A-Mafia

[the mad maskman]

"1: we can outvote them, but only in the first night, that is.
2: i believe, that like me, you need 8 hours of sleep? what if the mafia needed less? (if everyone needed 8 hours of sleep, why is it not a rule, instead of telling us by pm) assuming they need 6 hours, they can murder someone at 01.00, then sleep, and be able to attend the meeting.
3: what i meant is that, everybody is sure to be checked. since everybody here can do his/her own investigation, nobody will escape getting checked. i hope you agree with me. if you don't, fine, it's not like i'm going to force you to adopt it :P "

[Bamboori]

"That is true, some people among us could be insomniac or need less sleep. Apart from that my plan still sounds better to me than everybody just going to their own home.
But I still do not understand what you mean by checking each other. If you stay awake and check a member, who in turn checks on somebody else, nobody would find anybody since they all went to check on someone else. Also next morning everybody would be asleep."

[mfc]

Oh god why is this game so complex and why is everything written behind annoying old english mask...

What is wolf doing?

Is she like a independent character?

Can she kill us?

Is she controllable?

How does anything work?

Am I supposed to PM if I decide to sleep?

How is time period of walking between 2 points defined?

How would mafia know where we are?

Can we hide ourselves?

How do you even meet, what purpose even meeting has, can you talk secretly to each other when you meet?

If there are 2 people sleeping in same house, can they kill the coming mafia? Or can mafia kill 2 people in a house?

This feels like a sandbox rpg game which is full of vague rules that I cannot experiment to figure how they work because it is so far away from being real time.

[the mad maskman]

"ah. indeed i didin't think about it. sorry, Bamboorix, this was a huge mistake. then i guess we'll be going by your strategy."

[Ramond]

"First of all I'd like to point out how this new mfc guy is becoming completely paranoid. It's as he's lost his senses. Somebody should definitely keep an eye on him, lest he be the deliverer of doom.

Other than that, I'm not sure I like the idea of residing together in houses. It just gives them a better opportunity to shed our blood, possibly even more people at once if we're unlucky."

[mfc]

"lest he be the deliverer of doom."
"lest"

"Why are we talking in quotes? Am I missing something? Stop using weird English."

"Wherefore art we talking in quotes? Am i missing something? Stand ho using weird English"

"Forhwý boda we maðel ætrihte [quotes]? [Am] yfel [missing] âhwæðer? forclyccan [using] [weird] Englisc."

"Yo Why is we's jivin' in quotes? be ah missing somethin`? Stop usin` weird cracker a** english Ya' dig?"

[A-Man]

Am I supposed to PM if I decide to sleep?

Basic premise is as follows. You plan everything you're going to do for the rest of the day and write it in your action PM. If you get an external stimulus, e.g you meet someone, see something, hear something ..etc, you'll be informed and will be given a chance to change your course of action. Don't worry much. Just relax and enjoy. I've done my best to have common sense apply in the game so don't worry.

How is time period of walking between 2 points defined?

In the rule book I wrote that, in normal situations, time getting from a point to another will be from 5 to 15 minutes, or 10 minutes in average.

How would mafia know where we are?

Who knows, but one thing is for certain: they are not given any special privileges. So they're not telepathic (they can't PM each other). So all their methods have a real life analogy.

Can we hide ourselves?

Hide where? You can go sleep at somebody else's house (if they would open the door for you), and if the mafia were to break in to your house, they wouldn't find you of course.

How do you even meet, what purpose even meeting has, can you talk secretly to each other when you meet?

If both of you see one other, you'll both receive a notification/event PM and will have a chance to turn in another action PM (could start a conversation, 300 char messages, ~30 minutes will be spent for each message sent by any of the partakers of the conversation).

If somebody enters the location of the conversation however, they would naturally "overhear" the conversation.

If there are 2 people sleeping in same house, can they kill the coming mafia? Or can mafia kill 2 people in a house?

If they're awake, then it's possible that they end up catching the mafia. It also depends on the means. Having a weapon or something certainly helps.

This feels like a sandbox rpg game which is full of vague rules that I cannot experiment to figure how they work because it is so far away from being real time.

I realize now that this might have not been the best idea. I suggest you lay back, relax and enjoy the game. I generally wanted a game where I can drop some brainy stuff here and there to have room for heavy deductions that awards the player, and that was the best formula I could come up with for that. Anyway, I'll let you know what you need to turn in exactly by the end of this phase.


So this phase will end soon. After my next post that will announce that, there should be no further discussion between the residents in this thread.

[Ramond]

"Hereby, before the meeting ends, I propose everybody just do what they want to for the remainder of the day. The less they know about what each of us is doing, the safer we are."

[Rhino.Freak]

"Gee golly, I suppose I should go home and read some books on self defense."

[A-Man]

Alright, this ends the day phase at 17:00. Everybody is now at B on the map.

No more public strategy discussion.

Now, all of you need to send me a:

Action PM (Click to View)

You need to send me your action PM that ends with you moving to your house and sleeping. Even if you don't plan to sleep in your house. If you want to sleep at somebody else's, what you do is that in your tour, you just knock at their door. If they answer, you'll be informed, and you can change your actions then. Otherwise, your actions will continue playing as first declared.

For action PMs, to simplify things, you have two options:
1- Send commands.

Spoiler (Click to View)

e.g.

Title of PM: A-Mafia Action (Click to View)

Move: B -> W -> c -> b -> 1
Knock: 30 minutes
Move: 1 -> a -> q -> r -> 2
Knock: 10 minutes
Move: 2 -> w
Wait: 10
Move: w -> v -> B -> W -> d -> 10
Sleep

To simplify things further, forget about having to specify whether you're moving quickly; this will be taken according to context (i.e. if you're running away from someone). Moreover, you may skip the intermediate steps when it comes to movement. For instance, instead of "Move: B -> W -> c -> b -> 1", you could just do "Move: B -> 1", and it will be assumed that you would like to take the shortest path. If there is more than one short path however, I'll choose for you at random. So the above PM could be:

Title of PM: A-Mafia Action (Click to View)

Move: B -> 1
Knock: 30
Move: 1 -> 2
Knock: 10
Move: 2 -> w
Wait: 10
Move: w -> 10
Sleep

If you just want to go home directly and sleep after the meeting, just send an empty PM.

2- Or you could send a picture.

Title of PM: A-Mafia Action (Click to View)

As a reminder, average time of going from one location on the map to one of its adjacent ones is 10 minutes. Village meeting begins at 07:00 in the morning. You might also want to sleep a bit early in case something happens at night.

And you could optionally PM me messages (up to 3 messages) that you would like to send to other players. e.g.

Title of PM: A-Mafia Message (Click to View)

To: X
Mention sender: No
Message: Message body of 300 characters or less.

To: Y
Mention sender: No
Message: Message body of 300 characters or less.

To: Z
Mention sender: Yes
Message: Message body of 300 characters or less.

You are free to mention your name as the sender of your message, but do put in mind that unread messages sent to a player who gets lynched during the day meeting will be revealed to the public the following day meeting.

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A-Village's map: (Click to View)

Legend:
B - Village center and Meeting Place
P - Post office
M - Village market
H - Hospital
W - Village Well
1 - AmadisLFE's House
2 - Bamboori's House
3 - Ramond's House
4 - Rhino.Freak's House
5 - mfc's House
6 - the mad maskman's House
7 - TORNADO's House
8 - LutiChris's House
9 - empirefantasy's House
10- Simoneon's House