Newbie 997 - Game Over

[inHimshallibe]

Welcome to Newbie Game 997 - Evil abounds! Cast it out of your fair town!

To those who have played before - I hope you enjoy!

To those of you who are new - welcome to the site, and the game of Mafia!

• The opening posts are where all the basic, yet essential, game information is kept posted. If you have trouble finding anything in the thread, it never hurts to look at the opening posts.
  
• The player list shows all participants in the game. Those who are labeled "Alive" are still playing, while those labeled "Dead" are out of the game:

Alive:

Mutilator7
ChosenSoul
Krieger
nurC
CommieX (replaces Adrien C (SE))

SE - Semi-Experienced, has completed three games on the site.
IC - Inexperience-Challenged, has completed five games on the site.
The moderator must remain impartial to gameplay, so game specific questions that are not activity/setup/votecount/mechanics related should be directed to one of these more experienced players.

Dead:

FEMM the Attorney - Townie, Lynched Day 1
Michel Sableheart - Townie, Killed Night 1
Razgriz (replaces theguide730) - Townie, Lynched Day 2
Dekes - Townie, Killed Night 2

• Upon a player's death, their cause of death and role will be revealed to the town.
  
• As a moderator, I post updates of the game. Check here to see what you need to be doing:

It is now Day 1. 9 alive, 5 to lynch. The Mafia may NOT talk during this time.

Deadline for Day 1 is September 2 11:59 pm CST. If no majority has been reached by then, no one will be lynched.

[inHimshallibe]

Rules:

• Please bold your vote: Player. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted.
  
• Please be attentive and unvote, if necessary, before casting a new vote. This is not required, but it helps in making the vote counts accurate.
  
• Lynches will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. You may also vote: no lynch – majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death.
  
• There will be strict three-week deadlines set at the beginning of each Day. If no majority vote has been reached by the deadline, no lynch will occur and the game will proceed to Night.
  
• The game is not to be discussed outside of the thread unless your role specifically states when you may do so.
  
• Once your death scene has been posted, you're dead. No posting about this game until after the game is over.
  
• Do not edit or delete previously submitted posts.
  
• Do not quote any PMs from the moderator.
  
• Encrypted text or invisible posts are not allowed.
  
• Any action resulting in a modkill may result in a change from Day to Night or vice versa.
  
• If you have a night choice to make, please make it in a timely matter. If I must post a deadline, then choices sent after said deadline will not be counted.
  
• If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 72-hour period, please PM the moderator or post a notice to that effect in the thread.
  
• Most importantly: this is a game. Play it for fun, and play it as well as you possibly can. I expect nothing less.

[inHimshallibe]

Newbie games are played with 9 players in the semi-open F11 setup. Of these players, 2 are evil, the Mafia. It is the town's goal to rid themselves of Mafia, and vice versa.

Here are the possible ways roles may be distributed:

5 Townies, 1 Cop, 1 Doctor, 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker
6 Townies, 1 Cop, 2 Mafia Goons
6 Townies, 1 Doctor, 2 Mafia Goons
7 Townies, 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker

Here are the corresponding Role PMs to be assigned to each rolename:

Townie - Member of the Town.

You win when the Mafia has been successfully removed from the game, and at least one member of the Town remains alive. You win whether you are dead or alive at game's end. You have no Night actions.

Cop - Member of the Town.

You win when the Mafia has been successfully removed from the game, and at least one member of the Town remains alive. You win whether you are dead or alive at game's end. You have a Night action - send the moderator a PM each Night indicating a player you would like to investigate. If you are not roleblocked, the moderator will then return a PM stating whether or not the indicated person is "Town" or "Mafia."

Doctor - Member of the Town.

You win when the Mafia has been successfully removed from the game, and at least one member of the Town remains alive. You win whether you are dead or alive at game's end. You have a Night action - send the moderator a PM each Night indicating a player you would like to try and protect from being killed by the Mafia. You may not protect yourself. If you are not roleblocked, a kill on the player will be prevented.

Mafia Goon - Member of the Mafia.

You win when the Town has been successfully removed from the game, or nothing can prevent the same. You win whether dead or alive at game's end. You have a partner: _____. During pre-game and each Night, the two of you may communicate with each other to discuss Night kill and/or roleblock choices, Day strategies, and so on. Then, one person of the Mafia will send the moderator a PM each Night indicating a player you would like to kill. Barring the protection of the Doctor, that player will die before the beginning of the next Day.

