Black Friday Mafia - Game Over
Nov 23, 2012 1:03:24 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2012 1:03:24 GMT -5
Hello & welcome to Black Friday Mafia!
This post will contain the ruleset. It will go into more detail than a usual ruleset as mafia hasn't been played by many here.
Simple Flash Tutorial: cataldo.freeshell.org/mafia/mafiascum04.swf
Feel free to read around at this wiki: wiki.mafiascum.net/
RULES AND EXPLANATIONS: This will look long because I wrote notes next to all of the rules! Most of the rules are really simple; don't be intimidated!
1) Please enjoy this game and do not act in a manner that would make the game unenjoyable for others! (This includes personal attacks!) This is pretty self-explanatory, it's one thing to tell someone "You suck at this game." and another thing to say "You suck at this game and a worthless person who doesn't deserve to live."
2) The game mod is the game god. However, if you feel the game god happens to be testing your faith by placing an error in the game, then please feel free to point it out! Essentially the person who is hosting the game makes the calls; if you have an issue, PM it instead of arguing about it in the thread.
3) Editing & Deleting your posts is not allowed, and multi-posting is instead encouraged in its place. This rule is vital to the spirit of the game. In forum mafia you use old posts to find inconsistencies in people's play to catch mafia/frame townies. If someone edits stuff out of their posts or deletes their older posts it makes that impossible. If you are caught doing this, you will be removed from the game.
4) If you are allowed to communicate with another player outside of this thread, then please follow the communication instructions within your role PM! This pretty much means, unless your role PM says you can talk to someone, you're not allowed to talk to anyone about the game outside of this thread. Posting in the Random Thoughts thread something like "man this game is impossible!" after a townsperson is lynched is an example of this. All this does is give the false impression that you must be town because you're upset about a town player being lynched. If someone tries to reference the game in a PM to you, report it to me. Breaking this rule gets you expelled from the game as well. Pretty much breaking most rules gets you warned or kicked out; so just don't break them!
5) Do not quote role PMs or any other form of communication with the Game Moderator unless your role PM explicitly states you can (in which case follow the instructions in your role PM). You may paraphrase your role PM as you see fit, but keep everything in your own words! This is pretty basic. Your role is for your eyes only.
6) All votes must follow the format of "Vote: NAME". This is a basic game mechanic. You can vote for anyone at anytime during the day phase and this is how you do it. Whatever your most recent vote is is the vote that counts. You can change your vote throughout the day phase!
7) You are not required to unvote, however if you do, then please use the format of "Unvote:". This is pretty much if you no longer want to be voting for the person you are currently voting; but don't want to vote anyone else at the current moment; just unvote. Basic mechanic.
8) No Lynch is a valid vote target. Another basic mechanic. If you don't think anyone should be lynched and want to go through a night phase; then you can vote for "No Lynch".
9) A lynch will occur when a majority of votes has been reached. Basics. Day 1 starts with 11 players, thus it takes 6 votes to lynch someone. The person is lynched, the day phase ends, and then the night phase begins.
10) If a majority has not been reached, then No Lynch is forced as the lynch target. Essentially, if the deadline for a day phase hits, then the day is wasted and no lynch occurs. The game moves into the night phase after this.
11) Deadline for the Day Phase will equal a time of fourteen days. This is essentially a maximum for the amount of time you have to come to a decision for your lynch. If you reach a decision early, then the day ends early!
12) Deadline for the Night Phase will equal a time of three days. Just like rule 1; this is essentially a maximum. If the mafia decides on their kill quickly & any townspeople with night abilities decide on their targets quickly; then night can end quickly. You cannot post during the Night Phase!
13) During any day phase a player may perform the command "Request: Deadline Extension". The deadline will be extended by four days if a majority of players perform this command. This can only be done once over the course of the game and the deadline will not be extended for any other reason. Essentially, if one day you just cannot decide in the time provided; you are able to get up some votes for an extension to allow extra time to discuss things so that the day isn't wasted.
15) Twilight Phase will occur between Day Phase and Night Phase for a variable period. All living players including those about to be lynched will be allowed to communicate in thread until a death scene is posted. Essentially I am not online at all times. So if a lynch is reached and I'm like asleep or working, then you can all still discuss things. When I post the death scene, that's when the day ends and night begins and thus discussion ends for the day.
16) After your death you are allowed to select one of the following as a final remark:
"Good luck Town!"
"Good luck Mafia!"
Really basic here. When you're dead, that means you're dead. You can't talk and discuss and tell everyone what you think anymore.
17) You are expected to maintain a healthy level of activity in this game. If you have pre-planned absence, then please notify the game mod ahead of time and you will not be prodded. However if your absence is for an unreasonable amount of time, you may be forcibly replaced regardless of advance notification. You will receive a prod every seventy-two hour period you do not post without note of Vacation/Limited Access. If you go for a period of seven days without posting or acknowledging prods, you will be replaced or modkilled at the moderators discretion. The seven day grace period will be shortened by one day, to a minimum of three days, for every two prods you receive. This is basically saying; be active and actually play the game. If you do that instead of lurking and not participating, then you will have no issues.
18) Failure to adhere to rules will result in replacement or modkill based on the moderator's discretion. I said it earlier, but I forget that it was actually a rule too! A note on modkills: If you do something that forces me to kill your slot (like posting your Role PM) that kind of kills the game for everyone. One of the things about mafia is that survival is not part of your win condition. You can die as town or die as mafia and still win, as long as those on your team keep on living. But if I modkill you, then your win condition is changed to you needing to survive to win, and thus you lose.
