Mafia

Well here's an overview of the roles and other stuff - these are subject to change as we discuss balancing factors.

Townie - A regular townie. Every townie is numbered (i.e., Townie 1, Townie 2, etc.) this game so everyone can have their own thread.

Governor - The Governor is a town-sided role that has the incredible power to pardon. He or she may choose to stop ALL killings from occurring during the day round.

Commissioner - At night, this role can investigate one player. If the person is a member of the town, he or she will show up as "innocent."

The Dragon - This master martial artist takes things into his own hands against the Mafia. Once per night, this role can kill someone. If this role is selected to be killed by any means, the host will notify the Dragon and will flip a coin in his thread. If it lands on heads, the Dragon will fend off the attack. If it lands on tails, the normal set of events takes place (death, etc).

Townie Powers Packs:

The town has been visited by a Wizard as well as the Mafia. He is out to aid the town in abolishing their Mafia but he cannot directly intervene. Every night, the Wizard (host) will randomize the packs to be distributed and also randomize which townies get the packs. Only a vanilla townie is eligible to get one; power roles retain their default abilities for the entire game.

A townie can use the pack immediately or hold onto the pack until they choose to use it, but they cannot have more than one pack at a time. If for some reason they want another chance at getting a better pack but do not wish to use the current one, they have the option of discarding it. The Outsider pack and Movie Goer pack are the only ones that the player is forced to use.

Med Kit Pack – Gives the player the power of the Doctor role for one night.

Spy Pack – Gives the player the power of the Spy for one night. They will choose one mafia role and be able to see a copy of the last post that mafia role made in the mafia thread at the end of the previous Day round. They will not know who made the post, and all Mafia names or nicknames will be filtered out.

Arsonist Pack – Gives the player the power of the arsonist for one night.

Sensor Pack – Gives the player the power of the sensor for a day.

Dentist Pack – Gives the player the power to visit someone in the night, drug them and pull out their teeth, which causes them to be silent the following day.

Medium Pack – Gives the player the ability to view the dead thread for a night. The pack will not be available until at least one player has died.

Potion Pack – Gives the player the ability to save a person from death. The player will be notified at night by the Wizard of who will die the next morning by the Mafia’s hand and will be given the choice of saving them rather than randomly guessing who to protect.

Journalist Pack – Gives the player the ability to try out their journalist skills for a night. They may write up an article for the town to see that morning. If they happen to influence a lynching that day, they are given an extra point.

Outsider Pack – The player gets a nice snazzy outfit from the wizard, but unfortunately it makes them look guilty to the Commissioner the night they get it and to the sensor the following day.

Movie Goer Pack – The player gets tickets from the wizard to see a movie at the theater the next night for free! Unfortunately wanting to see the movie makes them so excited that they head to the theater before any lynching and thus are not able to cast a vote that day.

Mafia:

Godfather - If checked by the Commissioner, will show up as town-allied, or innocent. If there is a tie in votes for a Mafia night kill, the Godfather’s vote will count as the tie-breaker.

Thug - This role can take a beating for other Mafia members if one happens to be targeted for death that night. They will be notified of the attack, and can choose not to sacrifice themselves, but they receive bonus points for their sacrifice.

Executioner - If a person, at any time during the day round, receives 1/3 of the total possible votes, the Executioner may elect to kill that person in addition to the person that is lynched at the end of the day round. At least 1 vote must be from a non-Mafia member.

Mafioso - A regular Mafia member with no special powers.

Godson - A Mafia in training. He is trying out various skills to see which job he is best suited for. During the night round, the host will randomize the skill set and give one to the Godson to try that night.

Skill Sets:

Godfather skill - Allows the player to try out the Godfather’s ability to appear innocent to the Commissioner for the night, in hopes of becoming his Godfather’s eventual successor.

Assassin skill - Gives the player the power of the Assassin for a night.

Trickster skill - Gives the player the power of the Trickster for a night. The Trickster can choose to silence any particular role they choose, including a potential power pack role they may want to avoid speaking up that day.

Janitor skill - Gives the player the power of the Janitor for a night.

Hypnotist skill - Gives the player to hypnotize any chosen player for the night round. During that night round, the target player will not be able to use any power they may have.

Party Night - The player decides to take the night off to party and accidentally has too much to drink, gets a hangover, thus effectively being silenced for the next day round.

Mafioso skill - The player decides to lay low and not get experimental that night, so they just act as a regular Mafioso.

Game Notes: The power packs/skill sets all have their own frequency of occurrence; the more useful the power, the rarer it is. Records will be kept on how often each set is given out and how many times a player gets selected to receive a set. If a particular set is used a lot, its frequency will drop and the probability will be dispersed to other sets as fairly as possible. Every time a player is selected to receive a pack, their probability to get a pack goes to down and the probability is distributed to players who have not been selected yet.

I think edit to the Commissioner role was well done. I'm about to leave for the ballpark (going to a game with my brother), but we can talk when I get back around 9:30 or 10 CST

I think we should stick with this set for the Mafia - the Godfather, two Godsons and a Mafioso (who will become a Godson if one of the others die).

Oh yeah and apparently us hosts are actually wizards... or whatever. I'm the Wizard, you can be whoever. {8D}

Currently the Commissioner is exactly like the cop, so either we give him something extra to make him different or just call him The Cop...

Okay, that'll be awhile then. Mind if I get started with randomizing the roles or shall I wait?

Guess you're already gone. I went ahead to use the online randomizer and got this list. I haven't assigned roles yet though officially in the panel, since we need to discuss the plan more thoroughly. You know to reach me on YIM when you get back. If you have Excel, I can email the spreadsheet or something.

