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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:53 pm
Postby zoraster »
Rules
General Information
1. Read the rules. This is important.
2. This is a
bastard setup
. This is mostly due to other players and not the mod, but I wanted to put fair warning.
3. Random.org will be used heavily. In addition to assigning roles to players, it will determine the order that roles are sent out. Roles that are the same (if indeed any are the same) will not be sent out at the same time.
4. Even though this game calls for breaking some normal rules, that does not allow you to break OTHER game's rules or the general conduct rules of this site.
5. Lynching will, unless altered by some role, be done by Majority vote. That is, when 50%+1 votes are placed on a player, that person will be lynched.
6. All conversations with the mod should be done in
Bold
7.
My color will be blue... but you may use it.
8. You may ask to prod a player at any time.
9. Rules may be changed at any time.
10. The moderator has the final say but is not always right. If I've made a mistake on something like a vote count, just bold it and I'll get to it. If you have a problem with the way I'm running the game, rather than making a snarky comment, it is almost always more productive to PM me.
11. Deadlines are 2 weeks for Days (judged from when I open the game) and 48 hours for nights (judged from when I close the game). If the deadline is reached, there will be either no lynch or no action.
12. Unvoting is unnecessary. For a vote to count it must be done in bold:
Vote: Zoraster
. Misspelling vote may (or may not) make the vote not count. Misspelling or abbreviating another player's name when voting will still count as a vote so long as the target of the vote is identifiable.
13. I normally do vote counts appended to the top of each page, but given the mechanics of this game, I will only be posting vote counts from my account frequently.
14. Order of Actions in this game is secret. Sorry.
15. Mafia will receive a fake role pm upon entering the game, but may also request other fake role pms.
16. Role PMs will be revealed upon death.
Actions SPECIFICALLY disallowed by this game
1. Allowing others to access your account.
2. Talking about the game when you are dead unless otherwise allowed by your role.
3. Use of overly abusive, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. language. Generally personal conduct should be the same as any other game.
4. Players must still play to win
5. Players must still follow the mod's orders.
6. Lying or tricking the MOD is prohibited.
7. You may not pursue anything outside the general ethical expectations on a member. For example, you may not hack into another person's account.
8. Screen captures are NOT allowed. Sorry, I just didn't think this was easy enough to counter.
9. Players not in the game may NOT post.
10.
NEW
Players may not edit posts in this thread.
Actions specifically ALLOWED
1. Conversations about the game may take place anywhere on mafiascum that is
publicly viewable
, but conversations that are private are forbidden unless otherwise allowed by role. Once you are dead in the game, you are prohibited from taking part in conversations anywhere about the game.
2. You may use codes, invisible text, etc.
3. You may pretend to be the mod.
4. You may quote role PMs.
5. You may use a sham or fake account with certain restrictions (listed in its own section).
6. Other things may be allowed, but
should be cleared with the mod first
. Generally to be acceptable, there should be some plausible way for the opposing side to counter the technique AND it should not greatly reduce the enjoyment of the game.
Sham or Fake Accounts
1. You may use sham or "fake" accounts for virtually any reason. However this is restricted.
2.
Before posting with a sham account you must notify the moderator with your real account in the game!
Failure to do so will result in penalty up to and including modkill, power role restriction, force replacement, and other penalties.
3. Any account that posts in the game may be voted for. A lynch on a sham account will lynch the real account of a person. Votes will
not
be combined. Sham accounts cannot, however, be the target of any other actions.
4. You may use no more than two sham accounts per game day and unless noted somewhere else (e.g. a role PM), these accounts may, in total (combined), not exceed 5 posts per game day and never exceed the number of posts made by your real account that game day.
5. Sham accounts (or any other alternate accounts) may NOT talk about the game outside this thread.
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Post #10 (isolation #3) » Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:23 am
Postby zoraster »
A quick note: I've told mith that fake accounts are allowed in this game, but to make your life easier and get your account activated quicker, send him a PM with your new account's name.
