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Open 233: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo - Over!

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:38 pm
by Papa Zito
It was an exciting day for the Austin Chain Gang, America’s favorite AA baseball team. They were on their way to Japan to compete in a baseball tournament, when suddenly everything went wrong.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we seem to be experiencing some turbulence. Please fasten your seatbelts and remain calm, “ said the smiling flight attendant, just before she was sucked out of an emergency hatch. The plane rocked and swayed before bellyflopping into the Pacific in an exciting display of special effects!

As the team dogpaddled around the wreckage, someone who had absolutely no knowledge of planes pointed at the engines. “Holy crap guys look, it was sabotage! And it was definitely someone on the team, not one of the many members of the flight crew or maintenance staff or other passengers! In fact, to do that much damage it must have taken four (4) of them!” A collective gasp and some spluttering later, it was quickly agreed that there was only one way to handle this situation: start drowning people and hope they were bad guys.


Moderators

Papa Zito
SpyreX

Player List


Still dreaming those major league dreams

2. KageLord
5. Gammagooey
Austin Newman

9. drmyshottyizsik
tumescence


Dead, somehow

x. Papa Zito,
Neutral Pilot
, shot Day 1.
7. Zajnet,
Vanilla Townie
, lynched Day 1.
10. Enigma,
Vanilla Townie
, killed Night 1.
3. Chronopie,
Mafia Goon
, lynched Day 2.
1. Col.Cathart,
Vanilla Townie
Neutral Survivor
, was modkilled and autolossed Day 2 for violating Rule 12.
17. curiouskarmadog,
Cop
, killed Night 2.
13. Beefster,
Vanilla Townie
, lynched Day 3.
15. Sotty7,
Vanilla Townie
, was killed Night 3.
4. ConfidAnon,
Vanilla Townie
, was lynched Day 4.
8. Zorblag,
Mafia Ninja
Neutral Survivor
, was modkilled and autolossed for violating Rule 12.
14. Equinox,
Vanilla Townie
, was killed Night 4.
18. silverbullet999,
Vanilla Townie
, was lynched Day 5.
6. AGar,
Vanilla Townie
, was killed Night 5.
11. StrangerCoug,
Vanilla Townie
, was killed Night 6.
12. smashbro_of_the_SSS,
Mafia Goon
, was lynched Day 7.
16. singersigner
Prox
PaltryExcuse
,
Vanilla Townie
, was killed Night 7.

Game Events

Day 1 Ends | Day 2 Begins
Day 2 Ends | Day 3 Begins
Day 3 Ends | Day 4 Begins
Day 4 Ends | Day 5 Begins
Day 5 Ends | Day 6 Begins
Day 6 Ends | Day 7 Begins
Day 7 Ends | Day 8 Begins
Endgame

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:45 pm
by Papa Zito
General Rules

This game uses the BaM ruleset. Please pay special attention to the deadline and replacement rules.

1.) Votes must be
bolded
and at the start of a line. If we don’t see it, we wont count it.
2.) Unvoting is nice, but not necessary.
3.) Once a majority is reached, that person is lynched.
4.) If there is no majority at deadline, there will be no lynch for that day.
5.) Day 1 will have an approximated deadline based on when the game starts – it will be no less than a week.
All following days will have a deadline of 7 days.

6.) Nights will have 48 hours maximum. Any night actions not submitted will simply not happen – the thread should be open 48 hours following a deadline lynch.
7.) Do not talk about this game outside the thread unless your role allows you to.
8.) When you die, you are dead. Stay that way.
9.) Do not edit posts. Do not use invisible text. Do not use small text.
10.) Do not quote any communication from the mod (that includes PMs) in the game thread.
11.) If you are going to be gone for an extended period of time, please let me know. See rule 12.
12.)
If you do not post for the equivalent of a full game day (see rule 5) you will be modkilled. Further, you will be blacklisted from any future games using the BaM ruleset. Keep in mind that there are no replacements for flaking in a BaM ruleset game. Other circumstances requiring replacement are up to the mods discretion.

