Prison Block Mafia
A Mini for 10 Players By Shadowlancerx
Reviewed by D_V and Anaklusmos
Welcome to the lock up friend.
I know I know, you didn't do it, you were setup, your lawyer is getting your second appeal set for next Tuesday, yadda yadda. Trust me I've heard it all. And I don't care what you have to say. Keep your head down, don't make eye contact, and don't be stupid. You'll do fine. Sure, your cell mate might smell bad, and the food tastes like fermented toe jam, but this is the good life, and you better get used to it.
This is Prison Block Mafia, where you spend your days in general population with your fellow inmates, and your nights isolated, save for the whispered conversation with those in the cell(s) next to you.
This game functions like a standard Mafia game, with a couple notable exceptions: Game specific Rules:
-Each player will be assigned a cell from A-J at random, in addition to your role. You will have unlimited night chat with each player in a cell adjacent to yours (Sorry A and J, that means you get half the fun).
-During the day, you may send up to 3 notes of no more than 120 characters to each person you share a chat with.
-(Please note that flavor has been randomized.)
Serving Time
I. Grapefruit21, Town Vanilla survived and won in Endgame
J. Killjoy, Town Intuitive survived and won in Endgame
Dead
C. Gentleman Johnny, Neutral Pariah Won and left the game Night 1
G. Vezokpiraka, Mafia Fury Lynched day 2
B. Osieorb18, Town Vanilla killed night 2
F. ganderin_dan, Town Vanilla Lynched day 3
D. Vaimes, Town Vanilla killed night 3
H. Cyan, Town Vanilla Lynched day 4
E. Arcthurus, Town Vanilla killed night 4
A. TheRealStinkyJoeTerry, Mafia Vanilla lynched day 5
Watching from the Guard station (spectate)
1. Anaklusmos
Regular game rules (Stolen Borrowed from Silvercrys):
Boring Stuff:
0: I am the game host, which means I am the final arbiter of role interactions and game rule infringements. I will never lie or intentionally mislead you. If you have a problem with a ruling I make please shelve it until post game. To the best of my and my reviewer(s)’ knowledge this is not a bastard game.
1: Mafia is a game, we’re here to have fun. Please be respectful of your fellow players inmates. Sometimes emotions run high and we get caught up in the moment. That is not an excuse for flaming or poor sportsmanship.
2: When generating (or faking, as applicable) reads, please do not use angleshooting or out of game knowledge to the best of your ability. This means do not use the timing, reasons, or order of substitutions and modkills to influence others, do not use the timing or phrasing of role PMs to influence others, do not make alignment bets with out of game consequences, and do not use “trust tells” or similar. This list is not exhaustive.
3: If you have a question about your role or a rules interaction, please PM me or message me on Discord. I will not answer questions posed to me in the game thread other than questions about vote counts or deadlines. If you raise a question that needs addressing to the entire game (regarding a special rule or similar) I will anonymize your question and announce the answer.
4: Do not talk about this game outside of this thread and quicktopic links or PMs given to you in your role PM or approved by me. Please ensure I am copied on PMs sent to other players. This is a modkillable offense.
5: No funny business. Do not use invisible text, cryptography, tiny writing, hidden messages, acronym/alphabet claims, or similar. This is a modkillable offense.
6: Do not directly quote your role PM or any private communications (QuickTopics, etc.) when posting in the main game thread. This includes mason chats and scum chats. Please paraphrase - if you are in doubt, ask me before posting! This is a modkillable offense.
7: Do not edit, delete, or thank posts. Even if it’s an accidental double post. This is a modkillable offense.
8: Please post content at least once every 48 hours. Content is, of course, subjective, but “Posting to avoid prod,” “catching up,” or similar short not-really-game-related posts are obviously not content. If you need to be absent for an extended period of time please post “V/LA until [Date]” in bold on its own line in the thread so that I and the other players know when you’ll be back. You do not need to explain your reasons for being absent in thread. If you will be gone for more than four or five days you should consider requesting replacement.
