Mafianic 815 Epilogue: Live together, die alone

[Dylflon]

The most important thing to do in terms of preparation was of course to rally my crash-mates to pick up their weapons; umbrellas, bamboo poles, whatever we could find. Without Sawyer around to save us, it was up to me to instill hope into the hearts of my friends.

I formulated a plan. A plan so genius that nobody saw it coming; not even me! The plan was to stage a daring island infiltration of the Others' camp.

Unfortunately for me, we had no leads as to where their camp was. So I went with my back-up plan: hide in the caves and beg for mercy.

But Michael didn't seem to agree with my backup plan. Nooo, he had to go with plan A and storm off into the jungle for revenge. Well guess who'll be waiting for him when he gets himself killed. Not Neil, that's for sure.

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Everyone is on edge. We know they'll be back...we just don't know when. The only people we have capable of fighting are me (since I have a gun), and Mr. Eko since that guy is built like a brick wall that has jesus-loving fists of righteous justice.

It occured to me for the first time since Kate went missing that we have no idea who these Others are. As far as we know they haven't killed any of us...we've only killed them...and eachother. Who are they? What do they want from us? Why do they kidnap us? How did they get here? But since I'm in charge of a large group of people who want to go home to their families, I will put my duties as their leader before my ponderings. It's time for vengeance. Vengeance for Kate, and for Shannon, vengeance for Libby, and for Ethan! Well...not as much for Ethan.

I will save us all if it's the last thing I do.

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Today was the day. The bearded man came back through the jungle, but he came alone. Says he came to talk. He came without weapons. He promised me that if I put my gun down too, we could all talk, pleasant-like. So I did.

He barely got two words out of his mouth when Hurley pipes up.

"Who are you, dude!? Why are you taking our people? What's wrong with you!?"

The bearded man was stunned and told him to relax. Hurley starts yelling.

"No, man. I'm not relaxing. I'm just not sitting here, taking everything in stride. Good ol' fun-time Hurley. Not anymore, man. I want some answers and I want them now!"

The bearded man tells him to calm down but Hurley picks up my gun and shoots him in the chest.

"That was for Walt!", he yelled.

The bearded man falls over dead. The rest of the survivors crowd around him...cheering. He took it all away from me.

He took my moment of heroism away from me. The rest all think I was a sympathizer who was going to give in to the bearded man's demands...and now Hurley is the hero.

I HATE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD! I will hate Hurley until the day that I die.

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It's been a week since the last incident. Not a single Other has come back for us. Maybe they don't think it's worth the trouble. Maybe they'd just rather leave us all here to die on our own. Meanwhile Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Charlie, Jin, Sayid, and heck probably even Michael are all together. Probably still alive. Here I am. Alone, friendless. Why wouldn't they take me? What's wrong with me? Ethan said I was a good person. Why couldn't he take me back with them...

I'm so alone here.

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Looks like a little luck is with us after all! One of my island roommates spotted something off the coast of the island.

He says it's a freighter!!!

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[REPORT NOTES]

WHEREABOUTS OF AUTHOR: UNKOWN
STATUS OF ISLAND: UNKOWN
LOCATION OF ISLAND: PROJECT A-T5 IN PROGRESS. WILL FIND LOCATION SOON.
Please forward this document to Mr. Whidmore after the debriefing section. We'll need to get control on the situation on the PR side. Also, a strange transmission has been sent from the island addressed to Ms. Penelope Whidmore.

BRIEFING ON CURRENT OPERATION OBJECTIVES TOMORROW AT 1100 HOURS.


The dead:

Combine 017 - Michael (Survivor) - captured by Others
Teuthida - Tom Friendly (Other) - killed by vote


SURVIVOR VICTORY!!!


I thought the Others had it. They played very, very well. But the survivor team's ability to network prevailed and saved the day.

Good game to everyone!!


We may now discuss anything about the game in this thread.