13.) If you notice mistakes aside from the vote count, PM me. Bold notification about vote count issues in the thread.
14.) Play to win.
15.) Play with the spirit of the game in mind.
15.a.) This means ASK before you do something you think I might question. Questions are good. Modkills are bad. See rule 12.
16.) Have fun. Remember that everyone playing are actually real people and treat them as such.
17.)
Red
is our color. Don’t use it.
18.) Night actions are determined using Natural Action Resolution


Game-Specific Rules

1. This is an open setup. All role PMs in the game are listed below.
2. Roles were determined using the following harrowing math. And random.org.

a. One of these with equal likelihood:
* 1 Mafia goon, 1 Mafia roleblocker, 1 cop, 1 doctor, 5 vanilla townies
* 2 Mafia goons, 1 cop, 6 vanilla townies
* 2 Mafia goons, 1 doctor, 6 vanilla townies
* 1 Mafia goon, 1 Mafia roleblocker, 7 vanilla townies
b. One of these with equal likelihood:
* 1 Mafia goon, 1 Mafia ninja, 1 tracker, 1 watcher, 5 vanilla townies
* 2 Mafia goons, 1 tracker, 6 vanilla townies
* 2 Mafia goons, 1 watcher, 6 vanilla townies
* 1 Mafia goon, 1 Mafia ninja, 7 vanilla townies
Note: Split the 18-player game in two and independently generate each half. Half 1 is the standard F11; half 2 replaces the cop, doc, and roleblocker with a tracker, watcher, and ninja respectively. Then combine them back together.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:50 pm
by Papa Zito
Possible Roles


TOWN


Vanilla Townie PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
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Throws:
Avg:
Trivia!:


Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Vanilla Townie
. As such you have no cool powers or anything. You’re just cannon fodder. A pawn in the schemes of giants. One of those little chips on the checkers board before it gets to that other side, and gets another chip on it, and then bounces back and makes your little sister cry. Muahahahah.

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated. Since this is an open game, that would be the 4 mafia guys. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Watcher PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Watcher
. You are good at watching things. Grass grow? Please. Paint dry? Child’s play. You had a staring contest with the Sphinx once and won. Aww yeah.

Because you’re so special, you can choose to watch a target each night. If anyone else tries to do something to that target (nefarious or otherwise!) you’ll be notified who it was, though not what they did. If you fail to submit a watch target before the deadline then you forfeit it, sorry.

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated. Since this is an open game, that would be the 4 mafia guys. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Tracker PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
Bats:
Throws:
Avg:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Tracker
. As a direct descendent of Aragorn, son of Arathorn, you have the ability to crouch down in weeds or forests or whatever and somehow magically figure out where someone went. You also have really greasy hair and really manly stubble.

Your cool special powers allow you to choose a target at night, and follow them wherever they go. If they go somewhere you’ll be told who they visited, though not what they did. If you fail to submit a target before the deadline then you forfeit it, sorry.

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated. Since this is an open game, that would be the 4 mafia guys. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Cop PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
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Throws:
Avg:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Cop
. Hey look, a donut! Ha ha, just kidding. That was just a guy stealing the radio from your squad car. You should probably go waddle after him or something.

As a cop you get to be super nosy! Each night you may target a player, and I’ll tell you if they’re either town-aligned or mafia-aligned. If I tell you anything else I was probably drunk and you should request the information again. If you fail to submit a target before the deadline then you forfeit it, sorry.

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated. Since this is an open game, that would be the 4 mafia guys. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Doctor PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
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Throws:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Doctor
. As the foremost specialist in Bulletology in the entire world, you’re more than capable of saving patients who have been shot in the head at point-blank range without the use of any sorts of tools whatsoever. Hopefully the mafia guys didn’t think to bring knives.

Each night you may choose a player to protect, and if someone attempts to kill that player they get to live instead. If you fail to submit a target before the deadline then you forfeit it, sorry. And then someone will die. Nice going.

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated. Since this is an open game, that would be the 4 mafia guys. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


MAFIA


Mafia Goon PM
Name:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Mafia Goon
. According to Hollywood, you are quite large, square-shaped, dumb, and talk in a funny accent. Please feel free to any or all of these things in the game, though they will probably make the town’s job a little easier.

You have no cool powers or anything, beyond your factional kill of course. Speaking of which, because of the possibilities of watchers or trackers in this game, you must choose one of your members to make the factional kill. If no kill is submitted by deadline, I will select a killer/target at random. (this may or may not be a good thing) No kill may be expressly chosen, of course, but then you’d be a bunch of dirty hippies.

Oh, one other thing... you have a QuickTopic here available to hatch nefarious plots. Please do all your plotting at night since that’s when nefariousism is at its best.

You win when the remaining members of your faction equal or outnumber the remaining townies, and nothing can prevent the same. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Mafia Roleblocker PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
Bats:
Throws:
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Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Mafia Roleblocker
. You’re kinda like Julia Roberts in that one movie, except without the heart of gold. More like a heart of cold black dirty coal. Also you’re probably not as cute as Julia Roberts, cuz damn.

