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game 8 thread 1 night 1its murderin time

Posted July 6, 2012 by white lancer

Night 0

Alright, guys, welcome to the game! Here's our roster for this round:

1. Redack
2. Vandy
3. DragonintheShadows
4. White Thunder
5. `Roxas`
6. MajorasMask9
7. Trever Leingod
8. Black Yoshi
9. CtR Black
10. Jo Nathan
11. chiefsonny
12. Helius
13. Teddy-Son
14. hezekiah
15. Count Dooku
16. Kyon
17. Xhin
18. #85
19. Marvalo
20. Wild Luxray
21. poptart!
22. Zanic
23. Shadowwalked

Seems like a pretty cool group of people...it's a little crowded, though. Fortunately, a group of upstanding citizens have taken it upon themselves to solve our population problem. Here's the starting ratio--note that with the Janitor in the game, I will not update it as the game goes on.

Starting Mafia-Town-Other Ratio: 6-16-1

Mafia Roles: Godfather, Hooker, Janitor, Executioner, Thug

Town Roles:Cop, Doctor, Doublevoter, Sensor, Lover x2, Poltergeist, Arsonist, Governor

Third-Party: Journalist, Lunatic

Most of those roles should seem familiar to you guys, but this time around there are a couple of new faces in the town, so let's see what their abilities are.

First of all, we have the town Hooker. The loveliest member of the Mafia, she will visit someone each night and, err, distract them from performing their night actions. She cannot visit the same person on consecutive nights--she is not faithful to one person for a long period of time like Shae; rather, she's more like Inara in that she moves from client to client with the option of going back to previous clients. Or, since she's a Mafia member, she may be more like Saffron, as her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead. Also, +1 player point to anyone who recognizes all of those references.*

There must be something in the water, because along with the Hooker we have a secret pair of Lovers. The Lovers are members of the Town and have the ability to communicate privately in their own little thread, but they are so deeply in love that if one of them is killed, the other one dies immediately. The Lovers are considered to be visiting one another's rooms every night.**

The last new member of our Town is the Poltergeist. He selects any two players each night, and any night actions performed on those players will be reversed (e.g., if the Poltergeist selects Players A and B and the Doctor selects Player A, the Doctor's protection will be on Player B instead). The Poltergeist is immune to the Hooker because necrophilia is ew, and also because if he weren't some scenarios could potentially arise that are too complicated for me to care to deal with.

Alright, there's our roster! You have 24 hours to get your night actions in, but since this is Night 0 no kills will be made.

*I'm kidding. Probably.
  • Myself, Yeano, and GTX0 accept no responsibility for any real-life relationship problems that may stem from your online Lover.

  • There are 90 Replies


    Like a GT newbie, I made the classic mistake of accidentally posting a bullet instead of the double asterisk on the last line. :( Anyway, Night action priority:

    1. Lunatic
    2. Journalist
    3. Hooker (note that her power can still affect the players above her)
    4. Arsonist
    5. Mafia Kill
    6. Cop
    7. Lovers visiting one another's rooms
    8. Doctor
    9. Janitor hiding the body
    10. Poltergeist

    July 6, 2012
    white lancer

    Day 1

    Nothing happened in the first night, at least as far as you can tell.

    1. Redack
    2. Vandy
    3. DragonintheShadows
    4. White Thunder
    5. `Roxas`
    6. MajorasMask9
    7. Trever Leingod
    8. Black Yoshi
    9. CtR Black
    10. Jo Nathan
    11. chiefsonny
    12. Helius
    13. Teddy-Son
    14. hezekiah
    15. Count Dooku
    16. Kyon
    17. Xhin
    18. #85
    19. Marvalo
    20. Wild Luxray
    21. poptart!
    22. Zanic
    23. Shadowwalked

    Starting Mafia-Town-Other Ratio: 6-16-1

    You may now begin discussions/voting. 72 hours or 14 votes for the same option.

    July 6, 2012
    white lancer

    I vote for Romney!

    Oh, wait, wrong race! {troll}

    So, should we just skip the discussion and do the unavoidable day 1 No Kill? 8p

    July 6, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    No info, no kill.

    July 6, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    inb4 Roxas is cop again

    July 6, 2012
    Redack

    Oh darn, Redack caught me. {:P} Nah, just an ordinary townie this time. Yay, no powers!