9: You are responsible for following all forum and subforum rules and guidelines. Forum-wide rules are available here, and our subforum specific Mafia rules are in the Mafia Hosting Sign-Ups & Hosting Rules thread (spoilered here for convenience):
-Game Limit-
Players may participate in only three games at any given time. An exception to this rule can be made by moderators in need of a replacement for a game, if no other replacement can be found.
-Suicide-
If you no longer wish to participate in a game for any reason, contact the moderator. Do NOT attempt to force the moderator to modkill you.
-Current Game Discussion-
A player in an ongoing game may not discuss that game with any other player in that game, or in public forums. Also, it is a good idea to ask permission before discussing the game with anyone outside the game, because they can no longer replace into the game once any meaningful discussion takes place.
-Cryptoclaims-
Unless explicitly authorized by the game moderator in their opening rules section, cryptoclaims are forbidden.
-Out-of-game Promises-
Players may not use out-of-game promises (example: I swear on my grandmother's life, I bet you my entire collection of magic cards, etc.) in an effort to influence other players.
-Multiple Players On One Account-
"Hydra" accounts - multiple people playing and posting as one player with shared access to the "gimmick" account, are not allowed unless they have prior approval from the specific game Moderator. Please do not do this on your own.
-Traitor/Alignment Switching Roles-
Game moderators are strongly encouraged to be extraordinarily careful if they seek to include a traitor role in their designs. These roles are notorious for causing games to implode, for creating fairness concerns, and for the challenge they pose to the town's behavioral analysis. (See Discussion in Council Thread, Post 3351, onwards.)
Please note that bold red text is permitted by non-moderators in this subforum for town/scum lists, game host actions, and similar. Just don’t use it excessively.
TL;DR: Be excellent to each other, post something substantial every 48 hours, ask me questions in private when possible, don’t edit or delete posts unless your role explicitly allows it, no funny business involving cryptography, etc. and... have fun, that’s the whole point. Deadlines:
All day phases will have a deadline equal to 11 days. Night phases will last for as close to 72 hours as I can manage, but the deadline for night actions will be 71 hours so I can open the thread promptly when Day begins.
I will post the deadline and approximate time remaining until the deadline at start of day and when I post official vote counts. I will PM players with unsubmitted night actions 24 hours before the action deadline as a reminder. Lynching:
Players will be lynched once a simple majority of votes for that player is achieved (i.e. Majority lynch).
There will likely be some amount of time (twilight) between the final lynch vote and the lynch scene. Players may post during twilight.
If a majority lynch is not achieved by the deadline, no lynch will occur. Order of Operations:
The short version is, stuff works the way you probably expect it to work. If you have a question about a specific interaction, PM me and I will explain in general terms how it would resolve. Other Role Stuff:
You cannot self-target unless your role PM specifies otherwise.
[Active] abilities must be manually activated each time you wish to use them (i.e. you need to PM me, preferably with the intended activation in bold). These abilities can be tracked, roleblocked, and redirected unless otherwise specified.
[Passive] abilities are always active and cannot be tracked, roleblocked or redirected.
Active abilities with a limited number of shots will expend a shot when activated even if they fail to resolve. Passive abilities with a limited number of shots will automatically expend shots when used.
Killing a player does not prevent them from using night actions or being targeted by other night actions.
The Mafia Factional Night Kill is an [Active] ability and can be tracked, roleblocked, redirected, etc.
There is a limit of one night action per player per night. The Mafia Factional Night Kill does not count towards this limit.
This game has one line role + alignment flips.
Voting:
I will NOT be using Ecophagy’s vote counter to total your votes. However, in the interest of site wide voting consistency, I ask that the following voting rules still be adhered to.
Creating vote counts will be trivial for me (and you!) with this tool, however it places some restrictions on the ways you can vote.
The current voting rules are:
Make sure your votes are bolded. Please keep nicknames reasonable.
Unvotes must stand alone (instead of using "unvote: player X", simply use “unvote”).
A player cannot vote and then afterwards unvote in the same post (the program looks for unvotes before votes).
Do not use extraneous punctuation in your vote. A single “:” after the word “vote” is permissible but not required.
