Test Chamber Mafia

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Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

This is a game of Mafia for nine players, where some things that take place pregame define a lot of how the actual game will shake out.

Standard Mafia rules apply, you know the drill.
Active participation in forum mafia from all players makes for a more entertaining experience for everyone, and I will not hesitate to modkill players for inactivity. If you find that you're unable to keep up with the pace of the game or if something comes up that will affect your availability, please PM me so that I can look for replacements rather than detract from the game by extending the replacement process. I will prod inactive players via PM, but your warnings will be limited.
I've taken the liberty of explicitly stating your role in general Mafia terminology (either via bold text in your role PM or an explictly worded sentence) to minimize confusion for both you and for any rolecops in the game. Please note that this is a generic block of text that will appear in the ruleset of any Mafia game I run on Something Awful and should not be taken to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of any role including but not limited to rolecops and vanilla townies.
If you would like to sign up as a replacement or if you would like to view the observer doc after the game has started, please PM me and I will take appropriate action. Please keep in mind that if you choose to spectate, you will be ineligible to replace into the game as the observer doc will have setup and player alignments visible.
There will be some interesting and unique game mechanics, and the game may not be entirely balanced. This, as above, is entirely in keeping with the game's concept and design.
Finally, I encourage everyone to keep in mind that we're ultimately here to play a silly Internet party game. That said, if you feel that you can't deal with another player on a personal level, I encourage you to make that decision before the game starts to avoid replacements down the road.
The town alignment in this game is HUMAN-aligned.

Further role information and caveats about How I Define Roles are as such:

Failure results will be reported when targeting fails. This means that that you will receive a failure result only if your action was unable to target. This would include things like being jailed or roleblocked, or if your target is jailed. If you succeed in targeting a player, even if your action is ineffective, you will receive a success notification if you have a role that would normally receive a success notification.
To be clear: if you have the sentence "You have no special abilities, save for your power of persuasion" in your role PM, that's my way of saying that you have no night actions.

When you sign up, please also PM me two numbers; the first between 1 and 5 (this defines your preferred power role distribution in the game, 1 being mostly vanilla and 5 being role madness) and the second between 1 and 4 (I'm not going to tell you what this one is).

Important caveat: There will be a Mafia game proper here in the interest of intellectual honesty, but in the interest of mod-being-honest-to-his-players honesty Votefinder will probably behave rather strangely this game, deadlines will be perhaps longer than normal, and there may be a lag time before the game itself starts.

Unfortunately, signups are too far down the Votefinder roadmap to make it into this game. Still gotta do that by hand.

Player List:

There are no other players in this game. Despite any flavor you may encounter, this isn't a bastard setup - it's a standard Mafia game. There is no reward for solving flavor puzzles.

The game has started. Discord is available here.

Current Anti-Lurker Mechanic: 5 posts per 24-hour period starting 8pm 12/6 or receive a Hated stack.

Soaring Kestrel fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Dec 7, 2017

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:30

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 05:14

sentimental snail: Nov 22, 2007; DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?

I'm going to kill, all the players,

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:31

Podima: Nov 4, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:32

hexwren: Feb 27, 2008

yeah

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:40

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

You've already been very helpful.

votefinder fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Dec 5, 2017

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:44

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

oh lordy I left the wrong tag on the thread

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:00

Podima: Nov 4, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

votefinder posted:

You've already been very helpful.

##vote votefinder

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:09

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

Podima posted:

##vote votefinder

I'm sorry, Pod. I'm afraid I can't do that.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:20

sentimental snail: Nov 22, 2007; DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?

I will use my night action, now

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:23

peramene: Oct 13, 2015; by Fluffdaddy

oh gently caress the hell yes

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:14

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

If you have an obs chat I want right the hell in, please. No time to play right now but want to follow this.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:27

Murmur Twin: Feb 11, 2003; An ever-honest pacifist with no mind for tricks.

OK OK OK i'll mafia.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 07:02

Hal Incandenza: Feb 12, 2004

I am always here to support experimental-style games

# ? Dec 5, 2017 14:42

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

IllegallySober posted:

If you have an obs chat I want right the hell in, please. No time to play right now but want to follow this.

I'll do a Discord, will let you know when that gets set up

# ? Dec 5, 2017 14:50

Natural 20: Sep 17, 2007; Wearer of Compasses. Slayer of Gods. Champion of the Colosseum. Heart of the Void.
Saviour of Hallownest.

