Large Mafia Game- The Dinner Party

[Takhisis]

With "dead" and dead people, I'm getting strong whiffs of Agatha's Christie's novel And Then There Were None. Those of you who've read the book will know what I mean.

You mean, Ten Little Neggers?

 

[Renata]

It's killing me that TK hasn't turned up to vote yet, nor Romanic responded to my latest post. Scum is either very happy with the situation (TK) or very unhappy (Romanic). It could still be Yoshi, but I'm guessing he's lynch-bait. Of my two top candidates for "dead" scum, Yoshi voted Red Spy and Jarrema voted Yoshi.

brb

 

[Renata]

No help with jarrema's wagon even if I'm right. Romanic votes Nictel and TK OMGUS's robbiecon, both prior to Kennigit's case on Jarema.

Argh!

 

[Renata]

Romanic says that everyone here but me voted for Joe, but that's not true. TK didn't, either. He voted Takhisis, and essentially hasn't been seen since.

 

[Camikaze]

Edit: crosspost with Renata's last three.


Hmm, if Joe was alone (because there were no real kills), then Yoshi could be it. The only reason he doesn't look ridiculously guilty is that Joe almost got him killed. Without that, he's just as bad as tailless.

And if Joe was alone, then Romanic's work in outing Joe doesn't clear his name.

The first thing I find odd from the previous page is Yoshi's vote for Romanic. I mean, he quotes me saying that Romanic is the worst lynch option, and does provide reasoning why his name isn't cleared, but doesn't actually say why Renata or tailless aren't still better options. There doesn't seem to have been much thought in that. Romanic is right that this is a rather weak case for a last round vote.

But then we have a lovely post from Romanichine ending in a vote on Renata. This post is intriguing to me. It is quite well reasoned, and it certainly doesn't scream of mafia behaviour. However, to me that is what it whispers. Renata is right that keeping her around would be a smart ploy to get the mafia to play us off against each other at the end. This seems quite a calculated move, and one that I think only Romanic would be capable of, given experience and activity in the game. Romanic doesn't even entertain the possibility that tailless could be it, rather appearing to jump to execute a pre-prepared plan of weighing me up against Renata to create a binary divide that would leave him in no danger. He argues that leaving Renata alive is not something that mafia would do, and this is true, but they wouldn't leave Romanic alive either. Leaving Renata alive allows the opportunity for a distracting and erroneous conflict to unfold, but I can't see why Romanic would not be killed off. Renata caught me out in Impending Retribution on 'we', and if you look at Romanic last post, you can see:

Hence why I think we should act on the only good piece of evidence we have: Joe being guilty. It will help us find his partner.

Call it confirmation bias, but in coming with an attempt to sell the story that Joe had a partner, despite the evidence to the contrary (no one was shot dead last night), when Romanic's innocence entirely rests on his anti-Joe credentials, seems to me to be a good indicator.

So I'm switching to Romanichine. Maybe it is Renata, who knows. If it is, she's deserved the win, because there really isn't any solid indication that it was her. It could be Yoshi, because he has been terribly scumtastic throughout the game, but Yoshi is not as experienced a player; would he have left Renata and myself alive to fight each other, whilst leaving the dangerous Romanichine alive as well? I doubt it. If it's him, apologies for the underestimation. And it could be tailless, because, like Yoshi, his activity has being very mafia-ish. But I'm guessing that he's just not paid much attention to the game instead, which is an equally plausible explanation.

 

[Tee Kay]

Overly long convoluted posts designed to deflect suspicion from himself, check.

Accusing someone who's "obviously" mafia and then switching to be part of the bandwagon, check.

By the way, on that point, you haven't been posting much yourself. This sudden flurry of activity in the last round is très suspect.

Lying low through the entire game and now you want to be the voice of reason? I think not.

J'accuse, Camikaze

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

You have until 01:42 my time.

Approximately one hour remains.


Renata- Romanic
taillesskangaru- Camikaze
Romanichine- Renata
Camikaze- Romanic
Yoshiegg737- Romanic


As the tally stands, Romanichine will be executed via chainsaw.

 

[Romanichine]

I come back from work to find that I'm gonna be killed by a chainsaw after saving everyone's life, getting the real killer, Joecoolyo. Wow, nice party you have here mister Askvaard.

Can we at least perhaps go back to the first method of killing? I will act very dead, I swear!!