[Aladuf]

FUCK YEAH! AFTER ALL THAT SHIT LAST NIGHT I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT I WENT WITH THE RIGHT PERSON!! It was like, 2 fucking hours of PM's with these guys just trying to decide who was the other.

*cracks open a cold beer*

[flunkie44]

I don't like the Others.

[Dyne]

I don't like the Others.

I don't like the survivors.

What did I ever do to them. :(

[Combine 017]

I told you I was the real Michael! But I didnt expect to be the one to get captured.

[flunkie44]

I don't like the survivors.

What did I ever do to them. :(

You said nothing to Aladuf. That's what you did.

[Aladuf]

I told you I was the real Michael! But I didnt expect to be the one to get captured.

Yep, you seemed legit from the start. When I went back and looked at the PM's Teuthida's seemed like he was really reaching with the first PM I got from him last night. But that's not to say that Teuth didn't play a good game last night with the messages, he had me swayed a couple times.

[Dylflon]

Oh, and congrats to surviving players Aladuf and Professor S. Or should I say Mr. Eko and Hurley!

:O

[Professor S]

*BANG!!*

Sorry Mr. Eko... but those last Dharma candy bars are MINE!

[jeepnut]

If anybody wants to see how we planned your doom, here is our private message board where we discussed all things Othery.

http://jeepnut1.proboards85.com/index.cgi

[manasecret]

So what was TML's special action? Was that a ruse?

I knew there was an enemy in the ranks. It seemed too perfect that I got killed right after I protected Bond, like they knew somehow. And Teuth did, because he was in our circle of trust. Well, at least Bond's PMs were going out to him along with me, Aladuf, and Prof S. We trusted you Teuthida!!

[jeepnut]

Yeah, if it weren't for the Teuth, we wouldn't have been nearly as effective.

[BreakABone]

So what was TML's special action? Was that a ruse?

I knew there was an enemy in the ranks. It seemed too perfect that I got killed right after I protected Bond, like they knew somehow. And Teuth did, because he was in our circle of trust. Well, at least Bond's PMs were going out to him along with me, Aladuf, and Prof S. We trusted you Teuthida!!

Pretty sure always informed Bond to never PM in groups.
Danny was all my fault though it seems. :(

The only person outside of Squrel (for different reasons) I wouldn't expect to lie to me so never really gave it a second-thought.

It was a fun game though. My guesses on Others was a bit off though was telling folks to vote off Jeepnut for ages, but I was lucky enough to find out who Bond and Manasecret were in the first two rounds so had the Guardian, Seer and Vigilante working together.

And as long as our little alliance had the voting majority, we had a good chance of winning. Oddly, it only came down to two of us in the Alliance being in the final round.

The game just kind of took a nose dive for me on the 3rd day since forgot I work :lol: and was leaving town for the majority of the game.

[manasecret]

Oooh I like the extra forum idea for the Others. Smart.

And Round 3?

Pivotal

:
"FOX6 IS AN OTHER. IF HE GETS VOTED OFF AND IS NOT AN OTHER, I INVITE EVERYONE TO VOTE AGAINST ME IN THE NEXT ROUND AND KILL ME.

Thats how sure I am.But if people listen to this they'll be after him next round anyway and less of a chance of one of us being targeted. Plus if we don't pick him and pick someone else he'll be more suspicious than ever.

After talking with BAB yesterday these are the folks he knows for sure are survivors: Bond, Manasecret, GameMaster, and me. :) He's almost dead sure Fox 6 (who looks like will be a goner) and Prof S are Others.

I'm thinking manasecret right now. Figure we go after the least suspicious folks. If not him I suggest we go after anyone who votes for Prof S instead of Fox 6.


I'm all for capturing manasecret. Keeping Prof S alive will keep the survivors occupied for a day or two.

I'll go for Mana. It's someone that BaB 'knows' is a survivor, but he doesn't know that you're voting for Mana to be captured.

Has the order been sent to Dylflon?

I'll send out the order to Dylflon now.

