GAMEPLAY RULES
1. The usual about talking to other people, quoting PMs, editing posts, invisitext, posting after death, and so on and so forth applies. When in doubt, ask the mod. Recognize that, usually, he’s right and you’re wrong.
2. If you think the mod has made a mistake, PM him to ask. Do not post questions for the mod in the thread if at all possible.
3. A player voting for himself/herself will be considered the day's lynch, and the game will immediately progress to night. This rule will be ignored for the first 150 posts.
4. Because the mod’s a nice guy, players who may communicate via PM may do so at any time.
SPECIAL RULES
1. FOS means Finger of Suspicion (like so: FOS Xyre). Because the mod’s a nice guy, he will keep track of these in addition to votes. Note that this may have unintended consequences.
2. When a player needs to be replaced, rather than take the first person off the list, the mod will instead contact all players, and the first to respond will replace in.
3. Players on the replacement list may be the target of abilities.
WORDS OF ADVICE
0. Read the rules. A lot of good people came in on their days off to write them, and you wouldn't want to make them angry. They're not the kind of people who get angry. They get even.
1. Because trusting nobody is the surest sign of scum, try trusting everybody. That way, you'll always be surprised.
2. The past is not always the best determinant of the future. Nor is the future the best determinant of the past.
3. This game will punish you severely for your bad habits and not paying attention. Your best ally is always your enemy.
4. All references to the mod being a nice guy in the rules above are lies. The mod is a liar. Of course, he could be lying right now - and how would you know?
"When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven, or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and human tragedy."
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"...and, unfortunately, the boy died on the way to the hospital."
"Tragic. In other news, the Fiasco Corporation, a Fortune 100 company specializing in almost fantastic technology and possessing numerous military contracts, has come under fire recently for some of its shadier connections. Our own Alisha Soren has the report."
"Thank you, Craig. I'm standing in front of the Fiasco Corporation's headquarters in New York City, the center of one of the most disturbing corporate scandals since Enron's fall..."
MONDAY
The room was what you would expect from any corporate meeting: a presentation mid-slide on the screen, denoting the benefits of TFC expanding to Bangalore and the business that would create in India; papers and plastic cups tossed about the table, but somehow neatly organized, like some obsessive-compulsive psychopath went to town on them; chairs askew, as if they had been occupied only moments before; pastries and coffee in the corner. What was more unexpected was the body lying in the middle of the table, a letter opener in his chest.
For rather obvious reasons, this looked rather bad. Within moments of the discovery of the body, management shut down the building. The doors were locked, the outbound lines shut down. Nobody and nothing entered and left. This called for a wholly modern cover-up.
The good news was that it was 12:30 AM - 12:30 AM, 14 December 2018 - and the building was wonderfully underoccupied; people had left long before to return to their families and children and hopeless, hopeless middle-class mid-life crises. The bad news was that someone called the presses. If the doors weren't locked, anyone who tried to leave would be immediately flooded with requests for comment from every major news station - ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, the Alliance News Network, CNN, MSNBC, and every newspaper, rebel television station, and internet publication with enough of a budget to cover the largest corporate story in years. "Live, before your eyes, the collapse of one of the largest, most successful businesses in the world, wracked by scandal, because we know you want it, America!"
One of you goes to the window and looks down. Already, the more zealous of the news networks have reporters scaling the walls of the glass-and-steel building, with grappling hooks and electromagnets, trying to reach an opening, however small, in the building's defenses. Another one of you chuckles. "Welcome back to the Middle Ages, mates - the barbarians are at the gates."
The man in the undone tie and shirt missing a button snaps at him. "There's no time for that kind of nonsense." He pauses to adjust himself. He's clearly agitated. "Now, the senior advisement has told me that the best solution to this mess is to halt all communications and move directly to a Level Gamma emergency." Those of you in the know gasp, recognizing the issue. For those of you who aren't in the know, first, shame on you for not reading page 7512 in "Standard Operating Procedures for the Fiasco Corporation, v. 123.12.7.5". Second, everything at TFC is measured in levels. Gamma is the level intended for terrorist attacks and media circuses. In this case, the former would have been more welcome.
