Mafia X [Concluded]

[GeneralHankerchief]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Gameroom Anniversary Celebration has officially begun. :balloon3:


Mafia X

Preamble: Five years to the day after a relative newcomer to the .Org decided to introduce a fun little game he had played once before in RL called "Mafia", here we are with the tenth installment to the series. It's been a really fun ride, everyone, and I'm hoping that this is the best one yet. If you're interested and have (a lot of) time to kill, here are the installments for every other game in the series:

Mafia I (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?65526-New-forum-game-quot-Mafia-quot-Concluded) - June 2006
Mafia II: The sequel to the best-selling forum game (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?66579-Mafia-II-The-sequel-to-the-best-selling-forum-game-Concluded) - July 2006
Mafia III: Return of the Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?67773-Mafia-III-Return-of-the-Mafia-Concluded) - August-September 2006
Mafia IV: Night of the Living Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?69865-Mafia-IV-Night-of-the-Living-Mafia-Concluded) - October 2006
Mafia V: The Family Strikes Back (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?72400-Mafia-V-The-Family-Strikes-Back-Concluded) - November-December 2006
Mafia VI: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Return of the Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?79114-Mafia-VI-Night-of-the-Day-of-the-Dawn-of-the-Return-of-the-Mafia-Concluded) - February-March 2007
Mafia VII: Shadows of the Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?90534-Mafia-VII-Shadows-of-the-Mafia-Concluded) - August-September 2007
Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?104162-Mafia-VIII-Return-of-the-Recommencement-of-the-Revenge-of-the-Mafia-Concluded) - June 2008
Mafia IX: Triumph of the Mafia (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?126877-Mafia-IX-Triumph-of-the-Mafia-Concluded) - March-April 2010

With a series this long there have been a lot of great moments and a few interesting patterns, but I'll leave you to figure those out for yourselves.

Introduction: Mafia X, like the rest of the series, takes place in the Frontroom, where the games were originally held before this subforum was created (The Gameroom came around in early September, which not coincidentally is around when we're ending the three-month celebration). It is Mafia at its most basic, with only one power role: Mafia. There are no serial killers, no vigilantes, no doctors, no third-party roles or extra victory conditions of any kind, and no Detective. It is simply Mafia vs. Town.

There is one change in the rules that has do with anonymous accounts, which will be described below.

Roles: This section will be short.

Mafiosi: (2)
The bad guys. The storyline is that they have invaded the Frontroom and are threatening to kill everyone present in the village. Each mafioso gets one kill per night, unless there is only one left. If this is the case, then the remaining mafioso gets to kill two people per night. This means that there will always be two kills per night, no matter what, unless there are either no more townspeople to kill or no more mafiosi to make the kills, in which case the game is over.

The mafia have some say in how much/little they put in their kill descriptions. It is up to the town to figure out how much is their work and how much is mine.

Townies: (everyone else)
Are you a townie in this game? Don't fret, so is (mostly) everyone else. Unlike in some of the more role-heavy games though, the townies are absolutely integral to the success or the failure of the town in the game, since there are no power roles to do the heavy lifting. The townies will only be able to win this game if they come together and take some time out to seriously do some detective work. Besides, you have a standard to live up to: Out of the nine games mentioned above and the 18 mafiosi, only two have ever escaped the town's wrath.

Game procedure: As per tradition, the game will start with a night phase. Unfortunately, this means two people will die before they even get the chance to cast one vote. Sorry, but it works better for the story that way, and unlike in other games, you can still heavily contribute to the town's effort by careful analysis of the thread. Anyway, after night, it's day where the alive townies can vote and try to lynch the mafia. Voting procedure is the usual, i.e.:

Vote: GeneralHankerchief

If you wish to unvote, then please do so in the following manner:

Unvote: Ser Clegane
Vote: GeneralHankerchief

Voting abstain (you are present for the round and have no lynch preference) is allowed, but "No Lynch" is not. If you post in a round but do not vote, I count it as an "abstain". Additionally, after a certain amount of rounds, usually when I deem it to be endgame, "Abstain" will no longer be allowed, meaning you must vote to lynch someone. I will let you know in the thread once this threshold has been crossed.

Miscellaneous rules: No screenshots, no exceptions. However, you may feel free to quote anything that can be faked, such as PMs, chat logs, etc. Once dead, you are not allowed to quote anything said outside of the public thread. Violations of these rules will force me to exercise my awesome moderator powers to their fullest extent.

In terms of inactivity, I do not have a set system in place; rather, I take it by a touch-and-go basis. Because of this, it makes me unpredictable. :evil: In other words, if you do not want to experience the Wrath of God and be mod-killed, you had best just vote in every round.

ANONYMOUS ACCOUNTS: Okay, now we get to the section that isn't completely obvious. As you probably know, we just introduced this feature, which is described here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?135814-The-Gameroom-Anniversary-Celebration&p=2053319553&viewfull=1#post2053319553) and tested them out in a mini game called The Copa Clash (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?135817-The-Copa-Clash-Concluded). If you don't feel like clicking on those links, let me briefly sum them up for you:

Upon the game starting, every player who has signed up will receive a PM detailing the anonymous account and password they are linked to. While alive, you will make all posts in the game under this anonymous account - this is done to prevent metagaming and targeting people simply because they are who they are. It takes literally five seconds to log out and log in as an anonymous account, so I don't want to hear any griping about it. :laugh4: You can change your anonymous account's password to something easier to remember if you wish - it will not affect anything after the game.

All posts while you are alive must be made by your anonymous account. Upon death, I will reveal the name of the actual user who had just died, and from there you may feel free to post under your normal account until the end of the game. If anybody has any questions or concerns over this, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Other: The most important rule is, as always, HAVE FUN! :yes:

Please post here to sign-up. Unlike in The Copa Clash, you do not have to PM me to do so; a public post will be enough. Thank you for your continued interest and let's make it an awesome three months!

Signed up: (36/40)
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

[Romanic]

Oh yeah, first in.

[Splitpersonality]

Second in :D

[Visor]

In. Obviously.

[Beefy187]

In. This should be interesting.

[Greyblades]

Is this the game that's supposed to take all the slots for two months?
In.

[Renata]

In.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Is this the game that's supposed to take all the slots for two months?

Not just this. Up after this are Midgard III, Netherworld 3, and a mystery game.

[Csargo]

IN.

[Populus Romanus]

I'll give this a shot. :yes:

When does it start?

[B-Wing]

I'd very much like to join in on this one! I hope that the anonymous accounts will cut down on off-topic chatter and make behavior analysis a lot easier for those of us who can't follow the thread while at work.

[White_eyes:D]

I'm IN:bow:

[GeneralHankerchief]

When does it start?

A few days from now or whenever we get 40 signups, whichever comes first.

[Jolt]

In for the (anonymous) win.

[Captain Blackadder]

In for the win.

[Seon]

Rawrierin.

[glyphz]

IN. :bow:

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I'm IN!

[Death is yonder]

In please :bow:

[Askthepizzaguy]

IN. :bow:

No..... Way.


OH MY GOD YES!!!


I MUST JOIN THIS GAME NOW!!!

[Diamondeye]

:daisy: yes, :daisy:es. In!

[TheLastDays]

Just as inas everybody else

[Crazed Rabbit]

In.

[Ignoramus]

Definitely in!!!!

[ArpeggiateTHIS]

This should be interesting, IN!

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

IN!!

[Winston Hughes]

In.

[Kagemusha]

In.:bow:

[TheLastDays]

One question, will alignments be revealed upon death or just the actual username?

