Nineteen players square off in a game with flavor based on anime and manga from the 1990s
[*]This is the 'long' 90s, or what Krazy calls the 'Akira to Spirited Away' 90s, so you can pick any anime from 1988-2001, that is, the anime part of the wave that made anime popular in the West and then on to critical recognition. If an anime was airing during the 90s but started before that, or started in the 90s and continued airing in the 2000s, that's also okay.
Manga from the 90s or 2000/2001 that was later adapted to an anime after the 90s is also okay
[*]Picks should generally be regarded as anime (i.e., animation from Japan, not the USA etc.)
[*]There will be a mafia faction, they will have daytalk, and an optional discord server.
[*]There will be at least twelve town players and at least three mafia players.
[*]10 day day 1, 8 day dayphases after that,
1 day nights
[*]Ankamius is co-moderator/reviewer.
[*]Additional review and input was given by schadd_, RadiantCowbells, and Jingle
[*]This will be a swingy game but not role madness. I am not limiting myself from any roles, but I will give a ballpark of whether the game is bastard or not after the design phase is complete. I guarantee there will be at least one vanilla town and at least one mafia goon. I do not guarantee that you will be able to guess how each role works mechanically.
[*]Flavor can be discussed and is mostly? not alignment indicative
[*]There can be third parties.[/list]
Scum day talk? Yes, and a discord server if they want it.
Scum safe flavor claims? Yes... mostly? This is actually a tricky question.
Scum safe claims? There are mod-provided sample fakeclaims but whether they are "safeclaims" is open to debate. I encourage scum to hand-craft their own fakeclaims using the mod-provided fakeclaims as a starting point. The mod-provided fake-claims should prevent the game from being broken by a day-1 massclaim, beyond that I do not make strong promises on the utility of the mod-provided fakeclaims.
Multitasking? The mafia team is not factionally multitasking but can be independently multitasking.
Multiball? There can be at most 4 third party roles; there can be two group scum factions; there can be a scum faction with more than 3 members.
Setup Stuff
Does flavor have an effect? Maybe.
Unique Mechanic? I'm gonna go with yes. There may be "daybreak" periods where certain actions resolve, including potentially the flip of killed players by 24 hours.
Bastard level? This game will have significant swing, roles that you are unlikely to anticipate, and probably some number of red herrings. I do not believe there are any direct moderator lies, mid-game alignment changes, and I will exclude *the specific versions* of some roles listed below. The bastard level of this game should be significantly lower than Overkill 2.
Excluded Roles: There will be no governor or beloved princess. There will be no mechanics whereby the lynch of the day can suddenly change, no skipping of night phases, and no skipping of dayphases. There will also be no cults and no mid-game alignment changes. Your wincon will not change, although some players can have secondary win conditions. There will be no jesters and no lynchers.
Day actions: Day actions including daykills would not cause the dayphase to end.
Maximum players leaving the game in a single night: I believe the theoretical maximum number of players who could leave the game in a single night is 5 but I believe this is a fairly unlikely scenario.
Approximate level of swing: Significantly above Starcraft 2, probably? higher than Legacy of the Void, probably? lower than Starcraft 1 (these last two I'm not sure about).
Passive abilities note: Most passive abilities are not subject to roleblocks unless otherwise stated.
Flavor:
At daybreak, I may include flavor text (depending on my availability and schedule). Everyone has flavor. This is a theme game. You are not explicitly prohibited from speculating about flavor text, although, to be clear, a lot of the narrative-style information in my flavor reveals will not be based on night action content.
Flips:
Flips may include kill flavor. While this may suggest the role behind the kill, some killing roles may be able to obscure or change their flavor. Certain actions may cause flips to be delayed by up to 24 hours during the "daybreak" phase.
Flips will include the role PM with any "Informed" status content redacted and all PT links removed.
Hydras and Discord:
I will set up hydra PTs on discord at request.
VCs:
I have used Mathblade's vote counter before and liked it a lot, but using name variations that are not misspellings may cause me delays in updating the vote count. I may for any reason stop using the Mathblade vote counter and switch to conventional vote counting by hand.
I will use the offline version of Mathblade's Vote Counter. It has been somewhat buggy lately and I may be looking for another vote counter in the next few weeks.
To be clear, this is not from the Starcraft series, and roles that are prohibited in the Starcraft series may be allowed here, either in whole or in part.
Also, there also can be (probably will be) new roles that would not be on the roles list or searchable on the mafia wiki.
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1. This game uses sitewide rules: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6470
1a. Do not private message other users about anything having to do with this game in any circumstance even/especially if you are dead/have replaced out/are spectating/etc. If you even think it might be a grey area, it is not a grey area, it is not ok. This includes informal conversations on discord. Do not refer indirectly to game events in this game until the game is complete, including in signatures, signup threads, or anywhere else. Do not refer to statements made in this game in this game in other games.
