Your relatively comfortable life in a remote mining town is disturbed as you are summoned to the mayor's office, along with the eight other councillors. You gather outside before entering together, only to find him slumped dead at his desk. Searching the place for clues as to who killed him, you find a letter, and surmise three things: firstly, a deposit of gold has quietly been discovered. Secondly, the mafia have ascertained this and would naturally be quite amenable to acquiring the territory in question. Thirdly, exactly two of you would be very happy to see that happen...
The Inexperience Challenged (IC) players are here to help you learn to play the game. Their play is governed by the wiki article Being a good IC.
The Semi-experienced (SE) players have a level of experience somewhere between a newbie and an IC.
Last edited by Elmo on Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:52 pm, edited 21 times in total.
Succinctness is pro-town.
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. ~ Gregory Benford
Everyone is given their role via PM and confirms they understand it. Mafia may talk before everyone has confirmed.
The game starts in daytime. Each day, you may vote to lynch someone with
vote mith
. You can
unvote
to vote for no-one; you don't need to do that to move your vote. If you want to end the day without lynching anyone,
vote no lynch
. I'll count your vote if it's
bolded
and unambiguous.
I will regularly post a tally of who is voting who. If
at any time
a majority (more than half) of the players are voting for the same person, that person will be lynched, and night will fall. Unvoting won't change anything.
Each day will have a deadline of 3 weeks. If deadline hits, the day will end with no lynch - learn to compromise, folks. Extensions of maximum one week will only be given in extreme circumstances™.
The time between the lynching vote and the lynch scene being posted is known as twilight. You can talk about anything you want in twilight.
If I've posted your death scene, you're dead. Don't post anything further until the game is over.
At night, the mafia may talk to each other. Anyone with a night action needs to PM me their choice; vanilla townies twiddle their thumbs. If you do not send me a choice by the deadline, I'll choose randomly for you. Cops will not investigate someone they have previously investigated.
Night ends, and the next day dawns.
Gameplay
Unless you are night-talking with your mafia partner, do not discuss this game with
anyone
outside this thread!
To get my attention in-thread, say e.g.
Mod
:
I like kittens!
I do not make mistakes. If you think I have, tell me - gently - and I will modify your reality accordingly.
Please try to post at least every 72 hours, and please inform me if you will be away for longer than this. If you go longer than that without notice, I will prod you. If you don't respond within 48 hours, or you're too inactive in general, then I'll replace you.
Don't quote verbatim from your role PM; paraphrasing is okay. There's nothing to be gained here, but it's a very bad idea elsewhere.
Do not quote or appear to quote any correspondence from me. I will not comment on any private conversations.
If a game isn't finished, don't discuss it.
Don't post invisible text.
Attempts to game the system in some way will be met with nuclear weapons.
The mafia quicktopic will not be made public unless both mafia explicitly wish for it to be.
If I get two different night actions from the mafia, I will flip a coin as to which is used and tell both of them what happened.
Vanilla Townie Role PM wrote:You are a Vanilla Townie. Try to find and lynch the mafia.
You have no night action, but your voice and your vote are powerful tools.
You win when both mafia members are dead.
Doctor Role PM wrote:You are a Doctor. Try to find and lynch the mafia.
Each night, you may attempt to protect someone else from the mafia's kill attempt. If you are roleblocked, you will not be informed - your protection will silently fail.
Submit your night action to me by private message.
You win when both mafia members are dead.
Cop Role PM wrote:You are a Cop. Try to find and lynch the mafia.
Each night, you may attempt to investigate someone; I will tell you for certain if they are a mafia member or not. If you are roleblocked, you will receive "No Result".
Submit your night action to me by private message.
You win when both mafia members are dead.
The Mafia - Set A (Two Goons)
Mafia Goon Role PM wrote:You're a Mafia Goon; your partner is ___, who is a Mafia Goon. Try to convince the town you're on their side, and get them to lynch one another.
You may talk with your partner at night - I strongly suggest you use this quicktopic.
Each night, your mafia group may attempt to kill someone.
Agree with your partner on your night action, and submit it to me by private message.
You win when at least half of the living players are mafia.
