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Cosmic Horror Mafia
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*Tackster is helping me co-host this game. Any questions can be directed towards him or myself.
Introduction:
Mafia is an educated guessing game of epic proportions. The objective of the game is to lynch or kill all mafia members before they outnumber the rest of the town. It's much like a game of poker because mafia members are also part of the town during the day and may manipulate the vote to their liking. If the mafia at any time outnumber or equal the townspeople, they win. The town's goal is to lynch all the members of the mafia.
The game is typically very active, so the thread will get big quickly. However, it is essential to read the thread to play the game. If you do not have the time or patience to read the whole thread, do not play. I will not compensate for ignorance.
Rules:
Cheating:
Cheating includes (but is not limited to):
1. Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post, but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information.
2. Ruining the game by doing something like hand out your mafia's member list to the town.
3. Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role.
4. Comparing role PM times to determine roles.
5. Posting screenshots of your inbox.
6. Posting any PM you receive from a host.
7. Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip.
8. Signing up more than once using smurf accounts.
9. Betting items outside of the game in exchange for in-game benefits.
10. Sharing accounts with other players. Only you may post on your account.
Cheating is not tolerated here. The punishment will be severe.
Posting:
Mod Font:
This is mod font. It is reserved for moderators. Please do not use it.
Question Font:
This is question font. Use it to ask the moderators questions about the rules. Please do us a favor and read the rules before you ask anything.
Activity:
You must post in this thread once per day/night cycle and vote every day while you are alive. If you fail to do so, you will be modkilled.
Smurfs:
On April 26 2011 13:22 mikeymoo wrote:
Smurfs must PM the host because TL doesn't allow multiple accounts otherwise. If the host is unaware of smurfs, you (and/or your smurf) can be banned for having multiple accounts.
Spam:
Spam is not tolerated, nor is any off-topic material. Do not discuss Proleague here. Do not talk about Starcraft II here. Play Mafia here.
Editing:
Editing is not allowed for any reason. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be modkilled. This is the one part of the site where it is okay to be double posting, even triple-posting. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything.
Inappropriate posts:
If you want to post something insulting or inappropriate and know the TL mods would have a problem with it elsewhere, don't post it here. If you do, a host will warn you or modkill you and request that you be banned from future games. The hosts have the final say on what is inappropriate. If you do not like how someone is talking to you, please PM a host, Qatol, or Flamewheel before involving the TL staff. If you are unsatisfied with how the situation is resolved, then you can appeal to the TL staff normally.
Reporting posts:
The report button is a nice feature for regular TL, but not for this forum. We prefer to deal with things in house if possible to avoid confusion among the TL staff. If you have a problem with how someone is posting, talk to the host, co-host, Qatol, or Flamewheel before using your report button. Please do not use your report button for anything other than inappropriate posts which you feel are not being dealt with adequately.
Ban discussions:
Please wait until this game is over to talk about modkills and bans resulting from this game.
Play to win.
This means you play your best to help your team win while you are alive and in the game. However, this does not mean that you should try to win by being a jerk to the other players so they all want to quit playing.
This also means that you cannot leave the game without a good reason without a ban. These situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis. PM your host if you need to leave the game.
You have been warned.
Voting rules:
1. Voting is done in this thread. Do not PM me your vote.
2. Please vote in the following format: ##Vote Qatol. Votes not done in the correct fashion will not be counted. I will update vote counts whenever I get the chance.
3. No conditional voting.
4. You may vote for yourself. You may not vote for anyone dead or outside the game.
5. This game follows Extended Majority Lynch Rules. Majority = # of players remaining in the game/2) + 1. Unlike in traditional majority lynch, the lynch is NOT decided the moment majority is reached. Instead, only the final vote count matters. If there is no majority at the deadline, the day ends with a no lynch., Non-voters will be modkilled for failure to vote.
6. Voting is mandatory. You may NOT abstain.
Signups:
This game is open to anyone. Signups will remain open until all 13 spots have been filled. Post ##in (or /in) to join the game. You may also PM the mod or post ##replacement to join replacement list.
