Mafia (Sign-up)

[Azide 0]

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In its simplest form, Mafia consists of two sides: the Mafia, and the Town. The Mafia's goal is to kill the innocents, while the Town's goal is to kill the Mafia.

At the beginning of the game, the Moderator will secretly send everyone their role. The Mafia will know each other, while (in the basic game) everyone else will only know their own role.

The game has two phases, the first of which is Day. During Day, the Town must choose someone to Lynch; they are trying to eliminate the Mafia, but the Mafia can lead them astray by casting suspicion elsewhere. Generally, players will vote for someone they think is Mafia (the Mafia will vote so that they seem to be doing this as well, and might even vote for each other to confuse the Town); when a player gets a majority of the votes, they are lynched. Their role is revealed by the Moderator, and it becomes Night.

During the Night, the thread is locked and no one can talk publicly. The Mafia, however, can speak to each other privately to plot strategy and decide who to murder before the next Day begins. In this way, they can silence members of the Town who are threats to them. At the end of the Night, the murder is carried out and another Day begins. In effect, the Town gets to kill someone, and then the Mafia gets to kill someone.

The game alternates between Day and Night until either the Mafia are eliminated, or the Mafia have killed everyone else (or nothing can prevent the same).

Additional roles:

Cop - Each Night, the Cop can investigate one player (by sending their name to the Moderator), and the Moderator will tell them whether that player is Mafia or not.

Doctor - Each Night, the Doctor can choose one player to protect (by sending their name to the Moderator). If the Mafia (or anyone else) tries to kill that player, that kill will be prevented.

Normally, I'd have just written up my own explanation of the popular party game, but because of laziness I've decided instead to provide the gist of things in the words of MafiaScum. Naturally, as the one organizing this potential game, I'll be happy to act as the neutral moderator. Should this topic indicate enough interest, a separate thread will be made, and we can go from there. 

In the meantime, anybody interested in trying this out, consider this thread a place to sign up for the first game. 

Participating:
1. Calrex

2. Ariel

3. Rag

4. Takao Kimura

5. Paglikha

6. Hikoru

7. Zelrius

8. Ayumu

9. Lessa

10. Rebekah

11. Lilliad

Edited November 24, 2015 by Azide

[Calrex 0]

Count me in!

[Ariel - The Crowned Lion 0]

a party game on a board forum..... seems like an interesting experiment. I'll be one of your lab rats 

Also you might want to define 'night' and 'day' since this a international forum.

[Rag 0]

I am up for it

[Takao 0]

i'll join because otherwise azide won't stop bullying me.

[Paglikha 0]

I'm up. Been waiting to get my fill on mafia/werewolf/ToS for a while now.

[Hikoru 0]

I'm SO PLAYING!!!

[Zelrius 0]

So, Forum Town of Salem. I am down.

[Ayumu 0]

You still got any room in this? XD If not that's cool. Sounds super fun though. ^^

[Lessa 1]

I'll hop in, if you're still taking people. :)

[Rebekah 0]

Any more room? This sounds interesting.

[Lilliad 0]

I play this al the time at school! I'll join!