Mini #70: Vanilla Extract- Game Over, man!

[JereIC]

Welcome to Mini #70: Vanilla Extract.

The mafia have won!

3 Living

:
MeMe- Mafia
Prizm- Mafia Godfather
Spoon- Mafia

9 Dead

:
tehgood- Cop, killed night 1
Isaac- Townie, lynched day 1
Riven- Townie, killed night 2
Morpheus- Townie, lynched day 2
No Idea- Doctor, killed night 3
No Idea 2- Townie, lynched day 3
CoolBot- Townie, last seen at Prizm's cement factory
Dasqiuan- Townie, last seen at Prizm's cement factory
mathcam- Townie, last seen at Prizm's cement factory

About the Game

:
Vanilla Extract Mafia is a basic mafia game with basic roles and a basic setting, basically. Each night, the mafia and some other people make night choices. Each day, I'll tell you who died, who can't post or vote, etc, and y'all try to lynch bad guys by majority vote. Once y'all lynch someone, I'll tell y'all if s/he was a baddie, and it's night all over again. By basic roles, I mean the game could have any of the roles on mafiascum.net's Role Page. These may include,

Mafia
Docs
Nurses
Cops
Vigilantes
Godfathers
Serial Killers
FBI Agents
Masons
Priests
Cults
Inventors
Spies
Actors
Siblings
Psychiatrists
and, of course, Townies.

[JereIC]

Your Rules

: (borrowed heavily from MeMe)

• All votes must be
  bold
  , and must be in the format
  Vote: That Guy
  , or they will not be counted. If you don't get the BBCode right, just post again with the correct code.
  
• Please
  unvote
  before casting a new vote. This is not a strict rule from me, but your fellow players will appreciate it.
  
• Lynching a person requires a simple majority of votes against one person. As soon as a person gets a majority of votes, they are lynched and the game is in twilight until I post their lynch scene and start taking night choices. To end the day without a lynch, a majority for
  vote: no lynch
  is needed.
  
• If the game is in day, only discuss it in the thread. If it is night, only discuss it with the other players that you're allowed to discuss it with. I've explicitly stated in your role if you are allowed to discuss the game during the night, and whom with. If you get a message you're not supposed to, don't reply to it; just forward it to me, and I'll deal with it.
  
• If you are killed, don't post anything beyond a single "Go Team, sucks to be dead!" post.
  
• Once you submit a post, it is permanent. You are not allowed to edit or delete a submitted post in this game. The "Preview" button is handy for checking how posts looks before you submit it.
  
• Don't quote PMs from me, or discuss their structure.
  
• Nights have an automatic deadline of 72 hours from the lynch scene; get your night choices in by then! If 72 hours is not enough time, PM me and we can work something out. I will explicitly post deadlines on the first post and in the game title, and will PM holdouts when the deadline is getting close. If I don't hear from you by the deadline, I'll assume you can't play anymore, and will immediately replace you.
  
• If you anticipate being unavailable for more than 48 hours, please PM me or post your plans in the thread. Your fellow players will appreciate the notice, and I'll make sure to work around your schedule.
  
• Most important of all, this is a game! Have fun, be happy, just keep swimming, and be considerate to your fellow players, even as you're accusing them of being pure evil.

My Rules

:
My name is Jere, and I'm your mod for this game. The following rules are what I'm going to abide by to keep the game running smoothly and keep it fun.

• As this game is my number one priority one mafiascum, I will check in at least once a day. I'll use this time to make sure everyone's playing fair, being nice, and also to update the handy-dandy vote tally on the first post. I'll also occasionally post the vote tally in the thread.
  
• If a player has missed a night deadline, I'll replace them from the Mini Regular roster as soon as is possible. If a player is being unresponsive during the day, I'll give them fair notice and a deadline by PM, and replace them from the roster as soon as is possible if they miss that deadline.
  
• If you have any questions, you can PM me or ask in the thread. I'll get back to you as soon as possible, and with the best explanation that I can. You can also PM me if you want to tell someone about your day, or you thought something another player wrote was funny, or just to say hi.
  
• I am always right, but not always accurate. If I've made a mistake, please tell me by PM as soon as possible. If you try to notify me in thread, I may edit your post.
  
