Classic Mafia - Conclusion!

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Classic Mafia - Conclusion

Vote Lynch Count (Click to View)

Votes Counted:
1. Darl - #1&4/5: Jernemies
2. Jernemies - #3: Ramond
3. Ramond - #2: Jernemies

Vote Tally:
Jernemies - 2
Ramond - 1

The day broke, and the town awoke to the sight of an impaled Apocalipsis dangling atop a lance.

One of them was certainly the Godfather, and one of them must die this day.

After several exchanges, two of the townsfolk determined that Jernemies was the Godfather.

Of course. How could they have been so blind? How could the town not have seen this wolf hiding in plain sight? Why, Jernemies was quite literally the devil!

Discovered at long last, the Godfather Jernemies screeched as he lunged for Darl. However, Darl & Ramond had anticipated this. Armed with blessed flamethrowers, they crossed streams of holy fire at the enraged demonspawn. Jernemies soldiered on as his body began to disintegrate, but perished before he could lay a hand on the townsfolk. And so the town was cleansed, from the evil that was the Godfather and his Mafia.

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Jernemies, the Mafia Godfather, has been slain.

Epilogue:
It was over. The evil that had plagued this town has been cleansed forever. The crisis has lifted.

However, the damage had been done. The town was devastated, destroyed by the conflicts between its own inhabitants, leaving only two survivors - Darl the doctor and Ramond the last citizen.

Indeed, the town had suffered a tragedy, but it ultimately triumphed in the face of adversity.

After the little fighters returned home from defeating Lord Julian, the town would rebuild itself again. Though the incident had left a scar in the inhabitants' hearts, they lived the rest of their lives knowing that their descendents would never have to suffer the same fate.

Life goes on for the Little Town.

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The End.

Town Victory!

Players
1. T.O.R.N.A.D.O - Citizen (stabbed by Mafia in Night 0)
2. mfc - Mafia Goon (ravaged by Town's cat mascot in Day 1)
3. CosmicSarasa - Citizen (hugged by Mafia in Night 1)
4. AmadisLFE - Citizen (tripped on his own sword in Day 2)
5. Rhino.Freak - Town Cop (harpooned by Mafia in Night 2)
6. LutiChris - Citizen (boiled for frog leg soup in Day 3)
7. Simoneon - Citizen (blasted by Mafia in Night 3)
8. Bamboori - Mafia Goon (actually lynched in Day 4)
9. empirefantasy - Citizen (beaten to death by Mafia in Night 4)
10. TheNave - Citizen (head ripped off in Day 5)
11. Apocalipsis - Citizen (impaled by Mafia in Night 5)
12. Jernemies - Mafia Godfather (incinerated in Day 6)
13. Ramond - Citizen - Survived
14. Darl - Town Doctor - Survived

Godfather Bets:
Green = Correct, Red = Wrong. Open spoiler for the full PM-bet sent to me! Bets listed in the order I received them:

LutiChris (Click to View)

"Darl has yet to come out of the closet"

Apocalipsis (Click to View)

Well... I'm not completely sure about this, but I would go against Ramond, 60%.

It seems to me like a risky but solid strategy to kill Bamboori. He knew it was likely for Nave to get lynched afterwards, so it would be 1:3 at this point (if he were to avoid the Doctor up to this point). Then, why would we doubt him, one of the killers of Bamboori?

I was killed after stating I was going to vote for him. Sure, it could be Jernemies trying to fool us, but it sounds even more risky to me. If Jernemies were to be the Godfather, knowing how stubborn I am, it would have been easier to let me live so I would vote against Ramond. Then why did he target me, and not Darl?

Finally, his weird behaviour at the start of the game, could have been a strategy to get himself checked by Rhino.

Then again, I failed (at least) twice in this game, first with Amadis and then with Nave, so I'm not sure about anything at this point.

