This was a nightmare. There was nothing else it could be. Or at least that's what GMarshal's panicked brain insisted on repeating. The day had started off normally enough, in the high security labs of ChronoCorp. The usual scramble to make sure forms were signed, more data gathered from the rift, and of course verifying that the time anchor was firmly attached. "And it was", GMarshal whispered to himself, "It really was". Then the usually tedium of running numbers, measuring every last bit of radiation coming from the anomaly. After all, it is, "was" GMarshal corrected himself, the only time rift known to man, if there was a key to looking into the past, it was in those tiny blips of data.
The first sign that something was wrong was a huge surge in the gamma reader. While the team scrambled to fix that, the anchor, the time anchor, an artifact older than time itself, the thing that kept the lab safe where it was, snapped, audibly. Then things went to hell. The sensors exploded with data, the watches went haywire, the team panicked and sprung into frenezied, if useless efforts to ascertain what was happening. It was a junior scientist, a certain prlplhz, who first caught on. "The window, he yelled, THE WINDOW", and so the scientists found themselves staring out the window, at an impossible sight, they saw a string of scientists walking backwards out of the lab, construction crews disassembling buildings at impossible speeds, then backing off into their ships and taking off.
"Mother of God..." someone muttered, breaking the shocked silence. "We are falling through time...", This realization was accompanied by varied looks of bewilderment, but before anyone else could speak, they were interrupted by a maniacal laugh. "Indeed! We will travel to the beginning of time and become GODS!" DoYouHas paused, looked pensive, and then said "well, you won't." then paused again "but my comrades will!" he added consolingly, before moving towards the gathered scientists with a look of determination and pity, as he pulled what was very obviously a detonator from his pocket.
The crowd seemed to freeze in terror and bewilderment, except for one man, impetus and foolishness possessing him GMarshal charged towards DoYouHas, his face a mask of certainty and rage. The explosion shook the very foundations of the building. The only other casualty was prlplhz who caught an unfortunate piece of shrapnel through the head.
The scientists look at each other. If they are to have any chance at fixing this mess they need to find the saboteurs responsible for this crisis and make sure they could sabotage no more, then fix the anchor before the lab slams into the beginning of time and destroys existence itself. With out any more dillydallying they set to their tasks. The fate of everything is on their shoulders.
GMarshal the Director of Special Projects has been blown to bits prlplhz the junior scientist has died to sharp metal bits. DoYouHas the Anarchist Bomber has spread himself too thin (over the walls)
If you didn't get a role PM its because it fell through time, PM me to fix the mistake
it is now day 1. You have roughly 48 hours to find someone to lynch. Remember, format votes correctly, don't edit, behave as gentlemen (or ladies) and most importantly, have fun.
The deadline is 03:00 GMT (+00:00), that means that votes at 11:59:59 will be counted, but votes at and after 12:00:00 will not.
Hey, I'm BlueyD and this is my first game of Mafia ever, but I've read a few here on TL and I think I have a good feel for how this works.
This said, it's been 3 hours since we've gotten our roles, and no one has spoken yet. I'd like to see everyone at least post to confirm activity. Whoever doesn't start posting is already suspicious at worst, and useless at best. We don't want any mafia hiding among the lurkers. I'll personally support lynching an inactive unless something pretty big happens.
well, you posting first probably eludes you being mafia and drawing unneeded attention to yourself. That is not to say that this could be a fake out, but I am inclined to believe you are town. Who else would like to speak up?
I feel that we should lynch someone on day 1 for sure, either someone slightly suspicious or a lurker. I would prefer a lynch of someone slightly suspicious, (which may be a result of last game having so many town lurkers) but nevertheless we cannot let scum blend in, so a lurker vote is ok too.
On March 22 2012 13:43 BlueyD wrote: Hey, I'm BlueyD and this is my first game of Mafia ever, but I've read a few here on TL and I think I have a good feel for how this works.
This said, it's been 3 hours since we've gotten our roles, and no one has spoken yet. I'd like to see everyone at least post to confirm activity. Whoever doesn't start posting is already suspicious at worst, and useless at best. We don't want any mafia hiding among the lurkers. I'll personally support lynching an inactive unless something pretty big happens.
Good luck to all, and may the most able survive!
Three hours is not cause for alarm at the start of the game ha.
Lets get this rolling.
##Vote: Mementoss
Only because you outplayed us so hard last game. Prove you are town this time!
