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Newbie 1476 - Game Over

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:47 am
by serrapaladin
Newbie 1476: Serra's Training Ground, part 1


Welcome to Newbie 1476! The evil Mafia has infiltrated this Town and has to be eliminated. Some games have a theme or tell a story (known as flavour); this one doesn't.

Spoiler: Result
Victory by the
Mafia
team consisting of Luca Blight and joker443


Player List


1.
burn_209

2.
Not_Mafia

3.
Zivel

4.
slothz
Graeyfurredmutt
Jake from State Farm

5.
hoopsdude9
joker443

6.
Aphrodite
Luca Blight

7.
RachMarie
[SE]
8.
brjl
notscience
[SE]
9.
goodmorning
[IC]

SE's are semi-experienced players with 3 completed games. The IC (Inexperience Challenged) is here to help you learn the game. Their play is governed by this article. Note that all roles are distributed randomly.

Spoiler: Alive (2/9)
6. Luca Blight,
Mafia Roleblocker
, survived Day 4
7. RachMarie,
Vanilla Townie
, endgamed Day 4


Spoiler: Dead (7/9)
3. Zivel,
Vanilla Townie
, lynched Day 1
9. goodmorning,
Town Doctor
, killed Night 1
5. joker443,
Mafia Goon
, lynched Day 2
1. burn_209,
Town Cop
, killed Night 2
2. Not_Mafia,
Vanilla Townie
, lynched Day 3
8. notscience,
Vanilla Townie
, killed Night 3
4. Jake from State Farm,
Vanilla Townie
, lynched Day 4


Rules


If this is your first game of Mafia on this site, please read these in full.


Spoiler: Rules
(References: Equinox, Hoopla, Tierce, Vel-Rahn Koon, zoraster)

General

  1. Be familiar with the site-wide rules and guidelines (see here and here).
  2. Please keep the game civil and avoid personal attacks. Use of homophobic, racist, sexist, or any other derogatory slurs will not be tolerated.
  3. While this game is running, you may not discuss this game anywhere outside of the game thread unless you have been explicitly allowed to do so.
  4. Do not quote any private communication, including game-related PMs, instant messages, and QuickTopics. Quoting time stamps from any private communication is also forbidden. Paraphrasing is allowed.
  5. If it is not visible to the naked eye, do not post it. This includes but is not limited to: invisible text, tiny text and encrypted text. 'Spoiler=' tags are fine. For cases (like "breadcrumbing") where you aren't sure, please PM me beforehand.
  6. Do not edit or delete your posts.
  7. Do not use the colour
    #8040FF
    . All other formatting is fair game.
  8. For vote count errors or other minor questions, please bold your concern in the thread. For all other issues, PM me.
  9. Pretending to break the rules or exploiting loopholes in the rules will be considered breaking the rules.
Activity

  1. Prods will be issued to players if they have not posted within a 48-hour period. Players who have been prodded have 24 hours to respond in the game thread before a replacement is sought.
  2. A post with the sole purpose of avoiding a prod (a 'prod dodge') will grant players a further 24 hours to post something game-related.
  3. For purposes of activity, Saturday and Sunday will be considered a 24-hour period.
  4. Players who have been prodded 3 times may be replaced without further notice.
  5. Players may request that a reminder be sent to a player who has not posted within 36 hours.
  6. If you anticipate being away for at least 48 hours, please PM me or post a V/LA notice in the thread with the expected date of your return.
Days and Nights

  1. Days will have a deadline of two weeks, and Nights will last 72 hours. Deadline extensions will be granted only in extreme circumstances.
  2. Lynches occur through simple majority (50% of living players + 1, rounded down). If no majority is reached at deadline or there is a majority of votes for No Lynch, Day will end without a lynch. Once majority is reached, no further votes or unvotes will count.
  3. Votes and vote revocations must be bolded (e.g.,
    Vote: serrapaladin
    and
    Unvote
    ). Unvotes are preferred but not necessary when switching votes (e.g.,
    Unvote, Vote: No Lynch
    ). Use of the vote tags (e.g., VOTE: serrapaladin) is optional.
  4. All players, including the lynched player, are allowed to talk in twilight phase until the thread is locked, at which point Day ends. Dead players may not post until the game has been officially declared over.
  5. The lynched player's alignment and role will be revealed once a majority has been achieved. The alignment and role of any players killed during the night are revealed the following morning.
  6. Actions not received by deadline will be considered forfeit. Actions may be submitted ahead of time and can be changed as many times as desired; at deadline, the last valid action that was submitted will be used. Actions may be submitted via PM or QuickTopic.
  7. Any situation not covered above will be handled on a case-by-case basis. I reserve the right to add, modify, or remove rules as necessary. I will notify you of any changes in the thread.