• If I'm going to be unavailable for more than a day, I'll post that information.
  
• Dourgrim
  is the replacement mod for this game. If I ever become unable to maintain this game, Dourgrim has graciously volunteered to take the game up in my place. I've sent him all information about this game, and will send him all your night choices.
  
• Most importantly, I promise to keep the game fun and exciting, despite being a "Vanilla" mafia. This is Vanilla
  Extract
  Mafia, after all.

Boiled Peanut Gallery

:

Wake up! He finally stopped talking.

That sure took long enough. Hey, why is he calling it Vanilla Extract Mafia anyway?

Vanilla Ice bought ads for this game. I'm going to read the first one off now, if you don't mind.

I wouldn't mind you getting to the punch-line already.

*announcer voice* This game was paid for in part by Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice: He Will Work for Food.

[JereIC]

A worried town has gathered at the town hall to discuss the recent rumors of mafia and other killers coming in, and seeking to take a heavy toll against the kind citizens. As the minutes pass, they grow even more worried as two of their own have not shown up yet. Finally, one man stands up and takes the podium.

"Good morning everyone, I think we all know why we're here, and right now we need all the information we can get. What has everyone heard about the evil presence entering our town? Raise your hand, and I'll call on you."

Every hand in the adutorium goes up. "You can just raise one of them, y'all. You, up front?"

"I heard that the mafia, when they are finished killing us, will procede to kill our possessions. I don't how it works, but I heard they can make them animate for a while, so they can kill them as well, and bury them along with our bodies."

"Thank you for sharing, what about you, ma'am?"

"I think the mafia are flouridating our water, so we become easier targets. And accept evolution."

"Right, what do you have to say, young man?"

"There's a mafia under my bed!"

"Ok, maybe we should focus on a plan now. I think we need to be rational here, and not just start lynching one person a day, hoping they're evil..."

"Hey, that's a great plan!"

"No, I said we shouldn't..."

All of a sudden, the doors to the hall burst open. A man rushes in and up the podium before crying, "I found a body by the river! A dead body by the river! And I poked it with this here stick, and he's still dead!"

"My goodness, that's terrible!"
"The poor man."
"Badabing, bada... uhm, oh, oh, the humanity!"
"Hey, let's all go poke the body!"

"Now calm down, sir, did you call the police? Or did you just keep poking it?"

"Well, I poked it for a while, and then I called the cops, but they weren't picking up! And I called, and I called, and they just weren't answering, so I figured I'd poke him a few more times, and then try again. But then I came here instead. Can't tell you why."

"This body, was it wearing a blue uniform, maybe had a copper badge by him?"

"Sure did!... Oh."

The entire town is at the scene in a few minutes. They turn the body over, and see that it is tehgood, a cop.

tehgood, cop, was killed last night.

Day has started with 11 alive. Six to lynch.

Boiled Peanut Gallery

Hey, how's that Vanilla Extract Remix CD coming, Blue?

Not good, the only song I'm including so far is Billy Joel's "Only tehgood Die Young"

[JereIC]

Hey

JereIC

, is the post count going to be on the opening post all game? I find it a little confusing personally.

Cam

No, I plan to post a vote tally in thread about once per page, which would probably mean posting a tally on page 2 next. I can post it more often if you'd like, though.

[JereIC]

I'll prod Prizm.

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

:
2 Isaac- Spoon, MeMe
2 Mathcam- Riven, No Idea
2 Prizm- Morpheus, Dasquain
2 Riven- Coolbot, Isaac
1 Spoon- sbdirt

2 Not voting

- Mathcam, Prizm

It takes two to tango, and 6 to lynch.

[JereIC]

Welcome back, sbdirt, hope you had a fun trip.

Vote Tally

:
3 Isaac- CoolBot, MeMe, Riven
2 Mathcam- Morpheus, No Idea
2 Morpheus- Dasquain, Isaac

4 Not voting

- Mathcam, Prizm, Spoon, sbdirt

I vote for dead people... They don't even know they're dead. Yet.
- The Sixth Vote

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

:
3 Isaac- CoolBot, MeMe, Spoon
2 Morpheus- Dasquain, Isaac

6 Not voting

- Mathcam, Prizm, Spoon, sbdirt, Morpheus, Riven

Not Voting

has reached the requisite 6 votes, and has been lyn- waitaminute...

