FGO: Mafia in the Lostbelt (Game Over!)

[Cabd]

Fate/Grand Order: Mafia in the Lostbelt

As reviewed by Borkjerfkin, Vi, and Penguin_Alien.

This setup is a semi-Upick for 14 anonymous players and will feature 4 mafia- and 10 town-aligned players. Please read the additional details of the setup below.

Setup generation

There are 14 classes in Fate Grand Order. Each player will be assigned a random class from the list:

Spoiler: Show list of classes

1. Shielder
2. Saber
3. Archer
4. Lancer
5. Rider
6. Caster
7. Assassin
8. Berserker
9. Ruler
10. Avenger
11. Moon Cancer
12. Alter Ego
13. Foreigner
14. Beast

Once the game has filled and everyone has been assigned a class, players will receive a PM with a username and password to their alternate account. This account's name will match the class name that player has been assigned. Players will have a PM from me in their new account containing a list of every possible character from their class that they may choose from. Some are historic figures, some are from mythology, some are from religions of the world, and some are unique to the game. Once all accounts are out and access has been verified, players will have 24 hours to choose. If you wish to have a randomized pick, or if you fail to respond, one will be drawn at random for you.

Once 24 hours have passed from the end of the pick phase, the final setup will be completed. This final setup phase will take no longer than 48 hours. Alignment is randomly assigned BEFORE players have selected their servant but will be revealed to players upon receipt of their role PM. Once we have a at least 11 confirmations, the Master Selection Phase will begin.

General Rules

1. We don’t tolerate ad hom wars. If your posting is merely insulting a player without providing game content, you can expect a strike from us. Three strikes, you’re out. We are fairly lenient about this, but posting “Fuck you” over and over again is simply not acceptable. Severe issues will be reported to the list mod(s).
2. If we say it violates these rules, it does. You can take it up with us postgame if you wish.
3. Play towards your win condition. Gambits are fine, directly harming your own team is not.
4. Once an elimination is reached, you may continue discussion until we lock the thread. No votes or unvotes will count after an elimination has been achieved.
5. An elimination is achieved as a majority of players voting for somebody. Half is not a majority.
6. Do not quote or pretend to quote any information you get from us via PM. This includes posting your role card verbatim. Paraphrasing is fine, as are role claims naturally.
7. Do not talk about this game anywhere else, or with anyone else.
8. Do not discuss ongoing games in this thread. This includes games on sites other than mafiascum. This also includes using [redacted] as that loophole does not fly here.
9. We are usually rather lenient upon activity. This game is an exception. Post every 48 hours. Failure to do so will earn you a prod. Respond to your prod within 24 hours, or face replacement. Three prods is also a force replacement.
10. Claiming scum by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is an instant modkill. Don't do it.
11. We do not require unvotes. Your vote will be counted so long as you bold it or use the vote tag. Shorthand names are fine so long as it’s clear who the vote is for.
12. If you have a question, please PM us. If a question is something that should be answered publicly, we will make a post addressing it without naming who asked it.
13. If our vote count is wrong, you can PM us or post in the thread (use the bold tag and "@MOD") about it.
14. We do not fix tags or edit posts where you might make a formatting mistake, even if you ask us to.
15. We reserve the right to add to these rules or modify them, but only when we post notifying all players in the game of the change.
16. Loophole abuse is all fun and games until we modkill you. Don’t try it.
17. Blue

(This color at #0000FF)

is our color. You are welcome to use any other color of the rainbow.
18. Encryption, text hiding, and the like are silly. Don’t do it.
19. Do not use temporary information to convey messages. This includes your signature and your avatar, but is not limited to these things.
20. While putting your vote or unvote on its own line is helpful, it is not necessary and any attempts to game voting formatting will be dealt with as an attempt to cheat. If we think it was a vote, it was a vote.
21. A modkill will always punish the faction modkilled more as far as timing goes. All modkills will be done after consultation with the listmods. Modkills may or may not end the day. Modkilled players will be changed to a neutral survivor, meaning they lose the game instantly.
22. In the event of site downtime lasting more than 3 hours; time will be added to the deadline to compensate at a 1 to 1 ratio.
23. All factional decisions must be agreed upon by all living members of that faction.

