When they told you that here there are games of life and death, you didn't mean games of LIFE and DEATH. But now you are here, and the only way to get out is to win the game they made you play. You are locked into a room with 8 other people and know that some of them are on your side while others aren't. Unluckily you don't know who your enemies are but you know that you outnumber them.
LET THE GAME BEGIN (and don't forget the rules)!
1. General Rules
1.1 This is a game. Have fun.
1.2 Rule violations will be dealt case by case. I am not afraid to modkill, should it be necessary.
1.3 If you think I made a mistake contact me.
1.4 Usually I will post in
bolded orange
.
1.5 My decision is final on whatever is going on in this game.
1.6 What your role PM says has priority over every one of the following rules.
2. Votes and Lynches
2.1 To vote a person use vote tags, e.g. VOTE: Tasky or bold your vote. If your vote is already on someone, an unvote would be nice.
2.2 You may use abbreviations as long as it's clear who you want to vote.
2.3 If I think you meant to vote, I will count the vote.
2.4 As soon as the majority of the players vote at the same time for a player, that player is immediately lynched.
2.5 You may VOTE: No Lynch, as you would vote any player. If half of the players (rounded up) vote No Lynch, the day will end without lynch.
2.6 After a lynch, no one is considered dead until I lock the tread. Therefore every player is allowed to post during "twilight".
3. Do and Don't
3.1 The only place you are allowed to talk about this game is in this thread or in a PM addressed at me and only at me.
3.2 You may not edit or delete any posts of this thread.
3.3 Do not quote or pretend to quote any private communication with me. This includes your role PM.
3.4 Do not use invisible or encrypted text.
3.5 Play to win. Don't do anything obviously detrimental to your faction on purpose.
4. Prods and Replacements
4.1 You are allowed to be on V/LA for no more than half day's maximal lenght and only if you are back at least two days before deadline. If you plan on being away for longer, I will replace you.
4.2 If you do not post in thread for more than 48 hours without announcing a V/LA, you will be prodded.
4.3 If a player fails to pick up his prod and post in thread for more than 36 hours, he will be forced to replaced out.
4.4 Every player may request a prod or a forced replacement. I will then consider his/her request.
5. Deadlines
5.1 Each day has a fixed deadline of 21 days.
5.2 Deadline extensions may be granted in extraordinary situations.
5.3 Night deadline is always 72 hours.
5.4 Night actions I haven't got until deadline, will not happen.
6. Setup
This games uses one of the following setups, selected randomly and with even probability:
A: 1 Town Cop + 1 Town Doc + 5 Vanilla Townies vs. 1 Mafia Roleblocker + 1 Mafia Goon
B: 1 Town Cop + 6 Vanilla Townies vs. 2 Mafia Goons
C: 1 Town Doc + 6 Vanilla Townies vs. 2 Mafia Goons
D: 7 Vanilla Townies vs. 1 Mafia Roleblocker + 1 Mafia Goon
7. Flavor
Apart from the opening post, this game will contain no flavor.
You win iff only Town-aligned players are alive (or nothing can proven the same).
Town Cop wrote:
You are a
Town Cop
.
Special Abilities:
Investigate:
(active, night) Target a living player. If this ability resolves successfully, you will get to know whether that player is Mafia- aligned or not. Your result is guaranteed to be accurate
Win Condition:
You win iff only Town-aligned players are alive (or nothing can proven the same).
Town Doc wrote:
You are a
Town Doc
.
Special Abilities:
Protect:
(active, night) Target a living player (except yourself). If this ability resolves successfully, the first kill on target will fail.
Win Condition:
You win iff only Town-aligned players are alive (or nothing can proven the same).
Mafia Goon wrote:
You are a
Mafia Goon
. You are in a team with
????
who is a
Mafia Goon/Roleblocker
.
Special Abilities:
You have no special abilities.
