As per fluiddruid’s post here, the Powers That Be have given us permission to start a new game of Mafia even as the last one continues its behemoth sprawl towards the three thousand post mark and beyond. Everyone who is understandably blocking that thread from their memory can refresh themselves as to the rules and general gameplay here.
In any event, I’ll do my damnedest to keep this iteration of the game comparatively sleek and whippet-quick, starting with a 20-player limit on sign-ups. fluiddruid and NAF1138 (who’s done a fantastic job with the current game) have already RSVPed, so there are eighteen slots left for interested players. Post in this thread if you want to play, and once we’ve got our quota, I’ll PM everyone with a confirmation and your game character. Roles are going to be relatively by-the-book, although I’ve got at least one wrinkle in mind that wasn’t implemented in either of the previous threads.
The game will begin once we’ve hit our twenty players; if we get less interest than that, sign-ups will close sometime Wednesday evening. Preference for playing will be given to people who aren’t currently involved in the other game; I think that’s the fairest way to do it. If there are a ton of new players, I’ll also give preference to people who haven’t participated in the most recent thread at all. And, as always, if you’ve got questions at any point, feel free to ask. This should be a lot of fun.
I’m heading out for the evening—might as well try to have a life before the game begins and I’m tethered to my computer—so here’s the sign-up list so far:
fluiddruid
NAF1138
CaerieD*
ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies*
Hal Briston
nesta*
Projammer
percypercy
SnakesCatLady
Eleven more slots to fill. The three asterisked players participated in the last (and current) game, but despite what I said in the OP I’m strongly inclined to let them play regardless how many new posters express interest, because none of them had such a dominant and active role as to twig my fairness radar. Now, if Queuing or Blaster Master or JSexton or one of the other wonderfully prolific posters from the other game (like me, if I wasn’t running this thing) comes trundling in here, it might be a different story, preference-wise. But we’ll cross that bridge when we, y’know, do.
Not that it really matters (since I already made the cut) but I only played in the original game, not the second game/trainwreck that is still currently ongoing.
Just in case anyone might happen to think that I sucked so badly in the 2nd game, that they couldn’t even remember me playing.
