Open 716: Making Friends and Enemies [Game Over]

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Open 716: Making Friends and Enemies

The current phase is:

Postgame

Player	Status	Role	Time of Death
Alisae ← verydark	Alive	Town Mason
Myloninja13	Alive	Vanilla Townie
BuJaber	Dead	Mafia Goon	Day 1
popsofctown	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Night 1
Gamma Emerald	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Day 2
davesaz	Dead	Recruited Mason	Night 2
GuiltyLion	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Day 3
Kmd4390	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Night 3
brassherald ← Agent Sparkles	Dead	Mafia Goon	Day 4
Something_Smart ← Sando	Dead	Town Mason	Night 4
Green Crayons ← Kop	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Day 5
Mathdino	Dead	Vanilla Townie	Night 5
Ankamius ← Lil Uzi Vert ← northsidegal	Dead	Mafia Goon	Day 6

Useful Links

• Day 1 (1.0, 1.A, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.F, End)
  
• Night 1
  
• Day 2 (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.F, End)
  
• Night 2
  
• Day 3 (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.F, End)
  
• Night 3
  
• Day 4 (4.1, 4.2, 4.F, End)
  
• Night 4
  
• Day 5 (5.1, 5.F, End)
  
• Night 5
  
• Day 6 (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.F], End)
  
• Town Victory
  
• Night Actions

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Setup

This game uses the setup called Making Friends and Enemies. This setup contains:

• 3x
  Mafia Goon
  
  
• 2x
  Town Mason
  *
  
• 8x
  Vanilla Townie

*Although they're called "Town Mason"s, this name is deceptive, because the mason faction has a special ability.

• Mason

  special ability
  : once per game during the night, the mason faction may attempt to recruit a player. If that player is town, then they join the mason as a
  Recruited Mason
  . If that player is scum, the attempt fails.

Role PMs in full detail

Welcome, [Player Name]. You are a

Mafia Goon

, along with your partners, [Player Name] and [Player Name].

Abilities:

• Factional communication: During the night phase you may talk with your partners here: [Link].
  
• Factional kill: Each night phase, one of you or your partners may perform the factional kill.

Win condition:

• You win when all members of the town have been eliminated or nothing can prevent this from occurring.

Links:

• Game thread
  
• [Mafia thread]

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Town Mason

, along with your partner, [Player Name].

Abilities:

• Factional communication: During the night phase you may talk with your partners here: [Link].
  
• During one night during the game, the mason team may attempt to recruit another member. If you attempt to recruit town, they will be added to the masonry as "Recruited Mason". If you attempt to recruit mafia, the attempt will fail.
  
• You are confirmed town to your partner, and them to you.

Win condition:

• You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.

Links:

• Game thread
  
• [Mason thread]

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Recruited Mason

.

Abilities:

• Factional communication: During the night phase you may talk with your partners here [Link].
  
• You are confirmed town to your partners, and them to you.

Win condition:

• You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.

Links:

• Game thread
  
• [Mason thread]

Welcome, [Player Name], you are a

Vanilla Townie

.

Abilities:

• Your weapon is your vote, you have no night actions.

Win condition:

• You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.

Links:

• Game thread

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Rules

General

• All side-wide and mafia-specific rules apply;
  
• Do not edit or delete your posts;
  
• Do not directly quote private communication with the moderator until the game is over. Paraphrasing is fine;
  
• Do not post in this thread unless you're a living player. The dead tell no tales (and no "bah" posts either);
  
• No encrypted, obfuscated, or hidden text. Breadcrumbs are fine;
  
• When you pretend you're breaking the rules, the mod may interpret it as you actually breaking the rules. Moreover, do not try to get others to break the rules;
  
• The mafia/mason private topics shall be released 48 hours after the game ends unless a member of their faction objects. The dead/spectator thread shall be released 48 hours after the game ends unconditionally;
  
• The color
  blue
  is reserved by the mod. Do not use it.

