Micro 70 ~ Mafia in Triplicate (Game Over!)

[Vi]

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

From discord, find harmony.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

~Albert Einstein

Original Player List:

1. Empire
2. F-16_Fighting_Falcon
3. Konowa
4. Nobody Special
5. saulres
6. Shamrock
7. Shmugen
8. Tierce
9. the director

replacing Xalxe D1

Spoiler: Game Result

Three Times Three:

1. Empire - Mafia Goon - Endgamed Rarefaction II!

3. Konowa -

Tarhalindur, Pandora over Mafia

- Survived Rarefaction II!!!

8. Tierce - Town Puppybearer - Survived Rarefaction II!!!

2. F-16_Fighting_Falcon - Vanilla Townie - Survived Rarefaction II!
5. saulres - Vanilla Townie - Survived Rarefaction II!

6. Shamrock - Vanilla Townie - Survived Rarefaction I!
7. Shmugen - Vanilla Townie - Survived Rarefaction I!

Third on a Match:

4. Nobody Special - Mafia Goon - Lynched Rarefaction I!
9. the director

replacing Xalxe D1

- Mafia Goon - Lynched Rarefaction II!

Important Events:

the director replaces Xalxe; Rarefaction I begins
End of Rarefaction I
End of Rarefaction II

[Vi]

General Rules:

Many thanks to Vi for not stopping me from using this ruleset.

Pregame:

You will be given a Role PM. Confirm as your Role PM says you should.

Day:

The Day functions as normal. Each Day will last whichever is shorter of two weeks or (#_living_players*2) days. You may No Lynch if 50% of the players vote for No Lynch. If deadline hits, No Lynch will occur.

Twilight:

There is nothing special about Twilight in this game. I'm more a Rarity person.

Night:

Nights last for 48 hours. If you did not post in the 24 hours before the end of the previous Day, I will prod you to make sure you are in the game.

Illegalities:

As a reminder, you are not allowed to:
*talk about this game outside the thread except where expressly permitted
*impersonate the mod and/or use the mod's formatting (bolded italicized

gray

)
*use cryptography, invisible text, or other ways of sending robustly hidden messages
*quote your Role PM, to include using specifics about its format or time stamp to your advantage
*edit/delete posts or speak after death sans "bah" posts
*post links to QuickTopics
*do other obviously underhanded things not listed here, including things you may not think are underhanded but others will probably disagree about

This ruleset is designed under the assumption that you know what is acceptable. If you aren't sure, ask. If you fall afoul of what is expected, that's your problem.

"Bah" posts:

You may only make a "bah" post within 25 posts of the announcement of your death, and it may only contain mafiascum-native emoticons.

Other:

*I am never wrong. Unless, of course, reality has warped, making me wrong. Please point occasions where this may have occurred out to me so that I may kick reality's ass.
*This game is not obligated to make sense until it is over. By joining this game you are expressing consent to play with any rules, roles, and fellow players that may be in the game -

and you will like it

.
*Do not try to upset the mod. While killing and blacklisting everyone responsible is not considered the best modding practice most of the time, I would like to point out that it's still an option (that has been used at least once before - I'm not kidding).

Hawt New Game Mechanic rules:

1.

Rarefaction.

There is a mechanic that will apply to certain people.

This is a sample Role PM.

~NAME~

Welcome to Mafia in Triplicate, where you have drawn

Vanilla Townie

.

If that's what you wanted, congratulations!

You win when

two of the three scum in this game

are dead. You did read that, right? Confirm with the phrase "hey-o" if so.

I wish you the best of luck.

[Vi]

Role PMs have been sent. Please confirm by etc.

Day 1 will begin no earlier than 1800 EDT today.

[Vi]

All right! Let's begin.

Vote Count 0:

Come sail away...

Not Voting:

Empire, F-16_Fighting_Falcon, Konowa, Nobody Special, saulres, Shamrock, Shmugen, Tierce, Xalxe

-It is now Day 1!

