Mini 743: Sanity Ensues - Over!

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Sanity Ensues Mafia

Game status and deadline

Concluded. Mafia wins.

Players list

Made it to Endgame

1. Zer0ph34r

Tom

,

a sane cop

- killed in endgame

5.

Charrat, a mafia goon, survives and win the game!

6.

Green Crayons, a mafia roleblocker, survives and win the game!

7. Artem,

a quack

- killed in endgame
10. Azhrei,

a townie

- killed in endgame

Dead:

8. seb456zig,

a townie

- lynched D1
3. alexhans,

a naive cop

- killed N1
2. hohum,

a miller

- lynched D2
3. Zeenon,

a doc

- killed N2
9. Shinnen_no_Me

Magus_Stragus

,

a random cop

- lynched D3

Game links

Day 1, The Murdered Mayor
Day 2, Bloody Alex.
Day 3, R.I.P. DR. ZEE
Endgame

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Rules

[/b](nicked from Haschel Cedricson, edits mine)

Fundamental

1. Enjoy yourself.
2. No one can talk to any other player about the game, unless your role allows it, and then only when you role allows it. If I find out you break this rule, modkill.
3. No quoting mod PMs, not even faking it. Doing so results in a modkill.
4. If I make a mistake, please let me know and I will fix it.
5. Please don't be jackass. If you have to ask yourself if something counts as jackassery or not, the answer is probably "Yes".
6.

Indigo

is my pretty color, and mine only, please don't use it.

Voting and lynching

7. For your vote to be counted, it must be bold, and in the form

vote: playername

. The colon is optional.
8. You MUST unvote before changing your vote. Again, unvotes must be bold to count.
9. A lynch will occur at n/2 + 1 votes, rounded down to the nearest integer, where n is the number of players currently alive. Day will end with the lynch.
10. You may vote for a ‘no lynch’ if desired. If a majority of the players in the game vote for to no lynch, the game will progress to night without a lynch. No lynching cannot be done on consecutive nights.

11. If a majority of votes hasn't been reached at deadline, the person with the highest votecount is lynched. In case of draw the person having reached the highest number of votes first is lynched.

12. If a lynch occurs, then the game enters ‘twighlight’, where all alive players apart from the player who has been lynched are allowed to freely converse (but not allowed to cast any votes) until I lock the thread and post a death scene.
13. Once you are dead, you are free to make one “bah” like post, but nothing more.

Activity and Deadline

14. This game enforce a strict deadline of 2 weeks per day phase - 3 weeks maximum if extension, and 72 hours per night phase. You have been warned.
15.Treat this game as a commitment. You are requested to post at least once every 48 hours. Failure to do so will result in a prod. 2 prods will result in your replacement.

16. If you are unable to participate for a period longer than 45 hours, please PM me or post in thread.

Sample vanilla PM

You are a Townie. You have a vote and everyday you may use it to evict a player from the game.

You win when all threats to the town are dead.

Mod's note

- Please do your best to respect the fast pace of this game, the 2 weeks deadline and activity requirement. See bolded rules above.
- This game is slightly bastardly, do heed the title of the game. You've been warned.

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Everybody was here. The here being the provincial but dignified town-square of the quiet town of Quietown. But today Quietown wasn't quiet, murmurs of horror and cries of outrage made them heard before the gruesome sight that met the assembled crowd's eyes: the beloved mayor's body lay lifeless and bloody on the pavement of this once idyllic place. "Murderers are in our midst!" "We must root out the evil before it kills us all!" "We will avenge our mayor and hang them high!"

Day 1 starts

Deadline set for February the 20th.

With 10 alive, it's 6 to lynch.

You may commence tearing each others' throats out

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Important clarification on votecount.

The votecount written in Indigo at the top of every page is by me.
I edit it into the first post of each page with my magic mod power.

If I make a mistake, address me with:

Mod:

[nature of mistake]

Please do this instead of quoting the votecount to avoid confusion.

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Activity check.

Green Crayons and Tom have been prodded.

Azhrei and hohum are nearing a prod.

Everyone else, keep up the good work and, belatedly, happy valentine

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Mod votecount, as per end of previous page

seb456zig

(4):

Magus_Stragus, alexhans, Charrat, ZEEnon

hohum (3):

Green crayons, Artem, Azhrei,

alexhans (1):

hohum,

ZEEnon (1):

seb456zig,

Artem (0):
Azhrei (0):
Magus_Stragus (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
Tom (0):

Not voting (1):

Tom,

Deadline set to February the 20th.

