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wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007



Welcome to Four Axis Mafia
The fourth iteration of a stupid idea that's worked out surprisingly well

This is a mafia game with multiple non-exclusive win conditions. At the start of the game, you will be given four different alignments, each with a corresponding win condition: A Standard Alignment, a Color Alignment, an Item Alignment, and a Secret Mission Alignment.



AXIS 1: STANDARD ALIGNMENT

Firstly the game is divided into two teams typical of Mafia-type games: Scum, who are the informed minority, and Town, who are the uninformed majority. Scum team know who each other are, can talk out of thread in a mod-provided document, and have the ability to collectively kill one player each night. Town can do none of the above, but there are many more town than scum, so a big part of Town's strategy is figuring out who is scum in order to use their majority to vote them out.

Special note for those who have played standard mafia but have not yet played in one of my X Axis games: There is no endgaming. If Scum team outnumber Town team at any point, then play still continues regardless.

Victory condition for scum alignment: There are no players with the Town alignment left alive.

Victory condition for town alignment: There are no players with the Scum alignment left alive.

AXIS 2: COLOR ALIGNMENT

Secondly, the game is further divided into two teams of two colors: Red and Blue. At the start of the game, there are equal numbers of Red and Blue players. I've tried to keep the two teams balanced, and some power roles show up on both teams.

Victory condition for blue alignment: There are no players with the Red alignment left alive.

Victory condition for red alignment: There are no players with the Blue alignment left alive.

AXIS 3: ITEM ALIGNMENT

Shortly after the start of the game, everyone will get one of two possible items. What sort of item? I don't know yet! The flavor of the items will be determined by certain player(s) as part of their power roles. Both kinds of item will have the following three effects:

1. By holding the item, you are given the Item win condition listed below, that lasts for as long as you hold the item.
2. Holding the item gives you an additional simultaneous night action: you may target a player and give them a copy of whatever item you hold.
3. If you are given a new item, your old one will be overwritten.

If it helps, think of it like two groups of warring zombies. You want to either kill all of the opposing zombies, or infect them with your particular zombie strain.

Victory condition for Item alignment: There are no players with any other kind of item left alive.

AXIS 4: SECRET MISSION ALIGNMENT

At the start of the game, every player will be given a SECRET MISSION. These are intended to run alongside the other game mechanics without hopefully interfering too much. Each player has a unique secret mission.

You need to keep your secret mission a secret, because there is going to be another player with a mutually exclusive secret mission! By design, only one of you will fulfill your mission. If your opponent catches on to who you are, they might try to kill you! (Note: Being killed does not cause any missions to fail, but it does become much harder since you can't post or vote anymore.)

And there's a further complication: At the end of the game, all players who have failed their missions get a redemption chance. After final hammer you will have 1 or 2 realtime days (TBA) in which to PM me the name of the player you suspect has your opposing secret mission. If you are right, you will win and they will lose instead! If you're wrong, you'll lose, but you were losing anyway so there's no reason not to send me your guess. Oh, and for those clever dicks who think they can recruit their scumbuddies or mason friends to their secret missions: the scumdocs and masondocs will become publicly viewable before the redemption guess is due. Think on that before you go blabbing about your secret mission.

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  1. Alasdair Crawfish
  2. CCKeane
  3. chaoslord
  4. Ernie.
  5. GulagDolls
  6. Hal Incandenza
  7. HiipFire
  8. imgay
  9. King of Bleh
  10. Samfucius

wall monitor fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Apr 20, 2015

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GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

i will play cause i like secrets

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
YES YES YES YES LETS GO

CPIG/HIIPFIRE JOINT WIN 3 LETS DO IT

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

i will join as long as you make me your favorite animal

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

I would like to enjoy more axii

Samfucius
Sep 8, 2010

And if you gaze long enough into a nest, the nest will gaze back into you.
I will play again, please.

imgay
May 12, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Sign me up please.

CCKeane
Jan 28, 2008

my shit posts don't die, they multiply

I will play, vote Hiipfire day 1 IMO.