2. No reference, whatsoever, should be made about other ongoing games. Ever. Not directly, not indirectly, not at all. -- https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=30908
Respect
1. Be nicer to other people than they are to you. Attack the play not the player.
1a.
Replace outs will only be accepted by Private Message, not in game. If you are replacing out, do not discuss this in thread until it is confirmed with the moderator. Players cannot cancel replacement requests, even if a replacement has not been found. PMing the moderator that you wish or need to replace out will be taken as final. Once you have made that PM, please do not continue to post in the game thread.
Assume good faith for replace-outs. If you replace out, please do not comment directly or indirectly about the game in other sections of the site including the queue and/or your signature. This falls into the broad umbrella of "outside influence."
1b. Please do not ask other players to replace out, discourage them from playing the game, or otherwise create a hostile gaming environment. This is now also a sitewide rule.
2.
Play to win.
2a.
You must read your role pm, and confirm that you understand your role.
2b.
Do not state, whether honest or false, that you have not read your role pm
in-thread. If I somehow forget to send you a role pm or send you multiple role pms, please contact me
by pm
.
2c. You can claim scum, and you can claim scum with someone else provided that the moderator can reasonably suspect non-malicious motives behind such.
2d. Scum can night kill their teammates, but I must see evidence that such a move is not game-throwing.
2e. Do not say or imply that you have not been reading the thread. If you need time to catch up, you can say this.
3.
Avoid using the plain spoiler (blackout tag). Use spoiler= instead!
This is wrong.
4.
Videos and animated Gifs can be posted in the main thread, but please try to keep it within reason. Do not try to break the site or make the thread unreadable to mobile users.
5. Cryptography and other forms of codes are generally not allowed. Breadcrumbs are generally okay.
6.
Constant off-topic posting will not be tolerated.
7.
Provable randomness is strongly discouraged.
In particular, do not use the dice tag.
8. Hydras -- Hydras must sign posts according to their requested handle, decided day 1 or pre-game. You are welcome to post an ego post on your main. Hydra slips will not result in warnings, although you should not treat your main as your head of the hydra. Personally, I think there is no need to quote hydra slips on the hydra account, although I won't stop you from doing this either.
9. Please try to make the game at least relatively mobile friendly. On that note, please try not to quote large chunks of embedded quote chains for short replies--if you are really just referring to the last thing someone said, just say @playername and then reply rather than quoting a large quote chain for another short reply.
Honor
1. Do not attempt to impersonate the moderator.
Purple is my color, but you may use it as long as you are not attempting to impersonate me with it.
Note I don't actually edit in replies all that often. I also often just write replies using normal text.
2. Do not edit or delete your post if for some reason you have the ability to do so. This includes on any related discord server.
3.
Do not attempt to get the moderator to influence the game.
This rule does not refer to day abilities, if any exist, that are stated in your role PM. Please refrain from asking too many questions of the moderator about roleclaims unless absolutely necessary.
4a. PM me regarding VC related questions; V/LA can be declared in thread.
4b.
Do not discuss any disciplinary actions that the moderator takes in-thread.
4c. If there is a declared day action, you can ask the moderator to confirm that day actions have resolved, rather than waiting only for the next Vote Count. If the day action was fake, or if the day action was real but failed, either way the stated moderator response will be: "All day actions have resolved."
5.
Trust tells are prohibited.
5a.
Do not replace out in such a manner as to confirm your alignment.
6.
Do not quote or copy-paste moderator communications and other forms of private communications (exception to this -- scum can post their role pms in the scum pt). -- While you can copy/paste communication from hydra discord servers, you should make sure that the text is converted to plain text, and especially that all embedded hyperlinks to player names are removed. Please do not enable timestamps either.
6a. Post links to anything except the main thread, timestamps, and read statuses should never be referenced in the game thread.
Access list numbers in private topics are also covered by this rule.
6b. You may directly copy-paste
unflavored night action results
(usually in bold) as well as your alignment, flip role, and effective role from your role pm, but
do not directly quote them
.
6c. Confirmed same-alignment players can quote their role PMs in their private topics (i.e. masons).
6d. Do not quote your hydra PT in the game thread or include embedded links to your hydra PT in the game thread. You can copy and paste text from your hydra PT so long as it is plain text and does not include links to any posts in the hydra PT.
7. No Bah! posts.
Miscellaneous
1. Follow the spirit of the rules.
1a.
Do not attempt to find loopholes in the ruleset.
1b. While the moderator will generally assume good-faith, action can be taken against inadvertent rule breaks if deemed necessary.
2.
All PTs will be released within 24 hours of the game's conclusion.
Players in any thread except the Dead PT may request redactions at any time
before
I release the PT. The dead thread is released immediately on the conclusion of the game.
3. The moderator reserves the right to update this ruleset as necessary.
New items will be underlined
, and
deleted items will be striked through.
(Note: The markup on this line is an example.)
Setup-Specific Rules
Activity and Deadline Rules
1. Day one lasts 10 days, other day phases will last 8 days. Nights last 24 hours.
2.