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

I will act very dead, I swear!!

Involuntarily, I might add.

 

[Camikaze]

I'm nervously awaiting...

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

The Final Day




Professor Askvaard: "Time's up. I'm glad to see everyone voting. Now, who have you decided needs to die?"


Renata: "It's Romanichine. He's the mafia!"

Yoshiegg: "Why would they leave him alive after he accused Joe?"

Taillesskangaru: "I think it's Camikaze. What say you, scumbag?"

Renata: "Yeah, what say you, my friend? Camikaze? Camikaze???"






.....................







Renata: "Well, where did he go?"





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.....................

Camikaze: "BANZAAAAAAIIIIIII!!!!" ​

Camikaze appeared from out of nowhere, wielding a massive, highly decorated, authentic katana. He charged toward Romanichine, shouting in Japanese, with ferocious looking eyes. There was only one thing on his mind: MURDER.




Professor Askvaard: "What are you doing, Camikaze? You could really hurt someone."


Camikaze: "I will not stand here idle as we get picked off one by one! The time has come for the townies to take matters into their own hands! I will personally murder Romanichine and finally bring us the end of this madness!"


Romanichine grabbed the nearest weapon he could find, a long brass candlestick, and wielded it defensively.


Romanichine: "Well, come on then! If you're going to try this incredibly foolish attack, then try and hit me!"


Camikaze swiftly cleaved the flimsy brass object like a knife through butter.


Romanichine: "Oh bloody hell."


Romanichine moved backwards, dodging katana swings, until he reached the fireplace. He grabbed an iron poker and used it to block the swings of the deadly katana.


Romanichine: "What are you waiting for? SHOOT HIM, ASKVAARD!!!"


Professor Askvaard: "I can't, they voted to execute you, not Camikaze. I'm going to allow this."


Romanichine: "You're going to allow...... what? WHAT??? WHAAAAAT!?!?!"


Camikaze: "Now die, scumbag!"


Camikaze swung hard, but Romanichine hopped up on the buffet table to escape the blow, and then jumped behind it. Romanichine then flipped the table in Camikaze's direction, dumping chicken, beef, and soup all over the crazy samurai.


Romanichine: "Now, it's painfully obvious to me who is really responsible for all our pain and suffering. It's this lunatic, Askvaard von Pizzaguy. He's completely deranged and he's allowing an attempted murder right in front of you all, and you're all allowing it! Well, if you're not going to bash his crazy pudding head in, then allow me the pleasure."


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "You wouldn't dare attack me."


Romanichine turned and charged the Professor, wielding the iron poker high above his head.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Very well then, you've forced my hand, poker boy. I wasn't bluffing."



*BANG*



Romanichine slowed to a stop, feeling the bullet penetrate him in the stomach. It strangely didn't hurt that much, but there was a lot of blood.


Romanichine: "This is the worst dinner party I've ever been to."


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "No.... no.... how could you say such a thing? Was it the chicken? Please, tell me it wasn't the chicken.... yours didn't contain a puzzle piece, I swear it!"


Romanichine: "It wasn't the chicken.... it was you. You're insane. You're mentally ill. You're completely bat- cloud-****oolander OUT OF YOUR MOTHER LOVING MIND!"


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "No need to be so insulting about it. I'm rather sensitive."


Romanichine: "If it is the last thing I do, I'm going to put you down for good!"


Still bleeding, Romanichine staggered toward the cornered professor, and began swinging the iron poker at him. The professor ducked and dodged, but Romanichine kept advancing.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Let's not be so hasty, Romanichine! We can still talk this out!"


Romanichine swung at Pizzaguy's chest.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Well, the ambulance is coming, they'll get you patched up in a jiffy, and I'll come visit you in the hospital every day."


Romanichine swung at Pizzaguy's legs. Pizza jumped up on the table with the chainsaw on it. Romanichine followed suit.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?"


Romanichine swung at Pizzaguy's face, slamming him hard in the jaw, knocking him down and causing the table to crumple beneath them. The other dinner guests just looked on in horror.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Ow! You hit me! That was totally uncalled for!"


Romanichine stumbled to his feet, still gushing blood from his stomach.


Romanichine: "Shut up! Shut up and stop talking! Die, die, die, DIE DIE DIE!!!"


