Mini 291: Clue Mafia.....Game Over!

[Orbiting]

Clue Mafia Status Post

The Guests:

Alive:

(bold have confirmed)

BigAl

Mr. Flay

Dead:

TSAGod, Monsieur Brunette, town. Lynched, Day One.

BabyJesus, Miss Peach, town. Lynched, Day Two.

Fuldu, Professor Plum, town. Murdered, Night Two.

Tamuz, Mrs. White, scum. Lynched, Day Three.

Bamboomancer, Mrs. Peacock, doctor. Murdered, Night Three.

Masterchief (replaces elvis_knits), Madame Rose, town. Lynched, Day Four.

kops, Reverend Green, scum. Executed, Night Four.

EmpTyger (replaces MeMe), Sgt. Grey, scum. Lynched Day Five.

The Rooms:

Available:

The Study
The Hall
The Kitchen
The Dining Room
The Lounge

Full of Dead People:

The Ballroom - Mr. Boddy, with the knife, TSAGod, with the rope
The Conservatory - BabyJesus, with the lead pipe
The Billiard Room - Fuldu, with the candlestick, Tamuz, with the wrench
The Library - Bamboomancer, with the revolver. Masterchief, with the poison.
Outside the Library - kops, shot.
Outside the Library - EmpTyger, with the horseshoe.

[Orbiting]

The Rules

Please actually read the rules, even if you think you already know the rules, as there are some important bits in them about how this game will work.

The Rules:
Votes must be in

bold

. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted.

Please be attentive and unvote, if necessary, before casting a new vote. This is not required, but I’d appreciate it.

Lynches will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. You may vote: no lynch – majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death. Lack of movement in the game may result in a lynching deadline. If a lynching deadline is imposed, the player with the most votes at the deadline time will be lynched. If no players have any votes at the time the deadline expires, there will be no lynch.

The game is not to be discussed outside of the thread unless your role specifically states that you may do so.

There are only two factions in this game: scum and town. If your role PM said you were scum, you win with the scum. If your role PM identified you as anything else, you win with the town.

Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. A single uninformative ghost-post (such as "Go town" or "You all suck" or "Vive le revolution", that sort of thing) is acceptable, but not necessary.

Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts. Don't post invisibly or any of that sort of thing. If you feel that you must encode secret messages in the text, please do so in a clever manner. Also, as posts are meant to be read, please don't post in extremely small text. I can't read it and it makes me cranky.

Don’t quote any PMs from me, either completely or in part.

If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline.

Everyone in this game has a night choice

, even if it is just to choose a room. If you do not choose a room, I will assume that you are staying in the room you are currently in. If you have never chosen a room, I will randomly assign you to one. All players will choose their own rooms individually, although if your role allows you to speak outside the thread, you may, of course, deliberately decide to go to the same room.

Once a murder (nightkill) has been committed in a room, that room is off-limits for further choices.

(Seriously. Do you want to spend the night in a room with a dead guy? Because I don't.) The first post will contain a list of available rooms, and you will also be reminded of them in the thread periodically.

If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.

Remember, it’s a game. It’s supposed to played. It’s supposed to be fun. Hope you enjoy the party.

[Orbiting]

You wake slowly, head thick and ringing. You blink, taking in your surroundings. This is not your home. Where are you?

Wait.

Party. There was a party last night. The invitation was elegant, promising enchanting times with the best of society. You arrived, dressed in your finest, at seven o'clock yesterday evening. When you arrived, you were given a false name, so that no one would know you by reputation. The address on the invitation read "Boddy Manor". That must be where you are now.

Wait.

Where are your clothes? You look around. The room is ornately furnished, and full of beautiful things, but your things are nowhere among them. There is a dressing gown tossed across the back of an antique chair. It is the same color as the color in the name you've been given. You think, fuzzily, "This Boddy fellow must have a lot of these parties."

And then, your reflections are shattered by the sound of screaming, somewhere in the house. A woman is screaming. You spring from the bed, as quickly as your hangover will allow, and throw on the dressing gown. You fling open the door, and run through the marble-floored halls, each step thundering in your brain.

At last, you arrive in the Ballroom. The other guests have gathered here as well, dishevelled in their dressing gowns, none looking any more well than you feel. But they are not the source of the screaming. You focus your attention on the piano, heart pounding. Next to the piano stands the maid, shrieking like a banshee and pointing downwards. You follow the line of her arm down to a pair of legs on the floor. The legs are attached to a body, Mr. Boddy, who is stone cold dead on the tiled floor, blood pooling out around him. A large kitchen knife protrudes from his back.

You move towards the body as a group. The maid breaks off her screaming, which improves the situation quite a bit from your perspective. She looks at each of you in turn, then gives a final shriek and flees the room. Somewhere along her path, a door slams, and she is gone. You look around at the rest of the guests. Someone here is a murderer.

Welcome to Clue Mafia. It is Day One. Mr. Boddy is dead. With ten guests alive, it will take 6 to lynch.

