Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO

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NIGHT ZERO

The Boss, Tommy Two-Fingers would often opine after everything was said and done, was always a bit too quick to resort to violence and indefinite pronouns. Take for instance that Friday morning, the one that started the whole business.

“What in the hell is this?”, the Boss had demanded, slamming the morning paper down in front of Tommy more aggressively than Tommy thought appropriate. Tommy scanned the paper, but he couldn’t identify the problem. The Mets were still paying Bobby Bonilla; maybe that was the issue? Tommy jabbed both of his fingers at the headline and looked curiously at the Boss.

“Not that,” the Boss roared, flipping the paper over to reveal the text over the fold. “THIS.” Tommy took in the headline.

Mayor Dead
Popular civic leader shot 37 times, eviscerated, and burned.
Police suspect suicide.

Tony furrowed his unibrow in confusion. “But Boss… you said… you said to… take care of him.” Tony was struck with a horrible thought: perhaps the indefinite pronoun “him” had referred to someone other than the Mayor? But that, it seems, wasn’t the problem.

“I know,” the Boss continued. “But did you read it? Eviscerated, it said. Not just shot. Eviscerated. That means Werewolves, Tony. Werewolves!” Tony was actually a bit more curious about the mysterious fire, but the Boss would not be slowed. “What in the hell do they think they’re doing? The Vague Threats Agreement of 2014 clearly states that any settlement with a building more than four stories tall constitutes a city rather than a village, and is therefore our territory. The new firehouse on Maple is five stories high!”

“Well, yeah, Boss,” Tony ventured. “But one of those stories in an attic, so maybe according to the spirit of the agreement…”

“Shut your eat hole, Tony,” the Boss snapped, murdering a goldfish for emphasis. “They’re asking for it, so we’re going to give it to them.”

“Who’s ‘they,’ Boss?”

“THE WEREWOLVES, TONY. THAT’S WHO IS THEY.”

“What’s ‘it,’ Boss?”

The Boss took a slow, calming breath. “Call everybody… and I mean everybody. Get them down here. Tell them to bring crosses and garlic and shit.”

“I think that’s vampires, Boss…”

“SHUT IT, TONY, I AM ON A ROLL. Get them all down here. We’re going to war.”

**This is Night Zero. The game has officially begun, though no one has yet received role PMs and therefore no voting is permitted. You are, however, permitted to discuss the setup as you wish, if you wish. I will post the official player list in a subsequent post, and then bookmark that post and this one in my signature assuming I can figure out how to do that.

We expect to post a link to the open Role PMs this evening, and potentially to begin sending role PMs as early as tomorrow.

From this point forward, anything posted by any moderator in green text is considered official moderation, and is guaranteed to be true (as are all role reveals). Anything posted by any moderator in black text will be color text, and may contain misdirections and outright falsehoods and/or clues. **

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RULES AND REGULATIONS

Basic Setup

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[li]This is a semi-open setup. All of the Town and Scum roles and win conditions will be public knowledge at the beginning of the game. Importantly, there are no secret or hidden elements to any Town or Scum role powers or win conditions. There may be secret or hidden game mechanics known to individual Town or Scum players that are not public knowledge.[/li][li]All third party roles are closed. However, the rules shown here are absolute in all cases; no hidden element will contradict or supersede anything explicitly stated in the rules.[/li][li]Some third party players may have exclusive win conditions (ie, win conditions that preclude Town and/or Scum wins), while others may be nonexclusive (that is, able to win with any side).[/li][li]No recruitment or changes of alignment will occur at any time.[/li][/ol]

