bad). No, after mastering such culinary creations as cheese on toast, 2-minute noodles and ice cream in bowl without even the threat of a misused ingredient, DeasVail felt as if he needed only lay a finger upon each item of his pantry for them to transform into whatever image he held in his mind. And now he would go where he had never been before, dare to challenge the oppressive norms of his kitchen and use the ingredient that had defied him time and time again! He would concoct...
A chocolate fondue.
'Why such ambition?' one may ask.
'What could be worth such courage?' questioned the table salt from the third-highest shelf.
Well, the difference between now and all those other times was... a girl.
(
Oooo, a girl!!!
chanted the potatoes left lying next to the stove.)
Indeed, his mother's acquaintance's daughter's best friend, who DeasVail's parents had had their eyes on for quite some time in fact, was coming over for afternoon tea! Of course, an occasion like this was always going to require something more than DeasVail's usual flair, and after a Google search of 'most romantic dishes' and a description including the phrase, 'sensual and romantic,' DeasVail had found the perfect dish!
However, two rogue ingredients thought this the perfect time to sabotage DeasVail's chances. Was this to be the beginning of an amorous courtship? Or the event all would later refer to as 'The Chocolate's Explosive Temper'?
The IC (Inexperience-Challenged) player is here to answer any questions and help newbies understand how mafia is played here, but remember that they are playing the game as well, so are not necessarily town. Their play is governed by the article, Being a good IC.
The SE (Semi-Experienced) players have finished at least three games on MS.net, so may also be able to help out.
Last edited by DeasVail on Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:56 pm, edited 12 times in total.
This game uses the Matrix6 setup, which is determined by randomly selecting one row or one column from the below table, then filling in the remaining 6 roles with Vanilla Townies and Mafia Goons as necessary to create a 7-town, 2-mafia setup.
A
B
C
1
Town Jailkeeper
Vanilla Townie
Mafia Goon
2
Mafia Roleblocker
Town Cop
Town Doctor
3
Town 1-shot
Bulletproof
Mafia Goon
Town Tracker
For example, if Row 1 (Town Jailkeeper, Vanilla Townie, and Mafia Goon) was chosen, 5 Vanilla Townies and 1 Mafia Goon would be added, for a full setup of 1 Town Jailkeeper, 6 Vanilla Townies, and 2 Mafia Goons.
The possible Role PMs are:
Spoiler: Mafia Roleblocker
Welcome _!
You are a
Mafia Roleblocker
. You are part of the mafia team with _, a Mafia Goon. Each night, your team can choose one player to kill. You win when your team outnumbers the remaining players or nothing can prevent this from occurring.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
During the pregame and night phases you can communicate with your partner here.
Each night, you may attempt to prevent one player from successfully using any actions that night.
You can also carry out the mafia’s kill for the night by PMing your target to the Mod.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Mafia Goon
Welcome _!
You are a
Mafia Goon
. You are part of the mafia team with _, a Mafia [Goon/Roleblocker]. Each night, your team can choose one player to kill. You win when your team outnumbers the remaining players or nothing can prevent this from occurring.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
During the pregame and night phases you can communicate with your partner here.
You can also carry out the mafia’s kill for the night by PMing your target to the Mod.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Town Cop
Welcome _!
You are a
Town Cop
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
Each night, you may choose to investigate a player by PMing your target to the Mod. You will receive a "mafia" or "not mafia" result, or "no result" if unsuccessful, at the beginning of the following day.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Town Doctor
Welcome _!
You are a
Town Doctor
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
Each night, you may choose one player other than yourself to protect from being killed that night by PMing your target to the Mod. You will not be told whether or not you are successful.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Town Jailkeeper
Welcome _!
You are a
Town Jailkeeper
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
Each night, you may attempt to jail one other player that night by PMing your target to the Mod. Any actions attempted by a jailed player will be unsuccessful. Any kill attempts on the jailed player will be unsuccessful.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: 1-Shot Bulletproof Townie
Welcome _!
You are a
1-Shot Bulletproof Townie
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
The first attempt to kill you that would otherwise be successful will be prevented by your bulletproof ability.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Town Tracker
Welcome _!
You are a
Town Tracker
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
Each night, you may track a player by PMing your target to the Mod, receiving the name of anyone they visited that night at the beginning of the following day.
Please confirm by sending your role to me by PM.
Spoiler: Vanilla Townie
Welcome _!
