Newbie 845 - Game over!

[Vel-Rahn Koon]

You awaken to the hustle and bustle of your home town’s daily activity. Little did you know that the peaceful quiet of your normal, everyday life would come crashing down today. It seems that one of your fellow citizens has angered the Mob, and has paid for it with his life! What are you going to do? Why, you’re going to get your peaceful, little town back, that’s what…

Your job, fair citizens of the town’s Ruling Council, is to discover who among you belong to the Mafia and summarily lynch them. Two of your fellow Council members are working for the Mafia - find them before they take over the Council and the town!

Living Players (1)

-

Confirmed players are in bold.

ODDin ^

(replaced Wall_Jon),

Mafia Goon

* = IC player
^ = SE player

The IC(s) are here to help you learn to play the game. Their play is governed by the wiki article Being a good IC.

Dead Players (8)

bill1148

(replaced ernie9274, Pastai),

Mafia Roleblocker

, lynched Day 1

Soylent

,

Townie

, killed Night 1

hiphop ^

,

Townie

, lynched Day 2

Sucrose

,

Townie

, killed Night 2

Sweep

,

Townie

, lynched Day 3

XScorpion

,

Townie

, killed Night 3

PHANTOM

,

Townie

, lynched Day 4

Zorblag *

(replaced Cass),

Townie

, killed in Endgame

ODDin

won the game for the

Mafia

team!!

Game Links

Day 1 Lynch | Day 2 Lynch | Day 3 Lynch | Day 4 Lynch

[Vel-Rahn Koon]

Game Rules:

General Gameplay and Etiquette:

1. You may not quote private Moderator-supplied information (either real or fabricated) of any kind. Paraphrasing (for role claims, etc.) is acceptable.
   
2. There is to be NO personal communication outside of the forum postings unless your role PM specifically allows it.
   
3. If you have a role with a Night action your choices are due to me by the posted deadline. If I do not receive your choice via PM by the posted deadline you will forfeit your actions.
   
4. Roles with Night actions will not be able to submit an action on Night 0 (i.e. during the confirmation stage).
   
5. Any player with a Night action may instead submit a “No Action” PM to let the Mod know that you do not want to perform your expected action that Night phase.
   
6. In order for all players to play at least one game day this game will start with a Day phase. Communication outside the thread (if your role specifically allows it) is allowed until the game begins.
   
7. As a general rule you should aim for one post every 48 hours, minimum, to keep the game moving.
   
8. All Newbie games have strict 3-week deadlines.
   Extensions are given only in extreme circumstances.

Voting, Deadlines, and Player Death:

1. A simple majority of all living members must agree on one person for a Lynch to occur (simple majority = ½ # of living players +1, rounded down).
   
2. Votes should be bolded or they may not be counted (e.g.
   Vote: Player
   ).
   
3. Vote revocations should be bolded or they may not be counted (e.g.
   Unvote: Player
   or
   Unvote
   ). Unvotes are not necessary before changing votes.
   
4. You may
   Vote: No Lynch
   - a simple majority of these vote types are required to send the game to Night phase without a Lynch.
   
5. Votes/Unvotes that are bolded correctly and are unambiguous (with respect to player nicknames/abbreviations) will count.
   
6. At deadline, ½ the original number of votes will be required for a lynch. In the case of a tie, the person who first received the required number of votes will be lynched. If this number is not met, a No Lynch will occur.
   There will be no reduced number of votes in LyLo.
   
   
7. Once you have reached a simple majority no further unvoting will change someone’s fate.
   
8. Once a player is lynched the game enters twilight until I post a death scene; the lynched player may not post during twilight but all other living players may continue to post.
   
9. Once you are killed (either via lynch or night kill) you may no longer post except for a brief “Bah!”-type post.

Miscellaneous/Mechanics:

1. Red
   or
   Purple
   text is reserved for the Mod. No invisible/small text is allowed.
   
2. Votecounts will be posted once per page or once per day, whichever is less.
   
3. If you have an issue/problem with the game, please PM the Mod privately. Do not post issues/complaints in the game thread.
   
