(jump to votecount) (source) “In this City, you can make your own fortune.” What a load of bullshit. The city we’re in now has always been a cultural melting pot, sure, but everyone knows how those sucker lines go - people with a bindle and barely enough money to spend the night in a cheap motel, looking to make their name. More meat to pick apart for the people up above, the real winners. It happened probably about a dozen years ago, maybe closer to two - way it goes, a major housing crisis was underway. Too many people, not enough buildings, especially in places like this, where there wasn’t much room left to grow outwards - metropolis spanning the coastline as-is. But the lobbyists had a crooked idea: give the people what they want. More houses, and more access to the city. Seemed logical enough, right? Everyone’s trying to make their fortune here, no one wants to be so far out that transit’s impossible (railways are still being choked out by the drat auto companies, those son-of-a-bitches), and people will jump at the chance. But since they couldn’t branch out, they had to branch “up”. And that’s where the real hell starts: A second city, built over the first, and who do you think had first dibs on the buildings then? Not you or me, not the struggling Joe Schmoe looking for a break. No, it was those assholes who already had all the money and didn’t wanna share - the big buck corporations who were getting bolder every year, those assholes who didn’t have to work just to keep food in their mouth. So we got to sit and watch them build their own paradise, away from all of us. Soon people were giving the two cities a name. The upper crust, the ivory towers - that’s the Spires. And us, down here in the filth and grime, getting our hands dirty? This is the Verge. ___________________________________________________________________________ It should have been a routine job. Except for the profile, the scope, and the drip-feed of information you got from your contacts. New Horizon Technologies. One of the big players in making the city what it was - their main manufacturing facility is one of the few buildings to connect to the Spire and the Verge both, it’s been called the backbone of the city, and for good reason. The word that you’ve been hearing, the biggest score of anyone’s life is waiting there. Tonight. A secret New Horizon is keeping from the world, a breakthrough the likes of which might never have been seen before. Word is it might be the secret to Artificial Intelligence. Others still think maybe their fingers in the deep-space pies are about to crack the code of interstellar colonization. Smart money is on Nanotechnology - or so you hear. There’s a lot of money riding on the bets of what New Horizon plans to unveil. Of course, that means there’s a lot of money riding on someone to take it from them, before they can. And your group is one of the best at ‘freelancing’ - a rather cute word for ‘deniable ops’ that has emerged as the 21st century’s revitalized gig economy reared its ugly, capitalist head. Success attracts success, which means even here at the bottom of the barrel you’ve put together a prized crew - larger than most by half, but every one you’d say you trusted with your back when the heat got on you. Until tonight. You could feel it on the way the stale air under the Spire clung to your skin. On the way the crowded streets were just a little too quiet. In how the neon lights from the shops downtown seemed to be buzzing just a bit too aggressively. Something was wrong. But you didn’t trust your instincts until it was too late. Until you were in the building. You shouldn’ve known then what this was. A set-up. The mother of all set-ups, baiting the biggest crew of freelancers in the Verge with the biggest score. But something still didn’t add up - the sources had their intel legit, everything looked on the up and up until the moment you hit the building. That’s when it hit you. This was a bait from the corps. At least not from New Horizon themselves - they wanted New Horizon and the crew out, all in one fell swoop. Which could only mean they’ve had someone on the inside for a long drat time. You’ve been sold out. ___________________________________________________________________________ VERGE, EPISODE 1: NEW HORIZONS, SAME OLD $#*! is a closed, role-heavy, flavor-heavy setup for 18 players. What is Mafia? Mafia is a social party game that goes by many names, though Werewolf is probably the most commonly heard alternative. In Mafia, an uninformed majority - the Town - try to find the faction of informed killers - the Mafia, or Scum. It’s a game that relies on your ability to read people, gauge reactions, and convince others that your interpretations of people’s actions is the correct one. Games are divided into 2 phases. The “day” phase, which involve the thread voting for a culprit they believe to be a member of the Mafia, and a “night” phase, in which the Mafia members kill a member of the Town, while other game-specific role actions occur. This game is ‘role-heavy’, meaning there are many roles among both Town and Scum that have special abilities and actions that can be used during the night phase. While this is a role-heavy game, be advised that posting is more important that trying to solve the game via Night Actions, and there may be actions in place designed to confuse you for this reason. Use actions to help your casing, but still case based on a person’s posts and reactions. Basic Information:
In addition to that information, Standard Mafia Rules Apply:
Result Language:
Monathin’s Special Rules:
I am hoping to start this game sometime within the first week of November, likely no earlier than November 2nd. This should allow this game to dodge the majority of games both currently running and in need of signups. This game has been given a sanity-check by Pod, who I owe a lot of thanks to helping me figure out how to put all the bits and bobs of my setup together! Have fun! Players
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Monathin fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:32 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 15:08 |
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In (provided this doesn't happen ASAP)
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:46 |
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I'm in, and it always tickles my fancy the best when people use a wild whirlwind of different pronouns to refer to me . (but I understand that demanding that is kind of a Dick Move, so feel free to use neutral)