Remember that you need to inform me of your fake account before posting. It might make your life easier if you tell me at the same time as telling mith, but this isn't required.
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Post #18 (isolation #5) » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:03 am
Postby zoraster »
Okie dokie. I know that Esp is Australian, and the international date line frankly really confuses me, so I'm going to start the game and hope he shows up shortly... perhaps at 3 or 4 in the morning... in the future. or in the past. However that date line works. Just don't talk to my grandfather, please.
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Post #60 (isolation #9) » Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:21 pm
Postby zoraster »
Espeonage wrote:
DocPotter wrote:
You've never played a game with bv310 then?
Voe Espeonage
Some of my favorite Irish pubs are in Sydney, and now and Mardi Gras are the best time to visit them. Bad Epsy
Dude, I'm allergic to beer.
Ceoliac... sucks I know.
My girlfriend drinks cider as there's often no gluten in it (Strongbow is gluten free for example), and it's a good substitute as it's roughly the same alcohol content, looks similar, comes in a similar glass, etc. Just a side note.
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Post #237 (isolation #19) » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:43 pm
Postby zoraster »
Just a quick plea that i'm not going to enforce or anything. Please don't do the following:
unvote: Zoraster
Just type
unvote
. I know some mods like that for whatever reason, but I find it confusing when doing my vote counts, and it's messed me up before. If you want to clarify for the players who you're unvoting, do it unbolded, please.
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Post #277 (isolation #21) » Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:37 am
Postby zoraster »
@mod: if a person is lynched or NK'ed, do we learn the sham accounts associated with that person? Or do the shams just die a lonely death?
It's a lonely death. Sham accounts are not revealed upon death.
Also, elmo from that other thread brings up a good point, so I'll clarify: for the purposes of win conditions, a treestumped player is considered eliminated.
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Post #356 (isolation #26) » Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:22 am
Postby zoraster »
I'll get some prods out. DocPotter is being replaced out. DocPotter asked to be replaced, and this is the second consecutive time he's done that in one of my games, so he won't be invited to my future games.
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Post #487 (isolation #35) » Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:31 am
Postby zoraster »
FishytheFish the Macho Neutral Selector and Jack of All Trades was killed.
You are one of TWO Macho Neutral Selectors and Jack of All Trades. Things are about to get a little complicated so follow along, sweetheart. I’ll break it down bit by bit.
Selector: You may at any time, when there are 6 or more players alive, choose to pick to become either a Town member or a Mafia member. You may do this at any point during the day or night by PMing me with your choice. When you have selected a side, I will post the following message in game: “The selectors have made their choice!”
There’s just one hitch: if the other Macho Neutral Selector picks before you do, you will automatically be placed on the opposite team that that other Selector picked. If both Selectors PM me within 48 hours of Day 1’s start and both have picked the same side, I will flip a coin (via random.org) to pick whose pick actually went through. Thus, selections will not be made before 48 hours has elapsed in the game.
If you die before selecting, you lose.
I should note that if there is more than one mafia team, I will have designed it so that a particular mafia team will be joined by the mafia selector.
Last, your alignment will NOT be revealed until and unless BOTH Selectors are dead.
Neutral: Self-explanatory, but you start off unaligned, so you are neutral. You are essentially a survivor until you select a side, so if you die, you lose.
Macho: Doctors will not protect you. Jailkeepers will only block your role from working, it won’t protect you. Watchers won’t see who visited you. Any other roles that stop kills will be neutralized.
Jack of All Trades: Your powers vary depending on whether you’re Neutral, Town or Scum.
Neutral: You have the following 1-shot powers: Watch* (see who targets a player), Invent* (send me a target and an item. They’ll get a power based on that item. Careful, some items may have the opposite effect of what you might otherwise think!
Town: You have the following 1-shot powers: Role Cop*, Jailkeep*, Treestump**
Scum: You have the following 1-shot powers: Track*, Ninja* (undetectable by trackers and watchers), Roleblock*, Rolecop*, Treestump**
*Nighttime only powers.