Actually, manasecret is voting for jeepnut. Going to wait a bit.

Going to switch it to GameMaster.

Oh, if they had just voted for me to begin with, would all have been lost?

[jeepnut]

Possibly yes. Then we could have eliminated Bond a lot earlier.

[Bond]

Yeah, well, what really won this game was BaB picking myself and mana to use his power on the first two rounds. We were pretty formidable after that, it was just a matter of BaB finding the survivors, me killing them, and mana protecting the right people. Another key was that our group of Survivors almost always had a voting majority.

Although I have to say, mana, you were right about there being a traitor, haha. Sorry about that.

I was blatantly the Vigilante so that the seer could find me fast.

That is a great idea with the secret forums too, much better than those damn PMs.

[BreakABone]

Yeah, always a chance with expanding the circle.

It was also why never shared who the vigilante/guardian was with our Alliance.

I am curious Dyflon, what would have happened if final round was 1 on 1? Did the Others win?

Anyhow, I hope the next one is the Nintendo themed one we were promised.

[Professor S]

I honestly did not deserve the survive this game, as I sucked from beginning to end, unlike last time I played when I warped minds like water warps wood. My arrogance in my former success proved my undoing, and shall humble myself in an attempt to refocus for the next round.

By the way, I far prefer the scifi/fantasy stories for these games as I think it gives people a more attractive opportunity to role play.

[jeepnut]

I honestly did not deserve the survive this game, as I sucked from beginning to end, unlike last time I played when I warped minds like water warps wood. My arrogance in my former success proved my undoing, and shall humble myself in an attempt to refocus for the next round.

By the way, I far prefer the scifi/fantasy stories for these games as I think it gives people a more attractive opportunity to role play.

We let you survive so you could live with your guilt.

[Professor S]

We let you survive so you could live with your guilt.


YOU BASTARD!!! :D

[manasecret]

WTF? What is Professor S trying to do? You're positive that Bond is the vigilante right? You think he's just trying to confuse the others?

:lol:

[jeepnut]

:lol:

Yeah, that threw us for a bit of a loop. I had no idea what he was trying to accomplish by claiming to be the vigilante after Bond being so obvious about it for so long. We had no choice but to stick with our plans though.

[Professor S]

Yeah, I tried to throw a last dich effort to preserve Bond because of his power and have you guys kill me. Taking one for the team, as they say. I was 90% sure it wouldn't work, but it was worth a shot as I knew Bond would be almost surely killed once the Guardian was gone.

[jeepnut]

I'm surprised the guardian didn't try to protect himself. You can do that can't you?

[Bond]

I think so. It was probably my mistake as I told mana to protect me. It retrospect, he probably should have protected himself that round, and then protected me the next round.

And that was funny Professor. First time I read it I wasn't sure at all what you were trying to do, haha.

[manasecret]

I went with the odds and who was more important. Keeping Bond alive was the most important thing. I knew the chances were that you were going to attempt kill the Guardian, but three things kept me from protecting myself.

1. We still didn't know for sure that you knew I was the Guardian. So if y'all went after the Guardian, there was a chance you could have killed another Survivor who wasn't. However, I expected you would guess it was me because I have been so active. (Of course, we didn't know about the Traitor at the time..)

2. There was a chance that you guys would think I would protect myself and instead try to kill the Vigilante (Bond) again, thinking he was left unprotected. In fact, you guys did contemplate that notion.

3. All other things aside, we HAD to have Bond to win. The chances were the Others were going to capture me. But there was STILL a small chance you would go after Bond again, and losing him for one more round might have been fatal. That chance overruled guarding anyone else that late in the game.

[BreakABone]

I felt protecting Bond was important as well.

Because if it came down to any of us 3 having powers, it made more sense for Bond to be there. As my Seer powers would be obvious if I voted for the Others, and while Mana could protect himself he really had no other means of attack.

