Mafia Game: Those Darn States (Game Thread)

People seemed to be disappearing left and right; whatever incomprehensible forces at work here were wreaking havoc. 39 people were left standing in the town – but wait! In the distance they thought they saw another, somehow malicious in intent. The people hurriedly gathered to discuss their course of action – and feared the man was a foreign murderer after them all!

The search party would have split up in different directions, but once again something intervened. As people fanned out into the abandoned town and fields beyond, they were beset by strange sights. Someone saw a stretch of frozen steppe, another a seaside villa, and yet more saw a glimpse of desert.

But then a rustle in the distance caught everyone’s attention, and they had decided it was an Australian they were after. Stalks of grain crashing down as he fled only brought more attention – and he couldn’t outrun them all, and was soon nearly surrounded.

“Wait, please! I don’t know what’s going on. There was an Island – and a Monster! It could be here, and we don’t even know where here is!”

Time seemed to stand still as his next statement fell on the temporarily hushed crowd:
“Guys, where are we?”

Yet the mob snapped to and lunged after him, and he tripped up and smashed his head onto a rock.

Charlie was dead.



“Well that sucks,” someone spoke out, “But that leaves us with one of you as the real villains”

And a last voice broke through as the people were returning to the town square and gathering their thoughts: “Might as well continue the lynchings then. Who’s next?”

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It is now DAY ONE. Day ends in 48 Hours

Vote for lynch in bold, accusations struck through. Remember, there are NO support votes.
For the first Day ONLY, players not voting count as abstaining, also equivalent to voting for “no lynch to occur.” Afterwards this remains a valid vote but players who fail to vote do not get counted for anything.

Vote for the SHIELD of Captain America to be given to a player in blue.

Good luck.

BASIC GAME DETAILS

GAME PHASES
The Game is divided into alternating DAY and NIGHT Phases. DAY is 48 hours long. Night is 24 hours long. All Phases end and Updates take place at GMT 2:00 AM. This should correspond to 9:00 US Eastern Standard Time, or, identically, every 48 or 24 hours from the last update, officially on the hour.

FACTIONS (ALIGNMENT)
The United States (Innocent) faction is the Innocent faction which a majority of you will belong to. Note that every character is part of some faction and alignment, with their own victories and goals.

STRENGTH
Every player in the game has a Strength stat. This influences a number of actions, including lynches. Strength may be modified in a various ways; your Strength will always be listed as
Base Strength (Effective Strength)

ITEMS AND ABILITIES
Players have items, abilities, and other effects usable to influence the game. For anything which is not passive, I as the GM must receive a PM at the appropriate time detailing your action. When using an ability that does not specify anyone else involved to initiate it, please PM ONLY ME as the GM. In short: PMs to other players will not be accepted as actual orders to use an ability; if you wish to send separate PMs to say/claim whatever to others that is still ok. Item transfers will require consent of both players.

Generally, the number of actions a player may take can be limited – this includes activating or otherwise using items, and transferring items between players, along with of course abilities. Items may be publicly revealed to put up to a vote by the next update as a free action.

LYNCHES
Every player may Vote during the Day Phase for a player to be lynched by the town. Votes must be bolded; retractions struck through. Voting is not mandatory but highly encouraged – by both myself and I’m sure many fellow players.

There are NO support votes. However, players Abstaining – not the same as not voting – count as effectively voting for “no lynch to occur”

Finally, be aware that Lynches and other actions, in general, are NOT guaranteed to happen cleanly or exactly as you may think they are described. This could be due to a variety of factors, Strength being a major one, so players are encouraged to be aware of the risks.

VICTORIES AND GOALS
There will be different levels of Victory, awarded/recognized by the end of the game, as you all see in your PMs. Players should strive to achieve the best Victory they can through whatever means they feel are optimal. Roleplaying is welcome of course if desired but not necessary.

