Setup: Swinger's Dance

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Setup - 12 Person

3 Mafia
9 Town

2 phase rotation:

Elim phase
Swing phase

In the elim phase, players vote to eliminate a pair. Majority ends the day, plurality at deadline. Any player may elect to leave the dance. If they do, the elimination phase immediately ends and they and their partner are eliminated.
In the swing phase, players are immediately unpaired and must form new pairs. Any players who fail to form a pair before the end of the Swing phase are run out of town on horseback.

Mafia wins when it controls 50% of the votes. Town wins when all mafia members cannot dance.

Players sign up as pairs. Players will always have a PT to discuss the game with their "sign-up buddy". They will also have a PT to discuss the game with their current lover. Alignments will be distributed independently of pairs.

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Welcome to Swinger's Dance Mafia, [Playername].

You came to this party with [Playername] and may always communicate with them here.

You may choose to tango with anyone who doesn't have a partner during the Swing Phase. While you are dancing you will have a PT with that player as well.

You are aligned with the town, and win if all of the Mafia members go home.

Welcome to Swinger's Dance Mafia, [Playername].

You came to this party with [Playername] and may always communicate with them here.

You may choose to tango with anyone who doesn't have a partner during the Swing Phase. While you are dancing you will have a PT with that player as well.

You are aligned with the mafia, and win if there are as many mafia dancing as there are town at any time.

You may communicate with your partners, [Playername] and [Playername], here.

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But tango is a well established euphemism that plays well with the meaning of swinger which is what is being used here, and Swing Halls do on occasion host dances of other varieties given that they are well suited to dances in general.

Also, do you really want to argue with a giant pyromaniac monkey Christopher walken about what music he plays?

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In military jargon “tango” is equivalent to “enemy”. Also, horizontal tango is an old timer euphemism for the sex.

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The game cannot end without 6 players leaving, so barring deadline failures there will be at least three eliminations. There is no nightkill because there is no night phase. A lot of the mechanics are heavily borrowed from the dance game formula, the major departure here is that pairs are impermanent.

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The swing phase is to reshuffle pairs. Say you and I are paired in day 1, but I'm scummy as hell and you're not. You can look for a townier partner and try to lim me D2 instead of sacrificing yourself to kill me D1 if you choose. The reason unpaired players leave is so that there's a meaningful drawback to going to deadline.

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For reference, this is a dance game so you can see the basic premise in action: viewtopic.php?t=88369

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Setup - 16 Person

4 Mafia
12 Town

2 phase rotation:

Swing phase
Elim phase

In the swing phase, players are immediately unpaired and must form new pairs. A player may never pair with someone they have previously paired with. Any players who fail to form a pair before the end of the Swing phase are run out of town on horseback.
In the elim phase, players vote to eliminate a pair. Majority ends the day, plurality at deadline. Any player may elect to leave the dance. If they do, the elimination phase immediately ends and they and their partner are eliminated.

Mafia wins when it controls 50% of the votes. Town wins when all mafia members cannot dance.