    July 6, 2012
    `Roxas`

    Day 1 seems pointless.

    July 6, 2012
    Zanic

    Lets go

    July 6, 2012
    #85

    inb4 Jo Nathan is Knukles

    July 6, 2012
    #85

    Nah, Jo Nathan is legit. He is a veteran lurker in this site. He doesn't post much, but shows up in the recent users list all the time.

    July 6, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    He's not Knuckles.

    Though I totally think poptart and Shadowwalked should've got the Lover role if they haven't. They're meant for each other.

    July 6, 2012
    Redack

    ^

    July 6, 2012
    Shadowwalked

    What Dragon said.

    July 6, 2012
    Black Yoshi

    I have a suggestion, and it'll seem off the wall, but please hear me out and think about it.

    We have a sensor this game. This gives us a huge advantage.

    I would recommend we vote to lynch someone today. Even if we have no information. We need to get 18 people to vote for the SAME lynch target.

    If we lynch with 18 people, 5 people will have voted for something else. The Sensor will then find out how many of the 18 people are guilty roles.

    We can reverse this finding to see how many of the 5 non-voters are guilty.

    If none of the 5 non-voters are guilty, we've established a pool of innocent people that we don't have to suspect for the remainder of the game.

    If the 5 non-voters have a guilty party among them, we can have the cop and the arsonist whittle them away until we've weeded out the guilty party. Then we continue to establish our 'pool of innocence.'

    So lets come up with a list of people that must vote, and those who won't vote to be evaluated by the sensor.

    Town-aligned roles should have no problem being on the side voting to lynch, because they've got nothing to hide. Anyone that won't vote with the town is attempting to hide something, and that just narrows things down further.

    July 6, 2012
    Count Dooku

    It's flawed if everyone votes.

    July 6, 2012
    #85

    Split the list up like this:

    1. Redack <--Numbers 1-18 vote to lynch me
    2. Vandy
    3. DragonintheShadows
    4. White Thunder
    5. `Roxas`
    6. MajorasMask9
    7. Trever Leingod
    8. Black Yoshi
    9. CtR Black
    10. Jo Nathan
    11. chiefsonny
    12. Helius
    13. Teddy-Son
    14. hezekiah
    15. Count Dooku <-- Lynch me
    16. Kyon
    17. Xhin
    18. #85
    19. Marvalo <-- Numbers 19-23 vote no kill
    20. Wild Luxray
    21. poptart!
    22. Zanic
    23. Shadowwalked

    July 6, 2012
    Count Dooku

    Sensor - After the end of each day round, the Sensor will find out how many anti-town roles voted for the winning option. i.e., if Yeano gets lynched, he will find out how many mafia members (and other people who appear Guilty to the Cop) voted for Yeano. If No Kill wins, no results will be posted.

    Technically, it only says 'winning option'. If the Governor stops the killing, we'd still have a 'winning option', and thus the sensor should still get results, right? I can't remember if we've had a game with both Governor and Sensor present where a rule was made that prohibits this.

    July 6, 2012
    Shadowwalked

    That's actually an excellent point I hadn't considered. If we can get readings without killing that would be awesome.

    The clear issue with this is that the Sensor will have to reveal. The doctor will have to protect the sensor, and the cop will need to lay low and not reveal until later in the game when the sensor has narrowed things down.

    July 6, 2012
    Count Dooku

    Like always I'll do random.

    July 6, 2012
    Teddy Son

    But who would we vote to lynch? We don't want to kill any of our power roles on accident.

    July 6, 2012
    Zanic

    Dooku suggested lynching him.

    July 6, 2012
    Redack

    Also as pointed out you could have the Governor prevent the killing.

    July 6, 2012
    Redack

    Oh. I didn't make any sense of his list.

    July 6, 2012
    Zanic

    If white lancer gets back to us about the governor and sensor results, and it will work out, I'd be all for Count Dooku's plan. It'd essentially be the same as a no-kill, but we'd get a good head-start on information gathering.

    July 6, 2012
    MajorasMask9

    I suggest the vanilla townies essentially offer their lives up to give the remainder of the town worthwhile information. Hence why I, as the all-powerful townie role, suggested you lynch me first.

    July 6, 2012
    Count Dooku

    I'm going to make a ruling on the use of the Governor and Sensor in tandem and say that the Sensor doesn't get results if the Governor stops the killing. It's not clear in the rules, but I think the spirit of the Sensor role is that it only gets results when there's an actual death during the day round.

