The Mafia

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:38 am

I am setting up a game of Mafia here on the forum.

Please do not try to tell me "how I played it in school" or "on wikipedia it says you're suppose to." I'm declaring the rules; take it or leave it. I don't want to waste time disputing how precisely we are going to play.

For those of you unfamiliar, Mafia is a game of skill and deceit. It will take probably over a week to play, and each turn in the game will be equal to a 24 hour period in real time. Here's how it works:

I will be the moderator, also known as the narrarator. There has to be a person enforcing the rules and deciding the roles of the various players, and also declaring which team is the winner.

There are three other roles:

The Mafia
The Citizens
The Detective

I will decide everyone's roles based on a random method (such as dealing out a deck of playing cards to myself) once we have decide who is going to play. The ratio of mafia to citizens will be figured out once I know how many people are playing...but I will not tell you how many people are actually in the mafia.

At the beginning of the game, each player will be sent a private messege from me telling them their role, and reminding them of their powers.

ALL MAFIA MEMBERS WILL KNOW ALL OTHER MAFIA MEMBERS, BUT THE CITIZENS AND DETECTIVE WILL HAVE NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE OTHER PLAYERS.

HOW TO WIN:

If you are a member of the mafia, you win when all the citizens and the detective are dead; i.e. there can only be mafia left alive.

If you are the detective or a citizen, you win when all the mafia have been killed.

This is a zero-sum game, so take no prisoners.

GAMEPLAY:

There are two periods of play: day and night. Each period will be 24 hours.

That gives 24 hours to any player who needs to make a decision during one of those periods.

The game will begin with nightfall.

Prior to the first night, I will have informed the mafia about all the other mafia members. During this 12 hour period, I will expect a private messege from each mafia member containing the name of the person that they vote to kill. Whoever the majority of the mafia players decide they want to kill will be dead. If there is a tie, I will flip a coin.

The mafia are definitely encouraged to send a flurry of PMs any time they wish to each other, in order to argue about who they should kill. Since this is online, they can discuss who they want to kill any time of day. I just expect to get a concensus when I ask for their votes.

Also, the detective (there is only one) must move during the night. The detective will send me a private messege declaring who she will investigate.

The following morning, I will declare who the mafia have killed. Sucks to be you if the mafia kills you....but you still have a chance of winning, if you have faith in your fellow citizens.

In addition, in the morning I will send a messege to the detective tell her the status of the player she chose to investigate. Obivously, the detective has a lot of power, because she will slowly be able to figure out who her allies are, and who her enemies are. If the detective dies, the citizens are at a serious disadvantage.

IF YOU ARE DEAD, PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO HELP THE OTHER PLAYERS. THE ONLY THING I WANT TO HEAR FROM A DEAD PLAYER IS "BRAINS." If I find that you are helping other players after you have been killed, you will not be invited to play another game.

If you are unavailable to vote who to kill or tell me who you want to investigate during the night, then that's too bad for you.

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Ok, so, each morning I will announce to everybody who the mafia has killed.

This is the interesting part of the game:

During the day, I expect a public vote, on this thread, from each citizen, about who they want to lynch.

That's right: the citizens must lynch one player every day-period.

Feel free to send private messege, public messeges, whatever you have to do.

Remember: a mafia member is going to say that he is a citizen because he doesn't want to be lynched, and the detective is going to say that he is a citizen because he is the highest priority target for the mafia. If you ask outright, everybody will lie and say that he is a citizen.

The mafia are going to try to dupe everybody into lynching a regular citizen...so watch out for their sneaky tactics. Pay attention to groups of people voting in a large block...because that could be the mafia trying to make two kills in one day.

You are encouraged to publicly defend yourself; try to explain why you are not in the mafia, and why you should not be lynched.

All votes about who to lynch must be posted publicly on this thread. Also, as long as night has not fallen, you are free to change your vote as many times as you wish.

Let me make this clear, though: at the end of the day, there will be a person lynched. Whoever has the majority lynch-votes will be killed. It is important for you to vote....even just to decrease the chances that you'll be the one killed.

