will be open for anyone to run and/or play in Marathon games: Mafia games intended to be played in a single sitting, usually lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to a few hours. We will be moving the Marathon Forum out into the main forum index soon. On the 2nd, the board will open.
In post 8, SJReaver wrote:Why is it called a marathon instead of a sprint when it's so much shorter than regular games?
The word "marathon" actually traces its origins to the legend of Pheidippides, a solider who after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC is said to have ran the entire 42.195 kilometres back to Athens only to claim vt and get turbowaggoned three minutes in.
In post 8, SJReaver wrote:Why is it called a marathon instead of a sprint when it's so much shorter than regular games?
The word "marathon" actually traces its origins to the legend of Pheidippides, a solider who after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC is said to have ran the entire 42.195 kilometres back to Athens only to claim vt and get turbowaggoned three minutes in.
last marathon weekend we let the evil overlord Datisi seize the Speedrunner Crown.
to the general populace, his reign has been a time of peace and prosperity.
our harvests have been plentiful.
our newbies have grown smart and strong.
but beneath that splendid exterior, our king has been running an evil spy network.
just last week three scummers were arrested under false accusations of treason.
and to make matters worse? his lackeys have kidnapped and imprisoned my bread.
i say:
NO MORE!
no longer will we let this evil king rule us with an iron fist!
join me this marathon week
end
in glorious rebellion!
Spoiler: the plan. everyone but datisi click this.
what?
... fair.
jokes aside, i'd be keen to get a group of cool people together to smash out some marathons in this event.
so like, i'm sure that lots of awesome games will be run over the weekend. but bear with me here.
but given the length of the event, sometimes it's hard to bring together crowds for minis and stuff.
so i'm thinking if people are cool with setting some time aside, we can have a party!
when?
all week.
but especially 12noon edt, on saturday the 5th of september!
i guess if people want to rock up sometime after this, we'll try and keep games running for a few hours at least?
who?
you. yes, you!
like, feel free to advertise this to people who like fun.
where?
in the marathon subforum mentioned in post#0!
to avoid missing anything, you can also join the official MS discord & request the "marathon" group!
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
We also have a Marathon Crew tag on the Official Mafiascum Discord. Head into the mafia discussion channel and type ?rank marathon crew to be added to the tag. Then the Marathon Crew can tag one another to help organize games come Marathon weekend time!
Well guess I'll open the marathon PT group so people can user private topic for marathons....Well crap its already open. Its been open since last time and both zoraster and I forgot to close and purge it last time....OOPS
Guess I'll just leave it open and try to remember to purge it when its done this time. I'd appreciate someone reminding me or zoraster to do this or perhaps we should welcome a third group leader to help us with that. Maybe T-bone since he did announce the marathon week. You want to join us on this T-bone?
As far as games go I may run the finalized version of "Dayless Everyone's a SK" at some point on the weekend
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To anyone that wants to join that group so they can make PT's for marathon week simple go to control panel in the top left. Then go to user groups. And select Marathon Weekend PT Group and choose to Join. It should work. If you are having trouble understanding these instructions or joining, please PM me
When I joined this site, I was a software tester for mobile business applications and the song PokerFace was not yet written by Lady Gaga
Now I test lottery and gambling software as my job. It's funny how my life has turned out. Somewhere a Time Traveler is laughing madly