    July 6, 2012
    white lancer

    Well, that means we'll have to kill someone, but I think it'd be worth it.

    July 6, 2012
    Zanic

    I'd also like some clarification on something else:

    Let's say the Mafia Executioner steps in and kills the person we're choosing to lynch (they have majority vote). Would the sensor still get results in that case, considering the person was executed rather than lynched?

    July 6, 2012
    MajorasMask9

    The Sensor will still receive results in the case of an execution, but the results will be limited to the votes cast before the decision to execute is made. So if the Town decides to lynch Townie A and 1/3 of them vote for him, and then the Executioner instantly makes the decision to execute Townie A, then the Sensor will only get results for that first 1/3.

    The rationale behind this is that the decision to Execute essentially ends the round early by determining the final result. It's similar for the Governor, since his power essentially ends the round with a No Kill.

    July 6, 2012
    white lancer

    Let's say the Mafia Executioner steps in and kills the person we're choosing to lynch (they have majority vote). Would the sensor still get results in that case, considering the person was executed rather than lynched?

    Suppose that also applies to getting 18 votes. Technically we only need 14 votes for the same person in order to lynch. Would be only get results for the first 14 or results for all 18 votes?

    All in all, the 'strategy' may not be workable because of these variables.

    July 6, 2012
    Count Dooku

    Suppose that also applies to getting 18 votes. Technically we only need 14 votes for the same person in order to lynch. Would be only get results for the first 14 or results for all 18 votes?

    Same problem. In the past Yeano has stated that the round officially ends when the threshold for votes cast has been met and that votes cast afterward do not count, so yeah you would only get the results for the first 14.

    July 6, 2012
    white lancer

    But who would we vote to lynch? We don't want to kill any of our power roles on accident.


    Vote to lynch me. If the govenor stops day killings I'll be fine. If not, I'm just a townie.

    July 6, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    i saw we go with that plan. the governor can stop the lynching, so noone has to die.

    July 7, 2012
    CtR Black

    Well, we recently figured out that the sensor won't receive results if the governor stops killings. Now we have to figure out who we're going to lynch. So far we have two offering themselves.

    July 7, 2012
    Zanic

    So basically Dooku's strategy actually doesn't work anyway?

    Regardless, we do actually have a few information gathering roles this game. The cop, the sensor and the journalist. The journalist doesn't have to reveal to give us their information and the other two can wait a few rounds to gather info and then reveal it (assuming they last that long).

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    We might be better off trying to kill the executioner first.

    As it is, even if we get 14 people to vote to lynch me, the executioner can just call it early because the executioner knows I'm innocent. We'd only get a reading on 7 or 8 people.

    July 7, 2012
    Count Dooku

    1. Redack
    2. Vandy
    3. DragonintheShadows - Townie Claim
    4. White Thunder
    5. `Roxas`
    6. MajorasMask9
    7. Trever Leingod
    8. Black Yoshi
    9. CtR Black
    10. Jo Nathan
    11. chiefsonny
    12. Helius
    13. Teddy-Son
    14. hezekiah
    15. Count Dooku - Townie Claim
    16. Kyon
    17. Xhin
    18. #85
    19. Marvalo
    20. Wild Luxray
    21. poptart!
    22. Zanic
    23. Shadowwalked

    July 7, 2012
    #85

    I'm always suspicious of anyone that claims townie without needing to. It's an easy claim to hide behind because there's no risk of counter claim until too many people claim.

    But for now I'll no kill as usual for day 1.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    I agree that we shouldn't go along with lynching someone for the sake of Sensor results until the Executioner is dead, but we should still definitely lynch if we get Xop/Journalist info in later rounds.

    The Journalist won't have anything worth reporting today and I doubt the Cop will speak up this early with anything important, so I'm going to no-kill.

    July 7, 2012
    MajorasMask9

    Well here we are Game 8. Time flies when you're having fun.

    Boy our little town has really grown. We get a couple of Lovers and a Poltergeist.
    And they get a Hooker. What the hell's up with that?

    The one thing I don't see is the 24 hour min. for the Day Round. Since we don't have it, we may want to watch the vote count. There are a lot of people playing and I think at least 2 are new, so I would like to see what their comments are.