It was great that the Seer, Guardian and Vigilante were able to come together so quickly so that there were no mistakes such as trying to vote me off early. Or Bond killing the wrong person.

As for TML, I believe his power was a one time use thing, not sure what it was though.

[manasecret]

Oh, and I almost forgot. The round that Bond was outed because he was protected by me, there were TWO captures. We didn't know if that was a special ability or if from there on out you had two captures per round. So you might have been able to capture both of us, meaning I had to protect Bond.

[Dylflon]

Secret special abilities:

TML (Kate) had the "copy-kate" ability. He could select two targets per night. The first target would be a mimic, if that person had a power he would adopt that power for a round and direct it at the second target.


Prof S (Hurley) had the manifest ability. He could see the results of every seering but did not know who the seer was.


GameMaster and SQurel (jin and sun) started the game knowing who eachother were.


jeepnut (Ethan) had the Preggo Hunter ability. Every round he could check a survivor to see if they were Claire. If the Others team were to abduct Claire, they'd get two kills the following round.

Teuthida had the same ability (called Amber Alert) but directed at Walt.

James (Mikhail) had the kamikaze ability. He could take himself out of the game to take someone else out of the game at the same time.

Germanator (Ben) could control James' ability and trigger whenever he wanted against whoever he wanted. This fact was hidden from James. Also, if he was the last surviving Other, he'd become immune to seering and vigilante kills.

[Bond]

Those were some sweet special abilities! Too bad several of them weren't used.

[BreakABone]

Yeah, interesting indeed.

How'd you come up with them?

And any idea what the next Mafia game (I assume there will be a next one) will be themed?

[Teuthida]

I told you I was the real Michael! But I didnt expect to be the one to get captured.
You acted kind of cocky when you said I wouldn't be there to witness the end while you would...so I had to go after you. ;) Oh, and I wanted to use this picture:
http://www.filmfodder.com/tv/lost/archives/welcomebackmichael.jpg


Yep, you seemed legit from the start. When I went back and looked at the PM's Teuthida's seemed like he was really reaching with the first PM I got from him last night. But that's not to say that Teuth didn't play a good game last night with the messages, he had me swayed a couple times.
Yeah it was really a long shot for me to begin to pretend I was Michael. It was pretty clear Combine was him from a few rounds ago with all his talk of looking for his son. Far too innocent. I was just hoping you guys overlooked those.


Those were some sweet special abilities! Too bad several of them weren't used.
I had horrible success looking for Walt. When I narrowed it down to Bube it was too late. Well, it was either capture him or you. Went after you.

Congratulations survivors.
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[Fox 6]

Only took the bears 2 hours.

[jeepnut]

Those were some sweet special abilities! Too bad several of them weren't used.

None of us had any idea of Germy's powers on the Others team. If we had known, we probably would have tried to protect him better.

Also, I've never seen a vigilante used in a Mafia game before. What I have seen, similarly to the kamikazee power is the thief. Although, the thief gets to use his power after he dies.

[Aladuf]

Wow, I'm looking over this thread right now and the Others had a whole forum made up to talk about this stuff?! :lolz: damn!

This game was too much fun, we need to do another game sometime soon.

[manasecret]

It was great that the Seer, Guardian and Vigilante were able to come together so quickly so that there were no mistakes such as trying to vote me off early. Or Bond killing the wrong person.


Whatever do you mean? :angel:

It was funny how easily you can convince yourself of something when you try to apply logic to random guessing. I'm glad I was able to not trust my logic too much, able to back off and see I was wrong about Fox 6. But I probably would have voted BaB off in Round 3 if he hadn't seered me in Round 2 and let me know who he was.

[Bond]

Does anyone remember what team won the first Mafia? Good guys or bad guys?

[The Germanator]

Bad guys won I think...The Aliens.

[BreakABone]

The bad guys (aliens) thanks to Vampyr tricking was it Swan into an alliance?

[Dylflon]

I have a good theme worked out for the next one which will give me much more room narratively since I won't be adapting a story. It'll be an original story where the players themselves are characters.

