# Evil Dead Mafia II - Teaser and Sign-Ups \[Game On!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493 "2010-09-29T17:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Total\_Lost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@Total\_Lost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Total_Lost)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/101 "2010-10-01T20:57:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Are we at 30? I still think we need two more… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/102 "2010-10-01T21:05:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Total\_Lost](#): > > > > Peeker without the “woot” ☹ > > > > Now there is one evil post restriction! > > Oh, I so want to make a game now where everyone has post restrictions that require things that go against their normal posting styles. So I would be Town, right? ---
**Author:** ![Romanic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@Romanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Romanic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/103 "2010-10-01T22:50:35Z")
[quote=“Normal\_Phase, post:67, topic:555493”] > [@Total\_Lost](#): > > […] > > Unfortunately I’ve been told that “Renata” is taken. Not sure what to do now, woe. > > Hi, Romanic! Hey! Renata is incredibly better than “Normal phase” if you ask me 🙂 > [@](#): > > 1. Mrs. McGinty I can’t believe you picked _that_ name! If you were trying to pass as someone else, too late, Renata Normal Phase told me everything about you! 😃 P.S: yeah okay, strikethrough doesn’t work here? ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/104 "2010-10-01T22:52:04Z")
If you still have room, I’ll play! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/105 "2010-10-01T22:53:46Z")
> [@Romanic](#): > > P.S: yeah okay, strikethrough doesn’t work here? Use [del]text[/del]. [del]Like this.[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/106 "2010-10-02T03:47:35Z")
If you’re still one person short, I’m interested. I don’t think I’m going to last too terribly much longer in the Halloween game over on Idle’s board 🙂 One thing though…I don’t know when you’re planning to start the game, and I’ll be out of town next Thursday through Saturday. If that works for you, and you still have a place, count me in. If not, you can keep me in mind as an alternate. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/107 "2010-10-02T08:26:14Z")
I’d recommend making the non-spoiled thread free to read for everyone. It’s not fair that replacements are pulled from the thread, yet active players are killed for reading it. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/108 "2010-10-02T09:35:14Z")
It is difficult to be a sub, and the peanut gallery can be very wrong. It seems like a reasonably even trade to let subs have access to the crap-shoot of unspoiled public opinion in exchange for their service of helping the game to continue as balanced as possible in the unexpected circumstances of a player needing to leave. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/109 "2010-10-02T15:16:14Z")
The player list is complete. It is as follows: 1. Mahaloth 2. Oy! 3. Normal Phase 4. Drain Bead 5. GuiriEnEspana 6. MHaye 7. Total Lost 8. Telecontar 9. Oredigger77 10. Mrs. McGinty 11. special ed 12. Chipacabra 13. Omi No Kami 14. Texcat 15. Stanislaus 16. One and Only Wanderers 17. NAF1138 18. Idle Thoughts 19. brewha 20. Rysto 21. peekercpa 22. Romanic 23. USCDiver 24. CometotheDarkSideWeHaveCookies 25. Natlaw 26. Hal Briston 27. Nanook of the North Shore 28. lilflower 29. Astral Rejection 30. Suburban Plankton All registered players, please turn on private messages here at the Dope if you have not already done so. Night Zero will begin within 15 minutes of this post. It will be an unusual Night Zero, so I encourage all players to read the post that follows very carefully in order to understand how the game will begin. Back in a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/110 "2010-10-02T15:40:57Z")
Here, then, is how it begins (with color excised for clarity purposes). Please read very carefully. In a few minutes, each of you will receive a PM. The vast majority will receive the following PM: > [@](#): > > You are not yet Scum. The players who _are_ Scum will receive messages to that effect. They will then be given a chance to meet and to select one player from the pool of players who received “not yet Scum” messages to complete their team. Once they have chosen, the actual roles will be randomized and distributed, and Day One will begin. No other powers or abilities will be available during Night Zero. Meanwhile, it is now Night Zero. The rules will be posted presently. Feel free to discuss this wrinkle, the rules, or anything else; there are no post restrictions of any kind in this game, and anything may be discussed by Day or by Night. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/111 "2010-10-02T15:43:30Z")