Just from looking at the post above, this game is bound to be more exciting than the last. Heh, and people had problems with my early FoS. Cmon everybody. we cant have a game without the people
My name is Filip in real life. I love playing games like this becuase I find it funny how you can counter every logic and you can confuse people. I play warewolf which is a card copy of mafia but I think that I will like this more becuase you can see exacly what who wrote.
Please dont accuse me becuase of my bad grammar or spelling because english is not my mother-tounge.
I might not be very acctive but I will resopond 2 times a day around luch time and in the evening (GTM time).
Morning Europeans, Hi everyone else! Nice to see this started before MLG weekend, will be watching plenty of MLG so should have time to be active. First game here so I imagine it will be a huge learning curve, will give it my all though.
Pushing for a really active talkative discussion based town, get rid of the lurkers and people who aren't contributing to make it harder for mafia to hide and to force them into posting (and making mistakes).
If you are on this list, just post up and be talkative when you can. The worst thing we can have is an inactive town like last game. Without them posting, there cant be any way to find scum mistakes, so we should post as much as possible so they cant get away with lurking.
WIFOM means Wine In Front Of Me, which pretty much means using logic where people kinda debate about the motives or reason something was done, which is bad because you cant really know either way. For instance, Mafia kills someone who was accusing one person. WIFOM would be saying, Oh this person is mafia because the person who accused him died. WIFOM is also the opposite, I am not mafia because the person who accused me died, and i am being framed. (based off of SNMMVIII)
@Sc2system: that is not a correct use of WIFOM, though tbf a lot of people use it that way it seems on TL. If something is not legit explain the logical fallacy or false premises, using the term WIFOM in such a general way makes the term, and your counter argument, useless.
The term comes from this:
And Nova_Terra is kind of right, it refers more particularly to the logical fallacy of infinite regress in the context of psychology (or motive as TN pointed out): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_regress
On March 22 2012 13:43 BlueyD wrote: Hey, I'm BlueyD and this is my first game of Mafia ever, but I've read a few here on TL and I think I have a good feel for how this works.
This said, it's been 3 hours since we've gotten our roles, and no one has spoken yet. I'd like to see everyone at least post to confirm activity. Whoever doesn't start posting is already suspicious at worst, and useless at best. We don't want any mafia hiding among the lurkers. I'll personally support lynching an inactive unless something pretty big happens.
Good luck to all, and may the most able survive!
Three hours is not cause for alarm at the start of the game ha.
Lets get this rolling.
##Vote: Mementoss
Only because you outplayed us so hard last game. Prove you are town this time!
Lol no posts and you scurrred already. I cannot prove that I am town as its like half a day into the game lol. Here is the best I can do I am TOWN. I will further prove that I am town when I push a scum lynch day 2. For now im going to talk about the lynch today, basically my thoughts are anything but no lynch.
This is my third game, and I have a new opinion about day 1 than before, check my meta if you would like. Im just letting you know so you don't say OMG he has different thoughts than before hes auto-mafia. I think its all fine and dandy to throw around accusations first day and put pressure on posters/lurkers, but at the end of day 1 its too hard to get a decent case off. (Eg, SNMMVIII - FirmTofu case based one 1 post)
Therefore, I say we lynch a lurker/useless poster day 1, unless we have a significant scum slip. Why is this beneifical to us the town, even though there is a good chance it will be a townie? 1) Helps narrow down the field for scum hunting later 2) Keeps the active ratio higher for discussion 3) Attempts to keep replacements out of the game, which are always difficult to read and deal with as one persons scum meta =/= the other persons.
That all being said, if this is your first game please make a good effort to read the thread, and not only respond to current situations/discussions. But come up with your own cases based on filter, and not gut feeling or OMGUS.
The main reason I won as mafia last game is because out mafia team contained a good 50% of the active discussion, and could sway the town opinion with well thought out cases about innocent people. Or other people would do it for us and we could just agree with it or post an alternative case so the focus was kept on those two. We as the town have the number advantage if we are all active, this is advantage useless otherwise.
This being said. No one is confirmed town until the flip green. Obviously if someone pushes a case for a scum lynch or two, they are most likely not bussing 2/3 of their team away. Since no one is confirmed town, pressure eventually needs to be applied to everyone at some point in the game. Last game as mafia I never had 1 case on me or 1 FoS or 1 Vote.
Lets make this the first SNMM town win since SNMM I!
EPT
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