The Unbearable Madness Of Being

**The Unbearable Madness Of Being** is an episode of No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower.

"*Because, you see, they know that there is a serpent in their garden. A forked tongue twisting half-truths into temptation while it wraps its coils around you, and begins to squeeze the life from you... slowly. So, the town at midnight looks to their priest for answers, and he doles out penance with a split tongue from behind a sharp-toothed smile. Goodnight.*"
―Laurie
## Players and roles

Storytellers: Ben, Laurie

Script: Harold Holt's Revenge by Theo Walsh

Ordered clockwise

### Demon Bluffs

* Empath - *Each night, you learn how many of your 2 alive neighbours are evil.*
* Snake Charmer - *Each night, choose an alive player: a chosen Demon swaps characters & alignments with you & is then poisoned.*
* Investigator - *You start knowing that 1 of 2 players is a particular Minion.*

### Additional Information

* We have a fabled character in play: Sentinel - *There might be 1 extra or 1 fewer Outsider in play.*
* Dan the Amnesiac's ability is: *Each night, select a player. You learn if either of their living neighbours are interacting with madness.*

\*Not the first night

## Notable moments

* Jon: "Wait - I get an 'or'? ... Oh, get fucked!"
* Ben: "Hollo, Helly."
* Jon thinks he's cracked the case wide open: "I think they've tried to fuck me so hard, that they've fucked things into a good place." Ben is outright giggling. And banging his head slightly on his desk. There's a chance that Jon's going to win the game entirely by accident.
* Ken's doing his chaos thing again - Dom asks if he's evil and he says he's the demon. He's not. Bringing Dom to near hysteria was a hell of a move, though.
* Adam's trying to logic out who may have targeted him - it's a long list of suspects, He's also working his way through the puzzle and getting pretty damn close, as it happens.
* Adam: "Holly it's such bullshit. You're bullshit. You're a bullshit person. I'm going to have you killed."
* Dom: "There seems to be a lot of demons in this game."
* Adam: "If you come out as the demon on day one and somehow win this game ... fuck me!"
* Ben: "Jon's trying as hard as he can to throw this game, isn't he?"
* Tom is kindly asking dumb questions to help the audience get information.
* Jon thinks he's mad he's the demon, Ken is trying to make Dom mad, Adam is Cerenovus-mad and has almost definitely gone actually mad, Dan's questions are driving him mad. It's a regular tea party round here, this game.
* Ben: "I really must congratulate the evil team on taking that for 5 days."
* Adam: "Tom, you rode me around the town like a little pony, you naughty boy."
* Dom wants it on the record that he was right and he's always right.

## Game Events

### Night One

* Tom the Cerenovus learns that Jon or Dom is their demon.
* Jon the Leviathan learns that Tom or Dom is their minion.
* Tom the Cerenovus makes Adam mad he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns he is mad that he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns Blair is either the Politician or Leviathan.
* Dan the Amnesiac chooses Adam and learns no.
* Holly the Balloonist learns Blair.

### Day One

* Dan the Amnesiac asks: "Am I finding out who is and isn't a minion?" and learns 'cold'.
* No nominations

### Night Two

* Tom the Cerenovus makes Adam mad he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns he is mad he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns that Holly is either the Balloonist or Leviathan.
* Dan the Amnesiac chooses Ken and learns yes.
* Holly the Balloonist learns Ken.

### Day Two

* Dan the Amnesiac asks: "Am I finding out who would be useful to kill?" and learns 'cold'.
* Adam nominates Ken, vote fails with 1 vote.
* Jon nominates Adam, vote fails with 1 vote.
* No executions

### Night Three

* Tom the Cerenovus makes Adam mad he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns he is mad he is the Goblin.
* Adam the Dreamer learns Tom is either the Investigator or Cerenovus.
* Dan the Amnesiac chooses Blair and learns no.
* Ken the Town Crier learns a minion did not nominate yesterday.
* Holly the Balloonist learns Jon.

### Day Three

* Dan the Amnesiac asks: "Am I finding out whether people's abilities worked correctly?" and learns 'cold'.
* Dom nominates Jon, vote fails with 1 vote.
* Adam nominates Tom, vote fails with 1 vote.
* Adam breaks Cerenovus-madness and is executed.

### Night Four

* Tom the Cerenovus makes Adam mad he is the Dreamer.
* Adam the Dreamer learns he is mad he is the Dreamer.
* Dan the Amnesiac chooses Tom and learns no.
* Ken the Town Crier learns a minion did not nominate today.
* Holly the Balloonist learns Tom.

### Day Four

* Blair nominates Jon, vote succeeds with 4 votes.
* Dan the Amnesiac asks: "Am I finding out who's aligned with me?" and learns 'cold'.
* Tom nominates Dom, vote fails with 1 vote.
* Jon nominates Blair, vote succeeds with 5 votes.
* Ken nominates Ken, vote ties with 5 votes.

### Night Five

* Tom the Cerenovus makes Adam mad he is the Savant.
* Adam the Dreamer learns he is mad he is the Savant.
* Dan the Amnesiac chooses Jon and learns no.
* Ken the Town Crier learns a minion did nominate yesterday.
* Holly the Balloonist learns Ken.

### Day Five

* Dan the Amnesiac asks: "Am I finding out who the Leviathan is?" and learns 'cold'.
* Dan nominates Jon, vote succeeds with 4 votes.
* Tom nominates Blair, vote fails with 1 vote.
* Jon is executed and dies.
* Good team wins.

## Trivia

* This is the first use of the Leviathan on the channel - a demon who does not kill.
* Jon is now so deep in his feud with Ben that he is convinced he is the Lunatic.