International Mafia Month 2024

[AniX]

March 6 - "Constant Vigilance" Day

Yesterday's crisis where Facebook and Instagram collapsed reminds us that we need to be ever-vigilant in keeping the site safe from the dreaded tiger threat to our servers. If you notice any suspicious activity, report it immediately. Review your Tiger Attack Emergency Plan regularly. Check your tiger traps. Spy on your neighbors to be sure they are not working for the enemy. And if you notice any glitches on the website these scoundrel tigers may have done, make sure to report it to your designated Tiger Defense Specialists (that's the mod team!)

But don't live your life in fear, either. Remember, if we stop playing Mafia because we're fearful of a tiger strike, the tigers have won.

[Alisae]

The tigers are here!!!

[Bingle]

This anti tiger nonsense is unbefitting someone who claimed the red crown on the back of a “I’m going to stop starving hyenas” platform. Clearly the best way to deal with the tigers is to welcome them in, share our delicious selves with them, and overthrow AniX. I am in no way being coerced to make this post by a gang of tigers.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Tigers, like cultiets, multiply linearly with time. But with your help, we can make them multiply logarithmically instead.

[AniX]

March 7- "Green Shirt Thurs" Day

For many years, Green Shirt Thursday was an institution on the site, a weekly event uniting Mafiascum users to post themselves wearing, you guessed it, green shirts on Thursday. Glork was the one who brought the tradition to the site and he really loved seeing people celebrate it. You can even still see him advertising for it in his signature!

Glork was a site institution in his own right too. He was one of the earliest generations of Mafiascum users and one of the most prominent even a decade and a half later, as well as a respected former member of the Mafiascum Moderator team. I knew him for many years (when you are members of the same site for nearly 15 years together, you tend to bump into one another) and while I wasn't as close to him as many of the others he met on the site, including the love and family he found here, I was very fond of him.

The site will have lost Glork to cancer 5 years ago this October. It seems only fitting that any International Mafia Month have its own Green Shirt Thursday in honor of him, the connections he created through the tradition, and all the others we have lost throughout the years.

So tomorrow, if you can, wear a green shirt. For bonus points, take a selfie of yourself doing so and post it here or in FWAN. For those who can't (and those who want to get even more into the Green Shirt spirit), change your text color to green for the day!

[Jake The Wolfie]

My posts are solar powered

[Ythan]

Spoiler:

[Cook]

i've been following green shirt thursdays ever since learning about it here

[AniX]

March 8- "Mark it Read, It's in a Thread" Day

An often overlooked aspect of the site is, as a companion to us being the best place to PLAY Mafia on the internet, we are also THE biggest and best collection of completed Mafia games on the internet. We have 22 years of gaming history in our archives and they are all yours to read at the click of a mouse.

So today, I invite you all to find a completed game in our archives and read through it. There is no wrong way to pick! Choose one you've seen mentioned before as a particularly good example of some aspect of Mafia, or a past Scummies winner or nominee, or one of the handful of "Special Event" games we've run, or one by your favorite Mod or involving your favorite player, or even just choose one at random! You could even review an old game of your own to see how you've improved!

After all, one of the best ways to improve your play is to read completed games - you can see how other players approach a situation, what works, what doesn't, what tells various players might give off, and so on! And, hell, it can be just plain entertaining too!

[AniX]

March 9- "Mafiascum 3024" Day

As we come to the end of the first full week of International Mafia Month 2024, I'm sure we are all looking forward to what the rest of the month will bring. But we also ought to look even further than that! Today is for thinking about how we can make Mafiascum.net even better in the future. What would you like to see on the site in the coming year? What could we do differently?

Brainstorm fantastic new roles, setups, mechanics, themes that haven't been tried. Figure out how you are going to spend even more of your time playing Mafia in 2024 (and beyond!) than you did in 2023.

[Cheery Dog]

I highly doubt the site would survive until 3024.

[DragonEater70]

I, on the other hand, believe that the entire internet will be replaced by ScumNet by the year 2124.

[Gypyx]

ok it's actually hillarious cause i've been thinking about what a futuresight-styled setup could look like

[Gypyx]

my conclusion has been that i know nothing about mafia setup design

[DragonEater70]

Hey, me neither! And yet I continue to mod hit mafia games...

[Ausuka]

ok it's actually hillarious cause i've been thinking about what a futuresight-styled setup could look like

mafia targets their kill on night 1 and it hits on night 3

[Gypyx]

sounds like i won't be playing mafia in 1000 years

[AniX]

Blood on the Clocktower actually has futuresight evil team setup, where the Pukka role poisons a player (effectively, turns them into a vanilla role) n1 and then the next night, they poison another player and the previously poisoned player dies.

[AniX]

March 10- "Knight In Shining Armor" Day

Need some more games for your Mafia fix? Rather than signing up for a new game today, why not go and see if any games have replacement slots in need of filling? Sure it's a bit of reading, but you will undoubtedly earn the eternal* gratitude of the moderator and the players.

*Eternal being defined as however long the game lasts.

[Jake The Wolfie]

AniX, you should replace into a game. Bless it with the glory of the

Red Crown

.

[Sunflower]

ok it's actually hillarious cause i've been thinking about what a futuresight-styled setup could look like

wait, I'd actually kill for a game like this

[Gypyx]

i think the idea is cool but like i don't really have much of an idea on how games looked before 2020 so it's hard to see what it's all going towards

[Jake The Wolfie]

Just pull an Mtg and assert ehat the future will look like. Blue town? Sure. Public nightchat? Epic. Town vs 4 SKs? Awesome

[AniX]

March 11 - "Power of the 11th Hour" Day

[DragonEater70]

AniX are you going to post a livestream of you killing a tiger with your bare hands?