He turns to address the lot of you. "Ladies and gentlemen, I know this is a situation that calls for panic, but we are dedicated to maintaining order. We've already set up facilities for you tonight, and tomorrow, we'll return here to determine the appropriate course of action. There's nothing to see here."
"But-"
"Shut up, Josh!" The man pulls the knife out of the dead guy and points it at the naysayer, who cowers. "Shut up!"
"You're contaminating the evidence-"
"To hell with the evidence!" With a swift motion, the man throws the knife sideways, straight at the presentation board. It impales the word "quality" cleanly. "Don't you get it! None of this will leave this building! We are not shutting down until this issue is resolved." He laughs quietly to himself. "Let the barbarians come. We will meet them with swords and tar, poured from the ramparts."
You all stare, like it's a car accident - limbs and glass flying in many directions, but imperceptible to all but those who are in the blast radius... those who suffer the shrapnel. Eventually, the man notices this. "Go on! The meeting is over." Less out of obedience than out of fright, you all shuffle out of the room. In the distance, you can hear crashing outside, explosions, gunfire, people talking to cameras, and you collectively shake your heads and retreat to the relative safety of your rooms, as the man looks on, with a distant gaze into the dark...
"Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, ****ing idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations."
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
TUESDAY
You all stumble back into the conference room, in various states of repair. Most of you have already disengaged from the business mode; some have stripped themselves of their ties and jackets, and one of you apparently has done the thoughtful thing of bringing a change of clothes. He's dressed in a Yankees shirt, jeans, and looks entirely idiotic.
The conference room looks much different now; for one, the body is gone, instead replaced by a large trail of smeared blood. The knife remains implanted in the projection screen. A window has been broken, probably by the news crews still trying to break their way in, and other windows are riddled with bullet holes, as if someone had fought back. And, most thoughtful, a fresh pot of coffee lurks in the corner.
The same man is standing, looking out into the east, on the far side of the room. The sun drenches him, making you all turn away. He seems to recognize your appearance and turns, coughing. Apparently, he's been smoking all night, out the broken window.
"Good to see you all again. Shall we begin?"
Effective immediately, Cyan is replacing Tilde.
The Racing Rats
1. Sutherlands
2. andelijah
3. Cyan (r. ~Tilde~ r. Cyan)
4. Disrupt_Your_Hymn
5. bateleur
6. RobRoy
7. Pale Mage
8. carrion pigeons
9. krowzy (r. Vampyr)
10. AbbeyGargoyle
11. ZasZ234
12. Zionite
13. jerubbaal
14. armlx
15. BigTime
16. StormBlind
17. The Mad Tapper
18. Jobie
19. Dagger (r. EthanOlivia)
20. Ged
21. Niv (r. GiftsTrix)
22. Charm_Master3125
23. Wrath of Dog (r. Urban Druid)
Downsized 1. The Nameless Man (NPC), impaled on a conference table Monday.
REPLACEMENTS
Cubus
chaosjuggler
creampuffeater
thedragun
sneakyhomunculus
piano rock
goatrevolt
wo bu YAO
iLord
~Tilde~
Wuffles_II
It is now Tuesday. With 23 alive, it is 12 to lynch. You may begin posting now.
I can honestly say that I have no idea what happened there..though, the action PM that I received last night might be a clue. But it could also be a clue to something else that I don't want to give away at the moment.
What?! Look at the initial post; he is dead. Deceased. Kaputt. Indefinitely horizontal. In mafia games, you see, people are occasionally "killed off," and when that sad event occurs, he or she is no longer allowed to post, on account of rigor mortis and what-have-you.
'Welcome to Mafia Salvation', it said, 'Population: 3,660.' And someone, they never figured out who, had painted on the sign in red letters: '1,831 to lynch.'
RR: it was Grakthis. he still hates Cyan for the matrix traitor gig.