SPECIAL ACTIONS
The Town may choose to attempt an Action other than lynching a character during the DAY. Likewise, at night there may be unique opportunities for players to attempt to do something

GENERAL RULES (Thanks to various precedents that make this easier)

1) Be active and participate! You do yourself and everyone else a favor by contributing to the game. Communication with other players is key. Feel free to use the CFC PM system as well as other methods of communicating if you wish.
2) However, you must follow this rule: Never quote, copy, paste, forfeit, or otherwise try to present anything sent to you from me, the GM. You may paraphrase information like who you are and your abilities but not quote your Role PM or other GM info.
3) Quoting, forwarding, etc… of communications from other players in the game IS PERMITTED. Be aware of how others may be trying to manipulate your information. But also, be reasonable to your fellow players and paraphrase when necessary.
4) Players who are dead may post in the public thread and comment on already public information in a way that does not overly influence the living. They may not communicate novel information about themselves or others. The dead will otherwise comply will all instructions from the GM, including no other contact outside the game thread in any way with any living players or otherwise further participating in the game in an influential manner.
4a) ALL players will be diligent in checking for PMs from the GM and following GM instructions before other actions- Especially with each Day/Night update. It would be unfortunate to see a situation where a player dies and has not read the PM telling them they are dead or something similar resulting in inappropriate game-thread posting. Dead players may be further informed of circumstances regarding what they are allowed to do/say – so everyone be careful you don’t get privileges like being able to comment at all while dead removed for everyone.
5) Before each Game Update there may be a lockout period where posting is disallowed; it will be mentioned by the GM. Players are encouraged to avoid last minute posting/voting etc… if at all possible, though of course the GM will try to count everything before the time for a writeup cutoff. Note: Players MAY talk on the game-thread during the NIGHT PHASE of the Game, as the Rules stand currently.
6) Roleplaying is encouraged in thread and outside of it too. And of course, you should chiefly aim to achieve your character’s goals and victories however you see best see fit. Try to avoid outside baggage and play within the spirit of the game.
7) Abide by all Forum rules at all times.
8) Always feel free to ask me for clarifications on anything. I can’t promise every question will be answered, but if you ever feel I’ve made a mistake or need something made clearer, feel free to ask.
9) Don’t be afraid to think outside the box…and have fun and good luck!

LIST OF PLAYERS

1. Autolycus Professor Moriarty Consciousness Trapped in a Cube Day Seven
2. Arakhor Daniel Webster Killed Night Three
3. askthepizzaguy Abraham Lincoln Killed Night Two
4. Beefy187 The Texan Found Dead Morning Ten
5. Camikaze Virginia Woolf Killed Night Five
6. Capt Blackadder Benedict Arnold Lynched Day Eleven
7. CCRunner /THE LIZARD SURVIVED
8. choxorn Naraku Eaten Night Five
9. CivGeneral Tom Clancy Vaporized Night Eight
10. civplayah Indiana Jones Killed Night One
11. Csargo Ernst Stavro Blofeld Lynched Day Nine
12. Diamondeye/THE TRALFAMADORIAN SURVIVED
13. Diana Abnoba Captain of the USS Nevada Eaten Night Four
14. Double A Woo-ka-nay Eaten Night Eleven
15. Drum Student Isoruku Yamamoto Vaporized Night Eight
16. johnhughthom/MARK TWAIN SURVIVED
17. kill fire/Niklas Robert Shaftoe Killed Night Six
18. Krill Carl Gauss Eaten Night Ten
19. landlubber/DUNCAN IDAHO SURVIVED
20. LightFang Tenskwatawa Killed Night Two
21. Love/THE SPY SURVIVED
22. Methos John C. Calhoun Killed Night One
23. Nictel King Kamehameha Eaten Night Seven
24. OwenGlyndwr Herman Dietrich Lynched Day Twelve
25. Perfection/WASHINGTON IRVING SURVIVED
26. pevergreen Lady Liberty Eaten Night Nine
27. Renata Duncan Idaho Eaten Night Three
28. RRRaskolnikov/HARRY TURTLEDOVE SURVIVED
29. Sommerswerd Uncle Sam Found Dead Morning Eleven
30. Kennigit Duncan Idaho Killed Night Eight
31. SS-18 ICBM/CHIEF JOSEPH SURVIVED
32. SuperSonic/remake20 Colonel Saito Lynched Day Ten
33. taillesskangaru Duncan Idaho Found Dead Morning Nine
34. Takhisis Tokugawa Ieyasu Lynched Day Two
35. TheForestAuro Yossarian Eaten Night Eight
36. TheLastOne36 Manfred von Richthofen Killed Night Two
37. Virote_Considon/CAPTAIN OF THE USS PENNSYLVANIA SURVIVED
38. Winston Hughes Georgia O'Keefe Killed Night Two
39. Zack Tennessee Williams Lynched Day Three