TheNave (Click to View)

It must be Jernemies

he overreacted as hell when he was accused by me (even though I was almost confirmed dead and nobody paid any attention to me) he was still all like: "Blabla no way I'll survive the day after this one blabla"

and Ramond is just Ramond-ing around, he did that in the other game I played with him aswell, and he was citizen that time aswell, so ya

Oh and I bet Somin bets on Ramond and Apoc bets on Jernemies aswell... now I got a doublebet running

empirefantasy (Click to View)

its jeremies :P

Simoneon (Click to View)

it's jernemies

A-Man (Click to View)

Jerenemies! I know I didn't participate, but I still wanted to try.

Previous Phases:
Day 1 begins - TORNADO is killed.
Night 1 begins - mfc is lynched.
Day 2 begins - CosmicSarasa is killed.
Night 2 begins - AmadisLFE is lynched.
Day 3 begins - Rhino.Freak is killed.
Night 3 begins - LutiChris is lynched.
Day 4 begins - Simoneon is killed.
Night 4 begins - Bamboori is lynched.
Day 5 begins - empirefantasy is killed.
Night 5 begins - TheNave is lynched.
Day 6 begins - Apocalipsis is killed.
Conclusion - Jernemies is lynched.

Alternative Ending (Click to View)

The day broke, and the town awoke to the sight of an impaled Apocalipsis dangling atop a lance.

One of them was certainly the Godfather, and one of them must die this day.

After several exchanges, two of the townsfolk determined that Ramond/Darl was the Godfather.

Darl/Ramond cast the first stone at Ramond/Darl, and Jernemies soon followed. Ramond/Darl tried to shield his head and run, but one of the stones hit a critical spot, and he crumpled to the floor. The two would not stop stoning the unconscious Ramond/Darl until they had satisfied their bloodlust.


Ramond, the last Town Citizen, has been slain.

Darl, the Town Doctor, has been slain.

Epilogue:
As Darl/Ramond frantically searched for a mask, the great shadow of Jernemies loomed over behind him.

Of course. How could they have been so blind? How could the town not have seen this wolf hiding in plain sight? Why, Jernemies was quite literally the devil!

"No... no no NOOOO!!" the last townsfolk fell back and tried to crawl away from the now unstoppable demon.

"You have done well Dr. Darl/Mr. Ramond!" the Godfather cackled in laughter. "Now, you will have your JUST reward!"

Darl/Ramond let loose an agonizing howl as Jernemies placed his hand upon his victim's face. With a green glow, the doctor/citizen's soul was sucked, leaving behind naught but a husk.

At last, the Mafia had its revenge; the town had indeed destroyed itself from within as mfc had predicted. As a final act, the Godfather salted the earth before setting the town alight. He watched solemnly as the town was razed to the ground, consumed by a blaze of hellfire, in memory of his fallen godsons and Lord Julian...

The little fighters who returned home would search for the perpetrators all their life, but they would pass away, never having found Jernemies the Godfather.

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The End.

Mafia Victory!

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GM's Comments: (Click to View)

First of all, thank you everyone for making this round a success! Credit must also go to TheNave for giving me a chance to host after starting up the registration thread and also providing me with a ruleset that I could use(which I paraphrased to make it shorter & more concise). I didn't modify the rules except add the "Auto-win if Town : Mafia ratio is 1:1" clause, which I'll explain in detail below. Being the host seeing the night roles behind the scenes really helps me to appreciate the game better.

Really bad luck for mfc to have been checked in the first night, although I didn't expect him to straight up admit he was mafia and play the "traitor" card, leading to his early death. It is for this reason of being checked early that I considered switching the Godfather role to mfc as he appeared to be the most active Mafia, but in the end I decided to respect the RNG.

I actually made a mistake in Night 1 by telling the Cop(Rhino.Freak) his result too early(Darl is Townie) before the night was over as I was too eager to clarify that his Cop ability checks alignment rather than role. Fortunately he played along and in the end, the cop wasn't killed that night, so it didn't have a negative impact on the game overall.

