Mafia: THE THING
 

The game will commence in an hour and a half. Role PMs will be going out now. Do not share these PMs with anyone.

Copy and pasting, screen shotting, or forwarding your role PM to show other players is against the rules.


RULES:

Mafia is a game of good vs. evil. The good in this case, is the arctic research team. The bad, is the bodysnatching aliens.

All roles were assigned through use of a random number generator.



The goal of the research team is to root out and eliminate all of the aliens in the game. Each player votes on who they believe is the most likely to be an alien. At the end of aevery 24 hour block, the player with the most votes is eliminated. In the event of a tie, a random number generator will be used to decide who is eliminated.

Use this formatting for voting:

I !vote for Dylflon

You may retract your vote at any time. Do not edit your old vote. Use retractions.

I !retract Dylflon.

You can vote and retract as many times as you like. Each player must vote every day.

There are also special roles on the good side. One such role is the vigilante. The vigilante can choose one player each round to remove from the game. The guardian can protect one player each round from both being killed by the vigilante and from being taken over by aliens. The seer can target one player each round to investigate. After the round, I will PM them with information about their targetted player. This information will consist of the player's role and whether or not they are infested by aliens.

Specials may at any time refrain from using an ability.

But all information regarding the targets of your special actions must be PMed to me by 10:30 am PST/2:30 pm Eastern!

The alien selects one person each turn to convert into an alien. At that time, the converted player adopts the alien's win condition and is essentially on the bad guy team.

If a player who has networked with other players has been converted, it is not against the rules for them to tell the other aliens what they know. For this reason, it is in your best interest to KEEP YOUR ROLES SECRET unless circumstance dictates otherwise.

If the vigilante/guardian/seer are converted, they maintain their special roles but use them for evil rather than good.

There are a couple hidden game mechanics in here as well to spice things up a bit.

For either side to win, the opposing side must be entirely wiped out.

-voting for each day closes at 11 am PST/2 pm Eastern

-dead players get one goodbye post but this post cannot contain any information pertaining to the game. After their one post, dead players may no longer post in the thread. Nor may they contact living players.

-The results of each day will be presented via daily narrations.

-You must have two posts per day in order to be considered an active player. Failure to do this without excuse too many times will lead to your removal from the game.

-When a player is killed, their role and infestation status will be revealed in the narration.

If you have any questions in the thread type !Clarification followed by what you want to know



-Narration to come soon-



The players:

1. The Game
2. Professor S (aka Strangler)
3. Bond
4. BLueFire
5. Teuthida
6. Swan
7. The Germanator
8. Neo
9. BreakABone
10. Typhoid
11. manasecret
12. Green - Clark (uninfected) - killed by mob vote on day one
13. Yoda9864
14. Angrist
15. Fox6
16. GameMaster

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Rules are up.

If any other players want to join, let me know. I can make room for you.

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!Clarification

We vote in this thread and not via PM, correct?

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Correct.

Also, narration will be up soon.

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First narration:

Antarctica, Winter, 1982

A lone husky speeds across the snowy ice fields running as if the devil were chasing him. The devil in this case is a Norwegian helicopter occupied by two very upset scientists. This wouldn’t be so bad if one of these men wasn’t operating a high powered hunting rifle complete with scope. Shots ring through the cold arctic air, sending tufts of white upwards as if it was snowing in reverse.

The dog has the advantage today. The gunman only gets off one good shot per pass and this husky is young and quite quick on its feet. The Norwegian gunman attempts to dispatch of the dog by means of grenade but misses his target by at least fifty yards.

At this point, the dog and the Norwegians are playing a game of attrition. The winner will be determined by which runs out of energy first; the dog or the helicopter. The dog could probably keep running for hours as per his training. Helicopters have only so much fuel. Of course, dogs shouldn’t know this.

Soon though, a better alternative presents itself.


The men of American Arctic Research Outpost 31 sit comfortably in their mess hall, playing cards and shooting the shit. Nauls, the young cook and self-claimed soul brother cooks omelets on two different stoves. He moves between the two stoves and the refrigerator on roller skates while dancing to the music blasting from his boom box.

If it weren’t for the music, the men would have heard shots ringing through the air much sooner. It wasn’t until a helicopter had set down right next to their outpost, that they noticed anything was amiss. Some watched scene that would unfold through the window while others instinctively rushed outside to see what all the commotion was about. One of the Norwegian men occupying the intruding helicopter rummaged through a box for more grenades. To the men of Outpost 31, he seemed clearly deranged shouting nothing but gibberish. Though more likely we has speaking Norwegian. The man pulls the pin on a grenade to throw at the husky that has now run into the camp. However, when he extends his arm back, he loses his grip on the explosive, creating unfavorable repercussions for the helicopter and the other Norwegian man inside of it.

The Norwegian gunman continues to shout like a lunatic, and fires two bullets at the dog, one of which strays into the leg of meteorologist George Bennings. The pain is searing and Bennings has no problem making everyone aware of that fact.