Mafia-kill:
(active, night) Target a living player. If this ability resolves successfully, your target will die. You may not use this ability if any other Mafia member uses it the same night.
Safehouse:
During the night you may discuss freely with your scumbuddy in this quicktopic: ????
Win Condition:
You win iff only Mafia-aligned players are alive (or nothing can prevent the same).
Mafia Roleblocker wrote:
You are a
Mafia Roleblocker
. You are in a team with
????
who is a
Mafia Goon
.
Special Abilities:
Roleblock:
(active, night) Target a living player. If this ability resolves successfully, target's active night actions will fail.
Mafia-kill:
(active, night) Target a living player. If this ability resolves successfully, your target will die. You may not use this ability if any other Mafia member uses it the same night.
Safehouse:
During the night you may discuss freely with your scumbuddy in this quicktopic: ????
Win Condition:
You win iff only Mafia-aligned players are alive (or nothing can prevent the same).
NOTE: The mafia-kill can be used on top of any special ability.
Last edited by Tasky on Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:52 pm, edited 5 times in total.
@@ Tasky: Bolded orange is very hard on my eyes and I would prefer if you used a different color. Of course you don't have to listen to me, but I would love you forever if you did!
Newbies, I'm writing this for you!
Hi all! I'm KittyMo and I'm your IC (this title means, in essence, that I'm your role model & guide for learning to play the particular flavor of mafia played on MafiaScum.) If you've played any kind of mafia before, I guarantee we play it a little bit differently than you're accustomed to. As part of being an IC, I
will not lie to you about typical or proper play, game theory, etc. in order to suit my personal win condition
. ICing is more important than my Role PM's win condition! There are several other experienced players here (RayFrost, Dekes, DarlaBlueEyes) that you can learn from, but they are not bound to the same contract that I am.
Having patience, asking questions (please, ask me!), thinking critically, and learning from your mistakes and the mistakes of others are crucial qualities for mafia. Additionally, having a background in psychology will help you a ton.
But, the best way I know of for learning how to play, is to read! Get acquainted with the wiki (which is a bit outdated in many cases, but still a good tool to start off with.) Spending some time looking at all the links in this section will be good use of your time.
Another awesome thing to read is
Mafia games!
How will you know how real scum act if you haven't seen them in action?
Take these 2 newbie games for instance. Scumhunt along with the town. Game #1 and Game #2.
I'd love it if you'd post your answers to the following questions after reading one or both of those games, but I'm not requiring you to.
If you don't have the time or patience to read through at least one of those games and skim the wiki, I doubt you'll have the time or patience for playing this game!
I don't want to bombard you with too much information immediately, so this is your introduction. I'm looking forward to this game, and I hope you all are as well.
Oh, and before you forget, add this game to your bookmarks at the bottom of the page. It's much easier to check games from your bookmarks than to remember what number of game you signed up for. =)
@@ Tasky: Bolded orange is very hard on my eyes and I would prefer if you used a different color. Of course you don't have to listen to me, but I would love you forever if you did!
1. The winning team - they won. That was an extremely good play.
2. The losing team - they lost. Big mistake.
3. I have O.P. hax. Of course I was right.
4. Read #3
5. Who cares? It's the amount of information gleaned that matters - short days but a lot of information are better than long days that stall that game and provide no extra info, etc.
6. In case it wasn't already obvious, I haven't actually read the games. I dunno.
I'm sorry that this game is taking so long to start, but we had a couple of pre-game flakers (i.e. people who didn't pick up their role PM) I had to replace.
As soon as I get one more confirm the game will start.
hmmmm would yoru partner really out you through. Anyway if i was your partner you'd be mod killed for outing me cause it goes against your win condition. Booyeh for reasearching the rules.
It's a sin to tell a lie.
wins/loses town 0/1 scum 0/0 third party 0/0
Shhhh. Don't point this out to the mod, or I might be modkilled. Just trust me on my gambit here: they'll think we're town from this conversation for realz.
