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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:35 am
Postby Thesp »
Mafia with a Twist 4: Title to be Revealed
Mafia with a Twist
is a series of games designed with a twist in mind. They are individual, one-shot games which will likely never be able to be duplicated again by anyone with knowledge of the game. Twists may be subtle, crazy, or perhaps even non-existent (itself being the twist!), but it is my hope that the game will be memorable.
Previous games: Mafia with a Twist 1: The OK Corral Mafia with a Twist 2: Democracy Inaction Mafia with a Twist 3: Sudden Dethy
Game Mechanic Expectations
This game has a strong possibility of being distinctly non-normal.
I reserve the right to be considered a “bastard mod” in this game.
If you are looking for a normal-ish game with flavor, then this game is not for you.
Please consider your ability to play the game to completion before signup.
The nature of the game may be such that replacing causes an undue strain on the game in a way more damaging than to typical games.
Games may be wildly unbalanced.
I have tried my very best to make games as balanced as possible, but due to the nature of each twist, that may not always be possible. Some factions may have an easier or harder time of things in any given Mafia with a Twist game. If you are expecting perfect balance or dislike swinginess in games, then this game may not be for you.
Gameplay Expectations
Games will feature strict two-week day deadlines.
The circumstances under which this will be extended will be exceedingly rare. Lynches at deadline will be the single-highest vote-getter, with ties being broken under the longest-held-last-vote principle. I will be providing a link to my votecounting app so you should be able to obtain your own votecount at any given moment, but I expect to be posting regular votecounts so often that you will rarely (if ever) need to rely upon it.
I will be enforcing a “don’t be a jerk” rule.
I don’t expect to ever need to use it (and have come across very few instances where such a thing would be warranted), but we’re playing a game to have fun. Personal attacks which make the game unfun for players will be dealt with by warnings, or in extreme cases, forced replacement.
Signup Restrictions
Hydra accounts will not be accepted into this game.
No exceptions.
Players in this game should have a minimum of 2 completed games on this site before signing up for this game.
I strongly recommend having at least 5 games of experience under your belt before signing up. I reserve the right to waive this requirement, but I have zero expectation that I will do so.
Good luck.
"When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning." -
. Your only power is that of the all-important vote, so use it well!
You win when all threats to the Town have been killed.
Please confirm via reply PM, telling me what happens at the deadline of any day. (This is how I ensure you have at least glanced at my rules.) The game will begin after all players have responded, and at least 72 hours have passed, in order to allow night-talking groups to communicate before the game.
Game-specific rules:
Don't be a jerk.
Discussions can get heated and sometimes people swear, and that's okay. That happens! But don't be a jerk. If you want to play a game and be a jerk, there are plenty of others on this site you can join.
I expect to enforce this rule if needed, and I expect I won't need to.
I reserve the ability to use any manner of tools to enforce this, including but not limited to warnings or forced replacements. I don't expect to involuntarily replace you unless you've been clearly warned, or the violation is particularly egregious.
Playing to win does not preclude being considerate to others.
Please use vote tags when making your votes. For example, VOTE: Kristen. If you can't be bothered to use vote tags, your vote must be bolded and use a colon, such as
Vote: Kristen
. I am using an automatic votecounter to assist me, and if you don't use either of these formats, it will have problems and make my job more difficult. If a vote is made with incorrect tags, I reserve the right to edit your post solely to correct the formatting of your vote.
This game will begin in Day. Days will last 14 real-time days, and Nights will last for 2 real-time days (excluding Sundays). Deadlines will not be extended except in extraordinary circumstances.
At any deadline, a simple plurality will successfully lynch a player, using the longest-held-last-vote method to break ties.
Please do not use or mimic the [ ooc ] tag. If I need to make edits in players' posts, I will use this tag.
Generic rules:
Unless stated otherwise by the moderator or in these rules, the follow are controlling:
Lynchings will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. You may
Vote: No Lynch
– 50% of living players must do this to end the day without a death.
Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. Stop typing.
Pretending to break a rule will be treated as if breaking a rule.
Remember, it’s a game. Have fun!
"When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning." -
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Post #126 (isolation #5) » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:22 am
Postby Thesp »
Official Vote Count
House
(4): Untrod Tripod, snscompt1, BRantz, SleepyKrew
BRantz
(2): ika, House
ika
(2): farside22, Rubicon
xRECKONERx
(2): Seraphim, hi im Yakko
snscompt1
(2): xRECKONERx, Flames682
farside22
(1): mathcam
Not Voting
(0):
None.