**Posting Rules
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[li]There are no post restrictions. As long as you are alive, you may post whatever you like, wherever you like, whenever you like. 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.[/li][li]PLEASE NOTE: You are also permitted to edit your posts. Other players may frown upon a choice to do so, but the Moderators will not intervene in any case of post editing.[/li][li]No out-of-game communication related to the game is permitted among living players (that is, no PMing or e-mailing or using Facebook or complex codes based on banging together coconuts). [/li][li]In a game of this size, participation will be rigorously policed. Any player who goes a full Day-Night cycles without contributing to the thread will be replaced (if it is before Day Four and a replacement is available) or Mod-killed (if it is after Dawn of Day Four or if no replacement can be found). Obviously, exceptions will be made for unusual circumstances; all Mod-kills are at the absolute discretion of the Moderators. Players who are Mod-killed are considered to have lost the game no matter what else happens.[/li][/ol]
**Day and Night
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[li]Every Day will begin exactly at 3:00PM Eastern Standard Time (noon Pacific) on a Tuesday, and end at exactly 3:00PM Eastern Standard Time (noon Pacific) on a Sunday. Each 5-day Day will be followed by a 2-day Night. The length of the Day and Night are fixed and cannot be shortened by any in-game mechanism. However, the moderators reserve the right to adjust the length of a given Day and/or Night if out of game circumstances warrant.[/li][li]The game includes both Night and Day powers. Orders for actions must be submitted to all three moderators before the 3:00PM EST deadline. Because of the large size of the game, absolutely no late orders will be accepted.[/li][li]Powers will always resolve at the Dusk or Dawn of the Day or Night, respectively, on which they are used; no powers will ever resolve in the middle of a Day or Night.[/li][/ol]
Voting
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[li]Each player may vote for one (and only one - sorry, Pleo!) player to be lynched. This is done using blue text, in the following format: vote NAF1138. [/li][li]A vote may be rescinded using red text, in the following format: unvote Mahaloth.[/li][li]A vote for a player must be preceded by an unvote using the format above (that is, no player may have two active votes at the same time). [/li][li]Again due to the large size and complexity of this game, the moderators will follow the rules related to voting absolutely. No vote or unvote will count unless formatted per the above, and no new vote will be counted without an unvote of any prior vote.[/li][li]There are no public or hidden powers whatsoever that affect the vote count in any way; if there is an apparent irregularity in the vote count, it is the result of moderator error.[/li][li]You may vote “No Lynch.” Please do so using purple text: vote No Lynch. [/ol][/li]**The Lynch
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[li]At the conclusion of each Day, the player with the highest total number of votes will be lynched and removed from the game. If “No Lynch” has the highest number of votes, no player will be lynched.[/li][li]In the event of a tie, the moderators will consult Random.org. You probably want to avoid this if you can.[/li][li]Death reveals (including for lynch and Night/Day kill victims) will include the role name and alignment of the player. No additional information will be provided.[/li][/ol]
**Multi-Lynch Rules (READ THIS PART CAREFULLY!!!):
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[li]It is possible for there to be as many as three (3) lynches in any given Day except for Day One (there can only be a single lynch on Day One). [/li][li]The available number of lynches is equal to the number of Town players who died during the preceding Night, not to exceed 3. So if two Town players are killed on Night One, then two lynches are available on Day Two. However, the number of available lynches can never exceed three under any circumstances.[/li][li]In all cases, the leading vote getter will be lynched as always. If at least 2 lynches are available on a given Day, the second-leading vote getter will also be lynched if (s)he has received more than 34% of the available votes. If at least 3 lynches are available on a given Day, the third-leading vote getter will be lynched if: (1) the second-leading vote getter is lynched; AND (2) the third-leading vote getting receives more than 10% of the available votes. [/li][li]PLEASE NOTE: If “No Lynch” is the leading vote-getter for any given Day, then no player will be lynched, even if more than 1 lynch is available and one or more players exceeds the threshold shown above.[/li][/ol]
**Win Conditions
**Win conditions will be checked in the following order every Dawn and every Dusk:
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[li]Town Wins! if all 14 Scum players are dead.[/li][li]Mafia Wins! if the total number of living Mafia is greater than or equal to 50% of the total population AND greater than the number of living Wolves.[/li][li]Wolves Win! if the total number of living Wolves is greater than or equal to 50% of the total population AND greater than the number of living Mafia.[/li][li]Third party win conditions are checked after checking all three of the above. Thus, a Town win supersedes an exclusive third party win even if both occur simultaneously.[/li][/ol]