[GeneralHankerchief]

One question, will alignments be revealed upon death or just the actual username?

Just username. You're going to have to guess about alignments until the very end. :yes:

[TheLastDays]

Alright, not that I didn't expect it, just wanted to be sure :wink:

[Diamondeye]

Just username. You're going to have to guess about alignments until the very end. :yes:

I'm innocent :curtain:

[seireikhaan]

:charge:

[a completely inoffensive name]

In.

[autolycus]

in.

[robbiecon]

Nearly missed this, I'll join

[Earthling]

just a couple scum in the whole pack should be good odds.

[Chaotix]

In.

[Centurion1]

im ready for my triumphant return to the world of mafia.

in.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Nice response so far, I'll leave it open a little while longer and then we'll start things. :yes: If there's anybody you know who plays and hasn't signed up yet, bug them!

[Chaotix]

Are you sure 2 mafia is sufficient for a game with potentially 40 players?

[Renata]

At two kills per night (three per full cycle), presumably a night start:
38 to begin day one
35 to begin day 2
32
29
26
23
20
17
14
11
8 (last lynch if two living)
5 (last lynch)
2 (game over)

That's a lot of lynches to live through for mafia, but it's pretty much how all the games have been, isn't it? Mafia victory is not expected.

[Chaotix]

S'pose you're right. Can't remember whether the game Subotan and I played mafia had 30 or 40 to start with. Either way we got wrecked by Day 8.

[Ashurnasirpal II]

Little newcomer here: count me in!

[Sigurd]

I wanna play...

[Askthepizzaguy]

That's a lot of lynches to live through for mafia, but it's pretty much how all the games have been, isn't it? Mafia victory is not expected.

The early lynches aren't very dangerous. It's very easy for folks to skate through several rounds unharmed with that many players.

Which is funny, because the scums seem to have been losing one of their players early in the past couple large vanillas. Just bad luck I suppose.

[GeneralHankerchief]

That's a lot of lynches to live through for mafia, but it's pretty much how all the games have been, isn't it? Mafia victory is not expected.

That's assuming a couple of things. First of all, that we'll get to 40 (I think we're going to fall slightly short - not that I mind, since the record amount of players in a game in the Mafia series has been 39). Second of all, that there are no kills via Wrath of God, which could cut out a lynch phase or two.

Surviving this as Mafia is difficult but not impossible. It's definitely a feat, akin to something like winning a Grand Slam, but it can be and has been done. Also worth considering is that White_eyes and Beefy survived a ghastly 10 and 11, respectively, lynch rounds before finally succumbing in Godfather 3, which was a similar game and had even fewer players.

[johnhughthom]

In.

[Renata]

Yeah, I forgot about the WOGs. What's the criteria for those, btw?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Yeah, I forgot about the WOGs. What's the criteria for those, btw?

This.

Death to the sign-up-and-never-post players!

[GeneralHankerchief]

Yeah, I forgot about the WOGs. What's the criteria for those, btw?

From the rules post:


In terms of inactivity, I do not have a set system in place; rather, I take it by a touch-and-go basis. Because of this, it makes me unpredictable. :evil: In other words, if you do not want to experience the Wrath of God and be mod-killed, you had best just vote in every round.

[White_eyes:D]

That's assuming a couple of things. First of all, that we'll get to 40 (I think we're going to fall slightly short - not that I mind, since the record amount of players in a game in the Mafia series has been 39). Second of all, that there are no kills via Wrath of God, which could cut out a lynch phase or two.

Surviving this as Mafia is difficult but not impossible. It's definitely a feat, akin to something like winning a Grand Slam, but it can be and has been done. Also worth considering is that White_eyes and Beefy survived a ghastly 10 and 11, respectively, lynch rounds before finally succumbing in Godfather 3, which was a similar game and had even fewer players.
That's why I am so envious of the players that are mafia now. The town can never tell if they are on the right track? Sign me up.:bounce:

Godfather 3 was a lesson in never trusting statistics. IDK, how two players are going to make it though this beast but we shall see.:juggle2:

Edit:@Pizzaguy: Yeah, Sasaki really cleaned house that game...funnily enough it was scum-telling, not statistics and that was why I could not defend myself from him.:laugh4:

[Askthepizzaguy]

Mmm. I remember that game. One shining moment of brilliance from me, and then I became a big fat waste of time, and if people had listened to me, we would have lost.

[GeneralHankerchief]

FYI, I'm going to close signups in roughly 19 hours. So if you're on the fence, you don't have that much longer to sign up! :yes:

[Andres]

In.

[Askthepizzaguy]

In this game, there will be posers pretending to be me. You must kill them. :smoking:

Hey, that smiley face is animated. Neato.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Okay, signups are now closed. I'm going to randomly determine the mafia and then PM everybody with their anonymous account info. I'll post back here once this is complete.

[johnhughthom]

In this game, there will be posers pretending to be me. You must kill them.

They deserve our help and sympathies, not condemnation.

[robbiecon]

In this game, there will be posers pretending to be me. You must kill them. :smoking:

Hey, that smiley face is animated. Neato.

I will be one of the posers, in fact, no-one is safe! Prepare for Multiple Personality Disorder, Mafia style.

[Askthepizzaguy]

They deserve our help and sympathies, not condemnation.

First you must kill the pizza poser sympathizer, the gruesome hughthom.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

First you must kill the pizza poser sympathizer, the gruesome hughthom.

If there is Mafia John or Mafia Hugh in the game then we shall lynch him, boss!

[johnhughthom]

Mwahaha, Mafia Thom will rule.

[[MAFIA] Fredo]

Well this is going to get confusing.

[[MAFIA] Bruno]

You can't decide whether you are townie or mafia?

[GeneralHankerchief]

Three things:

1) Remember, the task is not to guess who is under what account. The task is to find the mafia. :yes:
2) You can feel free to change your anonymous account's password to something that's easier to remember if you wish.
3) Most importantly, the game has now begun! From here on out, I will be deleting posts that are made by non-anonymous accounts (until the player has died in-game).

It is now Night 1. The round will last for approximately 24 hours. Best of luck to all players, and let's make this one something truly worth remembering! :medievalcheers:

Still alive: (36)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Carlo
Chickenman
Christopher
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Furio
Georgio
Giuseppe
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Maria
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pedro
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Rocco
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Player list:
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

I'm Rocco. Rocco Granata.

[[MAFIA] Vincent]

Clearly Rocco is Mafia. I mean it says so right in his name :)

[[MAFIA] Pedro]

hola yo soy Pedro el degredo. gracias.

[[MAFIA] Chickenman]

bwok bwok

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

Vamos a jugar por la playa

[[MAFIA] Luciano]

Euclio senex est.

[GeneralHankerchief]

English only, please. :laugh4:

[[MAFIA] Johnny]

The name's Johnny. [Mafia], Johnny.

[[MAFIA] Pete]

Yeah, everyone is going to know who I am soon enough from my posting style.

[[MAFIA] Pete]

Also, I don't like this name. I want to be called Petey. I am going to change my name.

[[MAFIA] Pete]

I can't change my name apparently.

So everyone just call me Petey.

Or hookshots.

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Avast, Ye maties! Somebody's trying to grab some good night's worth of bountiful sleep! Be silent or ye shall taste the wrath of me mechanical longboat and its mounted broadside cannon and be attacked by my beautiful companion Golden Macaw, Sir Polyester. For it is I, Captain Fingers, a name you shall come to fear and hate! Come at me all who make ruckus in the night! I shall beat you back with my wooden prosthetic limbs!