19) Please avoid using HTML and coloured font in your posts. All colours used in this post are strictly forbidden for use as they are the colours the game moderator will be using. As the game mod I will post in colour so my posts can be easily seen. Thus don't use those colours as it can confuse people.
20) You may ask questions to the game moderator using the command: "@mod: ___". Pretty much if you have a question and you think the answer should be seen by everyone, then feel free to ask it in the thread!
21) Please do not post in code, hidden text, or languages other than English. These pretty much defeat the purpose of the game, so don't do it.
22) You may not post screenshots [print screens] or anything resembling a screenshot [print screen]. If someone edits/deletes a post and you screenshot it; awesome! Don't post it in the thread, just PM it to me. Don't post screenshots of any kind; it usually only causes issues.
25) You may not quote logs of communication with other players if your role PM allows you to communicate with other players outside of this thread. You are free to paraphrase. Pretty much, if you can talk with someone outside of the game thanks to your role; don't copy/paste stuff. Paraphrasing is in the spirit of the game!
26) If you have an issue with any of these rules you may privately appeal for a rule's removal via PM. Pretty simple!
27) You may privately notify me via PM if you feel another player has violated any rule. Also pretty simple!
28) Any and all technical data (including PM ID#, Time Sent, View Count, etc...) is considering private information and cannot be quoted or referenced. Pretty basic and akin to not quoting your role PM!
29) The game mod will create QuickTopics for all communication purposes (for any roles that allow discussion outside of the thread). When you are killed; you will be given access to a Green Room QuickTopic where you will be able to talk with other dead players!
30) Mafia are provided with 'safe-claims'. Meaning; they are provided with names of characters who are not in the game and thus can claim that character to blend in. This is because it's just flavour! Don't use flavour to make your decisions!
List Of Players:
Host: Xiivi
1. Slizzard
2. Josh
3. Nick64
4. Codex
5. Az
6. JessieLou
7. Rocks
8. Nightfire
9. ry4n
10. jback
11. Au$tin
Replacements: None At This Time
Set-Up
This is a Mid-Open Set-up for 11 Players with all roles randomly assigned both player-wise and flavour-wise (with exception of any flavour-role that is mechanically mod-confirmed without death). You should not use the flavour to make decisions because of this. The flavour involves popular music artists and an issue that occurs on Black Friday.
I do confirm that all information relayed from the Game Moderator in private is strictly accurate.
I do confirm that all information relayed from the Game Moderator in public is strictly accurate.
I confirm that this game employs one of the following two set-ups, although I do not confirm which (Use the wiki to look at the roles; they are all very basic!):
A: 2x Mafia Goon; 1x Town Innocent Child; 8x Vanilla Townie
B: 3x Mafia Goon; 1x Town Innocent Child; 2x Town Mason; 5x Vanilla Townie
The following is a Sample Role PM
This week was going to be great for you, you were finally about the dominate the charts! But this new Black Friday scandal might leave you in the dust. You must find out who your allies are so you can defeat the enemies before they take control of the charts forever!
Role: Kelly Clarkson, Vanilla Townie
Abilities: Your only abilities are your voice and vote; now's the time to make them count!
Win Condition: You win once all threats to the town are eliminated.
[This Would Be An Image]
[This Would Be Innocent Child Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Town Innocent Child
Abilities: You will be confirmed as the Town Innocent Child at the start of the game by the game moderator.
Win Condition: You win once all threats to the town are eliminated.
[This Would Be Innocent Child Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Town Innocent Child
Abilities: You will be confirmed as the Town Innocent Child at the start of the game by the game moderator.
Win Condition: You win once all threats to the town are eliminated.
[This Would Be An Image]
[This Would Be Mason Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Town Mason
Partner: [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Town Mason
Abilities: You are able to communicate with your partner at all times in the following QuickTopic: . If either of you are killed, the quicktopic will be locked and you will no longer be able to privately communicate.
Win Condition: You win once all threats to the town are eliminated.
[This Would Be Mason Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Town Mason
Partner: [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Town Mason
Abilities: You are able to communicate with your partner at all times in the following QuickTopic: . If either of you are killed, the quicktopic will be locked and you will no longer be able to privately communicate.
Win Condition: You win once all threats to the town are eliminated.
[This Would Be An Image]
[This Would Be Mafia Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Mafia Goon
Partner(s): [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Mafia Goon(; [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Mafia Goon)
Abilities: You are able to communicate with your partner(s) at all times in the following QuickTopic: . If either/(two) of you are killed, the quicktopic will be locked and you will no longer be able to privately communicate. During each night phase either/(any) of you, unless dead, may PM me with the command Murder: [Username]. That player will be killed by the mafia during the night phase.
Safe-Claim: You know that [This Would Be A Character Name] is not in this game and can be safely claimed.
Win Condition: You win once your faction has an undeniable majority rule over all others or nothing can prevent this.
[This Would Be Mafia Flavour Text]
Role: [This Would Be Your Character], Mafia Goon
Partner(s): [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Mafia Goon(; [This Would Be A Username], [This Would Be Their Character], Mafia Goon)
Abilities: You are able to communicate with your partner(s) at all times in the following QuickTopic: . If either/(two) of you are killed, the quicktopic will be locked and you will no longer be able to privately communicate. During each night phase either/(any) of you, unless dead, may PM me with the command Murder: [Username]. That player will be killed by the mafia during the night phase.
Safe-Claim: You know that [This Would Be A Character Name] is not in this game and can be safely claimed.
Win Condition: You win once your faction has an undeniable majority rule over all others or nothing can prevent this.