Suth: TV mafia? B) or something older?
I'm at a loss at what to do right now, so I'm going to furiously barn CP. Vote Xyre
Private Mod Note
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MTGS stats (won/played)
As scum - 3/5
As town - 5/7
As neutral - none
(I really have been scum a lot)
I'm now writing for Eye of the Vortex, come check out MTG articles and other geek culture
I also moderate the MTG forum, so register (it's free) and voice your thoughts.
I'd like to outline some things you can expect from me, before we begin.
Some of the things I will be doing to assist this meeting:
* Codifying the purpose, scope, and deliverables of the meeting
* Employ a variety of group facilitation and dialogue tools that the facilitator is skilled in and can employ in difficult moments
* Keeping the group on track to achieve its goals in the time allotted
* Either providing the group or helping the group decide what ground rules it should follow and reminding them of these when they are not followed
* Reminding the group of the objectives or deliverables of the meeting
* Setting up a safe environment where members feel comfortable contributing ideas
* Guiding the group through processes designed to help them listen to each other and create solutions together
* Asking open-ended questions that stimulate thinking
* Tentatively paraphrasing or repeating verbatim individual contributions to confirm understanding and ensure they are heard by the whole group
* Tentatively summarizing a recent part of the discussion
* Offering a possible wording for an unspoken question that may currently beset the group
* Ensuring the group doesn't settle for the first thing that they can agree on because they find it painful to go on disagreeing with each other
* Offering opportunities for less forceful members to come forward with contributions
* Ensuring that actions agreed by the group to carry out its decisions are written up for all to see and are assigned to individuals
And of course some things you should not expect from me.
* Back a particular opinion voiced in the group
* Offer my own opinions
* Let the group unconsciously shy away from a difficult area
I'd kindly ask that, as a facilitator from an outside firm, no votes or fos's be placed on me. I have no stake in your control of your company and would like very much for us all to get through this situation as best we can. My only stake is with surviving this rather distasteful situation we've been faced with. I didn't spend my last 10 years as a management consultant for nothing, so If you need anything for the night, comforts, a bottle of champagne, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Not in the mood for random votes though I am of the opinion that claiming survivor...at all is a bad thing, but the way it was done seems credible. But with a night 0 to plan we can't assume this isn't a mafia plot. Either way Urban Druid has just become the default lynch if a deadline is issued and we cannot come to a consensus.
I didn't spend my last 10 years as a management consultant for nothing, so If you need anything for the night, comforts, a bottle of champagne, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
its not a survivor claim... you just lost a town investigation for tonight by voting me.
If that is true, all the more reason to get rid of you now. The last thing that the town can afford as the game progresses is a role that they are penalized for going after.
Besides, I think you're lying anyway. Though it is likely, there is nothing saying that the town even has investigations(point in case: Xyre's last game had no Cop).
I'm even happier to be voting UrbanDruid now. Other people should do the same.
If that is true, all the more reason to get rid of you now. The last thing that the town can afford as the game progresses is a role that they are penalized for going after.
Besides, I think you're lying anyway. Though it is likely, there is nothing saying that the town even has investigations(point in case: Xyre's last game had no Cop).
I'm even happier to be voting UrbanDruid now. Other people should do the same.
Xyre, if you put another Jester(or something like it, in an attempt to correct the last time) in this game, I am absolutely going to come to your house and beat you with your own keyboard. Or a fish. Or whatever I can find.
I'd like to outline some things you can expect from me, before we begin.
