NPF Mafia: 8-Bit Edition

[CallmePrismatic]

The Rules (Simplified, full version here)
1) There will be 20 players in this game. The Game Organizer will assign each player’s role at random, and will PM the roles to the players.

2) Of the 20, there will be 5 Mafia members. One of the Mafia is the Mafia Leader, and will report to the GO. The Mafia can communicate with each other through outside methods (PM, Instant Messenger, Email, etc.).

3) Of the 20, there will be one Police Officer. The Police cannot use outside methods of communication, except when talking to the GO.

4) Of the 20 there will be one Bodyguard. The Bodyguard cannot use outside methods of communication, except when talking to the GO.

5) The remaining number of players are Citizens. All discussions among Citizens must take place on this game thread.

***HONESTY GOES A LONG WAY***

Also, once killed, a poster is not told who is mafia and has no special knowledge the rest of you don't. Outside communication with living players is forbidden. Feel free to converse with your fellow dead/non-playing mates about the game.

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The rounds will proceed as follows:

1. The 5 Mafia decide on one person to kill. If the members of the Mafia do not agree, then the Leader gets the final say. The Leader will PM the GO to report the target ASAP.

2. The GO will announce who was murdered. That player's role will be revealed at that time.

The GO will be come up with a brief narration on what happened overnight. Sometimes there will be a clue or a red herring from the story.

3. The Police Officer may investigate one player. The Police Officer will PM the GO with the name of the player to be investigated ASAP. The GO will respond to the investigation by informing the PO whether that player is Mafia or not.

4. The Bodyguard (a.k.a. Doctor) may choose to defend one player. The Bodyguard will PM the GO with the screen name of that player ASAP. If the protected person is hit by the Mafia, the hit fails and the person continues in the game.

The bodyguard may not protect him/herself.

The GO will write a story to explain the failed hit. The story may (at his discretion) contain implications to some number of players using the same rules as the death post.

5. All of the players spend the remaining days discussing whom they think is in the Mafia. They can judge this based on who was killed last, how suspicious their opponents sound, or anything else they want to use as evidence.

6. Each player will vote on who is to be lynched.

Votes for lynching are to be posted on the thread. To simplify collating the votes, each player will identify their vote with the words vote: username followed by the screen name of the person they vote for. Be sure to bold your vote (EXample; Vote: CallmePrismatic), or it will not count. Votes may be posted at any time after the deathpost goes up and will end 76 hours after the hit deadline.

Revisions. Players will be allowed any number of revisions. The last post with a revision in before the voting deadline will be the one that counts. If you wish to revise your vote it should be identified first with an Unvote (EXample; Unvote: CallmePrismatic), and then a new Vote: SomebodyElse.

If you post your vote prior to the opening of voting for the round, it will not be counted. Revisions to those votes posted within the voting period will be counted.

The GO will tally the votes, and announce the lynched person. The lynched person is then out of the game. The lynched person may respond to the lynching by saying something to everyone before death, but only has one post. The lynched person may afterwards haunt the thread but they may say nothing substantial to the game and should not spam.

In the event of a tied lynch vote, the voting period shall be extended for twenty-four hours. Players who wish to amend their votes may do so during this period.

Should a player PM their vote to the GO resulting in the tie being broken, then votes will stand as at the close of the voting window.

At the close of the extended deadline, if the lynch vote is still a tie then there will be no lynching that week.

7. There will be a 24 hour "deliberation" period for the mafia, PO, and BG to choose their next target, after which, the next round begins. Repeat until:

-The Mafia are all dead, and all the Citizens are winners (yes, even the dead ones.).
-The number of Mafia make up at least half of the remaining players, then the Mafia are the winners.

Players: - PM me to sign up
1. Raiden - 'Lynched' Day 3. Police Officer
2. secretskull - Ejected due to un-participation.
3. Kikuichimonji
4. Major_Blood
5. Deathosaurus Wrecks!
6. The SSB Intern - Mafia killed Night 2
7. Silly Kitty - Mafia killed Night 4
8. Nique - Mafia killed Night 3
9. The Wizard Who Did It - Mafia Killed Night 5, Bodyguard
10. Newb - Lynched Day 1
11. SpoonyBard
12. The_Wandering_God - Lynched Day 5
13. Psycho Mantis
14. Red Mage Black
15. Pyros
16. GARUD - Mafia killed Night 1
17. sasuto
18. Mestizio - Lynched Day 2
19. Patrat - Ejected due to not wanting to play anymore.
20. Inbred Chocobo - Lynched Day 4

Yellow Names are Town-aligned.
Red Names are Mafiates.

[Nique]

I'll play

[Hatake Kakashi]

Hmm. This game may or may not be allowed, but regardless of whether it is or isn't, it would make one hell of an NPF comic. Any of you comic makers feeling ambitious?

[shiney]

I don't recall if this was allowed. If so then by all means but you'll have to provide evidence that a mod said go ahead, until then I'm going to ask that nobody else post.

Also this game is pretty complicated?

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

ill play, providing the mods are cool with the game and all.

[Lockeownzj00]

This looks fun but--why don't we all just play the bYOND version? Graphical and much more fun.

[shiney]

I'll allow it on the basis that first of all it doesn't consist of only "in" people as I know there is a certain clique of folks within this forum and I don't want this to just be some private members' club, second of all that it doesn't leave people feeling picked on, and third that I get to know who all the major players are (I won't be participating). Also if we can keep it failry contained so it doesn't go everywhere, that would be nice, and I should warn that if there's evidence of cheating or whatever the game will have to be discontinued.

[Lockeownzj00]

I only ask that maybe you make a mock set of posts or something--I've played this game before in card and virtual form (graphical, that is, and that one being the most intuitive), but never in this sort of...turn-based e-mail format. I'd consider it if I could just see it in action. Maybe with a chart or something? :E

[Red Mage Black]

Hmmm, I'll take a "stab" at it since I've played the card version before and pretty much know most of the rules.

[Cheerful Coffin]

I've played mafia games at many differant forums, after the first time playing it it'll make so much sense.. So sure, i'm in.