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count I:

Wait, this would be a hilariously

bad

great idea for a Mafia game
Xalxe (L-3) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon, saulres
Tierce (L-3) ~ Empire, Shmugen
Empire (L-4) ~ Shamrock
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe
Konowa (L-4) ~ Tierce

Shamrock (L-5) ~

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon}

Vi (L-12) ~ Nobody Special

Not Voting:

{Empire, F-16_Fighting_Falcon,}

Konowa,

{Nobody Special, saulres, Shamrock, Shmugen, Tierce, Xalxe}

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.
---

This might not be relevant to the discussion.

[Vi]

Vote Count II:

[Elevator music]

Xaxle (L-3) ~

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon,}

saulres, Konowa
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Tierce, Empire
Empire (L-3) ~ Shamrock, Shmugen
Tierce (L-4) ~

{Empire, Shmugen,}

Nobody Special
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe
Shmugen (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon

Konowa (L-5) ~

{Tierce}

Vi (L-13) ~

{Nobody Special}

Not Voting:

{Konowa, Nobody Special}

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count III:

Puzzling calm
Xalxe (L-3) ~ saulres, Konowa
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Tierce, Empire
Shmugen (L-3) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon, Shamrock
Empire (L-4) ~

{Shamrock,}

Shmugen
Tierce (L-4) ~ Nobody Special
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count IV:

Exploring
Xalxe (L-3) ~ saulres, Konowa
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Tierce, Empire
Shmugen (L-4) ~

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon,}

Shamrock
Tierce (L-4) ~ Nobody Special
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe
Konowa (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon

Empire (L-5) ~

{Shmugen}

Not Voting:

Shmugen

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count V:

Time passes
Xalxe (L-3) ~ saulres, Konowa
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Tierce, Empire
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-3) ~ Xalxe, Shmugen
Shmugen (L-4) ~ Shamrock
Tierce (L-4) ~ Nobody Special
Konowa (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon

Not Voting:

{Shmugen}

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Xalxe has been prodded.

[Vi]

Vote Count Vi:

A vote count for the mod
Xalxe (L-3) ~ saulres, Konowa
Nobody Special (L-3) ~

{Tierce,}

Empire, Tierce
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe,

{Shmugen,} {Tierce}

Shmugen (L-4) ~ Shamrock
sualres (L-4) ~ Nobody Special

Konowa (L-5) ~

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon}

Tierce (L-5) ~

{Nobody Special},

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon}

Not Voting:

F-16_Fighting_Falcon, Shmugen

-This vote count has been edited. F-16_Fighting_Falcon does not (visibly) have three votes.

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count VII:

Actually,
saulres (L-1) ~ Nobody Special, Shamrock, Tierce, Shmugen
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Empire,

{Tierce,}

Konowa
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe
Shmugen (L-4) ~ saulres

Shmugen (L-5) ~

{Shamrock}

Xalxe (L-5) ~

{saulres, Konowa}

Not Voting:

F-16_Fighting_Falcon,

{Shmugen}

-saulres is at L-1!

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count VIII:

Cloud birds
saulres (L-1) ~ Nobody Special, Shamrock, Tierce, Shmugen
Nobody Special (L-3) ~ Empire, Konowa
Shmugen (L-3) ~ saulres, F-16_Fighting_Falcon
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

Not Voting:

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon}

-saulres is at L-1!

-Empire is being prodded...

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count IX:

Toward red
saulres (L-1) ~ Nobody Special, Shamrock, Tierce, Shmugen
Nobody Special (L-2) ~ Empire, Konowa, saulres
Shmugen (L-4) ~

{saulres,}

F-16_Fighting_Falcon
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

-saulres is at L-1!

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count X:

MY top of page steal
saulres (L-1) ~ Nobody Special, Shamrock, Tierce, Shmugen
Nobody Special (L-2) ~ Empire, Konowa, saulres
Shmugen (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

-saulres is at L-1!