Some of the things I will be doing to assist this meeting:
* Codifying the purpose, scope, and deliverables of the meeting
* Employ a variety of group facilitation and dialogue tools that the facilitator is skilled in and can employ in difficult moments
* Keeping the group on track to achieve its goals in the time allotted
* Either providing the group or helping the group decide what ground rules it should follow and reminding them of these when they are not followed
* Reminding the group of the objectives or deliverables of the meeting
* Setting up a safe environment where members feel comfortable contributing ideas
* Guiding the group through processes designed to help them listen to each other and create solutions together
* Asking open-ended questions that stimulate thinking
* Tentatively paraphrasing or repeating verbatim individual contributions to confirm understanding and ensure they are heard by the whole group
* Tentatively summarizing a recent part of the discussion
* Offering a possible wording for an unspoken question that may currently beset the group
* Ensuring the group doesn't settle for the first thing that they can agree on because they find it painful to go on disagreeing with each other
* Offering opportunities for less forceful members to come forward with contributions
* Ensuring that actions agreed by the group to carry out its decisions are written up for all to see and are assigned to individuals
And of course some things you should not expect from me.
* Back a particular opinion voiced in the group
* Offer my own opinions
* Let the group unconsciously shy away from a difficult area
I'd kindly ask that, as a facilitator from an outside firm, no votes or fos's be placed on me. I have no stake in your control of your company and would like very much for us all to get through this situation as best we can. My only stake is with surviving this rather distasteful situation we've been faced with. I didn't spend my last 10 years as a management consultant for nothing, so If you need anything for the night, comforts, a bottle of champagne, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
You (Cyan) made the Town(town aligned players) lose their chance(possibility) for an investigation(finding scum), because you(cyan) voted for me(urban druid).
Man, I get enough of this corporate mumbo-jumbo at work, I don't need it here.
On a serious note, the better question is - if you're telling the truth, why in the world would you come out and announce that day one? It's one thing to ask for FoSes and votes not to be placed on you - see Court Mafia for an example of that - it's entirely another to expose yourself as an investigation role 30 posts into the game.
I also understand that, more likely than not, you are simply lying. The vote/lynch is the major tool of the town, even in a Specialty game, I really have a hard time believing a role that discourages being voted.
Besides, if you A)had this role/ability and B)had the best interests of the town at heart, I can't believe that you would have opened with the post that you did. If you're telling the truth, then you threw out a hook for someone to vote you, and I took the bait.
Man, I get enough of this corporate mumbo-jumbo at work, I don't need it here.
On a serious note, the better question is - if you're telling the truth, why in the world would you come out and announce that day one? It's one thing to ask for FoSes and votes not to be placed on you - see Court Mafia for an example of that - it's entirely another to expose yourself as an investigation role 30 posts into the game.
I'm not an investigation role...
I make things happen.. i'm a facilitator. Consult with me for anything you may need, and you will get it provided i am not FoSed or voted for.
To add onto DYH's comment what was the benefit of that post assuming you are a cop who cannot investigave if voted/fos'd? If it was to allude to your ability I personally find that incredibly suspicious, what motivation could you have to post what you did? What pro-town outcomes could happen? Did you expect us to ignore it?
Honestly, you flatly told us that you are not going to be helpful to the thread. And now we're supposed to believe that you didn't expect the immediate reaction to be '10000000x vote Urban Druid'?(so to speak)
To me, this all stinks like a gambit gone horribly wrong.
To add onto DYH's comment what was the benefit of that post assuming you are a cop who cannot investigave if voted/fos'd? If it was to allude to your ability I personally find that incredibly suspicious, what motivation could you have to post what you did? What pro-town outcomes could happen? Did you expect us to ignore it?
Motivation put it all out on the table... if day one happens to have me voted fos'ed so be it... days 2-endgame should not have votes against me so that players can get their one-shot ability for the night, provided by me.
Honestly, you flatly told us that you are not going to be helpful to the thread. And now we're supposed to believe that you didn't expect the immediate reaction to be '10000000x vote Urban Druid'?(so to speak)
To me, this all stinks like a gambit gone horribly wrong.
You really can't read English...
I flatly told you that I'm a facilitator, I even flatly told you the name of my role... You flatly chose to read one part of my post and ignore the rest.
And of course some things you should not expect from me.
* Back a particular opinion voiced in the group
* Offer my own opinions
* Let the group unconsciously shy away from a difficult area
You are claiming to be as anti-town as immaginable, going so far as to claim that you will not help us find scum, but instead will steer the town towards whatever agenda you create (promise 1, create agenda).