You are a
Vanilla Townie
. You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.
During the day you have the ability to post in the game thread and vote. [link]
-I, DeasVail, am your moderator! I will handle any situation as I see fit.
-Feel free to PM me with any questions, complaints or mistakes I’ve made. Simple stuff like vote count errors can be mentioned in-thread.
-Any time you want my attention in-thread, please use bold.
-Action will be taken on rule infractions, whether it be a warning, force replacement or modkill.
-I may change the rules at any point in the game, although you will be notified.
-Any flavour will not be any indication of role or alignment.
General:
1) Have fun! And allow others to have fun too. Excessive insults or personal attacks will result in a warning or force-replacement.
2) Play to your win condition.
3) There must be no talking about the game outside this thread, unless using a method allowed by your Role PM.
4) Do not edit posts if you have the ability to do so.
5) No quoting of any PMs or QTs relating to the game.
6)
This
is my colour. Don’t use it.
7) Do not discuss ongoing games.
8) Do not use hidden or encrypted text.
9) Do not bring outside influences into the game - this includes threats, bribes, wagers, promises, alliances, etc.
10) Once you are dead, there is to be no posting, except for a “Gah!” post with no game-related content.
Gameplay:
11) Votes must be bolded or in vote tag format to count. I will not count any that are not. Example:
Vote: DeasVail
. Abbreviations can also be used as long as it’s clear who you’re voting for. Example:
Vote: DV
12) Unvoting when changing a vote is helpful, but not required. Voting at the beginning of a line is also helpful, but not required, although not doing so increases the chance I will miss it.
13) Votes for a no lynch must be the following:
Vote: No Lynch
. Vote tags are fine too.
14) A lynch or no-lynch before deadline requires a majority of votes.
15) Once a majority is reached, it becomes twilight until I can post the lynch. No voting or unvoting will count.
16) No majority at deadline means no lynch occurs.
Activity:
17) Please inform me if and when you will be V/LA. If I feel that the period is too long, or there is some other reason for me to do so, I will replace you.
18) Prods will be sent after 3 days (72 hours) without a post. If there is no response after another 24 hours, I will start looking for a replacement.
19) If someone accumulates 3 prods over the course of the game and I feel they are not active enough, they will be replaced.
20) Days have 2-week deadlines unless an extension is granted. Feel free to ask for them, but I will only grant one if there is good reason to.
21) Nights will last 48 hours.
Hello everyone I'm you're friendly SE, The Acting Method, or TAM for short.
VOTE: jmo Hello there old bean.
Now I'm sure Mr. Flay has a Great IC post so I won't still his thunder.
Now, since I have concluded my great wall of text, first some general housekeeping questions: (Note, my RQS questions are referred to as general housekeeping questions.)
Okay a few General Housekeeping questions I like to ask:
1. What time zone are you in?
2. How often do you expect to be on and posting?
3. How many games have you played in?
4. What is your opinion on Lynch all Lurkers/Liars?
5. What side do you prefer playing as?
My answers:
1. GMT -8:00 hours. (That's Pacific time.)
2. I expect to post at least once a day if not more. I'll also try to avoid double posting if I can.
3. Maybe about 5 or 6 here now. (Maybe more due to loss in crash, many of my games here were lost in the crash) Several games off site (all on same site though) where I'm also a regular mod.
4. Vote prodding lurkers is acceptable, I'm not to big on replacing, (if I replace out it's a sign of frustration, not one of alignment) Voting liars is recommended when it is discovered. Both in my opinion are situational. If you are on a site like the one I come from, and most of the mafia players (by this I mean people who play mafia) are already in the game lynching an inactive or a lurker is a decent policy, just to keep the game alive. I would not recommend it here (save maybe some of the larger games where people wait for replacements for periods of time.)
5. I enjoy town far more than scum.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
As for the questions:
My timezone is CEST(+2hours), and i Expect to be able to post quite a lot during the weekdays, but my friday saturday and sunday are short on spare time normally.
I've only played one game sofar, as a vanilla townie, so I can't say what side i prefer.
Lynching people because they lie is quite fair, I don't see how it can help town, and therfore should be discouraged.
I'm not a fan of lynching lurkers, because there is little to no information to be gained by lynching someone that's mostly inactive. In that case I'd rather wait it out and hope for a more active replacement
Hello everyone, I hope you're all looking forward to this game as much as I am.
As for the questions...