With 10 alive, it's 6 to lynch.

Prod count: Green_Crayons, hohum, Tom

--> Zer0ph34r replaces Tom.

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I figured it was enough of a nested quotes nightmare on its own already without me adding my mess to it

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Mod votecount

seb456zig

(4):

Magus_Stragus, alexhans, Charrat, ZEEnon

hohum (3):

Green crayons, Artem, Azhrei,

alexhans (1):

hohum,

ZEEnon (0):

,

Artem (0):
Azhrei (0):
Magus_Stragus (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
Zerophear (0):

Not voting (1):

Zerophear, seb456zig

Deadline set to February the 20th.

With 10 alive, it's 6 to lynch.

Prod count: Green_Crayons, hohum,

Tom

@mod: im quoting what YOU said, so i thought it should be fine to color it in. If that isnt the case, please say so.

I edited out the color from the quoted votecount, it looked messy. I suggest you don't use my color even when you are quoting me, but I'm not going to make a rule or anything, it's just me being anal retentive about it.

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Final votecount of the day:

seb456zig

(6):

Magus_Stragus, alexhans, Charrat, ZEEnon, Zerophear, Green crayons

alexhans (1):

hohum

hohum (1):

Artem

ZEEnon (0):
Artem (0):
Azhrei (0):
Magus_Stragus (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
Zerophear (0):

Not voting (2):

seb456zig, Azhrei

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Today the town square was witness to a steady crescendo of suspicion and paranoia. Veiled insinuations had morphed into hostile bicker, which had degenerated into full-blown slander, and soon the good people of Quietown were flying unrestrained into each others faces.

Quickly enough the gathered crowd focused its attention on one individual. "What kind of name is Seb456zig anyway?" "Huh?" "Ye, shifty, unnatural those numbers." "Errh?" "Sounds German too." "Hmm?" "Zee Germans?! I hate them!" "Ye, me too. It's him I tell you!" "Let's lynch him!" "Wha...wait! It's my birthday, I don wanna die!" "Too late."

Seb456zig,

a townie

,

was lynched

.

"Embarrassing." "Well, he

was

German. I think." "...We'll bring cakes to his funeral." "Ye, let's call it a day."

And with that they went home.

Happy birthday Seb456zig, you are dead! Everyone else, you have 3 days to submit your night action if any

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After a vaguely unsettling night, Quietown gathers again hoping for justice, this time. It is therefore with quiet furor, and maybe dread, but markedly little surprise that the crowd surveys the sight greeting them: the pavement is today crimson anew, a stark contrast to the paleness of the corpse laying there with to bullets in its head.

Alexhans,

a naive cop

, has been killed.

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Day 2 starts

Deadline set to March the 8th.

With 8 alive, it's 5 to lynch.

Also I have been asked if sanities were revealed upon card flip, the answer is yes.

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Votecount

Artem (0):
hohum (0):
Azhrei (0):
Magus_Stragus (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
ZEEnon (0):
Zerophear (0):

Not votingb (8):

Azhrei, Magus_Stragus, hohum, ZEEnon, Green crayons, Artem, Charrat, Zerophear

With 8 alive, it's 5 to lynch.

Prod count: Green_Crayons, hohum,

Tom

Question for the mod: Are the cops allowed to investigate themselves?

No they can't.

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Magus_Stragus is now Shinnen_no_Me.

Same person, different name. Effective immediately

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Shinnen_no_me, hohum, ZEEnon, Charrat, and Green Crayons have been prodded.

This is the second offence for both hohum and Green Crayon. I've decided to give everyone an extra prod because I'm too busy to look for replacement as of right now. Not that I'm happy about it >:c

Prod count: Shinnen_no_me, ZEEnon, Charrat, Green_Crayons(2), hohum (2)

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Oh, and

Mod

, half of those prods really weren't necessary, GC, and I think a couple of the others had posted not long before you prodded them. Don't tell us off

People I prodded all failed to respect the 48 hours participation requirement. And actually, I've been on the lenient side since the beginning of the game.

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Final votecount of the day

hohum (5):

Artem, Azhrei, Shinen_no_me, Zerophear, Green crayons

Artem (1):

hohum

Zerophear (0):
Azhrei (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
Shinnen_no_Me (0):
ZEEnon (0):

Not votingb (5):

Charrat, ZEEnon

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Today Quietown's justice was swift and merciless. Rigor mortis had yet to set into alexhans' corpse when hohum was marched to the gallow.