**The Rules** 1. **The Day/Night Cycle** Each game Day will last for five real-life days, and each game Night will last for two real-life days. These numbers may be slightly adjusted for moderator convenience. The Day/Night Cycle thus lasts seven real-life days in total; in some cases, the Moderator may choose to shorten either part of the cycle if there is a compelling reason. However, all players will be given the opportunity to object privately to such a decision if it ever occurs; no cycle will be shortened if any player objects. 1. **Posting** There are no post restrictions. As long as you are alive, you may post whatever you like, wherever you like, whenever you like (subject, of course, to the rules and guidlines of the Straight Dope Message Board). You may quote your role PM, and any PM sent to you by the moderators. You may discuss strategy by Day or by Night. If you have access to outside boards, you may post to them on any subject at any time. If someone claims a post restriction of any kind, they are lying; lynch them. PLEASE NOTE: You are also permitted to edit your posts. Other players may frown upon a choice to do so, but the Moderator will not intervene in any case of post editing. 1. **Off-Board Communication** Is permitted via officially sanctioned methods _only_. For the record, no game-related private messaging among active players is permitted. 2. **Voting** You may vote to lynch another player by using the now familiar vote storyteller construction. You may do this at any time, Day or Night. Whoever has the most votes at the time a game Day ends will be lynched; there is a method of resolution for all ties, but it will not be shared at this time. The following is unusual, and important: once you vote for someone, you vote stays active forever until one of three things happens: (1) you remove it, using the unvote storyteller construction; (2) you die; or (3) the person for whom you are voting dies. The vote count is _not_ automatically cleared at the end of each lynch; if **sachertorte** has six votes and **storyteller** has five votes at the end of Day One, then sachertorte will die, and storyteller will begin Night One with five votes. 1. **Participation** There will be no hard and fast rules regarding participation, except this one: please participate. The moderators will determine the adequacy of each player’s participation in a context-sensitive fashion, and will issue warnings, prompts, and removals as necessary. All discussion about a player’s participation level will take place _in private_; the moderators will not discuss participation, prods, or potential modkills in the game thread under any circumstances. Broadly speaking, all moderator action, notably modkill, is subject to the discretion of the moderators. NOTE: There will be no voting requirement whatsoever. As long as you’re posting, you don’t have to vote at all, ever, as far as the moderators are concerned. 1. **Power Role Actions** Power Role actions may be submitted at any time at all, even in advance, but must be clearly labeled with the Day/Night for which they are intended. If you are a Doctor, for example, you may send a PM on Day One saying “Self-protect Night One, Night Two, and Night Three, then protect CatinaSuit Night Four.” These orders will remain in force unless you change them. I’ll emphasize this for clarity: because of this rule, any actions submitted without a specific Day/Night designation will not be executed. The lynch and Day actions (if any) always resolve at at the beginning of the subsequent _Night_; Night actions always resolve at the beginning of the subsequent _Day_. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/112 "2010-10-02T16:03:34Z")
Dear **lilflower** : Please turn on your PMs. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/113 "2010-10-02T16:11:18Z")
Cool. Can’t wait. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/114 "2010-10-02T16:19:19Z")
Don’t know if anyone cares, but I got a PM as described by **story** in post #110. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/115 "2010-10-02T16:33:54Z")
Why would you say that Oy!? Did you think Story was lying? ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/116 "2010-10-02T16:40:12Z")
No, it’s just standard in the games I’ve read to confirm when you get a PM, so I thought I would in case anyone cared. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/117 "2010-10-02T17:42:35Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > No, it’s just standard in the games I’ve read to confirm when you get a PM, so I thought I would in case anyone cared. Yeah, I also confirm receipt of pm matching story’s #110 post. ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/118 "2010-10-02T17:46:37Z")
I must say, that is a neat little twist. I like it, well done. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/119 "2010-10-02T18:00:47Z")
Confirm receipt of initial PM. Am I correct in assuming this is the Night Zero thread? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/120 "2010-10-02T18:05:33Z")
So votes accumulate and carry over? That’ll be interesting. : p Confirming, also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493.md?page=7)