Finally, unable to bear no more, Garry (captain and manager of the outpost) decides to take action. From inside the mess hall, Garry upholsters his revolver, smashes a windowpane and fires one shot which finds its way between the eyes of the raving Norwegian.

The husky, now safe from all predators, runs immediately to Clark, the base’s dog handler. Clark tries to soothe the dog, convincing it that everything is alright. Some of the men create a semi-circle around the dead Norwegian body and struggle in vain to piece together the events that just transpired. Others such as helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady instead rush to put out the flaming Norwegian helicopter.

MacReady, taking control of the situation, instructs Clark to put the husky in the dog kennel and organizes a team to bury the dead bodies of the crazed Norwegian men.

That evening the men are ill at ease. Clark didn’t put the dog in the kennels but rather let it wander around the camp in fear that the other dogs would gang up on it. Most of the crew at the arctic research station resign themselves to drinking in their rooms. The mechanics Childs and Palmer smoke weed and watch old game shows on betamax tapes. The rescued husky walks from room to room, observing the occupants of the station.

Tomorrow, MacReady and Doctor Copper will travel to the Nowegian base to find clues about what lead to the deceased scientists erratic behavior.

Though tonight will hold more surprises than any of the men working at this research post could anticipate.




The game has begun.

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I !vote for the husky

:-D

j/k

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For some reason, my computer is lagging out to much to let me edit my entry.

I meant "able to bear no more".

Ooops.

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Gave the game its own sub-forum.

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Glad this game is going forward. I could really use a break from hosting the Mafia over at PA.

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!Clarification
So for voting just say the number...and in by tommorow at 11?

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!Clarification How are we supposed to make any judgment here in the first round? :D If you pick somebody at this point, you're just making enemies.

Retract ftw?

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That's the beauty of it: you can't. All Mafia games are chaos on the first night. Mostly you just wait for somebody to say something stupid like "So what are the good guy win conditions?"

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I'll make sure not to say that....:p

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True. For example,

!Clarification
Do we get to know how many aliens there are starting off? And by we, I mean they. And by they, I mean we. :p

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Well, I'm almost going to bed and I don't know before what European (UTC+1) time I'm supposed to vote, so I'd like to !withhold my vote.

If I can't withold, I !vote Kurt Russel! And if that's not allowed, I'll !vote for the last person to sign up, Professor S, hoping that this will not anger him.

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My Seer ability tells me

I !vote for Green.

That way I won't have to kill him later with my Vigilante power but can still resurrect him with my Guardian touch.

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Well, my Sibling and I came to the conclusion that you're pretty fishy yourself.

!vote manasecret

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Say who you're voting for in the thread. And yes, before 11 am PST tomorrow.


You can't really. Just follow hunches. You have to have a standing vote at the end of the day. People generally won't grudge vote because it hurts the cause.


You'll have to use reasoning to figure that out. Think about the narration.





Also, Angrist. Use the format I showed you. Bold and red. Makes it easier to pick votes out.

Re: Mafia: THE THING
 

!Clarification Do we get to know who is named as which Character - if we don't somehow already, and I skipped it?


!Vote Green

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Well this shall be a tough decision.




I think I shall flip a 16 sided coin

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This is a tough decision.

It's never fun to randomly eliminate someone.

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You only know who is who when the person dies.

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My Seer abilities are also known as a (pseudo) random number generator.

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Doesn't that make it seemingly impossible to follow the storyline then?

If you have to vote for people directly, instead of characters - when the characters are the ones in the storyline, and the people on the board aren't shown to be connected at all?

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There will be no clues in the narration as to who is taken over and who is not.

The Point IS that you don't know who is who. Because if the alien is educated, then it makes it too easy to take over the good guy specials.

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But what I mean is...this is basically just a "Vote for whoever, and eventually you'll get the right answer" sort of thing.

Since we cant say "Oh, Billy is really Bond" and "Kevin is Strangler!".

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You look for suspicious posting activity. This game actually works a whole lot better when the people playing it post.

But nobody ever knows anything on day one.

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I think too if we utilize our special abilities we'll be able to figure out more.

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I had to work! im behind on my sloothing....:(

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I feel bad about ganging up on Green.

I'll go with Angrist and vote for Strangler - only because he was the last to sign up.

I !vote for Strangler.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

!vote manasecret!

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Remember everyone: at least two posts per day in this thread.

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anyone who doesnt read the initial rules ought to be killed.

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Agreed. (I almost forgot!)

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Hmmm...

I !vote Green!

He is new, and I don't know him, therefore he is ALIEN to me.

As for me being the Alien, thats just silly. I'm a conservative, and therefore we immediately hate anything that is different, right?

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I was informed can't vote off people not in the game

I !vote Justin.

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names all of us know please

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How xenophobic of you