**Treestumping: During the day at any time (provided you have not been hammered or are already dead) you may put this in bold Mod: Treestump me! and this will turn you into a treestump. Any votes on you will be reset, but you can still be voted for. You will no longer have the ability to vote. You will have the power to post still. If you are killed or lynched after this point, you are removed from the game as normal.
Win Cons:
Neutral: Survivor. Only wins if alive and game ends with 6 or more players alive.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
Scum: You win when all town, sks or any other party that has a win condition contrary to yours is eliminated or nothing can prevent them from being eliminated.
This might be a bit confusing, so any questions you should feel free to ask me about.
With 8 able to vote, it takes 5 to lynch
Deadline: Tuesday, April 15th at 16:00 EDT
I just wanted to clarify that yes, treestumping does mean that powers are unusable. The only thing a treestumped person can do is post about the game here, in public mafiascum threads, and -- if scum -- in the QT at the appropriate times.
You are the Mafia Vote Freezer. Once per game day, you may choose a player who has placed a vote on someone. You may “freeze” their vote in place. Their vote will appear with brackets around it on the vote count.
You also have the ability to "Broadcast" a message once a day. To do this, PM me with your message. I'll then post the message verbatim, although it will be designated as a player broadcast. Please note that you will also get a "Fake" townie PM soon that includes this power in it.
THIS is your real role PM.
As a member of the mafia, as a team you should choose who you want to kill at night. One person from your team should PM me with who you want to carry out that choice.
Your QT should only be used during nights. Remember that all other communication must be done in publicly available mafiascum locations. The QT can be found here: http://www.quicktopic.com/11/P/yOuW1shIW3reTh@tDUmB
One other note: While your team only has two players to begin with, there may be actions that occur during the game that will give your team a third party member.
Scum: You win when all town, sks or any other party that has a win condition contrary to yours is eliminated or nothing can prevent them from being eliminated.
Confirm in Thread
I should note that yes, you may continue to post here and elsewhere about the game unless you're dead.
Deadline for night actions will be Monday 20:00 EDT.
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Post #647 (isolation #40) » Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:32 am
Postby zoraster »
xvart the Word Use Tracker was killed.
You are the town Word Use Tracker. Every night (including Night 0), you may pick a word from the list below. If someone other than you uses that word the following day, the next night you may track someone in addition to picking a new word. In order to use your power, you must link me to the post that uses that word in your PM with your target.
You may use the word yourself, but it does not count if they quote you or intended to quote you.
The words you may select are dictionary.com’s word-of-the-day for February: mondegreen, gelid, aubade, pecuniary, distrait, eschew, ignoramus, approbation, vitiate, tarradiddle, coquetry, quietus, cupidity, billet-doux, vivify, inexorable, hynagogic, duplicity, gastronome, egregious, bombast, fractious, fructuous, Arcanum, gregarious, mulct, supplicate, quixotic.
When you track someone, you will see who, if anyone, that player visited that night or the previous day. Any action that targets a player will get a result. Some roles may visit more than one player a night.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
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Post #671 (isolation #41) » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:35 am
Postby zoraster »
On my blackberry (thanks for the huge photos uk) so no tags. But no. I said YOU are not allowed to post when dead. I did NOT say your ACCOUNT cannot post when dead. Sham accounts are prohibited too.
You are the town Vetoer. On Days 1 and 3, you may select a player other than yourself. That player will require an additional vote to lynch until the end of the game day. (Note: this role is stolen from Tar's Tech Tree Mafia)
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
Confirm in Thread
Deadline for night actions is Saturday at 11pm EDT.
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Post #846 (isolation #49) » Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:00 am
Postby zoraster »
Espeonage the Town Sham Tracer was killed.
You are the town Sham Tracer.
Twice a game you may PM me to ask who a particular sham account is. I will tell you who the actual player is behind that account. You may only use this power once per Day/Night (so if you use it Day 2, you may not use it Night 2).