Voting

• All votes must either be bolded or use vote tags, and may not be hidden or obscure. Using clear abbreviations in votes is allowed. Voting No-Lynch is allowed. Unclear votes shall be ignored;
  
• Votes may be changed or removed at any time during the day, but not during twilight;
  
• Whenever a strict majority of the players votes the same player or a simple majority of the players votes No-Lynch, the game moves on to twilight instantaneously. All living players (including the hammered player) may continue talking during twilight until the mod closes the thread.

Activity & Deadlines

• If you do not post in this thread for 48 consecutive hours during day, the mod may prod you. When you have been prodded at least three times or do not post in this thread for 72 hours, the mod may elect to replace you. This does not apply when you're V/LA;
  
• When you feel like you will not be able to play this game for a while, you may declare yourself V/LA by posting so in this thread (preferred) or by declaring yourself V/LA through your user profile. When you're V/LA, you will not get prodded or replaced based on activity. The mod may refuse to acknowledge unreasonable V/LA requests such as "V/LA for the next month";
  
• Deadlines are 11 real-life days for days and 48 hours for nights. If no majority is reached by the day deadline, a No-Lynch happens. If a hammer happens after the deadline passes but before the slowpoke mod actually closes the thread, that hammer is still valid;
  
• Deadlines, both day and night, may be extended for various reasons such as player replacement. Nights shall not be shortened even if all actions are in, except after all the theoretical potential maximum size of the masonry does not exceed 1, in which case the night may end after 24 hours if the scum night action is sent in and nobody objects. If a player gets replaced during night, the deadline shall be extended regardless of whether this player has any kind of power role.

Setup-specific

• Mafia and masons can only post in their private thread during the night, not during the day;
  
• "Town Mason" and "Recruited Mason" are strictly different roles and will flip differently;
  
• If, during the night, the scum try to kill a vanilla townie whom during the same night gets recruited by the masons, the target will flip "Recruited Mason" instead of "Vanilla Townie";
  
• The mason's single attempt to recruit will be expended even if it fails or gets wasted;
  
• Masons and mafia may not use their factional ability on their own members. Nobody is required to use their ability.

Miscellaneous

• This is a game. When you die in this game, you do not die in real life;
  
• Flavour text does not reveal anything game-related that is not already public information;
  
• These rules may be changed if the mod deems so necessary. Any changes will be clearly announced.

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Changelog

• The deadline for day phases has been changed from 7 real-life days per in-game day to 11 real-life days per in-game day. This change is effective starting from the first day / post 270;
  
• The existence of V/LA has been formally acknowledged (639);
  
• The nights may now be accelerated (2095).

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Day 1, start

Once upon a time, there was a small settlement in a forest a small distance away from other cities. This settlement was so small it could hardly be called a village; rather, it was a place where a few lumberjacks lived with their families. They'd chop wood in the vicinity, collect it in the settlement, and periodically had traders come to collect it.

However, one day, a few figures cloaked in white robes came to the village. They were certainly not traders; they were inquisitors.

"We have received reports of witchery abound in this forest."
The mayor-in-charge replied, "I am afraid you have come to the wrong place. Our settlement is small and certainly houses no witches."
An inquisitor sneered back, "We'll see about that."

A few days passed by while the inquisitors investigated the village. They reported finding pentagrams and satanic amulets. According to the villages, those definitely weren't here before.

"There are clear signs of witchery all over this place. There is no doubt that this village harbours several witches."
"That's not possible. If there were any witches here, we would've known already. There's no way a witch could stay hidden in this tiny place."
"Huh, so you're hiding the witches then? Tell me, where are they?"
"—That's not what I was saying at all—"
"Let me remind you that hiding witches is punishable by death. Tell me, where are the witches?!"

The inquisitors asked every resident to no avail. Then they declared publicly to everyone,

"LISTEN UP. We know there are witches here, and we know some of you are hiding them. It would be a shame if we had to kill everyone, but it would be an even bigger shame to let those witches live. So we decided the following: every day, YOU tell us somebody who is a witch, we burn them, and repeat that until ALL witches are dead. Got it? Surely none of you would want to see their friends burn to cover up for that bunch of witches,?"