GAME UPDATES

TEASER: Various people are mysteriously transported to an empty town, and given a dire warning by Captain America
NIGHT 0: A potential threat turns out to be Charlie, the Australian.
MIDDAY 1: A teenaged girl threatens the town.
EVENING 1: The shield of Captain America is recovered and given to askthepizzaguy
NIGHT 1/MORNING 2: John C. Calhoun and Indiana Jones are murdered. The people find themselves transported to an empty beach in Hawaii.
EVENING 2: Tokugawa Ieyasu is lynched though tries to go down with a fight.
NIGHT 2/MORNING 3: Georgia O'Keefe is murdered, along with Tenskwatawa the Native American, and Abraham Lincoln and the Red Baron duel to the death. The town finds themselves in an Industrial Complex.
MIDDAY 3: Debate lends itself to favor a particular lynch; a radio is found and put up to vote along with the many other things from the previous night.
EVENING 3: Tennessee Williams is lynched and many items are voted to various people hoping to survive the next night.
NIGHT 3/MORNING 4: Daniel Webster and Duncan Idaho perish during the night; the town finds themselves at an Airbase.
MIDDAY 4: Pressure for a lynch leads to the use of a set of Enchanting Paintings which reveal information about the Tralfamadorian.
EVENING 4: The town forgoes a lynch; searching the Airbase finds an anachronistic Energy Weapon.
NIGHT 4/MORNING 5: A couple of attackers spell doom for the USS Nevada's Captain. The people are transported back to the Abandoned Town.
EVENING 5: Items are voted to various people and the majority of the town breaks up a lynch attempt only a few were supporting.
NIGHT 5/MORNING 6: Naraku kills Virginia Woolf but is taken down himself by another strong adversary. The people are returned to the Military Base in the Mediterranean.
EVENING 6: A lynch was called off by a passionate and principled speaker.
NIGHT 6/MORNING 7: Bobby Shaftoe is killed by the Germans; the town greets a Space Center complex.
EVENING 7: After not doing so for a while the town succeeds in a lynch, eliminating Professor Moriarty.
NIGHT 7/ MORNING 8: King Kamehameha is killed and in the morning the familiar sight of the Abandoned Town appears again.
MIDDAY 8: The town votes on what to do and who to give things to, but the lingering influence of Chaos remains.
EVENING 8: Attempted lynch votes on various people fail to gather enough support, and the rest of the town tries to examine various Artifacts but are stumped as to what they do.
NIGHT 8/MORNING 9: Duncan Idaho's body is found dead, which is strange because Duncan Idaho was also killed by the Germans during the night. Yossarian is torn apart with little traces left and Tom Clancy blows himself and the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto to smithereens. In the morning the people are still in the Midwestern Town to take in these sights.
EVENING 9: The lynch target this evening is the supervillain and German Axis conspirator Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
NIGHT 9/MORNING 10: Lady Liberty falls prey to an attack during the night. Before being transported to a Volcanic Island, the town discovers The Texan is also dead.
EVENING 10: The last Japanese villain, Colonel Saito, is captured and executed by the town.
NIGHT 10/MORNING 11: The German Carl Gauss is killed by something else, and Uncle Sam is found dead in the morning in the Village.
EVENING 11: The town thinks they have found a villain in Benedict Arnold, but it turns out he was still a loyal American.
NIGHT 11/MORNING 12: Woo-ka-nay, known to many as the warrior Roman Nose, was killed during the night, and the Midwestern Town was becoming an all too common sight.
EVENING 12: The leader of the German expedition, the villainous Oberst Herman Dietrich, is lynched.

Final game status and some notes:

Factions Victorious:

United States Innocents
Native Americans
Ancient Multi-Hued Spycrab
The Lizard

The action lasted for 12 days and 9 players survived.