You must have a space between the word "vote" and the name of the player you wish to vote. If you use a colon, the space must appear after the colon. Ex.: [b.]Vote shadowlancerx[./b] or [b.]Vote: shadowlancerx[./b]
You cannot use italics or colors when voting unless you make the bold tags the innermost tags. Ex: [color.=blue][b.]Vote: shadowlancerx[./b][./color]
I do encourage you to color your votes though
Do not put extra spaces between your vote and the bold tags. This kills the vote.
If your vote was not counted, simply vote again. “Incorrect” vote counts will not be altered unless I determine they were uncounted due to an error in the program by me.
If you accidentally break quote tags that contain someone else's vote, your vote will be changed by the machine and you will need to revote.
In general, if you vote using the player’s full name and only type “[b.]vote playername[./b]” (without the periods) your vote will be counted.
You can generate your own vote counts by downloading the tool here. Note that the “nicknames” field is a comma delineated list that will work incorrectly if you use spaces after the commas. Victory Conditions:
The Town wins when all threats to their team are eliminated.
The Mafia wins if they ever have the same number of living players as the town, or if nothing can prevent that from happening.
Role PMs will start going out. You may being posting in you cell chats until the start of day one (24 hours or when at least 7 people confirm, whichever is longer). There will be no prods assessed until at least the day after Christmas (Dec 26th).
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
The vote felt like buddying to me and attacking Cyan with no reason.
I feel that his mindset wasn't quite right. He thought my first post was cute enough to vote the person who attacked me. The vote for Cyan is what pushed it over the edge.
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Damnit Cyan, how's a guy supposed to abstain from RVS when you break it 9 posts in?
I'm glad to be back, as the only OOG sentiment I'll make, and I'm glad some familiar faces are along for the ride.
Anyhow.
@osie What's your issue with Vezok's post? Content, mindset, otherwise? Does his later explanation in #24 change your opinion?
@Cyan I have the same issue with Joe's post that you do with Vezok's post, but maybe that's bias of having a meta to draw off of for Vezok, fuzzy as it may be. Thoughts?
The vote felt like buddying to me and attacking Cyan with no reason.
I feel that his mindset wasn't quite right. He thought my first post was cute enough to vote the person who attacked me. The vote for Cyan is what pushed it over the edge.
Heres a brief history... Cyan and I had a huge fight (I think t vs t) and I vowed not to play in another game with him ever again and he quit the site for a bit. Then his first game back i say screw it and I decide to join. There, I will try very hard to be civil with him, but I at least needed to put my rvs vote on him to welcome him back.
The vote felt like buddying to me and attacking Cyan with no reason.
I feel that his mindset wasn't quite right. He thought my first post was cute enough to vote the person who attacked me. The vote for Cyan is what pushed it over the edge.
"Buddying" and "attacking" are things you expect from scum at this stage?
I don't follow what's your problem with his "mindset".
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
If this is true, I am a) mildly offended that I was not on that list and b) slightly intrigued that it happened.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
This is a boldfaced lie.
This is a lie, therefore his alignment is _________ because _________.
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
If this is true, I am a) mildly offended that I was not on that list and b) slightly intrigued that it happened.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Cyan vote." Also, do you care to go into detail as to how the lie is, in fact, a lie?
@GJ In the character-limited memo?
@arc What types of scum behavior would you be expecting at this phase of the game, if not buddying?
I'm used to scum just AFK'ing / lolcatting during daystart, with only a couple exceptions where they actually did things.
I've just realized my question is kinda dumb because you guys have obviously a different meta. I don't doubt scum can buddy. Maybe a better question would be why he chose to see it as buddying and attacking over a town perspective.
I love you shadow, but interesting choice to start this on Christmas weekend.
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
Each chat has two people in it. The people in the adjacent cells. Did you even read the rules?
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Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
Each chat has two people in it. The people in the adjacent cells. Did you even read the rules?