You are claiming scum or neutral or the worst role ever made. Forgive me a momment....
GAMEPLAY RULES
1. The usual about talking to other people, quoting PMs, editing posts, invisitext, posting after death, and so on and so forth applies. When in doubt, ask the mod. Recognize that, usually, he’s right and you’re wrong.
2. If you think the mod has made a mistake, PM him to ask. Do not post questions for the mod in the thread if at all possible.
3. A player voting for himself/herself will be considered the day's lynch, and the game will immediately progress to night. This rule will be ignored for the first 150 posts.
4. Because the mod’s a nice guy, players who may communicate via PM may do so at any time.
SPECIAL RULES
1. FOS means Finger of Suspicion (like so: FOS Xyre). Because the mod’s a nice guy, he will keep track of these in addition to votes. Note that this may have unintended consequences.
2. When a player needs to be replaced, rather than take the first person off the list, the mod will instead contact all players, and the first to respond will replace in.
3. Players on the replacement list may be the target of abilities.
WORDS OF ADVICE
0. Read the rules. A lot of good people came in on their days off to write them, and you wouldn't want to make them angry. They're not the kind of people who get angry. They get even.
1. Because trusting nobody is the surest sign of scum, try trusting everybody. That way, you'll always be surprised.
2. The past is not always the best determinant of the future. Nor is the future the best determinant of the past.
3. This game will punish you severely for your bad habits and not paying attention. Your best ally is always your enemy.
4. All references to the mod being a nice guy in the rules above are lies. The mod is a liar. Of course, he could be lying right now - and how would you know?
The town win condition is "The scum must die".
The Racing Rats
1. Sutherlands
2. andelijah
3. Cyan
4. Disrupt_Your_Hymn
5. bateleur
6. RobRoy
7. Pale Mage
8. carrion pigeons
9. Vampyr
10. AbbeyGargoyle
11. ZasZ234
12. Zionite
13. jerubbaal
14. armlx
15. BigTime
16. StormBlind
17. The Mad Tapper
18. Jobie
19. EthanOlivia
20. Ged
21. GiftsTrix
22. Charm_Master3125
23. Urban Druid
Downsized
REPLACEMENTS
Dattebayo
Cubus
chaosjuggler
creampuffeater
thedragun
sneakyhomunculus
Dagger
goatrevolt
wo bu YAO
Niv
krowzy
Wrath_of_DoG
iLord
Wuffles_II
Tilde
GAME OVER
Experiments Series: #5 (Courtly Intrigue Mafia) | #4 (Drunken Tracker) | #3 (Big Red Button) - coming soon | #2 (Pope Mafia) | #1 (Iso's Inflammable Mafia)
Mini Games: MTGS Mafia Redux II (Invitational, Evil Mirror Universe) | Unreal City
Old Games (bad): The Greenwood Affair | Blood Moon Mafia
EDIT: RobRoy brought up a good point. When you receive your PM, please respond to confirm. Thanks.
Experiments Series: #5 (Courtly Intrigue Mafia) | #4 (Drunken Tracker) | #3 (Big Red Button) - coming soon | #2 (Pope Mafia) | #1 (Iso's Inflammable Mafia)
Mini Games: MTGS Mafia Redux II (Invitational, Evil Mirror Universe) | Unreal City
Old Games (bad): The Greenwood Affair | Blood Moon Mafia
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"...and, unfortunately, the boy died on the way to the hospital."
"Tragic. In other news, the Fiasco Corporation, a Fortune 100 company specializing in almost fantastic technology and possessing numerous military contracts, has come under fire recently for some of its shadier connections. Our own Alisha Soren has the report."
"Thank you, Craig. I'm standing in front of the Fiasco Corporation's headquarters in New York City, the center of one of the most disturbing corporate scandals since Enron's fall..."
