There is an old hypothetical question: A number of historical figures are in a hot air balloon, but their combined weight along with their egos is too much for the balloon. They must therefore decide amongst themselves who has contributed the least to history, and must be thrown from the balloon to save the others.
The realm of philosophy is a wonderful place; the grass is green, countryside is lush, the hills are rolling. Dotted around the landscape are small communities, which consist mostly of wizened men with enormous greying beards who debate back and forth life’s mysteries and the significance of various historical events. Within this realm philosophical ideals and the human drama are brought to life – creators create civilisations to watch them from the outside; quests are set to see if we are going anywhere; Free will is manipulated and tested; Arrows are shot at Tortoises to see if they are logically the fastest animal.
Above the this idyllic countryside, Balloons hang in the air as its occupants ponder the question of who has contributed least to society and history and must be thrown out to save the remaining characters from the failing balloon.
It is in one such balloon that our story unfolds.
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You awaken one morning to find yourselves afloat several thousand feet above the far away ground, and rapidly come to the realisation that the balloon is sinking. Sighing, you drag yourself out of your bed. You know the drill; you must debate amongst yourselves who has contributed the least and must be tossed out for the greater good.
However, this time something is amiss: A group has already surrounded one member. Shouting and jostling they grab a hold of him and – despite his frantic protests –hurl him overboard. Some lean over the edge and watch him plummet to his doom on the cold, hard, philosophical earth.
AbbeyGargoyle - Machiavelli, Neutral Reviewer has been thrown to his death.
This is not how it is supposed to happen – there must be days of reasonable debate. Others seem to share your concern. A quick glance around reveals what you had feared – the infamous and notorious characters who are provided as “easy choices” are nowhere to be seen. They have reverted to the mode that they appeared on the historical scene: unobtrusive, non-threatening, rational and easily mistaken for one of the mob. In short, they are hiding amongst the more celebrated occupants.
A jolt as the balloon dips brings you to your senses. You must find and cast out the rogues who are going against the rules, and are trying to overtake the ship and survive by downright underhand skullduggery and deception. It is up to you and the collective wisdom of mob justice to stop them before they succeed and the most influential and renowned men and women are murdered in cold blood.
This is Balloon Debate Mafia!
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The Living: (3/12)
Cantripmancer - Ivan the Terrible, Mafia Poisoner
ChrisXIV - Pol Pot, Mafia Goon
ced395 -Adolf Hitler, Mafia Goon
The Dead: (9/12) AbbeyGargoyle - Machiavelli, Neutral Reviewer - Thrown from the Balloon pregame, resurrected Day 1 and struck by lightning Day 2
Bilbroxain - Marilyn Monroe, Townie Roleblocker - Brains devoured by majoity vote Day 1 (lynched) Chaos550 Zindabad - Isaac Newton, Vanilla Town - Shot point blank Night 1
AsianInvasion - Richard Garfield, Vanilla Town - Tossed overboard by general consensus Day 2
Toastboy - George Lucas, Town Watcher - Died from the effects of posion Night 2
The Semantimancer - Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart, vanilla town - Impaled Night 2 Casual Thor Shadow Knight - Albert Einstien, town cop - Cast from the balloon day 3 The Fallen One DoubtingTheCandy - Winston Churchill, Vanilla Town - Shot during Endgame
Drakoguard - Charles Dickens, Vanilla town - sliced in half in endgame
Kpaca - Abraham Lincoln, vanilla town - suicided in endgame
(feel free to be added to this list at any time)
Evilzak
Archmage Eternal
Skander
Rules (Pilfered from Loran, stolen from Some One, stolen from Stormblind, stolen from CropCircles, stolen from carrion pigeons, who stole them from loran16, who then stole them from SorryGuy, who retrieved them courteously from Xyre, who jacked them from Jobie, who stole them from Puzzle, but Puzzel stole them from Crippled_Fist, who stole them from Ljustus, who stole them from carrion pigeons, who copyrighted them from CropCircles, who first pirated them from Puzzle, who got them in a private message from Halo_Freak):
1. Bold your votes and unvotes please, this makes it easier for us. They should look like this: Vote loran16
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8. Please do not edit or delete your posts no matter how stupid a mistake you made. This will get you modkilled. This is your only warning.
