Mini-Mafia: The Night Santa Went Crazy

[Lohrenswald]

Maybe this whole is/isn't too obvious go-around is a routine between Lohrenswald and Al to implicate me just hours before the vote.

So you posted this roughly 2 hours ago, and now it's roughly 6 hours until the voting is locked

seems like you're

FLAILING

 

[JohannaK]

Unvote: Snerk. I'm sorry guys. I'm unqualified to vote. I'm just completely apathetic. I'm an elf but do what you must.

 

[Arakhor]

So you posted this roughly 2 hours ago, and now it's roughly 6 hours until the voting is locked

I did yes, but I've already considered my options and realised that if I vote for Joan to force a tie, assuming that Takhisis remains inactive, when Joan shows up again, he will by necessity vote for me and I will die anyway. It will also reveal nothing other than I'm innocent and that people will vote to save their own skins (which is a total surprise, I know).

.... And suddenly Joan shows up just as I'm writing this post to unvote anyway. Yay.

 

[Arakhor]

My vote can be swayed, but I can't join you in voting the inactive Tak. Who else is scum?

Why not? If he is inactive, the scum won't kill him, because then he's obvious lynchbait, but in a game this small, anyone not voting is a danger to town. Even Joan, although he claims he's innocent (but doing very little to prove it).

So, our situation is that two are dead, two aren't voting and we will probably have another two dead by morning. This is not looking good for town, folks.

 

[Arakhor]

I need to get to bed, so if I die, I'd rather die through action rather than inaction. Unvote: Takhisis. Vote: JohannaK.

 

[choxorn]

Al's Tally is correct. Formatted a little differently, and adjusting for Arakhor's vote change:

Arakhor (2): Al Sipsclar, Lohrenswald
JohannaK (2): Snerk, Arakhor
Snerk (1): JohannaK


Not Voting: Takhisis

 

[Takhisis]

I fell asleep when I came home and then I woke up to play videogames. vote: Snerk

Takhisis was making plans to violently murder Cuthilius before the game started. This new death reflects poorly on him.

He was? I don't think Takhisis would be in such a hurry. He'd rather leave Cuthilius alive, to see the shame of defeat with his own eyes. That is, of course, if Takhisis was mafia.

Something rubs me wrong with Arakhor, but Tak's lack of wit is eerily disturbing. This is uncharacteristic under any circumstance. Anyhow I have been not playing for long enough that I have forgotten any meta I might have on anyone.

I will go after Snerk for now, though. Cuthilius expressed his doubts and while there is nothing solid, there is nothing solid about nobody else either.

Lack of wit? Only by half, dammit.

 

[choxorn]

Tally:

Arakhor (2): Al Sipsclar, Lohrenswald
JohannaK (2): Snerk, Arakhor
Snerk (2): JohannaK, Takhisis

About 1 and a half hours left in the day.

 

[choxorn]

Phase over, once again we have a tie.

You can vote for Arakhor, JohannaK, or Snerk. Whoever is placed in the lead first shall perish.

 

[Arakhor]

In #82, Joan abstained, so Snerk shouldn't be in the tie-breaker I'd have thought.

Either way, vote: JohannaK.

 

[Al Sipsclar]

Alright, vote: JohannaK

 

[choxorn]

Arakhor is right, I missed Johanna's unvote, my bad.

In either case, Al's switch puts JohannaK in the lead, he will be lynched.

 

[choxorn]

Tally:

JohannaK (3): Snerk, Arakhor, Al Sipsclar
Arakhor (1): Lohrenswald
Snerk (1): Takhisis

 

[choxorn]

DAY TWO
​

Once again, there was a tie, and once again, it was quickly resolved.

"JohannaK, you stand accused of murder, high treason, and conspiracy to ruin Christmas. How do you plead?"

"..."

"What was that?"

"..."

"Very well, if you have nothing to say for yourself, I am forced to pronounce you, GUILTY!"

And JohannaK was crushed under a pile of coal.

Spoiler :

JohannaK was an Elf!

The Elves went to sleep, not sure if they would wake up again tomorrow...

It is now NIGHT TWO. It will end at the usual time, about 24 hours from this post.

 

[JohannaK]

Told ya, you foolish sycophants.

 

[choxorn]

NIGHT TWO​

Takhisis was out for an evening stroll, because evening strolls are very refreshing in arctic weather. He heard noises behind him... or did he? There had to be something there... Over there? Over there? There was a light off to the side... maybe that would be his escape... *CRASH*

"AAAAAAH NO DON'T KILL ME SANTA PLEA... Wait, you're not Santa. Rudolph? What are you doing sneaking around like that?"