Final write-ups, and background and role PMs begin here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9147204&postcount=1003

landlubber/Duncan Idaho
Renata/Duncan Idaho
Kennigi/Duncan Idaho



Ah, the Duncans. (same PM for these three) landlubber was the Duncan who survived to the end, but as everyone could imagine by now it was an interesting role. In short, they were all literally clones of each other - and more than that, they were interconnected. When one Duncan died, the next Duncan inherited some of his memories and life experiences, including tramatic moments such as who killed him. As Duncans were killed the remaining ones would also go up in Strength/general skills. landlubber found out about Kennigit's death to Csargo, and also the same memories taillesskangaru recalled of being eaten by the Lizard. He never recovered his crysknife though (Diamondeye was voted it) and he would have had an additional +2 Strength on top of his 7 at the end just for the knife.

The idea was the Duncans would start off like very simple Innocents, but become important as time went on. And of course the rest of the public/everyone else was expected to respond frantically to the existence of several Duncans/cause general uproar and chaos. Interestingly this didn't really happen cause they were all reluctant to step forward/do anything after the first Duncan was killed. Anyway, the Mafia almost could have done better to not kill a Duncan at a certain point to avoid them getting stronger/exposing the Mafia, but at the same time the whole "confirmed Innocent" business is risky. Essentially, the core Mason group of the game realized in a unique fashion, and they lived up to it as Duncan died several times before finally surviving.

taillesskangaru/Duncan Idaho

tailless was Duncan Prime same PM except for the knife part here; he had the knife to begin with and otherwise no essential differences.

Love/The Spy


Where to begin...if all that doesn't do it justice I can't explain too much more easily either. A lone killer and a ton of abilities to boot. He did well staying safe and winning Innocent trust but at the same time killed a few people, especially his run of killing and impersonating for a few days starting with taillesskangaru.

Some of the funnier things about this role never came out because Love never even could have publicly claiemd to be Washington. Anyway, he did catch on to hints about what he could do with disguises and so forth, making a dead player appear to vote or so on. He also could have attempted to have dead players "surrender items" or do other stuff. A couple counters were out there of course - if the dead player was lynched or the town chose an unusual action he could have been exposed, and of course Moriarty and the Duncans and Mafia factions could have known for instance when someone was "really dead" and not just missing.

George Washington's false teeth were entirely useless, though he could have claimed whatever he wanted and given them to others; he was safe even from Lady Liberty's scans if he looked like George Washington. Anyway a fun role I hope. He should have gone for the hats though; he would have immediately won Decisive Victory and escaped as soon as he got three (the game would continue for other players of course). Also would have gotten more funny jokes/custom names for items he received, and see the description of locations for the Dead Ringer, which he also might have liked to get (and would have been brutally awesome if he got himself fake-lynched as some disguise or something)

Methos/John C. Calhoun


Very similar to Webster essentially; didn't have the third part of the Great Triumvirate as Clay was a cut role. Anyway, killed early on by Mafia who feared his skillz one suppooses so missed out but thanks for the participation anyone.

Nictel/King Kamehameha


As already mentioned, he awarded himself for protecting the Spy. Overall his protection was used in hilarious manners; the best being when he protected Love (the Spy) and DrumStudent (Yamamoto) the same night and Love attacked DrumStudent. The Native Americans and Innocents still pulled through in the end and his Artifact just went to the alien. It would have been incredibly dangerous given to a Mafia, enabling them to do things like kill twice in one night; in fact, it would enable anyone to use abilities twice so was a major Artifact anyway, but that warning was especially potent.

Perfection/Washington Irving


Lurked his way through the whole game and came out unscathed, goodness knows how. He told me before the game he might not be the most active and like Camikaze I assigned this role with that in mind. He initially came up on the role randomization as the Spy, the most complicated serial killer, but missed out on that for his inactivity/laziness. Anyway thanks for playing though.

He didn't actually write all that "Washington Irving" stuff as mentioned - that was the Catch-22 crowd, one more chaotic thing. But his real purpose was even more crucial - while alive there was more information revealed in writeups. If he was killed then alignment/character info may have stopped being revealed with various kills, particularly non-lynch kills.

pevergreen/Lady Liberty


The central prophet/scanner role. pevergreen maybe missed a few orders but still got some crucial info I think. The Torch was never used however, which was odd - and after he died it probably would have helped if someone actually was voted it and could continue to use it. The Torch was the only surefire way to actually see through a cover role with any investigative/other ability.

Also unfortunate that he really had nobody protecting him, would have been a very nice role to be protected by another player if possible.