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10. Even after you are dead, please refrain from discussing the game or your role with anyone, even other players who have also been eliminated. If you have any questions about this rule, please ask.
11. If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 72-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Otherwise, you may be prodded or replaced.
12. If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you – if you do not submit a choice to me, tough! No choice will be made.
13. Lynches will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will go unheeded.
14. If you are requesting a mod prod or vote count, please bold you request so that we can see it more clearly.
15. In order to keep this game moving, everyone is expected to post at least once every two to three days and if you don't, you may be replaced or modkilled. WITHOUT WARNING, whatever your side.
16. The Town Win Condition is: You win when the Mafia have been Cast from the Balloon.
17. HAVE FUN. This is not optional.
18. Lastly and most importantly. Respect us and the rest of the players; I hope I do not have to modkill anyone.
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I would highly recommend this tutorial if if you need to learn/remind yourself of the basics of play.
Note: Since this is my first game, I have yet to achieve the status of Infallible Moderator. Therefore, if I have made any real or perceived errors do please let me know via PM or in thread (in bold). If you have any questions, ask away.
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Day 1 of Balloon Debate Mafia has dawned!
With 12 alive, it takes 7 votes to lynch!
Toastboy, I'd like you to respond again to my post 19.
"Trying to be funny" is too vague.
Be more exact in your "random reasoning".
Meh, this sounds too much like Toastboy in general for me to read too much into it. It'll garner a blip to be noted, but I don't think he's all that "suspicious". Not like scummy kpaca, anyway.
You're pretty serious pretty quickly, ChrisXIV. Bored with the random?
FOS: ChrisXIV, Chaos550, and ced395 for being the number mafia.
FOS: The Semantimancer/Turk for causing confusion this early in the game.
Epic fail on my part; completely misread your post (you were responding to why you think Toastboy is suspicious). I'd unvote you, but I'm curious to hear your response to ced's question, since his "bandwagoning" matches your actions.
Toastboy: What's DITBF? And your bandwagon post also came off as a joke to me, although ramping anyone up to 3 votes at this point "for the fun of it" certainly sounds like it has the potential to be a scumtactic. It doesn't place anyone in jeopardy, but has a subtle "Oh wow, Kpaca has three votes! Maybe he's scummier than I thought!!!" kind of effect on the other players. (Why, oh, why can't kpaca still have three votes on him? We need to apply pressure to the pressure-cooker. ;))
Toastboy is town ladies and gentleman, lets not be silly here.
I think you're right, but you sound like you know for sure; how is that? (For me, Toastboy's always so hard to read. He always comes off as newb town, but with that just-scummy-enough-to-attract-attention vibe.)
I think you're right, but you sound like you know for sure; how is that? (For me, Toastboy's always so hard to read. He always comes off as newb town, but with that just-scummy-enough-to-attract-attention vibe.)
I mentioned before that I didn't consider the third random vote much of a tell. However, others evidently do, and they responded to the vote (such as Chris, AI, and Bilbro). You were obviously going to react to those, to some degree.
I posed my question, thinking that your reaction would maybe shape your answer. The answer would therefore be a small indicator of your alignment either way. In this case, the answer you gave was one I would expect more from a townie.
Actually, I voted Toastboy before he made that vote.
Meh, this sounds too much like Toastboy in general for me to read too much into it. It'll garner a blip to be noted, but I don't think he's all that "suspicious". Not like scummy kpaca, anyway.
You're pretty serious pretty quickly, ChrisXIV. Bored with the random?
FOS: ChrisXIV, Chaos550, and ced395 for being the number mafia.
FOS: The Semantimancer/Turk for causing confusion this early in the game.
TFO, I really don't understand how you people can take things so seriously so early. Suspicoin for admitting bandwagoning? "/bandwagon" - doesn't really imply conventional sentiment.
