OcUK Mafia game thread - Game 1

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Welcome, one and all to the wonderful world of Mafia! Nine of you have volunteered yourself into this bloodbath, how many leave is up to you.

The game of Mafia is simple. Most of you are innocent little townies, just going about your everyday lives, but there are a couple of Mafia scum amongst you. They want nothing better than to run the town, and the only way to do that is to kill everyone else! They do this secretly at night, conspiring to pick off one person, slowly whittling down the number of townies.

The game starts just as the townsfolk have discovered this truth, at the beginning of Day 1. Amongst the 9 of you, there are two Mafia members. If you just wait, you will slowly be picked off, so there can only be one solution. A lynching! Every day you will have 48 hours to decide as a group who to kill. All player discussions must be made inside this thread, no secret emailing, everything is done in the open. To vote, end a post with
Vote: <Name>

If you later on decide to change your vote, which is completely allowed, please go back and edit your post with the strikethrough tag through the name of your vote. Do not remove the name; the fact that you voted for a certain player is public knowledge. Then you may make a new post containing your vote.

At the end of the 48 hour period, I will tally the votes, and whoever has the most will be offed. You did vote for it, after all. If there is a tie, I will look at the most recent vote that each player received. Whichever vote was cast first will be counted, and the lynching carried out on that player.

With a hard day's work done, you will all go back to your houses to sleep, and it will be night.
If there are any Mafia members alive at night, they will have 24 hours to secretly chat, be it through email, steam, IM or whatever method of communication they desire, and they pick their victim, and message me with their name. And the town will wake up with one less living townie.

Of course, not everything is against the townies, as there is a cop amongst you! Of course, he's not going to reveal himself and make himself a target for the Mafia, however each night he may carry out an investigation upon one other player. The cop will message me with any player's name, and will be told if they are a townie or a Mafia member.

tl;dr

During the 48 hour day phase, pick a player to kill. Player with the most votes dies.
During the 24 hour night phase, the Mafia decide together which player to kill. The cop decides who to investigate, and will discover the role of that player.

Try to check this thread regularly, you may need to post to defend yourself! You will all have been trusted out your roles in this game now, including the townies. (If you haven't received anything then contact me through trust please!)

Important rules
If you are not in the game, please do not post in this thread. Equally, please do not discuss the game in the original Mafia thread.
Do not post in the thread during the night.
Once you are dead, do not post in this thread. Ghost's can't talk!
If there is a strong desire from people to discuss this game, I'll make a google document, and only give access to those who ask and aren't currently alive in the game. That way you can all share your ideas and theories, and dead people can complain about the people that lynched them!
No discussing with other players outside of this thread. Only the two Mafia members can communicate like this, and only during the 24 hour night period. No, I can't police this, it's called trust, people :)
If you have to go for a long period of time, drop me a message and I'll see what I can do, potentially pausing the game to keep things fair.


If you have any questions about the rules, please either message me or ask in the other Mafia thread, depending on how much the question might give your role away!
As for now, the game is officially running, and it is


DAY 01


Players, it has come to your attention that there are members of the evil Mafia amongst you. The only way to save yourselves is to kill them before they get you! Voting begins now. You will have until 10PM on Monday 9th December to make your votes.
You may now use this thread to accuse, defend, point fingers, and vote.

Player list
Burnsy
Pookie
Shamikebab
K1LLSW1TCH
neil3k
kiyoshi
TheMightyTen
Gooner Leroy
Fortyseven
 
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Well, the results are in, and with 3 votes Shamikebab's fate has been decided. You're dead, and no longer able to participate in the game. Feel free to post in the original Mafia Thread (not this one), however don't post anything about who you think the different roles are, or discuss the details of this game in any way until the game is complete. Thanks!

We are now into the night phase of the game. Night will last until 10PM Tuesday 10th December.

Mafia, if you are both alive please discuss your target to kill, and both email me the name. If only one of you is alive, then just email me the name!

Cop, if you are still alive, please PM me the name of the target you would like to investigate.

There should be no further posting in this thread until I post again with the results tomorrow, after which discussion is free to start again.

Additionally, neil3k and TheMightyTen, please also email me by 10PM to show that you are still paying attention and interested in taking part, otherwise you will be replaced with one of the substitutes.
 
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It is DAY once again, and the townies all wake up... with one fewer member. Poor Fortyseven is no more, killed in his sleep.

Now it is Day 2. You have until 10PM on Thursday 12th December to decide who to lynch.

As a matter of housekeeping, Brabbinho has taken over from the inactive neil3k.
 
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What happens if there is no one with a majority vote?

In the case of a tie, I remove the newest vote from the thread, see if there is a winner yet, if not remove another, and so on until there is one player with the majority. If voting were to end now with this 4 way tie, first I would remove Brabbinho's vote as it's the newest, there is still a tie so next I would remove Pookie Bear's. Still a tie so I remove Kiyoshi's, and there is no longer a tie, and TheMightyTen would be lynched. In short, in case of a tie it pays to get your vote in early.
 
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Well, the results are in, and though it was initially a slow start, with 3 votes our new player Brabbinho has been eliminated. You're dead, and no longer able to participate in the game. Feel free to post in the original Mafia Thread (not this one), however don't post anything about who you think the different roles are, or discuss the details of this game in any way until the game is complete. Thanks!

We are now into the night phase of the game. Night will last until 10PM Friday 13th December.

Mafia, if you are both alive please discuss your target to kill, and both email me the name. If only one of you is alive, then just email me the name!

Cop, if you are still alive, please PM me the name of the target you would like to investigate.

There should be no further posting in this thread until I post again with the results tomorrow, after which discussion is free to start again.
 
The sun has risen once more over the bloodstained little village, and yet again one of your numbers is missing. This time it is poor K1LLSW1TCH who was offed in his sleep. But this is a new day, and a new chance for revenge!

Now it is Day 2. You have until 10PM on Monday 16th December to decide who to lynch.
 
With their mind as one, Burnsy is the next unfortunate target for the group, and there are 4 members left to go to sleep, two feeling unsure about the path they have taken, while the other two grin to themselves.

The target the mafia pick off in this 3rd night is irrelevant, as with two of them left to the one surviving townie, there is no way for them to lose, and as such this game is a total Mafia victory.

The game stats:

Mafia players:
Pookie Bear & Kiyoshi.

Town Cop: Burnsy.

Cop Investigations:
Night 1 - K1LLSWITCH (Townie)
Night 2 -

Though Burnsy apparently decided to get some shut eye rather than investigating anyone on night 2! Perhaps that's what got him lynched on the third day? Who knows! At the end of the day, the Mafia now rule this town. Well played to the two of you. Now for us all to learn from our mistakes, myself included, and venture forth back to the main Mafia thread where I'm preparing a second, larger game!
 
I for one welcome our new Mafia overlords :p

Sorry Burnsy, I figured you were something and it was a 50/50 shout. it would always be difficult calling for Pookie or Kiyoshi as the lynch victim as they could gang and fix.

Will be interesting in the next game if the roles are called after death.

True, but something like that is a key sign that you should be looking out for. Next game I'm going to expand the day by 24 hours as I'd like to see more discussion between the players, and the chance for people to really interrogate each other.
 
I see your point on the time frames, but increasing up to 13 players means there are likely to be people who can only be on at certain times, so I would want to give them enough time to reply to defend themselves.
 
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