Im in cell A, so I can only chat with Osi. I didn’t really pay attention to how it worked for people with 2 neighbors
Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
This, followed up with his 'Oh I'm in cellblock A I only have one partner' response a couple of posts after this, sound like complete and utter rubbish.
Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
This, followed up with his 'Oh I'm in cellblock A I only have one partner' response a couple of posts after this, sound like complete and utter rubbish.
Unvote, Vote Terry
Did you read what that was in response to? Are we really going to do this again?
Interesting. I feel the same way about Terry's vote on me that Vezok seems to. Hmm.
Dear Cyan,
Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
This, followed up with his 'Oh I'm in cellblock A I only have one partner' response a couple of posts after this, sound like complete and utter rubbish.
I don't have any issues with Terry's cellblock comment. Inattentiveness to rules has often struck me as a townslip more than it does scum not needing to care about mechanics.
While my gut told me that Terry's "Dear Cyan" response was the scummiest act in this game (disingenuous, somewhat OMGUS-ish, "deep down inside" reads like an over-explanation/appeal to emotion), after a few hours away from it, I could see that response being genuine frustration. Sort of in an "oh god, here we go again" manner while attempting to keep the peace.
But @Terry, of course he read what it was in response to.
A Mini for 10 Players
By Shadowlancerx
Reviewed by D_V and Anaklusmos
I know I know, you didn't do it, you were setup, your lawyer is getting your second appeal set for next Tuesday, yadda yadda. Trust me I've heard it all. And I don't care what you have to say. Keep your head down, don't make eye contact, and don't be stupid. You'll do fine. Sure, your cell mate might smell bad, and the food tastes like fermented toe jam, but this is the good life, and you better get used to it.
This is Prison Block Mafia, where you spend your days in general population with your fellow inmates, and your nights isolated, save for the whispered conversation with those in the cell(s) next to you.
This game functions like a standard Mafia game, with a couple notable exceptions:
Game specific Rules:
-Each player will be assigned a cell from A-J at random, in addition to your role. You will have unlimited night chat with each player in a cell adjacent to yours (Sorry A and J, that means you get half the fun).
-During the day, you may send up to 3 notes of no more than 120 characters to each person you share a chat with.
-(Please note that flavor has been randomized.)
Serving Time
I. Grapefruit21, Town Vanilla survived and won in Endgame
J. Killjoy, Town Intuitive survived and won in Endgame
Dead
C. Gentleman Johnny, Neutral Pariah Won and left the game Night 1
G. Vezokpiraka, Mafia Fury Lynched day 2
B. Osieorb18, Town Vanilla killed night 2
F. ganderin_dan, Town Vanilla Lynched day 3
D. Vaimes, Town Vanilla killed night 3
H. Cyan, Town Vanilla Lynched day 4
E. Arcthurus, Town Vanilla killed night 4
A. TheRealStinkyJoeTerry, Mafia Vanilla lynched day 5
Potential transfers (replace)
1. LnGrrrR
2. Regfan
3. Rhand
4. Tomsloger
5. Gemma
6. Ecophagy
Watching from the Guard station (spectate)
1. Anaklusmos
Regular game rules (
StolenBorrowed from Silvercrys):1: Mafia is a game, we’re here to have fun. Please be respectful of your fellow
playersinmates. Sometimes emotions run high and we get caught up in the moment. That is not an excuse for flaming or poor sportsmanship.2: When generating (or faking, as applicable) reads, please do not use angleshooting or out of game knowledge to the best of your ability. This means do not use the timing, reasons, or order of substitutions and modkills to influence others, do not use the timing or phrasing of role PMs to influence others, do not make alignment bets with out of game consequences, and do not use “trust tells” or similar. This list is not exhaustive.
3: If you have a question about your role or a rules interaction, please PM me or message me on Discord. I will not answer questions posed to me in the game thread other than questions about vote counts or deadlines. If you raise a question that needs addressing to the entire game (regarding a special rule or similar) I will anonymize your question and announce the answer.
4: Do not talk about this game outside of this thread and quicktopic links or PMs given to you in your role PM or approved by me. Please ensure I am copied on PMs sent to other players. This is a modkillable offense.
