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shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002




My last classic 1990s video game-themed mafia game was pretty fun IMO, so let's try to do it again!

I very quickly spat out a closed set up for 21 (!) players themed after the brilliant 1993 Sierra adventure-RPG hybrid, Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness. Hal glanced at my stupid setup and confirmed that it is bad. Please direct all complaints about the setup being bad to Hal.

This Lovecraftian genre-crossing entry into a great series tells a story with elements of comedy, horror, and romance set in the Land of Mordavia, a magical valley inflected heavily with Slavic folklore and populated with creatures like the Rusalka, Leshy, Baba Yaga, and the Domovoi.

This will be a mid to high power setup with some unconventional mechanics for 21 (!) players. If we can't wrangle that many I can try to downsize. I am hoping to start this game around like 12/20 or so but ya know, it's the holidays, people disappear. Whenever it fills up, I'm easy.



Discord is required to play, here is the link: https://discord.gg/4GhBaakU
Eliminations will be by majority vote with hammer once majority is reached. No-elimination days are possible.

Rules and Regulations Boilerplate text:

Standard rules apply.
Discord is required to play. Please join https://discord.gg/esSkwPPj (observers also welcome).
Do not edit posts except to fix pronouns.
Have fun and be excellent to each other
Do not quote or copy-paste out-of-thread information like moderator messages or private chats. Paraphrasing the contents of such messages is okay.
Do not discuss the game with anyone outside of authorised channels.
Do not fake day actions.
Try not to lurk. I don't plan on enforcing cuz that ain't really my way. But I reserve the right to replace you or mod-kill you if you’re not able to participate to a degree that’s affecting the overall playability of the game (and you’re not communicating about it)
Have fun and be excellent to each other, seriously

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, always remember that your mental well-being is more important than a forum game. While antagonism and deceit are inherent features of social deduction games, there are lines that should not be crossed that may be highly personal. If you feel stressed out, IRL angry, or in any other way discomforted beyond what you feel is part of the game, do not hesitate to reach out and say so. Nobody will think ill of you if you have comments or concerns, or want to leave the game at any point, before the game or during the game. The following users have been suggested as points of contact if you do not feel you can reach out to the game-runner: The Traditional Games forum moderators, Leperflesh and Antivehicular; and Mafia regulars VoodooFly, Hal Insandenza, Bifauxnen, Monathin, Wologar, Maerlyn, EccoRaven, CCKeane, Opopanax, Sandwolf and Shellception.

Player list
  1. CubicalSucrose
  2. EGalz18 (She/Her)
  3. fool of sound
  4. gay for gacha
  5. hambeet (he/him)
  6. Johnny Keats
  7. JosefStalinator
  8. Mr. Humalong (w/e)
  9. mycelia (he/him)
  10. NeverHelm (He/Him)
  11. PhantomMuzzles (She/Her)
  12. Rhymes With Clue
  13. saladscooper (he/him)
  14. Tea Party Crasher
  15. Tired Moritz
  16. Toalpaz (She/Her & They/Them)
  17. Voodoofly (He/Him/Whatever)
  18. WindwardAway (she/her/whatever)
  19. wins32767
  20. Your Personal Muse
  21. Zoya



Keats flip D1

Day 1 ends, mycelia flip

Night 1 toal and gfg flips

Day 2 wind flip

Day 3 begins, egalz/zoya flips

Day 4 begins with wins flip

[Day 5 begins with VoodooFly & Neverhelm flips

End Game Post: Baba Yaga Victory!

shwinnebego fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jan 6, 2024

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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
me!

CubicalSucrose
Jan 1, 2013

Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

I lost the last one so I qualify to play this one.

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy
Not first or second signup because certain posters

mycelia
Apr 28, 2013

POWERFUL FUNGAL LORD



My holidays are scheduled to be quiet, let's liven them up!

WindwardAway
Aug 22, 2022

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
I, too, would like to join

EGalz18
Aug 5, 2023

I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.
You had me at "stupid setup"

Zoya
Jun 12, 2023

echoes of a distant past,
bodies die but voices last.
once were held within a cell,
your mind is where these voices dwell.




i'm in and i'm gonna pretend this is castlevania mafia

gay for gacha
Dec 22, 2006

im in

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


Zoya posted:

i'm in and i'm gonna pretend this is castlevania mafia

it could be!

