Mysterium Mafia

[CaoimhinTheCape]

1st August, 1922

My request has been accepted by a dozen colleagues of mine, who arrived at the Manor today. I will be staying in the Manor with them, hoping that the spiritual energy of the place will help make the culprits clear.

However, we have already run into an issue where three of those I invited set out to join us did not arrive. I have received word that they died on their journey here. However, most worrying is that there was evidence that at least one of them had ties to the mafia.

I worry that some of the other guests I invited are similarly aligned...


CaoimhinTheCape

Spoiler: Recruitment Post

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17th July, 1922

Esteemed Colleague,

I write to you in the hopes that you will be free to assist me in a case at Manor of the Count of Warwick. Not long ago Lady Warwick was found dead in her home. Her death has been investigated by the police and ruled her death as a result of "natural causes". However, in the course of my own investigation I have sensed a supernatural energy about the manor and I believe Lady Warwick's spirit to be trapped here, unable to move on.

As a fellow psychic, I ask that you meet me at Warwick Manor to help me solve this murder. I suspect that organized crime is involved though I do not yet know how... Hopefully, with the number of psychics present the visions from any ghosts will be clearer.

If you are able, please respond to this letter as soon as possible.

Yours,

CaoimhinTheCape

Welcome! This is a game of Mafia/Werewolf in which players are assigned to one of two sides: Town or Mafia. The Mafia's goal is to eliminate all members of the Town, or at least enough that nothing can prevent this. The Town must discuss and vote out all of the Mafia members.

During the Day Phase players are allowed to talk in the main thread on these forums. During this time all the players try to decide who the bad guys are by voting for them. Votes are done in bold red text. You may change your vote if you wish, in which case, you should edit your previous post and strike-through your previous vote. Once the day has ended, whoever has the most votes is removed from the game (Lynched). In the event of a tie, common practice is to lynch whichever player reached that number of votes first.

Day Phase will last 48 hours.

Auto-lynches: If a player fails to post in the main thread for 2 Day phases, they will be auto-lynched. If you will be unable to get online to post in your games for some period of time, you should notify the narrator(s) in advance, either in-thread or via PM.

During the Night Phase you may continue to speak in thread, but there will be no voting. During this Phase, the Mafia will privately communicate to discuss who they would like to kill and remove from the game.

Night Phase will last 24 hours.




This game is unique in that when you die, you can still participate in the game. Though only living players may communicate in the main thread, the ghosts have unique abilities that may still help the Town.

When you die, you will be told the names of everyone in the Mafia. Then, you will be given access to a chat for your alignment (Town or Mafia).

Town Ghosts will be given a set of Visions that they can choose from to send to the players and hint at who is in the Mafia. Each Night, Town Ghosts can discuss and send up to 3 Visions to the Town, which will be shown to everyone at the start of the Day Phase. Any Visions you send will be replaced with new Visions as options for the next Night.

Mafia Ghosts will also be given a set of Visions they can choose from to send to the players to confuse them. These visions will be sent to the players as well, with nothing to distinguish Mafia Visions from Town Visions.

Below is an example of what Visions will look like:

Spoiler: Visions

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Players

• Rogan - Killed Night 1
• Book Wombat - Lynched Day 1
• AvatarVecna
• flat_footed - Lynched Day 4
• bladescape - Killed Night 3
• Xihirli - Killed Night 2
• FarmerBink
• Aventine 3SecondCultist
• Apogee1 - Lynched Day 3
• gac3 - Lynched Day 2
• Let'sGetKraken
• Snowblaze - Killed Night 4

Pre-Deceased Players

• Batcathat
• Elenna
• Grand Arbiter

Please Don't Post until I reply to the thread! It takes some time for threads to be approved by the moderators and appear here. Want to make sure everyone is set before people start posting.

Day 1 will be at least 48 hours long but the timer won't start until my next post.

- - - Updated - - -

Oh, wow, that was fast.


Day 1 Begins! It will last until Tuesday August 2nd, 10:00 PM EST (~49 hours from now)

[AvatarVecna]

Snowblaze.

[Book Wombat]

An eight!
3SecondCultist.

[flat_footed]

Oh, wow, that was fast.

The lack of Mod action for these threads was definitely a factor in me going for the badge.

Rogan. Number 1 on the list, seems a shame not to follow the narrator's guidance.

[gac3]

Book Wombat because why not? You always live so long.

[bladescape]

At this point it's tradition.

Snowblaze

[Snowblaze]

Let's get a Book Wombat wagon going. I will avenge bladescape, even if he'd rather get me killed.