Master Selection Phase

This phase lasts 7 days. All players will converse in the main thread and vote for a player to gain a Master. At the end of the phase, the servant with plurality gains a Master. (in the event of a tie, all "winning" slots will be randomly entered and one will be drawn) Having a Master confers benefits depending upon the alignment of the player:

If a town Master is selected, the town Master + servant is revealed as an innocent child and becomes unkillable by ANY means until day two has passed. The servant in that slot will additionally have their role modified to account for the additional support they now have. Day 1 will become an double-elimination day and last for 240 hours (10 days) instead of 168 hours (7 days). (The first elimination WILL reset the vote count)

If a scum Master is selected, that mafia member immediately flips and exits the main game thread. The three remaining members of mafia have their role PMs upgraded to much stronger versions of their existing abilities, while the flipped member of the mafia remains in the scum PT, allowed to advise and lead the team.

The game will then proceed into Day 1 as a single-elimination day.

Noble Phantasm (And Noble Phantasm Charge)

1) Each Servant has a different number of charges required to fully charge their Noble Phantasm Bar. This is three (***), four (****), or five (*****) dependent on class.
2) At the start of the game (Day One) every player's bar has zero charges. Before each day phase begins (and after all night actions are resolved), each player gains one charge. Any double-elimination phases, modkills, or transitions from Master Voting phase to Elimination Day Phase do not count as starts of day phases.
3) If a player starts the day phase with a fully charged Noble Phantasm Bar, they can activate their Noble Phantasm during that day phase if possible unless something occurs earlier in the game day to reduce their charge.
4) If a player starts a night phase with a fully charged Noble Phantasm Bar, they can activate their Noble Phantasm during that night phase if possible.
5) Charge bar level is private information and may be requested by a player for themselves at any time in the game by PMing the mod. Players will also be informed of their current NP charge at the start of each day and night phase as well as any changes to it that happen as a result of day actions immediately.
6) If a Noble Phantasm is sealed, it will not activate but will remain fully charged pending other effects.
7) Once a Noble Phantasm is activated, its charge bar will be reduced to zero.

Other Setup Specific Rules

1. Players, when flipped, will have the identity of all players that were playing as that slot revealed.
2. The deadline will always be set to end at 9PM CST of a given day.
3. Deadlines for all player phases (days) are set at 7 days. Enemy phases (night) are 48 hours. Replacements (Of the non-forced type) will add in an additional day, up to three days added per cycle.
4. Posting in a different thread as your alt OR posting in this game from any account other than your alt will cause a force-replacement.
5. A game phase is considered "exhausted" if a phase generated more than 60 new pages of posts. At that point, the game will enter "wind down" phase. The page count of the current player phase will be provided in each vote count.
6. During "wind down" each player is allowed a one post, and one additional post per vote on them at the time of the thread lock. (These counts will be mod-provided publicly)
7. Failure to comply with wind down rules will be met with loss of abilities, vote, or both. You REALLY don't want to do this.
8. As a part of being the change in the world I wish to see, the term for removal is generically "elimination" or "eliminated" If you wish to be more gruesome, please use "burn" and "burned" as that is a mechanic in the FGO game!
9. Unless explicitly said otherwise, you may only use one active skill on any given night. Noble Phantasms are not skills, you may use a Noble Phantasm and a skill simultaneously.
10. The mafia factional kill is explicitly excluded form this role. Mafia members may perform the Night Kill in addition to any action(s) allowed by rule 9.

Additional Setup Notes

1. This game heavily focuses around the fact that your class is known, but your specific servant's identity is not. Be aware that just is as true of most stories, knowing one's myth means knowing one's weaknesses. Be careful when claiming or revealing information about your role.
2. This game may feature characters from various religions and mythologies. No offense is meant towards any specific religion or ethnic group. Please feel free to PM Cabd or penguin_alien if you have concerns during the game about game content or player posting.

Sample Role PMs

Spoiler: Sample Town Role PM

Servant Class: Beast
True Name: Fou, Beast IV of Primate Murder

Attribute: Adorable Mascot
Traits: Threat To Humanity, Evil, Demonic

Fou, everyone's most beloved fluffball, and beast who wishes to end all of humanity.

Skills:

Fluffy Body -

Fou may become bulletproof on any night, however this will prevent any other actions, factional or otherwise, from being taken by Fou.

FouFou~ -

Once per game, at night, Fou may select a target. Fou will get a one-way neighborhood with that player, unable to reply but able to see everything said.