    July 7, 2012
    chiefsonny
     

    @Redack: The only reason why I revealed was because I thought the Sensor/Govenor strategy could work. The only problem being we would have needed some one with no useful role. I'm just a regular townie so I volunteered. After all the only role that I know is my own. As you know the strategy doesn't work so my reveal was wasted and not helpful to anyone.

    July 7, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    Additional thought. Wouldn't it be funny if Xhin was the hooker? Oh, better yet Lux!

    ~Laughs until he can't breathe~

    July 7, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    So the Sensor plan is a no go then? That sucks. We rarely come up with such good ideas on day one.

    The only person who might have done something suspicious is Dragon. He might be bluffing about being a Townie because he assumed at the time that we would take up Dooku on his offer to sacrifice himself, and he himself would be safe and look good and innocent. It's only speculation, but it's all I got.

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    If that is what you think I was doing go for it. But if I was in the mafia wouldn't I have said to lynch Dooku in case it failed? Instead I volunteered with no mention of Dooku. Had Dooku had also volunteered I would have said to try it with me first. For that matter why would I want to go ahead with such a strategy which could end with me dying that would give the town an advantage over the mafia?

    July 7, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    I smell shenanigans

    one of these days we should really kill someone on the first day to shake things up

    July 7, 2012
    Vandy

    Alright, all in favor of lynching Vandy, say "Aye!" {troll}

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    Or you could just kill me. I mean in previous games I haven't been very important to a town sided role. Hell, some of the time I have voted for myself.

    Basically, if I'm a townie, you get valuable sensor information.

    If I'm mafia, you get me dead.

    "Win, win" I say. Only way it isn't if you ignore what Dooku is saying. It's actually kind of brilliant... well, besides sacrificing a townie.

    July 7, 2012
    Helius

    I am confused.

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    "Though I totally think poptart and Shadowwalked should've got the Lover role if they haven't. They're meant for each other."

    Sigh if only.

    July 7, 2012
    poptart!
     

    balls deep

    July 7, 2012
    CtR Black

    I am confused.


    Welcome to the club.

    July 7, 2012
    Dragon in the Shadows

    Nothing to go on quite yet, but it could change.

    July 7, 2012
    `Roxas`



    July 7, 2012
    Kyon

    Your Daily News Column, written by the town Journalist

    Mafia comes to town.

    The town is eerily quiet tonight as the mafia just moved in. Citizens were advised to stay indoors.

    Unfortunately the mafia has blended itself in with the town.

    "I would recommend we vote to lynch someone today." Count Dooku said, "Even if we have no information. We need to get 18 people to vote for the SAME lynch target. "

    "One of these days we should really kill someone on the first day to shake things up." Vandy said.

    An investigation was done on local resident, Chiefsonny, no evidence was found against him.

    The town meets today to vote on who to lynch. Due to lack of information, it is expected to be a "no kill".

    July 7, 2012
    white lancer

    I really don't like the idea of killing innocents who have no evidence against them, despite the fact we would get useful information. Especially on Day 1. Let's wait for Day 2 at least before going for a kill.

    July 7, 2012
    Trever Leingod

    Alright, I'm onboard the no-kill train.

    July 7, 2012
    Count Dooku

    Fine... it makes no difference if it is Day 1 or Day 2 though... other than Night Actions 1 can be done. Someone winds up dead usually anyway.

    July 7, 2012
    Helius

    I guess Chief isn't Mafia...

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    I guess Chief isn't Mafia...


    How do you figure? I see no evidence one way or the other.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    So we don't trust what the journalist says?

    July 7, 2012
    Kyon

    So we don't trust what the journalist says?

    The journalist only gets information if a night action is carried out.

    1. The mafia couldn't kill anyone last night so the journalist couldn't get luckily get their target to get in for that way.
    2. There are a few mafia roles that do not have night actions, therefore chief could be one of those.

    All the journalist has told us so far is that chief wasn't involved in any night actions during Night 0.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    correction:

    to get info that way.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    meh its full of typos but you can work out what I meant to say...

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    My mistake. I thought the Journalist was implying that the cop got an innocent verdict on Chief. I should have read that better.

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    Annnnnnnd I learned something new about this game.

    July 7, 2012
    Kyon

    Yes, you should have {<00}

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    Anything interesting going on?

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    Anything interesting going on?