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Sure thing Petey. Will do.

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

I don't trust this so called Chickenman. He doesn't resemble a chicken at all

[[MAFIA] Paulie]

Hello.

I vote mafia.

[[MAFIA] Carlo]

Hello.

Night phase.

[[MAFIA] Joe]

Paulie;2053325675']Hello.

I vote mafia.

OH MAN I thought I would say something clever about me knowing that you're Saregona/Who am I?

But than I realized he's not playing. So, you were the clever one.

Unless you really ARE Saregona's fabled original account.

In which case I would vote for you.

Except it's night time.

Anyway, Vote: Sasaki.

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Arrrrrgh who is that man who disturb this peace of night with ye heretical "voting" in the dark? I will have yeh!

[Please host your own images - GH]

I swear! I will hunt you down with my brave and dastardly crew and me mechanical longboat, the Deforrester! With Sir Polyester acting as me navigater, I will find you eventually! So where you be, you coward! I only wish to rip off all your fingers and add them to my growing necklace!

[[MAFIA] Ralph]

Hello, here.

[[MAFIA] Chickenman]

Mickey;2053325665']I don't trust this so called Chickenman. He doesn't resemble a chicken at all

Take a bwok, you disneyfied rat. I'm as chicken as the next man.

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Vote Mafia Joe

Who are you wiseguy to vote for this Saskai isn't even playing.

[[MAFIA] Angelo]

It's still night

Also you all crazy

Also good night

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Angelo;2053325808']It's still night

Also you all crazy

Also good night

Word.

[[MAFIA] Joe]

Bertha;2053325804']Vote Mafia Joe

Who are you wiseguy to vote for this Saskai isn't even playing.

Hello Kagemusha.

[johnjohnson]

whats this thing with our names being mafia?

wait what did i miss.............

[[MAFIA] Connie]

^ ah right i messed up that one a bit..................

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

I don't trust this Bertha guy. He looks like a woman, dresses like a woman, talks like a woman, behaves like a woman, but he's not a woman. You won't fool me, Berthaboy.

[[MAFIA] Giorgio]

HNNNNNGGGHHHHH

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

Yo Luciano, I hear you been sniffin around my girl Maria. She don't need none of you, goomba. She's a good girl, loves her Mama and everythin.

[[MAFIA] Maria]

:yes:

Wuv you Sonny.

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzUat_wC6Ko

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

If mugshots be any proof, mafia or not, there aren't a lot of trustworthy types in this town.

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Salvatore;2053325975']If mugshots be any proof, mafia or not, there aren't a lot of trustworthy types in this town.

What about me? Big old hawaiian mama like me couldn't hurt a fly.

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Bertha;2053325991']What about me? Big old hawaiian mama like me couldn't hurt a fly.

Not standing up, no.

Standing up? Who am I kidding :laugh4:

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

Maria;2053325936']:yes:

Wuv you Sonny.

Don't I know it, baby doll.

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

Bertha;2053325991']What about me? Big old hawaiian mama like me couldn't hurt a fly.

Big ol' hawaiian mama would be the last person I'd trust in this town! Way too straightforward. What with all those other sleazy types abounding...

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Fingers;2053325731'][Please host your own images - GH]

Bah, the agents of the Law are too strong around these parts of the town. Makes me pirate's life difficult, I say!

[[MAFIA] Richie]

Who wants to be Richie?

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

You don't look Italian.

[[MAFIA] Bobby]

I'm Bobby, am i good looking?

[[MAFIA] Luigi]

Uhuh. After a couple of facials from me:boxing:

[[MAFIA] Paulie]

psst What are we waiting for? You dang mafiosos can't decide who to kill yet? Try www.random.org for some guidance.

edit: Yeah, I'm not Saregona. :) Just thought it would be a good laugh for anyone who recognized his... unique posting style.

[[MAFIA] Connie]

Luigi;2053326103']Uhuh. After a couple of facials from me:boxing:

For God's sakes man think about what your typing. I mean my Goodness lol...................

[[MAFIA] Anne]

Hi everyone!

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Anne;2053326232']Hi everyone!

Hey - come here often?

[[MAFIA] Big George]

Jesus, I need a good glass of Milk.

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

Big George;2053326307']Jesus, I need a good glass of Milk.

I don't think he's playing.

[[MAFIA] Bruno]

Still night? I should get back to bed then.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry guys, I was unexpectedly busy today. Will try to get the kills up soon.

[[MAFIA] Luciano]

I am the monarch of the sea...

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Luciano;2053326331']I am the monarch of the sea...

WHAT?! Yarr, you are ten thousand years too young to seize from me that title! I'll take you down meself if I have to!

[GeneralHankerchief]

Day breaks in the Frontroom. All is quiet. It was shaping up to be a beautiful day in the Kingdom of Peace and Love, the heat of late spring being just prevalent enough for people to take off and enjoy the weather. Some people were out mowing their lawns, some were doing some gardening, some were taking a jog around their neighborhoods, and some were just sitting and outside, relaxing.

Chickenman was one of the people sitting outside, and relaxing. Picking his favorite spot in Frontroom Park - a bench, overlooking the pond with trace amounts of osmium - he sat back and lulled himself almost to sleep, slowly drifting away as the sounds of the park, the rustling of the trees, the wind, the ducks, grew softer and softer in his mind. The footsteps of the mafioso behind him growing softer and sof - wait, what?

Chickenman opened his eyes and turned around just in time to see the mafioso right up behind him, arms out. In the next second, they were wrapped around his head, quickly twisting it.

"OW!" Chickenman yelled, once this deed was done, rubbing his neck. "That really hurt, man! What were you trying to do, snap my neck or something?"

"Well, so much for that," the mafioso muttered. Sending Chickenman sprawling with an elbow to the head, the mafioso racked his brain trying to come up with an alternative method of killing his prey. Clearly, his arm strength was not enough to go and snap people's necks, causing instantaneous death. He'd have to work out some more. But in the meantime, he had to deal with this problem lying on the ground before him.

"Hmm," the mafioso reasoned, with Chickenman still moaning in pain below him. "I guess this worked well enough as is." Ignoring the various cache of weapons he had brought with him - blackjack, telescopic baton, silenced pistol, shotgun, revolver, assault rifle, half a dozen grenades, flamethrower, bazooka - he instead dragged Chickenman to the pond, elbowing his head one more time for good measure, and then holding it under the water for a period of several minutes until Chickenman stopped struggling.

Across town, Giuseppe was doing none of these blissful outside activities; in fact he was totally unaware of the beautiful weather that had entered the town. He was in the middle of his 13th consecutive hour of playing the latest violent first-person shooter video game, ignoring the insults strewn around by the various 12-year-olds on the server.

"HA!" Giuseppe yelled to people he had never met and had no idea where they were from. "Take that, scum!" He checked his watch, realized that it was 1pm and he had not slept at all last night, shrugged, and put his hand back in the bag of Cheetos, munching on them before going back to his game. The machine-gun fire was oddly soothing to Giuseppe, the fake cacophony all around him, emanating from his television's speakers. He was fully engrossed in his pixellated war world, and loving every second of it.

"The gun is good," he muttered to himself, spraying another burst of fire that may or may not have hit a target and had no lasting impact whatsoever on the world at large. What he failed to realize was that there was a very real machine gun pointed directly at him from behind. He would have caught it in the TV's reflection, but by this point Giuseppe was completely gone to anything that was not his online deathmatch. He pumped out yet another spray of fake fire, as a spray of very real and infinitely more dangerous fire fired at him simultaneously.

