A game of Forum Mafia hosted by Mishukax and Kaitou
"The monsters, the mythical creatures, the legendary figures we either fear or consider curiously: once Halloween comes, they are all gathered for the long-awaited festivities. But this year, it seems that the festivities turned into hostilities... a dark presence with intentions to cause harm has indeed made itself known. Soon, before the festivities can start, someone will die, and until the hidden predators have eliminated all opposition, the innocent will continue to die. Unless, of course, the predators themselves are destroyed first..."
HOW TO PLAY (Important!) Watch this video!
Essentially, there will be 15 players. Before the game starts, all players will receive through their PMs a role with their faction (blue or red) along with their special abilities. There will be more blue faction members than red faction members. However, the catch is that the blue faction members don't know who is in which faction: they only know their own role. The red faction, on the other hand, know of each other's identities because they will be invited to a secret MAL club where they will see who they are partnered up with.
At the beginning of the game, the first "day phase" starts, and the players must try to weed out the evil by lynching someone they suspect to be a member of the red faction. To do so, each player can vote for another by using the format Vote lynch: Username. Votes can be changed anytime before the day phase ends. Following that, the true role of the lynched player (the one with the most votes) will be revealed to all and that player will be eliminated and unable to further participate. The game then enters a night phase, during which the players will not be able to post in the thread. However, the red faction will be plotting in their secret club to choose a victim. Players with special abilities will be able to perform them by sending their actions through PMs with me, too. Day and night phases last 24 hours each. Thus, 24 hours for a day, then 24 hours for a night, then 24 hours for a second day, etc. The phases follow each other until one faction (blue or red) reaches their win condition. The goal of the red faction is to outnumber the blue faction, while the goal of the blue faction is to eliminate all members of the red faction.
RULES
1. Do not reveal your role by the use of screenshots, quoting my PMs or other similar means. Of course, you are free to pretend to be a role you're not or try to explain to everyone your role and hope they listen. 2. Be active! The roles require everyone to be participating. If you fail to be active and don't contribute to the lynching discussion properly, you might be disqualified for idling.
3. Voting during day phase is NOT MANDATORY. Regardless of the number of votes, the most voted player will die. If I am not present at the exact time for the phase change, every action or vote submitted after the official deadline will not be counted. 4. I am the moderator of this game and what I say goes.
5. If you are going to be away from MAL, I unfortunately cannot assure you that you will live through your absence. If people lynch you or kill you while you are not present, it's their choice and nothing can be done, otherwise it will corrupt the game. If you're certain to be away for too long, ask the host to be replaced. If you fail to submit at least 5 (relatively) constructive posts during a day phase, you will receive a warning. If it happens again, you will be replaced. 6. Personal insults will not be tolerated. Please know that playstyles can change depending on the circumstances and role of a player, so do not assume anything personal during the course of this game. If you ever have a problem with another player, message the host.
7. Do not use any external communications (personal messages, instant messenger, etc.) to discuss the game. Everything must be said in this thread. The red faction members and certain roles may communicate in their designated secret club during the night phase. 8. All night actions and questions regarding the game should be sent to me (Mishukax), and me only. Anyone can arbitrarily update the lynching vote count, but I will always verify it.
9. Play to your win condition. 10. Do not edit nor delete posts you have made. Correcting typos is fine.
11. Follow the site & forum guidelines.
ROLES All players will be assigned one of the following roles. As there will be 15 players and the number of available roles is 20, you must know that 5 roles will be unused. The players will not know which are the 5 unused roles.
BLUE FACTION (town)
Usage: PM a player name to the host during the first day. From the first night onward, the chosen player will not be able to perform his abilities. If Yuki Onna dies during any phase, the chosen player will be able to perform his abilities again starting from the following phase.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: PM a player name to the host during each night phase. The chosen player will be protected from any kill if they happen to be targeted during that same phase.
Amount of shots: unlimited
Usage: During a day phase, PM to the host something along the lines of "I want to save this day's lynched player." It is possible to change your mind about your decision, in which case you should let the host know through PMs. If you choose to activate your ability, the lynched player will still be eliminated (unable to vote and use abilities) BUT his role will not be revealed and he will be allowed to continue posting in the thread, perhaps to help the players if he is blue or confuse them if he is red. It is important to note that the ability will not work if activated after the day phase deadline (when the lynched player has already been decided). Thus, you will have to predict who will get lynched if there is a particular player in your mind that you want to save.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: PM two player names to the host during one night phase. All actions which were directed at your first choice (this includes kills) will be redirected at your second choice, and all actions which were directed at your second choice will be redirected at your first choice. This doesn't affect the targets of the actions used by the players you switch. Thus, very funky things can happen. Suppose the following situation:
Bobby is not targeted by any ability, but he targets Charles to kill him;
Charles is only targeted by Bobby's kill and isn't targeting anyone;
If that night you activate your ability on both Bobby and Charles, then Bobby will effectively have his kill redirected on himself. It is important to note that the switched players do not get notified that they were switched; and if someone ends up targeting a switched player, they will not be aware that their target changed (this could mess with some investigative abilities!)