[JereIC]

Totally proderating sbdirt.

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

5 Isaac- CoolBot, No Idea, MeMe, Mathcam, Dasquian
2 Morpheus- Isaac, Spoon
1 Spoon- Morpheus

3 Not Voting-

Prizm, Riven, sbdirt

3! to lynch

(3! = 1*2*3 = 6)

[JereIC]

Final vote count

:
6 Isaac- CoolBot, No Idea, MeMe, Mathcam, Morpheus, sbdirt
3 Morpheus- Isaac, Dasquian, Spoon

2 Not Voting

Prizm, Riven

During the first day of the terror, the town spends hours debating, but the dialogue is filled with more fear and paranoia than logic. Finally, the question that no one dared ask is put forth. "Hey, what's up with Isaac?"

Isaac stands up, and breathes a heavy sigh. "The wages of sin are what's up, driven by higher demand for the labor of sin! And the wages of sin are death, and death and a half on overtime!"

"Ok, then," the town leader says. "Hey, what's up with..."

"No, dear leader, I will answer this calling, as surely as I would answer the calling of my ashes to return to ashes. Let me just get some stuff first. I'll be right back." Isaac, chin turned to the sky, begins walking to the door. Before he reaches it, six people jump him, tying him up and dragging him outside. The few who remain inside hear Isaac scream, "Wait! I need my hair shirt! Where is my hair shirt!" before the end. A quick search of his body reveals no hair shirt, or scuminess for that matter.

Isaac, Townie, has been lynched.
Please get night choices in before 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, EST.

[JereIC]

"All I'm saying is, your average human body, lot of redundant organs there."
"True, true."
"I mean, the heart's got four chambers, right? What's up with that?"
"I completely understand."
"You gotta ask, what's wrong with three chambers? What's one less chamber to your average heart?"
"Totally, man."
"And the appendix! Those get infected, you gotta take them out! How you gonna replace all those? Huh?"
"Yeah, exactly. Hey, I wonder whose gonna die tonight."
"Beats me," Riven said.
"Hmm," the other person said. "Hey, guess the number I'm thinking of!"
"Uh, three hundred ninety one!" Riven said.
"That's right! You win!"
"Oh boy! What do I win?"
"A free pair of cement boots!"
"Hot da- waitaminute." Riven says before the end.

Riven, townie, is dead!
Now you vote!

On a "Jere is a real-life person" note, I've got finals coming up, and then I fly home, so I may not check in or post vote counts as often as I usually do. I'll be back on task after Thanksgiving.

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

4 Morpheus- Dasquian, MeMe, Spoon, No Idea

5 Not Voting

- Coolbot, Mathcam, Morpheus, Prizm, sbdirt

The market rate for lynches is 5 votes.

[JereIC]

Final Vote Tally

5 Morpheus- Dasquian, MeMe, Spoon, No Idea, Mathcam

4 Not Voting

- Coolbot, Morpheus, Prizm, sbdirt

At the town meeting, the discussion quickly grows dark and fatal for Morpheus. As sun seems to set unusally quickly, and the decision is unanimous: Morpheus must die.

Well, okay, it's not unanimous. Morpheus obviously objected, but what would you expect? And I guess those four people who didn't vote don't count as unanimous. But, the majority has spoken, and it has said, "Morpheus is scum, he must die! Oh, and Coolbot's going to be away for Thanksgiving until Sunday!" And so it was. Except for the scum part; Morpheus was a townie.

Morpheus, townie, has been lynched.

It's now night three. I'm going to lift the normal deadline rule, considering the holiday, but I'd prefer to have choices in by Friday. Have a great Thanksgiving, those of y'all in the states!

