Mafia 3 - Improbable Role
MASTER KEY
PART ONE
(more to come later, when I type it)
I. The Roles
THE MAFIA
DRAGON PHOENIX - Godfather Bill Gates
SKETCHWICK - The Mafia Lawyer
RADWULF - The Mafia Prostitute
CORSATO - Mafia Scum
RALPHMERRIDEW - Mafia Scum
The Mafia consulted with each other during the night and killed one person each night. They did not have to specify a specific hitman. Their roles were not completely improbable, but there were a few quirks. The Godfather appeared like a normal Townie except when investigated or recruited by the Basketweaver and Sherlock Holmes. The Mafia Lawyer could block one person’s role each night, in addition to the Mafia kill. The Mafia Prostitute had no special abilities but was the specific target of James Bond and served as a clue to the Town that other Mafia (read: the Lawyer) might have special abilities of some sort.
THE ACTORS GUILD
BEAUDOIN / IS II - Actor
JEEP - Actor
MIKE AMOK - Actor
SWEETWATER - Actor
The Actors were a sort of weak Mason group. They were all told that all Actors were innocent, and that there were other Actors in the Town, and that they could identify each other by following the same pattern: using colours in their posts (either words or actual colours.) They were not allowed to talk to each other at night.
THE INVESTIGATORS
CADMIUM - IRS Agent
EILLID - Robot X4-6009-2A
JESTERNL - Methodical Cop
MITH - The Spanish Inquisition
RAAMAWEN - Sherlock Holmes
SOOTHSAYER - Lassie
The IRS Agent received a set of instructions regarding the wealth of people in the Town, and investigated one person each night. Unfortunately for him, only the Mafia and a few others were wealthy, and he could not find out anything unless he targeted one of them. Basically, a Lazy Cop of a type...I gave him whatever information I felt like.
Robot X4-6009-2A was given no instructions except that it was looking for its Creator, a scientist in the Town (this happened to be Sir Dynadan.) Each night it would investigate one person to see if that person was human and if that person was its Creator. If it had found Sir Dynadan, it would have protected him from night kills (until it died.) If it was lynched, SCENARIO 2 (scenarios detailed at end) would have occurred, and actually did.
The Methodical Cop was a Cop who was told he was Sane, and had to send me a list of the other 24 players in order at the beginning of the game. He investigated in that order throughout the game, skipping the dead. He could not find the Godfather.
The Spanish Inquisition investigated one person per night, and received a completely random result (innocent, guilty, or can’t tell.) That person was weakened the next day and would be killed if they accumulated three votes (not including the votes of the Spanish Inquisition.)
Sherlock Holmes investigated one person per night and received partial or full details of their role, if and only if that role was logical. Sherlock Holmes’ investigations would fail on the Underwater Basketweaver, the Flying Pumpkin, Shakespeare, the Robot, Barney, and the Amateur Necromancer. Sherlock Holmes could find the Godfather.
Lassie ‘followed’ one person per night and received vague (my call) details about their nighttime activities.
THE DOCTORS
INTERNET STRANGER - Barney the Purple Dinosaur
SIR DYNADAN - Cytokinin and Robotics Scientist
Barney the Purple Dinosaur protected one person per night from all forms of night kill.
The Cytokinin and Robotics Scientist protected one person per night from all forms of night kill, and turned that person into a plant for a day (that person could only make one post the next day.) If Robot X4-6009-2A was lynched, SCENARIO 2 would occur (explained later.)
OTHER IMPROBABLE ROLES, I: THE AMATEURS
LUNA - Amateur Necromancer
The Amateur Necromancer was told that they were dabbling in necromancy and could attempt to raise the body of one person each night. If successful, they would gain control of that person’s role and vote (had any resurrections been completely successful, they would have registered a ‘corpse’ account to post under, thus keeping their identity secret. The Amateur Necromancer’s attempt on X had four possible results: nothing happens (and the corpse of player X dissolves,) X gives the Necromancer the chance to make one final vote the next day (this happened,) X is raised, or the Necromancer channels too much power and is destroyed (least likely.)
I did not roll a die or use random.org for this role. I had the (what I thought was an improbable and funny) idea of using an online “love-meter test.” To determine Luna’s success, I entered her name with the name of the player targeted. But I made a mistake. The love-meter test site I used never gave me any other result than the first two. I decided to keep this in the end, as the Necromancer *was* an Amateur. For those curious, I’ll be looking for the exact site. I’ve forgotten it.
