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The spaceship’s cabin lurches as, with a sound like the Universe ending played backwards on a 1963 Wurlitzer, followed by a slightly surprised “ping”, the Heart of Gold leaves hyperspace and returns to normal space.
Looking around you, you instantly sense that something is wrong by the expression on Arthur Dent’s face. Or, to be more exact, his faces. Because everyone in the room looks like Arthur Dent.
“It must be Thursday,” says one of the Arthurs. “I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
The insanely cheerful voice of Eddie the Ship’s computer comes from a console in the center of the room. “Guys, I’m pleased as punch to inform you that it seems the Vogons have disrupted the Improbability Drive, and it will not fully disengage. Residual levels of improbability, 30214:1. Have a super great day.” At that the computer is silent.
You remember back to before the Improbability Drive engaged and turned things haywire, how the Vogons had been chasing you, determined to throw you into the void of space and finish their task of demolishing Earth.
When frantic attempts fail to get the computer paying any futher attention, you realize that you’re going to have to sort this out yourself by finding out which of the Arthur Dents are actually Vogons, and getting rid of them.
DON’T PANIC.
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#2 posted May 26th 2010, 21:34:45 (last edited May 26th 2010, 21:51:55 by Daryl Gee)
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Rules:
Mafia basics:
http://mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Newbie_guide
Recruitment Rules:
1. Every player is obliged to read the rules posted here and follow them.
2. Mafia is a game that requires a fair amount of time and commitment. Do not join if you are not prepared to sign in and contribute regularly to the game, over a reasonable period of time.
3. You can only join this game by sending me a PM containing a confirmation that you read the rules and that you agree to follow them. No exceptions.
4. New Mafia players are welcome, just add a line to your application PM to show that you understand the game and will be able to play it. If this is difficult or daunting, perhaps you are not ready for mafia yet.
5. I reserve the right to reject a player if I decide that his/her presence in the game could greatly lower the game experience for other players, or if his/her presence could endanger my sanity.
General Gameplay Rules:
1. Votes need to be placed in a separate line and bolded.
2. Votes that are not in separate line and/or not bolded, will not be counted.
3. Change of vote needs to be preceded by unvoting.
4. Dead players cannot talk at all. Zombie posts are forbidden. Once you died you have to wait for the end of the game to say anything.
5. There will be no twilight in this game.
6. You are not allowed to edit your post in any situation.
7. The rules of the GPRO forum apply with regard to swearing. Soft insults are permitted and in the context of the game acceptable.
8. Replacement of inactives by dead players will not happen.
9. Self voting is stupid. But allowed.
10. Voting for “no lynch” is allowed.
11. Unless specified in your role PM, no communication about the game with other players is allowed outside of this thread.
12. Using out-of-game site mechanics to make in-game arguments is not allowable and may result in punishment or modkills. You may say “X hasn’t been online all day so maybe we should wait for him to post before we hammer him,” or “Y is online, please respond.” You may not say “X and Y have been sending PM’s just after the lynch and so are scum.” You get the point. If you don’t get the point, just don’t do anything even remotely of the sort.
13. If I see that you are trying to “break” the game, or play against the spirit of the game, you and every other player that represents the same alignment as you will be punished.
14. While the game is based mostly on a fairly standard mafia setup and roles, some twisting and unusual roles may be included.
15. There will be two types of deadline given in this game – Soft Deadlines and Hard Deadlines.
a. Soft Deadlines:
i. All players will be required to have a vote in place at the Soft Deadline.
ii. If there are players with no vote in place at the Soft Deadline, there is a 50% chance that they will be lynched. If multiple players, the chance of one being lynched is still 50%, and the lynchee will be one randomly selected from the non voters.
iii. If “No lynch” is leading the votes, or if the vote is tied, and if no “non-voters” are lynched, there will be no lynch, votes will be reset, and the day will continue.
iv. If there is a clear vote leader, or if a player with no vote placed is lynched, the lynch will proceed as normal and the game will move to a night phase, as normal.
b. Hard Deadlines:
i. All players will be required to have a vote in place at the Hard Deadline.
ii. Players with no vote in place at the Hard Deadline will be modkilled.
iii. If there is a tie, the lynch will be randomly decided between all players in the tie, as well as the player whose vote or unvote created the tie.
iv. If "no lynch" leads the vote, there will be no lynch (dur) and the game will move to night phase as normal.
Additional Game Info:
1) The game theme is mostly just for flavour – no knowledge of the books, radio series or movie plot or characters is required to play. The plot has been twisted and timelines from the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” have been ignored.
2) Many people were killed by the Vogons in the mad chase to the Heart of Gold. In the chaos, you are not aware of who these characters are, but the Vogons will be aware of their names, which they could use as safe fake claims. Some of these may be major characters from the books. All of these may be major characters from the books. None of these may be major characters from the books. There is no way to tell a player’s alignment from their character claim.
3) Roles have been assigned to characters fairly haphazardly; while some logic and storyline may apply in some cases, in others it may not. Major characters from the series may be vanilla, minor characters may be power roles. There is no way to tell a player’s role from his character claim.
4) Roles have been assigned to players randomly.
5) Space ships are dangerous places to wander about alone, and anyone not in regular contact with the group is likely to fall out of an airlock. MOD definition of regular contact is having a vote placed at any deadline, and having made at least one content post every 48 hours. Weekends do not count.
6) I will try keep days short, nights shorter, and the pace of the game high, as I believe this makes for a better game. If you have a night action, please give me default orders before the night comes so you are not caught out – these can always be changed (once) when the night does come. If no default orders are in place and no pm received by night action deadline, night actions will be randomly assigned.
7) Town role PMs take the format: “you are <name>, <brief description largely plagiarized through google>, <role description>, <win condition>.”