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count XI:

Time to press on
Nobody Special (L-1) ~ Empire, Konowa, saulres, Tierce
Shmugen (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon
saulres (L-4) ~

{Nobody Special, Shamrock, Tierce,}

Shmugen
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

Not Voting:

Shamrock, Nobody Special

-Nobody Special is at L-1!

-Xalxe has been prodded...

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count XII:

Watching the deadlines
Nobody Special (L-1) ~ Empire, Konowa, saulres, Tierce
Shmugen (L-4) ~ F-16_Fighting_Falcon
saulres (L-4) ~ Shmugen
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ Xalxe

Not Voting:

Shamrock, Nobody Special

-Nobody Special is at L-1!

-Xalxe is being replaced...

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

[Vi]

Mod scene forthcoming. Don't panic.

[Vi]

Vote Count XIII:

It's that time again
Nobody Special (LYNCH) ~ Empire, Konowa, saulres, Tierce, F-16_Fighting_Falcon
saulres (L-4) ~ Shmugen
F-16_Fighting_Falcon (L-4) ~ the director (Xalxe)

Shmugen (L-5) ~

{F-16_Fighting_Falcon}

Not Voting:

Shamrock, Nobody Special

-the director replaces Xalxe. Welcome him!

--With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.
--Deadline is November 12, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-12 20:00:00)

.

---

...

Cue mood music.

Well. I hope you've enjoyed the warm-up phase.

Here's the real game.

First, I'm

canceling the lynch on Nobody Special

.

Now, we're going to enter a special phase of the game I call

Rarefaction

.

Witness this game's true form, and despair!

Three Times Three:

1. Empire
2. F-16_Fighting_Falcon
3. Konowa
4. Nobody Special
5. saulres
6. Shamrock
7. Shmugen
8. Tierce
9. the director

replacing Xalxe D1

...

1. Empire
3. Konowa
8. Tierce

4. Nobody Special
6. Shamrock
7. Shmugen

2. F-16_Fighting_Falcon
5. saulres
9. the director (Xalxe)

You have been split into three three-player LyLo cells. Think of whichever cell you're in as

your own separate game

. I can guarantee that there is only one scum player in each cell. If Town wins a cell by lynching their scum cellmate, they may continue talking at will. Otherwise, the entire cell will be silenced after the lynch.

Deadlines are as follows:
First lynch - Within 7 days from now
Second lynch - Within 10 days from now
Third lynch - Within 13 days from now

If a lynch is not achieved within these time limits I will modkill a random Townie.

I suppose you may want more? Very well...

All hail the Puppybearer! Tierce, who is in possession of the Puppy, is known to be Town!

So if that's everything...

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Vote Count XIV:

Sudden death
Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Nobody Special (0)
Shamrock (0)
Shmugen (0)

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)
the director (0)

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-16 21:45:00)

.

[Vi]

Think of whichever cell you're in as

your own separate game

.

This only applies to votes, if there is any confusion.

In addition, this phase (Rarefaction) is the rest of the game.

[Vi]

@mod--judging from your most recent post, the only votes that count for the lynch are the ones from within that cell, right?

Correct. You may only vote for players within your own cell.

[Vi]

Rarefaction is the rest of the game, Vi, then why is the game in Rarefaction I?

"Rarefaction Part I", etc.

[Vi]

@Mod: Were the townies in each "cell" picked randomly?

I think I'm done answering questions.

[Vi]

@mod--if we lynch well before our allotted deadline time, are the days remaining carried over for the next Rarefaction phase or are they gone for good?

Please reread the post where the deadlines were set.

[Vi]

Actually, let me just grab this page...

[Vi]

Vote Count XV:

A casting of lots
Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Nobody Special (1) - Shamrock
Shamrock (0)
Shmugen (0)

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)
the director (0)

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-16 21:45:00)

.

---Yes, that IS an organ arrange you see in the related vids. Why doesn't that ever happen near me.

[Vi]

Vote Count XVI:

One decision is final
Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Nobody Special (2) - Shamrock, Shmugen

Shamrock (0)
Shmugen (0)

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)
the director (0)

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-16 21:45:00)

.