4. The Mod may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
   
5. Please bold all requests to the Mod so that they don’t get missed.
   
   
6. Prods of missing players will be issued upon request or on the 4th day of no activity. A player who has been prodded 3 times is subject to possible replacement without further notice.
   
7. Rules violations will be dealt with according to their severity, up to and including a Modkill. Modkills may be accompanied by a change to day/night.
   
8. Any situation not explicitly covered above is subject to Mod discretion and will be handled as the Mod sees fit on a case-by-case basis.
   
9. If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period please post a notice to that effect in the thread.
   Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.

The Golden Rule:

Please remember that this is a game and your main objective is to have fun! Be considerate of each other, don’t get personal, and enjoy the game.

Helpful Links:

• Main Wiki Page
  
• Newbie Guide
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Commonly Used Abbreviations
  
• Mafia Theory

[Vel-Rahn Koon]

The F11 setup is the current game format used in Newbie games. To prevent the development of game-breaking strategies, these Newbie Games are Semi-Open, wherein the actual game setup is randomly chosen from one of four possible setups as detailed below:

• 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker, 1 Sane Cop, 1 Sane Doctor, 5 Townies
  
• 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker, 7 Townies
  
• 2 Mafia Goons, 1 Sane Cop, 6 Townies
  
• 2 Mafia Goons, 1 Sane Doctor, 6 Townies

If either of the first two setups are in play, and the situation occurs where the Goon is lynched first, the Roleblocker will still be able to submit both night kills and roleblocks (roleblocking is a function of the Roleblocker; night kills are a function of the scum team as a whole).

These are the Role PMs that have potentially been sent to the players:

Mafia-Aligned players:

Mafia Goon:

You are a member of the Mafia along with your partner,

name

. Since your plot to quietly overtake the town has failed, you will attempt take it by force by eliminating the others until you outnumber the populace.

• During the day, try to blend in with the normal Townies, and attempt to get someone lynched.
  
• During the NIGHT cycle ONLY, you may talk with your fellow Mafia (via PM) and choose another player in the town to kill that night.
  
• You may communicate privately with your fellow Mafia up until the game thread is opened. Once the game begins, all outside communication must cease until the night cycle.
  
• You win when the number of Mafia equals or exceeds the number of remaining Town players, whether you survive to the end or not.

Mafia Roleblocker:

You are a member of the Mafia along with your partner,

name

. Since your plot to quietly overtake the town has failed, you will attempt take it by force by eliminating the others until you outnumber the populace.

• During the day, try to blend in with the normal Townies, and attempt to get someone lynched.
  
• As a Roleblocker, you have the ability to distract any player throughout the night, effectively negating their night ability, if they have one.
  
• Send the moderator a PM with your choice of player that you want to block. If they have a Night action, it will have no effect. You will not be informed as to whether your roleblock worked or not.
  
• During the NIGHT cycle ONLY, you may talk with your fellow Mafia (via PM) and choose another player in the town to kill that night.
  
• You may communicate privately with your fellow Mafia up until the game thread is opened. Once the game begins, all outside communication must cease until the night cycle.
  
• You win when the number of Mafia equals or exceeds the number of remaining Town players, whether you survive to the end or not.

Town-Aligned players:

Townie:

You are a normal townsperson, trying to make a living and survive this insanity.

• You have no abilities at Night other than getting a good night's rest.
  
• Although you do not have any special abilities, your voice and vote are powerful weapons in their own right. Use them to your best advantage!
  
• At no time may you privately communicate with any other player.
  
• You win when all the Mafia players are gone, whether you survive to the end or not.

Cop:

You are the local law enforcement, and can tell the good guys from the bad.

• Each NIGHT, you may send the moderator a PM with your choice of player that you want to investigate.
  
• The Moderator will inform you as to that person’s guilt or innocence.
  