Mafia Roleblocker - Member of the Mafia.

You win when the Town has been successfully removed from the game, or nothing can prevent the same. You win whether dead of alive at game's end. You have a partner: _____. During pre-game and each Night, the two of you may communicate with each other to discuss Night kill and/or roleblock choices, Day strategies, and so on. Then, one person of the Mafia will send the moderator a PM each Night indicating a player you would like to kill. As the roleblocker, as long as you are alive, you may also send the moderator a PM indicating a player you would like to roleblock. Roleblocking a player's actions at Night prevents them from receiving results. If you are the only member of the Mafia, you may roleblock AND kill.

[theguide730]

/conform

[theguide730]

Also,

Vote:SilentKev

.

YOur name sounds familiar to me. Do you have a swf account?

[Krieger]

/confirm

[Krieger]

also:

vote: chosensoul

I choose you.

[ChosenSoul]

Confirm.

Also,

Vote: Krieger

, cause your name reminds me of Freddy Krueger.

[ChosenSoul]

EBWOP:

Oops, I mean /confirm.

[theguide730]

So, lets get cracking. How much experience do y'all have with mafia? How many games you've played, whether you've played forum mafia before, etc.

To answer my own question, I've played about 6 games of mafia online (1 here, the rest on another site), and about 5 games irl. Pretty much every game I've been in, I've been vtownie, excluding for my last game (I was vscum there.).

[ChosenSoul]

I too have played one game here. I haven't played any more than that on the internet, but I have played this game alot with my friends. The one game I've played I was the doc.

[a2rudeboy]

/confirm

[MichelSableheart]

I have received and read my role pm. I have read the rules. I don't have any questions. In other words: /confirm.

I've had a busy day today, so apologies if this isn't very well thought out.

I appreciate that players are willing to discuss the game during the confirmation stage. Far too often, players insist on just fooling around and being completely useless.

That being said, I prefer building actual cases based on (very weak) evidence and asking alignement related questions over randomly voting or asking questions that have no relation to other players alignement. Other players are more likely to respond usefully to discussion that is actually game related, giving us more useful information to determine who is scum.

@theguide: Do you believe that knowing other players' experience will significantly help you determine their alignement? In what way?

@Krieger: Would you please be so kind to share your thought process behind choosing to vote for ChosenSoul?

@ChosenSoul: To what extend did the fact that Krieger voted you play a role in your decission to vote for him?

@a2rudeboy: How does a post that only contains a confirmation help you catch the scum? If it doesn't, why didn't you take actions that would help you catch the scum?

[theguide730]

Maybe, maybe not. It seemed like a good icebreaker. It'll also be good to know who's completely new to the game, and who has experience.

[theguide730]

So, I take it you (Michel) would be opposed to a completely random early day bandwagon?

[ChosenSoul]

@Michel: I did see that he (or she) had voted for me, but I really didn't think much of it. I just saw the username and thought "hey, that sounds like Krueger. (so if you're asking if that was a OMGUS vote, than no.)

[nurC]

/confirm

Also, I was under the impression that votes during confirmation don't count typically, but if RVS is indeed started:

VOTE: FEMM for being an attorney

[Dekes]

/confirm

waiting for Day 1 to begin before going RVS frenzy

[Krieger]

Confirm.

Also,

Vote: Krieger

, cause your name reminds me of Freddy Krueger.

an OMGUS vote is a scumtell.

[theguide730]

Hi to all the new confirms. Mind answering my question?

[Krieger]

and to answer Michael--I am just in RVS mode and thought "Who am I going to choose" and I saw ChosenSoul so I chose him.

and by the way, everyone, I'M A SHE

TheGuide--to answer your questions: This is my first game, except for a couple of random, bastardized marathon games a few days ago. Never played IRL either. Looking forward to to my first official game!

[Dekes]

This is my second game...in my first game I got lynched on Day 1 as the Doctor...go figure :p (ongoing game though, so no more infos)

@Krieger
As a German I gotta ask: Where did you come up with that name?

[Krieger]

@Dekes: It's my last name

[nurC]

How much experience do y'all have with mafia?

Second game on this forum. Ive played IRL but you can't really compare the two...

[ChosenSoul]

Confirm.

Also,

Vote: Krieger

, cause your name reminds me of Freddy Krueger.

an OMGUS vote is a scumtell.

And I already said, that wasn't an OMGUS vote.