MONDAY
The room was what you would expect from any corporate meeting: a presentation mid-slide on the screen, denoting the benefits of TFC expanding to Bangalore and the business that would create in India; papers and plastic cups tossed about the table, but somehow neatly organized, like some obsessive-compulsive psychopath went to town on them; chairs askew, as if they had been occupied only moments before; pastries and coffee in the corner. What was more unexpected was the body lying in the middle of the table, a letter opener in his chest.
For rather obvious reasons, this looked rather bad. Within moments of the discovery of the body, management shut down the building. The doors were locked, the outbound lines shut down. Nobody and nothing entered and left. This called for a wholly modern cover-up.
The good news was that it was 12:30 AM - 12:30 AM, 14 December 2018 - and the building was wonderfully underoccupied; people had left long before to return to their families and children and hopeless, hopeless middle-class mid-life crises. The bad news was that someone called the presses. If the doors weren't locked, anyone who tried to leave would be immediately flooded with requests for comment from every major news station - ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, the Alliance News Network, CNN, MSNBC, and every newspaper, rebel television station, and internet publication with enough of a budget to cover the largest corporate story in years. "Live, before your eyes, the collapse of one of the largest, most successful businesses in the world, wracked by scandal, because we know you want it, America!"
One of you goes to the window and looks down. Already, the more zealous of the news networks have reporters scaling the walls of the glass-and-steel building, with grappling hooks and electromagnets, trying to reach an opening, however small, in the building's defenses. Another one of you chuckles. "Welcome back to the Middle Ages, mates - the barbarians are at the gates."
The man in the undone tie and shirt missing a button snaps at him. "There's no time for that kind of nonsense." He pauses to adjust himself. He's clearly agitated. "Now, the senior advisement has told me that the best solution to this mess is to halt all communications and move directly to a Level Gamma emergency." Those of you in the know gasp, recognizing the issue. For those of you who aren't in the know, first, shame on you for not reading page 7512 in "Standard Operating Procedures for the Fiasco Corporation, v. 123.12.7.5". Second, everything at TFC is measured in levels. Gamma is the level intended for terrorist attacks and media circuses. In this case, the former would have been more welcome.
He turns to address the lot of you. "Ladies and gentlemen, I know this is a situation that calls for panic, but we are dedicated to maintaining order. We've already set up facilities for you tonight, and tomorrow, we'll return here to determine the appropriate course of action. There's nothing to see here."
"But-"
"Shut up, Josh!" The man pulls the knife out of the dead guy and points it at the naysayer, who cowers. "Shut up!"
"You're contaminating the evidence-"
"To hell with the evidence!" With a swift motion, the man throws the knife sideways, straight at the presentation board. It impales the word "quality" cleanly. "Don't you get it! None of this will leave this building! We are not shutting down until this issue is resolved." He laughs quietly to himself. "Let the barbarians come. We will meet them with swords and tar, poured from the ramparts."
You all stare, like it's a car accident - limbs and glass flying in many directions, but imperceptible to all but those who are in the blast radius... those who suffer the shrapnel. Eventually, the man notices this. "Go on! The meeting is over." Less out of obedience than out of fright, you all shuffle out of the room. In the distance, you can hear crashing outside, explosions, gunfire, people talking to cameras, and you collectively shake your heads and retreat to the relative safety of your rooms, as the man looks on, with a distant gaze into the dark...
The Racing Rats
1. Sutherlands
2. andelijah
3. Cyan
4. Disrupt_Your_Hymn
5. bateleur
6. RobRoy
7. Pale Mage
8. carrion pigeons
9. Vampyr
10. AbbeyGargoyle
11. ZasZ234
12. Zionite
13. jerubbaal
14. armlx
15. BigTime
16. StormBlind
17. The Mad Tapper
18. Jobie
19. EthanOlivia
20. Ged
21. GiftsTrix
22. Charm_Master3125
23. Urban Druid
Downsized
1. The Nameless Man (NPC), impaled on a conference table Monday.
REPLACEMENTS
Dattebayo
Cubus
chaosjuggler
creampuffeater
thedragun
sneakyhomunculus
Dagger
goatrevolt
wo bu YAO
Niv
krowzy
Wrath_of_DoG
iLord
Wuffles_II
~Tilde~
It is now Monday Night. The Fiasco Corporation will use the Cop Head Start Night Zero. Players may not make kills tonight.