Sommerswerd/Uncle Sam


Major protector role. He picked up later into the game with working well towards Innocent victory, though also became a target. There may have been some confusion and Sommerswerd's also a new player of course so I'm sorry for anything that would throw him off love of the game, but anyway I think things worked out all right.

His protection was mostly complete, however he spent the whole time protecting himself which kinda wasn't the intention of his role. Still, it worked as far as it could reasonably let be. He defended against a couple German and maybe a Japanese attack who couldn't touch him because he protected himself. However, the night he was killed he was attacked by three people; a Mafia who failed, then Love the spy killed and disguised as him, and fought the vigilante who came next.

Anyway the Innocents still pulled through though Lady Liberty was also lost. His Stilts like the Torch were an Artifact. Also, like Captain America's shield, they would have given +2 STR to any US Innocent but only +1 STR to others (this was never noticed, as it wasn't with the Shield either, which only went to atpg and love)

SS-18 ICBM/Chief Joseph


Self-explanatory on the abilities now; the last Native American, rounding out 4 total in the final version of the game. Being able to surrender to avoid being killed by a vigilante or maybe even a lynch would have been nice had it happened; he also did prevent one lynch by rousing the rest of the town to save Love, though Love ultimately was not an Innocent. Thanks for the activity and enthusiasm for your first game!

Winston Hughes/Georgia O'Keefe


Winston had an artifact but no major strength and abilities, and I guess Mafia around here like to target him, so sorry for being killed so early. The Paintings were used up rather than saved after he died though overall it was a net Innocent benefit, even if not O'Keefe's personal goal preference.

Zack/Tennessee Williams



Pretty straightforward, though he didn't use his ability to weaken anyone's Strength, which he could at will (it was temporary though, but still, could make a difference against Mafia).

More importantly, Zack didn't know about this - his "fake real role"


Essentially Zack would be scanned as Mafia, by anything except use of the Torch. It turns out he was only ever scanned once which just led Diamondeye to doubt his own scan. Anyway it was rough overall but part of the balance around such abilities and he took it well of course, thanks for the sportmanship, and the Innocents still pulled through. I do think Hans Gruber would have made another good villain, the Germans already had their share of movie villains though.

TheForestAuro/Yossarian



TFA told me sometime midgame he'd been busy and that's all right, I thank him for playing anyway, but Yossarian's abilities and activity dropped off. Like Beefy he could send Washington Irving messages (sometimes a third was added for kicks, which would have been Orr's had Orr not been cut). Anyway his paranoia/desire to survive was key; he could have survived a lynch (and Kamikaze/other Day abilities) once though got killed at night anyway. If an opportunity to escape had been discovered he should have sought that out when he could midgame.

Please. I know we all indulged our primal urges with that frightful display of...emotion...but let's try to contain ourselves. First--where are we? And why are we here? What is happening? Let's try to figure out these basic questions first.

Ug... how did this happen?

I don't know, maybe the town of Town, or the city of City?

What about the city of Townsville?

So the PowerPuff Girls are around?

Poor Bruce Charlie.

Copypastaed from the other thread:
Yeap, that's right, might log in tomorrow morning-ish but then i'll get off and won't be back until the wee hours of Caturday. I'll probably sleeps like a log and get up late (Caturday night-ish).
Oh, can we mention Monty Python then? OK...
SPAAAMMM... WONDERFUL SPAAAMMM!!!

May as well get started then. TheForestAuro has yet to appear (and really, he's had forever to post. I mean, it's not like the thread opened half an hour ago ) and who better than the honorable CCRunner to take the shield?

Yes but TheForestAstro I Want You - to survive

OK, WIFOM party!!!
I don't like bandwagonners, CCRunner.

Wait, Takhisis, you just said you don't like bandwagoners and CCRunner was the first person to vote for TFA, that don't make much sense to me. I'll probably join in calling out silents in a little while.

Takhisis needs to stop spamming and caturdaying.

An antispamwagon? Now that's something I'll happily throw my weight behind.

If you'll offer a solid promise to keep your spamtastic ways in check, Takhisis, then I'll switch my vote. Otherwise, you're too big a distraction, and need a good lynchin'.

Oh, and I, Captain Winston, should receive the shield, for reasons I have yet to cobble together.

Takhisis for the anti-spam and anti-caturday.

I don't think anyone besides Takhisis actually enjoyed that stuff.

I, Askthepizzaguy, demand to carry the shield.