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Newbie 846 (Game Over!)

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:59 pm

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You awaken to the hustle and bustle of your home town’s daily activity. Little did you know that the peaceful quiet of your normal, everyday life would come crashing down today. It seems that one of your fellow citizens has angered the Mob, and has paid for it with his life! What are you going to do? Why, you’re going to get your peaceful, little town back, that’s what…

Your job, fair citizens of the town’s Ruling Council, is to discover who among you belong to the Mafia and summarily lynch them. Two of your fellow Council members are working for the Mafia - find them before they take over the Council and the town!


General Information

Welcome to Newbie 846! Please take some time to familiarize yourself with all the rules and game literature in the 2nd post of this thread. Please remember to check back here often for updates and READ your role PMs carefully.

If you have any questions or concerns please try to post them in-topic first and let one of the ICs try to answer your question. If the ICs aren't helpful you may PM me.

The following players have fulfilled their win condition (2)

Zachrules
Gambor
RedDeath9
,
Mafia Goon
, Survived
Sanjay
BlueRaven
^
,
Mafia Goon
, Lynched, D3

*
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The ICs are here to help you learn to play the game. Their play is governed by the wiki article Being a good IC.

^
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bold
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Thanks for Playing (7)

Python,
Vanilla Townie
, Lynched, D1
Muffin,
Vanilla Townie
. Killed, N1
foilist13
Zyriex
,
Town Cop
, Lynched, D2
archaebob,
Vanilla Townie
, Killed N2,
RayFrost
Noramp
^
Vanilla Townie
Killed, N3
muh316
Vanilla Townie
Lynched, D4
Amished
KittyMo
*
,
Vanilla Townie
Endgamed
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:02 pm

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Rules


The Golden Rule


1. While it is understandable that on occasion tempers may flare, please remeber that this is a game. Please
have fun
,
be respectful
of your fellow players and
try not to take anything personally
.

General Game Play and Etiquette


2. Please remember that
when you signed up for this game you made a commitment.
Be courteous to your mod and your fellow players and let us know when you are leaving for an extended period of time.
If you can't commit, it's OKAY to ASK to be replaced, but please don't make me hunt you down!


3. Please try to maintain more than the minimum standard for activity levels which is currently 1 post every 48 hours. If you go 48 hours without posting you will be prodded (as many times as necessary) and if you go 72 hours without posting you will be replaced. Exceptions will be made for low activity periods such as weekends and holidays.

4. Do not quote your role PMs or any private communication with the moderator in any way.

5. There is to be NO personal communication outside of the forum postings unless your role PM specifically allows it.

6. Do not talking about this or any other ongoing games on MS outside of their respective game threads for any reason unless your role PMs specifically allow you to do so.

7. I am fallible. While I strive not to make mistakes, they do occasionally happen. Please politely correct me if you spot one.

8. Once the game is over I will post links to the QT thread. If you have an issue with this please let me know in advance.

9.
Blue
is my color. Please don't use it.

Voting and Lynching and Deadlines


10. Votes must take the form of
Vote: Player
and similarly
Unvote
. It isn't necessary to
Unvote
every time but it would be appreciated by your mod and your fellow players for clarity's sake.

11. If you need to grab my attention for any reason please throw an
@Mod: statement
in your post.

12. This game will be run with fixed 3 week deadlines for days. Night-time deadlines will always be 72 hours.

13. In the event a lynch consensus is not reached by deadline, the player with the most votes will be lynched. In the event of a tie, the player which reached the most votes first will be lynched.

14. One daytime deadline extension of up to one week may be granted at the moderator's discretion in extreme circumstances and only if activity levels aren't impairing game progress.

15. If you have a role with a Night action your choices are due to me by the posted deadline. If I do not receive your choice via PM by the posted deadline you will forfeit your actions.

16. Any player with a Night action may instead submit a “No Action” PM to let the Mod know that you do not want to perform your expected action that Night phase.

17. Whenever a player has reached a simple majority of votes he/she will be considered lynched and the game will roll over into twilight phase. Twilight will last until I post a death scene and lock the topic

18. During twilight you may talk amongst yourselves; however, no further
Vote
or [/b]Unvote[/b] will be counted. Once the hammer has dropped, it cannot be undone, so vote wisely.

19. When you are killed you are allowed 1 post which may contain no other characters, letters, words or phrases besides "Bah" and/or "Go Town." Please refrain from doing even this unless absolutely necessary.

Helpful Links:

  • This game uses the F11 Setup. It consists of four variations, chosen at random:

  • 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker, 1 Sane Cop, 1 Doctor, 5 Townies.
  • 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Mafia Roleblocker, 7 Townies.
  • 2 Mafia Goons, 1 Sane Cop, 6 Townies.
  • 2 Mafia Goons, 1 Doctor, 6 Townies.


Sample Role PMs

The Mafia Roleblocker wrote:You are a , along with your partner _________ (who is simply a Goon). Your goal is to eliminate the pro-town players so that only your side remains; you win if this happens. During the Day, try to blend in with the rest of the players, and get someone lynched.

You may talk with your partner at Night, and send me a choice via PM of who you would like to kill/roleblock (your team can do both if both of you live; if only you survive, you must choose one action or the other).

Note: You may talk with your partner privately during confirmations to plan strategy, but no night actions will take place until Night One. For your convenience I have set up the following Quick Topic Thread which you may optionally use to communicate at night with your partner

The Mafia Goon wrote:You are a , along with your partner _________ Your goal is to eliminate the pro-town players so that only your side remains; you win if this happens. During the Day, try to blend in with the rest of the players, and get someone lynched.

You may talk with your partner at Night, and send me a choice via PM of who you would like to kill.