The realm of philosophy is a wonderful place; the grass is green, countryside is lush, the hills are rolling. Dotted around the landscape are small communities, which consist mostly of wizened men with enormous greying beards who debate back and forth life’s mysteries and the significance of various historical events. Within this realm philosophical ideals and the human drama are brought to life – creators create civilisations to watch them from the outside; quests are set to see if we are going anywhere; Free will is manipulated and tested; Arrows are shot at Tortoises to see if they are logically the fastest animal.
Above the this idyllic countryside, Balloons hang in the air as its occupants ponder the question of who has contributed least to society and history and must be thrown out to save the remaining characters from the failing balloon.
It is in one such balloon that our story unfolds.
******
You awaken one morning to find yourselves afloat several thousand feet above the far away ground, and rapidly come to the realisation that the balloon is sinking. Sighing, you drag yourself out of your bed. You know the drill; you must debate amongst yourselves who has contributed the least and must be tossed out for the greater good.
However, this time something is amiss: A group has already surrounded one member. Shouting and jostling they grab a hold of him and – despite his frantic protests –hurl him overboard. Some lean over the edge and watch him plummet to his doom on the cold, hard, philosophical earth.
AbbeyGargoyle - Machiavelli, Neutral Reviewer has been thrown to his death.
This is not how it is supposed to happen – there must be days of reasonable debate. Others seem to share your concern. A quick glance around reveals what you had feared – the infamous and notorious characters who are provided as “easy choices” are nowhere to be seen. They have reverted to the mode that they appeared on the historical scene: unobtrusive, non-threatening, rational and easily mistaken for one of the mob. In short, they are hiding amongst the more celebrated occupants.
A jolt as the balloon dips brings you to your senses. You must find and cast out the rogues who are going against the rules, and are trying to overtake the ship and survive by downright underhand skullduggery and deception. It is up to you and the collective wisdom of mob justice to stop them before they succeed and the most influential and renowned men and women are murdered in cold blood.
This is Balloon Debate Mafia!
***********************************************
The Living: (3/12)
Cantripmancer - Ivan the Terrible, Mafia Poisoner
ChrisXIV - Pol Pot, Mafia Goon
ced395 -Adolf Hitler, Mafia Goon
The Dead: (9/12)
AbbeyGargoyle - Machiavelli, Neutral Reviewer - Thrown from the Balloon pregame, resurrected Day 1 and struck by lightning Day 2
Bilbroxain - Marilyn Monroe, Townie Roleblocker - Brains devoured by majoity vote Day 1 (lynched)
Chaos550Zindabad - Isaac Newton, Vanilla Town - Shot point blank Night 1AsianInvasion - Richard Garfield, Vanilla Town - Tossed overboard by general consensus Day 2
Toastboy - George Lucas, Town Watcher - Died from the effects of posion Night 2
The Semantimancer - Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart, vanilla town - Impaled Night 2
Casual ThorShadow Knight - Albert Einstien, town cop - Cast from the balloon day 3The Fallen OneDoubtingTheCandy - Winston Churchill, Vanilla Town - Shot during EndgameDrakoguard - Charles Dickens, Vanilla town - sliced in half in endgame
Kpaca - Abraham Lincoln, vanilla town - suicided in endgame
Evilzak
Archmage Eternal
Skander
Mod Status: Game Over, Mafia win!
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12. If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you – if you do not submit a choice to me, tough! No choice will be made.
13. Lynches will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will go unheeded.
14. If you are requesting a mod prod or vote count, please bold you request so that we can see it more clearly.
15. In order to keep this game moving, everyone is expected to post at least once every two to three days and if you don't, you may be replaced or modkilled. WITHOUT WARNING, whatever your side.
16. The Town Win Condition is: You win when the Mafia have been Cast from the Balloon.
17. HAVE FUN. This is not optional.
18. Lastly and most importantly. Respect us and the rest of the players; I hope I do not have to modkill anyone.
*******************************************************************************
I would highly recommend this tutorial if if you need to learn/remind yourself of the basics of play.
