:(){ :|:& };: Mafia [FULL/17]

[implosion]

Welcome.

You can think of this game as spiritually inspired by ehobanohar, or ehobanowoof. There's a rich history of such games on mafiascum.

Spoiler: Players

1. Jingle
   
2. Untrod Tripod
   
3. rosterfoster
   
4. President Donald Trump
   
5. PenguinPower
   
6. Bins
   
7. Chara
   
8. Apollo Khione
   
9. Flavor Leaf
   
10. Skygazer
    
11. TenRose
    
12. Flubbernugget
    
13. Primate
    
14. themilkcartonkid
    
15. Chemist1422
    
16. Fuscosco
    
17. no lunch

Spoiler: Replacements

1. Alisae

The setup can be found here:

Spoiler: Original Setup Post

Forkbomb Mafia

4 Mafia
13 Townies

You can think of this as an infectious disease or something but it's going to sound funnier if I use this terminology.

Nightless. Really phaseless. There's a singular day.

A random townie is selected to be the initial fork() call; they are considered to be forked, and are publicly revealed. Any given player can be in three states: alive, forked, or dead. If a player is forked, then they may still post and will not have their alignment flip, but are effectively dead for win condition purposes. At any time, any forked player may fork exactly two other players by publicly announcing in thread:

Fork: Player 1, Player 2

(alternatively, in the spirit of EHOBANOHAR, players may use any verb or phrase, not just "Fork", so long as it is unambiguous and bolded)

As soon as they do this, the forking player becomes dead (and their alignment flips). For each of the two players they target, if not yet forked, they become forked; if they were already forked, they become dead (this provides a way for the town to move from the initial evens into odds, as well as a way to stop suspected forked mafia from forking two townies).

There is only one day phase, but it has a short (48 or 72 hour likely) deadline; any time a player forks, this deadline is reset. If the deadline expires, all forked players become dead. If at any point there are no forked players, the mafia must select a new townie to become forked. Note that this prevents mafia from indefinitely stalling the game if all forked players are mafia.

The town wins when all mafia are forked or dead.
The mafia win when at least half of all unforked players are mafia.

Note that even though two players are forked in each Fork statement, they are actually forked one at a time (so if forking the first player would cause the mafia to win, and forking the second player would then reset the game back to where the mafia win condition doesn't apply, the mafia would in fact win). This prevents LYLO from being super easy for town.

Mafia-aligned players may never fork in such a way that they would immediately win. Two examples: (1) If there is 1 alive mafia and 3 alive town, a forked mafia may not fork to two of the alive town, though if desired they could fork one of them and one other already-forked player. (2) If there are 2 alive mafia and 3 alive town, and 1 forked mafia and 2 forked town, the forked mafia could not fork the two already-forked town, as this would cause the "no forked players" clause to take effect and the mafia would get to fork a townie for free and immediately win. If they do attempt such a fork, the moderator will announce that it failed, and that mafia member will die. There should never be any good reason for this to happen.

The game will have a 72 hour deadline, meaning merely that the town will be incentivized to make at least one kill every 72 hours. I imagine things will probably proceed fairly quickly on the whole.

Spoiler: Rules

General Rules

1. The Basics
   
   
2. All site-wide rules apply.
   
3. Play to your win condition.
   
4. Do not privately communicate with other players about this game, except where explicitly allowed.
   
5. Be respectful of other players; do not insult them. Attack the argument, not the person.
   
6. Do not quote your role PM; do not quote any private communication with other players. Do not pretend to quote your role PM or any private communication, as doing so will be treated as if you actually quoted them. Paraphrasing either of these is fine.
   
7. Do not use provable randomness.
   
8. Do not use cryptography, robust steganography, invisible text, etc.
   
9. As the moderator, I reserve the right to make any judgment call I deem fit, regardless of whether or not any explicit rule exists.

1. Setup specifications
   
   
2. This setup is open. It contains 13 town and 4 mafia, and is mountainous (meaning every player is vanilla).
   
3. The game will take place in a single day.
   
4. There is no voting and no normal lynch mechanic.
   
5. At any given time, a player can be in one of three states: Alive, Forked, or Dead. All players begin Alive. Forked players are considered Dead for the purpose of all win conditions, but will not have their alignments revealed and may continue to post.
   
6. At the beginning of the day, a random town player will be chosen. That player will be revealed as town, and will become Forked.
   
7. At any time, any Forked player may post, in-thread and bolded:
   
   
   Fork: Player1, Player2
   
   
   The word "Fork" can be replaced with anything you like (e.g. "kill", "set fire to", "amalgamate", "say hello to", etc) so long as it is bold and unambiguous who is being Forked. Do not try to game this.
   
   When this is done, the Forked player issuing the Fork will become Dead. Then, for each of the two players targeted: if they were Alive, they will become Forked. If they were Forked, they will become Dead. Note that if Forking the first player causes a win condition to be achieved, the game will end and the second player will not be Forked.
   
8. I will resolve Forks as quickly as I can. If a player becomes Forked, they may still issue Fork commands even if I have not officially announced them as Forked yet.
   
9. If at any time there are zero Forked players, there will be a 24 hour night phase in which the mafia may choose a new townie to become Forked. If they fail to choose, I will pick at random.
   
10. Mafia members may not Fork in such a way that they would immediately achieve their win condition. In other words, the last Fork of the game must come from town.
    
11. There is a 72 hour deadline, which will be reset any time any player Forks. If the deadline is reached, all Forked players will become Dead, and there will be a 24 hour night phase as described above.
    
12. The town wins when all mafia members are Forked or Dead and at least one town member is Alive. The mafia win when there are at least as many mafia members Alive as there are town members Alive.

Sample Role PMs

Welcome to the Forkbomb, and Congratulations! You're

Town

!
You win when all of the mafia are Forked or Dead, and at least one townie is Alive.
Confirm by sending me a PM stating your role and alignment.

Welcome to the Forkbomb, and Congratulations! You're

Mafia

! Along with Name, Name, and Name!
You can chat with your co-conspirators right here, at all times.
You win when at least half of all Alive players are mafia. As a reminder, you can't Fork to people if it would cause you to immediately win.
Confirm by sending me a PM stating your role and alignment, or posting in your private topic.

schadd_ is the backup mod.

[rosterfoster]

/in

[schadd_]

ulimit -u 15
ulimit -H -u 15

[President Donald Trump]

/in

[PenguinPower]

/in

[Bins]

/in i guess i will fork

[Alisae]

/in to replace
Can’t play from the 2nd-12th but I would definitely play if I could!

[Chara]

/in

[Untrod Tripod]

/fork

[Jingle]

/coinfarm

[Clemency]

/in
forking hell

[Clemency]

actually
brb
paging jay

[Clemency]

consider my spot reserved for a hydra

[Apollo Khione]

This is the Jay of many names, summoned by Clementine to screw you all up.

/In.

[Clemency]

/confirm

[Bambi Jay]

/Yeet.

(That's hipster for Confirm)

[Flavor Leaf]

/in

[Skygazer]

/in

[Jingle]

/Yeet.

(That's hipster for Confirm)

Fork: Jay and Jay's Hydra

[Elsa Jay]

What teh heck did we do to deserve this Jings?

[Jingle]

you yeeted.

[TenRose]

/in as hydra

[Clemency]

eccleston was better

[Flubbernugget]

/fork

[Flubbernugget]

Oh, someone already made that joke

/in