Large Normal 132: Desert Mafia (Over!)

[Untrod Tripod]

Hello all!

This is a large normal mafia game for 15 players.

There will be a night start

. There will be some minor flavor about deserts, but it's just for fun.

Mod:

Untrod Tripod

Backup Mod:

RedCoyote

Reviewers:

SpyreX, StrangerCoug

“Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
-Edward Abbey



Playerlist (4/15)

8. Skyquiem - Vanilla Town
10. gorilla - Vanilla Town
12. Hiraki - Vanilla Town
14. Pine

Mana_Ku

- Vanilla Town

Replacements
1. nameloc1986
2. RichardGHP
3.

Spoiler: Dead Players

Empking,

Town Delayed Action Vig

, was shot on night zero.
RisingPhoenix,

Mafia Roleblocker

, was lynched on day one.
Ranmaru,

Town Bodyguard

, was killed night one.
inHimshallibe,

Town Tracker

, was lynched on day two.
mastin2,

Vanilla Townie

, was lynched on day three.
DeityKabuto,

Town Jailkeeper

, was killed on night three.
Kublai Khan,

Mafia Goon

, was lynched on day four.
xRECKONERx,

Vanilla Townie

, was killed on night four.
Silver1337,

Vanilla Townie

, was lynched on day five.
Slaxx,

Vanilla Townie

, was killed on night five.
Scott Brosius,

Mafia Goon

, was lynched on day six.

Links
1. End of N0, D1 start
2. Slaxx replaces Reya Cookiebringer
3. Reck outs himself.
4. Day Two
5. Day Three
6. Day Four
7. Day Five


Ruleset:
1. I am the Lord your Mod. Thou shall have no other mods before me.
2. Thou shalt not create images of mod communications. Any communication between thee and thine Mod is sacred.
3. Thou shalt not insult thine Mod. Thou shalt not use thine Mod's

color

in game posting.
4. Remember the Night, and keep it holy. After lynch has been reached, talking must cease.
5. Honor thine father and mother by playing to thine win condition.
6. Thou shalt not fake abilities in thread.
7. Thou shalt not communicate outside of thread unless allowed.
8. Thou shalt vote in thread in this form

vote Untrod Tripod

or

vote UT

.
9. Thou shalt not be an asshole*.
10. Thou shalt participate. Not posting for 72 hours will result in a prod. Upon receipt of three prods, thine position in the game is forfeit.

Nuts and Bolts:
1. Day One will last three RL weeks. Day two will last two RL weeks. Days 3 through the end will last one RL week.
2. Lynch happens upon simple majority. If there is not a majority at deadline, there will be no lynch.
3. Nights will last 72 hours.
4. I reserve the right to force-replace anyone for egregious violations of the above ruleset.
5. The following is a Vanilla Townie role PM. There is at least one Vanilla Townie in this game:

You are a vanilla townie. You have the following powers:

Active: Reading
Voting

Passive: Being town

Win Condition: You win if the town eliminates all opposing factions.

*If you have to ask "hmm...am I being an asshole here?" you probably should just hit ctrl+a and then backspace.

[Untrod Tripod]

Hello all!

Roles will go out tomorrow and you can expect the Night 0 phase of this game to end by Tuesday (5/24). Make sure you're ready to get your night choices in by Monday and can start playing on Tuesday.

Hugs and kisses,
Untrod

[Untrod Tripod]

Hello all! Roles are out. Confirm by PM and we can get this game started once everyone has sent me their confirmations and night choices.

[Untrod Tripod]

I'm not going to count that as a prod on gorilla because he started posting before the prod happened.

There was some technical difficulty at the start of the game, which was why our lovely backup mod was doing the VC and mod duties (everyone needs to send RC a big box of chocolates for being a champ). I have mod powers again and therefore will be

lording my power over you pathetic drones

doing mod type things now. Hurrah.

Also KK, just resist the urge to edit your posts. Honor system plz. (by the way if I catch you editing your posts consequences will be dire. So...you know...just doublepost instead)

[Untrod Tripod]

DAMMIT NO.
I JUST OUTTED MY "LOL I AM NEWB" ALT.

Alright, fuck it.

Mod, I'll replace into winger's slot since that shit isn't a secret anymore.

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Vote Count

• Ranmaru: 5 (RisingPhoenix, Skyquiem, Slaxx, Mana_Ku, inHimshallibe) L-3
  
  Reck: 2 (Kublai Khan, Scott Brosius) L-6
  Skyquiem: 2 (Ranmaru) L-6
  Kublai Kahn: 2 (mastin2) L-7
  Scott Brosius: 1 (DeityKabuto) L-7
  DeityKabuto: 1 (Reck) L-7
  
  
  Not Voting: 2 (Silver1337, Hiraki) L-6

With 14 players, it takes

8

to lynch.