• At no time may you privately communicate with any other player.
  
• In a Newbie game, you will always get a correct result (no sanity issues).
  
• You win when all the Mafia players are gone, whether you survive to the end or not.

Doctor:

You are the local physician, and can protect people from harm.

• Each NIGHT, you may send the moderator a PM with your choice of player that you want to protect.
  
• If someone attempts to kill that player during the Night, they will be spared.
  
• You may not protect yourself.
  
• At no time may you privately communicate with any other player.
  
• In a Newbie game, your protection target will always live through the night (no quacks).
  
• You win when all the Mafia players are gone, whether you survive to the end or not.

[Vel-Rahn Koon]

All confirmations are in and Day 1 is a go!

5 to Lynch. Deadline is the end of Wednesday, October 7.

[Cass]

Hello and welcome everyone. I am your friendly IC for this game. I'll try to answer any questions you have about this game or this website.

Now, to break the ice, I have a few questions for all of you:

1) What is your previous xperience with mafia?

2) What attracted you to this game and/or to this website?

3) Do you like the RVS? Why (not)?

4) Do you believe that anyone who lies should be lynched? Why (not)?

5) Which role would you like to be some day? (Make one up if you like )

[Sucrose]

Hello Hello Hello!

Hope nobody gets all us S-names mixed up.

1. This is my very first Mafia game. (not counting middle school card games, heh)
I have read through a game and tried to read up a bit, so I know some of the abbreviations and whatnot.

2. I saw people playing on a different forum of which I am not a member, and saw that they were getting their references on roles and such from here.

3. Apparently I haven't read up enough, because I have no idea what this means.

4. Probably, unless they have a really, really good excuse. It's better to lynch someone who's suspicious than it is to just randomly lynch someone, is it not?

5. Hmmmm. Cult Leader sounds fun.

[Sweep]

Might answer later, bit tight for time now.

[PHANTOM]

1. This is my second game on this site, but I've played many other times before in real life. My first game on this site is still going on but I got nightkilled.

2. I like this game because I like to play the role of a dectective trying to find the bad guy.

3. Not sure what it means.

4. Depends on what the lie is and what stage the game is at.

5. I think playing a fool/jester role would be pretty fun.

[Wall_Jon]

1) What is your previous xperience with mafia?

I played this game once or twice on another forum a long time ago. I went to this forum before but never got involved with a game. After a friend told me about the site, I wanted to play again.

2) What attracted you to this game and/or to this website?

Once again, a friend told me about this site and game and I thought it was interesting.

3) Do you like the RVS? Why (not)?

What is RVS?

4) Do you believe that anyone who lies should be lynched? Why (not)?

I don't know. Sometimes as a townie it is confusing what to say or do. All it takes is one thing misinterpreted and you get lynched. So for this reason, I like to give people the chance to explain themselves before I lynch them.

5) Which role would you like to be some day? (Make one up if you like )

As per the wiki article, the paranoid gun owner. That sounds so cool.



Let's have a great game everyone! I'm really looking forward to this!

[hiphop]

vote Cass

because the IC’s always outsmart me.

Fourth game on this site (eighth overall), all three currently happening. Two of them I have been lynched already.

Why I came to this website? Because the first one didn’t have enough games going on at the same time to keep it interesting. I played it the first time at a party around a table.

The Rvs, questions, whatever creates activity, is fine with me. Doesn’t anyone read the first couple of posts? Vrk posted commonly used abbreviations. The definition is listed under that.

All liars should be lynched, unless from a confirmed townie. A townie should not lie. Period. Scum lie, townies do not.

I hoping, that maybe, I can eventually play as a mafia member.

Here is a generalization of what the RVS is. Vote for anyone, giving a nonsense reason as to why you are voting for someone. Everybody should do it at least once.

[Sucrose]

Question: Must votes be in

vote: insertnamehere

format, or will they count without the colon? In other words, are the votes being gathered by hand or by a program?