Actions are due in 72 hours, though if I get them all in sooner, I'll begin the day ASAP.
Experiments Series: #5 (Courtly Intrigue Mafia) | #4 (Drunken Tracker) | #3 (Big Red Button) - coming soon | #2 (Pope Mafia) | #1 (Iso's Inflammable Mafia)
Mini Games: MTGS Mafia Redux II (Invitational, Evil Mirror Universe) | Unreal City
Old Games (bad): The Greenwood Affair | Blood Moon Mafia
Experiments Series: #5 (Courtly Intrigue Mafia) | #4 (Drunken Tracker) | #3 (Big Red Button) - coming soon | #2 (Pope Mafia) | #1 (Iso's Inflammable Mafia)
Mini Games: MTGS Mafia Redux II (Invitational, Evil Mirror Universe) | Unreal City
Old Games (bad): The Greenwood Affair | Blood Moon Mafia
Experiments Series: #5 (Courtly Intrigue Mafia) | #4 (Drunken Tracker) | #3 (Big Red Button) - coming soon | #2 (Pope Mafia) | #1 (Iso's Inflammable Mafia)
Mini Games: MTGS Mafia Redux II (Invitational, Evil Mirror Universe) | Unreal City
Old Games (bad): The Greenwood Affair | Blood Moon Mafia
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
TUESDAY
You all stumble back into the conference room, in various states of repair. Most of you have already disengaged from the business mode; some have stripped themselves of their ties and jackets, and one of you apparently has done the thoughtful thing of bringing a change of clothes. He's dressed in a Yankees shirt, jeans, and looks entirely idiotic.
The conference room looks much different now; for one, the body is gone, instead replaced by a large trail of smeared blood. The knife remains implanted in the projection screen. A window has been broken, probably by the news crews still trying to break their way in, and other windows are riddled with bullet holes, as if someone had fought back. And, most thoughtful, a fresh pot of coffee lurks in the corner.
The same man is standing, looking out into the east, on the far side of the room. The sun drenches him, making you all turn away. He seems to recognize your appearance and turns, coughing. Apparently, he's been smoking all night, out the broken window.
"Good to see you all again. Shall we begin?"
Effective immediately, Cyan is replacing Tilde.
The Racing Rats
1. Sutherlands
2. andelijah
3. Cyan (r. ~Tilde~ r. Cyan)
4. Disrupt_Your_Hymn
5. bateleur
6. RobRoy
7. Pale Mage
8. carrion pigeons
9. krowzy (r. Vampyr)
10. AbbeyGargoyle
11. ZasZ234
12. Zionite
13. jerubbaal
14. armlx
15. BigTime
16. StormBlind
17. The Mad Tapper
18. Jobie
19. Dagger (r. EthanOlivia)
20. Ged
21. Niv (r. GiftsTrix)
22. Charm_Master3125
23. Wrath of Dog (r. Urban Druid)
Downsized
1. The Nameless Man (NPC), impaled on a conference table Monday.
REPLACEMENTS
Cubus
chaosjuggler
creampuffeater
thedragun
sneakyhomunculus
piano rock
goatrevolt
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It is now Tuesday. With 23 alive, it is 12 to lynch. You may begin posting now.
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Hey, you! Yeah, you behind the computer screen! You're unconstitutional.
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Most of these people are too new to even get that reference, I suspect.
Also, I'll just let you all know that FOSes are mechanically relevant to the game, so take care.
The above is not a random vote.
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Under the premise of Lynch all- WHAT? He's not playing?
Bah.