5: No funny business. Do not use invisible text, cryptography, tiny writing, hidden messages, acronym/alphabet claims, or similar. This is a modkillable offense.
6: Do not directly quote your role PM or any private communications (QuickTopics, etc.) when posting in the main game thread. This includes mason chats and scum chats. Please paraphrase - if you are in doubt, ask me before posting! This is a modkillable offense.
7: Do not edit, delete, or thank posts. Even if it’s an accidental double post. This is a modkillable offense.
8: Please post content at least once every 48 hours. Content is, of course, subjective, but “Posting to avoid prod,” “catching up,” or similar short not-really-game-related posts are obviously not content. If you need to be absent for an extended period of time please post “V/LA until [Date]” in bold on its own line in the thread so that I and the other players know when you’ll be back. You do not need to explain your reasons for being absent in thread. If you will be gone for more than four or five days you should consider requesting replacement.
9: You are responsible for following all forum and subforum rules and guidelines. Forum-wide rules are available here, and our subforum specific Mafia rules are in the Mafia Hosting Sign-Ups & Hosting Rules thread (spoilered here for convenience):
Players may participate in only three games at any given time. An exception to this rule can be made by moderators in need of a replacement for a game, if no other replacement can be found.
-Suicide-
If you no longer wish to participate in a game for any reason, contact the moderator. Do NOT attempt to force the moderator to modkill you.
-Current Game Discussion-
A player in an ongoing game may not discuss that game with any other player in that game, or in public forums. Also, it is a good idea to ask permission before discussing the game with anyone outside the game, because they can no longer replace into the game once any meaningful discussion takes place.
-Cryptoclaims-
Unless explicitly authorized by the game moderator in their opening rules section, cryptoclaims are forbidden.
-Out-of-game Promises-
Players may not use out-of-game promises (example: I swear on my grandmother's life, I bet you my entire collection of magic cards, etc.) in an effort to influence other players.
-Multiple Players On One Account-
"Hydra" accounts - multiple people playing and posting as one player with shared access to the "gimmick" account, are not allowed unless they have prior approval from the specific game Moderator. Please do not do this on your own.
-Traitor/Alignment Switching Roles-
Game moderators are strongly encouraged to be extraordinarily careful if they seek to include a traitor role in their designs. These roles are notorious for causing games to implode, for creating fairness concerns, and for the challenge they pose to the town's behavioral analysis. (See Discussion in Council Thread, Post 3351, onwards.)
Deadlines:
All day phases will have a deadline equal to 11 days. Night phases will last for as close to 72 hours as I can manage, but the deadline for night actions will be 71 hours so I can open the thread promptly when Day begins.
I will post the deadline and approximate time remaining until the deadline at start of day and when I post official vote counts. I will PM players with unsubmitted night actions 24 hours before the action deadline as a reminder.
Lynching:
Players will be lynched once a simple majority of votes for that player is achieved (i.e. Majority lynch).
There will likely be some amount of time (twilight) between the final lynch vote and the lynch scene. Players may post during twilight.
If a majority lynch is not achieved by the deadline, no lynch will occur.
Order of Operations:
The short version is, stuff works the way you probably expect it to work. If you have a question about a specific interaction, PM me and I will explain in general terms how it would resolve.
Other Role Stuff:
Voting:
I will NOT be using Ecophagy’s vote counter to total your votes.
However, in the interest of site wide voting consistency, I ask that the following voting rules still be adhered to.
Creating vote counts will be trivial for me (and you!) with this tool, however it places some restrictions on the ways you can vote.
The current voting rules are:
in the programby me.You can generate your own vote counts by downloading the tool here. Note that the “nicknames” field is a comma delineated list that will work incorrectly if you use spaces after the commas.
Victory Conditions:
The Town wins when all threats to their team are eliminated.
The Mafia wins if they ever have the same number of living players as the town, or if nothing can prevent that from happening.
Day one starts now!!
God, so many people I haven't seen in a while.
Vote ganderin_dan. Welcome back to the forum!