Because you’re super special, you may choose to roleblock one target every night. Roleblocking a target means said target won’t be able to use any of their cool powers that night. Provided they have any. If you don’t submit a target before deadline you forfeit it, sorry.

You also have your factional kill of course. Speaking of which, because of the possibilities of watchers or trackers in this game, you must choose one of your members to make the factional kill. If no kill is submitted by deadline, I will select a killer/target at random. (this may or may not be a good thing) No kill may be expressly chosen, of course, but then you’d be a bunch of dirty hippies.

Oh, one other thing... you have a QuickTopic here available to hatch nefarious plots. Please do all your plotting at night since that’s when nefariousism is at its best.

You win when the remaining members of your faction equal or outnumber the remaining townies, and nothing can prevent the same. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.


Mafia Ninja PM
Name:
Position:
Height:
Weight:
Bats:
Throws:
Avg:
Trivia!:


Welcome to Open 232: Ninja Mafia Boogaloo,
PlayerName
. You are a
Mafia Ninja
. Why is there a ninja on a baseball team? Exactly!

Because you’re super special, you may choose to kill a target at night without having to worry about pesky snooping trackers or watchers getting in your way. Doing so constitutes using your factional kill. BTW, if no kill is submitted by deadline, I will select a killer/target at random. (this may or may not be a good thing) No kill may be expressly chosen, of course, but then you’d be a bunch of dirty hippies.

Oh, one other thing... you have a QuickTopic here available to hatch nefarious plots. Please do all your plotting at night since that’s when nefariousism is at its best.

You win when the remaining members of your faction equal or outnumber the remaining townies, and nothing can prevent the same. Good luck. The game thread is here. Please confirm via PM.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:23 am
by Papa Zito
With the method of finding the saboteurs settled, the assembled Chain Gang players begin accusing each other for, frankly, stupid reasons. They are interrupted by the pilot, who managed to escape from the cockpit by doing something with a wire hanger and a piece of chewing gum.

“You idiots! What are you doing? The rescue transponder is sending a signal, help is on the way, let the police figure HURK.” HURK is the sound you make when you get shot in the head while making an impassioned speech to an assembled AA baseball team that’s treading water in the Pacific after a plane crash. Or so I’ve heard.

Nonplussed, the group resumes accusing each other of murder for very silly reasons.


Papa Zito,
Neutral Pilot
, was shot Day 1.

First Votecount of Day 1


1. Col.Cathart (0):
2. KageLord (0):
3. Chronopie (0):
4. ConfidAnon (0):
5. Austin Newman (0):
6. AGar (0):
7. Zajnet (0):
8. Zorblag (0):
9. tumescence (0):
10. Enigma (0):
11. StrangerCoug (0):
12. smashbro_of_the_SSS (0):
13. Beefster (0):
14. Shattered Viewpoint (0):
15. Sotty7 (0):
16. PaltryExcuse (0):
17. curiouskarmadog (0):
18. silverbullet999 (0):

Players not voting: Col.Cathart, KageLord, Chronopie, ConfidAnon, Austin Newman, AGar, Zajnet, Zorblag, tumescence, Enigma, StrangerCoug, smashbro_of_the_SSS, Beefster, Shattered Viewpoint, Sotty7, PaltryExcuse, curiouskarmadog, silverbullet999

With 18 players alive, it takes 10 votes to lynch.
Deadline: August 4th @ 11:59PM CST

PaltryExcuse and Austin Newman have yet to pick up their role PMs. They have 24 hours to do so before they are forcefully replaced.

Also I'm trying to figure out how to make the fun little sun icon appear on my thread. Stay tuned for this very exciting development!

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:27 pm
by silverbullet999
VOTE: Agar

Cause you are scum and i missed ya :D

also hi beefster!

also with the votecount, how many votes do the players 13 and on have? I don't see a number associated with them!

Also how did the pilot get shot in front of all of us... without seeing who the shooter was?! I call inaccuracy!

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:34 pm
by silverbullet999
Ah ok thanks for fixing the vote count mod! I have 0 votes woot!

but wait... how did we all not see the shooter!?!?! this hasn't been addressed!!