Romanichine began swinging the iron poker, bashing Askvaard Von Pizzaguy over and over with the heavy object, as Pizzaguy tried in vain to deflect the brutal shots.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "What did I ever do to deserve this? Haven't I been a good Pizzaguy?"


Romanichine: "Just suffer a little internal bleeding in the brain, and pass into unconsciousness, you sick demented freak. Come on, it's not that much to ask the Pizzaguy."


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Name drop! Total winnage."


Romanichine continued pummeling Askvaard, trying to make the lunatic finally expire. Pizzaguy was battered, bloodied, bruised, and his trembling hand reached for the chainsaw, but Romanichine cracked the Professor hard in the forearm, causing the professor to drop it and howl in pain.


Romanichine: "This party is over."


Romanichine raised the iron poker, and prepared to bring it down on the Professor's unprotected head.

"BANZAI!"​

The katana blade penetrated Romanichine from behind, running him straight through the chest. Romanichine was stunned from the blow, and felt his strength slipping. He dropped the iron poker inches from Askvaard's head, and fell to his knees.


Askvaard Von Pizzaguy: "Heads up..."

BRAW. . . . BRAWWWWW. . . . . . BRAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!​

Askvaard swung the chainsaw, cutting Romanichine at the neck. Within seconds, the half Roman, half machine was no more. The scene was bloody and grotesque.

The dinner guests screamed in horror at the violence they were witnessing. Camikaze himself couldn't even believe his eyes. He dropped his katana blade and fell to his knees.


Camikaze: [Horrified] "What have I done...?!"


Askvaard von Pizzaguy: "Fulfilling your destiny, Camikaze. You've helped execute the one that was found guilty by a popular vote, which is the most foolproof system ever devised."


Camikaze: "I can't believe I'm still alive."


Askvaard von Pizzaguy: "To cheat death is the power only one has achieved, but if we work together...I know we can discover the secret."


Camikaze: "I pledge myself... to your teachings."


Askvaard von Pizzaguy: "Good. Gooooood..... Now, I'm going to turn off the lights once more.... so you can show them the true nature of the dark side."

*click*​

"Alive" - (4/36)

Renata- SOUP
taillesskangaru- SOUP
Camikaze- BEEF
Yoshiegg737- BEEF



"Dead" - (13/36)

The Bake- BEEF
mgsmuhammed- BEEF
Red_Spy- CHICKEN
CivGeneral- CHICKEN
robbiecon- SOUP
Winston Hughes- CHICKEN
NarutoAvatarDBZ- CHICKEN
Seon- CHICKEN
Autolycus- SOUP
Takhisis- SOUP
Mechaerik- CHICKEN
Arakhor- BEEF
BSmith- CHICKEN


Really dead - (17/36)

GamezRule
Skwink Caesar
choxorn
classical_hero
Earthling
General Olaf
Zack
Darth Caesar
Bestrfcplayer
civplayah
Jarrema
Johnhughthom
Save_Ferris
landlubber
Nictel
Kennigit
Romanichine

Wrath of the party host - (1/36)

Neverwonagame3

Escaped - (1/36)

Joecoolyo


Begin the Final Night. Finale in progress.





Tell me how you want them to die, my young apprentice....

 

[choxorn]

Using your moderator powers to know when people in mafia in hidden mode are actually online?

 

[Red_Spy]

I have a feeling it wasn't romanichine.

 

[Tee Kay]

[...]

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

FINALE​

As soon as the lights shut off, all anyone could hear was the roaring of Askvaard's chainsaw.... but soon, they also saw the flashing red and blue lights of the Montana State Troopers pulling up to the mansion, and the ambulances with their flashing lights and loud sirens. A spotlight shone through the busted window at the Professor, who was holding the chainsaw above his head and cackling like a lunatic.



Voice: "This is the Montana State Police. Come out with your hands in the air, or we will be forced to open fire."



Askvaard von Pizzaguy: "You'll never take me alive, coppers! Don't you realize, I'm the host of the party! I can't die! MuhuhuhuhahahahaHAHAHAA!!!!"


Several shots rang out, and Professor Askvaard went down swiftly. He continued laughing even as the chainsaw cut a massive gash through his own leg. He was hit several times in the chest.


Professor Askvaard: "Bullet....proof..... vest..... hahahaha....."

___________________

THE AFTERMATH​

Rescue workers had collected the remaining survivors of The Dinner Party. Askvaard was cuffed, put into a straitjacket, and EMTs were busy trying to stop the bleeding in his leg.