Ten minutes later, an unresponsive Giuseppe was booted from the server.

Meanwhile, in a certain office in the center of town...

Chief of Police JuJuBee sat in his office, admiring his posters of Judy Garland as usual. This was such a cushy job. There was never any crime in the Kingdom of Peace and Love. It was the Kingdom of Peace and Love, for goodness sake's! There were two phones on his desk. One was the usual phone, mostly used for personal calls since, again, there was never really any crime in the Frontroom. The other phone, however, was bright red. On the first day of assuming office, the outgoing Chief of Police, Lemur, told him that if the red phone ever rang, then bad times were ahead. Possibly the very Frontroom itself would be at stake if the red phone rang.

The red phone rang.

Utterly startled, JuJuBee somehow managed to pick it up and stay calm throughout the briefing.

"Oh God," he said. "Mafia attack."

Rifling through a very thick binder, he spent three hours reading nine entries in the tome, each one larger than the last. The last had been made by Lemur, the previous eight by someone named "Beirut". Their wisdom was questionable, but all in all their experiences were quite helpful. Three hours later, JuJuBee had a plan in mind.

Thirty minutes later, he had gathered everyone in the town square and prepared to make an announcement. "Okay everybody," he said, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that it's Saturday! This calls for a celebration!"

"What's the bad news?" somebody asked.

"Oh right," said JuJuBee. "Two of our members have been murdered by the Mafia. Chickenman, also known as Winston Hughes, and Giuseppe, better known as robbiecon, are no longer with us."

Naturally, there was a general outcry over this bit of news, as people started screaming and panicking and generally being loud and raucous. "Wait!" said JuJu, "it's okay! I have a plan! Winston Churchill once said that democracy was the worst form of government ever invented, except for the ones that have already been tried. This means that democracy is the best, and therefore democracy is what's going to save us right now! Every day, we'll use our collective powers of deduction to figure out who these interlopers are in our midst, and root them out to be executed! Any questions?"

Literally every single person present started shouting at once.

"Great!" said JuJu amiably. "See you at sunset!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Still alive: (34)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Carlo
Christopher
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Furio
Georgio
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Maria
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pedro
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Rocco
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)

Player list:
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

It is now Day 1! Voting will last for approximately 24 hours. Again, sorry for the delay.

[[MAFIA] Frank]

Christopher;2053326308']I don't think he's playing.

Wiseguy eh?

Vote: [MAFIA] Christopher

[[MAFIA] Connie]

fail.

[[MAFIA] Connie]

fail.

[[MAFIA] Connie]

Bruno;2053326321']Still night? I should get back to bed then.

Sigh i am really sorry............. didnt bold :shame:

vote: [Mafia] Bruno

[[MAFIA] Angelo]

vote: Connie

[Visor]

:D Brilliant.

[[MAFIA] Johnny]

Vote: [MAFIA] Bertha

[[MAFIA] Pedro]

Luciano is clearly a mafioso name.

Case no.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano)
Case no.2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moggi)

Heuristically, Luciano is very probable to be one of the Mafia we are looking for.

Vote: [MAFIA] Luciano

[[MAFIA] Luigi]

Connie;2053326227']For God's sakes man think about what your typing. I mean my Goodness lol...................
Gahahaha!
You know your stuff, dont ya! Yer a good woman... um, what was it... Commie, yes.


Vote: Bugsy

I don't like bugs:drunk:

[[MAFIA] Anne]

Vote: Bobby

He looks suspicious to me!

[[MAFIA] Luciano]

Pedro;2053326412']Luciano is clearly a mafioso name.

Case no.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano)
Case no.2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moggi)

Heuristically, Luciano is very probable to be one of the Mafia we are looking for.

Vote: [MAFIA] Luciano

Vote 4 Pedro!

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Vote: Luigi

I don't like plumbers.

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

Luciano;2053326447']Vote 4 Pedro!

You first, goomba.

vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

Pedro;2053326412']Luciano is clearly a mafioso name.

Case no.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano)
Case no.2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moggi)

Heuristically, Luciano is very probable to be one of the Mafia we are looking for.



I am convinced by this logical and structured argument, therefore:

Vote: [MAFIA] Luciano

[[MAFIA] Bruno]

Luciano;2053326447']Vote 4 Pedro!

Oh.. Elections?!

I also support Pedro!

Vote: [Mafia] Pedro

[[MAFIA] Maria]

Vote: Joe

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Vote Connie

[[MAFIA] Anne]

unvote, vote: Bruno

He tried peeking up my skirt.

[[MAFIA] Paulie]

vote: Anne
Reasons: Vote changing on Day 1, and sharing my mother's name.

[Winston Hughes]

bwok

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

Munches on a chicken leg.

Vote: Anne I refuse to believe anybody would look under your skirt. Unless they'd dropped their chicken leg, even then not many would risk it.

[[MAFIA] Joe]

Vote: Paulie

[[MAFIA] Fredo]

Vote: maria.

[Romanic]

meh

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

Hey guy above me, nice to see you.

Vote:Joe

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

Romanic and Fredo now I look like a fool. A FOOL. :bigcry:

[[MAFIA] Bobby]

vote: Big George

[robbiecon]

Well, what'ya know, it looks like it wasn't my lucky day.

[[MAFIA] Vincent]

vote: Mickey Kill the rodent demon!! He's a mouse, which is almost a rat, but not quite, so clearly that means he's a loyal member of the MAFIA!!!

[Seon]

Whops

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

Seon I'm shocked! That's racist. Italian-American I think you mean.

[B-Wing]

LOL, I'm sure he meant to say "whoops", considering he posted under his real name.

[[MAFIA] Claudia]

vote: Christopher. I am sure I saw you munching on a chicken leg.

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

My apologies Claudia, how rude of me, luckily I have another. Here you go, sorry it's a bit dirty, it fell under Anne's skirt. I must say Claudia, you are so much more lady-like than the other girs, blurring your photo like that.

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Yarr, what be this noise? Mafiosi? Baaaah curse be those land-lovin' scum, those fools can't distinguish good ol' C2H5OH from CH3OH. They are no match for me captain Fingers and me brave crew! I'll catch those scums and make barbecue out of their cheek flesh in no time.

On the meantime, Sir Polyester says that I should point me prosthetic limbs at that landlubber Pedro! That scoundrel, he stole me bounty of rum, I swear! Vote: Pedro.

[[MAFIA] Ralph]

Trying to keep your hands clean Little Finger?

Vote:Fingers

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting closed.

Stand by for the execution.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Day 1 voting ends in a tie between Luciano and Pedro. In case you're unfamiliar with my tiebreaking procedure, here's how we do things: All votes are thrown out and we do a re-vote. You are only allowed to vote for either Luciano or Pedro in this re-vote. Normally it would last 24 hours, however, as I'll be working once the 24 hour mark expires, we'll extend things a bit.

The tiebreaker round ends Monday, June 13th, at 06:30 US Eastern Time.