Rhino.Freak would've been incredibly lucky if his checking ability is absolute role-checking. He checked mfc(goon), Darl(medic), initially went for Jernemies(godfather) before wanting to switch to LutiChris(citizen) but alas, he died on Night 2 as the Mafia sucessfully gambled on Darl(medic) not protecting Rhino.Freak.

TheNave, Ramond & I were usually on irc. While we did talk Mafia there, it was with regards to how I ran the game as GM; there was no discussion of the round itself and thus no rulebreak.

Jernemies really was unable to participate as actively due to being in the military, so I gave him some leeway time-wise. For the last few nights, I asked him & Bamboori on irc for the night kill directly instead of requiring them to PM. I didn't notice Apoc's question about using irc to bypass PM, but when I saw it later, I decided not to answer publicly since it'd likely give Jernemies away, who already has a disadvantage of being unable to be as active as everyone else.

I advanced the phases very quickly because I figured there's no point dragging each phase if results are clear. I admit I advanced too fast with Day 2 considering that it was a close contest between getting Amadis or LutiChris lynched. I deliberately slowed down the night phases a little to try masking the players' timezone activity from giving away the special roles as well as to make sure most of the players can be active when the new phase is announced, but it seems TheNave still caught on that empirefantasy was just a normal citizen. I should also add that moderators will always have that extra advantage of being able to see invisible players and deleted posts(which led to a rule patch).

Let's talk about the elephant in the room: The day 3 incident with LutiChris. The jist of it is that Luti didn't like the unenforceable rule of "no talking outside of thread". I was well aware of its many flaws and how eager people are to comment, but I decided to leave the rule in as I didn't want to remove Nave's intended game mechanic of "killing the brains" and I trusted the LFE community to abide by that rule. I wasn't happy that he chose to bend it the way he did rather than bring it up to me. I might have made it a double-lynch if he wasn't already the most voted lynchee in that phase. In any case, LutiChris and I have long since resolved this issue on Skype and its a learning experience for me. I've considered Apoc's idea; its actually very interesting solution that maximizes thread participation over private discussions, though the biggest problem is that the GM is not omniscient and very often, other players will catch the uneditted post before the GM can. I suppose the closest thing is what Ramond did where he made his round revolve entirely around using role abilities which the GM has full control over or maybe give mafia infiltration abilities that let them get into private discussions more easily. In any case, in the worst case scenario, private discussions will have to be completely free, which I partly dislike because it discourages players from posting in the thread itself.

Some of you might have noticed the Mafia win if >50% of population clause, which Apoc had PM'd me about when Day 6 began. That rule is implemented because once Mafia is 50% or more of population, they have the ability to tie with or even overpower the Town side. In the case of tie, it becomes a random kill between ties, but a win caused by a random kill would leave a bad taste for players. In the event its just 1 doctor 1 mafia, declaring a draw works, but I believe players would much prefer having a proper resolution to their game, not to mention its better for the story. The whole idea of Mafia is that it is an uninformed majority against an informed minority, and if the informed minority becomes tied or even the majority, they should be rewarded for making it that far. Last but not least, I do not want to encourage the doctor to keep saving himself just for a chance to bring the game to an unsatisfying draw. The game should advance quickly, but also end with a decisive conclusion.

At the end of the round, I considered explicitly lifting the ghost talk rule and was pretty lenient about it all, but I decided to just leave it be while Ramond later told me that he was against direct post suggestions that a person is the godfather. As a result, you'd notice that one of TheNave and Bamboori's posts have been removed. mfc also deleted his own post - all have since been moved to disposal for consistency.

Darl's actions as medic: Saved himself every single night.

It does take me quite a bit of time to draw the illustrations with a consistent art style, so if I host again, I might either forgo the illustration or just brush over quickly with MS Paint like I did with the background image. The story does take some time as well even if its mostly impromptu, so again if I host, I'd probably make a much more concise story.

Feel free to comment about the game or criticize my run as this round's GM, I'd love to hear feedback!