adam, Sully, and Jon are my favorite evil team of all time.
Never really thought about it before now, but looking at the icon for the Amnesiac... That's a baller design. Whoever thought of that: Nice. That's... That's really clever.
Oh wow! I didn't spot it until you pointed it out. So subtle yet so good, and style-wise very thematic.
Love it!
@@MarkChimes Yep, I had the same realisation, I just suddenly went "Oh hang on, there's a noggin' in there!"
The jumper moment was the most British thing my American self has seen in a while. Just needed some tea and it would have been perfect
Lovely little clue from Adam at 19:44
i didn't even catch that, wow
I feel really bad for Luke because I actually thought his play of gossiping ‘I’m Luke’ was quite good but the fact that was the only info he got before being murdered and everyone shit on him for that makes it look really bad
Cause it doesn't really do anything besides proving his not drunk.
@@yugiwinninglex true it wasn’t the best thing he could have done but it wasn’t as bad a play as it ended up looking, he also thought it would prove a vortox or not which it doesn’t but can’t really blame him for not realising that, it was funny though
The triple handshake at the end with them just complimenting each other was gold.
Brooke's face at 1:12:00 just screams "THE AUDACITY"
I got a mighty chuckle out of Jon as the Storyteller!
Holy heck didn’t expect this to come out this evening. That’s my weekend booked with watching this and then rewatching a ton of the other by consequence 😢
Jon, sulley and Adam is by far the best possible evil team ever
I can't wait to see what chaos is in store today!
Good luck to everyone!!
And just like that, just when I thought Adam was the worst BOTCT player I'd ever seen, he totally redeems himself. What a brilliant play from start to finish. Claiming Goblin publicly, sowing seeds (quietly but not TOO quietly) of a Poppy Grower so that the evil team can bring up the possibility without seeming suspicious and opening up the real Poppy Grower to double claim and possibly out themself publicly, and then calling Brooke's (admittedly poor) bluff that she had a once per game ability that she was cagey about and hadn't used yet on DAY THREE - all masterstrokes.
Evil wants to sow chaos, but he did it with an alibi that made sense to the good team, and with a bluff that meant that even if the good team thought he was evil, they were taking a huge risk to execute him (which is also a competent Poppy Grower play if they want to play aggressively), and even if they did call his bluff, his Boomdandy ability meant it would STILL be bad for the good team.
Hilariously, this game with the Poppy Grower seems like EXACTLY the game Adam wanted in the ill-fated game "with" Tempest. Just pure chaos where even evil doesn't actually know what's going on. And he killed it.
I look forward to these every single month! You guys are just the best!! 💕
This is such a good chaos episode! These just keep on getting better
Hey for once Adam’s instincts were correct. Never thought I’d see the day.
Between the script and some of the player choices this game was absolutely evil in the best possible way. And somehow in all that Jon went on to put in an all-time bit running his own BOTC with all his 'friends'
This game is right up there with the best of the best! Almost as good as the THAT game when Sully was demon for the first time.
this video made me understand what watching sports is like to sports fans. what a play
I'm afraid I've spotted a significant error at 7:21 - Tom says "Mechanically speaking..." but then does not talk in a hilarious robot voice. Hopefully this can be corrected and re-uploaded.
PLEASE make another kickstarter for a season 2! I wasn't able to help fund the first one but would absolutely love to invest in another round of BoTC In-Person episodes!! Literally these episodes are so fun in person! Thank you guys so much for making these, all of you have wonderful personalities and really make this game shine!
I respect both dan's dedication to his role and information and also the deep v of that shirt.
the deep deep v neck and the way he looks like he's always posing it's just great
yet again, the throuple is at the heart of another BotC game
Dom's face at the camera after Adam just lays his cards on the table man.
Dom here working for the evil team in secret, he even asked the question about Brooke which Ultimately led to the good teams downfall 😂😂😂
What an absolute whiplash ending! What an episode! I should really get back to work but these episodes are addictive.
Such a great game for Adam. Just one flaw: when he played outed evil, he shouldn’t have said he was the Goblin. He should have lied about being some other minion. This is not because the claim of Goblin would confuse a real Goblin. It is because as Boomdandy he wants to get executed, and town will not execute him if they think he is the real Goblin.
But he is daring them to do it. All evils will claim goblin
So good! Watching again after the early release for us backers.
Wow--- I'm catching this an hour after upload. I'm so excited for this!
I just want to write a comment because I love those Blood on the clocktower videos and want to support nrb :)
Oh Tom you have WAY too much fun with your announcer roll sir.
Chaos and confusion all round! One of the most entertaining BotC videos I've seen yet! !
Dan went so hard in this game that I'm glad he was proven wrong. He absolutely refused to believe his info wasn't correct in a game with drunkenness, poisoning, and a vortox on script. At least entertain the possibility!
He's so insufferable he acts like he's right all the time and can do no wrong.
"And on the second night..."
Oh no.
Haha yeah i was like "balloonist! Great bluff! Just point to a person and they can't disprove it (except with outsiders, but on this script outsiders are pretty quiet).
But then he continued "and on night two..."
I’m just happy Luke got to play in person🥰