Game-specific rules:
Modkills:
This game follows the TL Mafia Ban List. If you are modkilled, your punishment will go beyond being eliminated from this game. Please refer to it for questions about your punishment. If you want to use this game to sit out your ban, please PM Qatol or post in the Ban List.
Replacements:
This game uses replacements. If a player is modkilled during the designated time, , then they will be replaced by a player on the replacement list. The player may PM the mod to replace out of the game for non-game related reasons, but may be subjected to warning or ban depending on the situation if such action is taken after end of day 2.
Clues:
There are no clues.
PMs/IRC:
PMs and IRC are NOT allowed in this game.
Time Cycle:
This game will follow a 24 hour night/48 hour day cycle. In case I am not able to post around deadline, any votes after the 48 hour mark will not count and the game will be put on halt until the night post is up. The deadline for each time period will be posted at every night/day post.
Credits:
Thanks to anyone who has ever hosted a game. This list grows ever longer.
Thanks to everyone who helped balance this game.
If you have not read all the rules, go back and do so. I will not compensate for ignorance!
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Information about Set-up .
1. Sanity is used in this game. Unless your role PM specifically states so, you will not be notified when your sanity changes mid-game. All players at beginning of the game are guaranteed to be sane.
2. When player is killed in the game, his role and sanity will publicly be revealed.
3. Third-party player is not included in the number of living town-aligned players.
4. Bloodlust Rules: When one of the anti-town faction (Mafia and third-party) is completely eliminated from the game, the night will be skipped and next day will immediately begin. This is to prevent kingmaker scenarios.
5. Btw, I just wanted to add pretty obvious rule. For all players Eldritch Abomination roleclaim is forbidden (since EA role-claiming himself destroys his win condition and introduce invincible cop), nor mafia ousting EA's identity. If you want to lynch someone, rely only on persuasion. I'll rely on honour system - and strict punishment - for people to NOT use this rule as means of rage-quit.
List of Roles
You are Townie whom have no abilities besides ability to vote, for what power can mere humans yield against incomprehensible force?
No change occurs even if you turn insane.
You win when all threats to town are eliminated.
You are Doctor. When the fighting breaks out you bravely choose to stay, thinking it immoral to flee when you have skills to potentially save someone. However unnatural outbreak of insanity in the town slowly starts to concern you...
Every night you can protect one player against mafia NK. Both you and your target will be notified of the successful protect. You cannot protect yourself.
If you are insane, you will have 50% of killing your target instead of protecting him.
You win when all threats to town are eliminated.
You are Psychologist. You recently helped one of the patients using powerful memory-altering drugs, but his former insane rambling disturbs you enough to investigate the town where he had developed his illness. It is a decision you might soon come to regret.
Every night you can visit single player to learn his/her sanity. Status of the player you visit will also become sane if he/she is Insane.
If you become insane, you will commit suicide.
You win when all threats to the town are eliminated.
You are Mafia. Many have been crushed under your violence, but when you move into quiet rural town intending to subjugate it as usual, you might unknowingly have disturbed slumber of the force beyond your understanding...
You can privately talk with each other throughout the game, and choose to kill one player every night.
If you turn insane, you will be notified of the fact immediately; you will receive # of the insane people (including you) in the town at beginning of the every day.
You win when your number outnumber or is equal to the surviving town-aligned players.
You are Eldritch Abomination, an existence impossible to explain. Catching mere sight of you will be enough to drive that individual completely mad. You are absolutely apathetic to affairs of lower beings, even the disturbance caused by invasion of mafia into the town. Unfortunately to residents of the town, upheaval does cause them to deviate from their living pattern which were designed to avoid you, and one by one they will regret it as they stumble upon the sight of madness...
Every night you can visit single player causing him to become Insane. All players who visit you will also become Insane (When sane mafia visits you, he/she will become Insane and the player you visited will be NK'd. When insane mafia visits you, nothing will happen). Throughout the game you will be provided a list of player who are Insane, including their roles. You can only be killed by lynch.
Concept of sanity does not apply to your role. For victory condition purposes, you may assume yourself to be permanently insane in standards of this world.
You win when every living player in the game is Insane AND you are alive at that point of the game.