Memories of Merlin -

Having spent quite a long time unable to do anything in the gardens of Babylon, you're ready to get a move on. As such, you MUST submit at least one action on any given night phase.

Noble Phantasm:

Primal Murder (******) -

Select one player. That player will be killed, regardless of ANY other effect in the game that could possibly prevent this.
With a Master: You gain three charges per night instead of one.

Alignment: Town
Win Condition: All non-town aligned players have been removed from the game, or nothing can prevent this from happening.

Spoiler: Sample Mafia Role PM

Servant Class: Caster
True Name: Tohsaka Rin, Mage of Jewels

Attribute: Man
Traits: Female, Humanoid, Living Human, Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish

Rin Tohsaka, heiress to the Tohsaka school of magic. A master who participated in the 5th Holy grail war.

Skills:

Gemstone Magic

(2-shot) At night, you may target a player. Their actions become unblock-able for that night phase.

Clock Tower Schooling

(2-shot) At night, you may select a player. You will investigate this player's Attribute.

Tsundere -

Active actions used on male characters will refund the shot. This effect cannot trigger on the same player more than once per game.

Noble Phantasm:

Jeweled Sword Zelretch - Mana of Infinite Universes (*****) -

(Day-Activated) Select one player. That player's Noble Phantasm bar will be immediately filled.
With a Master: You may use Jeweled Sword Zeltretch immediately upon gaining a master.

Alignment: Mafia
Win Condition: Mafia makes up at least half of the remaining players, or nothing can prevent this.

Spoiler: Living Servants

Servant Rider (Syryana)
Servant Assassin (petapan)
Servant Berserker (Lady Lambdadelta)
Servant Moon Cancer (zMuffinMan)
Servant Alter Ego (fferyllt)
Servant Foreigner (beeboy, Dunnstral)
Servant Beast (Lucky2u)

Spoiler: Servant granted a Master by vote

Servant Assassin, confirmed Town Day One

Spoiler: Out of Commission Servants

Servant Archer, aligned with the Mafia, burned Day One (first elimination)

(MidwayBear)

Servant Shielder, aligned with the Town, withdrew Day One (second elimination)

(Nancy Drew 39, Tayl0r Swift, PlusJOYED)

Servant Saber, aligned with the Mafia, burned Day Two

(Kilgyamayan, Titus)

Servant Avenger, aligned with the Town, Burned Night Two

(Bell)

Servant Lancer, aligned with the Mafia, burned Day Three

(Chara)

Servant Ruler, aligned with the Mafia, burned Day Four

(Prism, RCEnigma, Aristophanes)

Servant Caster, aligned with the Town, burned Day Four

(Cephrir)

[Cabd]

All class selection PMs have been sent. Players will have 24 hours to select their servant from the list they were given.



(expired on 2020-08-30 01:01:00)

[Cabd]

All players have selected a servant. Game design is now underway.



Game will deliver role PMs no later than:

(expired on 2020-08-31 17:09:17)

[Cabd]

Disclaimer: Multiple reviewers concur: This setup is plenty fair to run, but needs a swingyness warning. Think of this setup as taking place in the 2014 era of mafiascum. Players, if hesitant to play knowing this, should know that there will be no hard feelings if they reject their role PM and ask to be replaced pregame. You may do so via PM to the mod as a reply to your role PM. Your role PM, and all further correspondence, will be sent to the alt account you were given and NOT your main account. Players are reminded that nothing about the account should be personalized, other than the time zone.

Role PMs will be distributed shortly, and the game may begin once 11 of 14 players have confirmed via reply to their role.

[Cabd]

All Role PMs have been sent directly to the alternate accounts. I will be launching the master selection phase once at least 11 players have confirmed their roles.

Every player in the game will be given a Private Topic with only themselves and the Mod upon confirming their role. This Private topic is the only allowable place to spectate upon the identities of other player slots, and can be used for general note-taking. These private topics may also be used for any situation in which you would normally PM the mod, so long as you bold your request/action. As with any other out-of-game thread, directly quoting from this location is a mod-killable action, so please ensure not to do so.

[penguin_alien]

Back-up mod ego post. Have fun!

[Cabd]

Disclaimer: All flavor is for entertainment purposes only and neither spoils nor has bearing on the game state.