Deadline countdown timer:

(expired on 2011-06-17 18:39:00)

[Untrod Tripod]

I want a cookie.
and a lynch on Ranmaru.

Never let it be said that I am not a generous mod.

[Untrod Tripod]

So in the interest of not being douchebags, could you all start putting the GIGANTIC FUCKING QUOTE WALLS in spoilers plz? Thanks. /bitch

On a serious note, this game is moving so quickly that my "put a vote count at the top of every page" thing might not happen as promptly as you might like, but it will happen on every page eventually. I'm married to this style of votecounts, so you'll have to live with that if it's a problem.

<3,
Untrod

[Untrod Tripod]

Oh hai page 23

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Vote Count

• Ranmaru: 5 (RisingPhoenix, Skyquiem, Slaxx, Mana_Ku, inHimshallibe) L-3
  
  Reck: 2 (Kublai Khan, Scott Brosius) L-6
  Skyquiem: 2 (Ranmaru) L-6
  Kublai Kahn: 2 (mastin2,) L-7
  Scott Brosius: 1 (DeityKabuto) L-7
  RisingPhoenix: 2 (Reck, Hiraki) L-6
  
  
  Not Voting: 2 (Silver1337) L-7

With 14 players, it takes

8

to lynch.

Deadline countdown timer:

(expired on 2011-06-17 18:39:00)

[Untrod Tripod]

Oh goody 26 pages to read.....

You were replaced. I am your replacement

I lol'd

[Untrod Tripod]

Hold on and stop posting while I sort this shit out.

First of all please don't prod me when something like 8 pages happened in the past 4 hours. I have a life, but will get to the game in a timely fashion. I do appreciate you letting me know, but don't be annoyed that I haven't shown up yet if it's only been that long.

Second of all, if you really want to question my ability to run a game, take it up with me in a pm. Don't talk in the thread about how the mod doesn't understand how his own game works. It's pretty rude.

Third of all, in the rules for this game, I said very specifically that once a lynch happens you stop talking.

K.

Let us never speak of that again, I'm going to tally votecounts and whatnot to make sure that a lynch actually happened today.

[Untrod Tripod]

Rising Phoenix is lynched!

RisingPhoenix: 8 (Reck, Hiraki, mastin2, Slaxx, Ranmaru, inHimshallibe, Skyquiem, RisingPhoenix) Lynch!

He was....



..............



..................................


The scum roleblocker! Nightchoices are due 72 hours from this post.

[Untrod Tripod]

Kublai Khan has limited access until the 15th

[Untrod Tripod]

deadline is extended another 24 hours due to replacement issues

[Untrod Tripod]

Within the valley of shadowless death
They pray for thunderclouds and rain,
But to the multitude who stand in the rain
Heaven is where the sun shines.
The grass will be greener till the stems turn to brown
And thoughts will fly higher till the earth brings them down.
Forever caught in desert lands one has to learn
To disbelieve the sea.

If this desert's all there'll ever be
Then tell me what becomes of me.
A fall of rain?
That must have been another of your dreams,
A dream of mad man moon.

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Ranmaru, town bodyguard, was killed last night.

With 12 alive, it's 7 to lynch.

[Untrod Tripod]

Thanks for grabbing the votecount, RC. I got all the missing ones into first posts.

Also Pine will be replacing in after all. Everyone say hi to Pine.

[Untrod Tripod]

After nine days, I let the horse run free,
'Cause the desert had turned to sea.
There were plants and birds, and rocks and things,
There was sand and hills and rings.
The ocean is a desert, with its life underground,
And a perfect disguise above.
Under the cities lies, a heart made of ground,
But the humans will give no love.


inHimshallibe has been lynched. He was...

.......

..................

a town tracker.

Night choices are due 72 hours from this post.

[Untrod Tripod]

Day breaks and no one has died.

Day three is a go!

[Untrod Tripod]

Sorry guys had an unexpected computer flameout and VC can't happen from phone. Will have real one tomorrow.

[Untrod Tripod]

Ok we're caught up on VC now guys. Sorry about that.

I'll be on a train tomorrow for about 12 hours (8am to 8pm), so if lynch happens during that time, plz be on the honor system if I can't catch it and lock the thread from my phone.

[Untrod Tripod]

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
-Edward Abbey

mastin2 has been lynched. He was a vanilla townie. Night choices are due in 72 hours.

[Untrod Tripod]

“Now I am in the open again, out of the underworld. From up here Rainbow Bridge, a thousand feet below, is only a curving ridge of sandstone of no undue importance, a tiny object lost in the vastness and intricacy of the canyon systems which radiate from the base of Navajo Mountain…. Off in the east an isolated storm is boiling over the desert, a mass of lavender clouds bombarding the earth with lightning and trailing curtains of rain. The distance is so great that I cannot hear the thunder. Between here and there and me and the mountains it’s the canyon wilderness, the hoodoo land of spire and pillar and pinnacle where no man lives, and where the river flows, unseen, through the blue-black trenches in the rock."
-Edward Abbey

Day breaks and finds DeityKabuto dead. He was the town jailkeeper. With nine alive it's five to lynch.