[JereIC]

"Hey, No Idea, I've got a question."
"Shoot," No Idea said.
"Hehe, funny you should mention that."
"What do you mean?"
"Never mind. Ok, so I was talking to Riven earlier, and he said people don't need all the chambers of their heart. That you could donate some of them for fun and profit."
"That's absurd. The heart needs all four chambers to pump blood. It has to pump blood from the body, to the lungs, back from the lungs, then back to the rest of the body. Four things to do, four pumps. I sure wish Riven was still alive, so I could correct him on that."
"Hey, how you do you know all this stuff?"
"Well," No Idea said, "I'm a doctor. I studied the circulatory system for years. If someone's bleeding, say from a cut or a bullet wound, I know exactly what's happening."
"Hehe, bullet wounds, funny you should mention that."
"What? Why's everything I say 'Funny you should mention that'?"
"No reason, No Idea. Hey, you ever been to a cement factory?"
"I...," No Idea began, stopping mid-sentence. "Oh."

No Idea, doc, has been killed; it'll take 4 votes to avenge him!

On another note, I'm back at home, happily stuffed with tofurky, but missing some of my useful scumming tools. If something looks off, it probably is, so let me know asap.

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

:
1 MeMe- Mathcam

6 Not Voting

- CoolBot, Dasquian, MeMe, Prizm, sbdirt, Spoon

I'll get in touch with sbdirt.

[JereIC]

No Idea replaces sbdirt.

I've talked to him about having been a doc, and I think he won't unbalance the game by coming back in.

Vote Tally:

1 Dasquian- Spoon
1 Mathcam- Prizm
1 MeMe- Mathcam

4 Not Voting

- CoolBot, MeMe, No Idea 2, Dasquian

[JereIC]

No Idea's aggrieved spirit has risen from the dead, and possessed sbdirt's body. Sadly, No Idea has no memory of his past life, and instead will continue sbdirt's life. That kind of thing just happens around here.

So, yes,

No Idea has replaced sbdirt

.

MeMe, please revote, I'm not sure exactly who you're talking about.

[JereIC]

Vote Tally

:
2 Dasquian- Spoon, Coolbot
1 Mathcam- Prizm
1 MeMe- Mathcam
1 No Idea- MeMe

2 Not Voting

- No Idea 2, Dasquian

[JereIC]

Final Vote Tally

:
4 No Idea2- MeMe, Dasquian, Prizm, Spoon
1 MeMe- Mathcam

2 Not Voting

- No Idea 2, Coolbot

The town discussion grows dark at the 11th hour. Accusations start between MeMe and Mathcam, but soon spread to Prizm, Dasquian, Spoon, and even the silent sbdirt. Questions about sbdirt grow more intense, until finally he speaks.

"What the hell? My name's not sbdirt."
"Well," MeMe asks, "what is your name?"
"No Idea."
"That's a lot of help. Did you get amnesia or something?" Dasquian asks.
"No, look, my name is No Idea."
"We thought you were dead," says Prizm.
"Yeah, I get that a lot. Anyway, I was a doc, and then, uhm, I was sort of here. I guess, scientifically speaking, my wandering spirit possessed sbdirt's body, to avenge my grievous death. Yea, most horrendous a fate shall befall my..."
"Swell," says Coolbot. "I'm thinking we should look at Dasquian now."
"Hey, wait a minute!" shouts MeMe. "No Idea's a witch! Kill Dasquian!"

The town stands still, and gives MeMe a hard look.

"Uhm, I mean No Idea! He's a witch!"
"Who's a witch? Who are we killing?" mathcam asks.
"No Id... oh, shut up. Who's with me?"
"Uhm, not me," Coolbot says.
"Hell no!" affirms No Idea.
"Hey, better him than me," says Dasquian.
"Yeah, git 'im!" Primz says.

"I've got rope!" Spoon says. Before anyone can say anything else, No Idea's dead. Coolbot, MeMe and mathcam begin frantically searching his body, as Spoon, Prizm, and Dasquian stand back and watch. Minutes pass, but No Idea's corpse yields no evidence of scumminess. It seems that No Idea has nothing left to search, and tensions between the six remaining townsfolk are rising.

"I think we got a couple of lying..." Coolbot begins, but is interrupted by MeMe.
"Look!" she says. "He had a gun! He had a gun all along!"
"Oh thank goodness," mathcam says with a sigh. "Where? Where's No Idea's gun?"
"Oh my, no, it's Spoon who has the gun," she says, pointing to the grinning, gun-toting Spoon, "and wouldn't you know it, I have one too."
"That's it!" cries Coolbot. "Game over, man, game over!"
"But... but there's only two of you!" Mathcam says.
"I hate to interrupt all this," says Prizm, "but I think a trip to my cement factory will make things clearer."