Also welcome back Vezok and Cyan. No votes for you though.
for having the shortest username.
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Vote Gentleman Johnnny
Oh, that wasn't that hard.
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Honestly feels like this is trying too hard. Vote Vezokpiraza for realsies.
To avoid being pocketed down the line.
@Cyan: is that realsies vote based on some meta thing for vezok, or something else?
Vote: Cyan
Here we goooooooooooo!
[b.]Vote TheRealStinkyJoeTerry[./b]
Vote TheRealStinkyJoeTerry
I just felt like his RVS post was like..trying to hard to act casual?
No idea what Grapefruit is referring to, I barely remember him.
Fair enough.
I spent a lot of time on that post, because it was my first mafia related post in 2 years.
Now on to real stuff. What's up with this vote? First post and I already thing you are scum.
Vote The RealStinkyJoeTerry
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for making this post this early.
ganderin_dan -(1)- Killjoy
Cyan -(2)- Grapefruit21, TheRealStinkyJoeTerry
vezokpiraka -(2)- Cyan, Osieorb18
TheRealStinkyJoeTerry -(2)- Arcthurus, vezokpiraka
Not Voting -(3)- Gentleman Johnny, Vaimes, ganderin_dan
Lynch threshold is 6 votes.
Day 1 ends at 2359 Eastern Time on Wednesday 3 January 2018
What do you mean, in regards to Stinky?
I feel that his mindset wasn't quite right. He thought my first post was cute enough to vote the person who attacked me. The vote for Cyan is what pushed it over the edge.
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I think Cyan’s town.
No RVS vote from me.
Bye.
I'm glad to be back, as the only OOG sentiment I'll make, and I'm glad some familiar faces are along for the ride.
Anyhow.
@osie What's your issue with Vezok's post? Content, mindset, otherwise? Does his later explanation in #24 change your opinion?
@Cyan I have the same issue with Joe's post that you do with Vezok's post, but maybe that's bias of having a meta to draw off of for Vezok, fuzzy as it may be. Thoughts?
Nah, I just have been pocketed by neighbor chats about 5 times.
"Buddying" and "attacking" are things you expect from scum at this stage?
I don't follow what's your problem with his "mindset".
Vote Osierb. He slipped uber hard. I think he meant to send a message to wolf chat at ended up messaging me. Basically, he implied that Dan or Vezok should be focused today.
The GJ way path to no lynching:
Hey Vaimes, why do you think Cyan is town?
This is a boldfaced lie.
Just seemed overdefensive. Cyan vote was not the more relevant part of the post.
@GJ In the character-limited memo?
@arc What types of scum behavior would you be expecting at this phase of the game, if not buddying?
I'm used to scum just AFK'ing / lolcatting during daystart, with only a couple exceptions where they actually did things.
I've just realized my question is kinda dumb because you guys have obviously a different meta. I don't doubt scum can buddy. Maybe a better question would be why he chose to see it as buddying and attacking over a town perspective.
Vote Osierb
GJ has sent a message saying that he is fully aware that was a lie, and that it is there to see what reaction he gets.
If it'sa gambit stop it now, because it's about as useful as posting random letters.
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Of course you feel that way. I feel I sufficiently explained that vote as an RVS vote. I’m sorry you didn’t think it was funny.
Also @all why would GJ lie about Osi scum slipping in their chat? Isn’t there a third person in that chat that could confirm or deny? I deep down inside don’t want Osi to be scum because I will be lonely in my cell block.
Each chat has two people in it. The people in the adjacent cells. Did you even read the rules?
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This, followed up with his 'Oh I'm in cellblock A I only have one partner' response a couple of posts after this, sound like complete and utter rubbish.
Unvote, Vote Terry
What do you mean?
While my gut told me that Terry's "Dear Cyan" response was the scummiest act in this game (disingenuous, somewhat OMGUS-ish, "deep down inside" reads like an over-explanation/appeal to emotion), after a few hours away from it, I could see that response being genuine frustration. Sort of in an "oh god, here we go again" manner while attempting to keep the peace.
But @Terry, of course he read what it was in response to.