[kops]

i take it we just started then? fun

randomvote: MeMe

... yes that was truly random... okeydokey

(btw i have yet to be in a mafiagame in which i dont make the first post w00t)

[TSAGod]

vote kops

Have you been in a mafia game where you weren't the first person dead?

[kops]

several, why do you ask?

unvote

OMGUS

vote: TSAGod

[BabyJesus]

several, why do you ask?

unvote

OMGUS

vote: TSAGod

holy crap, overreact much?

vote kops

[Mr. Flay]

Vote: The Butler

... wait, that's not how this works, is it?

[bigAl]

Hi all!

Randomly

vote TSAGod

.

[Tamuz]

Like Sam Adams

vote:BJ

is always a good decision!

[Mr. Flay]

Unvote, Vote: BabyJesus

- somebody has to die Day One, or so I've heard.

[elvis_knits]

vote Mr. Flay

[MeMe]

vote: Flay

[Bamboomancer]

Vote: EK

[elvis_knits]

To clarify:

Anyone who votes for someone not on the player list, as a joke, like "The Butler," is a good place to put my first vote.

[MeMe]

My sentiments exactly.

[BabyJesus]

unvote, vote flay

[Orbiting]

Everyone stands around aghast, pointing fingers wildly at the other guests. Time for a VOTE COUNT.

Mr. Flay - 3 (MeMe, BabyJesus, elvis_knits)
BabyJesus - 2 (Mr. Flay, Tamuz)
TSAGod - 2 (kops, BigAl)
kops - 1 (TSAGod)
elvis_knits - 1 (Bamboomancer)

Not Voting: Fuldu

[Mr. Flay]

Well, now that we've actually got reasons for the votes on me...

Why, exactly, does this strike you folks as a reason to vote? And I'm surprised/horrified at a "Me too" response from MeMe. I'm on record as saying I don't usually randomly vote, so a nonsense vote to show that I was here and listening didn't seem out of place. I actually expected some flak for turning the tables on BabyJesus' "let's run somebody up a rope ASAP" strategy, but this Butler thing? Ludicrious. Have you people actually seen the movie?

In addition, I'll almost guarantee that there's scum on my wagon, because all three came in initially with NO REASON whatsoever for their vote. Elvis later redacted herself to say it was because of the Butler thing, when she could have said that initially. MeMe chimed in with a Me too, and there are at least two possible reasons for BJ's vote, neither of which he gave.

Hell, I could have expected to be run up a rail based on my relationship with the mod or the "lynch-Flay-just-in-case" prosecution, but this? Preposterous. Vote stands until someone can show me a better target for his own methods than BJ.

[kops]

now that you mention it....

unvote, vote: Mr. Flay

for keeping the mod in his basement...
ok, fine

unvote

only to avoid a speedlynch but IGMEOY =P

[MeMe]

And I'm surprised/horrified at a "Me too" response from MeMe.

I voted you for exactly that reason

before

elvis explained her vote. Not a "me too" -- it's an "exactly," just as I said. I had no idea that her vote was anything other than random.

In addition, I'll almost guarantee that there's scum on my wagon, because all three came in initially with NO REASON whatsoever for their vote.

I'm "on record" as often not providing a reason for my early votes. A non-verbalized reason isn't the same as a nonexistent reason.

[elvis_knits]

Why, exactly, does this strike you folks as a reason to vote?

Because every time I've seen someone vote for the Mod or some other joke vote, they're scum. Off the top of my head, I remember LyingBrian voted for the Mod in Peanuts mini mafia. He was a traitor. I don't know if that's technically scum, but it's potential scum, and that's good enough for me.

I didn't post my reason originally because it's a very sense-of-smell reason. Then when people stopped talking I figured I should elaborate for discussion's sake. I don't think this necessarily makes Flay scum. I just tend to watch out for people who are too happy on page one. There are D1 antics and then there are D1 scum-happy antics.

I actually expected some flak for turning the tables on BabyJesus' "let's run somebody up a rope ASAP" strategy

Yeah. I also thought your vote on BJ was a cop-out.

[Fuldu]

For the record, I presumed that that was MeMe's reason for voting you even before it was expounded upon, Flay. Add to that the BJ vote without a stated reason (or, at least, a reason solely justified by my favorite scumtell, the eyeroll smiley), followed by a complaint about votes without stated reasons, and I'm ready to vote for you.

So here's the thing, and I've said this before, though not to you. Posts that provide the appearance of contribution to the game without actually providing any actual value are a fair scumtell. It's just an elaborate/covert form of lurking, but one that's done deliberately rather than through apathy, meaning it's actually more likely to indicate scum than standard lurking would be. Joke posts are one type of "appearance of contribution" post, and in the early game when there's little else to go on, they seem a perfectly reasonable place to start.

[bigAl]

Flay seems a bit defensive...interesting reaction. As far as a page one suspect goes, I would lean towards Mr. Flay, but there's no real indication one way or another yet.

Have you people actually seen the movie?

There's a Clue movie? Hollywood must be officially out of ideas if they have to start making movies out of board games.

[elvis_knits]

OMG. bigAl...the movie is a classic. Tim Curry is THE BUTLER (pokes Flay).