[Wall_Jon]

Vote: PHANTOM

Because his name is in all caps.

[Soylent]

Hello everybody!

To answer your questions, Cass:

1. None at all, except maybe a few schoolyard games several years ago.

2. The logic element; catching scum in lies sounds like fun!

3. I was reading another game yesterday (I believe it was Newbie 792) and the IC in that game started off with a round of questions instead of going straight to RVS. I think I like the sound of that more than RVS, 'cause then there's more of a chance to catch scum.

4. Of course. Scum lie, townies don't.

5. Not really sure about the different roles yet. Cop, maybe?

[Pastai]

1) I haven't really played much on here (two incomplete games) incomplete because other things came up and I had to be replaced. I have however played about 3 or 4 games of Werewolf on a few different forums (for those who don't know, Werewolf is pretty much the same as Mafia 'cept there's wolves instead of the mafia)

2) I was looking for somewhere to play Werewolf and didn't find much so I searched Mafia and this is what I got.

3) I also do not know what this means.

4) It really depends on the lie and on what other information we have

5) I don't really know, anything that comes my way I guess.

[XScorpion]

1) Voted out as Vanilla Townie day 1 because people didn't like my lurker hunting tendencies, that was my only game here and anywhere.
2) I have a friend who plays mafia
3) Indifferent, I guess it's good for starting discussion
4) If it is a complete lie then yes. Townies may make poor decisions and do stupid things, but there is no reason for a townie to lie to the town.
5) Nexus for sure

vote: Pastai

for being slow to confirm.

[Sweep]

1) I have played a couple of other games but this is the first on this site.

2) It seems like a very thoughtful game.

4) People who Lie should be lynched.

5) Serial Killer
_________________

[Cass]

As hiphop already explained, RVS stands for Random Voting Stage. It's a local tradition where everyone starts the game off with voting for someone. of course there's no reason yet to vote for anyone, so you just make up anything silly. What XScorpion and Wall_Jon did were perfect examples of this.

So now, here's another way to start discussion:

Vote: hiphop

- because i just lost a hiphop-themed game.

(The reason this could start discussion is the fact that hiphop voted me first, so perhaps this is a revenge vote?? Or 'omgus' as they call it here.)

[XScorpion]

I'm gonna go ahead and say that considering how it's still the first page, it's more likely random than OMGUS. As soon as RVS is over, there's not really a good reason to keep your vote there, and if your vote leads to hiphop being lynched, you'll definitely be on the chopping block next day.

[Vel-Rahn Koon]

For those of you who don't have them, please get an avatar. It makes it much easier to know who wrote the post when a picture is associated with the name.

Question: Must votes be in

vote: insertnamehere

format, or will they count without the colon? In other words, are the votes being gathered by hand or by a program?

This tells me you didn't bother to read my rules, which makes me very, very sad.

But to answer your question, I hand count them.

[PHANTOM]

Vote: Sucrose

for not reading the rules, and plus I'm taking bio and I have sooooo much work to do for that class.

[Sucrose]

Ok, ok, just wanted to be sure.

Vote: Soylent

for being MADE OF PEOPLE!

[Wall_Jon]

Unvote: Phantom

Umm,

Vote: Sweep

He said he was busy and was going to come back later to do the responses. His responses are really short so he might be trying to not give much away. And since he did it 'later', he should have had time for more detailed answers.

[Soylent]

Huh. I see how RVS works, I guess.

Vote: Wall_Jon

because he's above this post.

[Pastai]

Vote: hiphop

The only one whose name starts with a lowercase letter.

[hiphop]

BW me already. The game has just begun.

I'm gonna go ahead and say that considering how it's still the first page, it's more likely random than OMGUS. As soon as RVS is over, there's not really a good reason to keep your vote there, and if your vote leads to hiphop being lynched, you'll definitely be on the chopping block next day.

Exactly what he said. I would say it would not start discussion, because it is just random. However, since my post made it two posts on it, I guess it did.