Action Order
Eldritch Abomination -> Psychiatrist -> Doctor -> Mafia
Set-up
7 Townie
1 Psychologist
1 Doctor
3 Mafia
1 Eldritch Abomination
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Player List
1. Mr. Wiggles
2. Cyber_Cheese
3. wherebugsgo Sevryn
4. TheFerryman
5. chaos13
6. Palmar
7. Navillus
8. Eiii
9. JeeJee
10. Jackal58
11. Forumite
12. Kurumi Erandorr
13. tnkted
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1. Mr. Wiggles Mafia lynched day three
2. Cyber_Cheese
3. wherebugsgo Insane Townie killed night four
4. TheFerryman Townie killed night two
5. chaos13 Insane Townie killed night three
6. Palmar Doctor killed night one
7. Navillus
8. Eiii
9. JeeJee Mafia lynched day two
10. Jackal58
11. Forumite
12. Kurumi Psychiatrist modkilled day five
13. tnkted Townie lynched day four
3/9 Town-aligned players remain.
1/3 Mafia players remain.
1/1 Eldritch Abomination remains.
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This was previously semi-open setup (PR roles hidden) but we decided to make it completely open to address town UP concerns. Thus while sign-ups take place, feel free to ask questions or address any glaring flaws.
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/in. Interesting. :p
So sanity has no effect on VT besides Eldricht's win condition?
Also, is there any way for your sanity to be influenced besides through visiting/being visited by Eldricht?
EDIT: Also, what happens if Insane Medic visits Eldricht?
EDIT2: Are there any drawbacks to town extending the day? What keeps town from extending every day in order to have 72 hours for discussion?
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So sanity has no effect on VT besides Eldricht's win condition?
Yes.
Also, is there any way for your sanity to be influenced besides through visiting/being visited by Eldricht?
No.
EDIT: Also, what happens if Insane Medic visits Eldricht?
Eldritch can only be killed by lynch so nothing will happen. Can't forget I missed that tidbit, thanks.
EDIT2: Are there any drawbacks to town extending the day? What keeps town from extending every day in order to have 72 hours for discussion?
People sure didn't use it on Penalty Mafia :p
I should inform you that per new rules I am trying to have one of the qualified balance-checkers look over the game, so there may be some adjustments. I'll keep the changes updated on the thread though.
@Foolishness
On August 21 2011 05:12 Foolishness wrote:
Does eldritch count as an insane person from the start of the game?
Yes.
Concept of sanity does not apply to your role. For victory condition purposes, you may assume yourself to be permanently insane in standards of this world.
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Foolishness
United States3044 Posts
Does eldritch count as an insane person from the start of the game?
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/in
a town with no detection? interesting...
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/in this looks awesome and I am about to die in XLIV
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On August 21 2011 05:26 Sevryn wrote:
/in this looks awesome and I am about to die in XLIV
I'll sign you up for now, but please inform me when your situation changes (haven't been following that game so don't know whether your lynch is assured).
Also Foolishness, I answered your question on previous post, just in case you failed to check 
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The set-up was adjusted after having balance discussion with Foolishness. There are no changes in the rules, but number of townie was reduced by 1 while number of mafia was increased by 1. The mafia have also lost their role-checking ability. This will likely be the final major change to take place.
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Good to see the game is up. Everyone feel free to PM myself with issues if you wish.
Hesmyrr put some real effort into this so join up! It's gonna be a good 'un!
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/in
First game, please be gentle.
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I like smaller games like this.
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/in so I can tunnel chaos13
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Forgot to cancel Medic debuff, considering that mafia # is increased to 3.
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I feel like I saw this posted somewhere but I couldn't find it so I'll just ask here, is one allowed to play in multiple games at the same time? If the answer is yes then /in and don't worry about me staying active I've been than keeping up with XLIV and am confident I can keep up with both games at once.
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United States22154 Posts
On August 21 2011 12:44 Navillus wrote:
I feel like I saw this posted somewhere but I couldn't find it so I'll just ask here, is one allowed to play in multiple games at the same time? If the answer is yes then /in and don't worry about me staying active I've been than keeping up with XLIV and am confident I can keep up with both games at once.
Depends on the host, but generally yes, you may play in more than one game. I know I allow people to play in XLIV and whatever else they want as long as they are active. ^_^
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