"I just wanted to share a little song with you."

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer...

Had a very DEADLY nose...

And if you ever saw it...

Then you died

"That's not how that song goes, and it doesn't rhyme and... wait OH GOD YOU'RE WITH SANTA AREN'T YOU WHY WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOOOOOOOOOO..."

But Takhisis's screams were drowned out when he was smashed to death by Rudolph's incredibly deadly nose.

Spoiler :

Takhisis was an Elf!

The screams were drowned out, but it seemed someone was coming, so Rudolph left.


....



Minutes later, Al Sipsclar, Arakhor, Lohrenswald, and Snerk were gathered before the dead body of Takhisis.

"I heard, I saw what he said. Why, Rudolph, why? For that matter, why, Santa, why? They were such jolly guys! Er, guy and a reindeer!"

"Well, maybe we were tired of being jolly, huh? All work and no play makes Santa a dull immortal elderly bearded man!"

"Oh, you think YOU got no play, the other reindeer still laugh at my nose! I'm sick of it!"

"Whatever, let's just kill these dumb elves already and get it over with."

Spoiler :

Arakhor was an Elf!

Lohrenswald was an Elf!

Al Sipsclar was Santa Claus!

Snerk was Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer!

MAFIA VICTORY

Congratulations to Snerk and Al Sipsclar!​

 

[choxorn]

Notes on the Setup:

I said that there would only be one innocent power role. However...

The actual setup:

2 Vanilla Mafia (Snerk, Al Sips)

1 Neighborizer* (DuffKilligan)

1 Doctor (Lohrenswald)

4 Vanilla Townies (JohannaK, Cuthillius, Arakhor, Takhisis)

*If you don't know what a Neighborizer is, it's a role that invites other characters to a private quicktopic, allowing private communication between townies in games that otherwise lack private communication, but there's no guarantee that the Neighborizer will only invite townies.

Considering how ineffective the power roles were, maybe I should have added more. Duff was the day one lynch, his QT and power unused and I ended up just using his Neighborizer QT to make the Dead QT because screw it I'm lazy. Lohrenswald had two nights to protect someone from death, and spent both of them protecting one of the mafia.

 

[choxorn]

Role PM's:

Mafia:

You are the MAFIA.

Al Sipsclar is Santa Claus, who has gone crazy after years of having to deliver presents to the children of the world. And for what, the occasional Milk and Cookies? Those are ok, but that hardly seems like fair compensation for all the work you do! So you've decided to kill everyone and ruin Christmas.

Joining you is Snerk, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. You have long plotted your revenge on the other reindeer for leaving you out of their reindeer games, and even after you saved a foggy Christmas Eve with yoru shiny nose, they still act like jerks most of the time. So you decided to join up with Santa, for surely you can accomplish more together than you ever could on your own.

You both are Vanilla Mafia Goons, with no powers other than your team night kill. Send one of you out at night to perform the kill, and the one you target shall die.

You also get a shiny Mafia Quicktopic. Use it for your evil plans.

DuffKilligan:

You are the Head of the Elven Labor Federation (E.L.F.)

In the past, your organizational skills have been put to good use organizing a union to fight for elf labor rights, like the 5 cookies per hour minimum wage, and better safety conditions in the candy cane factories after a series of tragic accidents leading to workers being turned into snow-elves with candy canes for fingers. You've decided to use your skills again to organize in secret to stop the crazed Santa Claus.

Every night, you can invite one of the other players to this quicktopic, where you can privately communicate. This won't tell you anything about their alignment, so be careful who you invite.

You win the game when all threats to the Elves (Town) have been eliminated.

Lohrenswald:

You are the Elf Doctor.

You're mostly like the other elves, but you know a lot more than most of them do about medicine and healing, so you've decided to put your abilities to use to stop Santa, who has gone crazy and is trying to ruin Christmas.

You can target a player at night to protect them from being killed.

You win the game when all threats to the Elves (Town) have been eliminated.

The Doctor couldn't self-protect.

 

[choxorn]

I already posted the quicktopic links in the above post, but here they are again:

Mafia QT

Neighborizer/Dead QT

List of Night Actions:

Night One:

Al Sipsclar kills Cuthillius
Lohrenswald protects Snerk

Night Two:

Snerk kills Takhisis
Lohrenswald protects Al Sipsclar

 

[Snerk]

Thanks for hosting, mr C. If nothing else, it's nice than that one can still get a mini going in these waters. Now update teh stats!!1
Also thanks to my parter in crime, well played, sir.

Town had some bad luck with the abilities and a 6vs2 game is always going to be tricky for the town. But in general it's activity was too low. The game would have benefited from another player, but what are you gonna do.