Also, REMEMBER: the detective has incredible knowledge about who is in the mafia and who is a citizen....so if you deduce who the detective is....LISTEN TO HIM! But be warned: probably half the players in the game will act like they are the detective.

You are free to disclose your team at any time...or to lie about it. Publicly, through PMs, AIM, I don't care.
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After day has passed and a player has been lynched, night will fall again and the cycle will repeat.

The game will continue....two deaths each day...until either only mafia or citizens are left alive (the detective counts as a citizen).

If you have any questions, you may send them to me privately or ask them publicly.

Once we know the list of all the players, the game will begin. It will probably take a week or so to play.

If you want to play, send me a private messge. Once I have enough players, I will post the master list of all players on this thread so that everyone will know who is playing.

I want to start the game some time this week, so if you want to play, hurry and send me the private messege.

ALSO: YOU CAN CHECK THE INTERNET FOR STRATEGIES ABOUT THIS GAME, BUT MY RULES ARE VERY SIMPLE THIS TIME SO THE COMPLEX STRATEGIES MIGHT NOT HELP.

I hope we can get the game going!

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:14 pm

3 takers so far. I'm hoping for at least 10, and the game can theoretically accommodate an unlimited number of players.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:01 pm

5 players.

Boring 7 · Post by **Boring 7** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:14 am

I'll be a really bad player, but I'd love to be in.

*sends PM*

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:50 am

7 players! Only a few more before we reach critical mass.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:56 am

At the request of one of the players, let me provide the time period restrictions in UTC.

I will be sure to remind players of the time periods with every post.

Day: 15:00 UTC - 2:59 UTC
Night: 3:00 UTC - 14:59 UTC

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:20 am

Ah man, on this other board we played The Werewolf Game, and the advanced version, Midnight Massacre and Innocent Bullet, which are basicly versions of this.

Now, I'd love to play, but as I allready noticed then, timezones are a harsh mistress. I'd miss any possibility of debating over votes, so it kinda kills the game.

Have to sit this one out

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:17 pm

If....it would really really help.....we could divide day and night into 24 hour periods.

Does anybody else think that's a better idea?

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:25 pm

That's how we worked it on the old board.

Though it has it's problems. It drags on, and still affect peoples possibility of real-time debate.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:32 pm

Yeah, I was hoping we could finish the game up pretty quickly if two people were killed every 24 hours.

Maybe that's too fast.

MistressMaggie · Post by **MistressMaggie** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:49 pm

I dunno, man, I'm about 6 hours ahead of you... that's pretty crappy.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:23 pm

Alright....forget 12 hour periods.

I am officially changing the game to include 24 hour periods. I think the differences in time zone force that decision.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:19 pm

I only have one thing to say about this

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:07 am

Is... Is that a guy with... A colon for hair?

Lowky · Post by **Lowky** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:09 am

actually I think it's the top of Duke Nukem's Head

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:22 pm

Honor wrote:Is... Is that a guy with... A colon for hair?

an I going to have to slap you?
thats friggin duke nukem

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:28 pm

aww shit, I loose.

Seth Marati · Post by **Seth Marati** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:31 pm

Xero wrote:an I going to have to slap you?
thats friggin duke nukem

What?? That's the Secret Service agent from Bad Dudes. Duke Nukem wasn't even made by the same company.

I think the real* question here is, am I going to have to slap you?

*Yes, even realer than "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to hit your own dick with a hammer?"

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:40 pm

Seth Marati wrote:
Xero wrote:an I going to have to slap you?
thats friggin duke nukem
What?? That's the Secret Service agent from Bad Dudes. Duke Nukem wasn't even made by the same company.

I think the real* question here is, am I going to have to slap you?

*Yes, even realer than "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to hit your own dick with a hammer?"

bring it bish >:R
ROAWR

also wtf?

Seth Marati · Post by **Seth Marati** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:47 pm

I'm guessing you know this, but for anyone who doesn't, the original phrase is "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?" The version above is my favorite variant on the theme.