Go.

[Untrod Tripod]

It's really not a big deal if you say a few things.

“The pre-Columbian Indians of the Southwest, whether hunting, making arrowpoints, going on salt-gathering expeditions or otherwise engaged, clearly enjoyed plenty of leisure time. This speaks well of the food-gathering economy and also of its culture, which encouraged the Indians to employ their freedom in the creation and sharing of a durable art. Unburdened by the necessity of devoting most of their lives to the production, distribution, sale and servicing of labor-saving machinery, lacking proper recreational facilities, these primitive savages were free to do that which comes as naturally to men as making love—making graven images."
-Edward Abbey

Kublai Khan is lynched. He was...

.......

........................

a mafia goon.

Night choices are due within 72 hours of this post.

[Untrod Tripod]

“I have stood in the middle of a broad sandy wash with not a trickle of moisture to be seen anywhere, sunlight pouring down on me and on the flies and ants and lizards, the sky above perfectly clear, listening to a queer vibration in the air and in the ground under my feet—like a freight train coming down the grade, very fast—and looked up to see a wall of water tumble around a bend and surge toward me. A wall of water. A poor image. For the flash flood of the desert poorly resembles water. It looks rather like a loose pudding or a thick dense soup, thick as gravy, dense with mud and sand, lathered with scuds of bloody froth, loaded on its crest with a tangle of weeds and shrubs and small trees ripped from their roots. Surprised by delight, I stood there in the heat, the bright sun, the quiet afternoon, and watched the monster roll and roar toward me. It advanced in a crescent shape with a sort of forelip about a foot high streaming in front, making hissing sucking noises like a giant amoeba, nosing to the right and nosing to the left as if on the spoor of something good to eat. Red as tomato soup or blood it came down on me about as fast as a man could run. I moved aside and watched it go by.”
-Edward Abbey

xRECKONERX was killed. He was a vanilla townie.

With 7 alive it's 4 to lynch.

Go.

[Untrod Tripod]

Silver is lynched!


He was...


....


...............


A vanilla townie. Night choices are due in 72 hours.

[Untrod Tripod]

“Most of my wandering in the desert I’ve done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity—I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time. However, there are special hazards in traveling alone. Your chances of dying, in case of sickness or accident, are much improved, simply because there is no one around to go for help.”
-Edward Abbey

Slaxx was killed last night. He was a vanilla townie. With five alive it's three to lynch. Deadline is on 7/20

[Untrod Tripod]

That's a lynch!

Scott Brosius was...

......

.......... a mafia goon!

Town wins.

[Untrod Tripod]

It didn't help that on day one the scum roleblocker basically walked out and said "hai guys I'm the scum power role and here are my partners"

[Untrod Tripod]

Here are the role PMs

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Vanilla Townie

You are a vanilla townie. You have the following powers:

Active: Reading
Voting

Passive: Being town

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Jailkeeper

You are the town jailkeeper. You may target one person at night. If that person is targeted with an ability that night, the ability is blocked. If that person uses an ability that night, the ability is blocked.

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Bodyguard

You are the town bodyguard. You may target one person at night. If that person is targeted with an ability that night, the ability will be used on you instead.

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Tracker

You are the town tracker. You may target one person at night. If that person used an ability, you will receive a PM from me saying who the ability was used on.

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Delayed Action Vig

You are the town delayed action vigilante. You may target one person at night. That person will be killed the following night. You have two shots.

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Mafia Goon

You are a mafia goon. Your partners are x and y. Your faction may choose one person to kill every night. You win when the mafia outnumbers the town (in the event of a daybreak where there are the same number of mafia and town players, the mafia will win).

You may talk here at night:
http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/2XHQ75fs6Rt

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Mafia Roleblocker

You are the mafia roleblocker. Your partners are x and y. Your faction may choose one person to kill every night. In addition that, you may choose one person a night to nightkill. You cannot block and kill on the same night. You win when the mafia outnumbers the town (in the event of a daybreak where there are the same number of mafia and town players, the mafia will win).

You may talk here at night:
http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/2XHQ75fs6Rt

[Untrod Tripod]

Dead QT

Think about it this way: Empking elected not to use his vig shot during night 0. Had he done so he PROBABLY would have hit town. Just saying. Scum was not that far away from winning even with the RP nonsense.

[Untrod Tripod]

You are all cordially invited to my next game, which will be a large theme entitled Gay Mafia. My text color will finally be distinctly appropriate.

[Untrod Tripod]

If you still want to, yes.