"I may look gritty but my heart is pure!" he pled sincerely but to no avail:

"Your aura is of pure ignominy, you are nothing but scummy, and you shall be judged accordingly!"

Hohum,

a miller

, was lynched.

... And someone, somewhere in the crowd, smiled.

It is now Night 2 and you have 3 day to submit your night actions if any.

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The night had been unusually long, and, as the townies dragged themselves to town square with still sleep encrusted eyes, morning was looking none too bright.

Zeenon,

a doc

, has been killed.

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Day 3 starts

My apologies for the slight delay.

Deadline set to March the 22nd.

With 6 alive, it's 4 to lynch.

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The votecount is blank.

Mod note to give you something to talk about: there exist specific names for doctors of differing sanities. Of course I may be screwing with you yet. Or not.

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Sensing a lull looming, a friendly reminder from your mod that this game has a 42hours activity requirement - so get posting and don't make me prod your derrières, you are doing quite well!

Accompanied by two complimentary info spots:

1. Since it is not specified in the rule, I'm clarifying here that a

perfectly blank

votecount at the end of the day leads to nolynch.

2. If a player with a night action miss the night deadline, their action is

forfeit

.

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Yes, if the votecount is blank at the end of any given day, no-lynch occurs, and the game moves into night.

Dealine: March the 22nd

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My timezone is GMT+1

But I probably won't be available tomorrow night so expect the day to actually end sometime Monday morning.

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Final votecount of the day

Shinnen_no_me

(4):

Zerophear, Azhrei, Artem, Charrat

Artem (0):
Azhrei (0):
Charrat (0):
Green Crayons (0):
Zerophear (0):

Not voting (2):

Shinnen_no_me, Green crayons,

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Three day after the Mayor's murder, Quietown was in a difficult situation.

"Four cops?! No wonder my taxes are so high!"
"Guys I think we need to slow down, we don't want to misl - "
"Yeah, this is a public spendings scandal! We want our money back!"
"Guys, seriously, maybe we should just leave it alone for tod - "
"Heh, how come this guy isn't angry like the rest of us? Do you enjoy it when my tax money go to waste?"
"Wha - No, I'm just saying mayb-"
"He is with them!"
"Huh, with who - "
"The corrupt communist pigs who are stealing our monies!"
"Wha - Wait!"
"Die corrupt pig."

Shinnen_no_me,

a random sanity cop

,

was lynched.

The town was quite embarrassed.

"So, why did we lynch him again?"
"Dunno, lol."
"Oh well, never liked him much anyway."

And with that, the few people left were ready to head home, when...

"Not so fast."

The lugubrious tone of familiar voice put shrills into the remaining townies' hearts, but, hypnotized by its command, they obeyed; only to face the incoming trajectories of three deadly bullets. One for each of them.

Artem, a quack, was killed by a shot in the head.

Azhrei, a vanilla townie, was killed by a shot in the heart.

Zer0ph34r, a sane cop was shot in the gonads (and quickly bleed to death).

The silence which followed the three deafening detonations was resounding. The two remaining men stood there, enjoying it.

Green_Crayons, mafia roleblocker, wins!
Charrat, mafia goon, wins!

And unseasonal snow started to fall on the once idyllic Town Square of the quiet town of Quietown, framing in a dramatic fashion the dark ruby of the spilt blood with their crystalline flakes, and providing this game with a perfect, cinematographic ending.

FIN

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The setup

Town:

2 Townies: Azhrei, seb456zig
1 Sane cop: Zer0ph34r
1 Random cop*: Shinnen_no_Me
1 Naive cop: alexhans
1 Doctor: Zeenon
1 Quack**: Artem
1 Miller***: hohum

*Coin flip for investigation results. Would have stopped getting guilty after two of them, except in case of miller who is always guilty.
** Kills town target, no effect on scum.
*** Shows as guilty to all cops.

Scum

1 Goon: Charrat
1 Role Blocker: Green Crayons

Role PM's:

You are a cop. Every night you may investigate one player.

You win when all threats to the town are dead.

You are a doc. Every night you may choose one person to protect.

You win when all threats to the town are dead.

You are a Miller. Life sucks really, even though you are the kindest of soul, your shifty demeanor makes you suspect to every cop in town.

You have a vote and everyday you may use it to evict a player from the game.

You win when all threats to the town are dead.

You are a MAFIA ROLEBLOCKER. You are part of the mafia with Charrat. Every night your team may choose a person to eliminate from the game.
The designated killer may send me a PM with the name of the target.