With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.
Deadline
: (expired on 2015-03-31 17:00:00)
In post 74, Seraphim wrote:I have no idea honestly. Automatic vote counting confuses me and apparently a lack of a colon can fuck it so I didn't want to fuck it. YA DIG???
I'm happy to explain a bit more about the votecounter, to make it a bit more clear. It looks for a vote tag, or bolded "vote:" (which must include the colon) to search for votes. When it finds a vote, it makes a best guess as to who the vote is for, based on spelling and capitalization. Spelling names correctly will help it be as accurate as possible, but it is relatively good at picking up misspellings and counting them correctly. That said, it's not perfect, so if you discover a mistake, please point it out so I can correct it. If you want to run your own votecounts at any time, go to this site:
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Post #547 (isolation #31) » Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:07 am
Postby Thesp »
Curtains
Let me begin by both apologizing, and by giving thanks to our three Townies.
Of all the games in my Mafia with a Twist series to date, this was by far the most ambitious, and the most likely to get
me
actually lynched. After all, it would require people to be genuinely playing a game that wasn't what they thought it was, which was terribly deceptive of me. In my defense, I have been very explicit that these are potentially
very
bastardly modded, but that may or may not feel a bit hollow right now. After all, you've been taking notes, making reads, and watching as player flip alignments that may or may not make sense to you. You've invested time and energy in this game, and I don't know whether or not you'll feel that energy was validated. To that end, I apologize for thrusting you into a role you may or may not have wanted.
That said, you Townies have been absolutely vital to this enterprise, and I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. Without you, this game would not have been possible, and this grand experiment could not come to fruition. I began having no idea if it would work or not, and I hope you find the results as fascinating as I have. But let's cut the chit-chat, shall we? I wanted to find out this:
Could an informed
majority
fool an uninformed
minority
?
What if the scum didn't number 23% of the players, but instead numbered
77%
of the players? And I'm not referring to a bunch of factions, I mean
what if nearly every player in the game were on one team against the other team? What would that look like?
To answer that question, I give you this game, this
Mafia with a Twist 4: All the World's a Stage
.
If you haven't guessed by now, the premise is this. The "Mafia" (in this game coined the "Actors") are each a special kind of Death Millers, with night talk. At the start of the game, they determined the order in which players would "die", one at a time. The night kills would be easy, one of them would simply feign death. However, the lynches would be more difficult, as they'd have to realistically steer the town into picking the "correct" lynch, all the while diminishing their voting power day by day. The Townies could end up winning by being so unpredictable as to cause a lynch the Actors had not planned.
All in all, the Actors did indeed Follow the Script, and each Day's lynch was correctly made. On this final day, each Townie (the only players left in the game) were sent separate, identical PMs:
Thesp wrote:
Please read this PM carefully, as your win condition has changed.
It turns out this game is not quite what you thought. The question you're about to answer is now the sole determiner of whether you win or lose. So, tell me...
What was the Twist in this game?
Please think carefully upon your answer, and PM it to me within the next 72 hours. Your answer will be judged by an independent panel based on a prepared rubric. All will be revealed soon.
Each Townie would win if they correctly guessed what the Twist in the game was. If the Actors could fool at least 2 of the Townies, they would win. I employed the assistance of three judges (thanks, petroleumjelly, al_kohaulec, and mith!) to judge the correctness of responses based on this rubric, prepared before the game:
So, what were the responses we received? And what is the final result? Hit the spoiler tag below to open the envelope...
Final Results
Spoiler: Final Results
farside22 wrote:The mafia was forced to kill a player that was town with the least amount of post.
Flame is the last scum.
Not that you asked.
farside22's response was judged INCORRECT.
Flames682 wrote:Mafia did not decide the night kill, the moderator did.
Flames682's response was judged INCORRECT.
xRECKONERx wrote:The twist this game is that there was no twist... up until just now, when my win condition changed, and I'm being asked to name a twist.
Thank you so very, very much to all players for your efforts in this game. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did watching it. I promise you Mafia with a Twist 5, whenever I have it polished and ready to go, won't be as crazy as this one was.
"When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning." -
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Post #553 (isolation #32) » Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:17 am
Postby Thesp »
I loved how on Day 1, on the second page, the Actors were one vote on ika away from losing the game (which could have happened if an Actor wasn't paying attention and placed a lynching vote, so the reaction was swift):
