# Mafia - Game in progress \[Edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635 "2013-01-09T16:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/1 "2013-01-09T16:03:19Z")
PROLOGUE EXT – THE SKY – NIGHT \*MUSIC: Faux Danny Elfman CLOSE ON: A single brown oak leaf. At first, we see it framed against the night sky, all artistic and crap, and then it pirouettes and we follow it, spiraling downward. As it falls, we see below it a small town, which could not be more picturesquely Germanic if it were actually built out of Hummel figurines and spatzle. We see wooden cottages, a sturdy stone church, and a stockade that marks our little town as firmly in the realm of Ago.\* THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN I don’t know exactly what year it was, when the Wolves first walked from the trees. _The leaf spirals down between two buildings. We see people, people with names like Inga and Sven and Klaus, walking warily through the shadowed alley, but we sweep by them quickly._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN But I know that when they did, they walked like men. _Our leaf hangs in midair just above an outdoor table. Slabs of red, unidentified meat line the table. Behind it stands a comically ugly and suspicious-looking butcher. With a snarl, he slams his knife on the table, sending the leaf skittering down the street._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN Oh, the first year was quiet enough. No one much noticed a single missing animal, or a strange sound in the night. _The leaf catches on the stone steps of the church. It flutters upward. A Woman of Possibly but Not Certainly Questionable Virtue stands on the top step._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN They had their own concerns. _The church door swings open; a priest with a long, Sauruman-type beard and blue, glassy, unseeing eyes ushers the WoPbNCQV into the church as the leaf moves on, now heading toward the border of town._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN And of course, their own secrets. _The leaf now picking up speed, passes a small group of younger women, whispering urgently to one another near the fence surrounding the town. It heads down a lonely, solitary road leading toward a lurking, Germanic forest. It passes a small, heavy-bearded man, walking back toward the town, holding a shovel._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN But when the animals going missing started to be the two-legged, talking kind, and when the sounds in the night started to sound like screams… _The leaf has stopped just outside the forest. It hovers in the air, making increasingly small circles as it slowly descends._ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN Well, then we knew we might need some help. _From within the woods, a rustling sound; something is coming!_ THE VOICE OF MORGAN FREEMAN But out here, we don’t get many visitors. _Suddenly, the leaf is pounded flat by a heavy, brown workboot. The camera pans up the boot. We see blue jeans, a plain white shirt, and a rugged, stubby, post-ironic face, still mostly in shadow. An insect buzzes around that face. The mysterious figure raises an arm to brush it away, and we see that the left hand has been replaced by a top-of-the-line S-Mart brand chainsaw. The man steps out of the shadow, and we see that he is somewhat less rugged than he initially appeared. He looks utterly confused._ ASH Where the hell am I? \*SMASH CUT TO: _TITLE CARD: Mafia – Evil Dead III_\* ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/2 "2013-01-09T16:07:16Z")
So I’ve asked and received permission to run a game here; we’ll go with the third installment in the not-at-all critically acclaimed _Evil Dead_ series. The game will not be an all-power role game. In many ways, it will be fairly straightforward, though of course odd twists are to be expected. At the moment, I have design variants to accommodate as few as 17 and as many as 38 players, so we have plenty of room. Sign-ups are open. Post to this thread if you’re interested, or if you have general questions about the game. I’ll post the basic rules later today, with the rest coming once I have a rough idea of how many players we might have. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/3 "2013-01-09T16:27:47Z")
I am in, in a manner reminiscent of that Robin Hood guy… ---
**Author:** ![orthohedron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@orthohedron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orthohedron)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/4 "2013-01-09T17:32:50Z")
I’d like to play, I used to run a couple forum rpgs a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/5 "2013-01-09T18:20:20Z")
Please count me in. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/6 "2013-01-09T18:27:52Z")
I, too, am in like Cary Elwes. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/7 "2013-01-09T18:47:55Z")
sure ---
**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:** [January 9, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/8 "2013-01-09T19:01:31Z")
/in ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/9 "2013-01-10T05:04:00Z")
I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/10 "2013-01-10T08:14:17Z")
Holy shit. Please tell me every update will be in script form, because that was awesome. I’m in. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/11 "2013-01-10T15:33:09Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > a priest with a long, **Sauruman** -type beard As long as I haven’t seen the last of that magnificent dinosaur-man beard, I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/12 "2013-01-10T16:52:10Z")
How many are we looking for in terms of sign ups? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/13 "2013-01-10T16:56:30Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > , with the rest coming once I have a rough idea of how many players we might have. Ah I see. \ But seriously, how could any vanilla have played that game? Meh. If you can promise the game won’t be that unbalanced as the (current still?) game on idle. /in ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/14 "2013-01-10T16:57:32Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I, too, am in like Cary Elwes. I SAW what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/15 "2013-01-10T18:53:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Holy shit. Please tell me every update will be in script form, because that was awesome. > > I’m in. Most of them. There’s a reason why **Storyteller** ’s games are so eagerly anticipated. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/16 "2013-01-10T19:26:46Z")
I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/17 "2013-01-11T02:38:10Z")
/in Can I have the role of the leaf? ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/18 "2013-01-11T03:43:02Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > How many are we looking for in terms of sign ups? 17-38. Meeko is in, so sign him up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/19 "2013-01-11T17:20:33Z")
1. Suburban Plankton 2. orthohedron 3. Pleonast 4. Enderw24 5. fubbleskag 6. Mahaloth 7. Johnny Bravo 8. Babale 9. Astral Rejection 10. Meeko 11. USCDiver 12. texcat Well, we need at least five more to run even the smallest version of the game - though that one would obviously be a bit less complex. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/20 "2013-01-11T17:24:32Z")
I can take two roles, if it helps. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635.md?page=2)