tl;dr Rules

  1. Lynches are by majority.
  2. Days are two weeks and Nights are 72 hours.
  3. This (#8040FF)
    is my color.
  4. 48 hours inactivity gets you a prod. Three prods are a replace. A prod dodge buys you 24 hours.
  5. PM me or post in
    bold
    for clarification.
  6. Have fun, be civil, and play to win!
Current Vote Count


OFFICIAL VOTE COUNT 4.02
Jake from State Farm (LYNCH) - RachMarie, Luca Blight


Not Voting (1) - Jake from State Farm


With 3 alive, it's 2 to lynch.

The deadline for Day 4 is in (expired on 2014-04-11 22:00:59).
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Setup


This is a Newbie game and uses the standard Matrix6 setup. One row or one column has been chosen from the table below and the remaining six players are filled with Mafia Goons and Vanilla Townies to create a game of
7 Town-aligned players
against
2 Mafia-aligned players
. You will not be told which setup has been chosen for the current game.

ABC
1
Town Jailkeeper
Vanilla Townie
Mafia Goon
2
Mafia Roleblocker
Town Cop
Town Doctor
3
Town 1-Shot Bulletproof
Mafia Goon
Town Tracker


The Roleblocker's action resolves before the Jailkeeper's action.

The Mafia must specify who executes their night kill and the Mafia Roleblocker may both submit the kill and use his Roleblock.

If you have any questions about the setup, feel free to ask!


Spoiler: List of Role PM's
Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Vanille Townie
.

You have no special abilities besides your voice and the right to vote.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Town Jailkeeper
.

You may select one player to target per night (via PM), protecting them from kills and preventing them from using night actions during that night. You cannot self-target.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Town Cop
.

You may select one player to target per night (via PM), learning the alignment of that player. If you are prevented from using your night action, you will receive no result.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Town Doctor
.

You may select one player to target per night (via PM), protecting them from kills during that night. You cannot self-target.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
1-shot Bulletproof Townie
.

You will survive 1 night-kill attempt during this game.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Town Tracker
.

You may select one player to target per night (via PM), learning who that player targeted with their own action(s), if any.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Mafia Goon
.

Your partner is _____, who is a Mafia Goon/Roleblocker.

At night (and during pregame) you may communicate with your partner in your QuickTopic. Each night, you may choose one target player to kill. You must decide who commits the kill.

You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.

Welcome to Newbie 1476, serrapaladin!

You are a
Mafia Roleblocker
.

Your partner is _______, who is a Mafia Goon.

You may select one player to target per night (via PM, or posted in your QuickTopic), preventing them from performing any action that night.

At night (and during pregame) you may communicate with your partner in your QuickTopic. Each night, you may choose one target player to kill. You must decide who commits the kill.

You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.

The game thread can be found here. Please confirm by replying to this PM with your role and alignment.


Good luck and have fun!

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:16 am
by serrapaladin
Role PM's have been sent out.

Day 1 will begin once I have received 8/9 confirmations.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:04 am
by serrapaladin
8/9 have confirmed, so Day 1 begins.


OFFICIAL VOTE COUNT 1.00
Not Voting (9) - burn_209, Not_Mafia, Zivel, Graeyfurredmutt, joker443, Luca Blight, RachMarie, notscience, goodmorning


With 9 alive, it's 5 to lynch.

The deadline for Day 1 is in (expired on 2014-03-01 23:59:59).


Note: goodmorning is V/LA until Tuesday. She is the IC, but with notsci and Rach, you have two fantastic SE's and I'm sure they'd be willing to answer any questions you may have.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:08 am
by burn_209
Happy happy fun time!!!

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:09 am
by notscience
VOTE: GM

I KNOW YOU GOT A SCUM ROLE PM THIS TIME IM NOT LETTING YOU GET TO P5

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:10 am
by RachMarie
VOTE: notty

for impersonating the nickname of my fiance NS :P

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:28 am
by Graeyfurredmutt
Greetings to everyone. Soooooo how are things?

