Mafia

[fire_of_avalon]

foa says yes but will probably flake out eventually.

[Levian]

Okay, how about each day lasts 24 hours and each night lasts 24 hours? That way people should have time enough to check in with the thread, conspire and vote etc. That means 1 person will be killed each (real) day.

[McLovin']

Sign me up scotty.

[Levian]

Okay, 2 more seats available. But there's also room for replacements in case someone should drop out for any reason.

So far I'm thinking:
1 cop
1 doctor

I'll assign the roles randomly (by picking notes out of a hat) after our final 2 contestants have joined us.

[Shiny]

1 cop?

[Flying Mullet]

How will the "discussions" be controlled? Will deceased players and those not participating in the game be able to post? I'm assuming that this thread will be the "day" thread and the mafia folks will IM and PM amongst themselves at "night".

[Levian]

I've never played this game with cops! I wouldn't know how many is suitable ;o They do have a pretty revealing role, though so shouldn't be too many of them since they can search members every night and stuff. But yeah, let's discuss role setup while we wait for our last two contestants. 4 mafia sound good to you people?

edit:

Mullet: Dead members will not be allowed to add information to the game after they're dead, or make accusations etc. People not in the game shouldn't post much at all. And yes, the mafia will have to communicate through PM or IM.

[Shiny]

When will this game begin officially?

[Levian]

Once we get the final two contestants, thinking of going to bed now, so hopefully in the morning we can start the first day and lynch our first person!

[oddler]

Oh crap! Fit me in there! Quickly!

[Miriel]

The cop should have a friend! Make it 2 cops and 15 citizens. Yes yes?

Also, each cop doesn't get to "investigate" a person seperately each night. They talk amongst themselves to figure out 1 person to investigate each night. So they have to agree on the person together.

When you're playing this in real life, cop discussions aren't discussions so much as it's hand gesturing and miming. While everyone else has their eyes closed, Cops start pointing at people, nodding or vigorously shaking their head, pointing at someone else, and so on and so forth until both cops are pointing at the same person and nodding their heads and that's the person whose identity gets revealed to them.

Actually, that's kind of exactly what Mafia does when trying to come to a decision on who to kill, too.

Also, having more than 1 cop gives Mafia a little help in discovering who the cops are. If there are two players constantly agreeing with each other... well. You know. Cops have to be very careful how they play their game and use their inside knowledge.

[Psychotic]

Lev, don't tell people what roles you're having and how many of them there are, other than # mafia and # townsfolk. It'll ruin the SURPRISE!

[McLovin']

Yea you aren't supposed to tell us how many mafia there are.

There can be as many mafia as townsfolk even.

[Levian]

Okay, I think I've got the roles down then.

Psy, I already told Miriel, so it wouldn't be fair to keep it from everyone else. It would be fun to have several types of roles, but since it's the first time we play Mafia here it's probably best to keep things simple. But I'm all for a second round of Mafia with additonal roles at a later moment!

*signs up oddler* one more spot left!

edit: Magus: oh ;o well, maybe I'll change the numbers then! OR MAYBE I WON'T! nobody knows!

[oddler]