As an additional plus (I did little things like this everywhere,) anyone who investigated the Necromancer would receive a vague “she does dark, dark things” answer, indicative of a normal Town’s displeasure with the Dark Arts. Somewhat like a hobbyist.
MOLE - Prestidigitator
The Prestidigitator was the Town’s amateur magician. He was immune to investigation attempts and immune to the first attempt on his life. There was also a 50% chance that he received information on anyone who targeted him. In addition, he had a nifty one-time ability that is probably too powerful: he could at any one night during the game receive a list of all the night’s targets in random order (i.e. Bob, Joe, Luna, Antrax, Ysabel.) He could then rearrange the list, and I would assign the new targets to each role. If he switched Bob and Joe, for example, what should have happened to Bob would now happen to Joe and vice versa. This actually happened in the game.
MIRIYAMI - The Underwater Basketweaver
The Underwater Basketweaver attempted to recruit one person per night into a semi-Mason group. Although Miri was not informed of how her recruiting ability worked, it was also random, and had the following possibilities of results:
5% recruitment fails, Miri is insulted and thinks target is Mafia
20% recruitment fails, no information given
40% target is told they have been asked to join a Mason group, and must give up their special ability to join. They have one day-night cycle to respond.
20% the same as above, without loss of ability
10% target joins immediately, without loss of ability
5% target is insulted at the (as Luna later put it) “heterosexually-challenged” nature of basketweaving and is told Miri is Mafia
If at any time Miri’s group exceeded three members, I would start flipping a coin each night. If the coin came up tails, SCENARIO 1 would have occurred (explained later, and never happened.)
If the Underwater Basketweaver targeted a Mafia, she had a 75% chance of being told “did not join” and a 25% chance of getting a hint that the target was Mafia. The Godfather would appear merely untrainable. The Lawyer could join, at the cost of giving up his secondary ability (blocking a person’s role.)
SABERKITTY - Veterinarian
The Veterinarian, while alive, protected animal roles from night kills. While she was alive, Lassie, Barney, and the Flying Pumpking could not be killed at night. This was a passive role.
OTHER IMPROBABLE ROLES, II: THE PROFESSIONALS
ANTRAX - The Flying Pumpkin That Shoots Laser Beams Out Of Its Ass
The Flying Pumpkin was a strong vigilante role. It had a 25% chance of surviving any night attack against it, and could at any time pick one of two night actions: aim or fire. Firing gave a 75% chance of killing the target indiscriminately. Aiming cost the Pumpkin two nights, but gave a 100% chance of killing a Mafia target (except the Godfather) and a 25% chance of killing a Town.
MUDSTER - James Bond, 007.
James Bond was on a secret mission. Having slept with so many women, he had acquired several thousand STDs, only one of which was currently affecting him. Unfortunately for Bond, the only person who held the cure was a Prostitute working for the Mafia. Bond ‘slept’ with one person every night, and gave them some type of STD. The types were:
X - the target would die the next day if s/he received more than four votes.
Y - the person could not speak the following day
Z - that person’s role would be blocked the next night
Neither Bond nor the target would know which disease took effect; neither would I announce the “no speaking” to the Town or the “role blocked/poisoning” to the target.
Bond had a 30% chance of giving each of the above diseases to his targets, and a 10% chance of infecting them with the same malady that plagued him. Anyone who received that STD from Bond would pass it on to anyone they targeted at night. SCENARIO 3 would occur if at any time a majority of the Town was infected.
When Bond died, no details of his role were announced.
ZEALOT - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare had to speak in iambic pentameter in his posts, except when voting, and had a one-time special ability to ‘link’ two players tragically - if any one of them died, the other would die at the end of the next day (like the Siblings in Mafia Invitational.) Zealot never used this ability.
NEO - Rube Goldberg, Mayor
Rube Goldberg, the Inventor and Mayor, had a number of functions. On one hand, he was extremely powerful. He possessed a transmogrifying gun he could use every other night, several smoke bombs that blocked a player’s role for a night, and a couple fake pistols that forced people to state an allegiance (Mafia, Town, Neutral.) He could use one of these per night or give one to another player anonymously. His vote also counted double as he was the Mayor. On the other hand, this made him a Mafia target, and once he died the Lynching Machine fell into disrepair...at the end of every lynching there was an X% chance that a random voter would die, and X rose by 0, 5, 10, or 15 every night (randomly, with a bias towards the lower end.)
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