A God Damned Mess

**A God Damned Mess** is an episode of No Rolls Barred Plays Blood On The Clocktower.

"*Now, once upon a time, or so the grim tale of Ravenswood Bluff begins, when we were all the players. And as the piper pipes, we dance to his tune and are led merrily away into the woods - where your friends smirk from behind such big teeth that they bet that you taste just right. Where a breadcrumb trail leads you like little lost children to the house of a witch, or a malicious imp, or the layer of an unspooling leviathan. Either way, the tale begins and ends the same. Starting with the sun dipping below the horizon and ending in a river of blood. Goodnight.*"
―Laurie
## Players and roles

Storytellers: Ben, Laurie

Script: Undead Nightmares by Ekin

Ordered clockwise

### Demon Bluffs

* Sailor - *Each night, choose an alive player: either you or they are drunk until dusk. You can't die.*
* Dreamer - *Each night, choose a player (not yourself or Travellers): you learn 1 good & 1 evil character, 1 of which is correct.*
* Balloonist - *Each night, you learn 1 player of each character type, until there are no more types to learn. [+1 Outsider]*

\*Not the first night

## Notable moments

* To get this out of the way first - there is an early decision made by one of our cast which was very controversial at the time of release. It's impossible to be more specific without real spoilers, but - **yes, this is *that* episode**. The comments were not kind at the time. The wiki reserves judgement - just the facts, ma'am. Well, the facts and the snark. One of the people involved seems amused - the other not so much, to put it mildly.
* Love Laurie and Sullivans' drunk impressions. Laurie: "Do you want some pork scratchings?"
* Brooke's new TV show is *Little Books with Little Brooke*. Sullivan points out there probably should be less swearing on a kids' TV show, but he'd watch it anyway.
* Holly gives her 3 for 3 in a song, which Sullivan returns in slightly less melodic song. She also nominates in rhyme.
* Laurie and Ben are stunned and confused - Ben tells Laurie that he's seen one of the best moments of NRB Plays BOTC. The two of them get more delighted by events as they unfold.
* Tempest: "This may be a game for big brain plays, but there won't be one coming from me."
* Don't ask a question, especially in public, if you don't want to know the answer. It's a good lesson for Clocktower as much as it is for life.
* Also, don't joke about being evil when we're trying to find evil. It makes you look evil.
* Dom plays one of the old hits - "Sullivan - are you evil?" And another "Let's not forget - the real hero is the way I played Heretic."
* Ben: "Everything in this game is now hinging on whether or not [x happens]."
* Ah, Captain Hubris has made an appearance. That was an entirely justified result.
* Holly gives everyone mild palpitations.
* Ben: "That was the best Heretic game I've ever seen."

## Game Events

### Night One

* Tempest the Lleech chooses Holly the Farmer as his host.
* Sullivan the Courtier chooses not to use his power.
* Luke the Chambermaid chooses Adam and Dom and learns a 0.

### Day One

* Holly nominates Tempest, vote succeeds with 7 votes.
* Tempest is executed and does not die.

### Night Two

* Sullivan the Courtier chooses not to use his power.
* Tempest the Lleech kills Holly; Tempest the Lleech dies, Adam the Scarlet Woman becomes the new Lleech.
* Adam the Lleech chooses Dom the Heretic as his host.
* Luke the Chambermaid chooses Adam and Dom and learns a 1.

### Day Two

* Adam nominates Adam, vote fails with 2 votes.
* No executions

### Night Three

* Sullivan the Courtier chooses to drunk the Heretic.
* Adam the Lleech kills Sullivan.
* Luke the Chambermaid chooses Adam and Dom and learns a 1.

### Day Three

* Dom nominates Dom, vote succeeds with 4 votes.
* Adam nominates Luke, vote fails with 2 votes.
* Dom is executed and dies.
* Adam dies.
* Good team wins.

## Trivia

* Ben is the story teller extraordinaire from the Pandemonium Institute.
* This is our first instance of the Heretic on the channel.