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:35 pm
by silverbullet999
EBWOP

Also why am i player number 18... that doesn't seem fair! : ( I wanna be #1

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:47 pm
by curiouskarmadog
vote zorblag
, out of respect.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:03 pm
by Enigma
VOTE: Agar

I'll make some very silly reason up now ...
You had the shortest name hence easiest to type up.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:06 pm
by Chronopie
Vote: Enigma
for posting before me.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:29 pm
by Zorblag
Good day everyone. I'll be replacing SensFan. It looks like I know a few of the people in the thread and I look forward to getting to know the rest of you. You're welcome to call me Zorblag, Zorb, Zor, Z or Troll. If you're interested in how I play, my previous games are all listed on my Wiki Page. Some of the links for the older games are broken as of the move to the new boards but the recent game links are working fine (the rest should be in the archives somewhere but I haven't bothered tracking everything down as I think the links are supposed to get a universal fix eventually.) If you'd like to know more about me outside the games you can check out my GTKAS Thread. If you've got any questions that the two of those don't answer feel free to ask. I'm not technically an IC this game as there aren't any but you're welcome to treat me as a resource for how things go on Mafia Scum if you're new to the site. Happily there are others here who will be fine resources as well.

So I'd like to start with some rules of thumb that I use for the F11 setup but which should still be mostly applicable here (as in some ways we're dealing with a double newbie game.) Most of you are aware of these but for those that are relatively new and might not be I think they're helpful. There's a Mafia Discussion thread about them here if you'd like to see what other experienced players had to say about them (as well as a couple other things that might be worth looking at.)
Zorblag wrote:Here are some rules of thumb that I like a lot for the current newbie setup. There are no absolute rules in mafia and others might disagree about some of them (and I'm happy to discuss them so long as we don't detract from the game itself by doing it) but I'm a fairly traditional/conservative player and find these to be useful.

1. Townies without power roles should not lie about their role except in very specific situations (which are unlikely to come up in newbie games.) Lying to save yourself from a lynch as a vanilla townie is much more likely to hurt the town than to help in the long run.

2. Townies without power roles should generally not claim to be vanilla townies. This makes it easier for the scum to figure out who the power roles are if there are any. Assuming that townies are following rule 1 they should avoid making claims other than simply being a pro-town role unless there is some strategy that the Town is using (e.g. massclaim at LyLo) or they are about to be lynched anyhow and keeping their non-power role status no longer makes it easier for the scum to find power roles.

3. If you suspect someone else of having a power role you shouldn't out them. Support them if you see a way to do it that doesn't out them and watch carefully to see if there are reasons to reassess your belief. Leave the claim of the power role to them unless you think that they will be lynched while they are away and wouldn't be able to make the claim them self.

4. If you do have a power role you should keep it hidden for now. Do not let yourself get lynched without revealing it but there is no reason to advertise it at the start in the setups that we could be in. If the scum know who have the power roles now they have the power to lynch or role block powers during the night and negate their usefulness.

5. If you're town, don't self hammer. This kills a pro town role and hurts the town's chances in the long run. It's much better to try to defend yourself or at the very least force the other players to place the last vote. There are exceptions when a deadline is involved but in general don't think that you're doing the town any favors by self hammering.

If any of those are unclear please do ask about them.
Beyond that,
VOTE: AGar for being the first person alphabetically by user name not to have posted since the game started. For anyone who cares, that's L-7 I believe.

Zorblag R`Lyeh

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:35 pm
by Beefster
Vote: KageLord


"Kage" means "shadow" in Japanese, therefore you are a Ninja.

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:35 pm
by Beefster
Also, I enjoyed reading the Mod's flavor text...

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:36 pm
by Col.Cathart
vote: silverbullet999


You talk way too much "w00t! random craziness n'stuff", for the first three posts of the game.

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:50 am
by curiouskarmadog
did I say respect?

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:22 am
by Sotty7
Vote: Zorblag


For not paying attention to what game this is :eek:

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:11 am
by AGar
VOTE: Sotty7VOTE:

For being the easiest name to type on my phone.

For the record, I will have limited posting for between 1 and 3 days. I'm in the hospital for some testing on my brainzzz. I was under the impression that a) I would have internet and b) I would not be allowed to have and use my phone. Both were lies. So I can post (woo blackberry!) but I'm limited (boo old blackberry curve!).

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:12 am
by AGar
VOTE: Sotty7

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:22 am
by ConfidAnon
Vote: curiouskarmadog


Curiosity killed the cat . . . therefore, he is a killer.

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:16 am
by smashbro_of_the_SSS
vote: Col. Cathart
for being #1 on the player list.

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:31 am
by Zajnet
VOTE: AGar Wagon the Lurker!

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:47 am
by PaltryExcuse
VOTE: Zajnet
Lurker? He posted before you did.

V/LA until Monday. Camping.

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:53 am
by Zajnet
o.0

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:12 pm
by silverbullet999
You talk way too much "w00t! random craziness n'stuff", for the first three posts of the game.
Your no fun... > : (

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:19 pm
by StrangerCoug
Vote: Shattered Viewpoint
for shattering my viewpoint.