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OFFICIAL PLAYER LIST

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[li]AngeloftheNorth[/li][li]BillMc[/li][li]Biotop[/li][li]Boozahol Squid, P.I.[/li][li]brewha[/li][li]bufftabby[/li][li]Captain Klutz [/li][li]Chronos[/li][li]Colby11[/li][li]ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies[/li][li]crys75[/li][li]Dante G[/li][li]DaphneBlack[/li][li]DiggitCamara[/li][li]Drain Bead[/li][li]EnderW24[/li][li]Guiri[/li][li]Hal Briston[/li][li]hawkeyeop[/li][li]Hockey Monkey [/li][li]HookerChemical[/li][li]Hoopy Frood[/li][li]Idle Thoughts[/li][li]Inner Stickler[/li][li]Johnny Bravo[/li][li]jsgoddess[/li][li]Khameleon [/li][li]Koldanar[/li][li]Lakai[/li][li]LightFoot[/li][li]Meeko [/li][li]MHaye[/li][li]Nanook of the North Shore[/li][li]Nesta [/li][li]Normal Phase [/li][li]Pleonast[/li][li]Plumpudding[/li][li]Precambrian mollusc [/li][li]Prof. Pepperwinkle[/li][li]Raventhief[/li][li]Red Skeezix[/li][li]Sachertorte[/li][li]Sario[/li][li]Scathach[/li][li]septimus[/li][li]sinjin[/li][li]snfaulkner[/li][li]Suburban Plankton[/li][li]Sunny Daze[/li][li]Texcat[/li][li]Thing Fish[/li][li]Toejam[/li][li]Total Lost[/li][li]Winston Smith [/li][li]Zeriel[/li][/ol]

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I ain’t scared to have first post.

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Multilynch is going to be interesting. The win conditions are unusual to me as well.

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I’m here to blend in with the mafia pros. IGNORE ME!!!

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Lynch you first, got it.

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Checking in to confirm receipt of first two posts.

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Would it be possible to insert the names of all 3, just so I don’t accidentally send something to the wrong person?

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What’s the going rate on bribes to get my PM first?

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Interesting that you ignore the third post. Trying to make us forget who’s playing?

So I took a look back at post #3 - the one you’re clearly trying to sweep under the rug.

WELL WELL WELL. Look what we have here.

I think it’s pretty obvious what’s happening here. When somebody figures it out, they should let me know.

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So we hate hating shoes?

Was editing ever really a problem? Or is it more of a problem that golden age players have needless baggage about? I fear this remains a legacy cost that I will always carry. NETA is the imperial system stubbornly hanging on despite “here comes the metric system”.

I didn’t think it was a matter of the coconuts, but more how he grips it.
**As a matter of protocol and course, there is an assumption that the number of lunches available per day will be stated at their corresponding Start of and End Of time periods. Is this assumption correct? … Another way to put this; will we be informed at the start of each day, how many possible lynches exist?
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Yes, it’s night zero, and I’m already circumlocutious. God forbid if my outline skeletons come back out from the closet. To the players I’ve not had the opportunity to play with before… I endeavor, most times, fruitlessly, to be better understood. My first games had me likened to Yogi Berra. … In the words of Lester from GTAV, do with that, as you will.

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I mean, the ban on editing was to prevent players from conniving and then erasing the evidence of their conniving, but with the 5 minute edit rule and the ability to strategize at any time on any legit forum, it’s probably not worth policing.

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There have been cases where Mafiates have posted in the game thread messages meant for the Mafia board, then deleted the text. Generally, this got them lynched because the only reason we could think of to edit was that they named names or exposed strategies, and therefore were [del]witches[/del] Mafiates.

It’s always a problem because we don’t know what the text said if we don’t see it pre-edit. I suppose Chronos and / or Idle Thoughts could tell us, but why should we believe what they say?

That said, it’s explicitly legal, so any lynch argument must be based on what the lost text said. That, we are not going to know, so I request the moderators playing the game not to abuse their Ed-given powers to look the edits up.

Well, since the meals need to be cooked, someone has to do the numbercrunching for the caterers. So the Mods pretty much have to tell us.

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So where do we go as scum to talk with our fellow scum? For that matter, when do I get my role PM telling me I’m scum?

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Bleached by moi.

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Should be neat.

Have to ask a mod to edit it. We are:

Mahaloth, NAF, and Storyteller

If players care about editing, they can lynch/kill whoever does it. Up to you guys.

Working on it. :wink:

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IF YOU THINK YOU ARE IN THE GAME AND ARE NOT ON THIS LIST

**IT IS NOT TOO LATE. YOU HAVE UNTIL WE POST THE OFFICIAL PMs LIST TO LET US KNOW YOU WANTED TO PLAY AND WE LEFT YOU OFF BY MISTAKE. **

Honestly, I’m too nice to you guys. But I want everyone to have a chance to play. Story is probably going to kill me if anyone actually takes me up on this offer.

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Vote Alcohol Squ… :eek:

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vote naf