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 00:59 |
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make me a male, make me a cyborg
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 02:43 |
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Replacement list seeking upgrade if I die in a game.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 03:39 |
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*hacker voice* I'm in
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 04:52 |
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I'm in and I really have no preference
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:34 |
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I'll watch w/pod
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:41 |
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Toalpaz posted:*hacker voice* I'm in NB pronouns please
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 05:49 |
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Dancer posted:I'm in, and it always tickles my fancy the best when people use a wild whirlwind of different pronouns to refer to me . I have a problem, do I?
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 10:53 |
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also in
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 10:54 |
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hambeet posted:I have a problem, do I? I'm a dumb-dumb, and I like shiny things. When something with this theme comes up, I cannot help but push da buttons.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 13:22 |
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It's cyberpunk. I'm totally in.
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# ? Oct 23, 2018 13:43 |
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Take me out, dont think i'll have time in next two months
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# ? Oct 24, 2018 22:04 |
Tommunist posted:Take me out, dont think i'll have time in next two months Understood! Good luck with work, Tomm.
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# ? Oct 24, 2018 22:17 |
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I need to de-reg. Can't commit to this right now.
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# ? Oct 26, 2018 23:08 |
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There's .. so much text in this OP... I'll sign up i guess
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 02:02 |
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Games ended, make me a player plz *jacks in*
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 14:51 |
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Replacement player please.
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 15:53 |
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Sign me up. Not like I’m in enough games already.
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 16:36 |
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okay i do this
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 23:36 |
that's 9! Halfway to full!
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# ? Oct 30, 2018 23:44 |
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Monathin posted:that's 9! Halfway to full!
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# ? Oct 31, 2018 14:07 |
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perhaps this game is the game I get to be scum
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# ? Oct 31, 2018 14:08 |
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Observer me tbh
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# ? Oct 31, 2018 16:33 |
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Also I have no flavor preference, masculine, feminine, non-binary... I am a mysterious sewer creature. Call me what you will.
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# ? Nov 1, 2018 15:49 |
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I identify as Anomalous Amalgam, please refer to me as that for the rest of this game.
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# ? Nov 1, 2018 21:35 |
imgay posted:I identify as Anomalous Amalgam, please refer to me as that for the rest of this game. only if you make a Revolver Amalgam account
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# ? Nov 1, 2018 21:37 |
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imgay posted:I identify as Anomalous Amalgam, please refer to me as that for the rest of this game.
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# ? Nov 1, 2018 22:42 |
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I have decided to play this mafia game.
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:07 |
Hello
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:07 |
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Hello friends, I will play this game. Let us go on a journey together!
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:10 |
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Also I have no preference and will roleplay to the best of my ability with whatever you give me!
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:12 |
Also please use Feminine pronouns for my character TIA.
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:12 |
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also I dgaf about pronouns for my character either
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:19 |
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I also have no preference for flavor pronouns
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:45 |
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i want to be a cyborg who has no genitals but is reeeeeeeeally curious about what all the fuss is about
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 19:58 |
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K, looks like this game will start way before my other one. So I'm in. Don't care about flavor pronouns, whatever is fine.
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 20:18 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 15:08 |
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i, chores, join the mafia game
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# ? Nov 2, 2018 20:32 |