Mini 1654 - Mafia with a Twist 4 (It's Over!)

[Untrod Tripod]

would I bus both of my buddies

would I

(yes probably)

but come on

I'm like so not scum

look at my face

[farside22]

Meh I think it's either UT or math.

Vote: ut

[Flames682]

VOTE: Untrod Tripod

Would SK go for the whambo slammo mason gambit with his scumbuddy?

Yes. Yes, he would.

Would UT immediately go into damage control mode and scream OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU FUCKING IDIOT?

Yes. Yes, he would.

Would UT then try to stop the wagon by going, "Well it doesn't mean SK is scum! We would do this as town!"?

Yes. Yes, he would.

This convinced me that UT's scum but not gonna hammer till everyone's posted

[xRECKONERx]

If we're wrong, I predict a me/math/Flames LYLO tomorrow.

If we're right, thank god, because I hate lylo

[farside22]

I will be sad if math is town.
But I'll be sad if UT is town.
Either way someone's town game has gone to shit in my view.

[Untrod Tripod]

VOTE: Untrod Tripod

Would SK go for the whambo slammo mason gambit with his scumbuddy?

Yes. Yes, he would.

Would UT immediately go into damage control mode and scream OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU FUCKING IDIOT?

Yes. Yes, he would.

Would UT then try to stop the wagon by going, "Well it doesn't mean SK is scum! We would do this as town!"?

Yes. Yes, he would.

This convinced me that UT's scum but not gonna hammer till everyone's posted

oh la dee da

I'm gonna sit around and pretend to not try to mislynch this guy

vote: Untrod Tripod

deal with the lylo reck

you can learn I promise

[Untrod Tripod]

That has to be the twist

That reck will grow as a person

Or something

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[xRECKONERx]

MMMM IF I DIDNT LOVE YOUR SEXY ASS I'D BLACKLIST YOU

[Untrod Tripod]

[Untrod Tripod]

Spoiler: NSFW

Spoilered. -Thesp

[xRECKONERx]

reporting for pornography

[Thesp]

Official Vote Count

Untrod Tripod

(3): xRECKONERx, farside22, Untrod Tripod

Not Voting

(2): mathcam, Flames682

With 5 alive, it takes 3 to lynch.

Deadline

: (expired on 2015-04-24 15:30:00)

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Untrod Tripod, Backup Townie, has been lynched.

Night 5 begins. Night choices are due in 48 hours.

[Thesp]

mathcam, Mason

, has been killed.

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Day 6 begins.

With 3 alive, it's 2 to lynch.

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This game is on hold - please check back later.

[Thesp]

I have now received all responses, and the judges are reviewing them at this time. The curtains will open soon!

[Thesp]

Curtains

Let me begin by both apologizing, and by giving thanks to our three Townies.

Of all the games in my Mafia with a Twist series to date, this was by far the most ambitious, and the most likely to get

me

actually lynched. After all, it would require people to be genuinely playing a game that wasn't what they thought it was, which was terribly deceptive of me. In my defense, I have been very explicit that these are potentially

very

bastardly modded, but that may or may not feel a bit hollow right now. After all, you've been taking notes, making reads, and watching as player flip alignments that may or may not make sense to you. You've invested time and energy in this game, and I don't know whether or not you'll feel that energy was validated. To that end, I apologize for thrusting you into a role you may or may not have wanted.

That said, you Townies have been absolutely vital to this enterprise, and I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. Without you, this game would not have been possible, and this grand experiment could not come to fruition. I began having no idea if it would work or not, and I hope you find the results as fascinating as I have. But let's cut the chit-chat, shall we? I wanted to find out this:

Could an informed

majority

fool an uninformed

minority

?

What if the scum didn't number 23% of the players, but instead numbered

77%

of the players? And I'm not referring to a bunch of factions, I mean

what if nearly every player in the game were on one team against the other team? What would that look like?

To answer that question, I give you this game, this

Mafia with a Twist 4: All the World's a Stage

.

If you haven't guessed by now, the premise is this. The "Mafia" (in this game coined the "Actors") are each a special kind of Death Millers, with night talk. At the start of the game, they determined the order in which players would "die", one at a time. The night kills would be easy, one of them would simply feign death. However, the lynches would be more difficult, as they'd have to realistically steer the town into picking the "correct" lynch, all the while diminishing their voting power day by day. The Townies could end up winning by being so unpredictable as to cause a lynch the Actors had not planned.

All in all, the Actors did indeed Follow the Script, and each Day's lynch was correctly made. On this final day, each Townie (the only players left in the game) were sent separate, identical PMs:

Please read this PM carefully, as your win condition has changed.

It turns out this game is not quite what you thought. The question you're about to answer is now the sole determiner of whether you win or lose. So, tell me...

What was the Twist in this game?

Please think carefully upon your answer, and PM it to me within the next 72 hours. Your answer will be judged by an independent panel based on a prepared rubric. All will be revealed soon.

Each Townie would win if they correctly guessed what the Twist in the game was. If the Actors could fool at least 2 of the Townies, they would win. I employed the assistance of three judges (thanks, petroleumjelly, al_kohaulec, and mith!) to judge the correctness of responses based on this rubric, prepared before the game:

Rubric for Judges

The responder's choice should be considered "Correct" only if any of the following conditions are satisfied:
- The responder indicates that the 10 players who have died do not actually have the roles revealed in the thread.
- The responder indicates that the 10 players who have died were all cooperating.
- The responder indicates that all the three players remaining are the only players in the game who have not been in on the twist the whole game.
- The responder indicates that the order the other 10 players died was important.

So, what were the responses we received? And what is the final result? Hit the spoiler tag below to open the envelope...

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Final Results

Spoiler: Final Results

The mafia was forced to kill a player that was town with the least amount of post.

Flame is the last scum.

Not that you asked.

farside22's response was judged INCORRECT.

Mafia did not decide the night kill, the moderator did.

Flames682's response was judged INCORRECT.

The twist this game is that there was no twist... up until just now, when my win condition changed, and I'm being asked to name a twist.

So this is the twist.

xRECKONERx's response was judged INCORRECT.

Congratulations to

the Actors

, winners of Mafia with a Twist 4! Take a bow!

Backstage

And here are the private links now made public:
Backstage
Dead Actors Guild

Thank you so very, very much to all players for your efforts in this game. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did watching it. I promise you Mafia with a Twist 5, whenever I have it polished and ready to go, won't be as crazy as this one was.

[SleepyKrew]

I think the only change I would've made is it only takes one Townie getting it right to make the Actors lose.

But other than that, I thought this setup was absolutely brilliant. I want to nominate this for a Scummie (and it's a shame Thesp wasn't nommed for Modfather last year), but I'm going to hold off until I can see what the Townies thought.

[farside22]

Sadly my second response was more on the money then my first.

I said that all pr's were told to act as anti town as possible.