Yet another morning with all the unsummoned Servants lazing around the Throne of Heroes. These occasional Wars were all well and good, Grail-kun thought, but it sure did leave a lot of down time to fill for everyone involved.

Why not liven things up? Let those Servants get a taste of a Master’s power, get some free entertainment, and let everyone make new friends! Friends are good, right?

Grail-kun, disregarding any rules that might prevent such an occurrence in canon, reached into the vast multiverse and plucked out a Master, dropping them in a heap in front of the Throne of Heroes. All conversation amongst the gathered Servants came to a dead stop.

Of course, in breaking so many laws of physics and narrative and general decency, those good intentions of providing friendship may have gone slightly awry. Along with expenditure of power came a tiny amount of pure evil. Indeed, it was enough to infect four of the gathered Servants, who immediately recognized their fellows in the circle that had gathered around the dazed Master.

“A Master!” “A power infusion!” “Someone new to talk to!” Various exclamations rumbled through the crowd.

“HOLD UP!”

Silence descended again as the Master cleared their throat. “There’s one of me, and…” counting quickly, “…fourteen of you. I’m powerful, but not that powerful. This isn’t some wish fulfillment game you play on your phone where I can power all of you whenever I want. I can bond with one of you. I’ll leave it up to you,” gesturing to the assembled mass, “to decide who that will be.”

Five more seconds of silence. Then…chaos.

[Cabd]

Master Selection Phase has now begun. A master will be selected when a decision reaches a true majority or at the end of the 7 day timer.

The countdown to the end of this phase is: (expired on 2020-09-07 21:23:37)

[Servant Avenger]

VOTE: Servant Avenger

[Servant Alter Ego]

Greetings, Gentlebeings.

[Servant Archer]

greetings back to you

[Servant Lancer]

I thought Avenger and Alter Ego were the same player until I looked again. Great start.

[Servant Foreigner]

@mod I recommend pming us on our mains the game has begun.

[Servant Archer]

I thought Avenger and Alter Ego were the same player until I looked again. Great start.

Good job
VOTE: Lancer

[Servant Foreigner]

Winning this vote is not the only way to obtain a master.

My role makes it so I want day 2 to start with all 4 scum alive.
So I would rather vote a null read in the actual voting phase then a scum read.

I just want to clarify this so I don't have to try and explain why I am not casing my scum reads down the line.

[Servant Berserker]

Give me Master.

It doesn't matter what your ability says or does. It doesn't matter what your upgrades are.

My master upgrade is insanely good by definition, and my role does well as confirmed unkillable town for a day or so.

Ship me the Master.

[Servant Alter Ego]

I think part of the decision process for figuring out who should get the master upgrade needs to be: what is their master upgrade? How useful is it? How risky to use?

In that spirit, I offer: My master upgrade would allow me to give two other players their own master upgrades. The upgrade would not include revealing their alignment. Usefulness and risk would depend on my townreading skills and luck.

[Servant Berserker]

Winning this vote is not the only way to obtain a master.

My role makes it so I want day 2 to start with all 4 scum alive.
So I would rather vote a null read in the actual voting phase then a scum read.

I just want to clarify this so I don't have to try and explain why I am not casing my scum reads down the line.

I agree it's not the only way to obtain master.

When I'm made Master, I can activate other people's Master.

My role does extremely well with confirmed town status, and I'll get to activate two or more people I have strong town reads on before the scum are forced to kill me.

[Servant Berserker]

by definition my master upgrade is superior to any other because I can hand out master upgrades.

[Servant Avenger]

Hey great,
The question now is, whether the mafia got that information too or if we just automatically get to win this first phase unless we really want to kill scum day 1 and have 3 super powered mafia instead.

[Servant Lancer]

Regardless of specific roles I'd rather scum doesn't win to begin with, even if it makes one flip.

[Servant Berserker]

To be perfectly clear

My ability to do this is not roleblockable.

I will always get two off.

I can do other cool shit to assist the town.

And you get me as confirmed town.

This is not hard.

[Servant Lancer]

Stop claiming.

[Servant Berserker]

Hey great,
The question now is, whether the mafia got that information too or if we just automatically get to win this first phase unless we really want to kill scum day 1 and have 3 super powered mafia instead.

It's hidden. Only I and the people I select to gain master will know they have obtained it.

I get to activate 2 secret power roles, my dudes.

[Servant Avenger]

Yeah, except I have the same ability buddy.