A thousand years in the future, a group of "children" are taught logic and psychology through a very special exercise.
A black figure materializes into a four-sided white room with no windows or distinguishable features. With the wave of a hand, 12 chairs in a circle materialize in the middle of the room. The black figure instantly changes into an elderly man, the visage of a wizened teacher, complete with liver spots, wrinkles, and scholarly harry potter-esq spectactles.
Without any delay, students start blinking into the chairs without any order. Within the span of several seconds, all the chairs are filled with students from all over the globe, represented by all races and genders. A motley crew of youngsters, some of them start laughing and playing amongst themselves, while others just sit perfectly still, completely uninterested in the prospect of social interaction.
"Class, today I have something very special for you." - the avatar of the old teacher said. Whether their teacher actually looked like that or if it was just an idol designed to create an impression of wisdom, they didnt know. They respected him regardless, as this particular Teacher-Intelligence was over 200 years old.
"Roughly a thousand years ago, in the Age of Upheaval, about 30 years before the first singularity burst - there existed a game people used to play. People dont play it anymore as we have constructs that are about a million times more sophisticated, but nonetheless today you will learn about the people of mafiascum.net"
Several of the students sighed, while others accessed any data they could on the subject instantly. One of the latter spoke up.
"There is very little data available about that site, TI-Tiemaetre"
"Ha! That is because most data from that time is lost forever. But I have trawled enough information from various cached sources that will allow me to teach you what it was about."
Suddenly, in a millisecond, each of the students were granted the knowledge and rules of the game of mafia as played on mafiascum.net a thousand years ago by way of a TI.exe program sent directly into their memory. The teacher smiled. The students started chattering amongst themselves, as personal messaging was not allowed in the presence of a TI. Even some of the more stoic students seemed interested.
"Well there you have it. We will play this game the way they used to play it. It will be of a Normal flavor. I am sending you your roles now. Here is an example Vanilla Townie role."
Vanilla Townie
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Vanilla_townie
You possess no special mechanics. You can only vote during the day. This is your only tool against the mafia.
You win when all the threats to the town are eliminated.
"I will send you your roles now. Lets have some fun, children!"
With that, the children sat still, their faces frozen in time. In a space that could not be seen by an outside observer, the children started playing the game of mafia as played by the people of mafiascum.net, so many years ago.
The game had begun.
Last edited by Timeater on Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:26 am, edited 41 times in total.
"I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction."
In post 13, kondi2424 wrote:That doesn't necessarily mean I'm bad at town/good at scum. Mafia is a team game. It may also help to say that I play a lot of Newbies and Opens.
Cool. Maf found.
Unvote, Vote: kondi
I don't understand why it is so hard to give me a straight answer to friendly banter.
The following people own: Pie, Fritz, Inhim
The greatest mafia game ever: http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=18080
I am calling this now, and you can all thank me when we're done. The Hez-kondi exchange strikes me as a forced bus right off the bat. For kondi, taking his answers too seriously and for Hez, grasping at straws.
In post 16, Peabody wrote:I am calling this now, and you can all thank me when we're done. The Hez-kondi exchange strikes me as a forced bus right off the bat. For kondi, taking his answers too seriously and for Hez, grasping at straws.
In post 16, Peabody wrote:I am calling this now, and you can all thank me when we're done. The Hez-kondi exchange strikes me as a forced bus right off the bat. For kondi, taking his answers too seriously and for Hez, grasping at straws.
Unvote Common Man; Vote kondi
You are both "grasping at straws." Not a good case at all.
This whole reaction chain of people voting for voting for stupid stuff makes me unsure of who is trying to mislead us. You could all be town, or one of you could have malicious purpose.
That's why we should stop this nonsense and find a better discussion starter.
In post 16, Peabody wrote:I am calling this now, and you can all thank me when we're done. The Hez-kondi exchange strikes me as a forced bus right off the bat. For kondi, taking his answers too seriously and for Hez, grasping at straws.
Unvote Common Man; Vote kondi
You are both "grasping at straws." Not a good case at all.
This whole reaction chain of people voting for voting for stupid stuff makes me unsure of who is trying to mislead us. You could all be town, or one of you could have malicious purpose.
That's why we should stop this nonsense and find a better discussion starter.
That's some nice white knighting.
Did you have any motivation for posting that BESIDES trying to look town?
Unvote, Vote: nisani
The following people own: Pie, Fritz, Inhim
The greatest mafia game ever: http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=18080
In post 16, Peabody wrote:I am calling this now, and you can all thank me when we're done. The Hez-kondi exchange strikes me as a forced bus right off the bat. For kondi, taking his answers too seriously and for Hez, grasping at straws.
Unvote Common Man; Vote kondi
You are both "grasping at straws." Not a good case at all.
This whole reaction chain of people voting for voting for stupid stuff makes me unsure of who is trying to mislead us. You could all be town, or one of you could have malicious purpose.
That's why we should stop this nonsense and find a better discussion starter.
That's some nice white knighting.
Did you have any motivation for posting that BESIDES trying to look town?
Oh I'm sorry. Would you rather me look scum?