[Mafia(...?)] Mexican Stand-Off Mafia

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girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Guns are drawn, tensions are high. You look at the people around you, at their weapons, and they look at yours. Soon, someone's going to pull a trigger, and then you'll see who's still standing.

Very vaguely inspired by One Night Ultimate Werewolf, I present Mexican Stand-Off Mafia, a variant Mafia game designed to be over in exactly one night. Here's how it works.

Day 1 will be exceptionally long, but no one will die during it. The player who has the most votes at the end of the ~~five days~~ Day will have their power and alignment revealed, but they will still be alive for the Night phase.
Deadline will go by plurality, however a pre-deadline 'lynch' will require 75% majority, rather than the usual half-plus-one. All this fuss is because...
Each and every player has a night kill. Every single goddamn one of you can kill someone during N1. There are various roles, but the core of it remains.
At the start of Day 2, after all powers have been resolved, if there are any scum left alive, scum win. If there are no scum left alive, town wins. If no one is left alive, Quentin Tarantino wins.
Make sure you'll be able to post during this game, because anyone with less than twenty posts at the end of Day 1 will use their nightkills on themselves and be ineligible for victory. This is to discourage lurking, which could otherwise very easily kill this game.
I reserve the right to not count certain posts if I feel you're simple posting nonsense to pad your post count. Not that there's anyone who'd ever do something like that!
Some of you may have day powers! Or you may not! Who knows!
This game will need a minimum of nine players, but can run up to a maximum of gently caress-if-I-know. Full disclosure, I came up with this like fifteen minutes ago, and am still working out some of the kinks. But who cares, it'll be loving rad.

11 votes to lynch prematurely.

Players
1. Tremendous Taste
2. Met
3. MildManeredManikin
4. Rarity
5. apostateCourier
6. CapitalistPig
7. Epsilon Plus
8. Somberbrero
9. HiipFire
10. Pinterest Mom
11. Mills
12. winvirus
13. EXAKT Science
14. Hal Incandenza

girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Oct 23, 2014

# ? Oct 22, 2014 07:39

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t a s t e: Sep 6, 2010

yeah

# ? Oct 22, 2014 07:46

Zesty: Jan 17, 2012; The Great Twist

Lets do it!

# ? Oct 22, 2014 07:46

Jump King: Aug 10, 2011

this sounds like something I could actually play before I quit mafia forever

# ? Oct 22, 2014 07:57

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

MildManeredManikin posted:

this sounds like something I could actually play before I quit mafia forever

Everyone always says they're quitting Mafia forever.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 08:07

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Yeah I like this idea

# ? Oct 22, 2014 09:11

apostateCourier: Oct 9, 2012

gently caress yeah let's do this

# ? Oct 22, 2014 14:08

CapitalistPig: Nov 3, 2005; A Winner is you!

This is my kind of game.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 14:32

death cob for cutie: Dec 30, 2006; dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4

Sounds horrid. I'm in.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 15:19

Somberbrero: Feb 14, 2009; ꜱʜʀɪᴍᴘ?

It's like Bang were Mafia so I am going to play it.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 15:27

kumba: Nov 8, 2003; I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride; Lipstick Apathy

i cant join this but this sounds awesome. eagerly looking forward to following it!

# ? Oct 22, 2014 15:39

HiipFire: Sep 1, 2013; JENNY DEATH LIVES

hey im in

# ? Oct 22, 2014 16:22

apostateCourier: Oct 9, 2012

Okay that's nine LET'S DO THIS

# ? Oct 22, 2014 16:55

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

sure

# ? Oct 22, 2014 16:57

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

apostateCourier posted:

Okay that's nine LET'S DO THIS

And we just broke ten. I'd like to hit 13 in that case.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 18:53

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

Low-effort. Sure.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:21

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Mills posted:

Low-effort. Sure.

Excellent. Just remember the post minimum (it averages out to 4-per-day, so that should be very reasonable, I think), and that it's a game where you can't really replace out.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:23

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

I think this will run out of steam over five days. If you're going to mandate its length, make it 48-72 hours. :shrug:

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:24

Somberbrero: Feb 14, 2009; ꜱʜʀɪᴍᴘ?