---

--- Nobody Special, a

Mafia Goon

, was lynched in Rarefaction!
--- Shamrock, a

Vanilla Townie

, survived and may continue!
--- Shmugen, a

Vanilla Townie

, survived and may continue!

---

Vote Count XVII:

Closer
Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Shamrock

Shmugen

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)
the director (0)

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

-No one is in prod range right now.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-19 21:45:00)

.

[Vi]

Vote Count XVIII:

Cloud birds of

drama

Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Shamrock

Shmugen

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)
the director (1) ~ saulres

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-19 21:45:00)

.

[Vi]

Mod scene forthcoming. Don't panic.

[Vi]

Vote Count XIX:

There we go
Empire (0)
Konowa (0)

Tierce (0)

Shamrock

Shmugen

F-16_Fighting_Falcon (0)
saulres (0)

the director (2) ~ saulres, F-16_Fighting_Falcon

All players not shown as voting someone are not voting anyone.

--The next deadline is November 16, 2012 - in

(expired on 2012-11-19 21:45:00)

.

---

--- the director, a

Mafia Goon

, was lynched in Rarefaction!
--- F-16_Fighting_Falcon, a

Vanilla Townie

, survived Rarefaction!
--- saulres, a

Vanilla Townie

, survived Rarefaction!

--- Tierce, a

Town Puppybearer

, survived Rarefaction!!!
--- Konowa,

Tarhalindur, Pandora over Mafia

, aligned with the

Town

, survived Rarefaction!!!
--- Empire, a

Mafia Goon

, loses Rarefaction by default!

---Game Over!

Town

...

Wins!

Mafia

...

Loses...

Please stand by.

[Vi]

~NAME~

Welcome to Mafia in Triplicate, where you have drawn

Vanilla Townie

.

If that's what you wanted, congratulations!

You win when

two of the three scum in this game

are dead. You did read that, right? Confirm with the phrase "hey-o" if so.

I wish you the best of luck.

~NAME~

Welcome to Mafia in Triplicate, where you have drawn

Mafia Goon

. If that's what you wanted, congratulations!

*Factional Stuff.

Your partners are ____ and _____. You may speak here pregame and at Night, but not during the Day. At Night you may as a faction kill one player.

You win when it is impossible for the Town to fulfill their Win Condition. What is that Win Condition? Go read the Sample Role PM, and confirm like they should!

I wish you the best of luck.

~NAME~

Welcome to Mafia in Triplicate, where you have drawn

Town Puppybearer

. If that's what you wanted, congratulations!

*Yarrf!

You have a puppy. This might have ingame significance, but really, who cares? U^_^U

You win when

two of the three scum in this game

are dead. You did read that, right? Confirm with the phrase "hey-o" if so.

I wish you the best of luck.

Mod note: Is mod-confirmed Town after Day 1.

~NAME~

Well, well. You didn't think that you would enter my game and draw

that

, did you...?

You have entered this game as

Tarhalindur, Pandora over Mafia

. With charm in your body and deceit on your mind, you are the embodiment of what could ruin all those who fancy you - and also a fairly decent Mafia player. But that's not all you have to offer your victims. You see, there's this one jar, and there were some things in it, and, well... oh, look what you've visited on yourself!

*Foreboding.

You know that an event will occur at the end of Day 1.

Now then... You're

Town

, and win when

two out of the three scum in this game

are dead. Your Role PM might be a little nonstandard, so you should probably check the Sample Role PM with how to confirm...

I suppose I wish you the best of luck.~

---

Role and cell assignment:

1

3 8

4

6 7

9

5 2

8

4

3

9 5 7
2 1 6

---

So, I think we can all agree on two things:

1) The idea is incredibly awesome.
2) The execution was incredibly the opposite.

So many things went wrong with this setup and its modding that I can only try to remember them all here.

