Elements of Mini-Mafia

[A Very Super Market]

“There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (new breath needed!)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
“There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.
“Isn’t that interesting?

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The professor was a happy man. Who wouldn't be? He had just discovered how to make inanimate objects sentient.

Posturing himself in preparation of the fame that would surely come, he walked over and looked at his prime specimens. Sodium, Potassium, Iron, Gallium, Uranium, and Magnesium

He waved. They didn't wave back. They were too busy exploring the fineties of consciousness. The professor was pleased. He quickly set out for home and a tabloid.

....

The next morning, he came back to the elements huddled over a corner of a room. "What's happened" he asked.

They turned their heads and stared blankly at him.

The professor decided to check the security tape footage to see what had happened. All was quiet for a while, until Potassium suddenly melted, and then blew up. Quite concerning.

Announcing a state of emergency, the professor called for a group meeting, to determine who had done this dirty deed.

Sign-ups 7/7
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

Rules

Basic mafia game, with limitations.

[Iskander 3.1]

In! Happy Mole Day!

Also, I encourage everyone here to boycott dihydrogen monoxide! It kills people!

Now let's go ride on the ferrous wheel:

Fe - Fe
/ \
Fe Fe
\ /
Fe - Fe

(Um why won't my spacing stay? It doesn't show up as a ring :sweatdrop:)

[johnhughthom]

ialsolostallpunctuationandwouldliketoplaythankyoukindsir

[atheotes]

in...
and i agree that DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) is a huge threat... One day it will destroy humanity!

[Double A]

In! Happy Mole Day!

Also, I encourage everyone here to boycott dihydrogen monoxide! It kills people!

Now let's go ride on the ferrous wheel:

Fe - Fe
/ \
Fe Fe
\ /
Fe - Fe

(Um why won't my spacing stay? It doesn't show up as a ring :sweatdrop:)

And DHMO causes erosion! We should ban it from the Earth!

In!

[Zain]

:bow:

[Beskar]

In.

So are we element hunters?

[A Very Super Market]

Depends on what role you get....

There will be kills, and there will be lynches.

Townies are the elements.

[atheotes]

may be we are the elements themselves with a rogue element among us....:juggle2:

[Double A]

Iron did it. But hey, potassium was asking for it.

[Iskander 3.1]

You know what I think?

HO-CH2-COH-COH-COH-COH-CH

Look it up.

[Double A]

I'm taking chemistry this year, so keep all the science jokes coming guys!

[Tratorix]

In if theres still room.

[johnhughthom]

That's seven isn't it?

Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

[A Very Super Market]

Alright, PMs are going out soon...... and the meeting was unproductive. It is night, and day phase starts at 0000 GMT October 25

[Beskar]

https://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2271/elementalhuntersanime1.jpg

[Double A]

What the Hel?

[Iskander 3.1]

Let's fighting love!

[Beskar]

It's some random anime I know of where kids where elements from earth keep disappearing into an alternative dimension and kids are used to try to retrieve them.

[Tratorix]

If I die in the first night phase, lynch Beskar.

[Beskar]

In a good way, at least I won't be cooked till death by the Mafia, if I get lynched.

[Iskander 3.1]

If I die in the first night phase, lynch Beskar.

Gladly. We'll chop his entire body off, just like in Rainy Day.

[A Very Super Market]

That night, Tratorix died. Lynch beskar

Nothing happened in the laboratory. The professor gathered everyone to vote.


DAY PHASE BEGINS

Alive
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

[johnhughthom]

Vote: Iskander

[Double A]

I vote: john because he likely used random.org instead of a d6! Death to random.org!

[Tratorix]

Vote: Beskar since I didn't die he obviously changed his nefarious plans so he wouldn't get lynched.

[atheotes]

did we have a succesful roleblock? because all the playing members have been active on the forum...

[Zain]

Vote:Tratorix

[Beskar]

Vote: Tratorix

Trying to set me up.

[Iskander 3.1]

Vote: tratorix and then we'll blame it on Beskar when he dies!

