This game is based on gamers who are based. Yes, you. The peanut gallery has taken over the asylum.
Boilerplate Day 1 OP Stuff That We Should All Mostly Know Anyway
- Do not copy-paste from your role PM. (There is one exception to this rule. You will know if it's you. So don't do it unless I have explicitly given you permission.) Do not post anything that looks like it was copy-pasted from a role card. This rule does not apply to quoting one or a few words to convey basic information, e.g., your role and character. The reasonable person test applies. If you are not sure whether or not you paraphrased enough, ask me. Do not use generative AI, e.g., ChatGPT, to paraphrase your PM. Avoid talking about the formatting of role PMs.
- Do not edit or delete messages.
- Do not post while dead or like posts while dead.
- Voting and unvoting in the same post is fine. Do not cast more than one vote in the same post.
- I will announce MYLO / LYLO. Votes can't be removed during MYLO / LYLO.
- Until the game is over, do not discuss it outside the approved channels, i.e., the day thread, moderator PMs, and faction chats.
- Do not use cryptography or otherwise post anything in the day thread with the intention of obscuring it so that only specific player(s) can read it.
- Be as bitchy as you want unless and until someone asks me to cool things down.
- I reserve the right to add commonplace or common-sense rules at any time.
Game Information
You are strongly encouraged to read everything in this section.
I use "players" to mean people who signed up for this game, and "characters" to mean the people mentioned in role PMs. So if your username on here is Thoth and your role PM says you are whiteflame, your player is Thoth and your character is whiteflame.
Roles have been assigned randomly. That should go without saying, but I might as well say it, if only to be the change I want to see.
Your character can be yourself. I wanted to avoid this by re-rolling as long as somebody was themselves, but knowing that somebody can't be a certain character could be too powerful information.
There is a theme split. Scum have been told what it is. It's not meant to be especially hard to figure out.
Role justifications and the theme split are based only on people as Mafia players. So, there are no justifications about someone's day job or real-life theme splits like women versus men.
Some justifications are clear and direct, and others are loosey-goosey. This is to give scum more leeway in fake-claiming.
The only requirement for being a character in this game is having played or hosted at least one forum Mafia game on DebateCraft. I believe this list is complete, but if there's an error or two, it doesn't really change the game.
Airmax1227
AnonYmous_Icon
awesome5000
Banana
Casey_Risk
Cerulean
ILikePie5
Kohai
Lunatic
Mag1cman
Magoroth
McDonaldsReal
Mikal
Ragnar
RexFavilla
Savant
Shining
Skipper
Thoth
Ultracrepidarian
unsaid
Vader
whiteflame
Wryly
wylted
Which of these characters are in the game was not chosen randomly. I mainly picked regulars, but I also included at least one player who would not be considered a regular or to have had much impact on this site's Mafia community. I also aimed for a healthy mix of people playing in this game versus people not playing in this game.
Scum have been given at least two character fake-claims that would be town according to the theme split. They can also get correct answers to three questions about whether or not a role is in the game. They may use these questions at any time.
The alignment split is either 7 town / 2 scum or 6 town / 2 scum / 1 third-party. If there is a third-party, their character would be town according to the theme split, their win condition is only to survive until the end of the game, they count as town for scum parity, and they have been given a role fake-claim.
In Madoka Magica, I had a rules question policy, but I didn't really follow it. In this game, I am using a more liberal question policy that I will strictly enforce. I will answer basically any question about role effects and interactions, even for hypothetical roles, 'hypothetical' meaning it's not your role, it hasn't flipped, and you haven't seen it in an investigative result. However, you must describe any hypothetical roles you ask rules questions about, even if they are common roles like Cop or Tracker. This is because: (1) different people might use the same name for different roles or vice versa; (2) if I can't promptly answer your question, it could tip you off that the role(s) you asked about are not in the game.
Town win when all threats to town have been eliminated. Mafia win at scum parity, i.e., when there are at least as many scum alive as non-scum. If there are neutrals, they have their own win conditions.
Plurality lynching is in effect. If a player gets enough votes to kill them, they die and the day ends immediately, putting the thread into twilight until I get around to close it. If a day ends with nobody having enough votes to kill them, the player with the most votes is lynched. If there is a tie for first place, votes are removed starting with the most recent and going backwards. Unvoting and voting again counts as a new vote. If there is still a tie after removing votes, then nobody voted and you should really re-evaluate your priorities.
As usual on here, days will be 72 hours maximum and nights will be 24 hours maximum, but phases might end early. This day phase ends at 6PM Central time on March 15.
Players
1 Lunatic
2 Banana
3 Shining
4 Magoroth
5 ILikePie5
6 RexFavilla
7 wylted
8 Kohai
9 Wryly