*I wasn't actually sure if this game was Town-sided with the mechanic - leaning toward no - and then the role assignment dropped a hippo on the Town side of the seesaw of balance and catapulted the scum into orbit. Nobody Special was a fair catch, Xalxe did what he's most famous for, and Empire was left holding the bag. I think that even though three scum in a Micro is ludicrous on its face, this Town could have won it without the process-of-elimination factor brought in by Rarefaction. Getting Tarhalindur and Puppybearer in the same cell didn't help at all.

*The game should have been labeled bastard. All the warnings I gave between Konowa's role and the ominous rule in the first post and the conspicuous lack of the traditional mood music at the start of the game probably were not enough to justify what happened. In case you're wondering, the reason I didn't tell anyone what precisely was going to happen was because I thought that having the scum

prepare

for it would destroy any Town advantage that could be gained from it - it was intended as a "snapshot in time" sort of thing.

*Following the above, nobody on the review team considered fakeclaims. When Nobody Special claimed, I etc. I'd like to personally apologize to NS for that rug pull.

*I tried to change how I do my vote counts in order to appease the people who basically don't like them a little. I think I made them worse. The fact that we had such wildly varying name lengths in this game (F-16_Fighting_Falcon is about as long by picas as Tierce (L-4) ~ Empire ) certainly didn't help, but etc.

*It's taken years to get this far, but I'm running out of time and motivation to put in YouTube links in each vote count. Repeating from previous games is so lame, and in this game in particular I was coming up empty on "how can I vaguely describe what's going on AND find apropos mood music" most of the time.

*I tried to go for putting vote counts on the tops of pages instead of the usual fixed-time-per-day bit I usually go with. That most decisively did not work, especially since it screwed up my rhythm for checking on prods.

*I forgot that Mafia was orange in this game since I wanted to distinguish the Tarhalindur role. You all know it's coming; but people always immediately ask "the role is red, does that mean Mafia?" even though I kind of clearly say it's Town farther down. :/

So, overall I'd rate this game a failure for reasons within and beyond my control. I'd like to apologize to everyone for its shortcomings.

But, the idea's still a good one, and I have an Open version of this setup and mechanic coming to a Micro queue near you. I'm going on V/LA all of next week, but after that we can take another stab at this mechanic - we'll see how gameplay changes when everyone knows this mechanic is coming.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

[Vi]

Also worth mentioning: Empire actually predicted something like this happening pregame, though his justification was incorrect.

[Vi]

Answering Konowa:

Nine players, two of which are scum
One Puppybearer (activates at Rarefaction)
Begin Rarefaction when there are twice as many Town alive as scum (so after Day 2 with 6 alive at earliest)
Both scum must be lynched to end game - if game enters Rarefaction every cell must choose correctly
Why is it called a smart phone when it thinks I'm spelling Ratefaction

One idea left out of this game was to let the scum choose the conf Town at Rarefaction - a Puppyteer, as it were. May consider that

Immediate balance comparison is F11 with Doctor but this setup is more Townsided

This message totally took ten minutes of my life how do you people even phone post without throwing it out the window seriously

[Vi]

I think one problem with the way the mechanic was used in this game was that we all decided on a NS lynch, and then when it went into Rarefaction... well, we didn't want NS to be lynched any less than we already did, so that was one of the cells basically solved in advance.

...you weren't supposed to lynch scum Day 1.

Also, if this is a "failure" for you, I can only imagine what a "success" would be like.

The only game I think was a true success was the only one in which mod decisions and communications didn't cause a moderate-to-severe issue with game balance. Sadly, nobody liked that game (Invictus).

I think literally every other game has had at least one thing to regret. :/ I don't think I can do much wrong with an Open game though.

...or I could be incredibly faultfinding when it comes to works of my own creation, especially when basically all of them use experimental mechanics. You choose!

Yes, I did ask the red=scum? question.

So did at least one reviewer.

However, are you accepting /pre-ins for the open version of this? >_>

Shamrock
F-16_Fighting_Falcon
Tierce

[One slot left! omg]