8) Win condition for town: “You win with town when all threats have been found and dispatched.”
More basic mafia information can be found here: http://mikeburnfire.sitesled.com/mscumB.swf
Please do not post in this thread until the game has started. Discussion and pre game banter in the RPG game thread, please:
/forum/ViewTopic.asp?TopicId=2803#scroll
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Signed up to date:
André Oliveira
Bruno Grønbæk Kristensen
Eric Rohli - lynched day 1
Finn Shaw-McIver
Gordon Ashford
Hannu Syrjä
Iain Bartholomew
James Biggley
John Ibbotson
John Winchester - killed night 1
Jun Ho - modkilled day 2
Michael Winkley
Mikko Salminen
Jon Beagles replaced Riley Morrell
Rosie Garber
Sam Tipple
Shiraj Sengupta
Toby Acton - died day 2
16 is a nice number for a game, there's one or two that came in after these but I'll review tomorrow and decide if they're replacement listees or if the right number can be added to keep the balance right.
Entries will close at 19:00 GRPO time tomorrow and I'll try get the roles out and game started asap thereafter.
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#4 posted May 28th 2010, 20:22:58
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First, the good news and the bad news, in no particular order:
Mikko Salminen and Riley Morrell join the player list.
Role PM's will be sent out over the course of the next few beers, game will start when I say so.
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#5 posted May 28th 2010, 21:05:28 (last edited May 28th 2010, 21:06:04 by Daryl Gee)
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think online mafia games are a pretty neat idea...
So, a room full of Arthurs, with some bad, some good, hidden behind that gormless face and scruffy dressing gown.
Where to begin?
Begin here.
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#6 posted May 28th 2010, 21:06:34
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#7 posted May 28th 2010, 21:07:12
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Vote Gordon Ashford
hehe :)
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#8 posted May 28th 2010, 21:07:40
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vote Finn
Wasn't interested in my last game ;(
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#9 posted May 28th 2010, 21:07:41
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We can't trust her so
vote Rosie
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#10 posted May 28th 2010, 21:07:55
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wait i didn't need to put his surname in :/
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#11 posted May 28th 2010, 21:08:29
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Vote Michael W
I told you I would... ;)
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#12 posted May 28th 2010, 21:08:56
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unvote Rosie
vote M. Ragni
for blocking me for the whole bloody race
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#13 posted May 28th 2010, 21:09:06
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VOTE JUN
One million and one incorrect vote counts during Rizzo World ;)
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#14 posted May 28th 2010, 21:09:13
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And just as a reminder, if you are going to vote for Jon, use Jon I & W, Ibbotson & Winchester, John Ibbotson and John Winchester, etc.
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#15 posted May 28th 2010, 21:09:15
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Only one Michael in this game Sam
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#16 posted May 28th 2010, 21:09:30
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Vote Toby
I have evidence that he is a posh and snobbish.
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#17 posted May 28th 2010, 21:09:54
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Quote ( Sam Tipple @ May 28th 2010,21:08:29 )
Vote Michael W
I told you I would... ;)
outside communication? :D
Unvote Gordon
Vote Sam
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#18 posted May 28th 2010, 21:10:18
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mafia 42 such a dull name, so I changed it :) Also, how many players have we got, is it just 18 (the 16 +Mikko & Riley)
Anyway I should vote John W for being leader of a team that cannot even spell my name correctly :p
Vote Riley
for being Riley
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#19 posted May 28th 2010, 21:11:12
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Quote ( Finn Shaw-McIver @ May 28th 2010,21:09:30 )
I have evidence that he is a posh and snobbish
unvote
vote Finn
for being classist and jealous
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#20 posted May 28th 2010, 21:11:29
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Quote ( Toby Acton @ May 28th 2010,21:09:15 )
Only one Michael in this game Sam
I know, I like putting it on the end to annoy him. ;)
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#21 posted May 28th 2010, 21:11:37
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#22 posted May 28th 2010, 21:12:53
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Quote ( Gordon Ashford @ May 28th 2010,21:10:18 )
Anyway I should vote John W for being leader of a team that cannot even spell my name correctly :p
i'm the leader of a team now? :) news to me...
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#23 posted May 28th 2010, 21:13:11
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Jun, John I, and John W.
This is going to be very confusing.
UNVOTE JUN
VOTE ERIC
For pointing out that we need to be careful when lynching these scumbags ;)
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#24 posted May 28th 2010, 21:14:11
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Quote ( Finn Shaw-McIver @ May 28th 2010,21:11:37 )
OMGUS? :P
Yeah! Oh My God, U Scouser!
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#25 posted May 28th 2010, 21:14:56
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jeez... i need to catch up with marathon, give me ten minutes :)
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#26 posted May 28th 2010, 21:16:21
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Quote ( Finn Shaw-McIver @ May 28th 2010,21:09:30 )
Vote Toby
I have evidence that he is a posh and snobbish.
Was it the way he communicated with you via PM? ;)
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#27 posted May 28th 2010, 21:16:59
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No, it's the fact he always goes on about living in a big house, and owning a Ferrari.
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#28 posted May 28th 2010, 21:17:48
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clearly I had a pan-galactic gargle blaster earlier and my head has now exploded :(
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#29 posted May 28th 2010, 21:18:48
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Quote ( Finn Shaw-McIver @ May 28th 2010,21:16:59 )
No, it's the fact he always goes on about living in a big house, and owning a Ferrari.
unvote Finn
vote Toby
Because I live in a small place, and have no car... :P
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#30 posted May 28th 2010, 21:20:53
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Multi-tasking is hard... :/
Quote ( John Winchester @ May 28th 2010,21:14:56 )
jeez... i need to catch up with marathon, give me ten minutes :)
No! That is too long!
Unvote Michael
Vote John W
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