[atheotes]

vote: iskander for some reason my gut says you are scum...:shrug:

[Iskander 3.1]

Me? Nonsense. Just ask Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (aka Paracelsus) about me, and he would say that Mars was flowing through me. If, of course, it was hot enough for me to flow. But someone here flows at room temperature, and that is who me must eliminate.

c=c

[A Very Super Market]

The professor dumped Tratorix into the garbage. The garbagemen took him to the landfill. A bird ate him, and the bird died as well.

He was MAGNESIUM.

Congratulations, you have killed a townie. And a bird.

Players
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

[Zain]

The professor dumped Tratorix into the garbage. The garbagemen took him to the landfill. A bird ate him, and the bird died as well.

He was MAGNESIUM.

Congratulations, you have killed a townie. And a bird.

Players
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

Technically the professor killed the bird for making Tratorix in the first place :laugh4:

Let's just blame the moderators then. :bow:

[Double A]

Poor birdy :sad:

[Tratorix]

Lame. :no:

[Zain]

Lame. :no:

Sorry Maggy :no:

[Iskander 3.1]

Tratorix died! This means that we have to lynch Beskar.

Also, freshman year in college we ran an experiment that required us to put .1g of Mg into water to observe the temperature change. My genius lab partner misread the instructions and dropped in 10 g. You can imagine what happened next...

[A Very Super Market]

Bubbles!

[Double A]

Buttercup's cooler.

[Iskander 3.1]

In a manner of speaking, yes, bubbles.

[Zain]

It's been 24 hours! :whip:

Just kidding, take your time AVSM :bow:

[A Very Super Market]

Sorry everybody, I was out for a while.


The night was quiet. Nothing happened. The professor returned, quite tired from a night of denying the dumping of poisonous materials into the enviroment. Clearly, it was the garbagemen


DAY begins. Get your votes in.

[johnhughthom]

Vote:Iskander

[atheotes]

vote: iskander for some reason my gut says you are scum...:shrug:

Vote: Iskander

[Iskander 3.1]

Care to explain why? I'm the only one so far who has hinted as to what my role is. And I've been active, but the guilty party seems to have forgotten to send in his orders (i.e. inactive player).

[Double A]

Bubbles? So, what, you're Magnesium (If my memory seves me right)? How does that even confirm your innocence?

Gah this is so freaking confusing! Ima abstain, there's absolutely NOTHING to go on, because the mafia haven't even killed anyone, and since they're inactive...

wait a sec...

ok I looked at the posts, but then I remember it's only been 2 pages so no info there. :smash:

I need to go to sleep earlier, I'm chasing shadows that don't exist...

vote:Abstain until I figure out WTF is going on in this game.

[Zain]

Vote:Double A

[Tratorix]

Bubbles? So, what, you're Magnesium (If my memory seves me right)? How does that even confirm your innocence?


The professor dumped Tratorix into the garbage. The garbagemen took him to the landfill. A bird ate him, and the bird died as well.

He was MAGNESIUM.

:stare:

[Beskar]

Care to explain why? I'm the only one so far who has hinted as to what my role is. And I've been active, but the guilty party seems to have forgotten to send in his orders (i.e. inactive player).

That is not actually correct, I also hinted at what I was.

[Iskander 3.1]

Really? Sorry Beskar I must have missed it. As for my alibi, see post #32. My Mg anecdote was soley for everyone's amusement (and yes, it actually did happen).

[Beskar]

Actually, that post #32 actually makes me want to get you lynched. :beam:

Vote: Iskander 3.1

[Double A]

:stare:

Hey I'm taking chemitry! Either group 1 or group 2 is highly reactious with water! So that means he's... sodium?

[Beskar]

I think he actually hinted at mercury or he wants to kill mercury with heat.

I am trying to toss up between them. I first read it as the later, but it could mean the former...

[Iskander 3.1]

Vote: Double A per Tratorix's reasoning.

Beskar, do I have to spell my role out you? I am Fe. Paracelsus once said,

He who knows what iron is, knows the attributes of Mars.
He who knows Mars, knows the qualities of iron.

I have a feeling that our enemy here is water, even though water isn't an element. Water reacts violently with Mg. Water causes me to oxidize and rust.