Nights may be extended if a replacement is needed.
There will be a minimum of 24 hours between the time a replacement is found and when night actions are due.
3. You will be prodded after
48 hours
of inactivity; this does not change on weekends. All prods should be responded to
in-thread unless the thread is locked in which case pm is acceptable.
4. 2 prod dodges are equivalent to a single prod. If you are prodded again from prod-dodging, you may not prod dodge. Prodges must still include some game content: "Krazy is still scum", "Krazy is still town," and "I like this wagon" are good enough for a prodge. While a subjective rule, prod dodges are objectively defined as posts that consist of little or no content related to the game with the sole purpose of avoiding prodding. Minimum content is not defined here as to mitigate abuse, but do realize that this rule is applied as objectively as possible.
5.
V/LAs should generally be announced in-thread, not by pm.
You should also set V/LA in the User CP to make sure I do not forget.
6. If you have
regular weekend V/LA
, it is
your responsibility
to either inform me at the end of
each week
or to remember to set V/LA status.
7.
V/LA players must post at least once every 96 hours.
Excessively long V/LAs (
14 days or longer
) may have stricter requirements imposed on them.
8. I reserve the right to warn and replace players whom I believe are exploiting loopholes in the activity rules. Please note that players are expected to do more than the bare minimum as outlined by these prodding rules. I reserve the right to warn and/or replace players whom I believe are exploiting loopholes in the activity rules, or are otherwise not treating the game as the commitment they signed up for.
Voting, Lynching, and Twilight Rules
To vote, use
Vote: Player
or VOTE: Player.
To unvote, use
Unvote: Player
or UNVOTE: Player.
You do not have to unvote to change votes.
Furthermore, I will only track the last *valid* vote in your post.
Vote Conspiracy
will not change your existing vote.
Player abbreviations are allowed, although it must be *obvious* who your abbreviation refers to -- to the vote counter, preferably. If your vote is not being caught by the vote counter scrubber, I may edit your post.
Hammer occurs when votes equal to half of all living players (rounded down) plus one cast a vote against the same player (or No Lynch). All votes after a hammer will not be counted, and the hammered player is the one who will flip. The time following a hammer is Twilight, and all players may continue talking.
No lynch will occur if deadline is reached without a hammer.
Chaos Wind lynched day 2: Town Dragon Knight
Titus killed night 2: Town Mech Pilot
Nobody lynched day 3
CheekyTeeky killed night 3: Town Child-Flavor Cop
Gamma Emerald lynched day 4: Town informed
No one dies night 4
jjh927 lynched day 5: Mafia Traitor
furret and woopers killed night 5: Town Vanilla
mastina lynched day 6: Town Neighbor
Shiro Killed night 6: Town Magical Girl
Emperor Flippynips lynched day 7: Town High-Bounty Cop
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Two gangs of motorcyclists flit through the streets, swerving in and out of traffic, their headlights paving the way in the darkness. As they stream through a red light, a car comes to a screeching halt. In a fit of manic glee, one of the motorcyclists throws a grenade into the car, and it explodes, the driver running for his life.
The year is 1988, and Katsuhiro Otomo's
AKIRA
sweeps across theaters worldwide, changing the face of Japanese animation forever and reinforcing the sense that animation, as a form, could serve critical and aesthetic purposes outside of children's cartoons and Disney feature films.
Otomo, the driver of the car, runs for cover. As he looks back and sees the biker gang of anime characters sweeping around him, he wonders briefly to himself...
what have I unleashed?
Katsuhiro Otomo has been killed in pre-game
by
flavor that won't be used in the actual nightkills!
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Ranma 1/2 is an anime that ran from 1989 to 1992, based on a manga that ran from 1987 to 1996, originally written by Rumiko Takahashi, who is also well known for her series Inuyasha.
It is now night 1! Please send in night actions in the next (expired on 2019-06-05 01:47:18)! Reminder that this game only has 1 day nights! Thank you!
In post 1, Krazy wrote:I believe the theoretical maximum number of players who could leave the game in a single night is 5 but I believe this is a fairly unlikely scenario.
only went from 1995-1996, and yet this series still remains one of the most influential anime franchises to date, spawning a host of merchandise (figurines, etc.), as well as serving as the promotional icon of entire pachinko franchises, Evangelion today is a benchmark in animated storytelling, as well as a Japanese icon given that it also has been awarded the highest honor of all--the decoration on a Shinkansen:
Since then it has gone on to serve as the basis for the "rebuild" series of feature films, which have not yet been completed due to Anno's fixation with monster movies and other directorial obligations. Yet perhaps the most surreal experience of the entire series must be the pivotal
The End of Evangelion
which remains one of the most avant-garde feature films from any country.
Also a plus, the television series is coming to Netflix in like three weeks, so that's nice
Not a warning, but please keep gifs that imply someone else is a bitch/etc. to a minimum, even if it's obviously a joke. 