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: During a day phase, PM to the host something along the lines of "I want to skip the following night phase." It is possible to change your mind about your decision, in which case you should let the host know through PMs. If you choose to activate your ability, the day proceeds as planned, and once the deadline is reached (and a player is lynched), another day phase will immediately follow, which will still last 24 hours. Thus, a night is skipped. It is not possible to use any ability for the skipped night.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: PM two player names to the host during one night phase. Once the following day comes you will have learned whether the two chosen players share the same faction or not. For instance, you can learn that Bobby and Charles are in the same faction, but you cannot learn that Bobby and Charles are both in the blue faction. This ability will fail if any of the two chosen players uses an ability during that same night (and you will lose your one-time shot)!
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: If, once a day phase ends and the final votes are posted by the host, your vote is the first to be placed on a player, it will count as 0 (but will still show up as 1 on the votecount to keep your identity secret to the other players). If your vote is the last to be placed on a player, it will count as 2. If your vote is the only one to be placed on a player (which makes it both the first and the last), it will count as 1 like a regular vote. Updated votecounts will regularly be posted by the host during each day phase, so you can track where your vote is and if it was placed first, last, or none of these.
Amount of shots: infinite
Usage: PM a player name to the host at any time during the game. The last player name sent to the host will correspond to your target. If you ever happen to die, your target will die as well. You can also choose to not have any target, in which case you should let the host know.
Amount of shots: one time (as in, one kill only)
Usage: PM a player name to the host during a night phase. Once the following day comes you will have learned what the faction of that player is.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: PM a player name to the host during a night phase. Once the following day comes you will have learned of who that player visited during that same night. You will not learn of what actions were performed by the player. If the chosen player does not target anyone, you will get a result that says so.
Amount of shots: two times
Usage: PM a player name to the host during a night phase. Once the following day comes you will have learned of who visited that player during that same night. You will not learn of what actions were performed on the player. If the chosen player is not targeted by anyone other than you, you will get a result that says so.
Amount of shots: two times
Usage: At the start of the game, you will be invited to a secret club. As the game goes on, all dead players will also be invited to this same club, and you will be able to discuss with them as long as you are still alive in the game and as long as it is a night phase.
Amount of shots: -
Usage: PM a player name to the host during a night phase. Any ability or kill performed by the chosen player during that same phase will have no effect.
Amount of shots: two times
Usage: During a night phase, PM to the host something along the lines of "I want to become invisible tonight." It is possible to change your mind about your decision, in which case you should let the host know through PMs. If you choose to activate your ability, any ability or kill directed at you during that same night will have no effect. This also works for abilities that target two players (you will cancel Baba Yaga's switch if you are part of it, and Cassandra's ability will return will no results).
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: During a day phase, PM to the host something along the lines of "I want to save this day's lynched player." It is possible to change your mind about your decision, in which case you should let the host know through PMs. If you choose to activate your ability, the lynched player will survive and the day will end with no lynched player. It is important to note that the ability will not work if activated after the day phase deadline (when the lynched player has already been decided). Thus, you will have to predict who will get lynched if there is a particular player in your mind that you want to save.
Amount of shots: one time
RED FACTION (mafia)
Usage: During a night phase, when discussing your nightly target with your red faction teammates, post something along the lines of "I want to make an additional kill tonight" in the faction's secret club. You must, along with this, mention the name of a player you wish to target for a kill.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: During a night phase, when discussing your nightly target with your red faction teammates, post something along the lines of "I want to hide the role of the killed player tonight" in the faction's secret club. Once the killed player will be revealed as dead during the following day phase, his role will not be shown publicly, but will be shown to the red faction in their secret club.
Amount of shots: one time
Usage: Your vote is always worth 2 votes (but will still show up as 1 on the votecount to keep your identity secret to the other players). Moreover, any investigative ability that attempts to learn something about what faction you are on will see you as a member of the blue faction.
Amount of shots: -
Usage: You cannot get killed by any kill performed on you by a member of the blue faction. Moreover, if a day phase ends with tied votes, you will be chosen as the lynched player, even if you are not part of the tie.
Amount of shots: -
Usage: During a night phase, when discussing your nightly target with your red faction teammates, post something along the lines of "I want to make our factional kill unstoppable and undetectable" in the faction's secret club. Thus, any ability that should protect the targeted player or detect movement will not work.
Amount of shots: one time
MishukaxOct 28, 2018 2:16 PM
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NOTES (Important!)
You will not receive MALoween candy for participation. This game will most likely not end before the mansion closes its doors... However, we still encourage that you play and have fun! People should only sign up if they really plan on playing. Signing up without playing the game is extremely unfair to people who couldn't join and for the ones who are actively playing. If you have a busy schedule or would rather focus entirely on the MALoween rooms which give out candy, you might want to sit this one out. If you enjoy elaborate forum games like these, please check out Mafia Society as well; this game was created in there. Thanks!
