Evil Dead Mafia II - Teaser and Sign-Ups [Game On!]

The Game Room
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INT - The Cabin Living Room

*The Camera pans slowly around the assembly. It pauses significantly on each face. Most are nervous; a few seem oddly calm. At the center of the room, The Necronomicon, placed on a pedestal. Below it, a large, blinking red button, labeled “Push this button to take the Book.”

At the front of the room, near the fireplace, ONE OF STEVEN BALDWIN’S ASSISTANTS (CatinaSuit) stands near a tattered suit jacket. Seated beside him is a SECOND ASSISTANT (Boozahol Squid, PI), looking sadly at the floor. The FIRST ASSISTANT addresses the crowd.*

FIRST ASSISTANT
What can I say about… Oily Reality Television Executive? He… uh… had teeth. Lots and lots of teeth. And he was loyal to those who served him well, like Dio here, who had worked faithfully as Oily’s assistant for twenty years.

SECOND ASSISTANT (through tears)
Next year, he said he was going to think about considering passing my name to the committee for consideration of a cost of living raise.

FIRST ASSISTANT
There was hardly a life, or an intern, that Oily didn’t touch at one time or another. Now he’s gone. But I’m sure if he were here, there’s one thing in particular he’d like me to do.

There is a moment of silence. The FIRST ASSISTANT lowers his head for a moment, then looks back up. When he does, he has been transformed into a Deadite - hideous, scabby, and yellow-eyed.

FIRST ASSISTANT
He’d want me to tear you all limb from limb and drink the sweet, sweet marrow from your weak, yielding bones!

Snarling, he leaps to attack the nearest reality television employee, but a few burly types restrain him. He fights maniacally.

FIRST ASSISTANT
And you! Dio! Here’s what I have for you!

The possessed FIRST ASSISTANT waves a clawed hand, and the SECOND ASSISTANT explodes, as if he contained a bomb planted many years ago

FIRST ASSISTANT
At laaaaaaaast!

From outside, we hear the wood chipper burst to life with a roar.

SOMEONE
The chipper! Get him into the Chipper!

SOMEONE SLIGHTLY SMARTER
Or we could just shoot him!

EVERYONE ELSE
The Chipper! Bring him to the Chipper!

*They drag the FIRST ASSISTANT outside.

CUT TO - Ten minutes later. The entire assembly is drenched in blood and assorted bits of Cat and Suit.*

HOOPY’S HEAD (from the Chipper, through the window)
Who’s next?

DAY ONE has now begun, and will end at 3:00PM on Saturday, October 9. The Necronomicon is available for taking as of exactly 3:00PM (ie, in about six or seven minutes). Day powers may submit their choices to me at any time; all Day powers will resolve at Dusk (with exceptions as noted in individual PMs, if any).

Have fun!

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How is a claim not hunting scum honest? We want to bring all the tools we have at our disposal to the party right? There are situations where mass claiming is actively bad for town, so I get not always being on board with a claim, but I don’t like the argument that it isn’t honest scum hunting.

Moreover, if that isn’t honest scum hunting, I would like an example of what is.

NNETA: I’m not looking to be aggressive here, just trying to push the ball along. I am going to have to play this game in an even more scatterbrained manner than is usual for me.

343

Oh, god, not just a red button but a BLINKING red button? We’re all doomed!
The carpal tunnel from mashing the button over and over will claim more lives than any number of deadites.

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As I recall, story provided three tasty fake role PMs for Scum in the last Evil Dead game.

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LOL, I sent a PM to him as soon as I saw he posted, and was about to write a comment to complain about the early start when I scrolled down as saw that requests would be taken at 3:00 promptly. So I ran over to my private messages and sent another. Not sure if I was first. For that matter, not sure if “Book!” counts as a request.

Sure is a fun start to the game, regardless.

346

Any one want to put out an over/under on how many PMs Story just received?

347

I am looking forward to seeing who won the PM race. I got my request in at 12:00 (3:00 eastern) on the nose.

348

*Close on - a clock; the numbers flip from 2:59 to 3:00.

Then: a massive scrum. Eager folks throw themselves at the pedestal on which the Necronomicon sits. Eyes are gouged, arms are twisted.

When it is done, NAF1138 holds the Book in closed arms. *

NAF1138 has taken hold of the Necronomicon.

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It’s a matter of personal preference. The game changes when piles of role claims land on the table, and I for one find it less interesting to analyze those than to analyze what people actually say and do. You put everyone’s role claim on the table on day one and it is going to consume all the air in the room. To me that is boring, and not what mafia is all about. “Honest scum hunting” was a bit too loaded a term, maybe.

350

Boo.

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I think i got alphabetically ordered. I had my PM in at 1:00 on the nose too.

352

He got one from me, but I think based on timestamps that Normal beat me.

353

<walks over and glumly gives the button a poke anyway…>

354

Okay, NAF, details?

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I am not dead, and I am not in hell. My head has not exploded, but I don’t know much else. I will find out more at dusk.

356

Confirmed.

Poor Story, going to have his PM box filled to the max at the beginning of every cycle.

357

I laughed out loud.

I’d recommend against a mass claim at this stage. In the previous game, it would have been a huge advantage for the scum, and it would have yielded a single scum death in return. Not the kind of odds I want to face at the beginning of the game.

Listing bits of our color was an interesting idea, though. Too bad it won’t work. Either scum have fake PMs or they don’t. They could pass a standard mass claim and a color claim, or they can’t. And I’m willing to bet Storyteller has covered their scummy butts with fake roles to claim anyway.

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NETA: I meant to mention that I think Storyteller’s posted PM

indicates that scum have real, honest fake PMs. His posted PM has all of the right sections but none of the flavor, and Storyteller doesn’t strike me as the kind of person to screw scum over like that.

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Vote Drain Bead

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Role PM received.

I can understand some hesitation but this seems to contradict the information provided earlier:

Can you confirm that you don’t know what the book might do and won’t have any information until Dusk despite Story’s statement to the contrary?