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
With 4 able to vote, it takes 3 to lynch
Deadline: Saturday, May 1st at 11:00 EDT
UncertainKitten the Mafia Macho Selector and Jack of All Trades was Lynched
FishytheFish was the Town Macho Selector and Jack of All Trades
You have until Tuesday April 20th at 10:00 EDT to submit your night actions. Please don't dawdle. I get antsy when my games spend too much time in night.
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Post #873 (isolation #51) » Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:45 am
Postby zoraster »
CryMeARiver the Town EMT was killed
You are the town EMT. Each night you may select a player. If that player is shot, you can keep that person alive for the next day. They will die at the end of the day. They will be roleblocked from any day action as well as any night action that came after being shot. They will not be told this has happened to them.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
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Post #958 (isolation #58) » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:25 am
Postby zoraster »
( 0 )
totallynotmafia ( 0 )
Clank/Ani ( 3 ) totallynotmafia Grimmy Zang
Zang ( 0 )
Grimmy ( 0 )
No Lynch ( 1 ) Clank/Ani
Not Voting ( 0 )
Total Votes ( 4 )
With 4 able to vote, it takes 3 to lynch
Animorpherv1 the Town Gunsmith was lynched
You are the town gunsmith. You may PM me each night (but not Night 0) with a player’s name. If nothing prevents it, I will tell you if that person has a gun or not. I will not provide a list of who has guns, but I will say that most mafia members, some town members, and if there are any, some third party members, will have guns.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
Confirm in Thread
Night falls and then suddenly:
totallynotmafia the Vanilla Townie was killed
You are a town Vanilla townie. Booooo hiss. You only have the power to vote… for now.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
Confirm in Thread
Day breaks. It's a no lynch! Night falls again!
Grimmy the Vote Blocker was killed
You are the town Vote Blocker. On Nights 1 and 3, you may pick one player whose vote you don’t want to count in the vote counts the following day (Days 2 and 4, respectively). Any votes made by this player will not be recorded, so it will be obvious when this is done. In addition, the votes needed for majority will be altered accordingly.
Town: You win when all mafia, sks and any other malicious third parties are eliminated.
Confirm in Thread
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And that left one standing. One despicable mafia:
Zang the Mafia Captain Ahab has won the game
You are the Mafia sided Captain Ahab. Your single-minded pursuit of
DedicatedScribe
is really pretty detrimental to your mental health. What’s more, while you could just kill the guy, you want him lynched, dammit.
If you lynch your target, you will become a Framer with the ability to “frame” a person each night. This will cause sane cops to read that person as “guilty” and insane cops to read that person as “innocent.” You will plant a gun on their body if there is a gunsmith.
As a member of the mafia, as a team you should choose who you want to kill at night. One person from your team should PM me with who you want to carry out that choice.
Your QT should only be used during nights. Remember that all other communication must be done in publicly available mafiascum locations. The QT can be found here: http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/xUQtbe4wuYJv
You will get a fake role PM for a town bodyguard. You should note that
THIS IS YOUR REAL ROLE PM.
One other note: While your team only has two players to begin with, there may be actions that occur during the game that will give your team a third party member.
Scum: You win when all town, sks or any other party that has a win condition contrary to yours is eliminated or nothing can prevent them from being eliminated.
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Post #962 (isolation #59) » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:30 am
Postby zoraster »
Some thoughts:
1. I can't believe town won. I really can't. UK ended up screwing herself and then hoopla got offed and both ythill and shaft.ed had zang pegged as scum. But town miscounted and wasted a lynch which led to a loss.
2. Thanks for playing! It was fun. I especially liked the opening with people trying to figure out how to play without many rules on them.
3. Thanks to all the outside
players
participants. I think you added a lot to this game!
4. Please don't hesitate to give criticism/comments so long as they're constructive!
5. Obviously I screwed up night 1 and that gave people information. Whoops!
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Post #966 (isolation #60) » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:39 am
Postby zoraster »
Yeah. That's why I gave you that fake role. I wanted someone who would naturally have a gun. And even though you can't really "shoot" it as a BG, I figure it's plausible enough that he'd hold one.