Yes, let's go.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 18:28

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Flying Leatherman posted:

I'll do a Discord, will let you know when that gets set up

Perfect!

# ? Dec 5, 2017 18:30

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

i'll join if theres room

# ? Dec 5, 2017 18:32

Cactus Ghost: Dec 20, 2003; you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

me i want to play

# ? Dec 5, 2017 19:20

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

cripes, this filled fast

still missing some numbers, friends

Discord. I'm doing neat stuff with discord roles so it should be fine to post publicly. Probably. If it's not I'll kick people out who shouldn't be in it.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 19:23

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

My goodness, there are a lot of eager test subjects.

Interesting.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 19:35

hexwren: Feb 27, 2008

So is the discord for players or observers?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 20:17

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

hexwren posted:

So is the discord for players or observers?

Yes. I'll assign roles to people who need them (including observer roles if people die), you'll only get to see channels that you should see, if any.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 20:50

Capt. Kent Daniels: May 4, 2017; "Are you seriously going to punch this tortured dude with PTSD in the face"

"YES."

oh, no

there's more important stuff at stake here, folks

# ? Dec 5, 2017 21:04

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

Capt. Kent Daniels posted:

oh, no

there's more important stuff at stake here, folks

not this poo poo again

players will be receiving role pm's shortly, although it's still unclear as to when the game will start per se

# ? Dec 5, 2017 22:38

Capt. Kent Daniels: May 4, 2017; "Are you seriously going to punch this tortured dude with PTSD in the face"

"YES."

Flying Leatherman posted:

not this poo poo again

can it, rettig, you're part of the problem

# ? Dec 5, 2017 22:43

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

Can't we all just get along?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 22:44

Cactus Ghost: Dec 20, 2003; you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

im pooping my pants in anticipation

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:06

hexwren: Feb 27, 2008

Capt. Kent Daniels posted:

oh, no

there's more important stuff at stake here, folks

So who's this clown

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:11

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

All right! All the role PM's are out, and we can get this game on the road. I'll get some deadlines set and hopefully we can get star

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:28

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

Oh, dear. I don't like the look of this game at all. I don't know what FL was thinking with this setup. I'm sure a robot could do a better job of building a setup than this. Still, I guess we can try to make it work, can't we?

Best of luck, everyone. May the best team win.

The next deadline is REDACTED - that's REDACTED from now.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:31

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:32

Hal Incandenza: Feb 12, 2004

I guess we better hurry?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:49

Soaring Kestrel: Nov 7, 2009; For Whiterock.; Fun Shoe

I guess it's out of my hands now. I've added some information to the OP, hopefully you'll all find it useful.

Best of luck.

^{^{someone please fix this.}}

# ? Dec 5, 2017 23:50

Natural 20: Sep 17, 2007; Wearer of Compasses. Slayer of Gods. Champion of the Colosseum. Heart of the Void.
Saviour of Hallownest.

Uhhh.

So it's approaching midnight here and I'm going to have to sleep soon.

Votefinder what are you doing with the deadline?

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:38

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

classic votefinder

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:40

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

It's okay, friends. Everything's under control. Let's build a better Mafia together.

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:46

Murmur Twin: Feb 11, 2003; An ever-honest pacifist with no mind for tricks.

Votefinder, are we allowed to vote for you? What would happen if we try?

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:51

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

Votecount for Day 1

Not Voting (9): b-minus1, Hal Incandenza, hexwren, Murmur Twin, OMGVBFLOL, peramene, Podima, sentimental snail, Yorkshire Tea

With 9 alive, it's 5 votes to erase someone. There is currently no scheduled break time from the test. After a 24 hour grace period, a countdown will begin. Remember, vote vote vote.

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:52

votefinder: Jul 6, 2010; scoop scoop

Murmur Twin posted:

Votefinder, are we allowed to vote for you? What would happen if we try?

I wouldn't recommend it. You might not like what happens.

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:54

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 05:14

Natural 20: Sep 17, 2007; Wearer of Compasses. Slayer of Gods. Champion of the Colosseum. Heart of the Void.
Saviour of Hallownest.

Hal I'm blaming you for this.

##vote Hal

# ? Dec 6, 2017 00:55

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