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:47 am
by Not_Mafia
VOTE: goodmorning

It's evening in my timezone, rand the most experienced scum

Joker443 is partner cos last to confirm gg no re

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:51 am
by notscience
^This guy is town

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:02 am
by Graeyfurredmutt
What a reasonable argument.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:28 am
by Zivel
Good morning. What sort of experience do people have? This is my first game of Mafia in RL or forum based.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:33 am
by Graeyfurredmutt
I'm new to this site and it has been several years but I have played forum mafia before.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:38 am
by notscience
I've never played mafia before what is that


Check my join date :P

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:44 am
by Luca Blight
This is my second game on this site, played it a bit on another forum too.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:49 am
by Not_Mafia
Played mafia a few times irl. Played forum mafia a couple of time on another site. Played a matrix 6 game before.

2 week deadline is long. Do games generally use the full 2 weeks? Or does someone typically get hammered before then?

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:55 am
by Luca Blight
In the other game I've played on here the full two weeks is used, and sometimes it still comes to a no-lynch!

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:03 am
by Not_Mafia
Lol. I guess people will just work to the deadline given. How's activity here in theze newbie games, how many replavements geblnerally get done per game?

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:07 am
by Luca Blight
In my other game there was quite a few replacements in the latter stages, the activity levels were generally good but there were also quiet days where only a few posts were made.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:08 am
by Luca Blight
I think with regards to the deadline, it is generally considered better for Town the longer the day goes on as it obviously allows more time for scum-hunting, so that is a reason early hammers are avoided.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:18 am
by notscience
Careful, Luca.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:27 am
by Luca Blight
In post 19, notscience wrote:Careful, Luca.
Looking at the rules discussion of activity in a general sense is allowed, but I take your point.

Cheers.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:37 am
by goodmorning
Hello all, I am your lovely IC. I am expected to help you learn to play the game, particularly in the context of this forum. Towards the pursuit of that goal, I will answer all your theory questions truthfully.

That's right,
I will not lie to you
about theory.

Now, you may be thinking "no fair, she's got more experience, clearly she will pwn newbs". That's only somewhat true. Some newbies have played many a game of Mafia elsewhere. Besides this, experience counts against me as well: you all are able to look up my past games and see how I've played in them. I can't because most of you don't have any. So it's a fairly even split.

Some helpful Wiki pages:
Quick Guide to Mafia
Quick Guide to Mafiascum
A Beginner's Guide to Being Awesome At Mafia

And some terms:
Glossary
Commonly Used Abbreviations

I also want to get this out now so as not to interrupt gameplay later:

HELPFUL TAG TIME

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which looks like
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Some mods are fine with spoilering of REALLY BIG WALLS O' TEXT. Some are not. If in doubt, always check.

/IC wall

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:46 am
by goodmorning
In post 4, notscience wrote:VOTE: GM

I KNOW YOU GOT A SCUM ROLE PM THIS TIME IM NOT LETTING YOU GET TO P5
NOTSCI

ARE YOU PROJECTING YOUR OWN GUILT ONTO ME

BAD NOTSCI
In post 7, Not_Mafia wrote:VOTE: goodmorning

It's evening in my timezone, rand the most experienced scum
Come to think of it, Rach is probably more experienced than I am and I know notsci has probably played almost as many games.
In post 10, Zivel wrote:Good morning.
LOL OH U
What sort of experience do people have? This is my first game of Mafia in RL or forum based.
I've played Mafia on and off for a little less than a decade. I only got into forum mafia in September of 2012, though.
Most of the games I've played are on this site. You can check my past games through clicking my username, then "display topics" (on the right, near the lower middle of the screen) or by clicking the wiki link under my info over there <. My wiki is missing my 17 most recently completed games, though.
In post 14, Not_Mafia wrote:2 week deadline is long. Do games generally use the full 2 weeks? Or does someone typically get hammered before then?
It depends on the playerlist and whether or not someone slips, but generally games use up a lot of the allotted time.
In post 16, Not_Mafia wrote:How's activity here in theze newbie games, how many replavements geblnerally get done per game?
Activity and number of replacements also depend on the playerlist.

I've never replaced out of a game, and am usually fairly active when not V/LA. Rach is typically slightly less active than the average, but also not likely to replace out. notsci is typically more active than the average, and also is not likely to replace out.

As for the newbs, I couldn't say. I've played with Joker before, but one game does not solid meta make.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:08 am
by Zivel
In post 19, notscience wrote:Careful, Luca.
Why does he have to be careful may I ask? Are we not allowed to talk about activity?

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:10 am
by notscience
In post 23, Zivel wrote:
In post 19, notscience wrote:Careful, Luca.
Why does he have to be careful may I ask? Are we not allowed to talk about activity?
He was wavering into dangerous territiory with one of his comments