Day 1 tally:

Luciano: 3 (Pedro, Sonny, Salvatore)
Pedro: 3 (Luciano, Bruno, Fingers)
Christopher: 2 (Frank, Claudia)
Bruno: 2 (Connie, Anne)
Connie: 2 (Angelo, Bertha)
Anne: 2 (Paulie, Christopher)
Joe: 2 (Maria, Mickey)
Bertha: 1 (Johnny)
Bugsy: 1 (Luigi)
Luigi: 1 (Bugsy)
Paulie: 1 (Joe)
Maria: 1 (Fredo)
Big George: 1 (Bobby)
Mickey: 1 (Vincent)
Fingers: 1 (Ralph)

Didn't vote: 10 (Big George, Carlo, Emilio, Fat Tony, Furio, Giorgio, Nick, Pete, Richie, Rocco)

[[MAFIA] Johnny]

[vote: [MAFIA] Luciano

[[MAFIA] Angelo]

vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Furio]

Vote: Luciano

Pedro's argument was better.

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Emilio]

Vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Frank]

Vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Vote Luciano

[[MAFIA] Richie]

Vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Carlo]

Well whadya know, its morning.

Time to order the pizza I was dreaming of.

Vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

Vote: [MAFIA] Luciano

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Vote : Pedro

[[MAFIA] Joe]

Vote For Pedro

[[MAFIA] Paulie]

vote: Pedro
Because I love Napoleon Dynamite.

[[MAFIA] Connie]

vote: pedro

[[MAFIA] Pedro]

Vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Christopher]

Vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

Vote:Pedro

[[MAFIA] Fat Tony]

Hello. I am Fat Tony.

My subconscious demands that I

vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Vincent]

vote: Pedro

[[MAFIA] Luciano]

Vote 4 Pedro!

[[MAFIA] Bobby]

vote: Luciano

[[MAFIA] Luigi]

Vote: Pedro

Pedro: (13)
Luciano: (9)

[[MAFIA] Maria]

Evening up the odds:

Vote: Luciano

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting closed.

Stand by for the execution.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Everybody had seemed to have been caught off-guard by the new daily procedure, as if they - and the Frontroom, in particular - had never experienced this sort of thing before. Clearly, the mafia attack was breaking new ground. The result of this, much to Chief of Police JuJuBee's chagrin, was an extremely spread-out vote, with a full 15 out of 34 total villagers receiving votes. Taking out his pocket calculator - you see, JuJuBee used to be quite A Nerd - the Chief quickly surmised that this was over 44%! In addition to this total, there was a tie vote, with the two candidates for the lynch having received a whopping three votes each.

The cases on the lucky two men, Luciano and Pedro, were as follows: For Luciano, that he shared a name with one of the most successful mafiosi in history: Lucky Luciano, who abolished the title of "capo di tutti capi" forever and set up the Mafia Commission in New York that still exists to this day. For Pedro, it seemed that a number of villagers were amused by the combination of the voting system they were currently under and his name, which thus gave them an opportunity to quote from a popular, quirky, cult film of the previous decade in "Napoleon Dynamite". Clearly these cases both had equal merit.

Due to the extended round since there had to be a tiebreaker, both men got to make defenses for themselves:

Luciano: "Wait a minute, the fact that I share a name with Lucky Luciano has nothing to do with my guilt! I'm not even related to the guy! Most of the people in our town could have that same connection! What about Chickenman? He shares a nickname with Phil "Chickenman" Testa, and was boss of the Philadelphia crime family for a year before he got blew up by a nail bomb! They share the same name, but I doubt any of you think *he's* guilty! Come on, now!"

Pedro: "Seriously, guys? You're going to do this? Aw - aw, come on! I hate 'Napoleon Dynamite' so much. It's not even a good movie!"

At this last defense, the crowd roared in outrage, and the votes started to absolutely flood in Pedro's way. JuJuBee had to use all of his wits and equipment to keep the villagers at bay as they screamed for blood for besmirching the good name of Napoleon Dynamite. Pedro, realizing that he had misspoke and recognizing that it was probably too late to take it back, instead took the opportunity to keep harping on about the movie that had sealed his fate.

"No, seriously, it isn't! Nothing happens for an hour and a half! And then he what, he goes and dances, and then everything's magically okay? But wait, people say the movie isn't about plot anyway, it's about the, you know, the quirky moments! It's 90 minutes of people standing around and being really awkward, that's all! Awkward isn't quirky!!! You all got spoon-fed into believing that it was a good movie because at some point down the line the media told you that it was trendy to like this movie! It's not actually that good, people!"

This went on for another couple of minutes before JuJuBee finally relented and allowed the crowd to literally tear Pedro, also known as Jolt, apart. Instead of trying to calm them down and make an inspirational speech about hopefully they had lynched one and maybe after tomorrow, they would be done with this affair, JuJu just slinked away back to his office, praying that the riot wouldn't get too out of hand and ordering a Napoleon Dynamite poster off the internet in case they tried to storm his office in the future.

Day 1a tally:

Pedro: 13 (Angelo, Emilio, Richie, Rocco, Joe, Paulie, Connie, Christopher, Mickey, Fat Tony, Vincent, Luciano, Luigi) :skull:
Luciano: 10 (Johnny, Furio, Frank, Bugsy, Bertha, Carlo, Salvatore, Pedro, Bobby, Maria)

Didn't vote: 11 (Anne, Big George, Bruno, Claudia, Fingers, Fredo, Giorgio, Nick, Pete, Ralph, Sonny)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Still alive: (33)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Carlo
Christopher
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Furio
Georgio
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Maria
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pedro
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Rocco
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)

Executed:
Jolt (Pedro)

Player list:
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

It is now Night 2! Orders are due in 24 hours, but I would greatly appreciate it if they were in slightly earlier, as I'd like to do the writeup before I go to sleep tomorrow.

[[MAFIA] Anne]

Clearly these cases both had equal merit.

None!

[GeneralHankerchief]

Anne;2053327412']None!

Feel free to interpret my editorializing in whichever way you wish. :laugh4:

[[MAFIA] Big George]

Who's doing what where when and why?

[B-Wing]

I'm winning!

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

I think Connie is scum.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Day breaks in the Frontroom. All is quiet. However, this wouldn't last. Soon, despite the fear-inducing events of yesterday, the daily hustle and bustle - yes, there was even hustle and bustle in the Kingdom of Peace and Love - would begin. People would fire up their car engines, ready to go to work, would start to blast music as they did their gardening chores, would unload their trucks and set up their vending stands for the day.

One of these vending stands happened to be an ice cream cart, a nice throwback to the days of old and down on the beach, a perfect exemplar of the Frontroom's charming quaintness that made it so attractive to many. The first person to pass it by was Maria, who, while not buying an ice cream, noticed that the cart was unmanned. Instead, it had a very odd antenna sticking out of it and a speaker attached to it, playing a catchy jingle:

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"Man, this takes me back to my childhood," Maria said to herself, as she kept walking, eventually out of sight out of the ice cream cart. Maria tried to put it out of her mind, but for some reason that cart and that jingle brought back some good memories. Maybe she would go get one on the way back after all, especially if that cart was manned by then. But then Maria noticed something odd. While the ice cream cart was well out of sight by now, the jingle was as loud and strong as it had always been.

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Shaking her head, Maria started walking slightly faster. The jingle was catchy and nostalgic and all, but all good things had their limits, and this jingle was rapidly approaching its own. Still not looking back, Maria walked on determinedly ahead.

Three minutes later, the jingle was still there.

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Very freaked out by now, Maria somehow worked up the nerve to look back, and there it was: the ice cream cart, still unmanned, still with that antenna, still - obviously - with the speaker that was pumping out that now-nightmarish jingle. If such a thing was possible for an ice cream cart the size of your standard grocery store shopping cart, it even seemed to be staring poor Maria down. The two looked at each other for a moment, Maria and the unmanned ice cream cart, and then Maria bolted.