Note: You may talk with your partner privately during confirmations to plan strategy, but no night actions will take place until Night One. For your convenience I have set up the following Quick Topic Thread which you may optionally use to communicate at night with your partner

The Doctor wrote:You are the , and you can protect people from harm. Each Night, you may send me a choice via PM of who to protect; if they come under attack by the Mafia, they will live. You win if the scum are eliminated, so choose wisely at Night, and try to lynch correctly during the Day.

Note: Doctors are 100% effective in Newbie Games (the person they protect will never die on the night they are protected). You may not protect yourself.

The Cop wrote:You are the , and you can tell good from bad. Each Night, you may send a player's name to me; I will let you know if your investigation shows that they are Mafia or Town. You win if the scum are eliminated, so choose wisely at Night, and lynch well during the Day.

Note: Cops always get a correct result in Newbie Games (no sanity issues). You cannot investigate yourself.

Vanilla Townie wrote:You are a , and you've got no special powers at Night. No investigations, no protection, no gun to shoot people. Your only powers are the ability to post, vote, and think. Help lynch Mafia during the Day, and you will win the game, along with the rest of the Town.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:11 pm

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/confirm
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town: 0/1
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Some thing has come up. I wont be bk for a month or 2. I've replaced out of all my games. D: sorry guys...
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:18 pm

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/confirm
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:45 pm

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Once the game is over I will post links to the QT thread. If you have an issue with this please let me know in advance.
@mod
.... what's the QT thread? :)
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:50 pm

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:oops: :oops: :oops:

Never mind, I'm a huge noob.
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:28 am

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/confirm

Aww. I wish we had
The haiku rule to decide
Lynch ties at deadline
Considering my history with this site, I fully expect to get hit with the swine flu the next time I make it into a game.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:32 am

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/confirm

Hi, I'm your IC. =] If you have any questions about how to play the game, you can ask me, or one of your SE players - BlueRaven and Noramp. This is my first time ICing.

Once the game starts, they usually begin with random votes - votes with little to no reason - to get discussion started off, but sometimes a list of questions will allow you to skip the Random Voting Stage (RVS) all together.

Question for all players: How much experience do you have with the game mafia?

My answer: Onsite, I have 5 completed games, and am currently in three other games. I also have played a lot of real life mafia in both large and small groups.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to this game. :)
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:35 am

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@ Muffin: A quicktopic is a form of scum communication during the night phase. If you see it, I think you'll understand. Here's one from a larger game (completed): http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/YXsfC5knZz2j.

Oh, and hey again, BlueRaven. =]
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:43 am

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@KittyMo

Hi thar! Anyways, I don't have any experience playing Mafia in real life or on the internet, unless you count one or two games played when I was in elementary school as "experience." I have been looking at the wiki and at other games, so hopefully I won't be too much of a noob

@Mod This is me being an anal Grammar Nazi, but I think that "talking" in rule 6 should be "talk"
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:55 am

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Zyriex wrote:@KittyMo

Hi thar! Anyways, I don't have any experience playing Mafia in real life or on the internet, unless you count one or two games played when I was in elementary school as "experience." I have been looking at the wiki and at other games, so hopefully I won't be too much of a noob
Those are good things to be doing. Reading the Wiki is helpful, but I wouldn't reccommend following it very closely.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:31 am

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Hey kitty, good to see you again. Hopefully this time we're on the same side. ^_^

Oh and hey everyone else, i've played in one game fully and in 2 other games. For some reason vel put me into the SE slot but im not sure why... Oh well, it doesn't realy matter all that much. Im still quite experienced (or at least i try to think i am). oh, and i havnt played any RL games either...
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Some thing has come up. I wont be bk for a month or 2. I've replaced out of all my games. D: sorry guys...
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:19 am

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KittyMo wrote:@ Muffin: A quicktopic is a form of scum communication during the night phase.
Copy that.
KittyMo wrote:Once the game starts, they usually begin with random votes - votes with little to no reason - to get discussion started off, but sometimes a list of questions will allow you to skip the Random Voting Stage (RVS) all together.
Good call, I think the RVS is stupid.
Question for all players: How much experience do you have with the game mafia?
I've been playing RL mafia for years and years, online mafia only one or two games.
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:46 am

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Hey /confirm

I've played 5 or 6 games on site so far and I've played RL as well.

oh and I'm your other SE.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:43 am

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confirm
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:52 am

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Edit:

/confirm

Im currently in another game which is at day four and its going pretty slow so i decided to sign up for another game. Im a fast learner so dont worry about me being left behind. Even though im a bit behind on the vocabulary :)
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:21 pm

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/confirm

I've completed only one game on the internet, and I think I've played it once in elementary school.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:41 pm

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Looks like we're waiting on 2...

In the meantime, have a look at this. It's called the Kepler mission and IMO is one of the coolest projects NASA has attempted.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Mission
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:25 pm

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/confirm. sorry bout that.
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:50 pm

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Oh, hi again archebob. =]

And yeah, BlueRaven, I hope we're on the same team this time too. As much fun as last time was. xP
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:29 pm

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/confirm

Sorry for the lateness. And the answer to the IC's question is that this is my second game.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:34 pm

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THat's everyone. Let the game begin.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:32 pm

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Okay, lets get this started.

vote: python


Too busy talking to your scum-buddy to confirm, eh?
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:52 pm

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vote: python
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:55 pm

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BlueRaven wrote:Hey kitty, good to see you again. Hopefully this time we're on the same side. ^_^
This seems to me like BlueRaven is trying to soft-claim Town, i.e. being ignorant about other peoples' alignments.

Based on BR's experience I don't think this can be chalked up as some sort of newbie slip-up.

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