In addition you may choose one person to roleblock to prevent them from performing any night action. You may kill and roleblock at the same time.

During nights and the pregame phase you may talk with your partner in this thread: <QT here>

You win whenever the members of your team comprise the majority of the town, or when nothing can prevent it.

Scum may want to post their quick topic.

The night actions

N1

Zero investigates hohum - guilty
Alex investigates Charrat - guilty
Shinen investigates hohum - guilty
Zeenon protects Shinen - no need
Artem "protects" Charrat - blocked/no effect
Green_Crayons kills alexhans, block Artem - done, no need

N2

Zero investigates Green Crayons - blocked
Shinnen investigates Green Crayons - guilty
Zeenon protects Zero - dead
Artem "protects" Charrat - no effect
Green Crayons kill Zeenon, block Zero - done, done

Notes

This is where I own up to one big mistake I made. You may have noticed that Zero's investigation on N1 is marked as hohum, but that Zero actually claimed guilty on Charrat in game. That's because I screwed up, Zero asked to investigate hohum, but I made a slip and sent him 'Guilty on Charrat' for result. When I realized it, I couldn't go back as Zero had already claimed, and there was no way of correcting the result without confirming him in thread.

So of course I asked him to cover it up and he did. (Thanks :p )

I feared this would disadvantage scum, but turns out it didn't.


Now, GG all, and congrats to scum. It was an agreeable game to mod. And I think we broke some kind of record with one and only replacement for the entire game.

I'm curious what you think of the setup, so please comment.

I have more notes on the game and everyone play, I'll post them later.

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MOD:I think the setup was a bit pro-mafia because with the sanity issues the info cops could use was practically null.(unless there's a way to cross reference all the info and logically deduce results but with scum confusing people and blocking them...) It was like a normal game with just townies that had random informants who they couldn't trust. Paranoia. But maybe with other players it would've been different. GC and Charrat handled themselves very well. Although a bit lurkish for my taste. I'm very talkative. What I liked very much about GC was his consistency all along. Maybe another game with a similar setup would be much easier for the town because they'd have a reference to hold on to. And no one was even close about the random sanity cop role.

Good game, all.

I'm not a big fan of the setup, because from a town's point of view, you can't derive any information reliably. Not only a player claiming cop could be lying, but their investigation results could be wrong/misleading, or the person they investigated may always give innocent/guilty. It's like not having the roles at all, so why put them in the game?

I think one way to make the roles more useful is to make the setup semi-open by stating what kind of sanity/roles there are or aren't. For example, knowing that there was no GF would have helped quite a bit.

Well, the reasoning behind the setup was that it is actually hard for scum to find the right cop to block/kill; as flipping a sane cop may be detrimental to their game.

Also, the miller was designed to act as a trap in case of scum fakeclaiming cop because it was specified in the miller PM that everyone cop in town would be suspicious of him.


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On individual plays

I think on town side

alexhans

and

Zeenon

did a really good job as far as scumhunting go and were nightkilled as reward.

Artem

made judicious choices both night in his protection, and correctly avoided mis-kill due to his sanity.

The real turning point was the

hohum

lynch. I think maybe hohum didn't see the potentiality of his role.

Zerophear, Azhrei and Shinnen

suffered a bit from inexperience imo, as no-kill was the right decision the last day as it allowed for more investigation as well as improving the correct chance.

sebzig

is a bad boy who didn't fight enough his own lynch



On the scumside,

Charrat and Green Crayons

had solid game. Green Crayons, despite being a bit of a lurkerscum earlier in the game, had seemingly infinite bullshit power day 3. They made good decisions overall.

Two flagrant scumslips I picked up though:

Considering that we have 10 players and this is a sanity game, we can probably assume there are going to be 3 or 4 cops.

I know that there are 3 at this point

, unless spring was really cruel and chose not to include a regular cop. Lynching both of us is a bad idea if we both turn out to be townies because that would be game over N3, I think.

http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 93#1510093

This is Charrat's reaction to Zero's claim. His saying 'I know that there are 3 cops at this point' is him slipping because 1) it implies he trusts Zero's claim 2) it implies that he is the third cop, which contradict his doc claim later on.

Green Crayons

Well, I'm certainly not in this to win a popularity contest.

I'm currently doing a reread of Charrat since

I stand by my previous suggestion of us lynching either Charrat, Shinn or myself.

http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 43#1554143

This one is a huge slip in my book. In lylo, no town would ever suggest their own lynch, unless there are really bad at this game.

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you should edit 524 so that it states what I really did...I want' to look good.

Done.