Note: Since this is my first game, I have yet to achieve the status of Infallible Moderator. Therefore, if I have made any real or perceived errors do please let me know via PM or in thread (in bold). If you have any questions, ask away.
If you are on the above players list and do not have a role PM, PM me.
Please read and abide the rules above. Especially the bit about not editing posts.
Day 1 of Balloon Debate Mafia has dawned!
With 12 alive, it takes 7 votes to lynch!
Vote: kpaca (he knows why).
Vote Semantimancer because semantics just leads to corrections.
Thanks to High~Light Studios for this banner
:mad1:Drakoguard, Fiery God of Dragons:mad1:
My Extendo
This. Apparently, the man does interesting things when pressure is applied on him.
Vote: kpaca
Vote Toastboy for being made of toast.
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
Unvote kpaca.
FoS Toastboy.
Bad toastboy. Confirm vote.
Random voting stage
Post 4 - Post 17
Alas, random voting stage, ye died young, and this game never actually knew ye.
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
Your two comments are somewhat contradictory.
You don't think it's a tell, but you want him to justify it anyway?
vote: AsianInvasion No less.
you put a third vote on a person in the random stage. That's generally looked on as a bad idea.
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
Vote AsianInvasion for having an awesome avvy/sig
Legacy: WUB Doomsday
Standard: WUB Reanimator
Afternoon old chaps, I'll be playing my vote on AsianInvasion
Well I never...
(/confirm)
Vote: Drakoguard: Retaliatory vote
Legacy: WUB Doomsday
Standard: WUB Reanimator
He's suspicious.
Vote Count #1 - The "everyone has confirmed" votecount
AsianInvasion - 3
kpaca, Chaos550, The Fallen One
ToastBoy - 1
Bilbroxain
ChrisXIV - 1
ced395
kpaca - 1
Cantripmancer
Drakoguard - 1
"Turk" The Semantimancer
The Semantimancer - 1
Drakoguard
Not voting - 4
Toastboy, chrisXIV, CasualThor, AsianInvasion
Why am I suspicious? Because I don't post when I'm not online?
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
Admitting to bandwagoning.
You're pretty serious pretty quickly, ChrisXIV. Bored with the random?
FOS: ChrisXIV, Chaos550, and ced395 for being the number mafia.
FOS: The Semantimancer/Turk for causing confusion this early in the game.
Ah!!! Scummy admissions!!!!
Unvote: Kpaca
Vote: The Fallen One
Oops, sorry, Chris; I meant to address that comment to ced (he was the one I quoted).
Epic fail on my part; completely misread your post (you were responding to why you think Toastboy is suspicious). I'd unvote you, but I'm curious to hear your response to ced's question, since his "bandwagoning" matches your actions.
Toastboy: What's DITBF? And your bandwagon post also came off as a joke to me, although ramping anyone up to 3 votes at this point "for the fun of it" certainly sounds like it has the potential to be a scumtactic. It doesn't place anyone in jeopardy, but has a subtle "Oh wow, Kpaca has three votes! Maybe he's scummier than I thought!!!" kind of effect on the other players. (Why, oh, why can't kpaca still have three votes on him? We need to apply pressure to the pressure-cooker. ;))
I think you're right, but you sound like you know for sure; how is that? (For me, Toastboy's always so hard to read. He always comes off as newb town, but with that just-scummy-enough-to-attract-attention vibe.)
He's clearly newb scum whose getting jumped on for nothing, as usual.
Also unfos Bil, that was really just to get the game moving some.
Suuuuuure you did.
I'd like to hear an explanation for this, considering you're doing exactly what you accused Toastboy of doing.
UnFoS Toastboy
FoS TFO
Also, thanks chaos...I guess.
Actually, I voted Toastboy before he made that vote.
No. Moving on.
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
Unvote
will be looking for info soon.
Many thanks to Sgt. Chubbz of Damnation studios.
wut
It was random, I didn't count how many votes were on AI, thats the mods job
Meh, I was half joking.
Only half joking??
The way ced is playing smells scummy.
Why did you repeat my post
Do elaborate.
Do elaborate!?!?!