• The police found the bodies of those slain by the serial killer Joecoolyo, who had escaped justice and was still at large.

• The police also found the body of Neverwonagame, who had been murdered by Professor Askvaard von Pizzaguy. There was even a written confession, explaining that neverwonagame deserved it for not being a good party guest.

• The police learned from the witnesses that Askvaard had killed Romanichine in self-defense.... sort of. He had been holding them hostage and threatened to execute whoever was voted guilty in a strange party game he was also hosting.

The survivors of the party game, just less than half of those who were forced to play, were boarding a rescue van to take them to safety, when suddenly Yoshiegg piped up.



Yoshiegg737: "Hey, Professor?!"


"Yes, Yoshiegg?" the Professor replied.


Yoshiegg737: "You haven't finished the game. You have to tell us who won."


Professor Askvaard beamed, and told Yoshiegg-

Professor Askvaard: "Jarrema and Romanichine were the 'Mafia'. Congratulations, townies. You survived the murderous serial killer Joecoolyo.... and won the game as well."


Yoshiegg737: "Was the serial killer your idea? Was he part of the game?"


Professor Askvaard: "Heck no! I'd have to be insane to let someone like that into my party knowingly."

​

Alive - (18/36)

Renata- SOUP
taillesskangaru- SOUP
Camikaze- BEEF
Yoshiegg737- BEEF
The Bake- BEEF
mgsmuhammed- BEEF
Red_Spy- CHICKEN
CivGeneral- CHICKEN
robbiecon- SOUP
Winston Hughes- CHICKEN
NarutoAvatarDBZ- CHICKEN
Seon- CHICKEN
Autolycus- SOUP
Takhisis- SOUP
Mechaerik- CHICKEN
Arakhor- BEEF
BSmith- CHICKEN

Joecoolyo- "BEEF", THE SERIAL KILLER (escaped victoriously)


Dead - (18/36)

GamezRule
Skwink Caesar
choxorn
classical_hero
Earthling
General Olaf
Zack
Darth Caesar
Bestrfcplayer
civplayah
Jarrema "SOUP MAFIOSO"
Johnhughthom
Save_Ferris
landlubber
Nictel
Kennigit
Romanichine "CHICKEN MAFIOSO"
Neverwonagame3

Victory:
The Serial Killer
(objective completed before his "execution")


Close Victory:
The Innocent Party Guests
(outlasting the "mafia" and The Serial Killer)


Close Defeat:
The "Mafia"
(Only one vote short of victory....)​

 

[Red_Spy]

So the food did have something to do with it. I slight thing.

Anyway, that was good.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

The Mafia Quicktopic: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/J5rEZNmaKAg8

The Dead Quicktopic: http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/7Qi2JeXXzWr

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

The "Mafia"

Greetings Jarrema and Romanichine.

You have been selected by Askvaard Von Pizzaguy to play as the "murdering" mafiosi in his after-dinner game.

Every night phase, you may "murder" two people, even if only one of you is still "alive".

• Your objective is to be able to outvote the remaining "alive" townies. 2 versus 2 or 1 versus 1 in a day phase, or 3 versus 1, or 4 versus 2 going into a night phase, qualifies as victory.
  
• At least one of you must survive the game in the "alive" column, or you've failed.

Quicktopic for ya.

http://www.quicktopic.com/46/H/J5rEZNmaKAg8


Please send your murders to me via Private Message only, as I've messed up entire games by accepting orders in a quicktopic before. Each of you gets one murder while you're both alive, or the remaining survivor gets two.

The Serial Killer

Greetings, Joecoolyo.


The other guests will be participating in a "mafia game" hosted by Askvaard Von Pizzaguy. The object of the game will be to guess who is the murderer or murderers among them. The murderers will be only pretending to kill people... you, on the other hand, are a deranged sociopath who thinks this whole mafia business is REAL.


The "mafia" cannot murder you. You're not pretending. You won't lay down and you won't actually die if they try to shoot you.

However, their little game is the perfect cover to allow you to go undetected. They will be "murdering" people, which will incapacitate them and prevent them from voting. They can still accuse and discuss, as they're not really dead.

What YOU can do, is, when the mafia are off "murdering" people, you actually sneak off and literally murder them. When they are actually dead, they cannot speak or accuse anyone.

