Chinese Zodiac Mafia [Concluded]

[Beefy187]

Story

High up in the heavens. Twelve animals will meet once a year.
They will party all night, celebrating each others year.

For the past five thousand years or so, everything was peaceful.
Animal appreciated each other. Despite the difference of characteristic and philosophy.

However, one day....

*Knock knock!

"Whos there?"

"It is I my lords! I am the host of this Super friendly Chinese Zodiac meeting!"

"Enter the room... Now what business does a human have? In the middle of our meeting?"

"I have a letter for this meeting. It says.....

I am the member of this meeting. Fear my wrath. We are sick and tired of waiting for our turn. We are going to kill a few of you, so we can have our turn more often."

Twelve animal gasped. Some even screamed. All of them started to look at each other in a different eyes.
"We must find out and punish the traitors." they said as they started to discuss who might be the bad one... Hungry for their blood.

Set up
This is a twelve player classical mafia game with two mafias and ten normal townies.

Players may choose the animal they wish to play. Mafias are going to be determined by random.org after the sign up.
Two mafias may contact each other. And each of them can kill one player per night.

The unique feature of this game is the animal of the day rule. Only player who will get to vote is the animal of the day. Who ever animal of the day casts the vote to will get lynched.
Other player may discuss and advice the animal of the day to vote for players, but they cannot "vote" until it is there turn.

It is up to the animal of the day to decide how the voting should be run for the day. They may just randomly choose a player to lynch. Or they may ask for everyone opinion first before deciding it. Do note that the day phase ends soon as the animal of the day votes (And as soon as the host notices that they have voted.) Once the vote has been placed, it cannot be undone for choose carefully.

Night phases will be 24 hours long from the start of the day phase.

Other then that, it is normal mafia. Usual Org gameroom rules apply. Play nice, be friendly and have fun

I'm looking for 12 active players who can make this into a fun game.
The game will start from April the 1st. If I don't get player by then....I will start soon as I get enough.
List of signed up players 11/12
Secura
TheFlax
Subotan
Methos
Thermal Mercury
Ibn Khaldun
Jooray
atheotes
AVSM
Jolt
ATPG
Psychonaut

(In order of voting turns)
Tiger (Subotan)
Rabbit (Secura)
Dragon (TheFlax)
Snake (Jooray)
Horse (atheotes)
Lamb (Methos)
Monkey (Thermal Mercury)
Rooster (Psychonaut)
Dog (ATPG)
Pig (Jolt)
Rat (Ibn- Khaldun)
OX (AVSM)

Townie Role pm

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Congratulations (or bad luck for some of you)
You are one of the townies in this game.

Many many years ago, the friendly Chinese people picked twelve animal to represent their zodiac calender. You are happy with the Chinese and your animal comrades.

But now, you face the biggest threat.

One... Maybe two of the members have declared to start killing you animals so they can be the only ones that the humans adore... Foolish!

You are worshiped precisely because there are twelve of you. You must fight against this threat.... Give them a harsh punishment and restore the orders of the twelve animals.

Each day, you have the permission to speak in the council of the twelve animals. This continues until your death via lynch or murder. Once you are killed, you must not reveal anything which cannot be taken from the public thread.

Also starting from the tiger, you will get a turn at taking the role of leader of the year. Only the leader of the year has the vote to decide who to lynch. If you are the leader of the year, you may decide how the day will be run. But once the leader casts the bolded vote, it cannot be undone. That voted player will be lynched, and the day will end immediately.

There is a option of no lynch(Again, the day will end soon as they made that choice) and extending the time to 48 hours.

If 24 hours of day phase passes (Or 48 when the leader requests it) with out a vote, no one will get lynched.

Good luck. And have fun.

[Secura]

I really like the sound of this game... insies. :3

[Beefy187]

Pick a animal Secura

[TheFlax]

I'm offended you didn't automatically assume I was IN Beefy. I thought what we shared was special and sacred.

Oh and Dragon please.

[Secura]

Ummm... I guess I'll go with my birth year and pick the Rabbit. :3

[Beefy187]

I'm offended you didn't automatically assume I was IN Beefy. I thought what we shared was special and sacred.