[Rogan]

Players

• Rogan
• Book Wombat
• AvatarVecna
• flat_footed
• bladescape
• Xihirli
• FarmerBink
• 3SecondCultist
• Apogee1
• gac3
• Let'sGetKraken
• Snowblaze

Pre-Deceased Players

• Batcathat
• Elenna
• Grand Arbiter

Let's see... not going to vote for me, Book already has votes and I liked his last game, so let's give him a chance.
AV should have a chance to play and enjoy the game instead of being a random wagon day 1.
Flat died early quite often, so no, not going to go there...
Blades was the first to die last game, in hilarious circumstances. Not going to get my first vote.
Xihirli... now we are getting somewhere, but let's check the rest of my list.
Farmer, 3sec, Apogee and Kraken are new-ish or back after a break. Don't want to go there without good reason.
Gac feels fine as a target. Snow would be a classic for day 1.

Since I think it's too early for a wagon with 3 players, Snow is out right now. So let's go with my first hunch:

Xihirli

[Snowblaze]

So that means you might try and get me killed later, Rogan? I have a sense of impending doom. And speaking of psychic senses...

Yes. Supernatural energy was here, all right. There was clearly at least one spirit trapped here. She would need a little while to get to know the spiritual atmosphere of this place before risking any further divinations.

What disturbed her were the three deaths of her fellow psychics. That was not a coincidence. Someone didn't want this investigation to take place, and that someone was prepared to kill to make it happen.

And there was suspicion surrounding the thirteen living psychics here, and even the fact that there were thirteen of them was a bad omen. Everyone knew the stories of what happened when a dozen and one sat at the same table.

This was unlikely to end well.

(Counting Caoimhin as the thirteenth of our party purely so I can reference the superstition.)

[Rogan]

So that means you might try and get me killed later, Rogan? I have a sense of impending doom. And speaking of psychic senses...

That's worded a bit too strong, I guess.
It means I don't see any Meta reasons stopping me to accept your death day 1. So if during the day I start to suspect you or come to the conclusion that your death would yield info, I'll go for you. If you want to avoid this, make me believe you are town or give me a better target. The usual thing, really.

Also, nice RP. Maybe I'll try some as well, when I've got more time. That's assuming I'll find more time... Might take till tomorrow.

[Snowblaze]

Snowblaze 2: AvatarVecna, bladescape
Book Wombat 2: gac3, Snowblaze
3SecondCultist 1: Book Wombat
Xihirli 1: Rogan
Rogan 1: flat_footed

gently pokes thread with stick

[AvatarVecna]

I feel like one of the reasons Snowblaze tends to survive the D1 slaughter is because people's initial votes go on Snow, but then they get real votes later in the day, that are more authentic and grounded in reason. To that end, I'm going to move my vote from Snowblaze to Snowblaze, to try and game the system.

[bladescape]

Bwuh?

I'm sick don't poke me.

[Let'sGetKraken]

I'm going to abstain (No Lynch) and sit here while I await a message from beyond - don't know enough about you all to know who's acting suspicious yet!

As a newer player, is there a benefit to voting Day 1? It seems like we're more likely to hit town than maf.

[Book Wombat]

I'm going to abstain (No Lynch) and sit here while I await a message from beyond - don't know enough about you all to know who's acting suspicious yet!

As a newer player, is there a benefit to voting Day 1? It seems like we're more likely to hit town than maf.

To prompt discussion and maybe make some (un)pairings.

[Snowblaze]

Bwuh?

I'm sick don't poke me.

unpokes bladescape

I'm going to abstain (No Lynch) and sit here while I await a message from beyond - don't know enough about you all to know who's acting suspicious yet!

As a newer player, is there a benefit to voting Day 1? It seems like we're more likely to hit town than maf.

Basically what Wombat said. Yes, we're more likely to hit town, but the way to find wolves is to generate discussion and the way to generate discussion is to vote people and see what happens.

(This does have less merit in this particular game. Though given the existence of fake visions going off those and nothing else is unlikely to end well.)

[3SecondCultist]

3SecondCultist

[Farmerbink]

A short-haired, sweat drenched man with unkempt clothes and a haggard stare literally stumbles through the door. "Gods alive, it's worse than the armpit of satan out there! Now which one of you bastards cut the wiring to my air-conditioner?!" He stares around angrily, suspiciously at the gathered mediums. "Spent three days getting parts for that thrice-d@mned box, and it's been over 100 every day!" He grumbles, irritable.

Slumping into a chair, a small puddle immediately begins to form where the sweat running down his back drips of the hem of his shirt. "You. I blame you. Yeah, I know you probably didn't do it, but I'm in no mood to think too seriously, and I don't like your shirt," Book Wombat

Spoiler: OOC

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I don't want to get known as the guy who always vote for the first guy to vote, so I'm voting for the second guy to vote! Neat, huh?! Also, he killed me last game after I explicitly warned him, and I'm not salty at all about it.

