Mini 1,384: Dirty Dealing (Game over!)

[StrangerCoug]

There's trouble in the house of cards. Some evil force is trying to take control of the entire deck of cards, and the soon-to-be powers that be do not have very good things in store. There's one problem for both good and evil, though—the person dealing the cards is pretty goddamn malevolent, too. That's right—the StrangerCoug plays a mean card game. You really don't want to play either of their games, but that's what you're being forced to do.

Can you outwit the rulers of terror? Can you handle the demon panther throwing you curveballs? Only time will tell...

Spoiler: ALIVE (4/13)

killerjester, who was the

queen of clubs, a vanilla townie

, has survived the endgame.
PiggyGal15, who was the

jack of hearts, a vanilla townie

, has survived the endgame.
PMysterious, who was the

king of clubs, a vanilla townie

, has survived the endgame.
Voidedmafia, who was the

jack of spades, a vanilla townie

, has survived the endgame.

A

bold name

indicates a confirmed player.
An asterisk (*) indicates a prod issued to a player.
A red

X

indicates a warning issued to a player.

Spoiler: DEAD (9/13)

drmyshotgun, who was the

queen of diamonds, a vanilla townie

, has been lynched on Day 1.
Parama, who was the

jack of diamonds, a vanilla townie

, has been set on fire on Night 1.
Shahrizai, who was the

joker, a jester

, has been lynched on Day 2.
MagnaofIllusion, who was the

king of diamonds, a vanilla townie

, has been decapitated on Night 2.
Nobody Special, who was the

king of hearts, a Mafia goon

, has been lynched on Day 3.
AngryPidgeon, who was the

queen of spades, a lover

, has been garroted on Night 3.
GreyICE, who was the

king of spades, a lover

, has committed suicide on Night 3.
Soul2277, who replaced Oversoul, who was the

jack of clubs, a bomb

, has been drowned on Night 4.
Salamence20, who was the

queen of hearts, a Mafia goon

, has been bombed on Night 4.

IMPORTANT LINKS

Rules. Yes, they're important.
Day 1 start | Day 1 end
Day 2 start | Day 2 end
Day 3 start | Day 3 end
Day 4 start | Day 4 end
Endgame

[StrangerCoug]

RULES

1. This is a closed setup, which means the only roles you will know in advance are your own and that of any other player I mention in your role PM. All other role information is secret, including how many players with a certain role exist and even if the role exists in the first place. Yes, a game with absolutely no vanilla townies is possible. It's been done before.
   
   THIS IS A BASTARD MOD GAME.
   Expect me to screw up on purpose, do something nasty to someone (get your head out of the gutter!), or otherwise do something to try to get people to hate me for this game. Experience is
   STRONGLY
   encouraged.
   
2. There is a special card dealing mechanic in this game. You will be dealt a card when you get your role PM; this will be the same card as the card named in your role. At the start of each day, you will get a card added to your hand so long as there are enough cards for everyone to get one. You may play cards to get powers as follows (aces are worth one, twos through tens are face value, all other cards are worth nothing):
   
   1. You may play a pair to earn a one-shot follower ability.
      
   2. You may play a three of a kind to earn a one-shot tracker ability.
      
   3. You may play a four of a kind to earn a one-shot cop ability.
      
   4. You may play cards worth exactly 15 points to earn a one-shot doctor ability.
      
   5. You may play cards worth exactly 21 points to earn a one-shot jailkeeper ability.
   
   To earn the abilities, PM me with the cards in question. I will accept any method of wording and/or formatting that clearly identifies each card to be played.
   
   You are not allowed to play zero-point cards in order to get the doctor or jailkeeper abilities. Additionally, once you play cards, they're gone, so use them wisely. Cards held by dead players are shuffled back into the deck before dealing for the next day.
   
3. The preferred voting method is to put vote tags around the player's name, but I will still accept the old method of bolding the word "vote" followed by said player's name, e.g. VOTE: StrangerCoug or
   Vote: StrangerCoug
   . As long as I can tell to whom you are referring, spelling does not count and I will accept abbreviated or otherwise shortened forms of the name of the vote's recipient. You may also VOTE: No Lynch. I no longer require unvotes.
   
