The Mole 2

The Mole 2 is the thirty-first game hosted by Estquer, based on The Mole reality television series. The Mole 2 is best known for having one of the most ineffective casts of any season of The Mole. Due to the constant player sabotage, the contestants only succeeded in one challenge during the entire season. Furthermore, the Mole was not successfully identified until the final round of the game.

Concept
Fourteen RTVGers are about to embark on a strange, dark journey of intrigue, deception, and sabotage - and you could be among them. You will have to work together and trust each other in order to unmask the Mole. However, the Mole will be working to fool you at every turn. Will you solve the mystery, or will you be just another one of the Mole’s victims?

The Challenge
During each round, there will be one challenge. These challenges will have a few different prizes, including Exemptions which grant immunity from execution, Clues, which allow you to ask one question about a fellow player's Dossier, and other prizes that will be described at such time as they appear.

However, each challenge will allow an opportunity for utter failure. If the group collectively scores below a certain threshold, no one will win an Exemption or a Clue, which is great for the Mole. Often, the challenges will involve some sort of risk-reward payoff between the collective good and individual success. Your job is to balance these as carefully as possible to stay in the game. It might be in the Mole's best interest to win a challenge, and for your best interest as a player to throw the challenge and gain suspicion. How you play is up to you!

Challenge deadlines are 48 Hours unless otherwise stated.

The Diary
Each week, after the challenge, all players will be required to write their thoughts about the round and their suspicions. These will help you focus your thoughts and keep your head in the game. Who knows, they may prove to be useful at some point during the game!

You will have 24 Hours to submit your Diary. If you fail to do so, you will be penalized by one point on your Quiz.

The Quiz
At the end of every round, you will all take a 15-question Quiz about the Mole's identity, actions, and Dossier information. You will want to keep logs of important information, because you never know what might show up on a Quiz!

There are a few bonuses and penalties associated with a quiz. If you don't turn in a diary entry, you will be penalized by one point. However, you will get a one point bonus each time someone else guesses you as the Mole. Thus, as a player, you may decide that you want to act suspiciously to help your own quiz prospects.

You will have 24 Hours to submit your quiz. Unlike last season, the deadline is more lenient. You will have up to 48 hours to submit your quiz, however you will be penalized by a point for submitting a late quiz. If you do not submit a quiz within 48 hours, you will be executed automatically.

You may ask for an extension on the quiz, which would result in you not being penalized for lateness. However, your extension will not save you from being expelled from the game if you do not submit a quiz within 48 hours.

The Execution
After the quizzes are collected, I will calculate the results. The person with the lowest score will be executed. In the event of a tie, the slowest player will be executed. If there is a time tie, the mole will get to select which tied player is executed.

If you have an Exemption, you cannot be executed during that round.

I will not reveal your quiz score or the answers to the quiz.

Once the executed player is revealed, he or she is metaphorically "dead" within the game. That means that they may no longer post commentary about the game, strategize, or leak info to players still in the game. While this is difficult to enforce, I trust that you will all abide by this.

The Finale
At the end of the game, three players (the Mole and two legitimate players) will remain. After the final quiz, there are a few possible outcomes.


 * If one player correctly identifies the Mole and the other doesn't, the correct player wins, the Mole comes in second, and the loser comes in third.
 * If both players correctly identify the Mole, the better scorer wins, the worse scorer comes in second, and the Mole comes in third.
 * If the mole fools both players, the Mole wins the game and the better scorer comes in second. The worse scorer comes in third.

It is virtually impossible for the Mole to win the game; in most seasons of the Mole, both players remaining figure out who the Mole is. However, it's not impossible. Even if the players were to choose randomly, there is only a 1 in 4 shot of the Mole winning, so being the Mole is probably not going to get you the win at the end, though it will be exciting to be the Mole.

Cast

 * Accolade Winters • wccats
 * Camille Donatacci • Jigsawce
 * Corley McAdams • SoandSo
 * Eliseo Levi • FierceIntensions
 * Finbar Ivers • Thomnom
 * James Hugh • Sir Bitter
 * Lanie Moss • buecey11
 * Larry Rose • CupidStunt
 * Liza Liu • xymandopex
 * Mahjora Ata • VULpicks.
 * Max Kenway • Iron Muffin
 * Shilpi Seal • VanityEgo
 * Susan Babcock • Meh
 * Zebadiah Bernadet • Fy_sensational

Game Progress

 * The contestant won The Mole.
 * The contestant was the Mole.
 * The contestant performed the worst on the Quiz and was Executed.
 * The contestant survived the Execution.
 * The contestant won an Exemption for the round.
 * The contestant won an Exemption for the round, but scored the lowest on the Quiz.
 * The contestant scored the lowest on the Quiz, but another player was Executed for missing the deadline.
 * The contestant withdrew from the competition.