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With the jingle still playing in the background, a new noise was added to the mix: the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR of the cart's engine (engine?) firing up and kicking into high gear. Somehow the cart produced an exhaust pipe and black smoke started spewing out of it, indicative of the massive amount of horsepower that the ice cream cart was now producing. Poor Maria didn't have a chance. The cart ran him down without mercy, again and again, until Maria was lying motionless on the ground, her blood mixing with the cart's leaking vanilla.

Several blocks away, the mafioso, armed with a pair of binoculars and a remote-controlled device, simply laughed as he closed up the antenna.

On the other side of town, Christopher thankfully did not have to deal with the Motorized Ice Cream Cart O' Doom. However, he had other problems on his hand. Settling down to eat at his favorite sandwich shop, Christopher instantly realized on the first bite that something was horribly wrong. His usual Italian, which he had been faithfully eating from this same exact store for four years straight, tasted, for the first time, different. And not in a good way, either. His stomach was starting to hurt.

Looking around for signs of change in the hoagie joint, Christopher spied behind the counter, somebody he had never once seen before in this shop. He looked very much out of place, spotting a full chef's uniform complete with the ridiculous white hat that would be common for five-star French bistros, but not local sandwich shops. He probably wore this to signify that he was the chef, Christopher reasoned. In any case, the new "chef" would get an earful from one of his best customers, seeing as this was probably his first day and his track record was 0-for-1.

Christopher got up from his seat, stumbled, clutched his stomach, and lurched the rest of the way to where the "chef" was standing.

"'scuse me," he said, "but I'm not exactly a first-time customer here, and I have never had a sandwich that didn't agree with me as much as this one right now. Is there anything different you put in it from what the last, uh... chef... did?"

The "chef" looked down at him, smiling. "Yes," he said. "Poison."

Christopher blacked out.

Later that day, Chief of Police JuJuBee gathered everyone into the Frontroom square in order to make an announcement.

"Okay folks," he said, "so it looks like yesterday didn't end up so hot, since we still had two more kills today. That's okay though, because there were two mafiosi after all and we only executed one, and it stands to reason that the mafiosi probably didn't off each other, since they're working together and all..." He trailed off, which gave one of the villagers a convenient reason to interrupt him.

"About that," the villager said, "if we all know that there are two mafiosi attacking us, how come we're only executing one person per day?" Several townspeople shouted their agreement.

"Yes," said JuJuBee agreeably, "Indeed, this is a question that the great thinkers of our time could spend some serious energy on, but for now we have work to do. Today, we have to avenge the deaths of Maria, better known as Visorslash, and Christopher, born as johnhughthom. Come on guys, I know you can do this!" And with that, JuJu retired to his office.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Still alive: (31)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Carlo
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Furio
Georgio
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Rocco
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)
Visorslash (Maria)
johnhughthom (Christopher)

Executed:
Jolt (Pedro)

Player list:
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

It is now Day 2! Since I'm sick of doing writeups at 6:30 in the morning after I get off work, this round will be slightly longer than normal, ending at 14:00 US Eastern Time on Wednesday. Get to it!

[Visor]

Bah. Dead in every game. Good luck to the town.

Another notch up for my townie only record. :laugh4: One day....

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Vote : Connie

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Djeez, that dude in my avatar really has a face that invites people to chop wood on it. I'm starting to dislike myself because of that annoying face. What a jerk.

[Visor]

Considered changing it? If you can of course. I suppose with a comment like that you've already tried changing it.

[[MAFIA] Angelo]

Rocco;2053327994']Djeez, that dude in my avatar really has a face that invites people to chop wood on it. I'm starting to dislike myself because of that annoying face. What a jerk.

Well, I agree, so let's chop some wood.

vote: Rocco

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

You was too good for this world, Maria.

[[MAFIA] Maria]

My only regret was not being able to be with you just a little longer.

[[MAFIA] Claudia]

vote: Rocco
Waiting for your dirty results and voted after the required academic quarter. A little too smooth...

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

A burgeoning trend? Vote: [MAFIA] Rocco!

[Populus Romanus]

blaaaaargh.

[[MAFIA] Vincent]

Rocco is an ugly brute, but let's not let the bandwagon pick up too much speed just yet, in case we change our minds. I'll vote:Furio, rage isn't what we need most right now.

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Yaaaaarg what be this foolishness?

Yeh Sonny! I heard that you like the landlubbing food Ice Cream! Vote: Sonny

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Thanks to this anonymous account, I can now try out my revolutionary, super cunning tactic to stay alive until end game in a vanilla mafia.

In order to stay alive, I will behave scummy, call myself suspicious and generally be a pain in the behind for my fellow townies.

Yes, that must be a very good tactic.

Connie is ugly so she must die. I'm ugly too and my avatar has a very arrogant look on his face, but I must not die,because, well, because I'm me, of course. I don't want to die. But I don't mind somebody else to die. And Connie is ugly. In fact, you're all ugly. But I'm the only ugly one being me and I'm the only one worthwhile to keep alive.

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Fingers;2053328093']Yaaaaarg what be this foolishness?

Yeh Sonny! I heard that you like the landlubbing food Ice Cream! Vote: Sonny

Why did they call you "Fingers" and not "Nose" or "Toes" or "Legs" or something?

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Vincent;2053328089']Rocco is an ugly brute, but let's not let the bandwagon pick up too much speed just yet, in case we change our minds. I'll vote:Furio, rage isn't what we need most right now.

Why would you change your mind? What has poor Furio ever done to you?

[Renata]

gahhh

I hope nobody's got PM notifications set on this game.

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

Vincent;2053328089']Rocco is an ugly brute, but let's not let the bandwagon pick up too much speed just yet, in case we change our minds. I'll vote:Furio, rage isn't what we need most right now.

Too much talkin, goomba. You actin like you got principles or somethin.

vote: Vincent

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

That chef's gotta be an Italian. Vote:Angelo, per example?

[[MAFIA] Bobby]

Vote: Joe

My flair is telling me he's our guy.

[[MAFIA] Fingers]

Rocco;2053328101']Why did they call you "Fingers" and not "Nose" or "Toes" or "Legs" or something?

Do you....reallly want to know?

[[MAFIA] Ralph]

I was going to go after Rocco, but there seems to be a pretty decent bandwagon going for him.

Where is Curious George? Vote:Big George

[[MAFIA] Bruno]

Vote: Bertha

[[MAFIA] Johnny]

Vote: Furio

[[MAFIA] Paulie]

vote: Sonny
Voting for someone because they didn't hop on a bandwagon? Inconceivable!

[[MAFIA] Nick]

vote: Carlo will also help clear out any more alveolar taps. (That's a troublesome autological term itself)

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

Vote:Emilio

[[MAFIA] Fat Tony]

Vote: Fingers

Soon he'll be voting for people because he saw them eating a tasty meatball.

[[MAFIA] Pete]

Vote: Fat Tony because he is just so dang fat.

[[MAFIA] Giorgio]

Vote: Pete because he's calling people names.

[[MAFIA] Claudia]

I would like a tally... Could some of you boys help a lady?

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

Vote for Vincent, doll. He thinks he lookin like useful, or somethin.