Everyone, please post your roles. I think I'll be able to figure out who is lying.

edit: I'm keeping my vote on Double A because his post was very scummy, but I should point out that while Beskar's vote on me initially appeared to be a "meatball vote", upon further review it shows signs of being a scummy bandwagon vote.

edit edit: However (this sounds a little like meta-gaming, but it's worth pointing out), it's not like Beskar to miss a night order. Double A, on the other hand, was mafia in my last small game and he missed several night orders.

[Double A]

Vote: Double A per Tratorix's reasoning.

Beskar, do I have to spell my role out you? I am Fe. Paracelsus once said,

He who knows what iron is, knows the attributes of Mars.
He who knows Mars, knows the qualities of iron.

I have a feeling that our enemy here is water, even though water isn't an element. Water reacts violently with Mg. Water causes me to oxidize and rust.

Everyone, please post your roles. I think I'll be able to figure out who is lying.

edit: I'm keeping my vote on Double A because his post was very scummy, but I should point out that while Beskar's vote on me initially appeared to be a "meatball vote", upon further review it shows signs of being a scummy bandwagon vote.

edit edit: However (this sounds a little like meta-gaming, but it's worth pointing out), it's not like Beskar to miss a night order. Double A, on the other hand, was mafia in my last small game and he missed several night orders.

How long ago was that? Seriously?

Tratorix didn't have a reason. Because you said bubbles, I was all like "Hey don't either the Alkali metals or Alkaline Earth Metals basically blow up when they touch water? You must be one of them!"

Now that I look back at my notes, it's Alkaline Earth Metals. I didn't think you'd be iron. When iron rusts it doesn't bubble, does it?

[Tratorix]

Vote: Double A per Tratorix's reasoning.

What reasoning? I was just pointing out that you couldn't be Magnesium, as Double A suggested. Looking for any hint of a bandwagon to jump on are you Iskander? :stare:

[Double A]

I guess all you need to make a case against someone now is the staring smiley! :laugh4:

john has a long name :stare:

[Tratorix]

I guess all you need to make a case against someone now is the staring smiley! :laugh4:

john has a long name :stare:

Vote: Johnhugthom.

[Iskander 3.1]

How long ago was that? Seriously?

Tratorix didn't have a reason. Because you said bubbles, I was all like "Hey don't either the Alkali metals or Alkaline Earth Metals basically blow up when they touch water? You must be one of them!"

Now that I look back at my notes, it's Alkaline Earth Metals. I didn't think you'd be iron. When iron rusts it doesn't bubble, does it?

No, iron doesn't bubble. AVSM and I were simply conversing about what happens to Mg when water is added. Yes, it bubbles, amongst other things (bubbles are the least of your concerns if you add water to Mg).

I still think that the rest of you should state your roles.:whip:

[Zain]

Weren't we supposed to have a lynching already?

[Iskander 3.1]

By "Tratorix's logic" I meant that he pointed out that Double A made an unnecessary post asking if I was Mg, even though it was clear that Tratorix was Mg. Unnecessary posts are often a sign of someone being scummy, because they're attempting to shift the focus away from themselves.

And at least I explained my vote. Atheotes went on "gut feeling," which is better than nothing, but johnhughthom's vote is completely without any explanation.

Tratorix, I voted for you half in jest, but your lack of a defense is why I didn't unvote.

Yes Zain, the deadline has passed and I'll probably get lynched and turn into rust. The mafia are probably gonna win this one if people don't bother listening to your fellow townies' defenses...why is everyone afraid to admit their roles? If I really were scum, would I have anything to gain by discovering your roles? Did AVSM make everyone but Tratorix and myself members of the mafia?

[atheotes]

alright... i am sodium...

[A Very Super Market]

You're right. Gah, this is not a good prelude to my next small game, is it? Ah well.

Iskander was disposed of properly. He was just thrown into a box of iron and left there. The professor went home with some women of ill repute, for his discoveries were circulating the world.

Iskander was lynched. He was a TOWNIE. The professor would not get his kicks.

Players
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
atheotes
Double A
Zain
Beskar
Tratorix

[Tratorix]

Unnecessary posts are often a sign of someone being scummy, because they're attempting to shift the focus away from themselves.


:idea2:


Tratorix, I voted for you half in jest, but your lack of a defense is why I didn't unvote.

:stare: I didn't ask for that explanation, nor did anyone else. But while we are on the subject, how should I have defended myself from votes with no explanation? Iskander's probably a decent lynch for today, but everyone needs to start talking more.