Just let me know when you think I should start it up.

[Swan]

The bad guys (aliens) thanks to Vampyr tricking was it Swan into an alliance?

Yeah, it was me. I trusted him....bastard

[Teuthida]

The bad guys (aliens) thanks to Vampyr tricking was it Swan into an alliance?
That's why we were so keen on getting rid of him early on.


I have a good theme worked out for the next one which will give me much more room narratively since I won't be adapting a story. It'll be an original story where the players themselves are characters.

Just let me know when you think I should start it up.
Sounds good. I'm up for it now...or soon. Just don't want as long a break as the one between the first and this one.

[BreakABone]

I have a good theme worked out for the next one which will give me much more room narratively since I won't be adapting a story. It'll be an original story where the players themselves are characters.

Just let me know when you think I should start it up.

I think we should alternate games so people don't get burnt out.

Didn't Green have an idea for a game or would that just be another themed Mafia as well? Or has he disappeared since the game is finished again?

[Yoda9864]

That was a good game. I thought we had it locked up for sure but shit happens. I was kind of bored this game cuz I didn't get a special power :(. Next game, everyone gets special powers!!!

[BreakABone]

That was a good game. I thought we had it locked up for sure but shit happens. I was kind of bored this game cuz I didn't get a special power :(. Next game, everyone gets special powers!!!
If everyone is special...

Then no one is special at all.

Paraphrasing.

[flunkie44]

If everyone is special...

Then no one is special at all.

Paraphrasing.

I guess those psychology classes payed off after all..

[jeepnut]

I have a good theme worked out for the next one which will give me much more room narratively since I won't be adapting a story. It'll be an original story where the players themselves are characters.

Just let me know when you think I should start it up.

ASAP.

[flunkie44]

ASAP.

No, not ASAP.. NOW.

[GameMaster]

Let's all give BreakABone a gigantic round of applause for hosting this wildly, wonderful game.

No doubt that a lot of work must go into planning and running it.

I hope he gives us another rousing game soon since summer is filled with freedom and endless amounts of time.

[Aladuf]

No, not ASAP.. NOW.

Agreed, I want it NAO!

[Fox 6]

Why? We should wait till the summer at least. Maybe then people will be more availabe. Plus if we do it now then we got nothing to look forward to.

[Bond]

Let's all give BreakABone a gigantic round of applause for hosting this wildly, wonderful game.

No doubt that a lot of work must go into planning and running it.

I hope he gives us another rousing game soon since summer is filled with freedom and endless amounts of time.
Er... you mean Dylflon?

[Aladuf]

Why? We should wait till the summer at least. Maybe then people will be more availabe. Plus if we do it now then we got nothing to look forward to.

If last weekend was any indication, then it seems like less people will be available as the summer goes on. But maybe give it some time then we can start it back up.

[Yoda9864]

Exactly. It gets nicer in summer and people go out on weekends.

[Fox 6]

Well whatever floats GTs collective boat. I wouldnt be up for another one so soon though.

[Swan]

I think at least a few weeks before the next one.

We don't want Dylflon to blow his load so soon

[Dylflon]

I can set up a game with an alternate set of rules/objectives.

I have a pretty devious idea for one.

[Bube]

I'd like it if it started as soon as possible. If it starts a little later, people might be on vacation or something. I don't know if I will go on vacation, but if I am, I can't play.

And it was a really entertaining game. I didn't have any special powers, it got boring though :)

And why did Teuth have a power to see me? What is so special about me!!! :D

[Angrist]

I think I'll join the next one. :) Got less university pressure on my shoulders this time.

[Aladuf]

I'd like it if it started as soon as possible. If it starts a little later, people might be on vacation or something. I don't know if I will go on vacation, but if I am, I can't play.

Yeah that's what I was thinking, I'm going on vacation next month and I imagined others here would be too so it would be a pain with so many people being gone.