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The Mafia - Set B (Goon & Roleblocker)
Mafia Goon Role PM wrote:You're a Mafia Goon; your partner is ___, who is a Mafia Roleblocker. Try to convince the town you're on their side, and get them to lynch one another.
You may talk with your partner at night - I strongly suggest you use this quicktopic.
Each night, your mafia group may attempt to kill someone.
Each night, if your partner is alive, they may roleblock someone. If their target has a night action, it will not be performed.
Agree with your partner on your night actions, and submit them to me by private message.
You win when at least half of the living players are mafia.
Mafia Roleblocker Role PM wrote:You're a Mafia Roleblocker; your partner is ___, who is a Mafia Goon. Try to convince the town you're on their side, and get them to lynch one another.
You may talk with your partner at night - I strongly suggest you use this quicktopic.
Each night, your mafia group may attempt to kill someone.
Each night, if you are alive, you may roleblock someone. If they have a night action, it will not be performed.
Agree with your partner on your night actions, and submit them to me by private message.
You win when at least half of the living players are mafia.
The Bottom of Everyone's Role PM wrote:Please immediately reply to this PM with "confirm" or similar to tell me you understand your role and are ready to play. The game thread is here and will be unlocked when everyone is ready to start.
Role PMs are now out. If you don't have one, PM me.
Succinctness is pro-town.
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. ~ Gregory Benford
I was listening to Tori Amos this morning, which put me in my dark place.
Once I was there, I started thinking about the sad state of the American diet.
My point?
VOTE HAMBURGER
wagon ho!
"if you weren't trying to be so unnecessarily mysterious all the time we wouldn't have these misunderstandings" - Yosarian2
Hamburger wrote:
random.org tells me to vote for Amished. So vote: Amished.
This post reads forced to me and maybe an early attempt at distancing.
How do you please to these charges Hamburger?
I don't see the forced. I see more things to find scummy in your post. It seems to me that you are attempting to appear overly townie by 'finding scum' page 1.
This said, you could be, and hopefully are joking.
Vote: troy49er3
For the residents of Troy were thieves, and that is scummy!
Oh, on a side note, I am not really a newbie. I am technically SE, but I have played plenty more other games off site. (Ironically, this game will bring me up to enough games onsite to have IC status )
"He was cooler than Samuel L. Jackson on dope" - Raccon
I appear overly townie because i am obvtown and I'm looking to string up some scum.
Deadline will approach quickly , and I'm getting this game started.
I'll give you townie points for post though.
Do u think me scum Azhrei?
Why not wait for Hamburger to respond before you did ?
If he was scum, I think Hamburger would be taking a huge risk voting for his partner on his very first post. Sure, it does potentially distance himself away from Amished, but it could still backfire. So as of now, and based off of that alone, I don't think he's got much going against him.
Raivann's early accusations don't seem too scummy either, I think indecisiveness is a sign of scum in most cases and Raivann sure isn't being indecisive. And I've got to give him props for starting off the discussion almost right away.
5% of the world's population causes 95% of the world's problems.
arelian wrote:
If he was scum, I think Hamburger would be taking a huge risk voting for his partner on his very first post. Sure, it does potentially distance himself away from Amished, but it could still backfire. So as of now, and based off of that alone, I don't think he's got much going against him.
Raivann's early accusations don't seem too scummy either, I think indecisiveness is a sign of scum in most cases and Raivann sure isn't being indecisive. And I've got to give him props for starting off the discussion almost right away.
I really want to see the results of first post claimed random voting hitting scumpartners. Somehow I doubt it's that high. Any and all votes right now could be distancing, so I don't put much stock into that either. I'd start posting shenanigans to try to get us out of the random phase, but today isn't a good day right now
I'm going on a crusade to put more thought into my posts.
Hamburger wrote:I think distancing in RVS is fairly pointless.
I do it all the time.
It is the BEST time to buss your partner, because no one thinks it is off if you suddenly give up on the case, saying "it was totally a random-number" vote!
And a RVS Wagon is just the natural extension of a RVS vote. Only better.
"if you weren't trying to be so unnecessarily mysterious all the time we wouldn't have these misunderstandings" - Yosarian2
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