[Iskander 3.1]

Thanks for not letting me rust too quickly, host.

Atheotes=town

I'm gonna stay active here, being a chem nerd and all. (Back at U of Wisconsin I was in the co-ed professional chemistry frat, AXE (by E I mean sigma). Let's here those roles, folks!

[atheotes]

though i am glad that you figured out....i wish you had waited until after the night phase to post that... right now it has painted a target on my back :sad:

[Beskar]

AVSM never said what element iskander 3.1 is.

*Reads previous page*

Oops...

[Zain]

:furious3:

I said vote Double A! People need to listen better...

[Double A]

What's your reasoning? Saying "lynch Double A because I said so" is akin to painting "I am mafia, shhhhhh!" on your shirt.

[johnhughthom]

I said vote Double A!

Always a good policy. Vote:Double A

[A Very Super Market]

The professor returned in the morning to find a strange sight. There was only one element left, uranium just sitting there and leering at him. Vaguely digusted, he sidestepped into the video room and ran the security footage. johnhughthom continued to stare straight ahead.

On the video, he saw gallium melt into a puddle, and sodium explode violently, revealing some strangely sentient water, Double A. Disastrous!

He rushed outside! Uranium was still there. He rushed over and tried to wake him up. It was no use. johnhughthom was an exceptionally old piece of uranium, and had decomposed to another, stabler isotope.

Scrambling to prepare a new experiment, he animated his hand, apparently doing nothing. He took a pencil and tried the same thing, but kept missing. The press were starting to knock on the door, he needed something!

Suddenly, the lights went out. Something shortcircuited the lab. The breaker box was soaked in water. To make matters worse, his hair was on fire.

The reporters came in to find a screaming man with flames on his head knocking over glasses, with no sentient being making smarmy comments.

Zain and Double A smirked in their corners, and went on to destory the world

TOTAL SERIAL KILLER VICTORY

You guys had an exceptionally unlucky game, I'll tell you that. I'll post the roles later.

[Double A]

Zain, I knew you were heat from N1 :smash:

[Double A]

Here is my role for those too impatient to wait:


You are WATER

When the professor's experiment took place, he neglected to even give you a passing glance! What does he have against molecules? You'll make him pay for this. Sabotage his efforts any way you can!

As a slinky liquid common throughout the entire world, you are quick and can easily eavesdrop and spy on the others. During the night phase, you may investigate someone to determine their identity as well as attempt to kill them. You may only kill IRON and SODIUM, but a failed attack will not reveal you. You win instantly if you are alive and they are both dead


Mafia.

[Zain]

And I knew you were water. No one else voted for you so I stayed pretty much in the clear all game. :2thumbsup:

[atheotes]

huh? we had 2 mafia :confused:

[Double A]

We were independent serial killers with set goals. I had to kill 2 and he had to kill 2. Uranium was just... there.

What our roles had us do was investigate players during the night, and if we could kill them we could the next night.

[Iskander 3.1]

Aha, so reavealing wasn't that great of a strategy. But at least I was correct about water being one of the enemies.

Great set-up, AVSM.

[Double A]

Yeah, I figured out Zain was heat and asked AVSM if I could PM him to bug him about it N1.

Then on N2 I found out I could kill atheotes. And when you got bandwagoned I was all like "HOLY CRAP! I might actually win as the mafia!"

[Zain]

How did you figure it out?

[Double A]

By randomly investigating you :clown:

[A Very Super Market]

Here are the roles


You are GALLIUM

You are a soft silver-coloured element with a very low melting point. HEAT will quickly melt you and remove your sentience. I suppose the hot water that's wandering around will do the same, but the laws of nature will yield for my game!

Townie.


You are MAGNESIUM

You are a light, silver-coloured element that burns with a very bright white light. You know you're different from the other elements. Because the professor keeps you in powdered form. Why? You don't know. Maybe because HEAT will set you on fire you more easily? Who knows. Crazy guy.

If you are burnt, you will illuminate the whole area for quite a while, revealing your killer.

Townie.


You are URANIUM

You are a dull gray metal that is normally just marginally radioactive. However, the professor has screwed up somewhere, and you can now emit gamma rays for little reason but to cater to this mafia game. This has also caused you to go crazy. You want to KILL the professor.