In order for this to work, there will have to be at least SOME "dead" people who are still alive. That means you'll have to wait for three nights before you can choose who among the "dead" need to actually die.

Alternatively, you can just outright murder one of the guests who aren't pretending to be dead. The problem with that is, that will alert everyone in the game to the fact that there is a REAL murderer among them, and the game will stop. They won't continue trying to hunt down the "mafia", they'll be looking for you and only you, the serial killer.

So, you can use this alternative option when you see victory in your sight.... or you want to murder the "mafia" yourself.

Your objective is to murder as many people as you can, hopefully surviving the entire game as the last man standing. But if you murder a certain number of people, you will prevail regardless.

From your perspective, the "mafia" are neutral. They can, in fact, win with you. You don't have to kill them off in order to win. However, they might consider you a threat and try to lynch you anyway, especially if their repeated attempts to murder you fail.

From the mafia's perspective, you are neutral. They are trying to win the "game" and murder as many of the opposing townies as possible. If it gets down to 2 of them versus 2 townies versus you, you can escape, and you and the mafia both win.

If it gets down to 1 versus 1 versus 1, you will shoot the remaining 2 and be the last one standing. If it gets down to 2 townies versus 1 mafia versus you, then you will shoot the two remaining townies and escape.


Remember:

1) You will need to literally murder the people who are already "dead" in order for them to shut up and be completely dead. You can murder TWO people who are in the "dead" list every night, starting on night 3.

Ability: Murder TWO "dead" people

2) You can elect to murder ONE person in the "alive" list instead, thus exposing your existence, putting you in grave danger.

Ability: Murder ONE "alive" person instead

3) If you are lynched, you will not go quietly. You can resist the fake "lynch" attempt, thus exposing you as not really playing a "game". The next lynch, however, will be LETHAL and put you down for good.

Ability: Survive ONE "fake" lynch. The next lynch will be real, and lethal.

4) If you elect to murder an alive person, thus exposing the existence of a serial killer, lynches will become real, and lethal.

Caution: Murdering an "alive" person removes your ability to survive "fake" lynches.

5) If you go into a night phase and there are only 2 townies remaining "alive", regardless of the numbers of "mafia" left alive, you may shoot them both, and all the "dead" townies at once, and escape the house as the winner, leaving behind just the "mafia".

• You might ask yourself why murdering the "dead" is even useful to you.

The answer is, it stops all discussion from the pro-town dead people that you murder. If you feel they might accuse you, then they should die and be silenced for good.
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• You will also have an objective to murder a certain number of people in this game yourself, to meet a minimum standard of victory.

You must personally murder a certain number of guests. You must murder 12 guests.
​

If you do this, you will win regardless of survival or death, but it won't prevent the "mafia" or the "town" from winning their game against each other.

If you want to go for the glory, the gusto, and the fun, of killing off that many guests and surviving the game and escaping, then you'll eventually want to switch from killing "dead" guests to killing "alive" guests. That way, you can reduce the number of "alive" townies and possibly win the game and escape on your terms.

• Additional rule:

If you choose to murder an "alive" guest that the "mafia" have also chosen to murder, it will not blow your cover. The instant three kills appear instead of two, that is when you will be exposed. This will protect you from very unfortunate luck after taking a risk, but remember... you kill a living guest that the mafia did not murder, the existence of a real serial killer will become known to all.

The mafia could in theory expose themselves as mafia, thus deflecting attention away from them, as they have an alibi which proves they aren't the serial killer. As such, the mafia are a danger to you, even though their fake murders will help you win the game.

Also:

Should the "mafia" fall, and be defeated, you will be allowed to murder two "alive" guests every night without blowing your cover. You'll simply be picking up where they left off, and the "pretend" kills they were doing will become your real kills.


WIN CONDITIONS:

1) Personally murder at least 12 guests. (Standard Victory)

2) Survive long enough to escape the house (Great Victory)

3) Become the last one standing (Overwhelming Victory)

Do you understand your role? Do you have any questions?

 

[Tee Kay]

Best. Dinner Party. Ever.

 

[Skwink]

A noise comes from one of the bodies that's being taken away by the officers. It's none other than the body of the Senator from Washington, Skwink. A noise, barely noticeable. Perhaps a voice, but that'd make no sense, as Skwink is dead. Yes, very much like a voice. A voice whispering: "Good Game".