1. Eastern Standard Time (I think it's -5:00 hours)
2. Probably every day, although I can't say for sure.
3. This is my first game on Mafiascum, although I've played a few games on other sites before.
4. For smaller games like this, where there are few PR's, I am in favour of lynch all liars. For lynch all lurkers, I support it when there is a mislynch, but not on MYLO.
5. I enjoy 3rd parties the most.
Cause I can't say that name if my life depended on it. Is
Jmo ok?
FIFY
The coding is
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Also Jmo, flay did say to be put back in if the site issues fixed. I believe I've seen some new avatars going through and the fact we can play this game shows that the two major ones have been fixed.
If you haven't already, please fill out the RVS so I can see your answers to each questions.
At Duck, I presume that you combined questions three and 5 into one question?
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
I'll answer any IC-related questions truthfully and as completely as I can, but I don't have a canned "IC post". What can I say, I'm old school...
Anyway, I'm on my phone so the only thing I will comment on right now is Rule 18: while there is an every-72-hours minimum, I
strongly
encourage everyone to post every 24 hours at least. It makes it much easier to keep up with the game and not get stuck in an "I need to read up before I can participate" loop. That doesn't mean you have to post every time you have a thought... there is such a thing as too much posting as well.
1. What time zone are you in?
Eastern Standard Time (I think it's -5:00 hours)
2. How often do you expect to be on and posting?
I will be less active near the start of the game due to one computer with internet. but that problem with be fixed later in the week.
3. How many games have you played in?
One other newbie game. I can link it if anyone would like.
4. What is your opinion on Lynch all Lurkers/Liars?
I wouldn't say lynch all lurkers if they have a good reason but for liars its a different story. Unless of course they have a good legit reason.
5. What side do you prefer playing as?
In the last (first) game I played as, I played as town. As for this I cannot give away my role so I'll just have to see.
1- EST
2- Less until I get my new laptop
3- A lot
4- Liars is no (BP claiming doc and vice versa), lurking is no (however it goes on a case by case basis for these
5- Meh
Lurkers are being anti-town... fine with lynching/pressuring them. I hate replacements. Liars almost always need to die, especially if they get caught. There are a few edge cases where it makes sense to not lynch one immediately, but it's rare and usually not helpful.
What side do you prefer playing as?
No preference really; I tend to get wagoned at least once a game because I'm good as scum, but I can usually talk my way out of it. I prefer not to be a PR, partly for that reason.
notsci
, how long do you expect to be without your new laptop?
I am in GMT -8, I will try to post at least once a day. I post more than some and less than some but I try to read the thread a lot to see what I'm missing before I post. I can link to the same game as Fart Bane, and that's it! I have no opinion on Lurkers and Liars except that lurkers should replace out, and Liars should be lynched. I guess that's an opinion, huh? I don't know what side I prefer playing as yet. Town is fun. It seems like mafia would be more stressful because you have to worry about getting caught, but as town all I have to worry about is getting killed at night.
Mr Flay, why are you going to lynch jmo16mla?
notscience, good to see you again as well. Same plan as last time, right?
, by saying that lurking lying are no's, do you mean you that "no" as in No, I would not apply that policy or more in the sense of saying no to lurking and/or lying and thus lynch them for it?
Mr Flay
, could you expand your view on the lynching of lurkers for me please?
The way I see it, wanting to lynch all lurkers is a way for scum to get an easy mislynch going. Because if the lurker hasn't made a (decent) contribution, it's nigh impossible to get a townread on him, and so the likelihood of someone making a case against that lynch is small. Next to that advantage, there is also no really useful analyses to be done on that votecount. The lurker was lynched on a policy, which I assume, proponents of the policy will enforce on all alignments, and the player himself has not had meaningful interaction with other players, so a suspicion by connnection is also less likely to follow.
So from my point of view, by lynching a lurker, we throw away some of the most useful tools we have to catch scum.
Lastly, I have a question for you as the IC: How do you deal with the large difference in timezones? Last game I missed out on the possibility to weigh in on discussions because by the time I woke up, the topic of discussion was closed/had moved..
Just adding my 2 cents in here, but a townie who doesn't do anything is useless, so they're not really a useful tool for catching scum. Townies who prod-dodge only make it easier for mafia to lurk, because I find it harder to get reads on them. They're still there, it's just harder. Also, lynching lurkers gives mafia reasons to speak more, and then potentially give some scumslips.