The simple way to do so would be to get lynched. He will take you out to disposal without wearing a layer of non-sentient lead, so you can easily pummel him with radiation. You won't be around to see it, and no one will know, but he'll keel over soon enough!

No one can kill you. But if you don't get lynched, you lose. I don't know why, you just do. You're talking metal, for god's sake.

Basically, a joker.


You are IRON

You are a weak, shiny, and gray element with much ahead of you. You've heard a lot about steel, and you are looking forward to being made into it. However, there is some WATER in the lab just itching to oxidize you. What's that? Shouldn't the air be out to do that as well? Well, that's because the air isn't consciously trying to. Because it isn't sentient like you. Maybe you should spend less time complaining and more time contemplating how lucky you are, jerk.

Townie.


You are SODIUM

You are a soft, unstable metal hiding a sensitive interior. Even now, you cry whenever you pass by chlorine in her glass jar, unable to revel in self-awareness as you do. You tremble, and tears come to your eye, but then Potassium comes walking by! Curses, you can't let him see you like this! Start foaming at the mouth, spin around, distract him! Is he walking away? Running? Good. Very good.

WATER makes you blow up violently. It will also knock out your killer, revealing them.

Townie.

You are WATER

When the professor's experiment took place, he neglected to even give you a passing glance! What does he have against molecules? You'll make him pay for this. Sabotage his efforts any way you can!

As a slinky liquid common throughout the entire world, you are quick and can easily eavesdrop and spy on the others. During the night phase, you may investigate someone to determine their identity as well as attempt to kill them. You may only kill Iron and Sodium, but a failed attack will not reveal you. You win instantly if you are alive and they are both dead


Mafia.


You are HEAT

When the professor's experiment took place, you gladly stood up for commendation. Yet none came. The professor was "busy" putting out his sleeve. How could he do this to you?! Then you snapped. You went crazy, and now you're out to put an end to his experiment!

As a ubiquitous part of the enviroment, you can sneak around and spy on others with ease. During the night phase, you may investigate someone to determine their identity as well as attempt to kill them. You may only kill Gallium and Magnesium but a failed attack will not reveal you. You win instantly if you are alive and they are both dead

Mafia.


Once again, the town was exceptionally unlucky. With a No Lynch option, it might have gone a bit better. The idea was, one of the mafia would be lynched after unwittingly killing someone who would reveal them. The other would then be forced to lie low and investigate, giving the town some extra time. Uranium was a joker role that I thought would make for a silly end to a mini-mafia game. The idea being that it would go unnoticed until the end, at which point the professor would suddenly die of radiation sickness and give them the victory.

Of course, things went differently. The mafia both investigate first thing, so I decided to not tell them about the revealing townies. Then the lynches went very badly, sealing their fate. If I ever do another game like this, I'll have to keep no lynch as an option, maybe limit the mafia's investigations (Although that wouldn't have helped in this case), and perhaps make it a small game. But I don't want to give up the split personality plan...

[Iskander 3.1]

But I don't want to give up the split personality plan...

Wait, how come he gets his own mafia game? :laugh4:

[Beskar]

So the new kills were about they were actually failed kills then?

Also, having kill roles in mini-mafia is overpowered, especially two. :gasp:

[A Very Super Market]

Right, but I expected that they would at least waste some time finding people who they couldn't really kill. Not so in this game. Double A found Zain on the first night, got his first victim on the second night, and killed him on the third.

Like I said, the town had some incredibly bad luck.

[Double A]

So the new kills were about they were actually failed kills then?

Also, having kill roles in mini-mafia is overpowered, especially two. :gasp:

No, we couldn't kill people unless they were 2 of the ones we had to. We investigated for our targets and then on the next night we could kill them if they weren't lynched. So in effect it limited our kills. Our efforts were completely separate, and it is pure coincidence that one of our targets were killed by lynch and we found the other the night before. If Iskander hadn't been lynched Zain would have enjoyed a solo victory I believe.

[Beskar]

Yeah, that is sort of flawed. When I did a game with two mafia with missons, they had to kill eachother as part of the mission. But the mafia were naughty and tried to work together, so he was shot in the head.