No Idea, townie, lynched.
The mafia have won the game. Congratulations Spoon, MeMe and godfather Prizm!

Roles and night choices imminent.

[JereIC]

If you think the mafia was lucky now, wait till you see the night choices.

Night Choices

Night 1
No Idea: protect spoon
Prizm: kill tehgood
tehgood: investigate MeMe (would have gotten scum)

Mathcam replaces Doppelganger

Night 2
No Idea: protect Dasquian
Prizm: kill Riven

Night 3
No Idea: protect Prizm
Prizm: kill No Idea

In my paper notes, I've just got "Prizm returns the favor"

Role PMs

:

Townies received one of three role PMs. I sent different PMs to keep people from comparing PM structures. Also, when No Idea replaced sbdirt, I sent him a different PM dealing with him previously being a doc.
Townies: Coolbot, Dasquian, Doppelganger/Mathcam, Isaac, Morpheus, Riven, sbdirt/No Idea 2

x, welcome to Vanilla Extract, formerly known as Vacant, SC! You are a townie in this game. Please reply to this PM to confirm your choice.

x,
Welcome to Mini #70! You are a townie , and make no night choice. Please reply to this PM to confirm your role.

Hi x, welcome to Vanilla Extract. You are a townie , which basically means you have to work your magic during the day. Please reply to this PM to confirm your role.

To No Idea when he replaced sbdirt

Ok, you're in. I'm going to ask that you keep who you protected a secret, not becuase it necessarily has any information, but becuase it's something the town would normally have to do without.

sbdirt was a townie , and now so are you. You can begin posting and voting immediately. If you have any questions, you know the drill.

No Idea was a doc

Hiya! Welcome to Mini Mafia #70, changed at the last minute to Vanilla Extract mafia. You are a Doctor, and each night you can protect one person of your choice from being killed. Please reply to this PM to confirm, and send me your night choice by Thursday midnight EST.

tehgood was a cop

Welcome to Mini 70, tehgood, I hope you have fun. You are a cop , and can investigate one person each night to find out if they're scum or not. Please reply to this PM to confirm your role, and send your night choice by Thursday, midnight EST.

MeMe and Spoon were Mafia goons

x,
Welcome to Vanilla Mafia, I hope you have fun! You are part of the Mafia , the "bad guys" of this game. Your fellow mafioso are y and Prizm , and Prizm is a godfather. Each night, the three of you decide who to kill that night, and Prizm sends me the choice. Prizm will also appear innocent to some cops, but you and MeMe look guilty to any investigation. Please reply to this PM to confirm your role.

Prizm was their godfather, immune to night investigations. I left open the possibility of role-detecting cops.

Thanks for joining Vanilla Mafia, and I hope you enjoy the game. You are a Mafia Godfather , and you are the "boss" of your mafioso MeMe and Spoon. Each night, the three of you pick one person to kill, and send me your choice. You can figure out what happens next. As the Godfather, you appear innocent to some cop-like roles, but not necessarily all. Please reply to this PM to confirm your role, and get me your choice by Thursday, midnight EST.

[JereIC]

Thanks for playing everybody, I hope you enjoyed the game as much as I did! When I was setting up the game, I realized that I just spilled my game design on the queue thread, so I decided to leave open pretty much any design possibility in the opening post. That's why there's the stuff about "I'll tell you who can't post or vote, etc", the long list of "vanilla" roles, and why I warned Prizm to be careful of role-detecting cops. After that, I just randomized the roles, sent them out, and let y'all go at it.

I do want to ask why the mafia chose to kill tehgood night one; I was really expecting mathcam the first night (and I have the dawn scene to prove it!). Did y'all just sense cop-ness from him?

MeMe, I intended to reply to your PM, but lately my 5-year-old laptop has finally been acting its age and crashing randomly on me; I'm afraid one of those crashes swallowed the reply. Anyway, I'm glad you've been able to discuss it in end game.

All in all, great game guys, I hope to play with y'all again soon!