4. A majority of votes is required for a lynch, even at deadline. Once a lynch has been decided, it is final and further votes and unvotes do not count for the current day. If deadline is reached with no player having enough votes for a lynch, the day ends in an automatic No Lynch.
   
5. You may continue to post game-related after you are lynched, but once I close the thread for the day, you die and must stop posting in the game. You get one "bah" post after you die, but that's it.
   
6. You are not forced to like each other, but the fact that you badly want so and so offed does not give you the right to insult him or her. Please keep your hatred of people or groups thereof to yourself. Profanity is not in and of itself banned, but if it gets out of hand, it falls under this rule.
   
7. Do not hide text or otherwise hinder its readability by using spoiler tags, invisible or encrypted text, etc. You may, however, post in any color that can be easily read against the forum background other than
   purple
   . (I know it sounds arbitrary to forbid a specific color, but I'm saving my favorite color for mod use since I am the mod )
   
8. Impersonating the moderator is prohibited.
   
9. Unless you're the moderator (that's me, obviously), co-moderator (that's nobody), or backup moderator (that's IceGuy) of this game, please do not delete or edit any posts in this thread.
   
10. You are not allowed to discuss this game outside of the thread unless I tell you otherwise, nor are you allowed to discuss other ongoing games in this thread. You may make your own QuickTopic for the purpose of taking notes on the game at any time, but if you do so, you are not allowed to share the QuickTopic link with anyone until after the game.
    
11. Do not quote any private communication, either from me or from anyone else you are allowed to talk with at night, in this thread. This includes your role PM. You are allowed to paraphrase, but you are not allowed to plagiarize. If in doubt as to your paraphrase's legality, PM me with the wording you want to use. If you have a Quicktopic, quoting mod communications there is fine.
    
12. Claiming to be scum with someone else is prohibited.
    
13. Once you submit a replacement request, you give up the priviledge to post in the thread. If you want your slot back, you must PM me and wait for me to announce your return just like everybody else who wants your slot. If you are being replaced involuntarily (see below), you cannot get your slot back.
    
14. I will issue a prod to any player that does not post for 72 hours without notifying me of his or her absence. (I'm sorry, but I do not check the V/LA thread. If you do not tell me to do so, neither will I check your signature.) If you are prodded, you will have 48 hours from the time of submission to post in thread. Failure to do so will result in replacement. Keep in mind that I have the board time down to the second. I will only prod the same player twice—after that, he or she must post every 72 hours to ensure that he or she remains in the game.
    
15. The fastest and preferred way to get ahold of me is by PM'ing me, but you may also communicate to me in thread if it is day or twilight and you are still alive. To do so, bold "Mod:" followed by what you want to tell me, as in
    Mod: Please prod StrangerCoug
    or
    Mod: StrangerCoug should have five votes, not four.
    Please use your judgment call in whether or not what you want to tell me should be public knowledge before talking to me in the thread. In additon, I will not entertain questions regarding possible night actions, nor will I answer questions about a person's role unless you happen to be the person in question and you ask me privately.
    
16. Pretending to break the rules and/or encouraging people to break the rules are themselves breaking the rules. Please don't violate the integrity of the game.
    
17. Rule violations will be dealt with case by case based on severity. This can be a warning (of which I will only give two per player), ejection from the game, or even a modkill. Modkills are not a fun experience for anybody—the players affected automatically lose, I do it in the manner that I consider most harmful to their factions, and I die on the inside every time I have to do it.
    PLEASE
    save all of us the pain and be on your best, rule-abiding behavior.
    
18. I am not God. If I make any mistakes whatsoever, please let me know.
    
19. All rules are subject to change. In my previously modded games, things have come up that I didn't think about, and both my own and other's actions in those games have helped shape and modify these rules. It may happen again here.
    
20. The most important rule of all, saved for last for what I think is a very good reason:
    HAVE FUN!
    Enjoy! And good luck!

StrangerCoug, you are the

ace of spades, a

vanilla townie

. This deck used to be civilized. However, some good-for-nothings decided it was a bright idea to use the deck for their own devious means. Time to stop this nonsense.

