Core 2016

Lately there has been a string of bastard spiders, selected roles, and backstabbing nations. We’ve seemed to have lost ourselves in the grandiose. But it’s time we go back. Back to basics. Back to roots. Back to where it all began. Let’s set the stage. Many many many moons ago the lovely wrathofmegs started a game on the mothership. Over the years since, that game grew and evolved and shifted homes a couple of times until it came to be what we know in NGA today. But this game is going to throw back to those early games, utilizing the basic roles it utilized, and the game structure it bore. Let’s start with the structure, parametered in the rules of the game.

Rules:

1. Do not discuss the game outside of the game thread except in the methods provided to you by the GO.
2. Once you have been removed from the active roster you are no longer allowed to post in the game thread or other quicktopics you have been provided by the GO.
3. Players may post during either day or night phases. They may not post in hard to read colors or “invisitext”, however.
4. Players are encouraged to show signs of activity, either overtly or covertly at least once every 48 hours. Failure to do so may result in replacement without warning.
5. The game will start in the night phase. During this phase players with roles choices to make will submit their choices. If a choice isn’t made by deadline, it will be taken as an election to not use the ability.
6. The Night phase will be proceeded by a “Dawn” period. During this period, the player who was killed the night before will be notified of their death and will be provided three clues with which they will craft their “death post” (posted by the GO). Votes during this time will not be counted.
7. Clues in death posts will point to Town, Mafia, and be red herrings altogether.
8. Day will officially be deadlined when the “death post” is posted by the GO. For the remainder of the day players will discuss the events of the previous night, the clues, and typical mafia style analysis. Players will also vote for whom they wish to see lynched, the player with the highest number of votes at the end of the day will be lynched.
9. Votes will be PM’d to the GO, votes in the thread will not be counted. There will be no running vote counts throughout the day. At the end of day, however, the final vote count will be made public.
10. In the event of a tie, random votes will be removed until there is a clear lynch leader.
11. The game will continue in this method until one of two outcomes occurs: The town has eliminated all mafia aligned players or the mafia outnumbers the current living town aligned players.

Things to keep in mind are as follows:
Each Role PM will be uniquely crafted, so meta’ing from them will be pointless.
Players are not allowed to edit anything posted to the game thread for any reason.
Questions concerning the game should be PM’d to the GO. Remember that no question is too small.
Be polite. I will modkill for unsportmanlike conduct.
Have fun. This is a game after all.

So now that we have our basic structure down, let’s talk roles. In the beginning there was only a handful to go around. This means that a bulk of the game is what we affectionately refer to as being “Vanilla”, ie they have no abilities beyond just talking in the thread. Town’s power will be supplemented by two roles this game. The first is the traditional cop. They will select a player each night and learn their alignment. The second will be a BodyGuard. They will select a player to protect each night, however, a successful protection will mean the BodyGuard dies in the targets place. Finally there will be a mafia Don (not to be confused with Godfather). The Don is simply the mafia member responsible for sending in the kill order to the GO. If the current Don dies, another will succeed him from the Goon ranks. So now that you know what to expect and how this game will be played, let’s get started...

Players:
1. Zinger, Beloved Magnificent Bastard
2. "One Coin" Scarlet
3. Sheppo
4. Everything's coming up Neosilk
5. Talk to me Goose
6. King of Doms
7. Hallo Hello
8. Because I'm Batmaaarrrghn
9. My guy Freday
(optional)
10. Rublecuble
11. Nikl-Pikl
12. le Tiny

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What's the deal with rule #10? Mod decides the lynch at random? Mehh

Sign me up!

That rule was developed years ago in response to a situation where the standard "Last vote is unvoted until there isn't a tie" resulted in all votes being removed except the first one cast that day. Rather than place importance/unfair advantage on players who were able to get into the thread and post faster than everybody else, this rule weights each vote equally in their chance to be removed.

If this is still open I'll give it a try.

It is Goose. We will be shooting for 9-12 players.

BTW, you don't mind if I call you goose do you?

Why would I want to drive a car without external cupholders?

at 15377 No I don't mind if you call me goose.

In if there is still room.

Hey people go vote for Mown, as my second order as owner of Mown will be to have play more mafia and help recruit and grow the community.

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I was just working at a more classic version of mafia to submit after realizing that the other set-up I made was a bit unconventional, it's not exactly classic, but it is very much mafia, I can still use it instead of the other version if the games before it's my turn to host are particularly weird.

In, although I might have to be subbed out at some point, depending on how long the game runs... Or I'll just have to get myself killed if it gets to be too stressful.

A classic game? Yeah I'll in for that!

I'm cool either way. Whatever gives you a better number of players, I guess.

There's two more slots in the optional 12 player mode. Since Spider-Bros ended towards a weekend (holiday weekend for some), I intend to keep sign ups open until tuesday afternoon to give anybody a chance who has been ignoring things because of that game to sign up without putting pressure on being present over the weekend. Tuesday afternoon I'll start the pre-game routine though, regardless of if those slots fill or not.

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Ya'll got room for little ol' me

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