Unvote, Vote: Bateleur
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I'm at a loss at what to do right now, so I'm going to furiously barn CP. Vote Xyre
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As scum - 3/5
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As neutral - none
(I really have been scum a lot)
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Actually rianalnn. I don't know if she posts here or not, but she does know Cyan.
Some of the things I will be doing to assist this meeting:
And of course some things you should not expect from me.
I'd kindly ask that, as a facilitator from an outside firm, no votes or fos's be placed on me. I have no stake in your control of your company and would like very much for us all to get through this situation as best we can. My only stake is with surviving this rather distasteful situation we've been faced with. I didn't spend my last 10 years as a management consultant for nothing, so If you need anything for the night, comforts, a bottle of champagne, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Survivor claim already? If it weren't for the pleasant request I'd vote you and never let go.
Not in the mood for random votes though I am of the opinion that claiming survivor...at all is a bad thing, but the way it was done seems credible. But with a night 0 to plan we can't assume this isn't a mafia plot. Either way Urban Druid has just become the default lynch if a deadline is issued and we cannot come to a consensus.
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Lynching a survivor is perfectly fine for Day 1. Particularly 1 that has blatantly pledged to not be at all helpful.
@RobRoy: Heh. Rianalnn is, in fact, a male. His name is Brian.
its not a survivor claim... you just lost a town investigation for tonight by voting me.
For emphasis.
HA
Do you know what a consultant is?
If that is true, all the more reason to get rid of you now. The last thing that the town can afford as the game progresses is a role that they are penalized for going after.
Besides, I think you're lying anyway. Though it is likely, there is nothing saying that the town even has investigations(point in case: Xyre's last game had no Cop).
I'm even happier to be voting UrbanDruid now. Other people should do the same.
OMGUS Vote Cyan
Xyre, if you put another Jester(or something like it, in an attempt to correct the last time) in this game, I am absolutely going to come to your house and beat you with your own keyboard. Or a fish. Or whatever I can find.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
DOES YOU UNDERSTAND ENGRISH?
You are a jester or you are cop hunting now
No i make it possible to investigate... Cyan ruined that chance.
Vote Urban Druid
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On a serious note, the better question is - if you're telling the truth, why in the world would you come out and announce that day one? It's one thing to ask for FoSes and votes not to be placed on you - see Court Mafia for an example of that - it's entirely another to expose yourself as an investigation role 30 posts into the game.
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I also understand that, more likely than not, you are simply lying. The vote/lynch is the major tool of the town, even in a Specialty game, I really have a hard time believing a role that discourages being voted.
Besides, if you A)had this role/ability and B)had the best interests of the town at heart, I can't believe that you would have opened with the post that you did. If you're telling the truth, then you threw out a hook for someone to vote you, and I took the bait.
Still stinks like scum to me.
I'm not an investigation role...
I make things happen.. i'm a facilitator. Consult with me for anything you may need, and you will get it provided i am not FoSed or voted for.
because if I get fosed or voted I can't make it happen.
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To me, this all stinks like a gambit gone horribly wrong.
Motivation put it all out on the table... if day one happens to have me voted fos'ed so be it... days 2-endgame should not have votes against me so that players can get their one-shot ability for the night, provided by me.
If I have read your initial corporatespeak post correctly you are not town
True or false
You really can't read English...
I flatly told you that I'm a facilitator, I even flatly told you the name of my role... You flatly chose to read one part of my post and ignore the rest.
False.
I am part of the town, but I am not part of your company.
I mean honestly, this claim is fairly ridiculous and doesn't make alot of sense.
Nor does your claim of being a facilitator explain why you have openly stated that you 'won't provide any opinions of your own', etc etc.
I didn't say i wouldn't provide opinions...
I said you should not expect them...
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS AN OPINION.
You are a retard.
You are claiming to be as anti-town as immaginable, going so far as to claim that you will not help us find scum, but instead will steer the town towards whatever agenda you create (promise 1, create agenda).
You are claiming scum or neutral or the worst role ever made. Forgive me a momment....
Vote Urban Druid
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