SIGNING UP
The game will have 15 slots. You must be a member of the MALoween group to join. Once the sign-up list has 15 filled slots, the sign-ups will close and the game will eventually start.
///Sign-ups are closed!/// When you sign up, I ask that you post in this thread using the following format: Join: Username (bolded)
By doing so, you attest that you have read the "how to play," "rules" and "notes" sections with care. If you wish to be removed from the list, please let me know.
Astros said: Put me down for spot eleven. I didn't get to play my last game and I can juggle both MALoween and this.
You're more than welcome here. We're currently lighting up the candles in preparation for the festivities... I wonder if our other guests will show up soon!
Mishukax said: You're more than welcome here. We're currently lighting up the candles in preparation for the festivities... I wonder if our other guests will show up soon!
I do hope I won't be all by my lonesome this Halloween. :)
Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
abhutrash said: Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
the unused roles can be both town and mafia aligned, personally I don't think there will be 5 mafia players, at least 1 mafia role will be unused, 5 mafia players isn't a common setup here on MAL. So mafia will either be 3 or 4, four mafia is more likely in my opinion
abhutrash said: Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
Same here, I looked at last year's MALoween mafia game (which is what convinced me to do it this year), thankfully there's only 1 position left to be filled...
Hopefully this starts soon. I wanna be a mafia. Sounds fun. I remember playing this for the first time on a car ride, and having a blast playing it. It was so fun to trick the other members. But hey, just playing will be fun. I'll gladly accept any role.
TribstyAnn said: Hopefully this starts soon. I wanna be a mafia. Sounds fun. I remember playing this for the first time on a car ride, and having a blast playing it. It was so fun to trick the other members. But hey, just playing will be fun. I'll gladly accept any role.
abhutrash said: Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
the unused roles can be both town and mafia aligned, personally I don't think there will be 5 mafia players, at least 1 mafia role will be unused, 5 mafia players isn't a common setup here on MAL. So mafia will either be 3 or 4, four mafia is more likely in my opinion
Sweet, thanks! I kinda figured that's how it would be. I used to play mafia with friends back in HS and that's how we would've run it.
TribstyAnn said: Not this exact version with the monsters, but just normal mafia, with townspeople, a nurse, a sheriff, and the mafia.
These monsters are nothing but flavour and a theme for Halloween they don't effect the game much, the roles aren't much different than the common ones, but since this is a role madness game there might be some new roles to you.
abhutrash said: Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
the unused roles can be both town and mafia aligned, personally I don't think there will be 5 mafia players, at least 1 mafia role will be unused, 5 mafia players isn't a common setup here on MAL. So mafia will either be 3 or 4, four mafia is more likely in my opinion
Sweet, thanks! I kinda figured that's how it would be. I used to play mafia with friends back in HS and that's how we would've run it.
Good luck all! ^^
you're welcome, nice so you too have some experience with mafia games
Thank you kindly for signing up! The MALoween event organizers, as well as me and Kaitou, hope that you have a fun time. The roles will be sent out through PMs in the following hours, and the red faction members will be invited to their secret club. Happy killing!
You will be notified when the game actually starts - it will be in this thread.
abhutrash said: Gee, this isn't filling up as fast as I thought it would.
Just as a preliminary question, of the five roles that aren't going to be used do we know whether they are town members or mafia members? In other words, will all five available mafia positions be filled? Sorry if this is a dumb question, this is my first time doing an online mafia game.
Haha yeah, took only 40 minutes to fill for last year's game. I think it has to do with the timing at which I posted the sign-ups.
As AbuHumaid said, the five unused roles could be anything. You can be sure that we aimed to make the game balanced for either faction when choosing the roles, though!
TribstyAnn said: Hopefully this starts soon. I wanna be a mafia. Sounds fun. I remember playing this for the first time on a car ride, and having a blast playing it. It was so fun to trick the other members. But hey, just playing will be fun. I'll gladly accept any role.
The role distribution is entirely randomized, so you'll have to deal with whatever you're given >:D
@ironace@Phraze I can add you to the waitlist if you want, in case a player wants to replace out.
Mishukax said: As AbuHumaid said, the five unused roles could be anything. You can be sure that we aimed to make the game balanced for either faction when choosing the roles, though!
inb4 all fifteen roles are town with no mafia xD
Spooky tale of villagers killing each other off one by one under a raving paranoia.
Man! Some of the mafia's abilities seem overpowered. It's gonna make this fun. I have a quershtion, though. In the exclusive chat for the dead members, are they allowed to share spoilers? Obviously it would stay within their dead-only chat (unless there is a Quetzalcoatl playing), but would it be allowed to reveal roles or factions of other members? Say if you were a mafia and knew who the other mafia were, ar figured somebodies ability out?
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