Voodoofly
Jul 3, 2002

Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help

I will regret this. So I will make sure everyone else regrets it as well

Voodoofly
Jul 3, 2002

Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help

Am I allowed to upload my QFG1 character so I can play as a paladin?

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


Voodoofly posted:

Am I allowed to upload my QFG1 character so I can play as a paladin?

The earliest point in the series where you could become a Paladin was the end of QFG2 :drugnerd:. So no, you may not.

Voodoofly
Jul 3, 2002

Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help

shwinnebego posted:

The earliest point in the series where you could become a Paladin was the end of QFG2 :drugnerd:. So no, you may not.

oh yeah I forgot QFG1 fighters can't become Paladins in that game.

Ok, so can I import my QFG3 paladin then? I just want to make Dmitri happy.

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

IN!

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)

I’m excited to read this one! (This is not a signup)

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

> use lockpick on nose

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


You have a strange feeling of deja vu. All the same you proceed, and hear a satisfying SNICK and your brains come gushing out of your left nostril, landing on the ground in front of you. Fortunately, you were holding a beaker. Your brain is now in a beaker that you are holding. Now what?

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Still lol

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


You begin to laugh out loud while holding your brain in a beaker. Since you're standing on the corner of a street, there are several onlookers who are beyond horrified

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

hambeet posted:

> use lockpick on nose

Oh now I get it

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Johnny Keats posted:

Oh now I get it

get what? :confused:

WindwardAway
Aug 22, 2022

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
> gesticulate wildly and overenthusiastically at the onlookers, because they, too, should try using a lockpick in their nostrils

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

hambeet posted:

get what? :confused:

Why you posted this in an ongoing game, nevermind

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


Johnny Keats posted:

Oh now I get it

You attempt to get it now. You succeed. However, you are Keats and have a -5 starting debuff to making people understand you. Your “getting it” has no mechanism by which to affect material reality. Your knowledge is as a tree falling in a forest. A supernova of a lone star beyond the visible range of any other galaxy. An anti-neutrino annihilating its counterpart after the heat death of the universe.

Now what?

CubicalSucrose
Jan 1, 2013

Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

shwinnebego posted:

An anti-neutrino annihilating its counterpart after the heat death of the universe.

This doesn't seem internally consistent.

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy
I'm pretty sure it's an established fact that the ratio of matter and antimatter in the universe right now is mostly matter, so the final anti-neutrino being destroyed would probably happen way before heat death. If that's what you mean

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy
When I say antimatter I mean dark matter btw

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


CubicalSucrose posted:

This doesn't seem internally consistent.

I thought heat death just meant entropy is so high that there’s barely any matter for other matter to interact with, not literally none

shwinnebego fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 9, 2023

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002


Wait hang on I’m the dang DOS prompt here, why I am I taking input from you people about what is and isn’t heat death!

Johnny Keats
Jan 24, 2023

by Fluffdaddy
It's speculative whether neutrinos can or would decay into even smaller particles even on the timescale of heat death. So you're good

Voodoofly
Jul 3, 2002

Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help

shwinnebego posted:

Wait hang on I’m the dang DOS prompt here, why I am I taking input from you people about what is and isn’t heat death!

We are the boot disks

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Nerds

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

Voodoofly posted:

We are the boot disks

I am the edited autoexec.bat and config.sys files you had to mess with to get enough extended memory to play this game with your SoundBlaster Pro enabled

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

I’m emm386.exe

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

hambeet posted:

I’m emm386.exe

Nice

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

what was the game that was the utter rear end in a top hat with conventional memory?

i want to say privateer.

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

okay i'll say it.

privateer

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

hambeet posted:

okay i'll say it.

privateer

privateer.exe requires at least 596KB of conventional memory to run. You have 593KB of conventional memory free. Please free up more memory and try again.

:argh:

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hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Hal Incandenza posted:

privateer.exe requires at least 596KB of conventional memory to run. You have 593KB of conventional memory free. Please free up more memory and try again.

:argh:

idk if it was just supestition but i believed the order you loaded things affected available conventional memory.

and when you were only loading a mouse driver, sound blaster and emm386.exe you didn't have many options...

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