No Rolls Barred returns to Clocktower with too many Empaths
Mara talks to scarecrows while Sullivan and Dom compare conflicting claims in the fast-starting fourth-season premiere.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 114,855 views a day, 5.6 times a normal first day on this channel (20,413).
Hopes Dashii'd | Blood on the Clocktower S4E1
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- 0:00Father Tom delivers a shadowy opening sermon before the players are revealed around the barn set.
- 2:06Ben introduces Extension Cord, the custom script built around the No Dashii demon.
- 5:32The storytellers reveal the assigned roles and explain how the characters' abilities interact.
- 16:14Sullivan and Dom compare contradictory Empath claims during a private conversation in Washerwoman's Laundry.
- 18:19Mara supplies different voices for a conversation with scarecrows while sitting alone in the main room.
No Rolls Barred opens its new Blood on the Clocktower season with Father Tom preaching in the shadows and players seated around a rustic barn set. The solemn atmosphere doesn't survive everyone's attempts to work out whom to trust.
In "Hopes Dashii'd | Blood on the Clocktower S4E1", Sullivan tells Dom he's the Empath. Dom says he's the Empath, too. Meanwhile, Mara, who actually holds that role, is alone in the village square, supplying different voices for a conversation with scarecrows.
That's the particular pleasure of watching this social deduction game with the roles revealed: the audience can see exactly how far a confident conversation has wandered from the truth. Viewers keep returning to Mara's improvised conversations and the absurdity of the competing Empath claims. Others are welcoming back Tom's narration.
The premiere drew roughly 76,000 views in eleven hours, already several times the channel's usual full-day audience for a regular video. This is a strong start for a returning series on a channel whose most-watched uploads include elaborate reinventions of Monopoly.
Ben says the season will feature popular custom scripts, beginning with "Extension Cord" by VivelaSam. Its setup centers on the No Dashii demon, with the storytellers explaining everyone's roles before the private conversations begin. Those explanations give newcomers a useful advantage: when Sullivan and Dom step into Washerwoman's Laundry, viewers already know where the real Empath is sitting.
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I’m just over an hour in, but I needed to stop by and say that Mara Joy’s absolute joy in this game is infectious. Every time she says “I love this game” it just brings a big smile to my face.
@MichaelOBrien-o6nSee it on YouTubeMara not being able to get through a single line of her three Mara bit without laughing brings me so much happiness, any episode where Mara is having fun is a banger
@joycor1419See it on YouTubeOh Tom's dulcet tones, how I've missed you!
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I would immediately binge the first season of Three Empaths
@cameronross8812See it on YouTubedude an empath learning a 0 and then both their neighbors claim empath,,, crazy work
@eliogamindSee it on YouTubeWatching old BOTC episodes has given me a newfound appreciation for this absolutely stellar lighting
@Greta_BackatchaSee it on YouTubeMara saying "I love this game" with such excitement. 😄
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- Video published
- October 20, 2026
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Which script is used in No Rolls Barred's fourth-season Clocktower premiere?
Ben introduces the premiere's script as Extension Cord by VivelaSam.