[[MAFIA] Connie]

The rocco character seems more like a clown than a killer................. or is it a clever ruse?

vote: rocco

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Connie;2053328664']The rocco character seems more like a clown than a killer................. or is it a clever ruse?

vote: rocco

Retaliation votes are scummy :brood:

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

People are not saying a lot using those alt accounts. Probably because you're all too afraid to reveal who is hidden behind the mask. Maybe we should all be less concerned about somebody guessing our identity and start posting like we normally would?

It's weird to have all these oneliner posts.

[[MAFIA] Carlo]

You would know :smartass:

Vote: Nick

Right back at ya

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Nick;2053328380']vote: Carlo will also help clear out any more alveolar taps. (That's a troublesome autological term itself)

Why the Sesquepedalian Loquaciousness (sp?)?


Rocco;2053328675']People are not saying a lot using those alt accounts. Probably because you're all too afraid to reveal who is hidden behind the mask. Maybe we should all be less concerned about somebody guessing our identity and start posting like we normally would?

It's weird to have all these oneliner posts.

Hello.

Good idea.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting closed.

Stand by for the execution.

[GeneralHankerchief]

My God, 15 separate people received votes this round. :dizzy2:

[TheLastDays]

HAHA I feel for you...

EDIT: I also hate my retardedness that makes me post here with this account... -.-

[[MAFIA] Mickey]

My God, 15 separate people received votes this round. :dizzy2:

Alt accounts=Votes spread thinly

I guess that kind of makes sense.

[GeneralHankerchief]

"Bugsy!"

"George!"

"Carlo!"

"Vincent!"

"Emilio!"

"Pete!"

"Nick!"

"Guys!"

"Joe!"

"Bertha!"

"Guys!!!"

"Fingers - wait, what?"

Rocco sighed. Finally, he had everyone's attention. It was time to make this count.

"We can't keep doing this!" he said. "We can't just keep making votes on people without any reasoning, and not follow up on it, and in order not to stand out to anybody vote for a different person! That's not good mafia-finding tactics! That's the opposite of good mafia-finding tactics! We're all trying to hide in a crowd, so it means that for the mafia, who are trying to hide in a crowd anyway, it's a lot easier to do so! We need to put ourselves out there, start pressuring people, start backing up our reasoning! I mean, come on people, our lives are at stake here! Our lives! I'm willing to take a few risks if it means saving the Kingdom of Peace and Love from complete annihilation by the Mafia! Are you?"

Silence greeted Rocco's harangue for a few seconds as the crowd was trying to process what he said. This next bit would prove critical, possibly even decide the town's fate, as early as Day 2 into the mafia attack. Rocco held his breath. And then...

"Okay," someone said. "I vote Rocco. The reasoning I use to justify this vote is that he talks too friggin' much."

"YEAH!" a few people in the crowd called out in agreement, and the votes started rolling Rocco's way. When Chief of Police JuJuBee came out to make the final vote count, Rocco started muttering to himself. So much for putting himself out there.

"Okay," said JuJuBee, so you've picked Rocco to die. Any suggestions for his execution?"

"Cut out his tongue!" someone shouted. The crowd roared in approval.

"Works for me!" JuJu said, and stuck a large rusty knife in Rocco's mouth. Somehow through Rocco's screaming, the words "anesthetic" and "sterilization at least" managed to get through. Later, when Rocco was lying on the ground, quickly expiring, JuJu wiped off his knife and shrugged. "Why would I sterilize a knife on somebody who's going to die, anyway? That's the point, isn't it? To kill you? Now that's just wasteful, Rocco."

Rocco, better known as Andres, died rolling his eyes.

Day 2 tally:

Rocco: 4 (Angelo, Claudia, Salvatore, Connie) :skull:
Furio: 2 (Vincent, Johnny)
Sonny: 2 (Fingers, Paulie)
Connie: 1 (Rocco)
Vincent: 1 (Sonny)
Angelo: 1 (Bugsy)
Joe: 1 (Bobby)
Big George: 1 (Ralph)
Bertha: 1 (Bruno)
Carlo: 1 (Nick)
Emilio: 1 (Mickey)
Fingers: 1 (Fat Tony)
Fat Tony: 1 (Pete)
Pete: 1 (Giorgio)
Nick: 1 (Carlo)

Didn't vote: 11 (Anne, Bertha, Big George, Emilio, Frank, Fredo, Furio, Joe, Luciano, Luigi, Richie) :stare:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Still alive: (30)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Carlo
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Furio
Giorgio
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)
Visorslash (Maria)
johnhughthom (Christopher)

Executed:
Jolt (Pedro)
Andres (Rocco)

It is now Night 3! Orders are due tomorrow at 14:00 US Eastern time.

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

11 WoGs please :curtain:

[Seon]

Prevote: bugsy

[[MAFIA] Ralph]

Big George didn't vote this round GH.

Inactive players need to start dieing.

[[MAFIA] Giorgio]

Ralph, why are you interested in killing off inactive players? Mafia won't be inactive, so all you're killing off will be town. Ergo, you are mafia and you're using inactivity as means to reduce town numbers.

I'll be voting you next day phase.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Ralph;2053328865']Big George didn't vote this round GH.

Thanks Ralph, got you and him mixed up. :oops:

[[MAFIA] Ralph]

Giorgio;2053328873']Ralph, why are you interested in killing off inactive players? Mafia won't be inactive, so all you're killing off will be town. Ergo, you are mafia and you're using inactivity as means to reduce town numbers.

I'll be voting you next day phase.
Mafia won't be killing them off and if they don't post, I can't get a read on them.

I'll be voting whoever I think is acting scummy.

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Ahh whats going on here see?

[GeneralHankerchief]

Day breaks in the Frontroom. All is quiet. A rapidly-increasing amount of people were calling out of work today, "sick" or otherwise. Furio was not one of these people. Furio believed in a few things, you see. Order, routine, maintaining the status quo, things like that. If Furio altered his schedule to accommodate the current situation in the Frontroom, then the mafia had already won, he reasoned. Hence, he continued to drive in his car, take the usual route to work, and go through his day as per normal - even if his hours the last couple of days had been curtailed by the Chief of Police summoning every villager to the town square in order to vote.

So Furio drove through town as usual, seeing the usual sights - and not an ice cream cart to be seen, either. Over here was that oddly-painted fire hydrant, over there was the nude unicyclist, pedaling and juggling at the same time as usual, on that side was the local sandwich shop, now closed and under police investigation, over there was - wait, what?

Furio smashed the brakes on. There had been a disruption to his usual routine, and quite a flagrant one at that. Out of nowhere, a traffic light had appeared in the middle of the road, one that hadn't been there at all the day before. Furio had been driving on these roads since early 2007 and there had never once been a traffic light in that spot, Furio was sure of that. Also helping his case was the fact that there was, in fact, no intersection at the particular spot where the traffic light was, meaning that there was absolutely no reason whatsoever for that traffic light to even exist.

Well, maybe one reason.

Still puzzled, Furio looked over to his right, where a familiar-looking landscaper was doing some work on the rather large tree that was aside the road. The landscaper waved, and Furio waved back, following this wave with a point towards the vestigial traffic light - still red, by the way, which added to the absurdity of it all - and a quizzical expression on his face. The landscaper just shrugged, and resumed his work. It was only a few seconds later when Furio noticed exactly what that landscaper was doing: cutting a deep gash in the tree, almost as if to bring it down, squarely on -

*SMASH*!!!

Carlo was on the run. Earlier in the day, he had just finished up a wonderful meal at the local Taco Bell and, refreshed, was ready to start the day. The good thing about these Taco Bell meals was that they filled you up for a while, meaning Carlo would not have to duck out of the voting at a later point in order to grab a quick snack. While Furio persistently stuck to his routine in the face of ominous danger, Carlo simply adapted.