1. Castrael - Governor
2. Pirate_Ninja - The Dragon
3. Black Yoshi - The Commissioner
4. Helius - Godfather
5. The Bandit - Godson
6. Kyon - Godson
7. chiefsonny - Mafioso
8. Count Dooku - Townie
9. Apollo J-Money - Townie
10. Female Alpha Wolf - Townie
11. Hindenburg - Townie
12. Speed Bike Pro - Townie
13. Feral - Townie
14. Jo Nathan - Townie
15. Vandy - Townie
16. white lancer - Townie
17. MajorasMask9 - Townie

Also, do you know how to change font color to red or green in the middle of a sentence? I never used it in the other games I hosted so I don't know how yet, and the usual method doesn't work.

And I think blue is

[bl] blue [/bl

I could have sworn I tried this coding before too {:P} Thanks though.

Testing it:

1. Castrael - Governor
2. Pirate_Ninja - The Dragon
3. Black Yoshi - The Commissioner
4. Helius - Godfather
5. The Bandit - Godson
6. Kyon - Godson
7. chiefsonny - Mafioso
8. Count Dooku - Townie
9. Apollo J-Money - Townie
10. Female Alpha Wolf - Townie
11. Hindenburg - Townie
12. Speed Bike Pro - Townie
13. Feral - Townie
14. Jo Nathan - Townie
15. Vandy - Townie
16. white lancer - Townie
17. MajorasMask9 - Townie

Woo! It works.

So uh... when are we discussing our plans? o_O

I guess now.

How are we going to go about the Town-sided roles? Are we just going to let the power roles know that they have a power role, or what? We can't make specific threads for each player, otherwise the Mafia is figured out off the bat.

How are we going to go about the Town-sided roles? Are we just going to let the power roles know that they have a power role, or what? We can't make specific threads for each player, otherwise the Mafia is figured out off the bat.

I planned on giving everyone their own thread according to their name, even the Mafia, except the actual Mafia will have their own usual group thread... their "name" threads are just dummy threads so it won't be obvious who is Mafia.

New list with hezekiah

1. Castrael - Governor
2. Pirate_Ninja - The Dragon
3. Black Yoshi - The Commissioner
4. Helius - Godfather
5. The Bandit - Godson
6. Kyon - Godson
7. chiefsonny - Mafioso
8. Count Dooku - Townie
9. Apollo J-Money - Townie
10. Female Alpha Wolf - Townie
11. Hindenburg - Townie
12. Speed Bike Pro - Townie
13. Feral - Townie
14. Jo Nathan - Townie
15. Vandy - Townie
16. white lancer - Townie
17. MajorasMask9 - Townie
18. hezekiah - Townie

Can ya get on YIM? It'll make this a lot faster...

Test

Nobody is killed, though Dooku is injured. Hindy and lancer have been made aware of their stake outs of MM9's place.

If you could get the new Day started, that would be great. Or maybe I'll be back from the store in time to do it myself.

Nope, you beat me to it. Good work.

Next time if someone survives an attack through a med kit or potion, it might be better to leave it more ambiguous - don't even mention the word "Mafia" or mention it could have been the Dragon as well. Dooku was sort of using that little detail in the Day 2 narrative as a tool against Helius.

For writing the thread for Day 3:

Hindy's house was burned but he got out in time.

If Count Dooku dies, check his thread for details on how to do his funeral.

I think we should make a change on the Potion pack details... we should have it that anyone who would die that night, regardless of the method, will be listed to the person with the pack, so that no one's innocence will be confirmed to the person. Naturally if we change this, we will post the changes in the main thread.

Yeah, sounds good.

Very well then!

Seems like we both get screwed out of a hosting duty. {>:(}

{>:(} Indeed

It's not that big of a deal, and thanks. Hopefully everybody who wants to play has signed up, but as I said a couple days ago, will probably close registration tomorrow evening and start game Saturday night

chiefsonny - Townie
Redack - Townie
Count Dooku - Townie
hezekiah - Mafioso
Kyon - Townie
Yeano - Mafioso
Pirate_Ninja - Townie
Feral - Sensor
Black Yoshi - Yoshi
Trever Leingod - Governor
white lancer - Vigilante
CtR Black - Townie
Kaotic - Townie
Jo Nathan - Godfather
The Bandit - Cop
MajorasMask9 - Assassin
Female Alpha Wolf - Townie
Castrael - Janitor
Apollo J-Money - Mafioso
Speed Bike Pro - Townie
Hindenburg - Townie

The whirring of a saw could be heard throughout the night, along with screams of horror and finally silence. When the town awoke, they found Count Dooku with the message "Die Together, Love Castrael" embedded in his torso. So the life of another Townie was lost.

The bloodshed did not end there. Hindenburg's beheaded body was found hanging upside from a tree. Beneath it, his head was covered in his own blood. So the life of the Townie is over.

1. chiefsonny
2. Redack
3. Count Dooku - Townie
4. hezekiah - Mafioso
5. Kyon
6. Yeano
7. Pirate_Ninja
8. Feral - ???
9. Black Yoshi
10. Trever Leingod - Governor
11. white lancer
12. CtR Black
13. Kaotic
14. Jo Nathan
15. The Bandit
16. MajorasMask9
17. Female Alpha Wolf
18. Castrael - Janitor
19. Apollo J-Money
20. Speed Bike Pro
21. Hindenburg - Townie

Starting Ratio:
15-6

Current Known Ratio:
12-4

Roles:
Cop, Vigilante, Sensor, Townie (x9)
Godfather, Assassin, Mafioso (x2)

You have 72 hours or when 10 votes for the same option are reached.