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES

CCKeane posted:

I will play, vote Hiipfire day 1 IMO.

salty

King of Bleh
Mar 2, 2007

A kingdom of rats.
Bring it on

Alaster
Nov 18, 2006

Hanging just next to your door in the hallway is a painting of an EXQUISITE WIZARD. Your mother collects these awful things IRONICALLY.
in

Alaster
Nov 18, 2006

Hanging just next to your door in the hallway is a painting of an EXQUISITE WIZARD. Your mother collects these awful things IRONICALLY.
wait just saw 25 players, nty i will just watch

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES

Alasdair Crawfish posted:

wait just saw 25 players, nty i will just watch

pussy

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

Alasdair Crawfish posted:

wait just saw 25 players, nty i will just watch

That's the max cap, I don't think we'll break 20 though, but your choice

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

wall monitor posted:

That's the max cap, I don't think we'll break 20 though, but your choice

We have enough now, lets just start

Alaster
Nov 18, 2006

Hanging just next to your door in the hallway is a painting of an EXQUISITE WIZARD. Your mother collects these awful things IRONICALLY.
fine gently caress it lets do it. put me on the list WM.

chaoslord
Jan 28, 2009

Nature Abhors A Vacuum


CCKeane posted:

I will play, vote Hiipfire day 1 IMO.

Why wait til day 1?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrtl41oZxOA

##vote hiipfire

(This is a signup post)

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
it seems like people dont like losing so they're just gonna turbo the best out d1

pussies im gonna vig all of you using my unlimited dayvigs i get every time

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

Signups are closing tomorrow morning at 8 AM EST. I'll get role PMs sent out as soon as I can after that.

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

Ernie, I think your inbox is full or something. I can't send you your role PM.

CCKeane
Jan 28, 2008

my shit posts don't die, they multiply

Having a full inbox is something that would never happen to me, if someone says such a thing they are lying.

Shame on you, Ernie.

Samfucius
Sep 8, 2010

And if you gaze long enough into a nest, the nest will gaze back into you.
Good morning, Keane. Good morning, everybody. Get it together, Ernie.

Alaster
Nov 18, 2006

Hanging just next to your door in the hallway is a painting of an EXQUISITE WIZARD. Your mother collects these awful things IRONICALLY.
role received

GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

I have my role.

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

this was my plan all along

i am now chaos itself, part of the game and yet not

##vote imgay

inbox clear

King of Bleh
Mar 2, 2007

A kingdom of rats.

Ernie. posted:

this was my plan all along

i am now chaos itself, part of the game and yet not

##vote imgay

inbox clear

Secret mission breadcrumb spotted, ##vote Ernie

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
something something cpig is confirmed town in my book

HiipFire
Sep 1, 2013

JENNY DEATH LIVES
woops forgot my jokevote

##vote imgay

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

HiipFire posted:

something something cpig is confirmed town in my book

hmm a fifteen year old with a book

unlikely

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

Still getting this error:

"Ernie has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her."

Everyone else, thank you for your patience, my connection is being laggy and I think the forums crashed while I was trying to get PMs out and I'm already having to send out rules clarifications for some of the missions and :derp:

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

weird

edit thanks wall!

Ernie. fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Apr 20, 2015

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007


Okay good, take your email out of your post now.

Samfucius
Sep 8, 2010

And if you gaze long enough into a nest, the nest will gaze back into you.

Ernie. posted:

weird

email it to me, if you are okay with that, at ~an email address~

let me know when you do so i can take my e-mail out of this post

And now Ernie has a lifelong subscription to the Playgirl newsletter as well as Weedwhackers Quarterly.

Alaster
Nov 18, 2006

Hanging just next to your door in the hallway is a painting of an EXQUISITE WIZARD. Your mother collects these awful things IRONICALLY.
hurry up and get in the scumdoc ernie.

wall monitor
Jan 1, 2007

Okay I think everything's ready to go, all PMs and ruling requests sent out. If you're still missing something or expecting something from me etc, let me know.

(You shouldn't have an item yet, that event hasn't occurred yet.)

Day 1 has started. Deadline is... let's say Thursday at 10 PM. This is intentionally a complicated game so I want to give you time to feel stuff out and :justpost:.

votefinder
Jul 6, 2010

scoop scoop
Votecount for Day 1



Not Voting (10): Alasdair Crawfish, CCKeane, chaoslord, Ernie., GulagDolls, Hal Incandenza, HiipFire, imgay, King of Bleh, Samfucius

With 10 alive, it's 6 votes to lynch. The current deadline is April 23rd, 2015 at 10 p.m. EDT -- that's in about 3 days, 6 hours.

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

help how do i get an item?

can the item be the heads of my enemies?

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

also 10 players in the game i'm assuming 5 blue 5 red, what stops the X color from killing the Y color once they're down on numbers

Ernie.
Aug 31, 2012

i am willing to buy an item by giving up my vote

this is a good deal, take it whoever you are

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GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

I have several item for sale.

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