    Read the post.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    I've read most of it. But I am too lazy too read all of it to know what is going on.

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    But is the game not all about observing what people say? If you're relying on other people to tell you what's going on, you could easily be told lies by a mafia member and thus do what they want.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    To be honest.

    July 7, 2012
    Kyon

    Well then I guess I'll check once a wake up a little more.

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    @Your Daily News Column:

    An investigation was done on local resident, Chiefsonny, no evidence was found against him.

    investigation

    By who?

    @Redack:

    All the journalist has told us so far is that chief wasn't involved in any night actions during Night 0.

    Where in the news article is that? Is there a page 2.

    Sounds to me like the Journalist and Redack were at the town bar drinking last night. Redack is that bar open during the day, I'm getting a little dry.

    Anyway with the first 24 hours just about over, how many people have not posted yet?

    July 7, 2012
    chiefsonny
     

    By who?

    We're not supposed to know.

    Where in the news article is that? Is there a page 2. Sounds to me like the Journalist and Redack were at the town bar drinking last night.

    Redack is actually just figuring this out from the rules. The Journalist role details give the impression the role can only report something scandalous if the selected person actually does a night action.

    Certainly not a reason to be suspicious of chiefsonny, though. Out of 23 people, only 2 power-roled people could have done something last night (cop and journalist) if I recall Night 0 actions right.

    July 7, 2012
    Trever Leingod

    Well, make that 4 if you count the Lovers visiting each other...

    July 7, 2012
    Trever Leingod

    Just a heads up to the 3 that voted for Not voting (Kyon, CTR, Roxas) not voting is not the same as no kill.

    July 7, 2012
    #85

    Interesting....

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    I believe the Hooker would have been able to do her night action to potentially block the cop, doctor, or journalist (obviously didn't block journalist)

    July 7, 2012
    Count Dooku

    That being said, Dooku is definitely the Hooker, everyone {:P}

    July 7, 2012
    Trever Leingod

    That would be funny Dooku wanted us to have to Hooker in this game and he is the Hooker?

    July 7, 2012
    Teddy Son

    That being said, Dooku is definitely the Hooker, everyone

    Don't try to slut shame me you privileged white male

    July 7, 2012
    Count Dooku

    Hey, keep it in that dingy club you guys call Jedi Sith, will you?

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    fine.

    July 7, 2012
    Kyon

    Where in the news article is that? Is there a page 2.

    Sounds to me like the Journalist and Redack were at the town bar drinking last night. Redack is that bar open during the day, I'm getting a little dry.

    I read the role's details and also looked at last game's journalist post after the game ended and all posts become unlocked. The journalist only gets info if their target is targeted by a night action or uses a night action. For example last game Morrigan investigated (using the same word as our journalist has) a player that died that night, Yeano used the draw feature to randomly select a mafia member to reveal to the journalist.

    In summary, I wasn't suggesting we all jump on you. I was pointing out the fact that you're not ruled out.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    LAST VOTE WARNING!!!

    Next vote for "No Kill" ends the day.

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    I'd like for the day to end, we need more info from the journalist and cop. At the moment all I have are one or two suspicions but nothing strong enough to go on.

    July 7, 2012
    Redack

    Yes, I knew what I was voting this morning, #85. Should be interesting to see how tonight's actions go for both the town and the Mafia.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be returning to TCTNW (The Castle That Never Was, for you non-Kingdom Hearts fans).

    July 7, 2012
    `Roxas`

    And I forgot to change my vote.

    July 7, 2012
    `Roxas`

    Then the round is over.

    July 7, 2012
    Wild Luxray

    Night 1

    The Town elected not to kill anyone on the first day. Shocker, huh?

    1. Redack
    2. Vandy
    3. DragonintheShadows
    4. White Thunder
    5. `Roxas`
    6. MajorasMask9
    7. Trever Leingod
    8. Black Yoshi
    9. CtR Black
    10. Jo Nathan
    11. chiefsonny
    12. Helius
    13. Teddy-Son
    14. hezekiah
    15. Count Dooku
    16. Kyon
    17. Xhin
    18. #85
    19. Marvalo
    20. Wild Luxray
    21. poptart!
    22. Zanic
    23. Shadowwalked

    Starting Mafia-Town-Other Ratio: 6-16-1

    24 hours to get your night actions in!

    July 7, 2012
    white lancer

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