You have no gun, no badge, no first aid kit, no magic thingamajiggers, absolutely nothing special except for three things—your four boxes, your brain, and voting abilities. But those three things are all you need to win this madness of a card game!

You win when all threats to the deck have been eliminated from the game.

Please PM me back acknowledging that you understand and confirm your role. The thread is here and you're in a day start.

YOUR HAND

[StrangerCoug]

All roles are out. You have (expired on 2012-10-08 19:45:08) to confirm.

[StrangerCoug]

Oversoul will be hydraing with Mehdi2777; I will announce an official replacement once I know what the name of the hydra account will be.

[StrangerCoug]

Soul2277 replaces Oversoul.

[StrangerCoug]

GO!

[Parama]

FIRST POST

OKAY SO THIS IS A BASTARD GAME RIGHT?
WWEEEELLL THAT MEANS WE LYNCH THE GOOD PEOPLE!
I'M TOTALLY MAFIA SO YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME AND LYNCH OVERSOUL, HE'S SUCH A GREAT GUY

vote: oversoul

ps MoI and GreyICE are fellow bastards like me

Note: I have no post-restriction

[StrangerCoug]

Oh—I had forgotten to take Oversoul by himself off the player list until a few minutes ago. Sorry.

[Parama]

vote: WHATEVER THE HELL OVERSOUL'S HYDRA IS

because the person he's hydraing with, bastard or not, cannot outweigh the symbol of goodness that is oversoul.


fun fact I don't know who 50% of the playerlist is

[Parama]

p.s. I haven't played mafia in months

SUP

[Soul2277]

Yeah oversoul isn't a player anymore. We'll sign posts if they're just short comments to add to things. If we make longer posts such as full reads they'll be discussed then posted without anyone signing them.

And parama is their a point in trying to get everyone to specifically say whether or not they have a PR?

~Mehdi2277

[Salamence20]

kill: PMysterious

[Parama]

@OverMedhi
I never even implied that I wanted people to say whether or not they had a PR.

Is they're a reasoon you're getting that implication?


@Salamence
If that's for serious, which it's not, so is this :>

Daykill: Salamence20

[Soul2277]

Then is there a reason to say you don't have a PR? Or even is there a reason to think a PR exists?

~Mehdi

[Salamence20]

unkill, kill:Parama

VOTE: MoI

[Parama]

Then is there a reason to say you don't have a PR? Or even is there a reason to think a PR exists?

~Mehdi

Well it's a bastard game.

Also SC is in love for PRs. He's made an ENTIRE GAME based around them :V

Question: By pressing this point, what do you hope to learn?

[Soul2277]

I hope to learn your answer naturally. Understanding why you said something is enough of a reason.

~Mehdi

[MagnaofIllusion]

Hey Grey are you Town this game? If so let me know and we can roll scum just like the last time I asked.

Also - did you bring me bacon like last time also?

VOTE: Piggygal

If Grey didn't bring me bacon I'm gonna need to get some the old fashioned way.

[killerjester]

VOTE: Voidedmafia

MoI why are you town?

[AngryPidgeon]

VOTE: PMysterious
GreyICE, you town?

[MagnaofIllusion]

MoI why are you town?

Because I'm always Town.

VOTE: Killerjester

Why aren't you Town?

[Soul2277]

MoI why are you town?

Same can be asked to you and Moi. Why are you two town? And how does either of the questions help?

Also curious on how everyone's ignored sala except parama.

P-edit: AP same questions to you. And 2nd question still applies to MoI.

~Mehdi

[AngryPidgeon]

I claim town. Also, I don't fully get the 2/3/4 of a kind mechanics. What is a follower ability? Also, as a guy who isn't TOO terrible at poker, I know that the odds of anyone making a pair are fairly small, also the odds of anyone making a 3 of a kind are basically that it isn't going to happen. So I would bet a lot that there is some role mechanic that manipulates cards.

Re your questions:
VOTE: Soul2277

[Soul2277]

Parama, I don't do drugs, but what wonderful crack are you smoking and where can I get some?

Magna I also hope you will be sharing any spreadsheets you are creating so that those card abilities can be tracked.

I am not going to let your ass do what you did in Words with Scum.

[Soul2277]

That was Oversoil by the way ^