Mills posted:

I think this will run out of steam over five days. If you're going to mandate its length, make it 48-72 hours.

same.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:25

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

Also scum don't even have an incentive to kill people on N1. As long as they live, they win!

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:25

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

I have some tricks up my sleeves. But I'll seriously consider shortening the D1 time limit.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:28

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

Also, "anyone with less than twenty posts at the end of Day 1 will use their nightkills on themselves and be ineligible for victory" fucks up scum more than it fucks up town. If I am active scum with a lurking team-mate, his guaranteed death will hurt my win condition. If I am active town with a lurking team-mate, his guaranteed death will not effect my win condition as the result of the game does not have anything to do with town deaths.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:33

winvirus: Jan 23, 2009; You only delay the inevitable. All of this island will soon belong to me.

Well I guess I'll play

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:35

EXAKT Science: Aug 14, 2012; 8 on the Kinsey scale

I would like to play more mafia, yes.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:36

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Mills posted:

Also, "anyone with less than twenty posts at the end of Day 1 will use their nightkills on themselves and be ineligible for victory" fucks up scum more than it fucks up town. If I am active scum with a lurking team-mate, his guaranteed death will hurt my win condition. If I am active town with a lurking team-mate, his guaranteed death will not effect my win condition as the result of the game does not have anything to do with town deaths.

This part is intentional. The alternative is to allow scumlurking as a legitimate strategy, which is much too effective in the short-term for a game like this.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:37

Hal Incandenza: Feb 12, 2004

I would like to play unless I just made an even number in which case I will happily just watch.

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:38

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Anyways, that's 13, so I'll go ahead and kick this off soon. Expect role PMs within a couple hours, unless a bunch more people jump in at the last minute (in which case, expect something in a few hours instead).

Edit No worries, Hal. Even isn't as bad here, because of how the lynch majority works. You're in. So is anyone else who asks before... let's say, 7 PM EST (about 100 minutes from now).

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:38

HiipFire: Sep 1, 2013; JENNY DEATH LIVES

HiipFire fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 23, 2014

# ? Oct 22, 2014 22:57

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Okay, got the (really lovely) balancing and flavor done. Now I just need the :effort:

to type up all the role PMs.

# ? Oct 23, 2014 02:54

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

We could just randomise a circular shooting order A --> B --> C --> A and play the pretty good odds that no two scum would be in succession.

In this scenario, it actually makes sense to lynch your bestest and brightest townsperson because it's one less unknown in the circle, and they still get to take their night action where they think it will be most useful.

:shrug:

# ? Oct 23, 2014 03:02

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Mills posted:

We could just randomise a circular shooting order A --> B --> C --> A and play the pretty good odds that no two scum would be in succession.

I thought of people trying to solve the game, too. Powers are involved that would make that.... difficult. Appreciate the looking for loopholes, though.

# ? Oct 23, 2014 03:04

Mills: Jun 13, 2003

We'll see about that. :crossarms:

# ? Oct 23, 2014 03:06

mfcrocker: Jan 31, 2004; Hot Rope Guy

not playing but definitely leaving this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9faqM-WvxBQ

# ? Oct 23, 2014 03:20

winvirus: Jan 23, 2009; You only delay the inevitable. All of this island will soon belong to me.

cool idea: let's just all shoot ourselves. quentin tarantino victory

# ? Oct 23, 2014 03:37

EXAKT Science: Aug 14, 2012; 8 on the Kinsey scale

Is this still happening?

# ? Oct 23, 2014 18:15

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Yes, I'm just lazy.

# ? Oct 23, 2014 18:21

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEg3J3383xg

# ? Oct 23, 2014 18:23

HiipFire: Sep 1, 2013; JENNY DEATH LIVES

HiipFire fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Oct 23, 2014

# ? Oct 23, 2014 19:01

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Role PMs are finally done. I'll be sending them out in a little bit, once I double-check some possibilities on power interaction.

# ? Oct 23, 2014 19:17

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# ? Apr 16, 2024 22:33

Jump King: Aug 10, 2011

confined

# ? Oct 23, 2014 19:51

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