Oh and Dragon please.

I thought you were busy. I didn't want to bother you darling

[Subotan]

BAGSY TIGER

RARRRGH

[Methos]

I'll be the goat.

[Beefy187]

Welcome Methos, Subotan

[Thermal]

MONKEY!

[Ibn-Khaldun]

In as

Wait .. there isn't an elephant? Oh well.. I'll be rat then.

[Beefy187]

Faster we fill the remaining spots, faster we'll get this game going
If we get the sign ups done now, I can start the game on 1st of April.

[Joooray]

I'll join. Like to be the snake, since all the good animals are gone.
I wouldn't mind if this would start a bit later, but I'll try to be active anyway.

Also, are there any pro-town roles?

[Secura]

Set up
This is a twelve player classical mafia game with two mafias and ten normal townies.

It's a vanilla game, just with a different method of lynching. :3

[Joooray]

Okay, I'll read more carefully next time.

[Subotan]

Obviously rat and snake are going to be lynched first

[Beefy187]

I'll join. Like to be the snake, since all the good animals are gone.
I wouldn't mind if this would start a bit later, but I'll try to be active anyway.

Also, are there any pro-town roles?

Looking at how the sign up is going, its not going to be started just yet.
When do you prefer?

And you don't like horses and dogs?

It's a vanilla game, just with a different method of lynching. :3

Correct
Two mafias (1 kill each), and rest are townies.

[Thermal]

Two mafias (1 kill each), and rest are townies.

2 die each night?

[Secura]

I could see that being a potential problem.

Open on a day phase, and you will leave the town with an option of either lynching and thus risking the death of a innocent animal in order to find a guilty one (you might get lucky) or they vote no lynch. Either way the town will be left with 7-8 people left. Assuming they lynch and kill another townie, we're down to 6-7, which is reduced again to 4-5 overnight and so-on. And then there's the fact that the mafia can simply manipulate the lynch to remove more town... :P

Open on a night phase and the town might as well not bother! xD

Finding the mafia is going to be difficult in itself unless everyone is debating and nobody lurks, then it might be easier to ascertain what is what. Otherwise it might seem a little too stacked in the mafia's favour, given the two kills per night. I'm sure there's an easy enough way to balance this though.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Also, if there are clues in the write up then it might be easier for the town.

[Beefy187]

12 player game is extremely hard to balance.
1 kill amongst two is hard for mafia.
2 kill is over powered.

So the mafia gets 1 each. When one dies. It should be reduced to one. So work out the connections from there

They would be no clues in the write up. At least no intentional ones.

And Secura you should hold on to your strategy until the game starts. You wouldn't want to help the town if you're mafia :D

Could the mods move this to the gameroom

[Thermal]

1 kill amongst two is hard for mafia.

I don't think it is, personally, but on second thought it isn't terribly unbalanced, we get a few chances as town.

[Beefy187]

What do you guys reckon? 1 kill or 2?

2 kill means 3 wasted lynch opportunity.

[Sigurd]

Could the mods move this to the gameroom

We are in a kind of predicament.
johnhugh should have started hosting his game in the last week of March. He has not notified us that we should move the game.

The small games are taking longer than we planned for. There shouldn't be any reason for small games to extend beyond the 24 hour phases. But they have and are therefore competing with the large games for duration.

[Beefy187]

Ok in that case I'll sit tight and wait

[Askthepizzaguy]

One kill per night, Beefy. Let the suspense build. (/advice)

I am willing to serve as a replacement player as needed.

[Beefy187]

Ok 1 kill for the two players. Regardless of how many there are left.

[Beefy187]

Now that the thread is moved to the gameroom. I ask for players to fill up the remaining spot ASAP so we can get this game running faster

Progress on my part. I've done half the role pms. Other half should be finish in the next few hours.
I'll change the rule to 1 kill per night regardless of remaining mafia. Then we're good to go

[Joooray]

Obviously rat and snake are going to be lynched first

Racist!

And you don't like horses and dogs?

They are at least not as cool as dragon, tiger, monkey and rat.

I ask for players to fill up the remaining spot ASAP so we can get this game running faster

Come on people, sign up already!!

[atheotes]

(Horse)