Carlo walked along the sidewalk-less streets of the Frontroom, empty Taco Bell bag in hand (apparently, there wasn't any room in the Kingdom of Peace and Love's annual budget for public trash cans), looking to go back home and relax for a bit before the inevitable call to go to the town square came. However, after about a block, Carlo found that he was not alone. It seemed as if a chihuahua was following him, eyeing the Taco Bell bag with what could only be described as suspicion and anger - yes, even coming from a small dog. Carlo, a little confused, tried to put it out of his mind and keep walking. Perhaps the dog was hungry. Carlo certainly would have shared something with the poor guy, but the problem was that he had already finished his meal and had nothing to give.

Two blocks later, the chihuahua, which had kept pace, was joined by two others. All of them marched down in lockstep, all three of them unblinkingly staring at the bag. Carlo, now thoroughly perturbed, started walking faster. The chihuahuas, meanwhile, started barking. There was almost a mechanical, ordered quality to it. They inched ever closer to Carlo and the Taco Bell bag. Carlo started calculating how far he was from home and how long it would take to get there.

Two blocks went by. Four more chihuahuas had joined the other three. They had gotten ever closer to Carlo, despite him having significantly picked up his pace, and their barks had grown louder and more menacing. Carlo was now starting to sweat. When an eighth and ninth chihuahua joined the pack, that was it for Carlo. He broke for home.

Somewhat away from the action, the mafioso, who had a good vantage point for all of this, chuckled, and pressed a button on his radio-controlled receiver.

Instantly the chihuahuas followed, closing the distance on Carlo. They were joined by a horde of others, coming from all directions, ready to swarm Carlo. Carlo picked up the pace, but he was still several blocks from home. The chihuahuas were closing on him quickly, and more of them were coming for him every second.

A mass of thirty-nine chihuahuas eventually swarmed poor Carlo and overwhelmed him, along with his Taco Bell bag.

Later that day, Chief of Police JuJuBee gathered everyone into the Frontroom square in order to make an announcement.

"Okay folks," he said, "Looks like we've got two more murders today. Furio, who you all know as issaikhaan, died in what appeared to be an accident until investigators found a completely useless traffic light at the scene. Also, Carlo, better known as Death is yonder, was overwhelmed by a horde of radio-controlled chihuahuas. So... yeah. Avoid Taco Bell, I guess?"

"Wait a minute," said the ever-present pesky villager, "this is the second radio-controlled death we've seen over the last two days. Shouldn't you guys be looking into disrupting the signals or something?"

Clearly not hearing him, JuJuBee simply smiled and nodded, waving to somebody else in the crowd. "Okay, time to get voting again!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Still alive: (28)
Angelo
Anne
Bertha
Big George
Bobby
Bruno
Bugsy
Claudia
Connie
Emilio
Fat Tony
Fingers
Frank
Fredo
Giorgio
Joe
Johnny
Luciano
Luigi
Mickey
Nick
Paulie
Pete
Ralph
Richie
Salvatore
Sonny
Vincent

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)
Visorslash (Maria)
johnhughthom (Christopher)
issaikhaan (Furio)
Carlo (Death is yonder)

Executed:
Jolt (Pedro)
Andres (Rocco)

Player list:
Romanic
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Visorslash
Beefy187
Greyblades
Renata
Csargo
Populus Romanus
B_Ray
White_eyes:D
Jolt
Captain Blackadder
Seon
glyphz
Ibn-Khaldun
Death is yonder
Askthepizzaguy
Diamondeye
TheLastDays
Crazed Rabbit
Ignoramus
ArpeggiateTHIS
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
Winston Hughes
Kagemusha
issaikhaan
a completely inoffensive name
autolycus
robbiecon
Earthling
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ashurnasirpal II
Sigurd
johnhughthom
Andres

It is now Day 3! Voting will last for 24 hours. Also, if the "didn't vote" totals are in double-digits again, there will be serious consequences. You have been warned. :stare:

[[MAFIA] Vincent]

vote:Joe Votes day 1, but not day 2? I find that strange.

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

I find you strange, goomba.

Evidentiary point the first:

Hatchet-face Rocco gets a big stinkin' wagon on his better-lookin end. So life ain't lookin too good for Rocco. Now here you come along all fartin fairies and rainbows.


Vincent;2053328089]Rocco is an ugly brute, but let's not let the bandwagon pick up too much speed just yet, in case we change our minds. I'll vote:Furio, rage isn't what we need most right now.

Back in my neighborhood, goomba's go around lickin your boots like that you know you better start growin those eyeballs on the back of your head, because the shiv is comin. Better yet, shiv the guy first. And now that's what I'm doin to you, goomba. You ain't no good. You trying to look like you are, but you ain't.

Evidentiary point the second, somebody miss their chance to vote Rocco into an early grave, that's "strange"? Maybe so, maybe no, know what I'm sayin? You still tryin to look like you bein useful, when you ain't.

vote: Vincent

An can I get a second, boys. An you ladies too, can't forget the ladies.

[[MAFIA] Joe]

Vote: Vincent

I'll have you know there's a very good reason for that!

Just give me a minute to think up an alibi...

[[MAFIA] Johnny]

Joe;2053329421']Vote: Vincent

I'll have you know there's a very good reason for that!

Just give me a minute to think up an alibi...

Vote: Joe

[[MAFIA] Bertha]

Vote Joe

Don't like the cut of your jib see

[[MAFIA] Salvatore]

I have a dilemma on this one. See, I really like bandwagons, and this one seems to be going Joe's way... BUT, being all analytical here, I have to surmise that Vincent has much more the face of someone who'd use robots and whatnot to take out people, thus:

Vote: [MAFIA] Vincent

[[MAFIA] Richie]

Vote: Vincent

I would like him hanged rather then Joe.

[[MAFIA] Claudia]

vote: Bugsy getting gipsy about having to kill a lot of townies, huh?

[[MAFIA] Bruno]

Vote: Claudia

Looks like the game is so important that you have to check it using your phone. Centurion1 did the same thing and was caught..

[[MAFIA] Giorgio]

Vote: Ralph

[[MAFIA] Claudia]

My phone? What are you drinking? I am using Chrome as a browser for this game... on a laptop.
Maybe you should check your intelligence source? That person might be Mafia...

[[MAFIA] Bugsy]

Claudia;2053329574']vote: Bugsy getting gipsy about having to kill a lot of townies, huh?

Vote: Claudia. Yeah. You would too.

[[MAFIA] Fat Tony]

Vote: Sonny

I don't like the idea of voting for people who are actually discussing things.

[Death is yonder]

Mm... tacos

:beam:

[[MAFIA] Luigi]

I'll try to make something out of what little we have (or more like nothing)...

(1)There are male & female accounts. If both mafia were male, then players w/ female roles are townies.

Very false, but still possible. Probable combination would be (a)1 man & 1 woman, or (b) 2 male mafia.
If (a) well there are far less female roles than males to choose from...

(2)11 people didn't vote Round 2 w/c including me :sweatdrop: (sorry).

How can this be used? I'm gonna assume that at least 1 mafia (if not both mafia) were present in the both day phases & actually voted... and no i'm not implying that those of us who missed a vote are off the hook.

If I follow (2) that leaves at least 10 candidates. If I add (1), despite how shallow (or sexist) it is, that leaves me w/ 2 candidates.

Vote: Connie