Deadline:

(expired on 2018-04-02 21:30:00)

[Mathdino]

FIRST

calling the mafia team as NSG/GuiltyLion/KMD/davesaz

VOTE: Kmd

and fkin lol at that week long deadline

[Agent Sparkles]

I dislike short deadlines

VOTE: Gamma

Never got to finish lynching you

[verydark]

Hello everybody! Let’s get some scum!

VOTE: Agent Sparkles

[Gamma Emerald]

I dislike short deadlines

VOTE: Gamma

Never got to finish lynching you

Too bad I'm no longer scum!
VOTE: Sando
Dusto is better

[northsidegal]

VOTE: guiltylion

he definitely chose scum here, obvious lynch.

[Mathdino]

Kmd is much more likely to take scum than GuiltyLion. Terrible wagon.

Also:

2. We are not to make any indications that we are a mason or that we have a partner. Don't imply anything. You don't need to breadcrumb when you're a mason. In fact, feel free to actively muddy the waters by nullreading your buddy, or nullscumreading them, or even hard-defending them if that's what you'd normally do. Unfortunately the masons might have to play a little scummier. That's okay. VTs can help by implying they might be a mason (that said don't clear someone because they're doing this).

3. We are not to association-hunt or VT-hunt. Don't call out 2 players as the scumteam. Don't call someone out and be like "well it looks like they're not a mason". Do not help scum.

If everyone agrees on this, then there won't be any problem with limiting scum's knowledge.

^Adapted from Masons & Monks because I'm too lazy to type this out again.

Basically

Mason setups are absolutely ruined when town does the scum's job of association hunting. Do not hunt for associations. Thx <3

[Sando]

VOTE: Sando

I can't believe you've done this.

VOTE: Mathdino

A math dino unable to math!

[davesaz]

Tried to think of something witty, but my wife is dragging me out the door to go shopping.
VOTE: BuJaber

[popsofctown]

VOTE: davesaz
Can't phonepost something witty from the tiny little bench at the shoe store because he needs to preview edit his scumminess out.

[Gamma Emerald]

VOTE: guiltylion

he definitely chose scum here, obvious lynch.

Kmd is much more likely to take scum than GuiltyLion. Terrible wagon.

what the fresh hell is this

[northsidegal]

a joke?

[Mathdino]

ok but does gamma like playing scum tho

only scum would disagree with that kind of flawless logic

FoS: Gamma

[Agent Sparkles]

VOTE: Mathdino for accusing Kmd and Gamma but not voting

[Gamma Emerald]

ok but does gamma like playing scum tho

only scum would disagree with that kind of flawless logic

FoS: Gamma

Sometimes? Depends on the environment. I like having a good support network of a scumteam. Unfortunately I have not have the liberty of selecting anything about my alignment.

[popsofctown]

VOTE: Vote: Gamma Emerald

Saying "I have not the liberty of selecting anything about my alignment" instead of saying "I have not the liberty of selecting my alignment" suggests his alignment has two components - a side, and a set of people who share that alignment. A VT would be more likely to naturally construct the latter statement.

Doesn't really rule out a masonslip, but the quality of lynching someone who is mason/scum is significantly better than random lynching, so this is where my vote should go for now.

[Mathdino]

STOP PUBLICLY MASON HUNTING

[Mathdino]

Honestly I think he's just as likely to say something like that as a VT. Scumslips don't happen.

The alignment choice thing is a joke reference to Team Mafia.

[Sando]

suggests his alignment has two components

What are the two components of the scum roles in this setup again?

[Kmd4390]

Vote verydark

That's a real vote on scum and I'll definitely come back to it post game and brag that I caught him Day 1.

I also have a real read on Mathdino if anyone wants to guess what that is. Same for Agent Sparkles but that one isn't as strong.

So three reads on page 1. I also want to guess town on Gamma and scum on pops but those are so weak that their next post could definitely change my guess.

[popsofctown]

suggests his alignment has two components

What are the two components of the scum roles in this setup again?

Alignment and partner's name.

[Sando]

suggests his alignment has two components

What are the two components of the scum roles in this setup again?

Alignment and partner's name.

Righto, thought you meant "ability" and alignment, and scum are vanilla scum, didn't think of partners.

Agree with Dino though, Mason hunting is bad mmk.