(In all seriousness, I'm not, but it amuses me to complain in jest)

[Snowblaze]

Me: wait, AV crossed out their vote? Are they doing what they did in Percy Jackson again?

Also me: AV literally made a whole post about switching from me to me, so is currently still voting me.

Kind of want to give 3SC townpoints for the self-vote but can't actually put together an argument that doesn't fall apart when I look at it.

Farmerbink, you (iirc) mentioned wanting me dead D1 in recruitment thread; given that, why are you not currently trying to kill me?

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Just want to jump in and mention that Elenna and Batcathat have joined the dead chat and have chosen opposite sides to be on, so no matter who is lynched today there may be both Town aligned and Mafia aligned visions that will appear at the beginning of Day 2.

[Apogee1]

Good midafternoon.

I'll take the bait -- 3SecondCultist.

[3SecondCultist]

Kind of want to give 3SC townpoints for the self-vote but can't actually put together an argument that doesn't fall apart when I look at it.

What can I say, I’m an agent of chaos…

[gac3]

Just want to jump in and mention that Elenna and Batcathat have joined the dead chat and have chosen opposite sides to be on, so no matter who is lynched today there may be both Town aligned and Mafia aligned visions that will appear at the beginning of Day 2.

That's interesting. Good to know I guess. Now even if we are on the money today, we still get some positive visions.

[bladescape]

I'm going to abstain (No Lynch) and sit here while I await a message from beyond - don't know enough about you all to know who's acting suspicious yet!

As a newer player, is there a benefit to voting Day 1? It seems like we're more likely to hit town than maf.

Information is the name of the game, and while visions mitigate some of the requirement it still is better.

I have caught wolves off how they acted around the day 1 wagon, even when it was 3 towns up for being voted out. (Snow might remember this game as the game I cced her as vanilla town =P)

[Xihirli]

3SecondCultist

Well, you would know. 3SecondCultist it is.
That said, I hope I die soon so I can be a ghost
OOOOOh

[gac3]

Well, you would know. 3SecondCultist it is.
That said, I hope I die soon so I can be a ghost
OOOOOh

Pretty standard Xi. Also big town lean because I hold to Xi only expresses a desire to die when they are town.

[bladescape]

Pretty standard Xi. Also big town lean because I hold to Xi only expresses a desire to die when they are town.

They were wolf with me in the first game I played with them last year and they expressed an interest in dying then I'm pretty sure.

[Snowblaze]

Good midafternoon.

I'll take the bait -- 3SecondCultist.

Hmm. Kind of want to say self-awareness makes this less wolfy.

Information is the name of the game, and while visions mitigate some of the requirement it still is better.

I have caught wolves off how they acted around the day 1 wagon, even when it was 3 towns up for being voted out. (Snow might remember this game as the game I cced her as vanilla town =P)

And then we proceeded to mindmeld on literally everything. Was fun.

They were wolf with me in the first game I played with them last year and they expressed an interest in dying then I'm pretty sure.

Having ISOd original-Percy-Jackson-Xihirli, she actually didn't. At least, not in the main thread and the QTs are forever lost. Her game was mostly frustration at being lynched over the vig who'd just shot the Seer and the Snowblaze who was one step short of outed wolf.

That being said I think gac has talked about Xihirli only wanting to die/advocating mass murder as town enough that she's undoubtedly aware of it and could adapt to do that as wolf.

Telling Xihirli to bold her votes is becoming a recurring theme now.

So yeah, I have no reads beyond various hedgy half-formed thoughts. I would like to not kill the newbie D1, though.

3SecondCultist 4: Book Wombat, 3SecondCultist, Apogee1, Xihirli
Book Wombat 3: gac3, Snowblaze, Farmerbink
Snowblaze 2: AvatarVecna, bladescape
Rogan 1: flat_footed
Xihirli 1: Rogan
No Lynch 1: Let'sGetKraken

And that's twelve. Everyone's checked in.

[gac3]

They were wolf with me in the first game I played with them last year and they expressed an interest in dying then I'm pretty sure.

Welp. Then fewer town points.

Also... Why is 3 second cultists the top wagon? Is there logic here or is this a meme wagon because they voted themselves?

[Snowblaze]

Welp. Then fewer town points.

Also... Why is 3 second cultists the top wagon? Is there logic here or is this a meme wagon because they voted themselves?

See both my correction of that and my counterpoint to your read.

And it does appear to be purely a meme wagon.

(I was about to ask if you were interested in jumping on the Wombat counterwagon and then I remembered you're already voting Wombat. My brain is not functioning this game.)

Do you think the 3SC votes are wolfy?